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03-05-1856: Samuel Mudd's Doctor of Medicine Graduation Thesis.
Source: University of Maryland, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, Baltimore, Maryland.
The University of Maryland's Medical Department in the 1850s was, and still is today, one of the country's leading medical schools. The instruction Dr. Mudd received was the best available to medical science at the time. However, medical science then did not have the knowledge we do today of bacterial infection, or the antibiotics to treat such infections. Dr. Mudd's graduation thesis on dysentery provides a fascinating insight into the state of medical knowledge in the mid 1800's. Almost none of it would be applicable today.
Dr. Mudd's graduation thesis was handwritten. All spelling, grammar, and punctuation in the document below is exactly as written by Dr. Mudd.
Dr. Mudd's graduation thesis was handwritten. All spelling, grammar, and punctuation in the document below is exactly as written by Dr. Mudd.
An Inaugural Dissertation on Dysentery Submitted for Examination of the Provost, Regents and Faculty of Physic of the University of Maryland for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine by Samuel Alex. Mudd.
Dysentery - a disease which is common to nearly every clime - is found to prevail with unrelenting severity during some seasons - bidding defiance to the most active medical treatment and skill; at others mild and under the control of simple medical agents and care. It is a disease which visits impartially the man of wealth as well as the man of poverty - the man of authority - as well as the subject. It, like the avenging Angel of the Almighty Being, has been the instrument to humble the pride of nations. Armies have been attacked and thousands, like the leaves of the forest on the approach of the first autumnal frost, have faded, withered and fallen to the dust. The fireside has been made desolate, the orphan's cry has been heard to utter the sweet but sad accents of grief, Where is my mama? Where is my papa? The wife's brow is bedewed with a tear at the loss of her kind and grief soothing husband, or the tender offspring of her bosom, and the husband made wretched and weary of living, on account of its too cruel visitation, but enough of unimportant and tedious detail.
The characteristic symptoms of dysentery are first, griping pains in the abdomen, followed sometimes and very often by diarrhoea, which soon develop itself into frequent discharges of mucus and blood - with spasmodic action of the muscles engaged in defecation straining and tenesmus. The disease however just as commonly burst forth without the least complication. The first intimation the patient has of his situation is probably by one or two shooting pains across the abdomen, with a desire to stool, which after a somewhat fruitless attempt, nothing but a little mucus, he returns and in a short time is called again and again with about the same result, with the exception probably of a little addition of blood. Sometimes hard lumps of feces called scybala are thrown out combined with the mucus or blood, which seems to be the exciting cause - or more likely there seems to be a retention of the natural feces, which are occasionally expelled in small hard lumps, with their surfaces lubricated with the prevailing mucous evacuations. This mucus packets within the folds of the intestine, near the anus, which the first efforts at defecation throws out and all further attempts and desires for expulsion are in vain. This was the case with several patients that came under my observation and attention whilst a resident of the Baltimore Infirmary. The rectum from irritation produced by inflamation contracts upon itself involuntarily and spasmodically, and the only way apparently that the contents of the alimentary canal gain exit is by its gravitation.
Dysentery consists in inflamation of the mucous membrane of the colon and rectum. It may be either acute or chronic, both of which may occur independently of the other.
The acute form in its incipiency may be ushered in suddenly with active hemorrhagic discharges from the bowels as a diarrhoea, with tormina and tenesmus followed by inflamation of the above named intestines. It sometimes manifests itself in a periodic form - occurring at regular intervals with griping pains etc., and the stools may consist either of bloody mucous or serous - this variety is called the intermitting form of the disease or the disease may come on superadded, the derangement of the functions of the liver, spleen and stomach, especially those that reside in malarious districts, which has been termed the bilious or remittent type. Of these I shall hereafter speak.
The most marked symptoms in the acute form are uneasiness in the abdomen, griping pains, with tormina and tenesmus, hot and tender abdomen over the courses of the colon and rectum. The stools are bloody, mucous, foetid, dark coloured, and contain lumps of a pultaceous character, that is, when they contain faecal matter. At other times there is a great desire to stool, and when the patient is in the act, he is seized with great pains - and a vain attempt to pass more than half an ounce of bloody mucus, of a gelatinous nature, without the least trace of faecal matter.
Dysentery may set in with or without precursory symptoms. In the former case, it is preceded by general uneasiness, lassitude, impairment of the appetite, dull or transient pains in the abdomen, costiveness or diarrhoea, and other evidences of moderate intestinal irritation. Sometimes the local symptoms make their appearance before the general, and in mild cases may run its course without fever. Then again the local and febrile phenomena commence simultaneously - the patient being attacked with a shivering of the frame almost as soon as he complains of pain and tenesmus. Again the fever often precedes, and occasionally for a considerable period any evidences of disorder of the bowels.
The disease prevails from a very slight affection, implicating but a very small extent of the colon and rectum, passing off in two or three days, but sometimes owing to a peculiarity of the constitution, or to some great malignancy of the poison, the system receives a shock which the powers of life are scarcely able to react. Or after the disease has gone on for sometime, unaided by medical treatment or neglect, all the powers of the frame will sink down into a typhoid or collapse condition, or a general depression of the vital forces - livid lips, the eyes sunken, circumscribed by a bluish tint, with delirium, hiccough and finally death terminates his mortal existance. Such cases occur but seldom; principally observed by large and experienced practitioners to prevail during epidemic. I have seen but one case in which all these symptoms were developed. The patient from the beginning was attended by two eminent and talented physicians, who did all that the case seemed to require but to no avail - the system never recovered from the first shock.
The nature of the stools in the beginning, consist somewhat of a transparent whitish mucus, or of mucus streaked with blood and a little faecal matter, which may be altered by bile, small portions of false membranes and coagulated lymph. It is this decay of animal matter combined with vitiated secretions, or secretions undergoing decomposition no doubt that gives this peculiar disagreeable fetor to the discharges. Though this does not occur generally until the disease has gone on for two or three days, at which time in severe or moderately severe cases, there is nearly entire suspension of the natural stool. The inflammation if not checked will gradually and sometimes rapidly extend along the courses of the colon and rectum, the extent of which may be pretty accurately ascertained by percussion or pressure over those parts. If there is much tenderness over the epigastrium and right side we may conclude that the whole of the large intestines are involved or the inflamation has reached the transverse and ascending colon.
There is also tympanitis very often of the abdomen, principally over the regions of the colon - owing to the accumulation of flatus. When this takes place, there is more or less high fevers, the pulse full hard and quick, the skin dry and hot, the tongue coated with a whitish fur, and the stomach, liver, kidneys, bladder, urethra sharing in the general disorder - producing emesis, strangury, and painful micturation, and in females the vagina sympathises.
As a general rule the disease takes a healthy turn about the eighth or ninth day - danger in ordinary cases is increased from neglect or when the disease continues for a week or ten days without any moderation - the symptoms before spoken of are apt to become developed, and if the patient does not perish immediately, the chronic form with all its sequences are very likely to supervene, and from its constant drain upon the system the patient sikns or complete recovery may take place, but in agravated cases most commonly end fatally. In the latter stage of the disease, the discharges become very offensive and resembles the washings of fresh meat. I recollect seeing a patient troubled with a chronic mucoid discharge, which he said lasted for five years, scarcely without any intermission, and were increased whenever he was imprudent or indulged in his usual diet. which consisted principally of milk and mush, tea, toasted bread soaked in water, chicken and broth, soups, etc.
Chronic Dysentery - commonly follows the acute form - when it occurs independently it is generally associated or complicated with chronic enteritis. It sometimes though rarely proceeds from fistula in ano and hemorrhoidal - tumours - the inflammation being extended.
The principal symptoms in this form consist in the stools being less frequent, more feculent, mingled with mucus, tormina generally only when pressure is made and less tenesmus than in the acute. There is scarcely any perceptable difference in the skin, pulse, and indeed general health of the patient in chronic dysentery and chronic enteritis. After the disease has continued for a time, signs of hectic fever, or the various hydropic affections are very likely to come on in consequence of the system becoming prostrated through the excessive evacuations, depraved nutrition, secretions, deposits, etc. The membranes are also very apt to become thickened and the patient sooner or later falls a victim.
The Bilious form - in regard to the bilious form, there is nearly always functional disorder of the organs - the liver may fail to secrete, or it may over secrete the natural healthy supply of bile, but most commonly there is supression. The bilious secretions may precede, supervene or coexist with the disease, as a general rule however, they are present in the beginning, and arise very probably from the same cause that lights up the inflamation in the intestines. But in the simple and mild cases, where apparently, and no doubt the disease sometimes is produced by indegestible articles of food, or from the irritation that follows active diarrhoea from the bowels the derangement of the functions of the liver and stomach seems to depend upon sympathy. The symptoms that most commonly mark this form of the disease is epigastric oppression, vomiting, yellowness of the skin and conjunctiva, the tongue coated with a yellow brown surface with its borders red, and diminished secretions of bile and urine. The fevers are higher and a greater tendency to delirium.
The remittent character of the disease prevails chiefly in malarious districts, and is known by the marks of remittent fever being blended with it. There is constant fever with exacerbations and remissions, the tongue coated with a whitish fur generally and dry, the skin dry and hot. The stomach is more irritable than in any of the other forms - vomiting is more constant and the ejectment of bilious matter more common.
Sometimes the disease from the beginning assume the typhoid character, with sinking of all the powers of the frame and when apparently on the brink of eternity, the system reacts and convalescence takes place. Then again death may be the result, though it most usually run a regular course and terminates favourably under judicious treatment.
The intermitting form is very common in some sections of the country and like its kindred affection, remittent fever, prevails in malarious districts. It is a very interesting malady, and consist in a perfect intermission, occurring at regular intervals with all the symptoms in the acute form, lasting two or three hours, when they subside with a langour, the consequence of the paroxism. These paroxisms may be either of the quotidian, tertian, or quartan variety. There is a disease very much resembling this viz intermitting diarrhoea, and it is sometimes very difficult to discriminate between the two, the evacuations in both being somewhat serous, though there is one great mark or distinction. In the intermitting diarrhoea, there is no straining and tenesmus, and often but little tormina; but in the dysentery there is all or nearly all of the signs of the real disease in the acute stage present, viz straining, tenesmus, tormina, bloody and mucous stools, etc.
The causes of the disease are various, but for the most part, especially that which gives rise to the epidemic character, is unknown and unaccountable. Dysentery prevail epidemically or sporadically - epidemically where a whole district or section of country is simultaneously affected - sporadically where the disease arises from imprudence, or where a single individual is attacked. The contagiousness of the disease is doubted, and thus far the opion of the profession tends to the negative.
It has been observed by numerous authors, that persons exposed to all states of the atmosphere, subject to great variations of temperature, of heat, cold, wet and dry - persons traveling a long distance in hot and moist weather, or labouring people are apt to contract the disease. Those that are subjected to the same epidemic influences as give rise to remittent and intermittent fevers, are said to be more susceptable than those that are remote from its cause.
One of the most common reputed causes for its production on the Western shore of Maryland is the imprudence in eating unripe and acid fruits, such as apples, cherries, grapes etc. In eighteen hundred and fifty-three, nearly every family in my district, eight or ten miles around probably suffered from this malady and nine cases in ten the patients had indulged in eating cherries - there being quite an abundant crop that year.
Another and what appears to be more of an exciting than a productive cause is the sitting down upon wet and cold ground, thus armies and travellers, being often necessitated to sleep out with scanty insufficient clothing and food have been attacked by dysentery and thousands have fallen victim to its rage. Again, it exists epidemically without giving the least perceptable cause for its prevalence, and I have known men who were considered scrupulously exact in regard to their diet and habits to be seized with the disease, with as much violence, as those with some reputed cause might be adduced. Then again on the other hand I have known persons who have indulged in every species of luxury, such as eating all kinds of unripe fruits, drinking to excess all kinds of liquors, and exposing themselves to all kinds of harsh and inclement weather, to escape its influence. Drinking of cold water by workmen in warm weather seems to be one of the means by which the distemper is lighted into action; and I have known six out of twelve in the harvest field to be seized, where no other cause could be ascertained, with the exception probably of a little whiskey, which the farmers during those occasions are in the habit of furnishing to labourers.
The eating of indigestible articles of food also seems to be one of the sources by which the disease is set up, but during its prevalence, or where the nature of the malady is epidemic many simple and foolish causes of its production are mentioned, but it appears as often without as with a cause.
The treatment of acute dysentery - In mild cases where the patient only suffers from frequent evacuations, with but little tormina and tenesmus, unattended with fever, and where the contents of the abdomen expelled consists the greater part fecal matter - little or no treatment is required - rest, low diet generally in such cases being sufficient to effect a cure, though we should never rely on this, for very often the mildest cases are prolonged and even prove fatal in consequence of paying too little regard to the state of the patient. Very often when the disease commences with symptoms of diarrhoea it may in many cases be cut short by a simple glass of brandy, or any common astringent, combined with rest and resisting the inclination to stool as much as possible.
But in the more severe forms, where the tormina and tenesmus gain the ascendancy of the will, where the stools are of a mucous purulent and bloody character, where the skin is hot and dry, the tongue coated and associated with these, fever - active medical treatment must be pursued or adopted. If the patient be of a plestoric, robust habit, general bleeding in most instances has a marked tendency to put a stop to, or to decrease the violence of the malady. After this I have observed in those cases that have come under my charge - that small doses of chloride of mercury, combined with opium and ipecacuanha, act very beneficially by calming the irritation, improving the condition of the skin and secretions - together with its antiphlogistic prpoerty - check the inflammation. This is equally applicable in cases after or in the absence of bleeding. It is well in most cases to continue this prescription for twenty four or forty eight hours, giving it at intervals of every four hours, watching its effects, and suspending its employment, when symptoms arise contraindicating its use. The dose in such examples might be given in proportions of proto chlorid. hydrarg. ipecac. of each three to five grains and opium one. Ipecacuanha is said by some to act remedially by lessening the peristaltic motion of the intestines with its revulsive agency.
Another very excellent remedy, after the employment of mercury of in cases where it is not required is the acetas plumbi and opium in equal parts made into pill - one or two or more through the day according to the effects they produce, or as the case may seem to require. To be sure this ought to be the rule and the duty of every prudent physician. It is hard to say what should be the treatment without the case is presented to our view. We always minister to the symptoms and not to the name of the disease, for otherwise gross errors and sad consequences would be the result. There is no agent in the Materia Medica that deserves more praise than the judicious employment of mercury. I have seen well marked cases that have been cured where no other medicine has been used, with the exception of an ounce or two of ol. recini.
Equal to, or next in efficacy is opium. Without this agent our attempts in many cases at cure would be fruitless. We have no other remedy in which there is connected so many important requisites towards the restoration to health in this disease. It seems in every stage to be applicable, and but a few in which it is contraindicated. Yet in those which it appears unfit, it sometimes produces opposite effects - as in cases of hot and dry skin, tongue and fauces, the very effect in the healthy subject it produces, this symptom is very often and frequently entirely relieved by the action of this article.
A very good domestic astringent, which in many parts of the country is very convenient, is made by taking equal parts or quantities of red oak bark, pine tops or branches and ground olive. I have seen this used by persons with the approbation of the physician with the best results, also the common running brier root, made by boiling one or two ounces of the root with a pint of water, which is generally called brier root tea; in order to make it more palatable, it may be slightly sweetened, and the patient may take one, two or three ounces at a time during the day as an ordinary drink.
In the more advanced stage of the disease, where there exists a pretty considerable erethism, anxiety about the praecordia nausea and vomiting, the countenance pale and anemic, the tongue red, the abdomen tumid, distended with flatus and painful to the touch - discharges, foetid, consisting chiefly of blood and mucus.
The best mode of procedure in this instance would be cups or leeches over the abdomen, along the courses of the colon, or inflamation. In the latter stage of dysentery, the best agent known to relieve the distended and tumid abdomen is the oleum Lerebinthinae. This I have seen used often in drachm doses with the greatest satisfaction to the patient and physician.
Opiates internally by way of the mouth, or injection per rectum, demulcent drinks; and when the system is very feeble and prostrated, the diet should be nutritious, and to subserve this purpose, beef tea answers our intention the best.
The action of opium sometimes in this and similar effections varies from its general. It often acts as a purgative secondary by destroying the spasm and irritation consequent upon the inflamation, thus allowing the retained faeces to pass without obstruction, or the opium relieving the strangulation, thus allows the purgatives to act.
We treat all the various forms upon the same general principal - to check inflamation where it is present, to build up the system when the powers of life are declining by nutritious diets and stimulants, to relieve congestion and promote the secretory and excretory functions of the organs, and lastly, but not least, after we have done all to the best of our knowledge to relieve, leave the balance for nature to accomplish.
In the bilious forms we cannot do well without mercury, the liver very often being much deranged in its functions - we will in some cases have to be quite persistent in its use, then again it may be of no utility. In those cases where there is an over secretion and excretion - that is it may not be primarily of any service, but secondarily by correcting the morbid condition in other parts of the body.
In the remittent and intermittent types, Lumia, combined when the patient is aenemic with some of the ferruginous tonics and gentle purgation is all that is necessary to eradicate the disease.
In the chronic stage the best mode of treatment depends upon our attention to diet and regimen - for without this precaution, it is vain to expect a cure. In this stage the patient sooner or later becomes aenemic, thus indicating the replacing properties of the iron, which may be given in doses from a half to a grain of the sulfate two or three times a day. A very good combination of articles to prevent the hemorrhage from the bowels and supply the colouring material in the asthenic and aenemic, consist in Creta. praep., Ferri. Ferrocyan., Ext. haematoxylon, Opii grs.iij, cinna., vj grs., sach alba si, made into eight powders, of which one may be taken every three or four hours. If the case be a bad one, there may be used in conjunction of acetas plumbi grains ten and opium one or two, administered once or twice a day, according to the symptoms and effects.
We may also follow, when the disease is determined and obstinate the acetate of lead and opium pill every two, three, or four hours and if it does not succeed in arresting the symptoms, the nitras argenti pill or sulphate of copper in quantities varying from a half to a grain and a half at the same intervals, and if signs of ulceration come on the two latter named substances may injected per rectum in larger doses.
Prognosis. When the disease is about to end in convalescence, all the symptoms become more mild. The tormina and tenesmus diminishes, the stools become more fecal, larger and less frequent, or there is a general subsidence of all the marks of the disease, and nothing for the most part left, except a moderate diarrhoea, which passes off in the course of a few days. The patient sometimes though not often - after all signs of the disease has gone off - complain of cramps, which come on once or twice a week suddenly, and during their continuance causes great suffering.
But on the contrary, if there should supervene, tympanitis, high fevers with quick and weak pulse, following this, a cold clammy sweat, with coldness of the extremities, the features sunken and depressed, with a purplish hue of the skin, especially about the eyes, mouth and the tips of the fingers - attended with hiccough delerium, subsultus tendinum etc., we conclude that these are omens which portend an unfavorable termination.
Danger in this disease as in all others, is proportionate to the extent of the inflamation. If we ascertain on pressure that the whole of the colon is involved, our attention should be directed with watchful anxiety, and unless means be adopted to check the inflamation and the irritation thus produced - in a large majority of cases the powers of life will sink and the disease end fatally. In Sporadic dysentery - where the patient is well attended to, there is not so much to dread - nearly always yielding to the influence of medical agents and means. But in the epidemic character, we should never be too sanguine for I have known mild cases to occur in young subjects with constitutions strong and robust, and have been in the care of the best physicians, who persued the regular treatment with all its activity, without success.
Anatomical Characters - The lining membrane or the mucous coat of the lower and sometimes of the whole extent of the colon and rectum shows marks of inflamatory action after death. It has been observed where the irritation has been transmitted from the large to the small intestines, the solitary or Brunners glands found in the curvatures of the stomach and duodenum have been found considerably engorged and distended with evident signs of inflamation. There is also a condition existing very much resembling the lesions produced by typhoid fever, the mesentery and the glands of Peyer presenting nearly the same aspect. Ulceration in this disease is more common than any other, except probably that of typhoid fever - the appearance of which presents a smooth surface, or edge coated very often with the membranes that are frequently ejected during the evacuations, such as false membranes, coagulated lymph, etc. There again there have been instances cited where actual mortification and sloughing in the parts have taken place.
Thickening of the coats of the intestines also is produced, and I remember seeing a post mortem examination of a case resulting from this disease in which there was stricture of the colon - the opening so small that the little finger could scarcely be introduced - it was bound down by a thick, firm muscular band.
Various other lesions resulting from a scrupulous taint of the system, stinty diet, depraved nutrition, residing in badly ventilated departments, exposure, etc. have been noticed as producing a dissimilar anatomical lesion. In climates within the trophics the liver is frequently found diseased with hepatic abscesses etc.
In conclusion, let me remark - that in appreciating the moral and scientific lessons and instructions in the art of medicine - delivered by those who have given us practical and theoretical illustrations in the guide of the knife, when it was required, and its utter repugnance when no good could be effected - by those who have taught us practically the true method of searching out disease, and when we have found it, to administer the indicated soothing or healing agent - by those who have marked out the path to the most vital organs, that in case of accident or from a morbid action going on in the system, it may be in our power to apply the ligature or the barrier to death by those who have instructed us in the nature and action physiologically of articles contained in the Materia Medica, as observed by practitioners from their experience in the healing art, and from experiments on the lower order of animal beings, and finally - by those who have acquainted us with the means whereby we can detect fraud and the hypocricy of the assassin when under the cloak of medical agents, I can only express my sincere thanks, and only hope that the knowledge derived from your wise teachings may prove a credit to the institution in your behalf and my future reward. Wishing that this badly gotten up preamble may meet with your approbation, I respectfully conclude with bright anticipations of being numbered with the profession.
Yours, etc.
Saml. A Mudd


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The Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King – November 21, 2010
Since 1925 when Pope Pius the XI wrote the encyclical instituting the Feast of Christ the King, the Church has observed this holy day on the last Sunday of Ordinary time – the Sunday before the season of Advent begins. As hard as it is to believe – especially given the incredible fall we've enjoyed here in Connecticut this year – we are just a few short weeks away from Christmas.
We've already heard the Christmas music in the mall, the ring of Salvation Army bells outside the grocery store, and we've seen the ads for all sorts of new electronic gadgets – the giving of which is supposed to show how much we really care for someone.
The pressure to "do" starts mounting. We plan, we decorate, and we buy – filling our hours with what our culture seems to expect from us.
The Church asks for something different of us, however. Our Christian tradition asks us to take some time – to wait awhile – to consciously prepare a place deep within ourselves for the celebration of Christ's birth to occur – to take four weeks for reflection, contemplation and wondering. We are given four weeks to ask ourselves what it means that God came to us in the person of Jesus.
And just before the Church asks us to wait, the Church reminds us that the little baby we place in the crèche is actually the Messiah – Jesus the Christ – Christ the King.
While there are those of us who have a strong distaste for anything that smacks of a patriarchal monarchy – perhaps we've read too much historical fiction to have a stomach for any kind of kingship – I think it is important for us to look closely at what kind of king Jesus was – and perhaps even more importantly – what kind of kingdom was inaugurated by Jesus. What kind of kingdom did God want to establish and how did God go about it?
When I was a middle school kid, I was introduced to something called "The Four Spiritual Laws." It was a little booklet produced by Campus Crusade, an evangelical organization that purports to explain God's salvation through 4 fundamental "laws." The entire 3 by 5 inch booklet can be read in about four minutes. The crucial question it asks, illustrated with a stick figure of a chair is, "Who is on the throne of your life?" There are two options according to this script – there's an "S" for self or a cross, meant to represent Christ.
One winter weekend, I joined several dozen other teenagers on a bus headed to Chicago's O'Hare airport. Armed with a stack of these little booklets, we were supposed to invite total strangers into a conversation about these four spiritual laws – ending with an invitation for the unsuspecting man or woman to invite Christ into their lives and to sit on the throne of their hearts – an airport altar call.
When I think back about that experience, I get kind of creeped out. I had no idea what I was doing at the time – and frankly I was much more interested in the cute boy I met on the bus than I was with sharing something I didn't understand with complete strangers.
I had a totally different experience this week when I was talking about Christ as King and God's kingdom with the kids who attend "Not Sunday, Not School." We started with a conversation about kings that included words like royalty, riches, majesty, greed, gold, owner, red carpets and rules.
Then we read at least a dozen portions of scripture having to do with God's kingdom. It didn't take long to see that God's idea of a kingdom is very different from our understanding and experience of monarchal empires.
Jesus did a lot of teaching about the Kingdom – there are the parables that suggest the Kingdom's worth, and those that suggest that the Kingdom begins in very small ways and grows to astounding proportions. There are teachings about how the last will be first in God's Kingdom, and about how difficult it is to enter God's kingdom. At the same time there are teachings that suggest the Kingdom is not so much a thing that will be realized in the future as it is present all around us and even within us now.
Last week at the 11:00 service, Fr. Tombaugh took a theological high dive into the deep pool of eschatology – the study of the end times. He explained that the whole notion of time in God's economy is a complicated business – sometimes seeming to move in a linear fashion, moving from the past through present and on to the future, while at other times seeming more circular and rhythmical – grounding us into the "eternal now."
If we understand the Kingship of Christ and the establishment of God's Kingdom in a linear fashion, we are likely to emphasize the past and crane out necks to look forward to what is yet to come.
We know all too well that our world bears little resemblance today to what a loving God would have had on the drawing board in the first place. So we look back. A loving Creator invited the whole of creation into relationship – into a dance of joy, mutual respect and peace – but things got messed up. But because of God's love – because of who God is – God did not abandon the mess.
In time, God made a new plan – a plan that was also motivated by love – a to restore what had been lost, a plan that was costly. God would decide to take on human form – flesh and blood, skin and bones in order to re-create the original plan. But we know what happened to that body: blood was shed and death had its way, but only until God said "NO!" A dead Jesus would not be king. The mystery of Jesus' new life in the resurrection not only defeated death, it was the crown that identified Jesus as king and it allowed the kingdom to expand.
It was Jesus' friends who, after experiencing the resurrection, got busy. Filled with the Holy Spirit, gifted with courage and remembering Jesus' teaching – they learned how to continue Jesus' work – they learned to be builders of the kingdom that Jesus had begun. They told everyone they could about the God's love; they learned how to forgive, and they learned how to be forgiven. They welcomed others into their midst and shared their possessions. A small band of rag-tag men and women turned the whole world upside down.
They knew Jesus had promised to return and they assumed his return was imminent. They were eager for what they assumed would be the culmination of Jesus' work – an earthly kingdom where justice and peace prevailed and love was to be the only law of the land. There was a beginning and an end – a linear kind of divine movement and they were stuck in the middle.
But were they really stuck? They were certainly clear about the past – they had walked the roads of Palestine with Jesus; they had heard his teaching and seen his power. They watched him die and they experienced his new life after the resurrection and they looked forward to a new heaven and a new earth.
But even while they were waiting, they were not idle. They were not stuck. Having tasted the goodness of God, they were busy building – placing stone on stone – creating and sharing good news on top of good news. They continued to build the kingdom they had already experienced in part while at the same time they waited for it.
It begins to look like a pattern – God choosing human beings to be the builders of the divine kingdom in a multi-dimensional reality of past and future, grounded firmly in the present.
It seems to me now, that the idea portrayed by a cross on a stick figure chair in that little booklet I carted around the airport isn't a very good picture of God's kingdom – or of Christ's kingship. A one-person chair, even one that looks like a throne doesn't cut it. Perhaps it makes more sense to trade it in for a love seat – a seat big enough for the King and another.
Could we find a way to settle into a loveseat with God right now that fosters deep conversations about the past and the sharing of visions for the future? Is there such a thing as a loveseat that is both comfortable enough for the waiting to which we are clearly called, but that also has some metal springs sticking through it to cause enough discomfort to remind us of what really needs doing if the Kingdom of God is to be fully realized?
Let's look back with gratitude and forward with hope – but let's not get stuck thinking all we have to do is wait. Let's keep clearing the fields of injustice, let's dig deep to find ways of establishing peace and righteousness. Let's be reconciled with each other, with our selves and with God.
As God's beloved, we are part of the Kingdom already. And today we are invited and empowered once again, just as Jesus' first friends were, to share in the building of God's Kingdom. While it may be costly – it almost always is, it is the best invitation we could possibly receive. Let's RSVP together – with all that we have and all that we are. Amen.


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Building social capital: Conditional cash transfers and cooperation With Orazio Attanasio and Luca Pellerano, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 118 (2015), October, pages 22–39.
Economic incentives and social preferences: substitutes or complements With Sam Bowles, Journal of Economic Literature. 50 (2012), June, pages 368-425.
Building trust: Conditional cash transfers and social capital With Orazio Attanasio and Luca Pellerano, Fiscal Studies, 30 (2009), pages 139-177.
Social Capital and Household Income in Urban Colombia Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad. University of Los Andes. 56 (2005), September, pages 221-284.
Working papers
Coordination as Unintended Benefit: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Program Supplementary Online Material
This study tests an unintended benefit of a Conditional Cash Transfer program on coordination among their beneficiaries. I design and conduct a laboratory economic experiment in the field based on a weak-link Coordination game. There is a sizable effect of exposure to the CCT program on coordination effort: those exposed to the program for over a year are not just coordinating; they are more likely to exert the highest level of effort and reach higher earnings. Collected data is rich enough to establish that the improvement in coordination is not due to potential confounding factors such as willingness to cooperate, connectivity or socio-economic characteristics. A structural choice model of the individual decision to coordinate sheds light on the role of beliefs about others' behavior and suggests the presence of a coordination device to avoid the risk dominant equilibrium: the certainty in assessing what others do. The findings support nascent initiatives to influence beliefs through policy instruments.
Work pays: different benefits of a workfare program in Colombia. With Arthur Alik-Lagrange (World Bank), Orazio Attanasio and Marcos Vera-Hernández (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies) and Costas Meghir (Yale University)
This article analyzes the impact of a Colombian workfare program Empleo en Acción. Workfare programs provide a low paid employment guarantee to individuals in selected public works. They are designed to self-select the poor and provide insurance against job losses by informal sector workers at the possible cost of crowding out private labor effort. We find that the program increased individual labor income and labor supply. It also had a positive and significant impact on consumption and particularly for food in small municipalities. The program did not crowd out labor supply by members of the household different from the participant. The effect of the program persisted beyond its operation in rural areas.
Identification of Other-Regarding Preferences: Evidence from a Common Pool Resource Game in Colombia. With David Echeverry (U Notre Dame).
Social preferences have been important to the explanation of deviations from Nash equilibrium in game outcomes. An enduring challenge in any model of other-regarding preferences is to identify heterogeneity within the population. This article uses a unique experimental data set of a CPR game with 925 individuals who are closely related to a real resource. A structural model including preferences for altruism, reciprocity, and equity allows identifying behavioral types using a latent class logit model. Exogenous determinants of type are examined such as socio-economic characteristics, perceptions on the CPR, perceived interest in cooperation among the community, whether the participant does volunteer work and whether the CPR is the household main economic activity of the household. A competing explanation of deviations from Nash equilibrium is the existence of a cognitive factor: the construction of the best reply might make rational expectations about other players' mistakes (e.g. quantal response equilibrium). While a cognitive aspect would help the model better fit the data, we do not find much evidence for cognitive heterogeneity, and a great deal of behavioral heterogeneity instead. Choice prediction based on types is robust out of sample.
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Motivating Teamwork in Organizations: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence on Cooperation and Social Recognition
This economic field experiment tests the effects of acknowledgment on voluntary contributions to a public good. The experiment is conducted at a private organization whose executive board is concerned with motivating cooperation among its employees. Public recognition (made the recognition known to the team) and private recognition (only to the high contributor employee) may have different effects on cooperation. Using a within-subjects design, 410 Colombian employees participated in an online public goods game. The analysis reveals that public recognition has a sizeable effect on contributions, while private recognition has a small effect. Recognition, as a symbolic (public) award for cooperation in teams within organizations, can be effective even if they have no impact on the contributors' future career opportunities or income. The awards are purely symbolic, and the status increment they produce is limited to the recipients' anonymous online identities in a randomly formed team within their organization. Enhanced self-identification with the community can explain these results, but they are also in line with recent findings on the role of status and reputation and recognition within organizations.
Lab in the Field Experimental Evidence of Diversity and Cognition on Sustainable Development. With Juan Camilo Cardenas (University of Los Andes) and Luz Rodriguez (Duke University)
This article uses experimental and survey data to test the causes and solutions of mismanagement of common renewable resources. The experimental data consist of laboratory experiments conducted in the field to study renewable resource management. The experimental games are complex: not only participants face a social dilemma in extracting from a renewable stock, but the problem is also dynamic. Thus individuals face a twofold problem: the dynamic effect -the lower the stock, the lower the capacity for renewal- and the social dilemma effect -group level extraction affects individual payoffs and the resource stock. There is a cognitive mechanism as users may not anticipate the dynamic consequences of depleting the resource stock. The contribution of the study is twofold: First, it examines the value of diversity and its role in individual decision making which is key for environmental and resources economic policy design. Second, it uses data from real common pool resource users to analyze the role of cognition and individual attitudes towards a sustainable use of natural resources.
Leading by non-example: do leader's social preferences matter for cooperation? Experimental evidence from Colombia
In 2014, I conducted an artefactual field experiment with 500 beneficiaries of a CCT in Colombia and examine whether how powerful leaders are determines their decision to free ride and the relationship between individual willingness to cooperate and the presence of an empowered leader in the group.
Darwin in the experimental lab: between and within group competition effects on human behavior.
I examine the effect of between group and within group competition by using a Public Goods game we conducted in 2007 with the sample of Cardenas, et al. 2008 (below)
Parental generosity and early child development: an experimental approach.
I designed an economic experiment to measure parents' willingness to invest in their children's human capital.
Are Public Officials Less Pro-Social? An Artefactual Field Experiment in Colombia. With Natalia Candelo (Cunny Queens College), JC Cardenas and Alejandro Gaviria
Book Chapters
Discrimination in the Provision of Social Services to the Poor: A Field Experimental Study. With Cárdenas, JC, Natalia Candelo, Alejandro Gaviria and Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University). 2009. Book Chapter 3. In: Discrimination in Latin America: an Economic perspective. Edited by Hugo Ñopo, Alberto Chong, Andrea Moro. LADF Series – World Bank.
What Extent Do Latin Americans Trust and Cooperate? Field Experiments on Social Exclusion in Six Latin American Countries. With Cardenas JC, Calónico, Sebastian, N. Candelo, Alberto Chong and Hugo Ñopo (2008) In: IADB IPES 2008 Report: Outsiders? The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean (David Rockefeller/Inter-American Development Bank). Chapter 7.
Other working papers
Prosocial behavior, Heterogeneity and Incentives: Experimental evidence from the local commons in Colombia.
Promotion of pro-social behavior in social dilemmas has been subject to an increased interest among social scientists and policy makers due to the relevance of Common Pool Resources (CPR) in long-run human wellbeing. First, this study accounts for unobserved heterogeneity of individuals' social preferences and group composition of types within each group. On the other hand, it explores the role of heterogeneity of pro-social preferences on achieving the most efficient economic incentive. We drop the assumption that all individuals are all self-regarding and develop several models of pure Nash strategies for our CPR game when individuals are motivated by a combination of self-interest and preferences for altruism, reciprocity or inequity aversion. Second, we estimate individual heterogeneity by using a random coefficients model approach and classify individual social preferences (according to their behavior in the baseline phase) by assigning a type to every participant. Third, we compare the role of heterogeneity of preferences in social efficiency across incentives and confirm the existence of different effects of incentives on each type; the subsidy is found to be the most socially efficient incentive. Finally, we obtain exogenous determinants of individual types: level of education, perceptions on the CPR, perceived interest in cooperation among the community, whether the participant does volunteer work and whether the CPR is the household main economic activity of the household. We also obtain endogenous determinants such as the composition of types in the group and their demographic characteristics.
Helping the Helpers: Altruism as A Rational Choice of Donors to A Students Voluntary Organization. With JC Cárdenas and Miguel Espinosa (2009). Working paper CEDE (30). University of Los Andes.
Methodological steps for an experimental design to measure social capital and collective action in six Latinamerican cities (in spanish) With Natalia Candelo (2008). Working paper CEDE (17) University of Los Andes.


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Mid Europa Partners acquires Budapest-headquartered road transport company Waberer's
Mid Europa Partners, the leading private equity firm focused on Central and South Eastern Europe, has announced that it has acquired full control of the leading CEE road freight transport company ("Waberer's"or the"Company"), by acquiring the shares held by the founder and CEO, György Wáberer, and thereby increasing its stake from 56.8% to 97.1% in the Company.
Waberer's is the largest road transport company in Hungary and one of the largest road freight transport companies in Europe, operating a fleet of 3,500 trucks with a regional presence in Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK.
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"An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship."
One of the nicest things you can do for another is to be honest with them.
Honesty doesn't haven't to be harsh, critical or condemnatory. It can be kind, compassionate, revealing in a positive way, and uplifting.
Dishonesty leads to hurt feelings, deception, and wrong conclusions.
Honesty clears up misunderstandings, prevents problems from happening later, and is the sign of a sincere heart.
Always be honest. It's in your best interest, and of everyone's around you.


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Steve in Baja California with Marcos SantaAna, AIA, during a break from constructing housing for a family in need.
Steve Tanner gets Elevated
Membership Director answers Presidential Honoree Q&A as an Hon. AIA|LA
If you follow AIA|LA Membership Director Steve Tanner's Facebook page, you know that his knowledge of off-the-path restaurants rivals Jonathan Gold's. But his Facebook page also offers an enlightened and adventurous what-to-do guide through our city and points beyond. An achievement made larger given that the fact that he's gone without his own car for ten years of explorations.
At this year's AIA|LA Design Awards Ceremony, Tanner, who has ushered members through the Fellowship process for more than 12 years, receives a much deserved elevation of his own, Hon. AIA|LA. It's no surprise, that, responding to our Presidential Honoree questionnaire, he discussed Metro.
AIA|LA: Dream Commission. What current site in Los Angeles would you reconceive to serve our future, and how or why?
Steve Tanner, Hon. AIA|LA: I've been in Los Angeles for 18 years and owned a car for five of those years. So if the powers that be were to hand me a dream commission (and the resources to realize it), it would have to be the Metro system. We've come so far since 1998 and there are massive improvements in the works, but I'd love to eliminate at-grade crossings so trains can operate at the speeds they were designed for. Create better connections with Metrolink, Amtrak, and buses. Make more dedicated bus lanes and busways. Make the whole experience of using transit easier, more fluid and more enjoyable.
(Join us in celebrating Steve Tanner, Hon. AIA|LA, at the 2016 AIA|LA Design Awards. Register Here.)
AIA|LA: What Los Angeles building, site, place or idea should never be changed?
Tanner: I'm going to twist the question a bit to encompass two things that will inevitably change, but that we must preserve and make better, and nominate our air and our water. We may never be able to go back to the pristine state before industry, overpopulation and fossil fuels, but we need to use the knowledge and the means we have to slow and prevent further damage and deterioration.
AIA|LA: What project of yours, or detail of your work, you hope most influences Los Angeles.
Tanner: My day to day work is so often focused on the minutiae—it's challenging sometimes for me to think "big picture" or "enduring legacy." It's extremely rewarding to help solve a problem for a member (or direct them to an expert who can.) Or when I see our members speak passionately and wisely about pressing issues at Chapter programs like Powerful and Design for Dignity. We're really here to create those opportunities for community and connection, and help architects and designers succeed and prosper. If I get to have a small part in furthering your success, that's a great kind of influence to point to.
AIA|LA: What book, website, blog or Instagram feed about Los Angeles should we all be reading or following?
Tanner: Before I moved here, I was devouring books and films about Los Angeles without knowing that the AIA was in my future…City of Quartz and The Architecture of Four Ecologies are both provocative and great for starting arguments about L.A. On Instagram, I'm drawn to feeds that show an eye for design and for the built environment, not just by architects, but also photographers, artists, filmmakers and musicians. I recommend @ball_nogues_studio, @design_bitches, @djw73153, @t_yanai, @modernism_week, @synthesisdna, @themuska, @tiwest, @danielnorris18 and @gilllandry.
AIA|LA: Where is your favorite place to go in LA?
Tanner: One is Griffith Park, or any of our wild or semi-wild gateways to the mountains. If I can stretch the boundaries of L.A. a little, the other is Catalina.
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Houston needs a 100-foot statue of the man who invented A/C
Big idea: A salute to Willis Carrier, who made this city possible
Idea person: John Eddie Williams, attorney and philanthropist.
Idea: Houston should erect a 100-foot statue to Willis Haviland Carrier, the inventor of modern air-conditioning. "Without Carrier," says Williams, "Houston would have 20,000 people, not 2 million plus."
Where the idea came from: Williams, the son and grandson of union longshoremen, is a hefty guy, and used to be a noted football player for Pasadena High. "Playing football in a hot uniform was like wearing an overcoat in the summer," he says. He remembers days so hot "the chickens were laying hard-boiled eggs (okay, not original, but still funny)." He loves Houston's summers, "as long as I can stay in the air conditioning."
The idea behind the idea: Carrier worked for Buffalo Forge Company, a firm that produced heating and exhaust systems. During the scorching summer of 1901, a publishing company noticed that the humidity made its paper swell, caused its ink to spot and its colors to bleed. Early the following year, the publishing executives approached Buffalo Forge, asking for help. The company turned to a 25-year-old employee, Carrier.
While enveloped by a Brooklyn fog, the young mechanical engineer found inspiration. He invented a mechanical humidity controller that passed air through a filter, then over coils containing a coolant -- the same basic design as today. Shortly thereafter, drawings were submitted to the patent office for an "Apparatus for Treating Air." Carrier's company, Carrier United Technology, still sells A/C units.
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Read Gray Matters. It's shorter than the Statue of Liberty. But it's still Texas-sized.
The meaning of cool: Houstonians can easily imagine the delight of movie patrons in 1925, when Carrier installed the first air-conditioning system in Rivoli Theatre in New York City. Prior to that, even on cool days, crowded theatres could become roasting hot. Many simply closed for the summer.
Houston was quick to embrace the trend. The city's Majestic Theatre installed A/C the same year. By 1927, all the movie palaces on Main Street boasted cool air, and houses began following suit in the 1930s. By the '50s, Houston proudly proclaimed itself the "air-conditioning capital of the world."
Statue specs:Why 100 feet tall, roughly the height of a 10-story building? Williams thinks it's appropriate that the Carrier statue be shorter than the Statue of Liberty -- 151 ft. from the base to the torch -- but he still wants it to be Texas-size. The Carrier statue could tower over a park or straddle a bayou, Williams says, but he'd most like to see it in a central location.
"I don't know exactly how it should look," he says, "but it would be cool if it had an educational aspect -- a person could answer a question on a computer screen and get a cool burst of air for every correct answer."
Next steps: "Both the current and prior administration have failed to act on my idea, and I think it's a shame," Williams says. He hopes a grassroots movement will secure Carrier's place in Houston's history.


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self-care helps us feel centered
Sometimes weekends are busy, but don't forget to take care of you this weekend! I'll be working much of this weekend so I can move a project forward, but I'll still make room for self-care. I'm starting this morning with my coffee and my journal and am looking forward to a long walk later (and tomorrow too). I've got a massage scheduled for tomorrow and there will be a bubble bath or two this weekend. I'm also hoping to make a little time for creative expression and get my paints back out. All these little things are nourishment for my heart and soul and help me get through a busy weekend feeling more calm and centered. What is it that helps you feel calm and centered? Self-care practices needn't be complicated, sometimes the smallest things can help us reconnect with our heart and center back in on our self. What does self-care look like for you?
Our bedroom is an important room. It's where we go for comfort, relaxation, rest, and rejuvenation. What feelings does your bedroom currently evoke? Does it support your needs for peace, calm, and comfort? Or does it evoke feelings of stress, chaos, or overwhelm? I had a few places in my bedroom that were minor annoyances: a few tight spots where it was difficult to move around or the flow wasn't quite right. There were things hanging on the wall that I no longer loved. Overall it was lacking in aesthetics and wasn't the calming, nurturing, sensual place I wanted it to be.
I moved the head of my bed to a different wall to improve visual and physical flow and to create more space to move around it. I shuffled all the tables and benches, both for practicality and for visual appeal. I removed a chair that was a little too big for the space and brought a smaller one in to replace it. I removed everything from the walls that I had grown tired of and hung 4 pieces of my own nature-inspired art. I moved most of my plants around, creating a better visual arrangement as well as giving the biggest ones the space they need to keep growing.
These changes didn't cost me any money, I only used what I already had on hand. It only took a few hours of my time. Sometimes a few small changes can have a dramatic impact on how we feel when we enter a space. I'm loving the changes so far and am feeling more at ease in the space. When I walk in, now instead of agitation I feel calm, peaceful, and comforted. My eyes are drawn naturally around the room and there's nothing that impedes the flow.
Our bedroom is a sacred space and needs to be free from stress and chaos so we can enjoy restful sleep and recharge. What feelings does your bedroom evoke? What small changes could you make to increase comfort and restfulness?
In a recent post, I talked about the importance of getting clear on your core values. After I go through that process, I like to create some kind of visual representation that provides inspiration and direction as I go about my day. This simple little collage reflects my core values (the purple petals) and my character strengths (on yellow), which help me translate my core values into action. I review this regularly to make sure decisions and actions are aligned to what I've determined to be important.
How do you see yourself? Do you ever really study your face? When you look in the mirror or see yourself in photograph, do you only see the flaws, blemishes, and wrinkles? Or do you see the beauty, too? I've been paying more attention to the thoughts that run through my head when I see myself in a photo or look in the mirror, and they haven't been all that kind. Self-criticism runs rampant as I critique the wrinkles, the scars, the dark circles under my eyes, or whatever else stands out on any particular day.
As an experiment in self compassion, self kindness, and self love, I decided to spend some focused time studying my face and exploring all my features. I took a selfie and I studied it. For the purpose of this exercise, I committed to cast aside all judgment about how I looked, and focused instead on just really seeing myself. Instead of wrinkles and blemishes, I let myself see the natural contours and lines of my face. I've always thought my eyes were my best facial feature, but I don't really look at or appreciate them anymore because I'm too distracted by the flaws.
After looking at my face for awhile, I got a pencil and some paper and attempted a self portrait. On my first try, I mostly looked at the photo, not the paper much, as I followed the contours and lines of my head and face. On my second try, I looked at both the photo and my paper, trying to catch a more accurate representation of what I was seeing. On my third try, I made adjustments and added some additional detail.
I look at each of these drawings and again notice the self judgment that immediately surfaced: this is why I don't draw! These are terrible! .... But then I realize, the fact that drawing doesn't come naturally to me is not the point of this exercise. The point of the exercise is to spend time with myself, to really see myself, and to practice accepting myself just as I am. Everything I see is a part of me and is what makes me whole and unique ... the wrinkles, the deep lines, the dark spots and scars.... but also the light and bright spots, the contours, and the feature I love best, my eyes.
It's so easy to judge and criticize our self, both for how we look on the outside and how we feel on the inside. What's not as easy is to release the self-criticism and self-judgment in favor of self-kindness, self-compassion and self-love. We practice self-compassion when we remember that everyone has flaws and blemishes and no one is perfect. We practice self-kindness when we release self-criticism and self-judgment and learn to honor the way we are, right now. We practice self-appreciation when we look past the blemishes to see our natural beauty, delight in our favorite features, embrace our good qualities. Part of our journey toward true self love is to really see ourself, and to learn to accept ourself, exactly as we are without wishing something were different.
How long has it been since you reflected on your core values? Whether we're aware of it or not, our values are an important part of our decision making process. Your values help you clarify what's important to you, serving as a guide for determining your priorities. Your values focus your efforts, drawing you toward what will help you feel fulfilled. When you know your values, you can design and orient your life around them. Your options and choices become clearer; you make better decisions, you feel aligned and connected. When you take the next step and align your goals to your values, you set more meaningful goals and then feel an internal drive to accomplish them.
After clarifying what's most important to us, it's easier to determine if we're on track or off track in the various areas of our life. When goals are not in alignment with your values, you may procrastinate or avoid working on the goal altogether. And when actions are not congruent with your values, you may feel unfocused, frustrated, unproductive, or depleted.
Your core values are specific to you. You determine what is important, what the value means to you, and how to incorporate the value into your decisions. For example, one of my core values is self-expression. The specific ways I express this value may vary over time or as my circumstances change. Sometimes I make art, sometimes I write, sometimes I speak. But what doesn't change is that I need to be expressing myself in *some way* in order to feel whole and if I'm not, I feel out of alignment.
Another of my core values is beauty. I've been really focused on creating beauty around me in my home so I can experience it all the time. And If I want to immerse fully in the beauty of nature, I have chosen to live in an area where I can do that in just a few minute's drive. And in my work, part of my mission is to help my clients see the beauty and goodness within themselves.
I refer to my values when I create my priorities, set goals, and make decisions. One way I put my values into daily practice is when I receive requests of my time. Instead of immediately saying yes or no as I have in the past, I review my values, vision, mission, and priorities to determine if the request will support or hinder my ability to honor those. My values support me in saying YES when I want to say yes, and NO when I need to say no.
It's a good practice to review our values occasionally, to see if they change over time or as our life circumstances change. I generally review my values about once a year, and when I've experienced significant life changes. As life circumstances shift, what we view as important may also shift.
If you're unsure of your values, I invite you to download my free guide: Clarifying Your Core Values. This document will guide you through the process that I've used to discover my core values. Beyond just discovering what your core values are, this guide will invite you to reflect on why these values are important to you and how you can start integrating them more purposefully in all areas of your life.
Sometimes I make a little art. I don't consider myself terribly artistic, and I used to be *really* hard on myself when I would create a piece of art. Imperfections, mistakes, and failures are common and "success" is rare. But as I've learned to release the false notion of perfection in my life, I've also learned to release any hope of perfection in my art.
Mistakes are a part of life, and mistakes are also part of the art making process. There's more to art than just the end result. I've learned to look beyond the final result to the emotions or messages that present themselves through the art that I make. We can learn a lot about what's going on inside by observing what comes out on the page or canvas. We just need to turn down the volume on the thinking brain, and let our inner child come out and play with no expectations, no rules, and no self-imposed limitations about what we can or can't do. When we can do that, then art can be enjoyable instead of stressful, and can bring relaxation, calmness, and healing.
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010
it's just that I want to live in a TOAST catalogue...
The TOAST catalogues are so beautifully styled and photographed, little works of art that drop through the letterbox. Women's, House & Home and now Men's catalogues are out for Autumn/Winter 2010. For even more inspiration they tempt you into the world of TOAST by sharing their Style Stories online, how can you not want to enter such a beautiful world?
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I love the Toast catalogs, though I very rarely purchase anything they are such wonderful inspiration.ReplyDelete
And the catalogues smell great too. Or is that just me?!ReplyDelete
Ha, I was going to say that Tor, but thought I may sound weird! Emma ;0)ReplyDelete
Toast is too big for me (*sob*) Though my sister tells me they have just started to do a few size 6 in some of their stuff. (Just so you know, I'm not a size 6, but their size 8 stuff was too big...i think there sizing is generous....) My sister and I always drool over the catalogue! I want a hot water bottle cover from there!ReplyDelete
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While HBO's True Detective would never be considered straight-up horror, there's no doubt that it's upcoming return is of interest to many horror fans. After all, despite being a crime thriller, season one was one of the most unsettling shows to hit TV in recent memory.
True Detective season one – which starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, and drew nearly universal acclaim – featured some of the creepiest sequences out there, and showcased human monsters as terrifying as any supernatural creature ever could be.
Of course, then there was the Vince Vaughn-fronted season two, which – to put it bluntly – kinda sucked. The reaction to it was so bad that it looked like True Detective was gone for good, until HBO finally announced that season three was in the works earlier this year.
Starring Oscar-winning Luke Cage and Moonlight actor Mahershala Ali in the lead – with Blade's Stephen Dorff as his partner – True Detective season three looks to take the series back to its roots. The recently released trailer carried a dark vibe very similar to season one.
Now, HBO has revealed (via Deadline) when exactly True Detective season three will premiere: January 13th, 2019. I for one can't wait to return to the seedy, unnerving underworld that season one crafted so brilliantly. Here's hoping this isn't another season two.


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French-Italian row complicates Europe's stance on migration, Libya
The recent dispute between France and Italy is only the latest manifestation of Europe's widening divide with the rise of populist politics.
This divide is affecting intra-European relations as well as the continent's policies on global issues such as migration. It is also conditioning Europe's attitude towards its southern neighbours.
The French-Italian row reflects the deep European divide over two visions. One is advocated by anti-migration and anti-EU parties, such as Italy's far-right League and the Five Star Movement. The other vision finds expression in the more traditional, establishmentarian and pro-EU policies of French President Emmanuel Macron, who is now the target of the Italian populists' ire.
The row has given way to an unprecedented French-Italian war of words that serves to discredit Europe's policies in the Maghreb and Africa. It is also fuelling doubt about Italy's and France's commitment to find a solution to the instability and chaos unhinging Libya since the 2011 end of the NATO-led military campaign.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini accused France of having "no interest in stabilising the situation" in Libya, "probably because it has oil interests that are opposed to those of Italy."
The stakes for both Italy's ENI and France's Total in Libya's energy resources may be huge but it doesn't do much for the credibility of international peace efforts in that strife-plagued country to paint the French and Italian roles as driven by purely mercantile motives.
Accusations by senior Italian officials can only lend credence to the most cynical, if not conspiratorial, theories regarding European designs on Libya.
And the French-Italian row can only adversely affect Europe's treatment of another loaded problem, that of migration.
Since June, Rome has closed Italian ports to migrant rescue ships while blasting Paris for its attitude towards migrants. "France has no reason to get upset because it pushed away tens of thousands of migrants (at the French border), abandoning them there as though they were beasts," said Salvini.
More than Paris or Rome, it is migrants who have a lot to lose in the French-Italian crossfire as their tragedy continues to unfold.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 200 migrants have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean. The UN migration agency said no fewer than 4,216 migrants made it to Europe in the first 16 days of the year, compared to 2,365 during the same period of 2018.
For lack of a welcome and safe harbour in Italy, many of the rescued migrants are being sent back to Libya despite the inadequate holding conditions there. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has criticised the European "politicking around sea rescues."
UNHCR spokesman Charlie Yaxley observed that "rescue at sea has been taken hostage by politics… decisive leadership that taps into fundamental values of humanity and compassion is sorely needed." Private NGOs find it increasingly impossible to lend a helping hand to migrants drifting at sea in makeshift boats.
Instead of eliciting a debate about the deep roots of the migration problem and the way to effectively address it, the French-Italian spat is only fuelling a self-serving blame game.
"If people are leaving today it's because European countries, France above all, have never stopped colonising dozens of African countries," claimed Italian Economic Development Minister Luigi Di Maio. The solution advocated by Di Maio is hardly deserving of the descriptor. "The EU should sanction France and all countries like France that impoverish Africa and make these people leave because Africans should be in Africa, not at the bottom of the Mediterranean," he said.
Ironically, even in France, the Yellow Vest insurrection has led to a rise in the political fortunes of the far-right. It has also ushered in new debate about imposing immigration quotas, this time suggested by Macron himself.
In the run-up to elections for the European Parliament in May, one can expect such populist rhetoric to escalate and permeate the political debate.
The already-significant tension emanating from the two colliding visions of Europe will not help address the issue of migration, help resolve MENA'S lingering conflicts, such as the one in Libya, or assist the region with tackling its chronic socio-economic difficulties. It will only complicate them.


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I am no longer "no one" as I might've thought before,
I have finally realized all I have left in store.
I am a daughter of a King of the most High,
Feet standing strong with the Spirit so nigh.
Despite the world's definition of popularity and glam,
I always try to remember who and whose I am,
My fear is now whether I'll always stay true,
But, I know with my Savior I'll always make it through.
I start to realize "Me" is a title worth gold,
You see I am "His" I know now what was told.


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Product 7/11
KOK 710mm 14/5 Classic 3D Blades
710 mm Classic 3D blades are made of carbon and glass fiber (CFK, GFK). Blades are designed for 3D acrobatics. Design: a combination of white and the carbon fabric structure color with the logo embedded in the blade surface. Blades provide easy manoeuvreability in all flight modes and stable hanging of the model
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This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 23 July, 2009.


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Bonnie is a minor antagonist.
about Edit
characteristics: purple body, pink eyes, evil, loud, unpredictable, bloodthirsty, cruel
real age: 4 real years
species: robot
race: computer-animated
subrace: negative character
comes from: the Five nights at Freddy's franchise
nationality: American
religion: none
- His only role in the show is in the episode Robot thunder.
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We have been learning about punishment in the Victorian Times. We learnt about the Workhouse and all the hard labour that the prisoners had to do.
On Friday 4th October we learnt about Transportation when prisons were sent to Australia to serve out their prison sentence away from their families. The trip alone could take up to 6 months and often the prisoners didn't survive the journey.
We had great fun 'Hot Seating' asking each other questions about what it was like on the boat, in the Prison and what crime they had committed