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Board of Directors
Nu Skin Board of Directors
Steven J. Lund
Executive Chairman of the Board, Executive Director of Nourish the Children
Steven J. Lund serves as executive chairman of the board for Nu Skin Enterprises. He also serves as the executive director of the company's Nourish the Children initiative, which has facilitated the donation of hundreds of millions of meals to malnourished children around the world.
Lund has served as executive vice president of Nu Skin International since 1985 and in various other roles since that time, including vice chairman of the board from 2006 to 2012, president and chief executive officer from 1996 to 2003 and president and chief executive officer of Nu Skin Asia Pacific from 1996 to 1998.
Lund has served on the board of directors for the U.S. Direct Selling Association, and has participated in various civic and religious leadership roles; he served as chairman of the Utah Valley University board of trustees and was recently appointed to the Utah State Board of Regents.
Before joining Nu Skin Enterprises, Lund worked as an attorney in a private law practice after earning a Juris Doctorate degree from Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School (1983).
Ritch Wood
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Ritch Wood nimitettiin Nu Skinin Chief Executive Officerin tehtävään vuonna 2017. Woodin aikaisempiin tehtäviin Nu Skinilla kuului Chief Financial Officer vuosina 2003-2017, Vice President of Finance, Vice President of New Market Development, Director of Finance of New Market Development ja Controller of Pharmanex Division. Hänellä oli myös tärkeä osuus Nu Skin tuotteiden tuomisessa markkinoille monissa Euroopan maissa ulkomaankomennuksensa aikana vuosina 1995-1997. Ennen nimitystään Eurooppaan hänen työnkuvansa oli Assistant Director of International Tax.
Wood toimi Grant Thorntonin kansainvälisessä kirjanpitoyrityksessä ennen tuloaan Nu Skin Enterprisesin palvelukseen 1993. Hänellä on Brigham Young -yliopistosta luonnontieteiden kandidaatintutkinto ja laskentatoimen maisterintutkinto, pääaineena verotus. Vuonna 2010 Utah Business -aikakausilehti nimesi hänet vuoden talousjohtajaksi.
Neil H. Offen
Former President and CEO of Direct Selling Association
Neil Offen has served as a director at Nu Skin Enterprises since July 2011. Prior to joining the company, Offen served as president and chief executive officer of the Direct Selling Association (DSA) from 1978 through 2011. In addition, he served as secretary of the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations and as vice chairman of the Direct Selling Education Foundation.
Before joining DSA in 1971, Offen was legislative and administrative assistant to a United States Congressman and, prior to that, he served with the U.S. Department of State's Agency for International Development. Offen served four years in the Clinton administration as vice chair of the Inter-American Foundation, a US Government foreign aid agency requiring Senate confirmation and as vice chairman of the board of the American Association of Association Executives. He is also an inductee into the Direct Selling Hall of Fame, the DSEF Circle of Honor, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the WFDSA, and is a fellow in Governance in NACD. Offen was chosen as Association Executive of the Year in 1992 by Association Trends and received a special recognition award from the Secretary of Health and Human Services for his work on its organ donor program.
A member of the D.C. Bar, Offen received his bachelor's degree from Queens College and his juris doctor degree from George Washington University.
Daniel W. Campbell
Managing General Partner, EsNet, Ltd.
Daniel W. Campbell has served as a director at Nu Skin Enterprises since March 1997 and currently serves as the Lead Independent Director and as Chair of the compensation committee. Campbell has been a managing general partner of EsNet, Ltd., a privately held investment company, since 1994. From 1992 to 1994, Campbell was the senior vice president and chief financial officer of WordPerfect Corporation, a software company, and prior to that was a partner of Price Waterhouse LLP.
Campbell received a B.S. degree from Brigham Young University. He was recently elected as Chair of the Board of Regents, the governing body for the Utah System of Higher Education. Campbell is also active in the community, serving on a number of public and private boards.
Andrew D. Lipman
Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Andrew D. Lipman has served as a director of Nu Skin since May 1999. He is a partner and head of the Telecommunications, Media and Technology Group at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, an international law firm that he joined in 2014. He previously held similar positions with Bingham McCutchen LLP from 2006 to 2014 and Swidler Berlin, LLP from 1988 to 2006.
From 1987 to 1997, Lipman also served as Senior Vice President for Legal and Regulatory Affairs for MFS Communications, Co., a competitive telecommunications provider. He also served as a member of the boards of directors of Sutron Corporation, a provider of hydrological and meteorological monitoring products, and The Management Network Group, Inc., a telecommunications-related consulting firm. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Rochester and a J.D. degree from Stanford University.
Edwina D. Woodbury
President and CEO, The Chapel Hill Press, Inc.
Edwina D. Woodbury has served as president and CEO of The Chapel Hill Press Inc. since 1999. Her prior experience includes more than 20 years in the direct selling and personal care products industries, having served at Avon Products as chief financial officer and administrative officer and in other finance and operations positions from 1977 to 1998.
Woodbury has also served on numerous boards across several industries in addition to her current service as chair of the board of the nonprofit Medical Foundation of North Carolina. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Thomas R. Pisano
Former President and CEO, Overseas Military Sales Corporation
Thomas Pisano's career has spanned 40 years, with 25 years in the direct selling industry. A seasoned veteran from Avon, Pisano held key leadership positions at the company including vice president of global new business development, area vice president for the Americas and area vice president for Latin America/Pacific. From 2005 until his retirement in 2010, Pisano also served as president and chief executive officer of Overseas Military Sales Corp., which operates in 30 countries worldwide. Prior to this role, Pisano worked as the company's chief operating officer from 1998 to 2004. He also spent two years as vice president and head of The Topps Company's international division. Pisano graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in industrial management, and holds a master's of business administration from Dartmouth College with an emphasis in finance and marketing.
Nevin N. Andersen
Nevin N. Andersen is an accomplished professional with more than 40 years of experience in various financial management roles. Andersen spent nearly 24 years with Shaklee Corporation in various financial roles, including serving as Shaklee's chief financial officer from April 1990 through early 2003 when he retired. In 2005, Shaklee asked Andersen to return to serve as an interim chief financial officer and assist with the transition to a new chief financial officer, which concluded in February of 2008. Prior to his work at Shaklee, Andersen worked with the auditing firm Price Waterhouse & Co. for 10 years and as an officer in the U.S. Army Finance Corps. Andersen graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in accountancy.
Simon Shen
Simon Shen on ZQ Capital Limited -yhtiön perustajajäsen. Tällä erikoistuneella sijoitus- ja neuvontayrityksellä on kattava paikallistietämys ja laajat suhteet Kiinan. Hänellä on runsaasti kokemusta Aasian pääomamarkkinoilta, erikoisosaamisenaan Kiina ja siellä verkostoituminen.
Ennen ZQ Capitalin perustamista vuonna 2015, Shen toimi yli kymmenen vuotta sijoituspankkiirina, neuvoen kansainvälisiä yrityksiä yritystaloudellisissa toiminnoissa, fuusioissa ja hankinnoissa. Hän toimi Barcleysin Capital Asia -osaston China Financial Institutions Business -jaoston toimitusjohtajana vuosina 2011-2015. Ennen Barclaysille siirtymistään hän työskenteli vuosia sijoituspankkiirina Goldman Sachsin New Yorkin ja Hong Kongin toimistoilla ja Lehman Brothersin New Yorkin toimistossa.
Sheinillä on kandidaatin tutkinto matematiikasta ja taloustieteestä Wesleyan yliopistosta.


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I remember when I first heard the term "interactive notebook" I was excited to see some new approach to using something with technology. The word "interactive" led me to believe that somehow a digital device was involved. But no, it's a spiral notebook in which students glue, paste, staple, or tape handouts. Students create a table of contents and then number each page so every student is literally on the same page as is the teacher. Huh.
this article from Edutopia as this teacher, Christina Gil, lays out the how and why extremely well. You might also check out Ms. Legenski's Google site where she has posted some information for parents about the why and how of interactive notebooks as well as her rubric for grading them. (She's got some nifty other stuff on that site, too, but let's not get distracted just now. And the picture above is from her site.)
To Ms. Legenski's point, students use a range of skills including visual and linguistic intelligence and note-taking is an active, focused experience. I want to dwell on that last point for a bit because I know note-taking is become a lost skill and it's a very important one for students.
If you read Ms. Gil's article or scroll through Ms. Legenski's site, you'll note (see what I did there?) that an interactive notebook provides opportunity for guided note-taking. I've created guided notes graphic organizers because I know students don't know how to take notes. I remember studying and highlighting pretty much everything in the book (though I color-coded it) because I wasn't sure what was most important. Why? I didn't know what was going to be on the test. Yea, some things never change.
The point is that students don't know how to take notes because they don't know what they need to know and, more significantly, they don't realize that note-taking helps them solidify information they may want to know. I could talk about the brain research (see Additional Resources below), but little of that will come as any surprise. And it's not the devices--pencil and paper--but the time involved for students to take notes.
Think about how many times you've heard something of interest and scribbled a note in a margin or on a sticky note. How much text was that? A sentence or two? A phrase with a question mark? A reference to an author or article? But enough to remind you to follow-up because there is something you wanted to learn or understand. There are several reasons we take notes as adults and most of them are about our own learning and being able to share our learning with our colleagues. Our "test" is our work and our lives--things about which we care and for which we have motivation for improvement.
When we ask students to take notes, WHY do we want them to take notes? To learn? To be able to study for a test? There's a big difference between those two purposes.
In Ms. Gil's article, she notes that the left side is for creativity and the right side for objective material. The left side might be for notes or charts or something potentially creative with regard to the objective material on the right. What bugs me about that? I feel constrained and I'm not even doing the interactive notebook as a student. Would I really get to create graphs the way I want? Would I be able to take notes the way I want? Maybe mapping? Maybe sketchnoting? Maybe an informal outline? What if I needed more space because I don't want to get docked for work that might seem messy or disorganized? Could I put "Con't on page xx" if I need more room? And if I need more room, where would that be? More on this shortly.
The other thing that bugs me is that only the right side needs to be studied for a test. So any connections I make with the learning, or any connections I make with my classmates' learning could be limited to the left side or has to be part of the right side? How do I, as a student, determine which is which?
I do like the way Ms. Gil lays out grading. She says that 50 percent of a student's grade is "based on just four pages." The students choose three pages for the teacher to grade and the teacher chooses one so she believes that students show her their "best work," she gets "to learn what they like and what they're proud of." I really like that. So Ms. Gil's grading strategy plus Ms. Legenski's rubric makes sense. . except for the constraint of the pages.
In all honesty, I can't imagine that students would write or draw more than one page but, as I've said, the limitation bothers me. I'd like students to have the flexibility to do more or other than reflects their learning. I suppose that most teachers know roughly about how much of a spiral notebook is going to be used each year. I think my solution would be this: students start from the front of the spiral notebook. We all do the TOC, etc. But then students can turn their notebooks over and upside down, so they're writing in the back but it looks similar to the front. This is their continuation and freestyle section. They need to create a TOC for this section as well so they can number the pages (B1, B2, B3, etc. for the back of the book) so when they write "Con't on. . .," they can identify the page to which the teacher should go.
I can imagine some teachers pushing back for several reasons. It might be too confusing for the students or for the teacher; and it might be too distracting for the students during class, while they're studying or working with their partners or groups. Sure, it might. But that might also become the section in which students make connections and think on paper when they're studying or when they're reflecting on their learning. It could happen, especially if we give them the opportunity.
When we ask kids to take notes, yes, we want to make sure they are prepared for the test, but we should also want them to make connections with their learning. And connections that make sense to them in their own ways. Because as they learn to make connections, to think widely and creatively, to imagine and dream beyond the moment, they may begin to discover something remarkable about themselves.
There are lots of strategies to help students reinforce their learning that can be part of the interactive notebook. In fact, when students do some sort of activity that might not require a handout that gets pasted on the objective right side of the interactive notebook, there should be some way for students to include reflections on their learning or some sort of reporting on the activity they did and what they learned from it. For example, one of my favorite activities is a variation on tic-tac-toe. In one class we had students create 10 questions based on the work they had done the day before. Then students were put in pairs and they quizzed each other based on their own questions. Students had to confirm each other's learning by referring to the worksheet/graphic organizer they'd worked with the day before. If a student was correct, that student got to put his or her X or O in a space. If the student wasn't correct--and the teacher was the arbiter--they lost a turn. And so it went until someone won or they reached a draw. Then students switched pairs and did it again. We did three rounds and students reviewed the same information but through different questions.
When we were done, we were done. If that teacher had had students doing interactive notebooks, I think we would have put the worksheets in the notebooks. I would have wanted students to put at least their questions in their notebooks but I also would have wanted them to revisit their questions and make notes to correct any questions or to expand on any questions. That might have required more than two face-to-face pages and that should be okay, especially if it expands student learning and helps them to start thinking differently not only about what they're learning but how they're learning.
My thinking is that teachers continue to do interactive notebooks, providing guidelines, creating structures so students can learn to take notes and be better prepared for tests. However, I would love for teachers to relinquish some control of the TOC, even if it's to allow that backwards TOC from the back of the notebook so students can truly be creative, expansive, imaginative, even collaborative if they want. Let's unleash the learning.
Additional resources
For Note Taking, Low-Tech is Often Best
The Magic of Writing Stuff Down
3 Fun Strategies for Note Taking
Take Note: Five Lessons for Note-Taking Fun
Take Note! {Note Taking in the Primary Classroom}


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JM will be helping to assist churches outside of the United States to build a network of God fearing churches together in other countries.
If you are participating in a foreign mission trip and would like more information on international JM trips, please let us know!
Nicaragua 2013
Judean Missions (JM) participated in its first International trip July 15-16, 2013! JM partnered with Monte Horeb Church in León, Nicaragua. This was Monte Horeb's first mission trip as a church. They traveled to Selva Grande a small community outside of the capitol city of Managua. Nearly 30% of the congregation attended the trip lead by Director of JM International Jonathan Robinson and Brian Gentry. God was at work in the hearts of the people of Monte Horeb Church as Jonathan said, " we were just along for the ride." Pastor Cesar Arnaldo Cortez Castillo helped to lead his congregation in preparation for the trip by fasting and participating in constant prayer for one week. There were 40 decisions made to accept Jesus Christ as Savior and numerous seeds were planted. These are people with little funds so it was unthinkable for them to travel 62 miles and stay over night. Due to their obedience to spread the Gospel, God blessed this trip tenfold. After asking Brian Gentry to sum up this trip he said, "Awesome is the word I would use. I think about the preparation of the people. Praying daily and fasting for a week before. I think about the heart of the people, going out for one specific purpose, to share Christ. God blesses this intentional sharing of the gospel seeing lives changed, and seeing people that we [perviously] led to Christ using their gifts to win others to The Lord."
In regards to preparation for this trip, Judean Missions provided the following support;
In December of 2012, Bryan Gentry and Thomas Pinner presented a seminar by introducing the ministry's model of an evangelism mission trip.
Leading up to the planned Judean Trip in July 2013, Judean Missions prepared a Spanish version of it's evangelism training videos in order to further prepare the Monte Horeb Church mission team.
On July 13, 2013, Jonathan Robinson and Bryan Gentry did further training involving the prepared evangelism videos and further education to equip them for their trip.
*Since Judean Missions introduced the its mission model to Monte Horeb Church in December of 2012, they have been on three more Judean Mission trips.
**The Monte Horeb website can be accessed here, Iglesia de Cristo Monte Horeb Leon.
UPDATE: NICARAGUA JULY 2014- Jonathan Robinson and Bryan Gentry lead an evangelism conference at Hosanna Church in the community of Azarihas in Leon, Nicaragua. The congregation was challenged to evangelize and consider using the JM model.


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Japanese Repose Rug
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A new collaboration with artist Himitsuhana brings this stunning collection of tufted rugs. An abundance of velvet petalled roses in orange and cream flows across this rug bringing a summer garden in full bloom inside your home.
Dimentions: 1500 x 1800 mm
Material: Digitally printed tufted polyamide rug with action back
Type: Cut Pile - saxony
Thickness: 8 mm
Use: CL33 heavy Contract / Domestic
Fire Rating: EN 13501-1
Lead Time (ex delivery): 6 - 7 weeks
Himitsuhana in collaboration with Mineheart.
Chiara Fersini (1986) took a degree in Foreign Languages, English and Japanese. Since she was a child she was surrounded by art. Her mother, a painter and decorator, handed down to her the love for beauty and encouraged her inclination for visual arts. Her interest for photography is very recent; it started out after a study journey in Japan in 2007 and grew faster and faster coinciding with a falling in love with Photoshop. But photography is not just a passion for Chiara, it is the best way to show that intricate world that she feels inside. She put into her works her fears, dreams, her sorrow and joy and seeing them happening into images is a manner to feel free.


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Free Money Lander Bootstrap Html5 Template – ABD Bank is an OnePage Bootstrap template with fresh and cleans Design. It is created for corporate business websites, bank, insurance, creative agencies and other businesses. This HTML theme is designed modern and with amazing features that suitable to the current buyer demand. It looks perfect on all major browsers, tablets and phones. Just take this template of your choice, change the text, add your images and done.
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We've been talking about the IF campaign loads on Fun Kids recently.
It's a great idea that's trying to stop people going without food and being hungry.
And there's going to be an event at Hyde Park on 8th June from 2 – 5pm called #BigIFLondon to get even more people involved and talking about the campaign.
There'll be thousands of people there including loads of artists and celebrities who are supporting IF and you're invited too!
You'll be able to make kites, get your face painted, make special food hats and even go to an art workshop with The Gruffalo illustrators.
Will you be going to #BigIFLondon? It's for an amazing cause so if you are, let us know in the comment box below please.
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This last Wednesday night, I went along to see Sensitive Freight, a band with some friends and my brother. They played at the [Bar on the Hill](http://www.unu.org.au/DisplayPage.asp?pageid=1323), a great little venue at the University of Newcastle.
As I always have my camera in tow, I've been nominated their "official" photographer :), and so you get […]Read More


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Hot Iced Action: Franchise Hockey Manager 3 Out Today
The official sport of Halloween is, of course, iced hockey. The sport's origins date to Halloween 1874, when trick-or-treaters refused sweeties by a miserly Montreal hockey millionaire retaliated by flooding his private hockey court. The water froze overnight but when Sir Stanley Cups took to his court the next morning, he discovered that iced hockey was a delight. And that's why Franchise Hockey Manager 3 [official site] is being released today of all days. It's an iced hockey management sim from Out of the Park Developments, the folks best known for their baseball games. This year's big addition is an National Iced Lockey League license.
This means that you can now manage real NHL teams with proper NHL logos, insignias, and uniforms, as well as have your team compete in the Stanley Cup. Other changes include a new "streamlined and more approachable" career mode, an updated interface, improved AI, an overhaul of player development, and… it's a sequel in a sports management series, y'know? More sports, fancified.
There's no multiplayer, mind. "We are committed to bringing back Multiplayer however, but we were not happy with the mode as it was an want to do it right," OOTP Developments have said. They say surveys indicate most people prefer singleplayer so hey, that's what they've focused on for now.
Franchise Hockey Manager 3 will be $39.99 when it arrives for Windows and Mac through Steam and from the devs, which should be any time now.
Here, this trailer runs through a lot of FHM 3's features:
Ice is basically water's skellington.


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On the summer camp there was every day opportunity to go to the street with other people to share the gospel and learn from each other. On Wednesday there were two ladies who wanted to go with me on the street. They had already before prayed for people who had been healed, but wanted to grow in boldness. You'll only overcome your fear by doing it more and more and not listening to your fear!
So on Wednesday I went on the street with my two sister in Christ, Selmaré and Sally. This is how Sally experienced it:
"While at the TLR summer camp we went out on the streets/beach to share the power of the gospel. As disciples of Jesus Christ he said Go and heal the sick, cast out demons and preach the good news of the gospel. After some rejection I was asking Holy Spirit to lead us to the person of peace and there I almost feel like this lady was illuminated to me. Tim went over to talk first, the lady's name was Caren . She said she had pain in the knees and back so my fellow sister in Christ prayed for the pain to go in the mighty name of Jesus. Caren's English wasnt great but there are times words are not needed her face said it all! She told her daughter in Danish that all the pain had left to which me and my sister jumped around praising God's name. Then she pointed to her daughter and said would we pray. We did and a it took a few times but again the pain completely left her. There is power is the name of Jesus. We shared the gospel and the The Last Reformation film."
When we went back home Sally and Selmaré were so happy, because they got to see people being healed by their prayer! God is faithful! Thank you Jesus! 😀
Ps: Also in the start of the week I prayed for a Norwegian guy who had had dizziness for a long time. Because of the dizziness he couldn't drive his car. He had two kids, so it was a real problem for him. When I heard the story I prayed for him and few days after when he saw me again he told me that the dizziness had totally gone away. Amazing!


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UConn's Nurse gets to lock horns with Mississippi State's William at Final Four
Nurse hopes to contain Mississippi State's William in Final Four matchup
DALLAS >> The next 3-pointer that UConn junior guard Kia Nurse connects on will set the NCAA Division I women's record for most treys made in one NCAA tournament. However, it is a different aspect of Nurse's game that might bring her the most joy.
Raised in an athletic family featuring a father who player in the CFL, an aunt and older sister who played in Division I basketball and a brother who is in the NHL, Nurse has always gotten an extra bounce in her step when the task at hand came with a rugged degree of difficulty.
After drawing defensive matchups on Syracuse's Alexis Peterson, Jordin Canada of UCLA and Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu in the UConn women's basketball team's last three games in the NCAA tournament, another test is coming Nurse's way in tonight's national semifinal against Mississippi State (approximately 10 p.m., ESPN2).
All Mississippi State junior guard Morgan William did in the Elite 8 game against Baylor was go off for a career-high 41 points. She also happened to dish out seven assists and didn't commit a turnover in the overtime victory.
"She does a great job of getting in the lane, finding her teammates, knocking down shots and leading her team," Nurse said. "I think for us, it is going to be (trying) to limit her touches, limit how much play making she can do and defensively be on the same page."
Nurse has displayed the talent but even more importantly, the desire to draw the opposing team's best perimeter player pretty much from the first day she stepped onto the UConn campus.
"I was coached to play both sides of the ball and to understand that everywhere people focus on offense so much that they can be really good offensively players but they might be bad defensive plays so if you can do both sides of the ball it makes you a little bit more valuable," Nurse said. "That was how I was kind of taught growing up so I had to be good on both ends."
Peterson had 25 points, Canada finished with 20 points and 11 assists while Ionescu had 15 points but all three players had to work hard for their shots and to set up their teammates.
"In my position here, I end up with a lot of tough matchups, some of the better guards on the other teams," Nurse said. "If I can limit touches or kind of slow them down in any way possible, it is a good day."
Nurse figures to have her work cut out for her. William's performance against Baylor was one the best statistically in NCAA tournament history. In addition to trying to lead the Bulldogs to their first Final Four, William had a little extra motivation as the game fell one day removed from the three-year anniversary of the death of her stepfather Donnie Rory. The emotion of it all was revealed by William during ESPN's postgame interview.
"I just played for him and that was all him," William said. "It just all hit me, I did not plan that. They started asking questions and it just came out."
Rory, who was 44 when he succumbed to a heart attack in 2014, was a highly-respected coach. The day of his death is always a difficult one for William, one of reflection and always one where she takes the time to remember the impact Rory had in her life.
"It was a special moment," said Mississippi State junior guard Blair Schaefer, who is William's roommate. "I told her she needed to cherish that moment because he is in heaven looking down on her and proud of her. He used to work her out and be her coach and trainer. He is the reason why she is where she is today so just keep your head up. I know you wish he was here to see you play but he is watching you from heaven and he is so proud of you."
William admitted that she contemplated quitting basketball after Rory's sudden death. As she stood in the Bulldogs' locker room, she knows she made the right decision to stick with the game that she learned to play thanks to Rory's expert tutelage.
"If I didn't have him in my life, I don't know if I would have been this successful or I would still be playing basketball," William said. "I remember when he passed, I wanted to quit, I didn't have the motivation but my mom and my high school coach said he would have wanted you to play so keep playing.
"I am not a quitter but during the tough times, I couldn't go in the gym for a month. I'd go in the gym, try to dribble and I couldn't do it, I just started crying."
William not only didn't have a 40-point game this season before the Baylor game, she never posted more than 37 points in back to back games.
"She had this look in her eyes like nobody was going to stop her," Schaefer said. "She was hot, we were running plays (normally reserved) for our shooting guards because she was making everything. We told her, 'they are not adjusting and not guarding it so we are going to keep running it.' I just feel like she was truly a great point guard that day, she was not going to let her team lose and she had that mindset. I feel like when she has that mindset and she has attitude, we have a full team with that attitude behind her."


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The Elementary School has many programs to extend and enrich learning.
Responsive Classroom
The Responsive Classroom approach is a widely used, research-backed approach to elementary education that increases academic achievement, decreases problem behaviors, improves social skills, and leads to more high-quality instruction. Furthermore, this instructional philosophy is designed to develop a climate of trust and set the tone for respectful learning throughout the day. In the Responsive Classroom children's needs are addressed and a sense of significance is built while social, emotional and intellectual learning are merged.
Reading is very important to our Tabernacle Kids. Furthermore, our students are involved in a variety of school wide activities during the Read Across America celebration. Our Media Center features a guided reading room so our teachers can differentiate their reading instruction for their students as well as hone in on their students' instructional reading level. Last year we added a variety of rich math literature to our guided reading room so our teaching staff can use that literature for their anticipatory set to get their students interested in a wide range of math topics. Lastly, we were able to expand our parent/child literature by adding on to our "We Both Read" Program with more non-fiction books in our Guided Reading Room.
High School Math Mentors
Seneca High School math students volunteer twice a month to meet with fourth grade students for 1 hour after our school day to strengthen the younger students' math skills. Students work together to strengthen math facts and to solve problems similar to those found on the NJASK. In addition to providing positive mathematical support and increasing math sense, this program has proven to be motivational for all participants.
Supplemental Instruction
Student needs are met in the Elementary School by providing differentiated instruction in the classroom, in addition to Basic Skills instruction, Tier 3 support, gifted and talented programming and enrichment classes. Each level of assistance is designed to meet the specific educational needs of the individual student.
Gifted and Talented
The PERC curriculum enhances and extends specific content areas at each grade level. Science and mathematics are the areas of concentration in third grade and language arts is the content focus for fourth grade. Creative thinking, higher order thinking skills and problem solving activities expand the classroom program for qualifying students.
Third and fourth grade students practice weekly and present 2 performances a year for students, staff, parents, family and friends. The performances are exceptional. Please call the office (609) 268-0150 for further information.
Hand Chimes
Beautiful sounds are heard from the TES hand chimes group each year. This musical opportunity provides fourth graders with a unique experience at an early age and is continued in the Middle School.
It is amazing each year how our fourth grade students get their musical instruments for the first time in September and are accomplished enough to perform in December of the same year. Students are provided small group and individual lessons during school hours, practice at home and practice after school as a band to prepare for winter and spring concerts.
Community Service
Grade levels and classrooms join hands to make fruit baskets, buy turkeys, collect canned food, collect toys for those less fortunate than they during the holidays.
Fourth Grade Camping
Fourth grade students enjoy 3 exciting days of environmental studies at Camp Matollionequay in Medford. Students are involved in a hands-on activity-based curriculum in the out-of-doors. For more information, please touch base with one our our 4th grade teachers.
Safety Patrol
Our safe school environment is enhanced by the efforts of the TES Safety Patrol. Fourth graders are selected for the patrol by their classroom teachers. Our safety patrol members serve as role models for the entire student body. Therefore, these students are expected to demonstrate responsibility, trustworthiness, honesty and respect for others at all times. Our patrol members meet the buses in the morning to ensure students enter the building safely, assist in monitoring the lunchroom and monitor dismissal at the end of the day.
Jump Rope for Heart
February is the month when our thoughts turn to our hearts. Tabernacle Elementary School takes this one step further and, through the efforts of our physical education department, has conducted a Jump Rope for Heart event to raise money for the American Heart Association for the past 22 years. We are very proud that the district has raised over $188,000 for this worthwhile organization.
Ronald McDonald House
TES students collect pennies, paper and cleaning products and aluminum pop tabs annually for Ronald McDonald House. This effort began as a philanthropic project 14 years ago and has continued every year since. TES students have collected over $4,000 and countless supplies in our Kids Helping Kids campaign. This effort began as a fourth grade project and now includes the entire student body and the community. Representatives from each fourth grade classroom make the trip to Ronald McDonald House each March to tour the facility and present a check, supplies and the pop tabs. This year we are going to conduct a school-wide tab counting event. How many tabs can we collect???


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PUNKS on Advent calender!
Part of this years summer tour is being shown as an advent calender. A new episode is being released everyday in december until the 24th.
Nils Johannes Wärmegård was a performing circus artist who died in a drowning accident in February 2009. His friends decided to honor his memory by performing a circus and variety show in the north of Sweden where Nils was born and where he grew up.
"The Nils Show On Tour" is the title of a series of videos that was recorded between the 26th of July and 4th of August 2011. The videos are a documentation of what we did during these days in Sweden.
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Adolescent Health
Swiss TPH promotes the health of adolescents through comprehensive approaches, considering individual behaviour, as well as the socio-cultural environment. Youth face multiple and complex challenges. Many adolescents die due to accidents, suicide, violence, pregnancy related complications and other illnesses that are either preventable or treatable. Moreover, many serious diseases in adulthood have their roots in adolescence.
Influence of Globalisation and Life-Style
Globalisation, urbanisation, electronic communication, migration and economic challenges have radically changed and influence young people's lives. Therefore comprehensive approaches are needed that do not only focus on young people's behaviours but that take the socio-cultural and economic environment into account. Such approaches must consider the entire life cycle of young people. This is particularly important in low-income countries where the burden of youth-related health problems is high.
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Sexuality, Security and Health of Young People in Fragile Contexts
Swiss TPH improves the lives of adolescents and youth living in fragile contexts in Western and Central Africa. Young people in these settings are constantly on the move, displaced by insecurity, they often seek employment and safety away from their homes. The Jeune S3 programmes attempt to increase access and availability of health, education and information services related to sexual and reproductive health for young people. The project will also help build up youth organisations and networks to increase the participation of young people in the communities where they live. These efforts will focus on the most marginalised adolescents and youth in these settings, which are most at risk, including those in refugee or displaced person camps.
ACT!2030: Youth-led, Data-driven Accountability for the 2030 Agenda
In recent years, international recognition has grown that investment in the well-being of young people is necessary to respect, fulfil and protect their human rights and that such investment can offer enormous and long-lasting economic and societal advantages. As a result, international development frameworks have placed increasing emphasis on meeting the needs of young people.
ACT!2030 directly responds to this context by engaging young people in 12 countries globally in advocating for the the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a specific focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights and in holding governments accountable. The programme was initiated in 2013 as ACT!2015 as a collaboration between UNAIDS, IPPF and The PACT, and national youth alliances consisting of numerous youth-led organizations in countries, with the objective of increasing youth participation in negotiations for the post-2015 development agenda. The focus of ACT!2030 is to ensure meaningful youth engagement in the implementation, follow-up and review of the SDGs. Swiss TPH led the evaluation of ACT!2030 on behalf of UNAIDS, supported by 14 youth consultants. It included the review of documents, an online survey, ten desk case studies led by the national youth consultants, two country case studies in Zimbabwe and Mexico and an eRoundtable. It resulted in a final evaluation report.
"I have never met so many inspiring youth-led organisations in Mexico in such a short time."
Alhelí Calderon Villarreal, Medical Doctor and ACT!2030 Youth Consultant
From School to Work
Social scientists scrutinise how adolescents manage the crucial transition from education to employment. For this period comes along with many opportunities but also health risks. In this period, adolescents make important decisions that affect their health status also later in life, including whether they start smoking, exercise or enjoy a balanced diet. The project aims not only to explain how, but also why social determinants such as education and employment can affect adolescent health promotion.
Further ProjectsAll Swiss TPH Projects
More on Adolescent Health
- NCCR Policy brief on teenage pregnancy in Ghana
- Cordaid - Building flourishing communities
- UNFPA - Strategy on adolescents and youth
- IENK - Emergency contraception group Switzerland
- Report: "Erarbeitung Erhebungsmethoden für Datenlücken der Kinder- und Jugendgesundheit in der Schweiz"
- Social Resilience Website University of Basel
- Voices of Youth Video Project Dar es Salaam
- Voices of Youth Video Project Mtwara
- Voices of Youth - The Process of Video Production


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Christmas is just days away and with it comes an abundance of tasty food and drinks. One of these such beverages is eggnog, a holiday favorite for many. Eggnog is traditionally made with milk, sugar, raw eggs and a hint of spice, although there are many variations including ones made with cream instead of milk and others with added vanilla for flavor.
Unfortunately, like many delicious things, eggnog is not really good for us:
- One cup of eggnog contains approximately 350 calories
- The majority of eggnog's carbohydrates come from sugar
- Eggnog is very high in fat (almost half of its calories come from fat!)
- It is also very high in cholesterol (one cup of eggnog contains half of the daily recommended maximum for cholesterol)
I recently read that the effects of fat and cholesterol in one cup of eggnog is equivalent to eating seven strips of bacon. Yes, SEVEN. I now never want to drink eggnog again. Ever.
Now after saying that, I will be honest with you. We do have a carton of eggnog in our fridge as I write this. However, it is "soynog" by So Nice. I didn't even know such a thing existed! After looking at the nutritional facts, it appears to be significantly better than normal eggnog. There aren't even eggs in it! Just water, soybeans, sugar, spice, natural flavorings (to make it taste like real eggnog I'm assuming) and a whack of added vitamins and minerals. One cup has only 120 calories, 3g of total fat, is cholesterol free and it tastes EXACTLY like regular eggnog. Double thumbs up!!
If you absolutely have to have your traditional eggnog this holiday season, I'd say soynog is an excellent alternative health-wise! Your guests will never know the difference 😉
*Check out my review on So Delicious' Coconut Milk 'Nog! As good as I thought So Nice's 'Nog was, So Delicious' is somehow even better!


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Are you ready to do some hawking in Wausau, WI? We will be having our annual winter meet on February 2nd-4th, 2018. Wausau has a great deal of public and county land in the surrounding area for falconers to hunt game. For more information you can refer here.
The meet hotel is Weston Inn and Suites, the hotel staff has requested you make reservations for the rooms by January 1st, 2018. It is free to make a registration, the simplest way would be to contact the hotel staff directly, tell them you're reserving a room for the Wisconsin Falconer's Winter Meet, and they will put you down on their lists. Make sure you do it early as you can, there is another event being held that weekend.
Registration Fee – $20 and includes your 2018 annual WFA membership.
Saturday Dinner Cost – RSVP for Dinner required by Friday January 27th, 2018. It is a chicken buffet-style dinner.
Hotel – Weston Inn and Suites, 5810 Schofield Ave, Weston, WI 54476
Our speaker for this meet is Lynn Oliphant. Oliphant lives on a quarter-section of native parkland near Saskatoon Saskatchewan with his wife, Dr. Rhonda Shewfelt, their three dogs and a few peregrine falcons. Lynn is a retired professor having taught at the University of Saskatchewan Veterinary College for nearly 30 years. He has had a life-long commitment to the idea of sustainability and lives in a self-built, strawbale house, powered by solar panels, drives an electric car and with Rhonda grows much of their own food.
He holds a PhD in Zoology and was involved in the restoration of the Peregrine Falcon population in Canada and the Mid-West US. The Saskatchewan Co-operative Falcon Project was originally funded by Drs. Pat Redig and Bud Tordoff in return for the first peregrines released in the Mid-West. The project supplied more than 500 peregrines for release over a period of two decades. For over 20 years he also directed an intensive study of urban nesting Merlins in Saskatoon. Since coming to Canada in 1971 he has been involved in many conservation and environmental groups both locally and internationally and has been the recipient of several awards from various groups including Nature Saskatchewan, the Meewasin Valley Authority and the CanadianGeographic Society.
Beginning in the 1960s, he has flown all species of falcons native to North America at wild quarry as well as several hybrids. His bird of choice is the tiercel peregrine flown at Huns, sharptail and ducks. Experiments with tamehacking began in the early 1970s culminating in a book (The Four Week Window) describing the importance of early experience in the development of eyass birds. This has recently been superseded by his new book "Developing the Modern Gamehawk".
Lynn will be speaking primarily on his ideas regarding the optimal development of eyass birds for falconry and showing a 20 minute video of the method used at his small breeding project "Prairie Sky Falcons". If there is sufficient interest, a discussion of the evidence for a very large breeding population of peregrines located primarily in northern Canada will be entertained. A limited number of copies of the current book will also be available at a reduced price.
Non-resident falconers who wish to bring their birds to hunt in WI will require a Veterinarian's Certificate of Health and a completed and approved Import Permit, which you can download here. All non-resident falconers must have a WI non-resident small games license and all the appropriate stamps for the game you intend to hunt. This includes state/federal stamp for ducks/doves, and a state stamp for pheasants. Additional details can be found on the WI DNR's website. First time buyer's of a nonresident license will receive a discounted license, there are annual and 5 day options.
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Carrickfergus's annual Try-a-Boat day is Saturday 21st May when it's Open House, or rather Open Boat, at Carrickfergus Harbour from 1pm to 3pm.
Along with Carrickfergus Sailing Club and Carrickfergus Sea Cadets, BLS will be offering a Free Open Session to the general public to Try a Boat, which could be anything from a kayak through all manner of sailing boats to a power cruiser.
The BLS fleet includes specialised boats and equipment for the use of people living with a disability – with hoists and even a vessel with roll-on wheelchair access. Buoyancy aids are provided.
Registration is at the rear rear of the Sea Cadets Building at Carrickfergus Harbour – opposite Brewer's Fayre – from 1pm.
Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday 21 May 2016, 1pm – 3pm. Remember to dress up warm!!
(Carrickfergus Try-a-Boat is part of the RYA Push the Boat Out scheme)


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Lately, I've been art journaling more frequently. The other day I decided to draw a design on the page and then add color with small brushes. I am pleased with the result.
The next thing I wanted to try was painting on top of photographs that I printed out. It didn't work the way I wanted, so I ended up covering the images completely and trying something else.
The next thing I'd like to try is recreating some of my digital pieces with real paint and other media. I might start with this one.


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A survey of 6,700 faith-driven consumers revealed that 95 percent of them are less likely to see Disney's Beauty and the Beast remake due to its gay content.
The group Faith-Driven Consumer released these results along with other data about how Christians view the Disney brand in light of the announcement that Beauty and the Beast will contain an "exclusively gay moment."
This moment occurs between the male characters Gaston and his manservant Le Fou. Le Fou is sexually attracted to Gaston.
The survey was conducted by American Insights. It polled members of the "FDC community" online. Ninety-four percent "of Faith Driven Consumers are now less likely to spend money with Disney as
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Religious objection opt-out for Arkansas counselors stalls
A rule that would allow Arkansas counselors to refer patients to another provider over religious objections has been sent back to a subcommittee.
The Arkansas Legislative Council voted Friday to refer the rule with little discussion. State Rep. Andy Davis, co-chair of the Administrative Rules and Regulations Subcommittee, says the rule was not expected to be controversial, "but now that it is, we'll give them 30 more days to look at it."
The rule proposed by the state Board of Examiners and Counseling would allow counselors and therapists to refer a client over "ethical, moral or religious principles" but only after careful consideration and consultation. It also says a patient could not be abandoned.
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Wednesday night in Saskatoon, we celebrated a farewell Mass, and Fr. Lorne Crozon attended the celebration and spoke a few words on behalf of the people of the Archdiocese of Regina. He said "we're not stealing your bishop. We're simply taking him back." Thank you for taking me back. While it was difficult to leave Saskatoon, it is very good to be home, and even as I am being welcomed, it is a blessing to be able to join in welcoming so many other people here tonight, in the Cathedral and in the hall below, from near and far, and others following by live stream.
We might begin with a prayer from the 2nd reading, St. Paul writing to the Ephesians: "I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
As we set out on a journey together, I pray for all of us what Paul prays for: that we might come to know the breadth and length, height and depth, of God's love revealed in Christ. That is, that we might come to know the dimensions of God, of God's way with us, the dimensions of God's mercy.
We could strive for something more modest - and indeed we will as we walk day by day - but hopefully always with that larger vision in mind. One thing St. Paul's prayer invites of us is a vision of God that is vast enough to speak the Gospel in our world in such a way that it truly comes alive in the hearts of our brothers and sisters. And that asks something new of us in our day.
As many of you know, from early August to mid-September I was blessed, with family members and a couple of friends, to walk the camino to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, a journey of almost 800 km. over 6 weeks. One of the things we came across, in the city of Burgos, was the Museum of Human Civilization. Burgos is just down the road from Atapuerca, one of the most important archaeological digs in Europe, with fossils, and tools dating to 1.2 million years ago. The museum traces the development of primates and hominids from 7 million years ago, displaying bones of homo habilis, homo erectus, neanderthals, and homo sapiens, up to the present. Visiting such a museum makes us ask questions about the dimensions of human history, human existence. And it also invites questions about God.
Some of you will remember or perhaps even still carry on the tradition of reading a text before midnight Mass at Christmas, entitled 'the proclamation of the nativity of Jesus Christ', from the Roman martyrology. It begins, "In the five thousand one hundred and ninety-ninth year of the creation of the world from the time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the earth...." I have always loved this text, because it is concerned to place the mystery of the Christ event within the framework of creation and salvation history, locating the Word becoming flesh at a very particular moment in time. The notion that God created the world 6,000 years before the birth of Christ of course predates the emergence of modern science, which dates the creation of the universe at about 13.8 billion years and the earth at 4.5 billion years. The notion that all of history is only a short and measurable duration is quaint, but we are in trouble when science points to a vastness in terms of time and space, while faith is reduced to something quaint. A new version of the proclamation of the nativity of Jesus Christ reads, "when ages beyond number had run their course from the creation of the world, when century upon century had passed since the Almighty set his bow in the clouds after the Great Flood...." That's a good change. But the challenges that science and contemporary horizons of thinking pose to faith - and to our vision of God and God's action in history require more than changing a few words.
Here on the prairies, we are predisposed to vastness. We live in places where we can see to the edge of a very distant horizon, under skies which spread like a great sheltering shroud. Mystery and vastness are all around us. We do well to put that experience of vastness to good use.... St. Paul invites us - indeed the Gospel as a whole invites us - to ponder the depths and heights of God's goodness to us, and to have a correspondingly vast vision of God's desires for humanity. While this might seem obvious, I think it's a word we need to hear again and again in the church. For how easy it is to shrink God to our own size, to reduce God's creative designs to something we can comprehend, to limit God's mercy to the size of our own small hearts and minds. The best antidote to factions and polarization and internal tensions within the church is to centre ourselves squarely on the beautiful richness and depths of God's way with us.
God speaks to us in many ways, and one of the central ways God does so is through our fundamental experience of being human. If we are to think deeply about the dimensions of God and his goodness, then we also need to know well and think deeply about the dimensions of human life, which God has authored. The breadth and length, height and depth of what it is to be human have much to teach us about God and about what God desires, dreams for and asks of us. This also brings us into a healthy dialogue with the human and social sciences, which are ever exploring what it is to be human. We are a mystery to ourselves, a mystery that no scientific studies - whatever the science - can exhaust. But the search for a deeper understanding of what it is to be human is a holy quest linked closely to our search for God.
In this human life, as God has authored it, we encounter a great deal of beauty. The first glimpse of the sun bending over the horizon, holding a newborn child in one's hands, the song of the meadowlark the first time you hear it in the spring, the smell of fallen leaves in the Autumn - these and countless other daily experiences of the beauty of the created order, and our place in it, bring life to us, awaken chords of deep joy within. We rightly thank God for authoring something so amazing. But there is also a great deal of suffering which takes place on this planet, suffering which is woven into a created order where decay and dying are part of the rhythm of human life. And then there is the suffering that comes from selfishness and greed and sin.
The week before last, I took part in an international gathering of Anglican and Catholic bishops, who came from 19 different regions of the world in order to be commissioned by Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. The idea was to be sent out in pairs to spread the Gospel and to assist our local churches in reaching out together to those in great need. A part of our being sent forth was being given a 'Lampedusa cross'. None of us knew exactly what that was, but I was led to believe it was a pectoral cross of some sort. That was certainly wrong.
Lampedusa is an island off the southern coast of Sicily, and tragically, it is the place where many boats carrying asylum seekers and refugees from north Africa have been shipwrecked as they have sought a new life. The boats which began as vehicles of hope became vehicles of death. So the Lampedusa cross I was given was this (lifting it for all to see), a simple cross made of wood from a ship-wrecked boat that came ashore on this little island.
Shortly after becoming Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis went to Lampedusa, and gave a very powerful homily there: "These brothers and sisters of ours were trying to escape difficult situations to find some serenity and peace; they were looking for a better place for themselves and their families, but instead they found death. How often do such people fail to find understanding, fail to find acceptance, fail to find solidarity."
Pope Francis went on, "Has any one of us wept because of this situation and others like it?" Has any one of us grieved for the death of these brothers and sisters? Has any one of us wept for these persons who were on the boat? For the young mothers carrying their babies? For these men who were looking for a means of supporting their families? We are a society which has forgotten how to weep, how to experience compassion - 'suffering with' others: the globalization of indifference has taken from us the ability to weep! Let us ask the Lord for the grace to weep over our indifference, to weep over the cruelty of our world, of our own hearts, and for those who by their decisions on the global level have created situations that lead to these tragedies. Forgive us, Lord!"
Holding the Lampedusa cross, you feel a direct connection to the tragedy of lives caught in desperation, peoples whose dreams died with them at sea. Receiving the cross in ecumenical pairs, we received the summons to work for justice, responding to the needs of refugees and working for systemic change so that millions of people do not need to flee their homes; this work and task I now share with you. Finally, the Lampedusa cross is a tangible and poignant sign and reminder of the great suffering of so many people, and the great wounds of our world.
Now, to make a connection to what I was saying earlier: we as Christian community are called to a vision of vastness, and it needs to be one that is vast enough to hold the pain of the world; one that can hold the tension between the suffering and hope; one that can make sense out of the tremendous complexity of human experience. And so we ask: what can allow us to embrace the human condition with resilient hope and joy, despite the limits and suffering that come from illness and decay, greed and brokenness, sin and death?
In faith, we answer: our hope and our joy comes from a crucified and risen Lord; it comes from a God who comes in search of us; whose desire and dream is nothing other than to renew all of creation, to make what was old new; a God who reveals himself as self-giving suffering love. This is what God reveals to us in Jesus Christ. It is what we hear in tonight's Gospel, the very Gospel read 25 years and 2 days ago when in this Cathedral I was ordained to the priesthood.
The Risen Lord comes in search of Peter, the same Peter he had sought out years earlier. Peter had been captivated by Jesus' word, had launched out into the deep with him. He is the one who had been summoned to walk on water; who had been singled out by Jesus to be a rock, a leader. This is Peter who, at the time of Jesus trial, is confronted with the accusation of being a disciple of Jesus, and utters those terrible words, "I do not know him!" To this same fellow, the crucified and Risen Lord comes, seeking out Peter in order to cleanse and heal his "I do not know him" with the word eloquently spoken by his risen presence: and yet shall I be with you. Jesus asks, "do you love me?", the question itself brimming over with an extraordinary mercy. Do you love me? Then feed my lambs. Tend my sheep. Feed my sheep. Share in my mission, my life. Go fort"h in my name. This is an encounter that speaks powerfully of the height and breadth and length and depth of God's love. The cross is the story of a love so great that it transforms and redeems a broken suffering world, and us within it.
Annie Dillard, the great American writer who is such a keen observer of human life in its darkness and in its glory, has a passage I like very much which grapples with what it is to carry a vision of God's unfathomable mercy in a world which is complex and wounded. She writes, "The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see. And then [if you see, with the eyes of faith] you walk fearlessly, eating what you must, growing wherever you can, like the monk on the road who knows precisely how vulnerable he is, who takes no comfort in death-forgetting men, and who carries his vision of vastness and might around in his tunic like a live coal which neither burns nor warms him, but with which he will not part."
How do we as a people carry that vision of God's greatness around in us, in our tunics, in our very being, and live from it and never part from it? What is the way in which we can do that? As I mentioned, I recently walked the camino, literally 'the way'. On the road to Santiago, the way is marked out by yellow arrows. You need to stay vigilant, otherwise you get lost in a hurry, as we did early one morning when we by accident ended up following some little white arrows which took us 7 km. in the wrong direction. Each yellow arrow quietly speaks the message that we heard in the first reading from the prophet Isaiah: "This is the way, walk in it." Through the prophet Jeremiah, we hear a very similar word: "Thus says the Lord: Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls" (Jer 6:16).
And what is that way? It is the way of discipleship. At the end of today's Gospel, Jesus tells Peter what he told him the very first time they had met: "Follow me." It is the way of learning to live trusting God so deeply that we are able to give of ourselves generously. It is the way of service, the way of self-giving suffering love. It is a way that yearns to understand the breadth and height and length and depth of God, and to understand and love the human condition God has made. It is a way of joy, and simplicity; a way of community, of dialogue, teaching us how to live together. It is the way of reaching out in justice, in compassion, to those who suffer. It is the way of mercy within mercy within mercy, because an incomprehensible mercy is what we have received from God.
Friends, dear priests, dear Sisters, brothers and sisters in Christ all, this is why I have been asked to come here: to walk with you this way of love and mercy. In Jesus' name and alongside of you, to wash your feet, so that you can wash each other's feet; to strengthen us in the sacraments of Christ's presence, and to proclaim his life-giving and redeeming word, so as to hold us together in the Gospel and in the faith of the Apostles - something made possible only by the living active power of the Holy Spirit in our midst; to foster a community in dialogue with other Christians, other faiths, and with the world, seeking reconciliation, justice and healing. As I understand it, in brief, that is what a bishop does, what I will try to do. Along the way, you will from time to time need to wash my feet as well, and bandage my wounds, as I will stumble and fall. You'll need to forgive me from time to time. And I won't be totally shocked if from time to time you will fail too. But amidst all trials and tribulations, joys and wonders, my hope and prayer is that we will walk together, as we strive to love God and our neighbour in ways every ancient, ever new.
And as we walk we will stop from time to time to ponder the mystery of God, to ponder the life he has given us. At the end of the book of Job, Job says to God, "I have dealt with great things that I do not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I cannot know." When words seem to fail, Proverbs often uses a poetic little structure: Three things I don't understand. Four are too marvellous for me.
And so I leave you with this word:
Three things I don't understand.
Four are too marvellous for me.
the vast land under the sheltering sky
human life in its extravagant beauty
the breadth and height of God's ways among us
the length and depth of his mercy.
God bless you. Pray for me, as I pray for you. God bless us all on our way.
Readings: Isaiah 30: 18-21; Ephesians 3:7-12; John 21:1-19.
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Police in Limpopo have arrested three suspected rhino poachers believed to have been on their way to shoot and dehorn rhinos in Phalaborwa.
The trio was arrested on Sunday in Hoedspruit after police received information about suspected poachers with the aim to shoot and dehorn the animals at a private game farm.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said the Tactical Response Team (TRT) and stock theft members closed in and arrested the three suspects and confiscated a hunting rifle and a revolver, which were both unlicensed, as well as a licensed 9mm pistol.
Their vehicle was also confiscated.
"The three suspects, a 50-year-old South African and two yet to be identified Mozambicans, are expected to appear in the Hoedspruit Magistrate's Court soon on charges of the illegal possession of a firearms and ammunition, as well as charges under the National Environmental Biodiversity Act, which includes the conspiracy to commit a crime of rhino poaching," Mulaudzi said.
The origin of the two unlicensed firearms is currently being investigated and they will also be sent for ballistic tests.
Mulaudzi said the Limpopo police were offering a reward of up to R500 000 to any member of the public who can provide information which will lead to the arrest and conviction in court of suspects involved in the act of rhino poaching or dealing in rhino horns.
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The tour stars Ross Lekites as Tony, Evy Ortiz as Maria, Michelle Aravena as Anita, Drew Foster as Riff and German Santiago as Bernardo. Also featured are Mike Boland as Schrank, Stephen DeRosa as Glad Hand, Jon Drake as Action, Wally Dunn as Krupke, Alexandra Frohlinger as Anybodys, Jay Garcia as Chino, Casey Garvin as Diesel, Nathan Keen as Big Deal, Harris Milgrim as Snowboy, John O'Creagh as Doc, Christopher Rice as Baby John, Clay Thomson as A-rab, along with Karolina Blonski, Alicia Charles, Lauryn Ciardullo, Dean Andre De Luna, Lori Ann Ferreri, Ryan Ghysels, Tim Hausmann, Nicole Hellman, Laura Irion, Thayne Jasperson, Gizel Jimenez, Eric Anthony Johnson, Patrick Ortiz, Kristen Paulicelli, Christie Portera, Waldemar Quinones-Villanueva, Alexandra Blake Redelico, Michael Scirrotto, Jeffrey C. Sousa, Dani Spieler, Jessica Swesey, Kathryn Lin Terza and Kirstin Tucker.
Tony Award-winning librettist Arthur Laurents' Broadway direction is recreated for the tour by David Saint, the Associate Director on Broadway. The original Jerome Robbins choreography is reproduced by Tony Award-nominee Joey McKneely (The Boy from Oz, The Life).WEST SIDE STORY features scenic designs by James Youmans (Gypsy), costumes by Tony Award nominee David C. Woolard (The Farnsworth Invention, The Who's Tommy), lighting by Tony Award winner Howell Binkley (Gypsy, Jersey Boys), sound design by Tony Award nominee Dan Moses Schreier (Gypsy, A Catered Affair) and hair by Mark Adam Rampmeyer (The Farnsworth Invention). WEST SIDE STORY is written by three theatrical luminaries: two-time Tony Award winner Arthur Laurents (book) and multiple Tony and Grammy Award winners Leonard Bernstein (music) and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) in his Broadway debut. WEST SIDE STORY is produced by Kevin McCollum, James L. Nederlander, Jeffrey Seller with Terry Allen Kramer, Sander Jacobs, Roy Furman / Jill Furman Willis, Robyn Goodman / Walt Grossman, Hal Luftig, Roy Miller and Broadway Across America.
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