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At Cocoon we are committed to helping you achieve more and spend less. Host your own staff training with the same documents that we use to deliver teacher training – accessible on your dashboard. We will provide presentation notes, sharable resources and anything else that helps us make an impact when we deliver teacher training. Individual and whole-staff certification is available to teachers that successfully engage with our training programmes.
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How can you make bath time fun for kids? This is a concern that every mother has for her fussy little one! Why does this happen? Sometimes between toddlerhood and pre-school years, children lose interest in baths. But, you'll be happy to know that bath time isn't really as difficult as it seems to be, especially not if you take the opportunity to play some fun learning games!
So when your kids start with their famous dialogue, "Do we need to have a bath, mommy?" these water games for kids are the tricks you can use to beat the bath time blues! Read on, moms, for some fun and educational water games.
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Water games for kids can be so simple! Here are some great ideas for games to play with your kids at bath time.
- Play some music and let your children groove to it while they have fun in the water.
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These solutions are an affordable investment; builders will profit on returns while the environment will profit from conservation
By PATRICK R. FUSCOE, P.E.
We all know that being "green" is a good thing and generally helps us gain approvals for our development projects. Since the State, counties, and even cities have adopted policies, regulations, and new building codes that require what we call "environmentally sustainable features," we have all become familiar with this. So, rather than adding more noise to the excessive "green wash" out there, I will instead share what we think are current "best practices" to consider.
Let us start with best practices for the site:
• Clear and grade: Now, you should also add recycling of concrete and asphalt, careful removal of topsoil for reuse later in landscape areas, and avoidance or relocation of specimen trees.
- Underground utilities: Now you should also add recycled water (if available) or add a "dry" line for when it is.
- Paving and roads: Add pervious pavement "strips" around the parking field to infiltrate water and reduce run-off. Also, consider "green streets" that have shade trees, walk- ways, and bio-filtration planters. Overhead canopies provide shade while attracting retail customers.
- Landscape: Change planting to "California-friendly" or "drought-tolerant" plant palettes with low-pressure/low-volume irrigation.
Now, let us go to the best practices for building:
- Design to minimize cost: Add LEED building goals that include R-57 insulation, solar reflective exterior paints, air sealing, high-performance or "Low E" windows, LED lighting, ENERGY STAR® appliances, high efficiency HVAC units, tankless water heating, and skylights. All of these add 10 percent to building costs, but that expense returns in five to seven years of energy/water savings.
- Utilities: Add solar panels, zoned heating and cooling, energy monitoring displays, and maybe a "gray water" system that filters and reuses laundry (hotel) or sink (homes) water for reuse in laundry or plumbed to drip irrigation.
- Additional run-off: Consider AC condensation water that now is plumbed to the sewer and wasted. Instead, capture this distilled water for use on pavement wash-downs or decorative fountains. A typical 125,000 SF building generates 5,000 gallons/day in AC condensate during summer months when water is even more valuable!
- Roofing: Also consider "green" or "live" roofs on commercial buildings. Cost is $10/SF + $1/SF per year maintenance, but you can use them as a rooftop garden for tenants!
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None of the above listed features are extraordinarily expensive, and all are proven to work and deliver long-term savings while attracting buyers or tenants. Furthermore, California just passed a new law requiring "net zero" development starting in 2020! At least we know that 55 percent of homebuyers or commercial tenants prefer energy conservation and rank it as the #1 criteria for a transaction.
I have been a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) since 1981. All 12,000 members are worldwide CEO's. They just did a survey of each of the members, with 2,200 CEO's as respondents, and 93 percent of them ranked "doing more for society and the environment" as more important than profits.
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- Cal State University Student Union has details on using a "live" or green roof and how it pays for itself.
- CBRE reports "green buildings" have lower vacancies (five percent) and higher rents ($.40/SF). See San Diego Union-Tribune 9/15/12 article.
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- Montgomery Middle School
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- Parkview Homes, San Marcos
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I have been a Bullseye shooter for decades. All one hand, unsupported.
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I shoot offhand with rifle. I am right handed but left eye dominant. When I first learned to shoot they caught me closing my right eyes and rotating my head to get the sight picture from my left eye and made me switch. By the time I started shooting handgun I had taught myself to be able to switch eyes and could adjust my aim according to the non-dominate eye which helps with pistols, but to this day I still prefer off hand on my rifle shots. It makes bolt action interesting but I've adapted well.
Originally posted by VinutzThanks for responding guys- nice to see there are still some real shooters out there- nothing against bench testers- particularly if they have a good reason- but they missing out on the real fun of offhand and the true art of shooting.
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I shoot my 45ACP Springfield 4" off-hand really well, quarter size target holes after several magazines at 15 yards, and my other pistols also and am working to be more proficient off-handed shooting with my DD5V1 AR-10 .308 to practice simulated hunting scenarios at the range; standing off-hand, using a collapsible bi-pod for maybe a 300 or 400 yard shots, kneeling, sitting, prone, or against an imaginary tree. I'm working on my upper body strength to support the rifle including the mounted Vortec Viper 6/24/50 scope that weights an additional 1 1/2 lbs. My bucket list has me hunting more in Wyoming and Montana over the next few years so that's what I am training and loading for; Sierra GameKing 180gr SBT for this purpose, an all game solution.Last edited by hotfishtacos; 12-10-2018, 01:38.
Originally posted by Offfhand View Post"Missed out?" No way! Many competition benchrest shooters, including myself, are former position shooters. Some of whom were nationally and internationally recognized. But age takes its toll and the body, practice becomes a chore, and the eyes lose ability to use iron sights effectively. The competitive spirit remains alive however and many things learned in position shooting are put to good use in benchrest competition. Which I see as the next step up in a career in competitive marksmanship.
I shoot weekly at 3 different gun clubs.
Except for organized comp shoots...I never see anyone shooting rifle offhand. Only older guys seem to know how to shoot off-hand.
younger guys seem to think a larger clip is needed to get a bullseye. No wonder every year, I hear guys missing deer at 80 yards...they seem to think shooting a group from a machine rest is practice for hunting. It is a different shooting culture in the world today. Thanks to MSR, I think!Last edited by BEAR; 12-10-2018, 12:35.
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I'm not a serious service rifle shooter, but I go to a few local CMP matches and Project Appleseeds a year.
I do need to practice offhand more. It's pretty bad when I can shoot better 10 shot groups prone at 400 yards than 100 yards offhand with a web sling (16"x20" D target).
Thats why some call it awfulhand I guess!I play Choctaw bingo every Friday night.
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Service rifle matches still require offhand so yes.When the hammer drops the BS stops.
Don't let them beat you down with their inexperience.
You won't know until You Actually try it.
The impossible just takes longer.
A friend of mine bought a new M4 and wanted to go with me to the range. I took my bench rest for him to use and sight in his brand new ACOG. I bore sighted it for him and it was on paper with the first shot. Two more shots and it was in the X ring.
I left him alone while I fired 20 shots offhand. The surprising thing is my offhand groups were smaller that his from a good rest.Reloader since 1969.
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Restrictions could change access of public footpath
PUBLISHED: 09:00 17 August 2018 | UPDATED: 09:29 17 August 2018
Time restrictions could be put in place to change access to a public footpath.
Berrow and Burnham Golf Club, in St Christophers Way, wants to restrict the times when people can walk through the course so as to prohibit it from 8am-7pm in summer and 8am-4pm in winter.
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Jack Phillip Martin, 86, of Olean, Missouri passed away Friday, August 10, 2018 at his residence in Olean, Missouri. He was born July 1, 1932 in Kansas City, Kansas the son of the late Paul Jesse and Hazel Edrie (Wall) Martin. On June 9, 1962 in Eldon, Missouri he was united in marriage to Peggy (Sears) Martin who survives of the home.
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Daughter, Jadale Allen (Mike) of Lake Ozark, MO
Two Granddaughters, Destin & Lindsey Allen
Sister, Doris Wiggins (Jack) of Jefferson City, MO
A sister, Pauline Klug and one brother, Dave Martin preceded him in death.
Jack was a member of the Olean Christian Church of Olean, MO. He was a veteran of the United States Air Force during the Korean War serving from 1952 to 1956. Jack began working at Martin Tile Company in 1956 until 1962; he was then employed with TWA in Las Vegas, NV until retiring in 1989 in Kansas City, MO. After retirement and moving to the area, he worked on his farm located in Miller County. Jack was a life time member of the VFW Post #2442 of Eldon, MO where he served as captain of the Honor Guard from 2012 to 2017. Jack was chosen as a member of the Honor Flight going to Washington, DC in 2013.
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New Year's Eve
"Time to check the traps," the old man said.
The boy lit the lamps and followed him through the door, toward the darkness of the liminal lands.
The old man turned back as they neared the edge. "Watch your step," he said.
"You always say that," the boy replied.
The old man chuckled.
They came to the moments first, small and struggling in the gossamer bonds. The old man held the lamps steady as the boy bend to unwind them. He first released a word unspoken, then a backwards glance. A sharp cry – whether in anger or pleasure was unclear – came last. Once freed, they trembled in the lamplight.
"Off you go, then," the old man said, and one by one the moments slipped over the edge, to the hungry darkness beyond.
They found the hours next. The last hour of school in June, thick and syrupy in the lamplight. The witching hour between dusk and dark flowed over the edge like oil. The boy burned his fingers on the final hour of childbirth; the old man tsked but bandaged him with white linen.
They found the entire month of August caught there in the ropes, straining as it stretched toward oblivion.
"Gentle, now," said the old man, pulling a silver knife from his belt. He sliced the ropes and August was off, leaping over the edge.
They heard the year before they saw it, a strained wheezing heave in the darkness. Then its tattered bulk loomed before them, panting and bleeding in the straps, smelling of rusted metal.
The old man hissed through his teeth. "This was a mean one."
He looked to the boy and nodded in the lamplight. Together they cut the thick straps of the trap, touching the year as little as possible, minding where their feet fell. When their work was done, they stepped back.
"There you go, now," the man said.
The year shifted, turned dark, hungry eyes on the old man.
"You're done," said the man. The silver of his blade gleamed in the lamplight. "Off you go."
The year hissed and wheezed, shifting its grey mottled bulk toward the edge. It moved very slowly on its many legs, so slowly the boy felt it was hardly moving at all, and that he may spend the rest of his time standing there, on the edge of the darkness, the lamp trembling in his hand.
When the last of the year slumped over the edge the old man sighed and clapped the boy on his shoulder.
"Well, that's that," he said.
Together they turned toward home, where the pale light of the coming dawn had just begun to paint the horizon.
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One woman was found dead in the Patapsco River after flood waters rushed through Ellicott City, Maryland on Saturday evening.
The city ordered evacuation of citizens from flooded areas of Main Street and sheltered people at a local community center. A flash flood warning was issued Saturday for the area. By about 9:30 p.m., fire crews began rescue operations.
A state of emergency was declared after assessment of major flooding discovered damage to streets, cars, businesses, and residents Saturday evening.
With over 4 inches of rain in a short period of time, historic Ellicott City MD could not handle the water. This area is prone to flooding in the Potapsco River Valley, and the video shows two cars take out the town's clock. VIDEO CREDIT: Josh Zimmerman.
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The National Weather Service in Sterling Virginia has extended the.
Flood Warning for: Southeastern Howard County in central Maryland.
Until 9:00 AM EDT.
At 6:11 AM EDT, reporting gauges indicated the Little Patuxent River was still above flood stage, including at Guilford in the Columbia area, where the stage was 12.3 feet. River Levels are falling, however the flooding will continue into the morning hours.
Some locations that will experience flooding include: Columbia, Elkridge, Ellicott City, Savage-guilford. Scaggsville, Ilchester, Jessup, Fulton, Highland, Simpsonville and Clarksville.
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Filed under: Law/Gospel Distinction, Lordship Salvation, the book of James
by David Bishop
It so confused Luther that he pronounced it uninspired, before tossing it out of his Bible altogether. It has been the bane of many a Protestant's message, the thorn in most every Christian's "by grace alone", the flaming arrow of every Lordship Salvationist's dart. What it is it? It is the epistle of James. And though it can certainly be one of the more difficult books in the Bible to understand, it doesn't need to be as long as we keep in mind the fact that the Bible comes to as a whole; verses laid upon verses, chapters upon chapters, each meant to be understood not in a vacuum, but rather as part of the whole. God is, after all, unchanging, and so we must keep in mind that one part of His word will never contradict another. This means that we not must come to James as though his epistle is independent of the rest of Scripture. Rather, there is no James 2:17 without Romans 4:5. The one is affirmed in the light of the other.
The first things I discover about James' epistle is the fact that he addressed his epistle to people whom he believed were Christians.
James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of many kinds
James 2:1
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
This fact may seem rather trivial at first, but it is paramount we keep it in mind, because most commentaries I have read forget this almost immediately.
The second thing I discover is that James does not use the words "save" and "soul" in today's Roman-influenced, common vernacular. For instance, most church goers are conditioned to always think of the word "saved" as a reference to eternal salvation. Indeed, sometimes Scripture does use the word "saved" with that view in mind, but not always. For example, in Matthew 14:30, we find the following:
Matthew 14:
25 And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. 26 But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, "It is a ghost!" and they cried out in fear. 27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, "Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid." 28 And Peter answered him, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water." 29 He said, "Come." So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, "Lord, save me."
I hardly think Peter was concerned at that moment with the fate of his eternal destiny. He wasn't asking Jesus to save him from hell. Rather, he was asking Jesus to save him from drowning.
We find similar usage for the word "saved" in places like Matthew 27:42, Mark 15:30, Luke 6:9, Acts 27:43, 1 Samuel 4:3, Genesis 45:7, and more. In these instances, the Scripture uses the word in reference to the preservation of bodily life, or the rescue from bodily danger, rather than eternal salvation from Hell. King David often used the word in the Psalms to express this very meaning. Consider Psalm 7:1, Psalm 22:21, Psalm 57:3, and Psalm 69:1, for example.
What this means for us is that we must not presume that when James told his readers to "put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls", that he meant putting away all filthiness and rampant wickedness is able to save you from eternal judgment. We know this is not his meaning, because this would at every point deny the gospel of grace. (Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 11:6, Titus 3:5, Romans 4:5, 2 Timothy 1:9, Romans 3:28, Galatians 2:21). What James must have been referring to instead, is to the saving of your physical body. But if this is the case, why then use the word "soul"?
Here again, the Bible uses the word soul in ways that we have not been conditioned to think. For example, sometimes the word soul is used in reference to the word person, as in Exodus 12:15, "that soul shall be cut off from Israel" and in Leviticus 4:2, "if a soul shall sin through ignorance." At other times the word soul is used in reference to the word mind, as in Deuteronomy 4:29, 6:5, 10:12, 11:13 and 11:18, "But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul." However, the most common usage for the word soul is in reference to the physical body, or more precisely, physical life, as in Genesis 35:18, 1 Samuel 26:21, and 1 Samuel 25:29, for example.
What did James mean then when he said, "put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls"? He meant we can save our bodies from being disciplined with an early grave by putting away all filthiness and rampant wickedness. Remember, he is addressing people who are already justified, who are already regenerated. Their eternal destiny has already been secured. He is not speaking to the idea of saving themselves from hell. He was urging his readers instead to obey God in this life, or risk going to an early grave as a form of discipline.
Discipline? God uses death to discipline? You bet He does. The apostle Paul himself gives us an example of just this in 1 Corinthians.
1 Corinthians 11:
28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. 31 But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Here in 1 Corinthians, we find some wealthy people who were treating their poorer brothers with disdain by consuming all the food and drink at the Lord's before the poorer brothers had arrived to partake. As a result, God struck some of these wealthy brothers with sickness, while He struck others with death. Does this mean they will now be lost to destruction at the day of judgment? No! Not at all! For the judgment which they were judged by, Paul says in verse 32, was the judgment of Godly discipline.
The writer of Hebrews concurs with Paul, and says something very similar.
Hebrews 12:
5And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons:
"My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline,
and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
6because the Lord disciplines those he loves,
and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.
As does James!
James 1:
19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
The judgment James speaks of is not eternal destruction at the last day, but rather a disciplinary act marked by physical death in this life. This is what James is talking about when he says faith without works is dead, and when he asks, what good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? He is not asking can that faith save him from eternal destruction. He is not asking can that faith save him to heaven. He is asking, can that faith same him from God's discipline. The answer, of course, is no.
There are some people however, who turn James' argument on its head and assert that if a person has truly been justified, if he is truly going to heaven, then he will do good works. THIS IS NOT JAMES' ARGUMENT! How could it have been, when the fact is that he has just finished calling these misbehaving people his brothers?! James would have condemned the Lordship Salvation, proof-of-justification talk as foolishness and wicked! And make no mistake about it, the men who teach that Christians will prove their justification by doing good works are engaging in nothing less than foolish and evil speech. Such teaching removes Christ as the object of faith by insisting that we focus upon our faith and obedience instead.
James nowhere insists that we prove our faith authentic by doing good works. Nowhere does the Bible talk about faith as being real or true. Faith is faith, either you agree with God or you don't.
"Christians will bear fruit."
This statement is not necessarily true. It depends. If fruit is defined as faith and repentance, then the statement is true. If fruit, however, is defined as a change in ethical/moral behavior, then the statement is not true.
Certainly, some Christians do enjoy a change in moral behavior, but it's also equally true that some don't. Created in Christ for good works that we SHOULD walk in them does not mean all do. Case in point, 1 Cor 11:27-32.
James did not argue that Christians must express proof of their justification by doing good works. Again, he would have condemned such teaching. Instead, he that if we don't obey God, then we will suffer and die in this life, but still be saved in the next.
Lordship Salvation turns this on its head. It says, you MUST do moral works to prove you will be saved from eternal judgment. This is why it is really salvation by works. It sneaks salvation by works in through the back door in order to avoid having to say salvation as a result of good works. It is exactly that though.
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So what did James mean when he used the term "justify" in James 2:21 and 2:24?
Yo creo que Santiago habla de justificación delante de los hombres y no de Dios, ya que menciona la fe de los demonios y dice que ellos tambien creen y tiemblan, una fe en Dios no en Cristo, o sea una fe que no es para justificación DELANTE de Dios (ya que la única fe que nos justifica delante de Dios es la fe puesta en Cristo, mejor dicho Cristo nos justifica por medio de la fe 😀 ), y el segundo punto viene en que Santiago dice que 'yo te mostrare mi fe por mis obras' o sea como puedo mostrar mi fe a otra persona.
El hombre es justificado (delante de otros hombres) por las obras y no solamente por la fe.


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During birth, the descent of the baby through the pelvis is influenced by a range of factors. If the mother's pelvis is twisted or stiff, it can interfere with the baby's passage through the birth canal. Osteopathic care will restore and maintain normal pelvic alignment and mobility, and contribute to a successful birth and healthy baby.
After birth, it is advisable for you to return with your newborn to help prevent or manage problems like pelvic and lower back strain, pelvic floor weakness, incontinence, interrupted sleep and fatigue. It is now recommended for women to have a 6 week check-up post partum with their doctor and also with a women's health physiotherapist. This will help you meet your baby's needs, whilst caring for your own.
We have practitioners in all our clinics who have a particular interest in pregnancy care, and can also help after the birth with your recovery.
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Clinical Pilates is an excellent way for women to maintain the health and well-being during during and after pregnancy in a safe and effective way. Mums-in-waiting and new mums can safely participate in any of our 100 weekly Clinical Pilates classes but we also deliver pre- and post-natal classes. See more about Clinical Pilates.
To get simple relief from tired and aching muscles, our Myotherapists are able to help you during all stages of your pregnancy and following birth. We have special pregnancy pillows that allow you to rest comfortably on your stomach during all treatments.
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- 2014 Random Wine Company Cabernet Franc - USA, Oregon, Columbia Valley (11/21/2018)
Medium ruby with a rusty iron nose. Light acid, medium fruit and body with dusty tannins, well balanced and drinking pleasantly after an hour plus open time. Roast beef, blood and iron in restrained fashion. Open another 3 days and has faired very well. A medium garnet color, tart ripe cherries with some leather and cane pith tannins, well balanced and integrated acid and tannins. Drinking well now and should have many years of life. (92 pts.)
Beau says he sources this from a vineyard near John Day, not sure if he means John Day River near the Columbia or further up river near the town of John Day.


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She was born in Chiba, Japan and is a central member of the young and upcoming pop instrumental bands, LUCA.
After graduating from the Shobi Musical College, she has been performing both in LUCA, the band which I joined during my time as a student, and also as a solo artist. She has experienced so many different types of music, and increasingly has been performing in Japan and abroad in Asia as well.
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People keep coming to my door and telling me, "I don't know what to say." That is because there are no words. There is only love. It is only you that we needed. We needed you, and here you are.
I cannot express how completely my family and I have felt your love. Emails, texts, cards, calls, flowers, visits and food (so much food). Thank you, thank you, thank you.
So many people have shared with me their own stories of grief. I could never have anticipated how deeply comforting it is to hear these stories and to realize the teller is still breathing in and out, getting out of bed, going to work and the store each day. It will be possible to do the mundane and everyday tasks of life, I know that because others who have walked where I am walking are doing it. They told me their stories and so I know it's possible.
I know I am just at the door of grieving and that it will sneak up on me in months and years ahead and take me out at the knees when I least expect it. But I also know I have a community around me ready to raise me up when I stumble.
I promise I will return this blog to the purpose for which it was intended, but you may have noticed I write when I am sad or angry or confused or happy or… you get it.
I wrote the following letter a couple of days after my son died and I have been asked to share it here. At the time I was sitting in the darkness and just felt compelled to write. After I sent it to Mr. Miranda's Facebook page I wondered why I did it. Looking back I remember an episode of M*A*S*H where Dr. Sidney Freedman is writing letters to Sigmund Freud to help himself to understand his own feelings.
I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm a writer and a sometime actor. I don't write to Dr. Freud. It appears I write to Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Dear Mr. Miranda,
I find myself writing to you in this strange public forum because it is the only place I can imagine right now to reach out to you. I could not find an address to send a letter or email.
I have no actual expectation that you will ever read these words, but, gratitude, like forgiveness, is much more for the giver than the receiver. Even if this never reaches you it is still vital for me to say it.
My 13-year-old daughter is a fan of your work, specifically Hamilton, to a point that can only be adequately described as "with the love and obsession possessed by a 13-year-old girl for a piece of art that speaks to her soul." Thus I have had the opportunity to not only see your masterwork live when it toured through Salt Lake City, but before and after that inspiring performance to hear the soundtrack on an almost daily loop playing in my home and car.
I therefore became a fan as well.
I am compelled now to write you, to thank you for all your work, but specifically for the song It's Quiet Uptown. That song has played, not in my home or car, but in my head since Tuesday of this week when my eldest son took his own life.
This was not an act which followed a long struggle with depression or crippling mental illness. It happened in a moment when all the ingredients for such a terrible event were present: anger, an argument and a gun. In a moment that he could not take back he let those three elements take him away from his wife, family, brothers, sister and his mother and I.
I was not there when it happened but that does not prevent me from screaming into the past and begging him to stop and breathe and think for just one more moment. That breath and thought will never happen and all I am left with when the screaming grief and tears of his mother and siblings and I fade, is quiet. Quiet in desperate search of peace.
Though it is quiet outside, in my mind I still beg to hold him. I beg to trade his life for mine. But I am left in the end with quiet-where I try to push away the unimaginable. Where I try to live with the unimaginable.
I am searching Mr. Miranda. Next to me is my wife, we are together walking through the unimaginable.
My gratitude to you is for giving me the words, your words, the ones you gave to Alexander Hamilton and to Eliza Hamilton, that you unknowingly gave to my wife and I as well. Those same words you gave to all who are pushing through the unimaginable.
Now I must find my quiet place, my uptown, where I can do the unimaginable and find that grace too powerful to name.
I know it's there. Because you told a tale that is rooted in truth. Somewhere there is peace. Somewhere there is grace. But right now it seems unimaginable.
I know it is not impossible. I feel the grace of eternity fighting to find a place in my heart. The faith I learned in church from my childhood tells me there is a place of peace beyond this, though I can't see it now.
The lyrics that, I can tell you, were whispered into your heart by a loving father in heaven, speak to so many people, too many people, who must find a quiet place to look into the void and learn to live with the unimaginable.
Thank you for listening to that still small voice Mr. Miranda. Thank you for following where that voice inside led you. Thank you for giving those words to all of us pushing through the unimaginable. I know it can't just be me that needs them.
I felt such a great need to tell you that, to express my thanks knowing that you may never hear it. That you may not know I wrote this does not matter when it comes to gratitude. Gratitude must be expressed.
Our great love to you,
Dale H Boam and family
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There is no dress code. Come as you are. To get a sense of what a typical worship service is like, we invite you to listen to a sermon from our audio archive.
Here is a thumbnail sketch of our history: The congregation was organized in December, 1954 in response to the need for a new Presbyterian church on the west side of Aurora, which was then growing by leaps and bounds. John Hall was the organizing pastor and the first few years were spent worshiping at Freeman Elementary School. In October, 1958, the congregation moved to its current location with the completion of the sanctuary project. A new wing was added to accommodate growth in 1962, and the newest addition was completed in 2003. The church has been served by four pastors over its lifetime, with Pastor Chuck Legvold the most recent, arriving in February 2004 and ending his ministry with us in September 2019. Westminster is now searching for a transitional Pastor to lead us as we discover what God has planned for us.
The church family has also been blessed with many faithful and gifted staff members— musicians, associate pastors, program directors, administrators and custodians—all of whom have made a positive contribution to the work of Westminster.
Any church history, though, should be seen more in mission than in events, buildings or even leaders. The fact that Westminster continues to share the love of Jesus with our community is due to the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit and those faithful people who are willing to trust and obey His voice. This simply means that the history of Westminster Presbyterian Church is not by any means complete, and that its best years lie in the future.
The mission of ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians is to build flourishing churches that make disciples of Jesus Christ. We seek to be a movement, not just a denomination.
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As you probably already know, I love dating sims. There's something about pursuing a relationship with a fictional character who is actually a bunch of ones and zeroes that is just so…I don't know the word, satisfying, maybe? I don't think that's the right word. The point is that I really like it when games give me a chance to set my character up with another character (or two) and there aren't very many options if you're looking to play a dating sim in English (well, Other Age is pretty cute).
Hatoful Boyfriend isn't your average dating sim, and, well, just check out the logo:
In Hatoful Boyfriend, you are the only human student (default name Hiyoko Tosaka) at St. PigeoNation's school for gifted birds. As Hiyoko, you'll attend classes, meet new friends, and find romance.
You know, with sentient birds, you're dating birds, you, the player. Birds.
If this sounds like complete WTFery, that's because that's exactly what it is. It knows its premise is absolutely out there and it runs with it, but it still manages to be a competent parody of dating sims. You have a range of personalities that you would expect from any dating sim: the boy next door/childhood friend, the jock, the snobbish aristocrat, the quiet and aloof one, the flirt, the bad boy, all present and accounted for with a few interesting twists (you know, besides the whole bird thing). From the get go, it's apparent that all is not as it seems, whether it's your homeroom teacher mysteriously smelling of bleach or disappearances connected to the infirmary.
The thing is, Hatoful Boyfriend isn't a very good game.
Hiyoko only has three stats she can raise: vitality, charisma, and wisdom. Each guy has the one stat they prefer, and as long as you always attend a particular class, you're pretty much guaranteed to get their ending provided you joined the right club at the beginning. The script is also full of grammatical errors. One of the most annoying things about this game for me was that they didn't capitalize titles, so you'll see a lot of "miss Tosaka", I don't know if this is due to translating honourifics literally or if they just didn't care but in any case it was really annoying. The individual routes also generally lack substance and "subtlety" is definitely not in its dictionary, although, considering that this is an indie title that began as a joke, that's not surprising. Another annoyance is the fast forward function, which does its job a little too well in that if you're not careful it will fast forward through scenes you haven't read yet. The graphics amount to stock images of birds, although the background images are nicely done (they were redone for the Steam version). The music is mostly Christmas tunes mixed in with some forgettable and some tracks that are just epic (my favourite has to be the "battle" theme, if you heard it you would understand). The new Azami route that was added to this version was amazing but it was more like a mini-route in that you don't have an option to date her instead of the boys, which is disappointing. I would have liked to have an Azami Christmas event or a message from her during Tanabata.
In fact, arguably the real meat of the game is in the route you unlock after unlocking certain endings, with an extended epilogue if you complete all the routes. This route, the Bad Boys Love or Hurtful Boyfriend route, explains just what the heck is going on with the birds and the general state of the game's world. It's basically a visual novel, to say anything more would be spoiling things, but this route is much more substantial and a radical departure in tone. The wacky dating sim is really only the tip of the iceberg.
It's almost sad that some people are going to look at the premise, raise an eyebrow, and miss a great story under all the weird, whereas others will probably play it for a bit, get bored with it, and, again, miss the entertaining story behind it.
In terms of triggering content, the game contains references to suicide and one of the dateable characters is a serial killer and, as you might expect, his route gets very, very dark very fast. Fortunately, he's easy to identify. There is a little bit of blood but what gore there is in the game is purely text-based. While the Bad Boys Love route isn't "scary" in the sense that it has jump scares, it definitely has elements of horror (which includes violence against children) and can get very creepy (and also very sad). One character is also racist towards Anghel, who is Filipino. Unfortunately, in order to get the very best ending in the BBL route (and you want to play it, trust me), you need to get all the endings.
So which love interest was my favourite? The first route I completed was Kazuaki's route, but I also like Shuu, Yuuya, and Anghel. Anghel's route in particular needs to be experienced to truly appreciate how epic it is. Even Okosan, a character type I usually hate, was a riot despite his obsession with pudding. The game's script may lack subtlety but I found myself liking all the characters. The main character, Hiyoko, isn't your typical dating sim protagonist, she's a tough hunter-gatherer girl who can't relax without red meat in the morning.
If you like dating sims, Hatoful Boyfriend is certainly an interesting addition to the small collection of dating sims that are available in English. It's a game that is pretty much nothing but Narm Charm and to be honest as a game it's really not that great. However, if you're willing to put up with the lackluster writing and overall bizarreness, there's an entertaining story beneath it all. Steam indicates I've played it for ten hours, and at the current price of $9.88 I'd probably recommend waiting for a sale.
Hatoful Boyfriend is a weird game that somehow manages to be terrible and awesome at the same time. It's terrible in the sense that it is very simplistic, but awesome in the way that it deconstructs common dating sim tropes hides a really interesting story under what is just, well, absurd. There's just no other way to describe it.


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Aaron Hernandez's funeral on Monday drew an estimated 100 friends and family members, but could have drawn a few more attendees.
According to the Boston Herald, the jurors who acquitted the former Patriots tight end of double-murder on April 14 were invited to Hernandez's funeral by defense attorney Jose Baez.
"I was invited, but I decided ultimately not to go," Robert Monroe, one of trial's 12 jurors, told the Herald on Tuesday. "I received a message, if any of the jurors wanted to go to the Aaron Hernandez funeral, that Jose Baez would rent a bus to get us back and forth."
Monroe, a 27-year-old Boston native, debated taking Baez up on the invitation, but ultimately decided not to go.
"I actually asked a bunch of my friends, should I go, and they thought it was strange," Monroe said. "Initially I wanted to go and maybe get some closure, this whole, confusing thing ... his suicide. ... I would have been out of place, I'm not family or a friend."
Hernandez was found hanging in his cell at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Mass., early Wednesday and his death was later ruled a suicide. He was already serving a life sentence for first-degree murder in the death of Odin L. Lloyd in June 2013 but took his life five days after being acquitted in the separate double-murder trial.
Hernandez's defense attorneys filed a motion in Superior Court in Massachusetts on Tuesday to dismiss the first-degree murder conviction.
Under state law, Hernandez's suicide could result in a vacated conviction because he was in the process of an appeal and died before it was heard.


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She was worried about her independent mother transitioning into a nursing home. The Lord sent a sign to ease her anxiety.
Choosing a nursing home for my independent mother was the hardest thing I ever had to do. For months I'd been flying back and forth between my home in Dayton, Ohio, and St. Louis, Mo., where Mom was. She'd always insisted on living on her own, but that was becoming impossible. The doctor confirmed my worst fears: She was showing signs of senility. Clearly Mom needed round-the-clock care, but I hated the thought of making such an important decision all on my own.
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I got the photos developed when I got home. Flipping to the picture I'd taken of the sky, I remembered how anxious I'd been about choosing Mom's nursing home on my own. But wait… what was that? I brought the photograph up closer to my nose. I saw an angel's face in the clouds, looking down from the vivid blue sky. "You see," the Lord seemed to be saying, "I was with you all along."
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Whether it be your next door neighbor or one of the popular "New Atheists," the claim that religion is the main cause of humanities ills is becoming more and more common and the non-believer seems all to anxious to bombard the believer with such accusations as, "What about all the violence religion has caused?"
If those who attack Christianity continue to insist that the ordinary follower of Christ, who has never done anyone harm, must answer for the crimes committed by self-proclaimed Christians in history, then likewise atheists do not get to turn a blind eye to the brutality caused by their beliefs in recent world history.
In Dinesh D'Souza's book, What's so Great about Christianity?, he demonstrates that while religion has been guilty of violent acts, its the atheist who has much more to answer for:
"Even taking higher population levels into account, atheist violence surpasses religious violence by staggering proportions. Here is a rough calculation. The world's population rose from around 500 million in 1450 AD to 2.5 billion in 1950, a fivefold increase. Taken together, the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the witch burnings killed approximately 200,000 people. Adjusting for the increase in population, that's the equivalent of one million deaths today. Even so, these deaths caused by Christian rulers over a five-hundred-year period amount to only 1 percent of the deaths caused by Stalin, Hitler, and Mao in the space of a few decades." (2)
When one truly gives their life to Jesus Christ and accepts His invitation to follow, the fruit that results is love, peace, forgiveness, giving, etc.
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that the "death of God" movement would lead to the bloodiest century in history and a universal madness. Nietzsche was willing to admit that atheism is devoid of conscience.
Authors Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, who continue to preach the "moral superiority" of atheism, would do well to reexamine the history of godless governments.
But wait! Wasn't Hitler a Christian? To get an idea of how Hitler really felt about Christianity, see here.
Courage and Godspeed,
Chad A. Gross
1) Sam Harris, The End of Faith.
2) Dinesh D'Souza, What's so Great about Christianity, p. 215.


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So I've moved back into my mom's house and I've been here for about a week so far. Today is my 21st birthday and I'm feeling pretty low. That's mainly because my mom is now back on the Christian train. Right now, I don't have the energy to attack Christianity the way it's attacked me and anyone else who has the courage to embrace who they are.
But in a rare act of serendipity, Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way, is released today, May 23, my 21st birthday. I've known this for a while, but it wasn't until just now that I realized that I think the universe set this all up just for me. I think the universe brought me back here to experience what I have in the past week, like having my 9-year old little sister tell me that I'm wrong for "choosing" to be gay, hearing my mother say that we're not allowed to say the word "transgender" around my sister, and that I can't talk about my sexuality because it would be detrimental to her.
This has been a heatbreaking experience for me, more so than it ever has before, because for the last few months I've been away from my mother, and I've been surrounded by acceptance and freedom, but now more than ever, this place has become a breeding ground of resentment and hatred. I'm not even mad. I'm just… sad. I'm truly sad, because my mother, who has within her the chance to be an incredible person, because she's filled with love and compassion, is allowing herself to become a part of something that oppresses and hurts people, like me, her own son. I don't hate her anymore. I feel sorry for her, because she can't love herself enough to find happiness and peace within, but looks to some idea of a god in the sky to validate her. She believes these silly, fairytale lies, and she thinks she's happy.
But she'll never know for one moment the fulfillment that I have in being free, and loving who I am. She'll never know what it's like to embrace yourself, every part of yourself, all of the sticky, gooey, hot, dark, dirty, smelly places within yourself where your anger and your fear and your love and your compassion all exist, and you accept them all, because they're all good, and they all of them make you whole.
And so, the Universe set this all up, not just for me, but for everyone who is surrounded by people trying to throw shame on them. Today, I embrace who I am, I put my paws up and I proudly declare, I was born this way baby. I'm sad, but that's okay. I love myself. And I know that I experience life on a level she doesn't, every day, because I love myself.
I still have resentment in me. I have a lot of resentment in me. That's okay. I think I'm starting to understand that a large part of my resentment is just sadness. Sadness that I've been treated wrongly for who I am, and sadness that so many people have been pushed beyond what they can humanly abide, because the people around them wouldn't accept them who they are. On this day, when I celebrate my life, I celebrate all of who I am.
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Equality of Men and Women in Baha'i Faith?! HmmmmPosted: January 14, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized 17 Comments
In Baha'i Faith, women are prohibited from serving in the Universal House of Justice!
"The Universal House of Justice shall consist of nine men who have been elected from the Bahá'í community in the manner hereinafter provided."
(The Universal House of Justice, The Constitution of The Universal House of Justice, p. 10)
Maybe they should call it the Universal House of Inequality!
Also, giving the eldest son a larger portion of the inheritance if there is no will left by the parents!
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in the most literal sense women can never be equal only equitable. There is rel differences between men and women built right into their DNA. Men's DNA is XY and Women is XX.
There are many places where the genders should be apart. Like public rest rooms and showers.
For whatever reason that the eldest son gets a bigger share,the fact remains that there is inequality and that is the main point. Thus any excuse is rendered void because there is still no equality.
actually there is equality because this only refers to not having a will. Baha'is are Required to make a will in which they may give any amount to anyone once all Obligations are paid.
That isn't equality either. A Baha'i is free to give anything to anyone in his will. He can give someone all and another none or distribute his wealth any way he deems possible. Still no guarantee equality.
Thus, if there is no "will" there is no equality and if there is a "will" there is still no guarantee for equality.
Sure its equality the person who owns the items has the right to distribute as he see fit.
Its not equal to give everyone the same amount because they may not have worked equally for it. Equality doesn't mean one has equal share that i taking from thos who earned it and giving to those who didn't.
Equality means equality. And your response makes no sense. If the guy gives his inheritors unequal shares in his will, there is no equality and if he leaves no will the Baha'i law states the shares are unequal, and there is still inequality. It's fairly simple.
That is the communist way of defining equality. Equality of duty first earns equality of shares. If person does no work they shouldn't get the same as the person who does all the work. This is rue even in the family. And, that person who owns the items is free to determine this is equality not that he is required to give to the child who has done nothing but cause grief to the family. If you give equal shares to the drug addict son and the philanthropist daughter. The son will use his share to get more drugs but, the daughter will her share to help people. AS, good father it makes sense to give more to the one who will use it wisely. They bible has passage about this man has 3 servants 1 he gives 10 talents of gold and tells to make something of this, The 2nd one was given 5 talents of gold and was told to do the same. The 3rd servant was given two talents of gold and told the same thing. Then came the day for accounting of the money.
The first servant came forth and said you gave me 10 talents and i have increased it by 10 talents. And, master says you have been faithful in many things and many things will be given to you. The 2nd servant came and said you gave me 5 talents and i have increased it by 5 talents. The master says you have been faithful in a few things and to you a few more things will be given to you. Then came the 3rd servant and he says I knew you would be angry if i lost the money so i buried. And, the master said you foolish servant ig gave you the money to increase and squander that you will be given nothing and will lose what you have already. And, the master took the 2 talents from the 3rd serve and gave it to the first.
This parable is about God giving us talents(its were English gets the word talent from this parable). God gives bases on abilities and if we use them and expand on them he will give us more but if we squander our talents he will take the ones we have. If its good enough for God its good enough for me. If the greatest father of all time gives us shares based on are use of it then it mus be equal because God is the fairest of all.
Nice lecture, but that is giving one his worth or giving someone a proportional share. It is still not equality!
Hossein .
By saying that you are saying God is being unequal. Equality i making everyone the same its allowing ever to have the same opportunity and then rewarding them for action.
All trying make everyone the same does is take what is earned by those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't. When something given no effort it is unappreciated.
Which is why many people on welfare instead of being thankful what they have are disgruntled by what they don't. Getting stuff too easy causes people to become selfish. Earning something make them more generous because they know how hard it was to get. Parent should have the right to decide how much their children get its the money of the parent after all. A, parent i wouldn't give unrestricted money to a drug addict child though i would. to a well established hard working child. Though i would set up trust fund to get them help and give them something if they get them self straightened out. God has it right give to eacg based on thier ability an reward faithfulness to using an expanding that ability.
I understand what you are saying, but, that is not called equality. Baha'u'llah made claims of equality which obviously doesn't exist, just as you are stating yourself.