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Mayor's Office of Consumer Information (MOCI)
Working in Cooperation with the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
City Hall, Room 315
The Mayor's Office of Consumer Information ("MOCI") is a Local Consumer Program funded by and working in cooperation with the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General to help consumers resolve complaints who otherwise have to seek legal recourse through the court system. It serves residents of the City of Springfield and its surrounding cities and towns throughout Hampden County, and parts of Worcester County. The MOCI cannot guarantee the outcome of a complaint but ensures that it will, with the cooperation of both parties, aim to effectively mediate the complaint in hopes of reaching an amicable resolution.
Since 2000 MOCI has handled tens of thousands of complaints, recovered over $11.5 million dollars for consumers in the form of a refund or credit, and held hundreds of community outreach events.
The goal of the MOCI is to empower consumers with knowledge of their rights and to educate them on ways to protect themselves from becoming a victim of a scam, fraud or identity theft. After all, its motto is "Education is the Best Prevention."
The MOCI's services are provided throughout Hampden County and the following cities and towns of Worcester County: Brookfield, Charlton, Douglas, Dudley, East Brookfield, Holden, Holland, North Brookfield, Oxford, Paxton, Southbridge, Spencer, Sturbridge, Sutton, Tolland, Wales, Warren, Webster, and West Brookfield.
It provides education, referral and informal mediation services at no cost to consumers. Mediation allows consumers and businesses the opportunity to address and resolve disputes, although no legal advice or services are provided. Spanish-speaking and Russian-speaking staff is available. Walk-ins are welcomed from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. only, otherwise by appointment.
The MOCI staff will educate consumers on their rights in many consumer-related areas and has an array of brochures readily available. Following are some of the areas the MOCI can assist with:
Lemon Laws
To speak to a consumer advocate to learn of your consumer rights, seek advice on how to resolve your dispute or to request mediation, call (413) 787-6437.
In addition, the MOCI provides consumer-related educational outreach to Hampden County area schools and colleges, senior centers and civic agencies, free of charge. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, Identity Theft, Credit, Buying a Car and Home Improvement. To request a speaker, download the speaker request form.
Forms for Download
If you wish to speak with a mediator about filing a consumer complaint, you may reach us at (413) 787-6437 Monday through Friday from 9am to 4pm. To file a formal written complaint, download the PDF. Submit the completed form to us, along with supporting documents.
Speaker request form – Please contact Program Director, Milagros S. Johnson about speaking to your organization. You may reach her at (413) 787-6437 or email email@example.com.
The MOCI brochure is available in English, Spanish and Russian.
Mortgage Foreclosure Assistance - Are you struggling to make your mortgage payment? If so, there is help for you.
Consumer Links
Facing Foreclosure? The MA Attorney General's HomeCorps may be able to help: AGO HomeCorps Initiative
To learn of your consumer protection rights, fraud and corruption, civil rights, and promoting meaningful economic recovery, visit: Massachusetts Attorney General's Office: Consumer Protection
For additional consumer protection information (Lemon laws and home improvement) visit: Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs & Business Regulation
Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in America. Learn how to deter, detect and defend against it, visit: Federal Trade Commission: Identity Theft
Did you know that you are entitled to a free annual copy of your three credit reports, with no strings attached? When requesting your credit reports, be sure not to use a public computer or Wi-Fi and allow at least 20 minutes for the process. Securely request your free credit reports from Annual Credit Report.
Are you feeling overwhelmed with pre-approved credit card offers in your mailbox? Did you know that they put you at risk of identity theft if they end up in the wrong hands? To stop receiving pre-approved credit card offers, click here: Opt-Out of pre-approved credit card offers
Would you like to reduce the volume of junk mail in your mailbox? You can actually stop junk mail by simply requesting to opt-out: Stop Unsolicted Mail, Calls and Emails
To stop telemarketing calls to your home or mobile telephone, register at: National Do Not Call Registry
Are debt collectors harassing you at home or work? Learn what you can do to stop the calls your consumer rights: Fair Debt Collection
Every household should have what's often referred to as the, "Consumer Bible." Here's how you can obtain yours: 2015 Consumer Action Handbook.
There is now accountability for predatory lending. The CFPB will "Educate, Enforce and Study" consumer issues. Visit their website at: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Before doing business with a merchant, you may want to first check its ratings and complaint history with the Better Business Bureau
Elder scams and financial exploitation are on the rise. The U.S. Department of Justice launched a website, Elder Justice to help protect seniors
We are now serving parts of the Worcester County community
Since July 1, 2014, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office funded our office to serve parts of the Worcester County area. The cities and towns we cover are: Brookfield, Charlton, Douglas, Dudley, East Brookfield, Holden, Holland, North Brookfield, Oxford, Palmer, Paxton, Southbridge, Spencer, Sturbridge, Sutton, Wales, Warren, Webster, and West Brookfield.
The Con$umer Toolbox Episodes
The MOCI invites you to learn more about your rights as a consumer through a lively discussion on its monthly television program, The Con$umer Toolbox. You can find all of the episodes on YouTube through these links. We hope you enjoy watching.
Episode 1: Find out what services the program offers and how the mediation process works.
Episode 2: Learn about scams and fraud through a discussion with Chicopee Police Officer Michael Wilk.
Episode 3: Do you know what to do when your car fails inspection? Watch this video for all the answers.
Episode 4: Ms. Milagros Johnson is joined by two experts in the field of consumer protection to discuss the different types of scams and fraud happening in our surrounding cities and towns, including Franklin County and Berkshire County.
Episode 5: Guest, Joan O'Brien, Assistant District Attorney for the Hampden County District Attorney's Office discusses the various types of elder scams, fraud and financial exploitation.
Episode 6: Workshop at UMass/Springfield on the topic of Identity Theft. This video discusses everything you need to know about ID Theft and more.
Episode 7: Guest Corey Pilz of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications & Cable discusses your rights having to do with telecommunications and cable.
Episode 8: Guest Steve Desilets, City of Springfield Code Enforcement Commissioner discusses housing codes and violations, and ways consumers can protect themselves when hiring a home improvement contractor.
Episode 9: Guest Eric Gouvin, Dean and Professor of Law at Western New England School of Law discusses Massachusetts Consumer Protection Law and holiday scams.
Hampden & Worcester County consumer outreach
We continue to receive requests for outreach events thoughout Hampden County and parts of the Worcester community. If your school or organization is interested in getting empowered on a consumer topic (such as Scams & Fraud, Identity Theft, Credit, Buying a Car) complete the Speaker Request Form or contact us via email: firstname.lastname@example.com. We are prepared to serve you FREE of charge.
Director of the Mayor's Office of Consumer Information
Milagros S. Johnson
Let Your Consumer Voice be Heard
Each day consumers tell us about their important issues and concerns, all of which are important to us, and just as important to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulations (OCABR).
Undersecretary John Chapman and representatives from the OCABR have scheduled a Listening Session in Springfield on Tuesday, July 19 from 11:30 am to 1:30 p.m. at the UMASS Center at Springfield, Tower Square.
Let your voice be heard and let OCABR know how Used Car Sales, Home Improvement Requirements, Telemarketing Calls, Debt Collectors, Predatory Lending, etc. affect you, and what recommendations for improvement you have to consumer protections and rights.
Please mark your calendars for this important event!
Are you in the market for a new car? Planifica comprar un vehículo nuevo?
Before heading out the door to the dealer, be an informed consumer and read the very important step-by-step consumer guide, CarSmart. You may want to print a copy to bring with you.
Child Identity Theft is on the rise.
Just like adults, children too can become a victim of identity theft. To make matters worse, the offense can go undetected for many years because children, or their parents, do not feel the need to check their credit files. There are several ways for parents to guard their child's personal information and for identity theft protection. Watch this video
Multilingual services provided (English, Spanish, and now Russian)
We're excited to welcome and introduce the newest addition to our staff, Natalia Shtrom.
Natalia has roots in the Hampden County area, and brings to us many years of experience of consumer advocacy work serving the Russian-speaking communities. She speaks fluent Russian and is prepared to assist consumers in our service area who have a dispute with a business.
To speak with Natalia, please call 787-6437, Monday through Friday from 10am to 3pm.
How to Write an Effective Consumer Dispute Letter
If you are experiencing a problem with a product or service, which you already brought to the attention of the business but it remains unresolved, you may want to consider writing a dispute letter.
If the letter does not help resolve the issue, you may want to file a complaint.
Question of the Month
Q: Each month when I receive my credit card statement, I find a blank check from my credit card company. Why is this? How can I stop these checks from being mailed to me?
A. When a customer's account is in good standing, and the customer has open credit line available, the credit card company offers you the check for balance transfers, make purchases, etc. However there are many risks including:
You can simply call your credit card company to request that they cease sending you the checks. If, and when, you need one you can call back to make the request.


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Ticket warning: Shrewsbury Fields Forever
There are just a few tickets left for next week's Shrewsbury Fields Forever, featuring The Wombats, Ocean Colour Scene, Ms Dynamite and more.
Date published: 7th Sep 2012
The three day event returns to the Shropshire Showground on the 14th - 16th September, with four arenas of indie, rock, alternative, electronic and pop music.
Friday night will see more of a focus on dance acts, while Saturday will boast a full programme of live acts and dance music, headlined by The Wombats. Sunday will give festival goers a chance to wind down with a line-up that leans more towards comedy and acoustic acts.
more info
- Date: Friday 14th September - Sunday 16th September 2012
- Event: Shrewsbury Fields Forever Festival 2012 at West Mid Show Ground
- Venue: West Mid Show Ground
- Artists: Ms Dynamite, Ratpack, DJ Hazard, Danny Byrd, Ocean Colour Scene, Utah Saints, Anne Savage, Sonny Wharton, The Sunshine Underground, The Wombats, Mampi Swift, Herve
- Hotels: Hotels near West Mid Show Ground
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The eclectic line-up boasts appearances from The Wombats, Simon and Oscar from Ocean Colour Scene, Ms Dynamite, The Sunshine Underground, Utah Saints, Danny Byrd, Herve, Sonny Wharton, Dj Hazard and many, many more.
See the full Shrewsbury Fields Forever line-up
Tickets for the event are selling fast, with just a few remaining. Get yours below.
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You can find these artists/djs playing at the following events:
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Translation of house arrest in Spanish:
- to be under house arrestencontrarse bajo arresto domiciliarioExample sentences
- The primary distinction to be made is between terms of house arrest and incarceration.
- Mr Clarke has responded by taking powers to keep all terrorist suspects under house arrest outside prison.
- He was held in custody for almost four months and then released under house arrest.
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Published: September 6, 2013 - 09:28 PM
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo has refreshed its logo for the first time since shortly after the Internet company's founding 18 years ago.
The new look is part of a makeover that Yahoo Inc. has been undergoing since the Sunnyvale, Calif., company hired Google executive Marissa Mayer to become CEO 14 months ago.
Mayer has already spruced up Yahoo's front page, email and Flickr photo-sharing service, as well as engineered a series of acquisitions aimed at attracting more traffic on mobile devices. The shopping spree has been highlighted by Yahoo's $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr, an Internet blogging service where the company rolled out its new logo.
The redesigned logo retains some old elements. Yahoo's familiar exclamation point, meant to punctuate a yodeling sound that has long been the company's calling card, is still there, too, but with a twist. When visitors come to Yahoo's front page or an app, the exclamation point dances across some of the lettering before settling at the end of the company's name at a slight tilt of nine degrees.
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To my faithful dear reader (whomever you may be), let me update my terribly outdated blog. During my hiatus from blogging, there has been no shortage of news stories pertaining to criminal law and justice throughout South Florida and the United States, and I have been unfortunately delinquent in covering these developments. So here it goes.
In my last blog post, I discussed the shooting of Michael Brown. When I wrote the article, we only had a clouded understanding of the facts. We knew: (1) an officer stopped Michael Brown for jaywalking; (2) Michael Brown was unarmed; and (3) that the officer fatally shot Michael Brown. We also knew that the officer alleged that Mr. Brown grabbed for his gun. At the time, I wrote: "What has been reported from eyewitnesses of the shooting suggests that the police fatally overreacted to a show of disrespect." I also cautioned: "We should wait until a full investigation is completed before drawing conclusions."


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Why Does The Wind Hate These Dutch Cyclists So Much?
Watching videos of people struggling in strong winds is always perversely entertaining. I think it's because the watcher can't sense the wind, but can see the improbable actions and motions of the windblown. It's about as close to videos of someone getting his ass kicked by a ghost that we can get.


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Release Date:
December 18, 2012
After the guest star-drenched No Reason to Cry failed to make much of an impact commercially, Eric Clapton returned to using his own band for Slowhand. The difference is substantial -- where No Reason to Cry struggled hard to find the right tone, Slowhand opens with the relaxed, bluesy shuffle of J.J. Cale's "******" and sustains it throughout the course of the album. Alternating between straight blues ("Mean Old Frisco"), country ("Lay Down Sally"), mainstream rock ("******,""The Core"), and pop ("Wonderful Tonight"), Slowhand doesn't sound schizophrenic because of the band's grasp of the material. This is laid-back virtuosity -- although Clapton and his band are never flashy, their playing is masterful and assured. That assurance and the album's eclectic material make Slowhand rank with 461 Ocean Boulevard as Eric Clapton's best albums. [Somehow Slowhand missed the wave of Eric Clapton Deluxe Editions in the early 2000s, so it was ripe for picking when Super Deluxe Editions became the thing in the early 2010s. And so we have the Super Deluxe 35th Anniversary Edition of Eric Clapton's 1977 album Slowhand, a perfectly likable album -- by most measures one of Clapton's best -- ballooned to an absurd four CDs, single DVD, and vinyl LP, complete with the standard in-depth book, publicity stills, replicas of tour programs, and other tchotchkes. The first CD is a remastered version of the original album expanded by four songs ("Looking at the Rain,""Alberta,""Greyhound Bus,""Stars, Strays and Ashtrays") and the other two CDs are devoted to a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon from April 27, 1977, performed just days before the album's recording; for the standard-issue Deluxe Edition, this concert is excerpted for a bonus disc attached to the expanded edition of the album. Then, there's the standard issue of Slowhand -- no bonus tracks, just the original nine songs -- presented in 5.1 DVD-Audio, and the album is once again heard as a vinyl LP. Certainly, there are several hardcore fans of Slowhand who will find all this worthwhile, but for most Clapton devotees, this is overkill. All the essential material is on that double-disc Deluxe Edition; the stuff that makes it Super is fluff.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
Artist: Eric Clapton
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Pop Music Genre: Blues
Pop Sub-Genre: Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Modern Electric Blues, Rock & Roll/Roots, Hard Rock
Pop Musical Style: Album Rock, Adult Contemporary, Blues-Rock, Soft Rock
Record label: POLYDOR / UMGD
- Genre: Blues
- Subgenre: Hard Rock, Rock & Roll/Roots, Modern Electric Blues, Soft Rock, Pop/Rock
- Category Soft Rock, Blues-Rock, Adult Contemporary, Album Rock
- Label: POLYDOR / UMGD
- Release Date: December 18, 2012
- Artist: Eric Clapton
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Images From Cycle Agaist Suicide at Abbey Community College.
"It's Ok Not to Feel Ok and It's Absolutely Ok to Ask For Help"
Launch of the "One Campaign for Change" Online Petition to End Homelessness in Ireland
.On Tuesday, April 5th, Abbey Community College's Justice Group hosted the launch of the "One Campaign for Change" on-line petition. The petition has 3 clear aims.
1: To provide more social housing. (40,000 units)
2: To provide appropriate interim measures to those who are homeless.
3: To prevent banks from evicting people from their homes and instead to provide a mortgage to rent scheme.
You can read up on and sign their petition on the homepage of: www.onecampaignforchange.weebly.com.
Last November, the Justice Group began working on the issue of homelessness in Ireland when they were invited by Phil Brennan (from the Romero Institute of Peace and Justice) to spend an afternoon with The High Hopes Choir in the Edmund Rice Centre.
This opportunity opened their eyes to the current homeless crisis, and was the day they decided that it was time to speak out and act against such injustice.They hosted a concert with the High Hopes Choir and the Island of Ireland Peace Choir in December. They fundraised within the school community and presented the choir and SVP with €1600.
In January, the Justice Group spent a day with Fr. Peter McVerry. This day inspired them with a clear vision for what they wanted to ask for in their petition.
The launch in the Abbey welcomed students from 8 Post Primary Schools from Cork, Kilkenny and Wexford, the High Hopes Choir, Deputies John Paul Phelan and Bobby Aylward, Superintendent John Mulligan, Cllr. Eamon Quinlan, Cllr. Ger Frisby, representatives from Focus Ireland and Saint Vincent de Paul.
Exciting Times as Construction Begins on New Extension
During the Easter holidays, work began on a new building extension for Abbey Community College. The new structure to be completed by summer 2016 will include:
|New Student Canteen/General Purpose Area
|3 New Science Labs
|New Engineering Room
|New Woodwork/Construction Room
|12 New General Classrooms
|New Special needs Unit and Sensory Garden
|New Learning Support Suite
|Office for 2nd Deputy Principal
Additionally there will be further work in the existing school building to extend the Staff Room to double the size and to refurbish the existing General Purpose Area to become a new Glassed in Library.


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Is Gandhi Relevant to Kurds?
Is Gandhi Relevant to Kurds?
By Kani Xulam, Washington - Rudaw
with her. But what really intrigued me about the
piece was her definition of a good book, which she
compared to a good speech, and said it should make
the audience: "laugh, think, cry, and cheer."
Now that is a tall order. Let me be frank with you
at the outset that I have no intentions of making
you laugh--our topic is too serious for that, and
I'm probably too dull-witted for the task anyway.
Crying and cheering—well, I'm not so sure if I can
do that either.
But I do hope you will leave here thinking.
I hope you will leave thinking with increased
curiosity about Gandhi and his theme of nonviolence.
Can it possibly be that Gandhi's incredible,
world-changing nonviolence may be what we need to
achieve an independent Kurdistan?
Consider that profound thought with me for a moment.
In directing our gaze to nonviolence, I also pay
tribute to Kamal Artin and his friends at Kurdish
National Congress (KNC), the hosts of our
conference, who heartily deserve another hearty
round of applause for bringing us together here.
Let's show them our genuine appreciation!
In re-directing our view to nonviolence, I am also
redirecting the gaze of the Kurds from violence, the
fiendish delight of our foes—to nonviolence, the
Achilles' heel of our adversaries.
Gandhi's nonviolence, after all, brought a world
superpower to its knees, and who knows but that it
may be the approach to bring us success?
Indeed, some of us, sitting in this room today, may
be the instruments to bring that miraculous change
After all, in ancient Persia, part of our beloved
Kurdish homeland, a young woman was told some 2,500
years ago: "Who knoweth whether thou art come to the
kingdom for such a time as this?" (Esther 4:14).
That young woman, Esther, rose up and magnificently
saved her people from annihilation.
May we perhaps one day look back and see that this
was the day that someone here rose up, and set the
nonviolent spark that helped to save our Kurdish
In 1917, Hindi Punch, a satirical paper, wrote of an
Indian prince of Bikaner who had returned to Bombay
from a tour of Europe and was ordered to show his
passport at the customs.
The prince complained that he had not been asked to
produce one when he left the country, and wanted to
know what had changed in the meantime.
The officer told him he had left India in "European
garb," which exempted him from examination, but was
returning in "native costume," which required him to
submit to inspection.
I don't know if Gandhi ever knew of this story. If
he had, his mind may have flashed back to his time
in South Africa in 1893. Dressed in his impeccable
European clothes,www.ekurd.net
he was riding a train from Durban to Pretoria. He
was told, as a coolie, he could not ride first
When he refused to move to the back of the train, he
was kicked out of it at Maritzburg railway station
together with his baggage. It was, you might say, a
providential kick. Nothing like it has ever been the
source of so much good—before or since.
Clothes and Indians go back in history. Before the
English showed up on the shores of India, Indians
had set the standards for fashion for much of the
known world.
In the Roman Empire, Indian tunics commanded not
just attention, but also a lot of money. A trade, in
spite of hardships, kept European ladies happy and
Indian ones busy.
By the time Gandhi came of age, the order had
reversed. To be sure, India still supplied cotton
and silk to the world, but the weaving was done in
Europe. The mechanized production made the Indian
spinning wheel obsolete. Great Britain dominated
India and Indians were trying to find their place in
the new world.
Gandhi, a spiritual person by temperament, was, to
use his term, "experimenting" with his life to come
to terms with the new Indian reality. In South
Africa, he found not just his voice, but also his
Indian roots and the best of western writers such as
Thoreau, Mazzini, Ruskin and Tolstoy.
Initially, his was a voice in the wilderness. The
world was filled with the prophets of violence and
supreme cunning. Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian like
Gandhi, spoke the language of unbridled
confrontation and had coined the slogan, "Give me
blood and I promise you freedom."
Vladimir I. Lenin in the pages of What Is To Be
Done? had written of the need for a "small, compact
core of the most reliable, experienced, and hardened
workers … connected by all the rules of strict
secrecy," to bring about revolution.
Gandhi, on the other hand, thought violence, secrecy
and lying had a common ancestry. In his words, "I
would rather India remained a thousand years more
under British rule than that a lie be used to win
our independence."
A votary of truth, its kindred, he declared was love
of the kind that Jesus of Nazareth had spoken of it
in the pages of the New Testament. Knowing what
India had possessed once, he set out to regain it:
freedom and self-sufficiency.
Writing in the pages of his newspaper, Young India,
he laid the ground for the formation of an army of
soldier-saints. The word, dignity, which we use
relative to the Arab Spring these days, was not used
then, but it must have played a big role in the deep
recesses of his heart or brain.
In 1920, he asked his compatriots to boycott foreign
clothes and adopt home spinning as a way of
liberating self as well as India. Wearing a farmer's
dhoti, that covered one-fourth of his body, he
announced the first ever bonfire of imported clothes
in India.
It proved to be a cathartic event. He later
undertook a tour of the country to debut his
clothing line as it were and always asked his fans,
now numbering millions, to cleanse themselves of
artificial western appendages and values. In the
words of Emma Tarlo, the effort embodied, not just
freedom and self-sufficiency, but also "spiritual
humility, moral purity, national integrity, communal
unity, social equality, the end of 'untouchability'
and the embracing of nonviolence."
Some mistook his action as the work of a coward. He
was the total opposite. If the choice was between
cowardice and violence, "I would choose violence,"
he noted.
Nonviolence, he added, required more courage than
violence. He did not live to see the lone Chinese
student standing in front of a tank at Tiananmen
Square, but would have certainly recognized a
kindred soul in him.
In the words of Louis Fischer, "No coward would sit
still on the ground as galloping police horses
advanced upon him or lie in the path of an
automobile or stand without moving as baton-swinging
police laid about them."
But Gandhi's soldier-saints did, prompting a
physicist, Albert Einstein, to say of their general,
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a
one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this
My second story is from the oral history of the
I first heard it watching a Kurdish film in
Washington, DC. Min Dit was the name of the film.
The children of Amed were its theme. Anyone who has
been to the largest Kurdish city in Turkish
Kurdistan can tell you of his or her stories of
these homeless kids who are forced to live
concentrated lives or skip years to assume roles
that we ordinarily assign to the adults.
But in Min Dit there was something else.
There was a bedtime story about a Kurdish village
cursed with a terrible plague. Like most children's
stories, it started bad, got worse and then there
was magic, a solution that was telling, heartwarming,
and everlasting, which allowed the children to enter
into the sleep zone on a very happy note.
Inside the Kurdish tale, a wolf attacks the
livestock of the village with impunity. The
villagers feel terrorized and powerless. One day,
the village elders call for a meeting to remedy the
A decision is finally taken: The wolf must be found
and eliminated. A search team is put together. After
a couple of tries, the beast of prey is found. As a
villager gets ready to shoot it, an old man shouts,
"Lay down your gun."
Everyone is surprised. The old man counsels a pause.
He approaches the wolf and offers it a piece of
meat. The wolf eats the offering and turns into a
pussycat. The old man takes advantage of the moment
and ties a bell around its neck.
"This wolf will never harm anyone again," he says.
"Whoever can hear the bell can run away," he adds.
From then on, whenever the wolf approaches sheep,
the ringing of the bell wakes up the shepherd.
Whenever it approaches a deer, the deer runs off for
safety. Days pass and the wolf grows hungry. Then
one day, he falls near a rock and dies of
I don't know about you, but I find the seeds of
nonviolent resistance in this Kurdish tale. Our
ancestors thought of it as a way to cope with the
losses of their animals and we could expand on it to
prevent the death of at least some of our fighters.
The numbers speak for themselves. In the latest
fighting between the Kurds and the Turks, most
experts agree on a number of 45 thousand deaths so
The Turks say their losses are in the vicinity of
5 thousand. Ahmet Turk, a Kurdish parliamentarian,
gave a list of 17 thousand civilian Kurds to
President Obama in 2009, saying all were murdered by
shadowy Turkish groups.
That leaves the figure of 23 thousand for the
Kurdish fighters. The figures in Iraq, between the
Kurds and the Arabs are even more lopsided, again,
against the Kurds. Iran and Syria pose the same
To be sure, nonviolent resistance is not exempt from
deaths, but when it is waged, its disciples are its
first casualties and not the defenseless civilians
who are often first tortured and then murdered on
the flimsiest of charges. As Kurds, to persist on a
path that is to our disadvantage is not only wrong,
but also reckless.
I will close, as I promised, with the story of
Gandhi's meeting with King George the Fifth at the
Buckingham Palace in London. According to Vinay Lal,
a professor of history at University of California
Los Angeles (UCLA), Gandhi and King George engaged
in a light banter as a sitting King and his subject
But Gandhi wouldn't let go of the historic occasion
without a bit of histrionics. A year before, he had
marched to the sea, making his own salt and breaking
the monopoly of the British on the essential
commodity. At the meeting, he produced a pinch it
and placed it in a yogurt bowl.
There is no record of the king noticing it, or
making a comment about it. But that didn't matter.
Gandhi was a politician-saint in India and he knew
of the famous Indian saying, "Be faithful to your
salt-giver." In fact, the tradition of the
subcontinent goes, if you want to seal a friendship,
throw some salt into the water.
For Gandhi, yogurt was as good as water.
Yes, Gandhi has a lot to teach us—if we listen
Gandhi showed us that nonviolence—when properly
applied—can be just as powerful as all the great
armies that ever marched… all the mighty navies that
ever sailed… and all the grand air forces that ever
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Kurdish Information Network (AKIN) www.kurdistan.org.
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international relations at the University of Toronto
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California, Santa Barbara. He was recently awarded
an MA by the International Service Program at
American University. At the University of Toronto,
he represented Kurdistan at the Model United
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Talk Like a Pirate 2015
(Message 9310)
Posted 346 days ago by Wormholio
Arrgh! Avast and fine pirate greetings to those of you who are still aboard this rickety bucket.
Normally I would release some work for the crew, just to "light up the cluster" and see how many we have left, and to reward those who have stayed. But I'm sad to report that I'm not able to do so today. Some time at the end of the last little run the feeder gave out, and now fails with "segmentation fault" whenever I try to start it. I've looked at file permissions and other issues, tried recompiling (from the old code base that would be compatible with the other daemons), but to no avail. The engines have indeed failed and we are truly dead in the water.
The proper fix for this is to upgrade the software to the latest version of BOINC, which has been my intention for a while now. The limiting factor is time. I had plans to do this over the summer, and even a new mission for our crew to go with it (more on that later), but a sudden change in my employment sucked up all available extra time.
This year I'm leading a new crew, of about 70 cadets from the US Military Academy at West Point. I've been hired, along with 4 other civilian physicists, to help West Point through a major shift in their physics curriculum. It's only a one year gig, but I still went through the same 6 week training they give to the military instructors who rotate through for 3 years. It was great training (I learned a lot, even though I already knew a lot about teaching physics) and it is a great team to work with (many are nuclear engineers, almost all are officers with combat experience). It is a very different world from the academic environment I've been in before, and I'm enjoying learning more about it. And all my students are very accomplished and capable, even those who are not naturally good at learning physics.
As I said, before this came up (rather suddenly) I had intended to upgrade the project for a new mission. Let me explain that. Over this past summer I worked with three high school students on a project to investigate the LIGO data which has been released to the public by the LIGO Open Science Center. This was similar to the I2U2 project I worked on previously, and which was the basis of a previous Pirates mission. (I modified the forum code to allow image and file attachments, for use as a scientific logbook in I2U2.) One big difference is that LOSC have released h(t) data, the real deal for searching for gravitational waves, while I2U2 used PEM data, which were recorded using seismometers, magnetometers, accelerometers, and weather stations, to monitor the physical environment of the LIGO detectors.
[ I'll mention that I recently learned that the I2U2 project has terminated, but that's a sign of success not failure, because the LIGO e-Lab it created has been incorporated into FermiLab's QuarkNet education project, which is what got I2U2 started. You can visit the LIGO e-Lab if you want to check it out. ]
Each of the three students on my team this summer took real data from LOSC and performed some kind of analysis on it, using Python code they created (based on some very useful examples provided by LOSC). One looked at the potential for interference from the background noise from the 60 Hz power mains (any gravitational waves from the Crab pulsar will be very close to 60Hz!). Another looked at the injected signals the LIGO scientists add to the data to simulate black hole collisions or the continuous wave sources that Einstein@Home is listening for. And one was interested in distributed computing and BOINC and set out to design a "campaign" of computing to analyze the data from LOSC throughout the S5 run (and the S6 data, which became available during this project).
My intention was to upgrade Pirates@Home and add a new application, based on the existing Python wrapper and an R-wrapper I'd written previously, to allow us to run the Python code any of these students had written. We could also run a student-written work generator to select the LIGO data to process, organized in a hierarchical fashion so that the first pass spans the whole 2 years of the S5 run, the next pass fills in the gaps, the next pass fills in the gaps within the gaps, and so on.
Alas, I suddenly had no time to do this, and it also proved to be a little too much for beginning students, but it's still an idea I would like to pursue. I can't make any guarantees, but this is still a potential future mission for Pirates@Home. And perhaps I can even recruit future students from this crew?
Finally, as some of you know I encountered another time time crunch about 6 years ago when the littlest member of our crew came aboard. I'm happy to report that she's doing great. She just started first grade, and this summer she started doing karate. In fact, I have to close now to go take her to her karate lesson.
I hope you all enjoy Talk Like a Pirate Day, even without some work from the project. Arrgh!
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One BOINC bug squashed...
(Message 9275)
Posted 616 days ago by Wormholio
With thanks to Pirates and its scheduler wait of 3636 seconds, a crashing Google Earth and it taking down the OpenGL&OpenCL driver, and this requiring a BOINC restart, I found a bug in the way BOINC handles the scheduler wait value... it doesn't.
Congratulations on a successful bug hunt. I'm glad to know that this rusty scow could still be of some small service.
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(Message 9272)
Posted 619 days ago by Wormholio
For testing purposes I told Dolphin to use my location. Tapping "Search nearby" now gives "Position unavailable: Internal error".Thank you for the feedback. It should work with Chrome on Android, and I know it works with Mobile Safari and Chrome on iPhone, but apparently not all mobile browsers include the location feature. Reports for other mobile browsers would be welcome.
... with Flash Player disabled (as it was causing more trouble than worth).Flash is not used or required, so any trouble you had should be of a general nature, not specific to this site.
One niggle other than the fun factor, doesn't finding lamp legs mean we have to peek into other people's houses to see if there's a lamp leg visible?No, not at all. Most people who own a leg lamp display it proudly in the front window, so you should be able to view it from a public location. And those are the only sightings we want. If someone has one in their home but it's not visible from the street then there's no need to report it. The goal is only to show those leg lamps that others can also visit.
And as you have so helpfully noted, this is covered in more detail in the About page, which you can get to by pressing the big button "Find out more..." (or just "About" on smaller screens). But I note that the "Privacy" page is incomplete, so I'll flesh that in a bit more to be clearer. Suggestions for improvement of both are welcomed.
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(Message 9270)
Posted 620 days ago by Wormholio
Not sure what legitimate purpose this could be put to other than maybe better targeting of local advertising?
The purpose of this is for fun.
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New distributed data project
(Message 9268)
Posted 620 days ago by Wormholio
Yeah, "Please enable Location Services for your browser". This will enable the GPS on your phone, something that I have set to off by default. Do you know how much battery that eats? Nothing said about my phone then logging everywhere I go. Privacy certainly doing a bye bye. Sorry, I value my square meter of the raft, y'all don't need to know every minute what I spent it on.
The way it works in both iPhone and Android is that it only reports your location if you let it. Each time a web page tries, and you are at a different location, it asks, and if you say no it can't get your location. The "app" won't work without the location, but you have a choice. Just enabling location services in the browser does not automatically report your location continuously, and you have to agree to release your location for each new web page.
In addition, this "app" does assign a unique device ID to each mobile device, but it does not record anything else about you, only the location of the sighting (and possibly the size of the Leg Lamp, but that is optional). I've tried hard to balance privacy interests with the need for data to make it function.
But as always, you are free to participate or not. And I want to make sure everyone knows what they are agreeing to (and not), so this is helpful feedback for me, and it reminds me that I need to improve the "Privacy" page which explains this. Thanks.
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(Message 9264)
Posted 621 days ago by Wormholio
Ahoy, Avast, and seasonal greetings to the crew of this scurvy bucket, or at least those few who remain on board. We have been adrift for quite a while now, and I'm afraid that may well continue. But I will confess to chumming the waters just now to get the attention of those still onboard.
This year I have set up a new "distributed data" project for the holiday season. It uses your mobile web browser to help locate valuable treasure. You'll find it at http://www.LegLampLocator.com. As an added bonus you will get a small view of the world from inside the captain's cabin (and the captain's own small prize).
We have an international crew, so I'm not sure if everyone here knows why leg lamps are considered to be such great treasures. They are indeed rare, though less so now than before. They are a part of the holiday season for some because of the classic film A Christmas Story, which was based on a collection of stories by Jean Shepherd. You may enjoy the whole movie (it will be on cable TV 24/7 on christmas) but this relevant clip tells this part of the story directly.
So lookouts to the mizzentops, and all spyglasses deployed! Keep a keen eye open as you drive past the holiday lights, and if you be so lucky as to find one, be sure to mark it. If you are lucky enough to have one marked nearby then go and verify that it's actually there, and mark it too if indeed it is. (This bit of the project is similar to having two machines crunch a workunit to verify that the work was actually done and done correctly.)
And spread the word. This won't work without the help of many more than this small crew. Happy holidays and good hunting!
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Mechanical Turk
(Message 9245)
Posted 776 days ago by Wormholio
I figured I would ask, just now slower to gather my Silver Pieces of Eight.
I like tricky puzzles, and this was certainly a good one. I was able to solve it by adding a function to focus on the input field, and having it invoked 1 second after the page loads. If the 1 second delay slows you down we can try shorter, but this shows that the functionality can be restored.
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Mechanical Turk
(Message 9243)
Posted 778 days ago by Wormholio
I assume that Recaptcha has changed something, but in the past when the Mechanical Turk page appeared, the cursor would automatically select the text input field, that doesn't happen any more. I have to click the box every time, slowing down my quest for Silver Pieces of Eight!
More bit-rot on this old bucket.
I looked into this and tried to fix it, but there is no quick fix. It seems that sometime in the past year Google (who now run the ReCAPTCHA service) got many complaints about how the captcha was taking the focus on any page it was in, even if it was just at the bottom to allow people to add comments to a news site or similar. So they made changes, which don't just take the focus, but specifically unfocus that input box. There may be a way around this, but my initial attempts at it were not successful. Sorry.
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work wont download !!!
(Message 9158)
Posted 1438 days ago by Wormholio
The problem seems to have been in the file names for the now separate graphics app for the screensaver. By adding a soft link I was able to make the file available under both names.
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Number Crunching :
1 hour?
(Message 9155)
Posted 1439 days ago by Wormholio
what if we lower the time limit for users who solve mechanical turks ?
I like this idea. Or something similar. It might be that it's lowered just if you have done recent work on the Turk. I may not have time to code it right now, but I'm going to give it some thought and see what might work.
I had set the deferral very long because there was no work. (There is meaning to the interval, in case someone cares to try to figure it out.)
I set it to 1 hr to give everyone a chance when there is work, but not much of it all at once. But if the remaining crew is smaller then I may be able to lower it without raising the load on the server.


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Skip to comments.My ten year-old nephew died today
Posted on 03/24/2013 12:07:58 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
Hi, everyone.
I hesitated to do this, because I know it's not right to post and run. However, I will check this thread first thing in the morning and reply. because I'm going to try to get some sleep. I just was hoping for some prayers sent out for my ten year-old nephew who died today.
He had cancer, which spread to from his adrenal gland to his lungs, then to his brain. My sister, who lives in Wisconsin, called the ambulance yesterday; James slipped into a coma, which I learned early this a.m. At around 3, our family spoke to him (my husband, my daughter and son, and myself) to wish him goodbye. He died about 30 minutes later.
She called me at around 6 to tell me; I had some work to do at 6:30, which is unimportant.
At this point, I feel that my faith is a little shaken. I wear a Cross every day, and I was praying for him. Now I wonder, where is he? I felt so sure before, that the soul lives on, but now I don't know. And what can I do for my sister? She lives so far away.
Anyway, I felt I had to reach out, even though I am exhausted. I will try to sleep, and will reply tomorrow. I guess I'm asking now if for prayers for a ten year-old boy who will never know what's it's like to fall in love and have a family.
I don't understand why God takes the innocent.
How terrible. Prayers for the family, including you.
My prayers go out to you and your family. I know what it's like to lose a child. You never get over it.
God bless you and your family.
This is such a sad post :-(
The only thing that could comfort in such a situation is faith in something larger than ourselves... and the knowledge that although he is absent from us here, that he lives on and is safe. The utter despair for someone who had no faith at all is incomprehensible... how could you soldier on without anything to comfort you?
Prayers up for everyone touched by this....
Prayers for James and you all.
I'm sorry for your loss. However, prayers for your nephew would be misplaced at this point - he has passed from this life, and his soul is in the hands of God. Prayers now cannot change his eternal fate, and so we can only hope that he knew Christ as his Savior.
What we can do, however, is pray for the family - pray for peace and comfort, and pray that somehow even this tragedy can provide a witness to others, reminding them that none of us are guaranteed a tomorrow. Today is the day of salvation - we cannot wait until tomorrow, because tomorrow may be too late.
I will be praying for your family.
Perhaps to spare them from Hell on earth?
There is no more perilous time to be a living child than now. It will only get exponentially worse in the near future.
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Thank you,
God is so great, time itself is not important to him. God can undo the past to correct pain and suffering, and eventually does. I believe this completely. Hang in there.
When Adam and Eve was driven from the Garden, disease is made part of the human existence. Disease will take the innocent as well as the guilty. The price for the fruit of knowledge is disease, aging and struggle with hunger. Birth will be painful for women. Therefore do not rack your mind with why he was taken. Some of the answers to your questions is in the Old Testament. Not everything in the OT is nullified by the New Testament. Those who make it to Heaven assume a heavenly form or a form with no inequities (no signs of disease and age). Hope this provides some insight to what happen.
"I know what its like to lose a child. You never get over it."
I don't see how you can get over it; my parents lost a premature son and they certainly didn't. They never even marked his grave; this is a job I'll have to do next time I'm in Chicago.
I'm sorry for the loss in your family. It is so devastating. My prayers are with you.
I am sorry for your loss and will pray for your nephew, for your sister, and for you. Words of sympathy and expressions of faith can only seem flimsy when weighed against the death of a child. I am confident though that your nephew is at peace and that, in the course of time, you and your sister will be with him again.
Your nephew knew plenty of love for more than ten years, which is more than many children receive from their parents or anybody else. Our Lord took the ultimate suffering upon Himself that we might be saved. Your nephew has been able to meet Love Himself, On who wants him saved more than any of us do.
"I don't understand why God takes the innocent."
It is a hard thing for us to understand, that we are all under the curse of death due to original sin, if not our own. Compared to most of the people you have known, the little feller may have been quite innocent. Yet he must have sinned, at least sometimes. We all do.
Focus rather on the goodness of God, in that He made a way for your nephew to be forgiven and be reconciled to God; and that if this little boy indeed trusted in Jesus for salvation, he is indeed saved. As are all those who confess their need for a Savior, and put their trust in Him.
Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Fathers house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." John 14:3
As for where is he now? Assuming he looked in childish faith to Christ, he is where the thief on the cross is, certainly.
"Then he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.
And Jesus said to him, Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise." Luke 23: 42-44
Prayers for your nephew, and for the comfort and consolation of you and your family.
Julie, he is heaven. God is not an intellectual discussion. He is your faith and your soul and in your heart.
Bless this little boy, his family and yours. Prayers are being said.
I hope that G-d grants you peace and allows the suffering of you and your family over your loss to diminish with the passage of time. Perhaps you can also contribute to charitable causes to honor his memory.
May God comfort you and your loved ones in knowing that James is now whole and very happy.
That's what Easter is all about. Because Christ is risen, those who know Him as Savior will live eternally. Death has lost its sting.
"The only thing that could comfort in such a situation is faith in something larger than ourselves... and the knowledge that although he is absent from us here, that he lives on and is safe. The utter despair for someone who had no faith at all is incomprehensible... how could you soldier on without anything to comfort you?
Prayers up for everyone touched by this...."
Thank you. I insisted that we attend church tomorrow. I guess when your faith is at is lowest is the time you need to be there. :)
Your post reminds me of one of my favorite songs, Alison Kraus' (sp?) song the Lord being her shield. It's beautiful. Okay, getting to bed and up early to get to church and pray for my be beautiful little nephew.
I will respond later to everyone else, but I have no doubt that your thoughts and prayers were heard, and James is now in the loving arms of the Lord.
Julie :)
I can't even imagine the pain that must come with the death of a young child. Yet I do have faith that the Lord God does have a purpose for everything. Our lives are just as short as your nephews in a relative sense. Family and children are a blessing from God but they're certainly not the be all and end all of our existence. God promises, promises, that because of the death of his son that all will have a chance to come to redemption and glory. God has that promise for you and for your nephew. Just because he's dead doesn't mean that God will not give him that chance.
Prayers and blessings to you and your family...
Thank you for your prayers. Yes, peace and comfort—and this is a reminder that there are no guarantees in life.
All the best to you and yours, CA Conservative. :)
I am so very, very sorry. I will be praying for you and your entire family during this time. Go ahead. Talk to God and ask Him where He was during this time. Ask Him directly and tell Him you're mad.
He is big enough to listen. I pray you can hear His answer in your pain.
Thank you, Brad's Gramma; I always enjoy your posts. That is a sweet thing you just did. :)
Okay, I need some sleep, Thanks to everyone. I always feel like I must respond to everyone, to be polite. Yet at some point, fatigue takes over.
>Take care and thank you for your prayers. There is no better online family than Freepers. :)
Happy Easter, all.
Julie, first you have to understand that God didn't do this to your nephew. We live in a world filled with sin and death and bad things happen to the innocent. God did allow it, however. And He allowed it for a purpose. We may never know what that purpose is, but I know that it exists.
We lost our son about a week before he would have been born. If the Lord had allowed him to stay with us, he'd be 10-years old now. That was both the worst day of my life and the most joyous. The worst part of it was looking into my wife's eyes. She had this horrible, pleading look on her face, like she was begging me to make it stop; to make everything better. But, of course, I couldn't. But that day I also heard God's voice in my heart telling me "He's with Me." I was overjoyed to know that my son with with Jesus. You cannot hope for more for your child than to know that they will live forever and ever with God.
I don't know what God's plan for my son Forrest was or is, but I know there is a plan and my son is playing his part in that plan. You should know that God has a plan for James, for his parents, and for you; even if we cannot comprehend it.
Rejoice that he is without pain and in the presence of God, Who's will is perfect.
We, being mere humans can not know the mind of the author and finisher of our faith, but have the assurance of things not seen, His grace is sufficient for us who remain until that day.
Rejoice again that Christ has paid the price for everyone's sin.....
Your nephew, not to the age of accountability, rests in Christ.
"Julie, he is heaven. God is not an intellectual discussion. He is your faith and your soul and in your heart.
Bless this little boy, his family and yours. Prayers are being said."
Thank you.... (tears starting to fall). I hope that is true.
Again, thank you all.
Prayers for James who i'm sure was a brave young man.
God bless you and your family Julie.
"We lost our son about a week before he would have been born. If the Lord had allowed him to stay with us, hed be 10-years old now. "
When I read your post, I started sobbing; I am so sorry for your loss, and this will sound weird, but if I could give your wife a hug, I would. I'll hope you'll do it for me and tell her people around the world care.
You're right, the Almighty has a purpose for all of us, but we, as humans, cannot know it. I agree with you. Perhaps Forrest and James are playing baseball or basketball or whatever in Heaven now, both of them being (or would have been ten) ten at the time they were taken away.
Oh dear....So sad for all. Many prayers.
Prayers for you all. Hang onto that cross and if you can reflect on how special your nephew was and is now in paradise. Love never dies and this life means very little, it's eternal life that matters and he is well and happy and waiting for the rest of his family. Your faith will see you through this.
I'm real sorry to read that! I have a grandson that's that age and his sister is just 11. I don't know what I'd do if one of them was taken! I can't help but think that as hard as it is to understand, that God has a plan for your nephew that is wonderful; and he'll make him well! But I know you and your family will miss him until you join him someday! That's what comforted me when at 14, I lost my Dad to a progressive illness (Emphysema). Anyway, may God bless you, your sister, and all your family, take care!
Julie, I am so sorry for your loss. My prayers are extended for
your dearest nephew James, and for you and your family.
May God Bless and Comfort you and your family during this time
as Jesus Christ the Great Healer welcomes James into His Kingdom.
I'm so sorry for your family's loss. You and your family are in my prayers.
Life really isn't fair. :-(
God Bless James and keep him safe in His arms. RIP, young man. My prayers for you and your Family.
So very sorry for the loss of James, saying prayers him.
So very true!
Many times I have said this very thing to myself.
Thank you Jim and John for making this online family possible!
Prayers of peace for James and his family and yours.
"Shield Of Faith"
(Ron Block)
Sometimes I'm battle weary
I forget to use my shield
The arrows pierce my armor
And I stumble in the field
A shield won't do much good if it's hangin' by your side
Keep the shield of faith before you if you want to stay alive
I'll think my life is over
But the Lord He comes to me
He heals my wounded spirit
And He sets me on my feet
A shield won't do much good if it's hangin' by your side
Keep the shield of faith before you if you want to stay alive
Sometimes you're battle weary
But the war's already won
Keep your head and hold your shield high
'Til your days of life are done
A shield won't do much good if it's hangin' by your side
Keep the shield of faith before you if you want to stay alive
Keep the shield of faith before you if you want to stay alive
Jesus said "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." ~Matthew 5:17
My prayers to you and your family in this difficult time. Understand that God does not truly take anybody, because that would imply He wasn't with them in the first place. When their time comes, He calls them home to Him.
Rest assured that your nephew is in His presence now. He has become one with the universe and all that is great. It is tragic that he died so young. We should not pretend to understand why these things happen, but know that while the physical body dies, the soul is eternal. Everything you loved about your nephew hasn't died, and will never die. Only the vessel that carried it has. You will see him again, in the next life that awaits.
My advice to you is to talk to your pastor or priest. They can be very comforting in times of grief. I'm not sure what your financial situation is, but doing some good for others can help to cleanse some of the blue emotions you're feeling. Donate to cancer charities, or perhaps do a little volunteer work. Your nephew is in God's hands now, but your hands can still do good in this life. Do not let the grim realities of our earthly nature hang heavy on you. Live life as you would have wanted your nephew to. To the fullest.
Again, my prayers are with you. All the best.
Saying Hail Marys for you and your loved ones. It's terrible to see a child pass on.
Prayers for you and your family. At 10 years of age he was not at the age of responsibility {knowledge} but rather he was a child. His suffering is over, he is healed, and he is with The Lord.
BTW your body and mind need rest. The mind plays bad tricks when you are tired and things will look the worst.
Hold on to your faith, be strong. Your nephew is with our heavenly Father, he is now way beyond perfectly healthy and his situation is wonderful!
For those left behind, he is not gone, he has just gone on ahead. When it's our turn to go, the loved ones who have went ahead of us give us someone to go to, making it easier for us to leave.
I'll be praying for you and yours.
I'm so sorry for your family's loss. I have a son James about that age! May God bless you all.
Prayers up for you, proud American in Canada, and each family member. God has welcomed your nephew home. No doubt here.
May God help your family in their bereavement.
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