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On the last weekend of January 2016 the LORD spoke to me about leaving the Bonteheuwel Methodist Church, a church that I basically grew up in; a church where I have been active in leadership for many years and a church where I as a man in a wheelchair, enjoyed a very strong and solid support structure. I ministered here and in the circuit as a student preacher from 2004 to 2005 and as a full preacher from 2006 to 2016.
I prayed intensely and discussed it with my wife extensively and we both sought our Father GOD together in prayer for guidance. I asked the LORD where we should go and the Holy Spirit implanted a word in my spirit that we should plant a new church!
Then I remembered…. In 2001 my late sister, Naomi, gave me a prophetic word; she said to me, "Taswell, I see you preaching to a field full of people and I see you have your 'own' church."
At the time I was still a baby Christian and still very immature and because of my ignorance I did not receive that prophecy, but now after so many years I realize that the prophecy has come to fulfilment.
GOD gave us a specific instruction for this new church.
I have always had a special love for Israel and my late sister Linda and I have always been Sabbath keepers and when Edwina came into my life I learned that she was also a woman who loved Israel and celebrated the Biblical feasts. The Holy Spirit revealed to me how many churches have lost their love for Israel and are now following the World Church and secular organizations that is promoting this policy of Boycott Divest and Sanction (BDS) Israel.
Our assignment is to restore the relationship between the Christian Church and Israel and continue to teach about GOD's ordained feasts, even though there are some in the Church that will not agree with me. Edwina and I even had a Hebraic wedding ceremony!
Another ministry that I am including is the Peacemaker ministry that I have been involved in. Ever since my conversion on the 10th of April 2000, I have been involved in a ministry towards gangs, because of my background as a gang leader in Cape Town https://www.alexander33.com in the 1980s.
The LORD has been speaking to me about Halfway Houses and Places of Refuge for ex-gangsters and gangsters that still want to leave that lifestyle behind; so we are going to need properties in the Western Cape and beyond!
By the grace of GOD, Edwina and I are both fluent in the Prophetic and the Prayer and Intercession ministries and therefore we have been instructed by our Father to start an Apostolic and Prophetic centre that will be like a Hub in South Africa!
By the design of GOD we met a very powerful and anointed man of GOD, Apostle Martin Mofokeng, who graciously agreed to be our apostolic covering. His church, Kings Dominion Ministries, are located in Lenasia, Johannesburg. I am happy to announce that we will be launching our new church from Thursday the 24th of November until Sunday the 27th of November 2016; ISSACHAR PROPHETIC MINISTRY! The location that GOD gave is 524 Lansdowne Road, Lansdowne; Cape Town.
I heard a new sound! The sound that GOD gave me was a SOUND OF FIRE destroying the authority and legal ground that the BLOOD ALTARS have been given in Cape Town! A multitude of spiritual pregnancies and births have been prophesied over the Church and over Cape Town in the past, but many Strong Men have exercised Legal Authority in the spiritual realm and have succeeded in bringing numerous of these prophesied pregnancies to still-born births and miscarriages! The revelation that GOD gives me is that Cape Town is the prophetic GATEWAY not only to Africa, but also to the whole Southern Hemisphere! Issachar Prophetic Ministries is trusting the LORD to be an Apostolic and Prophetic House to train and raise the gifting that our Father has already prepared and to maintain and coordinate a powerful KINGDOM ministry across the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE and beyond!
(1Ch 12:32) And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
Our goal is to raise R100 000 to launch Issachar Prophetic Ministries well. Please prayerfully consider giving a significant one-time donation, or partner with us to sustain this ongoing project. We are looking for monthly partners to commit to sowing R100 for the next five months (July to November).
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This morning was a struggle: we had a late night with the excellent Kings of Summer/Practice Makes Perfect block last night.
9AM: Joe Papp in Five Acts Joe Papp founded New York's Shakespeare in the Park organization, brought free theater to New Yorkers, and oh yeah, was the original producer for shows like Hair and A Chorus Line. This film, while mostly about his life, is also an incredible view into a slice of New York City history from the 1930s through the early 1990s. A Must See for anyone interested in theater or contemporary history, and Highly Recommended for just about everyone else.
Noon: Family Shorts. This year, the festival moved the Family Shorts block to the Ashland Street Cinema, which is okay but awkward–now, mid-day, we're getting in a car to schlep back and forth. It's not far, but in Ashland terms, it's like leaving the Magic Kingdom to go to EPCOT just to see "Body Wars". Yeah, Elisabeth Shue, but that's a big schlep.
The other thing is that some of the best animation is in this block, and it's a toss-up as to whether is belongs here or in Animation Shorts. Girl and Fox, sure, Tuurngait, absolutely, Eyes on the Stars, I'm with that. But Dripped, an homage on the life of Jackson Pollock? I'd argue that Ernesto, a short about a kid who is (almost) losing his teeth, and Floyd the Android are much better fits for the Animation Shorts block than for this one–from the audience responses, I suspect that the humor went way, way over the heads of the tiny tots but right between the eyes of their parents.
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February 14, 2018
Bradley Jon King, Petitioner,v.Charles L Ryan, et al., Respondents.
Bradley Jon King has filed a pro se Petition for Writ of
Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. (Doc. 1.)
Summary of Conclusion.
raises two grounds for relief in his timely Petition.
Petitioner's claim in Ground One is procedurally
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Arizona Court of Appeals applied a proper procedural bar when
it denied relief. Petitioner offers no cause and prejudice to
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Facts of the Crimes.
Arizona Court of Appeals found:
Victim parked his van in a Fry's Electronics parking lot
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[E]lectronics saw a red pickup truck leave a parking space,
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When Police Officer Brian Sergeant arrived, a security
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pulled defendant over and placed him in investigative
detention, defendant stated "the passenger of the truck
had nothing to do with the stealing of the bicycles."
When Officer Sergeant asked him why he took the bicycles,
defendant responded that he "wanted them."
Officer Sergeant found a "pair of bolt cutters and some
cables" inside the truck. At the back of the van police
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Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) seeks a dynamic individual to lead its Biology Department beginning in the 2019-20 academic year. The successful candidate will demonstrate outstanding skills in leadership, research and teaching, and will apply those skills to lead departmental strategic planning; support faculty growth; expand research programs; and promote an innovative educational experience for students at the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. levels.
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Abstract: Sheep are gregarious animals, and they often aggregate into dense, cohesive flocks, especially under stress. In this paper, we use image processing tools to analyze a publicly available aerial video showing a dense sheep flock moving under the stimulus of a shepherding dog. Inspired by the fluidity of the motion, we implement a hydrodynamics approach, extracting velocity fields, and measuring their propagation and correlations in space and time. We find that while the flock overall is stationary, significant dynamics happens at the edges, notably in the form of fluctuations propagating like waves, and large-scale correlations spanning the entire flock. These observations highlight the importance of incorporating interfacial dynamics, for instance in the form of line tension, when using a hydrodynamics framework to model the dynamics of dense, non-polarized swarms.
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OPP responded to the call at the Stop N Go at 80 King St. E. just after 8 p.m. They say a man went into the store alone, brandishing what turned out to be an air soft pistol and demanding cash from the store clerk.
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As mentioned Proloquo4Text is feature rich. To give you an idea of the amount of customization here is a link to the resources page: http://www.assistiveware.com/product/proloquo4text/resources
The features can be broken down into three main categories; Appearance, Language/Speech, and Text Entry/Word Prediction
Being able to change the look of an app is something that AssistiveWare excels at. The screenshots below give you an idea of the options available and also a small taste of what those options look like from both the portrait and landscape view.
Language and Speech
There are a variety of voices to choose from within this app. With the 1.2 update there is now 95 voices in 15 languages to choose from. Here is the listing of voices with samples included: http://www.assistiveware.com/product/proloquo4text/voices As the choice of voice options continue to grow there are now expressive voices available to include happy and sad. The personalization options include rate, pitch, and editing of word pronunciation.
Text Entry and Word Prediction
When producing text the user benefits from what AssistiveWare calls Quick Blocks, in that there are blocks located on the screen to provide quick access to items that may be used frequently. Quick Talk, Sentence Prediction, Phrases, History and Word Prediction are quick block options. The user can see the Quick Blocks in a variety of ways on either the right or left side of the text pad with only two choices seen at any one time but all are available with button selection. The Quick Talk and Phrases blocks can be fully customized to provide fast and efficient speech options. When producing text from scratch Proloquo4Text offers learning word prediction. This option can be customized to learn only correctly spelled or all words. The word prediction selections displayed can be from 1-10 words with the ability to change the font size.
Once again AssistiveWare has produced an industry leading product that competes with and in many instances outdoes the competition. For more information on AAC communication apps be sure to check out Jeannie Krull's app comparison guides:
AAC Text-To-Speech Apps with Word Prediction: Comparison Matrix
AAC Comparison Matrix: Apps from Original AAC Manufacturers & Proloquo2Go


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Film reviewed: Just Mercy
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It's Movie Time has won numerous national awards including LA Press Club, MarCom, Communicator, Hermes, and Silver Microphone honors.
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Cherry Valley Club Golf Course opened in 1907. The course was designed by Walter Travis and Devereux Emmet. Frank Duane redesigned six holes in 1970, and Geoffrey Cornish and Brian Silva redesigned the entire course in the latter part of the 1970's.
The Cherry Valley Club Golf Course is similar to a links-style course. The greens are small and fast, and water comes into play on four holes. The signature hole is #7, a 451-yard, par 4, with a standard cut of rough lining both sides of the fairway from tee to green.
Cherry Valley Club facility measures 6,826 yards from the championship tees and plays to a par of 72.
Championship tees: par-72, 6,826 yards, 72 /127
Blue tees: par-72, 6,418 yards, 70.4 / 123
White tees: par-72, 6,180 yards, 68.9 / 120
Red tees: par-73, 5,635 yards, 72.4 / 127
Member (cart included), played on Saturday, May 2010 at 8am
I'm a member at Cherry Valley so many of my answers reflect that. It is a great local course. They have cut down too many trees to make it perfect, for me. But I am very pleased to have been a member for many years.
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Today I had planned to play for about 6 hours, but 3 in I decided to call it a session. I was running about 2 BI under expectation, was getting coolered quite a bit, and definitely missed some value bets. But I had managed to win about 4 buy-ins and for the first time all week I felt good about my game. I'm not sure that I was playing drastically better today than I had for the 21k hands I had played earlier in the week, but I finally had won some cash and I needed the mental boost.
Poker can beat you down. This year has been a trial. Cash flow not what it used to be due to Black Friday and FTP stealing the vast majority of my bankroll, I was already under the gun so to speak in terms of stress. It took a lot of work just to get a bankroll back, and to get playing again on different sites. After all of that I had eaten through a good portion of my savings. And then the run bad started. It began last fall and was definitely a combination or running bad range vs range as well as being under EV. But I managed to win some money just about every month thanks to RB and bonuses so I wasn't sweating it too much. But then things started to get ugly in January of this year. I simply could not win, and I was running multiple buy-ins under expectation every second. Combine this with a volunteer position I took on a Division III college baseball staff, and suddenly I could barely stomache playing. At this point in the year I was about 80 BI under EV and wasn't sure if I would ever win big again.
The run bad continued at the tables, but I was trying to grind it out when I could. Then it extended to my real life. At the beginning of April of last year I accidentally stabbed myself in my right palm. The story itself is both frightening and funny, but I'll stick to the results. I severed the flexor tendon that bends my pinky, knicked an artery, and did mild nerve damage. It took surgery to repair my hand, and then 6-8 weeks of rehab before I was able to use it again. Everything is back to normal now, but during that time I basically was one handed and it was the hand I don't use to play poker.
In order to be able to play and try and make money for that month, and May I decided to try and 4 table PLO at lower stakes. I figured that my slower mouse movements would match with my poorer understanding of the game and need for more time to think about decisions. Eventually I started to think I had a better handle on the game, and my left hand was getting very proficient with the mouse so I found myself frequently 8 tabling. Unfortunately I was overestimating my knowledge of PLO and underestimating the variance. My breakeven to slightly winning PLO game quickly took a nosedive and I found myself losing, and losing frequently. I ended up running about 35 BI under EV for my PLO play, but had I run at EV I would have still been a slightly losing player. At this point I was at an all time poker low. Using the wrong, hand, playing the wrong game, and still losing. I'd been losing or breaking even for nearly 5 months.
Thankfully I budgeted for crises because (although not dire or life threatening) this was certainly my first crisis as a pro. I decided to give myself two more months to work out of the funk. I had my hand back, I'd go back to my bread and butter game (NLHE) and I'd rededicate myself. If I couldn't book a reasonable winning month with new focus and new rules for sessions I'd polish off the resume and move on.
then things started to change...


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At times, I find myself in awe of how much joy there is to find and create within every day, and of how much of our lives we spend failing to notice this. When my attention is thus focused, I find myself unable to quite recall why I can't live with this level of joyful awareness at all times, and am determined to try capture an essence of it that leaves breadcrumbs (or, rather, smooth round river stones) for me to follow back here.
Tonight, I found myself an unaccustomed insomniac, body disturbed by pain and out of sync after an unusually long sleep last night. I lay in bed awhile, attempting to calm my busy thoughts, then thought to distract myself through reading – which in turn only stimulated a wider range of thoughts, and pulled me further away from the comfort of sleep. An hour and a half later I finally roused myself from the warmth of bed, and pulled on a warm jersey and slippers against the winter chill, making my way to the kitchen to stir together a long-neglected childhood remedy: gently warmed milk, sweetened with honey and laced with fresh ginger and turmeric. The final ingredients were a warm blanket and my laptop, and here I sit: the first welcome yawns just arriving, feeling sleepily satisfied and ready to capture a few thoughts before slipping back to bed for what I hope will be a delicious sleep.
It feels an impossible task at times to identify what deep internal dialogue and impulses, far beneath what I can consciously grasp, drive me from patterns of growth and self-care to those of increasingly subtle self-sabotage. Even when I consciously push myself to address my unhealthy choices, or have the support of a coach or friend to do the same, it can feel unreasonably difficult to make the real underlying changes to my intention that leads to lasting change in my patterns and rhythms.
Sometimes the triggers are obvious – I have noticed for many years, for example, that when I run I crave fresh, healthy food for at least eighteen hours afterwards, whether the run itself is short or long, intense or easy. I know, therefore, that if I have fallen into less healthy eating patterns, the quickest and easiest way to change this is quite simply to start running again. This in itself has additional benefits, including that I go to bed earlier in order to be fresh enough to wake up earlier in the morning to go running, so I work shorter hours and get a better quality of sleep. It also provides me with more time alone out in nature, which usually improves my mood and reduces my sense of being stressed and overloaded. The cause and effect are relatively simple, and while I certainly find it easier to motivate myself to get out of bed and go running at certain times of my life, generally speaking once I have made the decision to do so I have the willpower to follow through, whenever injury (or, rather, the lack thereof) allows.
So what are the shifts I need to make to get myself back into healthier mental patterns, such as daily meditation, which I have neglected for over a year now? These I find much harder to unpack, and make sustained change around when my energy just doesn't seem to want to go there. Of course there are different answers to this question at different times, but there are also patterns that I have at times been able to alter, and wish to become more conscious in shifting for longer periods of time. Perhaps if I continue to lay these patterns down, and reflect back on them over time, they will emerge with increasing clarity. What I can see for now is that towards the end of last week some challenges at work that had felt as if they had entirely drained my energy and motivation began to shift positively after I put concerned effort and conscious openheartedness into it, and that shift continued more profoundly throughout this week. As that began to move from feeling stuck and unsolvable to constructive and fruitful, my energy returned, and with it my creativity and optimism. From there the positive effects are easy to track: I have been more present and loving at home, and have been lighter and more engaged with life.
This morning I made a commitment to myself to meditate every day, even if it is just for ten minutes – an entirely achievable goal even at the most pressured times, and no matter where or how I may find myself. A simple and profound gift I can choose to give myself, which is both an end in itself and a gateway to the further gifts that flow from even brief moments of calm and equanimity. I am glad to say I kept this commitment for the first day at least, and look forward to tracking my progress and learning for myself as I go.


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I'll be pushing up the daisies by the time he gives me a raise.
That is what one of my friends told me this week. She was complaining about her working situation. She has been asking for a raise (i.e.increase in salary) for the past year but her boss refuses to give her one. She feels she deserves it because she has done an outstanding job on a long standing project. He agrees but insists on respecting the salary freeze that has been in effect for the longest time.
She used the expression 'Pushing up the daisies'. It is a very descriptive idiom that means when I am dead & buried.(i.e.placed under the ground) In other words, It will never happen. It is usually conjugated in the future continuous. It is a euphemism that is used to avoid saying something unpleasant.
It comes from the position of a daisy before it is picked. Like most flowers, a daisy grows in the ground. When we die, we normally go underground if we have a burial.(i.e.the act of buying) This means we will be able to push up the daisies.
We use it when someone passes away. We use it when a situation is not moving and we don't think it will ever change. We use it when we have been waiting a long time for something to happen.
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Rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attainprivileged control (known as root access) over various Android subsystems. As Android uses the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative (superuser) permissions as on Linux or any other Unix-like operating system such as FreeBSD orOS X.
Rooting is often performed with the goal of overcoming limitations that carriers and hardware manufacturers put on some devices. Thus, rooting gives the ability (or permission) to alter or replace system applications and settings, run specialized applications ("apps") that require administrator-level permissions, or perform other operations that are otherwise inaccessible to a normal Android user. On Android, rooting can also facilitate the complete removal and replacement of the device's operating system, usually with a more recent release of its current operating system.
Any Android smartphone or tablet can be easily customized and optimized by completing a series of custom operations. Among these procedures, maybe the most important step to complete is to gain root access as in this way you can unlock the internal system of you device. Due to same reasons, if you own the Motorola Moto E, maybe you will want to take full advantage of its capabilities and why not, maybe you will want to improve its performances.
Since the root procedure isn't official, by completing the same you will void the warranty of your Motorola Moto E. Unfortunately this aspect can't be avoided, so if you are a newbie and you think that you might end up in bricking your handset (everything will be fine if you follow this tutorial) maybe the best will be to stop going any further. Anyway, you should also know that the warranty can be afterwards restored by revoking root access, or by re-flashing the stock Android OS on your phone – manually as on a rooted system you can't receive OTA roll outs.
How to Root Motorola Moto E
- From here download the SuperSU app file.
- Place this file on your computer, preferable on desktop – don't unzip it.
- Then connect your Moto E with your PC by plugging in the USB cord.
- Up next, transfer the root file from desktop to your phone's SD card.
- Unplug the USB cord and turn off your device.
- Enter recovery mode on your Motorola Moto E.
- Then from recovery select "install zip from SD card" followed by "choose zip from SD card".
- Pick the root file which you have downloaded before and flash the same on your Moto E.
- Wait while the installation procedure is being completed.
- In the end select "reboot system now" and you are done.
- In case you are experiencing issues with your phone, return to recovery and select "wipe data factory reset", "wipe cache partition" and "wipe dalvick cache". In the end, return to main menu of recovery and pick "reboot system now" – that should resolve all of your problems.
Congratulations, you have successfully learned how to root your Motorola Moto E.


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Chinese people have been playing drums in celebrations for thousand of years. Traditional Chinese drum is often painted with the colour red which associates with power and good luck in Chinese culture.
Theses Traditional Chinese Drummers present a very unique performance which combines drum playing with traditional Chinese dancing and Bian Lian (aka "Face-Changing", an ancient Chinese dramatic art that is part of the more general Sichuan opera). The all female drumming group was founded in 2008 and have performed on many celebratory occasions in Mainland China, Macau and Hong Kong.


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Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing, we teamed up with our Flagstaff favorites at Pizzicletta to craft an ale brewed in a traditional Kvass style.
We'll be kicking off the release @ Pizzicletta Friday, July 19th w/a specialty AZW pizza pairing in conjunction with the weekend's Lunar Legacy events.
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By Ilana Koegelenberg, Feb 13, 2020, 12:32 • 1 minute reading
Global technology providers have until this Friday to submit their low-GWP project proposals for the incubator program.
Submit before Friday, February 14.
Time is running out to submit project proposals offering highly efficient air-conditioning or refrigeration solutions using low-GWP or natural refrigerants for consideration in a free Cooling-as-a-service (CaaS) incubator program. The deadline for submissions is this Friday, February 14.
The incubator program is being led by the Switzerland-based Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy (BASE), which has already received a number of applications from around the world. Interested parties can apply through the CaaS website.
The Cooling as a Service Initiative is led by the Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy (BASE), along with the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP). It aims to decrease energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from cooling use through a pay-per-service model for more efficient cooling systems. The CaaS model is endorsed by the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance.
In the incubator program, five companies will be selected to receive free support from BASE to integrate CaaS into their business lines. Selected companies will receive assistance on technical, legal and financial aspects to implement the CaaS model, such as contractual arrangement, pricing strategy, and financial structuring, including risk mitigation mechanisms, among others.
The five winners will be announced on February 28, 2020.
For more information on CaaS, visit the CaaS Initiative website, the BASE's project page or the Global Labs's project page.
Check out this video for more information on why you should register for the CaaS Incubator.
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The Episcopal Church and La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico share a history of support and walking together in mission of more than a hundred and forty-four years. The 1994 General Convention approved that the five dioceses of Mexico (Cuernavaca, Northern Mexico, Western Mexico and Southeastern Mexico) constitute themselves into an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. A covenant agreement, effective since 1995, outlines the basis of the current partnership in mission and the support toward economic self-sufficiency between both Churches.
The dioceses in Mexico are very interested in partnership relations with dioceses and congregations of The Episcopal Church for mutual prayer and encouragement, to share perspectives in mission and ministry, and to break away from the sense of isolation they sometimes feel. Episcopal Relief and Development is a partner in mission with some dioceses in Mexico and has responded effectively to recent natural disasters. The Church Pension Group manages and coordinates with the Church in Mexico the Pension Plan for its clergy. The longstanding reality of migration across the borders of Mexico and the USA, with its new pressures and demands, have brought Churches on both sides of the border to become partners as they respond to this human crisis. There is hope that the relationship between both The Episcopal Church and La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico will develop in new ways into the future.


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Check out my six "Scream Party" portraits at the LIC Arts Open Gallery in Long Island City, NY. On view until March 30. Click here for details.
My wonderful friend Abby interviewed me for A Hundred Eleven magazine. Click here to read our musings on why people do weird things like paint portraits and anthropomorphize Christmas trees.
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Some of my little creatures are featured in the "Queer Spaces" issue of cahoodaloodaling literary magazine. And my little yellow dude is on the cover! Click here to access the issue online.


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Posted on 21 Sep 2018 @ 2:18pm by Zhong Qi & Xiuling Brooke & Lucas Bird
Mission: I Don't Care, I'm Still Free
Luke had been working in his cabin, with brief visits to the cockpit and a stop off in the galley to grab some water, he'd smiled at the sound of someone playing a guitar but hadn't been close enough to hear the abrupt stop or the shouting. He'd been writing Nick and Reeve's notifications of contract termination following a wave to Alice yesterday, the notifications themselves were fine, it was the short reference he'd decided to give each of them. He needed a break from trying to wrangle his words into a statement that while true wasn't so harsh they'd never get a job again. That would only come back to bite him in the ass, he didn't want either of them holding a grudge for too long. So he'd gone up to the cockpit, and was stood in the middle of it looking out at the black. Watching the stars go by always seemed to help him think.
It was there that they found him, stood at the top of the steps to the forward section of the cockpit, his hands clasped behind his back. Wearing black jeans, boots and his leather jacket with a oriental patterned shirt underneath. He heard footsteps coming up the steps and turned. He was about to smile when he saw who it was, but then he saw their grim expressions, Xiuling's red eyes and slightly blotchy complexion.
"What happened?"
Xiuling was fiddling with the hem of her dress, it was one thing for Qi to believe her considering she'd come in at the tail end of it... but she'd spent so long being forced to hide everything the men in her life had done to her that she was used to dealing with things alone. Telling someone about anything that went beyond the brief version she gave Tabitha a couple of days ago was something she had never really figured she'd have to do. Sergei knew what his cousin was capable of, Tabitha didn't need to know, and she had never had anyone else to tell.
"I wasn't trying to cause trouble, I was just sat in the cargo bay playing my guitar and..." she started, but then realised that she didn't know what to say exactly. Or, more to the point, how to tell him without crying. Having people underestimate you was one thing, but bursting into tears at the drop of a hat was another thing entirely. "Could we all, sit down, please," she said as she realised half the problem was that she didn't think she could stand for much longer. And if the Captain was sat down he'd be more likely to hear the whole story than flip out and not let her finish. She took the Navigators chair, behind the seat designated for the co-pilot and waited for the other two to sit down.
Qi laid a hand on Xiuling's shoulder for a brief moment, giving a squeeze, then reached for Nick's gun in her waistband. "This is Nick's. I told him that you would decide when, if, he got it back. I'll let Xiuling tell you what happened." She held the weapon up for Luke, handle pointed at him.
Luke took the gun, and quickly checked it over. He knew it hadn't been fired, that he would have heard. He nodded at Qi, set the gun on the side and took a seat in the co-pilots chair looking at Xiuling. "There's no one gonna be going no where, so take your time," he said gently. He had a feeling he knew what she was going to say, and that she probably wouldn't be here if Qi hadn't been there to suggest they find him. He was glad Qi trusted him, but he understood that he hadn't earned their passenger's trust quite yet. With men like Reeve and Nick in the verse it was no mystery as to why...
Xiuling watched as the gun was handed over. She was halfway to reaching for the chain round her neck when she paused, realising that it would do no good for her to be pleading poverty and for them to see the ring on that chain. Instead she twisted her fingers together, and looked down at the floor. Luke spoke and she glanced up at him for a brief moment before looking back at the floor again. She kept trying to remind herself that this was nothing to be ashamed of, that at least this was her and not Tabitha.
"So, I was playing my guitar, sat on the platform in the middle of the steps, minding my own business really, and Reeve came up, made a lewd comment, and another, so I decided to leave, only I hadn't realised he was distracting me while Nick was sneaking up behind me..."
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Luke was beyond furious.
How dare they try to pull that kind of shit on his ship? Who the hell did they think they were? As Xiuling had spoken his expression had grown darker. He'd made sure to confirm that she wasn't hurt and that they hadn't done any more than what she'd explicitly stated. He clarified about Reeve's lewd comments, and he was pretty sure both women could hear his teeth grinding when she said they were doing it to make her pay for her trip.
He'd left both women in the cockpit, and headed for Nick and Reeve's bunk. He didn't bother knocking as he opened the hatch and climbed down the ladder with such speed he may as well have just jumped down the hole. his boots slammed into the metal plating of the deck and he looked up at the two men. Reeve visibly paled at the sight of him. He wanted to beat the pair of them to a pulp, and then throw them into an airlock and let Xiuling press the button to send them out into space. A very small part of him wanted them to feel that same kind of terror they had just inflicted on another person, but he knew he wasn't the kind of man to deal out that kind of justice.
He looked at one, and then the other, daring one of them to speak or make a move.
"She pulled a knife." The words tumbled out of Nick's mouth after a pregnant pause. He stood staring at Luke, eyes wide.
With a growl, Luke was on him in a heartbeat grabbing him by the front of his jacket and slamming him against the wall of the cabin.
"You wanna start at the fucking beginning you Joo Bah Jeh?" he spat.
"You ain't gonna take the word of a woman over mine, are you? I ain't the one who was messing up your ship, after all." Nick couldn't look Luke in the eye.
"You trying to bait me into changing the subject Nick?" Luke snarled at him. Behind them, Reeve moved and Luke very deliberately placed his forearm over Nick's throat and pressed before he turned his head to look at Reeve. "Stay on your fucking bunk, or I'll smash your head on the edge of it and leave you bleedin'." He turned slowly back to Nick. Luke wouldn't have come down here if he didn't know he could take both of them on in a fist fight. "Do you wanna try that again?" his eyes narrowed in fury as he pressed a little harder on Nick's windpipe.
"Were Reeve's idea," Nick choked out.
"It were as much your idea as it were mine!" Came the indignant shout from the bunk behind them. Reeve was off his bunk and moving towards them, Luke didn't waste time in grabbing his hair and slamming his head into the cabin wall. His focus was on Nick, so he'd not been paying attention to Luke, and his momentum only helped. His head his the metal with a resonating thud and he dropped to the floor with a scream of pain.
"You two can argue the finer points of the situation once I'm gone, I'm just here to inform you how gorram lucky you pathetic excuses for pigs are," he snarled. "You're gorram lucky that girl had the self control not to stick you like a pig, cause from what I hear you'd have bled out 'fore anyone could help you. You're gorram lucky I'm a decent man or you'd be experiencing exactly what you were going to put her through at my hand. And you're gorram lucky she's the kinda woman with the ability to hold her own and stop you, cause if she hadn't I can guarantee you'd be missing the inside of my boat."
Luke grabbed hold of Nick's hair and pulled his head away from the bulkhead before slamming it back into it with as much force as that small movement allowed. He stepped back breathing heavily.
"You will be surrendering all weapons to me, right now. Then you don't leave this cabin until you're walking off my boat the second we make landfall." Part of him really wanted them to fight him on this, give him a chance to smash their faces in. Reeve's nose was already bleeding probably broken, and Nick should have been at least dazed, but both seemed incapable of letting any kind of moral lesson penetrate those thick skulls of theirs. He wasn't stupid enough to turn their backs on them either.
"Stupid bitch took my gun, claimed she was givin' it to you," Nick slurred as he slumped to the floor. "Extra bullets are in my trunk, is unlocked." He leaned forward and rubbed the back of his head. "If you weren't so big, like a gorram Norse God..."
"I was talking to both of you, and don't pretend like you've only got one gun." Luke himself owned two, which he regularly walked around the ship with, as well as a shotgun on the wall in his cabin. There was no way someone he'd hired to shoot people if he had to only had one gorram gun. The one he'd handed over to Qi was practically a peashooter. Despite it all, Lucas almost smiled, "I've worked hard every single day of my life, and I've got the respectability and physique to show for it, maybe you should think about that..."
Meanwhile, Reeve was dragging himself off the floor, he opened up his trunk and pulled out his ammo and the heavy pistol he favoured. He moved closer to Luke, his eyes narrowed. He was seriously pissed off now, Nick had tried to pin the whole fucking thing on him, and Luke was treating them both like criminals when all he could prove was that they'd grabbed her. The blow to his head may have had him not thinking straight but as Luke's head turned to look at him there was no mistaking the determination in his eyes. Apparently Reeve didn't care that he was built like a viking because he raised his arm and swung with the pistol, intending to clock Luke on the side of the head with the grip he'd been holding out in surrender a moment ago.
Without thinking, Luke moved to the side a little, grabbing Reeve's wrist and twisting his arm. The scrawnier man howled in pain as Luke dislocated his wrist and then used his weaker arm to punch Reeve hard in the face and then in the gut. The gun clattered to the floor and Luke practically threw Reeve onto his bunk. He lay there whimpering and cradling his hand. He turned to look at Nick, praying the other man would have a go too, somehow he figured Nick had a little more fight in him than Reeve, who was clearly just an idiot.
Nick just sat at the base of the wall and stared up at Luke.
"So are we all done being ruttin' ornery?" Luke asked the pair of them. "Do you have another piece stashed somewhere? Cause if you do, and I catch you with it, I'm shootin' you with it." His tone was less threatening and more matter of fact. He was done with being lied to and undermined by his own gorram crew, apparently even money couldn't buy any kind of loyalty from some people.
"Evi is stashed in the false lid of my truck." Nick referred to his favorite gun, the one too big to carry around regularly. "As are her spare power cells."
Luke moved to Nick's trunk, keeping him in sight at all times while he undid the catch and lifted the lid. Feeling round the rim of the lid he found the catch for the false compartment and true enough, the gun was there, pulling a bag out of his pocket he loaded the spare power cells, Reeve's gun and ammo into it and grabbed 'Evi' before backing up to the ladder. The pair of them may have looked pretty defeated but he wasn't stupid enough to turn his back on them. While at the foot of the ladder he punched in a code to lock the door into the crew corridor to the galley. Only his security code would unlock the door and he wasn't planning to do that until the two men were off his boat.
"Don't look so glum Nick, I'm not cruel, we'll still feed you..." And with that he climbed up the ladder. He pulled the hatch shut as he stepped out of the hole and sighed, shaking his head.
Qi was perched on the small set of stairs that lead up into the cockpit, and when Luke emerged from the bunk that Nick and Reeve were sharing, she silently raised her eyebrow in question as she waited for Luke to notice her.
Luke could feel eyes on him as he tried to shake off the anger and adrenaline coursing through his veins. Another couple of deep breaths and he headed for the security panel at the end of the corridor.
"How much of that did you hear?" he asked as he looked at the light above their bunk went red and then looked up at her. At least he could breathe easier now that neither man would hurt anyone else... Except maybe each other.
"A companion's ears know when to shut themselves and mind their own business. Even if one's washed out of the guild." She winked at him. "Mostly wanted to make sure that Xiuling wouldn't have to face them again before I walked her down to her room. Maybe get her some tea and a comforting ear if she wanted it? How you doing after that?"
"I don't mind what you heard, was just curious." He shrugged. "They won't be seein' nothing but the inside of that bunk until they're walkin' off my boat for good." He would take them food, but it was his fault they were here so he was the one who was going to be dealing with them until they left. If nothing else he owed Xiuling the privilege of never even having to look at either of them again. "Just wishin' they'd given me an in the moment excuse to beat the go shi outta them. And now I might go hang up the punch bag I've got stashed in the cargo hold, cause I am way too wired right now."
"Truth be told, acoustics ain't great for eavesdropping from here, so I didn't really hear much of anything." Qi chewed her lip. "I suppose its a testament to self preservation of a sort, that they figured out not to keep pushing when faced with someone easily twice their size. I would be lying if I didn't want to see them spending the rest of the ride in the airlock though, if not on the other side of it. Their bunk is the next best thing I suppose."
"If they... If she... Hell I'm just glad she had the wherewithal to stop them before it got too far." It was killing him that something like this had almost happened on his boat. This was the kind of thing he'd been avoiding for the last six years, that feeling of responsibility. It had been different with Huang Long, the company was responsible for it's employees and he a vessel of that same company. The company had policies, the employees signed contracts, ultimately he was just a middle man and while he had responsibilities he didn't need to get emotionally involved. Sure he'd had friends, and colleagues that he liked but things like this hadn't happened on his boats. There were always too many people around, plus all the cargo bays were always sealed apart from loading and unloading, and they all looked out for each other.
If he was being honest, the fact that this had nearly happened on his boat made him feel physically sick. But he knew this was nothing to how he would have felt if Xiuling had been found battered and abused in the shuttle pod. Especially as, the way she said it, it sounded like Qi wouldn't even have been in time to stop it. "And if I'd put them in the airlock at all, I'd be a murderer by now, and I'm not doing that to myself for them."
"I can respect that. I suppose I'm more flippant about it because I've worked in whore houses on the rim, where sometimes the only thing between you and someone like that is a weapon." She stood and directed a look at the hatch into the men's bunk. "I don't think I need to tell you, how easily some men stop caring about a woman's bodily autonomy. I haven't had to kill nobody yet, but I was ready to a few times. And not just to protect myself, but on occasion to protect someone who couldn't defend themself."
"I've killed men before Qi, and I'm not looking forward to the day I have to do it again..." He sighed and turned. Yeah, now he really needed to beat the shit out of the punching bag he kept in the cargo bay.
"I figured you had, I heard you talkin' to the Doc about her sister and the war. I ain't gonna pretend I know that it's like, and it sure says a lot about you that you don't take doin' it lightly, but sometimes, it's all that'll stop a person who ain't right in the head. I know there ain't enough push back in society against folk who try to do what those two Feh Feh Pi Goh tried to do to Xuiling, and as a petite woman who's only been able to defend myself with threat of deadly violence and the training I got at the very skilled hands of the Guild... Well, don't really matter, they're contained for now and won't be on this boat much longer."
Luke felt his jaw clench when she mentioned the war, he didn't like talking about it. He and Coby had only talked long enough to say he was sorry for what happened to her sister, and to admit he hadn't known she had a twin. Since then, he'd been pretty tight lipped about the whole thing. "They'll get what's coming to them, but not by my hand. I can't kill in cold blood like that, no matter how much the Bei Bi Shiou Ren in front of me deserves it." If they had succeeded, they would be dead already, there was no doubt in his mind about that. There wouldn't have been a question in his mind about whether those two pieces of scum deserved the worst. But they had been foiled, and they both knew what they'd done was wrong - judging by their reactions anyway - so maybe they were going to turn over a new leaf. He could hope anyway. Somehow, he didn't think Xiuling wanted them dead either. There was a strength in her eyes as she'd told him what happened, a haunted look that he hadn't seen before, she wanted someone to die, and looking at her he had no doubt that they would once she stopped runnning, but it wasn't the two men locked in their bunk.
"How's she doin'?" he asked, concerned about the passenger he'd pretty much pulled out of the frying pan and dumped in the fire.
"She was pretty quiet after you left. I told her I'm here if she wants to talk about anything more, and haven't moved from this spot since you went to confront them. I think pushing her to talk more right now isn't going to help, just making sure she knows we're here if she wants anything is best." Qi glanced towards the cockpit. "I might go make her some tea if you want to stay here, so someone's here if she wants something?"
"Yeah, I can..." he stopped talking when Xiuling appeared at the top of the stairs. She was standing taller now, looking more like she had when they'd first started talking about her need for a ride into the black, the way she held herself when she sat with them at dinner every night.
"Tea would be nice, but I need a punching bag more than I need a babysitter right now," She was done with the kiddie gloves, and the quiet, She fully understood and comprehended that this was a traumatic experience and no one knew quite what to say, but it was quickly becoming tiresome. She'd been through worse, but they weren't to know that.
"Xiuling I'm..."
"It's no more your fault than it is mine, and while I hope I never have to see either of them ever again we all know how unlikely that is. Bad pennies have a habit of turning up..." Her voice was stronger now than it had been when she was telling Luke what had happened. She felt a little more like herself again too. She wasn't the break down and cry type. She was the hit back and keep on moving type. Luke finally managed to meet her gaze and nodded.
"Punching bag I can help with," he said, the corners of his mouth finally lifting in a hint of a smile. He wasn't sure if he wanted punching it out to lead to talking it out, but if that's what happened then that was fine. "But I will be keeping you company, cause I need to take a good swing at it too. Qi, would you mind bringing us both cups of tea?" he asked, turning to her.
"As long as I'm allowed to watch the bag abuse and provide commentary." Qi grinned, but sashayed off towards the gallery before either of them could respond.
Luke grinned and looked up at Xiuling, "Shall we?"
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Xiuling Brooke
Zhong Qi
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Blaine's Bulletin: Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month
Washington, June 7, 2019
A lot has changed since 2000. America has had five Presidential elections, the iPhone was invented, we've faced a financial crisis, and social media has become a mainstay in American life. In that same timeframe, we've seen incredible breakthroughs in cancer treatments, and thanks to medical advancements, deaths from heart disease have decreased nearly 10%. Unfortunately, since 2000, the death rate for those suffering from Alzheimer's disease has increased a staggering 145%.
June represents Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month, honoring the estimated 5.8 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer's disease, including more than 110,000 Missourians. As the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States Alzheimer's is a public health crisis with no prevention, treatment, or cure. It currently affects one in ten senior citizens, and sadly Alzheimer's cases will continue rapidly increasing as our aging population grows. It is estimated that over the next thirty years, nearly 14 million Americans could be affected by Alzheimer's.
In our state, more than 300,000 family and friends are providing care to those suffering from the disease. Across the nation, it is estimated that caregivers are providing more than 18.5 billion hours of care. As your Congressman, I'm a proud advocate of legislation that supports the needs of those suffering from Alzheimer's disease and working to provide resources to advance critically important medical research.
Among other bills, I am a cosponsor of the Improving HOPE for Alzheimer's Act, sponsored by Congressman Paul Tonko (NY). This legislation adds requirements under the Medicare program to conduct education and outreach about available care planning services for people with Alzheimer's disease. This includes additional education for physicians, physician assistance, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse midwives. Care providers must be aware of the most up to date care planning information in order to best serve Alzheimer's patients in Missouri and across the nation. Every year during the appropriations process I also support strong funding for Alzheimer's research through the National Institute of Health.
This month, I hope you take this opportunity to honor the brave Missourians fighting Alzheimer's, the families who are supporting them, the more than 316,000 caregivers in our state, and those who have tragically lost their lives. Over the last nineteen years, our world has drastically changed. With the support of my Congressional colleagues and Americans across the nation we can increase the quality of life for millions, while seeking a cure for this horrible disease over the next nineteen. Together we can fight this relentless disease and #EndALZ.
For more information please visit ALZ.org/GreaterMissouri or called the Alzheimer's Association helpline at 800-272-3900.


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