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Maple Leafs 2020-21 Season Surprise: Thornton With Matthews & Marner
By The Old Prof January 4th, 2021
The Toronto Maple Leafs' training camp has started. And, honestly, I never would have suspected there would be a surprise of this magnitude right off the bat. Specifically, I'm speaking of the news that Joe Thornton, who many hockey insiders had pegged to be on the outside looking in, certainly is closer to the main action than almost anyone suspected.
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Thornton's Not on the Third Line Anymore, Was He Ever?
Instead of fighting for third-line center position, head coach Sheldon Keefe announced that he has thrust Jumbo Joe fully in the center of the action. According to the first announcements from the Maple Leafs training camp (and obviously things can change), if Thornton wanted to be in the middle of the action, he certainly got his wish. Keefe announced that he would partner Thornton with two of the Maple Leafs biggest guns – Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner.
Auston Matthews, Toronto Maple Leafs (Jess Starr/The Hockey Writers)
I'm pleasantly surprised, and I see the logic in it. I understand that critics everywhere – including many of those who read my posts – have been saying that Thornton isn't quick enough to keep up with his line mates because age has slowed him down. Although I didn't play hockey in any organized way at any level, I've watched a game or two in my time. It always struck me that skating with speed has a huge positive impact on the game; however, as my own father used to tell me, the puck moves faster than anyone can skate – so make good passes.
My First Thought Was Putting Thornton with Nick Robertson
When I first heard that Thornton was coming to the team, it never concerned me too much that Thornton might have lost a step. That said, I hadn't anticipated Keefe's move to put Thornton on the top line. What I did see was that Thornton could work well playing with and mentoring Nick Robertson.
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I had believed that when you partner the NHL's best passer with a player who could become a goal-scoring machine (I believe Robertson has that potential), Thornton's job would be to become a great offensive quarterback, who'd hit his "wide receiver" Robertson streaking down the ice on a fly pattern. [I know that's mixing sports metaphors, but I think readers will understand my point.] If Robertson has the speed, and Thornton has the eyes and passing ability, watch out.
Nick Robertson, Toronto Maple Leafs (Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty Images)
It just struck me that Thornton's ability to see the ice could match well with Robertson's speed and goal-scoring propensities to become a winning combination for the Maple Leafs. That still might happen; but, even better than that Robertson's been replaced by Matthews.
Thornton: One of the Best Passers in NHL History
Thornton got his 1000th NHL assist in 2017. He's currently seventh in NHL history with 1089 assists. No surprise, the great Wayne Gretzky holds the NHL all-time assist leadership with 1963 assists. In short, Thornton is one of the best passers in NHL history.
Congrats to Joe Thornton on his 1000th career assist! #Jumbo1000 pic.twitter.com/rBAw9gLnPP
— San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) March 7, 2017
Last January, my THW colleague Matthew Zator named Thornton the best passer of the past decade of NHL history. As Zator reported, the man they call "Jumbo Joe" has been in the league for 23 seasons and, during that time, he's only played for two teams, the Boston Bruins and the San Jose Sharks. "Like Henrik Sedin, he has always been known for his ability to distribute the puck."
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As Zator describes, even at his age, he "can still make a pass that will make your eyes pop out of your head." According to Thornton's childhood friend and former Sharks teammate defenseman Brian Campbell, his passing skills are second to none. "If there's a hole the size of a puck in between your skates, he'll find it and thread it through. You know what he's going to do and you still can't find a way to defend it."
Maple Leafs Joe Thornton Is in Good Company
Perhaps Thornton's biggest skill is to create goal scorers. Specifically, Thornton's impact on Sharks' teammate Jonathan Cheechoo was astounding. Cheechoo only played seven NHL seasons, scoring 170 goals during his NHL career. Incredibly, in 2005–06 and in 2006-07, Cheechoo scored 56 goals (winning the Rocket Richard Trophy) one season and 37 goals next. That's more than half of his NHL totals during the two seasons that he played with Thornton. Sadly, for the Cree winger from Moose Factory, Ontario, when Cheechoo was separated from Thornton, his career tumbled and he was quickly out of the NHL.
Sheldon Keefe Goes One Better: Joe Thornton Is on the Top Line
By moving Thornton who, after he finally retires, will be remembered as one of the best passers the NHL has ever seen to a top line with Matthews and Marner, head coach Keefe has done Thornton and Maple Leafs fans a huge favor. He's put Thornton with Matthews, who's arguably the best goal scorer currently playing NHL hockey.
Related: Was Lou Lamoriello as Good as Toronto Maple Leafs Fans Remember?
Given what Maple Leafs fans expected before Keefe's shocking announcement about the Maple Leafs top line, few NHL fans would have been surprised if Matthews hadn't made a run for the Rocket Richard Trophy himself. Can Thornton's presence with the team create another NHL goal-scoring leader?
No offense to Cheechoo, but I believe Matthews comes to the quest with a bigger skillset. This season, when it gets started – nine more days – promises to be fun.
Jonathan Cheechoo
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Greta Almroth (15 April 1888 – 24 July 1981) was a Swedish silent film actress. She appeared in 31 films between 1912 and 1940.

Almroth studied at  theatre school and made her stage debut in 1908. She was one of the first major stars of Swedish cinema, appearing in more than 30 films. After The People of Simlang Valley in 1924, Almroth took an extended break from film, spending a few years in the United States and then touring the stages of major rural towns with . She was a member of the women's association Nya Idun.

She is buried at Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.

Selected filmography

 A Ruined Life (1912)
 The Voice of Passion (1913)
 Judge Not (1914)
 Daughter of the Peaks (1914)
 Hearts That Meet (1914)
 Guilt Redeemed (1915)
 The Sea Vultures (1916)
 The Lass from the Stormy Croft (1917)
 His Lordship's Last Will (1919)
 The Parson's Widow (1920)
 A Lover in Pawn (1920)
 The People of Simlang Valley (1924)
 Melody of the Sea (1934)
 John Ericsson, Victor of Hampton Roads (1937)
 Good Friends and Faithful Neighbours (1938)
 Västkustens hjältar (1940)

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1888 births
1981 deaths
Actresses from Stockholm
Swedish film actresses
Swedish silent film actresses
20th-century Swedish actresses
Members of Nya Idun
Burials at Norra begravningsplatsen

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Our programs help families and individuals move into the housing and focus on short-term solutions that lead to long-term stability.
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Housing Navigation services are designed to help people find safe, affordable homes in the community
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Assisting with household eligibility, rental applications, and landlord interviews
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The Road Home provides these services for families, individuals, and Veterans who are experiencing homelessness throughout Salt Lake County.
Our team is on-site at each of the resource centers in the County and provides mobile outreach as needed to unsheltered people.
The Road Home's Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) team works to ensure that any veteran experiencing homelessness in Salt Lake County is engaged and has access to housing resources.
The goal of the SSVF program is to provide low-income veterans experiencing homelessness or at-risk of experiencing homelessness with a range of supportive services designed to promote housing stability.
We partner with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and other community partners to work towards the goal of ending veteran homelessness across Salt Lake County.
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This program is nationally recognized as an important tool of ending homelessness. The Road Home's Rapid Re-Housing program does just that—rapidly helps people, like families and veterans, move into homes and remain housed. Services are tailored to each household and can include rental assistance, providing basic needs for the home, and case management to connect people to resources like affordable childcare, public benefits, employment opportunities, and food security.
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As part of Rapid Re-Housing, The Road Home helps Veterans and their families move home through our Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program (SSVF). We partner with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and other community partners to work towards the goal of ending veteran homelessness across Salt Lake County.
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Through this program, The Road Home offers affordable housing and case management to people experiencing chronic homelessness, helping them remain stably housed. These are people with a disabling condition who have been without a home for a long time. Research shows that Permanent Supportive Housing programs help people stay in their homes, improve their health, and also save communities money. Onsite services—like Head Start, supports for health and employment, connection to community resources, and volunteer-led community activities—help ensure tenants remain stably housed. We provide Permanent Supportive Housing in apartment complexes across Salt Lake County, including Palmer Court (201 units) and Wendell Apartments (32 units).
Originally a Holiday Inn hotel, Palmer Court Apartments was renovated and transformed into 201 units of permanent supportive housing in 2009. Families and individuals with a former history of chronic homelessness have been able to call Palmer Court home for over 11 years. Onsite supportive services—including Early HeadStart and HeadStart, health and behavioral health supports, employment supports, and volunteer supported activities—ensure that tenants have the resources they need to remain stable in their homes.
This program aims to support individuals experiencing homelessness in Salt Lake City who frequently interact with emergency services and have a high number of emergency shelter nights. Delivered in partnership with Salt Lake City government, this intervention aims to provide housing and ongoing supports to some of the most vulnerable in our community. Since its inception in 2015, this program has demonstrated that safe, affordable housing helps to significantly reduce program participants' use of emergency services and shelter.
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This apartment complex is currently under construction, slated to be finished in May 2021. 65 studio apartments will be available for highly vulnerable individuals in our community that are in need of permanent supportive housing. A robust suite of onsite services, including case management and peer support, will be available to every tenant. We eagerly anticipate the opening of this invaluable new housing resource in our community.
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How to Compare Windows 7 Versions
Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system comes in six different versions. However, the most prevalent of he six are the Home Premium, Professional and the Ultimate that have been available for retail ever since the OS was launched. The other editions are as well available but they are targeted at other markets like enterprises.
The good thing with Windows 7 is that the coming or new edition always contains most of the features and certain improvements of the previous version. Additionally, all Windows 7 editions are capable of running under 32-bit processor and the 64-bit, with the exception of the Starter Version that does not support 64-bit processor.
However, Home Basic does not come with 64-bit installation but if you want it, simply obtain it from the manufacture, Microsoft. The company has long said that all of the features you enjoy in Windows 7 are kept in your computer so that, should you feel the need to take it a notch higher through upgrading your current Windows 7 operating system, all you have to do is use the Windows Anytime Upgrade. What it essentially does is allow you to buy the upgrade you want, unlock its features and do your upgrade.
As the latest versions in the line of the Microsoft Windows systems, a comparison of their working, features and other inalienable factors is crucial at this point.
Things to Consider as Well
Whereas Microsoft had included additional features in Windows Vista, the release of Windows 7 signalled a shift in focus to incremental upgrade in its line of operating systems. The overall objective was to enable the new operating system work under various applications and not a select few. In that regard, Windows 7 has cut out a name for itself with a number of merits and performance indicators that distinguish as a player to reckon with in the operating systems market. Windows 7 has features such as multi-touch support, a new task bar, home networking systems and various performance enhancements that have given it some repute mileage. Even so, let me hastily add that it has not been without its fair share of misgivings and disadvantages. But before we delve deep into the comparisons, I need to mention that there are applications that Microsoft used to offer with its preceding edition of Windows that it decided to provide as separate entities free as part of its Windows Live Essentials suite.
Thus when comparing windows, look at the following features;
With regard to the stuff you do daily, the things have just been made easier and a lot better with all of the versions that come with Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional. When you look at Home, Professional and Ultimate, the programs will generally come faster and it is a bit easy to find your stuff. Other factors to consider include end support, Web experience, TV, home network efficiency, available languages e.g. ultimate has 35 languages, Back Up and Restore Options to mention but a few.
Therefore, when comparing the new Windows 7 operating systems, an assessment of their different features and performance can greatly guide you. I used the three most common versions because of their usage globally.
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The Ongoing Health IT Interoperability Struggle – Health IT Outcomes
Posted in: Big Data, Blue Button, Data Science, EHR Interoperability, Global Standards, Health Care Costs, Health Care Economics, Health IT adoption, Health Outcomes, Healthcare Delivery, Healthcare Informatics, Integrated Electronic Health Records, JASONS, Military Health System Reform, National Health IT System, ONC Reports to Congress, Open Data, Patient Centered Medical Home, Patient Portals, PCMH, Primary Care, Quadruple Aim, Quality Measures, Veterans Affairs. Leave a comment
Compiled by Neil Versel, Contributing Writer
While health providers praise the ONC's interoperability vision, they're demanding increased standardization and an accelerated roadmap to achieve the Triple Aim.
Interoperability was supposed to be a centerpiece of Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use (MU) EHR incentive program, but hospitals and physicians practices nationwide are finding out just how hard it is to achieve that goal. Through the end of August, a mere 25 hospitals and 1,277 eligible professionals had attested to Stage 2 on the Medicare side of the program, according to CMS.
A KLAS Enterprises report, released in October, found that although 82 percent of the 220 providers interviewed thought that they were at least "moderately successful" with interoperability, a mere 6 percent said they were at an "advanced" level. And just 20 percent were "optimistic" about health IT vendors' efforts to collaborate on interoperability.
In the same week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology submitted its annual report to Congress, highlighting some of the problems. "Electronic health information is not yet sufficiently standardized to allow seamless interoperability, as it is still inconsistently expressed through technical and medical vocabulary, structure, and format, thereby limiting the potential uses of the information to improve health and care," the report said.
Days later, ONC released an update of its proposed 10-year roadmap to interoperability, a document that will be finalized in 2015. Like the earlier draft, this version put interoperability front and center on the office's three-year agenda, while harnessing this information to improve care and lower cost was part of the sixyear plan. This effectively pushes a main goal of Stage 2 into the third stage of MU, which will not start before 2017, and suggests that the bulk of the nation's healthcare providers won't achieve the "Triple Aim" until after the incentive money is gone.
Building Interoperability Around APIs
ONC's Health IT Policy Committee and Health IT Standards Committee also approved recommendations from a task force of an independent scientific advisory group known as JASON (not an acronym, but a reference to a character in Greek mythology) to build interoperability around application programming interfaces (APIs). Together, the moves have gotten mixed reviews.
"Credit to ONC for the vision," said Russell Branzell, CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). "We just need to find a way to do it faster than a 10-year plan."
Branzell wondered how hospitals are supposed to balance the longer-term vision for interoperability with an MU timeline that penalizes noncompliant providers starting in 2015. "There still are some pieces fundamentally missing," Branzell said.
He believes there should be "clearly enforceable standards" for patient matching, as well as "specific data standards that are enforceable down to the nomenclature number." Not having standards — standards that are kept current — adds to the complexity of health information exchange by offering too many choices that are not always compatible with each other, according to Branzell.
The CHIME chief continued, calling patient matching "the cornerstone of not only effective patient exchange but also patient safety." He would like at least a standardized patient matching requirement, if not a national patient identifier; a national ID has been politically taboo since at least 1998, even though the original 1996 HIPAA statute called for one.
Branzell praised the API strategy, while also indicating he was a proponent of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for data exchange, something created by Health Level 7 International. (Branzell is a member of the HL7 advisory board.)
The API idea is proving popular at the policy level. At a Washington, D.C. healthcare conference put on by U.S. News & World Report in October, Micky Tripathi, founding president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative; Jennifer Covich Bordenick, CEO of eHealth Initiative; and Steven Posnack, director of ONC's Office of Standards and Technology, all spoke in favor of greater availability of APIs in healthcare. After all, it has become common for facilitating interoperability in so many other industries.
"Kendall Square [in Cambridge, MA] and Silicon Valley are laughing at us," said Tripathi.
Tripathi mentioned other interoperability vehicles, including secure messaging following Direct Project protocols, point-to-point query and retrieve — usually by organizations using the same EHR vendor — and record aggregation with data normalization. Central repositories, he said, "are the dinosaurs that are going to go away."
Later, at the same event, then-National Health IT Coordinator Dr. Karen DeSalvo, said that EHRs would have limited impact on the quality of care in the absence of greater interoperability.
In the real world of healthcare, providers are getting creative, though some still want more clarity from Washington or from the health IT industry. Gulfport (MS) Memorial Hospital replaced its legacy EHR with a Cerner system that went live in June. Three months later, CIO Gene Thomas said that his most difficult task was migrating data to Cerner.
"This could have been avoided if all vendors had been told to adhere to the same formats," Thomas said. "The lack of standards in healthcare is a problem."
Addressing HIE Via Common Vendor Platforms Memorial Health System in Springfield, IL approached interoperability in what CIO Dr. David Graham called a "reverse way," with private practices bringing data to the organization's primary care group. Like so many other providers, Memorial is building a health information exchange among nearby organizations that have a common vendor, in this case, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions.
Memorial has been rolling out the Allscripts TouchWorks EHR at its own clinics this year and is installing an Allscripts interoperability platform called FollowMyHealth. The precursor of FollowMyHealth, called Jardogs, was incubated at the Springfield Clinic, a partner of Memorial Health System, prior to Allscripts acquiring the technology in early 2013.
Another partner, the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, also is transitioning to TouchWorks for ambulatory clinics, Graham said. "We are competing practices using the same database and the same instance of TouchWorks," he said.
Memorial also collaborates with a federally qualified health center (FQHC). When that safety-net facility refers patients to the Springfield Clinic or the SIU School of Medicine, information from a NextGen Healthcare Information Systems EHR flows into a common portal that care managers can access to reach out to high-risk patients, Graham said.
"The other benefit of it is that then you can put that data in front of the physician," Graham said.
It's not full interoperability, but it's a start.
Adding Mobility To The Interoperability Equation
A much larger healthcare system, San Francisco-based Dignity Health, has made interoperability a major component of a massive IT program. Dignity Health, formerly known as Catholic Healthcare West, was the launch customer for AirStrip One, a product from San Antonio-based AirStrip Technologies that delivers data from EHRs, patient monitors, and medical devices to clinicians on their mobile phones and tablets. Dignity also made an unspecified investment in AirStrip in August.
"We're fairly early with AirStrip One," said Dr. Davin Lundquist, Dignity's CMIO for population health. In the fourth quarter of 2014, the multistate health system was implementing the product in the Central Coast region of California. "In parallel with this, we are exploring care management, video visits, and other ways to engage patients," Lundquist said. "You need to come at it from lots of angles."
AirStrip OB, an obstetrics module, is in nearly every one of Dignity Health's hospitals, and the health system also has begun using AirStrip's cardiology product. "What we are envisioning is that we will get AirStrip in the hands of all of our physicians," said Lundquist, a family physician in Camarillo, CA, who practices about one day a week. He expects to have secure clinician messaging within the apps as well.
There are a lot of physicians to reach. Dignity Health has approximately 1,200 employed physicians and 2,000 to 3,000 "clinically integrated" aligned physicians among its total medical staff of more than 10,000, according to Lundquist. "Our health system, like many others, relies on independent physicians to support our work," he said.
Meanwhile, Dignity is about two-thirds of the way through migrating its hospitals to a Cerner EHR from an older system. Dignity Health Medical Foundation in California and several practices in the Phoenix area all run an Allscripts EHR, though Lundquist said there is "some variability" among those Allscripts installations.
Dignity has built a private health information exchange on the MobileMD platform, technology that Siemens bought in 2011 and now is in the process of selling to Cerner as part of the latter's $1.3 billion acquisition of Siemens' health IT business. More than 7,000 physicians across all of Dignity's markets are connected, according to Lundquist. "In most cases, that allows them to access hospital information," he said.
However, most of the data flow is one-way, though some employed physicians do have bidirectional exchange with Dignity Health hospitals. According to Lundquist, this is more a legal issue than a technical one. "Who owns it? Does it become part of the [patient's] legal record? Do you become an HIO?" he wonders.
Dignity Health's system connects with many national, standard HIE connections and exchanges data with the UC-Davis Medical Center and, according to Lundquist, is exploring a relationship with UC-San Francisco. He expects Dignity to participate in some fashion in California's statewide HIE known as the California Integrated Data Exchange, or Cal INDEX.
Physicians seem to welcome the efforts, as long as HIE fits workflow and makes practitioners more efficient. "I haven't seen any resistance from physicians when we give them data," Lundquist said.
Eventually, he would like to push alerts to clinicians to encourage early interventions with high-risk patients. "There needs to be a benefit to the doctor and the patient for them to do something outside their traditional workflow," Lundquist said.
"Obviously, it's important to integrate as much clinical data as possible," said Lundquist, who reports to both the CIO and to physician integration team leaders. That is easier with employed doctors than with independent physicians, who have all sorts of EHRs at various levels of implementation and sophistication. "Some small vendors don't even have strong CCD outputs yet," Lundquist said, referring to the Continuity of Care Document format required in Meaningful Use Stage 1. (Stage 2 replaces CCD with an HL7 standard called the Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture.)
Stage 1, which about 90 percent of hospitals and 70 percent of individual clinicians in the U.S. have met, was about getting EHRs in place. With that in mind, CHIME's Branzell is optimistic. "We have a lot of exchange going on in a lot of places that wasn't there 4 to 5 years ago," he said.
"We're building a house. We've got a beautiful foundation now," Branzell said. "But you can't live in a foundation." Right now, the nation's healthcare organizations are "just starting to put up the walls," he added.
"Huge gains in efficiency and safety were not supposed to come until post-Stage 3," Branzell said. That will be in about 2020, or the sixth year of ONC's new 10-year vision. "It's not all doom and gloom," Branzell said.
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The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power, are not the primary economic city of their nation state. David Kaufmann examines the unique challenges that these cities face entering globalised, inter-urban competition while not possessing a competitive political economy. Learn More
Knowledge, Policymaking and Learning for European Cities and Regions
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Transportation, Knowledge and Space in Urban and Regional Economics
Edited by Kakuya Matsushima, William P. Anderson
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Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Edited by Loretta Lees, Martin Phillips
It is now over 50 years since the term 'gentrification' was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrification studies, is a critical and authoritative assessment of the field. Although the Handbook does not seek to rehearse the classic literature on gentrification from the 1970s to the 1990s in detail, it is referred to in the new assessments of the field gathered in this volume. The original chapters offer an important dialogue between existing theory and new conceptualisations of gentrification for new times and new places, in many cases offering novel empirical evidence. Learn More
A Research Agenda for Shrinking Cities
Justin B. Hollander
This prescient book presents the intellectual terrain of shrinking cities while exploring the key research questions in each of the field's sub-domains and reviewing the range of methodologies within these topics. Learn More
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Governing Compact Cities
Philipp Rode
Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development. Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence from London and Berlin to examine how urban policymakers, professionals and stakeholders have worked across disciplinary silos, geographic scales and different time horizons since the early 1990s. Learn More
Creating Cities/Building Cities
Peter K. Kresl, Daniele Ietri
For the past 150 years, architecture has been a significant tool in the hands of city planners and leaders. In Creating Cities/Building Cities, Peter Karl Kresl and Daniele Ietri illustrate how these planners and leaders have utilized architecture to achieve a variety of aims, influencing the situation, perception and competitiveness of their cities. Learn More
Entrepreneurial Neighbourhoods
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A Research Agenda for Cities
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The Water-Sustainable City
David L. Feldman
Cities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water from increasingly distant outlying rural areas, thus disrupting their social fabric and environment. In addition, increasing urbanization due to population growth, economic change, and sprawl places huge burdens upon the institutions, as well as the infrastructure, that deliver, protect, and treat urban water. This book assesses the challenges facing the world's cities in providing reliable, safe, and plentiful supplies through infrastructural, economic, legal, and political strategies. Learn More
Cities as Political Objects
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Cops: Wanted, Armed Egg Harbor Township Man Arrested; Facing Multiple Charges
Chris Coleman Published: August 31, 2021
Prentis Blaylock, 34, of Egg Harbor Township NJ - Photo: Egg Harbor Township Police Department
Cops say a man from Egg Harbor Township, who was wanted on several warrants, was arrested on Sunday after he was Taser'd by officers who were called to check on a person who was possibly armed.
The scene unfolded just after 2:00 Sunday afternoon at a home on Ivins Avenue, according to the Egg Harbor Township Police Department. There,
...officers encountered Prentis Blaylock, 34 years of age from Egg Harbor Township, who was wanted on several warrants. Mr. Blaylock was uncooperative with officers, exhibited threatening behavior and was armed with a handgun. After negotiating with Blaylock for several minutes for him to surrender peacefully and having no success, a Taser was deployed and Mr. Blaylock was taken into custody without further incident.
Blaylock has been charged with possession of a handgun, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, possession of hollow-point bullets, possession of a large-capacity magazine, eluding, and obstruction. He also had a no-bail warrant for a domestic violence incident that took place in Egg Harbor Township and another warrant for fraud and theft by deception out of Gloucester County.
Blaylock was treated at an area hospital and is currently being held at the Atlantic County Justice Facility.
NJ arrests 31 accused child predators in "Operation 24/7"
A roundup of 31 men have been accused of sexually exploiting children online, state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced on July 14 while detailing "Operation 24/7."
The suspects "possessed and or distributed videos and images of child sexual abuse, including in many cases videos of young children being raped by adults," Grewal said.
Chat apps and gaming platforms remain favorite hunting grounds for child predators and even as the pandemic winds down, many children have continued to spend more time online.
State Police received 39% more tips in just the first 6 months of 2021 than they received in the entire year in 2019. The following are suspects charged in "Operation 24/7."
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Stores to customers: "Cash not welcome here"
To get a glimpse of the future of commerce in America, look no further than Sweden.
The Scandinavian country is largely a cashless society, with consumers relying on mobile phone payments or plastic. While the U.S. is still far from achieving the same level of cash-free existence, increasing numbers of restaurants and retailers are now snubbing the lowly dollar bill.
Some merchants such as SweetGreen, a salad chain, refuse to open their registers for cash, telling customers they can pay only with mobile payments or cards. With some newer vending machines, only a card or mobile wallet will get that cold Coca-Cola to roll down the chute.
Are we headed towards a cashless society?
The stance may appear un-American -- after all, currency is considered legal tender for all debts or dues -- but the Treasury permits private businesses to set their own policies, which means going cashless is fine with Uncle Sam.
"What we've seen is a push toward electric payments because of convenience, especially for Generations X and Y and onward," said Greg Burch, vice president of strategic initiatives as Ingenico Group, which makes payment systems for merchants. "The phone has become more personal than the wallet has."
While going cashless is still at what Burch said is an experimental level, he predicted that more stores will be adding mobile payment options or their own mobile wallets, similar to Starbucks' (SBUX) payment app. The coffee chain's mobile wallet is gaining in popularity: It now accounts for about one out of every five purchases.
Using cards or mobile apps is increasingly popular with younger generations, but stores have good reason to like the trend, as well. Moving away from cash removes the cost of storing and transporting bills and coins, which merchants like. It also reduces the potential for physical theft.
The downsides? One is a loss of anonymity because cash allows consumers to make transactions without a paper trail.
Another negative impact is stores that refuse cash may be effectively shutting out many lower-income customers. About one out of 13 U.S. households are unbanked, which means they have don't traditional banking accounts, such as checking or savings accounts. Such families tend to be lower-income and rely on cash to make their purchases.
While federal law allows merchants to set their own rules about which types of payments to accept, at least one state makes it illegal to refuse cash: Massachusetts. The issue came to a head recently after a rash of stores catering to well-heeled young professionals posted "no cash allowed" at their registers.
SweetGreen, the salad chain, changed its cashless ways in its Boston locations after learning about the rule, according to The Boston Globe. SweetGreen didn't return CBS MoneyWatch requests for comment.
"We've now adjusted plans in our five Boston test stores to be in compliance with Massachusetts retail law," SweetGreen President Karen Kelley told the publication "As we grow, we learn, and as we learn, we adjust: It's all part of our mission to do right by our customers and our employees."
Of course, the bigger hassle for consumers might be the flip side of going cashless. Many retailers and restaurants still have cash-only policies, which can prove increasingly irksome as consumers visit the ATM less frequently.
They added: "Both the U.S. and China would do well to adopt policies in partnership with market actors to nudge their already digitally ready societies towards digital money and unlock massive savings -- in time and money -- in the process."


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Google Play Music Gets A New Look And Songza's Suggestion Superpowers
Today, Google Play Music gets smarter about the suggestions it offers, by taking into account the time of day, day of the week, and device you're using. So when you're dragging at the end of the work day, you get just the jams you need to get through it.
You might recognise that the new contextual suggestions are inherited from Songza, the music service Google acquired earlier this year. Like the Songza Concierge, Google Play Music will now let you pick from a couple of likely situations it thinks you might be in and guides you to music to fit the mood. So for example, it's late "Late Tuesday morning" and I'm working, so I get a playlist suggestion based on that. (Currently, I'm listening to a curated Songza playlist called "Fun & Funky Pick-Me-Ups.")
The big difference is that because the new tool is baked into Google's subscription service, you'll be able to see the upcoming tracks and re-order or remove songs, which isn't possible on Songza because of the free service's restrictive contracts with record labels.
The concierge will show up right when you arrive at Google Play Music on the Listen Now tab, which is designed to be the fastest way to get from launching the service to hearing songs.
In addition to the new concierge, the service will be getting an overhaul to fit into the new Material Design language the company introduced over the summer and is rolling out with Android 5.0 Lollipop. There will also be some little tweaks to the UI. For example, specific suggestions will now come with a justification for why you're getting them. So when Google suggests The Kinks, it will tell me it's because I've been listening to a lot of Rolling Stones.
Contextual suggestions are about to start getting really good across music services as they each get better at parsing the troves of user data they have got. In general, I like Google's efficiency based approach to music: The service is designed to get you from login to music in as few clicks as possible. And with better contextual suggestions, the hunt for music is only going to go faster. [Google]


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2014 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Dr. Carl Hart, High Price (Harper)
The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. The winner receives a cash award of $10,000 and will be honored at the PEN Literary Awards. The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award was founded by scientist and author Dr. Edward O. Wilson, activist and actor Harrison Ford, and the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. The inaugural award was conferred in 2011.
Akiko Busch, Rivka Galchen, and Eileen Pollack
From the Judges' Citation
The lifetime of research that is the foundation for High Price stretches from the streets of Miami's hood to the labs of Columbia University. In drawing on such a broad range of resources, neuroscientist Carl Hart demonstrates how personal experience and scientific study can inform and validate each other for a deeper understanding of human behavior and addiction. Dr. Hart's unflinching view of his past, along with his rigorous academic inquiry, make for a document of innovative thinking and profound humanity. Written with clarity, honesty, and courage, High Price offers a compelling argument to reconsider this country's policies on drug use, which have proved so ineffective not only from a legal standpoint, but from medical and social perspectives as well.
The End of Night (Little, Brown and Company), Paul Bogard
Five Days at Memorial (Crown), Sheri Fink
High Price (Harper), Carl Hart
Surfaces and Essences (Basic Books), Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander
Wild Ones (Penguin Press), Jon Mooallem
Frankenstein's Cat (Scientific American / Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Emily Anthes
Gulp (W.W. Norton & Company), Mary Roach
Weird Life (W.W. Norton & Company), David Toomey
What the Dog Knows (Touchstone), Cat Warren
Paleofantasy (W.W. Norton & Company), Marlene Zuk
Siddhartha Mukherjee, James Gleick, and Leonard Mlodinow
Click here for additional information, including submission guidelines, for the award.
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Thank you John Medina for making this so clear.
When we eat, food is converted to glucose – the body's fuel. The conversion process creates waste. This waste includes electrons which, left to their own devices, would collide with other electrons – creating of one of the most toxic agents known to mankind – free radicals.
When we breathe we oxygenate our blood. Oxygen acts as a sponge, soaking up the excess electrons and removing them (through the conversion to carbon dioxide) before they can create cancer-causing free radicals.
The brain, while occupying only 2% of our total body weight, consumes at least 20% of the glucose we produce by eating. This means the brain requires 20% of our oxygen supply in order to "sponge it" clean.
Aerobic exercise increases blood flow and (therefore) oxygenation of the blood. More oxygen, cleansing of electron waste. Better clarity of mind.
This is one of the many ways exercise contributes to better brain function.
For more – read Brain Rules by John Medina. It's a page turner.


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Posted on September 23, 2015 by Mark Medina
Lakers gather around Julius Randle after he broke his leg on Oct. 28, 2014. (Photo by John McCoy/LA Daily News)
Below is the second part of my Q&A with Lakers head athletic trainer Gary Vitti, who offered insight on Julius Randle's season-ending leg injury and why he initially faulted himself for Randle's ailment. I detailed Randle's efforts in those areas as well as his improved dietary habits in the print edition. But below is an expansive transcript of part two of my interview with Vitti earlier this summer at the Lakers' practice facility in El Segundo.
What do you remember about the night when Julius fractured his tibia in his right leg during the season opener last year?
Vitti: "It was devastating Probably the most devastating moment of my career was when I realized Earvin "Magic" Johnson was tested positive for HIV. That wasn't breaking your leg. That was a death sentence at the time. Second to that was this, Julius' broken leg. When I got to the floor, he told me, 'I broke my leg.' Then I looked at it and could see the deformity and immediately splinted his leg with my hands and he moved a little bit.
I could feel a little crepitus. I could feel the bones crunching. I looked at him and said, 'You did break your leg' I would not let go of it. I splinted the fracture with my hands and called for the doctors and EMT's that came out with the splints. I did not let go of them until we could get a splint. Just to see the poor kid at 19 years old in his first game of his career was devastating. We went on the road that night [to Phoenix]. It was a surreal experience and I was in a fog. You start thinking, 'What did I do wrong? What did we do wrong. How did this happen?' Then you go through that whole sort of thing.
"Lakers players gathered around #30 Julius Randle after he broke his leg on a play in the 4th quarter. The Lakers played the Houston Rockets in the opening game of the 2014-2015 Season. Los Angeles, CA. 10/28/2014 (Photo by John McCoy Daily News )"
Were there any warning signs that could have contributed to Julius' injury?
Vitti: "That's the interesting thing. Julius came in a couple of weeks before and told our assistant trainer that he bumped his leg on the bed post. It was a little sore. He looked at it and didn't think there was much to it. He then called me and I went in and looked at it. It looked like he had some subperiosteal swelling. The way I explained is when you're eating ribs, right between the meat and the bone, there is some connective tissue. That looks really smooth. That stuff is on the bone. When you're eating the ribs, it's not on the bone. It's been cooked off. But you can bump that. People bump their shins all the time. You can get your swelling underneath it. It can be pretty tender. It was for a couple of days. So I said, 'Let's just keep it an eye on it.' Plus, he had actually done something and he told us, 'I bumped it.' It's not like he came in and said, 'My shin hurts.'
We questioned him over the next couple of days. He said, 'Nah it doesn't hurt at all anymore.' So he didn't have persistent pain. That is what you see with a stress reaction and stress fracture. You see persistent pain. As you run and jump, it hurts more. So you can start practice and you have a level of pain that is a two or a three. But the more you run and jump on it, it goes up.
When you stop running and jumping, it doesn't hurt as much. These are the tell tale signs. But he didn't have any of those. He was asymptomatic, to the point where even when he fractured and I'm holding his leg, I didn't put it together. It was the furthest thing from my mind that this was the leg that he talked about a couple of weeks ago.
Then when we x-rayed him, he realized it. He said to me, 'I fractured this where the bump was.' That's when I really lost it. I was devastated. I went to management and our doctors and said he said something about this a couple of weeks ago and it looked benign and it wasn't typical. I asked our doctors and I asked Dr. Wiss, who did the surgery (at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.) He said, 'Sometimes it's like that.' A stress reaction is predominately asymptomatic.
So what do you do when you take a 19-year-old kid who doesn't have any pain and has a stress reaction? Do you stop him and put a rod in his leg? What do you do in that situation? You'll never know. What happened, happened. Sometimes this is like veterinary medicine. You have a dog or a cat and you know there's something wrong with him, and the dog or cat can't tell you. This was that situation. We cannot solely rely on the symptoms and science. You have to really take this slowly. That's what we're going to do."
Lakers' Athletic trainer Gary Vitti looks Kobe Bryant #24 after he hurt his ankle during their game against the Warriors at the Staples Center in Los Angeles Friday, April 12, 2013. The Lakers beat the Warriors 118-116. (Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer)
So Julius' injury was even more devastating to you than even when Kobe [Bryant] tore his Achilles?
Vitti: "Yeah, I think so in some ways because Kobe's Achilles was sort of at the end of his career and it could have happened. I don't think it was predictable. So at the moment that Julius told me in the x-ray room when we saw the fracture, 'This is where I had that bump,' I felt that it was my fault. I didn't feel Kobe's [injury] was my fault. Everyone has told me it wasn't my fault. But I have carried that for a while. Even Dr. [Steve] Lombardo [Lakers doctor from Kerlan Jobe Orthopedics] got on me and told me to stop it.
Have you come to grips with it and no longer blame yourself for this?
Vitti: "I've come to grips with it. It happened, so there's nothing I can do about it. I have to come to grips with it. Sometimes maybe you expect more from yourself than other people expect from you. Maybe if I had x-ray eyes or MRI eyes. I should have known something. Somehow I should have known. In my 30-plus years, I should have known. But everybody is telling me there is no way you could have known unless you had x-ray eyes."
"Lakers#30 Julius Randle broke his leg on a play in the 4th quarter. The Lakers played the Houston Rockets in the opening game of the 2014-2015 Season. Los Angeles, CA. 10/28/2014 (Photo by John McCoy Daily News )"
How did Julius stomach this long-term absence and handle his recovery?
Vitti: "He was great. He went through all the stages. There's depression and anger. 'Why me, why this?' I think he got through that very quickly, especially for a young man. I really admire how he handled the whole thing like a real pro, and he was only 19. Once he realized it was what it was and there was nothing he could do about it, he adopted the philosophy that I'm going to do everything right. He changed his diet. He did the things he could do. He concentrated a lot on that, not on what he couldn't do because of his leg. But what can he do to control his life.
I really admire him the way he handled it like a real pro. The kid never had a chance to play in the NBA. Before he knows it, he's getting a metal rod stuck in his leg. I don't think there was ever any doubt the would come back from the injury. He just did everything right. He handled it like a seasoned veteran would."
Even with him handling everything well, did you ever notice Julius showing frustration with the process?
Vitti: "He never showed me that. He did everything we asked him to do and not do. Well until right now. You saw the communication we had with each other over the minutes. If he needs to be angry at somebody, then it can be me. But this is the right way to handle it. Look at the progression. He was really frustrated after the first Summer League game. Then he was angry and frustrated the second game he played. Then by the third game, he adjusted. He played very well.
To me, that's a very normal sequence of events. Right off the bat, he realized this is something harder than he thought it would be. The second game that he played, he felt he need more minutes to get into a rhythm. No, you don't. You have to learn how to do it. Then he was forced to learn and he did. He adapted very well. That says something. It says something about him. Some guys can never adapt. He did. I then told him, 'I'm proud of you.'"
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Q: What's the meaning of "the decadent, twenties feel of the coupes" here?
All of the women are now drinking champagne out of old-fashioned coupe
  glasses. Occasionally a fussy guest will request a flute, but most
  enjoy the decadent, twenties feel of the coupes.[1]

I know that:

*

*coupe is a "shallow, broad-bowled, saucer shaped stemmed" Champagne
glass.[2]

*"feel" here is a noun which means " a quality that something has that
makes you feel or think a particular way about it".[3]

*"decadent"  means "having low moral standards and being more
concerned with pleasure than serious matters"[4]

But I cannot understand what's the meaning of  "the decadent, twenties feel of the coupes" exactly? Could you expain it to me please?
[1] An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_glass
[3] https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/feel
[4] https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/decadent

A: Some people believe that the correct or "proper" way to enjoy champagne is in a flute glass. So to use coupe is to flout convention, to break the rules, to be decadent. There is also myth that the coupe was designed in the shape of a breast, so even more decadence. So a certain delight in echoing the decadent behaviour of the Roaring Twenties (1920s). Grab a glass and sing ...
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, now heaven knows, anything goes. (Cole Porter)

A:
but most enjoy the decadent, twenties feel of the coupes

The 1920s were a parties decade (it was called the Roaring 20s); the First World War was over, the Great Depression hadn't started yet, the young rich partied hard, as they had nothing better to do.
By drinking their champagne from coupe glasses people feel they are partying like the people of the 1920s, see this link for more detail and pictures:
https://www.thewanakasun.co.nz/news/5171-back-to-roaring-20s.html

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FILE PHOTO: A worker stands outside the construction site of the new Best Sunshine Live casino at Saipan, a U.S. South Pacific island, November 21, 2016. REUTERS/Natalie Thomas/File Photo
Hundreds of people remain in makeshift housing and some schools are teaching students in tents on the tiny Western Pacific island, a U.S. territory close to major U.S. military bases on Guam.
Saipan's economy had been buoyed by Hong Kong-listed Imperial Pacific International Holdings' casino since it opened as a temporary facility in 2015. The project has contributed to around 60 percent of government revenues through taxes and operating fees.
However, Imperial Pacific posted a record loss in 2018 due in part to massive uncollected debts, and is far from finishing its glitzy resort that was initially due to open two years ago.
Tax revenues due to Saipan's government have dropped by more than 70 percent, according to Imperial's annual report released in March while legislators, executives and local residents say the company is behind on monthly tax payments.
Imperial Pacific declined repeated requests for comment.
Authorities in Saipan, part of the tropical Northern Mariana Islands, are planning to cut the budget by 10 percent for 2020 and have already cut $12 million in spending for fiscal year 2019, according to governor Ralph Torres. Austerity measures such as reducing utility hours have also taken effect.
Imperial has been granted multiple extensions after missing deadlines to complete the project and local legislator Christina Sablan said there were concerns it would need to seek a further extension because of problems securing the workforce needed to finalise construction before the current 2021 deadline.
Labour shortages due to federal restrictions limiting the number of foreigners allowed to work in Saipan have affected businesses across the tiny island – home to around 50,000 people – where tourism is the main economic driver.
Imperial operates its opulent gold and cream hued casino in the heart of Saipan's main Garapan district, targeting high roller gamblers, mostly from China.
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The company is facing acute challenges with visits from high rollers plunging after the typhoon in October and some $1.2 billion (£0.92 billion) in outstanding receivables, of which $730 million was over a year old, according to its 2018 annual report.
Imperial is also involved in several legal cases including one brought by former construction workers who say they were victims of forced labour and human trafficking. The company declined to comment on allegations by seven Chinese former construction workers that it "recklessly disregarded its contractors' exploitive and illegal practices".
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Adopting a New Pet – What to Watch For!
Come celebrate New Hampshire's #1 Dog. 'Reckon', an Australian Shepherd from Kensington, NH, was named Best of Show at the 10th Annual AKC/Eukanuba National Championship, beating out 2,500 other canines vying for the title. He and his owners will be presented with a Governor's commendation at a press conference on Tuesday, January 18th, at noon in the Legislative Office Building lobby in Concord.
On Thursday, January 13th, Joyce Arivella and Nancy Holmes (DOGS Board members) testified in opposition to HB 57. Representative Shurtleff from Penacook, sponsor of HB 57, became concerned about the clarity of the dog laws after Hillsborough law enforcement officials were confused about how to cite the owner of a pit bull that bit a child. The dog was tethered in the owner's yard when the bite occurred.
Joyce Arivella speaking for DOGS at the House Criminal Justice Committee's public hearing noted that "Although we sympathize with the child and her parents, NH has good dog laws that have stood the test of time. The law allows for the police or Animal Control Officer to deal with any dog deemed a threat to public safety. In fact, many towns have their own ordinances about vicious dogs." Joyce provided copies of the ordinances from Bennington, New Durham and Sugar Hill.
In Nancy Holmes' statement to the committee opposing the bill, she explained that "the effective answer to the issue of dog bites is not found in changing the penalty section of the laws but rather in education. The focus on the penalty section of the law will not reduce or end such bite incidents, as this bill will concentrate on after the fact punishment. What is needed is a proactive solution focusing on prevention. Such a solution might be to have education in our schools, through the animal shelters, by local trainers or even through local dog clubs to promote appropriate training for dogs, children and adults". Nancy provided the committee with examples of education materials from an excellent website http://www.safekidssafedogs.com/ . The website is written by Karen Peak of West Wind Dog Training and former NH resident.
HB 57 is one of a handful of bills that the House Criminal Justice Committee has scheduled for a committee vote on Tuesday, January 18th starting at 1pm in room 204 LOB.
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DOGS Position: DOGS Opposes. Although the idea of N.H. being a referendum state might be appealing, one only has to look at what occurred in Missouri last fall. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and its supporters spent well over $4M to pass their "puppy mill" proposal. Not to mention Florida where, through a referendum, HSUS was able to add protection for pigs to the Florida constitution.
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The 7 Best Christmas Sermon Illustrations to Grab Their Attention
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but it can be difficult to come up with fresh sermon illustrations every single year. This season, instead of dressing up as Santa for the 5th year in a row, or telling that same story about giving your child a gift they'd been anticipating, try these ideas instead.
All Walks of Life- Ira D. Sankey
Ira D. Sankey was a hymn writer and song leader at many of D. L. Moody's revivals. One Christmas Eve, he was on a steamboat and the other passengers requested that he sing a song. So he sang "The Shepherd's Song." After he did so, a man came up to him and peppered him with questions: Had he served in the Union Army during the Civil War? Was he ever on picket duty at night in 1862?
As the questions got more specific, the man revealed that he'd been a sharpshooter in the Confederate Army. One night he'd seen a Union soldier. When he was just about to shoot him, the soldier's voice had wafted over the air, singing "The Shepherd's Song." The music had touched his soul, and he'd put down his gun. That night on the steam boat, he realized that God had stopped him from shooting Sankey, and he came to faith in Christ.
This illustration is a beautiful illustration of how God calls people from all walks of life to Himself. We see this happening in the gospel, and throughout the New Testament.
What people spend on Christmas- Financial Statistics
In 2014 the average American spent $740 on Christmas gifts. Why? To demonstrate their love for someone else? Truth be told, some of those gifts were probably purchased out of obligation. How many of us have an Aunt Mabel that we forget to buy something for, only to have to grab something last minute, because we don't want to show up empty-handed?
The heart of the Christmas gift shouldn't be out of obligation, but out of love, with no expectation of repayment. God has provided the gift of grace to your life through Jesus Christ. You cannot and should not repay him for this gift. Your service in life is just a thank-you note to Him.
When you're using statistics, it's important to frame these statistics in a way that people can understand. Talk about how it compares to other things, or put it in personal terms that people can understand.
Reasons to Be Thankful- Matthew Henry
Once, Matthew Henry (of the Matthew Henry commentaries) was attacked and robbed. All of his money was gone. It would have been understandable if he was angry, but here's what he wrote in his diary:
"Let me be thankful. First, I was never robbed before. Second, although they took my purse they didn't take my life. Third, although they took my all, it was not that much. And fourth, let me be thankful, because it was I who was robbed and not I who did the robbing." (Quote here)
This is a powerful illustration of thankfulness. It's so easy to develop a consumeristic mindset during this season. Instead, we need to be thankful for the true gift of Jesus. After all, God has given us so much to be thankful for.
Favors- The Office
In one episode of the popular TV show "The Office," two coworkers, Dwight and Andy, get into a favor battle. Dwight comes in with bagels and when someone takes one, he smiles and says, "You owe me one." He's planning to cash all these favors in, but it all comes crashing down when one of the other characters, Andy, insists on cashing favors in immediately. Every time Dwight gives Andy something, Andy outdoes him, so it becomes a competition.
While this may sound hilarious and ridiculous, it's actually a great illustration of how we sometimes give- out of obligation. It can be hard for us to receive gifts, but we need to open ourselves to the gift that God has given us through Jesus. From there, His grace will empower our obedience. Our obedience doesn't empower grace.
Empty Boxes- Dr. Tony Evans
In his book of sermon illustrations, Dr. Tony Evans tells this story: "One year at Christmastime, my wife wanted some wrapped boxes to use for decoration. She took eight empty boxes and had them wrapped to use as a decoration at our front door. Those boxes sat in front of our house, impeccably wrapped, topped with bows, but empty. I didn't worry about a thief coming and stealing any of the wrapped boxes in front of our house- there wasn't anything in them. A lot of folks are well-wrapped, but there's nothing going on inside. Unfortunately, today many people don't know what it means to be truly blessed. They just want to be well wrapped. True, authentic Christian living starts on the inside and the evidence of that life works its way out."
Sacrificial Living- It's a Wonderful Life
If you've never seen it, the premise of It's a Wonderful Life is that a young man, George Bailey, stays in the town of Bedford Falls. Even though he dreams of traveling the world, he does the right thing and helps run his father's business, which provides loans to low-income individuals. One Christmas Eve, he runs into some trouble and he's worried that he's going to go to jail because someone else made a mistake, and he wishes he had never been born. In the last part of the movie, he gets to see what life would have been like if he really had never been born. He sees how his sacrifice has made a difference for so many people.
This is an illustration that you've probably heard many times. Here's why it's important to explore this year: If that movie had been made today, it probably wouldn't have been about George Bailey changing the world by staying home. He would have gone out and had his adventures and lived his life. What we don't see a lot of today, in the stories that we tell, is the beauty of life lived in sacrifice.
What we observe in It's a Wonderful Life is someone who continually says, "No, I'm going to sacrifice for the greater good, I'm going to sacrifice even if it means not getting to see the world. Even if it means not getting to follow my dreams or follow my heart. I want to do it for other people." That really shows the power of what Jesus reveals to us in incarnational living. Jesus sacrificed in order to come to earth and to live and to die for us, and we must live that out as well by following His example.
Life-Changing Generosity- Personal Illustration
Here's an example of how one act of generosity changed Justin's life forever:
"When I was growing up, things were always tight. But, my parents were committed to tithing, and they taught me to tithe as well. Still, I didn't consider myself a generous person. I felt like I had to tithe, out of obligation, but anything beyond that I would hold onto.
"Well, I started working for a company, and the leader of that company was a very generous man. One Christmas, he decided to give away $250 Walmart gift cards to every single employee for them to give away to somebody else. For some reason, his secretary said, 'Justin, I have a few extra, do you want to take a few extra to give away?' and I said, 'Sure!'
"So my wife and I got together with a few friends and we went to Walmart. We bought backpacks and filled them with socks, toothbrushes, toothpaste, cologne, deodorant, etc., and set out to give these backpacks to different homeless people we would see. We had a total of 6 male-specific backpacks and six female-specific backpacks filled with respective items. Toward the end of the day, I had one backpack left, and it was packed for a man. An old lady walked by me, obviously homeless, and I started talking to her. She was really sweet. I gave her the backpack and apologized that there were some men's items in there, but I told her that Walmart would let her return them so that she could buy what she needed.
"Then, she said something amazing. She said, 'I don't know if I could return that cologne and deodorant. It was such a thoughtful gift from you all, I just might want to keep it.' I've never forgotten that. That moment was a gift to me, because it changed me. Because I wanted to be able to give that moment to someone else. So, from that day forward, I determined to be a much more generous person, beyond just tithing. I grew because of the leadership and example of someone else leading in generosity. Generosity is contagious."
You're welcome to use this story if you'd like, but probably you have a story that's similar, right? You have a powerful illustration of generosity that would mean a lot to you to share, but would also mean a lot to your people. Dig deep. Think through your life for the past few years and the different Christmas seasons you've been through. Maybe there's something there that you've forgotten about that would be so rich and so helpful for your people.
We hope these sermon illustrations inspire you as you're crafting your Christmas sermons! If you have responses or ideas of your own to share with other pastors, tweet us or leave a comment on this Youtube episode!
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