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It was some gawd-awful hour in the middle of the night and I was nursing my little D-Man for the 3rd time—that's right THIRD TIME—and that's when it hit me, it was time for me to wean him for reals. I'd been threatening to do it for a few weeks before that, but hadn't managed to pull the trigger yet. He'd been teething and refusing solid food, so he was relying on nursing more than usual. But that night, THAT NIGHT I decided that despite his teeth not being all the way in, IT.WAS.TIME.
Extended nursing isn't for everyone. I do not blame a woman one bit if she decides to close up shop after the first bite. Having your boob used as a teething ring, not so fun, I totally understand, I totally get it. Nursing a baby is one thing, but nursing a toddler is a lesson in endurance, patience and pain management.
I want to come clean and admit something: I didn't do the extended nursing thing because I'm some sort of wonder woman, no… I did the extended nursing thing because boobies are the BEST TOOL EVER! They fix boo-boo's, they are sleeping pills, they are anti-depressants…. They are magic. Take that away and I am left with an almost empty bag of tricks! That is why I nursed so long. However, that night I reached the point where I was willing to give up the magic boobies , because they were no longer worth getting beat up over…
On that particular night I had my pony-tail pulled, like he was ringing a dinner bell. "WAKE UP WOMAN, I NEED A SNACK!!" is what I think he was trying to tell me, but since he still doesn't say much, I think he was improvising and the hair pulling got my attention pretty fast. He was in fine form that night. I got kicked in the face several times during his nursing gymnastics; my nursing equipment experienced the painful twists and turns that happen during that sort of circus routine. Though he wanted to nurse, he was being very particular about where my hands were, so my hands kept getting swatted when they touched him. I think they were getting in the way of his wiggling. He so LOVES to wiggle!! He also didn't want to be looked at, so he kept pushing my face away. FINALLY, after much kicking, wiggling, twisting and PAIN… when he fell asleep, I did my usual freeze-in-position-for-the-count-of-twenty and then rolled over and tried to fall back to sleep… but couldn't, because that's when his little sister woke up and it was her turn to nurse.
It was while I was nursing Juniper that I researched online how to wean a toddler… I came up with a game plan and this is how it played out:
Night one: LEMON
I started the night out as normal. He nursed to sleep on my lap downstairs and Scott later carried him up to bed. I was tired and didn't feel like dealing with the weaning thing, so like I said, it was business as usual. He woke up and nursed once, twice… and it was during the third time that half way through, I said with determination, "I'M GETTING A LEMON!!!" So I went downstairs and squeezed lemon over my nursing bits and headed back upstairs to my little D-Man. He went to nurse, pulled back and made the I-just-tasted-a-lemon-face, tried it again, pulled back and made another face and then…. he rolled over and went to sleep!!!
Night two: LEMON
I lemoned up and it was pretty much a repeat of the first night and he went to sleep, sans nursing.
Night three: LEMON
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me…"
He latched on, but what… WHAT?!? He DID NOT STOP NURSING!! Noooo, he nursed, he only pulled away to spit out a bit of lemon pulp, but other than that, it was nursing as usual… apparently he somehow built up immunity to the taste of lemon!
Night four: BANDAID
20 years ago I was in a similar situation, trying to wean a persistent nurser. The magic tool I used to dissuade her from nursing?? Bandaging up and telling her they were broken. Sooo, I decided to give that another try and found the biggest bandaids we had in the house, bandaged up and when it came time to go to sleep, I informed him that mommy's boobies were broken. He didn't believe me, so I let him see for himself. After giving them a once over, he opted for cuddle time instead.
We are two nights in and so far we have had two nurse free nights… Tonight will be a biggy, will we make it three nights in a row?? I sure hope so. Juniper is a GREAT sleeper and if we can just get Dublin to sleep on his own, I might have some solid night sleeps in my near future!! YAY!!!!
If we tackle the weaning, what's next on the agenda?? Adventures in solo-sleeping… coming soon! 😉


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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's government called an emergency meeting late Sunday to discuss violent protests that showed no sign of abating, after demonstrators angry about austerity measures hurled stones and firebombs at the police here in the capital. At least 13 people were injured.
More than 1,000 protesters clashed with police officers, who used tear gas and flares to repel demonstrators who blocked a main road in Bucharest. One man was briefly set on fire during the chaos.
The interior minister, Traian Igas, called an emergency meeting to deal with the crisis.
The protests, in their fourth day, were the most serious since President Traian Basescu came to power in 2004. They are the result of frustration over public-sector wage cuts, reduced benefits, higher taxes, cronyism in state institutions and widespread corruption.
Demonstrators yelled, "The Mafioso government stole everything we had!" and "Get out, you miserable dog!" — a popular expression of contempt used to refer to Mr. Basescu. Protesters roamed through the center of the capital, and Mayor Sorin Oprescu called on them to refrain from acts of violence.
Antena 3 TV reported that shops in the vicinity of the protest had been vandalized.
"We are here to protest, we cannot face it any more, we have no money to survive, our pensions are so small, the expenses are more than we can afford," said a demonstrator who would identify himself only as Sorin. "It's no way to live."Continue reading the main story
Thirteen people needed medical treatment, said Bogdan Oprita, who is in charge of emergency services in Bucharest.
The protests began Thursday in support of a health official who resigned because he opposed government health care changes. Mr. Basescu withdrew the health care bill on Friday, but the protests continued.
Anger has been directed mainly against the once-popular Romanian president. Mr. Basescu, 60, vowed to be a hands-on president when he came to power in 2004. He regularly gave interviews in supermarkets, was filmed dancing with his wife in restaurants and enjoyed a reputation as a man of the people.
Mr. Basescu, a former ship captain who is staunchly pro-American, has always relished a political fight. He was suspended by Parliament in 2007, but reinstated after a national referendum. In the 2009 presidential runoff, he narrowly defeated Mircea Geoana, a former foreign minister.
On Sunday, hundreds of people of all ages noisily protested in Bucharest's University Square, a day after demonstrators clashed with the police there. "Down with Basescu!" they shouted, and called for early elections.
Hundreds rallied in the cities of Iasi, Cluj-Napoca, Deva and Galati. On Saturday, more than 3,000 protested in cities outside Bucharest, the police said.
Prime Minister Emil Boc said the government, together with coalition partners, would draw up a new health care bill on Monday, consulting with politicians and civil groups. Mr. Boc spoke after visiting a police officer who was hospitalized after he was hit in the head with a stone in Saturday's protest.
"The solution is dialogue, not throwing bricks left and right, which can endanger lives," Mr. Boc said.Continue reading the main story

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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
"In the mountains where Henry David Thoreau preached civil disobedience," the news story began, "some stiffnecked tax resisters are locked in a battle of will with U.S. authorities over an isolated house." In protest against U.S. military interventions around the world, Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner waged "a battle" by refusing to pay federal income taxes over a number of years. Going Thoreau one better, they gave the tax money to victims of war, homelessness, and injustice.
Subsequently, supporters in the Western Massachusetts village of Colrain risked arrest by occupying the 91-year-old house after Kehler was carried away to jail; in doing so, they joined an estimated 10,000 people throughout the U.S. who resist federal taxes that pay for war and nuclear armaments. Some knowingly, others unknowingly, perhaps, followed the "good ole American" precedent set by Thoreau and others 150 years before.
In 1846, Thoreau was provoked to active resistance by U.S. intervention in Mexico, in this country's first major imperialist war; Kehler and Comer were provoked by U.S. interventions in El Salvador, Panama — those successive, relentless imperial sorties during the 1980s, as they were provoked earlier by Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Nicaragua. Kehler, forty-seven years old at the time of his arrest in December 1991, had spent 22 months in federal prison for draft resistance during the decade-long war in Southeast Asia.
Although Henry David Thoreau regarded himself as a mystic and natural philosopher, he has probably pushed more people into action than have most so-called revolutionaries. Born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts, Thoreau ventured from his native city only occasionally, but — like his contemporary Emily Dickinson of Amherst — learned more from his relatively circumscribed life than most people learn by traveling the world. His approach to mining nature's secrets during two year's residence at Walden Pond, then along the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, to Maine and Cape Cod remains as valid today as it was in the mid-19th century. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately," he wrote in Walden, "to front only the essential facts of life...
I wanted to live deep and to suck out all the marrow of life ... to drive life into a comer, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
Prior to his two years at Walden Pond in the 1840s, Thoreau had grown up in Concord, graduated from nearby Harvard College, then returned to live with his family and to teach school in Concord, where he was a close associate of Emerson and other members of the Transcendental Club, and wrote for The Dial magazine. After the sojourn at Walden Pond, he stayed in Concord, writing and making occasional trips to Maine, Cape Cod, and New York (where he met Walt Whitman), and—in the early 1860s — to the Great Lakes and along the Mississippi River. He died in 1862, at 45, of tuberculosis.
One can hardly overemphasize the timeliness of Thoreau's writings at present, as well as in the 19th and 20th centuries. For citizens, he provides a vigorous, authoritative, and inspiring rationale for resisting a repressive, war-making State. His work often led persons very different from Thoreau in temperament and background "to construct peace." Over the two centuries, that influence has been acknowledged by nonviolent activists and theorists from Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Philip Berrigan, by Danes resisting Nazism in the 1940s, and Chinese students waging a pro-democracy movement in 1989. Reflecting on his night in jail, initially in a lecture, then in the published essay, "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau advocated an adamant stand against paying taxes that "enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood." He was angered particularly by his fellow abolitionists, perhaps including Emerson, for their failure to take a more militant stand against slavery. Emerson's uneasiness with Thoreau is evident in several journal entries at the time, as well as in their (probably apocryphal) exchange at the Concord jail: Emerson: "Henry, what are you doing in there?" Thoreau: "Waldo, what are you doing out there?"
Thoreau spoke not as a lawyer or politician, but as a moralist, because, as he said in Walden, "Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only instrument that never fails." He understood that those most responsible for an evil — at that time, slavery — succeed not because of their behavior, but because others who recognize the evil do nothing to stop it. "Practically speaking, the opponents of a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South," he said, "but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity."
In "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau also challenged passive citizens who think they can have a better society merely by wishing for it. "Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it," he argued. "It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail." Writing in his journal soon after his night in jail Thoreau said of tepid citizens, "Better are the physically dead for they more lively rot."
Rereading "Civil Disobedience," one imagines what he might say about the politics of greed and the accompanying collapse of his country's infrastructure since the Iraq war. The fact that contemporary writers of Thoreau's stature seldom attend to today's civil disobedients as closely as he did to those of his own time speaks also of America's decline.
One can hardly take up "Civil Disobedience" without the blood stirring, without being drawn into the central issues of Thoreau's era and our own — issues that touch on the nature of government, community, individual rights, but also of language, discourse, writing, argument, rhetoric. It is such an extraordinarily rich document — vigorous, concrete, passionate, witty, philosophical, even as it provokes more questions about governance, perhaps, than it answers.
Historically, Thoreau's statement belongs to a tradition that dates from at least the 17th century and touches on arguments and cases that involved the Quakers particularly, over three centuries, in England and America. He also profited from and built upon many statements similar to his own in the years associated with the abolitionist struggle and protests against the Mexican War, by Emerson, Bronson Alcott and the transcendentalists, and by William Lloyd Garrison and Adin Ballou. It is no accident that, in resisting imperial wars and policies since the Second World War, activists inevitably re-work some of the ground plowed by Thoreau 150 years before.
For centuries, men and women committed to nonviolence have tried to figure out ways not only to resist a system that upheld slavery and oppression, but also to prevent their country from imitating European imperialists in conducting their affairs. Although not the first such effort (David R. Weber, in Civil Disobedience in America: A Documentary History, includes several essays written prior to Thoreau's), "Civil Disobedience" brought together the arguments proposed by others in an eloquent and economical way; it remains, along with the Declaration of Independence and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," one of the most influential documents in the tradition. Even if Thoreau was not a pacifist, his stance before the State was more revolutionary than those of most recent nonviolent activists, and his argument and statement are central to anyone committed to bringing about social change.
Just how far Thoreau would go to resist government is dramatized by his "A Plea for Captain John Brown," written a decade after "Civil Disobedience." Reflecting the intellectual and moral vigor of the 1850s, when Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman published other American masterpieces, the essay took a position shared by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and others who came to regard the Civil War as a holy war against slavery.
In his visits to Worcester, a hotbed of abolitionism twenty miles southwest of Concord, for example, Thoreau spoke to a sympathetic audience. Thoreau's admirers there included Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Elihu Burritt, Abigail Kelley and Stephen Symonds Foster, and other militants. Some Worcesterites, as with Bostonians and Concordians, probably found Thoreau's "A Plea for Captain John Brown," about the militant abolitionist's raid at Harper's Ferry, too radical for their taste. But characteristically, Thoreau felt compelled "to correct the tone and statements" of editors and politicians regarding Brown's character and actions. In his address, Thoreau told his audience at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, "It costs us nothing to be just."
Hardly a disciple of nonviolence, Thoreau nonetheless belongs to an American tradition of justice-seekers that includes John Woolman, Jane Addams, Dorothy Day, Ammon Hennacy, and David Dellinger. And since about 1960, civil disobedients — draft resisters, the Catonsville Nine, members of Clamshell Alliance and Plowshares — have regarded Thoreau as their inspiration and guide. By their commitment to civil disobedience, in resisting injustice and war, they keep Thoreau's memory alive.
Modern scholars, including Walter Harding and Richard Lebeaux, have done their part as well, in enabling us to see the life and thought of the great moralist in context. It remains for the rest of us to see that Thoreau's words and example inform our efforts to alter the priorities of our society and government to reflect his moral and ethical concerns. We do so by resisting unjust laws and practices, as he did, and by "building a new society in the shell of the old," as the Wobblies and Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, recommended. Individual resisters who live Thoreau's principles make a difference, if only "as a majority of one," as Thoreau once said.
Slavery in Massachusetts - July 4, 1854 speech in Framingham, Massachusetts
Selected quotes by Henry David Thoreau
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Episode 11: Starting Out in YM w/ Phil Baus
Episode 11: Starting Out in YM w/ Phil Baus
"Welcome to the I'm a YM podcast, a podcast by youth ministers, for youth ministers"
I'm A YM Podcast is proud to be part of the AIM Network of podcasts. Find out more at adventuresinministry.com.
If you hadn't become a YM, what would you be?
Tell us about the process of graduating from college and looking for a YM job…
What did you learn through that process?
What would you do different if you had to do it over again?
If you had known what you know now, what questions would you have asked elders/preachers during the interview process?
What have you learned in your first year of YM that they didn't teach you in college?
What advice would you give to guys who are finishing their degree and are looking for a church to work with?
Mention Phil's resource that we will be releasing with the podcast episode - "Kingdom" 3 week teaching series
Click to download "Kingdom" teaching series
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Our next episode will be on WEDNESDAY, JULY 29th, Live from SEC!!
You can find previous episodes at adventuresinministry.com/ympodcast or in iTunes.
You are doing a great work in youth ministry.


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Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a speech recognition program that lets users dictate into any Windows application, allowing you to access documents, write e-mails, and even update Facebook using only your voice. This new edition covers all the newest updates to Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 11, including usability enhancements, the user interface, the digital voice recorder, time-saving voice commands, and much more.
Aimed at new and inexperienced users who want to get up to date on all that Dragon NaturallySpeaking is capable of, this beginner guide also explains how Dragon NaturallySpeaking can be used in mobile application development to add voice-recognition and productivity tools to your app.
Arm yourself with a copy of this helpful guide and be prepared to breathe fire!


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116 Angler Drive is a $12,600 property on a 0.70 acre lot located in Laurens, SC.
Ready to build your dream home? Come and check out this beautiful neighborhood on Lake Rabon near Hickory Tavern. Water access, Club House, Gated Boat Dock and Ramp. Public water available, septic needed. All photos may not be of this lot only.
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My favourite meal of the day is breakfast, and my favourite breakfast if oatmeal. I could eat oatmeal every day and not tire of it. I've been known to have it for breakfast and for a bedtime snack. However, my children are not quite as enthusiastic as I am about oatmeal. So every once in a while we take a break from oatmeal (sigh) and do something different. I thought it would be fun to do a series featuring all different kinds of breakfast foods. If nothing else, my children will have some variety in their breakfasts for a while as we try out other kinds of breakfast meals.
You could also check out my Pinterest board "Food – Breakfast" for more ideas on what to make for breakfast including some you can make the night before or put in the freezer for busy mornings.
What's your favourite breakfast?
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In May, ABCNews.com reported that Democrats were unhappy that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put his family into state tourism ads begging people to come back to beaches on the New Jersey shore. "That Gov. Christie would allow $25 million in federally-funded ads to feature him in the middle of an election year is both supremely arrogant and wildly inappropriate," his opponent Barbara Buono said. Chris Matthews barely mentioned Buono this year, mostly to note she was getting creamed in the polls.
On Thursday night's "Hardball," MSNBC host Chris Matthews was livid that Sen. Rand Paul would second that critique, that it's unseemly for the governor to put himself in tourism ads in an election year. "Pissant" was the word Matthews used -- twice:
MATTHEWS: Here's some real pissant -- I want to say something about Rand Paul. He's getting smaller by the minute. Here`s Senator Rand Paul. He had some strong words, negative words for Governor Christie yesterday because Christie appeared on several TV ads to boost the New Jersey economy after Hurricane Sandy. The ads were funded with the federal disaster and state money they got from the federal money for the state. But let`s watch this -- watch this -- just watch Rand Paul going at him here. Let's watch.
SEN. RAND PAUL (clip from Senate hearing): Some of these ads -- people running for office put their mug all over these ads while they`re in the middle of a political campaign. In New Jersey, $25 million was spent on ads that included somebody running for political office. You think there might be a conflict of interest there. You know, that`s a real problem. And that's why when people who are trying to do good and trying to use taxpayers' money wisely, they`re offended to see our money spent on political ads. You know, that`s just offensive.
MATTHEWS: It's -- I think that comment by Rand Paul makes him smaller. It's a pissant comment. The guy just won a 60 percent election victory in a state that`s very hard for their party, if he is a Republican, Rand Paul, to win. Instead of going after that, he goes after the ad campaign.
And the other guy going -- Cruz was doing the same thing, saying he didn't battle for principle because he allowed the state of New Jersey, which has a lot of poor people and working poor people in it, to get Medicaid. I just don't see -- the lack of chivalry -- or what's the right word -- magnanimity, Michael, is amazing -- Michael Steele, is amazingly missing here.
What's amazing here is that Matthews thinks he can be America's arbiter of who is chivalrous and magnanimous -- as he trashes politicians as "pissants."
This ad does engage a libertarian, who might ask: Why are taxpayers in Idaho forced to fund tourism ads for New Jersey to enrich TV stations in New York and Philadelphia? Is this really the federal government's responsibility?


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Rob is obsessed with dirt. That is, perhaps, an oversimplification, but it gets pretty close to the truth. For years and years he thought of himself as a mountain biker, both as a racer and a committed adventure rider. Then his riding migrated to the road, but any chance he had to spin out onto a trail, even on skinny tires, he took. The dirt has always called, and his obsession has been a blessing to all of us here at Seven.
If you're looking for a good all-dirt or mixed-terrain route to ride, Rob has it. Rob can show you trails, in your own neighborhood, that you've never seen before. We call this style of riding, on-road/off-road/trail, "evergreening," and none of us was really surprised when Rob started Overland Basecamp to spread the gospel of dirt far and wide.
OB recently ran the Maneha 250, a two-day, 250 mile ramble through some of the best mixed-terrain in New England. The pictures tell the story:
Riders took a couple of different approaches to the challenge. Some rode self-supported, packing all their food, clothing and camping supplies. Others took more advantage of the organization Overland Basecamp provided.
This unofficial pit stop belies the quality of the food served throughout the event, which was catered by Mayfair Farm in Harrisville, NH. They also hosted the campsite and provided the stunning evening view…for those who got in early enough to see it.
Here, our very own Matt O. rolls through an abandoned narrow-gauge rail bed with Brad on his wheel. They both rode unsupported.
One of the most charming (and unavoidable) features of our New England topography is the endless, punchy, rolling hills. The Maneha 250 has a climbing profile like a heart patient's EKG.Sunrise breakfast and strategy session at the campsite, a pretty great way to start day two.
More Sevens rolling by this abandoned freight, go ahead and ask Rob how he found this spot, likely riding around in the woods in the dark.
Read more about it on the Overland Basecamp site.


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How Columbia, SC became a national leader on gun control
The following editorial first appeared in The Charlotte Observer.
Five months later, we still don't know why Stephen Paddock rented a room in a Las Vegas high-rise and decided to commit one of the deadliest shootings in U.S. history, killing 58 and injuring more than 500.
Despite the carnage and initial chatter among members of Congress – and even the National Rifle Association – about finally taking concrete steps to lessen the chances such an event could be repeated, the federal government has again proven itself incapable of taking the issue seriously. Fortunately, several states and cities have begun trying to make up for Congress's derelict of duty.
After the shooting, Columbia, S.C. became the first city to officially ban devices called bump stocks, which allowed Paddock to turn semi-automatic weapons into ones that could fire more rapidly and consistently. Cities such as Denver have followed suit. More than a dozen states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut have or are considering doing the same. It's a small measure, and in some ways symbolic, given that we don't how many people have bump stocks.
It won't prevent every mass shooting. It won't stop every person determined to cause as much harm as possible. Guns, semi-automatic or bump stock-enhanced, are not the only way to commit massacres and unleash havoc and terror. So even if our leaders in Washington reverse course and get busy on bipartisan legislation banning bump stocks, no one should declare victory over the scourge of gun violence that is the worst in the developed world. Only diligent, painstaking law enforcement work, along with a strong partnership with the community, can root out the most dangerous among us before they can cause too much damage.
But the decision to act in the face of inaction from Washington by a growing number of cities and states is welcome nonetheless. It's not as effective as more comprehensive background checks, better mental health care, stricter training requirements, or any number of other measures. Still, it puts down a marker, makes a declaration that there are ways to cobble together the political will to begin tackling gun violence, even if it is one painstakingly slow step at a time.
We've so lost our way on this issue. Mass shootings and everyday shootings, no matter if they are in churches or schools, at country music concerts, or inside nightclubs, generate a few mostly localized headlines before quickly fading from public awareness. According to the Gun Violence Archive, more than 800 people were shot and killed in less than a month after the Las Vegas shooting even as Congress refused to act. So far this year, more than 5,300 people have been shot, nearly 1,500 of whom died, including 60 children. Charlotte in 2017 saw its most homicides in a dozen years, and a gun was involved in three-quarters of them.
That list will only grow. At some point, we must muster the courage to do something about it. Banning bump stocks should be only the beginning.


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Waltham, MA – July 23, 2012 – EuroSite Power Inc. (OTCQB:EUSP), an On-Site Utility offering clean electricity, heat, hot water and cooling solutions to hospitality, healthcare, housing and leisure centers in the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe, today announced that its common stock will begin to trade on the OTCQB market under the ticker symbol "EUSP" on Wednesday, July 25, 2012. The OTCQB is a market tier for over-the-counter-traded companies that are registered and reporting with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Investors can find real-time quotes and market information for the Company at www.otcmarkets.com.
EuroSite Power has 54,362,100 shares issued and outstanding and is currently an 82.8% subsidiary of American DG Energy Inc. (NYSE MKT: ADGE).
EuroSite Power's business is to install, own, operate and maintain complete cogeneration systemsand other efficient energy systems at customer sites. Under its On-Site Utility energy business, the Company sells to its customers the electricity, hot water, heat and cooling energy produced from its energy systems.
EuroSite Power sells the energy produced from an onsite energy system to an individual property as an alternative to the outright sale of energy equipment. On-Site Utility customers only pay for the energy produced by the system and receive a guaranteed discount rate on the price of the energy. All system capital, installation, operating expenses and support are paid by EuroSite Power.
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And it is quite appropriate that we welcome Carolyn today because she is one of the best mothers I know. She and her husband have done a great job of raising a special young man, Nicholas, and she is an inspiration to anyone that knows her.
I have always said that I would have taken 20 kids but God didn't give me any. That's just the way it worked out and I'm okay with it, but it took a long time to get the peace I have today.
It helps that I have 34 nephews, nieces and great-nephews & nieces. Yes, 34. Not kidding. LOL.
I know a lot of great moms and wish all mothers the Happiest of Mother's Days today.
In addition to Carolyn, I want to give a special shout-out to my niece Charlene, my cousin Gloria and my friend Leslie. These are just a few of the really terrific moms I know and I stand in awe of them every single day.
Another special shout out to my sister Sheree. When she lost her husband to a drunk driver, she was left to raise 6 children on her own. She and Paul had three children of their own and had been blessed to adopt three other wonderful children. In addition to those 6, my sister also has 2 other children she took in, and we are blessed to call them family as well. Brandy is now grown and has lovely twins of her own, and Maigen graduates from high school this month. Woohoo! :)
Another amazing fact about my sister is that she is a teacher. How does one raise 8 kids, dote on 8 grandchildren, teach, AND keep their sanity? I don't know. You'd have to ask her. While you're at it, ask her how she manages to stay so pretty and youthful. This picture was taken last June at her daughter's wedding. The picture that follows is her 5 beautiful daughters (my nieces).
|Tiffany, Maigen, Elisabeth, Meghan, Brandy
Here's a picture of Alyssia sleeping. She couldn't decide whether to color or change her baby's diaper. Looks like sand man won the toss. :)
And here's a picture of Meghan sweeping. The apartments wouldn't clean my stoop but my niece did. Sweet thing!
She's a junior and getting ready to take her college-entry exams. I'm so proud of her and all her siblings. Sheree, you done did good girlfriend. I know it hasn't been easy.
So, I'm sending love and gratitude to all mother's today that love and nurture their children. For those who may be in pain because you don't have children, hang in there. It gets better. I promise. And if all else fails, maybe God will give you 34 nephews and nieces to love!


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The Pro Hood Vignette Set from Lee allows 4.5" vignettes to be mounted on Lee Standard Lens Hoods (Lee #LH, #LH2S, #LH-S). It comes with a pair of 2mm thick slots and mounting hardware. This kit includes only the slots that allow vignettes to be mounted on the front of the Lee's Lens Hoods (sold separately).
Optional vignettes can be used to add shadows, masks and effects to your photos and will open a whole new area of photographic possibilities once you have mastered the basic principles that affect their performance.


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Sussex welcomes funding award for regional growth and jobs
An enterprise partnership involving the University of Sussex has won major Government funding to help boost growth and jobs in the region.
Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership, one of 39 partnerships set up across the UK by Government to determine regional economic priorities and to drive growth and job creation, was named by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as one of the successful bidders in the fourth round of bids for Regional Growth Fund awards.
The funding will generally support a programme of job creation in areas currently dependant on the public sector and provide grants for businesses that have developed new ideas, products, services and intellectual property to the point where they are ready to exploit market opportunities and create jobs.
The University of Sussex and its Sussex Innovation Centre (SinC) are members of the successful consortium, which includes other universities in the region, businesses and local authorities.
The Sussex Innovation Centre provides business incubator support for new technology entrepreneurs and works directly with University of Sussex academics to commercialise research.
Mike Herd, Executive Director of the Sussex Innovation Centre, welcomed the announcement, saying: "The RGF project will help create stronger, more ambitious technology start-ups with real growth potential. The bid pulls together the academic research and teaching strengths of the Universities of Sussex, Brighton and Chichester with the business support expertise of the Sussex Innovation Centre and Wired Sussex – backing proven partners to deliver economic growth."
The University and the Sussex Innovation Centre will, specifically, offer specialist support for new innovations, introduce new technical and management graduates to new businesses and offer possible investment in research and development of new product ideas.
Professor Michael Davies, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Sussex, says: "The RGF project ties in well with the University's strategic plans to contribute even more to the local economy and for the Innovation Centre to support a larger portfolio of innovative businesses."
Businesses that apply for and are awarded funding will be supported by the programme's Growth Accelerator service and specialists from and the University of Sussex and the Sussex Innovation Centre, along with the universities of Brighton and Chichester. Other partners include Wired Sussex, Brighton and Hove City Council, West Sussex County Council, Brighton and Hove Economic Partnership, Marine South East and Oxford Innovation.
The programme will also help small firms make the most of the highly-qualified workforce who live in the area by providing routes into jobs via a new placement scheme.
Ron Crank, Chief Executive of Coast to Capital says: "This is exciting news for our region as it is the first time we have ever received RGF funding. This will enable us to back those businesses that are investing in innovation and environmental technologies. It's a real boost for growth and jobs - a vote of confidence in our region's businesses."
John Peel, Chairman of Coast to Capital, says: "It's testament to the power of collaboration. It was a real team effort and that is a large part of what Coast to Capital is about – bringing people and organisations together to generate growth."
Notes for Editors
Full details of how to apply for funding will be made available in due course. Visit the Coast to Capital web site for more information.
The Sussex Innovation Centre supports entrepreneurs, start-ups, growing companies and corporate innovators offering flexible, professional office space and a comprehensive range of in-house support services designed to assist during the vital early years of operation.
The Centre was conceived as the flagship development of the 'Sussex Academic Corridor' (SAC), a unique collaboration between public, academic and business sectors. Now wholly owned by the University of Sussex, the Centre continues to be committed to harnessing the economic potential of the extensive education and research resources available in the Sussex area.
University of Sussex Press office contacts: Maggie Clune and Jacqui Bealing. Tel: 01273 678 888. Email: email@example.com
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Local Arts
A murdered singer and a strike in Gastonia: This true story led to 'Last Ballad'
Five years ago, novelist Wiley Cash sent 25,000 words of what would become his third novel, "The Last Ballad," to his editor at William Morrow. On the basis of those words, the editor bought the book. But in an early morning telephone interview, Cash tells me not one of those words appears in the finished version.
The New York Times bestselling novelist ("A Land More Kind than Home," "This Dark Road to Mercy"), who grew up in Gastonia, says he wrote draft after draft, year after year, until the presidential election of 2016, when things began to crystallize for him. He saw how today's events are a mirror-sharp reflection of those between the haves and have-nots of the mill society of the South in the 1920s and '30s.
Cash, 40, says that "The Last Ballad," a fictionalized version of the 1929 Loray Mill Strike, during which ballad singer Ella May Wiggins was murdered, is the best book he'll ever write.
"I've never worked so hard," he says. He used as his models those who write history with a contemporary feel and who evoke human emotion – North Carolina's own Charles Frazier and Ron Rash, as well as Alice McDermott and Cash's mentor Ernest Gaines.
Cash, writer-in-residence at his alma mater, UNC-Asheville, says everything he knows about the art of writing, about American history and about Southern culture are all rolled into this book.
Q. How long had the idea for a novel about Ella May Wiggins, whom the North Carolina Encyclopedia refers to as the state's most famous folk heroine, been cooking?
A. It first started cooking in 2003 when I was in graduate school in Louisiana. I had never heard of the Loray Mill Strike. I asked my parents about it, and they'd never heard of it either. My mom was born in Gastonia in a mill village in 1945, and my dad in 1943, in a mill village in Shelby, and my mom's maiden name is Wiggins. All my family came from mill people. My mom's dad, Harry Eugene Wiggins, was living in Enoree (S.C.) in 1929 when Ella May was murdered. He would've known about it. But I never heard the word Loray. This story was buried. Nobody talked about it.
Q. I understand you listened to a lot of old music as part of your research.
A. Yes. One of my buddies is the lead in a Nashville band called Old Crow Medicine Show, and he turned me on to an album of music called "Gastonia Gallop." I bought the CD, and I listened to music written in the 1920s and 1930s that I knew nothing about. Those kinds of moments speak to you. That's blood memory, and blood memory turns you toward things deep in your past – a certain kind of landscape or a certain kind of music or a particular take on the world.
The more I researched the strike of 1929, the more I understood. So this is why my grandmother said the things she said. Why she harbored the suspicions she harbored. This is why this economic anxiety speaks to me. Why I feel it. I recognize the things these people are singing about.
Q. You really brought that era to life. What was your secret?
A. I tried to resurrect the cultural moments of 1929. What people were wearing, their homes, the weather, what people talked about, the economic anxieties – not so much the facts of the strike – the experience of what it felt like.
Q. I really got a sense of the despair of the time through your character Albert Roach, a police officer who feels there's no meaning in his life, who hates blacks, who doesn't feel strong unless he's carrying a pistol.
A. Albert Roach would've been carrying a torch in Charlottesville. He never had a chance to be a hero, and he felt like his hold on his own life was being challenged by a society in flux. Much the same way those young white men in Charlottesville feel after our country's first black president. When you (white males) have been in charge of things that long, and when you see that power begin to be shared, oftentimes your first response is to do violence. That's what we saw in Charlottesville.
Q. And there's Verchel Park, a former textile worker, hurt on the job, who looked forward to just one thing each day – a cigarette on the porch in the cool of the evening. How sad. He seemed so defeated.
A. This is 1916 and everything their fathers and grandfathers led them to believe about the strength of men and the righteousness of war is being challenged. The South has lost the war, women are soon to get the right to vote and are economically mobile unlike ever before. So men like Verchel and Albert are feeling persecuted. Verchel is more passive, Albert more confrontational. But both are weak men.
Q. You once tried to find Ella May's house in Stumptown outside Bessemer City.
A. I found an older couple sitting on a porch, and I asked about Ella May and said that I knew she lived near water, that there was fresh water across the road from her, and that she had worked at American Mill No. 2. And the man said, "My dad worked there." This man lived to be over 100 so he would've worked with Ella. He would've known her. And he had just died in the last couple of years. And we think that history is over. But it's not. These things are still around.
Q. While you were writing the novel, you said you didn't contact Ella May's relatives, but you have since. Why did you wait?
A. I didn't want to contact the family for fear of being beholden to them in any way. In truth, Ella was tough, and she was part of a society that if Charlie (her live-in boyfriend) had hit her, she'd hit him. I didn't want the family to tell me she deserves some softness. I didn't want the family to say we remember her fondly. There is very little real information known about her.
Q. What role did Ella May's ballads – both her written words and her singing – play in her incredible ability to unite workers in their effort to strike?
A. She grew up in Appalachia singing ballads in lumber camps. When she came to the mills she kept the melodies and changed the words. We're talking about a culture where not everyone could read. This kind of storytelling performance is charismatic. To a certain degree, the strike organizers knew that music was going to be the one thing to unify lives of poverty and desperation.
Q. And she had strengths in addition to her music. That ability to draw blacks and whites together and to inspire loyalty.
A. Ella's was the only white family in Stumptown. Everyone she relied on was black. She gave them food. They gave her food. Communal living was the only way to survive. She knew the real dividing line was not race. It was class. She was savvy and aware, and she paid attention.
Q. How did Gastonia, once dubbed "the city of spindles," happen to become the leading textile county in the South?
A. It was because of all the available water. The West Branch of the Catawba River branches off into Gastonia. All this water meant you could make whiskey. The land wasn't great to grow cotton. But the water made it great to spin cotton. And then once the mills were there in the late 19th century, they brought workers.
Q. What made you want to be a writer? And how much of your incredible success at such an early age is a result of talent and how much of hard work?
A. I would say I work harder than I am talented. What made me want me be a writer was growing up around story tellers. I was reading at a young age and using books to escape the monotony of life. I wanted to put words on a page and I wanted to be a basketball player. I wanted to be good at these two things. When I got to UNC-Asheville, I realized I was better at writing than at basketball. But I didn't know the degree of determination and sacrifice it took to get good at writing.
Everything I know about the art and craft of writing is in "The Last Ballad." I'm in the dance club, and the floor clears and this novel is my individual get-down dance. This is everything I've got. It's all there.
Hear/meet Wiley Cash
7 p.m. Oct. 3 at UNC Asheville: Onstage discussion by Cash and novelist Charles Frazier ("Cold Mountain"), with music by Shannon Whitworth and book signing. Lipinsky Auditorium. Free. 7 p.m.
6:30 p.m. Oct. 5 at Kessell History Center, Gastonia: Cash will read, talk about his research and sign books. The event will also honor Lucy Penegar, a champion of the Loray Mill and advocate for historic preservation. Free. Limited seating; RSVP to Amanda Hollander at firstname.lastname@example.com.
2 p.m. Oct. 8 at Park Road Books in Charlotte. Cash will read and sign books. Free.
6 p.m. Nov. 2 at Verse & Vino in Charlotte Convention Center. Cash will be one of five New York Times bestselling authors presenting at this Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation event. Tickets $125; 704-416-0602.


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When: Burning Stars Fade –20/05/2014
Like/Love: LOVE
Pretend We're Stars is the debut single from Minneapolis' Astronomique. The four piece perform a mix of dark, broody disco or "space wave" music that digs to the deepest darkest parts of their instruments and finds the best grooves to deliver to our unsuspecting hips.
The debut single is an atmospheric experience with out-of-this-world sounds constantly played in the background alongside some airy synths that perform some insanely catchy beats, while the female vocals also sound airy and also provide a couple extra hooks to sink into the eardrums. Pretend We're Stars is a very catchy song and one that definitely gets me excited to check out Astronomique's debut EP Burning Stars Fade.


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Social networking platforms aren't just for catching up with friends anymore. They are also the perfect venue for advertising your law firm and bringing in more cases! Social advertising has gained significant traction on sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and for good reason. These are the places where potential clients are already spending a good portion of their time. According to the Pew Research Center, 65% of U.S. adults were using social media sites in 2015, up from a mere 7% in 2005.
A major benefit to social advertising is that you can target the exact audience that fits your law firm. You can even use retargeting strategies to show ads to users who have already visited your website, or similar audiences. You should keep your target audience in mind when creating the design and content of your social media ads. The more personalized your ads are, the more likely they will be to result in clicks and conversions. Ultimately, you'll want to create social media ads that your audience finds interesting enough to engage with and share.
Setting Goals & Creating the Right Strategy
Before you get started with your first social advertising campaign, you need to develop a clear strategy. Figure out what your goals are for your ads, what type of audience you are trying to reach, which social media platforms are best for your law firm, and what types of content your potential clients are most likely to engage with.
To give you a better picture of what goal planning looks like, here are a few goals you can select for a social media ad campaign:
- Generate more website traffic
- Retarget your ads to users who have visited your website in the past (or to similar types of users)
- Target ads to users in a specific email address list, or to similar types of users
- Boost general awareness of your law firm to social media users in your local area
- Get more page or profile likes / followers
- Get more users to claim an offer on social media
- Get more people to attend an event
- Increase video views
You should also consider whether you want a more obvious ad that shows up in the sidebar, or one that appears right in users' news feeds. Social media ads are often designed to take on the look and feel of users' regular posts.
Track the Effectiveness of Your Ads
After you begin running your social media ads, make sure to pay attention to how they perform. To gauge your success, you should track the conversions that are most relevant to your specific goals, such as new likes/followers, new video views, new visits to your website, new calls or cases, and so on. Once you have all the right data, you can then determine which types of social media ad campaigns are worth the investment.
When done correctly, social advertising can be an incredibly helpful tool for marketing your legal practice and attracting new clients. Call Scorpion so we can help you create the most effective strategy for advertising your law firm on social media. We provide results-driven marketing campaigns that help law firms get not just any leads, but the right types of leads!
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text: I want to make a couple Jelly Roll Race quilts & was wondering about how much border fabric I should get for each one. I know, I know, I know... they don't normally have borders but I just like borders on my quilts. Plus I want to make sure they're plenty big. I plan to put a narrow (maybe 2") solid-ish border (would I need a yard of that?) & then use one of the prints as the outer border (maybe 4"). Two yards for the outer border? Plus more for the binding (I cut my binding on the straight of the grain at 2.25")? The reason I'm all fired up to find this out is because Fabric Depot is having a 30% off sale this weekend & they have the fabrics I need. Any help would be tremendously appreciated! THANX!!!


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"DEATH" - I Corinthians 15:12f
A few of you know that I have become a big fan of "THE DAILY." "The Daily" comes out each weekday - a free podcast - and once you download the app, it shows up every weekday for your listening pleasure. Hosted by Michael Barbaro, 20 minutes each day, you get some really important and fresh insights on pertinent news. Michael Barbaro writes for the New York Times and, on "The Daily," he simply calls up his colleagues all around the world, who also work at the New York Times, but who are working on the hottest stories. You get a great conversation and keen insights into the latest news. It is fascinating, fun, and so informative.
Today's "Word of the Week" emerged from a recent podcast on "The Daily." Even with all the news of terror attacks, and Senate hearings and "who said what to whom," and continuing worries about Russia, and more, Michael Barbaro presented a piece on . . . "DEATH." He called up his NY Times colleague, Catherine Porter, who had written a story about a man named John Shields. John Shields lived in Victoria, BC, Canada, and the story was about Canada's new law that allowed "medical assistance in dying." Here is the opening of the story:
Two days before he was scheduled to die, John Shields roused in his hospice bed with an unusual idea. He wanted to organize an Irish wake for himself. It would be old-fashioned with music and booze, except for one notable detail — HE would be present. The party should take up a big section of Swiss Chalet, a family-style chain restaurant on the road out of town. Mr. Shields wanted his last supper to be one he so often enjoyed on Friday nights when he was a young Catholic priest — rotisserie chicken legs with gravy.
Then, his family would take him home and he would die there in the morning, preferably in the garden. It was his favorite spot, . . . Before he got sick, Mr. Shields liked to sit in his old Adirondack chair and watch the bald eagles train their juveniles to soar overhead. He meditated there twice a day, among the towering Douglas firs. (See NYT, May 25, 2017) So that is where he wanted to die – in his garden.
Tormented by an incurable disease, John Shields knew that dying openly and without fear could be his legacy, . . . if his doctor, friends and family helped him.
Mary Oliver, the poet, has that pressing question: "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
John Shields wanted to die as well as he lived – with dignity and grace, surrounded by love and striving to love others, and leaving the world a better place. "What could be more meaningful than planning for the end of your life?" he said.
So that was the plan. He decided that the time had come with his increasing pain and decreasing cognizance.
As it turned out, it was too problematic to take him from the hospice center where he had been staying, to his home and garden. (We can't always get everything, right?). So he got his friends and loved ones to come to the hospice center, and they arranged a party around him.
It was a bit awkward, at first – this so-called "party." Everyone was sad and uncertain; but they shared John's favorite meal, and then they began sharing from their hearts. One after another, proclamations of love, admiration, and gratitude poured forth. They thanked their host for opening his door when they were brokenhearted. They thanked him for his friendship. They thanked him for his courage. And time and again, Mr. Shields acknowledged and thanked each speaker and doled out some tailor-made insight or joke to lighten the mood. When a former colleague planted a goodbye kiss on his lips, he unleashed more laughter with the quip: "I was just thinking, 'I'd like to see more of that.' Then I thought, . . . 'That's not a good idea.'"
Clearly, this was sacred time, full of honor and ritual, full of love, with a worshipful litany of affirmations about friendship, courage, and the purpose of living. He thanked his friends one more time. When they came to their death, he said he hoped they were as happy as he was. "I'm welcoming you all to sing it with joy," he said.
The next morning, as planned, the doctor came with the appropriate drugs. With just his closest loved ones next to him in a circle, they set up a small altar of items important to his journey. They lit candles, covered him with a blanket, and the doctor invited John Shields "to go to the light." He gave her a thumbs up and they shared in various words and readings, including the prayer of St Francis – Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon. The doctor gave him the drugs and he went into a deep sleep. His death took just 13 seemingly painless minutes.
John Shields' final days, and his desire to die well, including the words spoken during his final supper, and the descriptions of his final moments, seem so filled with a certain, wonderful sacredness.
We do not usually do very well with this subject - DEATH. How many of you saw the "Word of the Week" and thought – "oh no, not that……"?
Someone – not a part of our church community - asked me this week what I was preaching about on Sunday. I told them that the "Word of the Week" was DEATH. They said, "Really, . . . is your congregation THAT old?" J But then I chimed in – "well, the word is DEATH, but the subject is really LIFE – living and trusting God, especially in the face of death." The word is DEATH – it happens to all of us - but the emphasis is living and life beyond death: whether we live or whether we die, we belong to God. Faithful people of God live in confidence and courage, even facing death. Faithful people know that death is part of life; so we live, not fearing death, but loving and serving and going to God.
Let's look together at the passage for today from I Corinthians:
12Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? 13If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; 14and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. 15We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. 17If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. 19If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
20But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. 21For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human being; 22for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ.
This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
There is no denying DEATH in this passage. Death is real. Death often separates us from those whom we love. Death can be scary because it is full of unknowns. Death can come quickly and violently, which brings many very difficult challenges. It can come slowly and painfully, which brings another set of challenges. None of us know when or how we will die, and we would rather NOT think about it. Then, while we know we are ALL going to die, we procrastinate about making plans – about our funeral, about our loved ones after we die, about our stuff. We are really good at living as if we are NOT going to die.
But Paul's point in writing here, as Jesus does all through the gospels, focuses us not on DEATH, but on God, and living life as God's people, even in the face of death. God's love holds us. God's light shines in our darkness. Death is not the end. Nothing can separate us from God's love. This is the framework for our living – whether we are young and vigorous, going to work and living and finding joy in summer markets and summer trips, . . . or whether we are facing surgery and uncertainty, . . . or whether we are in the final stages of our journey here on this earth. These promises intend to shape our lives: God's love holds us forever; nothing can separate us from God. Even though death comes to all of us, life is held by God. Death is part of life. Death is the passageway into God's full presence, when God reigns in fullness.
The great spiritual writer, Thomas Merton, gets right to the heart of it when he says this: If you want to identify me, ask me NOT (what I do), or where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for. (From The Daily Dig, and My Argument with the Gestapo)
God wants us to LIVE, even in the face of death, because whether we live or whether we die we belong to God.
As Paul reminds us in I Corinthians, as the passage continues,
50What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." . . . 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. When we die we are enfolded into the fullness of God's love. The perishable puts on imperishability. Life, not death, is what prevails, thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
There is a story about Boston University. They invited their oldest living alumnus of their seminary to return and speak at graduation. Much to the chagrin of the students, who were not so interested in the oldest alum giving the commencement address, the day came and they draped the elderly man over the pulpit in the chapel. He gazed out at the students and said, "I would like to thank my alma mater for setting me free without setting me adrift." And he sat down. (see Living the Questions, Felton and Procter-Murphy, p 228)
Isn't that what it is always about – when mystery is embraced, freedom is embraced. Those who live with the full confidence of God's love and promises can trust God even in the face of death. Those who remain hopeful of God's grace, receptive to God's loving arms, attentive to God's light, especially in the darkness, will know freedom and peace. This is what God intends. Death is real, but death has no sting. Death is swallowed up in victory. Whether we live or whether we die, we belong to God.
I am inspired by the life and grace, the courage and calm of John Shields, who had a deep sense that moving on from his pain and suffering would bring peace for himself and even his loved ones. He knew he would be set free, not set adrift. I am inspired by others who hear Paul's words and know that "the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. . . . thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
This news about resurrection and life – and victory over death – intends to absolutely inspire how we live each day. We – and all people – matter to God so much that we will be enfolded forever in God's love and light. That news intends to make us more loving, more generous, more forgiving, more grateful. We matter to God so much that DEATH is NOT the last word. Life with God is the last word. And that news intends to empower us and embolden us with grace and commitment and calm to face whatever comes our way. That news intends to make us the kind of loving, trusting, serving people of God. Whether we live or whether we die, we belong to God. So let's live like that, and work always – today, tomorrow, forever – to promote the light and life of Christ our Lord. Nothing in life or death can separate us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord. AMEN
Prayer of Commitment: We believe, Lord; we do. Help our unbelief. And cover us with your Spirit so we can live with faith, hope, and love, especially in the face of death. AMEN
Alex Evans, Pastor, Second Presbyterian Church, Richmond, VA preached this sermon during Sunday morning worship on June 11, 2017. This is a rough manuscript.


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Immunization Information
Health Services Clearance – Immunizations Are Required for All Students (American & International)
UA policy requires that all students born after 1956 provide documentary evidence of immunizations (measles, mumps, rubella, and meningitis). Before you can complete the registration process for class, all new students regardless of classification, must have:
- Proof of the meningitis vaccination (Manactra and Menveo) for those under the age of 21 or who are living in on-campus housing.
- If you were born after 1956, proof of two (2) measles containing vaccinations. One of these vaccines must be an MMR vaccination after 1980. Bring documentation of your immunization record from home.
- Acceptable proof of tuberculosis screening within the last year.
Instructions on How to Submit Your Immunization Record – https://shc.sa.ua.edu/immunizations/
- Log into your MyBama account
- Under the Student Tab, navigate to the Student Health Center & Pharmacy section
- Select the "Upload Immunizations" icon
- Print the form and take it to your health care provider/doctor
- Your health care provider/doctor completes the form, signs it and places the official office stamp next to provider signature
- Scan the complete and signed form and any other documents (clear and readable photographs are acceptable)
- Log into your MyBama account, access the Immunization icon then follow document upload instructions
Once your form has been processed (48-72 hours), you will receive a confirmation email or an email regarding why we rejected what was submitted. If you have any questions, you can email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (205) 348-6262 or (205) 348-4637. Be sure to include your CWID when you email or call.
All vaccines and tuberculosis screening are available at the Student Health Center but MUST be completed prior to moving into campus housing or start of classes. If your immunization records do not indicate that these requirements have been met, you MUST be vaccinated upon your arrival to UA.
To view the complete UA Health Requirement for Registration policy, please visit https://www.ua.edu/about/policies/.
Immunization Control
Box 870360
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0360
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (205) 348-6262 or (205) 348-4637
Fax: (205) 348-0630 or (205) 348-8611
Medical History
Prior to registration, you are strongly encouraged to complete the Medical History Form and to download, print and complete the Pharmacy Information Sheet. The pharmacy information sheet should be mailed or faxed to:
Student Health Center
Box 870360
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0360
Fax: (205) 348-9850
If you have any illness or medical condition that requires regular treatment or alteration of your life style, please have your treating physician provide pertinent information and guidelines that will allow the SHC to assist our physician to provide continuity of care.
About Tuberculosis Screening
All students must complete tuberculosis screening before obtaining health clearance for registration.
• What is Tuberculosis or TB? Why is it important?
This is an infection that most commonly affects the lungs. TB is spread by germs that can float in the air. If a person with active TB disease coughs, shouts, or sneezes, people nearby can breathe in the TB germs into their lungs and become infected.
• How do I test for TB?
The test for TB is called PPD. It can be performed at Health Services at no charge. A small amount of liquid is injected into the skin of your arm. A nurse must examine and "read" your arm between 48 to 72 hours later. This will complete the test. If a reading is not made in that time period, the test will have to be repeated.
• What does a negative reaction mean?
A negative PPD is seen by little to no swelling on your arm, and means that there is probably no TB Bacteria in your body. At this point, you will be considered screened, and no further action will be needed.
• What does a positive reaction mean?
A positive PPD can be seen by the kind of reaction your skin has to the injection. It means that TB Bacteria has entered your body at some point. Very often, international students may get a positive PPD because they come from countries that vaccinate against TB. BCG or MANTOUX vaccinations put a small amount of TB Bacteria in your body. This does not necessarily mean you have active TB, but after a positive PPD, you are required to get a chest X-ray.
• What does a chest x-ray show?
A chest x-ray is required after a positive PPD result. If you have health insurance, the cost may be covered, but most likely you will have to pay for the X-ray. The X-ray shows whether you have active TB. Even if the chest X-ray does not show TB, the Health Services staff will need to evaluate whether you require medication to prevent the development of Tuberculosis.


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Manicurist Posted Photo Of Nursing Home Resident's Hand And It's Getting Lots Of Attention.
Society embraces youth. Take a look at magazines, TV shows, and social media, it is filled with young men and women with impeccable skin. Although, this is the demographics that tends to shop the most, it also leaves out pretty much everyone over the age of 30. Yet, we all age, getting older with every year. Imagine what it does to a person's self-esteem when they are told constantly that beauty really is on the surface.
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) estimates the number of Americans over 65 is 46 million.
By 2060, that number will more than double to over 98 million. That is a huge population that is largely forgotten.
For many seniors, living in nursing homes is a stark reminder of their age.
Nonetheless, many of these institutions have come to understand that entertainment, pampering, and social mingling can lift the residents' moods.
This is why services like manicures and hair styling are provided.
Brandalyn Mae Porter, from Texas, is a nail technician. One of her clients, an elderly woman, had asked her to paint her nails clear.
Brandalyn Mae Porter / Facebook
The young woman shared this particular experience on her Facebook page.
Surprised that she would be asked for a plain nail polish that lacks in color and pizzazz, she had to ask why. As it turns out the woman was feeling insecure about her hands.
In fact, the woman described her hands covered in age spots as "ugly."
The elderly lady didn't want to attract attention to that part of her body. Except this woman probably didn't know that Porter is wiser beyond her years.
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Some people try not to eat pork because they consider it something harmful or very oily and others fear getting some kind of diseases, as you could be the trichinosis. And as it is expected the other side of the coin is that there are those who consider it a good choice for protein consumption, which even brings others other health benefits. Discover the pros and cons of this type of meat, whose consumption worldwide is superior to the others as (cow) vaccine or the chicken. Do you like the pork chops? Or the sausages and sausages made of pork? The mouth with a pork loin in some is done you water kind of sauce?Therefore you dire are not alone. There are many humans around the world who like to eat pork. But maybe is very likely that you have known some versions that put in on not very good reputation this meat, especially when speaking of the negative effects that has on health. And it is that there are still various prejudices when it comes to consume pork meat, despite being most consumed worldwide. In fact, in places like Germany, the Netherlands and the Netherlands reached the 130 pounds annually per capita (per person) and in the United States (which is the largest producer and exporter in the world) per year per capita consumption is 60 pounds.
Some myths or tubues surrounding this spectacular food are high fat and cholesterol content that contributes to the diet and that it can pass diseases to humans, such as trichinosis. But this is not the case at all. Quite the contrary, pork can be an important nutritional source that provides protein to our body and is as or more healthy as other meats, either red or white. With regard to their fat, you have to look from another perspective and is that methods of upbringing and maintenance of these animals have changed over time and it has reduced the caloric value of their meat.


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How to Evaluate Quality
When it comes to choosing a hospital, your health – and your family's health – depends on the decisions you make.
The bottom line is, when you're treated at a hospital that offers the best possible care, you are most likely to get the best possible results. Some hospitals simply do a better job than others of helping you stay healthy, and returning you to wellness if you become ill.
What is quality health care?
"Quality" may seem like a difficult concept to measure, but in essence, quality health care means doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right patient. And after all this has been done, quality care also means that patients should come away with the best possible results.
Fortunately, health care quality can be measured. These tools, called "measures," monitor the care that health professionals provide and offer a scientific basis for comparison. More and more public and private groups are working on ways to measure and report on the quality of health care in ways that are meaningful to consumers, and UW Health is proud to participate in these initiatives.
By asking our patients how we've done, and by measuring our "outcomes" – what happens to our patients after they're treated by UW Health physicians – we hope to tell you our quality story. With our quality data, we aim to offer you a clear narrative, examples and illustrations that put the volumes of statistics and scientific data into context for you.
And since quality is something that can be measured, it can also be improved. We couldn't tell you our quality story without also telling you about what we're doing every day at UW Health to improve your health care and offer you a better experience when you come through our doors.
What will I learn from UW Health's quality data?
Our quality data will tell you about how we're doing in a number of important categories, including:
- The Basics: How well UW Health delivers the basics of good care, including how well our doctors communicate with patients, and how easy it is to access our services.
- Staying Well: How well UW Health helps our patients avoid illness and stay healthy. This includes preventive care, screenings we provide for diseases and health problems, immunizations and other services geared toward healthier living.
- Getting Better: How well UW Health helps our patients recover when they're sick or injured. This includes our treatment and follow-up care, and our patients' experiences and satisfaction with treatment.
- Living with a Chronic Illness: How well UW Health helps our patients with ongoing, chronic conditions take care of themselves, control their symptoms, avoid complications and manage their daily activities.
- Support at the End of Life: How well UW Health cares for people and their families when needs change dramatically because of terminal illness. This includes palliative or end-of-life care, pain management, spiritual care and support for caregivers.


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We're excited to welcome David Maren of Tendergrass Farms back to RobbWolf.com with this guest post. He's written up this easy recipe for pastured turkey curry, and has a bonus giveaway to help some of you get started.
First, the coupon code: FARMERS-ROCK-123
This coupon code gives you 2 massive 4-pound pastured turkey soup packs with any order over $199 at Tendergrass Farms, which will also qualify you for Free Shipping (limit 100 redemptions, expires 9/30/13). Each pack consists of all the parts from two huge pastured turkey wings plus one massive pastured turkey neck which adds up to about 4 pounds. It's chock-full of primal goodies: bones, skin, marrow, tendons, cartilage, sinew, & spinal cord. But as you can see in the photos below, it's got plenty of meat on it as well.
Paleo Curry: Recipe & Giveaway
I did a fair amount of traveling in third world countries before I started grass-based farming here in Floyd, VA and no matter where I went I almost always enjoyed the food. The diversity among the ways that people prepare food around the world really interested me. I did, however, notice a striking degree of unity from country to country with regard to certain preparation techniques. One unifying feature that was hard to miss in the poorer countries that I visited was that meat dishes were always prepared with the bones in. Whether it was beef tamales steamed with jalapenos and plums in Chiapas, Mexico, chicken and chayote soup in the Cuchumatán Mountains of Guatemala, or goat stew in the Peruvian desert, I was constantly spitting out pieces of bone as I ate.
Granted, these dirt-floor chefs had no PhD's in nutrition but common sense told them that if you're low on money then there's no sense in throwing away vitally nutritious bones, cartilage, and sinews that are naturally found in bone-in cuts of meat. This recipe is inspired by those many nutritious bone-picking meals that I've had around the world.
This is the contents of one Tendergrass Farms Beyond Organic Turkey Soup Pack.
The nice thing about cooking with boney cuts is that they're usually quite a bit cheaper than boneless cuts. If you don't choose to take advantage of our free turkey coupon code (above) you can also make this with other boney cuts like pastured chicken wings and necks, grass fed beef soup bones, or whole squirrels. You may even have a family farmer right down the road who's got something perfect for this dish. If you need help finding a good farm locally, try the online directory of grass based farmers over at EatWild.com.
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 5 to 7 hours in crock pot on 'high'
– 4 pounds turkey wings and necks
– 2 cans of coconut milk (approx. 14 oz. cans)
– 1 medium onion, chopped
– 2 tablespoons olive oil (or coconut oil or lard)
– 5 medium cloves of garlic, chopped
– 3 to 4 tablespoons of your favorite curry powder
– 1 tablespoon powdered ginger
– salt to taste
Serves four very big hungry cavemen very well.
The first step is to turn your crock pot on 'high' and throw in your turkey, onions, and garlic. While your crock pot is starting to heat up, mix your coconut milk, curry powder, ginger, and oil together in a medium-sized bowl. You may find that a wire whisk is the best tool to remove the clumps in the coconut milk. As soon as you've mixed it all together and it has a reasonably creamy consistency you can go ahead and pour the concoction over the contents of the crock pot.
After at least 5 to 7 hours the contents of the crock pot should look like this, which means it's done. At first the coconut curry sauce will not cover the turkey very well at all but as the mixture cooks down it will get more and more stew-like. As with most crock pot recipes, cook time is somewhat subjective. After all, the more goodness you can cook out of those bones the better. If you're gone at work for 8 or 9 hours a day and you're concerned about leaving it to cook all day long, you needn't be. In that case I just might stick the crock pot on 'low' instead of 'high.'
And voila! Scrumptious pastured turkey goodness. Curry, of course, is often served over either rice or noodles which are far from paleo. My personal opinion is that if you're not going to eat something, just don't eat it. I'll take my curry served over a real organic arugula salad any day rather than having it served over fake rice or fake noodles (i.e., crumbled cauliflower, spaghetti squash). That way the curry sauce acts as a delightful salad dressing and you're not constantly being reminded of what you're not eating (rice/noodles). The salad's light crunch balances the heavier creaminess of the curried turkey.
David Maren is a husband, father, farmer, and co-founder of Tendergrass Farms. Tendergrass Farms is a cooperative-style online grass fed meats shop that exists as a bridge between the often geographically isolated family farmer and committed grass fed meats enthusiasts like yourself. The Tendergrass Farms vision is to sustain family farms through making it easy for you to purchase their meats by taking advantage of appropriate technology and ultra-efficient transportation models that enable their meats to be shipped to fans all around the USA.
If you're not already a huge fan of Tendergrass Farms, you're missing out: Go bookmark their site, like their Facebook page, and follow them on Twitter, and check out their blog!


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Brr! Think Chicago is cold? This list of weather-driven stories will make this chilly city seem downright balmy. (Still, best to read these warmly indoors.)
"Nine Below Zero" (2000)
By Kevin Canty
Vintage, 384 pages, $18
With his signature knack for creating well-meaning and compelling but terribly damaged characters, Canty tells the story of a self-destructive young man, Marvin, bedeviled with addiction. He comes across a senator's car that has crashed one snowy winter morning. Marvin saves the senator but becomes involved with his family, including his troubled granddaughter.
"Out Stealing Horses" (2008)
By Per Patterson, translated by Anne Born
Picador, 238 pages, $14
In this enigmatic and haunting novel, widower Trond Sander moves to a remote Norwegian house in search of quiet. After crossing paths with a childhood friend's brother, Sander is confronted with traumatic and terrifying memories, decades past.
"The Call of the Wild, White Fang & to Build a Fire"(2002)
By Jack London, introduction by E.L. Doctorow
Modern Library, 288 pages, $7.95
Highlighting London's emblematic Northern wilderness settings and determined, survivalist characters, this book brings together "The Call of the Wild," the story of once-abused dog Buck finding freedom in the Klondike wilderness; "White Fang," the tale of a wild dog coming to trust and live among humans; and bone-chilling "To Build a Fire," the story of madness brought about by isolation and extreme temperatures.
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"(2005)
By Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by H.T. Willetts
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 200 pages, $14
After the author was sentenced to labor for writing anti-Stalin statements in a letter, he was inspired to write this sharp, forceful novel set in a Soviet labor camp. As the title might suggest, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" tells the story of a single, unforgiving day in the life of the title character. The book was first published in 1962 after approval from Nikita Khrushchev.
"The Long Winter" (1953)
By Laura Ingalls Wilder
HarperCollins, 352 pages, $16.99
Based on the author's life, "The Long Winter" is the story of young Laura Ingalls and her pioneer family facing a Dakota Territory blizzard in the winter of 1880-81. The Newberry award-winning book is the seventh in the "Little House on the Prairie" series of young adult books.
Brr! Think Chicago is cold? This list of weather-driven stories will make this chilly city seem downright balmy. (Still, best to read these warmly indoors.)


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