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Fear and Loathing on Flatbush Avenue
The fourth LSD trip I ever took was a week after the third. After that third trip, my brain was swimming in its own imagination. I felt indestructible and there was a rush in my subconscious to maintain the feeling of being a social amoeba, to float through space and time. Coincidence and opportunity opened the door, which made the decision to trip so suddenly, again, an easy one to make.
Around hour five, after laying around in Prospect Park painting with watercolors and falling in love with the color green, my partner Ben and I walked along Flatbush Avenue; the ultimate goal was to find a bathroom. Each one we passed on our way toward Grand Army Plaza had a line. I couldn't stand with people and explain myself, pretending to be sober. "I'd rather just hold it and keep going," I said. We made it out to the traffic circling the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch.
It's sobering to emerge from the park into a concrete jungle and a complicated traffic pattern. We walked right through it to sit in front of the fountains and rest. "I can't think and walk at the same time," I remember saying. Then something like, "Hey, let's go to Sharlene's."
"I could drink for HOURS," Ben said. Thirst had set in.
Once we arrive, I tell Ben to get me a Diet Coke and I head to the ladies' room. The stall is full of graffiti: "Pussy Grabs Back," "Women Unite!" and coincidentally or not, Greg Allman lyrics, who died the day before. I get lost in the wall, interacting with something someone else created two inches from my face. I pee for what feels like a full sixty seconds, rest my arms on the walls and they feel as if they're stretching up the stall. My lower half relaxes.
When I reach Ben at the bar he looks over at me, his pupils the size of dinner plates. The bartender smiles at us. We've become regulars.
There are a few groups of people, a line of older white men—bar flies—sitting at the first ten seats next to the door. The barstools swivel and I sit with my feet on the poles under Ben's seat, holding onto my own stool so as not to fall. I take a sip of soda and it bubbles down my throat. I look down at the floor and it slants. A hill I didn't notice before. "Is that floor slanted?" I ask. Ben looks down at it and says, "Maybe."
My memory flashes to the scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo arrive in Vegas and Raoul's head is full of Sunshine Acid. The hotel bar and press check-in morphs into a reptile fest and Johnny Depp, playing Raoul Duke, calls out for golf shoes. A black tar creeps on the floor under him. I look down at my own sneakers and lean towards the slant to get a closer look.
I've been waiting my whole life for any semblance of the drug experiences I've read or learned about to happen to me—it's what this hippie nerd dreams of. I've always wanted to see it, too.
I can still look down and see that floor slant. It's a khaki-colored and black-checkered floor, like an old Manhattan bathroom tile or a mid-century diner. As far as flashbacks go, I still see the slope, knowing I couldn't walk on it. Even as we got up to leave another beer later, I said to Ben, "Wow, that floor is definitely not slanted."
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is my entry point for culture, phrases, and ideas about drugs, and what your brain can really do if you let it run wild. My draw toward Hunter S. Thompson is that he associated being high on ether with "some early Irish novel." It's the marriage of intellectualism and a silly imagination, and my favorite vocabulary of any writer.
New York City is rarely a place associated with psychedelic drugs. Our trip was at the beginning of summer when the city was just starting to get hot and the smell of rotten garbage can smack you in the face at any moment. Still, the grime and cluster of New York is comforting to me. If there isn't a sea of people, someone yelling at me and piss in the air, it's not really home.
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The benefits of living in New York City greatly outweigh the indecency of watching the girl next to you on the subway step in gum and get it stuck in the fringe of her sandal, or watching a man mop up his dog's drool with the sole of his sneaker on the downtown 6 Train. We call it The Greatest City In The World for a reason and we turn the other cheek when it manages to spit us out.
I'd rather be spit out on LSD into the grit of the sagging curbs of Brooklyn where the subway bulbs can tell me I'm home rather than let my ears bleed from the silence of the country.
Mimesis is an ancient philosophy, a connection between art and literature—and, as it turns out, my life. I've been looking for it all along. It answers the questions I didn't even know I was asking. Have I been trying to recreate the experiences of my drug heroes, in the hopes of acquiring some kind of liberation or knowledge? Have I been living a philosophy I've been unaware of? Is mimesis the greatest vocabulary word I didn't even know I was looking for? Is my great trip my life up until this moment? Is it my savage journey into the heart of the American Dream?
The baby boomers have come to fully lead this country one millionaire and billionaire at a time. While social change has occurred, not much else has progressed, and money can buy the presidency no matter who you are or what you believe.
My generation of millennials is just beginning to understand that the American Dream was never for us. It was our parents'. And now that they obtained a version they approve of, we are left with a lifetime of debt, a crippled, deregulated economy and a lack of social justice so strong it will make you want to fill your head with acid so that—for small bursts of time—the straight world is just a bit easier.
The darkness we face as a nation and the embarrassment we are to the globe is something Thompson never saw. It cannot hold; the bubble has burst and I'll have to deal with the leftovers in my thirties, forties, fifties, and beyond.
What I found at the end of that fourth LSD trip, after watching the floor slant and straighten out, was the lesson of Thompson's life (and Jerry Garcia's, Ken Kesey's, Timothy Leary's, and many other drug heroes').
The lesson of my trip and the lesson of Fear and Loathing became clear to me: Acid Culture is fun and games while you're high, but you need to tend the light at the end of the tunnel. You must get up and go to work the next day, I must sit behind the keyboard and write once the circus in my brain leaves town, and the responsibility of the straight world—while daunting—will never go away. In order to escape, to trip, you must be able to play by the rules. Or else there are no rules to break. Pretending like they don't exist will only bring destruction and addiction. The loss of so many brilliant people to drugs and basic drug hero history taught me this.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas can tell us a lot about the building of the system we are now finding ourselves stuck inside. While changes have brought some improvement, many things have stayed the same. The reptiles will stop their orgy to turn their heads to you, who is screaming. Even if you are just another freak in the freak kingdom, the cops will pull you over and you will have to make deadline. The LSD will wear off eventually and history shows it's better to be prepared than high.
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Formula one teams are yet to show any signs of being negatively affected by the global recession, according to Bernie Ecclestone.
Formula one teams are yet to show any signs of being negatively affected by the global recession, according to Bernie Ecclestone.
Despite the loss of sponsors, Honda's withdrawal and the drive to radically slash costs, F1's actual competitors are pushing ahead as usual, the F1 chief executive explained in interview with the Guardian newspaper.
"You would have thought that the teams would take less people and start to cut down on costs. But they're taking more people to the races than they took last year," Ecclestone said. "I know exactly because we do all the credentials.
"It doesn't look to me as though they're cutting down too much."
Despite Honda's decision to quit amid flagging car sales, and the fortunate survival of the team as Brawn GP, the grid will continue to boast 20 cars this season.
Also remaining the same is the commercial structure, with Ecclestone at the helm, despite reports in the sister newspaper The Observer that the sport's debt investors are concerned about the future.
"I'll continue to do what I do as long as the shareholders are happy and as long as I can deliver," Ecclestone insisted.
"When I feel, 'Bernie, you ain't getting the job done any longer', then I'll do something else. Until then, I'm here," he added.

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Saturday, June 21, 2014
BRCA and Genetic Testing
What would you do if you had an opportunity to learn a piece of medical information about yourself that years ago, was not even an option? What if that information told you that in your lifetime, you had a high likelihood, or even a possibility, or having a certain type(s) of cancer? And finally, what if knowing that information required that you make life-altering decisions about what to physically do with your body?
This is the case for many women who are faced with the question of whether or not to undergo BRCA testing. The BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genes are genes that we are all born with. If there is a mutation in either one of these genes, it indicates a condition called Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC) syndrome. This is a condition that is genetic and is acquired through birth, when the mutation is passed down from either parent; it does NOT have to come from the mother. If a person tests positive for this mutation, it substantially increases their risk for breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and in certain families, pancreatic cancer. Males with the mutation are at a higher risk for male breast cancer and prostate cancer.
Now, only about 5-10% of cancers are genetically related, however I have a mother who was diagnosed with Stage 2 ovarian cancer at age 44 and then breast cancer at age 62. She had an aunt who had breast cancer. Genetically related cancers tend to be diagnosed at a younger age, under the age of 50. We know that mammograms and self breast exams are very useful in detecting breast cancer, but ovarian cancer has been called the "silent killer" because it often does not produce symptoms until the disease has progressed. My mother was lucky; she went to her annual exam, was found to have what was thought to be problematic fibroids, and subsequently underwent surgery for those fibroids.
Except, they were not fibroids. They were tumors. She proceeded to have a total hysterectomy at the age of 44. She survived that, with surgery and chemotherapy, and then also survived her breast cancer diagnosis, which was treated with a lumpectomy and radiation.
When I was in my late 20's, my oncologist (I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma when I was 24) suggested genetic testing/counseling for the BRCA gene. I went to the counseling, had the crap scared out of me, and decided not to have the testing at the time. I didn't want to know that kind of information (the statistics for BRCA positive women are staggering), and I knew that if I tested positive, I would not have the recommended surgery because I wanted to have children. The recommended surgery for BRCA positive women is to have the ovaries removed. Total mastectomy for the breasts. The option to surgery is increased surveillance of the breast with mammograms and MRI's every six months. For the ovaries, there is no proven detection method, although sometimes a blood test and ultrasound can help.
Down the road, I was in my late 30's when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. I clearly remember her oncologist looking me straight in the eye and telling me I should have the BRCA testing done because of my risk. It still was not the right time.
Now I am 43 years old. And this risk for ovarian cancer thing has been weighing heavy on my mind since last year, probably because I am almost at the age my mom was when she was diagnosed. Actually, it has been on my mind since that first genetic counseling appointment all those years ago. Although I have been getting regular mammograms for quite some time now, due to my chest radiation history because of the Hodgkin's, there is no reliable testing for ovarian cancer, with the CA-125 blood test and transvaginal ultrasounds being hit or miss at best.
So all of this brought me to my regular gynecologist who then referred me to a local oncologist and finally an appointment was set up with a genetic counselor from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). My oncologist is located at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, MA, which is a small community hospital, and they are affiliated with MGH, which has a comprehensive genetic program. I had to wait months for the appointment and then I got an unexpected call two weeks ago that there was a cancellation last week, which moved my appointment up by a full month. I took it.
My husband went with me to the appointment last Thursday and we met with my genetic counselor, Michelle. She was absolutely fantastic. She took a detailed family history and confirmed that yes, having BRCA testing done was indicated. What I didn't expect her to say was that there were other genes I should probably consider testing for as well, including the p53 gene and the p16 gene. Folks, I will be honest. I am a nurse and I didn't even know there WERE other genes! The p53 gene was because of the history of leukemia/lymphoma in my family. I have already had lymphoma, but I would know if I was then also susceptible to sarcoma, breast cancer, brain tumors, and about six other cancers.
The p16 gene was suggested because my dad has had melanoma and my uncle (his brother) died of pancreatic cancer, both of which can be correlated to this gene mutation. Here's the problem though, if you find out you DO have these other two genes, there's not much you can do about it, except that you are aware of it and your doctors can be more alert to changes with you. Some doctors will suggest routine endoscopic ultrasounds and MRI's for the pancreatic cancer and skin checks by a dermatologist for melanoma, but it's not like you can remove your pancreas or anything. These two tests would be included in what is called a multi-gene cancer panel, which tests for all the genes known to have a cancer connection.
Cost: $5000
And my insurance, Medicare, does not cover ANY genetic testing for me because it is considered preventative.
Michelle also told us that this gene testing list is constantly changing as new genes are being discovered. She did not seem to feel that the risk for me with all these other genes was high. I did not feel that at this time, it was information I wanted. Yes, I wanted to know my BRCA status, mostly because of the higher risk, but also because I can concretely do something about if it comes back positive. She also told me I didn't have to decide that day; the option would always be there if I changed my mind. On that day, it was too much, both emotionally and financially, and I opted out.
The good news is, there used to only be one lab that ran these BRCA tests, Myriad. Michelle told us that they no longer are the sole owners of the patent, and that other labs are now doing the testing as well. The cost for us, as it would not be covered by my insurance, would be $2500. However because these labs are now in competition with each other and want your business, they will oftentimes run it for free for a person if not covered by insurance, minus $100. That decision will be made probably within the next week. They will start running the test, and if for some reason are not going to cover the cost, they are mandated to call me and ask me if I want them to continue running the test (which we have decided will happen) as a self-pay, or stop the test. If they are NOT going to cover it and do not notify me by phone, they must pay the cost of the test. Michelle felt that most likely, it would be covered, so now we wait to see if the phone rings...
While talking with Michelle, I almost changed my mind even about the BRCA testing. It is quite a complicated thing, this BRCA business. For example, for her own personal reasons, my mother has decided NOT to get tested, so we don't know her status. If I end up being positive, it looks likely that is came from that side of the family because of her cancers, but we don't know for certain. If I come back negative, it doesn't mean our family does not have the BRCA gene, because I could have gotten lucky and been in the 50% that don't inherit it.
Here's the part that almost changed my mind: If I come back positive, it means that we now know BRCA runs in our family. This means that my parents, brother, aunts, uncles, and cousins on the side of the family it came from, ALL have a 50% chance of inheriting this faulty gene.
When this dawned on me, I clarified this with Michelle, looked at Chuck, and we both realized the same thing, at the same moment: my getting BRCA testing with a positive result would mean that all my family members would have this knowledge, whether they wanted it or not.
I have to say, that was one of the worst feelings in the world, ever. And of course, I started to cry.
This is the type of thing that can really mess with your head.
As we talked more with Michelle, I began to realize that this is not my fault. It is not my mother's fault. It is not her parent''s fault. It is NOBODY'S fault! This gene has been around forever, literally. Yes, now we have the technology to know these things and be more proactive which raises up the question of how much knowledge is too much?
I came to the conclusion during this appointment that for me, I need to have this BRCA information, not just on an emotional level, but for the sake of my survival. It is not very common for a woman, like my mother, to get ovarian AND breast cancer in her lifetime, especially at a younger age. The general population has approximately a 1-2% risk of getting ovarian cancer in their lifetime. A person who is BRCA positive has up to a 60% chance of ovarian cancer...a cancer that is typically detected AFTER it is too late. The general population has approximately a 10% chance of breast cancer in their lifetime. My previous radiation history already increases that risk. A woman who is BRCA positive has up to an 87% risk. Those are numbers that I cannot ignore, especially after having already faced cancer once in my lifetime.
The questions that BRCA presents are complicated and messy with no right or wrong answers. The only answers are the ones that are right for the individual, at that particular time in their life. So the best we can do, is get educated, make informed decisions, and pray for the best outcome.
Labels: BRCA1, BRCA2, breast cancer, genetic testing, Heriditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer syndrome, Hodgkin's lymphoma, Massachusetts General Hospital, melanoma, ovarian cancer, p16 gene, p53 gene, pancreatic cancer
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Enough is enough.
Hating Iggy Azalea is apparently the "cool" thing to do, but is it?
Just as quickly as Iggy Azalea rose to super-stardom in-part thanks to her "Fancy" collaboration rising to No. 1 on the charts, her descent was equally catastrophic. In the matter of just several short years, Azalea went from rap's newest sensation to the Internet's punching bag. Is it because she raps with an accent that's deemed inauthentic? Because she's a woman? Because she's white? Or is it because famous people are adored and loved until we deem it's time for their untimely demise (Celebuzz even made a bizarrely detailed recount of her rise and fall).
We admit, re-posting clips of Iggy Azalea blabbering incoherent rap nonsense seemed funny, even the occasional YOU / ME captioned memes with Britney Spears gave us a good chuckle, but targeting Azalea is the laziest and most efficient form of self medicating via the world wide web, and it's exhausting to witness. Azalea gave her best attempt to fend off unsolicited threats by Tweet, but after all she's only human (aside from "Pretty Girls") and can only take so much. No matter which way her PR representatives want to spin a second tour cancellation followed by axing her Pride performance in Pittsburgh this weekend (cue Nick Jonas), the barrage of hate pressured Azalea to almost entirely remove her presence from social media and announce a break that's already set the tone: our former number one female rapper should never garner the "success" she once enjoyed.
So began her latest Tweeting spree, though these are the most notable:
its really tough to stick by someone when the "cool" thing is to hate on them. thanks to everyone who made the choice to stand by me.
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 11, 2015
it may seem at times like theres little reward for standing by me because i dont come online often and talk to you guys, im sorry about that
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 11, 2015
We certainly feel for the 25-year-old, but it's worth noting Iggy's self-sabotage started, where else? Online. Her homophobic Tweets, the head-scratching quote about race ("Or maybe if you're black, start singing like a country singer and be a white person"), the beef with Papa John's (a delivery guy gave out her number thus violating her privacy), the multiple Tweeting rants, it all stems from the source: Iggy. Because Iggy's remarks live on forever, we've continually punished her seemingly to the point of no return, even after we're asked for forgiveness.
A message to Pittsburgh pic.twitter.com/Jm6ZyX0Xyc
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 9, 2015
Iggy now faces an uphill battle to win back her adorers, and if she's smart about it will take her own advice:
"I just can't worry 'bout no haters, gotta stay on my grind."


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Sea Leopard is a Lemurian from a telepathic sect known as the Ancients that resided in Antarctica. The Sea Leopard came into conflict with Namor the Sub-Mariner over the contents of a sunken ship called the Endurance.
Sir Ernest Shackleton led an expedition to the South Pole and landed himself in a place called Palmer Land where he discovered a mysterious ore that caused metals to liquefy. Shackleton and the crew loaded the ship with the anti-metal for roughly about 281 days until the large quantities of metal began to melt the metal structures on the ship. Shackleton and his men abandoned ship and the Endurance sank underneath the ice. Sea Leopard then found the sunken ship and tried to keep the valuable ore as his property.
Namor later learned that Leon McKenzie, the grandson of Leonard McKenzie started an expedition to the South Pole to find the missing ship and its precious cargo.
Phoebe Marrs explained to the Sub-Mariner that she had also sent another expedition to look for the Endurance as well. Namor warns Phoebe that expedition is in danger because Attuma and his barbarian horde were residing within the city of Old Atlantis near the Endurance's location.
Namor and Andromeda travel to Antarctica to stop Leon McKenzie from recovering the contents of the ship. Andromeda travels to Old Atlantis and calls out her father Attuma. Attuma appears from the shadows but collapses in front of her, it is then revealed that he was taken down by Sea Leopard. Namor finds the ship but the Sea Leopard appears holding the bodies of Andromeda and Attuma.
Namor then launches towards the Sea Leopard, who used to telepathy to predict Namor's next move in the battle. Namor tries to use his own telepathy to control a Killer Whale to drag him down into the icy depths.
Then Leon McKenzie who was then disguised as the Black Moray found the ship, but was also approached by the Sea Leopard. Black Moray's suit was able to block Sea Leopard's telepathy so as a compromise he tells McKenzie that he can get the anti-metal as long as he can make Namor to bow down and work for him as his lifelong slave
Attuma and Andromeda then awoke and attacked the Sea Leopard themselves while Namor confronted Black Moray. During the battle with Namor, Black Moray set off a giant explosion on the ship. Sea Leopard beat Attuma and his daughter in combat again. Black Moray tells the Sea Leopard that the ship was destroyed and Namor had been killed.
It was then revealed that Namor was wearing the Black Moray's suit and was able to get close enough to Sea Leopard to strike him. Andromeda and Attuma then help Namor in take down Sea Leopard. Attuma tells Namor that his barbarians would find a suitable punishment for Sea Leopard.
Sea Leopard would appear sometime later with the Fathom Five. In an attempt to destroy all surface life the team attack New York. They attack and lash out any one they meet in the streets. The Thunderbolts counteract the team and after a long battle are defeated and retreat into the ocean.
The team was defeated and Llyron was nearly killed by the Radioactive Man. They escape and returned to Atlantis, only to discover that he had radiation poisoning, and furthermore, had spread the poisoning among the Atlantean population.
Powers and Abilities
- Telepathy: Sea Leopard has some telepathic abilities. He can probe the minds of anyone in close proximity and predict their movements.
- Homo Mermanus Physiology: Sea Leopard possesses the conventional attributes of Homo Mermanus: gills that extract oxygen from water, superhuman physiology to withstand extreme pressures and temperatures, and acute vision. He can swim at approximately 30 miles per hour. He can remain out of water for approximately nine minutes before beginning to suffocate. However, he can operate on the surface by wearing a water-filled helmet or using a chemical that enables him to draw oxygen from the air.
- Claws and Prehensile Tail: Sea Leopard also has claws on his hands and a tail he can use to strike his opponents with a powerful blow. Sea Leopard's tail is strong enough to snap the spine of small cetaceans and sharp enough to puncture a person's body.
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Nichola Meyer is the principal of SA Writers' College. She has a background in lecturing at secondary and tertiary institutions, and is also a journalist specialising in parenting and women's issues for several magazines, including
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Nichola is interviewed here by writer, Trish Nicholson.
Trish: Hi, Nichola. I'd like to jump straight in with the obvious question. Can writing really be taught? As someone who has set up a successful online writing college, what are your thoughts on this?
That's an interesting question, and there are a few sides to the answer.
I believe any art form can and should be taught. Great painters apprentice under a master; musicians study their instrument for years before they stand on a stage; most well known novelists have studied writing. Every field of expertise requires training and development. Writing is no exception.
There are, of course, issues around how writing can be taught. Most would agree that sitting in a class absorbing hours of theory is not going to give you the results you want. You have to practise your craft, over and over. You need someone focusing intently on specific writing skills: your sentence lengths, your style, structure, content, and the logic in your writing. Your teacher needs to point out to you, again and again: "Here you have used dangling participles four times in one paragraph. Get rid of them. You're using passive voice. Throw in active verbs. Here are five clichés." And so on.
Writing is a craft with a specific skill set that can be learnt, honed. Finding your voice as a writer is a different matter; usually a personal journey accompanied by not just a little pain and frustration.
Finally, there's the question of "Can writing be taught to anyone"? And here the answer would be, almost anyone. It really depends on how far the writer is willing to go with the training. It was Stephen King who wrote in On Writing: "…While it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer,… it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one."
T: I think many writers would agree with what you say, and the point made by Robert McKee in his classic on writing, Story: yes, you can write a story without going into the theory – even a good one – but to write consistently good stories you have to learn the craft. But the Writer's College has students from different countries. Does this pose additional problems for teaching?
Writing, good writing, is universal, but the use of colloquialism or slang that is unique to a country can be important in Magazine Journalism. Where a match between article and target publication is critical, we use online research to check format, tone and style of writing for a particular publication. Thanks to the Net, this is easily done. It wouldn't have worked 15, 20 years ago.
T: Interesting that you mention the Net as changing the writing scene; right now it's exposing the publishing industry to rapid change. Every week, new writers are by-passing traditional gateways to publish themselves online. A few are remarkably successful. Others clearly are not ready for that tough world. What advice would you give to emerging writers to prepare themselves for this volatile environment?
Well, firstly, I am inspired by the changes. It is probably the most exciting time to be alive for a would-be novelist, poet, blogger, journalist, or any writer. The entire industry is in flux. Even copywriting is in transition as old forms of advertising are less effective with a more cynical public.
Blogs have encouraged more people to write, thanks to the ease of hosting sites like WordPress and Blogger, but the sheer volume of content on the Net means it is harder than ever to make your writing stand out. The demand for excellence and originality, though, will always be huge. For writers who are serious about developing their talent, online writing communities and publications offer fantastic opportunities for writers to receive critiques and a supportive audience. Quality is essential – if you choose to publish your work online, even on a Blog, your writing has to be word-perfect.
For commercial publishing, if you are not following the traditional route of using a professional publisher who oversees editing, proof-reading, design and page-setting, not to mention the marketing and distribution of your work, then you have to assume all of those roles yourself. Hard work is an understatement! To be successful, you must become a business: marketing and selling your wares online in a global market. With this amount of exposure, your online reputation as a writer has to be impeccable.
If you want to self-publish in print or online using a self-publishing company, researching the field before making your choice is critical. Get recommendations from other authors. Do a thorough Google background check to determine the reputation of the company. Shop around. Find guidelines on the going rates, and if it feels like you're being ripped off, do more research before you sign any contract.
T: That sounds like excellent advice. And on the subject of change and its attendant risks, I'm intrigued to know why, as a successful journalist with teaching posts in top colleges, you took the courageous step of starting your own writing college?
Actually, the word I would use is perseverance, rather than courage. I started with only one course – magazine journalism. I really didn't anticipate adding more; it just happened, one course at a time. I didn't even advertise. I hadn't heard of Google ads and there was zero budget for marketing. I relied on student feedback, and somehow the word just spread.
I think the writing college took off because the timing was perfect. There was a gap in the market in South Africa in 2004. To become a journalist, you had to study for four years at university, and many of the university students signing up on our course said they didn't feel equipped to write articles and break into the writing industry. Back then, there was also a real shortage of material about the practicalities of writing and submitting work to publishers. So really, we designed the course to answer all the questions we had when we began as writers. When I say we, I mean Lisa Lazarus and I. She's a co-journalist, author and was then principal of CityVarsity, a leading creative university in South Africa. We co-designed the magazine journalism course.
It was Lisa's idea that I take the course online. What excited me was the thought of reaching people living in small towns and deep in the rural areas, people who might dream of selling an article or story to a magazine, but who can't get to a university. We have students living in remote areas with sometimes not the most reliable Internet, but they manage to complete their courses!
T: I imagine that many of your students, like most of my writing friends, have full-time jobs or are caring for children at home, sometimes both, so how do you do it – balance all those different demands on your attention?
It's a tricky one. Working in different time zones, means I often work long hours. I am a writer, but the college consumes my time to the point where I no longer get a minute for journalism. Each time I promise myself that I will write an article, the site gets a virus, we get an offering for a new course, or some work crisis demands my full attention. I have two small children, and being present and enjoying them is a big priority in my life. I often have to re-focus and ask myself: did I talk work at the breakfast table? Or did I spend time enjoying them?
I currently oversee the content development for all our courses – something I enjoy doing and I'd love to be writing more, but it's an ongoing and demanding job that leaves little time to pursue my personal interests.
T: Want to share those interests with us?
Given the chance, I'd be writing about psychology, youth well-being and environmental sustainability. Australian scientist, Clive Hamilton's Requiem for a Species is the book that I didn't get to write yet!
As for fiction, I did sign up for our Write a Novel course. LOL. I am currently a third of the way through the course, have already applied for an extension, and find myself deleting more sentences than I'm writing. For all those students who fly through this course, kudos to you. I am so impressed by the dedication and slog it takes to get to 60 000 or 70 000 words.
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1. Contrast the two perspectives on sweatshops.
Are you asking for two ethical perspectives on sweatshops since this an ethics class or are you asking for two types e.g., operating in a competitive labor market and the other in a coercive labor market, which each have different economic and ethical implications?
Let's touch on both.
Sweatshops are often portrayed as the horrifying underbelly of the global textile and apparel industries. Sweatshops sometimes exist in developed countries, including the United States, but they are most common in less-developed nations, particularly in Asia and Latin America. Textile and apparel factories supply goods to larger corporations, many of which are household names. These larger companies sell the goods to consumers. To keep the companies' business, factories must often compete fiercely with each other on the basis of price. Thus, there are two types of sweatshops: one operating in a competitive labor market (see perspective II attached) and the other in a coercive labor market (see perspective I attached). Each has different economic and ethical implications.
A less-competitive labor market is characterized by only one firm or by a cartel of firms bidding together for labor. Without the force of competition, employers can set wage rates below a worker's worth, artificially holding wages down. Exploitation occurs when employers pay workers a wage below the true value of the workers' contributions as measured by their productivity.
In the early history of capitalism, for example, workers frequently feared ? and often faced ? collusion among employers. Collusion can include blacklisting workers who try to switch jobs or form unions. This caused Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, to write that anyone who doubts employers collude "is as ignorant of the world as of the subject." Smith went on to say that employers in his day "are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination . . . . to sink the wages of labour . . . ." (Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, eds. R.H. Campbell and A.S. Skinner, Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1981 [1776], 84) The formation of labor unions was a natural response to this.
Smith's solution to collusion was to promote active and open competition, which forces employers to pay workers the market value of their labor. Most workers in developed countries have access to the Internet, cell phones and fast transportation. Thus they have the ability to take their labor to the highest bidder. But modern labor markets can still lack competition for several reasons:
1. Workers face high search costs.
Most of the world's poor are illiterate and live in rural areas. Such factors make it difficult for these workers to search for better opportunities. Additional factors may contribute to this problem. Communication and roads are inadequate, and workers lack motorized transportation. Unless workers migrate away from their families, their daily job search is limited to the area they can reach on foot in two or three hours.
In many Latin American countries, for example, land ownership is highly concentrated. It is difficult for rural workers to find competing employers. Workers still have the option to migrate. However, rural families may be in permanent debt to the landowner, who also owns the local store. Workers in these families cannot leave without facing arrest, yet staying means getting deeper in debt (and debts are transferred to children). Asymmetric (one-sided) information or bargaining power may exist. Workers may be unaware of labor laws that provide certain rights such as minimum wages, limited hours and rest breaks. Employers may prevent workers from forming unions to counter the bargaining power of the firm. Finally, employers have used violence to intimidate workers and members of the press who attempt to raise questions about coercive labor ...
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It is well understood that proper nutrition has a significant impact on sports performance. All of the essential nutrients must be supplied in the right amounts and at the right times for an athlete to achieve optimal health and performance. In addition, when devising eating strategies that will help athletes meet their goals, sports nutritionists must take account of personal preferences, social and cultural issues, and a whole range of other factors.
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Ronald J. Maughan is Professor of Sport and Exercise Nutrition at Loughborough University, a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, and Chairman of the Sports Nutrition Working Group of the Medical Commission of the International Olympic Committee. In addition to his academic work and appointments he has worked with many teams and organizations in football (soccer) and other sports. Dr Maughan is has authored or edited several books on sports nutrition and exercise science. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Sports Nutrition & Exercise Metabolism, and serves or has served in editorial roles on several other sports science journals. He has published extensively on subjects in sports nutrition and sports science.
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w. larry kenney, robert murray
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asker jeukendrup
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stuart m. phillips
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luc j.c. van loon
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bente kiens, jacob jeppesen
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john a. hawley, wee kian yeo
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ronald j. maughan
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eric d.b. goulet
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susan m. shirreffs
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bart roelands, romain meeusen
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susan i. barr
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christine a. rosenbloom
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elizabeth broad
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fiona pelly
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timothy d. noakes
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trent stellingwerff
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peter hespel
49 Gymnastics, 596
dan benardot
50 Swimming, 607
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51 Winter Sports, 619
nanna l. meyer
52 Team Sports, 629
francis holway
53 Weight-Category Sports, 639
hattie h. wright, ina garthe
Index, 651
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NCGPS Open Studio Oct 21, 2017 – Pathways to Transformation: Bringing the Magic of Fairy Tales into Groups
Fairy tales patterns are vitally important for understanding group dynamics. The hero or heroine leaves home on a journey, or quest. Usually child abuse initiates the action. Protagonists enter disturbing realms, encounter fabulous forces, master challenges to ultimately win a victory. Typically, they return with a gift to society. The core action is leaving one group to become better nurtured by another. New creative and psychological development results from the systemic shifts. Through active imagination, enactments of stories and symbolic exploration, will examine and apply the dynamics and change processes from interchangeable fairy tales, nature and dreams for expanding personal and group journeys. By unveiling unconscious gifts, we will unleash creativity to enliven and revitalize our group and personal stories.


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AAU Offers New Postgraduate Programs
Starting with the second semester of the academic year 2017-2018, Al Ain University offers new postgraduate programs in the College of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, as follows, Masters of Education, Arabic Language Curricula and Instruction and Masters of Education, Islamic Education Curricula and Instruction.
Dr. Noor El Deen Atatreh, AAU Chancellor, said that offering these programs, comes to meet the UAE leadership vision to improve the education sector and develop the national competencies, and in line with the University's strategy to develop teachers and educators.
Prof. Ghaleb El Refae, AAU President, said that the main aim of offering these new programs is to promote the knowledge of teaching, as well as developing their performance as teachers.
For his part, Prof. Majed Al Jallad, Dean of the College of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, explained the admission requirements for applying; Masters of Education, Islamic Education Curricula and Instruction, as follows, Bachelor degree approved by the Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates in Islamic Studies Teacher Education or Arabic Language and Islamic Studies Teacher Education or Islamic Studies. On the other hand, the requirements for Masters of Education, Arabic Language Curricula and Instruction are, Arabic Language Teacher Education or Arabic Language and Islamic Studies Teacher Education, in addition to, personal interview.
The College Dean pointed out that offering new postgraduate programs aims to improve the educational process and develop the student absorbed in the bachelor's degree to reach a higher level of understanding, analysis, comparison, and the development of scientific competencies.
The new Master programs will provide students with the skills of research, analysis, design, evaluation, using technology in teaching methods, and provide students with; comprehensive, central and profound knowledge in Arabic language curricula and Islamic education as well as to promote the concept of self, academically and professionally to the students, which helps them on continuous professional growth.


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Same as every month's first Sunday, Quadre's Drunch is back, and as usual, there will be a new guest with us!
On March 5th, it will be Gomme da Riciclare with her creations, beautiful, fun and colourful. Come have a snack, lunch, aperitif or dinner, drink a glass of wine and have a chat among friends, but above all, have fun with Anna's creations.
You'll find us from 4 to 7 PM.
Sweet plates 5,00 €
Salty plates 5,00 €
Fresh-squeezed juices and infusions 3,00 €
Glass of wine 4,00 €
American coffee a go-go at the bar
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A while ago, Therese Borchard, who writes one of my favorite blogs, Beyond Blue, penned a piece about things you shouldn't say to someone who's struggling with depression. This inspired me to think about what you shouldn't say to someone with an eating disorder. While people may not be as direct as the statements below, we know that some still say various versions of them.
1. Why can't you just eat?
This is the same as asking someone with depression to just snap out of it. If they could, they would. In her book, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle With Anorexia, Harriet Brown poignantly describes what it was like for her daughter to eat.
That year, I learned just how brave my daughter is. Five or six times a day, she sat at the table and faced down panic and guilt, terror and delusions and physical pain, and kept going.
In another chapter, Brown equates her daughter's eating to jumping out of an airplane:
[My husband] Jamie and I are crying now too, as we understand for the first time exactly how courageous our daughter is. Each time she lifts the spoon to her lips, her whole body shaking, she is jumping out of a plane at thirty thousand feet. Without a parachute.
2. Why can't you just stop eating?
People will often say this — or think it — to people who struggle with binge eating disorder (or bulimia). The thinking is that you have control over your eating; just use a dose of willpower and stop. But that's the problem with binge eating — you feel a loss of control while you're eating (it's one of the symptoms).
It's probably hard to understand, but that's why eating disorders are illnesses that require treatment. Willpower has nothing to do with an ED.
3. Try such and such diet — it worked for so and so.
Unfortunately, it's not uncommon for people to believe that dieting can eliminate or reduce binge eating. This belief probably comes from the idea that dieting gives you rules. When you have specific and strict regulations, you naturally stay in line.
(Also, how often have you seen a commercial of a teary-eyed actress talking about how such and such diet program healed her out-of-control eating?)
For starters, dieting is a Band-aid. It doesn't get at the other symptoms and underlying problems of eating disorders. It's also probably how the person got to where they are in the first place. While EDs are biologically based, dieting is a common trigger.
It only makes matters worse. Research has actually shown that restricting leads to overeating. (It's one of the many reasons dieting is futile for everyone.) The only treatment for binge eating is to see a professional who specializes in eating disorders.
4. Everyone hates their body (or everyone overeats, or everyone skips meals sometimes).
It's hard watching a person you love struggle. Sometimes we think relating to their words will make them feel better. So if they say something disparaging about their body or talk about skipping a meal or eating a lot in a short period of time, we quickly let them know that they're not alone. We've been there. We can relate.
But in reality, this can shut the person up and stop them from sharing any more of their thoughts and feelings. (Which is a big problem because eating disorders are secretive as it is.) Worse, it can normalize their eating disorder and validate it.
While many of us might've struggled with some ED behaviors and thoughts, it's very different from actually struggling with an eating disorder. Again, eating disorders are serious illnesses that require treatment.
5. Yes, I'll keep your ED a secret.
Maybe you've noticed the signs of an eating disorder and confronted your loved one or maybe they came to you first. Either way, they beg you to keep their eating disorder a secret. I would say, "No way, no how."
Eating disorders are dangerous. Even if someone doesn't look emaciated and sick, they can still suffer serious problems. In her memoir, Purge: Rehab Diaries, Nicole Johns, who struggled with EDNOS, talks about being "normal weight" and having a slew of very serious health problems.
Throughout her 20s, Johns is "hospitalized for fainting, a concussion, electrolyte imbalances, and three different kinds of heart-rhythm irregularities." During this time, she's abusing diet pills, starving and purging. In just two years, she has to go to the ER six times because of her heart problems.
The reality is that EDs can be deadly — and secrets don't lead to treatment, and treatment is essential. According to Kenneth L. Weiner, MD, CEDS, of the Eating Recovery Center:
Eating disorders are the deadliest mental illness. A woman with anorexia nervosa is 5.6 times more likely to die than another woman of her same age. The most frequent causes of death from eating disorders are suicide (32 percent), complications associated with anorexia (19 percent), and cancer (11 percent). The average age of death for an individual with anorexia is only 34 years.
If your loved one confides in you, the best thing you can do for them is to help them seek treatment. Here's more on how to help. (And here's info on picking a good therapist.)
I hope you've found these statements of what not to say helpful.
What would you add to the list? If you've struggled with an eating disorder, what do you want others to know?


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Christy – Affordable Luxury Bedding And Bath For Your Home
It's always exciting to decorate your bed and bath with new affordable luxury products and with Christy, you can do that with elegance and style. With the Fall season rapidly approaching, it's always the perfect time to break out into some new bedding and bath products for your home.
I was super excited to be able to experience one of Christy new duvet covers for my bed. I also got some new bath rugs and towels from her exquisite new line as well.
This duvet cover and pillow shams are from her new line of linens; this style is called Salisbury – They describe this product as: "Salisbury takes the traditionally relaxed look of linen to new heights. Woven in Portugal and inspired by "old world" elegance, it is a fresh approach to a more classic, Jacquard woven design".
The pattern is a dreamy mix of old world meets new classic. The earthly tones are delicately balance of neutral tones and are the perfect way to incorporate some color with decorative pillows or throws into your bedroom by adding color while not committing to it.
The pattern is truly classic – you just don't find that in duvet covers anymore.
The pillow shams are breathtaking and add just the right amount of class and style to any bedroom
Christy Salisbury Bed Linen is made with 100% Linen (Face) and 100% Cotton Percale (Reverse), this stunning Jacquard is really unique. It features a linen yarn for a relaxed elegance and a very on-trend textured effect, it's a real show-stopper!
Be sure to watch my video detailing all of my new products from Christy!
These are some of the best luxury bath mats I've ever owned. They have slip resistant backing too which is so important in a bath mat.
The Christy Bath Rug is designed to coordinate beautifully with Christy classic Renaissance and Supreme Hygro towels. This soft, fluffy bath rug is made from 100% cotton and is available in over 35 colors, including classic white and aqua-inspired Lagoon. They are beautiful and excellent quality!
Wrap yourself up in Christy's stunning range of luxurious towels, designed in Britain and made with only the finest quality cotton to give you wonderful softness, exceptional absorbency, and outstanding durability. I love these towels – they are a total luxury at affordable prices!
I love blending two complimentary colors together in my bathrooms. These towels make me feel like a spoiled brat, and I love it!
I'm so thrilled to be able to own these linens and bath products. Now that Fall is around the corner, it's so nice to be able to perk up the house with some new products that I can love and cherish for a long time.
This sweater pillow is a staple in my bedroom. It's called, Christy Karina Dune Decorative Pillow and comes featured with a beautiful throw too! You can see it featured in another post along with my other duvet cover from Christy so be sure to check it out too!
Thank you for stopping by to see my beautiful new bed and bath products. Be sure to head on over to Christy and check out her new products as well as her sales!
Christy sent me these products to review in exchange for my opinion.
Let me know if you have any questions about any of Christy's products in the comment section below. I know you will love them as much as I do!
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If you would like to learn more about Two Rivers, we encourage you to visit our school. Unlike traditional "shadow days" in which a student may sit through one or two classes, we offer hour long guided tours in which families visit 6th grade classes and encore classes (electives). We feel that this approach gives families a better feel for the school climate and the various teaching strategies our teachers utilize to enhance learning.
If you would like to schedule a visit, please complete the Tour Rivers Tour Request Form and we will contact you to set up a visit.
Learn more about Two Rivers by attending one of our Open Houses!
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Wonderful opportunity to build your mountain home in a spectacular and peaceful setting surrounded by a stand of gorgeous pines . You'll feel like you've stepped back in time with quiet roads, amazing star-filled night skies, and towering peaks above you--even a Historic Schoolhouse as your next door neighbor. Montezuma residents enjoy the ultimate mountain 'backyard': Miles of NF trails for hiking, biking, snowshoe or skiing. Feels remote, yet Keystone is just a few miles down the road!
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Just east of the Strip on Flamingo Road, the Tuscany is a natural post-shift hang for industry folk. But things are getting more interesting here lately. There's lively new entertainment in the T-Spot Lounge, and the weeks-old Caffé Bottega comes armed with Stumptown coffee and a killer craft beer selection (read: lots of Belgians).
But I'm looking for a worthwhile cocktail menu, and I find it away from the casino at the lobby's Piazza Lounge. There are twists on classics and a handful of thoughtful originals, like the aptly described "boozy and contemplative" Walking Stick, its gin and sweet vermouth mingling with cherry liqueur and plum bitters. You can pick a spirit and let the barmen do their thing, or ask about the specials. This night, there was a shockingly smooth white Manhattan with 6-week-old moonshine, and then the Bulleit with Butterfly Wings, with bourbon, blood orange liqueur and bitters, almond syrup and lemon sour. Its brisk pop of nostalgic creamsicle was delicious enough to have another, the exact temptation you want from a great cocktail lounge, no matter where it is.
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New Testament Types in Acts: Part 12
Dec 08, 2006
The Saul of the New Testament is the antitype of King Saul of the Old Testament, for both of them persecuted the overcomers. The New Testament Church, the Body of Christ, was the antitype of David.
But because King Saul was a Pentecostal type, the NT Saul was also an extension of the OT Saul. Therefore, both were types of the Church under Pentecost, which in later centuries persecuted the overcomers. Here we see leaven in Pentecost as it spread throughout the two loaves of the Pentecostal offering (Lev. 23:17). That leaven created the need for Tabernacles, the feast that could bring the Body of Christ into perfection.
When the NT Saul was converted on the road to Damascus, he was brought as a blind man to the house of Judas who lived on Straight Street in Damascus (9:11). God then sent Ananias to heal him and to baptize him.
This prophesies of the manner in which a person might move from Saul to David, or from Saul to Paul, or from Pentecost to Tabernacles, in one's relationship with God. Hopefully, our conversion from Saul to Paul comes before the leaven of Pentecost has had too much time to develop within us, so that we do not find ourselves persecuting the overcomers.
Paul's dramatic experience on the Damascus road can be seen as a long-term type of the earth-shaking shift from Old to New Covenant on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2. On that day Yahweh-Yeshua spoke, and all the people heard His voice in their own language. So also, Saul heard Jesus speaking. Thus, from the standpoint of prophetic types, the Damascus road experience was his Pentecost and pictured the day of Pentecost both in Exodus 20 and in Acts 2.
Likewise, Saul's blindness for three days also became part of that picture, for it is on the third day that the Church will have its own dramatic healing from blindness while in the house of Judas. In the Church's reversion from New Covenant to Old Covenant thinking, and with its eschatological "mother" now being Hagar, rather than Sarah, it has been bought back into the theology of (messianic) Judaism once again and thus has become a type of Judas. Judas was the disciple (Jesus' FRIEND) who betrayed Him by helping the Jewish leaders usurp the throne. So also today has the Church largely reverted to "Christian Zionism," betraying Christ in helping them to usurp the birthright of Joseph as well.
And so Saul in his blindness is brought to the house of Judas to show us this prophetic type.
Another name worth studying is Ananias. There are two men named Ananias in Acts. The first was in Acts 5, who was a type of those who refuse to put all things under the feet of Christ. We saw earlier that he was the antitype of Achan. But in Acts 9 we have a positive type in a new Ananias, who is God's instrument of healing and grace.
These two men have their Old Testament counterparts, for in the days of Jeremiah and Daniel there were two men named Hananiah--the Hebrew form of Ananias (which is Greek).
In Jer. 28:10, the prophet Hananiah broke the wooden yoke from Jeremiah's neck and prophesied that within two years the yoke of Babylon would be broken. He was the spokesman for all of the evil figs who refused to submit to the wooden yoke that God had imposed upon Jerusalem (Jer. 24). This is what brought the iron yoke upon Jerusalem (Jer. 28:13), as well as the death of Hananiah within the same year (Jer. 28:17).
But the second Hananiah (Dan. 1:6), the friend of Daniel, was one of the three who were cast into the Babylonian furnace and miraculously delivered from death (Dan. 3). This Hananiah submitted to the yoke according to the word of Jeremiah, and God blessed him as a good fig.
These two men named Hananiah find their prophetic counterparts in the New Testament under the Greek name of Ananias. The Ananias in Acts 5 answers to the evil fig company, while the Ananias in Acts 9 represents the good fig company. Thus also, the evil-fig Ananias is in Jerusalem, while the good-fig Ananias is part of the dispersion in Damascus, a type of Babylon.
Hananiah means God's grace, favor, or mercy. His name carries a numeric value of 120, which is the number always associated with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. So it is not surprising to find him bringing mercy and grace to Saul. He prayed for Saul "so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 9:17).
Saul soon escaped from Damascus and went to Arabia for three years, no doubt to receive his new revelation of the relationship between law and grace. When he returned to Jerusalem, it was Barnabas who led him to the disciples. Barnabas is the "Son of Consolation," which makes him a type of the Holy Spirit in that he is led by the Spirit. Even as the Holy Spirit knows the hearts of men, so also does Barnabas know that Saul's heart has been changed.
Saul is soon sent to Tarsus to escape the persecution of the Hellenistic Jews (Acts 9:29). The Hellenists were associated with the Sadducees, who were in control of the temple in those days. They were the "liberals" of the day, greatly influenced by Greek philosophy and culture, which they had attempted to incorporate into Hebrew culture. It is likely that the Hellenists were most offended by Saul's assertion that Jesus had been raised from the dead, for as we have seen, this was what offended the temple priests in Acts 4:2.
Saul's escape to Tarsus suggests another type as well. Recall the story of Jonah, who fled to Tarshish (Jonah 1:3) to escape his calling to preach to Nineveh. There is disagreement among Bible scholars as to this place called Tarshish. Some say it is Spain; others say it is Tarsus. It may be that the Spanish Tarshish received its name from colonizers coming from Tarsus. Whatever the historical truth may be, there is a prophetic connection here. It is as if Saul is following the prophetic type of Jonah in his first call, in order to set the stage for the fulfillment of his calling ten years later when Barnabas brings him to Antioch. Keep in mind that he went to Tarsus as Saul, but he came forth from Antioch as Paul.
Perhaps a little speculation might help explain this further. Remember that Jonah's initial problem was that he did not want Nineveh to repent and be spared, because Nineveh was Israel's enemy. It is likely that the prophet knew that Nineveh would later be God's agent of judgment upon Israel and would deport the ten tribes into the dispersion of Israel. But since the story of Jonah was ultimately a type of the Restoration of all things and bringing all nations under the feet of Christ, we see that the prophet disagreed with this divine plan. He was therefore angry when Nineveh repented and the city was not destroyed in 40 days.
It is possible, then, that when Saul went to Tarsus, he still did not understand the divine plan of bringing all things under the feet of Christ. And so, God led him to Tarsus under the name of Saul in order to manifest even a small portion of the type of Jonah. Perhaps it was in Tarsus that he learned the bigger picture that prepared his heart for his international ministry. As a tentmaker, perhaps God revealed to him the overall purpose of the feast of Tabernacles (tents).
Whatever the case may be, it is clear that it takes time to prepare the hearts of those that God has called. God trained Moses for 40 years in the wilderness. He trained Joseph and David for 12 years. He trained Saul/Paul for 14 years (Gal. 2:1), the first three years in Arabia, then ten years in Tarsus, and the final year in Antioch (Acts 11:26), where he no doubt taught the word at the revival in those days. But his name was not changed to Paul until he was actually sent on his first missionary journey, accompanied by Barnabas, the Son of Consolation.
This is the twelfth part of a series titled "New Testament Types in Acts." To view all parts, click the link below.