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The Southern Museum of Music, strives to be among the nation's dynamic music museums by exhibiting its permanent collection and special exhibitions on widely diverse subjects of the music industry in ways that combine the highest aesthetic standards with engaging and intellectually accessible presentations.
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We got to the Belgenland, which was docked nearby, just before seven o'clock. A huge crowd had formed, consisting of hundreds of emigrants but also lots of people selling things and sightseers who had followed us. Several wagons came by loaded up with straw mattresses, which stevedores carried onto the ship. They were intended for us steerage passengers. [...] The pushing and shoving now started again, as everyone wanted to be first. There was no end to the shouting, jostling and crying. It was worst for the children."
"There were hundreds of spectators on shore waving their hats and handkerchiefs and calling out, before they quickly faded from sight. I admit to feeling very emotional at that moment. When I thought of my loved ones back home, my eyes filled with uncontrollable tears. Would I ever see them again?"
Reinhold Liebau's story is just one of the many hundreds collected in recent years by the team at the Red Star Line Museum, housed in the beautifully restored buildings where third-class passengers like our diarist were checked prior to departure for America. The oldest building dates from a few years after Reinhold sailed. In his diary, he mentions a brief inspection in the open air, immediately before boarding. A vaccination test was also carried out in steerage. A more thorough examination did not follow until arrival in Manhattan at Castle Garden (the Ellis Island facility did not open until 1892). Like the stories and testimony of all the other passengers in the decades that followed, Reinhold's diary offers a fascinating record of the obstacles, adventures and emotions that marked the journey from Europe to America.
The Red Star Line Museum brings his story and dozens more to life. Together they form a unique piece of local and world history. The aim of the museum is to give this somewhat overlooked history the renewed attention it deserves. The museum has deliberately opted for a broad approach: immigrants' stories from all over the world, past and present. Emigration back then might have been different to now, but the human story behind it is universal and timeless.
Le Bailly, Dr M. "Via Antwerp. Emigration with the Red Star Line, 1873-1934." Migration to New Worlds, Marlborough: Adam Matthew, 2017. Web. Accessed April 23, 2019. <http://www.migration.amdigital.co.uk/Explore/Essays/RedStarLine>.


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Technology: Trending to the inevitable
Mitch Mac Donald
Somehow, as I walked that fine line between "good academic standing" and Dean Wormer's dreaded double-secret probation during my sophomore year in college, I actually managed to read a book. A whole book. And I read it more than once. It was a best-seller at the time and sparked much discussion and debate, both in classrooms and in boardrooms.
The book? Megatrends by John Naisbitt. Those who have read it may recall that the book outlines 10 fundamental trends—or shifts in thinking—that are shaping our future. While Naisbitt wrote of changes in politics, government, the global economy, the workplace, and more, it was the trend discussed in the book's first chapter that captured my attention.
In 1982, just as the world was getting its first glimpse of things like personal computers, cable television, and cordless (but still landline) phones, Naisbitt already recognized that we were in the midst of a profound shift in our economy. Pointing to the mid-1950s as the starting point, he contended that we were moving from an industrial-based, blue-collar economy to a predominantly information-based, white-collar economy in which information and data would be shared globally and instantly. To put it another way, almost a full decade before the Internet transformed our lives, Naisbitt foresaw our collective digital future.
To fully appreciate Naisbitt's prescience, you merely have to consider how the digital revolution has changed the practice of logistics. We now know that there's a lot more to the game than just the physical movement of goods and materials through the supply chain. Just as critical to today's practitioners is the parallel flow of data that moves in tandem with those goods.
That's just one example of why Megatrends has always stood apart from the rest in a crowded field of books by "futurists." It's the one that, quite simply, nailed it. I've always considered it to be in a league of its own.
This year, that league expanded to two. On the recommendation of a friend, I picked up a copy of The Inevitable, published in late 2016 by Kevin Kelly, whom some may recall as the founding executive editor of Wired magazine.
Kelly's book, which is subtitled "Understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future," is essentially a meditation on how our lives will change over the next 30 years, driven by tech trends that are already in motion. What's groundbreaking about his work is not the technologies he cites by way of example—think robotics, 3-D printing, big data, autonomous vehicles, and artificial intelligence (AI)—but rather his ability to depict life in a world where, as one reviewer put it, "intelligence flows as easily into objects as electricity."
Imagine, if you will, a world wherein you don't buy things like cars but rather subscribe to a transportation service. Sometimes, that might mean there is a car in your driveway; sometimes, it could mean an Uber-type driver picks you up. Imagine further that you don't need to do anything for that car or that livery service to show up where and when you need it. The "universe of big data" will know based on, perhaps, a listing on your digital calendar that you need a car for a weekend get-away or a Lyft ride to a business meeting.
While that example in no way does Kelly's work justice, it does demonstrate just how profoundly and fundamentally our world will change.
And, according to Kelly, it will change much more quickly than we can currently conceive. We stand at or near a tipping point, if you will, in which we will begin to measure the time until we have driverless trucks, fully automated supply chains, and a host of other breakthroughs in months rather than years.
These changes are no longer just trends, it seems. They are also inevitable.
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Suspected blood stains found in Cheryl DeBoer's car; husband ruled out as suspect in case
By Rob Mackay, David Rose and Jamie Tompkins
Suspected blood stains found in deceased woman`s car
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash. -- Investigators found what they believe to be blood stains inside the car belonging to Cheryl DeBoer, the Mountlake Terrace woman whose body was discovered in a culvert last Sunday, police confirmed Tuesday night.
Police Commander Kevin Pickhard said investigators found the stains on the passenger seat of DeBoer's Subaru and also on the inside passenger door. They will undergo lab testing.
Her car was found on Feb. 8, the day DeBoer disappeared in Mountlake Terrace. Her car was parked on 58th Avenue West, near the transit center where she planned to meet a friend to commute to her job at Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Police said Cheryl sent her friend a text message saying she would be late and would take the bus instead -- but she never made it to work. On Feb. 14, her body was discovered in a culvert near 244th and Cedar Way, less than 2 miles from where her car was found.
On Tuesday, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office officially confirmed the body found in the Mountlake Terrace culvert Sunday is that of DeBoer. But the cause and manner of death were not released, "pending further investigation."
Police are not releasing how DeBoer died.
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At the same time, detectives have ruled out her husband as a person of interest in the case, Pickard said Tuesday night.
"Based on interviews our detectives did with him, we know he was not involved," said Pickard.
Snohomish County Search and Rescue crews conducted a grid search Tuesday in the area where her body was located at 244th and Cedar Way.
"They looked through the berry bushes, got in the water on their hands and knees and felt their way along to look for evidence," said Pickard, adding that they did recover several items for processing by the crime lab but are not releasing exactly what those were.
Police are asking people who walk in the area around 23400 block of 58th Avenue West, where DeBoer's car was found, and where she was located to look for anything that appears out of place and to contact them immediately if they see something. They are also asking the public to contact them if they saw anyone suspicious in the area between Feb. 8 and Sunday, Feb. 14, when she was found.
Police know there is a lot of fear in the community and cautions everyone to be careful and aware of their surroundings.
Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound is offering a $1,000 reward to anyone who can help Mountlake Police identify and arrest a suspect.
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Impact of Kinsey Sex Theories on Children By Bob Unruh
Alfred Kinsey's belief in child sexuality, with all of its impacts on children and society, now circles the globe, but a campaign to reveal the truth about his efforts to legitimize pedophilia is following right behind.
Judith Reisman, a visiting professor of law at Liberty University, popular lecturer and former consultant to four U.S. Department of Justice administrations, recently concluded a trip in which she delivered seminars on the fallacies of Kinsey's arguments in Rome, Ireland and London.
One of her books exposing the agenda of Kinsey's lifelong campaign recently has been translated into Chinese.
"The Kinsey Institute is very active in the sexology field, holding conferences in every major nation in the world. They've been training the sexologists, sex educators in every country," Reisman told WND.
"There's not a single country that educates the public about sex where the institutional position, [the teachers], have not been trained in the Kinsey model," she said.
Her books, including "Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences" and "Sexual Sabotage," show that Kinsey's research was based on "illegal sexual experimentation on several hundred young children."
His research results came not from a scientific cross-section of American, but from "hundreds of sex offenders, prostitutes, prison inmates and exhibitionists," she documents. Kinsey, Reisman explained, used these people to represent the sexual activities and behaviors of the "Greatest Generation."
The"K Bomb," as she calls it — the "studies," claims and "research" launched from the institute's headquarters behind the gothic limestone Indiana University façade — have been used to "subvert" the nation's traditional morality.
The impact has been seen worldwide.
"People in other countries are contacting me, asking me to please come and deliver the truth," she told WND.
Kinsey's extreme view of sexuality is typified by a statement posted on the website of the North American Man-Boy Love Association, which advocates sex between adults and children.
The statement, from Kinsey's book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female," defends adult-child sex and accuses those who object to it of being responsible for "serious effects" suffered by children.
"When children are constantly warned by parents and teachers against contacts with adults, and when they receive no explanation of the exact nature of the contacts, they are ready to become hysterical as soon as any older person approaches, or stops and speaks to them in the street, or fondles them, or proposes to do something for them, even though the adult may have had no sexual objective in mind. Some of the more experienced students of juvenile problems have come to believe that the emotional reactions of the parents, police officers, and other adults who discover that the child has had such a contact, may disturb the child more seriously than the sexual contacts themselves. The current hysteria over sex offenders may very well have serious effects on the ability of many of these children to work out sexual adjustments some years later."
Judith Reisman (Photo credit: Sherrie Buzby)
The acceptance of Kinsey's research of rapists, pedophiles and others has helped foster widespread sexual experimentation and an anything-goes atmosphere.
It has resulted in a "gutting" of the nation's tough laws that previously had kept pornography and predators at bay, she explains.
Reisman says that although Kinsey's beliefs are taught at every level of education – from elementary school to college – and quoted in textbooks as undisputed truth, his research was "grotesquely fraudulent."
Among her charges is that Kinsey's data came from sources who would stimulate young children, as young as two months, "orally and manually for up to 24 hours at a time."
Reisman has lectured at Princeton, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Pepperdine, Johns Hopkins, the FBI, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the University of Jerusalem, University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University. She has been cited by the London Times, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has appeared on "Entertainment Tonight," "Larry King Live," "Donahue," the"Today" show and "Crossfire."
She's been listed in "The World's Who's Who of Women."
On her recent trip to Rome, she presented her research to the Alliance of the Holy Family International, including Cardinal Raymond Burke, Cardinal Ricardo Vidal and other leaders of the organization.
A Vatican organizer of the events called Reisman's work critical to the ministry of the Catholic Church.
Reisman also delivered presentations in Ireland, where she trained nurses and doctors about the true methodology of Kinsey.
"The most fascinating information [developed], for me, during the discussions, when it slowly emerged that abortion, allegedly illegal, was being carried out, apparently selectively, among the Philippine population. The number of allegedly 'dead' babies identified by … doctors actually shocked these nurses," she reported.
"When I left, the Philippine attendees were planning to begin investigating whether indeed they were being targeted for selective abortions and, if so, when this process began."
In London, her focus was on creating safe schools, and she reported how sex "education" often is used for sex "indoctrination."
"Following the meeting, Jonathan Evans, MP for Cardiff North, and Andrea Leadsom, MP for South Northamptonshire, joined parents in delivering to the department of education a 47,000-signature petition … calling for sex DVDs to be banned from U.K. primary schools."
Reisman further told WND that following the translation of Kinsey's work into Chinese, some 500,000 copies of his advocacy for pedophilia have been sold.
As a result, two credentialed Chinese professors translated her book "Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences' into Chinese, she said.
Meanwhile, her work in the U.S. continues. Last year she was at a symposium for "minor-attracted people" that was sponsored by the group B4U-ACT, which disseminated "accurate information" to argue that pedophilia is just another sexual orientation.
"If a foreign country came in and did this to our nation, the nation would be outraged," Reisman told WND about the B4U-Act event, also attended by J. Matt Barber, vice president of Liberty Counsel Action.
The speakers urged the removal of pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental defects in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Reisman explained the same strategy was used by homosexual activists in the 1970s when same-sex attractions were removed from the APA's list of disorders. Eventually, the legalization of "gay marriage," the mandatory homosexuality lessons in public schools and the brand new policy of allowing open homosexuality in the U.S. military resulted.
The recent event wasn't a meeting of minor unknowns.
"Dr. John Sadler (University of Texas) argued that diagnostic criteria for mental disorders should not be based on concepts of vice since such concepts are subject to shifting social attitudes and doing so diverts mental-health professions from their role as healers," the B4U-ACT organization said in a report about its symposium in Baltimore.
Another celebrity was Fred Berlin of Johns Hopkins who argued in favor of "acceptance of and compassion for people who are attracted to minors," the report continued.
The report pointedly referred to "minor-attracted people" in reference to pedophiles and explained that the concerns can be resolved with "accurate information." Richard Kramer, who represented B4U-ACT at the event, contended listing pedophilia as a disorder stigmatizes the "victims" of the lifestyle choice.
According to Barber, conference speakers said the APA's Diagnostic Manual should "focus on the needs" of the pedophile and should have "a minimal focus on social control" rather than on the "need to protect children."
Barber, an ardent advocate for Judeo-Christian values and the traditional family, told WND the symposium was "the North American Man-Boy Love Association all dolled up and dressed in the credible language of the elitist Ph.Ds."
"This is a bunch of morally relative, highly educated people in the mental health community who are trying to achieve the ultimate in tolerance," Barber said. "These are the people who are the disciples of Alfred Kinsey."
Further, a campaign last year was launched in the U.K. to allow convicted pedophiles to adopt children, since depriving them of that privilege could "breach their human rights."
"There is no reason why all sex offenders should not be considered as potentially suitable to adopt or foster children, or work with them," said an advocate.
Reisman also cited the decision last week by Greece to expand a list of disability categories approved by the government to include pedophiles and exhibitionists.
The Greek government said the list also includes pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists and sadomasochists.
WND Managing Editor David Kupelian, shortly after publication of "The Marketing of Evil" in 2005, predicted publicly that the next "liberation movement" to assault America would be "the mainstreaming of adult-child sex."
Now he has noted, "The same godless logic that leads to normalization of homosexual marriage will lead also to the de-stigmatization and decriminalization of pedophilia. Remember, consensuality has replaced morality in today's legal system, so a young person 'consent' to have sex will ultimately trump the old-fashioned desire to protect the innocent. Also, since adult-child sex is a 'cultural preference' in certain non-Western countries, child-molestation lobbyists are now making the argument that criminalizing adult-child sex amounts to condemning another culture. So that's where multiculturalism has brought us."
Seminars held in Rome, Ireland, London; book translated into Chinese
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In 2007, Joel Smith was an AmeriCorps NCCC working for NOAHH in St. Bernard Parish at the original Camp Hope, only a year and a half after the hurricanes and levee failures. Though his AmeriCorps journey took him all around the country, his eight weeks building floor systems for NOAHH remains one of the most formative chapters of his life, and that story is now told in the graphic novel The Parish: An AmeriCorps Story, and for every one sold, a dollar is donated to NOAHH!
Smith and his illustrator Ryan Winet have joined NOAHH on site for the last three days of Build-A-Thon, and we stopped to speak briefly with him about his experiences as an AmeriCorps, his comic, and New Orleans. He reflected on the state of the city in 2007, noting how little had changed between the storms and his 2007 stint building here.
His time with NOAHH was spent leading the construction of floor systems (upon which his team and the volunteers would dance the "Cupid Shuffle" when they finished!), exploring the city and St. Bernard, and learning about himself. His story is a coming-of-age tale in seven episodes set at the fictional Camp Believe, and it focuses on the AmeriCorps team trying to find themselves. With the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the 20th anniversary of AmeriCorps so close together, Smith felt it was the right time to tell his story, with the hopes that it would inspire others to follow a similar path.
Being back in New Orleans allowed him to see how much progress had happened and how much had not changed, and the experience of being on a build site was similar.


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MLS Cup playoffs 2012: Red Bulls, DC United finale Wednesday
The New York Red Bulls and DC United decide their semifinal Wednesday at 8 p.m.
By Randy Booth Nov 7, 2012, 9:30am EST
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The No. 3 New York Red Bulls host the No. 2 D.C. United in the second leg of the Eastern Conference semifinals Wednesday night.
The teams are coming off a 1-1 game Saturday at RFK Stadium in the first leg of the round. The game, which was moved to Washington because of Hurricane Sandy, was decided by a pair of own goals in the second half.
In the 61st minute, United took the lead when sub Roy Miller scored an own goal. Just four minutes later, the Red Bulls tied it when United goalie Bill Hamid knocked the ball into the net while trying to save a deflection.
The winner of the United-Red Bulls semifinal will play either top-seeded Sporting Kansas City or No. 5 Houston Dynamo.
Despite the top seed, Kansas City fell in the first leg, 2-0. It'll have to rebound to try to advance to the Eastern Conference Championship.
United and Red Bulls are set to get started at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday. The game will be shown on the NBC Sports Network.
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Another workshop organised by psychologist Dr Carly Aquilina entitled "Understanding Bullying" is being held on Friday 15th February 2019 between 9am and 3pm at Porziuncola Retreat House. This workshop is for teachers, school counsellors, Heads of Discipline and other professionals working in schools. Interested educators should contact the organiser at groupsmalta@gmail.com for further details.
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does cbd help breast cancer
CBD, alone or with other agents, has been shown to successfully induce cell death, inhibit cell migration and invasion in vitro, decrease tumor size, vascularization, growth, and weight, and increase survival and induce tumor regression in vivo [58,59,62,65,68,70,71,74]. Regarding CBD's anti-proliferative action on GBM, data show that apoptosis occurs independent of CB1, CB2, and TRPV1, but is dependent on TRPV2 [58,65,66,67,69,72]. Specifically, Ivanov et al. found that CBD, γ-irradiation, and ATM inhibitor KU60019 upregulate TNF/ TNFR1 and TRAIL/ TRAIL-R2 signaling along with DR5 within the extrinsic apoptotic pathway [61,64]. CBD also activates the JNK-AP1 and NF-κB pathways to induce cell death. Less emphasis has been placed on the role of autophagy or cell cycle arrest in CBD-mediated effects on glial cells [57,58,64,72,74].
McKallip et al. [106] found that in both EL-4 and Jurkat cells, CBD's anti-proliferative effects were mediated through CB2, but independent of CB1 and TRPV1 [106]. However in a separate study Olivas-Aguirre et al. showed CBD's effects to be independent of the endocannabinoid receptors and plasma membrane Ca 2+ channels in Jurkat cells [110]. These conflicting results need to be resolved by future studies. Despite this, the majority of research on leukemia/lymphomas confirmed apoptosis as the mechanism by which CBD-mediated cell death occurs, either alone or in combination with other treatment modalities, including γ-irradiation, Δ 9 -THC, vincristine, and cytarbine [105,106,107,110]. One study also demonstrated that CBD decreased tumor burden and induced apoptosis in vivo [106]. Kalenderoglou et al. found that CBD can induce cell cycle arrest in Jurkat cells, with increased cells in G1 phase [108]. CBD treatment also resulted in changes to cell morphology, including decreased size of cells, extensive vacuolation, swollen mitochondria, disassembled ER and Golgi, and plasma membrane blebbing [108,110].
ER is an important organelle that plays a critical role in post-translational modification and folding of proteins, calcium homeostasis, and other biological processes [48,49]. Accumulation of unfolded and/or misfolded proteins triggers the unfolded protein response (UPR), which helps to re-balance the ER homeostasis. UPR temporarily halts protein synthesis and attempts to correct and re-fold proteins. In the case that the unfolded and/or misfolded proteins cannot be corrected in time, they will then be targeted for protein degradation.
At this point, only one study testing CBD's effectiveness on prostate cancer has been conducted in vivo. More quality studies using mouse models are required before moving to the clinical trial phase.
3.4. Colorectal Cancer
Collectively, the activation of NF-κB and STAT3 signaling transduction pathways in cancer cells, as well as in the inflammatory cells in the tumor microenvironment, provide a great advantage for tumor cell proliferation, survival, migration, and immune evasion ( Figure 4 C,D).
CBD, as well as medical marijuana, must be studied in the same way all other FDA-approved drugs are, by conducting randomized trials, its effects on various age groups and populations, and comparisons to already approved drugs, Dr. Markman says. To date, he says, no studies have met the agency's criteria or standards to win FDA approval, which Dr. Markman calls "the gold standard." In order to do so, experts must determine that a drug's benefits "outweigh the known risks for the intended use," he says.
CBD is thought to work by targeting cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and CB2) found mainly in the brain and other areas of the body. These receptors are part of the endocannabinoid signaling system, which—while its role is not completely understood— is believed to help regulate various mental functions, including cognition, sleep, pain and mood. CBD may also help regulate the production of cortisol, a hormone that helps the body deal with stress.
While some anecdotal evidence has been publicly shared about CBD's benefits for cancer patients, the scientific research is lacking. The situation causes a conundrum for doctors who treat cancer patients, says Maurie Markman, MD, President of Medicine & Science at Cancer Treatment Centers of America ® (CTCA).
Available only by prescription, Epidiolex contains a highly purified form of CBD, the FDA says. Safety risks include possible liver damage and the potential for adverse reactions when the drug is taken with other medications—potential hazards that the FDA requires be disclosed on its label.
Cancer and CBD
The FDA acknowledges the "significant public interest in cannabis and cannabis-derived compounds," but maintains there are "many unanswered questions about the science, safety, and quality" of CBD products. The agency is engaged in "ongoing efforts" to answer these questions, according to its website.
Danish researchers conducted a review of 22 clinical trials conducted over a 19-year span on the use of cannabis and CBD in adults. They concluded that, while CBD may have "therapeutic effects" on some social and psychiatric disorders, the studies showed "substantial risks of bias" and had varying "methodological weaknesses."
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Meet Our Collaborators
Freehand Hotels partner with designers, artists and the very best in the food & beverage industry to bring you an experience like no other. From the moment you walk in our doors, you'll be surrounded by a creative welcoming culture that will keep you coming back.
Roman and Williams
Meet Robin & Stephen
In 2002, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch partnered to found the New York-based design studio Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors. The firm has since garnered international attention for their work on hotels, restaurants, retail spaces, homes, and product design. Distinguishable by their ingenious blending of historical elements with a modern reference, Roman and Williams strives to create projects which consistently find the tension between spontaneity and rigor, refinement and rebellion, and past and future. The studio places an emphasis on sturdy, well-made objects, custom designing many of the furniture and fixtures found in their work. Each project is instilled with a heightened sense of narrative and familiarity. Credited with disrupting the hospitality industry by creating an alternative to the 'boutique' hotel Roman and Williams is known for their work on such projects as Ace Hotel New York, The Boom Boom Room at the Standard Highline, and the historic Chicago Athletic Association Hotel. Their restaurants have received extensive praise, including Le Coucou, with Stephen Starr and Chef Daniel Rose, which was named New York City's top restaurant of 2016 by the New York Times. In another project of cultural and civic significance, the firm is collaborating on the re-design of the British Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Roman and Williams has received numerous accolades for their approach, including the prestigious 2014 National Design Award for excellence in Interior Design and a recurring presence in Architectural Digest's Top 100 Designers. Robin and Stephen were cited by Fast Company in 2016 as two of the most Creative People in Business.
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Meet Gabe & Elad
Gabe Orta & Elad Zvi are the founders of Bar Lab, a lifestyle consulting and management agency that focuses on creative hospitality, event planning, marketing & branding, and innovative beverage programs within the food and beverage industry. Orta and Zvi first gained notoriety in Miami for their hand-crafted cocktails, which lead them to open the city's first pop-up bar in 2012 – the Broken Shaker at The Freehand Miami. The bar was an immediate success, and what began as a 30-day pop-up evolved into a partnership with the Sydell Group, giving the Broken Shaker a permanent home. In addition to consulting, Bar Lab has expanded its brand portfolio to include 27 Restaurant & Bar and The Anderson in Miami, the Broken Shaker in Chicago and LA, as well as The Exchange restaurant and Rudolph's Bar & Tea. Known for marrying playful, hand-crafted cocktails with hospitality, The Broken Shaker has been nominated for two James Beard awards for "Outstanding Bar Program", named one of the "The World's 50 Best Bars" in 2014 – 2017, and was awarded the Best American Hotel Bar at the 2016 Tales Of A Cocktail Spirited Awards.
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Meet Cesar
In 2012, César and Helvia Vega stepped away from their day jobs to fulfill a long-time dream of pursuing coffee, made solely from Nicaraguan beans, full-time. In a short span, they went from hand delivering roasted coffee from Washington Heights to running a successful counter-space inside a Soho boutique. Earning a notice from The New York Times, Café Integral was cited as a premier coffee destination in NYC. In 2014, they were profiled in Nicaragua's most-read dailies, La Prensa de Nicaragua and La Estrella. In 2015, César was named to Zagat's "30 Under 30" list of the most promising young culinary professionals and in 2017, César was honored as one of Starchefs' "Rising Stars." In 2015, the Vegas partnered with Freehand Hotels and Sydell Group to bring Café Integral to Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles. Café Integral opened its first full-scale outlet in New York's Nolita in 2016, cementing its role as the chief authority on Nicaraguan coffee in the United States.
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Founded in 2009 by Gabriel and Gina Stulman, Happy Cooking Hospitality is the New York City-based restaurant group behind beloved neighborhood restaurants Joseph Leonard, Jeffrey's Grocery, Fedora, Fairfax, and Bar Sardine, all located within blocks of one another in Manhattan's historic West Village. Dining in a Happy Cooking restaurant feels like being entertained at home if one lived on a historic corner, had a chef in the kitchen and didn't have to do the dishes. They are the kind of places where one can comfortably dine often, and where guests quickly become family. Gabe is excited to be teaming up with partners Matt Kebbekus, Chef Matt Griffin and Sydell on Freehand New York's Simon & The Whale, Studio and George Washington Bar.
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Partners Matt Kliegman + Carlos Quirarte opened The Smile in March 2009. The cozy, subterranean café on picturesque Bond Street in Downtown Manhattan is located in a landmark 1830s Federal-style townhouse. Firmly rooted in the local community and serving as a clubhouse of sorts, The Smile is helmed by executive chef / partner Melia Marden where she serves wholesome + delicious Mediterranean-inspired fare influenced by her time in Greece. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, Melia and their new chef de cuisine Tadd Johnson, recently debuted a new dinner menu highlighting seasonal ingredients and vegetable-forward dishes. A sister restaurant to The Smile, Matt Kliegman + Carlos Quirarte opened their first Smile To Go in 2012 on Howard Street. The café serves healthy and tasty Manhattan-Mediterranean fare prepared by chef/partner Melia Marden. The menu rotates daily focusing on seasonal ingredients with an emphasis on takeout. In August 2017, Smile To Go DUMBO opened at Empire Stores serving popular items such as rotisserie chicken, seasonal salads, sandwiches + vegetables. A large selection of baked goods prepared by The Smile's pastry chef, Rosanne Smith, are also featured in-store.
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Since opening its doors in Venice Beach in 2015, designer Sean Knibb's Flowerboy Project has become known for its whimsical wares and friendly approach to retail. Now, with a second outpost at Freehand, Knibb brings his unique concept—part flower shop, part retail space, part creative workspace— to Downtown LA. In addition to a daily selection of colorful, fresh-cut blooms, Flowerboy offers a curated selection of new and found items including rare vintage clothing, candles, one-of-a-kind jewelry, magazines, objects, accessories and more.
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19th Avenue lane closures planned this week
The California Department of Transportation has announced various lane closures between today and Friday as part of the state Highway 1 Traffic Signal Upgrade Project.
The project will include lane closures along Highway 1, or 19th Avenue, at Lincoln Way, Eucalyptus Drive, Holloway Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard so that crews can install electrical conduit as part of an effort to upgrade the existing traffic signal system, according to Caltrans.
Southbound lane closures will take place between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and northbound lane closures will be in effect between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Caltrans is advising commuters to take alternative routes between those times and delays are expected.
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Graham: Sundari, what a really great email you sent me! I can see you were up late writing it also. That was very thoughtful of you. Thank you so much. I am not replying in point form, as it is clear what I have to do and I don't want to take up any more of your time at present. You have already been so kind and helpful. And of course correct. I will work steadfastly on my discrimination. And read and reread about the gunas and karma yoga. It has already begun in earnest. I will write to you in a few weeks to let you know how things are. I know you are quite busy with emails. Thank you so much again.
Sundari: Hello, Graham. Your email is a tricky one to reply to for a number of reasons. What is going on for Graham in the spiritual dimension is not integrated with what is going on in his life. Vedanta has come to you, and you seem to have assimilated much of the essence of what it reveals about your true identity.
However, there has to be congruence between how you are living and self-knowledge. The fact that there is little congruence is evident. Therefore your qualifications need work, particularly discrimination. It does not work to impose satya on mithya, the real on the apparently real, in other words, the self on Graham. Unless the groundwork, cleaning up your act, has been done the knowledge will not stick no matter how much you meditate, experience sattvic states, have insights, study Vedanta or objectify Graham.
The problem is that Graham is objectifying Graham. If you really know that you are the self, you would not repeatedly be objectifying Graham, because you would simply know he is an object without having to refer to him as such. This does not detract from the insights you have had and your knowledge of the self; nonetheless until the knowledge is translated into your life, you are not free.
My advice to you for now would be to put the self on the shelf. Forget about moksa and concentrate on dharma. If you are not living the right life, things will not come right for Graham. They have spiralled out of control for this reason. Addiction is a very difficult samskara to bust. It is so damaging because it is self-indulgent. It is impossible to take into account the needs of "others" such as family when you find yourself in its all-consuming clutches.
Vedanta, or self-realisation, is not going to fix your life but it can give you the tools to help you deal with it, particularly karma yoga. Karma yoga, practised properly, is really dharma yoga because every action you take is dedicated, consecrated to Isvara. Peace of mind only comes from the realisation that you are not in control of the dharma field, yet in taking the appropriate steps to act according to dharma and then relinquishing the results, peace of mind is produced.
For example, your wife and children are your dharma field. If you were practising karma yoga you would first consecrate your every thought, word and action to them. They are Isvara, they are God. And if you practised karma yoga you would follow dharma and you would therefore not do actions that violate or injure your family. Non-injury is the first principle of karma yoga.
Instead, what did you do? Graham consecrated his actions to his vasanas, meaning his likes and dislikes, and did not take into account his dharma field. Consequently your wife and children left you, and the result was suffering for all concerned. Had you practiced karma yoga this would not have happened. You would not have injured yourself and your family, and you would have enhanced your self-esteem rather than diminish it. Now you are determined to fix the situation, but how are you going to do that?
You are not in control of what has happened with "your" family – and they are not "your" family anyway. You are identified with them and attached to them because you are still identified with Graham's emotional interests. This does not mean that you deny your responsibilities or your feelings. Dharma means that you act appropriately irrespective of how you feel.
If you get them back and Graham is still indulging Graham without having faced down his vasanas, no matter how much Vedanta you study or how much you meditate, the drama will most certainly continue. So the issue is not whether or not you get them back. Neither is it whether you are the self or not. It is obvious that your true nature is awareness after all. The question is, what use is a family if your life is a mess?
Graham: Thank you for the email. Wow! That was a rough one last week, ha, ha, terrifying yet crucial. It's clear how this experience is applicable to what is in Vedanta. The experience of last week itself is no longer here to start with. It is one thing finding out that things like a car, even a job, as experience is temporary, quite another to realise that the more supposedly longer-lasting concepts such as a family, marriage and children are all temporary experiences as well. Wow! What a lesson has been handed to me. This information has been integrated by Graham as much as possible, notwithstanding that I, self, already knew this. Is this why it seems so obvious to Graham? That self is filtering the truth through? When someone gets their kids taken away from them and loses all contact (as can typically happen in these cases), the body reacts as if it is grieving over their death, a known phenomenon, leading Graham to realise that all in this realm is experience and therefore temporary.
Sundari: Yes, if one sees things from the self's point of view, one sees that nothing ever happens, none of it is real, it is all a movie. However, it is not the self "filtering the truth through Graham," unless you take Graham to be real. It is simply the self seeing Graham and "his" life as the movie it is. See above.
Graham: It is a funny thing in a way, that Graham is of course not self-realised, yet Graham has no doubt that what is being taught here is true. Again, it must be self filtering this to Graham? Can it be asked, is it enough to just focus on James' material in Vedanta? And not to delve into the more classic type stuff? James' stuff suits me fine.
Sundari: Graham may have realised that his identity is awareness but this is where the work begins. As I said above, your discrimination still needs work, as this is the essence of moksa: discriminating the self from the objects appearing in it. Nothing can "filter" through Graham; he is not real. Graham cannot know awareness and will never be self-realised. He is an inert reflector of awareness, like all objects. It is the self under the spell of ignorance, seeing itself when self-knowledge removes the ignorance of your true nature.
Graham: The situation is that my wife is still living apart from me. Graham is job-hunting. No, that is not right, I am job-hunting. There is much awareness abounding. To just talk of Graham-this-and-that would be far from accurate. Anyhow, once a job appears and there are some savings of a few weeks, we are to get a home here. These next few weeks are crucial to me. Yes, I am really taking a stand. As I'm writing this email it is dawning that to even speak of Graham in the context I do now is not entirely correct. Graham is self. Self is Graham, so it is not that I am trying to find anything, it is the realisation that there is nothing to find! Sounds wonderful. But to actually know that, in every part of being, is something else. It consumes one.
Sundari: Yes, the crux of it all is to really understand what it means to be the self and to live it. Unless the knowledge translates into your life, it is useless. For this to happen, you need to face and understand Graham before you can be free of him. Again, see my first few paragraphs above.
Graham: Experiences. It has taken some human pain to know that they are temporary. I've a lot of free time now, and am taking a stand in awareness always. My dreams are also becoming very vivid and refreshing/exciting. I feel exhilarated by them. There is a returning to that sattvic state I had before. This time though I know I am not getting enlightened from the mediating that is preceding it. Instead it can be useful in helping to understand Vedanta and what the unexplored aspects of my life are showing.
Sundari: All experiences and states of mind end, however uplifting and sattvic they may be. You need to delve into and face the unexplored aspects of your life in the light of self-knowledge. This is why in previous emails I encouraged you to study the guna teaching and practice karma yoga. I can only repeat what has already been said to you by me and Paul Hardman: ignorance is hardwired and obsessively resistant to change; dedication and persistence is what it takes.
I also advise you to approach the person I referred you to, as he is experienced in this field and has done great work in combining karma yoga with the 12-step programme.
Graham: I have the qualifications necessary for Vedanta. And I won't give up on this. the dedication to it is growing daily. And it is going to be seen through completely. Anticipation stirs my soul. And excites my body. Goosebumps come up. Ha, ha!
Sundari: Great, Graham, I am happy for you that your desire for moksa is strong; however, as I said above, I would put moksa aside for now and concentrate on understanding what makes Graham who he is, without blame or shame.
Graham: Much love and strength to you, Sundari.
Sundari: Much love to you too, Graham.


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A Rebuttal to Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason" – Letter X
The remaining part of your work can hardly be made the subject of animad version. It principally consists of unsupported assertions, abusive appellations, illiberal sarcasms, strifes of words, profane babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.
I am hurt at being, in mere justice to the subject, under the necessity of using such harsh language; and am sincerely sorry that, from what cause I know not, your mind has received a wrong bias in every point respecting revealed religion.
You are capable of better things; for there is a philosophical sublimity in some of your ideas, when you speak of the Supreme Being as the creator of the universe that you may not accuse me of disrespect, in passing over any part of your work without bestowing proper attention upon it; I will wait upon you through what you call your – conclusion.
You refer your reader to the former part of the Age of Reason; in which you have spoken of what you esteem three frauds – mystery, miracle, and prophecy.
I have not at hand the book to which you refer, and know not what you have said on these subjects: they are subjects of great importance, and we, probably, should differ essentially in our opinion concerning them.
But I confess I am not sorry to be excused from examining what you have said on these points. The specimen of your reasoning, which is now before me, has taken from me every inclination to trouble either my reader or myself with any observations on your former book.
You admit to the possibility of God's revealing his will to man, yet "the thing so revealed," you say, "is revelation to the person only to whom it is made; his account of it to another is not revelation." This is true. His account is simple testimony.
You add, "There is no possible criterion to judge of the truth of what he says." This I positively deny and contend, that a real miracle, performed in attestation of a revealed truth, is a certain criterion by which we may judge of the truth of that attestation.
I am perfectly aware of the objections which may be made to this position. I have examined them with care. I acknowledge them to be of weight, but I do not speak unadvisedly or as wishing to dictate to other men, when I say, that I am persuaded the position is true.
So thought Moses, when, in the matter of Korah, he said to the Israelites, "If these men die the common death of all men, then the Lord hath not sent me." So thought Elijah, when he said, "Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be know this day, that thou art God in Israel, and that I am they servant."
And the people, before whom he spoke, were of the same opinion. For, when the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt-sacrifice, they said, "The Lord he is the God." So thought our Savior, when he said, "The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of Me" and, "If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not."
What reason have we to believe Jesus speaking in the Gospel and to disbelieve Mahomet speaking in the Koran? Both of them lay claim to a divine commission and yet we receive the words of the one as a revelation from God, and we reject the words of the other, as an imposture of man.
The reason is evident; Jesus established his pretensions, not by alleging any secret communication with the Deity, but by working numerous and indubitable miracles in the presence of thousands, and which the most bitter and watchful of his enemies could not disallow.
But Mahomet wrought no miracles at all. Nor is a miracle the only criterion by which we may judge of the truth of a revelation.
If a series of prophets should, through a course of many centuries, predict the appearance of a certain person, whom God would, at a particular time, send into the world for a particular end and at length a person should appear, in whom all the predictions were minutely accomplished: such a completion of prophecy would be a criterion of the truth of that revelation, which that person should deliver to mankind.
Or if a person should now say, (as many false prophets have said, and are daily saying) that he had a commission to declare the will of God; and, as a proof of his veracity, should predict that after his death, he would rise from the dead on the third day.
The completion of such a prophecy would I presume, be sufficient criterion of the truth of what this man might have said, concerning the will of God. Now I tell you, (says Jesus to his disciples, concerning Judas, who was to betray him) before it come, that when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
In various parts of the Gospels, our Savior, with the utmost propriety, claims to be received as the messenger of God, not only from the miracles which he wrought, but from the prophecies which were fulfilled in his person, and from the predictions which he himself delivered.
Hence, instead of there being no criterion by which we may judge of the truth of the Christian revelation, there are clearly three. It is an easy matter to use an indecorous flippancy of language in speaking of the Christian religion, and with a supercilious negligence, to class Christ and his apostles amongst the impostors who have figured in the world. But it is not, I think, an easy matter for any man, of good sense and sound erudition, to make an impartial examination into any one of the three grounds of Christianity which I have here mentioned and to reject it.
What is it, you ask. The Bible teaches? The prophet Micah shall answer you, it teacheth us – "to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God." Justice, mercy, and piety, instead of what you contend for – rapine, cruelty, and murder.
What is it, you demand, the Testament teaches us? You answer your question – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman. Absurd and impious assertion!
No, Sir, no; this profane doctrine, this miserable stuff, this blasphemous perversion of Scripture, is your doctrine, not that of the New Testament. I will tell you the lesson which it teaches to infidels as well as to believers; it is a lesson which philosophy never taught, which wit cannot ridicule, nor sophistry disprove.
The lesson is this, "The dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. All that are in their graves shall come forth. They that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."
The moral precepts of the Gospel are so well fitted to promote the happiness of mankind in this world, and to prepare human nature for the future enjoyment of that blessedness, of which, in our present state, we can form no conception, that I had no expectation they would have met with your disapprobation.
You say, however, "as to the scraps of morality, that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those book, they make no part of the pretended thing, revealed religion." "Whatsoever ye, would that men should do to you, do you even so to them."
Is this a scrap of morality? Is it not rather the concentric essence of all ethics, the vigorous root from which every branch of moral duty towards each other may be derived? Duties you know are distinguished by moralists into duties of perfect and imperfect obligation.
Does the Bible teach you nothing, when it instructs you that this distinction is done away? When it bids you "put on bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing on another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any."
These, and precepts such as these, you will in vain look for in the codes of Frederic, or Justinia. You cannot find them in our statute book; they were not taught, nor are they taught in the schools of heathen philosophy. Or, if some one or two of them should chance to be glanced at by a Plato, a Seneca, or a Cicero, they are not bound upon the consciences of mankind by any sanction.
It is in the Gospel and in the Gospel alone, that we learn their importance. Acts of benevolence and brotherly love may be to an unbeliever voluntary acts; to a Christian they are indispensable duties.
Is a new commandment no part of revealed religion? "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another" the law of Christian benevolence is enjoined us by Christ himself in the most solemn manner, as the distinguishing badge of our being his disciples.
Two precepts you particularize as inconsistent with the dignity and the nature of man – that of not resenting injuries, and that of loving enemies. Who but yourself ever interpreted literally the proverbial phrase, "If a man smite thee on they right cheek, turn to him the other also!"
Did Jesus himself turn the other cheek when the officer of the high priest smote him? It is evident, that a patient acquiescence under slight personal injuries is here enjoined; and that a proneness to revenge, which instigates men to savage acts of brutality, for every trifling offence, is forbidden.
As to loving enemies, it is explained, in another place, to mean, the doing them all the good in our power. "If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink."
And what think you is more likely to preserve peace and to promote kind affections amongst men, than the returning good for evil? Christianity does not order us to love in proportion to the inkery – "it dost not offer a premium for a crime," – it orders us to let our benevolence extend alike to all, that we may emulate the benignity of God himself, who maketh "his sun to rise on the evil and on the good."
In the Law of Moses, retaliation for deliberate injuries had been ordained – an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Aristotle, in his treatise of morals, says, that some thought retaliation of personal wrongs an equitable proceeding.
Rhadamanthus is said to have given it his sanction. The decemviral laws allowed it; the common law of England did not forbid it; and it is said to be still the law of some countries even in Christendom.
But the mild spirit of Christianity absolutely prohibits not only the retention of injuries, but the indulgence of every resentful propensity.
"It has been," you affirm, "the scheme of the Christian church to hold man in ignorance of the Creator, as it is of government to hold him in ignorance of his rights."
I appeal to the plain sense of any honest man to judge whether this representation be true in either particular. When he attends the service of the Church, dost he discover any design in the minister to keep him in ignorance of his Creator?
Are not the public prayers in which he joins, the lessons which are read to him, the sermons which are preached to him, all calculated to impress upon his mind a strong conviction of the mercy, justice, holiness, power, and wisdom of the one adorable God, blessed for ever?
By these means which the Christian Church hath provided for our instruction, I will venture to say, that the most unlearned congregation of Christians in Great Britain have more just and sublime conceptions of the Creator, a more perfect knowledge of their duty towards him and a stronger inducement to the practice of virtue, holiness, and temperance, than all the philosophers of all the heathen countries in the world ever had, or now have.
If, indeed, your scheme should take place, and men should no longer believe their Bible, then would they soon become as ignorant of the Creator, as all the world was, when God called Abraham from his kindred? And as all the world, which has had no communication with either Jews or Christians, now is.
Then would they soon bow down to stocks and stones, kiss their hand (as they did in the time of Job, and as the poor African does now,) to the moon walking in brightness, and deny the God that is above; then would they worship Jupiter, Bracchus, and Venus, and emulate, in the transcendent flagitiousness of their lives, the impure morals of their gods.
What design has government to keep men in ignorance of their rights? None whatever.
All wise statesmen are persuaded that the more men know of their rights, the better subjects they will become. Subjects, not from necessity but choice, are the firmest friends of every government.
The people of Great Britain are well acquainted with their natural and social rights. They understand them better than the people of any other country do; they know that they have a right to be free, not only from the capricious tyranny of any one man's will, but from the more afflicting despotism of republican factions.
And it is this very knowledge which attaches them to the constitution of their country. I have no fear that the people should know too much of their rights.
My fear is that they should not know them in all their relations and to their full extent. The government does not desire that men should remain in ignorance of their rights; but it both desires, and requires, that they should not disturb the public peace, under vain pretences.
That they should make themselves acquainted, not merely with the rights, but with the duties also of men in civil society. I am far from ridiculing (as some have done) the rights of man.
I have long ago understood, that the poor as well as the rich, and that the rich as well as the poor, have by nature some rights, which no human government can justly take from them, without their tacit or express consent and some also, which they themselves have no power to surrender to any government.
One of the principal rights of man, in a state either of nature or of society, is a right of property in the fruits of his industry, ingenuity, or good fortune. Does government hold any man in ignorance of this right?
So much the contrary that the chief care of government is to declare, ascertain, modify, and defend this right. Nay, it gives right, where nature gives none; it protects the goods of an intestate; and it allows a man at his death, to dispose of that property, which the law of nature would cause to revert into the common stock.
Sincerely as I am attached to the liberties of mankind, I cannot but profess myself an utter enemy to that spurious philosophy, that democratic insanity, which would equalize all property, and level all distinctions in civil society.
Personal distinctions, arising from superior probity, learning, eloquence, skill, courage, and from every other excellency of talents, are the very blood and nerves of the body politic. They animate the whole and invigorate every part. Without them, its bones would become reeds, and its marrow water.
It would presently sink into a fetid senseless mass of corruption. Power may be used for private ends and in opposition to the public good; rank may be improperly conferred and insolently sustained. Riches may be wickedly acquired and viciously applied: but as this is neither necessarily, nor generally the case, I cannot agree with those who, in asserting the natural equality of men, spurn the instituted distinctions attending power, rank, and riches.
But I mean not to enter into any discussion on this subject, farther than to say, that your crimination of government appears to me to be wholly unfounded and to express my hope, that no one individual will be so far misled by disquisitions on the rights of man, as to think that he has any right to do wrong, as to forget that other men have rights as well as he.
You are animated with proper sentiments of piety, when you speak of the structure of the universe.
No one, indeed, who considers it with attention, can fail of having his mind filled with the supremest veneration for its Author.
Who can contemplate, without astonishment, the motion of a comet, running far beyond the orb of Saturn, endeavoring to escape into the pathless regions of unbounded space, yet feeling, at its utmost distance, the attractive influence of the sun, hearing, as it were, the voice of God arresting its progress, and compelling it, after a lapse of ages, to reiterate its ancient course?
Who can comprehend the distance of the stars from the earth, and from each other? It is so great, that it mocks our conception; our very imagination is terrified, confounded, and lost, when we are told, that a ray of light, which moves at the rate of above ten millions of miles in a minute, will not, though emitted at this instant from the brightest star, reach the earth in less than six years.
We think this earth a great globe, and we see the sad wickedness, which individuals are often guilty of, in scraping together a little of its dirt.
We view, with still greater astonishment and horror, the mighty ruin which has, in all ages, been brought upon human kind, by the low ambition of contending powers, to acquire a temporary possession of a little portion of its surface.
But how dost the whole of this globe sink, as it were, to nothing, when we consider that a million of earths will scarcely equal the bulk of the sun. That all the stars are suns and that millions of suns constitute, probably, but a minute portion of that material world, which God hath distributed through the immensity of space.
Systems, however, of insensible matter, though arranged in exquisite order, prove only the wisdom and the power of the great Architect of nature. As percipient beings, we look for something more – for his goodness – and we cannot open our eyes without seeing it.
Every portion of the earth, sea, and air, is full of sensitive beings, capable, in their respective orders, of enjoying good things which God has prepared for their comfort.
All the orders of beings are enabled to propagate their kind and thus provision is made for a successive continuation of happiness. Individuals yield to the law of dissolution, inseparable from the material structure of their bodies, but no gap is thereby left in existence.
Their place is occupied by other individuals capable of participating in the goodness of the Almighty.
Contemplations such as these fill the mind with humility, benevolence, and piety. But why should we stop here? Why not contemplate the goodness of God in the redemption, as well as in the creation of the world?
By the death of his only-begotten Son Jesus Christ, he hath redeemed the whole human race from the eternal death, which the transgression of Adam had entailed on all his posterity.
You believe nothing about the transgression of Adam. The history of Eve and the serpent excites your contempt. You will not admit that it is either a real history or an allegorical representation of death entering into the world through sin, through disobedience to the command of God.
Be it so. You find, however, that death doth reign over all mankind, by whatever means it was introduced. This is not a matter of belief, but of lamentable knowledge. The New Testament tells us, that through the merciful dispensation of God, Christ hath overcome death, and restored man to that immortality which Adam had lost.
This also you refuse to believe. Why? Because, you cannot account for the propriety of this redemption. Miserable reason! Stupid objection! What is there that you can account for? Not for the germination of a blade of grass, not for the fall of a leaf of the forest – and will you refuse to eat of the fruits of the earth, because God has not given you wisdom equal to his own?
Will you refuse to lay hold on immortality, because he has not given you, because he, probably, could not give to such a being as man, a full manifestation of the end for which he designs him, nor of the means requisite for the attainment of that end?
What father of a family can make level to the apprehension of his infant children all the views of happiness which his paternal goodness is preparing for them? How can he explain to them the utility of reproof, correction, instruction, example, of all the various means by which he forms their minds to piety, temperance and probity?
We are children in the hand of God. We are in the very infancy of our existence; just separated from the womb of eternal duration.
It may not be possible for the Father of the universe to explain to us (infants in apprehension?) the goodness and the wisdom of his dealings with the sons of men.
What qualities of mind will be necessary for our well doing through all eternity, we know not. What discipline in this infancy of existence may be necessary for generating these qualities, we know not.
Whether God could, or could not, consistently with the general good, I have forgiven the transgression of Adam, without any atonement, we know not.
Whether the malignity of sin be not so great, so opposite to the general good, that it cannot be forgiven whilst it exists, that is, whilst the mind retains a propensity to it, we know not. So that, if there should be much greater difficulty in comprehending the mode of God's moral government of mankind, than there really is, there would be no reason for doubting of its rectitude.
If the whole human race be considered as but one small member of a large community of free and intelligent beings of different orders, and if this whole community be subject to discipline and laws productive of the greatest possible good to the whole system, then may we still more reasonably suspect our capacity to comprehend the wisdom and goodness of all God's proceedings in the moral government of the universe.
You are lavish in your praise of deism; it is so much better than atheism that I mean not to say any thing to its discredit.
It is not however, without its difficulties. What think you of an uncaused cause of every thing? Of a Being who has no relation to time, not being older today than he was yesterday, nor younger today than he will be tomorrow?
Who has no relation to space, not being a part here and a part there, or a whole anywhere? What think you of an omniscient Being, who cannot know the future actions of a man? Or, if his omniscience enables him to know them, what think you of the contingency of human actions?
And if human actions are not contingent, what think you of the morality of actions, of the distinction between vice and virtue, crime and innocence, sin and duty? What think you of the infinite goodness of a Being, who existed through eternity, without any emanation of his goodness manifested in the creation of sensitive beings?
Or, if you contend that there has been an eternal creation, what think you of an effect coeval with its cause, of matter not posterior to its Maker? What think you of the existence of evil, moral and natural, in the work of an infinite Being, powerful, wise, and good? What think you of the gift of freedom of will, when the abuse of freedom becomes the cause of general misery?
I could propose to your consideration a great many other questions of a similar tendency, the contemplation of which has driven not a few from deism to atheism, just as the difficulties in revealed religion have driven yourself, and some others, from Christianity to deism.
For my own part, I can see no reason why either revealed or natural religion should be abandoned on account of the difficulties which attend either of them. I look up to the incomprehensible Maker of Heaven and earth with unspeakable admiration and self-annihilation, and am a deist.
I contemplate, with the utmost gratitude and humility of mind, his unsearchable wisdom and goodness in the redemption of the world from eternal death, through the intervention of his Son Jesus Christ, and am a Christian. As a deist, I have little expectation; as a Christian, I have no doubt of a future state.
I speak for myself, and may be in an error, as to the ground of the first part of this opinion.
You and other men may conclude differently. From the inert nature of matter – from the faculties of the human mind – from the apparent imperfection of God's moral government of the world from many modes of analogical reasoning, and from other sources, some of the philosophers of antiquity did collect, and modern philosophers may, perhaps, collect a strong probability of a future existence; and not only of a future existence, but (which is quite a distinct question) of a future state of retribution, proportioned to our moral conduct in this world.
Far be it from me to loosen any of the obligations to virtue; but I must confess that you cannot, from the same sources of argumentation derive any positive assurance on the subject.
Think then with what thankfulness of heart I receive the word of God, which tells me, that though "in Adam (by the condition of our nature) all die" yet "in Christ (by covenant of grace) shall all be made alive."
I lay hold on "eternal life as the gift of God through Jesus Christ." I consider it not as any appendage to the nature I derive from Adam, but as the free gift of the Almighty, through his Son, whom he has constituted Lord of all, the Savior, the Advocate, and the Judge of human kind.
"Deism," you affirm, "teaches us, without the possibility of being mistaken all that is necessary or proper to be known." There are three things, which all reasonable men admit are necessary and proper to be known – the being of God – the providence of God – a future state of retribution.
Whether these three truths are so taught us by deism, that there is no possibility of being mistaken concerning any of them, let the history of philosophy and of idolatry and superstition, in all ages and countries, determine.
A volume might be filled with an account of the mistakes into which the greatest reasoners have fallen and of the uncertainty in which they lived, with respect to every one of these points. I will advert, briefly, only to the last of them.
Notwithstanding the illustrious labours of Gassendi, Cudworth, Clarke, Baxter, and of above two hundred other modern writers on the subject, the natural mortality or immortality of the human soul is as little understood by us, as it was by the philosophers of Greece or Rome.
The opposite opinions of Plato and of Epicurus, on this subject, have their several supporters amongst the learned of the present age, in Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, in every enlightened part of the world. And they who have been most seriously occupied in the study of the question concerning a future state, as deducible from the nature of the human soul, are least disposed to give from reason a positive decision of it either way.
The importance of revelation is by nothing rendered more apparent, than by the discordant sentiments of learned and good men (for I speak not of the ignorant and immoral) on this point. They shew the insufficiency of human reason, in a course of above two thousand years to unfold the mysteries of human nature, and to furnish, from the contemplation of it, any assurance from the quality of our future condition.
If you should ever become persuaded of this insufficiency, (and you can scarce fail of becoming so, if you examine the matter deeply) you will, if you act rationally, be disposed to investigate, with seriousness and impartiality, the truth of Christianity, you will say of the Gospel, as the Nurthumbrian heathens said of Paulinus, by whom they were converted to the Christian religion – "The more we reflect on the nature of our soul, the less we know of it.
Whilst it animates our body, we may know some of its properties; but when once separated, we know not whither it goes, or from whence it came. Since then the Gospel pretends to give us clearer notions of these matters, we ought to hear it, and, laying aside all passion and prejudice, follow that which shall appear most conformable to right reason."
What a blessing is it to beings, with such limited capacities as ours confessedly are, to have God himself for our instructor in everything which it much concerns us to know!
We are principally concerned in knowing – not the origin of arts, or the recondite depths of science – not the histories of mighty empires desolating the globe by their contentions – not the subtleties of logic, the mysteries of metaphysics, the sublimities of poetry, or the niceties of criticism.
These, and subjects such as these, properly occupy the learned leisure of a few, but the bulk of human kind have ever been, and must ever remain, ignorant of them all. They must, of necessity, remain in the same state with that which a German emperor voluntarily put himself into, when he made a resolution, bordering on barbarism, that he would never read a printed book.
We are all, of every rank and condition, equally concerned in knowing what will become of us after death. And, if we are to live again, we are interested in knowing whether it be possible for us to do anything whilst we live here, which may render that future life a happy one.
Now, "that thing called Christianity," as you scoffingly speak – that last best gift of Almighty God, as I esteem it, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, has given us the most clear and satisfactory information on both these points. It tells us, what deism never could have told us, that we shall certainly be raised from the dead – that, whatever be the nature of the soul, we shall certainly live for ever – and that, whilst we live here, it is possible for us to do much towards the rendering that everlasting life a happy one.
These are tremendous truths to bad men. They cannot be received and reflected on with indifference by the best and they suggest to all such a cogent motive to virtuous action, as deism could not furnish even to Brutus himself.
Some men have been warped to infidelity by viciousness of life and some may have hypocritically professed Christianity from prospects of temporal advantage. But, being a stranger to your character, I neither impute the former to you, nor can admit the latter as operating on myself.
The generality of unbelievers are such, from want of information on the subject of religion, having been engaged from their youth in struggling for worldly distinction, or perplexed with the incessant intricacies of business, or bewildered in the pursuits of pleasure.
They have neither ability, inclination, nor leisure, to enter into critical disquisitions concerning the truth of Christianity. Men of this description are soon startled by objections which they are not competent to answer and the loose morality of the age (so opposite to Christian perfection) cooperating with their want of scriptural knowledge, they presently get rid of their nursery faith and are seldom sedulous in the acquisition of another , founded, not on authority, but sober investigation.
Presuming, however, that many deists are as sincere in their belief as I am in mine, and knowing that some are more able and all as much interested as myself, to make a rational inquiry in to the truth of revealed religion, I feel no propensity to judge uncharitably of any of them.
They do not think as I do, on a subject surpassing all others in importance. But they are not on that account, to be spoken of by me with asperity of language, to be thought of by me as persons alienated from the mercies of God.
The Gospel has been offered to their acceptance; and from whatever cause they reject it, I cannot but esteem their situation to be dangerous.
Under the influence of that persuasion I have been induced to write this book. I do not expect to derive from it either fame or profit. These are not improper incentives to honourable activity, but there is a time of life when they cease to direct the judgment of thinking men.
What I have written will not, I fear, make any impression on you, but I indulge a hope that it may not be without its effect on some of your readers.
Infidelity is a rank weed. It threatens to overspread the land; its root is principally fixed amongst the great and opulent, but you are endeavouring the extent d malignity of its poison through all the classes of the community.
There is a class of men, for whom I have the greatest respect, and whom I am anxious to preserve from the contamination of your irreligion – the merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen of kingdom.
I consider the influence of the example of this class as essential to the welfare of the community. I know that they are in general given to reading, and desirous of information on all subjects.
If this little book should chance to fall into their hands after they have read yours, and they should think that any of your objections to the authority of the Bible have not been fully answered, I entreat them to attribute the omission to the brevity which I have studied; to my desire of avoiding learned disquisitions; to my inadvertency; to my inability; to anything, rather than to an impossibility of completely obviating every difficulty you have brought forward.
I address the same request to such of the youth of both sexes, as may unhappily have imbibed from your writings, the poison of infidelity; beseeching them to believe, that all their religious doubts may be removed, though it may not have been in my power to answer, to their satisfaction, all your objections.
I pray God that the rising generation of this land may be preserved from that "evil heart of unbelief," which has brought ruin on a neighbouring nation; that neither a neglected education, nor domestic irreligion, nor evil communication, nor the fashion of a licentious world may ever induce them to forget, that religion alone ought to be their rule of life.
In the conclusion of my Apology for Christianity, I informed Mr. Gibbon of my extreme aversion to public controversy.
I am now twenty years older than I was then, and I perceive that this my aversion has increased with my age. I have, through life, abandoned my little literary productions to their fate; such of them as have been attacked, have never received any deference from me; nor will this receive any, if it should meet with your public notice, or with that of any other man.
Sincerely wishing that you may become a partaker of that faith in revealed religion, which is the foundation of my happiness in this world, and of all my hopes in another, I bid you farewell.
R. LANDAFF
CALGARTH PARK,


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Shani Sade Sati (The Saturn seven & a half year Dreaded transit) – why is it Dreaded So Much?
What is Shani or Saturn Sade Sati?
Saturn is a planet that takes 29 years and 10 and half month to cover the entire zodiac path of our solar system from Aries to Pisces sign! You could take this period as almost 30 years!
So that makes Saturn's presence in each sign to about 30/12 = 2 and a half year. The term Sade Sati, that is 7.5 years (2.5 years x 3=7.5 years) has a direct connection with it.
As Sade sati refers to a hard period in Life of every one of us as the Saturn transits a sign before our Moon ascendant to a sign beyond moon Or Rashi OR a sign before ascendant to a sign beyond the ascendant.
For example if say at the moment in year 2016 the planet Saturn is in Scorpio sign. That means Sade sati for people with Sagittarius sign (one sign ahead of Scorpio) has started and would end after completion of 7.5 years passing the next sign of Capricorn to Sagittarius.
So as a rule of thumb based on vedic astrology or jyotish.
Why is Shani Sade Sati feared?
One has to understand the core reason for this is Saturn is a malefic and also a teacher for past wrongs or karmic ills of this life or past. The idea is to clean the soul with any dirt that has come in the astral body by creating hardships!
let us analyze all this based on ancient art and science of vedic astrology or Jyotish.
In the first phase Sade sati, Saturn (shani) is in 12th from moon or ascendant/lagan, and it aspects 2nd house of wealth/status, 6th house and also 9th house of Bhagya or luck. So there is an impact on the money flows and status of the person, the luck may not be great, as ninth house or bhagya bhava also gets malefic energy.
Also as the ascendant or moon is sandwiched between Saturn energy's (in 12th house and 2nd, the houses are in the sequence 12/1/2- so the ascendant gets the energy of depression and other health issues as well.
In the second phase of sade sati, Saturn affects the ascendant or moon sign as it is transiting the same- so cause health issues, comforts would be less etc, aspect on house of marriage(7th house is there), so affects health of spouse or relationships(if married) or delays marriage (if not married).The third house aspect affects your initiatives and any work you take up.
The tenth to career house aspect affects the career and yes the money flows.
In the third phase sade sati, saturn affects the sending house of wealth flows and status, the family or fourth house(bandhu bhava) – creating strife in the family matter, , eight and eleventh house of gains.
So one can see how shani sade sati affects various aspects of a person's life.
Why is Shani Sade Sati different for different people even if they have the same ascendant or moon sign?
Now the question is shani sade sati effects the same for all people in the same sign or rashi(moon sign).
The strength of your houses, like say if Saturn transits your ascendant or rashi Leo and sun the lord of these houses is very strong, the sade sati would have 50% of its effects reduced.
The placement and degrees of your planets- say for example for Leo ascendant(simha) Jupiter is sitting in ascendant or say simha moon sign or rashi, the transit of Saturn effects would be modified based on transit on natal Jupiter sitting there and other houses affected by sade sati.
Also the natal planets change the transiting Saturn- so say if Saturn is sating in Leo ascendant or rashi in above example- the effects of sade sati could be worse as Saturn rules 6/7 houses. That is the ari bhava and Yuvati bhava(seventh house of marriage and relationship).
The intensity of effects of Saturn changes also based on nakshatra it transit- so if Saturn is an a friendly star like of Jupiter(punarvasu), the effects would not be as bad is if it is in mars dominated mrigashira nakshatra or birth star as Saturn would be very uncomfortable here.
Donating to poor people and serving one's parents is the best remedy for Saturn sade sati.
There are other powerful and effective remedies- that would be discussed in the shani sade sati report below.