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The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen

19599946.jpg I thought I might fall in love with this book, and it turns out I didn’t, but I don’t want to hold that against it. It is a very good novel; I’m glad I read it, and I’d like to read more Bowen. There’s something cold about the book, though, that made me admire more than love it. Its subject matter is rather depressing, and although I generally like depressing books, this one … well, it left me sad and didn’t dazzle me in a way that would make me feel better. But, really, I do admire it, and I believe I don’t need to fall in love with a book to recognize that it’s quite good.

It’s a story of lost innocence; Portia, a 16-year-old girl who is newly-orphaned comes to live with her much older half-brother Thomas and his wife Anna, and while she is there she learns some harsh lessons about the world. Her new family doesn’t really want here there; they took her in because it was Portia’s dying father’s request and because it seemed like the right thing to do. But Anna particularly resents having Portia in her home — the opening scene reveals that Anna has secretly read Portia’s diary and found that Portia has written some unflattering things about her and her friends. It’s as though Anna feels like she is competing with Portia; we learn that Anna had a love affair when she was much younger that ended disappointingly and it’s implied that Anna has never really recovered — now she sees Portia with her youth and beauty and attractiveness and resents the life she has ahead of her.

Portia meets a young friend of Anna’s named Eddie and the plot gets more complicated from there. The two quickly begin a relationship, but this relationship means something quite different for each of them. Portia in all her innocence believes she has fallen in love, but it’s clear that Eddie is merely interested in having some fun.

Poor Portia. She doesn’t fit in anywhere, and she clings to Eddie as the one she feels she can trust the most. She attends what sounds like a dreadful school and makes one friend there, but this friend doesn’t really satisfy, and she only gets in trouble while trying to make it through the school day. In the book’s second section, Anna and Thomas head off to France and leave Portia behind at the house of Anna’s old governess. Here, too, Portia feels like an outsider, and when she invites Eddie to visit her there, events head in a direction she never anticipated.

It’s Portia’s innocence that causes so much trouble, or, rather, it’s the world around her that causes the trouble, not knowing what to do with her innocence. Portia isn’t trained to deal with proper London society or with boys who make rash promises or with the isolation she endures. Anna and Thomas live dull, sterile lives; they have carefully cordoned themselves off from any real interaction with other people or even with each other:

Callers were unheard of at Windsor Terrace. They had been eliminated; they simply did not occur. The Quaynes’ [Thomas and Anna’s] home life was as much their private life as though their marriage had been illicit. Their privacy was surrounded by an electric fence — friends who did not first telephone did not come.

In this atmosphere Portia dries up; it’s no wonder she turns to other people, even harmful people, to try to find some liveliness and love.

Bowen is very much interested in psychological states. The back cover describes her style as Jamesian, and I think that claim holds true; Bowen describes her characters’ inner lives in depth, capturing the ebb and flow of their feelings and responses. It’s a thoughtful book, one that moves slowly — although not in a way that might bore — and tells its story with pleasing thoroughness. If you like books with emotional and psychological insight — ones that capture the complexity of character, then you may like this book.

On another note entirely, I began James Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner last night and am enjoying it so far — the first 20 pages at least. I may begin another novel soon — The Road, most likely. I am also enjoying Mavis Gallant’s Paris Stories. So it looks like my indecisive period may be over — which is a relief.

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  1. I’ve always wondered how Bowen fit in with the rest of the Bloomsbury crowd but I’ve never read any of her. You know, that’s not a bad idea for a reading challenge–a Bloomsbury Group read-a-thon!

  2. verbivore

    I read Gallant last year and enjoyed them. She seems to be fairly overlooked yet she writes so well. I am curious to hear what you think! And hooray to the end of indecision.

  3. I think it is entirely possible to admire and appreciate a novel without necessarily loving it. I read this and remember liking it, but it’s been so long that I can’t remember details–I’d like to reread it. I read one Mavis Gallant story at the end of last year and liked it (Across the Bridge) and will have to read more. I’ll be curious to hear what you think of The Road. People seem to either really like it or really not! I keep thinking of reading it, but never quite get around to picking it up. Glad to hear you’re into some good books again.

  4. I’ve not read any Bowen, but I do know that a number of her contemporaries found her hard to get to know, so your comments about the coldness are interesting. I keep saying when I read about books on blogs “I’ll add it to the pile” but somehow that doesn’t guarantee I’ll read them. However, if a copy comes my way I must try something by her.

  5. Oh, what a relief to find someone else didn’t fall in love with Bowen. I’m in the midst of Friends and Relations, having thought, like you, that I would fall in love. Instead, I keep finding myself thinking, “I must have chosen the wrong Bowen,” hopeful that maybe she wrote something else I might like more. It may just be possible, though, that she is an author I don’t like (I will give her at least one more chance before I make that decision, but I don’t think this one will be her second chance).

  6. I read this years ago so my memory of it is quite dim, but Bowen is a cool writer, elegiac, distanced, very beautiful but in a way that gemstones are beautiful. If you can face it, try another one of hers. I liked The House in Paris better, and A World of Love. Anyway, you write a lovely review of it!

  7. I still have hopes of reading this one for the Outmoded Authors challenge. And, glad to hear the indecision wore off and you’ve found some good stuff!

  8. I’m so glad you mentioned Bowen because I have been wondering what to read for Kate’s short story challenge and Bowen wrote short stories as well as novels. Maybe later I’ll get around to her novels, keeping in mind litlove’s suggestions. Thanks, Dorothy!

  9. Snackywombat — that challenge would be fun! And I’d like to know more about Bowen’s life; at present I know very little (nothing, really).

    Verbivore — so far I’m enjoying Gallant, although not all the stories hold my attention equally. But many of them have been quite good — I’ll post on them I’m sure!

    Danielle — I’m glad you said that about admiring and loving a novel, because I don’t want people to think I’m being negative about the book, when I’m really not. I’d definitely read more Bowen. I haven’t started The Road yet, but I’m still considering it … maybe this weekend.

    Ann — interesting what her contemporaries thought of her — I’d like to know more! And I have added so many books to the TBR list, it’s highly unlikely I’ll get to them all — but it’s nice to have a long list anyway!

    Emily — interesting about Friends and Relations; I’d never heard of it. I’m gratified, too, that we are having similar reactions. I’ve got The Last September on my shelves — perhaps that one would do as Bowen’s second chance to make me fall in love.

    Litlove — thank you, and I think that’s a beautiful (and very positive) way of describing Bowen’s writing — it makes perfect sense. I will keep an eye out for the books you mention.

    Iliana — I’d love to know what you think (that’s the benefit of the Outmoded Authors challenge — so many of us are reading some of the same authors!).

    Jenclair — now I wonder what I’d think of her stories. I didn’t know she wrote them, but then I don’t know anything about her, really.

  10. Poor Portia. The book does sound very sad. Is there any sense at the end that things might get better or is it all just plain grim?

  11. I finished this last month and found it oddly offputting. It wasn’t the subject — which is very interesting — but more her choice, or rather refusal to choose, between an interior, Jamesian narrative and a more passionate, frank exploration of love and sex. She hints at the latter rather too much for it to be a satisfying narrative.

  12. Stefanie — well, it’s just plain grim, in fact. I don’t think I should say more 🙂 But don’t let the grimness put you off if you are interested in reading it!

    Bloglily — interesting point about her refusal to choose; you’re right that it does hover between the two forms you describe, although I will say that this is something that didn’t bother me as I read. I suppose I read it as falling more into the Jamesian camp and so the hinting was just about what I expected. It certainly would be interesting, though, if the story were more frank and love and sex!

  13. Elle

    I am one of the readers who did fall in love with this book so I thought I’d pipe up. To me Bowen captures the way that passion can be felt quietly but still intensely. I think of the novel as a beautiful, warm, black and white photograph. If you are expecting color you might find it cold and lacking but many people will find it just lovely.

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Lecture 12: The Death and Afterlife of Roman Culture

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Roman Culture November 27, 2013 Romanization  Process of turning conquered provinces’ subjects into more Roman-like subjects  Not unidirectional; such interactions b/w cultures is always bidirectional  The conquered societies didn’t just become Roman, they rather negotiated their cultural identity in the shadow of Rome How do we measure Romanization  Use of Roman names? Use of Latin as dominant language? Appearance of Roman architecture? Synchronization of local deities with Roman ones? The Third Century Crisis  After collapse of the Severan dynasty, the Roman Empire entered into of extreme stress under the combined pressures of invasion, civil war, plagues, and economic depression  Begins with the assassination of the Emperor Alexander Severus in 235 CE and ends with the rise of Emperor Diocletian in 285 CE o Diocletian created a new system of governance – the Tetrarchy  Invasion of Germanic Tribes (mainly Goths and Vandals) and war with the Parthian Empire in the east o Many of the western states have been destroyed o Security of Rome fades o First walls built around Rome since 380 BC  Antonine Plague (165-180 CE) and the Plague of Cyprian (250-270 CE) o First outbreak of small pox in Mediterranean world o Outbreaks kill 50 million together (population at this time was 55 mil) o Army is worst affected because of their close-quarters living arrangements  Hyperinflation and the beginnings of serfdom o Increasing inflation throughout the century o Economy shrank o Cyclical nature; inflation means less buying power, less bought less money, less money less bought, economy continues to shrink The Tetrarchy  Means “rule by four” in Greek  Split governance into 2; essentially between the east and west  The Emperor of each sphere is known as an Augustus and has a Caesar as a deputy/heir; alleviates problems with succession  The four tetrarchs based themselves not in Rome, but in other cities closer to frontiers o Re-emergence of local cultures  The Tetrarchy breaks down because the tetrarchs fight for supreme rule o Civil war breaks out o Diocletian abdicates and Constantine takes over Constantine’s Vision(s)  At the battle of the Milvian bridge (312 CE), Constantine supposedly had a vision prior to the battle which prompter a “conversion” to Christianity o WAY more complex than this traditional narrative implies  Constantine’s famous vision came in 310 CE while dealing with a separate military crisis. Saw a symbol in the sun and the words, “conquer by this sign” o Originally thought this vision was from Apollo/Sol Invictus o Likely just a solar halo  Only later did Constantine reinterpret this vision to be from a Christian God o He then ordered his soldiers to paint a symbol on their shields, which look like a Chi and Rho, the first letters of Christ in Greek  Was not an instant conversion, it was a gradual acceptance of Christians The Decline of the Roman Empire  After Constantine, the Empire went back and forth between being divided b/w east and west o One thing that did not change, however, was a policy of increasing hostilities towards pagans (with the brief exception of Julian the Apostate’s reign)  The reign of Theodosius the Great (379 CE-395 CE) is a turning point for two reasons: o He makes Christianity official religion of the Empire and enacts severe punishments for pagans o He is the last emperor to rule both east and west halves of the Empire  Rome is sacked by the Visigoths in 420 CE; first time a foreign army had taken Rome in 800 years o In 455 CE, the Vandals sacked Rome, again in 476 CE The End of the Roman Empire  In 476 CE, after removing the Emperor Augustulus from the throne, the Gothic King Odoacer let it be known that there was no for a replacement o The Western Roman Empire was now officially dead and its territory broke up into a series of smaller “barbarian” kingdoms  In the east, Constantine had established a new capital at Constantinople (modern day Istanbul). From there the eastern Roman Empire (which became known as Byzantine Empire) continued on
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Women go through many hormonal changes during their lives, menopause is one of them. Women usually go through menopause during her 40s or 50s. It indicates the end of a woman’s reproductive period. It is a natural part of ageing that all women go through.

A woman is born with a definite number of eggs that is stored in her ovaries. Menopause happens when the ovaries no longer release eggs every month. Menstruation stops with menopause. With menopause the production of estrogen and progestrone decline.

Menopause does not happen overnight. It slowly sets in over a period of, at least, a couple of years. Therefore, menopause includes three stages:

  • Perimenopause- The onset of perimenopause is indicated by the ovaries producing lesser estrogen and progesterone. It begins years before the ovaries stop releasing eggs.
  • Menopause- It is when the woman has not had her last menstrual cycle in over a year. At this stage the ovaries has stopped releasing eggs and estrogen levels has dipped significantly
  • Postmenopause- This is the period after menopause. During this stage, the early symptoms of menopause subside and the health problems due to menopause may become apparent.

Women going through menopause may have one or more of the following symptoms:

  • Irregular periods, maybe excessive or scanty
  • Hot flashes- is a sudden feeling of warmth or heat in the upper part of the body. It may cause the skin to become red and may also increase heart rate.
  • Sudden changes in core body temperatures e.g. Feeling too cold or hot and sweaty in short intervals
  • Vaginal dryness caused by decreased estrogen levels. It may also get irritable and maybe prone to infections.
  • Changes in weight- either loss or gain
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  • Breasts may become painful or tender
  • Low sexual drive
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  • Like all other hormonal changes in the body, menopause is also accompanied by mood swings and irritability
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South Asian Beef Lettuce Wraps

These lettuce wraps are a really amazing way to impress friends as they are great for sharing, and they are packed with flavour. If you’re looking for something really simple and cheap to make, look no further. I got this recipe from Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery.

  • Olive oil, for frying
  • 200g lean minced beef
  • 200g minced pork
  • Toasted sesame oil, for frying
  • 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped
  • 5cm piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and finely chopped
  • 1–2 red chillies, deseeded and chopped (I used Thai bird chillies)
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp fish sauce
  • Zest of 1 lime, juice of 1/3 lime
  • 3 green onions, trimmed and chopped
  • Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

1 Butter lettuce head, leaves pulled off to serve

For the dressing:

  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • Juice of ½ lime
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • ½ red chilli, thinly sliced
  • Small bunch of coriander leaves, chopped
  • 1–2 tsp fish sauce, to taste
  • 1 tsp brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp olive oil

Heat a large frying pan and add a little oil.
Mix the minced beef and pork together.
Season with salt and pepper and mix well to ensure the seasoning is evenly distributed.
Fry the mince in the hot pan for five to seven minutes until crisp and brown and broken down to a fine consistency.
Drain the crisped mince in a sieve – this will help it stay crispy. Set aside.
Wipe out the pan and add a tablespoon of toasted sesame oil. Add the garlic, ginger and chilli. Fry with a pinch of salt and the sugar for two minutes. Add the drained mince and stir to mix.
Add the fish sauce and heat through. Stir in the lime zest and juice, then add the green onions, stirring for thirty seconds. Turn off the heat.
Mix all the dressing ingredients together and adjust to taste.

To serve, spoon some of the mince mixture into the lettuce leaves, drizzle with a little dressing and serve.

Sorry for the lack of pictures, didn’t take as many as I’d hoped to. To watch the easy recipe cooked by the man himself, here’s the YouTube video of Gordon Ramsay

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At the center of Niyaz’s music is the unmistakable voice of Iranian born, Indian raised, Azam Ali, a two time nominee of the prestigious Canadian JUNO Award whose otherworldly singing has been featured in many major Hollywood film and television soundtracks such as “The Matrix-Revolutions”, “Prince of Persia”, “Thor- The Dark World,” “True Blood,” "Alias,” and "Prison Break.” Azam has also released three critically acclaimed solo albums since 2002 and has collaborated with a wide range of artists such as Serj Tankian of System of a Down, the world renowned Japanese group Kodo, Zakir Hussain, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Mercan Dede, Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, The Crystal Method, Pat Mastellato and Trey Gunn of King Crimson, Dredg, Chris Vrenna formerly of Nine Inch Nails, Ben Watkins of Juno Reactor, Buckethead, Steve Stevens and Mickey Hart.
On stage, Niyaz is comprised of four additional world-class musicians along with a female whirling dervish who along with Azam create a rich hybrid of acoustic instrumentation and state-of-the-art electronics and visuals. The featured performers are Niyaz co-founder and multi-instrumentalist/ composer, Iranian born Loga R.Torkian, Canadian electronic musician Gabriel Ethier on Keyboards and Programming, Turkish instrumentalist Sinan Cem Eroglu on Kaval and Kopuz, and Tabla player Ravi Naimpally.
The music and message of Niyaz is aimed at uniting people from different cultural and spiritual backgrounds through our shared humanity. It is a tribute to beauty, diversity, freedom and dignity for all. Through their sublime mix of the ancient and the modern, a bridge is formed between the East and the West during a time of polarized ideologies. Niyaz revitalize history in an effort to restore a severed bond between the past and the present, that perchance through this restoration, there can be a renaissance and revolution of ideas. "It's a daring task to try and bridge the chasm between peoples," says Azam, but if we can make that happen even for the one hour that people are there just to listen to our music, then who's to say we did not triumph in our goal?"
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The Need to Imbue Career Education in Curricula: A Critical Review of National Education Policy of Pakistan

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National Educational Policy (NEP) Pakistan, is the primary source and baseline for the education systems in Pakistan. It has an objective to serve the education industry in a way that all the education sections may work on same standards confirming uniformity in education. It is released by the Ministry of Education (MoE) Pakistan and organized by the advice of the federating units of the government, civil society, universities, officers of MoE and provincial/area education departments, education managers, specialists, academia, teachers, students, parents, and a host of stakeholders including Higher Education Commission, NAVTEC, IED-AKU, AEPAM, PM&DC & PEC etc. Its review process was commenced back in 2005 and first paper was finalized in March 2007. The official document comprises of nine chapters and it served as a base line for the development of educational advancements that are exasperated due to the contests and international challenges.
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Multiple graph unsupervised feature selection

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© 2014 Elsevier B.V. Feature selection improves the quality of the model by filtering out the noisy or redundant part. In the unsupervised scenarios, the selection is challenging due to the unavailability of the labels. To overcome that, the graphs which can unfold the geometry structure on the manifold are usually used to regularize the selection process. These graphs can be constructed either in the local view or the global view. As the local graph is more discriminative, previous methods tended to use the local graph rather than the global graph. But the global graph also has useful information. In light of this, in this paper, we propose a multiple graph unsupervised feature selection method to leverage the information from both local and global graphs. Besides that, we enforce the l2,p norm to achieve more flexible sparse learning. The experiments which inspect the effects of multiple graph and l2,p norm are conducted respectively on various datasets, and the comparisons to other mainstream methods are also presented in this paper. The results support that the multiple graph could be better than the single graph in the unsupervised feature selection, and the overall performance of the proposed method is higher than the other comparisons.
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Saturday, March 18, 2017

Here & There 3.18

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Happy weekend, friends! Did you go out for St. Patrick's Day? It's my least favorite holiday of all and yet somehow I found myself at a bar last night. Wah wah. After tending to my subsequent headache this morning (but seriously, I had two drinks and some seltzer -- I'm officially old) I met up with a friend for breakfast before vegging out on the couch -- something I almost never do during the day, I'm watching Underground right now - have you see it? -- and later heading to the gym. On top of my regular workouts, this month I'm doing Yoga With Adriene's 30 Day Yoga Challenge and it's been pretty amazing. My new goal is to just continue it - yoga every day in 2017! Tomorrow we're going out for breakfast (diner breakfasts are my favorite thing - diners forever) and running a few errands. Philly is drizzly and snowy, I'm counting down the days 'till summer!

My girl Jess is having a 3-day sale! I'd definitely snatch up this incredible vintage Mexican wedding dress!

How rad is this New Wave tarot deck?

29 pictures that show how insane '70s disco really was (Grace Jones forever)

Free People sale is on sale! Save an extra 25% off - this cute embroidered top is going right into my cart

Well this is adorable

Le Labo + The Laundress? I bet this smells INCREDIBLE

These photos are WILD

So many cute jewelry pieces! Love this chic choker.

Kind of obsessed with this tropical bag

We've all been there

Feminist (and feminist af)

Love these gorgeous handmade earrings (these are cool too)

YUM - definitely want to make this vegan fudge

Minimalist shoes for spring

How to spend $100 at Trader Joes

On my wishlist: New workout gear! My old leggings are worn. out.

Maple syrup forever!!!

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Organizational Systems Need Architects Too!

This post builds on a lovely framework, I first encountered in a blog post by Michael Robillard at LeadingAgile:

Michael argues that achieving the desired business outcomes hinges upon the interactions between five sub-systems:

Org Structure – the structure of power and authority to facilitate decision making

Incentive Systems – rewards for individual and group performance

Work Systems – how people get work done in the organization

Collaboration Systems – systems to overcome the friction to collaboration introduced by the org structure

People Systems – hiring, firing, development, HR systems – both tactical and strategic

This perspective strongly resonates with me, and looking at various organizations through this lens reveals a very interesting opportunity. In many organizations, these systems are managed in one of two ways:

Either in a completely grassroots, ad-hoc, organically evolving manner. (the Shadow IT phenomenon comes to mind)

Or in a completely top-down manner, being wholly owned and operated by a functional department (IT, HR, etc.) with sole authority to make changes to the system.

Neither of those approaches work well. While the former often leads to increased variability and complexity that poses massive constraints on scaling the systems, the latter often leads to stale, disjointed systems with very limited flexibility and adaptability. In both cases, over time, the systems become less effective in driving the desired business outcomes.

If you are a software developer, this may start to sound all too familiar. Because, the problems the exist in organizational systems and the way they are managed, are very similar to problems the exist in software systems and the way they are managed.

Fortunately, this also means that we can draw on the parallels in the software world for potential solutions, to enable the broader community of employees to contribute to the on-going evolution of these systems while at the same time, not jeopardizing their structural integrity and effectiveness.

Enter the role of a “system architect”, as the good folks at Spotify describe it (they call it a “system owner”):

“The System [Architect] is the go-to person for any technical or architectural issues related to that system. He is a coordinator who guides people who [modify] that system to ensure that they don’t stumble over each other. He focuses on things like quality, documentation, technical debt, stability, scalability  and [change management] process. The System Architect is not a bottleneck or an ivory tower architect. He does not personally have to make all decisions, or [make all modifications], or [handle all change management efforts]… We also have a Chief Architect role, a person who coordinates work on high-level architectural issues that cut across multiple systems. He reviews development of new systems to make sure they avoid common mistakes, and that they are aligned with our architectural vision”.

One of the key challenges with adopting this systems approach to the various organizational components, is that it significantly raises the bar for the role that the “traditional” owners of those systems are expected to play in the ongoing evolution and management of those systems. However this, in my mind, is an investment that is well worth making.

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A New Year, A New Beginning

In a couple of weeks, I’ll be bidding Opower and Washington, DC farewell and move to San Francisco to join AltSchool as their new Head of People Operations.

Transitions are always bittersweet for me and this one is no different.

I’ll forever be grateful to Opower for giving me the opportunity to join a mission-driven company in a role that enabled me to apply my strengths and make a significant impact on the organization and its mission. My peers, managers and reports have been amazing catalysts of my professional growth. And if they can say the same about my contribution to them – then that would be my proudest achievement at Opower.

I’m extremely excited about this new opportunity for so many reasons. Let me call out a couple of them:

First, the organization that I’m joining. I learned early on in my career that a strong mission orientation is a necessary condition for me to fully engage in my work. Opower was a particularly strong validation of that. My bar for what qualifies as a mission-driven company is rather high (some may say “unrealistic”), and AltSchool was one of a handful of companies that actually passed that bar. There is so much to fix in education systems worldwide, and there is no silver bullet in fighting such massive scale societal problem (another lesson from fighting climate change with Opower). But AltSchool is definitely moving the needle in the right direction and with the right vision in mind, at least in my opinion.

Second, the role. If you look deep into the heart of modern collaborative software development methodologies (agile, kanban, etc.) you’ll find a humanistic approach to system and process design. An attempt to incorporate modern, progressive insights on what motivates people to apply themselves fully and the environment that fosters the most effective collaboration. But often times, this approach grinds to a halt at the walled fence of the R&D garden. More fundamental processes and systems that define the organization at its core, are based on anachronistic, industrial-era, mechanistic principles. Be it a performance management system that outweighs extrinsic motivation over intrinsic one, or an expense policy that outweighs abuse-prevention over the exercise of good judgement. This role puts me in a high-leverage position to continue pushing for a more humanistic organizational core, in an organization that’s already ahead of the curve in many aspects of this transformation.

I look forward to this new challenge a sharing many of the new lessons-learned and experiences with the readers of this blog.

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The Faithfulness of Christ is the Gospel: Ruminations on the Gospel and Soteriology

faithful“If someone were to ask me how to become a Christian, I’m not sure what I would tell them, except to follow Christ.”

A friend of mine on Facebook made this remark to me yesterday in response to some discussion on what is known as “The Sinner’s Prayer” (a prayer you pray asking Jesus into your heart). I had remarked, along side some other believers, that that prayer is dangerous and for lack of better terms, crappy. The gentleman had inquired as to why we would say that and that is wherein he wrote the sentence above, which prompted some quick thoughts in response. I wanted to elaborate on what I had said to him in response to what he asked.

Before I share that, however, I must dive into what we call the Gospel. As many following along here or on the Facebook page may know, I have been diving into N.T. Wright’s work as well as Michael Gorman’s. So the question of “what is the Gospel?” has been coming up and is fresh in my mind, which was good since I saw my friend’s remark about what to tell someone if they asked about how to become a Christian. In order to address that, we must focus shortly on what the Gospel is.

Without being too theological and verbose, for me the Gospel is the answer to the promises that God made to Abraham. The promises to Abraham are fulfilled in the Messiah, who we know is Jesus Christ. God’s plan for the world through Israel (to borrow Wright’s language) was to sort out what had gone horribly wrong with humanity, to make right that which was wrong. The Gospel is Christ, and more specifically the faithfulness of Christ (more on that in a moment). The story of Christ is the long-awaited fulfillment and coming of a new age. It is the end of an exile. An exile filled with sin and death. The Gospel is God’s breaking into the world via Christ to set it right, to bring about the beginning of the new creation. As N.T. Wright says, it is a rescuing from sin and death and corruption and an invitation to look upon Jesus and to participate in His death, burial, and resurrection in a very real, deeply sacramental way.

The Faithfulness of Christ is the Gospel

I recently shared a post on the blog with a video of N.T. Wright speaking about the Gospel. In it, he is asked what he would share if someone asked him to share the Gospel with them in a few short minutes. He makes a great point I want to mention here that the Gospel can’t be reduced to such, and I certainly am not attempting to paint a full picture here, but merely give some thoughts on how I would do it if I had just a few moments to speak with someone about it.

N.T. Wright said that “at the center of it [being asked what the Gospel is in a few moments] must be Jesus Christ. Not a theory, not an idea, but actually something about this Person.” He gives a beautiful illustration that the front door of the House of the Christian Faith is Jesus Christ Himself; without Christ it all means nothing. He remarks that it has to do with who He was, the meaning of His death, His Resurrection, etc. It is through Jesus that God has opened the door to the new world. Wright encourages us to say a quick prayer, keep it about Jesus and something about what God has done through Christ. It is now that we can turn to the faithfulness of Christ is the Gospel.

If I were to share the Gospel with someone in passing, in a few short minutes, on their deathbed, or when asked in general, I would begin with the faithfulness of Christ. What do I mean by that? Let’s examine what St. Paul says in Galatians 2:16:

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”

This is where I’d begin. I would explain as quickly as possible, and as simply, that through Christ God is reconciling the world (II Cor. 5:19). God’s ideal vision for the Israelites was that they’d be a vehicle through which He could redeem the world. Having given them the Law, they were to be His people and He their God. He entered into a covenant with them and has remained faithful to His covenant. Again, His plan all along was to bring about the True Israelite who would fulfill the covenant and the Law, which in turn opens the door for Jew and Gentile to belong to God’s family. The Israelites being as sinful as anyone else failed to fulfill their covenant role and the Law.

The Messiah enters.

It is through the Messiah’s faithfulness to fulfill the Law and the Covenant that we are justified. The Orthodox Study Bible has this to say about Gal. 2:16, “The faith of Christ IS the Gospel…It is the faith of Christ-His beliefs, His trust, His obedience-that justifies us, not our faith as such.” The Messiah breaks into humanity to rescue it from sin, corruption, and death by defeating those on the Cross and in His Resurrection, which liberates us from the power of sin and death. Christ, as Gorman says, fulfilled the vertical and horizontal demands of the Law in our place, so that the promises made to Abraham are fulfilled and the door to the new creation is opened.

It is not our faith, which comes and goes, that justifies us. It is the faithfulness of the Messiah that is the Gospel. It is through His faithfulness that we are declared right and found in favor with God. It is through His faithfulness that we can participate in His death, burial, and resurrection.

How Are You Saved?

Back to “The Sinner’s Prayer” aspect of the story here. Herein lies my issues with that prayer: For me it is flawed because it treats salvation like a one time event and it is not. I also do not differentiate between being saved [or getting saved] and baptism. For me baptism is being saved and it is through the grace of the waters that God save you or better yet it is God’s grace in the water. Salvation is a continual life event but to begin it one cannot just simply utter a prayer.

To be saved is to be obedient to Christ and what He taught and what the Church has taught. It is to recognize that God has done something in the world through the Messiah and that you want to partake of Christ’s faithfulness by being baptized into His death and raised with Him in resurrection via baptism. It is accepting Him as messiah and participating in His sufferings [and suffering love] which redeem us. It is cruciform theosis! We are in Christ and it’s His faith that justifies us and liberates us and vindicates us. We then are free to carry on with good works. We die daily to ourselves and work out our salvation daily.

This is what it means to be saved. We are saved by the grace of God in baptism, we are being saved by the grace of God in dying daily to ourselves, being crucified with Christ, suffering with Him, while the Spirit restores us to union with God, and we will be saved, Lord willing, in the Final Judgment. Salvation is not a one-time event. We are transformed by the power of the Cross and of the Resurrection. The faithfulness of Christ is what opens the door to salvation up for us. This is nothing we can do our own! It is a gift given to us by Christ, which we reject or embrace.

Become One with Christ

In summary, my friend was right when he said, “I’m not sure what I would tell them, except to follow Christ.” At least he is headed in the right direction. It is about Christ. I would say, to use stronger language, that is about being crucified with Christ. Justification is for St. Paul by faith, but that faith has to be understood as co-crucifixion with Christ. It is direct participation not just imitation in the death, burial, and resurrection with Christ. The old man dies; the new man is born! Theosis is the continuing work of the Spirit in our lives to conform us to Christ and to unite us with God. If I were to be asked about the Gospel, I’d say it is about Christ, His faithfulness, our participation in that faithfulness, and cruciform theosis to become one with Christ in a very real way. This is not a thorough treatment, full exegesis of any texts, or an holistic definition. There is much more that could be said, but I was prompted by Wright’s thoughts and the conversation with my friends, so I wanted to reflect on this. It is sometimes a question that may surprise us, but we should contemplate what we’d do if we were asked “what is the Gospel?” or told “tell me about God”.

I would share with them that it is about bringing our story into the story of Christ, which is one of faithfulness, love, courage, redemption, reconciliation, restoration, and more than anything, one of hope and beauty for us sinners.

N.T. Wright on the Gospel and Advice to Young Christians

wrightN.T. Wright says some extremely beautiful and prolific insights in this short video. I really wanted to share it because I think he challenges us on so many levels whether it be how to present the Gospel, presenting the Gospel in a 5 minute window if asked, where repentance comes into play, and what the Gospel of Paul has to do with the Gospel of Christ (hint: they are the same). However, at the end he has some sage advice, especially for those like me who love theology, that is deeply practical, but full of wisdom.

When asked what advice he has for young theologians he recalls an email to a young man wanting to pursue graduate studies in Pauline theology (which was fitting to me like a glove to a hand). He remarked that he gave the young man the same advice he gives every body who desires to be a theologian/teacher/professor.

  1. “You just have to soak yourself in the Scriptures much more than you ever imagined doing; preferably in the original languages.”
  2. “You have to soak yourself in prayer.”
  3. “You have to listen hard to the cries of pain that are coming from the people next door who are your neighbors or from people on the other side of the world.”
  4. And he didn’t say it exactly, but he said we have to basically immerse ourselves in community and in the Sacraments, which Christ gave us for life and for a way of life.

I love when he says, “Jesus Himself and the New Testament itself teaches that the way we get to know who we are and where we’re called to be is through Scripture, through prayer, through the Sacraments (Divine Mysteries)…, and also [through] the cry of the poor [where we meet Christ].”

He goes on to say, “God wants to do new things, but he people through whom He will do those new things are people who are Bible people, are people who are prayer people, are sacrament people, and are people who are listening to the poor people. And somehow Jesus will come afresh to them and please God through them in ways that at the moment we can’t imagine, predict, or control.”

N.T. Wright is a brilliant man whom I respect and admire. He is a holy man filled with the light and love of Jesus. I hope his wisdom here is as beneficial to you as it was to me.

Hope Anew in the Gospel: Respond to Abuse & Betrayal with Even More Raw Transparency

woman worshippingA post from my pal over at “Musings of a Hardlining Moderate” that I find myself highly agreeing with. He makes some great points about ministry that I find should be applauded and admired:

Hope Anew in the Gospel: Respond to Abuse & Betrayal with Even More Raw Transparency

By Carson Clark

There are a number of fundamental ways my philosophy of life and ministry seems to differ from most Christians. That includes clergy and laity alike. What I have in mind here is the widespread belief that the wise and prudent response to abuse and betrayal by members of a faith community is be more cautious and less transparent in the future. It evidences disillusionment with the Gospel.

One of my close mentors says it’s moving from naive idealism to “the unfortunate but necessary reality of guardedness.” I find that option repugnant. Perpetual guardedness as a way of being sounds like an awful lifestyle. Do that and you’ve allowed the jerks to win by callousing your heart, beating down your spirit, and instilling a hermeneutic of distrust.

The worst part? You’re still being controlled by them through your continuing response to them. That’s why I simply will not accept that option. Ever. Never ever. To my eyes that’s acquiescing to dysfunction. It’s being controlled by what has gone wrong instead of being principled about what is right; it’s living in response to past failures rather than living into what should be.

I believe this is where the importance of prophetic forthtelling comes in–casting a hopeful, alternative vision for being and doing. My personal and pastoral response, then, is even more transparency within the context of clearly established and diligently maintained boundaries. However imperfect it may be, it’s the only way I know to live into shalom rather than détente.

I will not sacrifice my openness and honesty to wolves in sheep’s clothing but neither will I allow them to keep hunting. The key is refusing to let parasites have a host organism. If someone attacks me or someone in my community and just isn’t repentant about it, (s)he is cut off. I’ll forgive him or her but I don’t allow that person to be part of my life. Brokenness is welcome. Toxicity is not.

Many pastors disagree. Many have insisted that the only healthy approach to pastoral ministry is concentric circles of trust and transparency: Don’t treat everyone the same and share your failure, heartache, fear, doubt, temptation, and the like only with a very small inner-circle. This I’m told is an unavoidable and healthy boundary for pastoral ministry. I strongly disagree, though.

My ministry has been its healthiest, most impactful, and most vibrant when I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve. I keep finding broken people who require empathy, who are desperatefor pastors who are startlingly open and painfully honest. It’s Batman vs. Superman. They can’t resonate with strong, outwardly flawless character who has all the answers and all of life together.

I’ve been considering the significance of this. Honestly, I can’t figure out if this is a generational thing, personality thing, leadership style thing, or something else. My guess is probably all of the above. Maybe it’s as simple as birds of a feather flock together. Maybe I’m just the misfit outlier who keeps meeting other misfit outliers. Or maybe there’s a lot of us, all feeling lonely.

There are a whole lot of us out there who are tired of the bait and switch tactics. We came to faith believing what the Church proclaimed: A Gospel full of truth, love, grace, reconciliation, humility, forgiveness, and community. But once we joined we found a Church with a nasty underbelly and a dearth of those characteristics. Only we refuse to be disillusioned. We still believe in that Gospel.

I as much as anyone have reason to be guarded, and to be disillusioned by the Church. If you went down the checklist of possible abuse one can suffer at the hands of Christians, my life story contains most all of it. My heart, mind, and soul reveal those scars and open wounds. But the answer is not to give up or acquiesce. The answer is to recommit to the Gospel and to overcome.

My whole life people have insisted that I’m being unrealistic and what I’m envisioning cannot be done. It’s a recurring motif. They said that about the interdisciplinary academic conference I put together as an undergrad. They said it was impossible for University Abbey to be spiritually devout, intellectually rigorous, rhetorically civil, and relationally intimate. They were wrong both times.

Those naysayers usually mean well but they’re incredibly limited by their inability to dream new dreams. In my experience, the more institutional one becomes the more he or she tends to lack the capacity to appreciate the beautiful chaos of innovation and reformation. Loyalty displaces truth on the priority list. You start talking about the unfortunate but necessary reality of guardedness.

This post, then, is a call to hope anew in the Gospel. Many Christians suck and inflict grave harm upon others, which I still find rather inexplicable in light of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. But the Gospel remains full of truth, love, grace, reconciliation, humility, forgiveness, and community. So here’s my challenge: Respond to abuse and betrayal with even more raw transparency.


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New Security Features updated for OSHA 10 and 30 Hour Training Cards

New Security Features updated for OSHA 10 and 30 Hour Training Cards
OHSA has incorporated new security features into the 10 and 30 hour wallet cards issued to trainees after completing the OSHA Outreach training courses by the trainers. This is something new and OSHA had incorporated the new features quietly.

Numerous states and general contractors have possession of the a 10 hour or 30 hour OSHA training card, which is mandatory for workers on certain sites but, there are quite a lot of cases where bogus cards were sold or provided to workers or their employers.

The OSHA wallet-sized cards are the same in terms of its size and colors, which is gold for the construction courses and medium blue for the general industry courses. However, in the new cards, the OSHA logo will be there in the upper left hand corner with the letter ‘O’ in blue ink. Again depending on the OSHA course completed a large number ‘10’ for OSHA 10 hour training and ‘30’ for OSHA 30 hour training will be placed faintly in the front center of the OSHA cards. These two new features are suppose to make the original OSHA cards more difficult for others to copy and issue to people who have not completed the two courses legitimately.

Another new feature in the card is the serial numbers appearing. In the old cards, there is a nine-digit serial number, which is printed in red ink. The new cards will have two digit number, which will be followed by a hyphen and a nine digit number printed in red ink. This feature will allow the card to track back easily back to the OSHA trainer who had issued the original card. Again OSHA trainers must keep a list of the student’s name as well as serial numbers of the card issued.

The changes affect both online and off line training courses however, the older versions are still valid for those who have already completed the courses.


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2nd Junior High School of Kalymnos, Dodecanese, Greece – Tale … tale .. Our tale of Kalymnos – The Prince and the slave of Mary Themelina Kapella and Zairi

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αραπίνα“Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl who liked to walk in the countryside to see the flowers and the birds nakouei cheep. A day where she walked the earth opened and swallowed. Tumbling, tumbling, until she found a staircase that led to a beautiful living room. As she got there and stared at the bright enchanted mirrors and gold furniture, suddenly the eye drops onto the table lying on one goldweared lad. Go around scared, but the lad did not even moved. Slept a deep sleep and no awake. Little by little began to take courage and then observe there beside a plaque that read: If you want to read resurrected my next forty days and forty nights. ” Forty days and forty nights! said the girl. And who bears? But a voice from within told her: And it’s a shame such a nice lad to lose?

– Yes, but if nothing happens I will have died from fatigue. Anyway, so a one else took her decided to read a few letters she knew, what she found nearby. Thirty-nine days and thirty nine nights she was reading, when suddenly appeared in front of her a Negress. She then tells her :

– Lady, please, can you read it and let me  just  a little sleep half the time I can not take another?

– Gladly, says Negress and begins reading. She had not read but a  little and suddenly the lad began swaying, to brown cheeks and soon opened his eyes. Once he sees the Negress with the book, the hugs, he kisses her and a few days later he got married and made her a queen, he was prince.

And what about the girl? what happened to it?  The Negress toled the prince she was  a servant. So the days passed and the girl did not say anything. Only at night, when she closed the den of crying for misfortune and because she had the courage to stay still while reading about the lad. But the Negress was ugly and evil and she was not happy with her life although she became a queen. Why she was eating  by jealousy for this beautiful girlfriend who was so good, that would not open her mouth to reveal the truth.

δούλα1One day the prince went away to a trip. He told his wife to give him orders that she wanted to bring. And she give him a bunch, who recorded his grammar. From politeness and the maid asked what she wants to bring her. And she ordered curiosities. Wanted tells the hanging rope, stone of patience and the knife to slaughter. The grammar have not posted them, but because he remembered the impression they made.

The trip was over, the prince turned laden with gifts for the Negress wife. But ordering her daughter did not. Go to the boat, but the boat did not start. Lived there like a stone. Looking to find what’s wrong, what is the cause, and then remember their daughter and her order. Running in the city, looking for, but where to find what he wanted. Once a Jewish souvenir he find them all. But the shopkeeper says, that whoever get these gifts should not remain a monk, because they are dangerous. They’re taking the gifts and the prince with great curiosity waited to see what would happen. After the joys passed at home for the return and everyone went to sleep, the prince goes out the door of the girl and watching to see what will happen. Then he listens to the girl saying, while the tears rain from her eyes:

– “Thirty-nine days and nights I sat sleepless Thirtynine for this lad and I gap at the last minute. What to do in life? Where ‘re hanging rope. ” Tihere was mmediately rope hanging and comes and hangs alone in the ceiling.

– “Oh, my God, forgive me, but I can not Negress has the lad who I hurt Thirtynine days and nights and be a slave to. Come stone of patience. ” And immediately go the stone itself under the rope.

The lad was scared. He understood that she will be killed just shout the knife, and immediately orders the guards to break the door. Gets hug the girl who had daze by the sudden visit and says:

– “You” Swinney So my eyes, which saved me my no algae were saying? Thou, my embittered girl, who agreed to become a slave of the woman who cheated on? Now is the time to look her right. Now you will become my wife and the Negress will be gone and will not xanafanei. ”

So said, so done. And they lived happily ever after”.

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Air India Goes All Vegetarian On Domestic Flights Only…

Air India, India’s national carrier has announced that it will stop serving non-vegetarian meals to economy passengers ONLY ON DOMESTIC FLIGHTS – or only within India. One reason sited is cost savings as Air India is generating huge losses. But others could be that non-vegetarian food while being more expensive within India, need more care, refrigeration to avoid getting spoilt adds to more cost and risk. So the question is would they lose customers who get upset by this move or will it not make any difference?

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First Look and Review: Paddlefish at Disney Springs

Over the weekend, we had the opportunity to get a sneak peek at Paddlefish, the latest restaurant to open in Disney Springs.

I say “latest,” but Paddlefish is simultaneously one of Disney Springs’ oldest and newest stops. That’s because Paddlefish is just the latest tenant in a restaurant that’s been in this area for quite some time. If you’ve been following along, then you know Paddlefish was most recently known as Fulton’s Crab House. And before that, you may have known it as the Empress Lilly, originally opened in 1977 and named for Walt Disney’s beloved wife.

With the revamping and major overhaul that Downtown Disney — now Disney Springs — has recently experienced, the old riverboat theming of Fulton’s wasn’t going to flow with the new vibe. And so, the restaurant’s owner, Levy Restaurants, signed to stay on in Disney Springs, and commenced to a stem to stern reimagining of the Old Girl.

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Greg Thomas, PA, MPH

Greg P. Thomas, PA, MPH (1953 – ), a physician assistant for nearly 40 years, has been a leader in the field of CME and education. Throughout his career he has worked with numerous organizations to promote the PA profession.

Mr. Thomas received his bachelor’s degree in natural sciences in 1975 from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, an additional bachelor’s degree in 1977 from the Physician Assistant Program of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and earned a master’s degree in public health with focus on health care administration in 1978 from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, Texas.

Mr. Thomas began his role in the medical field as a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1978 and as the Associate Director for the University of the Texas Health Science Center — Dallas Physician Assistant Program the following year. Mr. Thomas then transferred to the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC in 1979. For 13 years, Mr. Thomas served as Assistant Director (1979-1982), Associate Director, (1983-1987) and Director (1988- 1992) of the Office of Continuing Medical Education. Mr. Thomas was the first PA in the country to hold such a position in a major medical center. Mr. Thomas’s impact on the PA profession continued at the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), where he worked in many different roles, including the Director of Industry Relations (1992-1994) and Assistant Vice President of Industry Relations and Development (1995). He served as Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Education (1996-2001), Professional Education and Industry Relations (2002-2004) and Professional Education and Alliance Development (2004-2008). From 2008-2011, Mr. Thomas was the Senior Vice President of Education, Membership and Resource Development. He began serving in a consultant role as the Director of External Relations with the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) in March 2011 and continues in that role today. He also briefly served as a consultant to the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) following his departure from AAPA in 2011.

It was Mr. Thomas’s pioneering role as Director at the George Washington Medical Center Office of Continuing Medical Education that led to his participation, including leadership positions, with the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education (now the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, or ACEHP). Since 1992, Mr. Thomas has promoted the importance of CME for PAs through the many areas of his involvement with the ACEHP, including Chair of the Annual Conference Program Planning Committee, Chair of the Finance Committee, Secretary/Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors, among others.

In September of 1992, Mr. Thomas, became one of the first PAs employed full-time by the AAPA to serve as an external representative of the profession, with a focus initially on the health care industry (specifically the pharmaceutical industry), and then extending to managed health care, government, and physician organizations, among others. The role at AAPA expanded to include both this external focus and his interest and expertise in CME. Through his role with the AAPA, Mr. Thomas found himself involved with many organizations as one, if not the only, PA to serve as a representative of the AAPA. One such role was serving on the Board of Directors (BOD) for the National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE), a patient-advocacy organization focused on ensuring that patients receive accurate, detailed information on prescription drugs. Mr. Thomas was originally appointed as an AAPA representative (1992-2008), was elected to the Board of Directors in 1996, and then served as the Secretary/Treasurer from 1999-2007. Mr. Thomas was the only PA to serve on the group for more than 15 years.

Other organizations in which Mr. Thomas acted as the sole physician assistant representative included the Advisory Committee (2001- 2011) for an annual conference focused on practice improvement and patient education sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), as well as the American Medical Association’s (AMA) National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, of which he was an active member from 2001 until its dissolution in 2013. His involvement included serving as Chair of the Annual Conference for the Task Force in 2006 and Co-Chair in 2005 and 2007. Mr. Thomas has served as the sole PA member of the Board of Directors for the National Lesbian and Gay Health Association from 1992-1996.

Mr. Thomas is a member of AAPA, Florida Academy of PAs, and Pi Alpha (National PA Honor Society). Mr. Thomas still spends much of his time focused on CME, and in that role, he has traveled for several organizations, including the NCCPA, speaking to PAs about CME and certification maintenance. He currently resides in Tierra Verde, FL, with his partner of 22 years to whom he was married in 2013.

Acknowledgments: This biography was written by Anthony Stuckey, with the assistance of Greg Thomas, and was submitted to the Society in June 2012, and updated in May 2016. The banner image is courtesy of the PA History Society and is of Mr. Thomas at the 1986 AAPA conference. The second image was provided by Mr. Thomas.

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The Most Helpful Pieces Of Equipment At A Mining Site Is The Conveyors

Mining, extraction, laborious as well as drill websites all have exactly what’s involving them of substantial mining minerals to take care of. Coming before squashing and grinding processes these on a regular basis overwhelming items of ore should be moved far from the burrow website to the crushing and grinding areas and also a standout among one of the most helpful pieces of equipment at a mining site is the conveyors. Not just can conveyors take care of comprehensive mining ore product the belts could work at a continuous pace so mining could continue in an effective assembly line means. There are numerous diverse kinds of conveyor equipment systems in the mining post-retail as well as a solid made use of conveyor belt can handle the transport of mining ore at most industrial and business mining taking on websites. Most times mining websites will use using a conveyor belt to carry mining ore from the burrow website to a region designated for squashing, grinding or various other handling.

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Consisting of two or more pulley-blocks the conveyor belt includes a continuous circle on which mining ore can be established and also safely vacated the burrow site. Outdoors mining conveyors are classified as mass product looking after conveyors as well as are made use of basically for grain, charcoal and other mining ores. Generally the belt on a conveyor is generated making use of two or even more layers of online business assessment flexible and includes an under lining (the carcass) and the leading layer of conveyor belt. At the point when going shopping the mining equipment reseller’s exchange you will regularly find whole parts of steel sample structures that can be fit together to make the best size conveyor system for your specific undertaking. Cross section synopsis conveyor sections routinely integrate head as well as tail sheaves, return idlers as well as harder however belts will should be purchased independently. You have to understand that the conveyor belt system resembles the heart of your company. In the event that you make use of sub typical conveyor equipment, conveyor equipment is probably going to obstruct your execution within a quick period of time.

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The lost art of letter writing

With the revolution of the internet it is easier than ever, texting, tweeting, status updating – as a consequence letter writing has fallen by the way side and now, it is often bills or junk mail that fill our letter boxes instead of personal communication. Last year my partner at the time (now husband) went to Ireland for three months, there he had limited internet and as the time-zones were quite different phone calls were expensive and hard to coordinate. So for everyday of those three months I hand-wrote him a letter to help keep our communication channels open. It wasn’t easy and I didn’t follow all of the rules listed below (I used lined paper most of the time), but all of the letters were hand written… he said on his return that it was the highlight of his day receiving my letter in the post, he has kept all of my letters to him and I certainly kept the letters he sent me.

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Archive for July, 2014

New Student Orientation 2014

The Gustavus Orientation program is August 29 – September 1 and is focused on helping new students with the transition to Gustavus and establishing a sense of belonging in this community. Visit the orientation website for more information and a complete schedule of events for both incoming first year students as well as transfer students.

Parent Dinner & Orientation on Move-in Day (Advanced Tickets Required)

Parents of first year students: come as you are after a physically and emotionally draining move-in day (August 29) to enjoy a relaxed meal and entertaining program with other family members who are going through the same things! This Parent Dinner & Orientation is scheduled from 5 – 7 p.m. in the Heritage Banquet Room […]

Important Information about Student Health Insurance

A bright orange postcard was recently sent home with important information about student health insurance.  Major points are: Students will AUTOMATICALLY be enrolled in student health insurance for the 2014-2015 school year. Every student will see a charge of $1699 on their student account.  If you do not want this student health insurance, you must […]

Dates & Deadlines: The Next 60 Days

Late July:  Housing and roommate information is sent to first year students August 29:  First year student move-in day August 29 – September 1: New Student Orientation August 31:  Transfer student move-in day August 31 – September 1:  Transfer Student Orientation September 1:  Returning student move-in day September 2:  Classes begin September 10:  Reading in Common […]

Rebecca M. Bergman Begins Tenure as 17th President of Gustavus

On Tuesday, July 1, Rebecca M. Bergman officially began her duties as the 17th President of Gustavus Adolphus College. The College’s Board of Trustees announced in late February that Bergman would replace Jack Ohle, who retired after serving as President since July 2008. Bergman is the first woman in the 152-year history of the College to […]

Tuition Refund Insurance option

When talking about college with your student, the conversation almost always turns to money. From tuition to back to school shopping to textbooks and more, there are many costs associated with attending college. For many families, college tuition is one of the largest investments they will make, however, many overlook the need to protect that […]


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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Restaurant Review: Sam's Chowder House

Sam's Chowder House - dinner on February 19, 2015
I’d never been to Sam’s Chowder House before and apparently it’s a fairly recent addition to the restaurants on University Avenue in Palo Alto. Although I don’t know how recently because I tend to avoid going to that area for dinner because finding parking is always a hassle. In fact, I’d avoided the area for so long that I forgot how much of a pain parking was. I got there 15 minutes early but it took me over 20 minutes to find a parking spot so I ended up being late. Oh yeah, that’s why I don’t like to go to dinner in that area.
The interior is bifurcated – there’s one eating area to the left and another to the right but you can’t look from one into the other so the restaurant appears smaller than it is. On the right was a live “band”, i.e. a couple of musicians playing instruments. We had a table on the left side which I preferred. I don’t mind music playing but meeting friends for dinner is a very social thing for me and I like chatting and catching up, hard to do if you have to compete with music.
Clam Chowder
The menu has a good variety of entrees, mostly seafood as you would expect from the name but there’s also a burger if you’re inclined to turf more than surf. Prices are all over the place. The low end is under $20 but you can also get lobster pasta, complete with a crab cracker for the lobster shell and a bib to preserve your clothes, for $40. I hovered over a few different choices but finally settled on the lobster roll. I’ve always liked the concept of a lobster roll (lobster + bread) but rarely have it as most places clutter the lobster with – ugh – mayonnaise or some equally unappetizing sauce. I’m a plain girl all the way.
Lobster Roll and fries
But I wanted to try the lobster roll at Sam’s so I quizzed the waiter on what “exactly” comes in the lobster roll. He said lobster, butter and celery. Awesome. Hold the celery and you’ve got a deal. Which he did. The roll came out toasted and supporting some lobster meat dipped in butter. I’m not big on butter on my lobster although I can accept it just fine. It was good although, given how plain it was (but no, I had no regrets about skipping the celery), it was really just like eating lobster dipped in butter with some bread. No complaints but I wasn’t so over the moon that I’d have to have it again.
Lobster Pasta

Had better luck with the dessert we ordered. My friends and I had narrowed it down between the apple crisp served warm with vanilla ice cream or the molten chocolate cake, also served warm with vanilla ice cream. The molten chocolate cake ended up winning because it turned out the apple crisp had raisins in it. We know I believe raisins are grapes being punished by the culinary gods so the crisp was a non-starter. The molten chocolate cake came with huckleberry sauce but I don’t like my chocolate with any kind of fruit sauce so I asked them to put it on the side which they obligingly did. And sing hallelujah, the molten chocolate cake really did come with a molten center. Chocolatey goodness all around.
Molten Chocolate Cake
Sam’s Chowder House was a good place to try and had fairly decent food although I don’t know if the pricier entrees are really worth the cost. 20 minutes to find parking definitely doesn’t make me a repeat customer but that’s not their fault.

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Today’s Quotation About Putin

When he was elected, President Putin set out to build a strong state in Russia. This document shows what kind of state the president considers strong. Prosperous families, and society in general, don’t matter in Putin’s strong state. A strong state is one which is armed to the teeth, and fenced in by numerous self-imposed restrictions and limitations. According to the president, economic security takes precedence over all other economic ideas.

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