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Mary Lou Smallwood, age 66, of Laurel, Indiana died Thursday, October 11, 2012 at St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Born November 19, 1945 in Franklin County, Indiana she was the daughter of the late Steve & Isabelle (Johnson) Marcum. She was united in marriage to Rufus Smallwood, and he preceded her in death May 14, 2011.
She was a member of the Buena Southern Missionary Baptist Church in Buena Vista.
Survivors include three children, Donnie Thompson of Cincinnati, Ohio, Robin Thompson of Laurel, Indiana and Steve Thompson of Laurel, Indiana; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; three sisters, Virginia Youngman of Batesville, Indiana, Bertha Sue Marcum of Laurel, Indiana and Louise Bundy of Kentucky; one brother, Levi Marcum of Connersville, Indiana.
Besides her parents and husband, Rufus, she was preceded in death by an infant son, Levi Stephen Thompson; a brother, Tom L. Marcum, an infant brother, Henry Clay Marcum.
Pastor Rob Edwards will officiate the Funeral Services on Saturday, October 13, 2012, 1:00 P.M., at the Buena Southern Missionary Baptist Church, 25220 Chapel Road, Laurel, Indiana, with burial following in Laurel North Cemetery.
Family & friends may visit from 11:00 A.M. till the time of the Services at 1:00 P.M. on Saturday, October 13, 2012.
Memorial Contributions may be directed the Buena Southern Missionary Baptist Church.
Phillips & Meyers Funeral Home is assisting the family with the arrangements, to sign the online guest book or send personal condolences to the family please visit www.phillipsandmeyers.com .


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Why do laboratory liberations?
A: Laboratory liberations are essential
in the war against vivisection.
Education and economic sabotage save animals'
lives in the long run, but liberating animals from laboratories or other places
of abuse is the only way to save animals' lives now. Laboratory liberations are
among the most complex and risky actions an activist may undertake. For these
reasons, planning and preparation are the most important steps in this type of
Q: How do you select a target?
A: There are a number of
different criteria that a cell may use in selecting one target over another for
a liberation or other action. The type of experiments going on, known security
weaknesses, or homes arranged for a certain type of animal are all criteria that
may influence an activist's decision. Because local law enforcement will always
look into the local activist networks first when investigating a liberation it
is a good idea to pick labs that are not in the same area where you live (especially
if you're known in the community as an animal rights activist), or even in the
same state or province.
Q: How do you find out what kind of experiments
(and on what kind of animals) are going on inside the lab?
A: Research
avenues are going to be different depending on what type of institution you are
targeting. Some general rules for information searches do apply, though you will
have to do some of your own research that is specific to your area and target.
Vivisectors themselves publish amazing amounts of information. Some places
that you might go to find some of their information include: university libraries,
published research sources such as scientific and medical journals, the world
wide web, medical school catalogs, CRISP abstracts, annual reports, USDA inspection
reports, Medline, APHIS databases, ICAR databases and media reports.
avenue for finding out information on government institutions, including universities,
is through Freedom of Information requests. Legislation on the right to access
information varies from state to state and province to province so you will have
to find out what information you have the "right" to in your area. An
important note: if you are going to use this information to plan a liberation,
do not place the request in your own name or to your own address. Records of information
requests are kept, and could be used to trace you to the action. Also be advised
that F.O.I.A. requests can take several months to be processed.
A couple
of good online resources for learning more about vivisection are:
INVESTIGATING ANIMAL RESEARCH - A brief guideAPI's Useful Tools for Investigating
Animal Experimentation
Q: What kind of preparation (reconnaissance) do
you need to do before the action?
A: Because laboratory liberations are
high-risk actions, the more preparation, the better.
After selecting your
target, you must become as familiar with it as possible. Watch your target for
many nights and days over a long period of time so that you can get a good idea
of security on site: patrols and police response, staff and student activity,
shift changes, other activity in the area, surrounding neighbors, and other factors.
Keeping extensive written information of all of the above will help in the planning
of the action.
It is preferable to have maps of the entire area, including
road, topographical and aerial if possible. Maps can be obtained in university
and city libraries. In addition, blueprints of the targeted building can sometimes
be obtained in city or university libraries. Over the period that you do reconnaissance
on the site, you should also draw your own maps including any features that you
think are significant to your action including escape routes.
When drawing
up a detailed action plan, leave nothing to chance. Figure out every step in the
action and be certain that everyone in the cell is familiar and comfortable with
the plan beforehand.
At least once before the action, your cell should
go through a dry run that approximates the conditions you will face as closely
as possible. This means that you should try to do the "rehearsal" on
the same day of the week, at the same time that your action is planned for. This
may include going right into the lab to copy documents, check types and number
of animals, and to look for other features that may help or hinder the liberation.
Obviously, you should always have a contingency plan in place in case something
goes wrong. It should be clear to everyone what the plan of action will be should
you come into contact with security officers, police, students or staff on the
scene. Know which way you will escape, if you will act as a group or alone, and
where you will meet afterwards.
Some good online resources for planning
your action include:
MapQuest allows you to look up and print maps of the
area that your target exists in.TerraServer has arial and sa images for most
of the USA and some other areas.
Q: How do you get into a lab?
Obviously, there are many ways to enter a building, and which method you choose
will depend upon the security of the building that you have targeted. Forcing
doors, cutting through doors, picking and drilling locks, forcing or breaking
windows, and accessing ventilation systems are all means by which you may enter
the building. Roofs, and interior or exterior walls may also be cut or drilled
through for entry.
Q: What arrangements need to be made for the care of
animals following the raid (short term and long term - vet care, safehouses, homes,
and transportation)?
A: The most important part of a liberation is finding
loving homes for the animals. Aside from the actual entry group, another set of
people may be required for this task. NEVER liberate an animal that you have not
found a good home for. Liberated animals should be placed in homes of people not
associated with your group, and possibly not even associated with the movement
at all. Once animals are taken, police will be looking for them, so they have
to be placed somewhere police will not look, preferably well away from the area
where the laboratory is located.
After being liberated, an animal should
be completely checked over by a trusted veterinarian or other experienced animal
caregiver. Special homes may be needed for some animals considering you may be
liberating animals not normally kept as pets, or with special conditions inflicted
upon them by the abusers. The majority of large lab animals are tattooed, may
have implants, have organs or other body parts removed, or may be very ill and/or
As was said, liberations are often highly complex, requiring
a number of people and a huge amount of planning. You will need people responsible
for finding homes for animals, researching and planning the raid, lookouts, breaking
in, carriers - people to get the animals out, and drivers, as well as someone
to coordinate the whole thing.
Q: How can one ensure they do maximum damage
when destroying equipment?
A: Maximum damage to equipment and laboratory
facilities can be done by a variety of means including use of paint, brute force,
acid, water and/or fire. Your choice of method will depend on the facility itself,
how much noise you will be able to make without being heard, whether there are
animals being left behind, whether other humans in the building could be put at
risk, and your own judgment of the situation.
Slogans may be spray painted
on walls and other surfaces. Buckets of paint can be emptied anywhere inside the
Brute force may include damage done using just the physical body as
well as tools such as bolt cutters, hammers, crowbars, drills and other implements
of destruction. Not all equipment is of high value - in order to choose your targets
for maximum financial loss, familiarize yourself with equipment costs through
vivisection industry magazines like Lab Animal and laboratory supply company catalogs.
Lots of easy damage can be done using water and water sources in the building.
Running water while stopping up sinks, toilets and other drainage areas is a quick
way to do extensive water damage to a building. In larger buildings, it is best
to do this on the top floor so that damage is done to all floors below.
lot of financial damage can be done quickly to equipment and paper files with
the use of strong acid. Any strength of sulphuric acid will work (battery acid
is weak sulphuric acid), muriatic acid will also work in a pinch.
can also be an effective tool in destroying facilities. Your choice to use this
tactic will depend on many things including the presence of animal and human life
in the building, adjoining facilities that may be put at risk, environmental danger
due to fire, and the comfort level of all cell members in setting the fire.
What kind of security measures need to be taken with regards to slogans and video,
A: Obviously, you don't want to "personalize" your action
by leaving behind clues that could help investigators. When planning what to wear
to an action, make sure that your clothes can be disposed of (including your shoes),
and that hair and hands are covered throughout the action. You do not want to
leave fingerprints or DNA in the form of hair strands or other organic matter
at the scene of the liberation. When painting slogans, make sure that they are
done in straight, block letters and that paint purchases cannot be traced back
to you.
Make sure that as much of your body as possible is covered, especially
the face and hand area in case of video surveillance. Wear a balaclava and gloves
and make sure that all distinguishing marks such as tattoos are not exposed in
any way. Be aware that video footage may reveal height, weight, sex and body shape.
For further security and other tips, see NC #13's Focus Section on Direct
Action, p. 13.

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Convictions and Cultural Change: A Google Hangout with John MacArthur
from Nathan W. Bingham Aug 25, 2015 Category: EventsOn August 25th, we were joined by Dr. John MacArthur, president of The Master's Seminary, and Dr. Stephen Nichols, president of Reformation Bible College. We discussed the urgency to stand with conviction in a time of rapid cultural change. Keep Reading
Planting Churches in Japan: An Interview with Dan Iverson
from Nathan W. Bingham Aug 25, 2015 Category: Tabletalk MagazineHere's an excerpt from Planting Churches in Japan, an interview with Dan Iverson from the August issue of Tabletalk: Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Aug 24, 2015 Category: ArticlesAt a practical level, people who are struggling with their assurance of salvation often approach me and ask, "How can I know I am saved?" In response, I ask them three questions. Keep Reading
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from Nathan W. Bingham Aug 23, 2015 Category: Ministry NewsHere are highlights from our various Facebook and Twitter accounts over the past week. Keep Reading
Cage-Stage Calvinism: What Is It and What Causes It?
from R.C. Sproul Jr. Aug 22, 2015 Category: ArticlesIf you are a Calvinist you likely have been through this stage. If you are not, you surely have encountered those who were infected. Keep Reading
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from Joel Beeke Aug 21, 2015 Category: ArticlesThere are many reasons why we must evangelize. John Calvin offers the following: Keep Reading
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from Nathan W. Bingham Aug 21, 2015 Category: Ministry NewsIt's time for our weekly $5 Friday sale. This week's resources include such topics as providence, the Lord's Prayer, Christology, predestination, abortion, music, preaching, John Knox, eschatology, prayer, technology, and more. Keep Reading
Praying for Pastors' Kids
from Nathan W. Bingham Aug 20, 2015 Category: Tabletalk MagazineHere's an excerpt from Praying for Pastors' Kids, Barnabas Piper's contribution to the August issue of Tabletalk: Keep Reading
4 Principles for the Exercise of Christian Liberty
from Sinclair Ferguson Aug 19, 2015 Category: ArticlesIt was years ago now, but I still remember the discussion. I was making my way out of our church building some time after the morning service had ended, and was surprised to find a small group of people still engaged in vigorous conversation. One of them turned and said to me, "Can Christians eat black pudding?" Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Aug 18, 2015 Category: Ministry NewsLigonier Ministries has a special resource for you this month: the full 32-part series Defending Your Faith on DVD and a DVD-ROM featuring the audio version of the series and a study guide. This resource is yours when you give a gift of any amount to Ligonier Ministries. Keep Reading


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Fourteen Months in Carrefour
Mary Jo Frawley, a registered nurse from Vermont, went to Haiti days after the earthquake in January 2010. She thought she'd stay a few weeks, but wound up staying for 14 months.
Haiti 2011 © Francois Servranckx/MSF
USA © Joshua Lutz
Having previously completed MSF assignments in Somalia, Pakistan, Sierre Leone, Zimbabwe, and other nations, Mary Jo Frawley, a registered nurse from Vermont, went to Haiti days after the earthquake in January 2010. She thought she'd stay a few weeks, but wound up staying for 14 months.
On January 12, 2010, I was in Vermont when I heard that an earthquake had hit Haiti. It was ten o'clock at night and 20 below zero. I called my colleague Jane, who I had worked with over the last ten years on MSF missions. We quickly emailed the emergency team coordinator to let him know that we were available if they needed us. I got a call at seven the next morning from MSF in Amsterdam. They wanted me to go as soon as possible. Within an hour, my bag was packed.
The first night was in Miami, where we had a team meeting in the hotel. While communication out of Haiti was limited, we heard that MSF teams on the ground had basically lost everything but the clothes on their backs. The next morning, we went to a department store and collected food, water, underwear, deodorant, cell phones, and anything else we thought they would need.
We landed in the country less than 48 hours after the earthquake, as one of the first emergency response teams on ground. Nothing in my wildest dreams could have prepared me for what we saw. If you can imagine one of the worst snowstorms in New York City's history, and what the middle of the street looks like after the snow plough passes through, that was what the streets of Haiti looked like, but instead of snow it was parts of people's homes. The streets were covered with rubble people had carried out by hand or wheelbarrow so they could try to set up shelters where their homes once stood.
I was assigned to a scout team. Our initial assessment showed the greatest needs were in Carrefour, a very poor community of one million people in Port-au-Prince. The neighborhood's sole hospital had been badly damaged, and patients were on the street, so we spent our first night working there. Though it had been off-limits to aid workers before the earthquake due to security concerns, and I was expecting to stay in Haiti for only four weeks, Carrefour became my home for the next fourteen months.
Assessing the Needs
Initially, I was the front scout of a very experienced Rapid Surveillance and Response team that consisted of an emergency room doctor, an emergency team coordinator, and an MSF driver. After one night in Carrefour, we moved down the coast to Leogane and set up in a nursing school and focused on trauma surgery. Our work was community based and surveillance-based and involved constant reassessments of what the needs were and whether they were being met. We'd treat patients and talk to community members to learn how we could best assist them, then report back to our coordination team about the supplies and specialists needed in a given location. When other MSF groups and NGOs that could take over the activities came to the area, we moved on to places that had not yet received substantial medical support.
Even towns not directly damaged by the earthquake felt the impact. In Le Cayes, for example, hundredsof people who fled Port-au-Prince had ended up at the town's 300-bed hospital. We assisted by providing pediatric orthopedic support until other organizations began establishing
themselves in the area, allowing us to hand over our work and return to Carrefour. The community had been underserved even before the earthquake—in addition to the insecurity, it was difficult to reach due to its diverse terrain—and had now sustained a lot of damage.
We decided to set up programs that could take care of both the orthopedic emergencies caused by the earthquake and the ongoing needs in the neighborhood. That meant establishing an orthopedic surgical unit, a pediatric hospital, two primary care clinics, and a feeding center. Setting up the clinics was my responsibility. We recruited a team of 20 people from the community to help us let others know who we were and what we were doing and to conduct medical surveillance. With their assistance, our team surveyed the health needs, conducted health education sessions, and, in collaboration with MSF's epidemiological research arm, Epicentre, developed a surveillance system that would inform us of any sudden demographic changes—deaths, births, movements, and so on.
Each team had 600 families that they would visit once a week. We surveyed 60,000 to 100,000 people on a regular basis. This also helped us establish connections in the community, something we tried to reinforce in Carrefour by walking through the neighborhood and asking people about their lives, families, and health.
One of our community outreach workers, Paula, was especially effective when it came to explaining the services we offered and why we couldn't provide others. A powerful, dynamic woman who was a social worker before the earthquake, Paula was passionate about helping women and children and assisted with a local NGO for women's health. When we walked down the street she had a friendly, "Commo yea?"—"how are you?" in Creole—for everyone, and she could both explain to the residents what we were doing as an organization and help us see how we could better serve the community. She was also able to answer people's questions, letting them know why MSF wasn't going to put a clinic in every campsite but was going to meet people once a week for consultations. I am confident that our acceptance and safety in this community can largely be attributed to people like Paula who worked so diligently to bring MSF to the people of Carrefour.
Haiti © Kadir van Lohuizen/NOOR
A New Emergency
As the months wore on and other NGOs began leaving, we made sure gaps were filled. People started making progress, finding better places to live and seeing schools open again. By early October, we were phasing down some of our projects.
Then cholera hit, and in less than four days, we converted the orthopedic hospital in Carrefour into a cholera treatment center. My team started tracking the first cases of cholera using our existing surveillance system and established Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) points. MSF treats many cholera patients using ORS, a mixture of glucose and electrolytes (such as sodium and potassium). The solution is stirred into a liter of water and provides the correct balance of electrolytes to rehydrate someone who has contracted the disease.
Haiti had not seen cholera for over a century. In order to help educate the public, we distributed information at the ORS points and through community outreach teams. By the following spring, cholera had spread throughout the country, but so too had knowledge of how to prevent and treat it.
We Are Guests
I extended my time in Haiti three times before I finally left in March of this past year. My time in the country was different than any other mission I have gone on with MSF. I think the difference was how close I was able to get to the community, something that made the experience especially rewarding on both professional and personal levels. I really haven't had that before. Carrefour became my neighborhood. In the time I lived there, I was able to gain an appreciation for what that community had gone through and the struggles they were continuing to have. I used to eat at this food stand on the street, for example, and when cholera hit I continued to eat there because I knew the woman that ran the stand, and I knew that she was trying the best she could when everyone was afraid of water and food contamination. I was willing to continue eating there in order to help support her and the community. I'm not sure I would have done that on a shorter mission.
MSF can't always provide all the solutions, but in this emergency I think we provided a great deal of medical care, as well a caring presence for the community. One of my patients was a young boy who had heart problems. He was not long for this world, but I spent time dancing with him. I think what we provided this boy was a sense of stability, a sense of support, and some palliative care. What I've had to learn with MSF is that sometimes you can dig as deep as you can and find out as much as you can, clinically speaking, only to learn that all you can do is hang out and provide a moment of fun for your patient.
I left knowing that the community outreach and local staff I had trained were well prepared to continue caring for their own community. My goal at each MSF project I am a part of is to work myself out of a job because I know the national staff can take care of it. We are guests in these settings.


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(West Plains) – Some of the most beautiful and practical items of Ozark life will once again be on display during the 18th annual Old-Time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival June 15 and 16 in downtown West Plains.
The Southern Belle Grandmothers Club of West Plains will host their 8th annual quilt show in conjunction with the festival, and organizers encourage area residents and quilt enthusiasts to bring their favorite quilts to display. The show will take place in the Magnolia Room of the West Plains Civic Center, 110 St. Louis St., one of the venues for the two-day festival. Admission to all festival events is free.
The quilt show was first held in 2005 in the historic Butler Building on Washington Avenue and joined the festival in 2006 as an annual featured exhibit. It showcases all types of quilts, individually made, group quilted, hand-pieced, hand-quilted, machine-pieced or quilted, or any combination. Those visiting the show are given stickers to vote for their selection for the People's Choice Award announced at the end of the exhibit.
Those wishing to display a quilt should drop it off during set-up the evening of June 14 or early morning June 15. All participants are asked to pin a note on their quilts that tells the story of its maker, use or other history of the piece.
Southern Belle Grandmothers Club Chapter No. 1011 is a member of the National Federation of Grandmothers Clubs of America, a non-profit organization that supports charitable projects relating to cures for children's cancer. The local chapter supports Ronald McDonald Houses of Missouri and St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, TN, as well as addresses local needs of children's groups.
As part of their fundraising efforts, club members offer a handmade quilt each year. This year's "Green Delight" quilt was machine embroidered by Wanda Hunter and will be exhibited at the festival. It will be given away in October. Registration information for the giveaway will be available at the festival, organizers said.
Those wishing to lend a hand should contact Barbara Butler at 417-256-6184 or Cheryl Kuschel at 417-257-1067.
The Old-Time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival is the signature event for West Plains. The two-day festival seeks to celebrate, preserve, pass on and nurture an appreciation of the old-time music and folk life traditions distinctive to the Ozark Highlands.
For more information about the festival, visit www.oldtimemusic.org.


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