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Seedling Mentor Program
Seedling's mission is to support children challenged by parental incarceration with innovative, research-driven, school-based mentoring.
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Seedling Mentor Program
The Seedling Mentor Program is designed to provide children with a long-term, positive relationship that helps them navigate the challenges experienced during an extended period of family separation due to parental incarceration and help children develop or maintain positive attitudes towards education.
Our Vision
All children have the support they need to achieve and prosper despite life challenges and circumstances.
Our Work
Seedling Mentor Program has served over 2000 students on 150+ campuses in 11 districts and 16 charter schools in Austin and Central Texas.
Our Mission
Seedling supports children challenged by parental incarceration with innovative, research driven, school-based mentoring.
Your Support
Seedling is made up of people just like you who are dedicated to making a difference in the lives of children in our public schools.
Donate Today!
Seedling serves over 600 children each year, and always has children eager and waiting for a mentor. Your donation will help Seedling provide training and support to current mentors, and will provide mentors to students who don't have one yet.
Why Become a Seedling Mentor?
Seedling has nearly 100 students on its waiting list. You can reduce that number. When you mentor, you directly impact a child's life.
The Seedling Mentor Program has matched over 2,000 deserving students with caring, adult mentors who provide them with a consistent presence of a supportive and encouraging friend. You make a direct impact when you volunteer your time.
Thanks to Seedling donors and mentors, we are able to reach over 100 schools in 11 different school districts, as well as 16 charters. Program enrollment grows most years an average of 10-20%, making volunteer mentors critical to meeting that demand. Please help us reach each of the 8,000 children in Central Texas who deserve a compassionate, trained mentor!
"When we spend time together, we play games, we egg each other on and goof. Sometimes we tell jokes, and look up science facts and talk about all kinds of things."
"My mentee seems to truly enjoy the one on one attention she gets from me. I am there to listen and to cheer her on as she dreams of the future, and I think that is something she values deeply."
Thinking About Mentoring?
Your only time commitment is one lunch a week for 30-45 minutes, for at least one school year.
Spend lunch being a hero! Seedling has nearly 100 students on its waiting list.
We welcome your application now to mentor in the 2020-2021 school year. We will keep in contact with you throughout the summer and invite you to New Mentor Orientation for dates beginning in early Fall. Thank you for your interest and support!
→ A safe place to learn, play and grow
→ Supportive relationships with caring mentors
→ Enriching experiences and activities
→ Provide a meaningful relationship the child can depend on
Why your Donation Directly Helps a Child in Need
It costs Seedling approximately $1,000 each year to support one child. We want no child to go without a quality mentor. That requires financial support for training and to reach these deserving kids.
Over 2,000 deserving students have received support of being matched with a caring, adult mentor who provides compassion and a stable relationship. In the most recent survey, 93% of Seedling mentees report feeling close to their mentor, and this affects many areas of their lives such as increased school performance.
"My mentor is always here for me when I need him and he keeps me focused in school."
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Do You Need the Latest IT Equipment for Your Chicago Business?
Many Chicago business owners wonder just how often they need to update IT equipment. Maintaining a balance between usability and cost is a key concern; business owners don't want to spend money on features that they don't need, but they also want their IT equipment to support higher productivity.
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Your IT equipment should reflect your operations requirements. For example, if your staff members use computers for data entry and word processing, there's probably no need for you to equip your offices with state-of-the-art graphic or computer design IT equipment. Be clear about your usage needs.
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Shop around to get an idea of what's available and what's a reasonable amount to pay for your specifications. While there are many reputable computer brands out there, the price differentials can be significant for similar equipment. Take your time with researching what's available.
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Accidental damage, loss, or theft can happen in any workplace, which is why every business insurance policy should include coverage for IT equipment. After all, your IT equipment is likely to form a major capital expense item in your business, and the costs of repair or replacement could be thousands of dollar or more.
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Global Missions
Our goal is to fulfill the Great Commission through global evangelism, church planting, and child sponsorship in the darkest regions of the earth…. In Jesus' name. We are passionate about helping the least, the last and the lost.
Each year, we send a group to Lima Peru with one simple mission: spread God's love to those in need. Everyone who makes the trip raises money, not only to make the trip, but also to help provide funds for things like wheelchairs. On recent trips we had the honor of handing out lunches to the homeless, assembling and delivering wheelchairs, and helped to renovate a women's shelter.
If you'd like to donate to this cause or serve on the next Mission to Peru, email us: email@example.com
One Child Matters Partnership
In February of 2019, we sent a lead team to the Philippines in conjunction with One Child Matters, an organization that we are partnering with this year. One Child Matters is an international child development ministry helping to meet the physical and spiritual needs of children living in poverty. OCM empowers children to reach their God-given potential by creating opportunities for transformational development: spirit, mind, and body. Through developmental programs, children receive food, education, medical aid, and hope in Jesus Christ.
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...if what I have read/watched about that planer is correct (it sadly dosn't seem to be available in europe) the internal blower looks to be strong enough for no additional fan being needed.
Using some 4" PVC fittings I was able to offset the pipe so it does not interfere with the work piece travel path through the planer and the flexible hose allows for height adjustments. In the last photo the piping configuration is an elbow connected to the planer with a street ell looking down and connected to the hose. At the bottom is another elbow and an 1/8 bend (45).


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The education and training challenges and opportunities of young people feature highly at Community Colleges Australia's annual conference in Melbourne, 25 to 27 July.
"CCA has constructed a comprehensive program stream for those interested in building better opportunities and pathways for Australia's young people," said Dr Don Perlgut, CEO of Community Colleges Australia.
"The conference recognises the vital importance that education plays in young people's lives. Because of our strong community links and our not-for-profit status, our sector plays an essential role in ensuring that investment in Australian skills is both meaningful and properly targeted to young Australian learners and the communities most in need," said Dr Perlgut.
The young people program sessions include:
- an expert panel discussing the growing phenomenon of secondary schools hosted by adult and community education providers;
- the changing world of work, and what it means for Australia's young people;
- detailed examinations of the transition from school to training, further education and work;
- how to re-engage disengaged young people in education, training and study;
- An international focus, with speakers from USA, New Zealand and Malaysia providing a wider perspective on community education; and
- the first-ever "Community Education Student of the Year" Awards, to be delivered at the Gala Dinner at the Windsor Hotel, featuring Aboriginal tennis coach Anzac Leidig, who will help present the awards.
The conference speakers talking on young people include:
- "The workforce of tomorrow demands a new mindset", by Bronwyn Lee, Deputy CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians (FYA), who will draw on FYA's research on the New Work Order;
- "Building the Financial Capability of Indigenous Young People in the Northern Territory", by Duncan Poulson, Northern Territory Regional Commissioner, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) – drawing on ASIC's MoneySmart financial literacy expertise;
- "Education and Regional Development: A view from American Community Colleges", by Dr Roberta Teahen, Associate Provost, Ferris State University, Michigan USA, & Dr Laurie Chesley, Executive Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs & Provost, Grand Rapids Community College. Michigan;
- "The Brotherhood of St Laurence Study on Young People in the Private VET Sector", by Kira Clarke, Lecturer in Education Policy, Centre for Vocational & Education Policy, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne;
- "Powering up the work of Flexible Learning Providers through strategic partnerships and networks", by Louisa Ellum, Chair, Youth Affairs Council of Victoria & Chief Executive, International Specialised Skills Institute (ISS Institute);
- "Empowering Positive Post-School Transitions", by Nicholas Johns, Johns Consulting & ISS Institute Fellow;
- "Learning with Passion for Purpose and Direction", by Mana Forbes, Maori Elder, Hamilton, New Zealand, Tai Wanaga High School;
- "Disengaged youth and community colleges – the perfect fit", by Wendy Ratcliffe, WEA Foundation Manager and co-founder of WEA Hunter's Alesco Senior College;
- "Australian Apprenticeships: one pathway to a better future", by Peta Skujins, Research and Content Officer, Australian Apprenticeships and Traineeships Information Service (formerly with NCVER); and
- "Youth and Alternative Pathways – the Advance Story", a report from Steve Wright, CEO, Advance Community College (Rosebud VIC).
The full program is now available here.
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Hard water can be an issue in rural areas and various municipalities. We offer well water testing in accordance with county and state regulations.
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Asbestos Abatement Guide
The Mesothelioma Center recently sent us Your Guide to Hiring an Asbestos Abatement Company, and we wanted Asbestos Abatement Guide as a free resource. Enjoy!
Asbestos.com also has more information and resources for those dealing with the harmful, home-hidden substance.
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This older garage has storage, outlets, three doors, even a wood stove!
Well Pump and Water Testing
Even in the Triangle area, many clients have private well water service. We offer well pump and water testing to reduce the risk of water-borne illnesses and well pump failure. Here's what we do, on-site, during the home inspection:
- Run the pump for 90-120 minutes. We locate a safe place to disperse water away from the home and run a hose to that location. It continues running for the duration of the testing period.
- Test the water pressure 3-4 times. We report this pressure in gallons per minute (GPM).
- Watch the pump switch cycle on and off. We time this cycle and monitor for slow-cycling or constant re-cycling.
- Inspect the well tank. We look for corrosion, damage, and leaks.
- Inspect the well head. Here, we are looking for cracks and damage. Groundwater is not to enter the well head area.
- Take a water sample at the kitchen sink and analyze it. Water samples must either be refrigerated or delivered to the lab within four hours. Results take 4-5 business days.
Once the results come in, we process them into an easy-to-read, straightforward format to help our clients know and take those next steps with their well water.


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This is especially imperative when it comes to kids, since they are in the early stages of physical development, and they need to have healthy and strong bodies.
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Holidaying With Twin Babies: The Truth
If you were to glance across the profiles of parents on social media, you'd be forgiven for thinking that holidays with babies are refreshing, care-free, and enchanting. I want to bury this myth through the medium of photography.
My small but strange family went on holiday last year to Camber Sands in the south-east of dreary old England. The four of us (me, the wife, and the twin creatures) did manage some smiles, of course; I'd say that, on aggregate, we had a good time.
However, I'm so sick of seeing smiling parents and children on Facebook that I decided to show the muddier, grimier side of coin; some might say that the side of the coin I present here is slightly larger than the shiny side.
I've gone out of my way to make the following photos look miserable. It seems more appropriate. Sue me.
I think it's important for parents racked with guilt to know that if they are having a terrible time, it's not their fault and it will pass. I want parents who feel like they should be enjoying their babies more to know that it is impossible to enjoy them all of the time. Go easy on yourself. They can be awful.
I hear you shouting, "well, if you go to a coastal town in the UK in winter it's bound to look bleak." Congratulations, you are correct. It's also the only kind of holiday we could afford because: twins. (I'm not grumbling… at least we got to go away at all….)
The major problem with holidays is that babies, as wonderful and life-affirming as they are, cannot deal with change. This means that they normally decide not to sleep very much, which, in turn, means you don't sleep. Of course, sleep deprivation means that everything feels worse, nerves are frayed, and life seems a touch bleaker and more brutal.
Any way, like I say, we did have a nice time (in part), this is just my overreaction to the highly-orchestrated, Colgate smile images on the internet. LIFE WITH TWINS CAN BE TOUGH:
Some of the scenery pictured above is bleak yet beautiful. I think that's a pretty good representation of holidaying with twins. If you look hard enough, there is beauty, but it is covered in a thick, impenetrable crust of vomit.


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Unless you're really into keeping healthy and fit, you're probably not much different than most other players and have a tendency to snack during game play. Or maybe just maybe, it's more than just the occasional snack?
I would easily fall into that final suggestion. I always have a supply of snacks handy or close by to dip into during game play. It helps me think more clearly as I try to think ahead on how to handle groups of baddies who are eager to snack on me! :p
My own preferances lean towards smaller, individual items. Bits of chocolates, sandwich creme style cookies, individually wrapped pastries, etc. My current obsession is a bowl of fresh jellybeans. The old classic ones.
I thought we'd take a quick poll on game time snacks. Nothing fancy or scientific, of coarse! It's in the sidebar near the top and will be open for votes
until the 30th. of the month. Let's get a glimpse of how many snackers are out there, and maybe how many don't indulge.
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The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle: An Interactive Lesson Plan for Classrooms or Homeschools
This fun lesson uses the book The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle, and takes 30 to 60 minutes to present. Literacy teaching tips are included; use this as a stand-alone lesson or combine it with other lessons in an Eric Carle series.
Objective: This elementary level lesson plan teaches guided reading, prediction, language arts, and prewriting skills. Students connect printed words with spoken words and develop vocabulary fluency, and word recognition.
Lesson Plan Supplies and Prep
Before class, prepare the bulletin board by placing the push pins in a five point star shape – one at the top, two on either side, one each on the bottom left and right. Make a slip knot in the yarn and affix it to the top push pin. After the story is told, the yarn is looped from push pin to push pin to form a star as the discussion questions are asked and answered. The yarn is then looped around the outside of the star to form a web during the remaining question and answer session.
Example: Start at the top middle push pin, wrap the yarn around the pin and bring it down to the pin in the right hand corner. Ask a question, let the kids answer, and wrap the yarn around the push pin. Bring the yarn up to the pin in the upper left hand corner and continue the pattern until a star pattern is formed
The following supplies are needed for this literacy lesson plan:
- The Very Busy Spider,by Eric Carle
- One skein red thread
- Five push pins
- A small portable bulletin board or other board to insert the push pins.
- Easel for bulletin board
Classroom Lesson Plans - Tell the Story
Show the book cover to the class, and then point to the title and say it aloud. This helps emergent readers to connect the printed word with the spoken word. Since weaving the spider web requires hands-on activity, we recommend reading the story first. Mark the pages corresponding to the discussion questions with sticky notes, and refer back to those pages as visual clues to help the class answer the questions.
Teacher Resources – Discussion Questions
Try these discussion questions to get the class engaged in the activity:
- What did the horse invite the spider to do?
- Why didn't the spider answer?
- The cow wanted to share her grass, but the spider ignored her – why?
- What happened when the sheep wanted to run with the spider?
- The spider did not answer when the animals spoke to her – was she being rude?
- The goat tried to get the spider's attention – what did he say?
- What did the pig want the spider to do?
- Why didn't the spider chase cats with the dog?
- When it was naptime, who took a nap? What did the spider do?
- Who wanted to go for a swim with the spider?
- Who caught the fly?
- The owl wanted to know who made the web, but got no answer. Why not?
For other Eric Carle lesson plans, please read "Fun Elementary Math Lesson Plan: The Very Busy Spider."
Recommended Reading List
Try these books in your classroom or at home to extend the lesson of The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle.
Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth by Eric Carle
The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
The Magic School Bus Spins a Web by Joanna Cole
Learning About Spider by Jan Slovak
On Beyond Bugs: All About Insects by Tish Rabe
This post is part of the series: Lesson Plans for Teachers The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Here is a series of articles supporting teacher lesson plans on the children's book The Very Busy Spider. This collection of articles includes a lesson plan and literacy building activities.


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Friday, June 12, 2015
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Beautiful card.Love your take on our sketch this week at Try Stampin or not on Tuesday. Ina DTReplyDelete
Hi Jan, another beautiful card this week. I like how you turned the sketch on it's side and the simple "hello" greeting is perfect for all occasions. Thanks for joining us again at Try Stampin' or Not on Tuesday! CrystalReplyDelete
This is a beautiful card, Jan and I love how you used the pink twine to divide up the card! Thanks for sharing with us at Try Stampin' or not on Tuesday. Oh, sounds like you have a fun and smart grandson too. I can see why you would be impressed with him! :)ReplyDelete
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This is a really prettly card. I really like the layers of your flowers and they way you've undercut the busyness of the patterns with such an simple sentiment. Lovely!ReplyDelete


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Xi's Name Appears, Then Disappears, in Chinese TV Costume Drama
Xi Jinping's Name Appears, Then Disappears in a Chinese Drama
Did the makers of a historical drama set in ancient China sneak in a reference to President Xi Jinping--and in a less-than-honorable light?
Such speculation has swirled around the popular television series "The Qin Empire 3," about the rise of imperial China's first dynasty more than two millennia ago. A recently aired episode about the bitter stalemate between the rival kingdoms of Qin and Zhao shows a Qin spy unrolling a bamboo scroll listing Zhao officials thought to be susceptible to bribery.
Six of the names, while written in an ancient and not easily legible script, are familiar ones in China: Xi Jinping, Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao, Li Changchun, Li Keqiang, and Jia Qinglin.
Messrs. Hu and Wen were president and premier respectively from 2003 to 2013. Li Changchun and Mr. Jia were members of the Communist Party's top decision-making body for a decade until late 2012. Li Keqiang is the current premier, China's No. 2 leader.
The scene aired in late February, according to one viewer who saw it on television and another who watched it on a video-streaming app. And it briefly caused a fleeting stir on social media. Discussions of the scene among some eagle-eyed viewers disappeared from Chinese social media.
The offending shot has been removed from online versions posted on commercial platforms in China, though it's still available on some outside.
State broadcaster China Central Television, which aired the drama, didn't respond to requests for comment, nor did China's television regulator and Youku, a streaming site that carried the drama. Another streaming site that ran the episode, iQiyi, declined to comment. The series director didn't respond to requests for comment, and an administrative staffer reached at the production company, Xi'an Qujiang Qin Empire Cultural Propagation Co., said he wasn't aware of the matter.
The sensitivity of the stunt, no matter how fleeting the shot, is obvious to those that noticed.
"Looks like The Qin Empire's going to banned from broadcast," read the title of a discussion thread on a Chinese internet forum, which has since been censored by forum administrators.
Mr. Xi has run a withering crackdown on corruption in his four years as China's top leader. Being identified as an official from Zhao is also politically charged since the phrase "members of the Zhao family" is used today among politically minded Chinese as a euphemism for the wealthy and powerful.
The episode ran just days before China kicked off its annual legislative session on Sunday, one of the most public political events of the year. This year's session comes ahead of a twice-a-decade leadership shuffle in the fall, raising the pressures on the leadership to display unity in public while they engage in behind-the-scenes horse-trading.
The offending shot had appeared on Chinese video-streaming service iQiyi, said Beijing-based writer Cui Tianti, who downloaded the episode onto her phone on the day it was released. Another viewer, an online-retailing executive based in the central city of Changsha, said he saw the shot aired by CCTV.
Both said they hadn't noticed anything unusual about the scene with the scroll.
The shot no longer appears on versions of the scene available on the iQiyi, Youku and CCTV websites. A copy of the original episode uploaded to U.S.-based video-hosting service Vimeo was taken down on Friday after China International Television Corp., a unit of CCTV, filed a complaint over copyright infringement, according to a notice on Vimeo.
Versions of the scene on Chinese commercial streaming sites now feature what seems like a jumpy edit: A view of the Qin spy picking up the scroll is immediately followed by a shot of the back of the scroll with the spy reading it. A shot of the scroll, seen over the spy's shoulder with the namelist visible, has disappeared.
On a version of the scene hosted on Chinese video-streaming website Youku, viewers wrote comments referring to the deleted namelist shot. "Look closely," one viewer wrote. "There's an obvious edit made at the point when the scroll was being unrolled."
Copies of the original scene can still be found. One such copy, downloaded from video-streaming service iQiyi by Ms. Cui on the day it was released, was reviewed by China Real Time. Another copy was uploaded onto the French-owned video-hosting website Dailymotion on Feb. 27. --the day when the same scene was originally aired by CCTV, according to a broadcast schedule. (The scene with the scroll starts at around the 20-minute, 20-second mark).
The original episode was first uploaded onto the CCTV website on Feb. 27, according to a version of that webpage cached by Google, but has since been taken down. The altered version of that episode reappeared on the CCTV website on March 2, according to the time stamp on the new video.
"The Qin Empire 3" is the third season of a popular television franchise adapted from a historical novel by Sun Haohui, set during the Warring States period that stretched roughly from the 5th to 3rd centuries B.C. According to local news reports, the latest series was shot in 2011 and was originally scheduled for broadcast in 2015, before delays due to editing requests from censors pushed its release to this year.
--Chun Han Wong, with contributions from Kersten Zhang and Lilian Lin. Follow him on Twitter @ByChunHan.


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The best fall foliage in New York
Searching for gorgeous fall foliage? New York offers many parks, gardens and getaways for leaf peeping.
As the seasons change, the city is abuzz with excitement over the best things to do in NYC this weekend, but for many Gothamites, there's nothing better than exploring our city's fall foliage. And, sure, experienced Gothamites know that the leaves start to change color earlier upstate—oh, how we love sniffing that fresh air during one of our fabulous fall getaways! But if you're patient, you can see some truly stunning fall foliage in many gardens and NYC parks in the city. We've rounded up the top spots in NYC so you can certainly check leaf-peeping off your New York bucket list this year.
RECOMMENDED: Full guide to the best things to do in the fall in NYC
Best fall foliage in New York
1. Central Park
Start at the Conservatory Water, near the entrance at Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street, where you can spot hawthorn trees covered in red berries. Then continue to the 38-acre Ramble in the middle of the park, where you'll find a large tupelo tree at the southern end of an area known as Tupelo Meadow; the leaves appear in various shades—red, yellow and purple—throughout the season. Continue your nature trek in the North Woods, a rustic landscape alongside the Ravine, featuring brooks, various oaks, elm, red maple and black cherry—enter at the eastern edge of the Pool (between 100th and 103rd Streets) and follow the trails north. Near the Great Hill, look for European beech trees, which has leaves that turn a warm shade of orangey-red. Not feeling adventureous enough to wander through the park by yourself? Book a private fall foliage tour, during which your guide will lead you to leaf-peeping paradise.
2. Fort Tryon Park
After a stroll into the Heather Garden's vast swath of perennials and a walk through the Cloisters, hike through the arching trees and take a seat at the Linden Terrace, one of the highest points in Manhattan, where you'll be able to gaze across the water at the Hudson River Palisades, which has 20 miles of cliffs that will be covered in vivid copper and orange foliage.
Photograph: Courtesy CC/Flickr/Kristine Paulus
3. Prospect Park
Sugar and red maples—which you can spot around the park's lake—are the first trees to change, turning orange and red, respectively. The rest of the park's foliage should follow by late October, with species like elm, sour gum and sassafras all displaying fall colors. Head to the Ravine, a densely wooded area at the center of the park, for the highest concentration of plants. Seen enough trees? Climb the hill behind the Audubon Center; there you'll find a wildlife garden filled with plants such as holly shrubs, whose berries also transform in cooler weather.
4. Alley Pond Park
At just over a half-mile long, Tulip Tree Trail is a great place to spot this species. The park is home to what's purported to be the oldest and largest tulip poplar in the city (called the "Alley Pond Giant"), at a towering 133.8 feet tall. Other varieties that you'll spot within the Queens green space include white oak, red maple and sassafras trees, which turn yellow and red.
5. Greenbelt Nature Center
Consisting of 2,800 acres of interconnected open space in suburban Staten Island, the Greenbelt offers 35 miles of trails through parks and woodland. Start your expedition at the Nature Center, where you can pick up a copy of the trail map (which can also be downloaded from the website) and talk to naturalists. The eight-mile Yellow trail passes the ironically named Moses' Mountain, which was created from debris from Robert Moses's nixed plan to construct a highway through the area. From the 260-foot hill, you get a panoramic view of the surrounding treetops—the mix of oaks, sweet gum, tulip, sassafras and red maple provide a blaze of autumnal color. On the other side of the mountain, cross Manor Road and head back into the woods toward the 90-acre High Rock Park, where you'll glimpse ponds and clusters of red maple.
6. New York Botanical Garden
For the best leaf spotting, get lost in the garden's Thain Family Forest. The 250-acre woodland area is the city's largest patch of old-growth forest (with some trees dating to the 19th century), and numerous species—including a high concentration of oak, red maple and tulip trees—can be found within the site. Keep an eye out for sweet gums, whose star-shaped leaves turn red and purple as autumn progresses, and scarlet oak trees, which are rich in tannins and display brilliant shades of orange and red. To learn more, head to the garden for two Fall Forest Weekends, which include guided foliage-themed tours, among other activities.
7. Bloomingdale Park
This 139-acre park features scores of verdant woodlands and a vast diversity of trees. Occasionally, the park offers free fall foliage hikes, during which you can learn about how leaves change and to see the shifting palette of greens, browns and oranges in Staten Island's dense, untouched woods.
8. Van Cortlandt Park
This enormous Bronx park can overwhelm, with more than 1,000 acres (and an estimated 80,000 trees) within its borders. But that also makes it ideal for leaf peepers, who can see species such as oak, sweet gum and hickory displaying rust and orange leaves. For superlative views, take a stroll along the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail, a 1.1-mile nature walk built atop a former tunnel that shuttled water from the Croton Reservoir down to New York City. Check out tulip and maple trees in shades of goldenrod and scarlet.
Photograph: Courtesy CC/Flickr/Steven Pisano
9. Wave Hill
Vivid foliage is in evidence as soon as you enter the grounds of Wave Hill—look out for a golden larch south of the main entrance. It's best viewed from beneath its branches on a clear day when the sun shines through the gilded leaves, says horticultural interpreter Charles Day. Take a seat in the open-sided structure to admire the fiery palette of the New Jersey Palisades on the other side of the Hudson—the pristine oak-hickory forest is scattered with maples, sweet and sour gums, black birch and tulip trees, resulting in an impressionist patchwork of rich hues. If you still crave more, venture into Wave Hill's eight-acre woodland to stroll amid sugar maple and hickory trees.
10. Sunken Meadow State Park
Though Long Island is better known as a summertime beach destination, there are plenty of reasons to head east after Labor Day. Sunken Meadow State Park (Rte 25A at Sunken Meadow Pkwy, Kings Park, NY; 631-269-4333, nysparks.com) is just 50 miles outside of the city, and offers dazzling views of Long Island Sound and even a slice of Connecticut in the distance. The park's diverse topography allows you to view the seasonal changes in a variety of settings, from beachfront to bluff top. The fall harvest season is also a great time to make your way to Long Island Wine Country (liwines.com) to visit the tasting rooms of more than three dozen local wineries.
11. Circle Line: Bear Mountain Full-Day Cruise
Brought to beer lovers by Circle Line Sightseeing as an upgrade to the usual Dayliner route to Bear Mountain, the two-and-a-half hour Oktoberfest Cruise up the Hudson gives gorgeous views of New York's fall foliage through sightseeing windows while guests dine on classic German food and beer. All the staples are covered, with traditional Bavarian pretzels and choice of two plates: a Schaller & Weber bratwurst or thin-pounded pork schnitzel, both served with sauerkraut and warm potato salad. Diners can supplement the meal in the cafe, stocked with salads, sandwiches, snacks and a full bar serving beer, wine and cocktails. While aboard, German oom-pah and polka bands will serenade party cruisers on Saturdays and Sundays (circleline.com; $65).
12. Walkway Over the Hudson
Think of Walkway Over the Hudson (87 Haviland Rd at Rte 9W, Highland, NY; 845-454-9649, walkway.org) as Poughkeepsie's answer to the High Line. The former railroad overpass is more than a mile long, making it the world's longest elevated pedestrian bridge. And smack dab in the middle—perched 212 feet above the Hudson River and surrounded by the Catskills—is where you'll find a spectacular, 360-degree view of fall in all its colorful glory along the banks of the river.
13. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
There's no denying that the autumnal colors of Central Park have a lot of charm. But 90 miles north of midtown, the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway (mtnscenicbyway.org), an 88-mile loop between Kerhonkson and New Paltz, NY offers drive-by gawkers some of the state's most picturesque views, with rustic farmlands and mountain vistas. The prime leaf-spotting happens as you ascend into the Shawangunk Mountains, which rise more than 2,000 feet above sea level. Along the way you'll pass two back-to-back overlooks, each with imposing views of the Rondout Valley and the Catskill Mountains. If you feel the need to stretch your legs, pay a visit to the Minnewaska State Park Preserve (5281 Route 44-55, Kerhonkson, NY; 845-255-0752, nysparks.com), where you can walk, cycle, hike to a waterfall or rock climb.
14. Adirondack Scenic Railroad's Fall Foliage Train
No car? No problem. Pack a weekend bag and take a bucolic four-and-a-half hour ride from Penn Station to Utica, NY aboard Amtrak's Empire Service (amtrak.com; $61–$234). Spend the night at the cozy Rosemont Inn Bed & Breakfast (423 Genesee St, Utica, NY;1-866-925-2912,rosemontinnbb.com; nightly rates from $110), then head back to the station in the morning for another train ride, this time on the Adirondack Scenic Railroad's Fall Foliage Train (adirondackrr.com; $29.50–$37.50).You'll go past rivers and through the Adirondack foothills on this five-hour trek.
15. Fall Foliage Brunch Cruise
What better way to take in the beautiful autumn scenery than a cruise up the Hudson? Take advantage of the peak leaf season aboard a luxury yacht while you sip a mimosa or Bloody Mary, and enjoy a plentiful brunch spread. On this nearly three-hour adventure, you'll observe New York's natural wonders and the most vibrant foliage of the season. Don't worry about the possible chill; the boats also have a heated, enclosed area from which to take in the sights.
16. Grove Street between Bedford Street and Hudson River Greenway
A private, virtually unnoticeable alleyway reveals this cobblestone court filled with lush color-changing trees and ivy-covered townhouses with pumpkins on nearly every stoop. At the Little Owl (90 Bedford St; 212-741-4695), pick up a steaming cup of fresh-pressed cider, which is only offered during the next few weeks, before continuing three more blocks down Barrow Street to Hudson River Park, where the foliage-lined path leads to sweeping views of lower Manhattan.
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While the controversy about America's out-of-control obesity epidemic rages unabated Burger King is cheerfully hitting the headlines with a revamped summer menu. What's new and exciting? A bacon sundae.
The world's second-largest hamburger chain is offering vanilla soft-serve ice cream topped with fudge, caramel, bacon crumbles, and a slice of bacon. The salty-sweet bacon sundae has 18 grams of fat, 61 grams of sugar, and approximately 510 calories.
Burger King has not yet made it clear how this new "summer only" product launch, works with an earlier campaign that had the chain targeting a broader demographic. With much fanfare, that menu was then expanded to include fruit smoothies, wraps, and salads. Take the summer off, Burger King now seems to be telling weight-conscious America, and relax . . . with a bacon sundae.
The PR Verdict: "D" (It's a Dud) for Burger King. New launches like this undermine claims that the industry is dedicated to helping solve the national obesity problem. Why not mitigate by coming out with a new lo-cal smoothie at the same time?
PR Takeaway: Actions needs to mirror words. If the fast food industry wants to be taken seriously and viewed as friend, not a foe, in the health debate, then it would be better to stand behind the wraps and smoothies they rolled out earlier. The bacon sundae is bound not to win over health advocates. Any more of these launches, and Burger King could find itself fighting the unloved corner in the national conversation about obesity. Just ask Big Tobacco what that feels like.
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Bishop George Kouri has been in the ministry for over fifty years, serving the King and His Church as a pastor, evangelist, missionary, and educator. Originally ordained as a Southern Baptist, he is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also has a Doctors Degree in Theology. Read more...
The Apostolate or fellowship of the Apostles was the
foundation of the early Church's governmental unity and is still the
key to the success of the Church's global mission in the 21st century.
In Matthew 16 Jesus declared that He would build His Church, His
Holy Nation, and that He would build it in such a way that the very
gates of hell (the governments of cities and nations) would not be able
to resist the Church's march in history. What is Jesus talking about?
How can this happen? What is the key to the Church's functional and
structural unity and the success of its apostolic mission in the earth?
In Part I we saw that Jesus Himself established what the New
Testament writers call "the fellowship of the apostles" or "the
apostolate". In the transition that took place from the Jewish age to
the Messianic age, the Lord took the Kingdom of Heaven from the High
Priests and rulers of Israel (the Sanhedrin), and He gave it to the
Apostles, the fellowship of apostles or the apostolate (governmental
body or council) that Jesus Himself had established. Together these
Apostles extended the Kingdom and planted Christ's Church throughout
the Roman Empire. At the Lord's direction they also ordained elders,
who were the ruling pastors or shepherds of the allotments or
congregations of the Church, who together with the apostles governed
the Lord's House.
Part II of Recovering The Fellowship of the Apostles (the Apostolate) and New Testament Eldership
deals with understanding true biblical Eldership and its relationship
to the fellowship of the Apostles or the Apostolate. The Apostolic
pattern or model of Church government is patterned after the
governmental pattern of the Old testament Israel (first the natural and
then the spiritual). But just as Jesus prophesied to the Chief Priests
and Rulers of Israel, Christ's Apostles (the Apostolate) and Elders
replace the Chief priests and Elders (the Sanhedren) as the
governmental council or Senate of the Israel of God.
It is foolish to talk about an apostolic reformation in the 21st
century without recovering the governmental unity established by Jesus
in the first century.
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C. The biggest issue facing the Church, as we enter a New Millennium, is the issue of structure!
1. How do we connect? How do we commune? How do we govern ourselves?
As I mentioned previously in my article God's Agenda For The Twenty-first Century the greatest problem facing the 2ist century is not the problem of evil, but the problem of a divided Church!
2. If it is true that "form follows function," then the modern
church, the church of the twenty-first century, desperately needs to
recover the form or the governmental order that enabled the early
Church to function as the restored House of David, as Zion.
a. We need to recover the governmental order and structure
established by Jesus Himself in His own ministry and followed by those
first Apostles that enabled the early Church not only to function as
One Holy Nation and as the army of God, but also to triumph over the
persecution of both the Jews and the Romans and receive the Messianic
b. How desperately we need to rediscover the divine architecture of the Church of the Apostles, the structure of victory!
3. We hear a lot today about the "army of God." We preach about it and sing songs about it.
a. Some of the greatest Christian hymns and anthems through the ages
celebrate the Christ's Church as a great spiritual army marching forth
as Jesus promised to defeat the powers of the kingdom of darkness:
"Like a mighty Army moves the Church of God" and "Onward Christian
soldiers, marching as to war…" and many, many more.
One modern writer composed a parody on the old hymn, "Like A Mighty Army":
"Like a mighty tortoise moves the Church of God…
Brothers we are treading where we've always trod."
b. The tragic truth is the modern church is not structured, nor does it function as an army.
c. We function like guerrilla fighters!
We are fragmented and divided into independent bands or marauding
troops fighting our own little battles, often against one another.
We function more like separated "clans" or "sheikdoms," fragmented, divided, quarreling, and competing among ourselves!
4. A real army has structure!
a. It has a chain of command with generals and officers.
b. It has rank and order.
c. An army has discipline and training.
d. A real army has powerful weapons and battle strategies developed in a war college.
e. An army has a clearly defined mission and purpose.
f. It has marching orders, orders of engagement and commands.
5. If the modern church is ever going to function as one Church and
ultimately succeed in its mission to possess cities, disciple nations,
and fill the earth with the glory of the Lord, we must recover the
governmental order of the Lord, His divine structure! (See Ephesians
4:8-16 and Colossians 2:5.)
a. The Church of the Twenty-first Century desperately needs to
recover a structure that will enable us to function as One Church in
the earth, as One Holy Nation, as the army of God globally!
b. It is going to take true apostolic government and valid eldership
to confront the powers of darkness and governments of the present world
D. Through the mercy and grace of the Lord, the Church of the
twenty-first century must somehow recover the fellowship of the
Apostles, a vital and functioning Apostolate, that together with a
biblical Eldership that has been raised up and properly joined or
connected by the Spirit of the Lord to work together in cities, regions
and nations throughout the earth to extend Christ's Kingdom and to
govern the Lord's Church worldwide.
(I am not speaking of a man-made organization or a new denomination.
What I am talking about is impossible in the natural and will require
the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit in this century, just as it
did in the first century!)
1. Today, we desperately need true "apostolic and pastoral
eldership" that can develop apostolic strategies, build the Lord a
disciplined and ordered army and lead that spiritual army in conquest
over the powers of the kingdom of darkness!
2. Many of us (I include myself in this number) have grown up in
"Anti-Church" movements. We have not only had inadequate paradigms of
Church, we have also had inadequate paradigms or models of Church
government or structure.
a. Many of us have come out of denominational backgrounds that
openly declare that Apostles have ceased. We have come out of church
groups and denominations whose basic understanding of Christ's Church
is limited to a non-biblical belief in "independent, antonymous, local
churches," and whose understanding of eldership is limited to the
un-scriptural concept of the "Senior Pastor and his Elders."
b. Still others, having grown up in ancient or historic
denominations, have bought into the Episcopal model of Church
government with Bishops and Priests instead the New Testament order of
Apostles and Elders.
Thus in many ways we have not only been "anti-Church, but also "anti-apostolic government".
c. Many in the present move of the Spirit of God throughout the
earth have recently come out of dead religious systems, but haven't
come into proper relationship with valid apostolic government.
Afraid that we might somehow become like the systems and
organizations out of which we have come, we have been afraid to come
into Christ's governmental order for His Church.
As a result we have a great governmental problem. Today, many
Pastors are not related to any sort of valid apostolic leadership, or
even to the other Pastors or Elders in the cities where we labor. And
even worse, many Apostles are not related to the Apostolate or the
fellowship of the Apostles.
d. It will take true apostolic government and a united Church (a
Holy Nation) to adequately confront the governmental structures, cities
and nations presently under the sway of the principalities and powers
of Kingdom of Darkness!
It will take the Apostolate and a global Eldership to properly unite
the Lord's Church worldwide and to mount the kind of spiritual
offensive needed to conquer the powers of the Kingdom of darkness and
liberate the cities and nations of the earth.
E. Eldership is inherently a "corporate" or "representative" principle.
"Elders" or "Bishops" (as we have pointed out these terms are used
interchangeably) are the true pillars or the foundations of
governmental unity in the Lord's Church worldwide.
1. They are the "spiritual fathers" or heads of father's households,
"ruling Pastors" or "Shepherds" of the Lord's great flock, each
responsible under the Chief Shepherd to guard, care for, "oversee" and
"bishop" his own allotment or congregation, but who also with his
fellow Shepherds, Elders, or Bishops must guide and govern Christ's One
Church in the earth. (I Peter 5:1-3, Acts 20:17,28)
a. Elders or Bishops are the spiritual fathers and as such
responsible for the welfare of their allotment of believers and best
able to represent or speak for them at in council.
b. Thus together, recognizing and submitting to one another, they
are to give overall spiritual leadership and government to the Lord's
Church in the cities, regions, nations of the earth.
Together they are responsible for the welfare and success of the Lord's House, the restored House of David.
2. However, we must also remember that there are different measures
of grace and governmental rule. There are local Elders, and
trans-local. (It is important to remember at this point that just as
there are different measures of grace and governmental rule, there are
also different levels of council, local, regional, national and
a. There are Elders or Bishops (the Shepherds or ruling Pastors of
the various allotments or congregations) who together in collegiality
with one another are to govern the Lord's Church in a city.
We read of the Apostles and Elders who resided and labored in
Jerusalem, who together gave spiritual oversight or government to the
Church in Jerusalem. (Acts 15:4)
In Acts 20:17, 28 Paul sends for the Elders of the Church at Ephesus
(Obviously he had some sort of ongoing apostolic oversight or
governmental authority which they recognized and honored). He
admonishes them:
"Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the
Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which
He purchased with His own blood."
Together, in plurality, the Elders of Ephesus were to oversee the flock of God in the city.
Paul even warns these Shepherds that in the future some of their own
number would eventually break rank with their brothers, become wolves,
draw disciples after themselves, and divide Christ's flock in Ephesus.
I wonder what the Apostle would have to say to the Shepherds in our
cities today!
Clearly the pattern in the Apostolic Church of the first century was
one city, one Church with numerous allotments or congregations, a
plurality of Elders or Bishops, each overseeing an allotment, but all
together governing the Lord's Church in each city.
We see this pattern throughout the New Testament! (See Philippians 1:1 and Titus 1:5)
b. But there are also trans-local Elders. Bishops (Apostles) who's
governmental spheres reach throughout the Church in a geographic region
or a nation.
Thus Peter appears to give overall apostolic leadership and
government to the work of God in the region or nation of Judea. (Acts
1: 15ff; 2: 14ff; 8: 14ff; 9:32ff and 10: 1ff)
Paul and his apostolic company, which at various times included
numerous Apostles, Apostolic Deputies, and many other fellow workers,
worked together with one another and gave apostolic leadership and
overall government to the Lord's Church and to the Churches
(City-Churches) in the regions of Cyprus, Crete, Pisidia, Cilicia,
Asia, Macedonia, Achaia, Asia and Galatia, preaching the Gospel of the
Kingdom, making disciples, raising up Christ's Church, structuring and
ordering Church life and ordaining Elders in every city. (See Acts
13-28, I Timothy 3, Titus 1:5.
c. And of course there are Elders or Bishops (Apostles) whose rule or influence is international or global in scope.
Among these in the first century were the original Apostles of the
Lamb, especially Peter, James and John, Paul, and Barnabas. (Consider
Acts 15: 6-29, and the first major Apostolic Council that still impacts
the work of Christ and His Church worldwide. Also consider Peter's
General Epistle universally acknowledged by the Lord's Church as a
Catholic Epistle, and James addressed his Epistle to the Twelve Tribes,
the New Israel of God.)
d. It is critically important to remember that in addition to being
special Envoys of Christ the King sent to cities and nations to offer
the covenant of peace, Apostles are also Shepherds, Elders and Bishops
called to govern His Church.
Today, some Apostles, like James are called and chosen to oversee or
elder in a locality or city. (James was obviously recognized by his
fellow Apostles and the Elders as the resident Apostolic head or
presiding Bishop of the Church in Jerusalem.)
Others like Peter and Paul are called and chosen to oversee or elder
the work of God with others so chosen in regions or nations, and even
globally, depending on the measure of grace given to them by the Lord
Jesus, the Chief Apostle and Head of the Church.
3. The pattern of Eldership in the Old Testament is the foundation
for the apostolic understanding of Eldership in the New Testament!
a. The biblical principle is "first the natural, and then the
spiritual." The Old Testament Church is really the shadow and type of
the New Testament Church!
b. In Old Covenant Israel Elders were the fathers or heads of the various families, clans, tribes, and the nation.
c. There were not only heads of households, but also Elders of
villages and cities; there were Elders or the chief men of clans and
geographic regions, of the twelve tribes, and finally the Elders or
chief men of the whole Nation.
(Not just local Elders or fathers but trans-local.)
d. "Patriarch" literally means "first father".
The "Patriarchs" were the "first fathers" or heads of the tribes of
Israel. At the time of Jesus and the twelve, the Chief Priests and the
Elders constituted the Sanhedrin (the Seventy), which functioned as the
ruling Council or Senate. Together they represented and governed the
whole nation of Israel.
4.As has already been mentioned, Jesus declared to the Chief Priests
and rulers (Elders) of Israel that the Messianic Kingdom would be taken
from them and be given to others. Thus after Christ's death and
resurrection, the fellowship of the Apostles and the Apostolate
replaces the Chief Priests, and the Elders of the Lord's Church
replaces the Elders of Old Israel as the governing Council or Senate of
Christ's Church. (This fundamental understanding is the basis or
underlying principle behind governing councils and synods throughout
the history of the Church.)
We see this most clearly in Acts 15, the account of the first Church Council.
a. Look at verses 1 and 2.
There was a great controversy over the issue of circumcision. Paul
and Barnabas were sent to Jerusalem to confer with the "Apostles and
Elders" on the matter.
b. Verse 6 is a key verse.
The Apostles (Apostolate) and the Elders related to them came
together in Council or as a Senate to render judgment or govern the
c. Verse 7 tells us there was "much debate." And Peter gave his testimony and counsel.
d. Verse 12 tells us that Barnabas and Paul testified and gave their counsel.
e. In verses 13-18 James quotes Amos concluding that the widespread
conversion of the Gentiles is proof the "tabernacle" or house of David
had been rebuilt or restored in the resurrection and ascension of Jesus
Christ just as the Prophets had promised.
f. In verse 19 James pronounces his judgment as the resident
Apostolic Head of the Church in Jerusalem and the Presiding Bishop of
this "Synod".
In this Jerusalem Council we clearly see the principal of plurality
and collegiality in the government of Christ's one Church in the earth
as the Apostles and the Elders discussed the matter together as a
Council or Senate.
We also see the principle of apostolic headship as James declares
his judgment on the matter. It is interesting to note that James was
the presiding Elder or Bishop in this case and not Peter.
g. Look at verse 23.
There was corporate agreement. The Council of Apostles and Elders
bore witness to and accepted James' judgment in this crucial matter and
together with the whole Church agreed to send messengers to the Church
at Antioch.
Note that the Council or Senate sent a letter containing an "apostolic decree" from the "Apostles and Elders". (Look at 16:4,5.)
It is also worth noting here that when Jesus promised Peter and the
other Apostles that He would give them the keys of His Messianic
Kingdom, He also declared to them, "Whatever you bind (forbid) on earth
shall be bound in heaven and whatever you loose (permit) on earth would
be loosed in heaven."
The point is that the Apostles (The Apostolate) and the Elders
together governed the restored House of David, the Holy Nation, the
Church of Jesus Christ as the New Sanhedrin or Senate.
4. There is no question that the highest governmental authority in
the early Church was the Apostolate, the fellowship or communion of
Apostles that Jesus Himself established as the foundation of the
Church's governmental unity!
a. The highest authority in the New Testament Church, the Church of
the Apostles of the Lamb and those first Ascension-gift Apostles, was
not the Senior Pastor and his Elder Board!
b. It was not a singular Bishop with his Presbyters or satellite
ministers and churches! (This is a popular model of Church government
and structure in certain Pentecostal and Charismatic circles today.)
c. Nor was it a singular Apostle with his apostolic team and network of churches (Even if he was the Apostle Paul)!
d. No! The highest authority governmental authority in the Church of
the Apostles, the restored House of David, God's Holy Nation, was the
fellowship of the Apostles, the Apostolate and the Eldership that it
established throughout the Roman Empire!
e. According to the Gospels Jesus chose the twelve that they might
be in with Him, in fellowship with Him and each other, and that they
might share together in His apostolic ministry and His administration
of the Church that He would build!
Luke tells us in Acts 1 Christ's purpose was that they might each have a portion in His "Apostleship" or "Apostolate"!
f. In Acts 2:41 and 42 Luke tells us that after Peter's great
proclamation of God's sovereign decree (Verse 14 tells us that Peter
stood up with the eleven. Peter was the spokesman that Day, but his
word was the message of the whole Apostolate) 3000 souls were baptized
and added to the Church.
The new converts continued in the Apostles' doctrine and in
"fellowship". They had been added to the "fellowship of the Apostles".
g. Later the Apostle Paul (the arch-type of Ascension-gift Apostles
throughout the ages) goes up to Jerusalem by revelation of the Spirit
(perhaps this very revelation of the fellowship of the Apostles) and
submits his Gospel to those who were Apostles before him, "lest he had
run in vain..."
And Peter, James and John, Apostles of the Lamb, give him the "right
hand of fellowship," the fellowship of the Apostles! (Galatians 2:1-2,
h. And finally, the Apostle John writes in I John 1, "…that you
might have fellowship with us (the fellowship of the Apostles), and our
fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ!"
As the hymn writer put it, "What a fellowship, what a joy divine!"
When the lord began to deal with me about these matters, as I
pondered John's words in his epistle, my first thought was, "Who cares?
Who wants to fellowship with a bunch of smelly fisherman?"
But then I read, "And our fellowship is with the Father and the
Son." And I said, "Count me in! I want to be part of that sweet
i. This fellowship of the Apostles and with the Apostles was the
foundation of the early Church's unity and the secret of the Church's
success in overcoming the world in the first century.
Very simply, the early Church was one because the Apostles were one!
The early Christians and the Churches established in cities throughout
the Empire had one faith, Jesus is Lord and King, imparted to them by
the Apostles who were part this essential fellowship. They had one
experience of God's presence and power, because members of the
Apostolate laid hands on them and imparted the gift of the Holy Spirit.
They had one rule or order because members of the Apostolate taught
them how to behave in the House of God. They had one spiritual
government and functioned as one Church in the earth because the
Apostolate and the Elders who were in right fellowship with them
governed the Lord's Church throughout the Empire.
The "fellowship" or "communion" of the Apostles of the Lord Jesus!
Many Apostles, but one Apostolate! Many Shepherds, Elders, or Bishops,
but one Eldership! Many allotments or congregations of believers (That
we call "local churches"), but one united Church joined together
throughout the earth by valid apostolic government, as the Household of
God, the restored House of David, the Holy Nation, the Israel of God!
If the Lord's Church is truly going to function as One Holy Nation
and as the Army of God in this New Millennium and succeed in its
mission to disciple the nations, we must recover this critically
important apostolic key!
As Christ's ministers and as church leaders, we must recover the
Apostles' radical revelation of the Church's governmental structure,
the fellowship or communion of the Apostles. We must recover the New
Testament understanding of Christ's Apostolate and true Eldership!
1. We must understand that Apostles are not only Christ's Envoys
commissioned and sent to governments and nations to bring the
government of God to cities and nations throughout the earth, they are
also spiritual Fathers or Patriarchs in the House of God!
As Patriarchs (Stewards (See Isaiah 22) of the revelation of the
mysteries of Christ, His Messianic Kingdom and His Church), Apostles
are responsible under God, to restore the foundations of the Church's
faith and to bring the "spiritual tribes" together governmentally or
structurally to function as One Apostolic Church in the earth, the
House of God, restored House of David, the Israel of God, the Holy
They are called and chosen of God to work together as members of
Christ's Apostolate to establish true Eldership, responsible and
representative government for His Church, not just in the cities, but
also in the nations throughout the whole world! (Councils, Presbyteries
and Synods)
2. But Apostles are not only Fathers, they are also spiritual
Generals specifically chosen and commissioned by the Lord Jesus to
gather the "independent troops" and "guerrilla bands" scattered
throughout the world and build them into a great spiritual army.
As members of Christ's Apostolate, recognizing and submitting to one
another in the Lord, they are to come together in various
configurations and levels of council to confer with one another and
with valid pastoral eldership to develop effective strategies for the
Church's warfare with the Kingdom of Darkness throughout the earth! (In
II Corinthians 10:3-6 Paul speaks of apostolic "strateias" or
It is going to take a mighty spiritual army, the whole Church, the
Holy Nation, to defeat the principalities and powers of the Kingdom of
Darkness and possess cities and nations. It will take a corporate
Any believer can cast out demons and heal sick bodies in the Name of
Jesus (Mark 16: 17-18). But it takes a corporate anointing to cast down
principalities and powers over cities and to heal the body politic of a
If we are going to see an Apostolic Reformation of the Church in the
21st century, if the Church is going to function as an army, one Holy
Nation, and if we are going to succeed in our mission to disciple
nations and fill the earth with the glory of God, we must recover the
Apostles revelation and pattern of Church government, the fellowship of
the Apostles (the Apostolate) and New Testament Eldership.
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Hello my Crock Pot friends!
Once again, long time no see. It's been a very busy fall/winter. I will be posting more in the near future because now that the holidays are over I'm going to be cooking more again — cooking for two in fact. Good lord, no, I am NOT preggers. I am co-habitating with my lovely partner, Marie, this month. She is joining me in Seattle while teaching a J term class online. She's a vegetarian and I'm starting to move in that direction as well, so look for this blog to become more veg focused in the upcoming months. She's an awesome cook and a lot more experimental than I am with cooking, so she is going to help me create some new awesome vegetarian recipes. You can also expect some sort of post about being non-heteronormative women in the kitchen when we finally get to that as well. It's an important topic to us both and I want it to be good.
Alright, now that I've introduced what's ahead, let's get to what is now. Dinner. Delicious dinner.
Tonight we made an interesting vegetable curry with tofu dish that we want to share with you. It wasn't a slam dunk recipe, but it was solid. It will make a few leftover lunches for me this week as well, which I am excited about.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 4 hours, 0 minutes
Yield: 4-5
- 1 pound of red potatoes, cut into 1/2 inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons of ginger, grated
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 4 cups vegetable broth
- 14 ounces extra firm tofu, sliced into small cubes
- 2 tablespoons instant tapioca
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 pinch of pepper
- 2 cups canned coconut milk
- 2 cups frozen green beans
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1 teaspoon siracha (optional)
Microwave the potatoes, 1 tablespoon of ginger, curry powder, oil and tomato paste in a bowl for about 5-7 minutes until the potatoes are softened, stir occasionally. Transfer this mix into the Crock Pot. Open the tofu and drain the liquid. Place the tofu on a paper towel on a plate and slice it. Add the vegetable broth, tofu, tapioca and salt to the Crock Pot. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or on high for 3-4 hours. Microwave the coconut milk in a bowl until hot (about 2 minutes) and stir it into the curry. Add the green beans, remaining ginger and let it cook for 10-15 minutes. Add the cilantro and season the curry with salt and pepper to taste. Add the siracha for a little extra zip. Serve with rice.
Review: We both liked this, but we spent a little time contemplating what was missing. My solution was the siracha. Marie thinks this would be better with tamarind or shitake mushrooms. It needs that fifth flavor – umami. If you've got either tamarind or shitake mushrooms, try it out and let us know.
This recipe was adapted from Slow Cooker Revolution Vol. 2.


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here's a special story
My dear friend Suzanne went to New York for fashion week and rented a room via air-bnb, coincidentally it was in Lyndsy Welgos appartment, who was just working on her online magazine Topical Cream and was looking for people to feature. Suzanne introduced us to each other and ended up doing an interview with me. This was super special because not only is Suzanne a brilliant magazine editor and conceptual thinker, she is also a very good friend. The cliche questions like 'who is your style icon' were not asked, instead Suzanne turned it into an in depth conversation. On top of that, Romeo was commissioned to shoot the portraits, who besides being my boyfriend is also my best friend. I came up with the idea to take pictures in which my face wouldn't be visible. The end result turned out being such an intimate collaboration, I don't think interviews can get any more personal than this.
/ Sharing the meaning of my tattoo feels very strange because it is so very personal and important to me. It is about staying focussed, staying on your path that aims to your goals and dreams. The line is almost never 100% straight because my arm is always in movement, and so is life. There are curves and bends but the line is always there and can always go back to its original straight form.


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In a likely expected decision, Texas linebacker Malik Jefferson has opted to forgo his senior season with the Texas Longhorns and has officially declared for the NFL Draft. Jefferson did so by way of a short video announcement shared by The Players' Tribune.
Jefferson is coming off a standout season with the Longhorns, earning Co-Defensive Player of the Year honors in the Big 12 and All-American recognition. Jefferson was ruled out of the Texas Bowl due to a case of turf toe. At the time the injury was reported, there was no NFL decision to share according to Texas head coach Tom Herman, but the injury and the decision to rule him out for the bowl game seemed to suggest Jefferson had seen his last down on the field wearing a Texas football jersey.
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Edit: A shame that this was post 10,002 and not 10k. I don't even know what 10k was, probably some film post.
Congrats to C-fan. This gives me hope that my return to higher ed will pay off in the end. If that end ever comes. Somehow 20 years of experience doesn't count for shit, but I'm really hoping that degree gets me at least a chance.


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Here's an opportunity to learn more about teaching writing. Applications are due March 1.
Past participants from Greece Central include MR Maier (a co-facilitator), Alaina DeSiena, Andrew Farmer, Jan Marchetti, Jeanmarie McLaughlin, and Jean Zannie.
From the University of Rochester's Warner School website:
Genesee Valley Writing Project Summer Institute
July 9 – 27, 2012
8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
University of Rochester's River Campus
Download the Summer Institute Brochure
About the Summer Institute
The GVWP offers a three-week annual invitational Summer Institute, which is the centerpiece of the Writing Project experience. The GVWP awards fellowships to a group of teachers from all disciplines and at all levels of instruction, pre-kindergarten through university. Teachers participating in this three-week Institute will have the opportunity to study successful classroom strategies for teaching writing by participating in teacher demonstration workshops. They will read and discuss research in self-selected reading research groups and improve their knowledge of writing by engaging in a collaborative community of writers. Presentations and field trips during the Institute will highlight the local and national resources and expertise available through the National Writing Project network.
The 2012 Summer Institute will be held on the University of Rochester's River Campus from July 9 through 27, five days each week, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fellows must attend one mandatory Pre-Institute meeting scheduled for Saturday, June 2 and one Pre-Institute coaching session scheduled for Saturday, June 16, both to be held on the University of Rochester's River Campus.
Eligible Participants
The GVWP will accept up to 12 Fellows for the 2012 Summer Institute. Applicants must be practicing teachers from any subject or grade level (pre-kindergarten through college level) who embrace writing and literacy as central components of learning in the classroom and who are looking for innovative ways to integrate literacy practices into student learning. We invite educators from urban, suburban, and rural regions of Monroe and surrounding counties to apply for the Summer Institute.
Benefits of a Fellowship
Three graduate credit hours at the Warner School of Education (participants will be required to first use any employee tuition benefits or other applicable scholarships and tuition waivers, with the remainder to be covered by a Warner School tuition waiver – offer not applicable to currently matriculated Warner students); the chance to collaborate with outstanding colleagues; membership in a local and national network of Writing Project Fellows; and approximately 100 hours of professional development may be used toward your district's PD hours requirement.
Criteria for Selection
Attendance at the Summer Institute is limited by invitation. Those selected will demonstrate:
• Successful classroom teaching
• Commitment to using writing in the classroom
• Openness to new ideas and approaches to teaching
• Willingness to write
How to Apply
Applications for the 2012 Summer Institute should be sent to the following address by March 1:
Joanne Larson, Director, Genesee Valley Writing Project
University of Rochester
Warner School of Education
1-160E Dewey Hall RC 270425
Rochester, New York 14627
Download the Application
Application packets should include the following: (1) application cover page; (2) one to two page personal statement based on the prompts provided in the application; (3) sample writing assignments and/or student work samples to support the personal statement. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Qualified applicants will be invited for a 30-minute interview with the director/co-directors at the University of Rochester's River Campus. All interviews will be scheduled by March 31. The final notification of the Summer Institute Fellows will be issued by April 15. For more information about the 2012 Summer Institute, please call Joanne Larson at (585) 275-0900 or e-mail her firstname.lastname@example.com.
GVWP Follow-up Programs
The community of teacher leaders formed during the Summer Institute becomes the foundation for the continuing work of the GVWP. Writing Project Fellows are encouraged to stay involved with our local and national Writing Project network and are supported in developing community outreach programs, school-based inservice workshops, collaborative partnerships, and teacher study groups to support the goals of the National Writing Project in the Greater Rochester community.
GVWP Leadership Team
Joanne Larson, Director
Professor of Teaching and Curriculum,
Warner School of Education
Maryrita Maier, Co-Director
First grade teacher and Warner doctoral student
Jennifer Smith LaPointe, Co-Director
College writing teacher and Warner doctoral student


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The men's teams compete in the pool matches today and tomorrow, before the finals tomorrow afternoon. The women's teams get underway tomorrow.
"Each team will play two matches of one 25-point set in a double-elimination format to warm up with your partner, and make the seedings. Seedings for this round will be drawn from a hat," explained Tournament Director Yupa Phukrongploy.
While the tournament is aimed at being a fun but challenging event, Ms Yupa, a former Thailand National Team player now retired after 12 years of professional tournament play, is serious about the rules used in the Phuket Beach Open.
"There will be strictly seven minutes between matches – be warm and ready to go by the end of the previous match," She notes in the tourney description.
"There will be no arguing with the ref of any description – red cards will be handed out at the first and each sign of dissent. First red card per team is one point loss, second red card is forfeit match, 3rd red card is forfeit tournament.
"Current FIVB rules (click here) will be used, and the referee's decision is final," she added.
Ms Yupa is continuing to her drive to hold international-standard volleyball tournaments in Phuket.
A beach volleyball tournament she organised and held on Karon Beach earlier this year attracted teams from nine countries: Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, USA, Denmark, France, Kazakhstan and Thailand.
"I want Phuket to become a world destination for beach volleyball," Ms Yupa told The Phuket News at that event.


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For those of you who thought I was joking about Comcast broadband running at dial-up speeds, these speeds are what I have been dealing with _all_night_!!!
9.0 KB/sec... isn't that nice? Comcast offers dial-up speeds for only $50 per month!
Labels: comcast, horrible business, mad
2 comments:
- Keith said...
I can type faster than that when my arm isn't numb.
- October 9, 2007 at 12:51 AM
- Darren said...
You can walk to the server and carry the packets faster than that sir! You want me to give them a call for you? Let me know! I may may just have to file a complaint with the BBB and I don't even use those retards anymore! I had their service when I first moved to Atlanta and was so upset with the picture quality on my new TV as well as thier overloaded internet snail system, I turned their equipment in and swithed to DSL with Bellsouth and DirectTV. Better yet Bellsouth paid me like $450 to switch my services from cable to them. Nearly pays the internet for a year. If only they would let me drop this darn phoneline which I NEVER made one call on.
- October 18, 2007 at 1:23 AM
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so they are going to ban the toys that encourage consumption of unhealthy food....
.. but continue to allow the unhealthy food.
persoanlly, i think anything like that should be left up to the parents. it's not the governments job to force parents into wise decisions.
i just copy/pasted it here because if they are going to step in to try and dictate what we feed our kids, why yank the toys and leave the greasebomb burgers?
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Know How to Prepare for CA Foundation in 4 Months Study Period
Students who register for the CA Foundation course get four months study period to prepare for the Exam. Read this article carefully, so that you will come to know exactly how to prepare for the CA Foundation in four months study period. Hard work is always important but smart work is similarly important. Follow these 10 smart pieces of advice given in this article to crack the Foundation level in your first attempt.
Chartered Accountancy is regarded as the toughest course in India and becoming a Chartered Accountant is a dream of every commerce student. Inspite of registration of Lakhs of student every year, still there are only 2,80,000 Chartered Accountants in India. The only recognized body who is responsible and authorized to conduct the CA examinations is ICAI (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India).
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The entrance test to pursue this course is named as CA Foundation which is replacing the current entry-level i.e. CPT(Common Proficiency Test). CA Foundation will be going to be a bitter tough than the CPT.
Students who wish to pursue this course can register for the CA Foundation after appearing in the 10+2 examinations conducted by an examining body constituted by law in India or an examination recognized by the Central Government as equivalent thereto.
You get minimum four months study period after registration for the CA Foundation. To appear in the CA Foundation examinations one has to pass 10+2 examinations.
To pass the entrance test of the toughest course you must be fully dedicated towards your studies. Wherever you are and whatever the reason may be. Don't let your efforts came down.
Today we are giving you some pieces of advice to crack this exam in four months but the difficult part is execution and which is your part.
The entire course at the Foundation level is divided into four subjects –
- Principles and Practices of Accounting.
- Business Laws and Business Correspondence and Reporting.
- Business Mathematics and Logical Reasoning and Statistics.
- Business Economics and Business and Commercial Knowledge.
A 12th commerce student must be familiar with the majority of the subjects. CA Foundation syllabus is much similar to your senior secondary classes.
First two papers in the course are subjective and later two are objective. The students are advised to start preparation with the 12th standard.
10 Expert Advice to Prepare for CA Foundation During 4 Months Study Leaves
Prepare a Time-Table
The first step before starting your studies is to prepare a timetable. Those students who think that making time-table is the wastage of time done a blunder mistake. Instead of wasting time every day in thinking about what to study or where to start, make a proper plan. Pick Up the Study Material and allocate time to every subject and every chapter according to the days left in your exam. This will not just organize your studies in a proper manner but also help you to analyze your performance.
Join the proper coaching
Teachers play a major role in the success and the failure of a student. Many of the students crack this exam without coaching with just passing marks. But let me warn you, students, that clarity on the concepts is essential from the basic level because Chartered Accountancy is a long journey where you will be called as experts, and proper CA Foundation/ CA CPT coaching help you a lot in gaining clarity over your concepts.
Teachers are the candles who burn themselves to light others…
Focus on Statistics and Logical Reasoning
Non-Maths commerce students are advised to focus on Statistics and Logical Reasoning because Maths does not seems to be a scoring subject for the Non-Maths students. Logical reasoning covers 20 marks and the remaining part is divided equally among Maths and Statistics. Therefore Non-Maths should focus mainly on Statistics and Logical Reasoning.
Prepare Your Own Revision Notes
The course is very vast and almost impossible to revise in a day so the best source notes to revise at the exam time is your own handwritten notes. So, always prepare your own short notes during your classes which will prove immense helpful at your exam time.
Command Over Calculator
ICAI does not want from its student to do the labor work that why it permits calculator in the CA exams. Papers are always lengthy so it has become very important to grab a command over the calculator. Learn the short keys like M+, M-, G etc. This will save your crucial time in the exam.
Take Short Breaks
If you want to study effectively then do not study continuously for the whole day. Take short breaks of 10-15 minutes in every 2-3 hour to refresh your mind. Start your day with the theory subjects because morning time is regarded as the best time to complete your theory subjects and thereafter practical subjects. End your day with the revision what you have done during the whole day.
Minimum Three Times Revision
The course is vast and needed to get revise atleast three times before exams. Plan your revision efficiently i.e. revise each and every topic in your first revision and mark the same type of questions so that your precious time won't get wasted in solving similar questions again. At the second revision try to complete a single question for each type and mark questions for your third revision which seems to be tough, important and needed one more revision. At your last and third revision, read the concepts and solve only those questions which you think need one more revision.
Model Test Papers
CA Foundation Model Test papers have proven very helpful in clearing your exam. They taught you the time management and how to analyse the questions accurately. Offcourse it is most advisable to solve the mock test papers once you have completed the course. But most of the times it has seen that due to the lack of time, students won't be able to solve the model test papers. Therefore it is advisable to solve the MTP's with the end of the chapter and after completion of the course, solve the complete MTP. It's better to face failure in the MTP rather than Final exams.
Focus on Presentation
With the introduction of the subjective paper pattern, the students will need to focus on the presentation. Don't take it lightly as this is no more your school exams. In the professional exams and especially the CA Exams presentation matters a lot. Two of the papers in the syllabus are objective while the other two are subjective. Start practicing the questions in writing and tally them either with your mentors or suggested answers.
Revision in the last month
Set a target to complete your course in three months along with first revision and leave the last month for the last two revisions and solving the past attempt and mock test papers. You can't waste your time in solving the question in the last month following the exam. Don't jump over other reference books or another teacher's notes. Stick to your teachers' notes and solve the model test papers as much as you can. Follow the last one-month preparation plan to score high in exams.
Why Join VSI for CA Foundation Preparation?
VSI is always aimed at developing a system which can help each and every student to find his/her greatest potential. VSI CPT Results has proven that we prepare every single student for Rank rather than just crack this exam. That's what makes us the best CA coaching institute in all over India. Our dedicated and experienced teachers have given three AIR – 1 in CA Exams in last six years and established a benchmark for every coaching institute. So, join the VSI and become successful Chartered Accountant.