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Being an avid R & B fan, I've followed Rihanna's career from the very beginning. Years ago, I remember watching a talented, unassuming 18-year-old from Barbados being introduced to the public by Jay Z and quickly going on to make it big in North America with "Pon the Replay". It was easy to see that she had what it took to become a huge star and she didn't disappoint.
A hard worker, Rihanna never seemed to be in the tabloids like so many of her less talented peers. The only time I remember her name even making the news was when she controversially decided to cut her long hair short – a move that was deemed too edgy and "rock star" by some of her handlers. Rihanna seemed to have it all. A strong head on her shoulders, a solid work ethic, talent to burn, natural gorgeous looks and a career that included Grammy nominations, numerous Top 40 singles and a legion of dedicated fans around the world.
When word came out that she was quietly dating multi-talented R & B sensation Chris Brown the match seemed made in heaven: two talented, hard-working, good-looking kids in love? They were on top of the world!
Until the eve of this year's Grammy ceremonies, when, according to police reports and eye witnesses, Chris Brown attacked and beat Rihanna to a bloody pulp of a mess, leaving her with facial injuries so severe, they were described as "horrific" by those who saw them.
The instant the story broke, everyone was talking about it and shows like "Entertainment Tonight" had commentators talking about issues of domestic abuse right alongside reports of that week's fashion faux pas. There is something unsettlingly strange and disturbing about a culture that seamlessly lumps together serious social issues like conjugal violence with pop trivia and Perez Hilton's off-the-cuff comments about celebutantes, but that's a subject for another column.
While genuinely shocked at what was reported, I shook my head and just stayed quiet the first time I heard this make the news. While surprised, I wasn't really surprised. Domestic violence happens everywhere – in the most privileged of places, and victims and perpetrators are sometimes those you least expect to play those roles.
Conjugal violence is insidious and silent; it's like a bad secret that people don't want to share and prefer to shove under the carpet. Just because these two kids looked like they had it all, didn't mean that they did, right?
I even stayed quiet when I heard that the two of them had reunited in Miami and had been seen together. But now I'm pretty sure I've had about enough! Rumour has it that Rihanna and Chris Brown are busy recording a love song together! I nearly threw up my lunch when I heard this.
Here's a guy who has been charged with two felonies making criminal threats and assault, recording a song with the girl that he beat up, like nothing ever happened! Here's a guy who, by all accounts, has been violent before, and when faced with criminal charges, issued a moronic (and most importantly, cowardly) statement that he was "sorry and saddened", like he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him at all! Where was the accountability? Where was Chris Brown's attempt to own up to what he did?
I'm not one of those people who believe that artists and athletes have a duty to be role models to the rest of us. I'm not one of those fans who get upset if stars fail to live up to my deluded expectations of what they should be, but the Rihanna - Chris Brown situation annoyed me like few things have lately.
I know that things are rarely black and white and the public may not be privy to all the details, but it bugs me that someone who has the unique opportunity to show young women how they should be treated, is missing out on that chance and choosing instead to go back to someone who barely shows remorse, has no time for counselling because he's busy recording love-sick songs with the women he beat up and has his lawyers negotiating some sort of plea bargain to keep him out of jail. Most battered women stay with their abusers because they believe they have nowhere else to go. Their self-esteem in shambles and their sense of self-worth destroyed, they cling to the man who alternates between loving them and hurting them, somehow confusing his violence with passion. How many times have we heard the media refer to domestic abuse being played out as "just another family drama" instead of describing it for what it is: a crime, plain and simple? Some would say it's just semantics, but it's not. Calling it a family drama fails to place the blame where it belongs and minimizes it as something inconsequential.
Thousands of women die at the hands of the men who claim to love them every year. Thousands of women reduce themselves and their lives to something less than they could be because of the violent actions of men who somehow think that it's okay to lay a hand on the woman who let them.
Rihanna could have sent a message – loud and clear- to all her teenage fans who listen to her and idolize her and want to be her. She could have showed them that a woman who believes in herself and her self-worth does not allow the man who claims to love her to beat her and reduce her to something of no value. She could have showed them that a strong, self-reliant, independent woman walks away and doesn't look back. She could have forced Chris Brown into treatment and refused to accompany him to a studio to sing a love song together.
But such is life and people have to sometimes reach their own conclusions – even when they are crystal clear to the rest of us watching from the sidelines.
As the adage goes, if you can't be an example with the life that you lead, then be an example with the mistakes that you make. Sooner or later, Rihanna will learn what all domestic abuse victims learn: love does not have to hurt, violence is not a crime of passion but of domination and everyone is accountable for their own actions. Even the victim.


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It's that time of year here in Michigan that makes me very happy. Summer's here, which means that the flower gardens that make up a majority of our lawn — front, back, and side of the house — are just about ready to go into full-color mode. My wife and I are also three weeks away from a weeklong vacation at a cabin we rented in a national forest on the other side of the state. So I'm excited for what's to come.
One thing that doesn't thrill me right now? Having Type 1 diabetes and being on insulin therapy. I experience low blood glucose quite a bit more during the summer than at any other time of year.
I've written about this problem, or at least mentioned it briefly in years past; it never fails to sneak up on me and require days if not weeks of tweaking basal rates on my insulin pump to get my blood glucose back to the relatively consistent place it was during the winter and spring.
The conundrum I find myself in is as follows: With insulin pump therapy as part of the way I manage my diabetes, the insulin pump delivers a constant, very small amount of insulin into my body through the infusion set. This is called my basal rate. I can change this to fluctuate during a 24-hour period, because at different times of the day my body may require more or less insulin — depending on many factors — to keep me at or near my target blood glucose of 120 mg/dl.
Since January… well, from January through last week, I had my basal rate dialed in to where I knew, I just knew, that at any given moment I was doing well with my blood glucose control. Of course I still had to pay attention to the carbohydrates I ate and bolus accordingly for those, as well as continuing to monitor my blood glucose. But I was content — confident, even — that overall I wasn't going to be too high in my blood glucose readings, nor was I going low very often (unless I made a mistake with a meal bolus).
Good blood glucose control requires an almost constant monitoring — every three to four hours when I'm awake. To achieve good blood glucose numbers, to keep a low HbA1c, there is no "coast" mode, at least not that I'm aware of. There's no getting around this. Yet there are periods of time, be they a few weeks or a few months, where the diabetic gods get together and grant me a reprieve from self-monitoring hypervigilance.
This spring was that.
Now, though, I'm feeling the other side of that stable, blissful, blood glucose monitoring reprieve. The summer's early onslaught of heat and humidity, as well as my activity out in it (walking the dog, gardening, etc.), decreases the amount of basal insulin I need in my body. I understand it as my body is simply burning more of those sugars naturally, so the insulin isn't called upon as much.
But the insulin — that basal insulin — is still in my body, and it still wants to do its thing.
So what happens? My blood glucose goes down. And I experience more weird, wacky moments when I know it's going down. I check the numbers, and indeed it's around 65 mg/dl, or 71, or 82. Not really dangerous, not yet. But another corrective is needed—one that is in addition to taking in some carbohydrates to make the immediate swing back to a safe blood glucose.
The other thing to do, it seems, is simple: dial my basal rate back so that I'm not taking in as much insulin. True. Yes. Why didn't I think of that?
Believe me, I did. And believe me, I do. And yes, I have the means to make these adjustments, and I think about it, try to figure it out. The truth is, I often feel guilty about having low blood glucoses (30 minutes ago I was at 65 mg/dl because of a walk this morning in the heat). To the outsider it may seem that because I have the means to control how much insulin goes into my body, the low blood glucose moments must surely be my fault.
Well, maybe. But come on. For those of you who are using an insulin pump and who take it upon yourselves to adjust your basal rates on your own (some people, I realize, only want to discuss basal rate adjustments with their endocrinologist), you know, or I hope you do, that you don't make large adjustments at any one moment. I can't just cut my basal rate back by half, say, because that runs a risk of really throwing me out of whack, and I could then go high.
But the real reason the low blood glucoses happen is due to factors beyond my control. There are so many variables that affect how my body handles the insulin, both known and unknown variables. The weather, or physical activity, or something I may have eaten and not taken into account. Or the ways that the body can sometimes — if not often — be a freakin' mystery.
Often, then, a simple adjustment to my basal rate is anything but simple.
So the game continues. The tweaking of basal rates goes on. The monitoring never stops.
"I understand it as my body is simply burning more of those sugars naturally, so the insulin isn't called upon as much." -- not sure what you meant here. My understanding is you body is more able access the insulin in you and uses it a bit more efficiently. I don't think we have any natural burning function. I've been going low more too. But as you say, there are so many variables that I am reluctant to fiddle with my pump basal or bolus more than it is (two time periods for basal and a fixed sensitivity and ratio that varies only once throughout a 24 hour period on the bolus). Bicycling, yard work, walks and "naughty" carbs all create more fluctuations than my own system. So I try and keep the pump consistant and tweak all the rest. It seems to work, but my A1C, three months ago was 6.9 and I am betting it is a bit higher when I test next week. I came off the sensor because 1) it takes up a bit of real estate (minor scarring) in my infusion areas that I didn't want to lose over time and 2) I didn't feel it was necessary all the time. It gave me some good insight into how I digest and when BG climbs (way after the two hour mark sometimes) and the effect of fats and proteins, etc. but once I got that I moved on. Maybe use it two weeks a year, perhaps. Not sure yet. peter
Posted by: Peter Mead | Jun 29, 2009 06:55 PM
I, too, have had the problem of going lower in the summer. After a few trial and errors, my doctor and I have come to the point where I now set a temporary basal rate for days when I know I will be in the heat or doing more outside. I also have the "complication" of being female, and having monthly hormone changes affect how my blood glucose runs. It took a few times of trying, but we figured that by changing the basal rates no more than .5 at a time seems to give you a good idea of how much further you need to go. Hopefully you will find your rates quicker than I did! Good luck!!
Posted by: Linda Ascherman | Jul 01, 2009 12:41 PM
Hi y'all, I live in the Houston area, and it has been extrememly hot here. I do use the sensors all the time because I have hypoglycemicunawareness. But I too, have been experiencing more lows in the summer. I do think it has a lot to do with doing more outside, but also w/the crazy summer schedules; vacations, family reunions, bar-b-ques, etc. My endocrinologist even suggested disconnecting during exercising or other outdoor activities. I go really low, 46 mg/dl, when riding my bike or even the bike at the gym. And w/out any symptoms, it gets crazy!!! I just recently got back on the sensors due to expense, but insurance is helping out now. I've had tpye 1 for 30 yrs. But only been on the pump for 10 yrs. I love it and will never go back to 5 shots a day. I do hope that all works out for y'all this summer. Have a Happy & safe 4th of July! Take care & God Bless < Karen
Posted by: Karen | Jul 01, 2009 11:49 PM
Good morning, I also find my sugars go lower in spring summer and fall. I agree it is we are moving so much more than in the winter. Even if we still continue an exercise program during winter. Just the fact I run out to the garden for lettuce for supper makes a difference...if you understand what I am saying: I pray you are all enjoying your summer. God Bless Janice
Posted by: Janice | Jul 09, 2009 12:31 PM
my husband is 77 and taking 3 shots at meal time of 15 to 20 units of insulin of novolog. Then takes 40 units of lantus at night. 3 times this past week he has been working in the yard and feels the sugar numbers are low, comes in to check it and it will be in the 60's. Does he need more insulin at noon or less to stop this drop. Or does he need to eat more food at noon. He eats a full meal at noon time. Today it happed at 3:00 p.m. I am not sure if he should increase the insulin or decrease the insulin. Thanks for the help.
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Genentech released the results of its Phase III Avastin study showing that women that take the ovarian cancer treatment in tandem with chemotherapy had a 39 percent improvement in the likelihood of living longer without the disease worsening than patients being treated with just chemotherapy.
The data was released at the annual meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncologists. According to Roche, Genentech's parent company, patients treated with a combination of Avastin and chemo, followed by the continuation of Avastin alone, survived more that 14 months without seeing symptoms worsen. Comparatively, patients on chemotherapy alone were progression-free for about 10 months.
Roche studied 1,873 untreated patients with advanced ovarian cancer. Patients taking Avastin with chemo saw a higher frequency of adverse events including low white blood cell counts, pain, gastrointestinal problems, and hypertension.
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•Argos Therapeutics released positive Phase II data about its AGS-003 drug in combination with sunitnib for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma. "Sunitinib has been shown to modulate the immune system by decreasing T-regulatory cells that can potentially suppress immune responses in the tumor microenvironment," said Asim Amin, co-director, Immunotherapy Program for the Blumenthal Cancer Center.
•Novartis announced that a Phase II trial involving the drug Afinitor showed positive results in dropping the size of benign brain tumors caused by tuberous sclerosis. Of the 28 patients in the study, 75 percent saw a decrease of around 30 percent in size.


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December 24, 2014 + Selection from St. Romanos Kontakia on the Nativity
The Virgin today gives birth to the superessential One,
And the earth proffers the cave to the unapproachable One.
Angles with the shepherds sing songs of praise;
The Magi, with the star to guide pursue their way. For us there has been born,
A newborn babe, the God before time.
Bethlehem opened Eden, come let us behold;
We have found joy in this hidden place; come let us seize
The pleasures of Paradise within the cave;
There appeared an unwatered root which sprouted forgiveness;
There was found an undug well
From which David once yearned to drink;
And there the Virgin brought forth an infant
Who at once quenched their thirst, that of Adam and of David.
Come, then, let us hasten to this place where there has been born
A newborn babe, the God before time.
Christmas Traditions and Our Time of Glad Tidings and Joy
When people ask me what my family Christmas traditions are, and how we are supposed to feel during this season, I take pause. Are we supposed to have some special family traditions? If I don't, am I somehow deficient or wanting? What are we supposed to feel, and what if I don't feel that way? Our family kept the fast; my wife read the children the Gospel nativity accounts; she made a calendar with daily messages for the forty days before the feast; we went with the parish teens to carol for the shut-ins and nursing homes; she made or bought each child a special Christmas tree ornament; and we always went to Church for the festal liturgy (pretty important for the priest). Those asking, however, must be looking for a more special family tradition. The most memorable tradition for me was setting up the video-camera to catch the excitement of the children as they opened their gifts. Waiting for the camera was painful for the children who had been anticipating their gifts for months.
Christmastime is supposed to be a time of joy, yet, because it reminds us of days gone by, it can also be accompanied by some unfinished grieving for loved ones. We all remember past Christmases, when loved ones now asleep in the Lord were still with us. We remember what they did to add to the holidays. Remembering such times leaves us with mixed emotions. We can hardly expect to feel joyous all the time, yet we can take consolation in what this season brings to us. It brings the Resurrected Lord in the infant Jesus. We celebrate Christ's Nativity, knowing that Christ is risen from the dead. By His death is death destroyed, and we are restored to life. Symeon, the righteous old priest, saw the salvation of mankind in the infant Jesus. We can too, even if the representation of Jesus is a plastic figure in a crowded department store.
January 1, 2014 + St. Gregory the Theologian on the Nativity
by St. Gregory the Theologian, excerpted from a homily (Festal Oration 38) given by St. Gregory while Archbishop of Constantinople, on the Feast of the Nativity in the year 380.
Christ is born, give glory; Christ is from the heavens, go to meet Him; Christ is on earth, be lifted up. "Sing to the Lord, all the earth," and, to say both together, "Let the heavens be glad and let the earth rejoice," for the Heavenly One is now earthly. Christ is in the flesh, exult with trembling and joy; trembling because of sin, joy because of hope. Christ comes from a Virgin; women, practice virginity, that you may become mothers of Christ. Who would not worship the One "from the beginning"? Who would not glorify "the Last"?
Again the darkness is dissolved, again the light is established, again Egypt is punished by darkness. Again Israel is illumined by a pillar. Let the people siting in the darkness of ignorance see a great light of knowledge. "The old things have passed; behold, all things have become new." The letter withdraws, the spirit advances; the shadows have been surpassed, the truth has entered after them. Melchizedek is completed, the motherless One becomes fatherless; He was motherless first, fatherless second. The laws of nature are dissolved. The world above must be filled. Christ commands, let us not resist. "All nations, clap your hands," "for to us a Child is born, and to us a Son is given, the power is on His shoulder," for He is lifted up along with the cross, and He is called by the name "Angel of great counsel," that of the Father. Let John proclaim, "Prepare the way of the Lord." I myself will proclaim the power of this day. The fleshless One takes flesh, the Word is made coarse, the invisible One seen, the impalpable One is touched, the timeless One makes a beginning, the Son of God becomes a Son of Man, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and for the ages." Let Jews be scandalized, let Greeks mock, let heretics talk till their tongues ache. They will believe when they see Him ascend into heaven, and if not then, at least when they see Him coming from heaven and sitting as Judge.
December 25, 2013 + The Incarnation and the Fruits of Repentance
by St. Gregory Palamas, Philokalia, Topics of Natural and Theological Science and on the Moral and Ascetic Life: One Hundred and Fifty Texts, 56 and 57
What, then, is the divine commandment now laid upon us? It is repentance, the essence of which is never again to touch forbidden things. We were expelled from the land of divine delight, we were justly shut out from God's paradise, and we have fallen into this pit where we are condemned to dwell together with dumb creatures without hope of returning - in so far as it depends on us - to the paradise we have lost. But He who initially passed a just sentence of punishment or, rather, justly permitted punishment to come upon us, has now in His great goodness, compassion and mercy descended for our sake to us. And He became a human being like us in all things except sin so that by His likeness to us He might teach us anew and rescue us; and He gave us the saving counsel and commandment of repentance, saying: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has drawn near" (Matt. 3:2). Prior to the incarnation of the Logos of God the kingdom of heaven was as far from us as the sky is from the earth; but when the King of heaven came to dwell amongst us and chose to unite Himself with us, the kingdom of heaven drew near to us all.
December 18, 2013 + Verses from Advent Paraklesis
ODE 1 – Tone 2
A force overwhelming in its might at one time laid low the host of all the army of Pharaoh within the deeps; even so, the Word made flesh, yea, the Lord who is glorified, hath utterly destroyed sin in all its wretchedness: for gloriously is he glorified.
Glory to thee, O Lord, glory to thee.
Under Caesar's law wast thou enrolled in thy wish to register man in the Book of Life, O thou the King of all. As a stranger hast thou come to thine own, unto those who were estranged in suffering outside Paradise, so that to heaven thou mightest call them back.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
Receive Christ, O town of Bethlehem; for he cometh bodily to dwell in thee, opening Eden unto me. Prepare to behold, O cave, wondrously contained in thee the One who cannot be contained, who in the wealth of his loving kindness is become a beggar now.
Both now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Lo, Christ cometh that he may be born, granting in his goodness that those sprung from Adam may strangely be born anew. Make thou glad, O barren one; be thou merry, all mortal nature which beareth not. For the Master cometh to grant birth of many children unto thee.
December 28, 2011 + A Word on the Feast of the Nativity of Christ
by Eleutherious Vorontsov, Late Metropolitan of Leningrad
from The Word, December 1960
Behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people; for to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. (Luke 2:10-11)
I salute you, dear brothers and sisters, with the great feast of the Birth of Christ—with this radiant, joyous, and solemn day! This day is truly a day of especial joy: it was called this, as you have heard, by the Heavenly Angel who appeared to the shepherds in the fields of Bethlehem. And it is such in actual fact. How can not that day in which the Lord Himself descended from Heaven to earth but be radiant and joyful?
Who of the Orthodox Christians can greet this day with a feeling of coldness? Who will not rejoice in his soul, hearing that "a Saviour is born today, who is Christ the Lord?" It is for this reason that one of the Church hymns sung so joyously today, says: "Let Heaven and earth rejoice today in prophecy: let Angels and men exult . . . the whole of creation danceth because of the Saviour and Lord being born in Bethlehem.
December 29, 2010 + Thank You God, For the Mystery
by Rev. Vladimir Berzonsky
from The Word, December 1968
"As for Mary, she treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds went back glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen; it was exactly as they had been told." (ST. LUKE 2:19)
The very birth of Jesus was a gift to the world. Not only the Christ-child Himself, but the way that the birth took place; on a trip, in a stable in the most calm, joyful and peaceful night the world has known.
The mystery of the night was God's way of protecting the blessed happening for those who see with eyes of faith.
Can you imagine the birth of the Christ-child in our times? All the indignity, the vulgar exposure and lack of publicity the Holy family would be forced to suffer?
Picture yourself watching the late news on television. The announcer would say: "Finally, a news item from the Near East. A young woman from Nazareth, on her way to register as a citizen in the capitol, just gave birth to a baby some are claiming as the promised savior of the world. Take it away, Matthew Luke, in Bethlehem."
December 22, 2010 + Nativity Epistle 1966
by Metropolitan Philip
from The Word, December 1966
With great joy and gratitude for God's unfathomable love, we greet you at this Christmas season, praying and hoping that Christ will be born in your hearts. If we look upon the birth of Christ as a mere historical event, we celebrate this holy event in vain, for Christ's birth must serve to renew our lives and make us comprehend God's eternal love for man whom He created in His own image and likeness.
Man was created out of God's love to be a partaker of the divine, and when he—deceived by the malice of the devil—rent that fellowship with God, God never ceased seeking him and stretching forth His hand to lead him back to the meadows of salvation. For God loves us despite our sins. He searched for man in Paradise when he had fallen victim to the deceitful one and established a dialogue with man to prepare him for the most decisive event in the history of man. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that all who believe in Him should not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16) Christ's birth, therefore, is more than an historical event for He was born to reconcile the human with the divine, to uplift man from the swamps of his lowly existence to the vastness of truth, beauty, and goodness. Christ was born to restore the purity of the image which was stained by sin.
December 15, 2010 + Christmas Is Man's Greatest Gift from God
by Archimandrite Michael Shaheen
from The Word, December 1957
At the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve, our church bells will peel out their cheerful tidings that recall the most unique event in history; for on that night almost 2000 years ago in the East, Christ was born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem.
Christmas (Christ-Mass), the Birthday of Jesus, ranks supreme among all the fixed feasts of our Eastern Orthodox Church. Without Christmas, as was stated by St. John Chrysostom, we could not have Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost. Therefore, our Church acts wisely in ushering in this Holy Day with elaborate religious services befitting the One whose birthday it is.
December 25 is only the traditional date of Christ's birth: the exact time is not really known. In the early Church the Birth of Christ was remembered along with His Baptism (Epiphany) on the 6th of January. However, in the 4th century, when Christianity took over many heathen festivals in order to facilitate their conversion, December 25 was selected for commemorating the Birth of Christ. This was originally a festival of gaiety that honored the unconquered sun. It was first celebrated in Rome around 380 A.D. and is known to have been celebrated in Antioch around 380 A.D. This explains many of the customs that prevail today, which are not in harmony with the true spirit of Christmas. Since then, December 25 became accepted everywhere as the customary time to recall the Birth of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world.
December 8, 2010 + Write It On Your Hearts
by V. Rev. James C. Meena
from The Word, December 1992
"The Lord is our God. The Lord is one. If you love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength, let these words I urge on you today be written on your heart. You shall repeat them to your children and say them over to them whether at rest in your house or, walking abroad, at your lying down or at your rising; you shall fasten them on your hands as a sign and on your forehead as a circlet; you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Let these words I urge on you today be written on your heart." (Deut. 6:6-9)
This commandment from among the many Mosaic commandments is what Jesus called the greatest of all Commandments, "Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength." Nothing shall take priority over your love for God. This Commandment is necessarily repeated in your ears today because we are about to celebrate that festal day in which God manifested His love for us in such a way that it shattered history. For God came into the world as a human child, took on humanity without divesting Himself of His Divinity. God became man so that you and I, man, might become God. It is essential for us to understand as we have been inundated with the commercialism of this great feast, of the secularization of this great holy day that it is necessary for us to repeat in the ears of our children, the truth about the significance of this Great Feast.
December 1, 2010 + The Saint Who Was Santa Claus
by V. Rev. Vladimir Berzonsky
from The Word, December1971
Dominating our Christmas, rather "holiday" season, (we do not want to be offensive to our non-Christian and non-believing friends), is the Santa Claus legend. The Santa figure and the gift giving displays find their source not in Jesus Christ as much as in the story by Clement Moore, "The Night Before Christmas," which is itself a distorted derivative of the actual life of the great Orthodox bishop Nicholas who lived in the small coastal town of Myra in what is today Turkey.
In the Moore poem, a modern family is invaded by a well-meaning old man who leaves gifts nobody seems to have asked for or even want. This is the first distortion of the real situation. May we all live our lives and lack nothing! Yet if we can penetrate the stories told of the actual fourth century bishop, under the layers of legend that cover St. Nicholas throughout the centuries, we find one feature common to each tale, no matter how distorted: Bishop Nicholas always aids those in dire need. Despite the myths surrounding the event, the extreme circumstances of those in the tales of St. Nicholas are much more like the life we know than the family in the Moore story.
November 19, 2008 + Advent
from The Word, December 1970
"The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; on those who live in a land of deep shadow a light has shone. You have made their gladness greater, you have made their joy increase" (Isaiah 9:1)
"I understand the significance of the pre-Easter lent, but why do we keep a Lenten season for Christmas, since it's such a joyous occasion?" The woman who made the comment spoke sincerely and her reasoning was correct. What she misunderstood was the purpose of Lenten fasting and spiritual preparation.
To so many of our people, fasting and prayers are expressions of sorrow for a rupture in Divine-human relationships, such as was the murder of Jesus Christ.
Primarily, Lent is a time for our concentrated preparing for the Kingdom of God's manifestation within us. By freeing ourselves from the things of this world we can better live and experience the Spirit of God dwelling in our souls. It is a time of pilgrimage—a spiritual journey to our true native land which the Lord has prepared for us.
Now it is advent, the time of His coming. Christ is on the way to my world, my city, my house and to me. How will He find it: what will He think of us; will He be pleased?
Preaching Christ Crucified at Christmas
by Fr. Steven C. Salaris
St. Paul states in the opening chapter of the First Letter to the Corinthians, " … we preach Christ crucified …" Two thousand years later, we Orthodox Christians, who are the direct descendants of the Church of the Apostles, must likewise continue to do the same. But it's Christmas — the Nativity of Jesus Christ where we remember His birth from the Virgin Mary. Isn't this a time of heavy incarnational theology or, at least, a time of bright lights, tinsel, and Santa Claus? Yes, it is all that, but it is also a great time to preach Christ crucified. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Cross of Christ, His shed blood and broken body, and His glorious Resurrection on the third day, are the very axis upon which our life of faith rotates. At every time and season throughout the Church year, these concepts are found at the heart of all that we do in our worship and in our hymns and spiritual songs, whereby we make melody in our hearts unto the Lord. Anyone who wishes to see Christ crucified at Christmas, from the Eastern Orthodox viewpoint, can do so quite easily. All you need is your Bible and the icon of the Nativity to do so. When you contemplate the icon, in the light of Scripture, the true meaning of Christmas shines forth.
When you first look at the icon, besides Jesus, one of the central figures in the icon is Mary, His mother. In some icons, Mary is seen holding her Son, the Incarnate Word of God, conceived in her by the Holy Spirit. She holds her Son in birth even as she will hold her Son in death. Anyone who has seen Michelangelo's Pieta, where Mary is carved in stone holding the lifeless corpse of her crucified Son, will immediately recognize the parallel and the link that this aspect of the icon has to the death of Christ.


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Dorothy S. Arnold, 87, of Upper Saucon Twp. died Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at Lehigh Valley Hospital – Cedar Crest, Salisbury Twp. She is the wife of the late Harold E. Arnold, died March 2, 2007.
Born in Hanover Twp. on July 5, 1925 to the late James S. and Bertha (Gerlach) Werner. Dorothy worked 32 yrs. for ILGWU at various factories until retiring in 1985. She was a member of Faith United Church of Christ, Center Valley, Upper Saucon Senior Citizens, and VFW Ladies Aux. 3405, Coopersburg.
Survivors: Loving daughter: Romaine D. and her husband Harold R. Zeiner of Coopersburg; grandsons: Jason T. and his wife Lynn and Travis W. Zeiner; great grandsons: Ethan M., Andrew R. and Dyllan M. Zeiner. Predeceased by 10 brothers and sisters.
Services: Family and friends are invited to call 9:30-10:30 a.m. Monday, January 21st, 2013 at the Heintzelman Funeral Home, Inc. 326 Main Street – Hellertown followed by the service at 10:30 a.m. The interment will conclude services at Woodlawn Memorial Park, Allentown.
Contributions: In lieu of flowers, memorials to her church or VFW Post 3045, Coopersburg.
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By now, most of us within the health care sector have already become well-acquainted with the impending and grim statistics facing the United States, mainly in regards to the staggering dearth in our nursing profession purportedly by the year 2014.
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The women trickle in, one by one, into a brightly lit ground floor conference room at Providence Hospital, a large urban hospital in Washington, DC. A vibrant social worker greets each one as "honey" as they take their seats in a circle of chairs.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States both for men and women, killing 25% of Americans, and heart disease deaths are most often due to ischemic heart disease (e.g., heart attack).1 These facts are well known among doctors, nurses, and other health professiona
A study published in the journal Cancer finds that black patients diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma (RCC)—the most common type of kidney cancer in adults—have a lower survival rate than white patients.
The nursing profession has always been an advocate for providing community assessment, education, and health screenings to the public to promote healthier communities. Never has health promotion been more important than now.
In 2008, there were 3,063,163 licensed registered nurses in the United States. Only 6.6% of those were men and 16.8% were non-Caucasian.1 Despite efforts from nursing schools across the nation to recruit and retain more men and minorities, the results have been fairly modest.
In 1996, two game-changing pieces of health care legislation had the attention of the industry. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was being enacted, and the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) was being debated.
When Rhys Gibson, RN, received his nursing degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2009, the recession had started and it took him eight months to land a job.
For all the miraculous work nurses do as caretakers, they are notorious for neglecting the very things in their own lives they know are important, such as physical or financial health. But ignoring either one can have serious consequences.
Who are you? Well, you are a medical-surgical (med-surg) nurse, of course. You are a member of a very talented and competent nursing specialty. Let's delve into this in more detail...
Feeling overwhelmed? Heavy patient load, blazing speed, 24/7 shifts, and an ever-evolving field have long been complaints among nursing professionals. Add the stress of a slumping economy, budget cuts, and staff re-jiggering, and job fatigue can hit critical mass in the workplace.
More than 300 members of the National Association of Indian Nurses of America (NAINA) gathered on October 5-6 at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown, NY, for the third biennial national convention, "Nurses at the Forefront of Healthcare Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities." Motivational speaker, Stuart Robertshaw, EdD, JD (Dr. Humor), President and CEO of the National Association for the Humor Impaired, began the keynote speeches on the healing power of humor by demonstrating strategies to enhance humor and laughter for positive effects...
The National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN) has selected Adelita Cantu, PhD, RN, as the recipient of the 2012 NAHN Nurse of the Year Award...
"NURSES: If Florence Could See Us Now" made its debut at the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) National Magnet Conference in Los Angeles on October 11, 2012.
Women with aggressive breast cancer were more likely to receive adjuvant chemotherapy, but at the expense of completing locoregional radiation therapy, according to recently presented data.
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I don't know about you, but I remain kind of excited that book #3 in the Avery Cates series, The Eternal Prison, is out. So I'm gonna continue to party like it's 1999 here. Towards that end I've posted two short stories set in the novels' universe over at http://www.eternalprison.com. The stories are both free to read and distribute as long as my copyright statement is retained.
The story "Oldest Bastard on the Block" was tweeted last week over at http://twitter.com/somers_story. The story "This Was Education" hasn't been officially released anywhere before, although some folks will recognize it and chuckle conspiratorially under their breath. Both are set somewhere between The Electric Church and The Digital Plague, with OBB being first in sequence, though they're not directly related to each other.
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Police Chief George Bell said, "It's frustrating. We're literally back to square one. We're literally no further along today than when Jaliek's parents came in and reported him missing."
That was two weeks ago, and police are running out of steam.
Bell said, "I've had 25, 50 police officers a day, from the New York State Police, forest rangers, my office, these guys are all traveling up here from Albany or wherever."
And now additional officers are retracing their steps in the investigation.
Bell said, "We have 50 recruits. We've beefed up the New York State Police and my own department, and our plan is to go back to the area that he was last seen."
The 50 recruits already searching for Jaliek will be joined next week by volunteers from the State Police and the Air Force, but Greenwich police say at this point, they're starting to lose hope.
Bell said, "Unless he was able to find food and shelter, if he just wandered off in the wilderness, in the elements, it's unfortunate, but at this point it's a search and recovery effort."
Despite that news, people in the community are holding out hope.
Casselman said the effort from search crews has been impressive as well.
Casselman said, "Nobody's given up, nobody's given up which is great. It's in our minds all the time."
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Face Up: CFO
Issue: November 2011
Frequency: 10 issues per year
Launched: 1985
Circ: 400,000
Publisher: CFO Publishing
Art Director: Robert Lesser
Editor-in-Chief: Scott Leibs
In the business world (publishing industry included), people behind the brands are frequently overlooked; the success or failure of a company is often too simply defined by earning reports and bottom lines. As CFOŌĆÖs art director Robert Lesser says, ŌĆ£For many years companies have claimed that employees are their most important asset. If so, why donŌĆÖt they measure and report on them the way they do the actual money they make? This was the starting point for our cover concept.ŌĆØ
Lesser brought illustrator Dave Plunkert onboard to visually flesh out this idea for CFOŌĆÖs November cover. ŌĆ£Dave and I spoke about the idea of creating a building or factory out of employees and showing some way of measuring them,ŌĆØ says Lesser. ŌĆ£He wanted to represent the ŌĆścompanyŌĆÖ as a figure, with all of the employees integrated in the torso.ŌĆØ
Plunkert believes a simple approach to cover art proves to be more successful when compared to a concept delivered through a diluted or abstract mode. ŌĆ£An illustration should make sense to the reader. Cover art needs to not only have impact but be decipherable.ŌĆØ
Lesser chose a ŌĆ£blocky and simpleŌĆØ font to keep reader focal point on the illustration. Plunkert maintained the challenge in this cover ŌĆ£became fitting all of the various components of the art (large figure, small figure, heads, measuring tape, ladder) onto the allotted cover space without sacrificing necessary details.ŌĆØ
Headline ŌĆ£Power from the PeopleŌĆØ also influenced LesserŌĆÖs choice of illustrator. According to Lesser, Plunkert would be able to deliver ŌĆ£a bit of that 1930s Gustav Klutsis, Russian poster feelŌĆØ.
ŌĆ£Oh boy, is there ever a disconnect between current events and the lead feature of this issue! That saidŌĆ"
It is always wonderful, and very refreshing, to see conceptual illustration make its way onto the cover of a magazine. I know thereŌĆÖs the feeling in some camps that illustration doesnŌĆÖt move issues, but when everyone else zigs, etc, etc.
Particularly crucial to this equation is lovely art by the talented David Plunkert. His work feels very natural, and conceptually appropriate in this context, and really helps to sell the cover line.
IŌĆÖm slightly surprised to see the lead feature so low on the cover, but from a practical perspective, it seems wise to let the illustration do the heavy lifting. ThereŌĆÖs a small missed opportunity in the type to resonate with the illustration; a reversal of the stroke and fill of the letters would go far to marry headline and illustration. Not that I condone stroked letters, but I think in this case it might have added a little stylistic value. Finally, the type alignment feels a bit fussy, which for me feels like the type being unable to get out of its own way.ŌĆØ
Ben King, Art Director, Print Magazine
ŌĆ£The cover of CFOŌĆÖs November Issue is both visually arresting and subtly clever! The illustration is what draws you in, and clearly captures the main cover line. It is a very smart use of Constructivism.
This was an artistic philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919. The movement often used art as a practice for social purposes, which is mirrored here, by so successfully supporting the subject of the article itself.
The typography is bold yet simple, also a characteristic of the era. The only thing that steps away from this direction is the use of the serif type in the secondary cover lines. This aside, if you quadrupled the size of this cover, it would easily fit in with Russian posters of the time.ŌĆØ
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The field of urology has been making great strides, improving and saving the lives of children with congenital conditions who previously could not be helped. Today, most children with congenital conditions become independent, healthy adults, however lifelong follow up is often necessary to maintain good health. Many of these children have had surgeries that have altered the urogenital system to preserve renal function, continence or to improve future sexual and reproductive function. As they become adults and move beyond the range of pediatric care, they may find that adult urologists may not know how to treat them. At Riley Hospital for Children we have created clinic to help manage the grown up "pediatric" urology patient.
We developed a first-of-its-kind clinic to provide continuity of care that's specific to the particular needs of each young adult. We provide your child and your family with understanding and familiarity. The care you or your child receives remains familiar and collaborative to continue the success you 've had as pediatric patients. Care at the Clinic for Young Adults with Congenital Urologic Conditions is available to you or your child on into adulthood.


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|Marc Silverman: April showers—from LeBron's constant crying.
|Pete McMurray: The Cubs will disappoint me like my Bradley college girlfriend did junior year. We broke up (sniff sniff).
|Ernest Wilkins: Sox go in hot, get cold. Cubs start cold, stay there.
|Elliott Serrano: Blackhawks fans will be buying lots of antacids and anti-anxiety meds.
|Sarah Spain: I will not be wearing jorts and a Cubs half-shirt to the home opener.
|Marc Silverman: "Hawk fights" have nothing to do with the Blackhawks. Beware, Stoney.
|Pete McMurray: The Cubs shirts already are on the sale rack.
|Ernest Wilkins: I'm drinking, aren't I?
|Elliott Serrano: Cubs fans can sense the smell of hopeless resignation in the air.
|Sarah Spain: Literally dozens of people are rushing to The Cell for Opening Day.
|Marc Silverman: Jim Belushi stays away from Wrigley.
|Pete McMurray: Let's reflect on the back-to-back world champions from 1907 and 1908, shall we?
|Ernest Wilkins: Third in the NL Central and free of bad contracts.
|Elliott Serrano: 2015.
|Sarah Spain: One that doesn't result in the team moving to Rosemont.
|Marc Silverman: Just thorns without a Rose.
|Pete McMurray: Ummm, hello? No. 1? Remember that guy who was the MVP?
|Ernest Wilkins: Nate Robinson goes ham. #holdat
|Elliott Serrano: The Return ... home after getting bounced in the first round.
|Sarah Spain: Wrapping up Derrick's fragile psyche and forcing him onto the court.
|Marc Silverman: ... we can yell and motion "shocker!" for at least another week.
|Pete McMurray: ... I can think about my bracket for next year. Damn that OSU!
|Ernest Wilkins: ... I can say that Wichita State SHOCKED THE WORLD. [falls through a wall]
|Elliott Serrano: ... we can focus on our own March Madness-themed tourneys! Have you seen the Star Wars one?
|Sarah Spain: ... I can stop wondering if I'll make any money back on my bracket "investments." (The answer is no.)
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Feather River Canyon
|Scenic Feather River Canyon as photographed by Eric Seimens in September 1971.
|Abandoned Lumber Mill in Feather River Canyon, Frank Brehm
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The Feather River Canyon is, roughly speaking, the dividing line
between two great mountain systems in the far west, the Sierra
Nevada Mountains and the Cascade Range. Although Lassen Peak is
popularly considered as the southern end of the Cascades the Sierra
Nevada's terminate at the North Fork of the Feather River within
this steep walled canyon with forested mountains and rushing
streams. Its namesake river received its romantic name "El Rio de
las Plumas". . . ''River of the Feathers" from Don Luis A. Arguello,
a Spanish conquistador, who while on an exploring expedition up the
canyon in 1820, observed and was impressed by the quantities of wild
fowl feathers floating on its surface.
Woven intricately into the over‑all story of California is that of the Feather River Canyon. Following by only a few months the discovery of gold at Coloma by James W. Marshall, the discovery of gold along the river at what would become Bidwell Bar on
James Pierson Beckwourth, a trapper, Indian Chief, and maulatto army scout, discovered Beckwourth Pass, for unknown ages a great Indian thoroughfare, to civilization, in 1850. A Sierra crossing more than 2,000 feet below the elevation of Donner Pass, it became popular for covered wagon trains. Beckwourth immediately recognized its importance and went to Marysville where he presented a plan to Dr. S. M. Miles, the first mayor of the newly incorporated town for an emigrant road by the way of the pass. The mayor was enthusiastic and promised community support. The road was built, but the night that the first party of emigrants arrived over it into Marysville, the town was almost destroyed in one of its early‑day fires. The hard hit city failed to give the promised funds although a subscription raised some money for Beckwourth. The route that he pioneered was from a point near Reno, over Beckwourth Pass, elevation 5,218 feet, across Sierra Valley, then along the ridge of the Middle Fork of the Feather River to Bidwell's Bar and into the Sacramento Valley.
The Sierra Nevada crest acts as a barrier to the moisture-laden air that comes from the Pacific Ocean and the cold dry air masses that come from the central United States in the winter. During the summer, the crest also acts as a barrier to the hot, dry air masses that develop over the central
Portions of the North Fork Feather River west of the
The eastern sierra portion of the North Fork Feather River is in a rain shadow where little precipitation falls and desert conditions prevail. Total precipitation depends more on summer thunderstorms than winter snowfall. With the lessening of the marine influence, temperature has a greater daily and seasonal variation, with annual precipitation in the 15 to 20-inch range.
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