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Chapter 13 – The Still, Small Voice
"And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still, small voice. And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?" 1 Kings 19: 11-13.
This beautiful expression, "A still, small voice," has almost come to be recognized as one of the names of the Holy Spirit. The whole scene is a fine illustration of the Spirit's working not only in the ages and dispensations, but in the experience of every individual heart.
The scene is a most dramatic one. Elijah had just reached the climax of his marvelous ministry. In that magnificent scene on Carmel we behold him in the very zenith of his career. God has answered his faith and prayer by the descending fire. The whole nation has been swayed at his will, and the very king is helpless as a child at his bidding; while the prophets of Baal, unable to resist the storm of popular enthusiasm, have been swept away by a stroke of judgment. Even the very heavens that have been closed for years have opened the floodgates at the prophet's command, and, like a commander-in-chief of the armies of earth and heaven, Elijah has led the victorious procession to the very gates of the capital. But now another scene occurs as dramatic as the first.
There is one other heart in Israel as thoroughly possessed of the devil as Elijah was possessed of the Holy Ghost. She hears the startling tidings without the quiver of a muscle or a nerve, and with a face of flint and a heart of steel, she speaks but one sentence, of fierce, defiant threatening, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time." It was a well directed shot from the batteries of the pit. In a moment it had done its fearful work, and the prophet of fire was broken like a child. There is something almost ludicrous in the graphic description of his flight, "Elijah arose and went for his life"; nor did he stop till he had reached the utmost confines of the land, away down at Beersheba. Nor even there did he linger, but, leaving his servant, he hastened on across the desert, until, exhausted with hunger and fatigue, he sank on the sand, and lay down beneath a juniper tree with one gasp of hopeless despair, "Lord, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers."
God tenderly nursed and cherished His weary child, put him to sleep, then awoke him and fed him by angel hands, until he was strong enough for his farther journey. Then He sent him on to Horeb, the Mount of God.
There, on some mountain crag and at the entrance of a cave, he waited for the message of his Lord. His spirit was all agitated and chafed. He felt his life was a failure, and he longed for power to accomplish the things for which he felt unable. Perhaps he even thought that if he could rule the world for a little how different things would be. He was just in that mood where he wanted something to happen. Anything was better than this silence, and the very war of the elements would seem to such a spirit a luxury of rest.
It was not long before his thought was fulfilled, and God began to speak to him through the voice of nature. First came the mighty earthquake, heaving the solid ground, tearing the rocks asunder and making the desert's bosom heave like the billows of the ocean, till it seemed that he himself must be torn from his resting place, or engulfed in the awful chasms that were opening round him on every side. But he looked upon the whole scene unmoved. There was nothing in it to touch his spirit; the earthquake came and went, and he felt hat "the Lord was not in the earthquake."
Next came the wild tornado, filling the air with clouds of sand, sweeping through the mountains, and tearing the solid rocks from their base and hurling the forests into Hie abysses below, while the air reverberated with the crashing thunder, and quivered with the awful lightning. His ears were stunned with the tempest's awful roar; but through all the wild confusion the prophet stood unmoved . Perhaps his fiery spirit was even rested by the elemental war. There was nothing in it that spoke to his deeper heart. The whirlwind passed; but "the Lord was not in the whirlwind."
Then came the fire. Perhaps it was the thunderbolt of the sky; perhaps it was some flame caused by the lightning stroke, kindling the forests and sweeping over the mountains, with fiery blaze; or, perhaps, it was some supernatural and awful flame, falling from the skies, quivering before his gaze like the fire that came dawn on Sinai ages before, when Moses received the law. But even this did not blanch his cheek nor move his heart; he gazed upon it with his spirit still unbroken, and his heart chafing as before. And then, like the hush that comes before the storm, or like the emphatic pause in some musical strain, there came an awful stillness, and there fell upon his ear a strange and "still, small voice," or as the New Version expresses it, "A sound of gentle stillness,"softer than evening bells, sweeter than a mother's tones, gentler than music's tenderest notes. Perhaps it spoke as much to the senses of his soul as to his outward ear; but there was something in it so deep, so tender, so penetrating that it thrilled his inmost being. It broke his whole spirit into tenderness and awe, and, gathering his mantle about him, he crept into the cave, and fell upon his face at the feet of God to listen to His message. The fiery heart at length is subdued, the mighty will is broken, the stern prophet is like a little child.
What is the meaning of all this wondrous drama?
I. ELIJAH'S LESSON.
In the first place, it has a meaning for Elijah himself. He needed to be quiet, he needed to find that the forces that he was longing for were not the highest forces at God's command, and that even his own stern, strong nature needed to be subdued and taught the deepest power of gentleness and love.
II. ELIJAH AND ELISHA.
Secondly, it had a yet higher meaning: it was a sort of picture of the two ministries of Elijah and Elisha. His was but a temporary dispensation; he came as the winter before the spring, as the plow before the sower, as the storm before the shower. His was the ministry of judgment and destruction. But the sunshine of spring is stronger than the storms of winter, and the little seed that drops into the soil is mightier than the plowshare that digs the furrow or the dynamite that blasts the rocks. So the gentle ministry of Elisha which was to follow was more mighty and more fruitful than all the destructive miracles of the great Elijah. He had his place; but the earthquake, the whirlwind and the fire of his awful judgments had to pass away, and "the still, small voice" of Elisha's gentler teachings and miracles of grace had to come instead.
III. THE NEW DISPENSATION.
All this was prophetic of a yet higher era and a grander transaction. For Elijah and his ministry were typical of the law and the dispensation of Moses, while Elisha, was the type of the Lord Jesus Christ and the gospel of His grace. And so the scene on Horeb is a representation of the difference between Law and Grace, Judgment and Mercy, the Old Dispensation and the new.
God had already proved how much, or rather how little discipline can do to perfect human character and lead to lasting righteousness.
All that suffering and chastening can accomplish to purify a people was done for ancient Israel. What can ever surpass the pathetic story of Israel's fall, Judah's captivity, and Jerusalem's doom? But alas! how transitory the effect upon the character of the nation! They wept, they suffered, they died, they left the awful record burned into the very heart of the nation; but the next generation went on repeating the sins and follies of their fathers, and God could only cry, "Why should ye be stricken any more? Ye will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores."
Thank God, there is a better way. The Gospel of His grace, the gentleness of His love, and the power of His Holy Spirit, have accomplished what law and terror never could while they wrought alone. "The still, small voice"of Jesus' love is mightier than all the thunder of Mount Sinai's law, or Assyrian or Chaldean armies. The law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did. "The earthquake, the whirlwind, and the fire" have gone, but "the still, small voice"of Calvary and Pentecost is speaking to the hearts of millions, and speaking them back to God and righteousness and heaven.
IV. THE EXPERIENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL.
The scene at Horeb is often repeated in our individual life. We, too, have to pass through the earthquake, the whirlwind, and the fire in our vain search for God; and, at last, we find Him as the still, small voice in the depths of our soul. Perhaps the experience comes through great trial, outward or inward sufferings, tests that rend our very heart and crush our spirit. But the suffering has no saving power. The human heart can be torn to pieces, and yet every single piece be as full of pride and rebellion as the whole.
It needs the quiet divine influence of the Holy Spirit to change the heart and sanctify the soul. Suffering without the Holy Ghost is the saddest thing on earth. Trials unsanctified are like the lightning strokes that blight but cannot bless.
Sometimes it is not so much external suffering as a struggle within the secret soul itself to find God and peace. Oh, how we labor and long and try! But the best result of all our struggles is to show their own fruitlessness and to lay us helpless and silent before the feet of Christ; and then we awake in the arms of His love and power. And as we awake, we find that there is so little in the new experience that is tangible or strongly marked. In fact, the most frequent experience is to find that we really have come into nothingness. The stillness is so quiet that there is often the absence of all self-consciousness and feeling, and even the presence of God is "a still, small voice" so quiet that we have to hush every other sound before we can hear it.
Indeed, the first experience is often one of great emptiness, bareness, and nothingness, and one is apt to be disappointed, and to say, "Is this all that is meant by the rest of faith?" But we soon find that the nothingness of self is but the beginning of God's all-sufficiency, and as we are willing to rest in our nothingness and the all-sufficiency, we soon begin to know the sweetness and the power of that voice.
V. THE HOLY SPIRIT AS THE VOICE OF GOD.
The keynote of all this wondrous story is THE VOICE. The earthquake had a sound, but it had no voice. The tempest and whirlwind could make a mighty noise, but there was no voice. The fire could speak through the sense of vision, and fill the soul with awe, but it had no voice to speak to the heart. But "the still, small voice" had behind it an intelligent mind, a living personality, a loving heart, and it was mightier than all the lifeless forces which had gone before.
Oh, the power of a voice! How it lingers in our memory! How certain tones arrest our attention and wake up all the old chords of the past! How that voice speaks to us of the difference between nature and revelation, between the language of the earth and sky, and the language of God's precious Word! God hath spoken once in the voice of creation, but it is only like the inarticulate language of the earthquake, the whirlwind, and the fire. God hath spoken a second time, in the voice of His Holy Word and His blessed Son, and this is the message that brings light and life and salvation to man.
A voice is more than a message, more than a printed page, more than even an inspired book. A voice means the presence of the person who speaks, and his personal and living words to us. And so God speaks to us, not only in the Bible, but by His own personal voice. His sheep know His voice, and "a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers."
There is more in the Bible and in the revelation of Christ than merely a message of truth. It is also a personal message of love. He has a special voice for every one of His children, and it is our privilege to know His voice.
Oh, how that voice can speak to us! It is not an audible voice; it does not reach our outward senses; it would not be possible to explain to a stranger how it makes itself understood in the heart; but, as we kneel in prayer and ask His counsel, as we come with our heavy-laden hearts and throw ourselves upon His bosom for comfort; as we bring our petitions and wait for the whispered answer, how it speaks to us, how it satisfies us, how it identifies itself to us, and makes us know "it is the Lord!" How it gives its approval to the plans that He commends! How it seals the promise that is suggested to the mind, and lets it fall upon the heart like balm upon the bleeding wound! How it brings home the words that fall from the speaker's lips, and makes them God's living messages to our hearts! How it emphasizes every word we read, and how its sweet and heavenly whisper fills all our inmost being with peace and joy and life, until our glad and grateful heart can only say, "I will hear what God the Lord will speak; for he will speak peace to his people and to his saints"!
VI. THE POWER OF GENTLENESS.
The New Version translates this phrase, "The sound of a gentle stillness." It speaks of God's gentleness. Gentleness is always an attribute of the highest natures. The bravest soldier, the loftiest character, is always the most child-like, simple and tender. Jesus Christ was the incarnation of meekness, lowliness, and gentleness.
The apostle used this as his strongest plea when he besought His disciples "by the meekness and gentleness of Christ." "I am meek and lowly in heart" was the Master's own highest claim. And this was but the ancient prophetic picture. "He shall not strive nor cry, nor cause his voice to be heard in the streets; a bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench."
Is there a more sublime spectacle, is there a more heart-moving sight in all history, than that patient Sufferer standing in the judgment hall or hanging upon the Cross and allowing His murderers to do their worst, answering not a word, "led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before the shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth"? The Holy Ghost, the Representative of Christ, also is gentleness itself. He came upon Jesus as the Dove, and He dwells in us as a Monitor so kind, a Comforter so tender, that we can only "grieve" and "vex" Him, but we cannot make Him angry. He appeals to our obedience by His sensitiveness to the hurt that we can give Him. Oh, let us be gentle as He; let us treat Him with the consideration that His sensitiveness should claim!
He will not force an entrance to our heart. He will not do violence to the freedom of our will. He will not compel us to do what we do not choose, nor to surrender what we want to keep. He appeals to the finest motives of our being, to the will that springs from our deepest heart, and to the obedience which we are only too glad to give.
Let us imitate His gentleness; let us ask Him to translate it into all our beings until we shall be simple, sensitive, considerate, yielded, lowly, meek and childlike, "even as He." Our faces, our manners, our tones, and the whole complexion of our life shall be the blending of the spirit of the Lamb and the Dove.
VII. THE POWER OF STILLNESS.
It was "a still, small voice," or "the sound of a gentle stillness." Is there any note of music in all the chorus as mighty as the emphatic pause? Is there any word in all the Psalter more eloquent than that one word, "Selah, (Pause) "? Is there anything more thrilling and awful than the hush that comes before the bursting of the tempest or the strange quiet that seems to fall upon all nature before some preternatural phenomenon or convulsion? Is there anything that can so touch our hearts as the power of stillness?
The sweetest blessing that Christ brings us is the Sabbath rest of the soul, of which the Sabbath of creation was the type; the Land of Promise, God's great object lesson. There is for the heart that will cease from itself "the peace of God that passeth all understanding"; "a quietness and confidence" which is the source of all strength; a sweet peace which "nothing can offend"; a deep rest which "the world can neither give nor take away." There is, in the deepest center of the soul, a chamber of peace where God dwells, and where, if we will only enter in and hush every other sound, we can hear His still, small voice.
There is, in the swiftest wheel that revolves upon its axis, a place in the very center where there is no movement at all; and so in the busiest life there may be a place where we dwell alone with God in eternal stillness.
This is the only way to know God. "Be still, and know that I am God." "God is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him."
A score of years ago a friend placed in my hand a little book which became one of the turning points of my life. It was called "True Peace." It was an old mediaeval message with but one thought, which was this, that God was waiting in the depths of my being to talk to me if I would only get still enough to hear His voice.
I thought this would be a very easy matter, and so I began to get still. But I had no sooner commenced than a perfect pandemonium of voices reached my ears, a thousand clamoring notes from without and within, until I could hear nothing but their noise and din. Some of them were my own voice, some of them were my own questions, some of them were my own cares, and some of them were my very prayers. Others were suggestions of the tempter and voices from the world's turmoil. Never before did there seem so many things to be done, to be said, to be thought; and in every direction I was pushed, and pulled, and greeted with noisy acclamations and unspeakable unrest. It seemed necessary for me to listen to some of them, and to answer some of them, but God said, "Be still, and know that I am God." Then came the conflict of thoughts for the morrow, and its duties and cares, but God said, "Be still." And then there came the very prayers which my restless heart wanted to press upon Him, but God said, "Be still." And as I listened and slowly learned to obey and shut my ears to every sound, I found after awhile that when the other voices ceased, or I ceased to hear them, there was a still, small voice in the depths of my being that began to speak with an inexpressible tenderness, power and comfort. As I listened it became to me the voice of prayer, and the voice of wisdom, and the voice of duty. I did not need to think so hard, or pray so hard, or trust so hard, but that "still, small voice" of the Holy Spirit in my heart was God's prayer in my secret soul, was God's answer to all my questions, was God's life and strength for soul and body, and became the substance of all knowledge, and all prayer, and all blessing; for it was the living God Himself as my Life and my All.
Beloved, this is our spirit's deepest need. It is thus that we learn to know God; it is thus that we receive spiritual refreshing and nutriment; it is thus that our heart is nourished and fed; it is thus that we receive the Living Bread; it is thus that our very bodies are healed, and our spirit drinks in the life of our risen Lord, and we go forth to life's conflicts and duties like the flower that has drunk in, through the shades of night, the cool and crystal drops of dew. But as the dew never falls on a stormy night, so the dews of His grace never come to the restless soul.
We cannot go through life strong and fresh on express trains, with ten minutes for lunch. We must have quiet hours, secret places of the Most High, times of waiting upon the Lord, when we renew our strength and learn to mount up on wings as eagles, and then come back, to run and not be weary, and to walk and not faint.
The best thing about this stillness is that it gives God a chance to work. "He that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his"; and when we cease from our works, God works in us; and when we cease from our thoughts, God's thoughts come into us; when we get still from our restless activity, God worketh in us both to will and do of His good pleasure, and we have but to work it out.
Beloved, let us take His stillness, let us dwell in "the secret place of the Most High," let us enter into God and His eternal rest, let us silence the other sounds,and then we can hear "the still, small voice."
There is another kind of stillness, the stillness that lets God work for us, and hold our peace; the stillness that ceases from its contriving, and its self-vindication, and its expedients of wisdom and forethought, and lets God provide, and answer the unkind word and the cruel blow in His own unfailing, faithful love. How often we lose God's interposition by taking up our own cause and striking for our own defense.
Never shall I forget a little scene which happened not long ago. A quiet Christian girl was sitting at table among a party of friends, who were discussing a Christian work in which she was deeply interested. Someof the criticisms were very severe, and, as she thought, unjust and unfair. She said a few simple words to correct the statements; but then, as the criticism, more and more severe, went on, she simply held her peace. I saw the mantling brow and the tear just springing to her eyes, and I thought how easy it would have been for her to give the quick reply, and answer just as sharply as she might have done. But the grace of God had become ascendant in that young heart; the Holy Ghost was on the Throne. She sat in silence, and simply suffered and waited. After a few moments I saw she could stand the struggle no longer, and she gently and lovingly rose and left the table and went to her room to lay her burden upon the bosom for her Savior.
In a moment it all flashed upon the other person, who loved her very tenderly. He saw how he had wounded her; he knew how she would have answered months before. The sweetness and gentleness of her spirit cut him to the very heart, and taught him a lesson that he was manly and noble enough fully to acknowledge. Never again will his lips utter those hasty words, and never will he forget that spectacle of gentleness and silence.
It was her best vindication, and it made up for her, besides, a jewel of unfading lustre in the crown above.
There is no spectacle in all the Bible so sublime as the silent Savior answering not a word to the men that were maligning Him, and whom He could have laid prostrate at His feet by one look of divine power or one word of fiery rebuke. But He let them say and do their worst, and He stood in the power of stillness — God's holy, silent Lamb.
God give to us this silent power, this mighty self-surrender, this conquered spirit which will make us "more than conquerors through Him that loved us." Let our voice and our life speak like "the still, small voice"of Horeb and as "the sound of a gentle stillness." And after the heat and strife of earth are over, men will remember us as we remember the morning dew, the gentle light and sunshine, the evening breeze, the Lamb of Calvary, and the gentle, Holy, Heavenly Dove.
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Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Blessed Winter Solstice!
I hope your holidays have been as enjoyable as mine have been. This December I've used my vacation to spend time with family and savor our Christmas traditions more than I have in many years. The presents were less plentiful this year, but I can't say I missed them. Good friends and family, happy dogs, and delicious food were all the gifts I needed (or wanted!).
I'm a quiet, introspective person so spending the holidays with my very small immediate family while we cook traditional Peruvian and Romanian dishes and watch Christmas classics on television is my idea of a perfect Christmas. I have friends who are far from loved ones this winter and I feel for everyone who can't spent this holiday in the comfort of home. There's a classic Spanish Christmas song that always brings a tear to my eye when I hear it. If you're far from the ones you hold dear, then this song is for you.
para ti tengo un lugar For you I have a place.
Ven a mi casa esta Navidad Come to my house this Christmas.
él te acompañará He will accompany you.
queriéndote aturdir Wanting to be in a daze.
intenta sonreír Try to smile.
Luis Alguile sings a beautiful version of this Spanish classic. Even if you don't understand Spanish, the catchy melody and the emotion in his voice cross language barriers.Click here to listen to this song on YouTube.
Here are some recent photos of my dogs to keep you company if you are missing your own pets or are living in a place that doesn't allow animals. Happy holidays to everyone out in Internet-land!
For those of us fortunate enough to have grown up during a time when game developers were just beginning to explore the potential of 8-bit graphics, the sight of an NES zapper calls to mind nostalgia. Duck Hunt was the very first first-person shooter I ever played, and it is still the most memorable. While pointing the light gun at anything was fun in the beginning, when I was done fooling around and wanted to actually be successful at the game I had to learn how to aim properly to hit the targets.
In writing, paragraphs have to be aimed towards targets as well. Topic sentences accomplish this task for you by pointing your paragraphs in the direction of the main point you're trying to cover. They also let your reader know where you're heading, clarify your ideas, and organize your points. It's can be fun and productive to just mess around writing anything that comes to mind, but if you want your paper to have any chance of being successful, you need to add topic sentences.
A topic sentence is a sentence that states the main idea of a paragraph. It is usually, but not always, located at the beginning of the paragraph. Additionally, a good topic sentence is concise, taking no more words than are absolutely necessary to state the main idea.
Hopefully this definition sounds familiar to you. If not, take a peek at my post about thesis statements. Getting a feeling of deja vu yet? Topic sentences and thesis statements are so similar to one another because they both serve to focus writing. Whereas a thesis statement states the direction of an entire essay and is located at the end of the introductory paragraph, a topic sentence only states the focus of a single paragraph and is placed at its beginning. Interestingly, when you break a paragraph down to its basic components, it's essentially a miniature essay. However, that's a topic to tackle in another post.
It's time to see what topic sentences look like in action. In the following examples, I will write the topic sentences in bold for easier identification. Notice how the topic sentence contains the main idea of the paragraph and the remaining sentences are 1) relevant and 2) support and/or expand on the topic sentence.
~Solovic, Susan W. The Girls' Guide to Power and Success. New York: MJF Books, 2001. 79. Print.
"Unlike a disease, which has a specific pathological origin, a syndrome is a condition that exists only as a collection of symptoms. Consider cystic fibrosis, a disease that causes the body to produce an unnaturally large amount of sticky mucous, resulting in long-term deterioration of the lungs, as well as other conditions related to mucous production. The disease is present when a person receives a specific gene from both parents. The genes are the cause, the excess mucous production is the effect, and the lung deterioration and a few other conditions are the symptoms. The symptoms are specific to the disease and lead to the specific diagnosis."
~Hammerly, Milton, and Cheryl Kimball. What to Do When the Doctor Says It's PCOS. Massachusetts: Fair Winds Press, 2003. 91. Print.
~Beneke, Jeff. The Fence Bible. Massachusetts: Storey Publishing, 2005. 13. Print.
Don't pick up your favorite novel to find examples of topic sentences. In fact, most professional writers whose work is found in bookstores do not use explicit topic sentences in their writing. You definitely won't find many topic sentences in journalism or online; people perusing Internet posts and newspaper articles have short attention spans and will not read large chunks of text, so paragraphs are often no longer than two sentences (if even that long).
However, topic sentences are expected and often required in academic writing, including writing produced in professions that require reports (e.g., medical professionals writing research, lawyers and paralegals working on briefs, and even managers writing productivity reports). If you have any aspirations of making it through your high-school, college, and professional writing responsibilities unscathed, you're going to need to learn start writing topic sentences. But don't think of topic sentences as a chore; the fact is, writing them will end up saving you time and effort.
Getting in the habit of writing topic sentences for each paragraph as you work on an essay will actually make writing your essay faster and easier. You have to know what you're trying to say with each paragraph before you can write the topic sentence, so you're essentially being forced to organize your thoughts as you commit them to paper. As someone who's written more essays than she can count during the span of her still-ongoing academic life, trust me when I say making an outline of your main points before you start writing will make writing topic sentences a piece of cake. Once you know what main point or sub-point you're presenting in a paragraph, all that's left to do is supply the evidence to support the paragraph's main point.
Why wouldn't you want to make essay writing easier for yourself? A topic sentence is a sentence that writes itself because if you know your main point, you know your topic sentence. It's essentially one less sentence you have struggle over in your essay, letting you focus your energy where you need it most: supporting your arguments.
Not only do topic sentences help you write papers, being able to identify other writers' topic sentences has benefits of its own. Since a topic sentence contains the main idea of a paragraph, it can be used to summarize writing sections easily and efficiently. Professional tutoring services for the SAT and LSAT frequently teach students to look for topic sentences in paragraphs as a simple, fast "trick" to locate information to answer questions. Apply this technique to textbooks to isolate important points quickly and create an outline of each chapter's main ideas.
Topic sentences are considered one of the basics of good writing and mastering them is not something most people can accomplish without practice. There is much more to learning how to execute them successfully than what I can contain in a single blog post, so stay tuned for future posts that transform main points in an outline into topic sentences, break down the elements of essay paragraphs, and include examples of paragraphs missing topic sentences. I will be writing many more blog posts on this topic because I know just how essential a skill writing topic sentences is for you to be successful in your writing endeavors.
A dog in the game Duck Hunt held up the birds you shot when you aimed well. Readers won't do that to let you know your paragraphs hit the mark so remember to get feedback on your writing before you submit it to a professor or supervisor.


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Over the past five years Omaka Springs Estates has been working to minimise and off-set our carbon (CO2) production. The team has enacted a scheme to reduce overall tractor emissions by lowering the amount of usage and making necessary usage times more efficient, thus eliminating needless carbon production and lowering diesel use. Also, we have continued the tradition of hand-harvesting which not only helps to reduce emissions and diesel use, but is also excellent for quality wine production. We are dedicated to decreasing our carbon footprint in the shipping of our wines. When shipping, our preference is to work with carbon-conscious shipping companies and partake in consolidated shipments whenever available. This year we will be exploring lighter packaging options, such as thinner glass for our bottles in an effort to reduce the overall weight of our shipments.
Though we do retail our olive oil in 500ml glass bottles, much of our olive oil is sold in 2 litre recyclable containers. We offer discounts to our customers for using the same container for their next order. By encouraging our customers to buy larger quantities in re-fillable, recyclable containers we help them to lower their carbon footprint by making fewer trips to buy the oil as well as actively promote re-using and recycling.
When wine is exported to multiple countries it means there will surely be marketing trips to follow. ¬The Omaka Springs team is committed to minimizing the amount of travel our team does.
Rather than taking many small trips throughout the year to meet our obligations, we take several, large, well-orchestrated trips. We also strive to utilize public/grouped transport and other low-CO2 producing methods when available and feasible.
Our 2,000 olive trees are probably the single largest helping hand in our efforts to become carbon neutral. Aside from their natural beauty, delicious olives, prevention of soil erosion, water recycling, and the great habitat they provide, these trees are dedicated to carbon sequestration. A single mature tree can absorb carbon dioxide at a rate of 22 kilos/year and release enough oxygen back into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings! Beyond this feat, the trees also absorb other harmful pollutants from the air such as sulphur dioxide, ozone, nitrogen oxides, and particulates; all while leeching potentially occurring undesirables from the environment. Such hard workers!


The Tsleil-Waututh nation announced it will launch a legal challenge against the Canadian government and the National Energy Board (NEB) Friday over legal compliance and consultation with First Nations in relation to the proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
At an outdoor press conference on Tsleil-Waututh territory overlooking the Burrard Inlet and Kinder Morgan facilities, Chief Maureen Thomas said her nation has been ignored by the government throughout the Trans Mountain pipeline review process.
"Today with a heavy heart we want to announce we are going to….I don't want to use those words…but we are going to fight," she said.
Merle Alexander, aboriginal resource lawyer with Gowlings LLP said there are a number of "procedural errors" affecting the pipeline assessment process. "If these decisions aren't corrected now they'll affect the entire review process," he said.
The Tsleil-Waututh nation will commence a legal action in the federal court of appeal, challenging a number of decisions of the NEB that include failed consultation, improper project assessment and a fundamental mischaracterization of the Trans Mountain project which involves an expanded pipeline, a terminal and increased storage facilities.
Rueben George of the Sacred Trust Initiative and project manager of public engagement for the Tsleil-Waututh says the legal challenge is in the interest of all Canadians.
"I've had the land and waters feed my spirit. Everything we get out of the water is goodness."
In 2007 the Trans Mountain pipeline ruptured in a Burnaby neighbourhood after a road crew's excavator accidentally hit the line. Roughly 250,000 litres of oil spilled into the community with 70,000 litres entering the Burrard Inlet.
The proposed pipeline expansion would increase the line's capacity from 300,000 to 750,000 barrels of oil per day. The increase in capacity could quadruple the number of oil tankers moving through the inlet, from five to more than 20 each month.
Chief Thomas said the case is ultimately about taking a stand.
"We have to take a stand, stand up for what we believe is truly right. What we really believe is right for us is protecting land and waters to the best of our ability. We have to move forward in a way that we really do become aware of what is going on and not take things for granted. You have to be the one to stand up," she said.
Thomas recounted the decline of local plants and species in the region, saying local people can no longer harvest shellfish from the once-fertile and clean waters.
The Tsleil-Waututh have worked for years to rehabilitate and lessen their impact on the local area. They've introduced wind power, salmon rehabilitation projects and have reintroduced elk to the hillside.


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package io.druid.server.log;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonTypeName;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import io.druid.jackson.DefaultObjectMapper;
import io.druid.query.BaseQuery;
import io.druid.query.DataSource;
import io.druid.query.LegacyDataSource;
import io.druid.query.Query;
import io.druid.query.QueryRunner;
import io.druid.query.QuerySegmentWalker;
import io.druid.query.filter.DimFilter;
import io.druid.query.spec.QuerySegmentSpec;
import io.druid.server.QueryStats;
import io.druid.server.RequestLogLine;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Appender;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Logger;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.OutputStreamAppender;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.JsonLayout;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.Interval;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

// Mostly just test that it doesn't crash
public class LoggingRequestLoggerTest
{
  private static final ObjectMapper mapper = new DefaultObjectMapper();
  private static final ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
  private static Appender appender;

  final DateTime timestamp = DateTime.parse("2016-01-01T00:00:00Z");
  final String remoteAddr = "some.host.tld";
  final Map<String, Object> queryContext = ImmutableMap.<String, Object>of("foo", "bar");
  final Query query = new FakeQuery(
      new LegacyDataSource("datasource"),
      new QuerySegmentSpec()
      {
        @Override
        public List<Interval> getIntervals()
        {
          return Collections.singletonList(Interval.parse("2016-01-01T00Z/2016-01-02T00Z"));
        }

        @Override
        public <T> QueryRunner<T> lookup(Query<T> query, QuerySegmentWalker walker)
        {
          return null;
        }
      }, false, queryContext
  );
  final QueryStats queryStats = new QueryStats(ImmutableMap.<String, Object>of());
  final RequestLogLine logLine = new RequestLogLine(
      timestamp,
      remoteAddr,
      query,
      queryStats
  );

  @BeforeClass
  public static void setUpStatic() throws Exception
  {
    appender = OutputStreamAppender
        .newBuilder()
        .setName("test stream")
        .setTarget(baos)
        .setLayout(JsonLayout.createLayout(false, true, false, true, true, Charsets.UTF_8))
        .build();
    final Logger logger = (Logger)
        LogManager.getLogger(LoggingRequestLogger.class);
    appender.start();
    logger.addAppender(appender);
  }

  @After
  public void tearDown()
  {
    baos.reset();
  }

  @AfterClass
  public static void tearDownStatic()
  {
    final Logger logger = (Logger) LogManager.getLogger(
        LoggingRequestLogger.class);
    logger.removeAppender(appender);
    appender.stop();
  }

  @Test
  public void testSimpleLogging() throws Exception
  {
    final LoggingRequestLogger requestLogger = new LoggingRequestLogger(new DefaultObjectMapper(), false, false);
    requestLogger.log(logLine);
  }

  @Test
  public void testLoggingMDC() throws Exception
  {
    final LoggingRequestLogger requestLogger = new LoggingRequestLogger(new DefaultObjectMapper(), true, false);
    requestLogger.log(logLine);
    final Map<String, Object> map = readContextMap(baos.toByteArray());
    Assert.assertEquals("datasource", map.get("dataSource"));
    Assert.assertEquals("PT86400S", map.get("duration"));
    Assert.assertEquals("false", map.get("hasFilters"));
    Assert.assertEquals("fake", map.get("queryType"));
    Assert.assertEquals("some.host.tld", map.get("remoteAddr"));
    Assert.assertEquals("false", map.get("descending"));
    Assert.assertNull(map.get("foo"));
  }

  @Test
  public void testLoggingMDCContext() throws Exception
  {
    final LoggingRequestLogger requestLogger = new LoggingRequestLogger(new DefaultObjectMapper(), true, true);
    requestLogger.log(logLine);
    final Map<String, Object> map = readContextMap(baos.toByteArray());
    Assert.assertEquals("datasource", map.get("dataSource"));
    Assert.assertEquals("PT86400S", map.get("duration"));
    Assert.assertEquals("false", map.get("hasFilters"));
    Assert.assertEquals("fake", map.get("queryType"));
    Assert.assertEquals("some.host.tld", map.get("remoteAddr"));
    Assert.assertEquals("false", map.get("descending"));
    Assert.assertEquals("bar", map.get("foo"));
  }

  private static Map<String, Object> readContextMap(byte[] bytes) throws Exception
  {
    final Map<String, Object> rawMap = mapper.readValue(bytes, new TypeReference<Map<String, Object>>()
    {
    });
    final Object contextMap = rawMap.get("contextMap");
    if (contextMap == null) {
      return null;
    }
    final Collection<Map<String, Object>> contextList = (Collection<Map<String, Object>>) contextMap;
    final Map<String, Object> context = new HashMap<>();
    for (Map<String, Object> microContext : contextList) {
      final String key = microContext.get("key").toString();
      final Object value = microContext.get("value");
      if (key != null && value != null) {
        context.put(key, value);
      }
    }
    return ImmutableMap.copyOf(context);
  }
}

@JsonTypeName("fake")
class FakeQuery extends BaseQuery
{
  public FakeQuery(DataSource dataSource, QuerySegmentSpec querySegmentSpec, boolean descending, Map context)
  {
    super(dataSource, querySegmentSpec, descending, context);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean hasFilters()
  {
    return false;
  }

  @Override
  public DimFilter getFilter()
  {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("shouldn't be here");
  }

  @Override
  public String getType()
  {
    return "fake";
  }

  @Override
  public Query withQuerySegmentSpec(QuerySegmentSpec spec)
  {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("shouldn't be here");
  }

  @Override
  public Query withDataSource(DataSource dataSource)
  {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("shouldn't be here");
  }

  @Override
  public Query withOverriddenContext(Map contextOverride)
  {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("shouldn't be here");
  }
}


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using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
/// <summary>
/// Mana regeneration
/// </summary>
public class SpellEffectRegenerationMana : SpellEffectRegeneration {

		public override void EffectOverTime ()
		{
			base.EffectOverTime ();
			UWCharacter.Instance.PlayerMagic.CurMana=UWCharacter.Instance.PlayerMagic.CurMana+DOT;
			if (UWCharacter.Instance.PlayerMagic.CurMana>=UWCharacter.Instance.PlayerMagic.MaxMana)
			{
				UWCharacter.Instance.PlayerMagic.CurMana=UWCharacter.Instance.PlayerMagic.MaxMana;
			}
		}
}


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33 LISTS A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldLists about common mental illnesses and disorders and the many people around the world and throughout history who have lived with them.
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Entertainment 25+ Great Movies About Life After a Nervous Breakdown
Ranker Film
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Everyone from con artists to business executives to former musicians have suffered an onscreen nervous breakdown. The top mental break movies feature characters dealing with anger issues, personal baggage, and depression. This is a list of mental hospital movies featuring everything from Silver Linings Playbook to Welcome to Me to A Streetcar Named Desire.
What movies will you find on this list of the best flicks about life after a nervous breakdown? One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an enduring classic of the genre. Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) enters a mental institution to avoid a tough jail sentence, but his sanity is pushed to the limits by the domineering staff. American Beauty is another great movie that features several characters at different stages of mental breakdowns. The newer hit Greenberg follows a middle-aged man re-entering the world after spending some time in a mental hospital. Other good films featured on this roundup of the top nervous breakdown movies include Secretary, Black Swan, and Stay.
Do you have a favorite mental illness movie? Give the best films a thumbs up and please add any good movies that are missing.
Girl, Interrupted Angelina Jolie, Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American drama film, and an adaptation of Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir of the same name. The film chronicles Kaysen's 18-month stay at a mental institution. Directed ...more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 drama film written by Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman and directed by Miloš Forman.
Black Swan Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder
Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological thriller-horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, and Mila Kunis. The plot revolves around a production ...more
A Beautiful Mind Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe, Ron Howard
A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva ...more
Silver Linings Playbook Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper
Silver Linings Playbook is a 2012 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by David O. Russell, adapted from the novel The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick. The film ...more
It's Kind of a Funny Story Emma Roberts, Lauren Graham, Zach Galifianakis
It's Kind of a Funny Story is a 2010 drama film directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
Shutter Island Leonardo DiCaprio, Michelle Williams, Mark Ruffalo
Shutter Island is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese. The film is based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 novel of the same name. Production started in March 2008. ...more
Benny & Joon Johnny Depp, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy
Benny & Joon is a 1993 romantic comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about how two eccentric individuals, Sam and Juniper "Joon", find each other and fall in love. Aidan ...more
American Beauty Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Mena Suvari
American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, an office worker who has a midlife crisis when he becomes ...more
Wristcutters: A Love Story Tom Waits, Leslie Bibb, Will Arnett
Wristcutters: A Love Story is a 2006 American black comedy romance road movie written and directed by Goran Dukić, starring Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, and Shannyn Sossamon. Its premise is set ...more
Secretary Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader, Lesley Ann Warren
Secretary is a 2002 romance film directed by Steven Shainberg and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as Lee Holloway and James Spader as E. Edward Grey. The film is based on a short story from Bad ...more
A Streetcar Named Desire Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 American drama film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 play of the same name. It is the story of a southern lady, Blanche Dubois, ...more
Rachel Getting Married Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Sebastian Stan
Rachel Getting Married is a 2008 drama film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin and Debra Winger. The film was released in the U.S. to select ...more
Love Liza Kathy Bates, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Stephen Tobolowsky
Love Liza is a 2002 tragicomedy film directed by Todd Louiso and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Jack Kehler, Wayne Duvall, Sarah Koskoff and Stephen Tobolowsky.
Cake Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick
The Jacket Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Jennifer Jason Leigh
The Jacket is a 2005 psychological thriller film directed by John Maybury that is partly based on the Jack London novel The Star Rover. Massy Tadjedin wrote the screenplay based on a story by ...more
The Ward Amber Heard, Lyndsy Fonseca, Danielle Panabaker
The Ward is a 2010 American psychological horror film directed by John Carpenter. It stars Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker and Jared Harris. The story revolves around a young ...more
Bottle Rocket Owen Wilson, James Caan, Leslie Mann
Bottle Rocket is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Wes Anderson. It was co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson. In addition to being Wes Anderson's directorial debut, Bottle Rocket was the ...more
Greenberg Ben Stiller, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dave Franco
Greenberg is a 2010 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach. The film stars Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Greenberg was produced by ...more
Permanent Record Keanu Reeves, Lou Reed, Kathy Baker
Permanent Record is a 1988 American drama film starring Pamela Gidley, Michelle Meyrink, Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Rubin, and Alan Boyce. It was filmed on location in Portland, Oregon and Yaquina ...more
Stay Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling
Stay is a 2005 American psychological thriller film directed by Marc Forster. A psychiatrist (Ewan McGregor) tries prevent one of his patients (Ryan Gosling) from committing suicide while trying ...more
The House of Yes Tori Spelling, Rachael Leigh Cook, Parker Posey
The House of Yes is a 1997 American film starring Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Geneviève Bujold, Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Tori Spelling. The movie is based on the play of the same name, ...more
Mad Love Drew Barrymore, Liev Schreiber, Chris O'Donnell
Mad Love is a 1995 teen romantic drama film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Drew Barrymore and Chris O'Donnell. The screenplay was written by Paula Milne. The original music score is ...more
Don't Say a Word Famke Janssen, Michael Douglas, Brittany Murphy
Don't Say a Word is a 2001 psychological thriller film starring Michael Douglas, Brittany Murphy and Sean Bean based on the novel of the same title by Andrew Klavan. Don't Say a Word was ...more
Welcome to Me is a 2014 American comedy film directed by Shira Piven and written by Eliot Laurence. The film stars Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini and Wes Bentley. The film is ...more
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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Nias is a remote and rather small island off the northwest coast of the world's sixth largest island, Sumatra. Yet as difficult as it is to get to, a Neolithic society with an extensive megalithic culture featuring ancestor worship and headhunting evolved an especially high artistic expression, possibly enhanced through contact with belief systems arriving from India in the second half of the First Millennium. European missionaries, active since the 19th Century, brought back the heathen idols of the pagans to show their congregations and solicit funds for further soul saving. However not everyone reacted in horror, as the works were greatly prized by ethnographic museums and collectors, including the Surrealists. Man Ray famously took a shot of an Adu Zatu ancestor figure now in the Musée du quai Branly.
Assembled here are a group of ten works of art from Nias, some showing special forms and stylizations, others featuring exotic materials, some figural, others abstract but unified by a common sense of indigenous aesthetic, a beauty intended for the eyes of the living and the dead.


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The Post Apocalyptic Thriller LOCUST Is Coming Soon From Scout Comics!
by SCOUT COMICS Jun 17, 2020
Logline:
"A biblical plague has broken out and has infected humanity, transforming people into terrible and voracious giant locusts. The uninfected try to survive through all this, fighting against a disease that cannot be stopped."
The Creative Team:
Writer: Massimo Rosi.
Artist: Alex Nieto.
Editing: Andrea Lorenzo Molinari
Lettering: Mattia Gentili
The Story:
"During the "Great Transformation," when men mutate into locusts, Max, a fisherman, tries to escape with his elderly mother.
The two are attacked by a small swarm of monstrous locusts and have a serious accident. However, a group of men save their lives. This group turns out to be a strange religious sect led by a certain Ford, a fanatical racist and former guerrilla. Max, living in this coven with his mother, will discover that Ford is convinced that this biblical-style plague will only be alleviated if the impure—homosexuals, foreigners and disabled people—are sacrificed. Ford's daughter, born from incest, is a disabled child and Ford wants to offer her as a sacrifice to assuage the plague.
Max, realizing what is about to happen in the fierce community, saves the little girl named Stella. In the escape, her mother is killed and the two try in every way to leave the city. Meanwhile, Ford and his men hunt him down like animals, intending to take back his little child as a sacrificial lamb.
Max and Stella's journey will be an absurd apocalypse, with loved ones turning into horrendous creatures and the rampant violence of a humanity that is increasingly nearer to total collapse."
Why Scout?
"Scout Comics is my first publisher in the United States, the first publisher who gave a 24-year-old Italian writer the chance to fulfill his dream of publishing in America. It's been almost 10 years since that time, while I have created many comics, one among many being Locust... In Locust, I put all the hard work and experience accumulated trying to create something that surpasses myself and I wanted to give this kind of work to Scout Comics, because it is my refuge overseas. My first real publishing family."


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Rude words from doctors and parents harm care
10:06 AM communication, Coping and Emotions, family-centred care, Latest Research, medical error, neonatology, NICU, patient safety, premature babies, rudeness 1 comment
In 2015, a team of Israeli researchers studied the impact of rude comments by another doctor on medical teams while they did a simulation of caring for a very sick premature baby.
The words, from an expert the participants were told was observing them, included that he was "not impressed with the quality of medicine in Israel" and that medical staff in Israel "wouldn't last a week" in his NICU in the United States.
Twenty-four NICU teams participated and teams were randomly assigned to hear the expert's rude comments or to hear his neutral comments. The teams that experienced the rude comments scored less well in their diagnosis of the baby's problems and in how they performed tasks like resuscitation and asking for the right lab tests. They were rated by two judges. "Rudeness exposure [by a medical superior] can adversely affect the cognitive functions required for effective diagnostic and medical procedural performance," the researchers conclude, and may be a source of devastating medical error.
In a new study published in Pediatrics this month, the same scientists look at what happens when an actress, playing the role of the baby's parent in a simulation, belittles the medical team. In this study, four Israeli medical teams performed five emergency scenarios. Three of the teams were confronted by a mother who accused them of misdiagnosing her child, threatened to move the child to another hospital, and said: 'I knew we should have gone to a better hospital where they don't practice Third World medicine!' The control team was not exposed to rudeness.
Two teams were given a preventative intervention—one was a cognitive bias-changing game and the other a therapeutic writing exercise. The 20-minute computer game before the simulation showed angry and happy faces and provided feedback that made them less sensitive to negative emotions. The writing exercise involved having one team write about the rude event after it happened. The teams that experienced the rude comments from the mother scored less well on how they diagnosed the baby and intervened, as well as how their team shared information and workload. The researchers showed that the pre-simulation computer game reduced these negative effects on care, while the post-intervention writing exercise was ineffective.
BLOOM interviewed lead investigator Dr. Arik Riskin, a neonatologist at Bnai-Zion Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, by e-mail to learn more.
BLOOM: Why was the study about parent rudeness needed?
Arik Riskin: The study is important because it increases awareness that there are many factors related to human behaviour, relations and communication between [health workers] and between them and their patients or families. We are not robots, we are human beings with feelings, and we react to social situations and behaviours as do other humans. But, in the case of [health workers], the impact can be devastating, because we are dealing with patients, treatments and life-and-death decisions. The remedy starts from awareness and recognition that there may be a problem with this issue. Awareness is important for us as medical team members, but it's also important to our patients and their families and to healthcare management authorities dealing with ways to decrease medical errors and improve care and patient safety.
BLOOM: How did you define rude behaviour?
Arik Riskin: Rudeness is defined as insensitive or disrespectful behaviour enacted by a person that displays a lack of regard for others. Rudeness should be regarded as a form of uncivil behaviour. Workplace rudeness may include insulting comments, denigration of a person's work, spreading false rumours, social isolation and bad manners. Rudeness, particularly with respect to speech, is necessarily confrontational at its core. What constitutes rude speech depends on the culture, the setting and the speaker's social position in the culture. Rudeness is primarily concerned with violations of human dignity or respect.
BLOOM: What are common causes of rude parent behaviour in the NICU?
Arik Riskin: I would pay a fortune to find out the answer to this question. However, I'll share with you some of our insights from our experience. Many times rude behaviour is a late response to an incident or some stress (and the NICU experience is very stressful) that the parents experienced before, sometimes even a few days or hours before.
The rudeness is not necessarily turned toward the [health worker] that was involved in that previous incident, and may be unrelated to the parent's infant or to the NICU or hospital. It can be some argument between the parents or in their larger family.
However, when it hits the physician or nurse out of the blue, they start thinking 'What have I done wrong?' This starts the process of rumination—thinking over and over 'Why did I get this insult?,' drains their cognitive resources and eventually can affect their ability to treat patients.
BLOOM: What were the main findings on rude parent behaviour?
Arik Riskin: Rudeness has robust, deleterious effects on the performance of medical teams. Moreover, exposure to rudeness debilitated the [collaboration] recognized as essential for patient care and safety.
BLOOM: How does rudeness impair a medical team's ability to provide good care?
Arik Riskin: Teams exposed to mild rudeness by the patient's mother had diminished team performance with respect to outcome parameters relating to diagnosis and intervention, and process parameters including team information and workload sharing. These findings not only replicate our earlier findings demonstrating the [negative] effects of rudeness expressed by a senior colleague on individual medical performance, but extend them by demonstrating that similar effects are elicited by rudeness from other sources and are manifested at the team level.
In this study, we also demonstrated that these deleterious effects of rudeness are not restricted to individuals, but also to teams. This is important because—based on the assumption that teams can often overcome and compensate for individual performance limitations—medical work is increasingly structured around teams. Our findings demonstrate that when rudeness is present, the very collaborative processes that generally enable teams to outperform individuals may break down.
To the extent that rudeness impedes team helping and workload sharing, teams may not be able to deliver the heightened level of patient care that practitioners have come to expect from them.
BLOOM: Why was the computer game some teams played effective in reducing the negative effects of rudeness, while the writing exercise others did wasn't?
Erik Raskin: Prior to the simulation, teams in the preventative cognitive-bias modification intervention engaged in a 20-minute computer game in which they looked at a series of morphing faces, were asked to move a cursor to indicate whether the emotion was more of anger or pleasure, and then received immediate feedback on their choice.
During this game, the computer determined the participant's threshold to threat—that is, the angry faces—and then gave them feedback designed to raise this threshold and 'immunize' them from devoting substantial attention to minor threats.
Examination of the manipulation checks showed that those in the computer intervention viewed the mother as ruder than those who experienced the rude comments with no intervention.
As designed, the computer intervention 'immunized' participants' medical and therapeutic performance and teamwork by shifting their attention away from the implicit threat posed by the mother, likely preserving cognitive resources for the tasks at hand. The computer intervention operated not so much by mitigating the appraisal of rudeness, but by making team members more resilient to it.
The teams who did the writing exercise worked on the simulation with rudeness first, and then went to a debriefing room where they were asked to write a paragraph or two about how they thought the mother of the infant felt when it seemed to her that the team was unsuccessful in treating the baby.
By the end of the day, those in the narrative group did not view the mother as ruder than controls. These results suggest that while writing about the experience from the mother's perspective facilitated participants' positive reappraisal of her rude behaviour, it failed to help them overcome the cognitive disruption caused by it.
BLOOM: Is there a danger in making health workers less emotionally responsive to families?
Erik Raskin: As mentioned in my answer above, the computer game didn't make health workers less emotionally responsive. On the contrary, it just 'immunized' them, thus changing their focus and less disturbing them in their work.
BLOOM: Are there times when a parent questioning the care is appropriate?
Erik Raskin: Parents questioning the care is always appropriate. They have the right to ask questions. In my opinion we can use it as a means to help us do better, think again about the diagnosis, re-think treatments given and other options of treatment. Generally, this is a good interaction with parents, and many physicians and nurses, like me, see parents as our partners in the goal of giving the best treatment to their children, helping them survive and grow, and go home, as healthy and happy as possible.
There is a big difference between real questioning and seeking explanations in the best interest of your baby, and rude comments, insults and blaming of the physicians and nurses. [In the latter case], parents throw all their stress and frustration (because the infant was born prematurely and is very sick) on the medical team that is trying its best to save their infant, give life and treat as best as they can.
There is also the issue of timing. We allow parents in our NICU all day long, including in rounds, but parents must understand that we also need to treat, to do resuscitation and other procedures, and to look after other babies. So we are not all the time available to answer every question. They should be patient and understand that sometimes we simply don't have time to talk to them immediately, and we'll be happy to do so later when we have time.
So, please don't start shouting at us, making rude remarks about how careless or less attentive we are. This makes us feel bad, makes us ruminate about 'What have we done wrong?' and drains our cognitive resources in a way that eventually hurts our performance or even causes us to do unintentional harm.
BLOOM: A media story about your study includes a quote from a doctor who says that outside the NICU, parent rudeness is often a legitimate reaction to poor care and system problems. Is it possible that this could also happen in the NICU?
Arik Riskin: Sorry, but I disagree with this statement. Rudeness is never a legitimate reaction—not in the NICU, not outside the NICU and not anywhere else. This is not a nice way to express your concerns. It is a totally unacceptable form of communication among people in general. It is an act of incivility that is no less harmful than aggressiveness or bullying.
Parents should and can express their concerns about treatment, and if they think it's poor care, they should tell this to the medical team. If this doesn't help, they can talk to their superiors, and if this doesn't help, they can ask to go and get the treatment in another facility. The problem is that many times it's not poor care, but mainly frustration on behalf of the parents because their infant is really sick and doing badly despite all the treatments given to him or her.
But, I'm ready to hear this from parents, too, and I'm not ashamed to consult another expert and seek another opinion, as long as it is for the best care of my patients. Unfortunately, many times nowadays parents are confused by a general atmosphere that is very criticizing [about] everything. This is reinforced by the media 'looking for headline news,' attorneys looking for law suits, and family members (who think they are supporting the parents by questioning everything, but cause the parents lots of confusion and eventually mistrust in the care their baby gets.
Parents need to have some trust and faith in the team taking care of their baby in order not to lose hope, which is so important for them, and us too. Parents should ask questions, should learn and read about their infant's condition, and should inquire about the diagnosis and possible other treatments. But at a certain [point] they need to have some trust and confidence in us as medical team members, coming days and nights to do our best for their babies.
BLOOM: Are there differences in how parent rudeness vs medical staff rudeness impacts medical care?
Arik Riskin: Both are as bad, having devastating effects on individual team members and on medical teams' performance as a whole. We haven't compared both sources at the same time in the same settings, so I can't guarantee which is worst. But based on our studies and the studies of Professor Erez and colleagues on rudeness in other settings, both have very bad influences on the [person targeted] and on those who witness it.
BLOOM: What advice would you give parents?
Arik Riskin: Try to be as patient and polite as possible. We understand that you are in real [distress], and are there for you. We even understand when you are not so nice to us because you are sad and worried. But, being sad or worried and even frustrated doesn't necessarily need to make you rude to us.
Being rude simply doesn't help and might actually cause the opposite by distracting us and disturbing us from doing our best.
I have worked with many parents over the years and those that had a positive attitude to all that was happening, despite all the stress and hard times they were going through, coped much better than other parents. I believe that this attitude gave them hope, which is so important in tough times. I think they may have also been more open to the support we are willing and trying as best as we can to give to all the parents of the sick infants and preemies we're taking care of.
BLOOM: What measures should hospitals put in place to try to reduce rudeness by senior medical staff or among medical peers?
Arik Riskin: Awareness is also important among team members, educating us to treat each other with dignity and respect. The days when a senior physician or charge nurse could be rude to a resident or trainee are over…not because it's impolite and unfriendly, but because it [endangers] our patients.
By highlighting the impact that adverse social contexts may have on team-level [collaboration], our findings provide the foundation for a wide range of interventions aimed at enhancing patient safety. Our results suggest that instituting protocols and procedures aimed at bolstering the defenses of medical teams to the cognitive distraction and drain elicited by rudeness can help mitigate the devastating consequences of these events, even when they can't be prevented.
BLOOM: Do you feel there's a role for narrative writing and reflection, even though the intervention used in your study didn't show a benefit?
Arik Riskin: Yes, I would definitely not quit this possible route of interventions, especially not reflection, which is an excellent learning tool for medical teams.
BLOOM: Have you considered doing a study to look at the impact of rudeness by medical teams on parents of premature babies? Some parents have traumatic experiences related to being talked to in a callous or dismissive way, or in hearing their child being talked about in a degrading or disrespectful way.
Arik Riskin: This is an important subject, which I'm sorry to say still exists as a problem. I haven't done research on it, but I know that many others have studied this important aspect of communication.
Teaching physicians and other health workers to talk nicely, gently and politely with parents is no less important than the medical treatment we provide. I recall my first lesson in neonatology as a resident. The director of our NICU then, the late Dr. Berger, taught me. We went to talk to a mother after a delivery. The mother was very stressed and frustrated even though her baby was improving. Then Dr. Berger sat with me and told me her insights about how mothers feel after delivery, and how we need to talk to them and support them. She told me this was my first lesson in pediatrics and in neonatology—How to talk to a mother—and it was more important than any other lesson I'd learn.
I carry this important lesson with me and pass it over to my students, residents and fellows. I still find talking to parents the most challenging, but also the most rewarding, part of my work. I look at them as our teammates in the long, long [journey] we have to go together to make their infant survive and to be as healthy and happy as possible.
Alphabet Farm says:
What a great interview, and I'm so glad that research like this is being done. I'm especially glad to see that the impact of rudeness and callousness by medical staff on NICU parents is being looked at. Many if not most NICU parents are in the middle of the most traumatic events of their lives, while the providers are just going about their daily work. This disparity in stress levels no doubt leads to bad interactions, but I do wish that more care providers were more sensitive to the families that they work with.
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Lithvather
From PirateCraft
3 Additional Notes
4 Crew History
Lithvather is an older player in Piratecraft who joined in 2014. He was a leader in the Phantom Pirates and is currently a member of The Coalition
Very little is known about Lith's background.
Under the guise of CaptainDeadBeard, Lithvather was once a resident of Singapore along with RobinBoyWonder. Following British military action against pirates in spring 2015, Lithvather and RobinBoyWonder agreed to join the Empire as a colony. After a few short months, RobinBoyWonder went inactive. Lithvather decided to leave the decaying city of Singapore in search of greener pastures.
He joined the ranks of the Elven Empire at some point. Whilst in the Elven Empire, he adopted koi0001 and trained him.
After months of being in the Elven Empire, Lithvather proposed to Reptaria, Queen of the Elves. She gracefully accepted and he became King of the Elves. In 2015, Lithvather was evicted from the Elves after a series of altercations with the queen. He took refuge in the British Empire, where he remained until mid 2016. Lithvather left the British Empire to live a pirate's life. He did this successfully and joined Templars, gaining the rank of Master.
In October 2016, what remained of the Templars merged with other crews to form The Xanthian Order. He was only briefly a member, and left after a few days. He joined the British Empire, and then the Elven Empire, before once again joining up with Chailey to recreate the Templars. This however, was of short duration, as he left the Templars to join the Phantom Pirates.
Elven King
Reptaria has been known to have had many different Kings along her side in the Elven Empire. As far as we can tell, Lith holds the record for being King of the Elves for the longest period of time. During his rule alongside Reptaria, he was deemed one of the most popular Elven kings. After resigning as king in Sping 2016, he has hopes to regain his title in early 2017.
Crew History
Elven Empire (King)
Templars (Grand Master)
The Xanthian Order (Master)
Phantom Pirates (Leader)
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Mari Davis Fashion, New York September 20, 2019
10 Emerging Brands to Watch
Nicknamed "The Selects," these 10 emerging brands represent the top ten up-and-coming Korean designers and provides them with maximum exposure to the US market.
Presented during the Spring 2020 New York season, this initiative goes beyond fashion and will encompass K-Culture in general. The Selects space, located in the heart of New York's SoHo district, will host special events, pop-up stores, artist collaborations and exhibitions, and more.
With the combined mission of promoting Korea's fashion talent while also creating a vibrant "go-to" location to experience Korean culture in New York City, this initiative is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of the Republic of Korea (MCST) and the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA).
BEYOND CLOSET
Tae Yong Ko first decided to pursue a career in design after attending Fashion Week. Inspired by a preppy, Americana aesthetic, Beyond Closet is informed by the designer's belief that what people have in their closet reflects their personality and lifestyle.
BMUET(TE)
Sharing the same aesthetic and vision, Byungmun Seo and Jina Um launched BMUET(TE) in 2015 to challenge preconceived notions of fashion through their own creative direction, which they describe as "weird but beautiful." Incorporating unconventional garment construction and pattern cutting, their collections are distinctively modern, expressive, and one-of-a-kind.
HEOHWAN SIMULATION
Educated in history, Hwan Heo blends aesthetics and craftsmanship from the past with his visions for the future in his London-based label HEOHWAN SIMULATION. The newest collection explores luxury and casual wear from the 80's and 90's through a sustainable lens.
HIDDEN FOREST MARKET
Husband and wife duo Ji Hyun Hwang and Sung Jun Cho launched their line, Hidden Forest Market, in 2012, to give women the freedom to tell their stories through their own personal style with effortlessly sophisticated pieces. The couple's new collection translates the sweetness of summer nights into fashion.
Kathleen Kye's eponymous label offers designs that are deeply personal, often reflective of her own reactions to the current state of global, social, and political affairs. Kye approaches such subject matter with a sense of humor, wit, and optimism, offering women designs that are in a vibrant mood, colorful palette, and elaborate detail.
A graduate of Central Saint Martins, Seunghee Lee has shown contemporary brand LEYII at Seoul Fashion Week since 2010. The collections are the ultimate celebration of femininity, emphasizing the beauty of the female form with minimal structural lines and meticulous, delicate draping.
Designed by Central Saint Martin's graduate Chung Chung Lee, LIE masterfully blends geometric patterns, sculptural shapes, bold color, and playful textures, championing female individuality, expression, emotion and strength – qualities central to the brand DNA.
Giving his customers a new way to look at unisex essentials, Noah Nam incorporates Parisian elements of modernity and elegance to everyday wares while maintaining focus on distinctive design, enduring style, and uncompromising quality.
SWBD
SWBD, or Sewing Boundaries, is a unisex brand created by Dong Ho Ha, who is not one to shy away from experimentation. As each collection's design direction continues to evolve, Ha aims to use fashion to bridge the gap between genders and generations.
WNDERKAMMER
A play on the classic "wunderkammer," or cabinet of curiosities, WNDERKAMMER refers to designer Hye Young Shin's own unique collection of objects which hold special meaning to her and serve as a source of inspiration. Crafted in natural and eco-friendly fabrics, designs are geared toward the needs of the modern woman – versatile, pragmatic, and sophisticated.
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Peroxiredoxin 6 mediates Gαi protein-coupled receptor inactivation by cJun kinase.
Nat Commun. 2017 Sep 29; 8(1):743.
The Schattauer et al. paper tackles an important question in pharmacology: How do receptors become desensitized when they interact with ligands? While the beta-arrestin pathway is very well known, it is clear that there are other mechanisms that can achieve a similar response and these pathways likely play a key role in drug tolerance and other adverse effects of GPCR ligands. In this paper the Chavkin lab identifies a new biochemical partner for several GPCRs, including the kappa and mu opioid receptors and the D2 dopamine receptor. This partner, PRDX6, links receptor conformational change to the induction of reactive oxygen species, and potentially other reactive species, like reactive nitrogen species, and biochemical alteration of Galphai proteins that are key to transducing the cellular response for these receptors. This new insight into the biochemistry of these receptors creates a unique opportunity for regulating the cellular response to ligands and suggests that tolerance, and other negative effects of drugs, may be blocked by inhibiting PRDX6 or interfering with reactive oxygen or (potentially) nitrogen species signaling. This is critical because many important analgesics target these opioid receptors and tolerance limits the clinical utility of these compounds and may be linked to opioid-induced hyperalgesia. While it is still obviously too early to determine the ultimate impact of the work, it is our opinion that this could open new avenues to enhance the efficacy of a wide range of drugs that target GPCRs that couple to Galphai.


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AUDIOSLAVE FOLLOW #1 "BE YOURSELF" SINGLE WITH THE COMPELLING "YOUR TIME HAS COME"
Posted on July 13, 2005 by MSOPR
FROM: MARCEE RONDAN/MITCH SCHNEIDER
AUDIOSLAVE FOLLOW #1 "BE YOURSELF" SINGLE
WITH THE COMPELLING
"YOUR TIME HAS COME";
VIDEO FEATURES FOOTAGE FROM THE BAND'S RECENT HISTORIC VISIT TO CUBA;
BAND WRAP TRIUMPHANT EUROPEAN TOUR AND READY PLANS FOR SOON-TO-BE-ANNOUNCED FALL U.S. TOUR
"I've seen 50,000 names all engraved in stone/Most of them met an early grave years before I was born/All of them left brothers and sisters and mothers behind/Most of their family and friends are still alive and doing time…"
–"Your Time Has Come"
"Your Time Has Come," the compelling new single by AUDIOSLAVE from their #1 critically acclaimed OUT OF EXILE album, is a collection of vignettes about people whose lives are shattered suddenly, driven by CHRIS CORNELL's stirring vocals, TOM MORELLO's innovative guitar and the razor-sharp rhythm section of bassist TIM COMMERFORD and drummer BRAD WILK.
AUDIOSLAVE underline the intensity of "Your Time Has Come" with a video that compiles recent performance clips along with behind-the-scenes footage from the band's historic May '05 visit to Cuba, when they become the first U.S. rock band to perform outdoors in Cuba to more than 60,000 people. The self-directed clip can be seen on the national airwaves, as well as viewed at the band's website (www.audioslave.com).
"Your Time Has Come" is a "bunch of references to people that I knew that…were younger than me who've been dead for years and years, up to a couple of years ago," CORNELL, the band's lyricist, recently told MTV.com. "And then just kind of that juxtaposition of, even though it seems a lot for one person, a young healthy person, to have lost all these friends through various means of stupidity and other things, then making reference to the Vietnam War Memorial and the sheer numbers of dead. And remembering that and pointing out that each one of them has a family, each one of them has friends that are sitting around thinking about the same stuff that I did. But the numbers are astounding and, in a sense, kind of criminal. And that's what the song's about."
"Your Time Has Come" marks the newly released second single from the band's OUT OF EXILE album, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard pop albums chart. It follows AUDIOSLAVE's 2002 self-titled multi-platinum debut album, which has now sold over five million copies worldwide. OUT OF EXILE's lead single "Be Yourself" reached #1 on the Rock and Alternative radio charts, where it sat for four consecutive weeks.
Writing about the album in the THE NEW YORK TIMES (6/12/05), Jon Pareles noted that "Most of the album places sinewy hard-rock riffs behind Chris Cornell's existential manifestoes, while Tom Morello's guitar solos fling staccato patterns, string-tapping and the quasi-scratching he used for Rage." Elsewhere, Shane Harrison of the ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION(5/24/05) commented: "You'll be reminded that Cornell is still one of the best pure rock vocalists around, Tom Morello's guitar dapples this album in fiery moments of invention, and the rhythm section of Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk is a marvel of agile power."
AUDIOSLAVE, known for their absorbing and fiery performances, just wrapped their triumphant European tour this past weekend at the Oxygen Festival in Dublin, Ireland. The trek encompassed headlining and festival shows, plus a powerful set July 2 at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate for the global Live 8 telecast which pressured world leaders to drop the debt owed by poor nations. At the event, MORELLO had this to say:
"Live 8 is a concert to pressure the leaders of the world's wealthiest nations to drop the debt to poor countries. The debt has a devastating effect throughout the 3rd World and ensures that countless millions will live their entire lives in wretched poverty. The G8 meet in secret to divide up the world as they see fit. Live 8 is an open democratic response of 10's of millions of people demanding economic justice, and already some concessions have been made by the G8 countries. Why? Because whenever they meet 10's of thousands, 100's of thousands gather to protest, demonstrate, and riot. Today our voices are added to their voices. Today we are many millions strong and with one united voice. Today we demand an end to global poverty in our lifetime. Today our set is dedicated to all of you who are willing, who have the courage and conviction to stand up for what's right where YOU live. In YOUR country. In YOUR place. In YOUR time. Today the whole world is watching. And today your voice will make history, your voice will change the world."
Stay tuned for news of AUDIOSLAVE's U.S. fall tour plans. Here's what some of the critics have had to say about the band's recent live shows:
"…a muscular, energetic hard rock band that teeters on the edge of greatness. Drummer Tom Commerford and bassist Brad Wilk are its large-caliber rhythm section, while the spotlight is shared by two stars: Cornell, who has the powerful, piercing voice of a classic metal singer, and guitarist Tom Morello…aggravated riffs and hip-hop-style solos…"
–Rafer Guzman, NEWSDAY, 5/2/05
"Morello's guitar work is undoubtedly among the finest of the alt-rock generation, but of equal importance is the rhythmic bounce of bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk…Cornell continues to be among rock's most comfortably confident frontmen; while Morello spastically explodes from within on each note, the singer rarely strains when reaching for even the highest notes in his register."
–Tom Kielty, BOSTON GLOBE, 4/30/05
"…Cornell does have a great rock voice…Cornell's bandmates, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk, sounded fantastic. They are a tight outfit that can really make each other shine. Morello's style is a little unconventional, but he can make his guitar sound as sweet as pie or as scratchy as a DJ's turntable in the blink of an eye. Commerford's basslines were solid, and along with Wilks drumming formed a foundation for the songs that was unwavering."
–Ken Smith, SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER, 5/14/05
"He (Chris Cornell) played the crowd like a master, having it chant the band's name, sing along to familiar songs and cheer his references to memorable Soundgarden shows in the same venue…Songs from the new album were impressive, with as much power as songs from the debut 'Audioslave' CD but with even more inventive guitar solos from the incredible Morello, who can make his guitar sound like a synthesizer, channel Jimi Hendrix or update classic riffs. He was amazing."
–Patrick Macdonald, SEATTLE TIMES, 5/14/05
"Audioslave, fronted by Chris Cornell, turned in one of the best performances of Weenie Roast XII…The incomparable Tom Morello, easily among the greatest of post-Hendrix guitarists…and a masterful excavation of this supergroup's shared past that surely will live long in Weenie Roast legend."
–Ben Wener, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 5/22/05
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