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Anne L. EmeryJanuary 24,2013Anne L. Emery
CASTLETON Anne L. Emery, 71, of Castleton, died January 22, 2013, at The Pines nursing home in Rutland, after a battle with ALS.
She was born on March 4, 1941, in Boston, Mass., to Harriette (Smith) Cushman and David Cushman.
The family resided in Willis, Mass., and Walpole, Mass., for several years before moving to Vermont to buy and operate a dairy farm in Shoreham. The farm was sold, and Anne and her family moved to Florida where Anne graduated from Lake Worth High School in 1958.
Anne graduated from the Sheldon Academy of Beauty Culture in Burlington, Vt., in 1959. She was a beautician for several years working in salons in Florida and finally at Berthas hairstyling which was located on Wales Street in Rutland.
She married Willard N. Bill Lucia of Orwell, Vt., in 1960, and then welcomed a daughter, Jerri Anne, born in June of 1961. Her husband, Bill, sadly died when Jerri Anne was just four years old.
Anne, in later years, worked as an elder caregiver in private homes in the Castleton area.
She was involved with the Castleton Community Centers knitters group. Anne was honored for knitting nearly 100 helmet liners for our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Her intricate knitted and crocheted items won her many blue ribbons at the Rutland County Fair through the years.
Anne was also a very talented and accomplished writer, having written many works in the form of poems, prose and very clever and fun riddles and quips. She was a member of the Castleston Communitys creative writing group.
Anne enjoyed music. She played guitar and enjoyed singing alto in a church choir, and also in the Friends and Neighbors Barbershop Chorus, a singing group made up of women from surrounding towns.
It was Annes delight to visit with friends and neighbors, and loved serving them tea and cookies at her kitchen table, which was always decorated elaborately for each season. She loved to bargain shop at lawn sales and could be ready in the wink of an eye to accompany anyone who would invite her to ride along.
Anne is survived by her daughter, Jerri Anne, and her two granddaughters, Kaylie and Erin, all of Colorado; two brothers, John Cushman, an educator, and his wife Barbara of Albuquerque, N.M., and Stephen Cushman, educator and organist, and his wife Wasthi of Wisconsin; a cousin, attorney Gregg Wilson and wife Dianne of Essex Junction, Vt.; as well as numerous other cousins, nieces and nephews.
She was married in 1975 to Owen Emery of Franklin, Mass., who has since predeceased her.
A memorial service will be held in March. There will be no calling hours.
Donations may be made to the Castleton Community Center, 2108 Main St., Castleton, VT 05735; or the ALS Association New England Chapter, The Concord Center, 10 Ferry St., Suite 309, Concord, NH 03301.
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Jurich: A raised-eyebrow review of GreenTownWritten by Stacy Jurich | | email@example.com
Recently, the "GreenTown: The Future of Community" conference came to Toledo to "drive to create a healthier, more prosperous and sustainable Toledo-Lucas County."
"GreenTown is a zero waste, carbon neutral event designed to 'connect the dots' between the public and private sector to create a stronger platform for common ground and building community," according to its website.
I was curious to hear from a few acclaimed activists and leaders in sustainability who would be visiting Toledo for the conference, yet I was also skeptical because GreenTown is more or less a franchise conference that travels the Midwest. It is co-produced by a5, a Chicago-based marketing and communications firm, and Seven Generations Ahead, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to "build healthy, sustainable communities."
I raised an eyebrow at the $125 registration fee, which would mean a person working a minimum wage job would have to work 15 hours to register. I was and am doubtful of Mayor Mike Bell's idea of sustainability and how he intends to "green Toledo." I wondered if GreenTown was the latest corporate greenwashing trend or carried any legitimate prospects for the future of our city and our planet.
The main conference opened with a "Call to Action" by Mayor Bell, Lucas County Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak, and two of the conference co-producers. This was a thank you to the sponsors, an expression of excitement about the guest speakers and prospective outcomes, an acknowledgement of the number in attendance (Toledo's GreenTown registration was larger than any other, more than 450) and an emphasis on different parts of the community working together.
During a short break between Mark Fenton, host of "America's Walking" on PBS and Alexandra Cousteau, filmmaker and National Geographic Emerging Explorer, I had a chance to chat briefly with Mayor Bell. He had mentioned several times in his speech about "moving this forward," so I asked him what that meant and what sustainability initiatives he intends to implement. Fortunately, his public information officer showed up quickly because as his eyes darted around and he repeated the simple ideas put forward by the most recent speaker, like benches and sidewalks and bike racks, I could tell he was at a loss.
I heard from the following officials, directly or publicly: Jen Sorgenfrei, public information officer; Tim Murphy, commissioner of environmental services; Patrick McLean, director of finance; Kevin Moyer, executive director of energy efficiency and alternative energy programs for Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority. I gleaned from them that there is currently a strong focus and decent amount of funding for energy efficiency in buildings (both city-owned and privately owned), sequential implementation of green infrastructure (solar), considerations for "complete streets" to be included during regular construction and road improvements and a commitment to include environmental sustainability in the upcoming city budget.
According to Sorgenfrei, the GreenTown Conference is a catalyst to develop a sustainability plan for the City of Toledo, based on feedback from conference participants and input from the people as to a vision for a sustainable Toledo.
GreenTown afternoon sessions included: LiveWell Toledo-Lucas County; Sustainability and Community Planning; Green Economy, Green Living; Lake Erie: Our Shared Future; Green Building, Fresh Energy; Local Food; Green Outdoors. A hallmark of the franchised conference is a closing reception with beer from the local brewery. Toledo's was no different with microbrews provided by Maumee Bay Brewing Co.
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This conference is on the right track. The track to sustainability needs to include even more participants, especially at the grassroots level. Most importantly, the track needs to give the well-being of our environment a prominent voice and heavy consideration in economic development discussions. "Ecology" and "economy" share the same root of "ecos," meaning home. A strong and sustainable economy and a balanced home cannot exist without a strong and sustainable ecology.
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Glamour's 2013 Awards-Season Superlatives: Which Celebrities Should Win Coolest BFFs, Hottest Theater Nerd, and More?
Glamour's 2013 Awards-Season Superlatives: Which Celebrities Should Win Coolest BFFs, Hottest Theater Nerd, and More?
Awards season seems sort of like prom for the Hollywood set. The celebrities obsess over what they'll wear, agonize over whom to bring as their date, and practice making an entrance. But there's one thing missing—the hotly anticipated superlative awards. Let's go ahead and fix that right now.SEE MORE
Coolest BFFs: Tina Fey and Amy PoehlerThese two coordinate outfits (tux 'n' gown), give shout-outs to each other in acceptance speeches, and know there's no loss a cocktail and a minor Lena Dunham jab can't take the sting out of.
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Hottest Musical Theater Nerd: Hugh JackmanLook at this photo of Hugh Jackman in Les Misérables. We rest our case.
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Most Fashionable Child Star: Quvenzhané WallisShe always kills it—but in this iris-color Holly Golightly number and a puppy purse? Now we hate what we're wearing today.
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Best Gossipy Scandal: Tina Fey/Taylor Swift/Michael J. FoxSo, like, it all started when Tina Fey told Taylor Swift to "stay away from Michael J. Fox's son" at the Golden Globes. She was totally joking—but then someone got Michael J. to say that yeah, Taylor should stay away. Then Taylor heard about it and was soooo upset, but she and Michael J., like, talked, so now they're cool.
Best Pranksters: Kate Flannery and Oscar Nunez of The OfficeThese two earned this accolade for their wonderful re-enactment of Al Roker's Inauguration Day antics.
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Cutest Couple: Ben Affleck and Jennifer GarnerThey're beautiful and successful, and she picks up the slack when he forgets to thank people. Fire up the Mellencamp songs—these two are Hollywood's hometown pride.
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Most Likely to Succeed: Jennifer LawrenceThis is her second time being an awards-season heavyweight—and she's only 22. Something tells us this one will be making us feel like underachievers for years to come.
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Most Dramatic: Anne HathawayWe're guessing she stole that "this lovely blunt object, which I will forever more use as a weapon against self-doubt" line in her Golden Globes acceptance speech straight outta Rachel Berry's dream journal on Glee.
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Best Makeover: The Cast of Downton AbbeyWhen the Downton cast showed up on the red carpet—all modern-day gussied-up—the crowds parted in slow motion. If any of Freddie Prinze Jr.'s movie characters were here right now, they would be totally falling in love with Mrs. Hughes.
The Regina George Award: Grumpy Tommy Lee JonesWho here has ever felt personally victimized by Tommy Lee Jones?
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Prom King: Bradley CooperWe're honestly exhausted from swooning over him so much. The man can do no wrong.
Prom Queen: Jessica ChastainAll the boys want her. All the girls want to be her. And all the awards are trying to go home with her. This is Jessica's year.
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Led by NASCAR's newest team owner, Brandon Davis, Swan Racing will compete full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, racing the No. 30 Toyota driven by David Stremme.
Danny Bohn captured the checkered flag in the Strutmasters.com 199 Saturday night in NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour action at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, NC.
Ryan Blaney (No. 22 Discount Tire Ford Mustang) won the U.S. Cellular 250, his third victory in 37 NASCAR XFINITY Series races.
After leading the field in practice, Ryan Preece went out and won his ninth career Coors Light Pole in just 13 NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour appearances with a fast lap of 13.202 seconds (68.171 mph).
Andrew Ranger earned his third pole position Sunday's JuliaWine.com 50 and set the Grand Prix Trois-Rivieres (GP3R) track record in Saturday's NASCAR Canadian Tire Series qualifying.
Daniel Suarez (No. 18 ARRIS Toyota) won the Coors Light Pole Award for the U.S. Cellular 250 with a lap of 23.606 seconds, 133.441 mph.
Cole Custer, driver of the JR Motorsports No. 00 Haas Automation Chevrolet, grabbed the lead and sailed to victory Saturday in the ModSpace 125 at Pocono Raceway.
Ryan Preece (No. 5 Chevrolet) is at the top of the speed chart in the lone practice for the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour Strutmasters.com 199 at Bowman Gray Stadium.
Sprint Cup driver Kyle Busch (No. 51 Dollar General Toyota Tundra) won the Pocono Mountains 150, his 43rd victory in 126 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) races.
Andrew Ranger (No. 27 Mopar/Pennzoil Dodge) led the first practice for the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series JuliaWine.com Le 50 Tours at Circuit de Trois-Rivieres.
Kyle Busch got back on track with a few minutes remaining in final practice for the Windows 10 400 at Pocono Raceway and jumped to the top of the leaderboard. His top speed was 175.240 mph.
Jimmie Johnson had a scary moment in the garage in Saturday's final practice session for the Windows 10 400. He struck an unnamed hard-card carrying visitor with his Chevrolet. Hard cards are issued to crew and permanent members of the media.


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The benefits of self directed investing is causing the individual investor to examine a more hands on approach and deciding it makes sense for them. Allowing others to manage their portfolios hasn't worked well for the individual investor. That means a critical look at the old model would be a wise exercise for every investor.
Having others manage your portfolio leaves you susceptible to fraud, high expenses, poor performance, undefined risk(s), and group thinking. Most investors don't really understand the risk in their portfolios. In addition, many don't examine their portfolio performance until the quarterly report arrives; often too late to do anything about it.
Benefits of Self Directed Investing
Stay in Control of Your Own Assets
An individual investor who chooses self-directed investing can stay in control of his own assets. With con artists and Triple A institutions requiring bailouts it is wise to keep your assets safe. Managing your own money keeps you purposely involved in your most important financial undertaking.
Increase Investment Returns
The past 15 years have been a perfect example of how a tactical asset allocation strategy can increase investment returns, versus a buy and hold strategy which ignores valuation. A value investing strategy that avoids over valued assets can outperform the vast majority of mutual funds with considerably less risk.
Reduce Investment Expenses
Mutual funds, and investment advisors who charge percentage fees based on assets, can be very expensive. Investors typically pay from 0.75% to 2.0% (and up) in annual fees for managed funds and similar fees for an investment advisor. In addition, the overall track record as a group is dismal. While these fees may not be obvious they reduce investment returns by a staggering amount over many years. Purchasing individual stocks and ETFs can reduce your investment expenses.
Help You Understand Your Risk
In recent years many investors did not understand how much risk their portfolios were exposed to until it was too late. If you do it yourself you will have a better understanding of your portfolio risk and asset allocation at any given time.
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Most mutual funds and fund managers follow the crowd and "group learn" strategies that result in sub-par performance. With individual control of your portfolio you can avoid following the crowd.
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There have never been more choices of inexpensive products to choose from with the explosion of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Technology has made self-directed investing easier than anytime in history. You can open a brokerage account on your computer and manage your portfolio from your own home. Services such as the AAAMP Blog or an asset allocation guide are readily available to assist and educate investors in almost any subject desired.
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The individual investor has never before had all the benefits of self-directed investing that are available today. The benefits are increasing investment returns, reducing investment expenses, avoiding following the crowd, staying in control of your assets, and investing in an era when it's never been easier to manage your own money. After examining the benefits, many individual investors are choosing self directed investing.
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The New Mexico State men's basketball team concludes its road trip at Idaho, Saturday, Jan. 12 in Moscow, Idaho at 8 p.m. The game can be heard on the Aggie Sports Network and KGRT 104 FM in Las Cruces with the 'Voice of the Aggies' Jack Nixon, and the pregame show starts 30 minutes prior to tip.
New Mexico State Aggies
The Aggies are 9-8 and 3-2 in the WAC following a double overtime 83-82 win at Seattle, Jan. 10. Sophomore guard Daniel Mullings is leading the team with 15.3 points per game. Senior forward Tyrone Watson is also in double figures with 10.8 points per contest.
Scouting Idaho
The Vandals have a 6-8 overall record and 2-2 conference record after falling in their WAC home opener to Denver, 55-49, Jan. 10. Senior center Kyle Barone leads Idaho with 15.3 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. Junior forward Stephen Madison and sophomore guard Connor Hill are also helping the offense with 15.2 and 10.4 points per game, respectively.
Series Notes
The Aggies have a 20-4 all-time lead in the series with Idaho. Last year, the teams split the series with each program winning on its home court. NM State won 80-68, Jan. 14, 2012 in Las Cruces, and Idaho won, 59-58, Feb. 9, 2012 in Moscow, Idaho.
Previous Meeting
The Aggies suffered a one-point loss at Idaho, 59-58, Feb. 9, 2012, to snap a five-game win streak over the Vandals. Forward Wendell McKines and center Hamidu Rahman led the team with 12 points each. Guard Hernst Laroche and forward Tyrone Watson supplied nine points each. Watson also had a career-high eight assists. NM State had a late lead but Idaho inched its way back and pulled within one, 58-57, with 1:53 to play. The Aggies were without Laroche for the final 2:08 after he fouled out on an offensive foul. NM State maintained a lead until Idaho hit a jumper with five seconds to go.
Aggies Earn Road Win at Seattle in 2OT
NM State recorded its first WAC road win of the year with an 83-82 victory in double overtime at Seattle, Jan. 10. Senior forward Tyrone Watson scored a career-high 26 points. This was the first multiple overtime game for the Aggies since the triple overtime thriller against Boise State in the 2008 WAC Championship game. Senior forward Bandja Sy contributed 23 points including a 3-pointer at the end of regulation to force the first overtime. En route to his career-high performance, Watson scored 14 points in the second half. He added five assists and seven steals, which helped the Aggies to a season-high 15 steals. Sophomore guard Daniel Mullings also helped defensively with seven steals along with 19 points and seven rebounds.


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Children ran in excitement as the gates to the new Benton Hall Academy playground opened on Wednesday at noon.
During elementary orientation on Tuesday, Principal Joe Long announced the playground would finally be ready the next day and invited the children to come out and play.
"The children have been without a playground for 18 months and they really missed it," said Long.
The old playground was torn down in the spring of 2011 due to wood rotting below the surface. District Business Manager Clete McLaughlin said, "the playground was becoming a safety concern and we didn't want to chance anybody getting hurt."
Through several donations and contributions the district was able to raise $126,643.24 in funding for the playground.
"The playground was made possible because of the community and city workers who have helped out throughout the entire process as well as Clete McLaughlin, who was the driving force of the entire project," Long said.
Secretary to Superintendent Marlene Quartino added, "The playground is absolutely beautiful, I watched the playground as it was being built and it's amazing how nice it is and how it incorporates the esthetics of the school."
"It's great that kids finally have somewhere to play and release their energy, they have been waiting almost two years and once they found out it would be ready they started bugging me all morning to come and play," Jessica Chandler, mother of Abigail Chandler, a Benton Hall Academy student.
"Everyday for the past year and a half I've looked out my office window and haven't seen a playground and now there is one here," Long said. "Watching the kids enjoy the new playground makes me feel as if this is my first car, actually it feels even better than that."
The playground was completed a week before elementary students head back to school on Sept. 5.
To commemorate the generosity of all the playground donors, a dedication ceremony will take place in September in which a bronze plaque donated by the Burrows Paper Foundation will be placed adjacent to the entrance of the playground in Eastern Park.
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With the news that Major League Soccer is all set for its fifteenth season, the hardcore American soccer fan can once again feel the kind of tempered enthusiasm that only comes with another year of professional soccer in the USA. Tempered because while he yearns to see a pro quality game; he knows deep down that the MLS doesn't quite give him that. While he'll proudly pile his kids into the minivan to see the season opener, inherently he knows that this league is still a fragile infant, that it is one wrong move away from becoming the NASL. Why won't soccer succeed here? He thinks. What is it about the US that is so different from the rest of the world? The reasons come piling in and at first glance some of them make a lot of sense.
1. American's Don't Understand Soccer
A commonly heard phrase that has been an excuse and a complaint for soccer fans and soccer detractors in America for years. The argument paints the land as one that loves its football, baseball and basketball; a country where soccer is not taught, at least not by legitimate coaches. But the truth is, while that argument may have been valid thirty years ago, it is not the case anymore.
Soccer is the most popular youth sport in America and has been so for thirty years. If you walked into a bar today and asked all the patrons who have played soccer at some point in their childhood to raise their hands, you'd be shocked. Millions and millions of people not only know what soccer is, they know the rules and have played the game. They know because for the last 40 or so years, concerned mothers have wanted their kids to play a "safer" sport than football or baseball. This can most easily be demonstrated by answering this question, do you understand soccer? There are 300 million people in this country and enough will answer yes to that question to ensure that soccer could work.
So it's not a matter of understanding, it is a matter of interest.
2. There is No Money in American Pro Soccer
This reason for soccer failure has been used countless times. It goes with the whole idea that a parent is willing to spend some money to get their kid in a healthy outdoor activity, but that same adult will not blow their entertainment money to go see a soccer game. Not when they have other things to do. Since that is the case there is an accepted sentiment that there is not enough money on the "entertainment tree" for a robust and successful pro soccer league.
Again, that is not entirely true. There is money in America to support a world class soccer league because the United States is a land of immigration. Granted, most of those immigrants have been in the Americas for a few generations, but there are millions of people who have emigrated from soccer loving areas in Europe and the rest of the Americas within the last two generations. These people and many more who played as kids would definitely spend the money… if the product were good enough.
3. Soccer is Boring
Perhaps the most oft-used argument against a successful pro soccer league in America is that Americans find soccer to be boring. They hate low scoring games, they hate ties and they hate all of the "diving". Since soccer can have these things, the sport is written off as too slow and uninteresting.
Well, the fact is that even though this is the most popular excuse for an American hatred of soccer, it is the least accurate. Americans don't hate soccer, they don't even ignore it because the sport is boring (despite what they might say). They ignore it and they hate it because the team that plays in their local stadium is boring and because that team would get its ass handed to it by 100 other teams located an ocean away. American's love low scoring games, a pitcher's duel in Baseball is considered great drama! Also, don't forget that a soccer game with a final score of 3-1 (very common) is equivalent to a football game where the end score is 21-7 (also very common).
The problem is not the entertainment value of the sport, it's the entertainment value of the league as it is right now.
4. There are Too Many Distractions
America is the land of entertainment, we have Hollywood, Broadway, monuments, landmarks, football, basketball, baseball and the best food from everywhere. Apart from that, soccer fans have the best leagues in the world (EPL, Serie A, La Liga, etc.) right on their television. With all of that to take our attention and free dollars, how could anyone possibly think that soccer could make it in America?
Again, the problem is not the competition from other entertainment sources, it is the quality of what we have in our back yard. Europeans have movies, amazing theater, cricket, rugby, restaurants and the like too. They just choose soccer first because the athletes and the show they provide are incredible.
5. The Best Players Won't Play Here
The greatest soccer in the world is played either in Europe or during the two great International tournaments, the World Cup and the European Cup. No one denies that, that's where the best players can be found and that's where they make their fortune. So it is widely accepted that we will never get those players while they are in their prime soccer playing years.
Simply put, it's not entirely true. They would love to play here. This is the land of movie starlets, freedom and financial opportunity. Almost everyone wants to live here, world class players just can't because they need to worry about their legacy and financial security. The unlikely advantage that US soccer has though, is that the legacy part of the equation is easier than you might think. Soccer is not the same as basketball or football. In basketball, the only league where your stats and history matter is the NBA, it's all that matters. But in soccer, there are tons of great leagues and no less than three different elite leagues, so your stats and history are measured differently. Most lasting legacies are built at the World Cup, and you can play in any league and still play in the World Cup. The financial part is the tough one, the MLS league owners have no assurances (aside from a soccer fan's blog) that investing $200 million each on the best rosters in the world would turn a profit. But if the day ever comes when the New York Red Bulls offer $20 million a year to players like Messi, players like Messi will definitely listen.
In the US, pro soccer is a funny sport. The hardcore fans watch the games and support the league, but many do so out of a sort of obligation. They truly love the sport, so they watch it. They desperately want it to succeed, so they sign their kids up for the local youth league, coach their teams, referee and volunteer. They hope against hope, that all of this effort will result in better young players and a better league. Then one day, maybe, the quality of pro soccer in the US will make it to the point where those same games become ultimately compelling and the obligation turns into genuine interest.
Can soccer succeed in the US? There are several reasons why America's fan has been told that it cannot, but that doesn't stop him from supporting it, because inherently he knows something else too; those reasons at there core are complete and utter baloney.


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Selena Gomez Spent All Night With Justin Bieber — Jelena Reunion Report
Justin Bieber has been on serious rumor watch lately, but at least this is a positive rumor (for Jelena fans, anyway).
According to TMZ — which was trending with #DearTMZ yesterday, thanks to angry Beliebers who want the site to stop posting negative JB stories — Selena was spotted returning home yesterday after hanging out all night with Justin. So that sounds like Friday night was Jelena night. This is reportedly the first time they've seen each other in a month, perhaps the first time since their New Year's fight.
Maybe Selena listened to "Nothing Like Us" and wanted to talk about the good ole days. Or maybe this is another rumor that JB will just shake his head about.
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John Piper: Father you have been gracious to Steve Lawson to sustain his voice and his heart and his truthfulness and now I ask for a similar blessing. And I asked that the fact that both of our word would be the radical obedience and I pray beyond that for a readiness to suffer which is what I want to talk about. For the calls of Christ a readiness to take risks that would look foolish and be foolish were there no resurrection from the dead.
And so I pray Lord that you would prepare martyr material in this room now and that someone would be among the number that would be completed according to Revelation 611. I pray that we would be freed from the American grip, vice grip of the ease and comfort and security and safety.
I pray that you keep me stable to your word now and balanced in its proportions and protected from the Devil and filled with your spirit. Leaving out anything unhelpful and including all that should be mentioned for the strengthening and Lord I pray for those who are not regenerate in this room that you would waken him from the dead. In Jesus name, Amen.
For those of you who'd like to see how everything relates to everything I take my starting point from the text that was just preached to you. I didn't know what it was going to be and I'm happy to do that so look at verse six and now leap from there to my text which isn't the same text...
In 1 Thessalonians 1-6: You became imitators of us and of the Lord. That's very crucial that you see that so that you don't dwell on that, but the second half because you've got two people there that are models of something mainly Jesus and Paul. Now here's what they're models of. Having received the word and much tribulation with joy in the Holy Spirit.
So Jesus was a man who received the word of God and tribulation sustained by joy and the joy that was set before him. He endured the cross and Paul was the man who received the word of God and was told by receiving of it and would show him how much you will suffer for me and yet said over and over again we rejoice in tribulation. And you now have become imitators of us in that. That's what I want to talk about.
Paul saw himself lived out in the suffering church so the question now is what's the function of the suffering of the apostle? What's the function of the suffering of the pastor and the suffering of missionaries and the suffering of the saints? Is it something that just happened to you would you then could honor God with because of the way that you deal with it? Or is there a design in it for your church? You're suffering for your church, your suffering for your mission field, for your school.
Is suffering not just something that comes because the Devil's bad person and we then converted into sanctifying influence in the power of the Holy Spirit. God handles it or could it be that when he said to Paul I will show you how much you will suffer. There's a design in this. There is a strategy in this.
And I can tell you the reason that I'm preaching this tonight is because I had not made up my mind to do it until this morning and over the Bible praying this morning I was overwhelmed with the sense they need to hear this. Most of these guys come from well-to-do churches where very few people suffer by design because they have chosen to embrace the Calvary Road and the kind of risks that would be foolish if there was no resurrection from the dead.
So that's the text I want to start with and then go to Colossians. Let me back into it because Richard Wurmbrand died two weeks ago. Raise your hand if you've heard of Richard Wurmbrand. That's terrible. How many hands are not up there? Well go to his website on Voice of the Martyrs. He's dead now and live in Jesus, but it's time to bless his heart it's going gangbusters to make that ministry in there.
Tell them about the suffering church he was a Romanian pastor suffered for 14 years in prison. I sat at his feet literally he takes his shoes off when he speaks and he sits down dead. I was with about 12 other pastors sitting low and I wanted to lie down and he sowed it to my heart about 15 years ago the seed of embracing suffering as a strategy.
He asked questions like this: If you and the man next to you knew that both of you were about to have a child. One disabled, the other whole. Which would you choose to have? He said Jesus chose it, it didn't happen to him. We've got something going on at our church right now that just makes me tremble. Dozens of baby are being adopted. Adopted from all over the state, adopted from all over the world. Adoption is big at Bethlehem Baptist Church because some of them are sitting in jail at the end of the 80s saying it's probably a better way to do life than this.
Well there may not be, but one way is adoption. Now I'm beginning to watch pain. You adopt little children from orphanages in Ukraine who are about nine years old and what you get his pain. And if God is merciful glory, but I just want my young families to know what they're doing because the pain is rising with every year. And some of them had to even let them go and the pain of that is incredible. Life- threatening these situations can be, not to the kids but to the parents and that's a little tiny choice of love.
So here's my backing into the text through Richard Wurmbrand. He told the story one time about a Cistercian monk, that's the order in the Catholic Church that it's always quiet. They don't talk to each other and the radio interviewer in Italy asked this Abbot of this Cistercian monastery, what if it were for you to realize that at the end of your life atheism is true and that there is no God? Tell me what if it were true? And the Abbot replied holiness, silence and sacrifice are beautiful in themselves even without the promise of reward. I still will have used my life well.
Paul would have given the exact opposite answer because he did give the exact opposite answer. And 1 Corinthians 15-19: If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied. There is not a text in the last 10 years of my life that have caused me more difficulty than this text and brought me to my face and called my ministry into question and threatens to change my future more than any text. It says if there's no resurrection from the dead, the choices I am making in the life I am living is absolutely absurd.
You realize how shocking that is in America? Because almost nobody sells Christianity that way. Why did he agree? I mean love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, better marriage, kids that generally go straight, a God who perhaps prospers your business. What difference does it make in the end if it turns out to be a delusion if you've lived a good life? I mean zero at the end. It doesn't matter if it was fault. Zero means zero. There's no regret about the faults or the delusions if it was a good life and its zero at the end. Blank, no consciousness.
What's the problem Paul? Don't you believe in Christianity and making things better? Solving your problems and giving you a better life? No? Evidently not. I mean what, I don't know what else to do with this text but say no. We are of all men most to be laughed at, pitied, regarded as foolish and absurd if I don't get raised from the dead after this hellish life. So what's wrong with us?
Do you see how frightening this is? Every time I preach on it I plead oh God if there's another thing you want me to do, another way to do it, another cause to embrace, another radical way to get at it, show me. Please show me. If there's no resurrection from the dead he was living a pitiable life and he was choosing it. He was choosing it.
Now he did explain to us in that chapter would an alternative might be if there is no resurrection from the dead. He said in verse 32 let us eat and drink. No. He didn't mean by that let's all become drunkards and gluttons because they're just as pitiable as Christians if there's no resurrection. To be a glutton and the way overweight and have a heart attack when you're 36, or to be a drunkard and live in the ditch and have to go through treatment over and over and over again. Nobody looks at that and says there is the life.
What he means is just be normal. That's what he means. Eat. Drink. Be normal. Avoiding excessive risks, keep the security high, provide reasonable comforts, don't be giving the luxury or absorbance. Just be normal. That's how to live that there's no resurrection from the dead. Just eat and drink. Normal simple ordinary middle-class American Christianity if there's no resurrection.
Paul explained a little bit of why he said this about his life and verses 29 to 31 of 1 Corinthians 15. If the dead are not raised, why am I in peril in every hour? I read that on the plane today I said goodnight. If I get in peril in one hour, I try to fix it. Fix the bars on the window or new lock on the door or some new vaccine or more people watching my kids. I'll fix this. I don't choose this, he did.
And it wasn't in one hour, it was every day. All day. Danger on the seas, danger on the roads, danger in the city, danger from faults bothered, danger from the enemy. He didn't have any security and all it seems like. He was just always in danger. How do you concentrate? How do you get your sermons ready?
I know I've been in danger just a few times in my neighborhood when threats have come. That's hard to concentrate. Picture them up. How are you going to prepare to talk to the Muslims tomorrow if the mobs outside tonight? How do you do that? You don't put flesh on who is sufficient for these things. But that flesh on it. In peril every hour. He goes on I protest brothers by my exultation in you and I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day.
Now that's foolish if there's no resurrection from the dead. If there's no resurrection from the dead you get maximum life every day. You don't say I die every day. What's that? Why did this man live this way? Why was he making these kinds of choices? What are your choices?
Well the answer to why isn't Colossians chapter 1 and that's my text. Let's go there. Colossians 1:24, that was all introduction. Colossians 1:24 is one answer to the question Paul why. Why? Why did you make it so hard for us? He could've given many answers to that and I'll just deal with one and leave you to painfully discover the others and then go to the Lord.
You know in John MacArthur's office I think it was your office where we were holding up over there and praying there's this brass statue, devastating statue, with a man on his knees and hands like that. And I think a better spin is put on it by the words on the statue then I would've put on it. Oh God be merciful to me, a sinner. That might be what I've would've put on it. I think was on it is I will trust in the Lord, but it's of a man whose just cringing and on his face before Almighty God which is where I feel before these texts crying out that I discover how to do ministry biblically.
You know maybe that's the John MacArthur's pastor conference is a real Bible soaked conference. That may be. But it also may be we use the Bible to escape the Bible. It might work. That in order to protect ourselves from these kinds of texts we do ministry a certain way. And I believe in expository preaching with all of my heart.
Here's the verse, 24. Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, that's crazy. We laugh and we have to because we just don't know what to do with it. Almost everybody in my church does just the opposite. They grumble when they suffer. They asked God why when they suffer. They don't rejoice, was wrong with this man? He's coming from another planet.
The biblical pattern of life is so supernatural, so radical, so different, so crazy, very few pastors are living it and very few laymen are living it. I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of his body which is the church and filling up that which is lacking in Christ's afflictions.
Now what in the world does that mean? You have joy, yet sufferings and the sufferings are called filling up of the lack in Christ's afflictions. So they are a design that called embraces to accomplish something called filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions. That's a big verse. You need any more versus, that's big.
So what does it mean? And we all in this room know what it does not mean. You know it from Paul, you know it from Jesus, and it does not mean he improves upon the atoning work of the cross. When Jesus says it is finished he meant an infinitely valuable and perfect sacrifice has been made and nobody approves upon the sacrifice. What has been paid on the cross is paid in full and nobody makes any contribution to the payment that was made for the forgiveness of their sins and the justification of their lives before a holy God. That's what Jesus alone has done and we find our security by resting in it.
So that's what it does not mean. You don't improve on the atoning value of the cross. So what does it mean then? Let me tell you what I think it means and then show you why I think it means this. I think it means that what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ is not the perfection of the value of its atoning worth, but the personal presentation to those for whom he paid the price through suffering. That's missing.
Christ by the father's design means for his sufferings, atoning sufferings to be offered and presented to all of those for whom he died in every people group of the world through suffering. That's what it means. With joy because without it you'll never survive. For the joy that was set before and he endured the cross for the joy that sat before you, you will endure the choices that you make that would make no sense if there's no resurrection from the dead. Joy is the only way you'll survive your mission in this world if you live this way and the joy of the Lord will be your strength through choices that nobody understands.
Now why do I think he means that? I think he means that because of the parallel use of the language in Philippians chapter 2. So I did what all of you do when we're facing the next logistical problem, I typed in [ontoplayryeuh] and [hysterima] which are the two key words here of what Philip is lacking in the lacking part. Philip lacking. Where else would these words paired off? That's pretty unusual. Phillip what's lacking? Can I find a parallel here from the same author? And there are several and the clearest is Philippians 2.
It's all about [Aphroditus], remember him? Aphroditus took gifts from the Philippian's to Rome to where Paul was and Paul sends this letter and commands him because he can almost to the point of death according to verse 27 of Philippians 2, risks his life so there was a choice that was made that would've been pretty foolish. But he made it and he's survived by God's grace. Paul says and then he tells his church to receive him and treat him a certain way.
Now verse 30. Because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to, and hear the words, Philip. It's not quite the same Greek word. [Ontaplayryeuen] instead of ontoplayryeuh. What is lacking? Same word, hysterima. And your service to me, so here you have a very close parallel. They have a love gift, they have sacrificed like Christ on the cross. We want you to take these things to the ones for whom we sacrificed. Take them and let him know how much we love him. So you embody our love and it's incomplete until you get it to where we design it to be in Rome and so he does at cost almost to his life.
Marvin Vincent wrote 100 years ago, a little over. The good commentary on this book, Philippians said the gift Paul was a gift to the church as a body. It was a sacrificial offering of love. What was lacking was the church's presentation of this offering in person. This was impossible and Paul represents Aphroditus as supplying this lack by his affectionate and zealous ministry. So that's my interpretation of Colossians 1:24. I think that's exactly what's going on in that verse.
Jesus Christ has an affectionate sacrifice and offering for the world. And he has designed that it not be telecast or radioed only, but embodied. We heard in the first hour incarnational ministry. That's no fluke. That's designed.
Now here's a question. If the design is to get the atoning, effective, powerful, gospel feeling, sufferings of Jesus into the lives of those for whom it was designed by what means shall it happened? And Paul makes it very clear what means the verse 24 of Colossians 1. I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake and in my flesh I fill up the method for the filling up of the lack of the personal presentation of the sufferings is what happens to my body when I preach. I bury my body, the marks of the Lord Jesus. I die every day five times, 39 lashes, three times been with rods, shipwrecked the night and the day in the sea twice. Skin and bones and lows, have everything to do with evangelism and getting to people who are in Christ died to save.
And the hurting is essential. Essential. Don't be a pastor if you don't believe that. He means for us to reach his people among all of the people, groups of the world and in our neighborhoods with pain, our pain. He means for those people to see Jesus, the real crucified Jesus and our crucifixion. That's what he says. And my sufferings for your sake, and my flesh I fill up what is lacking.
This is an email from two weeks ago. I wonder how often you get these John. Way too often for me. Two weeks ago my brother-in-law and I'm not going to use some false names here because I don't know if this person wants this out. Two weeks ago my brother Joe was shot as he sat in his hut in northern Uganda village. Joe and his wife Frances our missionaries to the Muslim tribe [Arenga], northern Uganda 3 miles from Sudanese border. In the middle of nowhere.
Joy, their 5 month old daughter just arrived in the States for a short visit. She'd been gone over a year. None of us have yet seen the baby, it was a happy time. Joe remained in Africa two days after Frances' arrival, Joe to fill a missionary, and Martin was sitting together in the living area of the hut evening after she hearing a strange sound outside. He suspected trouble, jumped up, kicked the door shut just before the spray bullets was released. The bullets exploded through the door and hit Joe in his shoulder and Martin in the lower arm and so on.
And through a remarkable series of circumstances one man should read one more line. The assailants broke in and demanded money as they dragged them around and kicked them and then they cried out for Jesus to save them. What happened the familiar John Patton scene, the soldiers lowered their weapons and walked away. [Now that's] five hours from any medical help and they made it. That story had a happy ending and we all know the stories that have the less earthly happy ending.
That's just normal folks. That's normal. Whoa to the church that doesn't teach their young people, that's normal. That's normal missions. We had this cockeyed notion that missions is not to happen without my happening. You don't go to those places especially not with little children. Where did that notion come from? Believe me it did not come from the Bible. Close countries is the notion that does not come from the Bible, unintelligible concept to the apostle of Paul.
I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake and I filled up what is lacking. Now I don't know what might be going through your head right now or maybe this is apostolic. Non-pastoral and surely not Christian. Well wrong. Whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it. Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel will save it. The path of salvation is the path of losing one's life for the sake of the gospel.
Brothers and sisters I say in the name of Jesus Christ to all of you enter by the narrow gate. For broad is the gate and easy is the way that leads to destruction and many there be the going there at, but narrow is the gate and hard is the way that leads to life and few they're be that find it. Hard, [flibbo] you all know that. [Flipsis] is the word affliction in the verb beating, struck, afflicted is the way. That's everybody folks. He who would lead a godly life will be persecuted.
Here's a reason that text find so little article in the American church. We have sole domesticated the word [asebetomy] godliness that we scarcely can begin to comprehend what Paul means by it. Read your Bible, go to church, keep the 10 Commandments. Godliness, no. That's not godliness. Pharisees did all of that. Godliness is so being ravaged by God. So satisfied by God, so filled with God, so driven by Jesus way that you live in a way that the only explanation for your life is God raising you from the dead.
Well I hope you mean that amen. I find it hard to say amen, I do. Thank you for it, that's your better part. I'm not there yet and I'm praying on the plane. I'm praying in this posh hotel where they put me up. Goodnight. How do you get ready to preach this message at the Hyatt? I'm praying all of the time. Lord, get Noel ready for my next decision. That's my wife. That's why I'm praying. Get Noel ready for my next decision.
One last word here. Joy, now I rejoice in my sufferings all brothers and sisters the Calvary road is a hard road filled with joy. If you become as weird as the apostle who said I rejoice in my sufferings. How can you do that? I'm mean it does take us back to the beginning of the message where here I am. John Piper Mister Christian [inaudible 38:56]. Calling everybody to embrace suffering and I mean this we'll never be in America the church that we ought to be until we choose to take risks that can only be explained by the resurrection of the dead. We will never be Christ's church. I'll say it again until we choose to take risks that can only be explained by the resurrection of the dead. That's the only way that we'll be the church that we ought to be and finish the great commission.
And I just lost my train of thought. Where was I going? What did I say just before that? What did you say? Joy? That's right. That's why I bring these guys with me from Bethlehem down here, I do this. What was I saying about joy? I need more than a word, I need a sentence. Okay. I'll figure it out.
Oh yeah, it relates back to the first message where I was saying that surely the Christian life is the good life so how do you explain this guy saying I'm just to be pitied if there's no resurrection. The answer I think lies in this that Paul's joy which just seems to me to be absolutely boundless. Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing. Write the next book on that John. I want to.
Beat me to it. Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing. Oh there's a key to life that I want so bad or here's the key. He said in Roman's 5:2 we rejoice or we result in the hop of the glory of God. Then we said not only that, but we rejoice in tribulation. It's because the streaming in from the resurrection that sure after streaming in to this painful choice that I'm making right now assuring me of it can shed all of the light of the glorious dawn of the righteous. We'll shine like the sun in the kingdom of our father even if our head is cut off or they run a sword through our gut as I read this morning. I'm going to lose my train of thought again right here.
But I just read this morning in the current issue of World magazine, article by Marvin Olasky about proselytizing. He said there's three kinds because [inaudible 42:06] beating me up about this compassionate conservatism you know. All of this faith based stuff is just a bunch of proselytizing and he said well, too kinds of bad and one kind is good. Christianity does the good kind and they give reasons and call for persuasion.
And many use the illustration one of the bad kinds he said 100 years ago in Turkey Muslim lined up Armenian. That's Armenian, not Arminian. Armenian Christians. If you don't learn the difference between that E and I in this seminary, you need a new president. But it's probably not your fault. It's probably the Hermeneutics fault or somebody. He lined them up and they walked down the line with the sword and said do you worship Christ or Allah? And if the answer was Christ, a sword thrust to the gut. Now how many people do you watch that happen to?
While you make up your mind, joy at that moment is not optional. It's the only hope of obedience for the joy that was set before him he endured the cross or the sword, it's the only way. That's why Paul says it's here I rejoice in my sufferings.
Well I'm done with perhaps just a word of illustrations from J. Oswald Sanders. I love the story and I close with it. Sanders died a few years ago. He was a great missionary statesman. He was 89 when I heard, last and he simply gave this illustration which so perfectly embodies Colossians 1:24.
He said there was an Indian evangelist, brand-new believer who wanted to tell everybody about Jesus and he tread the whole day through the hard pass, came to the village, wondered whether he should wait till the morning or speak. He went in and wanted to tell them the gospel before he slept, got the crowd around him, lifted the gospel and they scoffed him, laughed at him. He quit because he was so tired and discouraged, he walked out and lay down underneath the tree and fell asleep in just a few hours later as the sun was going down there was almost dark and he said that the whole village was around him.
He then woke up in the start of and he saw the big man of the village over him and he thought they're going to hurt me or kill me. And the big man in the village said we came out to see you and notice the bloody feet that you have and decided that you must be a holy man and that you care about us because you came so far as to have feet like this and we would like to hear your message again.
I rejoice in my sufferings and in my flesh. I fill up what is lacking in the afflictions of Jesus. One thing is lacking in the afflictions of Jesus, a personal, embodied, bloody presentation of his cross to those for whom he died.
So I close with this key sentence that I got on the plane today and I've preached this message a lot of times because I feel so burdened to call a church to get ready now for what may happen, but for what should happen if we're living Paul's way. You are being called tonight through my mouth I believe by God Almighty to make choices in your ministry, in your marriage, in your parenting, in your change of jobs.
Some of you men right now are hovering right on the brink of a radical decision and I'm excited for you. God sent me here for you to push you over the edge and what he's calling you to do tonight is to make some choices in the service of love, not [Mazokism]. In the service of love, love, love, love that can only be explained if Christ will raise you from the dead.
Let's pray. So father I pray now again for pastors who teach these things to their people so that they build radical, crazy, out of sync, risk taking, sacrificial, love displaying, Christ exalting congregations who can only be explained because Jesus is so satisfied with their souls forever that they can say let goods and kindred go this mortal life so the body they may kill God's truth by us still, his kingdom is forever.
That's kind of congregations you want to build. Send them home to build more God. But though never build those if we don't embrace those risks of love. Show every person now I ask by the personal individual work of the Holy Spirit what that is for the next five years of their lives. What's the next chapter Lord for these 3,000 folks? Show them and made the world be stunned and give glory to our father in heaven through Christ I pray, Amen.
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Phone: (785) 263-7995
On his 75th birthday Ike, our 34th president, received the traditional birthday paddling. The tradition continues today. Reservations accepted, but not required. More
Munson's Prime, LLC
426 Goldenbelt Blvd
Junction City, KS 66441
Phone: 785-238-1135
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Phone: 785-238-1135
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2215 S air Service Rd
Garden City, KS 67846
Phone: (620) 271-1490
Garden City, KS 67846
Phone: (620) 271-1490
Enjoy authentic Italian cuisine with family and friends at Napoli's Italian Restaurant. Located in the Garden City Regional Airport. More
Olde Westport Spice & Trading Co.
1218 Main St.
Goodland, KS 67735
Phone: (785) 899-2020
Goodland, KS 67735
Phone: (785) 899-2020
Kansas Gourmet spices are made on site and tours of the operation are offered. Spices and dry soup mixes are available in the store and online. They have spent 30 years developing an array of ... More
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23 N Center St
Barnes, KS 66933
Phone: (785) 763-4269
Barnes, KS 66933
Phone: (785) 763-4269
This Bistro serves a from scratch menu that changes daily. The atmosphere is best described as "country gourmet." Dessert is a necessity and their full service bake shoppe is a great way to take ... More
6240 W 135th St
Overland Park, KS 66223
Phone: (913) 338-3800
Overland Park, KS 66223
Phone: (913) 338-3800
One of the Midwest's most dynamic shopping and entertainment districts, Prairiefire features several first-to-market restaurants and shops, unique entertainment venues, a beautiful wetlands trail ... More
Prime on the Nine
1800 Matt Down Lane
Dodge City, KS 67801
Phone: (620) 227-2736
Dodge City, KS 67801
Phone: (620) 227-2736
Traditional steakhouse with a modern flare featuring local Dodge City beef and fresh seafood. Enjoy a great view with floor to ceiling windows overlooking Mariah Hills Golf Course and Dodge City. More
Public at the Brickyard
129 N Rock Island
Wichita, KS 67202
Phone: (316) 263-4044
Wichita, KS 67202
Phone: (316) 263-4044
Featuring as many local and regional vendors as possible, Public strives to serve simple but excellent food to go along with great craft beers. More
Puffy's Steak & Ice House
215 Main St
Maple Hill, KS 66401
Phone: (785) 256-4329
Maple Hill, KS 66401
Phone: (785) 256-4329
A renowned restaurant that began as a small cafe business has now grown to serve people from all over. Jim and Patty Puff appreciate their customers and they show it through their service and ... More


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Saybrook University
Saybrook University to Sponsor Parker Palmer Event Series in Seattle06/17/2013
Are you frustrated with politics and the lack of civil discourse in community? Do you wonder if you can make a difference? For three days in July, 2013, at events across Seattle, internationally known educator, author and activist Parker J. Palmer will spark a community conversation based on his latest book, Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit. The latest of Palmer's nine books, Healing shows his commonsense approach to politics that serves the common good.
Help Us Support New Students06/14/2013
We live in a time when any human emotion is seen as "treatable" by drugs; a time when organizations are desperately searching for ways to better organize and sustain communities; a time when the potential of new technologies for social transformation seems boundless, but is so far untested.
We live in a time when the world needs humanistic psychologists, organizational change agents, and new medicine. Now more than ever.
After 40 years, Saybrook University remains the intellectual home of humanistic scholarship. But are we doing enough?
Charles Cannady, Professor of Psychology, has passed away06/10/2013
Saybrook University is sad to report the passing of faculty member Charles Cannady, PhD.
He died peacefully Friday morning, surrounded by family and friends, of complications from a long fight with cancer.
A gifted scholar who worked across several schools at Saybrook, Charles was a founding faculty member of our MFT program, a recognized international expert on Sandtray Therapy, and a dedicated healer. He worked with youth in crisis, families in need, and men's groups – particularly for those with anger management issues. He made a difference in many lives.
Mark Schulman: Defending Science Against the 'Futurists' and 'Marketing Gurus' of TED04/10/2013
The TED organization isn't the first to censor scientists for having unconventional ideas. It's just the latest.
It's worth remembering that for hundreds of years, "scientific evidence" was used to justify the convenient assertion that people of color were racially inferior. Today we call that "misusing science" and "pseudoscience" -- but at the time it was mainstream scientific thought. Nothing about it was true, but the scientific mainstream laughed at radicals who said so.
For years mainstream scientific studies denied the connection between smoking and poor health. It was "insurgent" scientists who finally made the case. During the "reefer madness" era, it was considered a matter of settled science that marijuana was a "gateway drug" that would lead to a life of violent crime, and that comic books coarsened the young and destroyed empathy. For a scientist to say otherwise was to invite censure -- even though they were empirically correct.
Which is to say that there is such a thing as "bad science" and "pseudo-science," but that even scientists have a pretty poor record deciding what it is sometimes. When social forces try it, when social organizations or politicians or businesses try to tell scientists what is and isn't science ... well, do I even have to mention Galileo?
Chip Conley, Saybrook's Scholar-Practitioner in Residence, launches new website looking at world festivals in the 21st century02/11/2013
Did you know that in one of the coldest spots on earth, the people of Habin, China, create an ice and snow festival?
Or that every 12 years there the most prominent gurus and spiritual pilgrims of India gather on the banks of the Ganges river?
The world is full of hyper-local festivals thriving in a hyper-connected world. Chip Conley, Saybrook University's Scholar-Practitioner in Residence, thinks they have a lot to tell us about what we value, how we play, and what it means to be human in the 21st century.
Eugene Taylor, Professor of Psychology, has passed away01/30/2013
Saybrook University, with deep sadness, is announcing today the death of Dr. Eugene Taylor, a noted scholar and 20-year member of our executive faculty.
"We are sorry to see Eugene go," said Mark Schulman, President of Saybrook University, "He was a scholar and a teacher respected by all with whom he came in contact. He is, truly, irreplacable."
Taylor died on January 30 at 10:30 a.m. EST with his family in attendance. He was 66.
Taylor was a prominent historian of psychology. The author of books including Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America; The Mystery of Personality: A History of Psychodynamic Theories; and William James on Consciousness Beyond the Margins, he was a research historian at Harvard Medical School, the curator of Gordon Allport's papers, and an internationally renowned scholar on the work of William James. He was also the founder of the Cambridge Institute of Psychology and Religion, a board member of the Philemon Foundation, a fellow in two APA divisions, and a founding member of The New Existentialists.
He held degrees from Southern Methodist University, Harvard Divinity School (where he was the 1983 William James Lecturer), and a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Psychology from Boston University.
Saybrook University joins with Chip Conley to reinvent business culture01/10/2013
Entrepreneur and New York Times best-selling author Chip Conley is on a mission to re-create business culture to make it more psychologically sound. He's crunched the numbers: there is significant research showing that companies with a sense of mission and purpose beyond the bottom line are actually more profitable in the long-run.
That's why Saybrook University, the global center for Humanistic scholarship, is pleased to name Conley to a second term as its "Scholar-Practitioner in Residence."
As the 2013 Scholar-Practitioner in Residence, Conley will work with Saybrook faculty, staff, and students to find new ways to apply and expand his work on the psychology of business and entrepreneurship in the 21st century. Conley's work is based on the research of Abraham Maslow, one of the founders of the Humanistic movement in psychology, who taught at Saybrook. His first best-selling book was "PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow."
Saybrook alum's new book tells the world: You Are Not Irrelevant01/03/2013
While studying for his psychology PhD at Saybrook University, New York City accountant Eric Kreuter learned that almost anyone can turn their life around.
Kreuter worked with Rex, a former medical student whose life had taken a turn: at 59, Rex was receiving food stamps and living with his mother. But after only four months of weekly clinical work with Kreuter, Rex was able to turn his life around for the better, and is now employed and helping to support his family.
President's message - Saybrook at 40 and beyond12/06/2012
As we conclude our 40th anniversary year, it's a good moment to take stock of the state of the University. The significant changes of the last several months allow us to re-evaluate our assumptions from the time the University was founded in 2009 and will reinvigorate our approach to the New Directions of the future.
The changes can, on the one hand, be described simply: we evolved from a University with three Colleges to one with four Schools. But, in terms of the additional structural aspects of our nascent transformation, we have changed more than nomenclature (colleges to schools) and number (3 to 4).
Cynthia Fitzgerald takes over as Dean of Enrollment Management and Student Services12/05/2012
Cyndy Fitzgerald, formerly dean of LIOS Graduate College, took over as Dean of Enrollment Management and Student Services at the beginning of November. Originally from Sacramento, California, she received her PhD in Applied Behavioral Science/Higher Education Leadership from Azusa Pacific University in 2007. We sat down with Cyndy for a few questions about her new role at Saybrook.
You took over as Dean of Enrollment Management & Student Services at the beginning of November. How is this position different than your previous one?
The scope of this role is extremely broad in terms of serving the students, staff, faculty, and alumni of the University beyond what was involved in my role as Dean of LIOS Graduate College of Saybrook University. With this expansion comes a significantly greater workload that includes far more travel, meeting time, and effort to care for and coordinate resource staff in their efforts to support students and to develop systems with clear policies and procedures in compliance with federal regulations. An additional component and challenge involves striving to assess and develop best practices to improve communication, and where appropriate, cross-train staff, in the midst of the restructuring and multiple adjustments and impact of those changes.


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2014-2015 SPARC Application Guidelines [docx]
This guidelines document provides detailed information to guide SPARC applicants through the application process. It includes details on application requirements, proposal development and more.
The SPARC Graduate Research Grant Program provides funding for meritorious scholarship, but it doesn't stop there. By completing SPARC's competitive research proposal process, graduate students gain experience that helps prepare them to seek national fellowship and grant awards throughout their academic careers.
Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Support to Promote Advancement of Research and Creativity, or SPARC, Graduate Research Grant is a merit-based award designed to ignite research and creative excellence across all disciplines at USC. The overall objective of the SPARC Graduate Research Grant is to provide support and to encourage outstanding students to pursue exciting research directions during their graduate career at the University of South Carolina. To achieve this end, the SPARC program provides the opportunity for eligible graduate students to secure funding up to $5,000 to support their research, creative or other meritorious scholarly project. SPARC funds can be used to pay for salary, supplies, travel and other costs essential to completing and promoting funded projects.
A unique aspect of the SPARC program is the requirement that all applicants complete and submit a competitive grant proposal package. The experience students acquire through this process is invaluable as it doubles as training in grant proposal development, helping SPARC applicants build the skills and background necessary to make them more competitive in seeking national fellowship awards from federal and private funding sources.
SPARC Graduate Research Grant applications are due in mid-October each year. The call for applications is generally made early in the fall semester. You can access the call for applications, and specific due dates, workshop dates, etc., through this webpage as those details are made available every fall.
Doctoral students from all disciplines are eligible to apply for SPARC. Master's students in terminal degree programs with a thesis requirement are also eligible to apply (those degree programs include the Master of Fine Arts and the Master of Arts in Public History). International students who meet the preceding criteria are eligible to apply for the SPARC Graduate Research Grant.
Applicants must be current students at the time of application and must be enrolled during the year the SPARC Graduate Research Grant is to be awarded. MFA and MA in Public History students may apply in their first year (or later) of graduate study at USC. Doctoral students may apply no earlier than their second year (or later) of graduate study at USC.
Applicants who meet the criteria in the preceding paragraphs may request up to $5000 with a project period of up to 15 months. Applicants should provide a detailed justification for the requested funds and are encouraged to request less than the maximum amount.
Before applying for the SPARC Graduate Research Grant, students are required to attend a short (45-minute) application workshop. Applications received from students who did not attend the workshop will be automatically rejected. Workshop dates, times and locations, as well as alternate options for those unable to attend group workshops, will be available through this webpage each year, during the application period.
No alternative workshop arrangements are allowed after October 1.
Students applying for the SPARC Graduate Research Grant must have a faculty advisor on the project, to serve as the principal investigator (PI) and submit the proposal package through USCeRA, the University of South Carolina electronic research administration software system. The faculty advisor on the proposal should be the student's primary advisor for their dissertation or thesis. If a student wishes to have a USC faculty member other than their primary advisor as the faculty advisor (and PI) for this research grant, there are procedures by which he or she can elect a different SPARC faculty advisor. Please refer to "Can the PI for the SPARC Graduate Research Grant be a USC Faculty Member who is not my primary Advisor?" in the SPARC FAQ section for complete details.
If a research project involves Vertebrate Animals or Human Subjects, the SPARC recipient can wait to apply for Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) or Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval until after they receive notification that he or she was selected for a SPARC Graduate Research Grant award. However, the SPARC recipient must produce IACUC or IRB approval (as appropriate) prior to receiving any SPARC funds, and before starting the proposed research project. If these protocols have been approved for the mentor, they can produce those documents after the award notification with a letter from the mentor indicating the previous approval of protocols.
SPARC recipients are required to do the following, after receiving their SPARC awards and completing their projects:
The proposal package consists of a written narrative proposal that is subject to formatting requirements and a page limit, and supporting documentation that requires specific forms or formatting. SPARC applicants should have their faculty advisor submit the proposal and supporting documentation through USCeRA.
The written proposal should not exceed three pages of text formatted as follows: use 11-point Arial font, single spaced, with one-half inch margins on all sides. The written narrative proposal must include the following sections:
To complete your proposal, you must include the following supporting documentation:
All completed applications from eligible students that are submitted by the deadline will be reviewed by two to three USC faculty members. Applications submitted after the deadline will be rejected. All proposals will be scored based on standard review criteria (available for reference in the Forms & Guidelines section below).
Below are downloadable forms eligible students will need to complete their SPARC proposal packages, as well as guidelines documents to guide students through the SPARC application process, and help their faculty advisors better understand their role in the SPARC program. Please note that these items were developed for the 2014-2015 SPARC program year, and are provided here for detailed planning and reference purposes. Updated documentation will be posted for the 2015-2016 year early in the fall 2015 semester.
This guidelines document provides detailed information to guide SPARC applicants through the application process. It includes details on application requirements, proposal development and more.
This document provides guidelines for SPARC faculty advisors on composing the letter of support, submitting the SPARC proposal package through USCeRA and more.
Use this form to document and submit the budget details for your 2014-2015 SPARC proposal.
Use this form to disclose other current or pending support you have secured or for which you have applied to support this project.
The applicant and faculty advisor must sign and submit this form with the SPARC application package, to confirm that the graduate student applicant was the primary author of the proposal.
This document details the criteria by which all SPARC proposals are scored by the faculty reviewers.
This document details SPARC post-award requirements and information.
This document provides detailed information on administering the SPARC grant.