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The Church, the Parachurch, and Poverty Alleviation
If the local church is the primary place where God is at work in the world, then that means the local church has a key role to play in poverty alleviation. Whether it is a suburban megachurch, a house church, or the tiny local church in a village far off the grid, your local church is called to help the materially poor.
But how is the church to take up this task? The world is a big, broken place. Is the church really able to address all the problems we face? Yes, but perhaps in different ways than you might think. The church is the center of God’s plan, as the place where the gospel of Jesus’ kingdom is preached and the people He redeems are gathered in community. These redeemed people are called to be engaged in the mission of the church in various other spheres of life, too.
An Important Task but Not an Exclusive Task1
Although the Bible teaches that the local church must care for both the spiritual and physical needs of the poor, it gives Christians some freedom in deciding the extent and manner in which the local church should do this—either directly or indirectly.
But it is not only the local church that must care for the poor. There is evidence in Scripture that individuals (Matt. 25:31–46), families (1 Tim. 5:8), and even governments (Dan. 4:27; Ps. 72) have responsibilities to the poor. Christ is the Creator, Sustainer, and Reconciler of all things, including all kinds of institutions, and Christians at work in these must faithfully seek to use words and deeds that bear witness to the present and future reign of Christ as much as possible (Matt. 5:16; Col. 1:15–20).
One way that the church’s responsibility to care for the poor is carried out in complex modern societies is through a wide range of parachurch ministries. While the parachurch should never undertake tasks that are exclusively given to the church—for example, ordination, baptism, and the Lord’s supper—there is much that these ministries can do very effectively to care for the materially poor.
Sometimes, a local church might feel it is wise to own and operate a ministry under the direct oversight of its leadership. In other situations, a church might feel that it would be wiser to minister indirectly by starting or supporting a parachurch ministry or simply by encouraging individuals to reach out to the materially poor in their community. Some parachurch ministries may be national or even international in scope (some Christian relief and development agencies, for example) while others will be much more local. Churches need God’s wisdom to determine the best course of action in each situation. However, whenever God’s people choose to minister outside of the local church, they should always be seeking to partner with the local church.
In the New Testament, we see an important principle about how the local church should care for people who are materially poor. The elders, who led the church, were concerned that the poor should be cared for, but they also wanted to ensure that this care did not distract them from their primary task of preaching and teaching the Scriptures (Acts 6:1–7; 1 Tim. 3:1–5; Titus 1:5–9). To protect the elders’ time, the church appointed deacons to serve under the authority of the elders and care for the poor on behalf of the church (Acts 6:1–7; 1 Tim. 3:8–13).
Of course, not all churches use the form of church government just described, but the principle remains the same: When a poverty alleviation initiative becomes large or complex, it may distract the leaders who are tasked with preaching and teaching the Word. In such cases, it may be advisable to form parachurch organizations to operate such ministries. This is actually the common practice, as most poverty alleviation ministries are run by parachurch organizations.
Parachurch v. Nonprofit
You may be asking, “what is the difference between a parachurch ministry and a Christian nonprofit organization?” These terms often refer to the same types of organizations, but emphasize different aspects of their character:
- “Nonprofit”—is more of an economic term, designating an organization doing work that people agree is important but that cannot cover its costs from charging fees for its services the way that a business can. .
- “Parachurch”—is an older term, focusing on the organization’s place alongside a church, a group of churches, or a denomination.
While Chalmers’ books, blog, and trainings use these terms somewhat interchangeably, we do lean more on the term “parachurch,” because we believe it is vital to keep the connection to the local church in mind. Poverty is rooted in broken relationships, and the only One who can heal those relationships is Jesus Christ, who dwells in the local church, His body, His bride, and His fullness. So while parachurch ministries perform vital functions, they “have power to accomplish their purpose only as they are rooted in and lead back to a believing community,” the community of the local church.2
Unfortunately, there are often tensions in the relationship between churches and parachurch ministries. Churches sometimes express frustration that parachurch organizations ask for financial support, but then do not collaborate well (or at all) with churches in the communities in which they are both ministering. Although this dynamic is present in most settings, it is particularly challenging in the Majority World, where enormous, global relief and development agencies work in communities that contain churches consisting of small groups of extremely poor people with very little education.
As Rick Warren, Pastor of Saddleback Church, explains,
Today, most local churches are sidelined and uninvolved when it comes to missions. The message from most mission and parachurch organizations to the local church is essentially “Pray, pay, and get out of the way….” I believe the proper role for all the great parachurch and relief organizations is to serve local churches in a supportive role, offering their expertise and knowledge, but allowing the local churches around the world to be the central focus and distribution centers.” 4
On the other hand, development expert Bryant Myers describes the frustrations that many parachurch ministries have with churches, frustrations that he laments:
Too often Christian development professionals see the church as a distraction, or worse, as an impediment to transformation. “The church has separated itself from the rest of the community.” “Churches don’t believe development is something they should be doing.” “The church is not professional enough; it doesn’t know what it is doing.” “Churches have been validating the current economic and political system; they are part of the problem.” We know the litany well.5
Parachurch organizations often have good reasons to be frustrated. Churches frequently lack a kingdom vision that includes ministering to low-income individuals and communities, and even when they capture such a vision, their approaches often do more harm than good. But parachurch ministries have their own problems.
Many parachurch ministries tend to undervalue what the local church brings to the table. They often fail to understand that—because human beings are mind-affections-will-body-relational creatures who long to return to the dwelling place of God—the local church is absolutely essential to human flourishing in general and to poverty alleviation in particular.
Like all of us, materially poor people need the healing power of Jesus. And He is present—mysteriously yet really—when the church administers the “ordinary means of grace”: the preaching of the Word, the administration of the sacraments, and prayer. This is the innermost sanctuary of the temple, the very dwelling place of God, the only foundation for restoration to flourishing for all people, including those who are materially poor.
When churches and parachurch ministries embrace their respective callings and begin to work hand-in-hand, both can be part of God’s work of making us whole.
- This section adapted from Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself, 2012 (Chicago: Moody Publishers), 44-45.
- Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989), 227.
- This section adapted from Brian Fikkert and Kelly M. Kapic Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn’t the American Dream, 2019 (Chicago: Moody Publishers), 257-259.
- As quoted in Ed Stetzer and David Putman, Breaking the Missional Code: Your Church Can Become a Missionary in Your Community (Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing Group, 2006), 173–74.
- Bryant L. Myers, Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development, revised and expanded ed. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011), 191.
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Argentina is a huge country so a couple of days hardly scratches the surface. Its the eight largest country in the world and second only to Brazil in South America.
The capital Buenos Aires has three million inhabitants.
Famous for the Tango Argentina is also known to us for Eva Peron mostly thanks to Evita the musical. The Falkland Island dispute which I remember well even though in was in 1982 is something else you think of.
Although control stayed with Britain and a 2013 vote by the islanders was to remain under Britain Argentina does not accept this.
The Capital of Argentina
The Casa Rosada is the office of the president in the huge main square Plaza de Mayo. We saw political anti British signs in Plaza de Mayo but no one took it out on us personally. Felt a bit like an American in Vietnam!
With so much to see in such a short time we had to decide what to prioritise. Obviously top of my list was Tango.
Tango in La Boca
We made straight for La Boca a working class area or barrio famous for its brightly painted zinc shacks. Its main street El Caminito follows an old railway line.
On the balcony- Diego Maradonna, who even I know is the best footballer ever, Eva Peron and Carlos Gardel a tango superstar.
In a street full of outdoor cafes a coffee or a snack gets you a front row seat for a Tango demonstration. We stayed longer than JP would have preferred but some of the dancers were so good I could have stayed for hours.
The obvious next stop was futbol at Bombonera, the famous football stadium. Neither of us cares much about football so we gave it a miss. Too many other things to see. So wandering further around the very touristy La Boca area we took lots of photos of the painted houses.
Gauchos were the other priority on my list but they will have to wait until tomorrow.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Light House projects (LHPs) at six sites across six States through video conference on 1st January 2021. The LHPs will be implemented at Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Rajkot (Gujarat), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Agartala (Tripura) and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh).
About LightHouse projects:
- The project is being constructed under the Global Housing Technology Challenge (GHTC)-India. It has been conceptualised by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
- GHTC-India envisages providing an ecosystem for the adoption of innovative technologies in the housing construction sector in a holistic manner.
- Under the programme, over 1,000 houses would be built in each of the six cities in 12 months along with allied infrastructure facilities.
- The houses are called lighthouse projects in technical language. Houses being built under the Light House Projects (LHPs) will take less time to build and will be resilient, affordable and comfortable as they use the best of new-age alternative global technologies, materials and processes in the construction sector.

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Talking to Teens About Sexual Misconduct and Consent Before They Go Away to College
Just before your teenager heads off to college, you should have “the talk” with them. Nope, not the SEX talk. There’s a pretty good chance they already know about that 3-letter word. We mean the consent talk; meaning ways to tell the opposite sex NO like you mean it and what to do if someone overall makes you feel uncomfortable through sexually-orientated actions. Here’s some advice from therapists on how to approach this serious conversation with your teen that’s not TOO awkward for all of you.
What should WE, as parents, know about this topic?
“Teens find information, and misinformation, about sex from a variety of sources: parents, friends, culture, and media,” says Kristen Arquette, M.ED, LMFT, CDP, MHP, CMHS a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Bellevue, WA. “The most important information about sex for teens comes from parents.” Also, it’s NOT necessary to be an expert on sex or sexuality to have influential conversations about sex with your teen. “Discuss the facts, and link them back to your personal and family values pertaining to consideration for others, sexuality, and concerns for sexual health.”
What kind of manner should I be in so my kid takes me seriously?
“Stay calm and positive. Encourage your teen to talk as much as they listen,” advises Arquette. “It’s a conversation, not a lecture! Give them permission to disagree with you, and explore why if they do.” Explore how your expectations for your teen’s behavior will change, adds Aquette, as they get older, go off to college, and enter committed relationships, and what the new expectations look like. “For example, ‘while I would prefer that you wait to have sex and drink, I know your choices may be different and I will always help you when you need me.’
Says Jill Whitney, LMFT, a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Connecticut: “The key to getting teens to listen is not being preachy. Make your conversation a thoughtful dialogue, not a lecture. Your kid is an emerging adult.” Also, she says, respect their intelligence and their capacity for reflection. “If you're trying to impose your ideas, they'll shut down. But if you're genuinely interested in their perspective, you'll get them thinking. That's valuable whether or not they tell you much.”
Also, assume they know a lot about sex, whether or not they've actually had it, advises Whitney. “They've certainly talked with friends and likely have seen pornography. What they might not be thinking about is sexual choices. Point out that when they're living in a dorm, no adult will be policing their sexual behavior, so it's on them to choose what's right for them.”
For example, says Whitney, “You might say, ‘If you don't want to have sex with someone, I really hope you won't.’ Think about what you might say to someone who's pressuring you. Having a sort of script in mind will make it easier to say ‘No’ in the heat of the moment. And if you want to say Yes, you should mean it. Don't agree to do something at night and then complain about it in the morning.’”
How can we eliminate the awkwardness?
“It's actually okay if these conversations are awkward,” says Whitney. “We don't often have serious conversations about sex; it's not something most of us are comfortable with. Do your best to feel calm and grounded when you talk with your kid, but don't worry too much about feeling awkward. Feel awkward, and talk anyway.”
Also, says Whitney, a great conversation opener is reading together the college's policy on sexual expectations. “What does it say about sexual assault, affirmative consent, and so on? What does your kid think about the policy and how it's written? Compare your kid's school's policy with the policies at colleges their friends are going to. What are the differences? What tone does each policy have? What do they think makes the most sense? Your goal is to get them thinking about the kinds of situations that can happen and how things might go wrong.”
According to Arquette, bring in something relatable to connect with your teen. “Allow the conversation to occur naturally. Take advantage of teachable moments by paying attention to the lyrics of your teen’s favorite music, topics addressed by their favorite TV shows, or current events.” Adolescents, she adds, are often more comfortable talking about a third party than they are talking about themselves. “Spark discussion with questions, such as, ‘if two friends go home together after a party, what do you think each person wanted? Does it mean they’ll have sex?’ Make sure to model how to consider each party in your own answer.”
Ok, now how can we be firm about potential consequences?
“It's helpful to state your expectations about how your child treats other people,” says Whitney. “It probably won't work to tell them to not have sex, even if you really hope they won't. But you can say, for instance, that you feel very, very strongly that if they have sex, they should use a condom every time, as well as another form of birth control. That protects both people.”
You can say that you expect them to treat sexual partners well, adds Whitney. “For instance, ‘I'd be horribly disappointed in you if you ever sexually assaulted someone, or even did something that made the other person feel bad. I know you're a good person. I'm counting on you to be a respectful partner and never take advantage of someone who was drunk or vulnerable.’"
Notice, points out Whitney, how this language acknowledges that your kid gets to choose how they behave, but also gives them a moral framework for making good choices.
How alcohol comes into play
According to Whitney, it's super-important to talk about the role of alcohol in campus sexual assaults. “Drinking makes people vulnerable to being assaulted and to becoming a perpetrator, because it impairs judgment and increases impulsiveness.”
Even "good guys" can get out of control when they've been drinking and end up assaulting someone who isn't fully on board with the sexual activity, says Whitney. So, make sure your kid knows that alcohol isn't an excuse. "I know most kids drink at college. But you shouldn't get so wasted that you're out of control. Being drunk is never an excuse for doing something that hurts someone."
Also, says Whitney, talk to your son about the fact that a lot of aggressive sexual behavior is intended to impress other guys. If you think that's kind of sad, say so. "Sex is a beautiful thing, but only when both people are really on board with it. It's between the two people, no one else. I'd think less of you if you pressured someone to have sex just to show off to other guys. I hope you're strong enough to make your own choices about sex and everything else."
Remind teens never to leave their cup alone
“Girls may be pressured to drink more than they want to, “ says Whitney. “Talk with your daughter about keeping safe. She should never drink punch or a drink mixed by someone else, because there's no way to know how much alcohol might be in there or whether other drugs have been added.”
Also, remind her that beer that she opens herself is safest. “She knows what she's getting. She should maintain control of her cup at all times so no one can spike it. If she puts it down to go to the bathroom or something, she should get a new cup. Cups are cheap,” says Whitney.
And finally, point out that going upstairs to someone's room increases the chances of something going wrong, advises Whitney. “If she actually wants to sleep with the guy and trusts that he'll stop if she changes her mind, that's one thing. But if she doesn't quite know what she wants, feels pressured, or is too drunk to think straight, she's safer staying with the larger group or walking home with a trusted friend.”
What other sexual conduct/consent topic should parents zero in on for their kids?
“Girls and boys need to understand that consent is communicated verbally and nonverbally and withdrawn at any point,” says Arquette. “While most teens understand the basic concept of consent, that “no means no,” they struggle to apply the concept to interactions. Instruct teens on how to obtain consent, by going slowly. Ask questions like “do you want to go further?” or “does this feel good?” Wait for reciprocation or a response before going further. If they say no, brush off your hand, or don’t respond at all, stop and ask before going further.”
Arquette also stresses this: “Make sure teens are aware of all the different ways coercion may be used to influence consent, including persuasion, pleading, guilt-tripping, providing substances or encouraging use, using verbal threats, or manipulation.” Pay attention, she says, to these red flags, and excuse yourself if they occur. :Team up with a friend and use the buddy system, so that if you’re unable to exit the situation, there’s someone else who can intervene or get help. Emphasize that if coercion is applied, they did not consent.”
What is the best way parents can earn their teens trust and vice versa?
”Building trust with teenagers requires fighting through parental anxiety, exercising restraint, holding realistic expectations, and showing unconditional love as your teenager will invariably make some mistakes,” says Arquette. “Try to understand why your teen thinks, feels, and behaves the way that they do, and communicate your understanding even if you do not always agree.”
She adds: “Be a role model for trustworthiness. Be where you say you’ll be, and do what you’ll say you do. And just like your teen, you will make mistakes too. The way you navigate those mistakes with resiliency and showcase your struggles serves as a powerful example to help teens realize that when they mess up, they can come to you.”
And finally, emphasize that in order to gain your trust, your teen must engage in trustworthy behaviors. “Define the types of behaviors that earn your trust, and connect those to the benefits your child will earn such as being able to go out with friends, stay up later, or use the family car,” says Arquette.
Good to know…
Sexuality, says Arquette, evolves throughout a person’s life. Your and their perspective and concerns about sex and consent will likely change on an ongoing basis, as will your relationship with each other. “ Teens will benefit more from an ongoing discussion than a one-time conversation, so communicate your willingness to readdress the topic and answer questions as they come up.”
It’s never too early to start teaching consent to young kids.

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An example, a few years ago I installed a simple autopilot in my aircraft, follows a GPS and the decrease in the level of fatigue after 4 hrs was remarkable. Driving will be the same.


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Effects in humans are nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and blurred vision, but in small children it can even be fatal. Foxglove has naturally occurring toxins that affect the heart. Avoid ingesting any part of the plant, including the seeds, leaves and flowers. Hardy in USDA zones 8 through 11, it grows up to 36 inches tall and 24 inches wide. Poison hemlock, with its purple-blotched stems, can cause paralysis if ingested. A combination of four lovely colors: cream, lavender, rose, and white. See what's in season with our guide to sustainable foraging with top tips on how to pick, cook and eat wild plants. All parts of the Foxglove plant are poisonous. Its flowering spike has a yellow-green hood (technically known as a spathe) surrounding the flower spike (spadix). It was the original source of the drug called digitalis. Ingestion of any parts of the plant (and often the leaves usually as a result of misidentification for comfrey, Symphytum officinale) can result in severe poisoning. Here's our list of some of the more common poisonous plants with tips on how to recognise them, what makes them dangerous to people and dogs and other intriguing facts. The deslanoside, digitoxin and/or digitalis glycoside compounds found in the plants can cause an irregular or slow heartbeat and, in large doses or with long-term usage, can lead to serious illness and death. Images © protected Woodland Trust. All parts of this ornamental garden plant including the flowers, leaves, and shoots, are considered poisonous These biennial flowers can also be found growing wild in USDA plant hardiness zones 3 through 9, depending on the species and cultivar. The leaves and stems can cause stomach pain, weakness, difficulty breathing and slow heart rate if ingested. Full sun to part shade. It was first known by the Anglo-Saxon name foxes glofa(the glove of the fox), because its flowers look like the fingers of a glove. Beautiful bell shaped flowers grow on tall spikes on the biennial flower. Protect your eyes, lungs and skin when working in the garden. The mature plants have an unpleasant smell apparently similar to mouse urine. If your dogs are ever sick at some point I would advise keeping an eye on them since dogs try to eat grass and other plants when they are unwell. SC038885). Foxgloves come in a range of colours from pale, pinks to purples and blues and yellows. They scatter their seeds freely, making them an invasive plant along the West and East Coasts of North America. While the white, yellow, pink or purple flowers attract hummingbirds, butterflies and bees to the garden, use caution when planting them as a border or backdrop. Sowing Seed Indoors: Sow seeds indoors in 8-10 weeks before the last frost. Digitalis purpurea, the foxglove or common foxglove, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae, native to and widespread throughout most of temperate Europe. Symptoms include nausea, headache, skin irritation and diarrhoea. Ruth de Jauregui is an old-school graphic artist and writer who focuses primarily on garden topics. She writes a weekly garden column and authored 50 Fabulous Tomatoes for Your Garden. Heavy clay soils tend to be alkaline, so they may need more compost and additional amendments, such as iron sulfate, to lower the pH level in the soil. To encourage a second flush of flower spikes, cut the flower spikes back to the rosette of leaves when the blossoms fade. A tall, majestic plant with long spikes of tubular flowers. What poisonous plants might you come across on a woodland walk? By Pat Hagan for MailOnline Updated: 08:42 EST, 26 November 2011 GB520 6111 04. Foxglove poison. leaves, flowers, fruits, stem). An extract of 'belladonna' (Italian for 'beautiful woman') was used to make eye drops which were applied by women to dilate their pupils. Have you heard that foxgloves are poisonous? Foxgloves prefer a loose, moist, acidic soil. Use caution, wear goggles, a dust mask, gloves, long sleeves and pants, and shoes when working with the soil, compost and amendments. Cardio glycosides are found in the leaves, flowers and seeds of foxglove, and in all parts of oleander. Foxglove contains naturally-occurring poisons that affect the heart, specifically cardenolides or bufadienolides. Foxgloves are poisonous. Due to the cardiac glycoside digitoxin, in the leaves, flowers and seeds of this plant, it is extremely poisonous to humans and some animals and can be fatal if eaten. The National Capital Poison Center (NCPC) warns against planting foxgloves where children and pets may have access to any part of the plant, including the flowers and seeds. All parts of the plant are poisonous, particularly the roots. Also known as Adam and Eve or devil’s helmet, this is one of the UK’s most poisonous plants. are a staple in an old-fashioned cottage garden. Don't confuse the spring flowering crocus (Crocus genus) with autumn flowering crocus (from a different genus - Colchicum autumnale). Take care when handling this plant. The chemical compound digoxin, commonly used to treat heart-related conditions, is extracted from this plant Foxglove Poisoning is the accidental or intentional intake of the plant or plant product containing the compound. Foxglove poisoning most often occurs from sucking the flowers or eating the seeds, stems, or leaves of the foxglove plant. Full sun to partial shade. Its attractive hooded blue flowers have made it a popular garden plant and you’ll find cultivars in varying colours including pink, yellow and white. The entire plant is toxic (including the roots, sap, flowers, (approx. Hand-pick snails from the leaves or put out traps. This hybrid shrub produces sterile seeds, ensuring that it won't invade neighboring gardens, meadows and wetlands. Foxgloves have also widely been used in folk medicine, and in conventional medicine, their cardiac glycosides have been used to make a heart stimulant drug. Packet: 50 seeds. The foxglove or empress tree, Paulownia tomentosa, is a deciduous, fast-growing tree native to China. Types of mushroom in the UK: common identification guide, Woodland Walks podcast with Adam Shaw and Dan Snow, Foraging for natural Christmas decorations. The stems, leaves, and flowers of the plant contain a compound known as a cardiac glycoside, such as digoxin, digitoxin, and digitalin. Foxglove seed ripens in late summer. Daffodil bulbs, stems, leaves and flowers can cause poisoning in dogs. Foxglove is poisonous, although recorded poisonings from this plant are very rare. For best results, water regularly. It’s widely naturalised, but may be native in damp woodlands, meadows and along ditches in the southern half of the UK. This name is also thought to be related to a northern legend t… The National Capital Poison Center (NCPC) warns against planting foxgloves where children and … The botanical name for foxglove is Digitalis purpurea. Ingestion of the bulbs of autumn crocus can cause severe stomach upset, kidney and liver problems and bone marrow depression. It also has a pupil-widening effect that was known in ancient Greece. Ingestion can irritate the mouth and gastrointestinal tract and lead to drooling, vomiting and diarrhoea. All parts of the plant are poisonous. Lightly cover with moist soil. The berries are green and they ripen to black. The actual tomatoes are okay as long as they’re ripe. These chemicals affect the heart. Keep in touch with the nature you love without having to leave the house. As with many poisonous plants, foxglove is toxic to both people and pets. You may have to stake the tallest flowers if the site is windy. Foxglove and oleander contain a toxin which can bring on serious cardiac issues, and can be treated with charcoal. A non-profit-making company limited by guarantee. Turn the boards over in the morning to capture and dispose of the pests. After the seeds germinate, thin by transplanting or snipping off the weakest seedlings with scissors. You might recognize "digitalis" as the name of a heart medicine. Alternately, remove the spent plants at the end of the growing season. Ht. It has also naturalised in parts of North America and some other temperate regions. Do not induce vomiting unless it is recommended by a medical professional. It’s primarily grown for its giant leaves and panicles of foxglove-shaped blooms. The entire foxglove plant is considered toxic when ingested. Foxgloves originated in Europe. It has large, arrow-shaped, purple-spotted leaves at the base of the plant. Minimum of 75 seeds per packet. In more serious cases it can result in changes to heart rate, body temperature and blood pressure, and even lead to a seizure. Several species of Aconitum have been used as arrow poisons. All plant parts must be handled with extreme care. Its flowers grow on tall spikes that bloom between June and September. Also known as Adam and Eve or devil’s helmet, this is one of the UK’s most poisonous plants. All parts of the lords-and-ladies plant can produce allergic reactions in many people and the plant should be handled with care. Foxglove is able to rapidly spread and totally exclude native flora and fauna. All parts of the foxglove are poisonous to humans, dogs, cats and horses. They have been used in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to poison harpoon tips used in whaling. Foxglove seeds may be planted in fall or early spring, when soil temperatures reach 60 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Toxins can even transfer to the skin via cuts, so it is important to always wear gloves when handling plants in your garden. She continues to write nonfiction articles on gardening and other topics and is working on a second "50" book about plants that attract hummingbirds. If saving seeds for spring planting, moisten coarse vermiculite and mix with the seeds. 21,700 seeds/oz. The cardio glycosides found naturally in foxglove and oleander are chemicals that cause a physical reaction in the heart, nervous system, stomach and intestines of both animals and humans. Keep the soil moist at 60-65 degrees F. Seedlings emerge in 14-21 days. Like the parent plants, all parts of Digiplexis are poisonous. It’s rare to accidentally eat large quantities of this plant because it has an acrid taste and gives a tingling sensation which acts as a warning. Hardy in zones 4-9. height 3-4' spacing 15" Sowing Digitalis purpurea 'Excelsior' Seeds. Digitalis is poisonous; it can be fatal even in small doses. The dried leaves are the principal source of the drug digitalis, a potent heart medicine, making the plant poisonous to animals and humans. If you remove all the flower spikes before they go to seed, your foxgloves may continue to grow as perennials rather than biennials. Foxglove seed harvesting should begin when the pods begins to crack. Also known as purple foxglove. Transplant into the garden in fall or spring for masses of reddish-orange, raspberry or hot pink color from late spring through fall. All parts of it can cause allergic reactions, but the berries are particularly poisonous. Digitalis (Foxglove) Seeds Digitalis, also known as foxglove, has tall spikes of tubular flowers in a wide range of colors, heights and forms. They contain a mixture of tropane alkaloids that affect the nervous system. Hardy in USDA zones 3 through 8, this perennial member of the snapdragon family grows in full sun and light shade. Foxglove may be grown from seed sown early indoors and transplanted outside after frost, or sown directly in the garden in summer, or planted as a potted plant. Great for bouquets and gardens. Registered in England No. Autumn leaf identification quiz: can you identify these 10 trees? Foxglove seeds form in pods at the base of wilted blooms when flowering ends in midsummer. Foxglove contains toxic cardiac glycosides that are used medicinally to treat heart failure. Take a sample of the plant with you (as many parts of the plant as you can for accurate identification eg. At 36 to 48 inches tall, you can use a clump as a focal point in a rain garden or plant it in the back of the flower bed. Foxgloves are poisonous. The poisonous ingredient in foxglove … Foxglove is a plant. Poisoning may also occur from taking more than the recommended amounts of medicines made from foxglove. Alternately, plant a few seeds in small groupings set 18 inches apart. A few foxgloves are perennials and will continue to grow and bloom every year. Clean up the garden bed and put the dead plants and debris in the trash before preparing the soil for the next year's flowers. All parts of the plant are extremely poisonous. Start foxglove seeds indoors 8 weeks before the last frost date. Wear safety gear when working around foxglove plants and keep children and pets away from the trimmings, flowers and seeds. If foxglove poisoning is suspected, call Poison Control or Animal Poison Control immediately. VAT No. The leaves of the upper stem in particular are particularly poisonous, with just a small amount being enough to cause death. 1500 seeds/pkt) Recommended with the Foxglove It is a wonderful border plant in a shade garden. Dig in 2 to 4 inches of well-decomposed compost and manure to a depth of 12 inches. While you may be tempted to plant foxglove seedlings closer together, the first-year rosettes of leaves require space to grow. A hybrid of common foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and its close relative, the Canary Island foxglove (Isoplexis canariensis), produced by Charles Valin of Thompson and Morgan, has produced the tender perennial Digiplexis. The 2- to 6-foot-tall flower spikes bloom in spring and summer. Foxgloves, the beautiful but poisonous flowers that could beat breast cancer. Always water after fertilizing to protect the plant's tender roots from the fertilizer salts. Ingestion of any parts of the plant (and often the leaves usually as a result of misidentification for comfrey, Symphytum officinale) can result in severe poisoning. Crocus plants are said to be of low toxicity and may only cause a mild stomach upset if eaten. Biennial 15g (approx. Discover our recent challenges and successes and how you can help. In trying to verify this, I found many sources all repeating verbatim warnings about "sucking the flowers or eating the seeds, stems, or leaves of the foxglove plant." 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Read and join in the pipe and tobacco forums discussion americans are the people who describe their use of alcohol and tobacco as vices g now the issue. Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs task force on alcohol and other substance abuse issues) state-level data on the use of alcohol, tobacco. Alcohol and sport in australia is a key contributor to alcohol-related harm of bans on tobacco sponsorship in australia, tobacco advertising was progressively. Alcohol sponsorship and advertising in sport alcohol product sponsorship of sporting organisations tobacco sponsorship and advertising in sport. Trevor grant discusses the state of play with major sporting codes, alcohol sponsorship, and corporate social responsibility. Health issues health issues health issues what is the best way to talk to my teen about tobacco, alcohol open a discussion about the dangers involved with. This paper examines the ethical issues in corporate sponsorships of charitable in the case of the tobacco sponsor used as a starting point for discussion. Ethical sponsorship and advertising in sport while the issue of tobacco product sponsorship and advertising of alcohol sponsorship and advertising in sport.
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Anakin, Mika and George have a Ball playing with the Catnip Cyclone! This was a gift from one of Anakin's Friends (Thank you!) and it's been a huge hit with the kitties. Ani does tend to hog this toy a little bit but everyone gets a turn too.

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On August 8, 2005 John H. Johnson died. He was 87 years old. I would guess that there's some that have never heard of John H. Johnson. He was the publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines. A host of politicians, celebrities and dignitaries attended his funeral at the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on the campus of the University of Chicgao. President Bill Clinton, Senator Barack Obama,Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and a host of others spoke eloquently about this legend.
In 1996 President Clinton presented Johnson with the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. President Clinton said that Johnson gave blacks hope by showing "faces of hope".
John H. Johnson was born in Arkansas City, Arkansas in 1918. To escape racism, poverty and limited educational opportunities Johnson's mother moved the family to Chicago, Illinois. Johnson attended Phillips and DuSable High School in Chicago along with classmates Redd Foxx and Nat King Cole. Johnson blossomed at school and was the junior and senior class president, editor-in-chief of the Phillipsite school newspaper, leader of the student forum and a commencement speaker.
In 1942 Johnson started a magazine called The Negro Digest. This magazine was the prototype for Ebony. Johnson said when he went to apply for the loan he was told by an assistant, "Boy, we don't make loans to colored people". However, the assistant did tell Johnson of a bank that would loan to "colored people" and Johnson used his mother's new furniture as collateral to secure the loan for $500.00.
Johnson built an empire that includes Fashion Fair Cosmetics and Ebony Fashion Fair. He was also the first black person to appear on the Fortune 400 list.
I don't think there are many people my age who will tell you that they didn't have copies of Jet and Ebony around there home growing up. This was one place that you could read stories on black people overcoming all of the numerous obstacles there were (and still are) in America and succeeding. Back in the day black people were given short shrift by the white media. If there were stories about or concering black people they were generally negative. Overt racism was the norm in those days as opposed to the covert racism of today that permeates the media, workplace and America in general. Black newspapers and magazines gave black folks a place to see that there were black people succeeding against the odds. That there were black authors, actors, doctors, etc. These magazines gave black people dignity and a sense of purpose.
Johnson used Ebony and Jet to educate, entertain and enlighten readers. He tried to give readers hope to reach beyond themselves. Ebony always had/has stories on the movers and shakers in Black America, and Jet was/is a weekly news magazine.
John Johnson's wife, daughter and granddaughter are left to carry on his legacy.
The August 29, 2005 issue of Jet is a commemorative issue devoted to its illustrious founder. Here is some more information on this publishing giant.

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APEC SUMMIT: Leaders from the Pacific Rim wrap up their summit today (Sunday) in Lima, Peru. They have vowed to maintain a united front in the battle against the global financial crisis. The 21 leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference pledged Saturday to refrain for a year from raising barriers to international trade. The APEC members also pledged to push for the revival of world trade negotiations that collapsed in July. APEC, which accounts for half the world's trade activity, called for an overhaul of global financial institutions, echoing the Group of 20 summit held recently in Washington. The conference is U.S President George Bush's final summit before leaving office. He said in a speech Saturday the three great forces for economic growth are "free markets, free trade and free people.
OBAMA - TRANSITION: Transition officials for U.S. President-elect Barack Obama say he will
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Geithner, a Treasury official during the Clinton administration, is president of the New York Federal Reserve. U.S. stocks rose sharply Friday after it was widely reported he would likely become treasury secretary. Geithner is one of the top central bank officials who set U.S. interest rate policy and made other decisions aimed at keeping inflation and unemployment in check. Summers, a former Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, will advise Mr. Obama in the White House. He is a former Harvard University president and has also served as the chief economist of the World Bank.
AFGHANISTAN: Afghan President Hamid Karzai says U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and the region. Officials from Mr. Karzai's office say Mr. Obama pledged during a phone call late Saturday to increase U.S. assistance to Afghanistan. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday the United States wants to send at least four extra combat brigades (of between 35-hundred and five thousand soldiers) to Afghanistan by early next year. Afghan officials have said any additional foreign troops pledged to fight the Taliban-led insurgency should be dispatched near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan to block militants from entering the country.
CHINA - TIBET: Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama warned hundreds of Tibetans from around the world today (Sunday) that plans to gain greater autonomy from China could fail if they do not exercise prudence. The Dalai Lama told about 600 delegates gathered in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala that they were right in deciding to follow what is called the "middle way" of seeking greater autonomy for Tibet rather than independence from China. But the Nobel Peace laureate said Tibetans risk failure if they are not careful in their actions and planning in the next 20 years. A six-day meeting of exiled Tibetan community leaders ended Saturday, with the majority of participants in favor of continuing the middle-way approach. However, the deputy parliament speaker for the exiled government said Saturday if China does not respond positively to Tibetan demands for meaningful autonomy, the Tibetans will pursue "complete independence."
THAILAND PROTESTS: Anti-government protesters are massing in the Thai capital of Bangkok today (Sunday) for what they say will be the "final battle" in their push to topple the government. Leaders of the protest group, which calls itself the People's Alliance for Democracy, hope for 100 thousand demonstrators to turn out. The protesters plan to march on Parliament Monday morning to disrupt a scheduled session of lawmakers. Local television showed police manning steel barricades and trucks with water cannons. Police officials say they will try to handle the protest peacefully, but are ready to call in the military if the march gets out of control. The PAD has been camped on the grounds of Government House since August and is demanding that Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resign.
GUINEA BISSAU: Officials in Guinea-Bissau say the situation is "under control" after an overnight attack on the home of President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira. Military and government sources in the West African country say a group of soldiers fired on the president's home in the capital, Bissau, early today (Sunday). Witnesses say a gun battle between attackers and security guards lasted several hours before calm was restored. Officials say at least one person was killed in the fighting, and several others wounded. There has been no official word on the status of Mr. Vieira, though a Portuguese news agency (Lusa) quotes a diplomatic source as saying "the president is fine." Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade says Mr. Vieira called him during the attack. Mr. Wade, who described the attack as a mutiny, says he offered to fly the Guinea-Bissau president out of the country but that Mr. Vieira refused.
KASHMIR ELECTIONS: Thousands of troops patrolled streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir as
voting stations opened for a second phase of state elections in the
region. Today's (Sunday's) voting comes amid heightened tensions
in the region following the police shooting of two Muslim protesters,
including a teenage boy. Muslim separatist leaders have called for a boycott of the polls saying they will strengthen India's hold on the region. Several separatist leaders have been arrested for taking part in anti-election demonstrations.
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Linda Francis, We Can Build You, 2013
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This winter Brooklyn painter and writer Stephen Maine sat down with artist Linda Francis to discuss her involvement in the fields of new music and performance within the greater context of her painting practice. A transcript of their conversation follows.
Stephen Maine: For a while, Linda, you were involved with avant-garde music and performance as well as painting. Can you talk about correspondences between those two disciplines?
Linda Francis: Musicians talk about color, too.
SM: I didn’t know that.
LF: Not color qua color, but COLOR.
LF: Perhaps that’s the term. I’m a little fuzzy on remembering because it’s been a long time.
SM: I’m really not correcting you—
LF: You could! You could. Please do.
SM: I still don’t know what it means.
LF: It means—let’s say when we look at a visual color, it has a kind of hue, overtones and undertones, the same way music does. You look at a red, you kind of see an aura of blue. The thing that it’s next to gives it an aura of something else.
LF: Musicians have the same thing. They’re talking about the suppleness of the tone, the kind of character that comes out of whatever instrument is being played, that gives it color.
LF: I don’t know.
SM: First, there’s the tone, the note itself—which might be analogous to hue.
LF: Yeah yeah.
SM: Then there’s amplitude, or volume.
SM: Then there’s morphology, like a sound that gets big and then trails off—has a shape. Timbre refers to what you’re talking about regarding—
LF: Oh, timbre!
SM: Like, “tim-ber”
LF: Timbre, okay.
SM: The particular kind of voice the instrument has. A middle C on a piano is different from a middle C on a tuba. Does a tuba even hit a middle C?
LF: I don’t know. I really don’t know a lot about instruments.
SM: Oh, great. What are we doing here?
LF: Well, what are you writing about? What it means to artists to—
SM: I’m writing about painters’ relationships to different kinds of avant-garde music.
LF: Well I can just tell you what I think about that, in those terms, really fast. And that is: we use the same formal mechanisms. Exactly the same. As a matter of fact— I’ll describe this one performance I did. Basically, Cage is doing the same thing that we’re doing. We’re manipulating formal relationships. That’s what he’s doing. He was doing it according to chance but in a certain way we do the same.
SM: Okay, but Cage scored everything.
LF: Yeah, but it’s how you score it. Have you ever seen those things? There are many people who scored on graph paper — Oh, Morton Feldman, you know his stuff?
LF: He scored things on graph paper. Not on the usual staff, with the clef or whatever.
SM: I’m trying to make a distinction between music that’s scored in some fashion and music that’s not—meaning improvisational.
LF: The big thing when I was involved in music was improvisation. Feldman is a perfect example of that. And who else—let me think—everybody…
SM: Can you describe how improvisation worked in Feldman? Was a lot left up to the individual instrumentalists?
LF: You would see a paper, and the paper would have instructions on it. Depending on how they annotated that, that’s what the musicians would take off from. I never played anything, but I painted with it.
Anyway, sometimes they would have, you know, whatever kind of scoring they would have, very often it was nothing but an abstract sign, or it was some instruction like “get up and walk around” [laughs] or “get up and sit down” or do this or do that, or nothing… It would be a place where they would start, and it was incumbent on every musician to improvise their position. It was amazing—because everyone had to be so on it, so working in the second. They didn’t have a score in their heads that they were trying to emulate. They really were challenged every minute. And they came from jazz, I think.
SM: This is Feldman you’re describing?
LF: Oh everybody, not just Feldman. All the young people who were writing.
SM: Give me some names?
LF: I worked with a composer named Gregory Reeve. Somebody told me he died. I haven’t seen him since I was 20 so I don’t know. He worked with a lot of people Through him I met Fred Rzewski, I met Phil Corner. He worked with MEV [Musica Elettronica Viva]—did you ever hear of them?
LF: It was an electronic music ensemble. There was the S.E.M. Ensemble — that you must have heard of, right?
LF: They came from Columbia. Malcolm Goldstein, the violinist?
LF: Oh! Fantastic violinist. You really gotta know this guy. I sure he’s still somewhere… [laughs] Terrific improvisational brain.
SM: In this kind of improvisation you’re talking about, what’s the dynamic between or among the various musicians? Is it like a jazz ensemble, where they’re kind of independent from one another, each with their own voice, and each solo fills a certain duration of time?
LF: There’s a form there. It’s not a rigid form, but it’s about saying when you come together, so lets say you can improvise from this point on the score to that point, they would do things like that. They would say, okay, point B, and you would go from point B to, well, to wherever you went. It really taxed an audience, and it taxed the people who would be playing.
Let me describe Red Gongs to you, which is the one I did with Gregory [Reeve]. I don’t where you would find documentation about this. I’ve been very bad about most parts of my life. But you could probably find it somewhere. I don’t know about him, though. I haven’t dealt with him and I don’t know where he is. I think he’s dead.
In any case, he did a piece called Red Gongs that was named after Calder. [Alexander Calder, Red Gongs, painted aluminum and copper, 1950.] Just the idea of pieces passing, pieces having a kind of structure that was very variable, was really important to him and everybody else at the time. Red Gongs was scored. I did it three times with him. Once it was at Hunter, once it was at Town Hall, and once it was at the University of New Hampshire.
SM: And your role was—producer? Stage manager?
LF: No, my role was painter. Okay? It was scored for two percussion sections, an entire orchestra, and “painter.”
SM: Oh weird. That is so weird.
LF: [laughs] So this is what “painter” did: “painter” erected a gigantic—well over 12 by 10 feet—a frame over which I stretched clear plastic. I mic’d the back of it. I used phosphorescent paint. It was tacky as hell, but it really was—it was a thing. This was erected on stage, a proscenium stage. And audience sees the orchestra and the painting. I didn’t obscure many people. So you could see the whole orchestra, or most of it, and the painting was right there.
SM: The audience sees the painting and sees you?
LF: I’m facing the painting and the audience is behind me. I’ve got buckets of paint. Buckets of paint. And giant brushes. And every time I make a stroke they can hear it.
SM: That’s far out.
LF: It was great. The scoring of this particular piece—
SM: What was the sound like?
LF: Of the brush?
LF: Wonderful. It was different depending on what I did. If I was fast, it would actually be a “whoosh.” The slower it went, you’d hear like a drag. I don’t know how to describe that.
SM: So it was percussive, among other things.
LF: Among other things. And it was very loud so that it really kept up with the rest of the orchestra. It didn’t overshadow it. His sound people figured that out. This was my idea to do that, but his sound people figured out how to adjust the tones of it.
SM: Is there is a recording? Or a video?
LF: There might be, I don’t know.
SM: In what year was this?
LF: I don’t know [laughs]. I’m not sure. I’ll look back and see if I can find anything.
SM: Well, were you still living in New York when this happened?
LF: Oh yes. I was always living here. I’m from here. But this had to be the 60s. Where in the 60s? It was when I was in school, and I left school in ’69 so it had to be something like that—middle 60s to late 60s, something like that.
SM: So post-E.A.T., all that Rauschenberg stuff.
LF: Oh yeah. We could probably zero in on it if I go through all my junk. My archives, my boxes of garbage.
SM: Sounds like it could be fun…
LF: Could be moldy. I’ll probably get an allergy attack.
SM: Thinking about correspondences between painting and music—audience, rhythm—I never thought the connection would be this close. That’s amazing to me, to actually mic your paintings for a performance…
LF: Let me tell you about the Town Hall scene! It was during that piece, Red Gongs, but in the lobby, before you get into the auditorium. I don’t know if Town Hall has been changed or not but anyway, there’s a big lobby inside, an internal, you know, lobby — in the lobby —
LF: Yeah, as you come in, after you gave your tickets, you came in and there’d be a big—place to hang out.
LF: Right, Okay? So, then you’d go into the—whatever it was called—
SM: We’ll use “lobby,” that’s good.
LF: But there’s a name for it, I don’t remember.
SM: We could call it an anteroom, we could call it a—
LF: No! Its not that, it’s an actual, formal name, like an intermezzo, an inter— When you’re at an opera, and you go out and have a coffee—it’s the same deal. Except this doesn’t have coffee.
LF: Anyway, it’s that. I put two boxes in that space and they were, I’m not sure how big they were but probably three by three [feet] square. At the time, you’ve got to realize, this was the 60s, we didn’t have florescent things, like we didn’t have things that were far out. It was just the beginning of all those things. I made a box that had a fixture inside it so it glowed. The box was just white plexi. And I invented that! I invented that before it was invented but I never thought it was anything. I just thought, okay, this is a good idea.
SM: So like a translucent white Plexiglas box emanating light?
LF: Right. Then down the way, in this same space, place, was another box the same size with holes in it, in which I had—this is a Neanderthal technique—which I had put a gigantic basin in the bottom with a block of dry ice, and so smoke poured out of the holes [laughs].
SM: it was perforated with a lot of holes?
LF: Yeah, it was just that, what do you call it, that stuff people hang stuff on, with little holes. Masonite with holes.
LF: Painted shiny white, and all this smoke pouring out of it. Very cute. But the point of all this is that all these things—
SM: How close, these two boxes, they were close together?
LF: Not that close. They were far enough apart so that they were just objects that people would mill around, and things would happen.
So the point is the equation of sound with all kinds of light. And space, and particles basically, ether and sound. Now earlier you mentioned the electromagnetic spectrum. The visible spectrum is part of the larger electromagnetic spectrum and you go down some and you get radio waves. Interestingly enough, it’s only limited by our own apparatus. Presumably there are various types of animals that can hear x-rays, that can see x-rays, et cetera. So it’s the same continuum. At one point I made some paintings where I was trying to determine the frequency of the color. So—what kind of tone it would have as a sound. It’s not a science that you can— it’s nothing that you can talk about. You could make these conjectures, but you don’t know.
SM: Your imagination is essentially speculative.
LF: My approach has always been pretty conceptual without thinking of it as conceptual. It’s just thinking things through.
SM: When I think about the correspondences between music and painting, rhythm comes to mind. As you know, Cage was anti-regular-rhythm. He was interested in rhythmic structures but not the regular beat of jazz. He said something very funny, he said that a regular rhythm is convenient and useful when he had to catch a bus, say…
LF: [laughs] So good.
SM: …but that he didn’t associate it with the interesting parts of his life.
LF: He said to me once, I had made a poster for him when I was in school. I didn’t know him but I was conscripted to make this poster. That’s how I met him. And this poster had some sort of strange floating strange shapes, forms that were “formless.” And they happened to be brownish red. That’s all it was, floating strange shapes and the information. And he wanted to meet me because, he said, he looked at this stuff and said, oh she must know that I’m a mycologist—his hobby was finding mushrooms.
SM: He made a little living at it, for a time.
LF: Yeah! So when we met he said did you know I did this, and I said no and he loved that! Because that’s the kind of correspondence that he loved. I didn’t really know him at all. Things that are chance that turn out to be serendipitous, that aren’t chance, in a sense. He really understood intuitively, I don’t think it was an intellectual decision, but I think he intuited that chance has rules and they will happen, and that’s why he did that very famous piece where he threw the I Ching. Some of the last things he did, I remember, were readings at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s and other places. He took a computer and he would feed in some gigantic pieces of literature or poetry by other people—or even the phone book, I think he did one time—and he would feed it in, mix it up, print it out and read it. It would be in line form. He would read it and you could sit there and listen to it and make sense of it.
LF: Not in a linear way, but in an associative way. Very much like how poetry works when it’s good, actually. So it was amazing because the idea is, well, what is knowledge, and how do you know something? What I’m trying to say is that in my way of thinking chaos is exactly that. People talk about chaos—by the way, I have to tell you that I had an exhibition in 1982 in Denmark that was called “The Order of Chaos.” And that was before people were talking about it here. I was always interested in contradictions.
SM: You mean, before the popularization of chaos theory?
LF: Before everybody had computers, actually.
SM: Right. 1982 was what, ten years before personal computers became mainstream.
LF: There were two books about it. One was a paper and one was a book. Anyway, the idea is that “the order of chaos” is a not contradiction. That’s what I’m getting to. Cage really got that. That chaos is orderly. Randomness is orderly.
SM: The one time that I saw Cage perform was with Merce at St. Mark’s. Merce did a solo piece and Cage was upstairs, on the balcony…
LF: I produced that.
SM: The one with the broomstick and the folding chair?
LF: It was a window pole.
SM: A window pole… okay.
LF: We were in the audience.
SM: This blows me away! I can’t believe it!
LF: That was a performance to benefit Danspace.
SM: [laughs] That’s right. This is incredible.
LF: I can’t believe that you actually….
SM: I remember it vividly.
LF: This is great, right? And Merce threw the pages as he danced…
SM: And Cage… played that stick— I mean he played it on the floor, all the way around [the balcony], and then there was a pause, we can’t see him, we know he’s up there…
LF: You want to know how it started?
SM: There was a pause…
LF: Okay, go ahead.
SM: …and then we hear a folding chair, the unmistakable sound of a folding chair scraping the floor boards. It got a big laugh, as I remember.
LF: He loved it.
SM: It was very, very funny.
LF: He loved it. He loved that performance. He loved doing it. But I’ll tell you how that happened, if you want to know.
SM: What year was that? Let’s talk about years, c’mon. Mid-80s, right?
LF: It had to be. I was still living in the city then. I have a photograph of Merce doing some things, in time, so he’s blurred. I remember taking that [photograph]. Anyway, I went to John because by that time I knew him sort of well, and I called him and said you need to do a Danspace benefit, and of course they would love it if Merce would come, would you do it with Merce? He said I don’t know. I said John. He said okay, we’ll do something. I said okay, good—just do something, you know? [laughs] And aside from giving him the date and time to show up I never said another word to him. I can’t remember who was the director of Danspace at the time, but I said you just have to not worry, that’s all, just don’t worry. They’ll show up and whatever they decide to do, I’ll make it happen. She says okay, good. So there’s a period of time and they had to do something.
So [before the performance] John comes in, I’m standing around, Merce is already like standing like this [blank expression]—
SM: Looking up, looking around—
LF: Yeah, looking like he wasn’t there. He always used to do that! He had a sheaf of paper in his hand. They were the pages he danced with. They were instructions to him for something else. I don’t know what. To this day, I don’t know what they were. He told me they were instructions for movement but he never used them.
So he’s standing there looking around and John was there—I think we always got along because the two of us always smiled a lot [laughs]. John is standing there with a grin. I said you ready? He goes, yeah, let’s go up on the balcony. This is like a half hour before the performance. We go up, he looks around and says do you have a pole of some kind? I say yeah, I have a window pole. We go over to one of these giant poles to open the top windows. And they have metal tips. He just lit up. He goes, I want that! So I got someone to get it down.
SM: I love this. Talk about just using what’s at hand.
LF: That’s the point—he would never do anything else. But I think he’d thought about it before, about what the church looked like what the space itself looked like. I said so what’s going to happen? He said I’ll just stay up here during the whole performance. I said perfect. We had a tech person with him, I said just tell him if you need anything else. He said I probably won’t. I said but he’ll be here if you need something. And that was it. Then they announce it, and Merce shows up, I’m going like—please, God! [laughs]… and they start to perform.
…I told you about the mushrooms because I wanted to describe a perception I had because of his talking about mushroom hunting. He told me many times he got really ill, really ill because he would eat something that was poisonous. He would joke about it, but from that I learned about his risk taking. His whole enterprise was risk taking, the whole thing was. When you go that far into randomness and devote yourself to that, you are in the risk zone at all times. And you can go past it, and he really went past it. What could you do more than that—putting your life in harms way? He was one of those who like risks. That’s what I think. He never said that to me, but I felt that from him, that it was important to push as far as he could push.


The Dodgers could not be happier to be getting Cody Bellinger back in the lineup. They’ve managed to keep things moving forward with him and Zach McKinstry on the injured list, but they’re obviously better off with both of them.
Cody has been gone from the team so long that there are some new faces he had to meet when getting to Los Angeles. The Dodgers obviously went out and got Yoshi Tsutsugo and Albert Pujols while he was away, so it was quite the welcoming.
An added benefit for Bellinger is that he also gets a locker right next to Albert. The Dodgers outfielder talked about that and how excited he was to have him here in his first press conference back from the injured list on Saturday.
Yeah, it’s amazing, man. I’ve heard nothing but unbelievable things. And, you know, obviously, I knew it playing against him, but now he’s part of the team, and I’m lucky enough to be locker mates next to him. So I know I’m going to take full advantage of being next to a future Hall of Famer and try to learn from him as much as I can.
Dodgers players and coaches have talked multiple times about the impact of having Albert in the clubhouse. The veteran first baseman can be seen all over the dugout during the game. talking with established veterans and guys brand new to the big leagues.
If Bellinger can even get a little bit of the wisdom and insight that has made Pujols the player that he is, you can bet it’s going to be a great thing. The Dodgers lost their first game back with Bellinger but will look to bounce back and split the series on Sunday.