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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Year C - Proper 19, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 17th Sunday after Pentecost (September 11, 2016)

This Sunday is 15 years since the 9/11 attacks.  Other attacks are being reported with alarming regularity throughout the world.  This Sunday might also be Rally Day in many churches.  If Rally Day is focused on children, one has to remember that none of them lived through the 2001 attack, but are struggling to deal with today’s attacks and with the racism and sectarianism that underlie all the violence.  That is a challenging convergence of themes for worship.  If you go with Old Testament or Epistle texts, sin and repentance are key words with which children, as well as the adults, can explore the problems and evils in the world.  If you go with the gospel you can build hope around the fact that God comes looking for us and looking after us even when we mess up terribly.

If you use a wide variety of sin and forgiveness words – sin, repent/ance, mercy, forgive/ness, pardon, grace, saved, remember that many of them are unfamiliar to children.  So, select one or two familiar ones to explore in some depth or spend time introducing them as a group.

>  Write one or two on big posters to display during the whole service.  Before the call to worship, introduce the word/s with brief definitions.  Give children stickers or marking pens with which to note in their bulletin every time they hear, sing or pray the word/s.

>  Select two or three words to present as a word family defining each word and telling how it is related to the others.  For example, SIN is all the bad stuff we do.  REPENTANCE is deciding to stop doing that stuff.  And, FORGIVENESS is God saying, “I’m glad you can see what you did wrong and are going to be different.  I’ll help you on that.”

>  Use the word discipline rather than punishment to describe God’s response to sin and sinners.  Children hear punishment as getting back at the sinner or revenge.  With help they can hear discipline as helping sinners change their ways.

>  Frances Woodruff posted the following summary of Where the Wild Things Are on her “On the Chancel Steps” blog (HERE).  Read and discuss the book during worship or count on many children and parents knowing it well enough that a summary of it will set you up to make some of its points about sin and forgiveness.  Frances summarized it thusly,

Today I want to talk to you about some wild things…specifically Where the Wild Things Are. For 50 years now, we have been reading this story of Max. One day, Max and his mom have a quarrel. His mother calls him, “Wild Thing!” And Max says, “I’ll eat you up!” So Max is sent to his room without any supper at all. From there, Max goes on a great journey to Where the Wild Things Are. The monsters are excited to have Max; they make him their king, celebrating with a wild rumpus…that’s a big, loud party! Max enjoys all of this, but he comes to miss being at home, comes to miss being loved by his family. So Max returns home. At first it seems that all is the same as when he left, but then Max sees his dinner is there waiting for him. Max’s mother has forgiven him. And by coming home and eating his dinner, Max, too, forgives his mother. See, forgiveness is not just about excusing each other and going our separate ways; forgiveness is about letting go of the hurt so that we can rebuild our relationships.

REPENTANCE could be a key word today, and it is a little tricky.  The usual understanding of repentance (especially among children) is that you say you are sorry and God or a person you have hurt forgives you, i.e. says that it’s OK.  In today’s stories repenting is more than that.  It is changing your ways.  Paul changes from killing Christians to being one of the biggest leaders of the Christians.  David asks God to help him change his ways, “create in me a clean heart.”  God decides not to abandon the Hebrew slaves in the desert, but to help them become the people God called them to be.  Jesus eats with “known sinners” because he believes they might change and calls on the Pharisees to do likewise.  Even children have trouble believing they or anyone can repent/change.  “That is just the way she is.”  He’ll always….”  “I’ll never be …  I’m just too….”

Use your bodies in a prayer of confession and call to repentance.  While a worship leader prays aloud the prayer below, all members of the congregation stand to pray with their bodies.  Each time the worship leader prays “Great God, we are sinners,” everyone faces the back of the sanctuary.  Each time the worship leader prays “Turn us around,” everyone turns to face the front of the church.
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Prayer of Confession and Call to Repentance

Great God, we are sinners.  We get everything wrong.  It is like we are facing the wrong way, dreaming the wrong dreams, working toward the wrong goals.
Turn us around so that we face you, dream your dreams, work toward your goals.

Great God we are sinners.  Too often we are selfish grabbing the most food, the prettiest clothes, and the coolest games for ourselves.
Turn us around. Teach us to share what we have.  Give us generous hearts.

Great God, too often we think only of ourselves.  We think about we want, what we like, what we think.
Turn us around.  Teach us to see all the people around us.  Help us recognize what people in our families and our friends want and need and hope.  Help us learn to take care of them and their needs.

Great God, too often we hate.  We hate people who are not like us.  We hate people who make our lives even a little harder.  We hate people who get in our way.  We hate people we just do not like.
Turn us around.  Teach us that people who are not just like us are your children and worthy of our friendship.  Show us how to make friends with those who do not agree with us.

Great God, we are sinners.  We know it.  We admit it and want to change.
Turn us around to face you, to become your children, to be part of your kingdom.

We bring our confessions of sin to you and ask for your help in turning around in Jesus’ name.  AMEN.

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>  Maybe the best song for today is the second verse of “Jesus Loves Me.”

Jesus loves me when I’m good,
When I do the things I should.
Jesus love me when I’m bad,
Even though it makes him sad.

Texts for the Day

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28

With all the other texts about sin and forgiveness today, leave this grim judgment one out.  Children are mainly scared by it.  Also, because they take it literally, they often misinterpret it as God’s response to (or the natural consequences of) environmental sin.  It is not.  It is an indictment of national sins.

Or, read a children’s book that presents Jeremiah’s basic message that meanness and evil can pile up and build on each other until the whole world is destroyed in terms that make more sense to children.

>  Oops, by Arthur Geisert, is a story about one bad thing leading to another.  A pig spills his milk which runs through the seam in the tabletop and down a drain in the floor.  From there it triggers a series of events that end with the whole house and most of a hillside totally destroyed.  Because there are no words, you may need to help the children identify what is going on in the first few pictures.  After they catch on to the story line, simply show the next picture with a groan or “oh no.”  Point out that we often talk about how kind deeds create more kindness, but that it is also true that mean deeds trigger more meanness.

>  The Quarreling Book, by Charlotte Zolotow, describes a series of events in one member of the family’s unkindness to another triggers their unkindness to yet another and so forth.  Ripples of meanness fill the day UNTIL the dog who has been kicked off a bed responds with a wagging tail and licking the kicker.  The dog’s response triggers a reverse series of kind events that undo the morning’s unhappiness.  The positive last half of the book may make it a more attractive choice.

Psalm 14

>  Given the choice of this general psalm and David’s story-based confession in Psalm 51, choose Psalm 51 for the children

>  If you do read this psalm remember that in it “there is no God” is not a statement about God’s existence.  Instead it is a statement that God does not care about what we do.  It means “I’ll get away with it” or “It won’t matter.”  The psalmist says that God does care and that people who say those things are fools.

Exodus 32:7-14

>  If you will be focusing on this text, spray paint a plastic toy cow metallic gold.   Before reading this story place it beside the Bible from which you read and encourage worshippers to listen for one in the story.  (The golden calf in the picture is a wonderful gift my preacher husband received from a Kerygma Class.  Sorry you don’t each have one of them, but thought you might enjoy seeing this one.)

>  To explain the problem with the golden calf to children start by pointing to commandment #2 of the Ten Commandments.  Reword it, “I am bigger than anything you can imagine.  So, don’t make anything that you think looks like me.  You will get it wrong.”  Laugh about God not being a cow.  But then, admit that you don’t think the people were that dumb.  They just wanted something they could see and touch and decorate with flowers and dance around and eat near to make them feel that God was with them and that they understood God.  A god they could not see was just too scary.

>  Sing “Immortal, Invisible God Only Wise” to celebrate God who is “more” than any one or thing the Hebrews in the desert or we can imagine.  Before singing it, point out the big words in the first lines and rephrase them, “God who lived before the universe was created and will still live after the universe dies, God who is invisible, God who is wiser than any person who ever was or ever will be.  God, you are some amazing we can’t begin to understand you.”

>  This is a long reading especially if you add the story of making the gold calf in verses 1-6.  To keep worshipers’ attention, use three readers.  Reader 1 might sit with the children at the front of the sanctuary.  Readers 2 and 3 stand to read behind them with children naturally turning to watch the conversation between them then turning back to Reader 1 as vs 14 is read.
Reader 1:     Reads or tells verses 1-6 story
Reader 2:     Reads vss 7-10 with dramatic fury
Reader 3:     Reads vss 11-13 in best negotiating style
Reader 1:     Read vs 14 “And the Lord changed his mind….”

>  If you are exploring repentance today, this story becomes proof that even God repents or changes God’s mind.  The fact that Moses would argue with God about the plan to destroy the people who worshiped the calf and that God would change the plan in response to Moses both impresses children and gives them the confidence to talk to God honestly about anything.  God can take whatever they have to say.  God will listen.  God may even change the plan.

The story of Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane that did not get God to change the plan is a good balance to Moses’ story.  It proves that this story is not a promise that God will change the plan to suit us every time we ask.

Psalm 51:1-10

>  ”Create in me a clean heart, O God…” is a basic prayer that most Christians pray frequently in their lives.  David prayed it after he had stolen Bathsheba from her husband and had him murdered.  Paul might have prayed it after he realized how wrong he had been about Jesus and the Christians.  And, we need to pray at different times for different reasons.  Most children have little grasp of their own sinfulness.  They know they do the occasional bad thing, but are not overwhelmed by it.  Insist to them that this is a prayer they will need, practice saying it together and briefly explore its meaning.

>  Remember that children hear the poetic images in Psalm 51 literally.  So, “create in me a clean heart” sounds like “cut me open, take out my heart, scrub it down, and then stick it back in me.”  Ouch!  Point this out and then explore what it really means.  Describe how dirty and yucky we feel when know we have done things that are wrong and that have hurt other people.  We feel so rotten that we want to hide.  Then describe how clean and fresh and new we feel when we admit what we have done and do whatever we can to fix the hurt we have caused.

>   Use verses 1-4 and 10 as the prayer of confession for the day.  Before praying them, with the congregation (or children) identify all the sin words (sin, iniquity, transgression, and evil) in verses 1-4.  Have each word printed on a piece of poster board and display it in turn.  Briefly tell that David who first prayed this prayer had just had a man murdered so that he could marry his wife – that IS… list each of the words for sin!.  Note that most of us have not done anything that bad. Then, list specific examples of sin of which your worshipers might be guilty (lying to get out of trouble, saying mean words to or about someone, making another person’s life really unhappy by the way you treat him or her, being greedy, selfish, etc.)  Finally, read and explain verse 10.  Only, then invite the congregation to pray the prayer with you.

>  The prayers of confession generally come early in worship.  It would be possible to pray them this week without comment at that time.  Then, pray them again after a sermon in which their meaning has been explored in detail.  During the sermon you might walk through that part of the liturgy explaining the sequence of confession, assurance, response, and passing the peace.  You might even practice sung or spoken responses.  Repeating the whole process after this explanation will give it more meaning today and help worshipers of all ages participate in it more fully in the future.

1 Timothy 1:12-17

>  A little vocabulary thing:  Children will understand you if you speak of Paul “killing Christians” rather than “persecuting the church.”

>  To make sense of this text, you have to know the story of Paul’s conversion (Acts 9:1-22).  Just before the epistle reading invite the children forward to hear you tell that story in your own words, then tell children that the epistle is the beginning of letter written by Paul years later.

“Saul Learns About Jesus” from The Family Story Bible, by Ralph Milton, is one good telling of this story.  Use it as a guide or simply read it from the book.

>  If you are focusing on God’s acceptance of all sinners, tell the story of Paul’s conversion paying extra attention to Ananias’ role and his willingness to believe that Paul could be OK.  “God, are you sure you have the right man?  I mean, this is Saul.  Saul, who is rounding up Christians and putting them in jail.  Are you sure you want me to bring him into my Christian home and heal him and introduce him to other Christians?”…”OK, I’ll give it a try.”

>  If all the talk of sin and forgiveness and the story of Paul’s conversion lead you to sing Amazing Grace, remember that it is filled with abstract words that are hard for children.   Before singing it today, point to “wretch” in the first verse.  Define wretch as “a really awful person” and identify Paul and maybe the ex-slave trader who wrote it as wretches.  Insist that most of us at times in our lives know we are wretches too.  Next, point to grace in the title.  Define it as “God loves us anyway.  Insist that when we sing Amazing Grace we remember that we all mess up AND that God loves us and forgives us anyway.  That is “amazing!”  Only then, sing it together.

Luke 15:1-10

>  Today’s gospel includes two separate but related parables.  To help young listeners hear each of them, have the passage read by three readers.  The usual reader reads verses 1-3.  Then a second reader reads the first parable (vss 4-7).  The usual reader adds “and he told another parable” after which a third reader reads verses 8-10.  The two guest readers might be a parent –child team, two older children, or two individuals of different ages.  The reader of the parable of lost coin should be female.  For visual appeal give the first reader a shepherd’s staff and the second a broom to hold as they read.  If these props are left near the pulpit, the preacher might pick them up when referring to that parable in the sermon.

>  To get the feel of 100 sheep, count worshipers.  If there are more than 100 worshipers present, gather 100 people at the front of the sanctuary.  If the choir is in the front, start counting them then counting people coming forward from the congregation until you have 100.  Or, count people in their pews.  If there are fewer than 100 in the sanctuary, count the whole crowd and figure how many more you would need to make 100.  However you do this, enjoy how many 100 is.  Then wonder aloud what it would be like if you had to move around all day as group.  Imagine how easy it would be for one of you to be left behind.  Then send everyone back to their seats or simply announce that Jesus told a story about a shepherd who had 100 sheep.  Read it.

>  Remember several things about being lost from a child’s point of view.  First, lost is being physically abandoned and alone.  Being lost in sin is a metaphor that requires explanation.  Second, fear of being lost (as in abandoned) is one of the deepest and most common fears of childhood - and most of life.  (Ever have dreams about being lost in an airport running to catch a plane?)  Third, when children are lost they assume that it is the adults around them who have wandered away from them.  They were doing reasonable to them activities and suddenly find themselves abandoned.  “I was looking at all the candy bars and mom was gone!”  “I decided to go back to the car while you shopped, but I couldn’t find it.”  So children assume the lost sheep was an innocent victim rather than a willful strayer – UNLESS you suggest the second possibility to them with examples of a sheep intentionally ignoring the shepherd’s call in order to chase a butterfly or eat more of a great patch of grass.

>  The first decision worship leaders must make is who are the lost.  Most often readers assume that they are the lost ones sought out by God and celebrate God’s persistence in finding them.  But, Jesus told these stories to the Pharisees who were unhappy that Jesus was eating with known lost sinners.  His message to them is that God is more interested in the lost than in them – and they should be too.

>  Explore the idea that God cares for everyone, not just me and the people I like, but people I think are “sinners.”  How many people are at your school?  (Probably no one will know this, so move to the next question.)  How many in your class?  (Some will know or be willing to take a guess at this.)  Then do some math to see if there are ten classes at your school and ???? in each class, there must be about ???? children in your school.  That is a lot of people!  Add to that all the teachers, principals, cafeteria workers, custodians, bus drivers.  That is really a lot of people.  Now, I want to tell you something about every one of those people.  Jesus says God knows and loves every one of those people.  That of course includes each of you.  Nice, isn’t it?  No matter how good or bad the day is going, God knows YOU and keeps an eye on YOU and loves YOU.  That makes us feel safe and kind of special.  But try this, think of the meanest kid in the school.  God knows THAT KID and keeps an eye on THAT KID and loves THAT KID just as much as God loves you.  Think of the hardest teacher you ever had.  God knows THAT TEACHER and keeps an eye on THAT TEACHER and loves THAT TEACHER just as much as God loves you.  Amazing, isn’t it?  God loves the smarty pants kids, the stuck up kids, the grumpy adults, the pests, (add terms that are used in your area)...   Amazing!  And you know what else?  God wants us to know them and keep an eye on them and even LOVE them too.   Actually, God is counting on us to be God’s partners in this.  God thinks we are all one big family and wants us to be happy together.   Close with a prayer for all the people in our schools.

Classic children’s stories about being lost and being forgiven.

>  Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown, is a conversation between a young bunny who asks his mother what she would do if he ran away from her in a variety of way and his mother who insists that she would always come after him.  At the end the little bunny decides he might as well stay home.

>  Mama Do You Love Me, by Barbara Joosse, is a similar conversation between an Inuit girl who asks her mother if she would still love her if she did all sorts of naughty things and her mother who replies to each that she would be sad or angry, but would still love her.

>  Many children saw Finding Dory, the sequel to Finding Nemo, when it came out this past summer.  It chronicles the adventures of Dory, Nemo, and Nemo’s father Marlin as they searched for and found Dory’s parents.  They ran into all sorts of problems and Dory had no short term memory which made their search even harder.  At times Nemo and his dad wanted to give up, but Dory insisted that they keep looking.  Compare the shepherd looking for the lost sheep, the housekeeper looking for the lost coin, and God looking for us when we lose our ways.  God never gives up on us – or on anyone else.  Go to HERE for a summary of Finding Dory.

>  Celebrate Jesus the Good Shepherd who comes after one lost sheep by singing your congregation’s favorite musical version of the Twenty-third Psalm.

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Mar 30, 2008: Wilderswil, Switzerland

Our Swiss/Italian Adventure Begins

We made it! After traveling via 2 planes, 4 trains over 4440 miles on 5 hrs of sleep over 34 hours we arrived late Saturday (after an afternoon of walking around Zurich waterfront, very pretty) at the Wilderswil, Switzerland train depot. It took 1 more km up a slight grade to reach our home for 3 nights: The Baeren Inn. Weather's been great so far. We have beautiful views of the alps & trekked up to Jungfraujoch. Sunday and took an impromptu tour around Grindelwald. Initial impressions of Switzerland - everywhere looks like the photos you traditionally see (e.g. Swiss chalets, beautiful vistas) and is very clean (including public toilets, compared to the US).

Surprising views from train rides include: graffiti (lots of it), buffalo & tee-pees! Took a short hike and ran into a bunch of llamas. Rain tomorrow...
>Lugging luggage the final km

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Sounds like a great start! Buffalo and tee-pees?! Keep posting - we like picts too :-)
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What to Buy from Unbroken Bonds?

Check out this buy list behind the paywall!

04/16/2019 by Zach Lesage

What’s up 60 Cards readers? It’s your main man Zach here and I wanted to drop a quick article for you that goes over my personal buy list from Unbroken Bonds. If you don’t find this helpful, that is cool, but hopefully this cuts down your research time a little bit. This list should be treated as a “playable” list; feel free to pick cards up in whatever quantity you can afford. Anyways, the buy list is behind the paywall.

Unbroken Bonds Buy List

GX / Tag Team

2x Blastoise-GX (Regular Art)

4x Buzzwole & Pheromosa-GX (Regular Art)

2x Celesteela-GX (Regular Art)

4x Dedenne-GX (Regular Art)

4x Gardevoir & Sylveon-GX (Regular Art)

2x Greninja & Zoroark-GX (Regular Art)

4x Honchkrow-GX (Regular Art)

4x Lucario & Melmetal-GX (Regular Art)

2x Marshadow & Machamp-GX (Regular Art)

1x Muk & Alolan Muk-GX (Regular Art)

4x Reshiram & Charizard-GX (Regular Art)

4x Whimsicott-GX (Regular Art)

4x Blacephalon

4x Cottonee

4x Charjabug

2x Drowse

2x Gloom

4x Grubbin

3x Hitmontop

2x Hypno

2x Kartana

4x Koffing

2x Marshadow

1x Mew

2x Mewtwo

4x Murkrow

2x Porygon

2x Porygon2

2x Porygon-Z

4x Rhyhorn

4x Rhydon

2x Salandit

2x Salazzle

2x Spiritomb

2x Stunfisk

4x Volcanion

4x Weezing

2x Zeraora

2x Beast Bringer

4x Crushing Ice Pick

4x Dusk Stone

4x Electromagnetic Radar

4x Energy Spinner

2x Fairy Charm (Lightning)

4x Fire Crystal

4x Metal Core Barrier

4x PokeGear 3.0

4x Secret Hood

4x Giovanni’s Exile

4x Green’s Search

2x Koga’s Trap

4x Lt. Surge’s Battle

4x Red’s Challenge

4x Welder

4x Martial Arts Dojo

4x Power Plant

4x Triple Acceleration Energy

See Ya in Berlin

I hope that you enjoyed this quick article and that you get all the cards that you want from Unbroken Bounds. As for me, my next stop isn’t Daytona Beach because I really don’t have a need to pick up Championship Points anymore and I have Easter plans with my family. This season is a bit of a weird one for me because I am already locked for a Day Two invite for the 2019 World Championships and I have already earned enough Championship Points for a stipend to the 2019 North America International Championships in Berlin. I guess my only push is to earn more money, represent myself to my fullest potential, and my chase to become the best player who plays this game. My next stop is Berlin, Germany and I will be the attending the event with my amazing girlfriend Michele Babin. She is on the hunt for the remaining Championship Points needed for her invite to the World Championships so hopefully we both see success. For those of you who don’t know, I do offer coaching services and I am actively accepting new clients. Feel free to message me on Facebook or hit up my DMs on Twitter if you are interested in learning from me. I am also active on Social Media and as a content creator so be sure to check out all of the links below to follow me on my Pokémon adventure.

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Catch the Hot Takes from Melbourne in this article to prepare for Collinsville

02/19/2019 by Mark Dizon

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Were you rooted to your seats this weekend like I was watching the Internationals? I am so relieved that the format has changed over as our last format had gotten a little stale. Melbourne was hot, both figuratively and literally. With two new archetypes debuting at this event and new upgrades to old decks, it was a breath of fresh air as we leave behind Lost Thunder and the focus shifts now to Team Up and the Tag Team GX’s. Hot Take: You heard it on my Twitter first but now you have it in the public over here. “Next Year’s Rotation will be Ultra Prism on”. Ultra Prism brings most of the Ultra Beasts not named Buzzwole, though he was a promo, and we had the second printing of Silvally GX. Ultra Prism has also tied in with Ultra Sun and Moon the games. So as we go through the next two sets, keep that in mind as you pick up the cards you need while they are low. What are the biggest takeaways from down under?

Thunder Mountain is the new Hotness

               If I asked you how many times in Zoroark’s Legality has a non-Zoroark deck won an international? What would be your answer? Well, it’s one. Last years Latin America International Championships was won by Buzzwole Lycanroc. Other than that, Every International London 2017, Oceania 2018, North America 2018, Latin America 2018 -2 the only one it didn't win was Latin America 2018 -1. Before this event we watched Zoroark win back to back regionals. Now another deck has taken the throne for the time being from Zoroark and it is the advent of the Thunder Mountain Pokémon from Lost Thunder, Team Up and the Jolteon GX Box. The number of Lightning Pips (these are the energy symbols on attacks or on the HP) in the top 8 outnumbered everything else around. The amount of value and consistency in the lightning Pokémon’s attack pack a punch for the cost that is needed to use them. Jolteon-GX’s Electro Bullet is very reminiscent of Buzzwole GX’s jet punch and that was an attack that uttered so much last year. Zapdos’ Thunderous Assault for one lightning and being able to KO most basics in Ditto Prism Star, Rockruff, Zorua and even opposing Zapdos’ makes it very cost efficient at taking prizes. Oh, by the way, Thunder Mountain Prism Star allows both these Pokémon to attack with no energy.

Zeraora GX which was used as a fringe piece to give Rayquaza GX in the last format has provided the lightning decks a way to add more retreat options to give Zapdos more chances to activate the clause needed in Thunderous Assault. This card is appearing in almost every lightning build. These Pokémon have combined to make up the main attackers in Isaiah Williams Championship winning deck. Tape Koko GX which has also only ever been seen fringe in early builds of Tapu Bulu before VS Seeker rotated has seemed to finally find a home in the decks

Support is the Name of the Game

Our last format did not have really many Support Pokémon outside of Diancie Prism Star, Swampert, Nagandel and Macargo. Malamar itself has been the backbone of its archetype that it seems the Attackers are the support in the deck. Trainer wise most decks were leaning on cards such as Beast Ring for an item and Shrine of Punishment to punish the GX decks. With the release of Team Up there have been two huge support Pokémon released. One being Absol Dark Ambition and one being Jirachi Stellar Wish. These two cards have shown up in decks in Melbourne. Jirachi is an accelerant allowing you card selection involving a trainer. Being able to look at the top five cards of your deck and pick the best card for your current situation is a great asset to many decks. The combo of escape board plus Jirachi makes the card even more potent allowing it to be retreated into the Zapdos for Zapdos to take quick knockouts early in the game. On the other side of support Pokémon we have a deterrent Pokémon in Absol. Absol makes your opponents retreat cost one more so it slows down Jirachi. With the ability, it turns the tables and the opponent will surely need a switch effect to move the Jirachi from the active position. Absol is also has one retreat making it a perfect escape board target. Tapu Koko Prism Star is the last big new supporter Pokémon. The ability of the card to allow you to create huge Tapu Koko GX knockouts out of nowhere provides ways for the lightning deck to create a huge tempo swing. When not doing that it also allows you to reset multiple Zapdos to keep churning knockouts.

Zoroark is Down but Not Out

The previous King of the Hill, Zoroark might not have won the tournament but it was in the final yet again. This made it so that Zoroark has appeared in every International Final Since its release other than the Buzzwole Lycanroc Mirror during last seasons Latin American International Championship.  Of the five Zoroark Decks in day two, two of them converted into top 8 finishes with one making it all the way to the final. Stephane Ivanoff who won last year’s North American International with Zororark returned to another International final this time packing Lucario in Zororoc. In the past, Lucario was seen as a super fringe role player in Zoroark decks that was made to be able to take an edge in the mirror. The inclusion of Lucario in Stephane’s list was to be able to one shot the Pikachu Zekrom Tag Team GX with one energy. I don't think anyone would have been surprised had Zoroark won this tournament, however, a lot of the players that played the deck does not believe it is a great choice moving forward. This has to be concerning to a lot of players that have Zoroark as a fall back at all time. The question now is, maybe Jirachi is just more efficient for card selection. Sure being able to draw two cards multiple time in a turn is great but maybe chaining Stellar Wish just allows you to set up your turns much stronger than Zoroark’s Trade ability. I for one don’t believe we have seen the demise of Zoroark yet. Last year Zoroark Gardevoir was able to take down Oceania International Championships but at Collinsville, Zoroark Golispod would emerge victorious. The question going into Collinsville seems to be will Zoroark Lycanroc be able to have a good matchup spread versus the field. The consensus among most players even players who played the deck is split right down the middle. Some say it is a very good play for the event while some players are distancing it. Time will tell if this possible, but now the question posed, will Zoroark ever win another Standard event?

Tag Teams are Here

One of the biggest decks to emerge from Melbourne was the Japanese favorite of Pikachu and Zekrom Tag Team GX. Taking up a huge number of spots in the top 8, it showed that players aren’t shy about giving up three prizes. With Pikachu Zekrom being able to take 4 Prizes during some turns is something we haven’t seen in the game since something much smaller like Fright Night Yveltal. My first time witnessing this was eye-opening. I felt my Zoroark Gx was in a good spot and I proceeded to see it be knocked out by an Electro Power, Professor Kukui, Choice Band to swing the game in the other player's favour. If you do not have a plan to face this head on, you are going to have a hard time at the upcoming standard tournaments. The only other Tag Team we saw was Gengar Mimikyu in some of the Malamar decks. Marshadow allows you to attack with the Gengar and not be afraid of giving up three prizes. I’m surprised we didn’t see a single Eevee Snorlax GX because it had been seen in Japan. Latios and Latias seem to not be competitive at this point. With more and more Tag Team GX’s coming sets, the game is changing and figuring out the correct way to prize trade will be important.

Deck Selection is Key

We have come back to the question before every regional. Are we playing the best deck right now? Or are we playing a deck that we know? Should I be buying cards or playing the cards that I own? I think with this regional being over 900 players you really need to play something that you will be comfortable for the rounds. Are you going for your invite and being consistent with your points or are you trying to top 8 the tournament? If you have four Jirachi’s you should probably be playing them. Four Zapdos, Pikachu Zekrom. These cards are all good because they allow you the ability to play a deck that not everyone knows how to deal with. I would be willing to say that not everyone has watched all the Stream. Players will play Zoroark Variants, Players will play some weird Mill decks. Your matchup spread must give you the ability to take a few wins. Your focus should be what is the best decks I can do this with. If it happens to be with a deck your more comfortable with instead of something opponents would uncomfortable to play against. I would make sure that you know how to play your matchups and make notes about them. Make sure that you read every card played that you haven’t seen so you don’t misplay versus it. There have been a lot of new cards released since the last standard regionals in November that you can always get surprised, I am currently stressing with this question right now. How do I find a deck that I can play consistently that can get me wins to get points? I want to make sure that I understand what my deck is trying to do and what their deck is trying to do. You could play against some random decks because that how Collinsville was last year, so make sure you are prepared.

Last year’s Collinsville was one of the biggest regionals on record. We are now about to hit multiple regionals in a span of six weeks. Interestingly enough the regionals after this are Expanded Expanded and then another Standard regional leading into the European Intercontinental Event. The switch has been something that North Americans have had to deal with the whole Season. This weekend will show part two of what Tag Teams can do and that will directly influence what happens in Toronto and Greensboro. It is disappointing that the point threshold has deterred so many players from playing because the format is so great right now and we could have had bigger and bigger regionals. One thing is for certain though, this regional will have a big impact.

If you are at Collinsville come say Hi.

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 With the recommendation of the World Council of Credit Unions, ACCU CEO Elenita V. San Roque was given an opportunity to be part of the panel on Women Financial Inclusion at the Gender, Law and Development Week from November 6-10, 2017 at the World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC.

The event draws over 1,000 participants and convenes a broad community of development professionals, globally. CEO Leni San Roque spoke about the two-overarching focus on women empowerment – 1) Political Empowerment: Equality at the Board table (>50% members of credit unions are women) and 2) Economic Empowerment: direct path towards gender equality, poverty eradication and inclusive economic growth.

Since more than 50% members of credit union members are women, there is a need for women to be part of the decision making. It promotes the Sister Societies in Asia to inspire, connect and motivate women to take leadership roles. The Sister Society, a local network of the Global Women’s Leadership Network helps bridge the self-confidence gaps for women who have the capabilities and passion to make a difference in the lives of other people.

She also spoke about the establishment of business development centers in credit unions to transform businesses of poor women entrepreneurs into viable and larger business enterprises.

She shared the vision of ACCU in digitizing financial services of credit unions in Asia. The pilot on digitization in the Philippines was highlighted – Kaya Payment platform. The platform will increase women's financial autonomy, support women's participation in the workforce and improve business performance, increase ability to remotely work from their homes or other places in their communities, reduce and better manage risks and faster turnover that leads to economic activities.

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1. Increased bone mineral density

It is important to keep the bones strong, and particularly important for women as women are more likely to develop osteoporosis in the later years compared to men. This is due to several reasons, one being that women have less bone mass compared with men. Resistance exercise increases bone density, reducing the risk of fractures into older age. It is best starting earlier on in life to maintain bone density rather than reaching old age with bone and mobility issues that need to be rectified.

2. Increased physical strength translating into everyday practical tasks

Strength training does what it says, it increases physical strength and therefore this can be applied to everyday life such as carrying heavy boxes, shopping bags etc. with more ease and with less chance of getting injured.

3. Better sleep

Although there are other factors involved in sleep and sleep quality such as age, gender, health, environment and other lifestyle factors, in general exercise is associated with better sleep and sleep quality (Youngstedt and Kline, 2006). Sleep time is when our body recovers and repairs. For myself personally I do tend to sleep better when I have trained. Whether that’s directly related to the training who knows, but either way it can only be a positive thing getting better sleep.

4. Healthier relationship with food

When individuals begin to understand that good healthy wholesome food helps to nourish the body, keep you strong, healthy and energised, many women in particular often then stop looking at food as the enemy and develop a more balanced way of eating.

5. More control over anxiety, low moods and negative thought patterns

from an anecdotal perspective this is the case for many people, including myself. No matter how you are feeling, taking part in exercise in general releases those feel good hormones and automatically lifts the mood allowing you to have more control over negative thought patterns.

6. Shows a person what they can achieve with the body…translating into other areas of life

Many women think that they are unable to lift heavy weight or do a pull up (this is not to generalise, but this is going by what many of my female friends and clients have said), and so to be able to achieve this can give women a great sense of accomplishment, satisfaction and confidence. This can then lead to the realisation that you can do anything you put your mind to, in any aspect of your life.

7. Increased mental resilience

I personally have found that strength training makes me more resilient to set backs and general day to day stressors. increased strength of the body results in increased strength of the mind.

8. Teaches consistency when trying to reach goals

Once you start setting goals within strength training (e.g. ‘I want to do one pull up’ or ‘I want to be able to get out one more repetition the next time I train’) it can become addictive (in a positive way), but to reach those goals you have to be consistent. This trains the mind to be consistent when trying to achieve goals in other areas of life, for example at work or in the home.

9. Better aesthetics

I’ll just firstly point out that this is the LEAST important point because this is just what happens by default when you progress.

Strength training helps to reduce body fat and shape the body (by increasing lean muscle mass). So if this is your goal, then this is one of the most effective ways to do it. There are of course lots of other different types of activities/sports that can effectively “tone” your body such as yoga, boxing, martial arts etc., but either way strength training in general can be rewarding as you are able to reach strength goals whilst changing body composition 😊

How to get started

Start with body weight exercises such as push ups, assisted pull ups etc. and progress up to free-weights (e.g. dumbbells, barbell. Kettle bells). If you aren’t sure how to execute an exercise properly ask a more experienced person to show you or hire a personal trainer for a period of time.

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So CL (my wife) and I decided that we had to have a good burger on Sunday. Per the recommendation of noted French fry enthusiast Glenn Walker, we went to Five Guys. A new location had opened up near the Target in Ocean, NJ.

If you haven’t been to a Five Guys (they just opened their 400th location, according to the web site), you should if you’re a carnivore. All they do is burgers and fries, but they do them right. The burgers are fresh and made on the spot, with tons of toppings available. And the fries- wow. Hand-cut, fried perfectly, not overly salted.

The interior aesthetic is definitely low-rent; they are huge bags of potatoes and peanuts around, and you’re encouraged to help yourself to th peanuts while you’re waiting for your order. Our order took about ten minutes, not bad for a busy Sunday. We’ll definitely go back.

We’re also going to try Bobby’s Burger Palace, a burger joint run by famous chef Bobby Flay, very soon. We actually didn’t realize that this place, with a really weird exterior, was one of Bobby’s places until a neighbor told us. There’s an interesting article here.

Hey, Glenn, you’ll have to come over and review it! Maybe we can do a podcast from there!

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  1. Another plus for Five Guys is that the peanuts are always fresh and tasty as well – but please leave your allergies outside, it could be dangerous. But yeah, Five Guys rocks.

    I have to admit I didn’t know about Bobby’s Burger Palace, and it sounds like a field trip is needed. Bobby Flay is one of those guys I’ve watched on the Food Network for years but have noticed one constant with him. Whenever I think (and it’s not just because I’m a burger purist, or a catastrophically picky eater – I do have a sense of what is good and works well even if I won’t eat it myself) a dish is done, Bobby will pour or pile half a dozen more ingredients in. It’s just too much, always. Any show he does, the meal is done halfway through the program in my opinion.

    And just for the record, I’ve been putting potato chips on burgers for decades. Barbeque style work best. So that’s nothing new, Bobby! 😉

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Both Collingwood and St Kilda have made minimal changes to the teams which will line up for the Grand Final replay. One good news story is Saint Ben McEvoy, who played 18 games this season as a back up ruckman to Michael Gardiner. He was shattered when told by the coaching staff that he would not be playing in last week's Grand Final. However, number one ruckman Michael Gardiner spent the second half of the Final on the bench with a hamstring tear. The club was hoping he would recover and be able to take his place in the side for the replay but that has not happened and young McEvoy now has his chance.

Collingwood decided to drop Leon Davis due to his ineffectiveness in the Grand Final. Davis had only 6 possessions for the match and kicked one goal. In his place comes running defender Tyson Goldsack who was named to the interchange. SImon Prestigiacomo, who withdrew from the named team last week due to injury, has also been named on the interchange bench.

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Japanese typography

In the context of writing a master dissertation about japanese culture at the Inalco (Paris), I dived into the history of japanese typography, focusing on the figure of Motogi Shōzō. As there are only few sources in english or in french about the development of japanese typography, I want to share here some of the elements I discovered.
(master dissertation under the direction of Emmanuel Lozerand, in 2016)

In Europe, we learn at school that printing has been invented by Gutenberg, in Germany, in 1460. Johannes Gutenberg, thanks to his strong will and by dint of mysterious research, is believed to have invented from scratch the way of making books on a large scale, and to be at the origin of the democratization of knowledge in Europe. Whereas the city of Mainz keeps the printing technique a secret, it is ransacked in 1462 and printers spread out all over Europe. This is how other printing centers are created, starting with Rome (1465), Venice (1468) and Paris (about 1470). 1
When we say “printing”, it is a shortcut that means in reality “typographic printing”, that is to say printing pages of text using metal letters. This technique is divided in different successive steps : engraving one sample of each letter in metal, reproducing identically these samples dozens of time, setting text using these signs made of metal, et then finally printing the typographic composition on paper.

In 1460 in Germany, the technique of engraving metal was already in use for the making of medals, and the printing press was well known : images were engraved in wood and printed using a press. Gutenberg, pictured in history textbooks as a brilliant inventor, based his invention on existing techniques. His creation has been to bring these techniques together and to finalize the production of metal letters thanks to a specific mould. Furthermore, he did not work alone, but had business partners. 2

In the same way that we turned Gutenberg into a symbol, Japan considers that the “father of Japanese typography” is Motogi Shōzō (本木昌造, 1824-1875). Magata Shigeri 3 paid tribute to this man in a short biography in english, published 18 years after Motogi’s death : “After years of toil and experiment, [Motogi] invented types for Japanese characters and for the first time made printing a business. We owe, indeed, to him alone the success and prosperity of Japanese typography in modern times. He is therefore most deserving of our esteem, as the Father of Japanese Typography.” 4
This idea then spread out.

However, we can find examples of use of the typographic technique as soon as 1590, whereas Motogi is a figure of the period of the bakufu’s end (1853-1868), which makes us wonder about the legitimacy of this statement. As we can already find metal type in Japan by the end of the 16th century, why do we consider Motogi Shōzō, born about 250 years later, as the father of Japanese typography? Is it because, thanks to a relentless personnal work, he managed to create more efficient metal letters than his predecessors did? Or should we consider him more the way we should consider Gutenberg, as a catalyst of different energies existing together at a given place and a given time?

Portrait of Motogi ShôzôMotogi Shōzō is born in 1824 in the city of Nagasaki, which is at that time the only interface between Japan and the rest of the world. As the descendant of a long line of interpreters, he commits to “Dutch learning” and is immersed in foreign knowledge, thanks to his studies and to his job as an official interpreter of the bakufu. What is called “Dutch learning” (rangaku, 蘭学) is the interest of Japanese intellectuals in western techniques that lead to the diffusion of knowledge in a wide range of fields, such as medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology and chemistry, geography and military strategy.

Therefore, Motogi grows up in an environment rich in links with Western countries, whether it is by reprints of western books, by Dutch people passing by Nagasaki and with who he can talk, or by russian ambassadors that he is in charge of.

The harbour and city of Nagasaki, in 1870

American boats arriving in the Uraga harbour in 1853 (printed woodblock)

We could say a lot more about the details of the fascinating life of Motogi Shōzō as an interpreter or a ship captain, in the ferment that was the end of bakufu period, but I feel you are getting impatient and want to know what has been the role of Motogi in the development of Japanese typography.

But you have to know that Motogi attended the naval training center of Nagasaki because this has a link with our story. Actually, after the naval center, he moved on to the steel industry, which is essential to ship making and for which he worked from 1860 to 1870. Having acquired knowledge in metal casting, he could use that to make metal type. The sequence seems logical, from boats to steel, then to metal type.
But things did not happen step by step, in this order. The idea of typography was already in young Motogi’s head and followed him for all his life. He made several attempts in type making before he succeeded.

Motogi is first in charge of a letterpress workshop, which has been created in 1855 within the naval training center. There, are printed copies of western books, using metal type made in Europe and brought by the Dutch captain Jan Hendrik Donker Curtius. When this workshop shuts down, Motogi is transferred to the printing workshop of the Dutch Indermaur and works there from 1859 to 1861. Indermaur has no intention of making his own type in his printing workshop. Motogi makes some trials to produce metal type, but he encounters a lot of problems : the difficulty to make the surface of the metal letters even, the bad quality of the lead and antimony, an inadequate ink (he uses China ink which is not thick enough), inadequate tools for engraving. This experimentation is not successful.

According to his biography published by the Tsukiji type foundry, Motogi hears that american missionaries have established a printing workshop in Shanghai and it seems that he has sent someone to learn the technique there, but unsuccessfully.  This is the moment to introduce the figure of William Gamble who has played a key role in the developpement of Japanese typography.

The Irish William Gamble (1830-1886) arrives in the United States at age 17 to learn the printing trade in Philadelphia, then he goes to New York and works for the Bible House until 1858, when he is sent to China to take care of the presbyterian mission press. He takes with him some sets of type, matrices and a casting machine. As soon as he arrives, he tries to apply the technique of galvanoplasty to the making of mobile type, which is going to help a lot the development of metal type in China.

Motogi, who is director of the steel company of Nagasaki at this moment, invites Gamble to spend 4 months in Japan, from november 1869 to february 1870, and creates within the steel company the “Center of teaching of typography” (kappan denshû sho 活版伝習所). This structure allows Gamble, who brought with him sinograms in lead and printing material, to pass on his knowledge about type casting and printing process. 5

To be able to launch a mass production for type, a solution to identically reproduce one given sign in multiple copies is needed. It is not possible to engrave the signs one by one in wood or metal, because it would make every copy a particular one. Hence the importance of the mould, the matrix, in which the lead can be casted.
In the process developed by Gamble to produce sinograms, the matrix is made by electrotyping. It starts with the making of a « souchon » (taneji 種字) 6 engraved in hard wood such as boxwood. As the souchon is not made of a conductive material, it is not possible to use it directly. The wooden piece has to be pressed in bee wax, then the wax surface is made electrically conducting by coating it very thinly with fine graphite powder and finally a thin shell of copper is electroplated onto this mold. After a phase of shaping, the matrix is ready to be used.

Advertisement for the fonts used in the letterpress workshop created by Motogi Shōzō, 1872

Using the way of making type taught by Gamble during his stay in Nagasaki, Motogi can now start a standardized mass-production of metal type. He opens his own letterpress workshop and prints textbooks and newspapers. This workshop, called the private course of Shinmachi (shinmachi shijuku, 新街私塾) is the base of what will be the first type foundry of Japan, the Tsukiji type foundry, created in 1873, two years before Motogi’s death.

First page of the type specimen printed in 1876 by the Tsukiji type foundry

It is now clear that Motogi Shōzō, far from being an inventor locked in his cellar, working relentlessly to discover a new technique, was in the middle of a both technological and human network, which allowed him to create the first metal type of Japan in 1870 according to modern standards. We can say that the system set up by Motogi is modern indeed. Nonetheless, it would be absurd to consider this typographic modernity as a singular fact disconnected from the past. The figure of Motogi is part of a continuum. First within his country, as he is the descendant of a line of interpreters from Edo period. But also on a wider scale, because he makes in his own country copies of metal type that have passed through Shanghai and which origin can be traced back to Europe (but that is another story…).
As the historian of graphic design Robin Kinross underlines it, “books about ‘the pioneers of modern typography’ or ‘Bauhaus typography’ situate their subjects in a vacuum without historical precedent and without relation to the unmentioned but implied contemporary traditional norm”. My actual research about the figure of Motogi Shōzō tries to “break down such separations, and to show that there are modern elements in what has been regarded as traditional, and that there is a tradition behind what has been taken to be just ‘modernist’.” 7

    1.    Perrousseaux Yves, Histoire de l’écriture typographique de Gutenberg au XVIIe siècle, Atelier Perrousseaux, 2006, p. 72.

    2.    Ibid., p. 46-48 and p. 65-67.

    3.    Magata Shigeri (曲田成) was the third director of the Tsukiji type foundry, from 1890 to 1894.

    4.    Magata Shigeri, The life of Motogi Nagahisa, Japan’s pioneer printer, Tsukiji Type Foundry, 1893, p. 1

    5.    Itakura Masanobu, Motogi Shôzô no kappan jigyou, sono tenkai to yukue 本木昌造の活版事業その展開と行方, dans Motogi Shôzô to nihon no kindai katsuji 本木昌造と日本の近代活字, Ōsaka Press, 2006, p. 11.

    6.    The word "souchon" is my own proposition to translate taneji.

    7.    Kinross Robin, Modern Typography, Hyphen Press, 2004, p. 18.

Written by Émilie Rigaud, 20 feb 2017 in Type history

16 thoughts on "Japanese typography"

  1. Julien C. says:

    Bravo ! Superbe étude, on y apprend beaucoup de choses, vivement la suite.

  2. Toby Howard says:

    A very nice and interesting article, thanks a lot.

  3. Julie says:

    J’adore! Merci pour ce partage

  4. Alberto Rey says:

    Estupendo artículo, muy interesante y completo. No tenía ni idea de la figura de Shozo, asi que muchas gracias :)

    A superb and ver y complete article. I have no idea about Shozo`s figure, so thanks a lot! :)

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    Contenido muy exclusivo en tu articulo, gracias.

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Lush bath bomb - Think pink.
 So i have included pictures of yesterday's haul but this time they're up close! Also the picture quality is so much better in these pictures

First off is the Lush bath Bomb in 'Think pink' i honestly think that this bath bomb is so so so pretty! i mean look at it. It even has flowers in it for gods sake (the flowers do dissolve)  i feel bad even thinking about using this product! That shows how much i love it. The scent is very spring like and fresh however its not over whelming like many lush products which i think is a plus. Who can resist a pink bath...

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watch the reason why i love this watch so so much is the fact that it has a map in the screen. i mean what watch has that?! plus the leather strap makes it look more classic which is another reason why i love it! This cost £26 which i personally think is a good price considering you get genuine leather.

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