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Contributing Authors to It's Not About You: Understanding Adoptee Search, Reunion & Open Adoption
Brooke Randolph, LMHC
I am thrilled to announce a project that has been in the works for a while. It's Not About You: Understanding Adoptee Search, Reunion, & Open Adoption is a book written for adoptive and birth parents and their therapists. After repetitive conversations with adoptees (and sometimes their parents) about reactions to their search and reunion, I knew we needed a book to share with adoptive and birth parents on the topic. I have been blessed with a wonderful group of contributing authors who have added their voices as adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and therapists. The group includes people I admire, people I have worked with, people I call friends, and some I am just getting to know. I look forward to sharing their writing with you, publishing this book with Entourage Publishing, in late 2016.
In no particular order other than how I arranged the photos
Christina Romo
Christina Romo was adopted from South Korea at age 2. She works for an adoption organization and shares her journey as an adoptee through her blog, Diary of a Not-So-Angry Asian Adoptee. Her writing has also been featured in The Huffington Post, The Good Men Project, and Blogher. She lives in Minnesota with her husband and their two sons.
Maris Blechner, LCSW
Maris Blechner is an educator, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and a nationally respected trainer and speaker who has spent the last 38 years working for the improvement of the lives of children and families in the child welfare system. She is also the parent of three children by birth and adoption. Maris relates proudly that she comes from the citizen-activist child-advocacy community, and brings that neighborhood and personal family experience to her professional work. She is one of the founders of Family Focus Adoption Services, and was its first Executive Director for twenty-six years. These days she enjoys mentoring for Children's Corps and teaching at the Silberman School of Society Work at Hunter College. This year she has been featured as a story-teller (about adoption) on the Moth Radio Hour, on NPR and podcasts.
Brooke Randolph, LMHC, is a therapist, wife, and parent (adoptive, step, one-time kinship, and even grand). She is also a private practice counselor in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was a founding member of MLJ Adoptions, Inc., where she served as the VP of Social Services for seven years. She is a Young Professionals Advisory Board member for The Villages, which is Indiana's largest not-for-profit child and family services agency, serving over 1,400 children and their families each day. She is the former mental health expert contributor at DietsInReview.com, a national diet and fitness column. Brooke adopted an older child internationally as a single woman, which she considers one of the most difficult and most rewarding things she has ever done. She is the author of The Bully Book: A Workbook for Kids Coping with Bullies (2016) and a contributing author to Adoption Therapy: Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues (2014). She has authored adoption education materials and presented at numerous conferences and workshops throughout North America. Brooke is primarily motivated to encourage, equip, and empower individuals and couples toward more whole-hearted living and conscious relationships.
April Dinwoodie
April Dinwoodie is a nationally recognized thought leader on adoption and foster care. As Chief Executive of the Donaldson Adoption Institute (DAI), April is committed to improving laws, policies and practices through sound research, education and advocacy. She is also a co-founder and Vice President of the Board of Fostering Change for Children, a progressive nonprofit that helps drive innovation in the child welfare system. Before joining DAI, April created a specialized mentoring program called "Adoptment," in which adults who were adopted and/or spent time in foster care serve as mentors to youth in care. As a trans-racially adopted person, April shares her experiences at workshops and conferences to help potential adoptive parents and professionals understand both the beauty and complexity of adopting children of different race.
Joshua Redfern, LCSW
Josh likes to say that he "eats, sleeps, and breathes adoption." Before he graduated with a Masters in Social Work in 2007, Josh found his passion for adoption while doing an internship for an adoption agency. At the same time, he and his wife were being led to adoption personally. He has since worked in domestic adoption (both in agency and in independent adoptions) and international adoption. He has provided domestic and international home studies for families all over the world. He is an active member of the Utah Adoption Council and is an advocate for ethical adoption and open adoption. He has a wonderful wife, Lindsey, who is an adoption advocate and writer. They have been blessed to adopt five children.
Barbara Freedgood, LCSW
Barbara is an LCSW, licensed certified social worker, in the state of New York. She is a graduate of Fordham University School of Social Work, the NYU Post-Doctoral Training in Marriage and Family Therapy and Joyce Maguire Pavao's Adoption Certification Training. She has been a therapist in private practice since 1980. She has written and presented internationally on infertility and adoption issues. She runs support groups for adoptive parents and is the mother of two children, who are now adults, she adopted at birth in the United States. Her blog, Ruminations on Adoption can be found on her website: www.barbarafreedgood.com
Kristin Berry
Kristin lives in Indianapolis with her husband and six youngest children. She has two grown daughters, two sons in law, and a granddaughter as well. She spends her days juggling a part time job as a Family Life Minister, blogging on confessionsofanadoptiveparent.com and cleaning up after three dogs and four chickens. She enjoys reading, writing, and hiking with her family.
Deesha Philyaw is a Pittsburgh-based freelance writer who writes about race, gender, parenting, and pop culture. Along with her ex-husband, she is the co-founder of co-parenting101.org and the co-author of Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Children Thrive in Two Households After Divorce. Her publication credits include The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Stepmom, Essence, Brevity, and Bitch magazines; and anthologies such as When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children's Classic and the Difference It Made; Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives; Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined; and The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family, and How We Learn to Eat.
Deesha is originally from Jacksonville, Florida. She graduated from Yale in 1993 with a BA in economics, and she also holds a MA in Teaching from Manhattanville College. She is a Fellow at the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction; was a finalist for the 2015 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction; and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for essay writing in 2015. Deesha has hit the mama trifecta: She is an adoptive mom, a biological mom, and a stepmom of four daughters.
Gayle Swift
An adoptive mother of two now-adult children and a former foster parent, Gayle H. Swift is also a certified coach and co-founder of GIFT (Growing Intentional Families Together). A fifty-year survivor of ovarian cancer, she believes in the joy of the present moment and the blessing of family relationships. In her travels with her family, Gayle has zip-lined in Costa Rica, paraglided in Peru, hiked to the Sun Gate above the citadel of Machu Picchu, and trekked the Mendinhall glacier in Alaska, but parenting proved to be the greatest adventure of her life. She writes two blogs: "Growing Intentional Families Together" (for GIFT Family Services) and "Writing to Connect," which she co-writes with her daughter, Casey. It features book reviews written through an adoption-attuned lens. Adoptive Families Magazine named their multi-award-winning book, ABC, Adoption & Me: A Multicultural Picture Book, a Favorite Read in 2013. Gayle lives in Florida with her husband and a quirky mini-schnauzer named Shadow.
Kerrie Siegl, LCSW
While obtaining her Bachelor's Degree in Child Development from Purdue University, Kerrie became passionate about the unique differences in people based on their life experiences, family history, and biological make-up. Kerrie graduated with a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from the Christian Theological Seminary of Indianapolis. Kerrie works in private practice seeing child, teens and adults with a variety of mental health and relational issues. She is driven to help individuals and families learn to develop healthy relationships and help people of all ages uncover their strengths and discover their own abilities to find healing. She is passionate about children who have been adopted and are trying to attach to their caregivers. She worked for Bethany Christian Services as an adoption therapist obtaining training in several attachment modalities, and then moved on to work in community mental health in the school systems with children in K-12. She has worked in a variety of mental health settings including home based services with foster care children, adoption services (home and school), school-based and home based services to low-income families in Central Indiana. Kerrie is married and has two young children. She is active in her local church and other community activities.
Lynn Grubb
Lynn Grubb is a Baby Scoop Era adoptee and adoptive parent. She graduated from Wright State University and is a certified paralegal. Although born and adopted in the Chicago, Illinois, area, Lynn and her adoptive family settled in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, where Lynn spent her childhood reading Nancy Drew mysteries, swimming, playing soccer and participating in the Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Lynn enjoys writing about the complexities of adoption and recently edited the adoption anthology, The Adoptee Survival Guide: Adoptees Share Their Wisdom and Tools. Lynn's other passions include genetic genealogy, reading non-fiction, watching true crime T.V., singing and playing the keyboard and violin. Lynn blogs at Lost Daughters and No Apologies for Being Me.
Annie Jacobs
Annie Jacobs is a midwesterner at heart who has lived in NYC for the past 11 years. She is a theatre professional who has educated herself on the complexities of adoption after relinquishing her only child in 2010. Since her son was born, she has spent her time cultivating a relationship with her son and his adoptive parents - a gay couple who also lived in NYC. She spends some of her spare time trying to educate others about what open adoption can be and what her experience as a birth parent has been.
Jodi Haywood
Taken at age two, Jodi grew up in a closed relative adoption and eventually reunited with both parents. Married with a teenage daughter and adult stepdaughter, Jodi has contributed to Adoption Therapy (Entourage, 2014), The Adoptee Survival Guide (2015) and Flip the Script (The AN-YA Project, 2015). Also a fiction writer and a proud member of the Marathon Maniacs running club, Jodi is working toward a bachelor's degree in psychology and qualifying for the Boston Marathon. She plans to continue her studies and work in post-adoption counseling, with a focus on neurological disorders.
Bari Benjamin, LCSW, BCD
Bari Benjamin is a former English teacher turned psychotherapist who practices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She lives with her husband and her nineteen year old adopted daughter originally from Moscow. She is also the stepmom to four adult children. She has published memoir essays in Adoption Today and StepMom magazines as well as several anthologies and Chicken Soup of the Soul books. She is currently working on a book of letters to her daughter.
Erik Deckers
Erik Deckers is a professional writer, book author, and owner of a content marketing agency. He is the co-author of Branding Yourself, and No Bullshit Social Media, and The Owned Media Doctrine. He is also a newspaper columnist and professional speaker. He and his wife Toni are the proud parents of three adopted children from Bolivia and Haiti, Maddie, Emma, and Ben.
Mary McBride
Mary McBride is an American turned Londoner, a wife to a tech geek husband, a mother of two Ethiopian daughters, a home educator, and a chocolate and doughnut enthusiast. She is passionate about adoptive parent education, adoptee rights, open adoption, and pursuing best case scenarios for children who have experienced trauma. She might not get things right the first time, but she will keep trying.
Kimberly Paglino
Kimberly Paglino is a New Jersey born and raised adopted person. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland, she went on to earn a Masters degree in Social Work from Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. Kimberly has past professional experience in the area of child welfare, including as a case worker for the New Jersey Department of Children and Families. She additionally has developed and presented educational seminars for pre and post adoptive parents at various adoption agencies and parent groups throughout New Jersey and in New York. She has prior served as an Instructor at Monmouth University, teaching in areas of Social Welfare Policy & Services and Human Rights and Social Justice.
Since 2007, Kimberly has been an advocate with the New Jersey Coalition for Adoption Reform and Education (NJ CARE) and has testified for adoptee's rights before the New Jersey State Legislature. She is proud to have been a part of the effort to have enacted the New Jersey Birthright Bill signed into law on May 27, 2014, by Governor Chris Christie, which allows New Jersey adopted persons to access their original birth certificates.
Deanna Binkofsky
I was raised in Richmond Heights Ohio by Joe (1933) & Aggie Pullella (1936-2008). My dad, a proud Italian from Little Italy, and my mom, a Syrian Queen (at least that's what she told us) loved shopping for antiques and cooking. My parents were always more than good to me. I was about seven years old when my mom came to me with a children's book explaining adoption, we read it together and she told me I was adopted. I still have that book.
My Dad worked as an Electrician, my Mom stayed home with me and my older brother, Joe (also adopted at birth, no not my "real" brother…I hate that question!). We had a fairy tale life, for the most part - spoiled rotten and loved and accepted by so many! I dropped out of high school my senior year, got my GED in 1996 and have been working at Progressive Insurance since 1999. My Husband and I married in 1998. We have four kids Alisandra, Gabrielle, Luke, and Joseph. We live Timberlake, Ohio, with our dogs Lola and Georgie.
Deanna Doss Shrodes
Deanna Shrodes is the Women's Ministries Director for the Pen-Florida District of the Assemblies of God. She is an ordained Assemblies of God minister and served for 28 years as co-pastor alongside her husband, Larry who is lead pastor of Celebration Church Tampa (AG). She is a speaker in demand in the United States and abroad, an accomplished musician, worship leader, songwriter and certified coach. Deanna is an award winning writer and contributing author of five highly acclaimed anthologies and sole author of the books, JUGGLE: Manage Your Time, Change Your Life; Worthy to Be Found; and RESTORED, all published by Entourage Publishing. She has been featured in many publications worldwide, including The Huffington Post.
Karen Belanger
Karen Belanger is an adult adoptee and the author of "Assembling Self" an adoption poetry book and writes at her blog of the same name. She has contributed at The Lost Daughters bloggers and is included in the "Lost Daughters Anthology" as well as "Adoption Therapy" books. She has a piece published in the book "The Adoptee Survival Guide" and is now working on her second book. She inherited her biological mother's love of dance, cooking from scratch, growing roses, and her great grandmother's musical talent. Karen is the mother of three grown children and in her spare time she also enjoys reading, working out, and helping other adoptees on their paths towards healing."
Wendy Barkett
Wendy was born in 1972 and raised in a closed adoption in Ohio. She began her search for truth at the age of 18 and found some of her answers 14 years later in 2004. She continues to write from the heart without any filters in hopes of bringing a better understanding to those who decide to join her journey. She is the author of Shadows of a Dark-Alley Adoptee and contributed to the adoption anthology, The Adoptee Survival Guide: Adoptees Share Their Wisdom and Tools. As the first adoptee to receive her OBC on March 20th, 2015, she continues to speak of her search as well as the feelings surrounding it with hopes that all states will open their records to adoptees.
Jeff Chafin
Jeff Chafin was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1966, but relocated to Georgia in 1985 during his senior year of high school. He attended Savannah College of Art and Design. He is currently a freelance graphic designer in the printing business. Growing up with an identical twin brother did not feel like a normal childhood, and they fought to establish their own identities. Jeff event tattooed his own finger in 6th grade to help people be able to tell them apart. He was 25 when his life took an unexpected change. He reluctantly signed adoption papers knowing that someone would be able to give his daughter more then he could. He married at age 34 and had no other children. He is very recently reunited with his daughter and navigating that new relationship.
Lucy Sheen
Made in Hong Kong and exported to the UK as a transracial adoptee. Lucy is a dyslexic actor, published writer, filmmaker, trainer and transracial adoptee advocate. She loves Dim sum and Yorkshire puddings.
Her first professional job was the female lead in the British feature film PING PONG (1987), the first ever UK feature to look at the history and issues of the British-Chinese community. Other films credits include: Secrets & Lies (1996), Something Good:The Mercury Factor (2013). Theatre credits include: Julius Caesar-Bristol Old Vic (1987); Drink the Mercury nominated for a TMA (first British East Asian actress to be so nominated in1990); Hungry Ghosts Tim Luscombe, nominated an OFFIE (Of West End) for best actress 2010. Plenty directed by the award Thea Sharrock (2011). TV credits include: Prime Suspect 2; Eastenders; Lovejoy and Nighty Night series 2. Radio credits include: Words On A Night Breeze, Bound Feet and Western Dress. Lucy's documentary Abandoned, Adopted, Here is now complete, she's finished a writing commission for the renowned Royal Court Theatre in central London, Restrain your grief and adapt to the mishap and is working on two new full-length plays. Her next performance is an extract from Ungrateful-A Paper Daughter on The Southbank
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Now the bad news. The car recently spun a bearing and needs a new short-block. The block is intact with no leaks. It does start but sounds like someone put marbles in a can. I've thought about keeping and repairing it but I currently don't have the resources to do it. So if you have a spare short block or mechanical skill this is a great opportunity to pick up an awesome car.
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Vedas, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Puranas and the Science [closed]
For someone who is born in India, some of the few mythological stories we watch on tv/hear from our grandparents are Ramayana, excerpts from Mahabharata or other Vedic stories of gods, the vedic way of life/afterlife etc etc... Well as a kid, I really liked them. But now, thinking about them, I feel all the stories make sense. There are proofs that the Ramayana and the Mahabharata really happened. I am not going to dwell on the proof's part.
putting this aside, we also have vedic science, vedic mathematics, vedic metric systems, vedic cosmology, astronomy, yugas, evolution, ayurveda(medicine) the list keeps going on. You name it, we have it way earlier than the rest of the world actually knew what it was. It looks like we(the Indian history) almost have a perfect and complex system for everything we need. But most of them wouldn't believe all this especially in the western world.
So everything is like a story perfectly laid out for people to read about their history and learn science in the process. But, I feel there's something missing for all of this to actually believe. So I guess my question is whats the missing part ? why did Indians just leave behind all the science and technology they had ? why isn't the knowledge of the Vedas carried to the modern India ?
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Jayaram
JayaramJayaram
There was a lot of war between the Vedic age and now, and all of the nations of the time fell and were replaced millennia ago. War and the fall of empires tends to cause a lot of knowledge to be lost and have to be recovered from ancient texts or rediscovered anew.
What is the question here? I'm confused.
– MCW ♦
Is there an inherent assumption that there was a lot of science and technology during the Vedic age? If so, what science and technology? References should be actually conforming to what modern science says. The references you have provided are pseudo science and linguistics. As regards astronomy, the wiki page is only a historical account without any of the science itself- so I can't tell if it conforms to today's astronomy views. Evolution- pseudo science and theology again- not science. And yes- what's the question again?
– Rajib
@Rajib: The earth is in spherical shape and revolving around sun. There are seven colors in sun light. The first surgery in the history. The study of blood circulation in human body. Study of atoms. Arithmetic progressions and geometric progressions. Travelling of sunlight. The definition of Gravity and many more...If this is theology and pseudo-science then what is the definition of science?
– AskingStory
This is my personal opinion, but in an age where not all people were literate and much of the available knowledge was unwritten, much of it could be easily lost. For example, the artisans and craftsmen of ancient India would not write about their knowledge anywhere. Instead, knowledge was transmitted from generation-to-generation using the spoken word. This meant that much of the information developed could be easily lost in case of upheavels such as invasions, etc.
AraniArani
If we forget about whats lost, whats wrong with the one's that been passed from generations ??
– Jayaram
+2 or more if I could. I'm a strong informationalist (if that's a word) about history myself, so citing the retention and transmission of knowledge as prime factor is always good for a +1 from me.
– T.E.D. ♦
Just my opinion but, the Ramayana, while a fascinating look into India's past and our ancestors concept of relationships between men and women, should not be taken as a literal means of living one's life. There are certainly noble concepts in the story pertaining to self-sacrifice and living to honor others, but realistically the idea of women being lowly subjugated partners to their husbands is deeply offensive. Sita is hardly better than a slave or farm animal.
Neat story, but just because it's old doesn't mean I should revere it as infallible.
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"Infallibility" is not the claim the OP is making- he says it really happened. Any "proof" of that must be some jingoistic nonsense from some faith group. The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are JUST stories- like you say.
As an Indian, I can say, people in India see Sita as their mother, and respect Her than any other women. Women in India want a man like SreenRama to be her husband. The moral values in these puranas and stories is the base of Indian culture. In a particular month, Ramayana is read in most of the Indian houses and explains it to children and family members. Those stories make Indian Child aware about the good and bad in the world. They learn to respect their elders like Rama did. And ultimately they learn to stand for moral values of their country.
@AskingStory- you do not speak for all Indians and certainly exhibit a deep bias. Your proclamations regarding India give us a bad name and paint us like bumbling idiots from the 18th century. Grow up and desist from passionate rhetoric and make-believe on History SE.
@Rajib: It's just my opinion about this answer which is based on pure misunderstanding of one of the greatest epics in our history. I can't really agree with this answer. "Sita is hardly better than slave or farm animal"??and you agreed that these are just stories. With all due respect, I just disagree sir.
"Sita is hardly better than a slave or farm animal." No this is merely your biased opinion. Can you cite any instance where she is hardly better than a slave or farm animal? In my opinion it is far more regressive that you are just told that you are going to carry a so-called son of god in your womb with least bit caring about the woman's opinion. And this is just one example.
– Rolen Koh
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Students enrolled in a class participating in ManyClasses 1 can choose whether they permit their coursework and grades to be analyzed by the researchers.1 The need to collect informed consent presents a challenge in real classrooms. While the researchers need to know who has agreed to participate (in order to include the right students), the instructor, in principle, should not know who has consented. If the instructor knows who has consented, it introduces the possibility of inappropriate coercion (the power differential between instructor and student should not be a factor in whether a student chooses to consent).
One solution would be to simply have the students complete the consent process in an environment that is not part of their normal class, like on the ManyClasses website. But this raises both technical and practical challenges. Students need to be matched to their consent responses in some robust fashion, and linking responses on a ManyClasses website to a particular student is challenging. Asking students to engage in the extra task of going to the ManyClasses website to provide informed consent is an additional burden on students that we would like to avoid if possible. Ideally, we would like students to be able to provide informed consent in the context of their normal course site. In ManyClasses 1, this means providing informed consent through the Canvas LMS. However, we cannot simply include a Canvas question with a yes or no response because the teacher would then see which students have consented to participate.
The challenge is: How to obtain informed consent in a course site, where the researchers can tell who consented, while preventing the instructor from knowing who consented?
We call our solution: Encrypted consent.
The idea is straightforward. Students respond to the consent question with a coded response. In our initial setup, the code is a 6-digit number. Students click a radio button to indicate if they do or do not consent, and the appropriate response code is then displayed. Students copy and paste the number into a textbox, and the number is submitted with their assignment. Each 6-digit number is linked to a response option in a database that the ManyClasses research team controls. Teachers can see the 6-digit number, but without access to the database have no way to identify whether a student has consented to participate. Importantly, each 6-digit number is presented only once as a possible response, so that no one can refresh the consent form repeatedly to make a list of the digits that correspond to a particular consent option.
Here's a recording of what the tool looks like in a Canvas quiz:
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Quick follow up from the previous post with this handy dandy link to phys.org that backs up my point. I'll humbly accept my position as Tiresias Chair of the Soothsaying Department at Lunar University once that's up and running.
Here's a fun thought: In a few hundred millennia some much younger spacefaring race happens across our planetary system, long after we've ascended past the bald-monkey phase and are flitting through the cosmos as eight dimensional angels on dark matter wings. They find the remains of asteroid and lunar colonies, and most of our stuff has rusted and rotted away, but what's left? Cave paintings.
Imagine intricate art carved and chiseled into the walls of caves on the Moon, on Ceres, and whatever other big rocks we make homes of. Think of the mystery we'd be leaving behind, as these future astronauts delve down and see strange, archaic, beautiful symbols and patterns etched in stone, and wonder who put them there.


War of the Rebellion: Serial 001 Page 0504 OPERATIONS IN TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO. Chapter VII.
troops, numbering over 1,000 men, under Colonel Ben McCulloch. On that morning I received a summons requiring me "to deliver up all military posts and public property held by or under your [my] control." It is herewith, marked No. 9. I immediately (with Major Nichols) proceeded to my office, and found the troops and public property surrounded by the Texans. After a conversation with the commissioners, in presence of all my staff and the officers of the post, it war agreed that the United States troops should march out of the city, taking with them their arms, clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and all the necessaries for a march out of Texas.
Brevet Major-General, U. S. Army, Commanding the Dept. of Texas.
Asst. Adjt. General, Headquarters of the Army, Washington, D. C.
No. 20. San Antonio, February 9, 1861.
A military commission, to consist of Major David H. Vinton, quartermaster, Major Sackfield Maclin, paymaster, and Captain Robert H. K. Whiteley, Ordnance Department, is hereby appointed to meet the commissioners on behalf of the Convention of the People of Texas - Messrs. Thos. J. Devine, Saml. A. Maverick, and P. N. Luckett - to the disposition of the public property upon the demand of the State of Texas.
The commission met at 4 o'clock p. m., February 9, 1861.
Present, Major D. H. Vinton, quartermaster; Major S. Maclin, paymaster; Captain R. H. K, Whiteley, Ordnance Department.
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South Dakota v. Wayfair: What Changes, and For Whom?
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South Dakota v. Wayfair, a landmark Supreme Court case decided earlier this year, changes the sales tax landscape for online retailers. The ruling also leaves state governments grappling with decisions about how to handle the change.
In Wayfair, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in overturning precedent set in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota and National Bellas Hess, Inc. v. Department of Revenue of Ill., which established a sales and use tax nexus rule, requiring a company to have a "physical presence" within the state in order for it to be liable for the collection and remission of sales and use taxes in that state. The Court subsequently interpreted "physical presence" to mean that the company needed to employ at least one person or occupy at least one building in the state.
The idea was that companies without a physical presence in a state probably weren't doing a significant amount of business there, and thus shouldn't be subjected to the rigor of complying with the state's sales tax system. Instead, the state needed to rely on the consumers themselves to pay a "use tax" on their out-of-state products—a system with an estimated four percent compliance rate among taxpayers.
The Court in Wayfair recognized that times have changed with the advent of online retail, which expanded by 16% last year. An online company can now very easily make sales in states where it doesn't have a physical presence. Companies like Wayfair, Inc. are very aware of the advantage this affords them over brick-and-mortar stores, and Wayfair even boasts on its website, "[O]ne of the best things about buying through Wayfair is that we do not have to charge sales tax." The Supreme Court also recognized that the Internet revolution has contributed to the revenue shortfall that states face.
Realizing that the correlation between physical presence within a state and conducting substantial business in that state has eroded as online selling has exploded onto the scene, the Supreme Court ruled that a physical presence need not be necessary in order for states to require companies to collect a sales tax.
No, Amazon isn't going to go bankrupt over this ruling. (In fact, Amazon's physical distribution centers mean that it already collects sales tax everywhere, although third-party sellers using Amazon as a platform don't have to.) Online retail is here to stay, but traditional brick-and-mortar sellers have won a small battle with Wayfair, which levels the sales tax playing field.
Online retailers will have to pony up the costs of compliance in states where they don't have a presence—a task that could be made easier by agreements like the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. Under the Agreement, more than 20 states have standardized their sales tax systems under uniform rules and definitions in order to ease compliance burdens for companies that are spread across states.
This landmark ruling also requires online retailers to consider their business models, customer and sales IT systems, financial reporting, and internal processes for calculating their tax obligations.
What does it mean for states?
While Wayfair does away with the physical presence requirement, it doesn't add a new requirement in its stead. Rather, it will be up to the states to decide what constitutes "sales tax nexus" for their purposes. The Court spoke favorably of South Dakota's proposal, which provides a safe harbor to companies who transact limited interstate business by only requiring companies to collect tax if they conduct more than $100,000 of business in the state, or conduct more than 200 separate transactions.
Other states, however, have other ideas: Massachusetts and Ohio have proposed that companies who offer mobile apps to residents or place cookies on residents' web browsers should collect tax—a modern interpretation of "physical presence." Alternatively, a "click through" nexus statute could require collection from companies who contract with residents to refer customers.
As states grapple with these regulatory decisions, one thing is certain: the estimated $8 to $33 billion in annual revenue that states have lost out on under Quill and Bellas Hess will soon be flowing into state coffers. This will mean different things to different states depending on how important sales taxes are to their revenue structures.
It's no surprise South Dakota was the one to air its grievances in front of the high court—it is one of the seven states with no personal income tax, so it certainly felt a pinch before Wayfair, as more than a quarter of its state revenue came from sales taxes. In addition, because so much of South Dakota is rural, its brick-and-mortar stores were already facing an uphill battle.
Other states with no personal income tax will see the most benefit from the change: South Dakota, Nevada, Washington, Texas, and Florida are five of the 12 states where sales tax accounts for more than a fifth of government revenue. Meanwhile, New Hampshire, Delaware, Montana, and Oregon, who don't collect regular sales taxes at all, will not see a change.


COULD YOU TALK ABOUT THE DRIVE FISHERY IN JAPAN?
I wasn't aware of this when I first started opposing captivity, when I first started on this job. It turns out that almost every false killer whale--there's about 20 or 30, in captivity in the United States and in North America. And every single one of those animals it turns out came from Japan and they came from the Japanese drive fisheries.
A drive fishery is where a large number of vessels go out, find a pod of whales or dolphins and circle them and with just sort of like herding them as if the boats were horses. They push them in towards shore, they drive them ahead of them, the animals continue to move towards shore until they beach. They're frightened, they're terrified, they're running and they go right up onto shore and beach themselves and then depending on what the purpose of this drive fishery is, whether it's to remove animals for public display or in fact to kill them, and that's more, more commonly the purpose.
Then the people get off the boats and do whatever they're going to do, if they're going to kill them. It's a horrible blood bath, it's an absolute slaughter, it's extremely difficult to kill a whale. And they have, especially in Japan, this is a cultural thing, to them. Whales and dolphins are fish, the word means fish, it's not a mammal at all to them, and it's not that they don't realize it's in a biological sense that they're mammals but to them they're just fish in the ocean. And they think of it that way, culturally. And so to kill them and to do all, it's we have commercial fisheries in the United States and they don't think about it in terms of animal welfare, we probably should but we don't. And so to add to that of course, they aren't fish, they are mammals. They do have large brains. They do experience extremely strong emotions and so it's just a terrible scene. I can't stand watching that footage any more. It's so horrible to watch them trying to kill these animals 'cause they're so difficult to kill.
But they will remove some animals and this started, probably in the 70's and 80's, to sell them to public display facilities. Whether they're in Asia or sometimes in the United States, as I said. Every false killer whale came from Japan, they came from these drive fisheries. It's the only way to capture them there.
WHAT WAS THE REACTION WHEN THESE DRIVE FISHERIES IN JAPAN WERE EXPOSED?
I wasn't until 1993 when basically the beans were spilled. There was some footage from Hardy Jones and there was basically a revelation to the National Fishery Services - which is our U.S. government body that regulates captures and public display at that time - hat these animals were being captured in a manner that was different from what the permit allowed.
It wasn't so much how it was a drive fishery. It was simply that it was different in what the permit allowed. And in fact it could be argued it wasn't humane and it was required that the capturement be humane. And there was a sort of minimal definition of what they meant by that and driving them into shore and beaching them and then slaughtering some of them and wasn't humane under that definition, so because it was suddenly exposed that this is how false killer whales were captured, 20, 25 animals that were here in the United States were captured that way.
The National Fisheries Service who frankly was turning a blind eye. They're not stupid and they're not blind and they did know in my opinion, what was going on. But they didn't aggressively investigate it. But when it was shoved into their face this way, the footage and all, they couldn't deny it any more, they basically shut down that avenue of acquiring animals from Japan. So now Japan in general is not considered a legal source of whales and dolphins for captivity in the United States because there's always the possibility that a drive fishery was used.
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO PEOPLE IN THE INDUSTRY WHO ARGUE WE'RE SAVING ANIMALS FROM THE DRIVE FISHERY. THEY WOULD BE SLAUGHTERED IF WE DIDN'T....?
When representatives from the public display industry claim that they're rescuing animals from the drive fishery I find that so unbelievably disingenuous of them, so self serving.
I don't think anybody who's properly wise to the ways of the world, I'm not talking about cynical really-- but you have to be savvy, to trade in wildlife, and if you're gonna be so deliberately naive as to say, 'oh we're gonna pay $20,000 for each animal, $5,000 for each, I don't know, thousands of dollars for each animal to rescue them' - Make the connection! That's an incentive to these guys to go out and make more animals to rescue. If you put cash value on an animal, that immediately provides an incentive for some human being out there to get more of them, however they're going to get them.
There's a similar situation where the native hunt for walrus, up in Alaska, provides orphans for public display facilities so they can have walrus in their facilities and, I understand, they pay for these orphans. So although it is considered bad management, bad conservation, to kill mothers with pups there must be an incentive for these guys to kill lactating females, the ones with the pups, so they can create an orphan that they can sell. Even though they know it's bad management, that they should be trying to kill males or juveniles or whatever.
As soon as you put cash value, a bounty, on the head of an animal, you've got some human being out there who's going to exploit it. And anybody who turns a blind eye to that, or pretends that that's not really the point, or the motive--they're either living under a rock, or they're being deliberately disingenuous.


New Historical Fiction by Bestselling, Award-Winning Author, Jana Petken, To Be Released March 30, 2016!
Swearing Allegiance will be available today in eBook and print formats at Amazon worldwide. It will also be available, free, on Kindle Unlimited.
Jana Petken joined the (British) Royal Navy at the age of seventeen. She was a leading Naval Policewoman, equivalent to a sergeant in the military police. After the Navy, she went to work for a travel company as an overseas representative and, during the first Gulf War, was a security guard at the BBC World Service radio station. After leaving the BBC, she spent twelve years as a bodyguard for a Saudi Princess.
Later, she found a new career as a cabin-crew member for British Airways, which allowed her to travel to every corner of the world.
Unfortunately, she had an accident on board a flight. The aircraft, a Boeing 747, was flying at 39,000 feet above Africa when it was caught in clear-air turbulence. As the plane dropped, Jana flew upward causing her head to hit the cabin's ceiling. As a result of this accident, she has had three major operations on her spinal cord.
Retired, she now resides in Spain and devotes full-time to writing.
The award-winning historical novel, The Guardian of Secrets was her first major work. That was followed by the bestselling Mercy Carver Series: Dark Shadows, Book 1, and Blood Moon, Book 2.
In July of 2015, she published an additional highly acclaimed novel – a historical thriller about the Spanish Inquisition – entitled, The Errant Flock.


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This week we had a little chat with Melissa from MakeMe who is based over in Cobham, Surrey. We thought it only fair to let you in on all the fun!
How did the idea of MakeMe start?
MakeMe started when Melissa decided that she wanted to go back to work doing something she loved but that (at the time she thought) wouldn't take her away from home too much. She was a solicitor (fraud litigator) working for a huge London firm when she first had her kids and the work life balance didn't go to plan! She knew her and her husband were in over their heads when they actually started interviewing nannies to work for them at night!!!
Deciding there was no point in having kids if they were never there, Melissa then discovered a creative side she never knew that she had by teaching herself how to draw, paint, crochet, knit etc. After their second child was born they moved out to Surrey and now that their children are older, she wanted to go on workshops to learn more but found that there weren't any or they were far away or booked up so far in advance it was ridiculous! She knew so many creative people with time on their hands, so she thought she could start a business providing workshops! Result.
Who makes up MakeMe London?
MakeMe is made up of Melissa and her husband (who does all the photography which is his hobby) and a team of specialist tutors who teach all the workshops that Melissa can't! These are a lovely group of talented ladies that either found Melissa or she found them through their work. All their bios are available to see on the About Us page of the website. http://www.makemeworkshops.com/about.html.
How do you decide which workshops to run?
By what people ask for or what potential tutors approach Melissa with (that she thinks would work). There are also practical and economic concerns of course!
How should our readers see you? Over to you…..
I think I just want people to see me as someone who decided they wanted to continue learning and being creative and actually did it.
I'd like people to know that I'm quite chuffed with how MakeMe has turned out although I never in a million years imagined that it would be so time consuming and stressful. Much more so than when I had to stand up in court!
I think it's because it's something I care a great deal about and it's more than a job – it's what I love to do.
I think that's something that can resonate with all of us, loving what we do. Everyone has their own Loves and not always are they craft related (I know, shocking hey!). But one of the great things in life is being able to do something you love with your life. It would be great to do that everyday hey!


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A.C. Fiorentina had its first season under Swedish coach Sven-Göran Eriksson, posting a stable mid-table season. Eriksson's compatriot Glenn Hysén arrived from UEFA Cup champions IFK Göteborg, the centre half becoming a crucial player for La Viola. Starlet Roberto Baggio finally got his breakthrough, scoring six league goals.

Squad

Goalkeepers
  Paolo Conti
  Marco Landucci
  Alessandro Misefori

Defenders
  Stefano Carobbi
  Renzo Contratto
  Glenn Hysén
  Ernesto Calisti
  Celeste Pin
  Andrea Rocchigiani

Midfielders
  Simone Sereni
  Sergio Battistini
  Roberto Bosco
  Nicola Berti
  Roberto Onorati
  Roberto Gelsi
  Alberto Di Chiara

Attackers
  Paolo Ciucchi
  Roberto Baggio
  Fabio Graccaneli
  Ramón Díaz
  Davide Pellegrini
  Stefano Rebonato

Competitions

Serie A

League table

Matches

Coppa Italia

First round

Results

Round of 16

Statistics

Topscorers
  Ramón Díaz 12 (1)
  Roberto Baggio 9 (4)
  Davide Pellegrini 4
  Alberto Di Chiara 4

References

ACF Fiorentina seasons
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BlueFinity International, a member of the Mpower1 Group of companies, provides a series of products offering superb programmer productivity along with feature rich, business application centric functionality to the MultiValue and Microsoft .NET developer communities. David Cooper, Chief Architect at BlueFinity International, will present at a series of MultiValue user groups across the USA.
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Learn how to pull MultiValue data into Microsoft SQL Server! BlueFinity's mv.SSIS allows MultiValue data to be consumed by Microsoft's SSIS data importation environment, which is included with SQL Server. SSIS is a platform for building enterprise-level data integration and data transformations solutions to allow data from diverse sources to be imported into SQL Server. It is a strategic Microsoft product with millions of dollars invested in development. See how to quickly and easily build an SSIS package to move MultiValue data into SQL Server.


Thursday, February 19 will be an Industry/ToK Night! All tickets will be at the Town of Kensington rate for that performance.
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home life, the tweens spell their way through a series of [potentially made-up] words hoping to never hear the soul crushing, pout inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves! At least the losers get a juice box.
Matt Baughman (Vice Principal Douglas Panch) is happy to return to Putnam as an adult, but even MORE excited to be making his debut at KAT. Recent shows include Gutenberg! The Musical! (Doug), Prog Metal Sweeney Todd (Fogg), Saving Private Pooh (Christopher Robinson – DC Fringe), Urinetown: The Musical (Old Man Strong/Hot Blades Harry), 33 Variations (Mike), Proof (Hal), Killer Joe (Chris), 39 Steps (Richard), Young Frankenstein (Igor), Evil Dead: The Musical (Scott) and Flowers for Algernon (Charlie – Best Actor WATCH Award). Special thanks to his family, friends, and his sweet "Pockets".
Nick Carter (Leaf Coneybear) is more than excited to be playing one of his dream roles, Leaf. Nick has a B.A. in theatre from Frostburg State University, where he focused on acting, directing, and stage management. He is currently working full for the AACPS Performing and Visual Arts Magnet High School as Production Manager, and Stage Management Mentor, while also choreographing Once Upon a Mattress at Old Mill HS. Recently, he was seen in 42nd Street and Spamalot at ASGT, and The Addams Family at KAT (where he received a WATCH nomination for his choreography). Thanks to his family and friends for their constant love and support.
Teresa Danskey (Rona Lisa Peretti) is johackled to be joining the Spelling Bee team for her first KAT production. She is a high school Spanish teacher and Latin dance coach in DC, and finds her flow in musical theater, snobby coffee, dried mangoes, and exploring new destinations by foot. Recent theater credits include The Wedding Singer (Holly) and The Most Happy Fella (Cleo) with TAP.
Emily Dey (Marcy Park) is happy to be back at KAT after having last performed in The Addams Family and as Wendla in Spring Awakening. DC: Keegan Theatre: Spring Awakening (Ensemble; Helen Hayes Nomination Best Ensemble); Signature: The Break (Katie/Female Ensemble), Giant (U/S Lil Luz); Regional: Northern Lights Playhouse; Education: Catholic University, BM, Musical Theatre. She would like to thank the cast, crew, and production staff for such a fun experience, and her family and friends for being awesome (especially her Mom for passing on her love of musicals).
Dylan Echter (Chip Tolentino) is thrilled to be performing on the KAT stage again after appearing in Les Miserables last spring. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, where he studied music and sang with the Gentlemen of the College and Botetourt Chamber Singers. Other past credits include The Gondoliers (Marco), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Bun Foo), Armed Robbery for Dummies (Frank), and Arsenic and Old Lace (Teddy). He'd like to thank his family and friends for their unwavering support, and Bobby, Sam and the production team for giving him this opportunity.
Sarah King (Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre) is very excited to make her KAT debut! She could most recently be seen in InterAct Story Theatre's production of Not My Monkey, or American University's production of The Alchemist as Dol Common (Irene Ryan Nomination). Some of her other favorite credits include The Rocky Horror Show as Magenta, Talking With... as French Fries (Irene Ryan Nomination), and [title of show] as Susan. She would like to send love and thanks to her family, Ryan, the Burke family, and her roommates for their endless support and love.
Emma Lord (Olive) is a semi-recent UVA grad who was last seen as Eponine in Les Miserables (RCP) and Wendla in Spring Awakening (UVA Drama). She frequently overshares writing on Bustle.com during daylight hours. She hopes you laugh as hard at her fellow cast members as she has so that you can also be in unexpected amounts of physical pain.
Carl Williams (Mitch Mahoney) is excited to get a chance to once again play the role of Mitch – this time at KAT. Some of his past credits include Seaweed (Hairspray), Collins (Rent), Matt (The Fantasticks) and Audrey 2 (Little Shop of Horrors). He will also be playing Papa Ge in the upcoming Creative Cauldron production of Once on This Island. He would like to thank his parents and Oscar for their never ending support.


Northern Nevada Math Club – Sage International, Inc.
Every year I am invited to participate as a judge (certainly not as a competitor!) in several Math-OFF events held by the Northern Nevada Math Club. It's super fun because adults who we refer to as our brave community members are pitted against these really smart, gifted kids (7th-12th grade students) in a jeopardy like competition. It's certainly a compelling way for kids to understand that math matters by showing them that our local communities (individuals and businesses) value math enough to make a contribution. This is the foundation of The Stop Talking – Start Showing Campaign.
Many students start their school careers liking math. The trick is in supporting and developing that "like" of math into a passion and helping them find their 'place" in the STEM community. I can speak from personal experience that I had horrible math teachers and they really turned me off from pursuing the subject matter. The flip side, I had wonderful Elementary School Teachers who exemplified a love of learning and then in high school, English and History instructors who fostered so many thoughts and truly expanded my horizons. I digress. The United States has become a global leader, in large part, through the genius and hard work of its scientists, engineers and innovators. Yet today, that position is threatened as comparatively few American students pursue expertise in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)—and by an inadequate pipeline of teachers skilled in those subjects. That has to change! Bottom line, if you go down deep enough into anything you will find mathematics.
First, they teach students to realize their strengths and appreciate the strengths of their teammates. Second, they expose these students to new areas of math, new concepts, and new STEM fields. And third, it encourages these students to push themselves to learn more and learn faster. All of this translates into the fact that many studies have shown that top STEM graduate school students noted early participation in math competitions as encouraging their interests in STEM. STEM jobs which have lower unemployment rates and higher wages are growing at a rate of 1.7 times the rate of non-STEM jobs. The future of America will depend on a workforce that can solve complex problems (robotics, bio-tech, drone technology, etc.) which means they are trained in analytical and critical thinking techniques – skills that businesses need.


Sometimes though, I think we make it lonelier than it should be because we aren't obeying God's Word. Clear as mud? When I moved to Ohio and switched churches, it was kind of lonely. I'm by myself out here in a church where basically everyone else is related to someone else in the church. No kidding. And to be clear, I'm a faithful church-goer. Sundays and Wednesdays and small group. So what was missing? It hit me this week.
It seems to me that the trend in church talk is all about "connection" and being "plugged-in" but there's a lot of people that certainly don't feel plugged-in. Churches want to make sure you are at service and in a small group. But not as much is said about serving. And I really think that is the key. THAT is how you get to know your church on a deep level. Maybe it's not always fun but it's worth it in so many ways!
Let me give you an example: I'm on the Outreach Committee at my church. It's something I'm passionate about. If you've heard me talk about it recently though, you probably heard some complaining out of me. Why? We had a big event that we planned for last weekend. And we planned it in a very short amount of time so it took a lot of communication, most of which happens over text. I don't have service at work so all of my texts come in as I drive home. Text after text after text. My record JUST FROM THE COMMITTEE is 49. It was a little bit overwhelming. Whine, Whine, Whine.
So the event came and it went really well, if I do say so myself! But looking back, do you want to know what the biggest blessing was? All that dang communication beforehand! I literally cannot believe I just said that! But seriously, THAT'S where I got to see the hearts of the people I was serving with, where I learned to love them more, and where our unity grew. And out of that grew a deeper love for the body of Christ and our Lord himself.
What a beautiful thing! What a blessing serving your church really is. So I would encourage you that if you are feeling a little lonely at church, yes, make sure you are going to service and small group. But also, SERVE.
You don't want to miss out on it.
Disclaimer: Everything you are about to read is going to be highly biased. I'm not kidding myself- I know that very well. I know that I'm basing all of this on my own experiences and on the experiences of others in my church. Your experience may be totally and completely different. Feel free to dump my opinion in the garbage if you don't think it's true. 🙂 Also there has been such a long break between posts because of how much thinking and praying went into this post.
My family would probably call me a sneaky or snoopy person. I prefer the word observant. Ever since I was a kid, I've had the ability to somehow…um…gain information that no one else had. For instance, Mom and Dad would be planning a secret family vacation and somehow, I would be the only kid who would knew where we were going. Accused often of eavesdropping (probably true), I like to think that I just happened to overhear things that no one else did. On top of that, I love to people watch. Sit me in a coffee shop and I'm a creeper- extraordinaire. I watch what people do, but more than that, I watch their facial and body expressions. Yup, creepy, right?
Singles are not scary human beings. This may seem like an odd thing to say but I have a reason. I think it's pretty "stereotypical" for singles to complain about being left out of things at church. I also think that hospitality is one of the least taught on commands in Scripture. Let me say this: It is VERY rare for a single person to get an invitation to a family's house for dinner. I think people feel awkward inviting just one person over. But several times I have seen it happen that as soon as there's a couple, it's easier for others to invite them. But the Bible commands hospitality to all, even strangers. Not just those you are comfortable with.
Singles LOVE kids! This is along the lines of the last one. Most of the singles I know in my church love to be around kids. I asked for advice when writing this post and my best friend said that even to be invited over to a family's house with the parent's still there (AKA, not always to babysit) and just to hang out with the family. She mentioned reading stories to the kids and playing with them. Just being a part of the family.
We are busy people too. This one might get a lot of "but, but, buts" coming from people. I'm saying it with a grain of salt so take it that way. Listen, we ALL have the same 24 hours in our day and we ALL choose what to do with those hours. After work, singles can choose whether they will stay home and watch Netflix, just like parents can choose how many sports their kids will participate in. Sometimes there is an assumption that if you are single, then you MUST have an abundance of extra time on your hands and you absolutely must be using that to serve or you don't love Jesus. Now there is some truth that we don't have a family and kids to take care of but there are singles I know that are some of the busiest people and it IS with serving! Yet they are always expected to do more because they are single.
Singles are adults. I hear a lot of unhelpful/untrue statements from married people. Things like, "It's such a shame that some guy hasn't snatched you up yet" or "You're going to make a wonderful wife" or "God has the right guy out there for you." These statements give us the idea that singleness is just a transition state and actually lend towards discontentment. Also, you do not know whether a person will get married or not. It's not up to you! Please leave the matchmaking to God and treat singles as full adults, instead of something hanging in between teens and married adults.
Singles know we don't know everything. After reading this post, you may be thinking, "You sure don't!" Haha that's ok. I know it. I'm thinking of one area in particular. A lot of times when you hear singles talk about marriage, if a married person is around, you will almost surely hear them pipe up, "Hey! It's not all it's cracked up to be!" Or something along those lines. First off, thank you for making God's covenant design look soooo appealing. -_- Secondly, we aren't 12 anymore. We have real expectations of marriage. We don't expect Disney marriages. We know that marriages happen between two sinners and there are bad days, months, even years. We know that there are dishes to do, toilets to clean, bills to pay. And that's not even adding kids into it! We know that getting married is complicated. But think back to when you were single…did you desire to be married then? Please realize that YOU are our example of Christ's union with the church and we need good examples. They are few and far between. Actually, my best friend and I tried to think of some really good marriages (knowing that it's only what we see from the outside) that we would look at and say, "Yeah, I would want my marriage to look like that." We thought for a looonngg time and barely came up with two out of all the couples we knew. Please remember that none of us know everything and we can all learn from each other.
If you made it this far, congrats and thank you. I've been thinking about this for a long time as I watch the singles I know and I observe my own heart. By God's grace, I'm praying we all grow closer to each other as we get closer to Christ. Feel free to comment below with any thoughts you have.


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Morale crisis hits CSIRO as staff, funding cuts bite
February 14, 2003 — 11.00am
Morale at the nation's premier science organisation was at an all-time low, with more than 600 jobs cut in three years and retrenchments set to continue, a Senate committee was told yesterday.
The head of the CSIRO, Geoff Garrett, conceded another 63 positions had been axed in the last seven months, and that number could jump to 150 by the end of the financial year.
While up to 12 scientists in just one division could be made redundant within months and 40 redeployed, two new business development managers would be employed on six-figure salaries, Dr Garrett said.
The Senate's employment, workplace relations and education legislation committee was also told that a leaked internal survey showed only 47 per cent of CSIRO staff had faith in "organisational leadership and direction" and that 48 per cent believed their jobs were not secure.
The survey found 55 per cent felt organisational change had not improved the CSIRO and 51 per cent questioned the ability of senior personnel.
The CSIRO has been subject to a radical shake-up under the Howard Government, with the organisation forced to cut costs and raise funds externally.
Labor's science and research spokesman, Kim Carr, said about one in nine jobs had gone at the same time as the CSIRO was being called upon to work on important security projects.
"CSIRO does significant work on biological security, imaging systems for surveillance purposes and plastic landmine detection," Senator Carr told the Herald.
"There have already been discussions between the CSIRO and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation. This is important work, but it should not come at the expense of other research that is done for the public good."
Quoting from a leaked document, Senator Carr said the CSIRO appeared to have few allies in cabinet. The document, on the views of Coalition MPs about the research organisation, was prepared in late 2000 by the Allen Consulting Group.
"There is something of a trust deficit amongst the politicians. This may have its origins from periods in opposition when they have seen elements of the CSIRO seeking to use the Senate in particular to manipulate issues and outcomes," the document, Canberra Stakeholder Consultations, concluded.
"There is something of a perception that the CSIRO organisation is resistant to change and had done the minimum necessary in order to meet the 30 per cent external earnings target."
It said there was "a hint that if the CSIRO were to present the Government with a clearly defined and proactive strategy which strikes a balance between its public good and market-related activities ... that the Government, as part of a broader deal, would consider removing the external earnings target".
The Government's Senate spokesman on science and education, Richard Alston, denied any antipathy. If there were any criticisms, they emanated from his concern that the organisation move with the times.
"But that doesn't mean I'm hostile to the CSIRO," he said. "I probably would have been if they hadn't changed."


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As he said, he trusted his instinct, but only he knows now how well that worked out for him this time.


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Holly Club of Joliet
Serving Will County, Illinois
Our Philanthropy
Rakoski Tonkin Volunteerism Scholarship
Barrett/Medvesky Nursing Scholarships
The oldest item in Holly Club's five-album archive is this handwritten invitation to a skills-building party that three of the charter members held a few months before founding the club. Before taking in clothes from community members to raise money for the needy, these teenagers practiced their sewing on dolls' clothes. The invitation is dated June 20, 1889..
The affluence of the United States at the end of the 19th century did not reach everyone in Joliet. In the summer of 1889, the plight of the less fortunate in their rapidly growing community was a concern to a group of teenage girls gathered at a friend's house on Eastern Avenue in Joliet.
They knew preparations for Christmas weren't far off. They also knew that, year after year, Santa wasn't getting to every child and every sick person. To help the people Santa was missing, they brainstormed to find a fundraising project they could manage on their own. Taking in clothes that needed mending could bring them money to buy food, toys and medicines. But not all the girls knew how to sew. So they sent their circle of friends formal invitations to make doll clothes, on which they could hone their sewing skills.
Sisters Eda May Müller and Frieda Bess Müller took lead roles as charter members of Holly Club. Eda was the second Holly Club president; Frieda was the 10th Holly Club president. Along with Rue Winterbotham, the Müller sisters were part of the original Dolls' Dressmaking Establishment, where Holly Club's founding teens honed their mending skills.
The oldest item in Holly Club's five-album archive is a handwritten invitation to a project called the Dolls' Dressmaking Establishment. The date of this event was July 10, 1889. The invitation was sent by two sisters, Eda May Müller and Frieda Bess Müller, and their friend Luritia "Rue" Winterbotham. By September 1889, these three teenagers and five of their friends (Gertrude Akin, Julia Cullom, Elsie Elwood, and another pair of sisters, Alice Knowlton and Edith Knowlton) were confident enough to start taking orders from community members.
Luritia "Rue" Winterbotham Carpenter, who grew up to become a pillar of Chicago's arts community, was one of Holly Club of Joliet's founders – and the organization's first president. She was 13 at the time.
Under the guidance of Rue's mother, Genevieve Winterbotham, the eight teenagers involved in the sewing project founded the holiday-focused charitable organization they called the Young Maidens' Christmas Association. Rue Winterbotham, who later moved to Chicago, where she became renowned in the arts community – Rue Winterbotham Carpenter co-founded the Arts Club of Chicago. But at age 13, she was elected Holly Club's first president.
On their own, these teenagers raised enough money in 1889 to deliver holiday gift baskets to neighbors in need and to patients at St. Joseph Hospital. As their work at Christmastime gained recognition, the girls' brothers began teasing them about the name they had chosen for their service group. Was it the Young Maidens' Christmas Association, or the Young Monkeys Climbing Association? Their parents pointed out possible confusion with the already established YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association). The teenagers found another way to say Christmas. They chose "Holly Club."
Holiday food baskets and beyond – more than a century of charity
Over the decades, members of Holly Club have broadened the organization's focus from Christmas food baskets to a wide range of local charitable needs:
Rallying community interest in the benefits of public health nursing.
Supporting Silver Cross Hospital in its expansion and development.
Writing letters and folding bandages for casualties in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War.
Giving emotional support to the elderly.
Starting the first school lunch program for Joliet's most needy children in the years before governmental bodies accepted this responsibility.
Sensing first responders' need for trauma counseling in the wake of the 1990 tornadoes in Crest Hill and Plainfield, launching a psychosocial services program later expanded to serve family members of rape victims.
Providing winter coats, hats and mittens to Joliet School District 86 children in need.
Recognizing the importance of education by presenting nursing and volunteerism scholarships.
In addition to these projects, Holly Club has an ongoing involvement with local charities bringing direct assistance to our community residents.
The economic growth of Will County since 1889 has been a magnet attracting people to Joliet from all over the region and all over then world: People looking for the American dream. This expanding and divergent population presents increasingly more complex problems.
Holly Club answers calls for help by growing numbers of people who are not poor enough to qualify for government aid, yet whose limited income makes providing basic necessities for their family a real and continuing challenge.
Holly Club charities have benefited from the Winterbotham Fund, established as a gift in memory of Rue Winterbotham Carpenter, the club's first president, and the Lambrecht Fund, established with a generous gift from member, Patricia Kassis Lambrecht and her husband, Thomas. The club has also been fortunate in the sustained contributions of its loyal patronesses. Their generosity in supporting the annual Holly Club Ball, and the philanthropy of individuals and corporations have ensured that Holly Club is able to meet these growing calls for help.
Our axiom that the quality of life in a community depends upon the health and welfare of the whole is as true today as it was in 1889. Holly Club members continue to act on the belief that the greatest gift is charity.
The commitment that Holly Club members bring to addressing Joliet's needs has made headlines since the 1890's. Here are a few prominent examples.
Joliet Daily News
This article includes a poem, written by our founders, about Holly Club's origins. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Joliet Herald-News
Click on the image to enlarge the article about the celebration that marked Holly Club's 130 years of service to the community.
Click on the image to read about how Holly Club's annual summer Lawn Party supports Joliet-area nonprofits.
Help us continue this legacy
We are always accepting new members. If you would like to join Holly Club of Joliet, find details about membership by clicking the Join Us button.
hollyclubofjoliet@gmail.com
Copyright © 2022 Holly Club of Joliet


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Is This the World's Silliest Podcast?
Today we present an exclusive five-minutes of audio weirdness from John Dredge, coming to you not live from somewhere.
Where else can you find Frank Sinatra, a Dalek, and the new K-Tel Answerometer? Paignton, maybe, but also in this brand new easy-to-fold podcast! Listen today, listening fans!
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THE JOHN DREDGE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING SHOW – SERIES 1, PROG 6
April 9, 2013 | Howard Gorman
This week sees the final epsiode of the first series of John Dredge's Nothing To Do With Anything Show. Today's indie comedy special includes the brand new single by Fractious Nit and a chat with pop twinnock Rex Twix.
The music mayhem continues with Madonna and Morrissey (shown above wearing masks of each other in a jolly little jape) arguing in the kitchen, and there's another mention of New Malden and the odd uncanny reference to….. steam engines.
Not only that but John is still on the look out for people to take part in the Get in the Sideboard with a Crazed Lion feature, so do get in touch. Read More
Today's John Dredge show features an exclusive interview which we can't really reveal as we've forgotten who it was with.
Celebrated non-Frinton-based actress Anna Emerson will also be putting in a word or two, and this's weeks special guest star Reg Chimpolomew will be doing very little at all really.
If that wasn't enough we'll be relating the the ongoing adventures of Basil the Cylinder, the answers to last week's holdall-based quiz, and a whole host of absolutely amazing things which have also completely slipped our minds. Read More
JOHN DREDGE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING SHOW – SERIES 1, PROG 4
March 26, 2013 | Howard Gorman
This week provides not only the sounds of a combine harvester but also a specially-built giant catapult.
The guests on the show include acclaimed actors Greg Haiste and Anna Worthington, and the less acclaimed Crazy Eric and Leonard Aircraft.
If that wasn't enough there also extensive information about shoe shop logistics, and a special feature on the topic of bark.
Plus: will the gasman get round to reading the meter in time?
As a special gift this week, the show provides a free hat stand for all your hat standing needs. How lucky you are. Read More
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James Acaster's Findings – BBC Radio 4 Comedy Show About…BREAD
Stand-up comedian James Acaster has come up quite the unique format for a brand new radio comedy show which will delve into the subject of 'bread', and we're not talking the money kind. The show takes to the airwaves on BBC Radio 4 next Tuesday at 23:00 when James will be accompanied by his trusty sidekick Nathaniel Metcalfe. Read More
Bridget Christie Minds The Gap Debuts Tonight on BBC Radio 4
March 7, 2013 | Howard Gorman
Bridget Christie Minds the Gap is an all new Radio 4 series starting tonight at 11 pm dissecting the current state of British feminism.
When asked her expections of the show Christie said "I like to imagine that couples will listen to it in bed and then split up over something I've said. Not really. I hope I bring people together, if anything…" Read More
Jeremy Hardy: I'm a Professional Misery Guts
September 28, 2012 | Howard Gorman 1
Jeremy Hardy speaks to the nation at a theatre near you very soon. That's right, one of Britain's most popular comedians is hitting the road, and will be appearing imminently at your local comedy venue. He is performing a new show, and it promises to be an absolute treat.
One of our most compelling and respected comics, Jeremy has a huge and loyal following thanks to his superb work as the presenter of Radio 4's Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation and a regular guest on The News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. But he is also a brilliant stand-up comedian.
To prove the point, he has won the coveted Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival and mounted numerous sell-out tours of the UK and Ireland. Subversive and satirical, Jeremy is not afraid to stir politics into his topical stand-up routines. But above all, he is just killingly funny.
Don't just take my word for it, though. The critics have been queuing up to lavish praise on this wonderfully accomplished comic. The Guardian has said he is, "One of the sharpest comedians on the circuit." and The Financial Times said "One minute lewd, the next blimpish, the next acerbic, he is always one step wide of insult and one ahead of expectation." The Strabane Chronicle describes him simply as, "Britain's own Michael Moore".
Jeremy and I are chatting in the run-up to the tour. He makes for enormously engaging company. He is a rare example of a comedian who is just as entertaining offstage as on it.
The comic, who has also wowed audiences at the Montréal Comedy Festival, begins by underlining how much he relishes live performance. "I love being on the road. It's how I started, it's where I come from. I really enjoy the sense that it's all happening there and then.
"I love that feeling of immediacy and the fact that nothing is cut out. When you listen to a radio programme that has been edited down from a live recording, it's always been commodified and turned into something else. But on stage it's all there, and it is only happening that night."
Breaking into a smile, Jeremy continues that, "Mark Steel, bless him, performs a different show every night, which is perhaps a little unwise in terms of conserving energy. My show changes over time, but from one night to the next the material is very similar. Having said that, I might talk about it if I'm freezing cold or tired. Sometimes reviewers come along and mention my 'rat in the dressing room' routine, and I think, 'I don't always talk about a rat in the dressing room – only in Monmouth!'"
The other aspect of live performance that Jeremy enjoys is coming face-to-face with his fans. He says that, "I like the feeling that I'm touching base with people. They get to see my progressive decay. Because I'm on the radio, people don't know what I look like. They think I'm in my 70s. They have this vision of a Wilfred Pickles-type character!"
Jeremy, who was also starred on such TV shows as QI, Blackadder Goes Forth and Mock the Week, reveals that he also really likes touring because, "I've developed a great fondness for this land. I don't mean that in a Countryside Alliance kind of way. But because I'm on the road a lot, I see a lot of new places and I always get a lot out of that.
"However, the other day I went to a town and I was convinced I'd never been there before, but it turned out that I had actually been there three years earlier. That's because places increasingly look the same. They all have the same car park and the same high streets."
He is especially delighted to be performing on this tour not in aircraft hangars, but in more intimate venues. "I like smaller spaces because you can see the audience, and you are more aware of them. When you're at the back of the circle in bigger venues, you can't see anything, and you're basically watching TV. I can't see the point of that. There is a Nuremberg Rally element to it."
One thing Jeremy promises he will not be doing is pestering you. "I don't hassle the audience. If you've got no ideas, don't bother the front row with questions about what they do for a living. That's just to distract them from your own lack of material.
"But I love the fact that the audience are there. I get lost a lot during my act, so they help me out. And don't worry, I won't be selling you the DVD of the show that you've just seen. I suppose I'm like a folk singer touring the country, but I promise I won't sing any horrible tunes!"
One reason why Jeremy has such devoted fans is that they are drawn to his marvellously downbeat stage persona. "Obviously, I'm a professional misery guts," he deadpans. "That's what we do in this country. We have a sort of Wartime chipper resignation. We're cheerful, even though everything is absolutely ghastly. I was born in 1961, and that mood was still around then. It was only 16 years after the War, and you still heard people talking about it and saw people walking around with limbs missing."
He goes on to explain that, "The misery guts persona works so well for me because, for a start, people aren't sure how genuine it is. But they also like characters such as Victor Meldrew, Tony Hancock and Leonard Cohen. People like miserable acts. Throughout post-war British comedy, there have been characters like Captain Mainwaring and the Steptoes. We like that attitude because life is quite hard and disappointing and a lot of things go wrong.
"A lot of people feel buffeted. Life is what happens when nothing else works. There is no point having a grandiose plan, because suddenly the roof falls in and you have to rethink and do something different. That makes people feel powerless."
Jeremy, who has also written a book, "My Family and Other Strangers", charting his desperate search for interesting ancestors, carries on that, "The spirit of resignation and muddling through and making the best of things is peculiarly British. Americans don't get it. When they ask an audience what they do for a living, they want people to say, 'I'm the CEO of a weapons company'. They don't want people to say, 'I duck and dive for a living'."
Audiences are also attracted to the political vein that runs through Jeremy's humour. He says that, "I talk about politics because I'm interested in it, just as comedians who are interested in sport talk about that. I discuss politics in the broadest sense – it's not all about trade figures and you don't need to bring along a notebook.
"Obviously, in the show I talk about what's going on with this coalition government. It has destroyed the Lib Dems. It's fascinating to see how they got themselves into this ghastly mess and how Nick Clegg has become such a lost and tragic figure."
Jeremy, who in the show will also be addressing such diverse subjects as transgender people, hip-hop music and the different roles we play when we are with different people, proceeds to say that, "Class is also big issue in politics at the moment. There is a big difference between the old-fashioned, noblesse oblige, paternalistic Tories, and the current lot for whom government is like the first day of the grouse season.
"Also, in the old days, politicians used to be older than me. They were like the bad guys, or the bosses. But now that I'm older than most people in the government, I understand those grumpy old colonels who write to The Daily Telegraph complaining about how things have gone to the dogs. It must be enormously annoying when you're 150 years old and fought in the Boer War and you're seeing how all these 30 year olds are messing things up."
He adds that, "Tory columnists sometimes say they're big fans of mine. But that's because the right sees the left as amusing court jesters. To them, we're like the musicians at the Cotton Club, inferior, but rhythmic."
Jeremy closes by reassuring us that he is first and foremost a comedian, not a politician. "I first became interested in politics during the era of Mrs Thatcher. I felt everything which was good about my country was under attack. But I wasn't thinking, 'I can sort this out with my irreverent and sideways look at politics'. People say that comedy can change things. But I think AK-47s are more effective.
"However, I don't think I'll ever use one. If I tried, I'd just miss!"
Tickets for Jeremy Hardy's tour can be found at http://www.jeremyhardy.co.uk/
Courtesy of James Rampton


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Charities serve up 18 million meals diverted from waste
By Nisha Kotecha on	 June 23, 2016 0 Comments
Food redistribution charity FareShare received a record 9,070 tonnes of food from the food industry during 2015/16, enough for frontline charities to provide 18.3 million meals to people in need.
The majority of this food was diverted from waste, yet it's just "the tip of a food waste iceberg" that could provide an estimated 800 million meals for vulnerable people each year.
Eleanor, Bobbie, Chris & Michael, volunteers in London. Photo by James Darling
FareShare works with retailers including Asda, Sainsbury's, Tesco and The Co-operative, and manufacturers such as Kellogg's and Nestlé, to identify and redistribute in-date, good to eat food that has become surplus – often long before it reaches a supermarket shelf – for reasons such as forecasting errors, mislabelling, or damaged packaging.
Jennie and Eleanor, London volunteers. Photo by James Darling
Last year, the number of charities and community groups FareShare redistributed food to increased by 29% to 2,489. These organisations include homeless shelters, children's breakfast clubs and domestic violence refuges, enabling them to provide nutritious meals for their beneficiaries alongside life-changing support.
A man enjoying a meal in a homeless shelter thanks to FareShare
The value of the food that FareShare redistributes to the charity sector has been estimated at £19.6 million a year. Without food from FareShare, one in five charities say they would probably or definitely have to close, while 58% say they would have to reduce the amount of food they provide, and one in four would have to cut back other services.
Lindsay Boswell, CEO, FareShare said: "Last year, with support from switched-on food companies, FareShare diverted more food from waste and supported more frontline charities than ever before, helping to feed over 200,000 vulnerable people every week.
"But there's so much more to do – right now, we're only accessing the tip of a food waste iceberg. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of perfectly edible food gets thrown away, or used to generate energy or animal feed, every year – enough to provide 800 million meals for people in need.
"Demand for surplus food is outstripping supply. FareShare has 20 Regional Centres around the UK, and every one of them has a waiting list of charities that need food. We're urgently calling for more food companies to work with us to redistribute their good, surplus produce, and for more volunteers to help us get that food to the people who need it most."
Click here to find out more about FareShare.
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