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Have you ever prayed for God to open a door in your life? How about closed doors? Have you ever prayed for a closed door? We don't like closed doors do we? And yet I believe that God can use closed doors.
Beginning in Acts 21:27 we read about a door that was slammed in the face of the Apostle Paul. Let's read together about Paul's closed door, and the new windows of opportunity God opened for him….
When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, shouting, "Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple area and defiled this holy place." (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple area.)
The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut. While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar. He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done. Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers. The crowd that followed kept shouting, "Away with him!" As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, "May I say something to you?"
"Do you speak Greek?" he replied. "Aren't you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the desert some time ago?"
Paul answered, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people."
The Closed Door of Paul's Arrest
I find this one brief statement in our text today to be very dramatic and evocative: ". . . and immediately the gates were shut." From Acts 9 all the way through to this point we have been reading about Paul's virtually unhindered witness throughout the Roman Empire. Yes, Paul has been persecuted by his fellow Jews on numerous occasions. Yes, he has been arrested before. Yes, he has even been stoned and left for dead. But on this occasion when Paul is arrested he doesn't get out of it. In fact, we will see Paul under arrest throughout the rest of the book of Acts. So let us carefully examine exactly how this happens to Paul.
You may remember from last Sunday's reading that Paul agreed with James to join in the purification rites of four other Jewish believers and pay for their expenses. This compromise which Paul made is what led him into the Temple in Jerusalem in the first place. Now it also got him into hot water!
Some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul in the Temple. These were apparently some of the same Jews who had given Paul trouble as he traveled throughout Galatia. They stirred up the crowd with claims that Paul had been teaching against the Jewish people, the Jewish law and the Jewish Temple. Ironic isn't it, that just when Paul had made a compromise in order to win the Jews of Jerusalem over, he is accused of doing just the opposite? Sometimes you just can't win! These Jews also made a second untrue accusation. They accused Paul of bringing a Greek into the temple area. The temple precincts were divided into different areas. Non-Jews could only enter into a certain part of the temple area. In fact, there was a dividing wall between the area where the Gentiles could be and the area only Jews could enter. And there were signs posted all along this wall threatening the Gentiles with death if they violated the barrier. This is what Paul is referring to in Ephesians 2:14-15 when he writes: "For he [Christ] himself is our peace, who has made the two [Jew and Gentile] one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations."
The reaction to these accusations was that the whole city was aroused. A mob formed and they seized Paul, dragging him out of the more sacred portion of the temple precincts, and the gates to that portion of the temple were shut. While this mob was trying to kill Paul news of the lynching reached the commander of the Roman troops, stationed in the Antonia fortress adjacent to the Temple. The commander immediately brought a contingent of soldiers to check out what was going on, and when the mob saw the Roman soldiers they stopped beating Paul.
Bruce Larson describes the rest of the scene this way:
Imagine, if you will, that you are a film director doing the story of the life of Paul and shooting this scene. There is the legendary cast of thousands, crowded on Solomon's Porch, the courtyard of the temple, yelling, 'Kill Paul! Kill Paul!' As this is about to happen, a group of Roman soldiers who are there to keep the peace, form a flying wedge and move into the crowd to rescue the source of the trouble, this wild little evangelist. They pick him up, carry him over their heads on their shields, and hustle him through the mob, who are all the while yelling, 'Kill him! Kill him!' Meanwhile, Paul is lying up there on the shield trying to converse with the tribune in charge of this rescue operation. He addresses him in good Greek, which makes a very positive impression. The tribune thought he was an Egyptian, a well-known revolutionary. As they are carrying him up the stairs to the guardhouse, followed still by the angry crowd, Paul says, 'Put me down. I've got to talk to them.' From the steps of the barracks, he begins to give his personal witness. Our imaginary director would have a hard time making this scene credible on film. Paul's holy boldness can only be accredited to God's own Spirit in and with him.
What do you do when a door slams shut in your face, when you lose your job, or your spouse walks out on you, when all your hopes and dreams come crashing down? Do you sit there and cry about the closed door? Yes, we all do because we are human. But then if you are trusting in Christ you should be looking, even through tears, for the new door that God is opening for you, because, as the Reverend Mother says in The Sound of Music, "God never closes a door without opening a window somewhere."
The story is told of an Irish boy who often roamed the hills outside his village. One day the path he was following led to a tall gate. The boy found the gate locked so that there was no going through. The gate was part of a high stone wall and there was no way the boy could go around the wall. The boy either had to forsake his journey or figure out a way to climb over the wall. To build up his own inner sense of commitment to the task the boy threw his much-loved cap over the wall.
Next, using his Irish common sense, the boy creatively found some foot-holds and hand-holds in the stone wall. He climbed over the obstacle, retrieved his cap and continued on his journey. The locked gate had forced him to consider another way of accomplishing his purpose.
When Paul was faced with the slammed door of his own arrest, he immediately started looking around for another open door for witness to his Savior Jesus Christ. And Paul found that open door, first in the very mob in front of him who had tried to kill him moments before.
The Open Door to the Mob
Listen to how Paul used the open door that was before him in Acts 22….
Having received the commander's permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic: "Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense."
When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet.
Then Paul said: "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. Under Gamaliel I was thoroughly trained in the law of our fathers and was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, as also the high priest and all the Council can testify. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.
"About noon as I came near Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me. I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?'
"'Who are you, Lord?' I asked.
"'I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,' he replied. My companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of him who was speaking to me.
"'What shall I do, Lord?' I asked.
"'Get up,' the Lord said, 'and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.' My companions led me by the hand into Damascus, because the brilliance of the light had blinded me.
"A man named Ananias came to see me. He was a devout observer of the law and highly respected by all the Jews living there. He stood beside me and said, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight!' And at that very moment I was able to see him.
"Then he said: 'The God of our fathers has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. You will be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.'
"When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance and saw the Lord speaking. 'Quick!' he said to me. 'Leave Jerusalem immediately, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'
"'Lord,' I replied, 'these men know that I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you. And when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.'
"Then the Lord said to me, 'Go; I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"
Paul has learned something from his experience in Athens. He doesn't engage in any fancy intellectual discourse on this occasion. He simply tells the Jewish mob his story. As William Barclay has said, ". . . personal experience is the most unanswerable argument on earth."
Paul starts basically by saying: "A funny thing happened to me on the way to Damascus...." He trots out his credentials as a very religious Jew. He notes how he studied under Gamaliel, one of the most respected rabbis in Jerusalem. Paul reminds his audience that he was just like they are, so zealous for the law that he persecuted the Christians.
But then Paul goes on to tell his audience how he has changed, how he has become different from them. The reason is his personal encounter with Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus. Since meeting Jesus Paul has come to realize that Christ is the Savior of all people and God is the lover of all people, whereas he used to believe that God was the lover of the Jews only.
In verse 14 we have a wonderful summary of what the Christian life is all about. God has chosen us, as he chose Paul, to know his will, to see the righteous one [Jesus], and to hear the voice of his mouth. It was said of some great preacher that he often paused in his preaching as though he were listening for another voice. The Christian is one who must always listen for the voice of God behind him or her saying, "This is the way, walk ye in it." Paul listened for the voice of God even as he faced the closed door of his arrest, and so he immediately saw a new, open door of opportunity for witness.
The Response of Paul's Audience
How did Paul's audience respond to his speech? Listen to what happened from Acts 22:22-29….
The crowd listened to Paul until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, "Rid the earth of him! He's not fit to live!"
As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air, the commander ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks. He directed that he be flogged and questioned in order to find out why the people were shouting at him like this. As they stretched him out to flog him, Paul said to the centurion standing there, "Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn't even been found guilty?"
When the centurion heard this, he went to the commander and reported it. "What are you going to do?" he asked. "This man is a Roman citizen."
The commander went to Paul and asked, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?"
"Yes, I am," he answered.
Then the commander said, "I had to pay a big price for my citizenship." "But I was born a citizen," Paul replied.
Those who were about to question him withdrew immediately. The commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put Paul, a Roman citizen, in chains.
Luke shows us two responses to Paul's message, that of the crowd and that of the Roman commander. The Jewish mob rejected both Paul and his message. As soon as he mentioned his ministry to the Gentiles they were ready to lynch him again. They believed that God loved the Jews pretty exclusively; they didn't want to hear anything of Paul's mission to the Gentiles.
It's amazing isn't it? But that is the way some people respond to the expansive love of God. Sometimes, as human beings, we are more interested in building walls. God is interested in tearing them down. I cannot imagine that when I stand before God someday that God is going to say to me: "Why did you draw your circle of inclusion so wide?" Rather, I think God may ask some of us: "Why did you draw your circle so small?"
Rejection wasn't the only response Paul received to his message. The Roman commander wanted to know more. He wanted to know why the people were crying out for Paul's death. Of course the commander did not go about getting an answer out of Paul in the right way. He was ready to have Paul flogged until he learned that Paul was a Roman citizen, and to flog a Roman citizen before trial was illegal.
But the bottom line is this: if we faithfully live and share the message of Jesus with others as Paul did, rejection won't be the only response. We won't always face a closed door. God will give us open doors of opportunity with some people whom he has prepared to respond positively to his message. God had more open doors of opportunity in store for Paul, and he will for each one of us and for our church as well.


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And so… on this holiday excursion that I have described some pages ago (in From Lemons to Lemonade: Fighting for an Adventure); I must remind you that it is the season of snow. From the winter moon of mid December to mid January. At this time, Christmas is in the air and might I add to you, my birthday too.
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The trip was full of many adventures. One story at time. I regaled you with my my ski trip, and now to present to you, my story, of my stay at the inn, in print — before it fades away.
A recap if you will — in December of 2010 I was blessed with the opportunity to visit Torino, Italy. On this trip we pursued many excursions. The Torino lifestyle is totally different than that of Long Island, New York. So everywhere we stepped foot, was a great site to see, whether next door to the local grocery market, or one of the many shopping squares, where there were beautiful lights. And this one in particular, a man playing piano in one of the windows of the song 'Hallelujah' in Italian.
And on this story the scene takes place in Cuneo, Italy. It was holiday break. It was mid December to mid January. It was cold. The space was quiet, most of the students in the neighboring apartments had gone back home to be with their loved ones. It was just us and a trickled few. We had Gurkon (from Turkey) and Vincent (from France, right on the border of Belgium) and Daniel from a Southern U.S. state.
Gurkon was with us for a little bit in the beginning. I carried on the plane, some toys from the U.S. to give to his son. Gurkon kept oranges on the porch outside his room to keep them fresh and cold, love that idea. Gurkon also had long hair and a super powerful hair dryer and he was super generous. He wanted me to have his amazing super powerful hair dryer but It would've blown up my American outlets so I didn't keep it. Thank you Gurkon for your offer. Gurkon stayed for a few days but went home to his wife and kids just in time before the Holidays.
There was Vincent. Vincent was like a micro computer person. He was studying how to do all of those micro things people do with computers. Vincent was French but kind of Belgium too. He had this small tiny car that yet had room for 5 full people; it could fly in and out of traffic. He in fact picked me up from the airport with this car. He stayed around with us and straggled until the last minute and then left to visit his family.
And then there was Daniel. Daniel was super tall and he had long blonde hair and was super nice. He introduced me to gelato with cookies, so good. Daniel is American and had family a train ride away in Cuneo.. He stayed for a little bit and went back to Cuneo just before Christmas.
Now what about me? You ask… Well our plans are to go to Paris, passionate place. Boy could I not wait to see the the holiday set up they had. On Christmas eve morning, it was time for our flight. We woke up early, hopped in a cab and were on our way. Making it through the airport chaos you can imagine during this time. We look up at the flight board and blink. We blink again and again and again. and What!!! How can this be true! Tears welled up in my eyes, our flight and all outgoing flights to the Charles Degualle airport were — what??!! cancelled!!! I was so sad. What do we do now?? So now I am far away from my family, I can not see my munchkin niece and nephew on Christmas and we have to go back and spend Christmas in the smelly apartment. They didn't even supply adequate amount of water for the toilette. Yes, I'm not kidding.. the water supply was like a quarter high into the toilette. so gross.
So, sadly, we headed back. Crammed into this bus with like an inch of space per person. So back in the apartment. What are we going to do now? And to boot, the hotel in France will not return our deposit. Well Daniel is not too far.. maybe we can visit him. And we thought technology was limited in Torino, talk about in the Cuneo mountains! Boy, I'll tell ya.. these things don't come easy. It was impossible to get a hold of him. So one person made call after call, and what was I doing while they were calling Daniel. I went across the street to the other local supermarket to get a gift to bring to the host – just incase they have room for us. I don't know who these people are. I picked up a plant. I found a Poinsettia and thought well maybe this will be nice. When I got back to the apartment with the plant we were all good. Well okay, so we aren't going to Paris, but at least we'll have the warmth of family.
My goodness… We couldn't get to Paris but boy was this a blessing. We grabbed our bags and my Poinsettia and we were off. We got our tickets. I forgot I was in an Italian speaking country and blurted to the conductor, (is this the train going to Cuneo?) She looked up in shock like "I haven't heard that one before" and nodded her head yes. So I guess she understood, I think, I hope she did because we listened to her nod. We squished on the train. It was like a four hour train ride. I guarded the plant with my life. A person sat across from me. You better not knock my plant over biotch. This is a special gift. And I'm gonna say, lets say the train ride was accurately 4 hours… we listened to a man singing in what sounded to me like a 3 hour and 45 minute (i'm gonna say what sounded muslim) prayer… the entirrrrrrrrre ride. But it was nice. And I had a window seat. The scenery was nice too.
Park the train, we are here! And look! There is Daniel with his cousin Ethan down the hill on the road in a pick up truck! Here to pick us up!! Yaaaay for warm Italian family!! and off we go.
This trip was a beautiful miracle.
The family could not have been more generous. The night we got there, (Yes it was dark by the time we got there after all has been said and done) I gave the father, Batti, the Poinsettia. He said Grazie. Ethan and Daniel took us to the local pizzeria where we ate delicious pizza (my fave). And the people spoke Italian, obviously. So it was an authentic pizzeria. So good. And then we went back to where we were staying. You see Ethan and his father run a bed and breakfast. So they had their cabin where they lived (and let us sleep) and then right next door, the cabin where they had a restaurant. So after we had pizza we waited like an hour or so, and then we had a full multi course dinner with like antipasti, fish, wine, etc….
And then we settled in, in the Inn, I called home and said hi to my niece and nephew and family while the family was over my parents for Christmas eve. I cried a little because I missed them.
I suppose really it wouldn't have been that bad to spend Christmas back in the apartment. Looking back.. I mean just being there would have been enough.. but we don't always see these things in the heat of a moment.
These are all of the pictures that I have of my story so far. I have them posted below. There is a picture of the town square where I heard the man playing piano and singing 'Hallelujah" and some photos of the town of Cuneo up to my first night (where I am ending this post). I would've taken more If I knew I would be taking them for viewers!
Stay tuned for No Room at the Inn, Part II!
I also installed a video of Hallelujah for you sung by Jeff Buckley. There are so many versions but this one is my fave. I invite you to watch!


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Beets are tough little suckers so it takes an hour for them to cook throughout. We either roast them or boil them. We've heard of something called a 'microwave' but believe it's just a fad.
Beet greens are really tasty to sauté and add to the mix. Salt, pepper, vinegar.
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Fighting is one of those movies that looks, smells and tastes B-grade, but is backed by an A-grade cast (Channing Tatum and Terrence Howard as opposed to an unknown white actor + Brian Dennehy) and a better-than-expected screenplay and director (Dito Montiel). But for these factors, it probably should have gone straight to DVD. Instead, what we ended up with is a slightly above average, albeit forgettable film.
Fighting is a film about…er…fighting. Underground, bare-knuckle street fighting, to be precise.
Tatum plays Shawn MacArthur, a nice young man trying to make ends meet on the streets of New York, and Howard plays Harvey Boarden, the man who 'discovers' him and kind of takes him under his wing. Throw in a few fist fights, a love interest (Zulay Henao), an arch nemesis (Brian White) and an unfolding back story, and that's Fighting in a nutshell.
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Tatum even gives a bit of a Stallone impersonation. He's got that good guy routine going, and he's also got that underdog pride; even their persistence in picking up girls is similar. The only thing missing is a crooked mouth and a speech impediment.
The fight scenes in Fighting are solid. Naturally, they are a little over-the-top, but for the most part they maintain a slight resemblance to realism (apart from the fact that getting belted in the face hardly leaves more than a light bruise). Thankfully, each fight is given proper screen time – there's no hastily prepared montage with rapidly accumulating victories.
My problem with it all is that the whole process from Tatum's character being 'discovered' to him being in and winning fights is pretty dubious. Seriously, the guy punched out a few stiffs on the street, and the next thing you know he's been thrown into bare-knuckle fights with a massive underground audience? And really, it's not like he is a freakish talent or has abnormal kung fu abilities. He's just a skinny street punk who knows how to throw a punch or two – would he even have a sliver of a chance against the type of tough guys he was going up against? I highly doubt it. (One of the dudes was Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Cung Le!)
Maybe that was the whole point. He wasn't supposed to stand a chance, but somehow he manages to prevail.
Nevertheless, if Fighting was all about fighting, it would have been okay. Unfortunately, they just had to insert the love interest in there. Nothing wrong with a bit of loving, but it took up such a large chunk of the 105-minute running time. And most of all, it was quite lame.
Oh well.
2.5 stars out of 5!
[Note: for about 2 months before watching this movie, I mistakenly thought 'Fighting' was 'Never Back Down'. Gotta see that one too.]


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Please make calls NOW to oppose the confirmation of Betsy DeVos by calling and writing to Republicans in the Senate, especially those on the HELP Committee. [help.senate.gov] The Committee is being pressed to hear witnesses and question DeVos further. Talking points: We need a Secretary of Education who understands what is wrong and right with public education and wants to fix it. Betsy DeVos supports privatizing education with virtually no oversight. She does not understand the laws she would be required to enforce, and did not even know enough about them to prepare to answer questions for hearing. Please question her further, call witnesses, and vote 'no' on her nomination. Why? DeVos does not seem familiar with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and thinks that special education is best handled by states. [source] She supports a radical version of "school choice" — letting parents direct government money to public or private schools, including religious and for-profit schools and schools that are not designed for "troubled" students. She has opposed oversight and transparency measures for publicly funded privately run programs. She thinks it is a problem that public schools rather than "the church" have become the center of communities. The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates has written expressing concerns and seeking evidence that DeVos is committed to lawfully educating students with disabilities. [source] Following her confirmation hearing, the California Association for Parent-Child Advocacy wrote to oppose her nomination. Click here to download a pdf of our letter.
DeVos narrowly confirmed. Mike Pence as vice-president had to break a tie because two Republican senators (Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska) voted with all Democrats against DeVos. Maybe those two were taking a brave stand; more likely, the GOP leadership led them defect knowing they had the votes to push this remarkable nomination through. Whatever their reasons, they made eloquent comments for which we can hold them accountable when the Trump Administration tries pushing through DeVos's agenda. During the debate over DeVos's nomination, much attention was drawn to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, for which DeVos ultimately expressed great concern after seeming initially not to know what it was. Attention is not necessarily a good thing: many special education advocates hoped to stay under Trump's and the GOP's radar. But their bandwidth is amazing, and that is unlikely. The good news is that parents, teachers and students have mobilized across the country and many of them will have their eye on the electoral ball in 2018. The continuing good news is that people with disabilities are in all classes, races, and religions, and in both parties, and that they and family members have long known that governments need to be held accountable for respecting our rights. DeVos squeaked by, but her agenda can be defeated.
Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Oppose nomination of US Representative Tom Price, MD as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Price has long supported eliminating Medicaid and Medicare as insurance programs covering specified benefits for all eligible people. He has proposed privatizing schemes which would make states responsible for protecting their most vulnerable people — something many have made clear they will not do. Call Senate Republicans, especially members of the HELP and Finance Committees, and say something like this: "Please vote against confirming Tom Price for Secretary of Health and Human Services. This job should not be held by someone who has devoted his career to cutting back on access to health care, while making money by trading stocks his colleagues tell him about. His answers to questions were evasive, but it is clear from his whole career that even if Trump wants to extend health care access, Price doesn't. Please turn down this nomination and ask the president to nominate someone who wants to help him keep his promises to the American people." Here are their names and phone and fax numbers:
Pruitt, EPA
Call Republicans, especially members of the Environment and Public Works Committee [epw.senate.gov], and ask them to reject the nomination of Scott Pruitt for EPA Administrator. You can say something like this: "I am calling to ask you to oppose the nomination of Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator. I am calling as a person who is concerned about disability rights who does not want our country to create unnecessary disabilities and aggravate health problems by making our air and water dirtier. Please stop this nomination. President Trump promised to drain the swamp: putting someone who cares about the most polluting companies in Oklahoma and doesn't care about the people of Oklahoma should not move onto the national stage."
Mnuchin, Treasury
Please call Finance Committee members right away and ask them to oppose confirmation of Steven Mnuchin for Secretary of the Treasury. Talking points: Please vote no on confirming Steven Mnuchin for Secretary of the Treasury. His unlawful foreclosure practices resulted in thousands of people, including people with disabilities and seniors, losing their homes. Now he wants to repeal the rules that were put in place to make sure that never happens again. This would be a disastrous appointment. Please don't let it happen.
URGENT ACT OF SOLIDARITY WITH PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY – Please Share:
January 31, 2017 is the open enrollment deadline to get coverage under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. President Trump has cancelled many ads to let people know about the deadline and how to enroll. [source] It may be critical for people who do not have coverage to enroll, because Republicans may let people who have "Obamacare" keep it. Go to healthcare.gov for local help and buying insurance online. Here is the phone number for help: Main: 1-800-318-2596 (Deaf Access/TTY: 1-855-889-4325). If you have better options than buying an individual policy through the Affordable Care Act, great, but if you don't, it would be very advisable to get coverage IMMEDIATELY. Trump seems to be signaling with appointments and comments that he will let Pence and Congressional Republicans do what they want on health care and social security. Depending on the level of political opposition, Republicans may protect people who have insurance by the January 31, 2017 deadline for open enrollment in the Affordable Care Act. If you or members of your family may be eligible for Medicaid or CHIP (the Children's Health Insurance Program), go to: https://www.healthcare.gov/medicaid-chip/getting-medicaid-chip/. These programs are also in jeopardy because of Republican opposition, and the sooner people sign up, the better chance there is of being protected from benefit cuts.


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Page 2 – The Heterdox Yoder? Branson Parler's Response
Yoder and Language
Key to Martens' argument is the notion that, for the later Yoder, "language and text are rejected or severely circumscribed in their social usefulness; empirical and sociological practices remain the only possible means of uninhibited communication."[v] He reiterates this point in his response: "I am convinced that precisely the depreciation of the need for 'mental or verbal' communication in the pursuit of paradigmatic visible practices (or, to use the language of The Heterodox Yoder, the rejection of middle axioms) calls into question the continued need for a normative distinction between the church and world living in the pursuit of living with the grain of the universe."[vi] In my view, two points problematize Martens' account.
First, Yoder does not reject the idea of middle axioms, even if he stops using that specific term (which was in play in ecumenical circles at the time he wrote The Christian Witness to the State). In 1988, Yoder notes that although he has moved away from the term "middle axioms," the point of his earlier use of the term remains: "to face the challenge of stating good news in pertinent form."[vii] The "good news" facet of this statement underscores that it "derives accountably from Yahweh's intervention in history from Abraham to Pentecost," not merely from reason or nature. The "pertinent form" element means that "the moral call must be local, occasional, rendered comprehensible and credible by the presence of God's people with the problem setting to which they speak." The universal good news must be proclaimed in each particular setting.
Second, in 1992 and 1996, Yoder wrote articles dedicated to underscoring the importance of language, text, and translation in communicating the gospel.[viii] Post-Wittgenstein communitarians are right to recognize that language (including moral language) is community-dependent but they are wrong, Yoder argues, if they think that this means that meaningful communication is impossible. The hand-wringing in academic circles would ease, according to Yoder, if we would pay attention to the actual experience of Bible translators and missionaries who are living proof that meaningful translation can happen. Yoder borrows a page from Barth's playbook here; while philosophers are wrangling over whether translation is possible, Yoder points out that it is obviously possible because it is already actual. As Bible translators know well, no translation is identical with the original, but this does not mean that accurate and adequate meaning cannot be conveyed.
A more thorough exposition of these texts would be needed to settle the matter. I simply allude to these points because they problematize Martens' account of a mature Yoder who was jettisoning verbal communication in favor of practices that operate apart from linguistic or verbal explanation of those practices (if there can even be such a thing as practices apart from language). For me, this simply underscores that Yoder is not setting up a choice between either paradigmatic practices or linguistic witness; medium and message belong together and so the faithful Christian community lives and speaks in ways that should be both faithful to the gospel and pertinent to the particular context in which a community lives. As usual, Yoder ups the ante by suggesting that the real question is not whether trans-community communication is a theoretical possibility that some elite linguists or ethicists might undertake; the real question is whether all followers of Jesus are biblical enough to be present in any thought world, taking "every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Cor. 10:5).
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M & M took off quickly with several high profile shows including a Hatch Shell appearance in Boston with Peter Frampton, The Band and Blue Man Group. They earned a reputation for their ability to sound like a full band with simple acoustic guitar, Harmonica and 2 lead vocal lineup and their chemistry and friendship is infectious on stage. They became the "go to" act for national openers that needed a big sound without bass or drums.
M & M opened for BB King on his 70th birthday tour at the Capitol Center in Concord, NH and their performance became their first CD, "Live at the Capitol Center".
Over their 20 year history they've also shared the stage with John Hiatt, George Thorogood, Marshall Tucker, J. Geils, Southside Johnny, Steven Tyler, Edgar Winger, Rick Derringer, Brad Whitford, and headlined at blues festivals, theaters, concert clubs and resorts throughout the Eastern US.
The duo opened for BB King again at the Hampton Casino Ballroom and this show became their 2nd live CD, Fit for the King".
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Prof. Rigoletto publishes an essay on queer visibility in contemporary Italian documentaries
Prof. Sergio Rigoletto has published an essay titled 'Against the Telelological Preseumption: Notes on Queer Visibility in Contemporary Italian Film' in The Italianist 37: 2, 2017. The essay is concerned with some of the problems involved in the task of narrating the queer self. At a time in which positive queer representations have become increasingly common in Italian cinema and other media, it is worth asking what conditions underpin the present regime of queer visibility and what alternative queer experiences have been either obscured or marginalized. The first half of the essay explores the recent popularity of the coming out narrative in the Italian context. The essay asks what epistemological assumptions underlie the metaphor of coming out and how such assumptions have come to affect the terms under which queerness appears now visible in Italian cinema and other media. The second section of the essay focuses on several recent Italian documentaries including La bocca del lupo (Marcello: 2009), Felice chi è diverso (Amelio: 2013) and Le coccinelle. Sceneggiata transessuale (Pirelli: 2011). The essay shows the complex ways in which these films deploy their dissident strategies of queer self-revelation and configurations of social legibility.
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Back from the edgePosted: May 31, 2005 | Author: kylemacmac | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment »
Back in Montreal today. Buenos Aires to Montreal: 2 flights. 8 Hour layover in Miami.
As we stood in line next to the fuselage waiting to board American Airlines flight 1366 from Miami to Montreal, a group of 'VIP-ish dudes pushed their way to the front of the line, somewhat rudely, but in a 'don't mess with us we're wearing suits and are surrounded by guys wearing security earpieces' type of way. I stood there, in the sweltering South Florida afternoon tarmac heat creeping in from around the entrance to the plane holding a heavy package turning the fingers of my right hand purple and huffed to myself, almost out loud, "Dude, who do you think you are? The president or something? We've been standing here for ten minutes, you think just cause you're sitting in first class you can barge in past the rest of us? Huh?"
The man passed, entourage and all and we got on board and everybody enjoyed a routine flight to Montreal. We got off the plane, walked up the ramp to see the VIPers getting into a planeside limo, cop cars everywhere. "Dom, there's those pushy dudes, looks like the one in the back is the kingpin. Must've screwed up real big, full police escort, the whole kit."
I spotted the Gate attendendant. "Hey, what's that guy who thinks he's president or something?"
"Who that guy?" (pointing) "He's the president of the Dominican Republic."
Close one. Need to remember that one for next time. Think before speaking. Check.
Picture below:
-On the left is A Star Wars special edition medium sized drink cup from Burger King formerly filled with Dr. Pepper.
-On the right is a book entitled Postcards From the Edge, bought from a used bookstore in Cuzco, Peru.
-Both involve Princess Leia (AKA Carrie Fisher) and both were finished by yours truly in Concourse E at Miami International Airport immediately prior to my near public insult of the President of the Dominican Republic. Neither left nor right item involves postcards in any way. While Carrie Fisher does profound justice to the double side-bun hairstyle on the cup, her book fails to live up to its title. Postcards From the Edge involves no postcards, no edge, and most importantly, no double side-bun hairstyles. The book I will write about the Message in a Barrel postcard delivering adventure will attend to each of these very important issues…especially double side-bun hairstyles.
You can take my well-thought-out word for it.
UruguayPosted: May 29, 2005 | Author: kylemacmac | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment »
That's me enahancing a spectacular Uruguayan sunset with an equally spectacular jacket. Notice the fist. Notice the eagle.
Two down: Montevideo UruguayPosted: May 27, 2005 | Author: kylemacmac | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment »
Now for a Geography grad this may surprise you, but before getting to Uruguay I knew only three things about Uruguay:
1:Uruguay is not Brazil
2:Uruguay is not Argentina
3:Homer Simpson once pointed at a map of the world and said "Hee hee! Look at this country!:'You are gay.'"
That's it. Four years spent looking at maps to get a B.A. in Geography and that's all I've got.
"Knock knock."
"Who's there?"
"Two random people who picked your Uruguayan-addressed postcard out of a barrel on a deserted Pacific island."
"Two random people who picked your Uruguayan-addressed postcard out of a barrel on a deserted Pacific island who?"
"Two random people who picked your Uruguayan-addressed postcard out of a barrel on a deserted Pacific island and can't come up with a punch line cause we're useless in Spanish and you're a 60 year old Uruguayan lady speaking Castellano through an old-scratchy intercom and even if we were standing face to face you'd likely be as confused as us, probably scared to your wits based on my eagle-emblazoned clothing alone."
"Uh….¿habla Ingles?"
Postcard number two. Montevideo Uruguay. The plan was perfect: Spend a month and a half crossing South America from Quito to Montevideo before our plane out of Buenos Aires on May 30th. By then, of course, our Spanish would be polished up to a shine and we'd have a fun afternoon with the postcard's addressee. Problem is, nobody told us that Uruguayans speak Castellano Spanish with a curiously Italian-like accent at a rapid-fire, tongue-rolling velocity that would give an M-16 an inferiority complex. Gone were our days of traveling on Gringo-filled Andean buses to destinations where linguistic inferiority is greeted with encouraging patience. Our Spanish was stretched to its maximum but we were losing the patience of our deliveree second by second. Fast.
There we were, trying to convince Lelia that we were doing her a favor by delivering her mail, not two deranged mumbling psychos taunting her from the street by means of a conveniently-placed intercom box. It took a few hair raising minutes where confusion reigned supreme, but we finally figured out that Lelia's intercom-muffled shrieks of "Quién es?!" were simply a question: "Who sent the postcard?" Lelia gave up on technology, stomped across to the overhanging balcony and hung her head over asking for what was surely 'the last time' before calling the police, "Quién es?!" I glanced at the 'from' address on the postcard, and said meekly, "Andrea?" then looked up to gauge whether to stand or flee. Lelia's face broke out into a grand smile and she cried with delight, "Andrea! Ah!, Esto es bueno….MUY bueno! Si!, Uno minuto, uno minuto." Her face appeared as the door opened. We were met with a joyous but skeptical look as the door was inched open. The armor-piercing Castellano equivalent of "Whoareyoutwo,whatareyoudoinghereandhowdoyouknowAndrea?" shot out of her mouth, hitting my ears with its full brunt. My ears reeled from the verbal onslaught, saying to me in unison, "Well pal, looks like you're on your own with this one, we're outta here, goodnight."
We looked at Lelia, looked down at the postcard, then back at Lelia. "Es un postal(postcard). Andrea. Por tu. Si?"
"YesIknowwhatapostcardisbutwhatIdon'tunderstandiswhyyoutwoarehere, whoyouareandwhatthiaisallabout."
"Si, es bueno. Un postal por tu. Si, Andrea. We don't know her."
"Uh, well, in this place in the Galapagos there's this barrel and it's, uhhhh, full of postcards, and, uhhh….."
"Well, it's a long story, it involves a barrel, postcards, us, and now…you. I'd like to explain everything. Do you have a minute?"
"No.Ineedtogotothedentist.Now.Youcomebackhereonfridayat4pm ,okay? 4pm.Friday.Here.Bye.Gottago."
"Okay, we'll be back at 4pm on Friday. Here. 2 days from now."
So we killed two days between postcard drop off and meeting. Montevideo isn't the worst place to spend two days. Dollar for dollar, probably one of the cheapest places to eat high-quality meat-based meals on the planet. Favorite meal? Easy. The "Canadiense" (Canadian) is a fine hunk of steak blanketed with a layer of ham, which is topped by a layer of cheese, which is topped with a layer of egg, over easy. The whole contraption is perched atop a mound of fries. Total cost, including half-litre of wine: $3 USD. Heart attacks don't get cheaper than that.
So where were we, oh yes, Lelia's apartment. Friday, May 27th. 4pm.
Either Lelia goes to the slowest dentist of all time, or she'd gone for another dentist appointment just prior to our scheduled meeting, because when we arrived at her apartment for the second time that Friday, her top lip was frozen. She pointed to her stationary top lip and offered, "Dentista, anestésico, es congelado."
I'm not sure if you've ever tried to understand a sexagenarian Uruguayan speak Castellano through an upper lip filled with novocaine, but it isn't exactly the sort of thing I'd recommend after a night spent filling your body with low-price grease-based protein-centric restaurant meals served with astoundingly-cheap wine.
It was rugged, Dom estimated our comprehension somewhere in the 20 percent range. I, being the eternal optimist, put the figure higher, more like 21 percent. Volumes of highly interesting material were lost as words tumbled out of Lelia's half-awake mouth onto our all-asleep ears, but some good bits were gathered, namely, Andrea.
Andrea is Lelia's daughter. She works on a private yacht for some ultra-rich family from Monaco. Andrea left Uruguay 20 years ago for a life on the high seas, working for the big cruise lines out of Miami and the Mediterranean. Lelia misses Andrea like crazy, and was absolutely delighted to hear news from her, any news at all. Andrea dropped the postcard in the Post Office Barrel a few months previous on a trip through the Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands. She was currently on her way up the West Coast of the U.S. to Alaska. Lelia became quite emotional talking to us about Andrea, not quite Barbara Walters Special emotional, but definitely into Oprah territory. Tears began to well up in her eyes as she described how tough for her it was to have a daughter roaming the earth, far from home. The novocaine began to wear off and her top lip started to tremble as she explained how nice it would be if Andrea spent more time in Uruguay. Just when I thought the dam would burst, Lelia straightened up, looked strong and said with a tight smile, now fully formed, "In December. That is when I will see Andrea again. December."
We hadn't understood much verbally for the better course of an hour, but one thing was clear through the universal language of emotion: Lelia truly missed her daughter. Our postcard delivery stirred up emotions within Lelia ranging from glee, sadness to outright confusion. We waved goodbye to Lelia as she stood at her doorstep with a red scarf blowing in the wind, ready for the future, waiting for the future, needing the future. We promised to stay in touch and send her another postcard, this time from Montreal, by established postal service. Unlike some chance-encounter temporary-travel-acquaintance mail promises, I intend to keep my word on this one. Lelia will get her postcard, and her December.
Above: Envelope for postcard, "To" side
Below: Envelope for postcard, "From" side
Above: Lelia holding picture of Andrea.
Below: Lelia sandwiched between two red shirts: Kyle (with eagle), friend of Lelia (eagle-less).
My Uncle The AgentPosted: May 6, 2005 | Author: kylemacmac | Filed under: Short Stories, Uncategorized | 7 Comments »
"You think he's stopping for us?" My girlfriend Dominique said, pointing to the car pulled over 500 feet down the road. "Nah, he's just taking a leak," I said as the passenger hopped out and did just that.
We were stranded at a piss-poor location on Autoroute A63 just south of Bordeaux, France. The previous ride was a letdown of only ten kilometres that came after a three-hour wait. Our only chance of getting a ride was to convince a passing motorist that we were worthy enough to ruin a faithful marriage with his gas pedal by committing an extra-marital affair with the brake pedal. "Wait, check it out!" I shouted, picking up my backpack. Clearly using his right hand for the call of nature, the man waved his free left hand our way. He'd apparently halted for more than simple roadside relief. Having never been waved at by a urinating man, I assumed the custom was to wave back. I did. He continued his activities with both hands. Leery of taking a ride from somebody so blatantly shameless,fs I looked over at Dom and asked,
"Whatcha think? It's gonna be these guys or a long wait"
"I don't know…looks kinda sketchy," she squinted and watched the man zip up his pants.
"Well, the next ride might be worse. Grab your bag."
When hitchhiking, it's smarter to err on the side of caution when accepting a ride. It's better to be stuck somewhere than take a suspicious ride. Having said that, each ride is sized up according to your current situation. When you've got slim pickings, you take what you can get. "Bonjour," said the passenger in Portuguese-flavoured French as we approached the two-tone Peugeot. Top burgundy, bottom rust. "Bonjour," we said as he offered his right hand. I weighed hospitality versus hygiene and hesitatingly returned the gesture. Hygiene could wait — we had ground to cover. We peeked in the window of the car. A moustached driver sat in the front seat holding the collar of a growling white pit bull. "Do not mind him. My dog is a friendly friend." as the dog tried its best to eat his way through the passenger window. Gesturing towards our backpacks with his now-famous right hand, the passenger offered, "Give me your sacs. I will put them in the trunk, no?" "No, It's okay. We will sit beside them in the back seat."
"Mais no! There will be better comfort if you use the trunk. I insist!"
"No really, we're cool with them between us. No problem."
The driver screamed at the passenger in broken Portuguese/French, visibly upset at our refusal to place our bags in the trunk. I sensed this was a huge problem bringing our bags into the car. The passenger explained, "My uncle wants to show you our hospitality by placing your sacs in the trunk. There is no room in the car for your backpacks. He insists"
Granted, the bags would take up a fair bit of room in the tiny car, but I was much more keen to be sitting beside my backpack than having it in the trunk. If our stuff was in the trunk, the driver could simply speed away from us when we got out of the vehicle, leaving us in the dust without any of our belongings. The ride was dicey enough as it was. I put the ride in jeopardy by giving the driver an ultimatum. "No, we will bring our bags in the car with us. If you will not let us do that, we will not take your ride."
The driver argued with the passenger briefly again, raised his hand in defeat, and motioned to the tiny rear seat.
"O.K., but it is then your discomfort, not mine!" He said, in disbelief of our priority for backpack security over back seat comfort. Comfort could wait, we had ground to cover.
"On y va" choked the driver as he stood on the gas pedal and lit the cigarette hanging in the corner of his mouth. The vehicle lurched onto the highway with us wedged into the rear seat upholstered in shedded dog hair. The passenger rolled a joint with his right hand and held back the snapping pit bull with his left.
"Friendly dog, non?"
"Non", I thought.
Running on a set of what was surely oval-shaped tires, the car shook violently as we picked up speed. As the speedometer nudged past 165km/h, the plastic dashboard couldn't hold on any longer. It leapt from its moorings and cleared the steering wheel and the dog, landing on the two men's laps. The driver recoiled forcefully causing the back of his seat to snap off its supports, and fall onto my lap. The dog barked and the passenger looked for his dropped joint. Traveling at more than one hundred miles an hour in a vehicle visibly held together by duct tape with a dog barking, a man looking for a burning joint and a reclined driver against my stomach, I glanced quickly over at Dom. The look on her face confirmed our suspicions: "Pot laced with crack? — Check." Without slowing, the driver miraculously grabbed the dashboard from the jaws of the hungry pitbull and refastened it while the passenger triumphantly held up his undamaged, lit joint. The seat was deemed beyond repair and rested on my knees. My legs began to fall asleep and the men posed the four questions asked to every hitchhiker:
"Where are you going?"
"What are your names?"
"Where are you from?"
"Do you want to smoke?"
Declining free drugs for the tenth time in as many days, Dom replied in Quebecois French "We're from Canada." This answer brought the strongest reaction from the men.
"Ahhh, foreigners." they replied in unison, "It is not easy for us foreigners to hitch-hike in France. The driver looked at us in the cracked rear-view mirror "We are from Portugal. We know the difficulty of finding a ride in France. A Spanish man or a Portuguese man? He will pick you up. But a French man? Never. I will find you a Portuguese man"
It was settled then. We had ourselves an agent.
"We are going a different direction from where you are going, but my uncle will make a detour for you." Said the passenger, looking at his uncle with admiration.
I quickly offered, "Nah, that's okay, we can get out at the junction up ahead and find another ride there." "No. I will go further in your direction," replied the driver sternly.
When a drug-induced duo toting a hungry pitbull insist on making a detour for you, two thoughts run through your mind: They might be on a happy 'high' or they are about to tie you up and steal all of your stuff. You will either soon be waving goodbye to your driver reflecting on their generosity or you will be soon be standing on the side of the road in a foreign country possessing little more than the dirty pair of underwear you have on.
The driver, correction, our agent added, "We will take you to a rest area and I will find you a ride" Dominique and I exchanged glances. We might be lucky enough to leave the car with our backpacks but we knew first-hand the difficulty of getting rides at rest areas. The previous month, we spent the better part of a day stranded at a rest area south of Munich. Still in the grips of twitching hangovers from five days at Oktoberfest, we passed the morning with our thumb extended towards German-engineered vehicles attempting to break the sound barrier. Fetching little more than a sore arm, we changed our tactics for the afternoon by canvassing the picnic tables, bargaining for a ride with sausage-eating Bavarians. Nobody gave us a lift. We ended up taking a taxi to the next town. Based on our unsuccessful rest-area experience soliciting rides from lederhosen-clad 'Shumachers' bound for the Alps, our future seemed dismal.
The wounded Peugeot limped into the absolutely worst place to be stranded: A deserted tree-lined rest area. No toilets, no food outlets and worst of all, no stopped vehicles. The wall of trees made it impossible to indicate our ride-seeking intentions to passing motorists. Our hearts sank, but as we followed a bend around a thick grove of trees, a large tractor-trailer truck with an encircled letter 'P' on the rear bumper came into view. A man sat beside the truck eating a bagged lunch. Our agent exclaimed energetically "Portuguese! Portuguese!" Obviously excited about finding the promised Portuguese driver, he brought the car to a quick shuddering stop and used all his might to pull his hefty body from his demolished seat.
The agent strode confidently towards the trucker, winking back at us. The two men acknowledged each other like old friends and the agent took on the persona of a professional negotiator. The case was pleaded for giving us a ride South and the trucker seemed to offer little resistance, looking in our direction and nodding frequently. Amazed by the agent's comfort under ad-libbed third-party hitchhike negotiating, Dominique observed and whispered quietly, "It looks like he's talking to his uncle!" The two men shook hands. The agent called us over.
As we approached, the agent took on a serious look and motioned to the truck driver: "I have kept my promise. I have found you a Portuguese man. Now you must promise me something."
"Sure, what is it?" I asked, hoping he didn't want our backpacks as a signing bonus.
"You must promise me only one thing." Pointing his finger at us to drive the point home. "You must promise me that you will go to Portugal!" His face broke out in a wide grin. "This man will take you there," gesturing to the nodding truck driver stuffing his face with a baguette.
We assured the agent that we would keep our promise and visit his homeland. We shook hands to seal the deal and moments later we waved goodbye as our agent and his nephew started out of the rest area in a whirlwind of blue-smoke. After brushing the last traces of dog hair off our backpacks, we turned our attention to the amused-looking truck driver. He sat there, finished his bread and shook his head as if in disbelief at our agent's negotiating prowess. He cleared his throat, pointed towards the fleeting Peugeot and said in flawless French:
"He seems like a nice man, your uncle"
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Hair Loss Natural Therapy Book Touted as a Fathers Day Gift
New book by David Rodgers, M.S. Nutrition, "Reloaded: Natural Hair Loss Secrets for Safe, Effective Hair Growth," is touted as an alternative to traditional Fathers Day gifts.
Traditional Fathers Day gifts include ties and dress shirts, golfing or fishing equipment, or a shaver. But what if your dad has a closet full of dress-wear, a shaver he already loves, and isnt a golfer or fisherman? Nutritionist David Rodgers, M.S., is advocating you give him back something that he really wants: his own hair.
According to the Medem Medical Library, two-thirds of men begin balding by age sixty. Conventional wisdom tells us that men only have a few options when it comes to hair loss: accept it, take drugs for the rest of their lives, or have hair surgery or plugs. Rodgers has developed a new protocol using only dietary changes and natural supplements and topicals. He introduces the entire protocol in the book, Reloaded: Natural Hair Loss Secrets for Safe, Effective Hair Growth. The book is available at www.reloadedhair.com and most major online booksellers.
Most people form their opinions on medical avenues through what their hear in the media and from friends and family, Rodgers said. Unfortunately, there are dozens of reliable studies regarding natural hair growth options that have never reached the eyes of the public. Ive made it my job to uncover these hidden studies and turn them into a completely safe and natural protocol that can be used by anyone.
According to Rodgers, there are four major causes of hair loss: nutrient deficiencies, thyroid hormone imbalance, prostate hormone imbalance, and calcification. Each of these causes has a number of specific solutions backed by footnoted studies that are outlined first throughout the books main chapters, and then condensed into an action guide that includes brand names, dosages, and a rating system of efficacy for each therapy.
Rodgers began work on his protocol due to his own concern with hair loss. Most of the men in my family have experienced some amount of hair loss, and at age 28, I began to notice the same issue, he said. However, as I have a science and research background and I am a nutritionist, I began scouring the medical literature for proven avenues to both slow and reverse the regression of hair. I continue to use my protocols every day they are inexpensive and quickly become easy habits.
Rodgers before and after hair pictures are shown on the books cover and were taken 10 months apart using the same camera in the same location with the same lighting. Additionally, both pictures were taken very shortly after a haircut using the same level electric razor attachment. Rodgers is looking for others to help him with before and after pictures taken in a similar manner.
If your dad is interested in regrowing his hair, and especially if he doesnt mind tweaking his diet in a few key areas, and taking a few to several inexpensive, natural supplements, said Rodgers, he will probably love you for helping him restore or retain his youthful head of hair.
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After a 27–23 loss to Dallas on Sunday, Redskins corner Josh Norman was selected by the NFL for a postgame drug test. He was not happy about it.
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A chain of profound events I witnessed last night on a prosperous street in Santa Barbara made me think it must have been part of another Merry Pranksters video, but there were no hidden cameras around and no ulterior motives for these spontaneous acts of kindness.
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