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New concrete slab poured, walls insulated, plywood sheathing added, 240 volt circuit added, LED shop lights installed, 240 volt shop heater installed... we managed to run some ink and bust out a couple print jobs last week. Fortunately Rebecca is a master at organization. This space will fill up fast. That said, I'm very excited about this cute little shop space. It is going to be a nice manageable way to keep ink flowing while settling-in after the hectic push of the last several months to clear out of the Stumptown Printers space.
Equipment Storage
Temporary storage for 30,000 pounds of equipment which has called Stumptown Printers home for the last 11-20 years. Linotype machine, 8 full magazine racks, proof press, Heidelberg 13"x18", 8"x12" platen, stones, guillotine cutter, type cabinets and more. The container will live on the outskirts of town near Clackamas. Eric squirreled away some offset presses and equipment at his in-law's barn up in the Skagit Valley, Washington. While the press operators will still be toiling away in the city, much of the Stumptown Printers equipment will be enjoying a countryside respite for at least a couple of months.
Stumptown Printers: Ship Shape and Shipped Out
At the eleventh hour on the last day of January we managed to clear out the Stumptown Printers shop space. 20 years as a business. 11 years at this shop. Whew. What a journey. If we hadn't been down to the wire, it would have been ideal to have some sort of shindig to celebrate 20 years and future projects. Maybe a roller skating party or something like that. But, things don't always work out that way. Now we have to move on to caring for our presses and Linotype in storage, and to continue to set up the home print shop....
Linotype machine news on the interwebs:
A shop built to house a small community hotmetal newspaper (composed by Linotype) which covered the early days of Cesar Chavez and the farm labor movement, now functions as a hub for local artists. Link to article here. via: montereycountyweekly.com Notes: Castroville Times
The Point.
Another print run of "The Point." The Point is a newsletter from the C.C. Stern Type Foundry. With "miscellaneous missives" penned by foundry volunteers. Composition was originally cast at the 11th hour before leaving for the 2018 American Type Casting Fellowship Conference. Types used: Linotype 10pt Caledonia 496 with Metro Medium and italic 462. Heading is set in Jensen Bold and cast on the Ludlow. There's a sampling of DeVinne Monotype No. 11 cast on the Monotype sorts caster. Also miscellaneous Lino and Monotype decorative material.
Lino Lager Report
The Lino Lager label has been archived in "Fonts in Use!" Thank you Nick Sherman for the write up and for adding it.
The cap of the last Lino Lager has been popped and this limited bottling is long gone, so it's a good time for a follow up.
Several Linotype enthusiasts gave themselves a break from their "etaoin shrdlu" keyboards long enough to take a "slug" of this project - it was a good excuse to catch up with fellow line-casting and hot-metal print misfits.
The following are some highlights:
Thanks to Linotype operator and Baltimore Museum of Industry volunteer Steve Cole, the beer made it to the birthplace of the Linotype machine and Ottmar Mergenthaler's long time home: Baltimore, Maryland. Steve Cole and Ray Loomis enjoyed a couple "slugs" of the Lino Lino lager after their volunteer shift at the museum, and properly honored the machine and the man with their celebration.
Our good pals Dave and Gnu from Dayton, Ohio couldn't make it, but they sent flowers to arrive in time for tasting event to help class the joint up a bit. Thanks guys!
Mr. Doug Wilson, director of "Linotype, the Film" broke away from the busy schedule at TypeCon and was able to join us at Stumptown Printers for the tasting party. It was very nice to catch up with Doug, talk Linotype machines, socialize with other TypeCon attendees, and to have more than a couple tastes of the then-two-day-fresh Lino Lager by Royale Brewing.
Frank Romano (author of History of the Linotype Company and executive committee member of the Museum Of Printing) participated, though he may not have known it. While chewing the fat about the origins of Mathew Carter's Olympian typeface, Doug emailed Frank to get the story. Frank quickly responded and confirmed that in fact Olympian was the last Linotype face cut for hot metal composition. In fact, here's a list of the last five faces that Linotype produced matrices for:
1972 Helvetica Condensed with Bold Condensed
1972 Helvetica Condensed with Bold Condensed
1972 Olympian with Bold
1972 Olympian with Italic
Thanks for the info, Frank.
Like an old pro, Amy Redmond knew what to do with her bottle of Lino Lager. She sat on the stoop of her pal's house while visiting Portland and slugged it down after delivering a killer talk at TypeCon earlier that day.
A Lino Lager made it out to the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain and into the clutches of my buddy and fellow Linotype operator Michael Babcock of Interrobang Letterpress. After it arrived, we jabber-jawed like a couple teenagers on the phone for about an hour while catching up and swapping Lino stories. Michael has been tuning up his machine and has been documenting some of his work here. His 31 is looking real clean, and he is putting a lot of love into it. Solid work.
Speaking of work, Bill and Tristin Spurling of Linotype.org happen to be darn good brewers and Linotype mechanics and hard working fellas. Naturally a couple of Lino Lagers landed at their Linotype farm in Yamhill, Oregon. It was good to check in with the lads.
Bill Washburn, Local craft printer, long time Linotype operator, mentor, friend, and pusher of lino-mats received a bottle of the lager, and as a result, it brought him out of his retired life and inspired him to visit us at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry. He's always got a good story, and it's always good to see him.
The C.C. Stern Type Foundry crew are always game for hot metal and print, after the special TypeCon C.C. Stern Type Foundry open house, the foundry team along with TypeCon attendees headed to nearby Royale Brewing to have pints of the Lino Lager and continue discussions about type and metallurgy.
Finally, the last 4 bottles traveled with us to the 2018 ATF conference hosted by M & H Type in San Francisco. As usual, it was an inspiring conference, and the crew at M & H did a fantastic job putting it all together. We put two of the bottles up on the auction block for the American Type Casting Fellowship fundraising auction. Auctioneer Greg Walters busted me by catching a typo on the label which I wasn't aware of. Dang. A humbling blunder in that room full of master typographers and typesetters. Alas, Norman McKnight was a good sport and bid on the beers anyway, the sale of the beers raised a little money for the organization, and then Norman shared his winnings with the thirsty crew. It was an honor to pop the last tops of the Lino Lager at that event.
Update! I was reminded of additional Lino Lager adventures:
A bottle made it to Colorado, where its contents were enjoyed by board members and volunteers at the Letterpress Depot.
Myrna from Expedition Press stopped by the C.C. Stern Foundry during the TypeCon open house where 2 or 3 bottles stowed away with her back to the Expedition headquarters in Washington state.
Also, apparently a full bottle *still* exists within the worker's fridge at the Letterform Archive. Those folks hosted a special viewing of select materials from the archive during the American Typecasting Fellowship Conference. It was an amazing presentation and curation of the collection. Thanks for that, guys! As for the currently un-opened lager, I'll present you with this caveat: The lager is delicious when fresh, but the longer it sits, the more the taste resembles the first part of the name rather than the second. So if you decide to drink it, please keep that in mind!
I'll be casting some type and decorative border for a snazzy beer label, I hope to post some pics soon. Below is info about this collaboration from blog originally posted on the Stumptown Printers website....
Save the Date!
Friday, August 3rd 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Stumptown Printers Worker Cooperative
Steps away from the Yellow Line Albina/Mississippi MAX Station
2293 N. Interstate Ave
Portland, OR 97227
In honor of the Linotype Machine, commercial print and a job well done, enjoy a taste of "Lino-Lager," a limited bottling of Royale Brewing's most popular brew. This limited bottling will be adorned with labels composed on our in-house 1946 Linotype model 31 machine. Hang out, talk shop and traditional print in a classic commercial print shop while the sun sets over the Fremont Bridge. The Linotype machine will be on, we'll be casting Caledonia 10 ^ 496 for a new C.C. Stern Type Foundry publication. Demos will be given until the operator has consumed too much "Lino-Lager." There will be a small supply Lino-Lager bottles available for purchase. Come raise a glass Ottmar Mergenthaler, his amazing machine and to hot-metal type composition. See you there!
Horsenecks Fiddlehead Available now!
The official CD release show is a week from today at the Moon and Sixpence Pub, but I've got some available for purchase here and now. Cover designed and printed entirely from Linotype composition. The package design is "The Fremont Folder" by Stumptown Printers. See additional pictures, specifications and information about this print here. To learn more about the music, click here.
A silver (type metal) lining
Folks, it has been an interesting time in my world of commercial print. General overhead and cost of doing business is going way up, print runs have been going way down. The customer base at my workplace Stumptown Printers is still going strong, the commercial work that we do is always fun and challenging, but the name of the game in the industry are clicks on the press, and the clicks aren't what they used to be. Gone are the days of 15,000 "limited edition" custom paper-based CD packages. Low clicks and high costs aren't a good recipe for a "mom and pop" commercial job shop. We're hanging in there, riding it out as long as we can, and also adjusting our vision for a future of "analog" ink-on-paper classic printing.
Honestly, while I'm worried about our business and my livelihood, I have more concern for the music biz as a whole, and especially how decreased sales of physical music releases have impacted aspiring independent musicians. Man. Without sales of affordable music media*, it's tough for the small independent artist to make enough scratch to cover the expenses of tour, etc. Really, I don't know how "the kids" do it these days, and I hope that the tradition of hopping in a beat-up van with your bandmates to tour and share music, build community, have an adventure, and learn a thing or two about life is still viable. Gotta give those musicians love, folks. Please support them, 'cause it is getting tough to be a troubadour. And the troubadours make the world a better place.
Back to print. There is a silver lining to a lean commercial production schedule: I've had time to plant myself in the Linotype chair and work on creating composition for printing that is outside the scope of Stumptown Printers' normal "job work." It has been an absolute thrill to bond with the machine again. Really, I can't believe that a dirt-bag-commercial printer like myself has the opportunity to operate such a thing of beauty — a thing that in my mind stands as a monument to the machine era, the poetic balance of human hand, human touch, human ingenuity and power of cast iron, steel and brass driven by motors and flywheels. The Linotype machine is art and industry and everything in-between, and... it still works. It is still telling its story. Imagine that. My machine is from 1946. It has been through a lot. A lot of operators. A lot of news. A lot of celebration. A lot of death. A lot of all of it. And while it needs attention and repairs, it still dutifully creates beautiful type. Some of which has never been digitized, has never seen a computer. And all of which looks a heckuva lot more beautiful and much more of this world than its digital counterpart. It is a gorgeous thing.
I can count myself among a relatively small handful of folks who have the honor to be the custodians of these wonderful hot metal type composition machines, and as such, it is my goal to keep this one in good working order and casting nice type beyond my time at its keyboard. Just as the operators before me have done. That's the idea. And that goal can't be accomplished if the machine is idle. It is happiest when it is doing what it was designed to do: cast type.
So let's do it! Time to cast.
Below is a list of projects that I'll be working on while I have the extra time to sit behind the Linotype keyboard. I'm sharing these projects with you to put a little extra pressure on myself to see these projects through to the inking stage. Thank you for being an unsuspecting accomplice.
- The Horsenecks "Fiddlehead" CD cover. Printed exclusively from Linotype Composition. Additional info here.
- Lino-Lager beer labels, coasters, and ephemera. Yes! A beer to honor the Linotype and its inventor: Ottmar Mergenthaler (I'll be handling the printing and Linotype, not the beer-making)
- Composition for a series of mesostic poems for artist, mentor and good friend Barbara Tetenbaum.
- Mother Foucault's Bookshop monthly calendar of events (See post here)
- 12"x12" broadside subscription series
- An artist book for my buddy Mark Owens. I cast this type years ago, but haven't finished it. Time to dust it off and put some ink to the forms.
- Linotype Matrix Slide Being. 3rd in a series of 6. (Previous prints can be viewed here and here)
- Composition for "The Point" a small publication put together by the C.C. Stern Type Foundry Crew.
- Linotype Matrix slide inventory and notecards. Over the years I've acquired a fair amount of border Matrix slides. Many of them have not been identified or inventoried, so I hope to print a limited selection of note cards using the border matrix slides as I'm identifying and organizing them.
If you are in the neighborhood of Stumptown Printers, stop on by to see the progress of the projects listed above. You'll find me behind the Linotype keyboard.
* Yes, vinyl. I know. Sales are up on vinyl. I love it. There's nothing like building a relationship and appreciation for a band or artist when listening to a record. It's the way to do it. Also, as a printer, the larger format of a 12" record offers opportunity to lay down some fancy ink and artwork. That's all good. But it takes some serious coin to release a vinyl record, and it's a serious pain to haul records around on tour.
Mat Inventory, long overdue....
I squirreled away these 3 galleys of Caledonia after discovering them among a collection of matrices I recently purchased. I had no idea whether the fonts were complete or not, but was looking forward to running some tests. Recently I had the opportunity. I'm working on spec'ing type for a book project, and I'm hoping that this type will fit the bill. Rebecca took inventory of the mats - aside from a couple missing small caps, they appear to be complete. Next step: find a magazine to empty and clean....
Mother Foucault's July Events Calendar.
Mother Foucault's July Events Calendar. Edition of 300. Printed on newsprint.
Using some of newsprint's best pals, Linotype 8^502 Excelsior with Memphis Bold and 14^288 Memphis Extra Bold Condensed with Gothic No. 13. I love the functional beauty of those Linotype legibility faces - in this case complete with rowdy jumping lowercase "o" and dropping lowercase "t." This is the first time I had the opportunity to run these mats, I was pleased to find that they are in relatively good shape, and that they ran clean in the magazine. Mother Foucault's is hosting a lot of events these days, stop by and check one out and pick up a Linotype composed and letterpress printed events schedule.
Too Loud a Solitude
Quote from Bohumil Hrabal's book "Too Loud a Solitude" cast and printed during C.C. Stern Type Foundry open hours. Type cast on the foundry's 1948 Linotype Model 31. The colophon pictured above provides additional details. I believe that a couple of these prints are still available, ask for one the next time that you visit C.C. Stern Type Foundry.
Print production of unofficial Marfa Myths 2018 limited edition keepsake
Video clip of the print production of unofficial Marfa Myths 2018 limited edition keepsake. See additional pictures, specifications and information about this print here.
Type Jam with Mark Sarigianis of Prototype Press and a neighborhood scrap yard fire (unrelated events)
March 12th, 2018.
It's 11:07 on Monday night, and I'm writing this under a cloud of black smoke coming from a smoldering automobile scrap yard fire. There's an evacuation in place for our neighborhood two blocks up wind, but the EPA deems that the level of toxins over our place is at an acceptable level for humans. Okay. A moment like this does offer an opportunity to learn a thing or two about tires and tire fires - like this: One auto tire contains about 2 gallons of petroleum products. 2 gallons! When that tire is on fire, the smoke can carry fine particulate matter and other nastiness which may include asbestos, aldehydes, nitrogen oxides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, toluene, styrene, metals and dioxins. Interesting stuff. The kind of thing that one does not think about unless it appears in their backyard, or in the air directly above them.
Well, whether or not we're breathing that stuff in right now, that cloud has colored my thoughts a bit - I had intended to write about inspiring printing, not burning tires. We have enough garbage in our lives, I don't need to fill your eyeballs with more of it.
Which brings me to the topic that I had intended to write about in the first place: A recent "Type Jam" at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry featuring Mark Sarigianis of Prototype Press. There we saw a jaw-dropping example of the beautiful things people make - which is a heart warming antidote to the apocalyptic-trash-cloud that we're currently experiencing. The attendees of this Type Jam had the opportunity to take a first look at Mark's recently completed fine press edition of Charles Bukowski's "Ham on Rye." In an edition of 52 copies, this 364 page, 5 pound (my guess) humdinger of a book is the result of two years of labor, love and even a healthy dose of suspense.
Set in 12pt Goudy Powell and cast by Mark on the Prototype Press Monotype comp caster, the typeface has a wobbly but stout appearance - fitting for the words of the professional drinker that Bukowski was. Nothing delicate about those letterforms, but there's poetry within that typeface all the same, and it holds the ink beautifully on handmade cotton paper from St. Armand. The book is illustrated with wood cuts by Sean StarWars. The illustrations are over printed on tint blocks which alternate with Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. The utilitarian color-tool-box of the commercial printer. Another nod to Bukowski's working class story.
Rebecca and I visited Mark about a year ago, shortly after the building where his shop is housed was sold. The new building owners required that his shop space be partially deconstructed. This was in the middle of the first half of printing Ham on Rye. We found him working away under blue tarps and five gallon buckets which were catching in-coming rain water. Mark was in the process of recycling forms that had been printed in order to make room and more type for the remaining pages of the book. Yikes. This is a stage of the book production where if a mistake is made; days, weeks, months are lost. A keen focus on triple-checking galley proofs and printed final sheets is critical. Yet Mark was undeterred. Under adverse shop conditions with no guarantee that the new building owners would continue to rent to the current tenants, the progress of the book hardly slowed. Pretty nerve wracking, I'd say. It is challenging enough to maintain old type casting and printing equipment so that it is capable of producing this level of fine press book work, so I find it very inspiring that Mark was able to forge ahead under the tarps and uncertainty of the immediate future of the shop location. Mark's edition of Ham and Rye is truly a beautiful monument to the poetry of the every day struggle that Bukowski is celebrated for.
Take that, tire fire.
Check out pictures and a much more thorough description of the book here at the The Whole Book Experience blog.
March winds are blowing in some fresh print related events at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry. You can read about up-coming events in the foundry newsletter here. This evening, there will be a "Type Jam" with Mark Sarigianis of Prototype Press. He'll be discussing the production of his recently completed book: Charles Bukowski's Ham on Rye. Two years in the making, this 364 page sandwich will surely satiate the hunger pangs of print inspiration and nourish the dreams of daily commercial print workers for months. Not that I know anything about that. Really, hearing Mark's process and seeing his work is going to be inspirational, folks. Hopefully I'll see you there.
Mail Call
Mail call. Love it. I received this treasure recently from my new Linotype buddy Rubén Brizuela of Editorial Martín Fierro in Mendoza, Argentina. It's a key chain from "Allegretta," a former parts supplier for Linotype, Intertype, Ludlow and Elrod machines. It was given to Rubén's father for being a loyal customer. Rubén is now responsible for keeping the machines running at his Father's shop. You can see his work here.
Recasting a line from a Joe Green poem that will hopefully find its way on press soon. I originally cast this on a free weekend about a year ago, but job work took over and the poem was tucked away on a quiet galley. Now that the weather has cooled and nights have become chilly, the poem "House Warming" has been on my mind. Time to ink up! Today I found that the word spacing was a little tight on one of the lines – about a year ago I was excited to learn a trick which allows single position Linotype display mats to run on a duplex display mold. Must have been more focused on the trick than on the word spacing. So, fixed!
proofing Excelsior 11 ^ 120 at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry
Recent project at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry: Run mats out of the magazine, proof and inventory, clean mats, clean magazine. This proof is of Excelsior 11 ^ 120. We're short on the lower case "r." There are only 2. That will be a problem. Hopefully they're hiding out in a sorts drawer somewhere. Also, after going through about a pig's worth of metal while casting this, the slug consistently was rough on the right side. This problem persists even after having replaced the mouthpiece and sawing out the throat. The mouthpiece heater is probably on its last legs. For now, I'll add em spaces to avoid the edge of the slug, but will certainly have to revisit this issue in the future.
A budding romance with Metromedium No 2., "Pressing On" film screening and an excuse to gather with Portland print pals
Metromedium No 2 (14^198, 14^186) - has been on my mind. I've been having fun casting and printing it. It is bold yet holds a distinct grace and plays well with ink. It prints nicely. And at 14pt, it's an smooth runner on the machine. Initially I found the appearance of the figures "5" "0" to be a little striking (see pic) - I had suspected that sorts belonging to another version of the typeface had errantly found their way into the magazine. But no, the font number was confirmed and matched. I think it's a nice feature - the lighter stroke of these figures add a "pulse" to surrounding text which teases the eye along the page. I'm also happy that this particular font includes the "special No 1" cap W, which was not the standard cap "W" redesigned for "Metro No. 2." As I understand, the "special No 1" sorts reflect Dwiggins' original Metro drawings. (However, a third version of the cap "W" was also offered as an option as indicated in the Linotype's "Big Red" spec book, so don't quote me on that) More info about the evolution of Metro can be found in this excellent article by Paul Shaw. Anyway, the mats are in good shape, the sidewalls are sound and I'm tickled to cast and print from them. Here's another example of the typeface used in recent piece set in all caps.
The broadside / poster pictured was printed to promote an upcoming film screening and panel discussion sponsored by the C.C. Stern Type Foundry. Foundry volunteers cast the type used on the poster, Jeff Shay cast that gorgeous cutting of Garamond (48pt, 24pt, 18pt) on his Ludlow at Buzzworm Studios (after proofing these slugs, I went down a Robert Hunter Middleton internet rabbit hole - to be explored later. Hopefully Jeff will be my guide, because it looks like I could get lost real fast. Amazing stuff there…), Rebecca Gilbert cast decorative ornaments on the monotype sorts caster at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry, and I cast the above mentioned Metromedium No 2 and smaller sizes of Garamond using the Linotype at Stumptown Printers. Rebecca then masterfully handled the press work at Stumptown Printers. The poster was a good excuse for a collaborative hot-metal project. Nice work, team!
If you're in Portland, please come to the event.
Pressing On: The Letterpress Film
Tuesday, September 19th
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton Street
Portland, OR 97202
For Advance Tickets go to the Clinton Street Theater site
For info about the event, here's a post from the C.C. Stern Type Foundry Website
Alumilite Pi
Linotype Alumilite Magazines Shall not be trusted. This is the second one that has failed on me. No fun. The brass bottom magazines are quite heavy to haul around, but those suckers are solid. I haven't experienced this issue with the heavier magazines.


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Alarm won't let my car start. I have no door key and my romote is broken how can I get my grand marquis to start?
I don't know what type of alarm system it
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Its a black remote with .one little green
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Ok. First question is do you want the alarm? If you don't I would remove it. The starter interlock solenoid should be easy to find. If you disable this you can run until you fix the unit or remove it. First you need to locate the solenoid. Is it factory? and markings on the Remote or aftermarket.
They had the option of a factory alarm but is rare. Apparently if equiped it is in the dash behind/beside the glove box. Jumper out the coil or connect the crank signal in to the output to the rely and it should start. Here is a pic of the dash wiring harness as installed. It shows the wire coming from the main harness to the unit but not where it is exactly.
No i don't care about the alarm . I do want to take it off so I won't have this problem anymore. And no its not factory is an aftermarket. Thanks for your response.
Here is the entire circuit pt1
Ok for aftermarket they would normally install it in the easiest spot. Most of the time it will be either under your dash close to the aftermarket module or under the hood on the crank wiring. They are to lazy to attack the main harness. Can you or have you located the alarm module.
No I have not located the alarm module. Sorry. Where would I find this?
Check under the dash. Drivers side around the steering colunn. Is there an atenna for the alarm the wire would go to the module. Once you find it the wiring harness will go to power, other alarm functions (siren etc) and to the interlock solenoid. Follow these wires. If the solenoid is under the dash it will be cut into a Dark Blue/Orange wire. If the wires go through the firewall you'll have to check under the hood. There is a relay box on the drivers side inner fender. The relay would be cut into the Red / Light Blue wire feeding the crank solenoid or the Yellow / Light Blue wire running from the realy box down to the crank terminal on the starter.
Once you find it you can bypass it. If they used a larger solenoid you can just move one wire over to the other post. If they used a smaller relay and spade connectors you wire have to but splice the wires together.
I need to find a drivers door module (Alarm Module) for my 1998 mercury grand marquis, cannot find it on the internet, do I have to take it to the dealer for him to order one.
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At the turn of the millennium, a young woman moved to a cabin on the Mull of Kintyre, a headland in southwest Scotland renowned for the bleak beauty of its cliffs and the treacherous swirl of the currents below. There she took in two horses, and for a time the silent companionship of those geldings offered more in the way of healing than the countless prescriptions she'd been given by psychiatrists, or the well-meaning attempts by therapists to excavate the most painful parts of her past. Then, in early 2013, she did something she had promised herself she would never do again: She bought a bottle of vodka.
The woman, who asked to be identified only as Karen, cannot recall the precise trigger that made her reach for a drink after 12 years of sobriety. But she does remember stumbling into the hospital in Lochgilphead, the nearest town. Intoxicated and near-delirious, she feared the suicidal impulses that had racked her since she was a teenager might prove too strong to resist.
Dr. Gordon Barclay was making his rounds that day. A consultant in general adult psychiatry with a passion for Goethe, he was a more attentive listener than the street drinkers who had served as Karen's confidantes during past relapses. From her hospital bed, she told him about the sexual abuse in her early years, and how she'd learned to dull its searing legacy with alcohol. But the terror she felt while lying awake in bed as a young child, afraid to close her eyes, still lived inside her. It was a story she had told too many psychiatrists and psychologists, but the endless retelling had never changed the way she felt. It was as if she was always waiting for the abuse to begin again. In that way, she was still 5 years old. "Everything was tinged with fear," says Karen, now in her mid-40s. "I was always driven by the past."
Barclay soon realized Karen had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a condition caused by exposure to a horrific or life-threatening event that can lead to a wide spectrum of devastating symptoms, from bouts of overpowering anxiety to mind-saturating despair, emotional numbness, night terrors and uncontrollable rage. Sufferers can experience flashbacks to a time when they thought they were about to die: high-definition replays in their minds, complete with smell, texture and sound. Symptoms like these can persist for years, even decades, and leave people feeling so damaged that they can't help but push everyone away—especially those they love the most.
As Karen had discovered, PTSD can be maddeningly difficult to treat. She still remembers the panic in the eyes of one social worker when his attempts to get her to open up brought on the full force of her terror. "It didn't matter where I went—nowhere seemed to be able to offer any help," she says. "The only way I knew how to deal with it was alcohol and also prescription drugs."
Though Karen drew on her experiences to forge a career in addiction support, she lived her life on a precipice. The abuse she had suffered did not just live on in her mind: It seemed to inhabit the very muscles, fibers and tissue of her body. This visceral volcano was beyond her conscious control: It manifested in panic attacks that felt like a giant screw turning in her gut, bouts of nausea or the times when a lover's touch would cause her to freeze like a startled deer. No matter how hard she tried to convince herself she was better, her body refused to believe


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As I sit back and take stock of what advice I
consistently tell my kids, believe to be true, and
are mantras to living the best life possible, I
thought I would share them. I have discovered
them to be true.
1) You are the company you keep
I'm fortunate to
have a wonderful
group of talented
people surrounding me.
They push me harder to strive to be better.
I continue to work at being the best they believe
in me to be.
2) Make others proud of you
I often think
that my father
is looking down
from heaven and
cheering me on.
My father could offer advice, he could hold
me accountable, but he never failed to show
his unwavering support of me. He would not
tell me what I wanted to hear when life was a
struggle, he would listen. Then he would say:
"what's the pay off?"
3) Life IS about choices
The choices we make are not always the best,
and we can end up scarred or with a few bruises
but we have to believe that our reasoning for
doing what we did, was because we thought it
the best option at the time.
4) What did we learn?
By sticking to our path, doing what we think is
right for us at the time we do it, we make mis-
takes. But from those mistakes do we reflect
upon the life lesson? Do we avoid it the next
around? Does our vibe send a warning signal?
5) Failure happens
How we react to failure becomes our legacy.
Did we extrapolate from it the lessons that we
needed to learn? Would we do it again exactly
the same or would we do it differently.
6) Listen to others
Did we have the chance to get advice from
others wiser and choose to ignore it? Why even
bother to ask for an opinion if we're just going to
do what we want anyhow?
7) Bees and honey
You attract more bees with honey than vinegar:
should resonate among my children's minds
often. I have said it so many times, they can
finish it before I finish with "bees". People will
react more favorably when you frame it with
niceness, politeness and manners.
8) Show gratitude
Never fail to find an opportunity to thank some-
one. If you show appreciation, you will be
rewarded as often as you express gratitude.
9) You are the company you keep
Be wary of those that want to tarnish your talents
or destroy your confidence or put you in harms
way. Misery may love company but you don't.
9) Please your soul
Play some music, paint or draw or write or cook
a fabulous creation. For it is something you
enjoy. You aren't doing it to please others. Do
whatever sings to your heart and heals your
inner self.
10) Trust your instincts
They could be telling you something that you did
not necessarily see but felt was wrong.
11) Optimistic and positive
It isn't always possible to stay upbeat, positive
and optimistic. Life has a way of pushing you
when you step outside the boundaries. It is
just that sometimes you need a reality check.
Get over it. Take a hot bath. Reflect more on
what you should be thankful for.
12) Recovery
How you recover from failure or disappoint-
ment or from being off track will determine how
far you can reach. Did you fall to the bottom, or
did you catch yourself before you did a complete
tumble? Were their others there to help catch
you? Did you stop yourself or ask for help when
you needed to avoid self-destruction?
13) Goals and dreams
Goals are dreams with deadlines. Do you have
a vision on where you would like to end up that
is not fueled by greed, envy or power? Your
success will likely be determined by the value
it represents.
14) Believe in yourself
Often it is only oneself who can decide if we are
on the right path.
15) Discover your purpose
Allow that purpose to drive your passion, path,
and continual learning. It is then you will likely
discover what it is that you love to do.
I hope my kids read this and remember the
times we had discussions around any of the
wisdom shared and reflect upon the situation
that caused it. They know they have my
permission to hold me accountable. The worst
part of it is that I didn't always listen to myself.
The best part is when they toss my words back
at me.


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For more information on this topic, please look at these sites:
The Plain Truth About Mormons
God the Father According to Mormonism
The three websites you list are neither authoritative nor accurate on what Mormons believe or practice. Some statements are the exact opposite of what the LDS church teaches. If you want some examples, feel free to ask.
Also, when you reference the "Gospel Principles" manual on the official LDS site, the quote you attach to it is non-existent.
The quote was on the LDS site this morning, but the Mormon church, in an attempt to look like as much like Christianity as possible, has since removed it. It is a telling statement that the Mormon church would feel the need to change their doctrine in order to hide their apostacy, but unfortunately that is what has happened.ReplyDelete
I'm calling your bluff that the quote was "removed". The book you reference is widely available and has been around for over 15 years in print, so anybody with a copy can open its actual pages confirm that the quote you reference does not actually exist. Here's a link to the pdf of the book, showing again that nothing was removed. www(dot)lds(dot)org/gospellibrary/materials/gospel/Start%20Here_01(dot)pdfReplyDelete
Brian, you are correct and I apologize for the error. The quote was from Mormonthink.com, not the LDS site. I noted the error and correction in the article. However...the content that was referenced to on the LDS site was indeed changed. This is disturbing and is another example of deception by the LDS or Mormon church that was referred to in Mormonthink.com, "Evidence presented in this list establishes that when the church or its leaders needed protection, it was, and is, okay to fib, deceive, distort, inflate, minimize, exaggerate, prevaricate or lie. You will read quotations by church leaders who admitted that deception is a useful tool to protect the church and its leaders "when they are in a tight spot," or "to beat the devil at his own game." They admit engaging in moral gymnastics; that God approves of deception - if it's done to protect the "Lord's Church" or "the brethren.""
You may or may not believe what I say about the LDS website being changed, and that's okay. You can look at the other examples of the LDS church deception on different topics in the MormonThink website article under Lying for the Lord. I hope and pray that all would consider the heretical doctrines and dishonesty of the LDS or Mormon church and reject them.
I am a member of the local FCA group and LDS, and if this is the stuff I have to look forward to hearing I may as well quit.ReplyDelete
why are trying to bash on Mormons? Do you have any Respect for the Freedom of ReligionReplyDelete
To any LDS FCA members--you had better let these guys know up front about your church affiliation, or if you win an award or get elected to any offices and they find out about it later, you'll lose your award or be removed from your position on the basis that Mormons aren't Christians. The fact that you have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who was sent by His Father to die and atone for the sins of all mankind, and the fact that you pray and read your scriptures daily, and that you plan on spending up to 2 years away from home, out in the world feeding the hungry, aiding the sick, and preaching Christ to a lost world, and the fact that you will spend your adult life ministering to others, often as much as a full-time paid clergy of another church will, only you won't get paid for it--these things just simply aren't good enough for the FCA because you love God so much that you want to be exactly like His Son Jesus Christ.
They will turn around and give it to someone else who attends one of their "approved" churches, which basically means anyone but you and j-dubs, even if the approved church approves of abortion, gay marriage, pre-marital and even extra-marital sex, doesn't believe in a literal Adam and Eve, or myriad other un-Biblical ideals. As long as it's not someone who tries too hard to be like God, and doesn't believe that God stopped speaking to man after the Book of Revelation was written...wait, that wasn't actually the last book written, was it?
It's amazing some of the reasons that anti-Mormons have been recycling for the last 180 years or so about why Mormons aren't truly Christians! None of the reasons why Mormons are Christians are typically mentioned, and the "reasons" they aren't are not even true, factual, or logical in most cases. The Book of Revelation was originally met with just about as much skepticism as the Book of Mormon was. Its authorship was doubted, it was put through a gauntlet of accusations of heresy and of being counterfeit. It wasn't until over 300 years after it was written that it, the last book of the standard canon of books we now call the Bible, was canonized. That, along with the fact that it contains a lot about the end of the world, is why it was placed last. The exact year it was added to the Bible was 419. The events of the Book of Mormon ended about two years later. So, it couldn't have very well been canonized with the other 66 books, now could it? But, that doesn't mean it's not true, or not scripture, or that Joseph Smith invented it. In fact, literary scientists/mathematicians from UC Berkeley have tested the Book of Mormon and found that the individual authors are separate, and could not have been Joseph Smith or any of his cohorts. Not to mention that every generation that sets out to "prove" Mormonism false using scientific methods ends up proving more that it is true.
What's truly amazing to me is that most churches have become so secularized that they are difficult to tell apart from a night club, but you have a church like the LDS Church that sticks to the foundations of what it means to be a true follower of Christ, and yet people like Coach Hoover here just want to stick to the worn-out 180-year-old babbling about different Jesuses. Please wake up, Coach. Keep your eyes on the ball and stop relying on hail mary's to win the game. Better yet, wake up and realize that we're on the same team, and focus that attention on the real enemy, who is Satan--the destroyer of families, the mocker of the Lord's anointed, and the master of contention between followers of Christ.
You make some good points about the carnal "Christian" churches in this country. Much of what calls itself Christian is not. Unfortunately the Mormon church falls into the same boat, and the truth is that you and I are not on the same team. We cannot be since the Mormon church believes in a different Jesus than the One revealed in the Bible. The Mormon Jesus is a created being, which is heresy. The Mormon church has two websites, one for what they want people to think they believe, and one for what they really believe. They want people to think they are really Christian, but they are not. It's all a facade, it's all a lie from the pit of hell.
I have sinned against God and deserve only to go to hell. It is only by His grace that my heart was transformed by the Holy Spirit and able to have faith in Jesus. You deserve hell as well for your sins, and clinging on to all of your works will not help one bit on the day of judgment. Your only hope is to put all your trust in Jesus Christ; not in Joseph Smith, not in the Mormon church, and not in your works. I sincerely hope and pray that God allows you to do that.
Coach Hoover--
1. Jesus is a created being. When the Holy Ghost came upon Mary, Jesus was created. Now, before that, Christ existed as Jehovah, who has existed in a spirit form with God the Father for all eternity. So, what does that mean? Jesus is both created and not created. The human part of Him was created. Either you accept this as a fact, or you do not believe in the Bible. This is the Jesus of "Mormonism," as well as the Jesus of "traditional" Christianity. Same Jesus.
2. The LDS Church has many websites for different purposes. These do not contradict each other. If there is a "Mormon" website that contradicts the official websites of the LDS Church, then it is not owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Church members may have their own websites, but if they contradict the official website of the LDS Church, then the members' websites are wrong, and not representative of the LDS Church. There are also other groups that call themselves Mormons. We understand that this is confusing, and we are seeking legislation that prohibits them from calling themselves LDS or Latter-day Saints.
3. If you apply the Biblical definition of a Christian, then LDS are certainly Christians. You don't have the right to claim Jesus for yourself and any other church you agree with, and then say that if a church has a doctrine you don't agree with then they are not Christian. Neither do I. In fact, Mormons believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of Mary, born in Bethlehem, the answer and fulfillment of prophecies by various prophets including Isaiah, is the only way to salvation. An LDS Christian, just like a Baptist Christian or Methodist Christian or any other type of Christian who truly believes this, repents of their sins, follows the Commandments of Christ, and shows the fruits of the Spirit in their lives is a saved Christian. Differences in other doctrine are not salvation-affecting differences. We are free to disagree, but we need to embrace our commonalities as Christians.
4. You show me your faith without works and I will show you my faith by my works. The Scriptures clearly teach that both are necessary, and harping on the fact that Mormons produce a lot of works doesn't change that (James 2:14-26)
5. I put my faith in Jesus Christ. I revere Joseph Smith as a prophet, but I do not put any more faith in him than you do in Moses, Isaiah, or St. John the Divine. You probably believe that the other three men were important prophets and God did marvelous works through them. I do, as well, and I include Joseph Smith as a prophet along those lines. I do not put my faith in people who use anti-Mormon material written by bitter, stubborn ex-Mormons with axes to grind against the LDS Church, which it appears a lot of Christians do and accept as the "truth" about Mormons without applying their own due diligence to even see if it is true. I sincerely hope and pray that God allows you to do that.
Here is my challenge to anyone who really wants to know what the LDS Church believes and teaches--invite missionaries to your home, or to a neutral venue if you prefer. Include your loved ones in on the discussion so that you can see first hand how the Holy Spirit works with families who are learning the truth together. Listen and pray humbly to know, by a witness of the Holy Spirit who testifies of truth if the things being taught are true. Throw out your prejudices and preconceived notions and just be humble and contrite. Read what they ask you to read. If you can do that with a heart ready to learn, then tell us the outcome. If you can't do these things, wait until you can. You have to understand that a lot has happened since the original Apostles were on the earth, and many of the plain and precious things of the Gospel have been enshrouded by man's philosophies. Most modern Christians don't even know that what they have as the "Bible" was put together by Catholics hundreds of years after Christ ascended. You have to ask yourself what was left out and why. Ideas like the "Trinity" did not even exist until the Nicene Council determined that it was so. Before that, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit were looked at by all Christians just as Mormons see them today--as a Godhead made up of three separate beings united in purpose, but not being three different sides of the same being. Christians baptized living people on behalf of the dead, just as Mormons do now. Christians believed they could be deified and become like God, just as Mormons do now. Councils met and changed these things for political purposes, wanting Christianity to submit to Roman rule, and it had nothing to do with what was true or not true. So, remove these things from your mind and be taught. You might be surprised what you find.ReplyDelete
This will be the last comment on this post. I have already discussed and will do once more that the Mormon or LDS Church teaches a different gospel, a different Jesus, and a different God the Father than what is in the Bible. The false prophet Joseph Smith blasphemously stated in the Pearl of Great Price that there is "No salvation without accepting Joseph Smith," and "No man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he can not enter the kingdom of God." The Bible plainly teaches otherwise in John 14:6 that, "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.'"
The Mormon Church teaches that Jesus Christ was a pre-existent spirit, just like the rest of mankind. Joseph Fielding Smith taught in The Doctrines of Salvation, "Man is a spirit clothed with a tabernacle. The intelligent part of which was never created or made, but existed eternally—man was also in the beginning with God." Jesus Christ took on human flesh, but is false to say that He was a created being when He came to earth. Logic says that something created cannot exist beforehand; and Jesus Christ, being God, did exist before He came to earth. He pre-existed with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit and it was through Him that the earth and the entire universe was not only created, but has been sustained, is being sustained, and will be sustained until He creates a new heaven and earth as taught in Revelation.
Joseph Smith made it clear that he believes in a different God the Father from The King Follet Discourse,
"It is the first principle of the gospel to know for certainty the character of God and to know that we may converse with him as one man with another, and that he was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the father of us all, dwelt on earth, the same as Jesus Christ did."
Here then, is eternal life—to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you."
It is blasphemy to teach that man can be gods. God makes this extremely clear in Isaiah 43:10: "Before Me there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me."
The Mormon or LDS Church is not Christian. It teaches a different gospel, a different Jesus, and a different God the Father than what is in the Bible. They say they believe the same things as we do, but this is a lie from hell. I strongly recommend against meeting with members of their church and opening yourself up to their false teaching. I have found their consciences to be hardened and that they try to change the subject to peripheral issues when they start to lose an argument on the main issue of what is the gospel, and who is Jesus, and who God the Father is.
I feel bad and pray for those being deceived by this false religion, but I feel like my time could be better used to serve God elsewhere than trying to talk to a "brick wall." My job is to use the platform I have to preach the truth of the gospel and to warn others about those who teach a false gospel. The Mormon religion looks similar to Christianity on the surface, but after careful examination, the truth is that the core of their teaching is most certainly not Biblical.


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The biggest pop group AKB48 from Japan has opened its very own themed cafe at *SCAPE (2 orchard link) in Singapore. If you're a J-pop fan, you definitely should visit ABK48 Cafe, which is furnished to resemble the original Akihabara theatre in the heart of Tokyo.
In December 2005, producer Yasushi Akimoto created the idol group "AKB 48". With the concept "Idols you can meet everyday", AKB 48 performs at the exclusive AKB48 Theater in Akihabara almost every day.
They have already performed at "the 62th Kouhaku uta gassen" in 2011, and even have their own TV program "AKBINGO!", "Weekly AKB", "Naruhodo Highschool" and so on.
As of May 2011 there are 18 members on team A, 18 members on team K and 18 members on team B, 23 members on team Trainee with a total of 61.
AKB48 Cafe in Singapore features a theatre-style shop front and a mini-stage; diners at AKB 48 Cafe can look forward to exclusive AKB48 screenings, a chance to meet their favorite AKB48 idol as they dine with delicious Japanese fusion food. The cafe also features a theatre-style shop front and a mini-stage. A full menu will be ready by mid-July at AKB48 Cafe.
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It's easy to trace my history to Los Lobos. A kind guy I totally forget the name of (tall, red hair, lived in Denton ... you know him?) but who wrote for the same site as me once upon a time learned I liked alt-country (when people were still calling it that in the 90s). And, several weeks later, I received a box in the mail filled with albums he had copied from his own collection. Things I HAD to have. Stuff like Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown and Caitlin Cary and Slobberbone and Centro-Matic and Alejandro Escovado and on and on. There must have been 75-100 compact discs in there, no lie. The slipcases still find themselves in my collection, too. I am indebted. Among the many was the Los Lobos box set. It was love at first listen, too. They can do absolutely anything they want to in the music arena. Of that much, I am convinced. And, even though they can tackle rock and blues with panache, it's their Mexican-flavored stuff that I end up liking the most.
I wasn't able to see their show last week when they came through Salt Lake, but I did manage to sit at the feet of a couple of the guys when they played our station. They came, they talked, they played, they drank plenty of coffee. It was all business. Here's a song I managed to grab in the midst of it all, one of my favorites entitled "La Pistola y El Corazon" (which they dedicate to the owners of Red Iguana, incidentally). Watch it by clickety-clicking HERE. (And do so in HIGH QUALITY ... how many times I gotta say it?)
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Los Lobos Live.
2 comments:
- Marie said...
I love the Lobos. Kiko was the first I heard, and still one of the best records I know of. I've also got their two-disc collection. I really need to catch them live someday when I'm not a cheapskate.
- 1/28/2009
- Chris said...
Great job recording that, Dainon! I'm a big Los Lobos fan and really like that song. I was lucky enough to hear it live in concert later that night! They did a great set with mostly more traditional stuff played acoustically for the first half and then more rock and blues after a short break. Always excellent...
- 1/28/2009
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paint color for our living room
Emily Oster
We are dangerously close to starting our first floor renovation. So much so that I think its safe for me to start to consider things like paint color! Of course, I have an idea of what I would like to see in the room but narrowing it down to the exact shade is a whole other thing. When it comes to paint selection for this room, I have known since we bought the house that I wanted to do a darker contrasting trim. Back when we were using the space as our dining room, I liked the idea of doing a dark grayish blue color. But then, we painted our den Normandy - a darker blue - so that just seemed like too much. From there, I moved onto dark green and up until recently, I thought that this was the direction I wanted to go in. But now, I have had a change of heart and am thinking something more neutral. I like the idea of opening up the possibility to different accent colors in the art, pillows and chairs. One of things I have discovered having a darker room - our den - is that it is harder to hang art. While the room looks more "complete" with the blue walls, I have had to be very selective in what to hang ie there is nothing currently on the walls. With our living room, I want the freedom to put up family pictures, favorite photography etc. and not be as limited. I also want the room to really flow into the back hallway (which will be white) to create the illusion of a bigger space. Below are some inspiration images I am referencing as well as some paint colors that are under consideration.
This is my leading inspiration image as its the closest to what we actually have/will have in the room - chair rail, base, crown and a vertically paneled fireplace wall (I wish our fireplace opening was going to look like this!). I would describe the color as a beige with some gray and green in it. Our floors are mid tone like the ones in the image (not the amazing wide plank though) and the color seems to nicely bridge between warm and cool tones.
When starting to thinking about paint colors for any space, I generally turn to Farrow & Ball first. Their more limited color palette is spot on and provides for a jumping off point if nothing else. For our living room, I was initially interested in Hardwick White, French Gray, Lamp Room Gray, Purbeck Stone and Pavilion Gray. When looking at paint colors, I always look for install images to see how the color seems to play out. With beiges and grays, its important to try to gather what the light is like when looking at reference images as these colors can change dramatically depending on their environment. From some image sourcing, I ruled out French Gray for being too green, Lamp Room Gray for being too blue and Pavilion Gray for being too cool in tone.
I am leaning towards the Hardwick White but plan to order sample pots of both just to see how they look up on the wall. I also am interested in Benjamin Moore's Revere Pewter which is probably one of the most popular grays out there right now.
I plan on pairing our "greige" trim with Benjamin Moore's Swiss Coffee on the walls. I have been using this white throughout the rest of the house and want to be consistent. I feel like I am still open to other colors at this point but am going to at least get samples of the three above and go from there. Paint can really be so hard!
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"25 Questions For Mary"
From Max Lucado's Book, "God Came Near."
1. What was it like watching him pray?
2. How did he respond when he saw other kids giggling during the service at the synagogue?
3. When he saw a rainbow, did he ever mention a flood?
4. Did you ever feel awkward teaching him how he created the world?
5. When he saw a lamb being led to the slaughter, did he act differently?
6. Did you ever see him with a distant look on his face as if he were listening to someone you couldn't hear?
7. How did he act at funerals?
8. Did the thought ever occur to you that the God to whom you were praying was asleep under your own roof?
9. Did you ever try to count the stars with him….and succeed?
10. Did he ever come home with a black eye?
11. How did he act when he got his first haircut?
12. Did he have any friend by the name of Judas?
13. Did he do well in school?
14. Did you ever scold him?
15. Did he ever have to ask a question about Scripture?
16. What do you think he thought when he saw a prostitute offering to the highest bidder the body he made?
17. Did he ever get angry when someone was dishonest with him?
18. Did you ever catch him pensively looking at the flesh on his own arm while holding a clod of dirt?
19. Did he ever wake up afraid?
20. Who was his best friend?
21. When someone referred to Satan, how did he act?
22. Did you ever accidentally call him Father?
23. What did he and his cousin John talk about as kids?
24. Did his brothers and sisters understand what was happening?


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Second Sunday of Easter – Lectio divina on Jn 20,19-31
The gospel focuses our attention on what happened on the day of Jesus' resurrection. It lays great emphasis on the difficulty the disciples had in coming to believe that he was really alive. We should not be scandalized but encouraged by this. The first preachers of Christ's resurrection were also the first who failed to believe. It is amazing the effort Christ had to make to convince them that he was risen. We can see ourselves in the poor image the disciples gave of themselves. We can identify with their fears and their obstinacy. It might be helpful for us also to identify with their subsequent joy and faith. Remembering what happened at the dawn of that day is the only way we have to make their experience our own. The Risen Lord, today as then, is ready to overcome our resistance and convince us that he really is alive. This is the good news of the Gospel.
19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." 24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe." 26 Eight days later, his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you." 27 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing." 28 Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" 29 Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe." 30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
I Read: understand what the text is saying and focus on how it says it.
This passage gives an account of two meetings of the Risen Lord with his disciples. Both took place in Jerusalem but not on the same day, and they do not serve the same purpose. What happened on the evening of resurrection day (20,19-23) follows the pattern of other accounts of the Lord's appearances – the unexpected presence of Jesus, joyful recognition by those who saw him, and a universal mission. The second appearance one week later (20,24-29), develops a recurring motif – those who have not had a personal encounter with the Risen Lord find it difficult to believe. The community of believers and the individual believer were born in the same way, through an encounter with the Lord Jesus. When the Risen Lord appears to a group and confers on it a universal mission, the Church is born. When he makes himself known to a disciple and overcomes his incredulity, he transforms him into a believer.
The first account is therefore the 'birth certificate' of the Christian community. The Risen Lord confers his power, his Spirit, and his mission, the forgiveness of sins, on the group of disciples that he has chosen as his witnesses. The second account, on the other hand, dramatizes the individual journey to faith in the resurrection, of one who was not convinced by the testimony of his colleagues, but had to see and touch the Risen Lord for himself. It would have been better if he had believed solely on the preaching of the apostles.
The first account is limited to a mere outline, but it is the more important. The Risen Jesus finds the group locked in the house and full of fear. The death of Jesus has filled his followers with anxiety. There is clearly an apologetic motive – these terrified men would not have become courageous preachers if they had not had a real encounter with the Lord Jesus. The unexpected presence of Jesus in their midst restores their joy. The one sent by God, restored to life and now returned to the Father, entrusts a mission to his followers and sends them out (20,21: as the Father sent me, so am I sending you). The sending is an act of investiture and a sign of trust. The handing on of the task from Christ to his Christians makes them new men. They receive from the Risen Lord his life-giving breath and a mission which makes them new. The conviction that the resurrection experience is the origin of and the reason behind the Christian mission is to be found in the whole gospel tradition (Mk 16,15-16; Mt 28,19-20; Lk 24,47; Acts 1,8). It is typical of John that he sees the mission of the Church as one of universal forgiveness of sins. The Christian community is the only place in the world where sin has no future.
The second episode is developed in more detail. It describes how a disciple arrives personally at faith in the resurrection. In this way John wanted to show that it was not the testimony of the disciples (20,25) but the Risen One in person who guided his witnesses to faith in him. He also shows, at the same time, that those who come later will not require a special intervention in order to believe. The testimony of the apostles will suffice. Thomas, one of the twelve (11,6; 14,5), personifies the inability of the first disciples to accept the fact that Jesus had risen. This episode also highlights the difficulty facing the second generation of Christians who would have to believe without proof. Thomas was not with the others when Jesus came (20,24). His insistence on touching and seeing, on feeling with his own hands, in order to identify and believe (20,25; 4,48. Lk 24,37), is linked to the way he understood the final resurrection of our bodies. He did not see it as impossible, but he laid down conditions before he could believe. In reality, Thomas did not ask for anything more than what Jesus had granted the other disciples (20,20; 20,18.25). But it is one thing to receive the gift and quite another thing to demand it. Jesus gave him what he asked for in order to believe (20,27) but he made no concession in his response. The further believers are removed from the events of the resurrection, the greater opportunity they have to be happy believers. That warning and that promise are directed to all who hear the gospel. It is possible to believe without touching and without proof. And this is the faith that makes us happy.
Meditate: apply what the text says to life
The account elaborates a historical fact, which often passes unnoticed. The first witnesses of the resurrection were also the first who did not believe in it. The Risen Jesus had to make a real effort to lead them to the evidence. For us who follow Jesus today, twenty centuries later, and find it hard to believe that Jesus is alive, this is a reason for consolation. But it is also a challenge. Our present difficulties are not a sufficient obstacle to prevent us preaching the Risen Christ. Besides, we should not forget that Jesus blessed those who believed without relying on proof of the resurrection. Seeing is not better than believing. This is encouraging for people who have very little evidence to support their life of faith. Nor should we be surprised that someone, like Thomas, who does not take part in the life of the community, should have greater difficulty in coming to believe. The life of the community makes the life of faith easier. Disciples who want to be believers should share their faith and their doubts in common. The community is the place of encounter with the living Jesus. It is there that doubts are taken into consideration and help is given to overcome them.
The disciples, full of fear, remained closed in the house and closed in their world. It was there, where fear had led them, that the Risen Lord appeared to them. And the first thing Jesus did was to give them peace. We should notice that Jesus did not reprove them for their lack of courage and their incredulity. He had already appeared alive that day to several disciples and yet these continued to believe that he was dead. Instead of scolding them, Jesus brought peace to his disciples. He brought back joy to the faces of those who saw him, and new light into the lives of those who knew that he was alive. Fear was transformed into joy, cowardice into peace. They could not deny the evidence before their eyes, and so they were able to overcome their fear. They regained joy, a joy they would never lose, because nobody and nothing, not even death, could steal the Lord from them now. He had come back from death, death on a cross, in a form that was very visible, restoring their peace and courage with his presence.
Today we, the disciples of the Risen Lord, are still closed in our fears, and defending ourselves from an environment that is increasingly hostile to our faith. We are closed in on ourselves, in the privacy of our own lives, because we do not regard even our families as a safe refuge from the militant unbelief that surrounds us. Today's gospel reassures us that fear of the world will not win, forcing us to privatize our faith. We will live our faith with peace and joy because we know that, despite all appearances to the contrary, Christ is as much alive today as he was in the past. How can we fail to conquer our fears if we can be certain that Jesus has conquered death? Who or what will cause us to fear, when we believe in the Risen Christ? Peace and joy are the first way to live our faith in the resurrection. There is no other way. Anyone who lives his faith in Christ, without inner serenity and with overpowering sadness, does not really believe in Jesus' resurrection. When the Risen Lord appeared to his frightened disciples, he brought them peace and gave them joy in living.
This is the only way a believer can give testimony. A ghost does not give orders. The sight of a ghost causes fear, not joy. To go on nurturing our fears while we profess faith in the resurrection would be the equivalent of transforming Jesus into a ghost, and ourselves into failed persons. This was certainly not what happened to the people who saw Jesus alive. They received from him his spirit and he gave them a mission, to become peacemakers of the world through universal forgiveness, a mission which is as impossible today as it was then. The disciples who saw the Risen Lord were totally transformed. The Lord's breath now occupied the place where previously fear had reigned. With hearts full of the new spirit of Jesus they become enthusiastic missionaries of universal forgiveness. These were the very men who up to then were living in fear of not being forgiven – by the world, by the Jews and the enemies of Jesus – because they continued to believe in Jesus. The breath of the Risen Lord comes to all who believe that he is alive. His Spirit fills their lives, overcoming fear and doubt, and their lives become an offering of forgiveness to all people. Instead of thinking that others should forgive them for their faith in Christ, Christians live in order to forgive the world that does not yet believe in the Risen Lord.
Every baptized person lives in order to proclaim that Christ is alive. Every Christian feels obliged to offer pardon and peace. It is not enough that we regain our own peace and joy. If we are unwilling or unable to pass on the gift of pardon and peace, we can never be sure that we have really received it ourselves. If we do not pass on the gift we have received, we will end up losing it. The Risen Jesus gave peace to those who were to bring peace to the world. He drove away their fear by showing them that he was alive. He did not grant them peace while they were still closed in their fears and in the house. He gave them orders to bring peace to the world, not with arms but with his Spirit, and no special wisdom other than the knowledge that they were sent by him. Jesus did not convince his disciples with any argument of reason, nor did he join them in their seclusion. He sent them out with his Spirit and with pardon for the world.
How is it that we who call ourselves good Christians are the people who are least inclined to forgive, the first to demand "justice " against others, the last to forget, the quickest to take offence, the slowest to forgive and the ones who find it hardest to forget? It is dreadful to see the best among us incapable of forgiving and forgetting offences received. How can we become peacemakers of the world if we cannot make peace in our own hearts or in our personal relationships? Anyone who is a witness of the Risen Lord knows that he is not in the world to be pardoned but to pardon. We will never succeed in conquering our fears and coming out of our seclusion until we recognise the Spirit of Jesus in us, and obey his command to forgive. Then we will lose our fear of the world and regain the joy of living as disciples of the Risen Lord. To know that Jesus is alive is to know that the world is our field of mission and our task is to bring peace.
All this would be much easier if we were able to live our faith in common. Remember, Thomas, the disciple who had most difficulty in believing in the resurrection, was the one who had not seen the Risen Lord because he was not with the others. The one who was not with the rest of the disciples, maybe because he was afraid to share his fears with them, was the one who remained most incredulous. Herein lies a law of Christian living – it is difficult to recognise Christ if we do not share our lives with other Christians. But we can be even happier than the apostles who saw the Risen Jesus, if we believe that he is alive. We are indeed blessed, for we can believe that he is alive without having touched him, and acknowledge him as our Lord and God without having seen him.


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Death Grips' Chicago no-show and equipment trashing was a stunt
Band reportedly planned to stage the same 'show' in other North American cities
The Death Grips no-show that resulted in the band's equipment being trashed at a Chicago Club on Friday (August 2) was a stunt, it has been claimed.
The night before they missed their slot at the city's Lollapalooza festival, Death Grips angered fans by failing to arrive at a club performance at Chicago's Bottom Lounge. The stage was set up with a drum kit, Death Grips music played on a loop and there was a backdrop projection of a suicide note attributed to the band – scroll down to see amateur footage from the night.
DNAinfo Chicago reports that the band apparently had no intention of showing up, and that the stage set-up, projection and looped music was, itself, the 'performance', even though staff at the venue were repeatedly reassured that the band would be appearing.
"It appears to us that despite having a signed contract, they never intended on performing [Friday] night and instead wanted to leave a room of disappointed fans," said Erin O'Neal, marketing director for Bottom Lounge, who reports that the band's tour manager did eventually admit that the band never intended to turn up. "It's unfortunate that this was what Death Grips wanted to do with their fans' time and money."
O'Neal also suggested that the drum kit broken up by fans was not one belonging to Zach Hill but a cheap training kit.
It also emerges that the stunt was not intended to be a one-off. Vanyaland reports that the same 'performance' was planned for a show at Boston's Royale yesterday (August 6), but promoters pulled the plug when they learned of the band's plans. Appearances in Montreal, Baltimore and New York have also been cancelled since Lollapalooza.
The 'suicide note' projected at the Chicago gig, shared by fans of the band, makes reference to Death Grips' music: "I'm not afraid of dying but I am afraid that I can't hear DG in the after life if there is such a thing," it says.
The full note reads: "I am ready to take my own life. Many bad experiences led me to this dark void that I am locked in. Maybe by my own hands? I don't really care anymore. I just wanted to say thank you for showing me the other side. the side that is locked away deep inside a person. I am mad. Mad all the time and depressed all the time. I can't take it. I don't know, but I hope your music transcends to the unknown. A place where DG's essence exists. A place where art exists. I love art. That's the one thing that kept me alive? this long. So just to ease minds, DG didn't "influence" me to do this. this is my own fucking choice. but thanks for making my life a little better. you're my absolute fave and I will fight the gods if they don't allow me to follow DG's efforts can't see Earth. Anyways, continue doing great things. I love you Stefan, Zach, and Andy."


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Where does the money go? What happens to the missing socks? To one of these questions, you can finally get the answer. The college years are typically our first experience of managing adult finances—and while that responsibility can be empowering, it calls for conscious planning. Our spending habits have consequences that go beyond our immediate financial dilemmas ("Can I afford to go out tonight?") and reverberate through our futures. In a recent Student Health 101 survey, 91 percent of student respondents thought keeping a budget would help them better manage their money. These eight steps will get you to a spending plan that will keep you solvent through college and life. (Those missing socks remain beyond the scope of SH101. Try a theoretical physicist?)
1. What is your actual current spending?
"The most important step is to understand where your money really is going. If you can't get a handle on your spending, it will be difficult to take control and make changes." —LP
Figure out your average monthly spending
1. Work through your financial statements for at least two recent, typical months. Categorize all your costs. You will probably want to include these categories and maybe others:
- Education
- School supplies
- Groceries
- Dining out
- Entertainment/bars
- General health & fitness
- Uninsured health care
- Housing
- Utilities/cable/internet
- Cell phone
- Insurance
- Transport
- Gas
- Auto lease/loan
- Shopping/clothing
- Gifts
2. Add your costs in each category. Try Mint.com or a similar program.
Consider rounding up the numbers: It's safer to overestimate than underestimate your spending.
Divide your total costs by the number of months you've analyzed to get your regular average monthly spending.
3. Identify your irregular or non-recurring expenses, like tuition (if you pay it yourself), car insurance, holiday costs, and vacations.
Add up these annual costs and divide by 12 to get your occasional average monthly spending.
4. Regular average monthly spending + occasional average monthly spending = average monthly spending
2. What are your goals?
"The biggest challenge to budgeting is the idea that because students have limited resources, they don't need to take steps to take control of their finances. They do." —BA
Identify your goals. Include goals that aren't strictly financial but have significant financial implications. How much should you allocate each month to meet these goals?
Examples of goals
Type of goal
How much to spend or save each month
Eat out with friends 2-3 times a week
Above and beyond grocery costs (convenience is expensive)
Spend $200/month
Go to graduate school
Save $100/month
Develop an emergency fund to reduce financial stress
Several hundred dollars set aside to help reduce the stress of unexpected events
Save $50/month
3. What money is coming in?
"If we lived in a society in which there was no such thing as credit, you wouldn't be able to claim you can't live within your income. You just would." —LP
Figure out your average monthly income
What are your reliable sources of income? When do they come in? Include:
- Family support
- Earnings from jobs (if these are unpredictable, go with a cautious estimation)
- Student loans
- Scholarships and grants
- Any other sources
Add up your income. Round down the numbers if you want to: It's safer to underestimate than overestimate your income. Divide your total income by 12 to get your average monthly income.
Compare your average monthly spending (step 1) and average monthly income.
4. What do you need? What do you want?
"Now that you have a handle on your cash inflows and outflows, it's time to prioritize how you spend your money. The key is to be realistic about what you need versus what you want. The greatest value in making a budget is seeing where your actual dollars have gone. Then we realize how much of our spending is discretionary." —LP
Identify your needs, wants, and spending limit
Identify your needs. These are costs that must be met no matter what, such as tuition, housing, groceries, health care, and transport to work or school. Calculate the average cost of your monthly needs.
Then identify your wants: those discretionary costs. Be realistic. Account for pizza nights, movies, shoes, and Netflix. (Note: You're not making decisions yet. You're tracking previous decisions.) Calculate the average cost of your current monthly wants.
If you've been overspending, consider how to reduce your discretionary costs (current monthly wants). Figure out your new monthly wants spending limit.
Anticipate temptations and how you'll handle them. Any successful behavior change involves planning; consider phasing in these changes over several months. To judge whether or not your plan is realistic, think about what a cut would mean. For example:
- Go out once a week instead of twice
- Repair shoes instead of replacing them
- Pack lunch
- Find free entertainment on weekends
5. What's your new weekly allowance?
"Convenience has a cost. Eating out is more expensive than making your own meals, and buying coffee is more expensive than brewing your own. This is where you have the ability to really affect your budget." —BA
Manage your everyday spending
Divide your new spending limit by 4.5. This number is your weekly allowance.
Consider withdrawing your weekly allowance amount from your bank at the beginning of the week. Once it's gone…it's gone. Going cash-only makes it easier to track and adjust your spending.
Think about cash flow. Your income likely isn't consistent each month. You need money in your account when the bills are due, even though your sources of income are less regular. Some funds, like student loans, are a one-time or two-time disbursement. You may get a large check beyond what you need that month; make sure that money is saved to meet each future month's expenses.
6. What's your savings account situation?
As a student, you're not expected to save money for retirement. But you do need to manage your cash flow and prepare for those irregular or infrequent bills.
Use your savings account to manage your spending
When you receive a large payment, like the portion of a student loan intended for living expenses (a "refund check"), deposit it into your savings account.
Refer back to your occasional average monthly spending—your anticipated irregular expenses (step 1). Also consider any goals (step 2) that require you to save. You will need to hold some funds and make monthly transfers to your checking account to cover your budgeted monthly expenses or for budgeted occasional expenses as they occur.
7. What's your checking account situation?
Figure out how much money to transfer to your checking account each month to cover your expenses. Refer back to your regular average monthly spending (step 1), adjusted to take account of your new monthly wants spending limit (step 4).
Each month, automatically transfer the appropriate amount to your checking account. This way, your lump sums function like a regular paycheck, so you won't spend money that you'll need for future expenses.
Depending on your income sources and how often your money comes in, you will need to adjust the amount you're transferring. The amount of money available to you for regular spending each month should be reasonably consistent.
8. What's the easiest way to monitor your progress?
"Every time your wallet comes out, ask yourself, 'Do I need to spend this money? Between your graduation and your retirement, if you save $10 a day, and invest it in the stock market, when you retire you will likely have $1 million from those savings alone." —LP
Keep track of what you spend. You can do this in a notebook, on your phone, or with an app like Mint. Tally or check your spending and account balances regularly: at the end of each day, twice a week, or once a week.
Mint.com: Your most popular tool for planning your spending
Mint.com is the digital program most frequently recommended by students in a recent Student Health 101 survey. It's a free online tool and app that connects securely to your banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions, pulls the relevant info, and organizes it for you in one place.
Mint.com makes it easy to track your spending and create a realistic, adaptable budget. It sorts your expenses into categories, which you can customize. You'll need to check and adjust the categorization, especially in the early days. Mint.com can learn your habits over time.
How to make a credit card work for you
"Credit cards are too convenient. We tend to forget we need to pay the money back at the end of the month, which exposes us to steeply increasing interest payments. I have customers who are thousands of dollars in debt because a credit card doesn't feel like real money." —LP
"Credit scores are increasingly important. Employers, rental agencies, and mortgage companies are likely to check them. We're seeing value in students beginning to build credit." —BA
How to use a credit card to establish a credit score:
- Choose a low credit limit
- Use the credit card for a regular expense—e.g., groceries—and otherwise leave it at home
- Pay it off in full every month
Your top 10 strategies for a shatterproof budget
In our student survey, two budget tips were the runaway winners:
- Being aware of my bank balance
- Realistically anticipating (or overestimating) my expenses
Your top 10 strategies also included:
- Tracking my expenses
- Taking advantage of student discounts
- Sticking to my shopping list
- Avoiding places and activities that involve costs
- Having an emergency fund
- Using a digital budgeting or finances tool
- Using cash, not cards
- Paying down my debt
Student Health 101 survey. 1,130 students answered this question
Your favorite online money tools and apps
"I would highly recommend Mint.com. It is really simple to use and all your transactions go in automatically. It really makes it simple to see where your money is going."
—Zach D., Michigan Technological University
"The AllBudget2 app for students details the common expenses that college students are expected to worry about, and has a simple user interface."
—Petah S., Georgia Gwinnett College
"Mint.com, LearnVest.com, and CreditKarma.com are great for tracking your current cash flow, and have well-written articles."
—J. W., Valencia College, Florida
"YNAB [You Need a Budget] costs money but is powerful and teaches good budgeting principles."
—Chris C., University of Rochester, New York
"A regular computer spreadsheet can be helpful. Most programs offer templates to get you started. You also don't have to be online to access it."
—Elizabeth M., Western Carolina University, North Carolina
"See if your bank or credit union offers an app. It's the quickest and most direct way to monitor your money."
—Nathan J., University of North Alabama
Our experts
Bryan Ashton, BSBA, assistant director, Student Life Student Wellness Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus
Larry Pike, CFA, financial planner and principal of Client Priority Financial Advisors LLC, Needham, Massachusetts


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Stretching Basics
Runners and those who are active participants in sport can tell you, stretching is the most important thing you can do before an exercise. Without stretching, muscles can become stiff which can lead to tearing, adhesions, and cramping. Hydration and stretching go hand in hand as basics of exercising. Even if you are not active, stretching can be beneficial for all ages to help decrease various injuries and increase blood flow and flexibility throughout your body.
Stretching is not too time consuming. Lasting benefits can be gained by taking as little as ten minutes a day for stretching. Stretching helps improve posture, improve circulation throughout the entire body, relieve stress, enhance coordination, increase flexibility, prevent disabilities such as carpal tunnel, and warm up the body. However just like with any exercise routine, it is always best to do it correctly to avoid making damaging mistakes.
Make sure to always stretch in a balanced routine so that the muscles on both sides of your body get stretched evenly. You don't want to stretch one side more than the other so if you can, try to time yourself stretching. Go slow, and do proper breathing techniques to avoid stress and promote a more relaxing stretch. Do not ever hold your breath while stretching!
While it is always recommended to stretch before you exercise, it is also important to stretch after you exercise as well. Give your muscles a relaxing and proper stretch after activity to ensure muscles won't be strained. Try to take a few minutes in the morning after waking up to do a five to ten minute stretch routine to warm up your muscles and give you energy for the day. This is also recommended if you wake up with stiff muscles or with cramping in the legs.
Last, but not least, always make sure not to stretch to the point of discomfort. Stretching should never be painful or uncomfortable and you don't want to pull a muscle and then have to spend time recuperating from this injury.