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Three faculty and two staff members at Alfred State were recently honored with Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Professional Service, Classified Service, and Faculty Service.
David Hunt received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Matthew Ryan was honored with the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service, Scott Bingham was presented with the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Classified Service, and George “Joe” Richardson and John Santora were both named recipients of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service. Each received a certificate and a medallion.
Hunt, an associate professor in the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department, is known for his passion in teaching and for his dedication to students, who respect him for the wealth of information and support that he offers them. He makes the world their learning ground, as he provides practical and professional knowledge to them that they will need to be competitive in their field of study and work. His student strive to meet the challenges he presents them, and they do so willingly because of their regard for his abilities and intelligence.
As faculty adviser of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Club, Hunt attends all major club events, giving freely of his time on weekends and after class. He is also the faculty adviser to the Robotics Club, and has travelled with the club to regional and national competitions.
Ryan, the senior director of Residential Services, worked with the vice presidents of Academic and Student Affairs to pilot and chair the college’s first Academic Intervention Team. He also led the redesign of the room selection process in order to provide both group housing options and affinity living areas for upper-class students.
Furthermore, Ryan has enthusiastically embraced the campus’ emphasis on civic engagement. Examples of his involvement, both on and off campus, include supervising Alfred State students’ relief work at the Lion’s Camp Badger in Spencer; leading a relief trip to Binghamton to assist in the cleanup after Hurricane Sandy; co-organizing a donation drive for Johnson City flood victims, and serving as an active member of the Scio Lions Club.
Bingham, a lieutenant in the University Police Department, is a consummate professional and a highly skilled and dedicated police officer. As a lieutenant in a small organization, he is asked to perform every function of the department from clerical duties to executive/administrative duties. At times, Scott has prioritized his time – even when personally inconvenient - for the needs of the department, whether it be staying late to complete an investigation or switching to a completely different shift and days off for an extended period of time.
In addition to his role as a law enforcement officer, Bingham worked with a student to begin the Pioneer Woodsmen’s Club in 2009. Since then, he has built the team into one that consistently competes for first place in multiple divisions at the competitions they attend. This past April, he helped coordinate a large spring woodsmen’s meet called the “Northeast Woodsmen’s Conclave” that brought regional exposure to Alfred State.
Professor Richardson, the chair of the Building Trades Department, has served the college, SUNY, and the local community at a national and international level through numerous student and faculty projects. He has generously given his time and creativity to many in numerous ways, including as faculty adviser to the Solar Decathlon teams of 2013 in China and 2015 in California, and as interim dean of the School of Applied Technology for two separate time periods.
He also was instrumental in moving a Buffalo Billions initiative forward, worked extensively to help make green energy technology training available in the region, had extensive involvement in continued efforts to fund construction of the School of Applied Technology Workforce Development Center, and coordinated the construction of the Alfred State Zero Energy House to be certified as· an Energy Star Home and green building.
As a professor and chair of the Culinary Arts Department, Santora seeks to inspire students to perform at levels that are higher than what is required to meet current standards. Drawing on his personal expertise in the culinary arts, he has consistently involved his students in a variety of community projects that bring their class lessons to life.
Santora’s efforts have been recognized with awards in community service and in multiple articles in trade publications and in the regional press. His excellence in areas of specialization have led to television appearances that in tum provide inspiration to his students. He was recognized for his many accomplishments with a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2005.
Two Alfred State faculty and staff members were honored recently with a Leadership through Civic Engagement Award.
The award is presented annually by the College Council to acknowledge students, faculty, staff, and alumni who have led or initiated exemplary academic and/or co-curricular initiatives that demonstrate a commitment to engaging in the community— locally, nationally, or globally — through service, volunteerism, activism, politics, and much more. This year’s recipients were Debra Burch, associate professor in the Culinary Arts Department, and Jason Cronin, senior staff assistant and head baseball coach in the Athletics Department.
Burch has demonstrated leadership by inspiring students, colleagues, and community members to support local disabled veterans. During the fall 2015 semester, Burch arranged for retired US Army Brig. Gen. Arthur Austin Jr. to speak at a Veteran’s Day ceremony. His visit launched a fundraising campaign for the LEEK Hunting and Mountain preserve - an organization that offers programs to wounded and disabled veterans.
Burch mobilized the efforts of 17 baking program students over several days to prepare bread, rolls, doughnuts, and other baked goods for the college sponsored bake sale. Furthermore, she arranged the visit for the Culinary Arts staff and student participants to the LEEK Preserve on Dec. 4 and presented the nearly $3,600 donation received through the bake sale. This campaign raised awareness and funds and exemplifies how college community members utilize their skills and gifts to support a larger cause.
Cronin has developed a culture of civic engagement among the approximately 30 members of his team through example and action. He directs and inspires his team to take part in many local and regional community projects, setting an ambitious goal of 300 community service hours. The team regularly participates in the Celebrate Service Celebrate Allegany day of service each fall and has partnered with New York Special Olympics, the Alfred Box of Books Library, the American Red Cross, and the Bath Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
The squad assisted Chemung County Habitat for Humanity with construction of the Elmira Habitat home in November 2015. They even took time out of a busy tournament schedule during the 2016 spring break to support the Habitat for Humanity affiliate in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Alfred State President Dr. Skip Sullivan recently presented four members of the college faculty and staff with the college’s Pioneer Award.
Recognized at the college’s employee recognition banquet were: Steven Scott, Andover; Mark Amman, Andover; Travis Armison, Fillmore; and Alyshia Zurlick, Alfred Station. Each received a certificate and a monetary gift.
The Pioneer Award acknowledges those who have demonstrated commitment and dedication to the college mission and goals, have made contributions that have had meaning and measurable positive impact on college operations, are seen as positive role models and show creativity and initiative, and have shown a consistent level of exceptional performance throughout their employment.
Scott is indeed a true asset to the Alfred State family and Facilities Services. While on the grounds crew, he would be seen plowing, shoveling, or mowing from the early morning till the end of each day. Now that Scott is a maintenance assistant in the Building Maintenance group, he stays busy on work orders or on special project teams. Most recently, he has been a very important member of the team who built the new Residential Life offices in the Townhouse Commons Building.
Amman has long demonstrated a strong commitment to his colleagues, his department, and the college in a variety of roles, and his energetic program development over the past two years has set a new standard for high performance at Alfred State. In addition to completing his regular administrative work as chair of the Physical and Life Sciences Department, Amman has managed the development and approval of three new academic programs: health sciences, radiologic technology, and diagnostic medical sonography. Though these new programs were the creation of many hands, Amman has provided exceptional initiative and leadership in coordinating and directing work, keeping various teams on task, and ensuring each step is completed within the necessary time frame.
Armison has been an amazing addition to the Agriculture and Veterinary Technology Department. As an instructional support assistant, he is not only knowledgeable about a variety of animal species, both large and small, he is a willing teacher, dedicating many hours during and after class to assure both agriculture and veterinary technology students understand management, husbandry, handling, and breeding techniques for multiple species. Armison has also instituted a Collegiate Future Farmers of America (FFA) Chapter at Alfred State that has brought FFA members from almost every curriculum on campus back to their FFA roots. When Armison is not helping with a lab or prepping for another lab, he also manages all the student work blocks at the farm.
Zurlick has shown her commitment to the college in many ways, including implementing the Emerging Pioneer Leadership Program, which has led to a leadership academic minor within the Business Department, enabling leadership development to supplement the skills and knowledge being developed across the curriculum. In addition to being the assistant director of the Office of Student Engagement, she has taken on the role of adviser to Delta Chi Omega sorority and has been a great role model to the young women. Zurlick has guided them in leading Project Prom Dress, which collects prom dresses, accessories, and cash donations for area teenage females in need. She has also voluntarily mentored many students through her various roles.
Recipients are nominated by their peers and selected by the Reward and Recognition Committee.
The Print and Mail Services Department at Alfred State recently received an honorable mention in the Cross Media category in the Association of College and University Printers 2016 print competition, held April 2-6 in Cincinnati, OH.
Specifically, the department was honored for the use of variable data in the college’s Orientation program.
The achievement marks the second straight year Print and Mail Services has been awarded in the print competition. Last year, the department won a first-place award for quality and uniqueness for the Alfred State personalized viewbook, and an honorable mention under the “Best Digitally Printed” category for the Alfred University MostArts Festival brochure.
The Association of College and University Printers is a non-profit organization that was established to promote communication, training, and educational opportunities within the higher education in-plant printing and mailing industry, according to its website, http://www.acup-edu.org/.
Print and Mail Services provides document and distribution solutions to the campus community, including the production and management of all printed materials related to student recruitment, admission decisions, scholarship awards, academic warnings, etc. The award-winning, state-of-the-art Print and Mail Services facility at Alfred State is a key component of SUNY’s shared services initiative.
The Community Design Center of Rochester, the region’s only non-profit, citizen-driven organization dedicated to promoting healthy, sustainable communities, recently appointed two new members to its Board of Directors, including Alfred State Professor of Architecture William Dean, AIA, NCARB, LEED® AP.
Dean, a registered architect, has been a faculty member at Alfred State since 2000. He holds a Bachelor of Professional Studies degree and Master of Architecture from the University at Buffalo.
At Alfred State, Dean founded the fourth-year Urban Design Studio, which promotes student civic engagement as a means of helping communities in the Rochester area and New York's Southern Tier visualize potential solutions for revitalizing their neighborhoods and business districts.
Prior to joining the college, Dean practiced with several firms in the Rochester area that specialized in residential, commercial, and health care design. He also maintains a consulting practice focused on helping clients plan for creative and sustainable improvements to their living and working environments.
Dean's applied research interests include issues related to new paradigms of professional practice, and community design and development through the work of the Urban Design Studio and the Southern Tier Architectural Resource Center.
His community and professional services span numerous activities in the region, and he has participated in many CDC Rochester projects. Dean has been designated as an Appalachian Teaching Fellow by the Appalachian Regional Commission and received the Alfred State College Council's Award for Leadership through Civic Engagement in 2013.
In addition to Dean, the CDC Rochester also appointed Monica C. McCullough, Esq. to its Board of Directors. McCullough is the president of MM Development Advisors, Inc., which specializes in providing comprehensive real estate development, community development, and general administrative advising to not-for-profit organizations and mission-focused, community-oriented private companies.
Alfred State recently announced promotions for faculty and staff.
Included among those receiving promotions for the college and Office of the President, with their new titles, are Dr. Craig Clark, Alfred, vice president of Economic Development; Heather Mark, Bath, secretary 1, Office of the President; and Dr. Kristin Poppo, Alfred, provost.
Those promoted in the Division of Academic Affairs, with their new titles, are Travis Armison, Fillmore, instructional support associate, Agriculture and Veterinary Technology; Dr. Alex Bitterman, Buffalo, professor, Architecture and Design; Tammy Brackett, Andover, professor, Digital Media and Animation; Pamela Brandes, Wellsville, secretary 2, School of Applied Technology; Valerie Calderon, Cuba, secretary 1, Mathematics and Physics and English and Humanities; Benjamin Cawley, Bolivar, lead programmer-analyst, Technology Services; Gordon Cook, Wellsville, instructional support associate, School of Applied Technology; Casey Cowburn, Andover, academic adviser, Student Success Center; Lucinda Croston, Andover, secretary 1, Business; Kathleen Ebert, associate vice president, Academic Affairs; Marsha Goodwin, Troupsburg, secretary 1, Digital Media and Animation, Architecture and Design, and Computer and Information Technology; Kera Mariotti, Wellsville, associate professor, Civil Engineering Technology; Krystal Perlman, Hornell, senior staff assistant, Technology Services; Jacob Perry, Springville, assistant professor, Culinary Arts; Ricky Richards, Wellsville, instructional support technician, Technology Services; Nicole Schroeder, Hornell, secretary 1, Student Success Center; and Deena Smith, Almond, secretary 1, Civil Engineering Technology, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology, and Computer and Information Technology.
Pictured, sitting, from left to right, are Benjamin Cawley, Pamela Brandes, Nicole Schroeder, Valerie Calderon, Marsha Goodwin, and Krystal Perlman. Second row, from left to right, are Kathleen Ebert, Jacob Perry, Kera Mariotti, Deena Smith, Tammy Brackett, Travis Armison, and Alex Bitterman. Back row, from left to right, are Ricky Richards and Casey Cowburn.
Receiving promotions in Administration, Advancement and Enrollment, with their new titles, are Darlene Fox, Whitesville, janitor, Facilities Services; William Greene, Andover, maintenance assistant mechanic, Facilities Services; Ryan Maloney, Holland, office assistant 2 (keyboarding), Student Records and Financial Services; Raymond Mullen, Bolivar, SUNY campus worker, Facilities Services; Karl Perkins, Andover, motor equipment mechanic, Facilities Services; David Shultz, Hornell, plant utilities engineer 1, Facilities Services; Anna Shutt, Wellsville, office assistant 2 (keyboarding), Admissions; and Danielle White, Hornell, executive director, Institutional Advancement.
Receiving promotions in Student Affairs, with their new titles, are Erica Alger, Hornell, senior counselor, Health and Wellness Services; Matthew Heller, Hornell, chief of police, University Police; Nikkie Hockenberry, Hornell, chief diversity officer, Student Affairs; Anne Holmok, Alfred, senior staff assistant, Athletics; Spencer Peavey, Wellsville, assistant vice president for Student Affairs, Student Affairs; Patrick Smith, North Tonawanda, senior staff assistant, Residential Services; and Jeffrey Wilcox, Nunda, lieutenant, University Police.
Pictured, sitting, from left to right are Anne Holmok and Jason Cronin. Back row, from left to right, are Jeffrey Wilcox, Patrick Smith, and Matthew Heller.
Food truck mania will sweep over Alfred State this fall, ushered in by the arrival of “The Feast Beast,” the college’s first mobile dining venue.
Alfred State President Dr. Skip Sullivan drove the Beast through the inaugural blue ribbon, Monday, June 13, signaling the arrival of the 24-foot truck. The Beast, which will serve exclusively on the Alfred State campuses and property, will offer signature sandwiches and hand-crafted burgers and salads. The food truck is owned and operated by Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services, Inc. (ACES), the not-for-profit corporation that provides dining services on campus.
The truck, designed by Custom Mobile Food Equipment, with graphics created by Lonowood Art Company, was available for tours at its debut. Students, faculty, and staff are already lining up for the opportunity to see and taste what “The Feast Beast” has to offer.
Students will be able to use their meal plan to dine from the food truck by purchasing a value meal option, or by using Dining Dollars or Campus Spending Account cash. Cashiers onboard will also accept cash and credit cards.
Members of the faculty and staff at Alfred State were honored recently for their years of service at the college.
Those employees honored for 35 years included Kathleen Bayus, Alfred Station, secretary 1, Marketing Communications; and Lawrence Perkins, Andover, grounds supervisor, Facilities Services.
Honorees received a college weather station and a certificate to commemorate the occasion.
Those employees honored for 30 years included Andrew Bayus, Alfred Station, director of College Housing, Residential Services; Larry Drumm, Almond, motor equipment mechanic, Facilities Services; Roger Elias, Wellsville, general mechanic, Facilities Services; Patricia Lewis-Brownell, Wellsville, secretary, School of Applied Technology; and Deborah Neu, Hornell, secretary, Student Records and Financial Services.
Honorees received a college watch and a certificate to commemorate the occasion.
Pictured, sitting, from left to right, are Andrew Bayus and Patricia Lewis-Brownell. Back row, from left to right, are Deborah Neu and Roger Elias.
Those employees honored for 25 years included Regina Boyd, Hornell, women’s basketball coach, physical education instructor, Athletics; Robert Bretzin, Portville, assistant professor, Computerized Design and Manufacturing; Steven Martinelli, Andover, professor, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology; Vanessa Stachowski, Belmont, nurse, Health and Wellness Services; Robin Torpey, Cuba, associate professor, Computer and Information Technology; and Choichiro Yatani, Alfred Station, professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Pictured, sitting, from left to right, are Regina Boyd, Robert Bretzin, and Steven Martinelli. Back row, from left to right, are Choichiro Yatani, Robin Torpey, and Vanessa Stachowski.


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Flashiness aside, I'm adjusting back after a week of travel, which paved the way for some deep healing processes and recalibrating my soul and vision for my work.
Stepping away is so necessary sometimes.
Not-Doing-The-Usual-Stuff is so necessary sometimes.
Watching-Cardi B-rock-it is so necessary sometimes.
Shifts are happening within me, but they are not quite ready to break out into the world. Much like the indecisive Springtime energy we're having here in NYC, when everything is pushing against the surface getting ready to blossom, but not quite there yet.
And when shifts are in progress but haven't quite fully shifted yet, easing up can be helpful. As in: not overthinking or overplanning or trying to figure it all out.
Be patient with your process.
Creativity is cyclical, and we're not always meant to be actively producing.
Taking time to take things in = just as important as releasing new creations into the world.
If you're stuck in your own process, take a step out and get inspired by something different.
Trust that Spring WILL come.
Pay more attention to your body. It KNOWS things.
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“Deep map” is a term coined by Native American Writer William Least Heat-Moon in his extraordinary book of travel essays, PrairyErth: A Deep Map . After publishing a very successful “horizontal” travel book entitled Blue Highways, a restless, rootless ramble across America, Heat-Moon decided to take a “vertical trip” for his new project, heeding a suggestion from N. Scott Momaday in The Way to Rainy Mountain: to surrender himself to a particular landscape, examining it from all perspectives, wandering across it and wondering about it.
In PrairyErth, Heat-Moon’s chosen landscape is a circumscribed piece of grassland set dead center of the continental USA, Roniger Hill, from which radiates a territory of 778 square miles known as Chase County. At first glance, this place appears to be a blank in the greater void of Kansas where nothing much happens, a lonely place of transit successively abandoned by tribal peoples, settlers, speculators, and modern residents. But by the time the author has finished tracing his deep map, Chase County is revealed to be a densely woven texture of epic narratives entwining tragedy, comedy, myth, legend, and apocalypse, dating back long before the days of King Tut.
To create his topographical word map, Heat-Moon began by first obtaining 25 extremely detailed U.S. Geological Survey maps covering Chase County to the measure of an inch and a half to the mile, which he laid out on his living room floor and studied by walking across them. As he traversed the maps, he found they resembled a grid, like the ones used by archaeologists to map out excavations. The metaphor fit: wasn’t he also digging for “shards?" He then proceeded to test the grid against the territory, hiking across Chase County section by section “in quest of the land and what informs it,” challenging the actual form of the grid itself, with its prisonlike grille of ninety-degree angles, to lead him toward his own darker, and more mysterious connection to the land.
After eight years of research and six years of writing, his end product is a vertical descent through recent and remote history into geological time. PrairyErth weaves together the discourses of natural history, local history, and folklore, oral testimony by local residents and scientific studies, autobiography, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, ecology. Readers become acquainted with possums, skunks, bison, coyotes, and varieties of prairie grasses; roads languishing beneath sediment and scrub, bottomlands and subterranean mountains millions of years old; burial mounds, log schoolhouses, courthouses, jails; and with the lives and legends of those hardy settlers and modern-day residents who chose to live in a place where the air is so fresh, it seems as if no one has ever used it before, braving attacks by tornados and by the other apocalyptic horsemen of the prairie: Fire, Flood, and Drought. Heat-Moon’s narrative of his own past memories and current response to the place mingles with the multiple voices of the prairie and with intertextual references: Tibetan sky gods, ancient Roman roads, Japanese texts, Dante’s Inferno, and the Book of Revelation all find affinities in the heart of Kansas, entwined with the stories of native peoples who lived there six thousand years ago. Ultimately, he discovers while rambling in a half somnolent state that his real bond to the land lies deep beneath the surface, perceptible only to the non-rational mind. Facts will only carry us so far, he concludes; the only way to really know a place is to dream it.
Heat-Moon’s Deep Map resembles Bernard Anson’s Map of Imagination, which we might define as a personal cognitive model of a territory that attempts to encompass all historical, spiritual, mythic, and personal data regarding that territory, layered across time. Working with the Map of Imagination brings people, stories, landscape and history into alignment. For Anson, who combines the practices of green tourism, story-telling performance art, and research into the genius loci, the wars and peregrinations, rituals and cultural achievements enacted upon a territory are a manifestation of its genius loci, which continues to thrive and to act upon the lives and particularly upon the subconscious of its inhabitants through the centuries. By rediscovering and most especially by retelling the stories embedded in a landscape, we can better understand the ties that bind us to a place and how place itself shapes our identities.
A deep map, then, is a sample swatch of the multiple manifestations of the genius loci. The deep map configures narratives. It is a matrix of intertextual story-telling, charting our movements through the landscape or cityscape, tracing the pathways of our habits and rituals, depositing our experiences over time in its folds, intersecting at every turn the mesh of lives and stories that have preceded us. Since the publication of PrairyErth in 1991,“deep map” has become a term also used by contemporary geographers and conceptual artists to refer to a sample swath in any form—textual, visual, or performance—illustrating the layers of natural, cultural, and personal history stratified upon any given geographical spot. In its meanders circulate the spirits of place.
Although this exercise works well in both rural and urban contexts, for a first attempt I suggest trying it out in a setting where you will feel closer to nature.
Visit your chosen site at different times of day in different conditions of weather. Taste the atmosphere. Investigate its topology. Is there a particular landscape feature that attracts you, like a pond or an abandoned building? If there are roads or railways, where do they lead? Learn the names of trees and plants, if you don’t know them, and try to find out why they are important to that particular place. Observe other lives unfolding there: animals, birds, insects, people. Are there fishermen, joggers, Sunday strollers, mushroom hunters, or squatters? Notice what has been left behind in the aftermath of weather events or human occupation, fallen trees, candy wrappers, traces of recent campfires or dead vehicles overgrown with kudzu? Who might go there at night?
Observe your personal response to all this. Take notes, pictures, videos of what you find there. Although you could limit your observation period to a single visit, deep maps take time to assemble. The more time you spend actually exploring, the richer your map will be. In between your visits, research place names, local history, local natural history, folklore, gossip, superstitions related to the place. Match your research findings with what you actually find on site. Interview residents or other walkers you meet there or local experts on its history, flora and fauna. How does your own story weave into the territory as you proceed? How does the outer environment mirror your emotions or state of mind as you go along? Assemble your materials to build a text or multimedia project.
One way to organize your material could be to divide it into units of measure, which may be “miles,” “blocks” or even “paces,” and structure your text by means of your unit, i.e. you might dedicate a line/stanza/ paragraph/chapter for each unit/block/mile. Another organizing strategy is the thematic approach, selecting broad categories of themes like “water,” “fire,” “road stops,” “woodpeckers,” “danger,” or whatever appeals.
Deep Mapping will provide you with a wealth of information about an environment that you can transform into vivid settings in your writing. My first novel, The Etruscan, is a sort of Deep Map of Tuscia, the area north of Rome, where I love to go traipsing through vineyards and poking into ruins. In writing my novel, I wove into the story many strands that I picked up while exploring: images of old houses and towers, animal and plant lore, superstitions, peasant traditions, even recipes that are all part of the local color and give the book a detailed, true-to-life background in contrast to the plot that is based on fairy-tale patterns.
Keep in mind that the Deep Map is a versatile project that may take any genre, and may be contained in a single work or spawn a series of books. You can deep map any environment, including interiors, physical or mental. May Sarton’s best-selling diaries Plant Dreaming Deep and Journal of a Solitude can be read as a Deep Map to the poet’s life, house, and garden in Nelson, New Hampshire as she worked through depression and creative blocks.
An extract from The Soul of Place – A Creative Writing Workbook, by Linda Lappin (Travelers Tales, 2015). 2015 Gold Medal Winner Nautilus Awards in the Creative Process Category. Isbn: 978-1609521035.

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We left Reykjavik yesterday morning and embarked on a six-day drive along the Ring Road which circles around Iceland.
When you think your socks have been knocked off from the previous day's adventures, this place has a tendency to amaze you even more.
The 1,332 kilometre-stretch is packed with must-sees and we're only less than a quarter of the way. We checked out Barnafoss, a majestic little waterfall, but it's the raging stream from the top that steals the show. We also stopped by Grabrok, one of Iceland's three largest craters. It's an easy hike up man-made steps but once you're at the top, you'll feel like you're in the Justin Bieber video.
We ended the day by decompressing with a few brews in our geothermal pool at our quaint little hostel in Saeberg.


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Throughout the area, Floom’s Aberdare florists work with local blooms like Wild daffodil to create original bouquets for Aberdare flower delivery.


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“Drawing from real life experiences with pets and animals is the inspiration for Stephanie’s children picture books.
Want to learn more about Stephanie Lee Allensworth’s unique perspective on the world and take a look inside her media interviews? Then, contact Stephanie Lee Allensworth’s team to book her for your next show, conference, meeting, or event.
Mister Hamster was a very happy and fluffy tan-and-white hamster who lived in a big cage in a big house with his young caretaker, Ricky. One day, when Ricky was done cleaning Mister Hamster’s cage, he forgot to close the door properly.
When a strong storm threatens the Finch family home and children, the parents take amazing steps to ensure their protection!
After years in the industry as a talent agent, Stephanie decided to break out on her own creating her series REAL PEOPLE.
This talk show covers many topics of interest. We started our debut show with the Opioid addiction crisis and have moved into local events, health and wellness, entertainment and more.
REAL PEOPLE airs on BCAT16 in Bloomington, MTN in Minneapolis, SPNN in Saint Paul and SWTV in Edina, Minnetonka, Eden Prairie, Hopkins and Richfield. We also are on the web at YouTube.com/AllensworthEnt.
I had the privilege of meeting Stephanie a few years ago. She is a delightful person, easy to talk to and about her business. I wish you, Stephanie all success on your “Real People” project. I enjoyed the show! Very informative and necessary. So many times it’s the “real people” who don’t get the recognition. Kudos to you! Denise Joyner 5 Star Facebook Review of Stephanie on Real People with Stephanie Allensworth.

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Hi there! Took me a minute or two to figure out how this works. Once I figured it out I liked the idea. Great way to get students involved at random! Might help others to include short instructions on how it works!
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Boil cauliflower in water and drain after 6 minutes. On low-medium heat, melt butter in the pan and add flour when it's fully melted. Mix continuously with a wooden spoon for a minute or so, and add in the milk / water combination. Mix and cook until thicken (when it is just starting to boil). Remove from heat and add cheese, salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste. Place the cauliflower florets into a ceramic baking dish, pour the cheese mixture over them. Sprinkle with crumbs and Parmesan cheese. Bake at 375F for 30 minutes or until golden brown on top.
Preheat the oven to 350F. Roll cleaned / dried tenderloin in cracked pepper and salt. Lay it atop of dry cherries. Press the meat on top of the cherries and add 1/4 cup of red wine to the pan. Cook for 30 minutes and rotate the meat with tongs (most cherries should stay attached to the meat). Add the remaining wine and olive oil to the pan. Cook for 10-15 minutes at 400F, depending on the thickness of your tenderloin, but just enough to keep the center pink and let the cherries caramelize.
Let the meat rest for 5-10 minutes to reabsorb the juices and serve with slowly reduced balsamic.
I wasn't going for the complex cultural mix. Frankly, we don't eat a lot of pasta, so I only keep a small variety in the pantry, but when my dad dropped off a bunch of basil I decided to make pesto. There are plenty of uses for that, and pasta was the first thing that came to mind. Thus, to celebrate those of Japo-Italian (?) heritage, here's what I made.
Blend basil and pecans, as you slowly pour in olive oil. Add cheese. Add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste.
Boil wheat udon noddles for 6 minutes and rinse with cold water. Let drain. Mix in pesto (amount to your liking). Sprinkle with some parmesan cheese. Enjoy!

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Currently I'm working on a poetry suite about my time working as a Sugarbaby for my first two years living in Chicago. Being a Sugarbaby is a form of sexwork, and although the connotations associated with most sexwork are rather negative; I'll be writing about the complexities that this particularly lifestyle afforded me.
The publication titled, "Addicted To The Money" will debut Fall 2018. Inspired by nights in hotels and Daddy dates, "Addicted To The Money" will be released through Vice Versa Press.
Just a commodity trying to find my place in the world.

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Host Paul James shares tips on wrangling your raindrops in a method of landscaping known as xeriscaping. Then, David Salman gives an overview of drought-tolerant plants that save time and money. Meanwhile, Roberta Walker demonstrates how to construct a low maintenance landscape, and Paul gives the trick on of the wisest water practices around.
Paul gives an overview of water conservation practices.

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When Jayc was 10 years old, his older brother passed away and left the family in turmoil. Tragically, a year later, his older sister passed away, which troubled his father so that he turned to the bottle. Jayc began working 40 hours a week at the family automotive shop while going to school full time.
Married at the age of 20, Jayc built a very successful roofing company, but started drifting away from his faith; thinking money would help fill the hole in his soul. By the age of 25, he opened an automotive shop and later turned it into a used car dealership.
Karis and Jayc were expecting their third child, when his mother had been diagnosed with cancer, which would turn out to be terminal. The day before she passed away, she spoke some words to his father that he will never forget. She said, “If only our boys would do what they were put on this earth to do.” The first thing that entered his mind was, “How did she know, I had those exact same thoughts, but have kept them to myself?
Her words inspired him to change his career and make a total commitment to do what he believes the Lord put him here to do. The hole in his soul was never filled, and kept getting bigger every day.
Then, one day, while listening to a Gospel tape by Buck Owens, Jayc gave it all over to Christ. He started writing Gospel songs again. He bought a Greyhound bus, and spent a year rebuilding and remodeling it as a tour bus. A short time later, he sold the family home, the car dealership and moved into the bus with his family by his side.
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The Vascular and Vein Clinic at Main Line Health, with locations at Lankenau Medical Center and Riddle Hospital, is proud to offer VenaSeal. This FDA-approved system is a new method of treatment for varicose veins, a health issued that plagues more than 40 million men and women each year.
Although varicose veins are most often thought of as a cosmetic issue—causing veins to appear enlarged or bulging on the hands and feet—it can also be a painful one.
“Varicose veins are the most common problem that we see. If they’re left untreated, they can lead to leg pain, swelling, ulcerations and even blood clots,” says Robert Meisner, MD, a vascular and endovascular specialist at Lankenau Medical Center and Riddle Hospital.
For patients who experience physical symptoms like these, the VenaSeal system offers relief by eliminating blood supply to the affected veins. Though vascular surgeons have used both open and catheter-based treatments to alleviate the physical symptoms of varicose veins, the VenaSeal system is the first solution to offer permanent relief without the administration of either tumescent or regional anesthesia.
“This is a relatively new branch of treatment for a very common condition, and it’s very exciting. The pain associated with varicose veins can interfere with the quality of life for some patients, and VenaSeal offers the benefit of lasting relief for venous hypertension through a minimally-invasive, in-office procedure” says Vincent DiGiovanni, DO, vascular surgeon at Lankenau Medical Center and Riddle Hospital.
As part of the treatment, a catheter is inserted through the skin into the affected vein. An adhesive is then delivered through the catheter, and hardens upon its delivery to the vein. To ensure the adhesive is placed safely and accurately, an ultrasound is used to monitor the placement. Unlike other treatment methods, VenaSeal does not require heat application or incisions.
Though VenaSeal offers the benefit of a one-time treatment, less bruising, and a quicker return to activities, it does come with a caveat: It is not currently covered by insurance. Patients who choose to pursue the VenaSeal treatment are required to pay out-of-pocket for the procedure.
In the meantime, Dr. DiGiovanni reminds patients that effective, affordable treatment for varicose veins is also available.
At Main Line Health we have a long and successful history of treating patients who have vascular disorders—including those who are considered to be high risk. Make an appointment at the Vascular and Vein Clinic, or learn more about the services we offer.

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Protecting the safety of study participants is of utmost importance at the MTN. The Safety Monitoring and Reporting Team ensures that MTN follows strict national and international procedures, with a multi-tiered safety review system that ensures participants are closely monitored, and that study teams can respond to concerns in a timely manner.
Participant safety is the collective responsibility of many individuals, including, but not limited to, study investigators and site staff who have direct contact with participants. Others who are key to the process include staff at the MTN Statistical and Data Management Center (SDMC) who assess incoming adverse event reports on a daily basis; MTN Protocol Safety Physicians within the Leadership and Operations Center (LOC) who review summary safety reports and address concerns raised by site clinicians or the SDMC on an as-needed basis; and a Protocol Safety Review Team that conducts monthly reviews of safety data via conference call. The Protocol Safety Review Team consists of at least one Protocol Safety Physician, the Medical Officers from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)Division of AIDS (DAIDS) and/or other institutes of the National Institutes of Health; the study’s Protocol Chair, SDMC Clinical Safety Associates and others, depending on the protocol design and the particular safety considerations for the study.
Some studies may also involve regular reviews of participant safety data by a Study Monitoring Committee (SMC), while Phase IIb and Phase III studies are subject to both SMC reviews and reviews conducted by an independent Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB) chartered by DAIDS/NIAID. The members of the DSMB are independent experts in a variety of fields — for example, biostatistics, medicine, clinical trial design and medical ethics – and they have no conflicts of interest in the outcomes of the studies they review.
More information about safety monitoring and reporting in MTN trials can be found in the MTN Manual of Operational Procedures, specifically in Section 13, Study Implementation; Section 15, Safety Considerations; and Section 16, Study Oversight.


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The Samsung Galaxy S4 was announced back on March 14th 2013, and was later released for sale globally on April 27th on all major operators. The Galaxy S4 was Samsung's vision and initiative to redefine the way we live and to maximize the fulfillment in our lives. The Galaxy S4 introduced such features as the dual camera feature allowing users to simultaneously use both front and rear facing cameras. It featured a 5-inch screen with 441 ppi for a viewing quality that was stunning and rich with color, and like virtually every Galaxy S device it featured 12 different shooting modes for taking shots in just about every imaginable situation. It also introduced the Air View feature, which allowed you to scroll through pages just by sensing your eye movement on a page.
When it comes to the specs, the Samsung Galaxy S4 features a 5-inch superAMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 1080 x 1920 resolution and 441 ppi, protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. Inside it's running Samsung's own Exynos 5 Octa 5410 CPU, made up of one quad-core Cortex-A15 clocked at 1.6GHz, and one quad-core Cortex-A7 clocked at 1.2GHz, with a PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU for graphics. It features 2GB of RAM, with options for 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB internal storage with expandable storage up to 64GB via the microSD card slot. It ran Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 out of the box but was eventually upgraded to Android 4.3, and later Android Kit Kat 4.4.2. It has a 13MP rear facing main camera, with a 2MP front facing secondary camera. It supports 2G, 3G, and 4G LTE networks, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, GPS, NFC, and comes with an IR sensor, and it's powered by a 2600 mAh battery.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 was a nice step up from the previous Samsung Galaxy S3. The camera was improved and the screen was bright and vivid, although this has been the case with every Galaxy S device from Samsung. It felt comfortable in the hand and had a good grip, and it felt pretty good performance wise. It was nice to see a 64GB storage option, which gave massive storage capabilities when paired with a 64GB microSD card. S Health was another really great feature to help its users stay active and better align with their fitness goals for a healthier life.

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You may have noticed that there was no activity on this site for several months. This was due to staffing challenges. However, the City of Ottawa has identified its re-commitment in the areas of cultural mapping, statistics, indicators, reporting, and research. So Ottawa XYZ is back!
After a highly successful first event in 2016, the Ottawa Immigrant Heritage Walking Tours are back for Welcoming Ottawa Week 2017. Route maps, site descriptions, images, and more will be posted here shortly.
August is Archaeology Month in Ottawa and Quebec. The City of Ottawa is once again taking part in this initiative, along with the National Capital Commission, Ville de Gatineau, and Algonquin Anishinabe Communities. Information will be posted here soon.
Updated information on the Poets’ Pathway, the Cumberland History Book, and other place-based initiatives.
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Conservation Organizations: Time to Align Financial Portfolio Goals with Their Conservation Mission?
"We chose divestment because it sends a public message that we demand a change in the way our fossil-fuel-dependent system operates."
The single greatest global environmental threat to all species is climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal” and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a coalition of the world’s experts on biodiversity, makes explicit the link between the warming climate and species extinction.
From ocean acidification that is destroying coral reefs and the species that depend on them to the melting sea ice that is disrupting ecosystems required for arctic species to survive, warming temperatures are already having disastrous effects across the globe, all due in large part to increased atmospheric CO2 levels.
The conservation community is well aware of the science and of the impacts of climate change on species that are occurring today. Zoos, aquariums and NGOs pride themselves on conserving species and working toward sustainability in their operations. Recently a movement for fossil fuel divestment has arisen as a way for businesses to speak volumes about the need for global action on climate change. And the time has come for conservation organizations to raise their voices and align their financial portfolios with their conservation missions.
The Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG), a Specialist Group of the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC) provides species conservation planning expertise to governments, specialist groups, zoos and aquariums, and other wildlife organizations, by using expert facilitation and the application of science-based planning tools. CBSG is dedicated to planning a future for wildlife but climate change stands to undermine these conservation efforts.
This led CBSG to create a movement with the express goal of seeing that “no government on the planet can ignore the danger of climate change and all must be actively working to realize ‘safe’ CO2 atmospheric concentration levels (i.e. <350ppm).” In partnership with 350.org, we established “Zoos & Aquariums for 350,” which calls on zoos and aquariums to pursue divestment of their institutions’ investments from fossil fuel companies.
We chose divestment because it sends a public message that we demand a change in the way our fossil-fuel-dependent system operates. It says that these organizations will participate in and support the hard work it will take to make that change happen. Though divestment is by nature a financial move, it is also a moral one: organizations committed to conservation can ensure that their money isn’t invested in any product that is causing climate change.
Our team at CBSG knew that if we were going to ask others to take this step, we would have to do it ourselves. Our move toward divestment would be purely symbolic if we were doing it alone. But we are not.
We added our voice to those of many other institutions making the same bold decision with the same message. The more people and organizations that join, the louder our message will be. This is the power of the movement and this is how change will happen.
However, aligning actions with mission is easy in theory but getting directors and boards to approve takes a bit more effort. With concern for fiduciary responsibility and the assumption that a portfolio with fossil fuels will perform better than one without them, the initial reaction is often a cry it can’t be done!
But CBSG has proven otherwise.
Last year, the financial board of CBSG’s nonprofit support organization, Global Conservation Network (GCN), voted to become one of the very first conservation organizations in the world to divest from fossil fuel companies. Now, just one year later, we are 70 percent divested from the 200 fossil fuel companies with the most proven carbon reserves, and well on our way to reaching the goal of full divestiture by the end of 2017.
To formulate a fossil fuel-free portfolio that the financial board would approve of, we partnered with portfolio management firm HIP Investor. HIP Investor designs portfolios that reduce knowable risks, seek enhanced returns, and pursue net positive benefit to society and the environment. HIP developed an investment strategy for CBSG within the Vanguard platform that projects similar returns to the previous portfolio, debunking the myth that you must take a financial hit to divest.
The GCN Board unanimously and enthusiastically approved the proposed divestment plan because it appropriately aligns our investment strategy with CBSG’s purpose of planning a future for wildlife, while remaining fiscally prudent. Approving the portfolio fulfills the Board’s fiduciary duty because it takes into account the risk of declines in the market value that will likely occur as fossil fuel consumption falls due to stricter national regulations in compliance with international agreements on emission limits.
We know what needs to be done but we have been paralyzed for too long by a lack of direction and leadership. We know asking people to recycle and drive hybrid cars is just not enough, but we have been repeating that mantra for so long its become difficult to admit it amounts to next to nothing in terms of addressing the crisis we are all facing.
But admit it, and put in its place a new and effective set of achievable, meaningful action, we must.
Divestment is our demand of an end to business as usual. It is one action added to a greater movement calling for change. Through this movement, we have the opportunity to address the global crisis of climate change; and the chance to tackle the source of the problem that, if left unaddressed, will continue to undermine all of our conservation efforts.
Onnie Byers is the Chair of the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group. She earned her Ph.D. in reproductive physiology from the University of Minnesota and completed a post doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo in Washington D.C. Onnie joined the IUCN SSC’s Conservation Breeding Specialist Group in 1991 as a Program Officer and was promoted to Executive Director in 2005, and appointed Chair in 2011. In addition to leading the organization, Onnie oversees its global climate change initiative and shares with CBSG’s Program Officers responsibility for design and facilitation of a wide range of Species Conservation Planning and other CBSG workshops.
Onnie was integral in the establishment of the Amphibian Ark and continues to serve on its executive committee. She also serves on the SSC Steering Committee, the International Species Information System (ISIS) Board, the Conservation and Sustainability Committee of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and the Board of the Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders (EWCL).

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In the last three decades, the Mission: Impossible franchise has become the most consistent action series, and that’s thanks mostly to Tom Cruise. With these six films, Cruise has cemented himself as one of the last true Hollywood stars. Cruise isn’t just content with making a great action franchise, he’s determined to make an everlasting piece of entertainment. Cruise never half-asses a single moment in this franchise, risking life and limb for the sake of keeping the audience in awe, the lengths of which haven’t been seen since the silent films stars like Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.
While this franchise has always maintained an almost serialized quality, under McQuarrie’s direction, Mission: Impossible – Fallout also feels like the culmination and payoff of the five films that came before it. McQuarrie – who also wrote Fallout – utilizes Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and M:I’s particular set of skills in a way that feels grounded in what we already know of Hunt, and taking advantage of details gleamed from the past films. For example, McQuarrie plays with the way the IMF gathered information from prisoners in Mission: Impossible, reintegrates Hunt’s ex-wife Julia (Michelle Monaghan) as a key part of Hunt’s story, and follows up on the newer characters and Syndicate story that were introduced in the last two films. Even Hunt’s penchant for rock climbing in M:I II serves a purpose here. McQuarrie mines these past five films in a way that doesn’t feel like he’s borrowing for his own film, but rather paying off the last 22 years of information we’ve gathered from this series.
As the first person to direct two films in this series, McQuarrie’s Fallout wastes no time continuing the threads he started in Rogue Nation. When we last saw Hunt and his IMF team, they had captured Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), the head of an anarchist terrorist group, which in Fallout have renamed themselves The Apostles. Their mission is to bring the world together through chaos, which they plan on doing by obtaining plutonium and setting off multiple nuclear attacks around the world.
In a mission gone wrong, Hunt decides to save the life of Luther (Ving Rhames), which allows The Apostles to get their hands on the plutonium. As IMF director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) puts it, Hunt’s desire to save the individual causes him to forget the larger stakes at hand. While Hunley sees this as what makes Hunt a unique hero, the CIA sees it differently. Agent Walker (Henry Cavill) has been placed with Hunt’s crew to make sure their mission to retrieve the plutonium goes as planned. CIA leader Erica Sloan (Angela Bassett) states that if Hunt is a scalpel when it comes to operations, Walker is a hammer. Hunt’s mission is to recapture the plutonium, make sure Walker doesn’t interrupt IMF’s way of doing things, and also make sure MI6 agent Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) doesn’t get in the way with her own mission.
Returning to the franchise, McQuarrie has certainly grown behind the camera. With Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, he almost seemed content to piggyback on what Brad Bird had already set up with Ghost Protocol. Yet in his second M:I, McQuarrie brings a blunt brutality that he achieved in Jack Reacher that makes this far more dangerous that any other film in the series, and as a writer, creates a stronger arc for Hunt than any previous M:I. Every action sequence has a sense of fear unlike this franchise has seen before, and McQuarrie’s intensity in these sequences creates an uncertainty as to the safety of these characters. The instantly meme-able bathroom fight involving Walker and Hunt makes the audience feel the painful impact of every punch and every time a body destroys another bathroom fixture.
In this sequence, McQuarrie shows Hunt’s weaknesses as well. He’s not as fast or strong as he once was. But in seeing where Hunt’s faults lie, we also see his strengths, the way he can act on his feet or think three steps ahead of his enemies. McQuarrie also knows how to find the strengths of all these characters and the actors portraying them to make them pop in a way they haven’t before. The aforementioned bathroom sequence proves Cavill is an action star in a way that DC has tried and failed for years. But everyone in the cast feels improved from how we’ve seen them before. Simon Pegg’s Benji is funnier, Luther’s bond with Ethan has more resonance, and Lane is far more dastardly than in the previous film. Everyone is at the top of their game – even if just a slight improvement from the past – and it shows.
McQuarrie leaves a sense of unease in every sequence of Fallout, whether it’s a tough decision that Hunt has to make on the fly, or a particularly tense action scene that seems, well, impossible. In Mission: Impossible’s past, Hunt has always worn the white hat, but in Fallout, Hunt often has to play in the gray for the first time. One of Fallout’s major through lines is asking whether or not Hunt is willing to sacrifice others for the greater good, and considering this series has always put Hunt in the path of the righteous, it can be a difficult line to watch Hunt play. This fear and dread is especially in play in Fallout’s final action sequence – the finest action set piece in a serious full of phenomenal action. The way McQuarrie builds tension onto existing tension is masterful and cements himself as one of the great action directors.
It’s no wonder that Cruise has liberally thrown in references to other great films throughout the M:I series. Hunt has been seen wearing Cary Grant’s North By Northwest, and Rogue Nation introduced Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa – named after Ingrid Bergman’s character in Casablanca – before the IMF team actually went to Casablanca. Even in Fallout, the entire second act seems structured as an elaborate homage to the France of Carol Reed’s The Third Man. It’s as if Cruise has been trying to make his own masterpiece, and paying homage to the greats that influenced M:I. With Fallout, Cruise and McQuarrie have made an action masterpiece, an instant classic in the genre that is nonstop exciting and staggering in its execution.


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We Can Pray with Confidence for God’s Justice.
Anxiety concerning the end times, the return of Christ, can cause us to lose heart (vv 1–3). This parable addresses a specific question and a specific concern about the end which came up in chapter 17 of Luke. The question, posed by some Pharisees in chapter 17 was: “When will the kingdom of God come?” (17:20). He answers them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed…the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.” All throughout the Old Testament God spoke of the coming of the kingdom. Well now, here it is, in the midst of you. It is not a kingdom you will see, with kings, rulers, armies, cities and states. But it is Jesus himself. When Jesus came on the scene, He announced, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom has come here.” (Mark 1:15). The coming of Jesus is the coming of the kingdom. The talk in the Old Testament about the coming of the kingdom is all about Christ and his coming.
Then Jesus pulls his disciples aside and shares this concern. His concern is that “you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it” (17:22). In your persecutions, in your afflictions you will face in your life here, you will cry out to see the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. What appears to be an unfulfilled desire for the end time coming of the kingdom of God is a cause of temptation to “lose heart.” Many will lose heart. “Signs” of the coming end continue: “wars and rumors of wars,” nation rising against nation, “famines and earthquakes” (Mt 24:6–7). We know about plenty of each of those! Today wars are taking place right on our streets; gang wars, hatred and violence between police and citizens, wars over who can and cannot use which restroom in school, and so forth.
In such traumas we continue to pray as taught, “Thy kingdom come”—yet, apparently, to no avail. We don’t see it with our eyes. We don’t see Jesus reigning in the world today, for he reigns in the hearts of the believers. What we see is injustice, even in our government and court rooms.
And that injustice as we wait for Christ to come and set all things right will further tempt us to cease praying and to lose heart. “Give me justice!” (v 3b). In the face of religious persecution, terrorists beheading Christians, government trying to limit the free speech of the church, and a society who tries to purge the name Jesus from the public square, it is easy to lose heart. Unbelievers scoff at what appear to be our ineffectual prayers, just as Elijah mocked unheard prayers to Baal: “Either [Baal] is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep” (1 Ki 18:27). Mockery may even give way to persecution. Jesus is clear about the world’s hatred of his children (Mt 10:22). He alludes to the possibility of suffering even in the verses immediately preceding the Gospel: “Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it” (17:33).
For us, too, despair is not an option. Jesus asks rhetorically, “Will not God give justice to his elect? . . . Will he delay long?” (v 7). And he gives his own clear answer: “I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily” (v 8). A precise answer to when the Lord will bring justice is not given—but the sure promise that he will leaves no doubt or despair. Repent.
The woman kept coming even without a promise—to an unrighteous judge. How much more, then, can we be confident in bringing our petitions to the righteous Judge who has promised to answer! And what a marvel it is, that though we are unrighteous, on account of the death of Jesus on the cross, he promises to give us righteousness.
Indeed, we are taught to pray and ask for precisely that which our Lord has already promised to deliver. We pray the Word of God back to him. We pray for the very things he has already promised to give. For example: We pray, Thy Kingdom Come. The very words he taught us to pray. So, “Praying back to him what he has said to us, we repeat what is most true and sure” (“Introduction” to Lutheran Worship). Luther described prayer as rubbing God’s promises into his ears. We can pray with confidence in God’s promised justice.
That is, when we understand that God’s promise of justice is the promise to justify us sinners. God’s sure promise is “he will give justice” (v 8). Thus, the widow’s petition is indeed our petition: “Give me justice” (v 3).
But if we are to pray confidently, we must understand God’s justice not in the way of the Law but in the way of the Gospel. (Rom 3:21–26). Contrary to popular philosophical and legal understandings, God’s justice is not “fairness” or “giving one what one deserves.” Thanks be to God! For what you deserve is nothing other than God’s wrath, his most severe punishment, and eternal death in hell. God is your number one enemy and threat. You don’t want what is fair. You better pray that you don’t get what is fair, for that would be the end of you. It would be your destruction.
Luther suffered great angst so long as he understood the justice of God in this manner. He writes that he hated God for being just and for threatening to punish us. That is, sinners deserve condemnation, so a just or fair God will give them what they deserve. But then, one-day in 1519, he was in the tower of the Augustinian monastery in Wittenberg, Germany, what later became the home of Martin and Katy Luther, and is today call the Luther Haus, and he was meditating on Romans 1:17 which says, the “righteous by faith shall live,” Luther rejoiced to discover that the “justice of God” is that by which he justifies us sinners—deems us just, righteous, on account of the person and work of Christ. That because of the death of Jesus on the cross, God now declares us righteous, and counts us righteous those who have faith in Jesus Christ.
The temptation to lose heart in these last days is the temptation to believe the legal maxim that “justice delayed is justice denied.” But in God’s case, in view of God’s justice, this is a pernicious lie. Though the appearance of God’s kingdom and his justice may seem delayed, “he will give justice.” Indeed, he already has. His justice, his righteousness, has already been imputed to you in Holy Baptism. And there, too, has his kingdom come: “When our heavenly Father gives us His Holy Spirit” (SC, Second Petition). Here, this morning, his kingdom comes to you as you participate in the Lord’s Supper, the feast of his kingdom, a foretaste of the feast to come. Do not lose heart, dear saints. Your prayer has been answered. The Righteous Judge has fulfilled, and will continue to fulfill, his promise. Amen.


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The time commitment became too much for Crist, who led the Wilson girls soccer team for 10 years.
FISHERSVILLE - As a two-sport coach these past couple of years, Scott Crist was seldom home.
Between practice and games in season, and camps and open gyms out of season, high school coaching is a huge time commitment.
Even when Crist was physically home, his brain was still wrapped up in coaching. While the rest of his family was discussing the day's activities at the dinner table, Crist had a million questions about his teams going through his mind.
When was he going to watch film? What teams did he need to scout? How was he going to make his team better?
"I hate to admit it, but even during the day as a teacher, I'm thinking about the things I shouldn't be during the day," Crist said. "I should have been thinking about other things other than the team I was coaching at the time."
Now, he'll be able to concentrate on those other things a little more. Crist confirmed Thursday morning that, after 10 years, he has stepped down as the head girls soccer coach at Wilson Memorial.
"In my gut it just felt like the right time," said Crist, who also stepped down earlier this year as the boys basketball coach following a two-year run.
"With the VHSL rules they have now, you can pretty much practice year round," he said. "You can do a lot of things nowadays that you couldn't do when I first started. It became more time consuming."
Crist couldn't even remember the last time he wasn't coaching. Before taking over the Wilson girls soccer program, he was involved in coaching travel soccer. He also spent time as a boys and girls basketball assistant.
"I'm in a little bit of a weird place right now because I don't have a team," Crist said. "I'm not coaching anything."
He thinks the soccer program is in a good place. The jayvee team was undefeated this spring and the varsity team reached the regional tournament before losing to powerhouse and eventual state champion George Mason.
That makes leaving the team a little easier. It also helped that Crist's youngest daughter, Madi, graduated from Wilson this year and will be headed off to college next year. As empty nesters, Crist and his wife, Penni, will be starting a new chapter in their lives. Coaching won't be part of that chapter.
Last year this time, Crist said he was leading his team in the summer league and getting ready for summer camp at Emory & Henry.
This summer, he's not having to think about any of that. Not that it's easy.
"I should be doing something right now," he said. "I should be putting together a practice plan. I should be putting together a training session. So it is a little different."
When he took the basketball job, Crist was excited, but, looking back, he's not quite sure he was prepared for the time commitment. But it seems to Crist that is becoming more and more the case for all sports.
"I don't think people understand the amount of time coaches are away from home," he said. "Riding that yellow school bus to Luray and Page and not getting home until 10:30, 11 o'clock at night. Practicing Saturday mornings. It just became, for me, too much of a time commitment."
Crist made it clear this was a decision made by his family and him, not the Wilson administration. In fact, when he submitted his resignation for the soccer job, Wilson athletic director Craig Flesher asked him to reconsider.
Crist is excited about what the future holds for him, but he knows he'll miss being around the players.
"I loved it," he said. "I really enjoyed it. I really, really did."


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He Ate Cake, 11 Year Old Son Dies In Fathers Arms, Doctors Didn’t Warn Them!
Sadly he died, a son, a brother, a friend and a teammate, now gone, everyone is wearing his favorite color, red, to honor him and remind others not to let it happen to them.
A student that achieved straight A’s across the board and from West Palm Beach, Florida, Oakley was a real top athlete even though he suffered from allergies and asthma. He adored football, soccer, tennis and was an avid marathon runner too!
He was on vacation with his family over the Thanksgiving period, in Maine. His family and relatives ordered a gift basket, it had ham and pound cake for dessert!
His mother tried a little cake and decided that, yes, it tasted nutty, like it had walnuts in the cake in some fachon.
At the time, he just had once hive on hos lip, nothing too concerning, but that was about to significantly change!
While he was getting ready for bed he noticed a tightness and pain in his chest, but he felt like his breathing was just fine. About fifteen minutes later he was violently vomiting!
The family had an emergency plan for his asthma, but there was no plan for his food allergy, if they only knew that his death could have been prevented.
They had been told by medical professionals that his nut allergy was mild and just needed to be treated with antihistamines, they had an EpiPen but had never been educated on the signs and symptoms of when to use it.
The emergency medics arrived they gave him two successive doses of epinephrine but it was too late, he was officially pronounced dead four days later in the hospital. It’s such a shame he died, with a little more knowledge the parents could have saved his life.
She says that they didn’t know that epinephrine was the only first-line drug for anaphylaxis. The family is quickly learning they aren’t the only ones that don’t knowthings like this.
The family founded the Red Sneaker Foundation to do their best to turn tragedy into something positive, also to help educate others as to these dangers.
People throughout their community are wearing red sneakers and hair ribbons to show their support for their friend and teammate Oakley Debbs.
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"I am a Hghlander"! "I fear no one but the Gods!" All I survey should trimble at my sight. A destructive force of war and protector of the weak. I am DRAEGON!
You can find books about these fonts in art stores, but if all you need is an alphabet to show your tattoo artist, I think you will find what you need on the web.
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Wait times for undocumented residents to be heard before immigration court judges are continuing to get longer, leaving those detained or out on bond unsure what the future holds.
In Hays County, one family is waiting to receive a call or letter for their hearing, a repetitive game of patience that has been practiced since February.
A data gathering and research organization at Syracuse University, found that the Immigration Court’s backlog of cases reached an all-time high of 717,067 in May.
Victor Alejandro Avendano-Ramirez, a Wimberley resident who was detained by Kyle police after a traffic stop violation in January, was released in February but has still not seen an immigration judge about his future residency status.
This situation is not just a reality for Avendano-Ramirez and his family, but for many immigrants in the United States awaiting a court hearing.
A new study by the Transaction Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data gathering and research organization at Syracuse University, found that the Immigration Court’s backlog of cases reached an all-time high of 717,067 in May. This despite measures by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to alleviate the influx of cases.
According to TRAC’s analysis, there are 26,168 pending cases in Texas alone. Over the past two or so years, the backlog has increased by almost a third with 171,656 more cases added.
On Friday, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) announced the investiture of 46 immigration court judges, including two assistant chief judges, marking for the second month in a row the largest class in the agency’s history, according to a statement by the DOJ.
Despite the efforts by the Attorney General, the backlog of hearings continues to plague families across the country.
Avendano-Ramirez said the situation has become more difficult as finding a lawyer willing to represent immigration hearings is hard to come by.
It’s a lot of work for lawyers and the process is very long, Nataly Avendano-Ramirez said. It’s worrying, she said.
Despite efforts to decrease the backlog of cases since 2016, extended action from President Donald Trump’s crack down on illegal immigration by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is adding the already high numbers of cases.
In 2017, Sessions announced a “streamlined hiring process” for immigration court judges, resulting in a 74 percent reduction in the time it takes to get them onboard, according to a statement by the DOJ. Since January 2017, 128 immigration court judges have been sworn in.
Locally, Nataly Avendano-Ramirez and her family are looking to politicians for help. Beto O’Rourke, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, has had close contact with Avendano and her family, using their story as a part of his platform to improve what he believes is a broken immigration system.
This article is part of a series of reports that will follow the current situation of recently detained persons by ICE.

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Abbey Petkar finds it strange just how quiet the security industry is on the subject of Brexit. Whether you voted to leave or remain, whether you believe in Theresa May’s exit strategy or feel that the Prime Minister is wasting valuable time, Brexit is undoubtedly the topic of the moment and will remain so for some time to come. Collectively, however, the security industry remains relatively mute on Brexit’s potential impact which could be significant.
It’s easy to shy away from the debate with the excuse: “We don’t know what’s happening or how it will impact us”. We can make some educated guesses, though, and particularly so around the challenges we could face as an industry.
Immigration issues, for example, were central to the leave campaign and could impact our industry in a number of ways. First, there’s the matter of our workforce, which is incredibly diverse. From Control Room operators through to security officers working on the ground, it would be hard to find an industry that better reflects the UK’s multicultural society. However, the Brexit process could well threaten much of that status quo as people are either compelled to leave or just as likely feel they don’t want to stay in a country where they’re made to feel unwelcome.
A poorly-managed Brexit will lead to a staffing crisis within the security business sector. I find this somewhat ironic as the immigration and border control challenges likely to be a legacy of the Brexit negotiations mean we will need more staff then ever before to support the police service, the border authority and, indeed, wider public sector activity at our ports and more.
The Government has apparently started planning for a worse case scenario no-deal Brexit. It’s impossible to predict all the potential ramifications. Despite scaremongering among the mainstream media, it’s unlikely the country will suddenly fall apart at midnight on 29 March 2019. However, there’s plenty of room and opportunities for challenges even in a negotiated deal – which is looking ever more unlikely.
Therefore, as security industry leaders, we need to be working together to consider the challenges ahead and how best to deal with them. We need to have plans in place now to support our workforce, our businesses and more.
Never before has the old adage “hope for the best but prepare for the worst” been so true. We must all be on board and think about where we go from here as an industry that faces some serious challenges.


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I hope you all had a fabulous weekend! Despite having a decent amount of classwork to catch up on, I still managed to enjoy spending time with my husband and, of course, taking in tasty eats.
Since moving to the East Coast from California, it’s been a major challenge to find truly good Mexican food here in the DC area. Though we’ve managed to discover a couple favorite haunts, including Arlington’s Guajillo, we also try to do what we can at home to keep our tastebuds from becoming too deprived between visits.
Luckily, my husband loves to cook and experiment with different recipes, so over the past few months I’ve been able to enjoy home-cooked versions of new and old favorites, including gazpacho, sopapillas, spicy black bean soup and mole chicken. And since mole chicken is one of our favorite go-to meals, Stephen decided to mix things up this weekend with a quick and easy pizza-inspired twist I absolutely loved.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Grill chicken and cut into bite-sized pieces. Spread mole sauce over pizza crust. Apply layer of cheese. Add grilled chicken and poblano or jalapeno toppings. Bake for around 10 minutes until cheese starts to brown. After allowing pizza to cool, slice and serve.
Though not necessarily authentic as far as Mexican food goes, it sure was tasty nevertheless, not to mention quick and easy! What new twists on a favorite recipe have you tried lately?
Very interesting pizza, I'm glad you enjoy it!
BTW, I LOVE Oaxaca cheese, when I lived in Mexico I used to buy the whole "ball" and eat it in one sitting, LOL!
This sounds amazing! What brand of mole sauce did you use? Or was it homemade?
That looks so good! I love eating unique pizzas.
My husband would LOVE this! Yum!
Wow that looks delightful! I am always looking for new fun recipes!
I just gave you the versatile blogger award. Check it out here: http://nalimon.blogspot.com/2011/09/hooray.html.
Oh my goodness. Come back to California so he can cook for me. My future hubby never cooks, though he can when he tries.
That looks good and you gotta love when the hubby experiments!
WOW! That. looks. ridiculous. I want that in my belly. NAO.
I LOVE mexican food, but I am SUCH a baby when it comes to spicy food and I'm not a jalpeno pepper fan. I guess growing up in Pennsylvania did not allow me to acquire or develop a taste for spicy food. My husband however, LOVE spicy food so he would love this recipe!
this looks and sounds really good! i heart mexican food and don't know what i'd do without it.
Mr. A loves to cook (thankfully), and he is always trying new recipes for us. I love it because I get tired of the same thing all the time.
This looks sooo good! I love trying different types of pizza. I also love mexican food, so bonus! I actually just posted a Chicken Buffalo pizza which was very good as well. You should try it out!
Ymmmmm! Definitely something to try!
YUM!!! My husband has made his own bagel pizza before, little bit of sauce, shredded cheese, pretty easy! But he makes a great pineapple stuffing...LOVE IT! Could eat it all day!
PS I hear...ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY!!! <3 Happy Birthday sweety! <3 I hope its an awesome day!
that sounds really good! i'm sooo going to have to try that sometime!


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The #New Normal celebrates a very un-normal #Thanksgiving this week. I know you have #turkey and cranberry cocktails calling your name, so I’ll try to keep this short. Happy Turkey Day!
The gang preps for Turkey Day, realizing they’ve had pretty shoddy past Thanksgivings. And we are treated with flashback scenes! Rocky recalls last year’s Turkey Day, a scene in which Nene Leaks plays Rocky and Rocky’s mom and dad. Rocky has long brown hair (not nearly as badass as her current bleach-blonde do) and she’s telling her #family about her new job as Bryan’s assistant. They scoff at the idea and say she’s not Hollywood material. Ah, nothing like having your dreams slashed by loved ones. Nene’s triple-role was a surprising choice by The New Normal directors, especially because she failed to make it funny. It also pushed the reality-boundaries a bit. I would’ve loved to see an aged Monique and Kevin Hart play mom and pop instead.
Goldie and Clint. When did this happen?
Bryan and David decide it’s time to make Thanksgiving about family, not just themselves, because a baby on the way means years of family-centric holidays. So the gang (AKA David, Bryan, Goldie, Shania and Rocky) plan a feast, even inviting Nana, Clay (Goldie’s ex-husband) and David’s estranged parents.
Bryan and Shania travel to Ojai (which must be the farm country of California) to hand-pick an all-natural turkey to roast. But the hillbilly farmer tells them it’s their job to slaughter the turkey. So the pair decides to buy the lot of four turkeys instead of choosing one to kill. They ultimately make it their first vegetarian Thanksgiving when Shania refuses to eat any of them because she sees the “spirit” in them.
The New Normal takes another rocky course off the realistic storyline path when the guys are stuck with caring for four turkeys, which Bryan sets up in the backyards with food bowls and newspaper. I mostly love this show for its genuine portrayal of Bryan and David as a loving gay couple, but it stretches itself too far with this overly quirky turkey-saving scenario.
Things get awkward quickly when David’s divorced parents begin rounds of sharp-tongued spats the moment they arrive. It gets even more awkward when David walks in on them participating in some pre-turkey foreplay. Oops. He swiftly kicks them out, and the family dinner is reduced by two.
Meet the new family pets: turkeys.
When Nana finds out the main dish is #tofurkey, she throws a hissy fit. Bryan finally stands up to the homophobic grandma and tells her to “shut your pumpkin pie hole!” Score 1 for Bryan, score -5 for Nana because she’s a Republican and gets kicked out of the dinner, too.
Pause for a second — Goldie and Clint (Rocky’s cutie brother) have been going out? Did I miss this, or did we intentionally not know until this episode? Regardless, the two have gone on two dates, but Goldie is all tight-lipped about it because Clay is around. Right, because the man who cheated on his ex-wife multiple times shouldn’t have to bear the emotional burden that she has moved on. Not sure if I understand the line of thought there. To make things worse, Nana and Rocky hate that the pair are dating, and I have no idea why. Nice girl + nice guy = nice pair, or no?
One thing leads to another, and Clay and Clint get into a mini-brawl over Goldie, who then kicks out Clay, making him the fourth person to leave this quickly shrinking dinner party. Clint decides he should leave too, because even though he didn’t start the fight, he was still in it. Way to be overly gallant, man. Stay and eat the tofurkey — no one left here hates you!
Not surprisingly, the final five dinnermates all hate the tofurkey, so they order pizza instead. After all that hooplah, we get a predictable ending, made more cliche by the final snippet scene. Goldie is left to care for the four turkeys when Shania goes to school, and she is just so flustered! For real, the family is going to keep four turkeys as pets? Come on, New Normal. Don’t lose me now.


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