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This guest article by Dr Mullen on Jeffrey I Moore's EveryDayPower blog focuses on habits and how to change them…
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This guest article by Dr Mullen on Jeffrey I Moore's EveryDayPower blog focuses on habits and how to change them…
Head over to EveryDayPowerBlog to read this article, and other motivational posts from Jeffrey I. Moore (www.JeffreyIMoore.com)
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Do you know a successful woman who, no matter how smart and high achieving she is, still seems to sabotage herself with food? Maybe you're that woman. There are lots of women who don't have a weight problem, but their nutritional habits contribute to fatigue, anxiety and depressive symptoms. Shelley Davidescu, founder of CleanForks.com learned during her graduate studies how important nutrition was to her own mood and health. She went on to earn her Master's in Marriage and Family therapy and has turned her knowledge of emotional well-being and psychological well-being into her own entrepreneurial venture. Clean Forks is a program she designed to help coach successful women to be the best they can in their businesses and to themselves through interrupting ways of eating or nutritional habits that work against their emotional success.
The Clean Forks Philosophy
Shelley believes that what we eat affects how we feel. She's found that if you fuel your body with body-nourishing food and your mind with soul-nourishing thoughts you energy skyrockets.
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Why focus on entrepreneurial women?
Shelley knows firsthand what it takes to get a business off the ground. As a therapist, she built a successful private practice from the ground up. She also learned that so much of her mood was dictated by her food choices. She's learned through her own nutritional studies how to eat in ways which energize her, fuel her brain, increase her Seratonin (that stuff in your brain that makes you happy) and increase her productivity. She now shares her knowledge to her clients through her Clean Forks program.
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The Clean Forks program is designed to get her clients thinking about how their food and business can be enhanced through making choices that are health and wellness focused, rather than stress dictated. Shelley coaches the clients 1:1 through the phone or Skype. If you're looking to get a taste of what it might look like, Shelley also facilitates the Eat to Thrive Facebook group where you can learn a bit more about her program and participate in the group for free.
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This is the audio transcript of Coaching Through Chaos Podcast episode 11 featuring Dr. Colleen Mullen and Dr. Bonnie Bergin 0:00 introduction 2:18 Mullen: i had such fun interviewing today's guest. Dr Bonnie Bergin tells us the story of the birth of her life passion - training dogs to help people specifically our veterans, with physical or emotional struggles. shes the originator of the service dog. shes even developed a canine training academy, where a person can earn a bachelors or even a masters of science degree in canine studies. I'm talking with Dr Bergin today because of the non profit PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS program that she developed. Paws for Purple Hearts has locations in both northern California and Virginia, and they have expansion plans. The mission of Paws for Purple Hearts is to connect veterans dealing with either physical or emotional difficulties that have developed out of their service to our country with a service dog to help them live a better quality of life. Let's listen as bonnie takes us from the birth of this idea all the way through to their plans for the future. 3:13 Mullen: Bonnie, in doing a little research for the interview, i found that you have an interesting claim to fame. you're actually the inventor of the concept of the service dog. can you tell us about your background and how you came to develop this 3:25 Bergin: yes, i want to start out by saying that i knew next to nothing about dog training. it always seems amusing i think that people expect me to be this amazing dog trainer when i actually came up with the idea. My husband and I had a pet dog, and we took him everywhere and his name was Socrates so we were very much involved with dogs we just didn't know anything about formal training. so we went over to Australia and taught there for a year and then we went through several of the Asian countries - we flew into Kathmandu and went down through India and Pakistan, Afghanistan and through Iran and into turkey. We went to London, applied for a job and went back and taught in turkey for a year - so we had quite a bit of experience in those countries and saw a lot of individuals with disabilities. But I didn't have any idea of the effect it was having on me, or the end result it would have as a result of having seen all of that. 4:23 i think two of my most memorable moments were watching someone using a donkey to balance on as they unloaded the pots and pans and sat on the street corner and sold them - so even though they were disabled - they were basically a part of the economic community in that country. Whereas in the United states we were institutionalizing a lot of individuals with physical disabilities. So i hadn't seen that in this country. 4:53 the other thing which was really astounding was , i was in a rooftop restaurant in turkey, right on the main drag in Ankara, and i saw a man literally laying flat on the ground on the sidewalk, but using his elbows to propel himself down the sidewalk. Later on i recognized that he was a quadriplegic but at the time i had no idea. And then he went across a 6 lane freeway - I'm sitting there in this rooftop restaurant watching this and just astounded and then he went all the way across - no car ran over him - and he dragged his body up the sidewalk and out of view. I was looking around and no-one in the restaurant besides myself was looking. It was such a common phenomenon in that country to watch people with disabilities out and about, making their way. 5:50 and so when i came back to this country, i had again, not really realized what i had seen in terms of its effect on me, but i went into a masters program because we had just passed the law that would mainstream people with disabilities into regular classrooms. And again i was a teacher and so i went into a masters program in special ed and early childhood education in order to prepare myself for this change in the educational classroom structure. I just sat there and listened to the other people who knew a lot about people with disabilities and how to work with them. They were coming up with what they thought were great ideas of stainless steel on the walls to make the institution have less viral or bacterial problems. And to cook nutritious meals and all of that sounded - well the nutritious meals sounded sensible, the stainless steel was just horrifying to hear. Because of course i was watching and living with and being part of communities in Asia where they had dirt. I mean the roads were dirt and the people with disabilities were involved in non clean environments, bu they were involved. They were out and about. 7:00 Mullen: right to see that they still wanted to sterilize their environment and feed them healthy, you wanted to see them be able to participate in the world 7:08 Bergin: exactly, that is well said. So, I was very shy, I didn't say anything ad then finally the instructor said "Well, does anyone have any other ideas" and i thought i should mention what I saw in Asia, that they were not institutionalized and I raised my hand and started to say that, and basically I only got to say four words: "In Asia, I saw ..." and two of the students just yelled at me. I was stunned because I had finally got the nerve to say something and they said: "don't you even mention Asia, in Asia they let their people with disabilities die. You shouldn't even bring it up" I was shocked and sat back and got very quiet again, and thought about what could be done, and what could be done To bring people with disabilities out of an environment where people like that -- they both worked in institutions -- weren't directing and telling and controlling the environment. But rather where people had a chance to make up their own mind and do things for themselves. 8:09 I don't know why - I cant tell you why - I don't think that in situations like this people really know, but i just thought "DOGS!" ... and again, without knowing how to train, without having any experience other than a pet dog ... "Dogs could do it. Dogs could help these people!". I know i was correlating dogs to donkeys and burros because i actually had the thought that in our country they would never let someone with disability go down the street leaning on a donkey. But it was just one of those things and that was it for me, and then the rest of my life. 8:45 Mullen: and then what did you do, once you came up with dogs helping people? How did you -- I just wrote a letter last week for someone to have a therapy dog with them - so service dogs are now something that is part of our daily language - we talk about them in regards to all sorts of helping of people -- so how did you develop this idea to make it what it is today. 9:10 Bergin: well it certainly wasn't easy because not only did i not know anything about training but i immediately went out to find people who trained dogs - I went to Guide Dogs which isn't far from here - and everyone told me that it couldn't be done. "Don't do it, don't try to do it, its not good for the dog, its not good for the person with the disability, there's just no way it will work ..." And of course, i was totally ignorant so i thought it would work. Sometimes I guess that's what makes changes in society - is you're so dumb .... (laughter) 9:41 Mullen: ... you just don't know better.. 9:44 Bergin: exactly.. and i have to say this, the reason that they felt it wouldn't work was viable at that time in society, and at that particular point in time, peoples perspective of the dog. Now looking back i can see why they felt that way. Then of course i just thought "Nah, it CAN be done, I've just got to figure out how to do it". Well, I was a teacher so i obviously didn't hit kids or use any aversive methods to make the kids in the classroom excited about the subject matter, I used very positive methods to encourage students to get involved in the material. At that time, though, dogs were being trained with choke chain jerks and a lot of aversive methods, and that's how dogs were controlled by trainers. 10:35 Mullen: so when people were saying that it shouldn't be done, its not good for the animals, it was because putting animals through that kind of training would be inhumane at that point (?) 10:43 Bergin: no, actually, I'm going to disagree with that, i think it was that they felt that the person with the disability would not have the physical ability to apply a choke-chain-jerk, or to use those aversive methods that control dogs - because they were physically disabled - how could they do it ? 11:03 Mullen: so thinking that was the to train the dogs, they just didn't think a disabled person would be able to train them 11:09 Bergin: ... AND control them 11:12 Mullen: so you started looking at a different way of training the dogs. it sounds like you headed to a more positive reinforcement model 11:17 Bergin: exactly. and that wasn't the common method at that time. I didn't give up - and don't ask me why - because i cant answer that. I went to disabled programs instead, that was my next move, so i called disabled services here in Santa Rosa, California and i asked the receptionist to connect me to someone as i wanted to talk to them about an idea i had. And she, being a good receptionist, said " well, can you please give me more information?" I told her what my idea was and what she said to me next was quite amazing, given that it changed the whole world in this arena...and she said " I'll do it ". I met with her, her name is Kerry Kanous, she was 19 at the time, she was so physically disabled that if her head fell forward she didn't have the neck muscles to be able to lift her head back up on her shoulders - someone had to actually come along and pick her head back up. She used a power wheelchair, she couldn't lift anything over an ounce in either hand, she was extremely physically disabled. She obviously couldn't walk and had to be lifted in bed at night, she couldn't caretake herself at all. 12:32 None of this did I know anything about, I might add. But when i met her she was just a dynamo - an amazing woman. And we just started. I by chance had a litter of puppies at my home, ironically it was a lab-golden cross, so we started working with one of those puppies. I showed her what to do, I used teaching methods i was using teaching kids, I didn't use the methods that one would use to train a dog - I didn't know any better in other words - and the dog came along beautifully and started to do the things that she needed. She had asked me things like: 13:08 when I'm sitting home alone, or I'm sitting at home and my attendant wants to go out and get groceries and its dark when she comes back, I've been sitting here in the dark because i can't turn the light on: Can the dog be trained to turn the light on ? And in my ignorance, I said "sure". And so we did it. 13:28 And she said: if i drop the remote for the TV, I have to call the attendant to come in and get it for me, and it's embarrassing. I don't want to have to keep asking people to do things for me. Is there a way the dog can pick it up, and give it back to me ? And I said "sure". And so we trained the dog to do that. 13:49 Another thing she asked for - tugging open the refrigerator door to get her lunch out - she had a little table in front of her body on the power wheelchair so the dog could open the door, take out a paper bag with lunch in it, put it on that table and she had enough strength to open the paper bag and unwrap her sandwich and be able to eat - and that way, again, she didn't have to have somebody with her 24/7 and that was a big deal. " I don't want someone with me 24/7, I want to have some independence, I want to have some opportunities to be by myself, and do things for myself" 14:26 Mullen: right, that's a huge deal 14:28 Bergin: ironically, all those things she was asking for, those are the same commands that people training service dogs all around the world now use 14:33 Mullen: that is just wonderful. And then you developed - why i have you here today - PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS - and now you're using those service dogs to help our veterans. Can you tell us about Paws for Purple Hearts ? 14:51 Bergin: I created what's called 'the university' , we are actually accredited by the US department of education to teach associate, bachelors and master degrees. In that process, one of the programs we developed was sending trainers out -i did it myself for the first nine years - we would take the dogs out to the juvenile hall and have kids there train the dogs for service dogs. And it was just remarkable, it changed these kids. There were gang-bangers, two different major gangs and the kids would come in and work together training their individual dog. In fact one of them wrote this little note on the door :" Leave your anger at the door " because these kids just got so sold on the working with dogs. Well, when i stopped being that primary teacher and was able to hire someone to do it, that individual correlated the idea of doing that with teaching returning veterans who had PTSD to train the dogs - thinking that would also give them that same therapeutic benefit. 15:52 And the whole staff got behind it and all worked really hard to bring Paws for Purple Hearts into fruition. It's been going on now since 2006. The veterans are getting amazing therapy from the dogs. 16:06 Mullen: its an amazing concept and such good work that you're all doing and providing for the veterans. can you tell us what are the therapeutic benefits for your clients who utilize the service dogs. 16:15 Bergin: well, i can tell you about Steve for example, he had returned from the war, he had befriended a couple of kids and then he went out on a tour of duty and came back, and at some point in this process saw those two kids being hung from a tree - because the kids had befriended the Americans. So when he was released from duty and he came home to his wife and one child, when the wife had a second child, all of that vision came back and just hit him. As you can imagine, the context, and so he started drinking and getting into trouble, he and his wife divorced, he spent some time in jail, his life just went down the tubes. Not uncommon, i might add, for veterans with PTSD. 17:01 Mullen: right. 17:01 Bergin: and so when he got involved in the dog program, it was like the beginning of recovery. he started to warm up to the dogs - you cant not warm up to dogs (laughter). and he started to get back into life - because the isolation and the emotional numbness is what had hit him so very badly - working with the dogs and getting in touch with the dogs started to turn that around, to the point that it made such a huge difference. And he talks about it a lot, because it took him off illicit drugs, it took him off prescription drugs, it caused his whole life to turn around, it caused him to start to feel positive about things. 17:45 PPH - Paws for Purple Hearts - its a therapeutic program - we take the dogs in and the veterans with PTSD, the hospitalized veterans train the dogs as part of their therapy.But the dogs that get trained, that are successful, are placed only with veterans. So this whole feeling of being back in this buddy-buddy situation that war strengthens so strongly in terms of the military came back again. Because now they were training the dogs for a fellow veteran, and the sense of isolation, obviously, the dogs just don't let you go there. 18:18 The depression started to lift for him, but the sense of purpose - he speaks about that a lot, his sense of purpose came back. His sleeping pattern improved, and this happens with almost everyone that's involved in this., they constantly say "when i start working with the dog" . And we do this, as their training skills improve sufficiently, the hospitals actually let them take the dogs back to their room to sleep with them at night. The hospitals usually send a nurse in on a regular basis to check to see if these people are sleeping - because lack of sleep is a huge issue with PTSD. And what they find is that they go in their rooms, and every half hour that they walk in, the veteran is awake, all through the night. And then what they find when the veteran takes the dog with them - and the dog often sleeps in their bed with them - the nurses walk in and the veteran is asleep. The veterans frequently say "Well, the dog's got my back, and now I can sleep" 19:23 Mullen: they can rest more peacefully... 19:25 Bergin. yes. And pain - decreased need for pain medication, legal or illegal, decreases significantly. Service dogs have to be trained to go out in public. So they have to take the dog out in public, and when they do take the dog out in public, one of the biggest issues is they're not comfortable with people coming up to them. But there is a different sense of comfort when the4yve got a dog with them because people come up to talk about the dog. They walk up and ask about the dog - and that veteran with PTSD is more willing and eager to talk about the dog. Because they have come to love the dog, they're very proud of the training they've been doing with the dog, they want to talk about the dog. It allows that person now to start to make contact with the public, something that they were not willing to do prior to that. Some of these vets, even from Vietnam, are still living in a house refusing to go out the door, because of this horror they've experienced and this feeling of isolation. 20:33 We have kids come up to us, whose dad or mom have been through the program and they say "thank you for giving me my dad back, or my mom back" . Women come in to us, wives who say " thank you for giving me my husband back" Of course its not us that did it, it's the dog - and their relationship with the dog that did it. The results are just outstanding. This is not just our opinion, it's the clinical staff who come to us and tell us what they've seen and experienced, it's very real. 21:12 Mullen: it sounds like you have lots of real time hospital data from all of this, and the experiences that you've been through with all the clients. 21:21 interlude - - - 22:03 Bergin: we had a gentleman who was not in our program, but who was being counseled and had very severe PTSD, one day he just left his counselor and went running into the dog program office. He knew about it so he just went running in there and he crawled into the crate with a dog, because he was so in need of some way of taking away the pain that he was feeling. And then after that, he went in a few more times and got better. He started healing. Then he applied for a dog, he applied to get one as his service dog, and of course we're always happy to do that. By chance it was the same dog that was in the crate that he crawled into. Now we didn't do that intentionally because we match dogs and people, but it just happened. When he came out to get the dog, he was still pretty severe, he was able to function, don't get me wrong, but he would come into the classroom and sit up against the wall - which is not again uncommon for someone with PTSD - the paranoia, back to the wall looking out to make sure nobody was behind him, and stuff like that. So he gets this dog, and when this dog had come back to get readied to be placed, the dog had received some scent detection training - this is not uncommon because we want the dogs to have a variety of experiences and keep them enthused about their learning, you know having a lot of different activities to be involved in. When the dog was placed with this individual, the individual had been put by the military into a national park, because he really wasn't social, he was still suffering from the effects of PTSD. He was doing his job at the park and a couple got lost in the park, and everyone was out looking for the couple, they were really worried, they felt it was a dangerous situation. And they couldn't find the couple so there was a really heightened concern for the lives of this couple. Going back to this gentleman, this veteran, his dog indicated something to him - and dogs and humans their relationship and their communication is awesome, just amazing when you really allow yourself to communicate back and forth with a dog - so he knew the dog was trying to tell him something. The dog took off and he followed it, and because the dog had this scent training, the dog found the couple! Can you imagine the joy that this veteran felt, and the pride in his dog, and the sense of purpose that came out of that exposure and experience, that would again help the PTSD heal that much more. I think it's just a beautiful story. 25:16 Mullen: it is indeed beautiful.. For Paws for Purple Hearts, can you tell me about who qualifies -is it any veteran or is only veterans with PTSD, how do you select who qualifies for the service dogs. 25:32 Bergin: Any veteran with mobility disabilities, amputation, etc or PTSD or any other form of combat related injury, qualify. The real limitation is can they take care of the dog. And so we do have in the application process, they do have to have part of the form filled out by their medical doctor giving us the go ahead with this placement. So we don't put up the walls of this person does or does not qualify, but we get the information from the medical staff and people that they're involved with. 26:07 So basically anyone qualifies that we can feel confident will keep that dog safe and well fed. By that i don't mean "well fed" because that's the number one problem with the service dog, is obesity - because people tend to overfeed. Well, its the number one problem with people with any pet dog, so ... 26:25 Mullen: its not just that population, right... well, they love them so much and they want to feed them every time they want a little treat I suppose .... You mentioned the university, that you have now with bachelors and masters program in training the service dogs, can you talk a little bit about the training. How long is the training of a service dog, what goes into it, and what is the cost of that ? 27:04 Bergin: We do not charge veterans for service dogs. Period. So there's no fee, if they do come out there are different organizations that will pay for their flight out to get the dog if they don't live near a center, and will help house them. We're very cutting edge, the newest information and research about how to train dogs, or how they think, or what their cognitive capabilities are, obviously is a big part of what we continue to work on, on a regular basis. But what we do do, and what we know is important, ironically comes from a study done by the military on a bio-sensor method. So what we start with, as soon as the puppies are whelped, we have them touched all over their body, so that not one single neuron in their brain sloughs off and dies, because it has been stimulated. So the veterans in the program actually do that - as soon as the puppies are whelped they start patting the puppies, and touching the puppies and making sure that the puppies are being stimulated physically. 28:11 And then when the puppies reach three and a half to four weeks,, depending on how they are developing, as soon as they start to get up on their legs and walk over to another puppy and engage it in a little play - then we know that they have reached that consciousness stage. They're not just still unconsciously trying to get food or sleep or warmth or whatever, but they are now conscious of each other. And so we start training them, right then. It's akin to early childhood education, only i would call it early puppy-hood education. 28:48 We actually start training them to sit, to down, to turn. Within the first four or five days they have 12 commands under their belts, and by that I'm talking about putting a treat in front of their nose and getting them to do it, but they're still doing the behavior. And then we stop putting the treat in front of their nose and show them that we have the treat, but we give them the command. Say we trained them at 4 weeks, at 5 weeks they will actually sit on command, literally. 29:19 And its so funny to watch them because you say the word SIT, and they look at you in your face, and then they look over at the treat that you've got in your hand and they look back at you in your face and then they put their butt on the ground. 29:31 Mullen: (laughing) ... they want to make sure ... 29:33 Bergin: they're very clear... Again, there is research that backs all this, so by the time they are 6 weeks they're retrieving, by the time they're 7 weeks they're tugging open little doors. By 7 weeks some of them are even turning on light switches. We have these teeny little light switches that they can actually go up to and turn on. They're very bright, and we want to make sure that the correct behaviors are embedded, so that these are the behaviors they will do when they are older. 30:06 And we only train them for 5 - 10 minutes a day, so we're not over training them. The rest of the time they're playing, and with their siblings and having a good time. But for that period of time, they do have to learn that when they're told to do something they have to obey. We don't let them get into little fights with each other, we have a playground manager to stop the spats, so they don't learn to do that. 30:29 We use generally golden retrievers and labs, because first of all they're the best retrievers, and secondly because they are so well attuned to trying to please people. We don't use field trial stock or hunting stock, because we don't want predatory instincts - you know we don't want the dog to have a strong drive to chase a cat across a street or something like that. 30:54 We found with our veterans with PTSD we have to be exceedingly cautious, and almost any veteran who has any kind of physical injury has some PTSD as well, but certainly some of them have no physical injury and are still stymied by some very significant PTSD. 31:14 Mullen: absolutely, when you say just the sleep, or going out in public, going grocery shopping for someone with severe combat based PTSD - being in public like that can be a monumental task. Very often i would think, you're providing service dogs to veterans that don't have some physical limitation, it's really the emotional stuff that comes with the PTSD. 31:35 Bergin: exactly... and they get challenged when they walk into a store, even when the dog has the little vest on that says they're a service dog, they still get challenged, which of course is the last thing we want to be happening, because were trying to invite these individuals - who have fought for our country and our lives - back into society and we don't want to make it more and more difficult for them. But the truth is when they take their dog in, when they're working with their dog, what we have found is that the dog has to be very gentle, very sweet, non challenging. You would think that a strapping 200 pound guy with PTSD could handle a dog that's going to try to chase a cat - but what happens is, if they have a severe situation with PTSD, what you've got is them having to argue with this dog, or deal with a dog that is challenging them and it takes them emotionally back to the war. So we have to make sure that we give them dogs that do not put them in that mindset. And those dogs are generally very soft and sweet goldens and labs - and as I said, not all of them are like that so we have to be very careful in selecting and breeding for a very gentle dog. Ironically, that's the same dog that we would place with a quadriplegic who couldn't physically do anything for themselves but who needs the dog to turn light switches on and pick up things they drop and stuff like with Kerry originally. 33:05 So it needs to be a dog that's very willing to; and wanting to; work for that person and not have a bone of challenge in their body. Which of course is impossible but we decrease it as much as possible. And this is all with non aversive training methods, everything is positive, everything is encouraging, everything is building a desire to want to, and have a drive to work with and help people. Its pretty exciting to see, some dogs have a drive to do search and rescue because they have a really strong mental drive to do something. A service dog, if there's any drive at all, its just because they want to please the person. They want to be with that person and help that person. 33:49 Mullen: right, that's what you mentioned, so the retrieving and the pleasing. Wow, you guys are doing an amazing service to people and providing all that wonderful training. Lets talk about how Paws for Purple Hearts survives. You're a non-profit, so does that mean that you survive solely on the goodness of others and fundraising ? Where does your funding come from ? 34:14 Bergin: that's where it comes from ... there's a lot of people who are really committed to our veterans that are really doing what they can to help, there are some foundations that have been generous enough to make some gifts to us. We do direct mail and certainly anybody that's interested in helping, if they send us their email address or their street address , we would be sending them the newsletter that comes out, but we would also be asking for a gift, and that's always hard to acknowledge. But we have to do that in order to get the funds to do the work we're doing, and certainly I believe the work were doing is absolutely critical. The changes that i have seen are such that i certainly couldn't give it up. 34:56 Mullen: You're doing wonderful work that is so needed and so well received. I know you have a new supporter in myself and my husband after today... Does Paws for Purple Hearts have anything in development, and I think we missed talking about where you are located, I know you are in the Northern California location, can you talk about where else you are located and where you see Paws for Purple Hearts expanding to ? 35:32 Bergin: we're looking at, and we've had a lot of people come to us from VAs and also Department of Defense sites. We try to locate near, or on the grounds of hospitals, so that were able to be incorporated into the actual physical therapy programs with the veterans, which is something that we've been encouraged to do, and its been working really well. Right now we've just opened in Virginia, and that site is working quite well I might add. We go down to Poplar Springs which is not a military hospital, but a lot of the military send their veterans with PTSD down there for treatment. So we've been working there and we're up here in Menlo Park in California, but we're working really hard right now to open a program in San Diego, because of course there's a lot of veterans. 36:29 We want to serve both hospitalized and offsite veterans, and so were trying to open a facility ourselves instead of being on the hospital grounds, because when you're on the hospital grounds offsite veterans cant really come back and be a part of the program. So we're trying to find a location, we're looking at somewhere in the Escondido area possibly, another location that makes traveling to the VA and the DOD hospitals easy to reach. But still because there's such a huge population of veterans that would be coming in and being able to use the services of the program as well - San Diego is really highest priority right now and were working really hard to make that happen. 37:09 Mullen: that is wonderful to hear, I am based out of San Diego and I imagine you would be so welcome down here [ ... ] That's getting us down to our last question for today, so how can people get involved, refer or donate to Paws for Purple Hearts, can you give us the website or the contact information ? 38:01 Bergin: the website is www.PawsForPurpleHearts.org and we are, by the way, licensed by the military Order of the Purple Heart, which is chartered by the United States Congress, so if anybody wants more trust in who we are and what we do beyond what we're saying, I do want to make that point. The telephone number for the staff person here in northern California is 707-238-5110. Usually we ask people to call directly to the National office and then they will get that person in touch with a regional center, if they're close to it. The kinds of volunteer tasks that were looking for, certainly helping to raise money is always an issue, but when a litter of puppies are born, we do need people to come in and help touch and pat the puppies, because the hospitalized vets don't have that many hours in a day to do that. We certainly are hoping that offsite veterans will come in and do that, but the puppies do need to be touched ... The veterans are the only ones that do the actual training, but certainly the litters of puppies need to be touched. 39:14 When we're getting ready to have a graduation of course, we're asking volunteers to come in and help set up the site and bring cookies and coffee for people who attend the graduation and things like that. There's always tasks for volunteers to do...but money is critical, that's whats helping us move towards San Diego. My goal is to get San Diego open within the next couple of months... we're that close to moving forward. 39:45 Mullen: Well, I cant wait to see you down here then ...so Dr Bonnie Bergin, with Paws for Purple Hearts, I just want to thank you so much. I know you've touched my heart today in listening to your stories about what you are doing, and I'm sure you're going to touch the hearts of many people listening. So thank you so much for your time ... 40:06 exit commentary 42:00 FINIS
~ creator of the service dog, she shares with us compelling stories of their origin and history, as well as the current initiative Paws for Purple Hearts - in which Veterans train service dogs to assist fellow Veterans in need. Paws for Purple Hearts is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization - and you can help by donating or even patting puppies...
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Bonnie Bergin is the inventor of the current day service dog. Through her world travels working as a teacher in other countries, Bonnie witnessed how other countries treated their physically disabled people differently than here in the U.S. at the time. She saw that the expectation in other countries, especially the Asian countries were that their disabled people were more likely to be actively participating in society whereas, at the time, physically disabled people were often being cared for by others here in the U.S. (either in-home care or hospital care). Bonnie didn't know how, but she wanted to change that. Somewhere in her travels she witnessed donkeys helping physically disabled people get work done. Bonnie imagined that dogs could help people in similar ways in the U.S. She had no experience in dog training, but she felt in her heart that it would not be unreasonable to think dogs could be trained to help physically disabled people in their day to day tasks. Hence, the birth of what we know today as the "service dog".
When Bonnie began to train dogs, she set out to do it differently than the norm of the time. She was a teacher and implemented positive reinforcement as she did with her students rather than the standard "aversive" training using choke chains and other methods. Bonnie started with wanting to connect with the local disabled population. She reached out to the office of Disabled Service in Santa Rosa California and found her first client/trainee. Her name is Carrie – she was a quadriplegic with very physically limiting circumstances. Carrie volunteered to let Bonnie train the first dog to help her. (You can hear the full story in the podcast). Bonnie has since developed Bergin University of Canine Studies which offers both a Bachelor's and Master's of Science in Canine Studies.
Paws for Purple Hearts was founded in 2006. Bonnie set out to develop a program that provides well-trained service dogs to our veterans with either physical or emotional limitations, such as PTSD, that prevent them from being able to function fully in their life. In the case of physical limitations, the dogs function as a helper, they can turn on light switches, pick up the remotes or their phones, and even retrieve their lunch from the fridge. In the case of clients with PTSD, the dogs help the client sleep better, feel capable of leaving their home to venture into the community when they may have previously chosen to be socially isolated, relieve depression symptoms through the camaraderie they feel with their dog. The dogs are trained by hospitalized veterans. Bonnie says that it gives those patients a sense of meaning and purpose again while they are working on living with their physical setbacks.
• Relief of depression
• Improved sleep
• Decreased social isolation
• Increased capacity for a full range of emotions
• Decrease in drug and alcohol abuse
• A sense of safety in their (the client's) environment
• Increases re-connection with the client' community (they leave their home, will interact with people in their community)
• increased patience, impulse control, emotional regulation
• decreased dependence upon pain medications
• greater sociability and a more positive outlook
• a mission-driven focus and renewed sense of purpose
• a decrease in emotional numbness
• decreased startle responses
• improved parenting skills and family dynamics
Any veteran with a physical or emotional disability. The only rule out criteria would be if they were not able to sufficiently care for and feed the dog. This is determined by the potential recipient's medical doctor (i.e. if they are not physically mobile, they will want to know that the potential client has an attendant that can feed the dog every day). When they speak of emotional disability, we are referring to symptoms associated with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder and any other mental health issue developed out of their military service.
Paws for Purple Hearts (PPH) is a 501(c ) (3) non profit. They survive solely on the generosity of others. The program is absolutely free to the recipient veterans.
Yes. In many cases, funding may be available to fly the recipient to PPH to be paired up with their service dog.
Bonnie has PPH's sites set on opening a location in San Diego. She reported that she is seeking a location that is not on VA hospital grounds so that it is more accessible to non-hospitalized recipients. There are currently locations in northern California and Virginia. Bonnie hopes the San Diego location can become a reality by the end of 2015. Here at Coaching Through Chaos we hope so too!
In addition to donations, Paws for Purple Hearts can always use some extra hands. For as much as the veterans do the training in the hospital, the PPH puppies need to be played with and human-to-puppy touch is a critical part of their development. If you think you'd love to pet a puppy for a while and help out our vets at the same time, please reach out. You can find PPH at PawsforPurpleHearts.org. Of course, they will welcome any financial donation you can make. When you are on their website, check out their Amazon.com wish list to help out that way too.
Bergin University of Canine Studies: If you've ever wanted to study canine behavior, this is the place for cutting edge training.
Read PPH Director Rick Yount's statement for the record in support of
H.R. 198, the Veterans Dog Training Therapy Act and
H.R. 1154, the Veterans Equal Treatment for Service Dogs Act -
as presented to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs (http://veterans.house.gov)
'Paws for Purple Hearts' Helping with with PTSD - Alexandra Hemmerly-Brown
www.army.mil ( 08 Feb 2011)
'Through Airmen's eyes: Chief discusses how family, pet help PTSD issues' - Staff Sgt Amanda Dick, Air Force Public Affairs Agency
http://airforcelive.dodlive.mil ( 29 Nov 2012)
Puppies from Paws for Purple Hearts
~ transitioned from lawyer to abundance thinking conflict resolution expert, he reviews for us some of his methods to resolve conflicts that may occur at home or at work. His approach is refreshing and has garnered him an extensive corporate clientele who benefit from learning his methods for Resolutionary Thinking. You can too...
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Who is Stewart Levine?
Stewart Levine was an attorney who discovered early on in his practice that he was much better at getting the opposing sides to collaborate and agree on a settlement than having him fight and hold a position until he "won". This led him to re-evaluate his career path. He went on to become a marketing consultant at AT&T where he saw that "the reason collaborations fall apart is that people do not spend the time at the beginning of new working relationships to create clarity about what they want to accomplish together, and how they will get there". This eventually led him to document his observations and theories on conflict resolution. He originally wrote "Getting to Resolution: Turning Conflict into Collaboration" in 1998 (the 2nd edition came out in 2009). When "Getting to Resolution" came out it was named one of the Top 30 Business Books of the year. Stewart's models for problem solving, collaboration and conflict resolution are used in many Fortune 100 Organizations and have been endorsed by countless thought leaders including the House Judiciary Committee; 3M; American Express; Chevron; Con-Agra; EDS; General Motors; Harvard Law School; Oracle; Safeco; University of San Francisco; U.S. Departments of Agriculture; Navy and many others.
Why is it so important to be able to resolve conflict efficiently?
Conflict presents itself in all of our lives at some time. Sometimes with think we need to fight it out, other times we wish we had a solution for the problem. Models of conflict resolution are so needed. It's also more than likely that you have experienced a conflict in your workplace at some time in history. CPP, Inc. (the people that brought us the Meyers-Briggs personality Assessment) commissioned a study in conjunction with OPP, Ltd. to shed light on the nature of workplace conflict. It was conducted over nine countries, surveying over 5,000 employees. They looked specifically at any workplace disagreement which disrupted the employee's workflow. Some of their findings are that: - Almost 25% pf people surveyed stated that they took time off of work through unplanned sick leave in order to avoid a conflict in the workplace. - There are estimates that companies lose approximately $700 per employee per year due to conflict avoidant behavior (either through sick time off or lack of productivity). - 85% of employees experience conflict in the workplace at some time in their career. - U.S. employees spend 2.8 hours per week dealing with conflict, equating to approximately $359 billion in paid hours in 2008. The study found, and confirmed their hypothesis, that ineffectively managed conflict is costing businesses millions of dollars per year. Yet, on the flip side, they found that if harnessed correctly, the conflict can "stimulate progress in ways harmony often cannot".
The Value of Resolution
Stewart points out very clearly that conflict has both emotional and monetary costs for those involved. He posits that productivity and satisfaction in both business and personal relationships comes from our ability to collaborate with others. Being able to resolve conflicts through collaboration in one's personal life leads to more satisfying and open relationships. Some of the benefits of resolving conflict in the workplace are:
Stewart's Method
Stewart's perspective, which can be applied both inter-personally and in the corporate culture, creates room for discussion and a step-by-step process for resolution through collaboration. He seeks through his Agreements for Results to get people quickly back to a productive mode when working relationships have broken down. Stewart is a very strong believes in creating a culture of agreement and resolution; a culture of collaboration is born out of his model. For Stewart, getting to resolution begins with his "10 Principles of Revolutionary Thinking" and involves his 7-Step guide to crafting the resolution. He breaks down the principles and the steps very succinctly and makes getting to resolution possibility for everyone. If you've been struggling with how to resolve a conflict, or have been involved in uncomfortable workplace scenarios in which no one wants to get to a resolution, check out Stewart's website ResolutionWorks.com. You can browse his books on conflict resolution including Getting to Resolution. Stewart is also available for speaking engagements ranging from corporate events to smaller, more interpersonal-focused settings.
ResolutionWorks.com : You can find information about Stwert Levine - his work, books, how to hire him.
"Workplace Conflict and How Businesses Can Harness it to Thrive", CPP Global Human Capital Report, July 2008


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Tuolumne County deputies are investigating a small fire that broke out near Don Pedro High School last night. Fire fighters were called to Merced Falls Road in front of the school shortly before 11 o´clock.
Some one had apparently stolen some gasoline, and ignited it when they tried to put into a vehicle. The fire was extinguished with no damage.

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An assortment of respectable guests gather in Michael Gambon's country home for a weekend of shooting, and it happens that several of the guests have good reason for wanting our dear Dumbledore dead. Cue foreshadowing. And then [SPOILER] he turns up dead. But whodunit?
In the interest of full disclosure, I admit that the first time I saw this movie, I did not like it at all. It seemed pointless.
Some time later, and for reasons I can no longer recall, I went back and watched it again. And I discovered that I really, really liked it. By the time I listened to Robert Altman's feature length commentary, I was absolutely sold on the movie. I've watching it probably half a dozen times since then, and it never ceases to impress me.
Ostensibly a whodunit in the style of Agatha Christie or Clue, the film is more accurately an examination of social classes and rules of society in the 1930s, as the British class system (and the Empire itself) was on the decline. There is, in fact, a touch of the 19th century drawing room novel here. If Jane Austen had a dark streak and wrote murder mysteries, she might have written something like this. It's not terribly fast paced, and what action there is tends to be on the subtle side, but the result is still tremendous.
The casting is borderline brilliant--Maggie Smith as the snarky, catty great aunt, Kristin Scott Thomas as the bored wife of the murdered man, Helen Mirren as the utterly competent housekeeper, Stephen Fry as the less-than-competent police inspector, Ryan Phillipe as the skeezy visiting valet, Clive Owen as the mysterious visiting valet, Bob Balaban as an out-of-place American film director invited to the festivities by movie star Jeremy Northam, Kelly MacDonald as the shy and inexperienced visiting lady's maid, Emily Watson as the hard-boiled worldly-wise housemaid . . . with an assortment of other skilled British actors making up the rest of the guests and servants. Smith and Mirren were nominated for Academy Awards, but I don't think there's an acting misstep anywhere in the cast.
You'll probably need to watch this with the subtitles on (or watch it multiple times) in order to catch everything--there are several groups scenes involving multiple conversations that are hard to track. But the dialogue is clever enough to be well worth the effort. And honestly, the commentary is fascinating. I'm not a sophisticated enough viewer to have caught a lot of the nuance and subtlety that Altman wove into the film, so I greatly appreciated having the cinematographic and directorial choices explained. For example, the servants are the audience's eyes and ears, and each scene is seen through their eyes, though they themselves are dismissed as irrelevant.
This is an incredible film. If you aren't blown away at first, I recommend giving it another try. Then again, I realize it's not for everyone. But if you dig Jane Austen, Upstairs/Downstairs-type stuff, and Agatha Christie, it might be worth it to give this movie a try. Or two. I'm certainly glad I did.


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A very Happy Christmas and New Year and a special thanks to everyone who has become involved in The Woolly Way of Ireland.
To our contributors, and you, the reader, thank you for taking the time to read about our project. It is very encouraging to see it has been of interest to an international audience. We are having a quiet December, laying low to prepare for what we hope will be a fantastically vibrant textile year, here in Ireland
We are always on the lookout for interesting ideas, projects, exhibitions, etc, either here in Ireland or abroad with an Irish slant. So, have a look at our Submissions page, feel free to contact us at any time, or join our forum and leave your thoughts and comments there.
Come back and join us in January, where we will reveal some of our plans for 2009...
The Woolly Way is a comprehensive resource site for Textiles in Ireland. For practitioners, designers, hobbyists, groups, for the people at home and for visiting tourists.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Nollaig Shona agus Athbhliain faoi Mhaise Daoibh.
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Prenton 3s boosted by a small contingent of 1st teamers headed off to Tarleton to what I think maybe the first ever meeting between the 2 clubs. Arriving a good 30mins before kick-off Tarleton were already in full warm up mode & looked a good 3rd team outfit with a good mix of young & old. Game kicked off & a fully fired up Tarleton took the game to Prenton, the Prenton defence stood firm & were thoroughly tested as Tarleton had all the early ball & territory attacking with both forwards & backs. Prenton absorbed a lot of pressure but did finally manage a surge up field through some good forward work but this ended in a sin binning for Jorden Burley due to a violent reaction from getting the ball knocked out of his hands when he looked odds on to score. The penalty & being a man down presented Tarleton with more possession & territory. Against the run of play Prenton scored after some quick thinking & handling from the Prenton Half Backs, Rob Seabury went clean through from 40 out & scored. Rob also slotting the conversion. Tarleton carried on where they left off with the 1 man advantage & the majority of possession & territory. When Prenton finally got the ball winger Dan Woods scored a great individual try again from 40 out by beating a couple of defenders & then winning the sprint from a kick through, conversion missed. Now back up to 15 players & 12-0 up things looking good for the Prenton side only for Sean Asp to be sin binned just before ½ time for an illegal no arms tackle.
With the 2nd half kicking off more fresh legs from the bench were sent on to help rotate the forwards, Sam Johnston had already been sent on in the 1st half, Lee Raff started the 2nd & once the sin bin timer expired Knappo was also introduced into the game. The subs helped maintain the Prenton defence as Tarleton never gave in. Tarleton were probably guilty of a bit too much lateral running & committed lots of players to the break down. Prenton maintained our defensive line & shape by not over committing at the break down, stayed on our feet & this meant we often had more defenders than they had attackers which puts the odds in our favour. The Tarleton attacks would either end up with a mistake by them or a turn over to Prenton as they would run out of Players due to the high numbers they had at the previous break downs. Credit to Tarleton they tried everything, a stoppage in play due to an injury on the 1st team Pitch allowed players from that game to join ours & help the Tarleton 3s cause. 1 big forward who joined the Tarleton 3s side even had the shorts & socks of Tarleton's 2nd team opposition. Even so for all their endeavour they only had a 3 point Penalty on the scoreboard. Despite the effort they had not really threated Prenton' s try line in the 2nd period & when Lee Raff crashed over from close range & James Gale slotted the conversion & penalty the game was won. Prenton 3s were much the stronger side as the game went on & late in the game Nathan Mc finished a fine backs move from forward set piece, James Gale converted. They only thing left of the game was for the Ref to award 4 last play of the game penalties which led to Tarleton getting a consolation try from a 5m line out.
Big thanks to all the lads who travelled & the 1st teamers who tagged along, hope everyone enjoyed. The score would have been a lot closer without the extra help & a match day squad of 19. Great team effort from backs & forwards, everyone had to dig deep, weathered the early pressure & gradually turned the game around to fine away win. On this evidence I don't think many teams will get an away win here at Tarleton they were not a bad side & Prenton 3s 1-19 played well. Sam Johnno had a great game when he came on & did what open sides are meant to do (hassle the opposition to death & win all loose ball) Chris Sing a great game at 9, threat with the ball & a sky high tackle count without.
1 Mark Burly
2 Sean Asp
3 Chris Chapman
4 Roy Triggs
5 Andy Williams
6 Simon Hill
7 Lewis Cotgrave
8 Jorden Burley
9 Chris Sing
10 Rob Seabury
11 Rab
12 Smurf
13 Nathan Mc
14 Dan Woods
15 James Gale
16 Lee Raff
17 Sam Johnno
18 Knappo
19 Kirk Evans
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|Birkenhead Park 3
|Ellesmere Port 2
|Mossley Hill 2
|Prenton 3
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Stefan Sielaff joined Audi back in 1990 and secured the top design job. He recently gave an interesting interview to Wallpaper, a highly respected design website.
We take a look into some of his most interesting comments and the future of Audi's design.
Self driving cars
When Mr Sielaff was asked about self driving cars, he responded by saying that the Audi A2 was indeed inspired by the concept of autonomous driving. In the future, cars would need to sync together on the road and give way for one another, allowing extra space for certain areas of the road such as near schools on urban streets.
Motorway driving would be easier for autonomous driving in that sense as there is always a constant flow of traffic.
He stated that although the car is self driven, the driver still has responsibility and the design should reflect that.
Will there be a brand new purely electric Audi?
Mr Sielaff has stated that he would like to design an electric car from scratch rather than adopt the same body from a typical fuelled vehicle. This would make the vehicle a wholly unique one and ensure that it is adaptable to the overall needs of an electric vehicle.
The Audi A2's carbon fibre material
Carbon fibre has a tremendous amount of advantages for cars of the future. These include making them lighter and therefore more fuel efficient and friendlier to the environment.
As a designer, they can be fun to work with, according to Mr Sielaff. The material itself allows the use of sharper edges to be designed, something that isn't necessarily possible with aluminium.
When it comes to production, carbon fibre proves to be more difficult to handle. The mass producing of cars with the material will prove to be too difficult at the moment according to Audi's Head Designer.
Many more insights into the Audi's design future were given in this interview. This includes how Audi plan to make their car extra light when it comes to production which will in effect counter the new BMW i Series. It must be said that the design of Audi cars and their individual components, especially their running daytime LED lights are truly spectacular.


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Considering that President Rodrigo R. Duterte is having his SONA it should be time to consider the activist group Makabayan este Makabobo. The mere thought of Renato Reyes Jr.'s business of doing rallies is something anyone and not just Filipinos should mention. It doesn't take a political analyst or a criminologist to figure out that Reyes and his fellow Makabobo comrades are people who should be jailed big time for several offenses.
What several offenses can be named against Makabobo? Let's face it these rallies are a continuous source of public disturbance. He and his fellow officers at Makabobo should be charged with corrupting the youth with their agenda. This can also be linked to treason and sedition. Treason because they always incite people to rebel against the current authority. Sedition because they are inciting the public to rebel against the government. Those offenses that I just mentioned don't require a criminologist or political analyst to see that these people should be in jail.
What do you think? Do you want to see those idiotic members of Makabobo in jail?


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I spent hours, days, months of my life doing physical activities that I hated and was not good at. My childhood was overwhelmingly happy, but all that time sweating and failing feels like such a waste. If I had spent that time reading encyclopedias instead, maybe we'd have cancer cured by now.
And I have this kid who at first glance appears to share my athletic prowess. But I still want him to try, because boys are supposed to do sports, right? I have no doubt that he would very happily stay inside the house all day every day, playing computer games and reading books, and he would not miss the outdoors or gymnastics one bit. I get that. That's kind of how I roll, until my recent psychotic break that has me working out 3 mornings a week until I want to vomit but I can't because my abs won't work.
I have the middle two in gymnastics, and the preschool class was fun, running, doing flips down ramps, all playful stuff. But now he's in this trampoline class and I feel like it's shooting his confidence. The coach is stern, not mean- just not warm and he runs a tight ship of 6 year old trampoliners. Toby is so used to being encouraged and celebrated that he just doesn't know what to do with criticism. Which is a problem, right? You have to know how to roll with the punches. But then I think, why am I setting him up for this, putting him in something I know will be challenging for him and even if he tries very hard, he won't be great at it. My inner scrawny 6 year old wants to give the kid a break and let him quit. My inner grownup parent thinks kids need to be pushed a little and he has to learn to take direction. I am at war with myself.
We've reached an agreement to finish the month and then re-assess. He's okay with continuing, but I don't know how much I can take of him finishing a lesson in tears. I could try another sport, but neither he or I is very excited about taking on an outdoor activity. Blegh. Maybe I should put him in dance.
In related news, I am in week 3 of my fitness bootcamp and still very, very bad at it. The good news is I am less bad at it than I was in the beginning. So. That's kind of like progress. Right?


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From my perspective blogging has helped me reach lots more people than Social Media. But, I do link my blog to all my social media accounts including Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and I make sure to pin them on Pinterest. That will only drive more people to your blog which will drive more people to your website and your work.


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Saturday, March 22, 2014
with you!
1. Daylight savings time is here and that can make sleep difficult. Here's a list of 10 Sleep Remedies from Lauren Conrad.
2. I love before and afters. I love inspiration and organization. I love Naptime Diaries. Clearly, I love this post - before and after office organization with Jessi!
3. Some words about Amazing Grace - how sweet the sound.
4. 18 Habits of Highly Creative People.
5. 3 things that Create a Meaningful Life - with Donald Miller and Shauna Niequist.
6. Does money stress you out? Look at it in these ways and take a breath.
7. Well, this is just a dream come true by local lovely Olivia Rae James.
8. I bought these to wear for my new job. I love TOMS.
9. Speaking of TOMS - watch this video and get more info here. I ordered the Malawi and add visiting that cafe to my bucket list.
10. This. So many beautiful words from Emma Red Velvet. And just a side note - this pie looks amazing.
So, if you're off this weekend - you're not working or traveling or planning a wedding (that's normally what I am doing) - then take a look at these words, ideas, and photos from others. Lemme know what you think!
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Driving through downtown Grayslake this week, you may have noticed signs promoting an upcoming rib contest.
The event is being sponsored by The Oasis & Grayslake Youth Center NFP, Inc.
Details from the Downtown Rib Throwdown website:
When: Sunday, September 16 2012
Registration Cost: $150 per team (Includes Ribs)
Time: 11:00 am to 3:00 pm (Cooking and Setup begin at 5:00 am)
Ribs: Go On Sale To The Public at 11:00am for $1.00 a Rib!
Location: Downtown Grayslake on Center Street, between Slusser Street and Whitney Street.
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Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago.
Feb. 19: A general lockdown was ordered at San Quentin on the fifth day of a convict workers strike at the maximum-security prison. The order came near the end of a tense day in which only 160 of the prison's 1,350 inmate workers reported to their jobs. The warden confined the more than 3,000 prisoners to their cells for the weekend. Prisoners who report for work will be allowed in the yard for weekend recreation. The striking convicts' biggest beef is a new restriction on visits that moves the coveted times they can see family and friends to off-work hours at night.
Feb. 23: Edward "Fast Eddie" Pelkey, the famed gentleman pool hustler, died of lung cancer in San Jose. Relatives estimated his age as between 83 and 88. Pelkey racked up a big reputation in the 1920s over green felt tables in back rooms from New York to San Francisco, where he spent his life working his trade. Paul Newman played him in the 1961 film "The Hustler." In the film, Fast Eddie was pitted against Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason) - something that never happened. "I've played everybody but Minnesota Fats," Pelkey once said. "Heck, Fats was wearing diapers when I was shooting pool."
Feb. 18: Dr. I.M. Levitt, director of the Fels Planetarium of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, predicts that when man finally makes it to Mars he'll find groundhogs there - or rodent-like groundhogs. This and other facets of Martian life will be explored by Dr. Levitt in a Town Hall lecture at the Marines Memorial Theatre.
Feb. 24: A showdown on Police Chief Frank Ahern's order that police must obey the law that requires them to live in San Francisco is due. The department has seethed with talk of defiance since Feb. 10, when Ahern ordered all members of the department to file "affidavits of residence" with him by today. Ahern and the Civil Service Commission assert that any policeman who admits illegal residence is automatically fired. The order followed discovery of what was not particularly a secret - that many policemen have moved beyond the city limits and given the department the addresses of friends and relatives here as their "residences." Some of the out-of-towners have been seeking homes in the city. Others have asserted that they will put their out-of-town addresses on the affidavit and challenge the residence law. Some police say that if the out-of- towners stick together, they could not be fired because their simultaneous dismissal would cause havoc.
Feb. 18: James J. Corbett, first of the modern heavyweight boxing champions and the man who knocked out John L. Sullivan, died peacefully in his wife's arms, in New York. He was 66. Corbett, the world's heavyweight champ from when he dethroned Sullivan until five years later when he was knocked out in Carson City by Robert Fitzsimmons, was a San Franciscan, born and raised. Corbett was born in Hayes Valley out on Hayes Street on Sept. 1, 1866. He was raised around the stables his father maintained in Hayes Valley, known better to people at the time as the Black Corner. It was here he began his career as a bank clerk for Wells Fargo and here he joined the Olympic Club, which had Walter "Professor" Watson as boxing instructor. Corbett, who was known throughout the sports world as "Pompadour Jim," quit the ring nearly 30 years ago, after failing to regain the world title. The stage subsequently claimed most of his interest and it is to be recalled that Corbett predated Gene Tunney as a boxer who knew his Shakespeare. He continued in vaudeville until well past 60 years of age.
Feb. 20: Twenty-eight men killed, four whites and 24 Chinese, a half-dozen persons injured and nearly $100,000 damage done to the plant, such, in brief, is the record of a giant powder explosion at the Pinole dynamite packing plant, one of the most disastrous explosions in the history of the works. Packing House No 1. was the scene of the terrific explosion. Its foreman, William Stillwell, was instantly killed, although it is believed that, receiving warning of impending catastrophe, he was seeking safety in flight when the gigantic detonation came. His body was found 50 feet from the place, absolutely uninjured save for a mutilated hand. His 24 Chinese laborers were blown to pieces. Only two of them were found in recognizable shape, the mangled bodies of Wing Kee and Mong Wu being picked up 30 feet from where the packing house once stood. Aside from small fragments, the bodies of the others could not be found. From 6,000 to 8,000 pounds of powder is thought to have been involved. The terrific shock broke 3,000 windows in the town and shook the little settlement like an earthquake. Every person with a loved one started to the works, and the hysteria of wives and children added to the tense excitement at the scene. Said The Chronicle: "It was with great relief that the throng heard that the heaviest casualties had been among the Chinese, the phlegmatic men, who, without relatives or fear for the future, stolidly take up this dangerous work, always signing at the outset a stipulation that the claim, in case of destruction, will not exceed $150 a head. Explosions at Pinole are rather coldly judged on the basis of white persons killed and injured." From this standard, the little dynamite town on the bay shore has seen, during its eventful history, several disasters which equal it in horror. Nevertheless, in fatalities and damage to property, this explosion stands as one of the worst on record.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61143766740093507412018-03-06T01:10:07.778-08:00First Day Box Office Collection Of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi MovieSaurabh Yadavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6114376674009350741.post-35615300907619239162016-12-23T05:34:00.001-08:002016-12-23T05:34:15.868-08:00First Day Box Office Collection Of Norm Of The North Movie
Norm of the North is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated comedy-adventure film directed by Trevor Wall and written by Daniel R. Altiere, Steven M. Altiere, and Malcolm T. Goldman. It features the voices of Rob Schneider as the title character, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Colm Meaney, Loretta Devine, Gabriel Iglesias, Michael McElhatton, and Bill Nighy. The UK version features James Corden. It was co-produced by Assemblage Entertainment, Splash Entertainment and Telegael, and distributed by Lionsgate. The film tells the story about a polar bear named Norm who needs to save his home from Mr. Greene, a rich man who has a plan to build houses in the Arctic. To rescue his home, Norm has brought his friends, the three lemmings and Olympia Brighty, to hatch a scheme to prevent Mr. Greene from doing his plans.
The film was released on January 15, 2016, and grossed $27.4 million on an $18 million budget.

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Norm, the Polar Bear (Rob Schneider) is the son of the King Of The Arctic. In his youth, he develops the ability to speak to humans, a trait shared by his Grandfather (Colm Meaney). Because of this, he is made an outcast from the other animals, only being accepted by Socrates (Bill Nighy) a wise bird and Elizabeth (Kate Higgins), a female polar bear whom Norm has fallen in love with.
Years later, Norm's grandfather has disappeared and human tourists are filling the Arctic. Socrates shows Norm and three Arctic Lemmings a luxury condo that has been installed on the ice. Inside this condo is Vera (Heather Graham) a representative for wealthy developer Mr. Greene (Ken Jeong). After Norm saves Vera from the avalanche, Mr Greene tells her to find an actor to play a Polar Bear for their campaign. Socrates convinces Norm and the three lemmings to stow away on a ship to New York City.
In the city, Norm, pretending to be an actor dressed as a bear, auditions for Mr Greene's commercial and is taken to dinner by Vera. Mr Greene, who realizes that Norm is a polar bear, suspects that Norm has come to free his grandfather, who Greene had captured. During a public incident involving Mr Greene trying to shoot Norm in the restaurant, Norm subdues Greene, gaining the attention of the media and heightening Greene's approval ratings. Greene decides to hire Norm as his mascot.
Before going on a television show, Norm meets Vera's daughter Olympia (Maya Kay), who tells Norm to raise Greene's approval ratings and then speak out against him to save the Arctic. Norm's popularity heightens the approval ratings, but Greene sabotages Norm's plan by playing recorded dialogue stating that Norm supports Greene's developments.
Defeated, Norm is comforted by Vera and Olympia, who reveals that Greene is developing more homes to install in the Arctic. Norm and the lemmings discover that Mr Greene is bribing a high-ranking member of the Polar Council, and exposes this to Pablo, one of Greene's investor. Vera resigns her position and is hired by Pablo, while Norm and the Lemmings chase the truck holding the houses.
Greene sends another truck carrying Norm's grandfather, and Norm is captured as well. After being freed by the lemmings, Norm and his grandfather catch up to the boat carrying the houses to the Arctic, and are able to detach the houses. However, Norm is separated from his grandfather and the lemmings and is knocked unconscious.

Norm awakens in the Arctic and reunited with the lemmings and the other animals, who reveal that his grandfather was not found. Because of his heroism, Norm is crowned the King of the Arctic, before his grandfather arrives at the ceremony. Meanwhile, Mr Greene is humiliated after his plan is exposed, and Vera and Olypmia are happy with Pablo as their new boss. Norm and Elizabeth have three cubs and the film ends with them and the lemmings watching the stars.
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Chris Samuels is a former professional wrestler who retires from the ring to settle down as a small town pastor. When the pastor witnesses rampant problems in the community, he decides to moonlight as a masked vigilante fighting the injustice. While facing crises at home and at the church, the pastor must evade the police and somehow reconcile his secret, violent identity with his calling as a pastor.
Cast[edit]
Brett Granstaff as Chris Samuels
Lara Jean Chorostecki as Michelle
T.J. McGibbon as Carrie Samuels
Diahann Carroll as Ms. Edna
Roddy Piper as Nicky Stone
James Preston Rogers as The Reaper
Mykel Shannon Jenkins as Detective Harper
Patrick McKenna as Judd Lumpkin
Scott Nichol as Tim McDonald
Joan Gregson as Mrs. Beasley
Reception[edit]
The Masked Saint received negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 14%, based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 4.1/10.[4] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 22 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

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In 2012, Benghazi, Libya is named one of the most dangerous places in the world, and countries have pulled their embassies out of the country in fear of an attack by militants. The United States, however, still has a diplomatic compound (not an official consulate) open in the city. Less than a mile away is a CIA outpost called "The Annex", which is protected by a team of private military contractors from Global Response Staff (GRS). New to the detail is Silva, who arrives in Benghazi and is picked up by Woods, a member and a personal friend of Silva. Arriving at the Annex, Silva is introduced to the rest of the GRS team and the CIA Chief-of-Station, who constantly gives the team strict reminders to never engage the citizens.
The U.S. Ambassador Stevens arrives in Benghazi to maintain diplomatic connections amidst the political and social chaos. Despite warnings, Stevens decides to stay at the Special Mission with limited protection from a pair of Diplomatic Security (DS) agents, Wickland and Ubben, and guards hired from the local February 17th Martyrs Brigade militia, nicknamed "17-Feb". On the morning of the eleventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Stevens notices suspicious men taking pictures of the compound and notifies his security detail. Back at the Annex, Silva finds out that his wife is pregnant.
That night, a group of militants from Ansar al-Sharia assault the compound. The 17-Feb guards quickly surrender their posts, allowing the attackers easy access to the Special Mission compound. Wickland takes Stevens and Smith, an IT specialist, into the safe room. Unable to breach the safe room, the attackers set the building on fire hoping to burn the men out. Wickland is able to escape but loses both Stevens and Smith. At the Annex, the GRS team desperately wants to go to the compound to help, but the Chief refuses, fearing that the team's departure would leave the Annex vulnerable. However, the team dispatches to the compound and meets up with the DS agents. Silva and Woods go into the building to try to find Stevens and Smith, but are only able to find Smith's body. The DS team from the compound retreats to the Annex; but after Wickland goes in the wrong direction, they are followed back to the Annex. Later, the GRS team also retreats to the Annex.
Knowing an attack by the militants is imminent, the CIA staff of the Annex makes several desperate calls for help. The only help they can get is from Doherty, a GRS officer in Tripoli, who forms a team including two Delta operators that fly to Benghazi after several delays. Meanwhile, the GRS team fends off the militants as they try to breach the Annex perimeter. After repelling the largest attack wave, the Annex receives word from ISR that help is en route.
The Tripoli GRS reinforcements arrive and begin preparing the CIA and DS staff to depart for the airport. The militants launch a mortar attack, wounding Geist and Ubben. Woods rushes to aid Geist and is killed by a second mortar round. Doherty is also killed.
With the GRS team compromised, and the Annex now vulnerable, the remaining GRS operators watch as a convoy of vehicles rolls toward the Annex. Fearing the worst, the operators prepare to make a final stand, until it is revealed that the convoy is an element of the Libya Shield Force militia escorting the GRS reinforcements. They also find out that Stevens was found behind the compound, but was pronounced dead at the hospital.

At the airport, the CIA staff and the wounded Geist board the plane to Tripoli while the remainder of the GRS team waits for the next plane with the bodies of Stevens, Smith, Woods and Doherty. Closing titles reveal that all of the surviving members of the Annex security team received contractor medals in a private ceremony and have since retired from the GRS team and live with their families.
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October 2015
Have you considered going organic? This month's article details the trends and benefits of using organic ingredients in food vending.
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Lisa Marie Presley Babies
UPDATE ~ The babies names as reported by People are Finley and Harper.
Finley ~ Scottish; fair warrior.
- daugher of Angie Harmon & Jason Sehorn's daughter
- son of Amanda Pays & Corbin Bernsen
- son of Chris O'Donnell
- son of Holly Marie Combs
- son of Sharron Davies
Harper ~ English; harp player.
- daughter of Alexandra Wentworth & George Stephanopoulos
KINGS DAUGHTER DELIVERS FRATERNAL TWINS ~ Lisa Marie Presley and her husband Michael Lockwood welcomed twin girls on October 7th, 2008. "The babies and mom are happy and healthy and resting at home," rep Cindy Guagenti tells People.
The girls arrived via c-section and weighed in at 5 lbs., 15 oz. and 5 lbs., 2 oz. These are the first children for the couple and Lisa's third and fourth; she has a daughter Riley, 19, a model, and Benjamin, 15, with ex-husband Danny Keough.
Lisa also confirmed she was pregnant and sounded off about the paparazzi on her Myspace page under a posting called "Confirmation under the gun." She writes; After being the target all week of slanderous and degrading stories, horribly manipulated pictures and articles in the media, I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant. Once they got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight. Starting with a London publication and then New York and Chicago all writing false defamatory degrading stories about all of the dark possible reasons I could be putting on weight. The US tabloids have been calling all day wanting confirmation on all kinds of insane theories.They couldn't wait to find out if my weight gain was because I was just overeating, in which case It would be open season and they can do the old following in her fathers sad and unfortunate demise story again or less interesting for them and probably much to their dismay, I could just be pregnant and therefore have a legitimate reason for weight gain at which point they should probably wipe the saliva off of their fangs and put them back in their mouths or they may expose the black little souls that they are.
Now that things are confirmed, hopefully they can stop all of the harassment and I can stop dodging the continuous bullets.It is unfortunate that I couldn't have announced something that is this much of a blessing and that has made us so incredibly happy under better circumstances.How they have handled themselves with this has been nothing short of irresponsible and disgusting.Pardon my seething contemptuous tone but ladies, You KNOW if you were pregnant and you felt you were expanding uncontrollably by the moment as a result and the worldwide media started badgering and harassing you for it, plastering you everywhere in an unflattering light, you would be mortified as well.
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Tribe-Clippers game called due to snow
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Cleveland Indians' exhibition game against Triple-A affiliate Columbus Clippers was called after 2 1/2 innings Wednesday because of snow with the score tied at 1.
The temperature was 38 degrees at Huntington Park with a wind chill of 29 and snow was forming on the outfield warning track when Clippers president-general manager Ken Schnacke announced the cancellation.
In the third inning, Clippers right fielder Jordan Brown lost a flyball because of the snow and overran it before reaching back to make a catch near the wall.
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Cleveland played at the ballpark for the first time since making the Clippers their top farm team in 2009.
Shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera (sore right hand) was the only Indians starter not in the lineup.