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Biking Bishop pedals through Alberta on national prayer pilgrimage
The Saskatchewan-based Anglican Bishop is cycling from Victoria to St. John's on what he's calling a "prayer pilgrimage."
Bishop Robert Hardwick hopes his cross-country journey will promote 'unity, healing and reconciliation'
Lucie Edwardson · CBC News · Posted: Jun 01, 2018 11:32 AM MT | Last Updated: June 1, 2018
Bishop Robert Hardwick says he hopes his cross-country cycling trip will shed light on the goals of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (Robert Hardwick Facebook)
Bishop Robert Hardwick is on a 7,877-kilometre mission.
The Saskatchewan-based Anglican bishop is cycling across the country — from Victoria to St. John's — on what he's calling a "prayer pilgrimage."
"It's an opportunity to just immerse myself in prayer, praying for people, for situations right across Canada … the main themes are unity, healing and reconciliation," Hardwick told the Calgary Eyeopener.
"[It's about] unity within the church and nation, but also healing and reconciliation for First Nations people and other people whose cultural groups have gone through difficulties in the past."
The 62-year-old will take a day for every year he's been alive to complete the tour. On Friday, he set off from Brooks, Alta., for Medicine Hat.
The religious leader for the Qu'Appelle diocese in southern Saskatchewan says he was ready to head across familiar prairie territory, although it was the third day in a row he'd be biking in the rain.
"People ask for prayers for Alberta for the wildfires, and so we've got rain, and so I thank God for that," he said.
And if he struggles while pedaling down what seems like an endless road, or climbing up another tough hill, Hardwick says he'll to immerse himself in prayer.
"Praying for people who are in those times of life where everything is an uphill struggle, praying for those going through illness, and those who wonder if the top of the hill will ever come," he said.
Throughout his journey, Hardwick will be greeted by churches and community groups along the way.
Bishop Robert Hardwick started his prayer pilgrimage in Victoria and will end in St. John's. (Robert Hardwick Facebook)
He says he's especially looking forward to a June 11 event in Winnipeg commemorating the 10th anniversary of the federal government's apology to First Nations people.
"It's an opportunity to gather and pray for First Nations folks to remember the apology but also to consider the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission."
'Lost 93 pounds'
Prior to embarking on his pilgrimage, the bishop had been on a fitness journey. Three years ago he weighed 310 pounds.
"I've lost 93 pounds since then. Cycling has been an amazing way of losing weight and getting fit," he said.
"I went through a sixth heart bypass and I also have C rohn's , and so there are some particular medical things there that needed help. This whole journey to fitness has been one that's physical, mental and spiritual."
Hardwick says he got back on the bike because it was something that he'd done as a young man, and during his time as an English Bobby in the Nottinghamshire Constabulary.
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Lucie Edwardson is a reporter with CBC Calgary, currently focused on bringing you stories related to education in Alberta. In 2018, she headed a pop-up bureau in Lethbridge, Alta. Her experience includes newspaper, online, TV and radio. Follow her on Twitter @LucieEdwardson or reach her by email at lucie.edwardson@cbc.ca
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Where Are They Now? WR Drew Bennett
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- An unknown prospect in 2001 turned out to be a starting player, fan favorite and key contributor in the early years of Titans football.
The Titans signed Drew Bennett, a former walk-on quarterback at UCLA, as an undrafted free agent, hoping to convert him to wide receiver in the NFL. The experiment turned out better than expected, as Bennett would go on to become one of the franchise's most productive receivers from 2001-06.
Bennett's Titans' numbers included 273 receptions (9th in franchise history) for 4,033 yards (8th in franchise history) and 25 touchdowns.
Not bad for a player few expected to make the roster 12 years ago.
"When I first got here I wanted to make the team, then I wanted to play and then I wanted to start," Bennett recalled last month when he was honored as the 12th Titan at LP Field. "But if you had told me my rookie year that I would have come anywhere close to those career numbers, I never would have believed you."
Bennett's best season came in 2004 when he totaled 80 catches for 1,247 yards (15.6 avg) and 11 touchdowns.
He started slow, but caught fire late in 2004, reaching 1,000 yards receiving during a Monday Night Football game against Kansas City. That night, he caught a career-high 12 passes for 233 yards and three touchdowns in front of a national television audience.
It was the second straight week that Bennett hauled in three touchdowns from backup Billy Volek, who played much of the season for an injured Steve McNair. Bennett had scored on receptions of 48, 28 and 48 yards at Indianapolis the week before, then caught touchdowns of 42, 22 and seven yards against the Chiefs. The following week at Oakland, Bennett tied a franchise record with a career-best 13 receptions for 160 yards and two more touchdowns.
During that stretch he totaled 28 receptions for 517 yards and eight touchdowns, tying Jerry Rice for most TDs over a three-game span in NFL history.
"Billy (Volek) and I had a great connection that season," Bennett said. "It was bittersweet because we didn't win many games that year, but Billy and I were definitely on the same page."
One of Bennett's best memories, however, came in Week 16 of the 2003 season. After losing the lead late at Houston, Bennett capped Tennessee's 75-yard drive in the final 1:48 by hauling in the game-winning 23-yard touchdown pass from Steve McNair in the back of the end zone with 17 seconds left. The 27-24 come-from-behind victory clinched the Titans' fourth playoff berth in five seasons.
"I remember Steve calling that play, and for the other 35 times we ran it that year, we had never thrown that back-side post," Bennett recalled. "But when I left the huddle, he looked at me like, 'Hey, be ready back there,' and sure enough, I turned around, the ball was in the air and he threw a perfect pass. That was an exciting moment, definitely one of the highlights of my career."
Bennett signed a three-year contract extension with the Titans following the 2003 season. He played out that contract before signing a lucrative free agent deal with St. Louis in 2007. Bennett played two seasons with the Rams before being released on Feb. 25, 2009.
Now days you can find Bennett back in his home state of California, coaching high school football at his alma mater, while working in other business ventures. Bennett got married two years ago and he and his wife are proud parents of a five-month old daughter.
But even after all these years, Bennett still remembers the first time he walked onto LP Field.
"I remember the first time I played there my family and friends came because they didn't know if I would ever play in more than one preseason game," Bennett chuckled.
Bennett did more than that, just as no one expected.

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I try to mix up my workout at least every month but this is what I have been doing mostly everyday. I did have a few down days this month, as that will happen sometimes. 30 second rests between sets works pretty well for me. I can usually get this workout done in 1 hr and 15-30 min.


Attorney Robin Greenwald, one of the attorneys who brought Rubio's case, said on Tuesday that she expects more lawsuits to follow because Roundup is the most widely used herbicide in the world and the WHO cancer classification gives credence to long-held concerns about the chemical.
"I believe there will be hundreds of lawsuits brought over time," said Greenwald.
"Decades of experience within agriculture and regulatory reviews using the most extensive worldwide human health databases ever compiled on an agricultural product contradict the claims in the suit which will be vigorously defended."
The lawsuits claim that Roundup was a "defective" product and "unreasonably dangerous" to consumers, and that Monsanto knew or should have known that glyphosate could cause cancer and other illnesses and injuries, failing to properly warn users of the risks.
The lawsuits claim the Environmental Protection Agency changed an initial classification for glyphosate from "possibly carcinogenic to humans" to "evidence of non-carcinogenicity in humans" after pressure from Monsanto.


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SpaceX plans to launch nearly 12,000 satellites to provide internet from low Earth orbit, starting with two demo units launched in February.
In the early 2000s, Greg Wyler, former founder of a semiconductor company, was laying fiber in Africa. He wanted to do something that mattered. Semiconductors didn't matter, you know? But linking people to each other and to information did, he thought.
He didn't run it everywhere, though he did run it quite a few places in Africa. "Each connection, each time we connected a school, each time we brought internet to somebody, we saw their lives change," he says.
In remote parts of the world, like where Wyler was, internet connections often have to come to the ground from geostationary satellites. That's slow, because geostationary orbit is far away. When kids participated in online classes, by the time the screen showed them raising their hands, the question had already been answered. Unacceptable, thought Wyler.
Wyler went on to found a satellite internet company called O3B, which stands for "the other three billion," referring to the half of the planet that isn't connected to the internet. Later, he founded OneWeb, which he hopes—believes, asserts—can "bridge the digital divide," by launching hundreds of satellites into low Earth orbit.
Wyler and OneWeb are representative of a movement that believes everyone on Earth should have the internet—and that it can come from above our heads, not below our feet. In the past few years, companies new and old have launched into the field, all trying to connect some fraction of our half-disconnected world. Which, historically, isn't a good bet: Satellite internet providers haven't had a great run, financially.
And while most of these new players boast humanitarian aims—and that's surely part of their motivation—it's not the whole story. The thing is, all those people they want to provide with the internet? They might not actually want it.
The challenge of getting aerial internet up is so great that providers are not necessarily firm yet on what happens when it gets down. For the low-flying satellites to work as intended, companies have to build hundreds (or thousands) of them. Digital delivery systems that fly in the stratosphere, like high-altitude balloons, have to stay aloft and in the right spots. Both are formidable technical challenges, taking years of development.
SpaceX, as usual, has some of the loftiest plans. The company, on its way to developing a satellite communications system for the well-heeled travelers it sends to Mars, will create one for earthlings who want to stay home. Its Starlink constellation, the company says, will eventually have nearly 12,000 satellites—more than have launched in the history of satellite launching—though for now, it has only launched two demo satellites.
In 2015, the year Elon Musk announced the space internet project, SpaceX got a vote of confidence from Google in the form of a $900 million investment—money that some speculate was thrown toward the internet effort. But Google (or, if we're being precise about it, Alphabet's subsidiary X) also has its own global internet blueprints: Its Project Loon launches high-altitude internet balloons to the stratosphere, far below the realm of satellites, where the flaccid, floating jellyfish catch a ride on wind currents to their destinations.
Google isn't the only member of the Frightful Five with a loony internet idea. And why would it be? The more people who are on the internet, the more people who are on your site. And if we know anything about the web's whales, it's that they can never get enough to eat.
Especially hungry, hungry Facebook. In 2013, Mark Zuckerberg announced internet.org, a Facebook-led initiative to provide connectivity to the unconnected. Facebook, in addition to partnering with mobile providers, partnered with Eutelsat to use equipment aboard a satellite to transport internet to Africa—until it exploded on the SpaceX rocket it was supposed to ride into orbit in 2016. Internet.org is also aiming lower, conducting two test flights with drones it calls "Aquilas". Theoretically, those would help expand coverage beyond the 63 countries where "Free Basics by Facebook" is available—a service that offers limited selections of "news, employment, health, education and local information," and, of course, Facebook.
But the question is whether enough of the world's unconnected people want all this internet, from all of these companies, and whether these companies are fully considering the financial and social constraints of the developing world. "It's still very early to say, from a demand perspective, whether there's enough market to fulfill all of these mega constellations," says satellite industry analyst Mansoor Shar.
Now, maybe the internet service they can currently access is too expensive. Maybe people aren't aware of all the things the internet can provide, like digital doctors and job training. Maybe they don't have the experience necessary to navigate the web. "Satellite is a great tool to bridge the coverage gap, but it has very little to contribute to these other factors," says Palerm-Serra.
He suggests that companies could work with the governments, or private organizations on the ground, to educate people about how to successfully surf the net. Some countries have already implemented similar ideas on their own—as with Mexico's Conectado, Colombia's Vive Digital, and Australia's NBN. Companies could also partner with countries to distribute internet through local providers.
But even the best campaigns might only work once people's basic needs are met. If you're worried about surviving, getting online probably isn't top of mind. "Food, water: These are fundamental things that a lot of potential target markets lack," says Shar. "So I'm not sure they'd be thinking about internet right away." And even if they wanted it, the target market doesn't exactly have much disposable income.
The specific pricing for most of these incoming internet companies isn't public yet, but to keep costs low enough to provide free or affordable coverage, they'll have to surmount the economic hurdles that have bankrupted a litter of satellite internet companies. The companies planning constellations are using dinky orbiters called smallsats to keep costs low.
The companies could shrink the budget required to lay the groundwork, which can be the most expensive piece of the equation. Palerm-Serra says providers could develop WiFi hotspots so they only need one set of terrestrial infrastructure for a group of people. That hasn't been a perfect solution in Cuba, though, where people gather around the bit-fueled fire and wait through slow load times. But, at the same time, they do go online. A company named ViaSat has just set up such a system in Mexico and is working on one in Brazil. There's also Avanti's ECO, Eutelsat's Konnect Africa Smart WiFi, and Quika Satellite Wifi.
These programs come not from the firebrand startups or the Frightful Five, but established entities and quieter newbies who perhaps crow less about funding rounds. And the communities they brought this connection to, who might not have had decent internet access before, could be case studies for how newly-connected people use the tool. What do people in a remote village want from the internet? What do they enjoy? How does it help them? The answers, still unknown, are likely very different from what a person in Menlo Park wants. These early connection efforts could inform how the rest of the industry goes about its business.
SpaceX's thousands of internet satellites could have a second, secret purpose.
Not to mention adding to the massive space junk problem that's intensifying in Earth's orbit.


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Q: What is the force escaping gas exerts on its container? There is a simple problem that I met today, one that I couldn't find a solution for that I was satisfied with.
Assuming we have a tank filled with gas at a certain pressure $p$ and temperature $T$, with the molecules of the gas having the mass $m$. There is a hole on the side of the tank where the pressurized gas escapes into vacuum.
I believe that the force would then be calculated using $$F=\dot m \cdot v_{th}$$ with $v_{th}$ being the thermal velocity $$v_{th}=\sqrt{\frac {8k_BT}{m\pi}}.$$
I would further assume that $\dot m$ is directly proportional to the pressure of the tank, however I don't know any equation I'd be able to substitute it for.
Is this right so far, or am I making completely false assumptions here? What would the final equation for $F$ look like?

A: Chester Miller points out that my simplistic answer is incorrect. Please see his derivation in the comment section below.

A: The force would be simply the product between the pressure and the surface of the hole in the tank, say $F = PS_h$, where $F$ is the force, $P$ is the pressure and $S_h$ the surface of the hole. But the force is changing in time, than it's interesting to see how the force is varying with time.
A solution might be this one:
Gas molecules are hitting the tank surface right? What is the chance of escaping the tank assuming a single molecule is hitting the surface? I'd say
$P_e = S_h/S$
where S is the total surface of the tank.
Then, what is the average time $\Delta t$ in which a collision with the surface occurs? Given the thermal velocity (which is constant! it is a function of the mass of the molecule which does not change in time, and the temperature that is fixed as well), we can compute this time from the second principle of dynamics.
$F_p = \frac{\Delta p}{\Delta t}$, where $F_p$ is the force that a single particle applies to the surface of the tank, $\Delta p$ is the variation of momentum, and $\Delta t$ the time interval.
$F_p = PS/N$, where N is the number of particle.$\mid\Delta p\mid = 2mv_{th}$ because the particle is bouncing back at the same velocity.
So we get
$\Delta t = \frac{2Nmv_{th}}{PS}$.
Now, I'm sorry if it is messy, the 'getting stuck' probability when the particle hits the surface several times, say $N_h$, is
$P_g(N_h) = (1-P_e)^{N_h}$.
How many collision happen during the time interval t? $N_h = t/{\Delta t}$!
Then the mass in the tank should be proportional to this probability, that decreases with time.
The mass in the tank is also proportional to the pressure, so, lastly, we can write the pressure as a function of time as
$P(t) = P(0)(1-S_h/S)^{\frac{t}{\Delta t}}$,
where $P(0)$ is the initial pressure.
Let me know what you think about this solution.

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Triumph over Trauma: Part 2
June 09, 2022 Season 4 Episode 2
I think the thing I enjoy so much about my conversations with Cathy is her hopefulness. She is not one to talk about her own past traumas, but she has shared some of it with me over the years and I can assure you that her life story is one that would make most people very pessimistic and withdrawn. Instead, her faith and her compassion for others has led her out of a very dark place into one where helping others is not only possible, but in her mind critical to her own healing.
I think she's doing something very simple and incredibly difficult at the same time. She's living what she believes. Her faith that there is a reason for the traumas that she has endured and that God has used them to make her stronger and more able to help people that desperately need a life line. Her story is one of perseverance. her message is one of healing. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure today's world could use a lot more Cathys.
Cathy Lins worked as a consultant for many years by assisting numerous not-for-profit organizations to raise money to do work in communities with desperate needs. She has also given speeches and conducted workshops around the country specializing in fundraising techniques as well as help trauma survivors recover. Her current full-time project is Gather My Lost Sheep, which focuses on helping trauma survivors return to Catholic parishes and to restore their faith in Christ. She did this as a result of realizing that Priests aren't always trained in this and aren't sure what to do. In addition, stigma keeps the laity from talking about mental health issues. This results in Impacted families feeling isolated. Cathy became convinced that this isn't who the Church is meant to be. Gather My Lost Sheep strives to teach people to ask "How do I accompany someone who is hurting? How can I be Christ to them?"
Over 70% of the population has experienced trauma. The events and isolation in 2020 have simply added to the strain on our mental health. Cathy decided to rethink evangelization and pastoral care when she saw the impact on people living with trauma and their mass exodus from the Church. As a national speaker working with US bishops and priests, she has talked about leadership in the Church at the parish and diocesan level. She brings technical knowledge and lived experience to this conversation.
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Welch, welcome to another edition of frame of reference Sauk. County NBR. My guest this week or right now is the same guests I had last week. Kathy Lenz who's the founder of gather my lost sheep, an organization that is dedicated to assisting people with dealing with trauma, recognizing trauma, coming to grips with their trauma, and then healing, all with the intent to return people to the church, which unfortunately, sometimes is the cause of the trauma that interferes with our relationship with with God, and makes it very difficult to get healed. In fact, there has been a book that Kathy threw on the desk and between us called church refugees. Sociologist reveal why people are done with church, but not their faith. So which is a wonderful topic that I think a lot of people can go, yeah, yeah, I am done with church. But I still believe there's a God. So you know, and that strikes me as kind of an interesting thing that here we have the church, which is called to be the ambassadors of Christ, right to walk in the walk that he walked in to do the work that he started. And yet, we fail, so miserably soften at doing that. And yet, people continue to believe. So that, to me, is a really kind of remarkable thing about the human spirit that if we believe in God, and we've decided we believe in God, in spite of all of that stuff, people continue to believe. Is that part? Yeah, yeah, sometimes. Yeah, you're right. And that's,
Cathy Lins: 2:08
that's literally one of the things that people are asking me about is like, Okay, what do you do, if we can't get them here in the first place? I'm like, okay, part of its figuring out like this, that they don't know, or because they've had a bad experience. And this particular case, the refugees, these are people who have been actively involved in the church, who just decided I can't do this anymore. It may be a moral injury, where they just feel like the leadership has done something that is just so unredeemable that I can't, I can't do this anymore. But they're they've hit a point. And another thing, I think that was interesting is talking about how they felt like they're like, you know, I get God, God judges me, but I have a problem with everyone else thinking that their God. Right, right. Yeah. So they really asked a lot of questions around like, Well, how do you do the evangelization at that point? And I said, Well, it depends. It depends on where they're at. Where in this process, are they?
And that takes a lot of listening, to figure that out, and to ask a lot of questions. Because oftentimes, we have kind of made up things in our brains, or we, we come up with solutions or ideas that make sense to us. But they're probably not reality, you know, so.
So you may not be where they're that particular person, especially if you experience trauma, how they're behaving, what they're avoiding, may not make any sense to you. But if you knew their context, it would make perfect sense to you why they're doing what they're doing. The thing of it is, you might never find out. It's not like we can go round, right? So tell me your trauma story. I'm like, well, they call that re traumatizing.
Yeah, come on. I mean, all that's going on. So is that part of the one of the topics you communicate to me before we started recording, this was trauma informed supervision. Right. So is that that part of that training process of trauma informed supervision is to get people to understand that
the fact of here's what they're dealing with? So there's the core education that we've been doing? Of like, what is it that we would know? Why are people behaving the way they are changing the conversation from what's wrong with you to what's been done to you, which is a very different conversation, where you understand like, why the brain is being triggered? Why is it reacting the way that it is? So that was the core training. And as we talked more about this, more and more of the clergy and the ministers were like, I think I may have unresolved trauma. And so I became the so what are you doing to create that safe place for your staff? And maybe it's because they've been hearing the story, maybe it's their own personal unresolved trauma, but if they don't get the support, they need to actually get treatment for it. Work through some of those thoughts work through some of the things that they're hearing. They're going to act out on the people that they're supposed to be serving and your fellow co workers.
So what do you do with a person that just doesn't want to face the trauma that had spent so much time burying it, and putting stuff on top of it to keep it buried?
If we're the supervisor at that point, it becomes the so what areas can I work with? Okay, it becomes the what questions can I ask that I can check in on to see how that person is doing? Have you ever done any work around the whole motivational interviewing? No, one of the things they talk about is having a core set of questions. One of them was starting with open questions. Tell me more about that. What approaches have you tried so far? So as you're working with your staff, and they're dealing with the things that they've heard about things that are causing them to be stuck at this point, it gives you some questions that you can start with another area that they might end up going, it goes back to the ORS the O I R S. So our affirmations, what kind of things can we affirm, like, Gee, you use your reflective listening skills really effectively in that situation? It gives them something very specific that they did, it acknowledges you've done a good job, because the times, if you're under trauma, you're starting to become very certain that nothing you do is right. It's always your fault. It's always the end. So it's reaffirming to people that they are in fact doing a good job. And giving them the specifics. Because one of the things I've always learned working with supervisors, if you can't tell them specifically, what they did, right, they can't do it again. So helping them think through that part of it. The iron ores is reflective listening, gee, this has been really stressful for you. You know, you were wondering how you could prevent him from getting hospitalized. Let's talk about that a little bit more time. Those are some things that you can help them work through as a supervisor to see how is your team doing? Again, whatever level that you're at, you're the one who is trying to keep an eye on them. And the last one is the summaries. And as the, let me see if I can understand what you just said. So it's a chance to summarize that a little bit more. Here's what I think I heard telling me, if I missing anything, bringing that to the conversation, helps them set up the conversation in a way that gets people talking. Okay, so what we want to try to ease that out,
and that's that seems to me that that's kind of a progressive or a what's the word I'm looking for, but you know, you're you're, you're going down a pathway that may initially deal with one set of comfortable or at least more palatable sets of issues. And then as that becomes a safe place to do that, and there's a successful resolution, or at least discussion of it, that then maybe the next time you can get to yet another deeper level is because that affairs
and be able to keep checking in how are they doing? Now, if you had a staff member who was acting out in a way that was not going to work for your clientele, you would have to take action, you'd have to think about like, how do I best do that? Again, we want to try to build safety wherever we can. But we also have to think about what's the safety of everybody else, too, right? So that's that dance that we do, is there an employee assistance program. And it was an interesting concept for the churches, you guys have an employee assistance program, and isn't something that they've thought about before, but that being able to know that there's someone they could go to if they needed to,
I'm amazing, we have one, we have a really wonderful, I think Employee Assistance Program at MC for islands here. And it's with a company that has Empath Yam is the name of the company out of Milwaukee. And they have such a wonderful array of services that they offer. And I'll be damned if I know five people in the whole company that have actually availed themselves of those services, so they don't think, okay, so here's a group of people that has a tremendous amount of resources at their disposal. And yet they won't drink it. They won't use it. You don't like the horseshoe lead to water, but they won't drink it right.
So really becomes the important question. And it'd be fascinating to find out in focus groups. Why don't they? What do you think about people who utilize these kinds of services?
Right? Why don't you use them? What's going on? Are you in?
direct question? They may not be like, it's like, what will you know, what are the thoughts? What are the attitudes that would have you think that that isn't something that's for you? Right, so who is that for? Right? As for the
I didn't know anything about it? She was like, Well, you were told about it? Why wouldn't you know? Yeah, yeah. Do you find that there's in that supervision process that there is a need to kind of retrain and retrain and retrain? Well, especially
because, like I said, as I'm talking to different members of the clergy include some of the bishops. It's the day of not thought in those terms, they haven't provided that kind of network. And it becomes the thing to also think about is, how many of their priests have been set out on their own to deal with these things. They live alone, they don't have anyone else that they've set things up with. And I look at that and say, Okay, what can we do that actually gets people interacting with each other so that they have that kind of support system? Right? Is there a way that we can be calling one another? Okay, so this is my inside joke I was talking with some of them, they were getting ready for one of the local trainings for the priests. And I said, well, they were like, well, Kathy, we like who would we even call? There are no counselors that we can even call and I said, well, this person, that's a priest as a call therapist, and this one is, are they I'd like to talk about when you go. I said, this is because most of you are introverts, which is true. Most clergy are introverts, I said, You need to have an extrovert come in, and organize your get acquainted activities, so that you all like have to fill out a sheet that fills in it says this person is find the therapist in the group, right? This person in the group find the right, I'm like, Guys, how could we be really working off of one another. But you all you don't even know what it is that each of you have a specialty in or that you're particularly good at?
Rauel LaBreche: 11:19
Right? The old toilet paper thing, roll out sheets of toilet paper and count them up. And then that's how many things you have to tell people that they don't know about. Right? So
Cathy Lins: 11:30
those are important things. Because how can you build a network of support if you don't even know what resources are there?
What do you think keeps people from asking those questions? You want to get to know each other? What what is the big block? That keeps us from just wanting to know,
I think part of it is the introversion? I mean, I get that, okay. But who wants to bring it the one to bring that up? I mean, I was doing a training once for one of the Diocese. And in what part of the activity that I had to do because we were talking about desk, I had to talk about, I want a volunteer to talk about what's something you don't do? Well, that doesn't match well, if you have a you have to do that doesn't match well with what your disk is. And so you don't do well in it. And I realized I had two bishops in the room along with all these priests. So I went up to the one of the bishops, and I said, I have a favor to ask, Would you be willing to be the guy to talk about what it is you don't do? Well, and he looks at me and he goes, because no priest in his right mind is gonna want to admit in a room with two bishops in it, that there's something they can't do well, right. And he's like, I see where you're going. I appreciate you give me a heads up. I could think about what I wanted to say, because but you're absolutely right. They're not going to answer that question for you. Let me be the example so that we can get this conversation going. Sure. But it took that foresight. And for him to realize, oh, yeah, that is, who is going to want to have your supervisors there and have to admit, there's things you don't do well,
right. Well, it takes a degree of humility, to even want to do that. And there's so much, you know, we talked about the stigma around mental illness. I, I think a lot of that stigma is just plain old pride. You know, I can't, I can't admit that I have a problem, a mental problem. That's not just stigma, that's, you know, arrogance of human people having to put up the air of I am fine. I don't have those kinds of problems. Oh, yeah. You know, just want to say every time I see that, are you blaming? Yeah. What's your story that you're burying so that people don't, you know, find the crack in your, you know, marble shell that you've constructed? Right.
And I think it's the mixture. I mean, I remember when I was trying to get in for some care, and it was going to be a good 789 months before they thought they had a therapist, and then I finally got there. It turns out, she hadn't finished your training yet. They were pretty mature. Oh, wow. So that was one of those who wrote, but there's a waiting list for people who are dealing with trauma. I mean, I've had several different health care centers where colleagues have said, Kathy, we did go in, it's going to be a year and a half to two years. They said before they have people ready, who are able to help see us? Yeah. And I'm like, you know, that's part of it, too. Like, do we have enough? And I think, for I have to tell you, I've had a lot of Catholics who have come to me and said, I do need help. I recognize I need help. Do you have any Catholic therapists that I can talk to? That's a very short list. No. And so it becomes the like, give them what they're looking for. How do I best connect them?
Do you think there would be a need for as many therapists as there is a need for if we just All did a better job of listening.
I think that would make a difference. I think more again, I think more people trained in Mental Health First Aid, would help us start to look out for each other better. I was the thing that that a lot of that people got trained said, I realized I don't pay a lot of attention to the people behind me. But now that I know this, I am going to, you know, kind of be kind of looking out to see like, How is everybody doing?
Right? Right. I've taken that same training. And I was fascinated by the scenarios that they had. And, you know, the, what we started out with in terms of how we assessed it, and where we were at the end of the whole thing, having been kind of tuned in, I was really impressed, too. They had some of the best videos I've
ever seen it with a second edition, because there's a new edition that just came out in February. Yeah,
yeah, we were maybe let me think about that. I think we might have been right.
Even better video, with a new edition that has just come out. If you get a chance to take the training, go through that process, they've changed it up a little bit in the flow of what they do and how they go about it.
Okay. And I'm really fascinating stuff too, because you're absolutely right, it does at least give you that first aid response, that you can't necessarily be the hospital administrator or whatever. But you can be the person that at least recognizes where things are at and helps guide the person to where they need to be right.
And if nothing else, at least tag team, right? Help them tag to someone who can help them with what they need at that moment. Right, exactly. But it's also been great how many parishes have now come back and said, Can you help me put together a resource list, you know, and so to be able to help them know who to call. And if you're following what's happening with Nami, America, they've been working in the last two years on training police departments. So the crisis intervention teams, as well as 911 operators, as well as the medical staff, and so forth. So now, and by the way, Madison is one of the sites that is actually where they now send out a team where there will be officers and therapists who go out together when they get a call. So while I've said note on here, when you call 911, that you can ask for the crisis intervention team for a member of the officers who has been trained specifically to deal with mental health. Because what they were finding it was of, of the police fatal shootings 40% were people living with mental health challenges. And people were like, well, why was that happening? Why is this, I said, well think about what's going on. The police are trained that I give instructions, you follow them out when I tell you to, or I won't be forced to open fire. People who are dealing with a mental health challenge may not be able to process fast enough, so they could end up getting shot. And we had just talked at risk before that in the mental health training about don't restrict people's movements don't. And I said what happens when you call the police, they handcuff you and put you in the back of the police car where you're restrained. And then it's not that they are violent, but they become far more aggressive, because they're fearful. And so in that process of that fearfulness, they have a greater chance of being shot. Sure. And for a lot of the folks that I was talking to you I had pretty good. I had some pair secretaries who were like, oh, gosh, Cathy, I've always just called the police. That's my first response. That's my first go to and I'm like, here's something to think about, given what you now know, she goes, I would have to think of now that I know what to say, I don't know if I would automatically do that anymore. And if I do think I need to call at least now I know. Ask for the crisis intervention officer who's been trained, right? She's like, this is huge, what you're talking to me about
why I'm giving that information to people is huge. You know what? To think about the number of lives that that could help drastically. But people don't know about it, you know? So how do you get that information out to write in the mire of communication and, you know, noise that there is out here these days? Right? So, folks, my guest today is Kathy Lenz, who's the founder of gather my lost sheep. We're going to take another quick break to hear a word from our sponsors. And when we come back, we're going to talk about creating an environment for individuals parishes, diocese, and the greater church to set up self care and to avoid or manage secondary or macarius trauma. So if that doesn't sound like a mouthful, I don't know what is but don't want to work is we're going to break that down into pieces that are hopefully useful to you or someone you know. We'll be right back here on frame of reference. Having nine seven Max FM's digital network
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And we're back here on frame of reference. My guest today is Kathy Mullins, founder of gather my lost sheep, which is an organization dedicated to the proposition that trauma occurs, trauma can be processed and trauma can be healed. So and she has all kinds of resources to help accomplish that speaks nationally on issues of trauma, how to recognize it. But one of the specialties in that training, I think, is to create an environment for individuals and parishes and diocese in the church to be able to recognize and to manage that trauma, vicarious trauma, so to help people both recognize it, but then to manage it and recover from it. Right. So what does that training look like? Kathy,
that will really working at this point to try to help people think about how do we bring this into our everyday work life? Again, following some of that safety, the collaboration and mutuality, the trust and transparency, the empowerment, voice and choice, peer support, and thinking about the cultural and historic issues that have happened in the past. So really saying like, okay, so what would we need to do to make this a safe place? And people always looked at me, and I said, you know, trust is a fascinating thing. Because without trust, there is no safety. So it becomes the physically how do we make this a safe place? What do we have to set this up so that we have a space and a time? If you know that I love talking to one of the parishes? And they're like, you know, if we're dealing with someone who has something that's particularly sensitive, we put a roof on the door. And when we put that wreath up, everybody in the office knows, we're dealing with something really sensitive. No one bothers us no one in a row interrupt, because how often do people interrupt each other? And once the person goes, and they put the wreath back again, they're like, it's our opportunity to just check in and say, just want to know everything. Okay, anything you need to talk about. You need time in that quiet space. What do you need? Right here right now? Right, to make this practical for you,
right? When safe places are really, really hard to come by? When you come by? I mean that, and that's probably I would guess is part of the trauma involved here is that what should have been a safe place was discovered and not be a safe place. What should have been a safe person was not a safe person. Right?
In some cases, yes. So you know, and it's like, like, Where can I go talk about it? How can I? And so it's also the psychological safety. Can I disagree? Right? Can I talk openly about how upset I am right now? Right? You know, do I have the space to do that? Right? Because sometimes that's what we've got to air even as the staff and we talked about, like people who are have got this upset, what about the staff? How do they go in to get that aired? Get that worked out of their system so that they can actually move forward?
Sure. Well, that's part of the trust factor, right, is that you, you build trust through finding that you can expose that? Whatever, however ugly the POS might be that you let out? And yet still not be told. Leopards are over there. You know, we
don't want to hear about
Thank you very much. So talk like that here. Right, right. Yeah, I often think about that with language, how, you know, we use language as a way to say, Okay, well, I'm not going to talk with you, you're going to talk like that, well, they're talking like that, because they need to talk like that. So I'm sorry, if you find those words are offensive, but, you know, it's always what's going on inside of them. So let's maybe get pie, you know, words, which are, you know, just, to me, it's like being upset that somebody has a scab, you know, scabs heal, but you know, not if you keep picking them off all the time, right.
But isn't it interesting how I always tell people, I said, Have you ever noticed that when you're in the middle of the fight now is not the time to create to create the ground rules? Yeah, so we all know that human conflict is part of the human condition. So what if we actually spent time working on our ground rules when we're all calm, right, so that we can then go to that and say, We are obviously at a point where we need to pull out our ground rules. Let's honor those and honor the dignity of who each other are so that we can truly hear one another. What a crazy idea. Like
what are you talking about here? Yeah, I find that there's a guy that wrote a book called Verbal Judo and he talks The five fundamentals of human human interactions is number one is all people want to be treated with trust, and respect with dignity and respect. And it's just such a powerful thing to recognize that, you know, when we start treating each other with dignity and trust and respect, rather than, you know, skepticism and devaluation. And that's not really a problem. Why aren't you getting over that? Instead of doing that, we just say, Wow, what happened that, you know, made you believe that you know, can you tell me more about that?
That safe talking about it? Yeah. What do you know, what you're sharing you'd like to share?
Yeah, yeah, to give people that openness so that, well, I don't know me, I just yell at me like everybody else does seems like, well, I can see why you made me believe that. I'm willing to listen if you'd like. So,
as always, people we always no matter what first aid is like, you know what, I'm always here. So if you decide later, you'd like to talk right? You can still come back. And we can have that conversation. Right?
Right. Which is, it's difficult to be available, isn't it?
And if you truly because I had someone like for trainees were like, but I really can't talk to them. Okay, so who can we tag team with, right? But I want to make sure that we do that in a way that's honorable. So I'm not able to give you the time right now. What I'm wondering is, would this time work instead, right? Or here's the other option is, here's someone else that might also be available. Which of these would make sense which gives people choice,
right, which is also really important right to have that? Because that's
one of the things people tend to lose is to have choice in the midst of whatever trauma they've experienced?
Well, isn't, isn't that the root of a lot of trauma? Is that you? You didn't have a choice, you feel helpless? Yeah, I mean, the accident happened, you didn't have a choice to get in that accident or not. Somebody abuses you, you don't usually have the opportunity to choose to not be abused. Right. So and that's a scary thing. You know, what, maybe that's the part that we really don't get is how scary that is, and giving freedom to, to deal with? How afraid
people truly are in that moment. Yeah, whatever it is, I like to give the example of because some people are like, well, what is this like? Like, what is this trigger this? I don't understand why kid that just let it go. And I'm like, that's because it's hanging on to them. And I gave that example, once have, I said, I want you to consider that we're going out for a walk up on the trails, you know, a great afternoon, let's go to Devil's Lake State Park. Here we go. And there's lots of things that we see along the way, Oh, I see the trees, I see the water, I see, hey, there's something long and brown over there. Now, the amygdala that's in our head has been trained by God to keep us safe. So long and brown already caught the amygdala is attention. And they may feel it is going back up.
Snake or something, right.
And so, and I said this could go one or two ways, you may look ahead as you've backed up, because like, because all sudden, you'll realize why am I backing? What's happening? Because the amygdala has the ability to hijack the brain and put your body into motion to protect you. Now, you may look ahead and go, ooh, snake, good call, good call amygdala, way to protect me really appreciating that. Or you could look ahead and go, it's a stick, right? I feel really stupid right now. Because it's a stick, you moved me because it's stick. And I said, you know, the amygdala doesn't know, for sure. It takes a general idea. And it makes a decision. I said, Now, imagine that adrenaline rush that you had at that moment. Imagine having that happen multiple times a day, because for people who are living with PTSD, the amygdala is remembering whatever it was that almost killed them. And anytime that it sees even something remotely close, long and brown, remotely close, it's going to send off that alarm system that has the adrenaline be released, puts them into that panic mode. And so it at that moment, they won't know until after the fact and by then their heart rate is up. The adrenaline is moving through the system, the cortisol is moving through the system. And you'll be like, you haven't it's not. It might be but they didn't know. It's too late then. And I said that's all it happens subconsciously they can't control that. What we just said people who have experienced that vicarious trauma that some I should say the secondary trauma. They're starting to have the same PTSD symptoms the avoid widens the that same fear the hypervigilance
recognizing the cues, and not even really thinking about what those because
it's all subconscious. They don't realize it until they're already triggered. Right? And so then it becomes the What can I do, and my co workers to realize they're triggered right now. And I was working with someone who was experiencing that hypervigilance and all I could think of that moment was we've triggered her anxiety. What can I do right now that help her feel safe? That's a really key question. I may never know what it is that she experienced. All I can think about, though, is what can I do right now that'll help her feel safe. And a lot of times, I need to bring my voice down, I need to bring my gesture. I like to talk big with my hands. There'll be none of that. Thank you very much. But again, when I'm working with coworkers with others, I have to recognize, I think they may be triggered right now, what can I do? That'll help them at this moment,
non threatening non violent intervention.
Because at that moment, once they've had a chance to let it pass, to get re grounded in the current moment, then they have that opportunity. But imagine if we actually had that by design, in our workplaces, so that we were trauma informed. And we have that for each other.
So how do we build in self care? As a regular practice? How does Firstly, we
have to make a choice for like, what is it that's going to work for us? I'm a painter you've seen? So yeah, I miss having that chance to go paint it with a group during the middle of COVID. So I was just thinking about the other day, I was looking at all the trees, and I'm like, I think I might need to schedule just to do more plein air, learn to put the equipment together to do that part of it. But you have to decide, like, with intentionality to decide to go do that time for you. I was told that I was just off to an exercise class tonight. And it was just that I could very easily have missed the class I had work to do. We all and I was like, No, I need to prioritize that self care. I've got to make this happen if I want this to be better for myself if I want to help manage how I'm doing in everyday life. And so it's just making that conscious decision that I am the priority. I was working with one of the priests and he said I don't miss golf on Tuesday. I mean, make very, and he has his health reasons why. And he said I would have bought it off most of my priesthood. And it has come to bite me in the butt. Sure. And so he said, I don't do that anymore. I have got to do that for me to manage my stress. Sure. And all of us have got to look and say what do I have to do? Because when we're stressed when we don't eat well, when we don't sleep, almost when we don't eat our vegetables that are fruits, and are all those things that we all know, if we don't do those things on a regular basis, build it in as part of our scheduling, and have that be some of the big boulders that go into our calendar, before everything else goes in here. If we don't build it in that way, we don't have that. And imagine if you had a supervisor who actually checked in to help you reinforce that. And when I say that, I say that at the parish level. Imagine if you had a priest who was helping you as the staff to be sure that you put those things into that someone at the vicarious is working with each of the priests to be sure that they're doing that to what if the bishop is in fact following up with his team to be sure that they're doing that too? Yeah. And yes, the bishop needs it too. So I think about the archbishop how we want to get him involved in that and everybody else down the line, but we need that happening at every single level here. If we truly want to shift the culture
it makes me think of that old saying you know all All work and no play makes Jack a very dull boy and I'm like, you know, I think actually should be all work and no play makes Jack a very dangerous boy. You know, cuz you think of the wonder, like I look at some of these, you know, mass shootings are going on. It's like, what, what was going on in that person's life that got them to the point where they had that much heat in them.
But I love the Mental Health America just put out that says, hate is hate. It's not mental illness. And I think that's an important thing too, because so often people see those shootings, and they managed to they go see this is what the mental ill are like, and they're not the same things. And so, I think that was part of part of the part of a new training on mental health where they talk about the research, and that only 4% of violence is tied to people with mental health challenges. Most often people with mental health challenges are the victims of violence, not the perpetrators of it. Yeah, I think that's just something really to help people think about. I think that was the part for some of the parish members. They were like, Wait, that isn't what I was thinking,
right? Hate is hate. Yeah, wouldn't be nice if we could identify that better. So are the things,
I'm just gonna talk a little bit about resilience. So please, wait because, and I want to be careful, because resilience, sometimes people think of that as like, oh, they can snap back. Oh, that were that easy. And isn't quite what we're looking at. But there are things that one can do to build up your resilience, like we talked about, like getting sleep, eating, right? Taking time for things that work, your creativity, that work your body, that all of those kinds of things can help build up the resilience. But so does having a social network, having people to talk with, and that's when I talked about the continuum of mental health. And I talked about the healthy, the, the affected the stressed the ill it all the way to the other end. along that way, when we're in the first two spots, who we have around us in our network is who is probably going to be the most beneficial to us, as we actually help maintain our mental health. If we're over on the other side, when we're talking about people who are affected to the point where they're experiencing problems with their functioning and or illness. At that point, we probably need to get the professionals involved. It's recognizing where you are in that continuum. And at first, when I was talking about this, people were looking at me like, why kind of get that I like, well, let me try this out for you. Let's talk about laundry, laundry. And I said, in the healthy category, we have somebody who washes, dries, folds, and hangs their clothes, all within the same afternoon ironing, ironing, too, you know, like they take care of that. Whereas maybe somebody who's having more stress, I got it wash, maybe next week, I'll get it folded.
It's all laying out. Felisa doesn't get wrinkled, right?
versus, you know, someone who's far more affected, where it's like, I kind of got into the same room. Or we're ill, we haven't bathed in a while our laundry, it can stand on its own. It's, it's, it's pretty bad. And I said, How many people can see the progression that we're talking about? And they're like, Yeah, and I had a couple of clergy were like, Okay, what if I'm not in the healthy range? What? And I said, that's a good, because I said, when you do a continual mental health, you want to know what's healthy for you? When do you know, things aren't going well, and you're really being affected by stress. This is a great self check for you to say, How am I doing with my eating? How am I am I using substances? Where do I fall into this category? I mean, think about anything we do in our daily life. And we can probably tell you what I look like when I'm healthy. When I'm extremely stressed, when I'm affected or straight up. I'm ill at this point, and you really need to get me in for professional help. Right? And they were like, well, when you laid it out like that, suddenly, this became a whole lot more clear what we're talking about, because they're like, I Oh, I do get into that I do have I said, that's part of that self care is recognizing how am I doing right now? Sure. And then, if I know, I'm starting to have some challenges, who am I turning to? What kind of network do I have? Because the further we move over, the more we tend to isolate. And the more we isolate, the more difficulty we have in taking care of ourselves.
When it strikes me. Maybe this was a way to wrap up our conversation to is there. If someone is listening to this, and it's really resonating with them that there are traumas in their life, there's traumatic events in their life that they haven't successfully dealt with. What's your advice to that person? What can they do? How do they how do they begin the process of healing?
Part of it at this point is recognizing like who can I turn to for assistance? If I recognize that I'm in the healthy category, or the stressed category where I'm having some difficulties, those conversations are going to be key and asking, you know, what kind of things can I put in place that will help me be healthy again, move back to that healthy range? If I realized that I'm having far more difficult, that's where we might need to get into like the self care, the self help type things up. Is there a support group that I could be talking to? If I'm finding that I'm having a harder time actually gathering my things up taking care of myself taking that bath? I used to lating from people more. If I'm all the way to ill, I'm probably going to need someone to intervene for me for my behalf, because I am just not functioning. And it's a difference between what people talk about of, they're not showing up. He's like, you can show up but not show up. You're not really present at that moment, or you're stopped showing up or your, your functionality goes down, the further over you are, and that's where you're going to really need the intervention. Talk with your medical doctor as a place to start. Ask them to help you figure out where would I go, how do I handle this? This is true for the clergy, just as much as to say like, how do I get the help that I need? But if your fellow clergy people working at the parish, what are we putting in place so that we can be that support network for the people that we work with? So that we can because if we can support each other, it's a whole lot easier to support the greater community as well.
Right? Don't be afraid. Don't be ashamed. You know, just Yeah.
It made me know that Christ is with us. Yeah.
Amen. Folks, my guest this week, last week has been Kathy lens was the founder of gathering lost sheep. Kathy, if people want to get in know more about gather my lost sheep, what's the best way to do that,
they can email me at gather my lost sheep@gmail.com. That is the simplest way. And the easiest way that way, if you're part of the church, and working in this area, we do have a private Facebook group, working on what we can do within the Catholic Church to really help build up the body. We've got people from all over the US and a couple of other countries at this point. And maybe
Vancouver is coming. And she can point you towards all kinds of great news flashes, like the book we referenced earlier church refugees, by Josh Packard, DHD. And actually, so Kathy, thanks, as always, thanks for rescuing me, because I my guests didn't come through for this week. So you rescued me from that as well. So thanks so much for being with us. You're welcome. Always a pleasure. So good luck with that book. Get it done. Thanks. Okay. We'll be right back here on frame of reference with our closing thoughts. So don't go anywhere on 99 Seven Max FM's digital
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I think the thing I enjoy so much about my conversations with Kathy is her hopefulness. Her life story is one that would make most people very pessimistic and withdrawn. Instead, her faith and compassion for others has led her out of a very dark place into one we're helping others is not only possible, but in her mind, critical to her own healing. I think she's doing something very simple and incredibly difficult. At the same time. She's living what she believes her faith that there is a reason for the traumas we endure and that God has used them to make her stronger and more able to help people that desperately need a lifeline. Her story is one of perseverance. Her message is one of healing. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure that in today's world, we could use a lot more Cathy's. Lastly, now we're in our fourth season, and I'd like to ask all of my listeners to consider this. If you've found that this podcast has been helpful to you. Please tell your friends. We'd like to build our listenership as much as possible this season. And we won't be able to do that without your help. Just direct folks to www for soc.com That's fo r s a uk.com. And while you're at it, drop us a line and tell us what you think about the show and what we can do better. Stay well


Rachel Greenspan received her PhD in Literature and a Certificate in Feminist Studies from Duke University. Her dissertation, Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora, investigates the transnational circulation of psychoanalytic theory and practice as it comes to inform shifting conceptions of sexual difference in Latin America. Her research interests include global modernisms, transnational gender and sexuality studies, critical theory, film and visual culture, intellectual history, and psychoanalysis. She is Managing Editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies and an Associate at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Her writing has appeared in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, The Comparatist, and Polygraph.


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The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."
"Impossible. Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France !"
The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained. "Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find any Frenchmen to show it to."
Bob, a 70-year-old, extremely wealthy widower, shows up at the Country Club with a breathtakingly beautiful and very sexy 25 year- old blonde who knocks everyone's socks off with her youthful sex appeal and charm.
She hangs onto Bob's arm and listens intently to his every word. His buddies at the club are all aghast. At the very first chance, they corner him and ask, "Bob, how did you get the trophy girlfriend?"
Bob replies, "Girlfriend? She's my wife!"
They're amazed, but continue to ask. "So, how did you persuade her to marry you?"
"I lied about my age", Bob replies
"What, did you tell her you were only 50?" Bob smiles and says, "No, I told her I was 90."
A group of Americans were traveling by tour bus through Holland . As they stopped at a cheese farm, a young guide led them through the process of cheese making, explaining that goat's milk was used. She showed the group a lively hillside where many goats were grazing "These" she explained "are the older goats put out to pasture when they no longer produce." She then asked, "What do you do in America with your old goats?"
A spry old gentleman answered, "They send us on bus tours!
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A plane leaves Los Angeles airport under the control of a Jewish captain. His co-pilot is Chinese. It's the first time they've flown together and an awkward silence between the two seems to indicate a mutual dislike. Once they reach cruising altitude, the Jewish captain activates the auto-pilot, leans back in his seat, and mutters, "I don't like Chinese."
"No rike Chinese?" asks the co-pilot, "why not?"
"You people bombed Pearl Harbor, that's why!"
"No, no," the co-pilot protests, "Chinese not bomb Peahl Hahbah! That Japanese, not Chinese."
"Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese... doesn't matter, you're all alike!"
There's a few minutes of silence. "No rike Jews!" the co-pilot suddenly announces.
"Why not?" asks the captain.
"Jews sink Titanic."
"Jews didn't sink the Titanic!" exclaims the captain, "It was an iceberg!"
" Goldberg, Greenberg, Rosenberg, Iceberg, ...... no mattah... alla same."
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150 years ago, President Lincoln found it necessary to hire a private
investigator - Alan Pinkerton for protection.
That was the beginning of the Secret Service.
Since that time, the federal government has produced a large number of
multi-letter agencies such as: FBI, CIA, INS, IRS, DEA, BATF, etc., etc.
Now we have the "Federal Air Transportation Airport Security Service ".
Can't you see them now, these 'highly trained' men and women in their black
outfits with jackets saying across their backs: F. A. T. A. S. S.
The FATASS's are of course supervised by a special section of the Home Land
Security Section known as: Airport Security Service Home Office Logistics
Enhancement Section or the A.S.S.H.O.L.E.S.
I feel safer already:LOL: :LOL:
Drinks on a flight....
A Muslim was seated next to an Australian on a flight from London to Melbourne .
After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken. The Aussie asked for a glass of wine, which was brought and placed before him. The flight attendant then asked the Muslim if he would like a drink.
He replied in disgust, "I'd rather be savagely raped by a half a dozen whores than let liquor touch my lips."
The Aussie then handed his drink back to the attendant and said........
"Me too. I didn't know we had a choice."
A man walks into a drug store with his 8-year old son.
They happen to walk by the condom display, and the boy asks, "What are these, Dad?"
To which the man matter-of-factly replies, "Those are called condoms son.
Men Use them to have safe sex."
"Oh I see," replied the boy pensively. Yes, I've heard of that in health class at school."
He looks over the display and picks up a package of 3 and asks, "Why are there 3 in this package?"
The dad replies, "Those are for high school boys, one for Friday, one for Saturday, and one for Sunday."
"Cool" says the boy.
He notices a 6 pack and asks, "Then who are these for?"
"Those are for college men," the dad answers,
TWO for Friday, TWO for Saturday, and TWO for Sunday."
"WOW!" exclaimed the boy, "then who uses THESE?" he asks, picking up a
12 pack.
With a sigh and a tear in his eye, the dad replied, "Those are for married men. One for January, one for February, one for March...:CRY: :CRY:
Mujibar was trying to get a job in India .
The Personnel Manager said, "Mujibar, you have
passed all the tests, except one. Now you must pass
one more in order to qualify for this job."
Mujibar said, "I am ready"
The manager said, "Make a sentence using the
words Yellow, Pink and Green."
Mujibar thought for awhile and said,
"Mister manager, I am ready"
The manager said, "Go ahead."
Mujibar said, "The telephone goes green, green,
and I pink it up, and say, 'Yellow, this is Mujibar.'"
Mujibar now works as a technician at a call
center for computer problems.
No doubt you have spoken to him. I have.
Man, Yellow72, that's so close to truth that is almost not funny.:LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
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Three guys -- a Canadian farmer, Osama bin Laden, and an American engineer are walking together one day.
They come across a lantern and a Genie pops out of it.
"I will give each of you one wish, which is three wishes total" says the Genie.
The Canadian says, "I am a farmer, my dad was a farmer, and my son will >also farm. I want the land to be forever fertile in Canada."
Pooooof! With a blink of the Genie's eye, the land in Canada was forever made fertile for farming.
Osama bin Laden was amazed, so he said, "I want an impenetrable wall around Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran with all believers of Mohammad inside and all Jews, Americans, and other infidels forever outside our precious state.
"Pooooof! Again, with the blink of the Genie's eye, there was a huge wall around those countries.......
The American engineer asks, "I am very curious. Please tell me more about this wall".
The Genie explains, "Well, it's 5000 feet high, 500 feet thick and completely surrounds these countries........ it's virtually impenetrable.
Now what is your wish?"
The American engineer smiles and says.... "Fill it with water."
Pooooof.....
WORLD PEACE!!!
little blue pill
An elderly gentleman went to the local drug store and asked the Pharmacist for the little blue pill.
The pharmacist asked "How many?"
The man replied, "Just a few, maybe a half dozen. I cut each one into Four pieces."
The pharmacist said, "That's too small a dose. That won't get you Through intimacy.
The old fellow said, "Oh, I'm past ninety years old and I don't even think about intimacy much anymore.
I just want it to stick out far enough so I don't pee on my new golf shoes."
The Ohio Cow
The only cow in a small town in Arkansas stopped giving milk. The
people did some research and found they could buy a cow up in Dayton
Ohio, for $200.00.
They bought the cow from Ohio and the cow was wonderful. The cow
produced lots of milk all of the time, and the people were pleased and
They decided to acquire a bull to mate with the cow and produce more
cows so they would never have to worry about their milk supply again.
They bought a bull and put it in the pasture with their beloved cow.
However whenever the bull came close to the cow, the cow would move
No matter what approach the bull tried, the cow would move away from
the bull and he could not succeed in his quest.
The people were very upset and decided to ask the Vet, who was very
wise, what to do.
They told the Vet what was happening.
"Whenever the bull approaches our cow, she moves away.
If he approaches from the back, she moves forward.
When he approaches her from the front, she backs off.
An approach from the side and she walks away to the other side."
The Vet thinks about this for a minute and asked,
"Did you buy this cow in Ohio ?"
The people were dumbfounded, since they had never mentioned where they
bought the cow.
"You are truly a wise Vet," they said. "How did you know we got the cow
in Ohio ?"
The Vet replied with a distant look in his eye, "My wife is from Ohio."
Italian Boy's Confession
"Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been a week since my
last Confession, here is my sin: I have been with a loose girl."
The priest asks, "Is that you, little Johnny Parisi?"
"Yes, Father, it is."
"And who was the girl you were with?"
"I can't tell you, Father, I don't want to ruin her reputation."
Well, Johnny, I'm sure to find out her name sooner or later, so you
may as well tell me now. Was it Tina Minetti?"
"I cannot say."
"Was it Teresa Volpe?"
"I'll never tell."
"Was it Nina Capelli?"
"I'm sorry, but I cannot name her."
"Was it Cathy Piriano?"
"My lips are sealed."
"Was it Rosa Di Angelo, then?"
"Please, Father, I cannot tell you."
The priest sighs in frustration. "You're very tight lipped, Johnny
Parisi, and I admire that. But you've sinned and have to atone. You
cannot be an altar boy now for 4 months. Now you go and behave
yourself."
Johnny walks back to his pew, and his friend Nino slides over and
whispers, "What'd you get?"
"4 months vacation and five good leads."
I rear ended a car a few days ago...I tell you, It was a REALLY bad day!
The driver got out of the other car, and he was a DWARF!!
He looked up at me and said "I am NOT Happy!"
So I said, "Well, which one of the 7 ARE you then?"
Didn't know that
Didn't Know That.. not really jokes, but interesting stuff
Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs?
A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called "pygg". When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as "pygg banks." When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a bank that resembled a pig. And it caught on.
Q: Did you ever wonder why dimes, quarters and half dollars have notches, while pennies and nickels do not?
A: The US Mint began putting notches on the edges of coins containing gold and silver to discourage holders from shaving off small quantities of the precious metals Dimes, quarters and half dollars are notched because they used to contain silver. Pennies and nickels aren't notched because the metals they contain are not valuable enough to shave..
Q: Why do men's clothes have buttons on the right while women's clothes have buttons on the left?
A: When buttons we re invented, they were very expensive and worn primarily by the rich. Because wealthy women were dressed by maids, dressmakers put the buttons on the maid's right. Since most people are right-handed, it is easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left. And that's where women's buttons have remained since.
Q Why do X's at the end of a letter signify kisses?
A: In the Middle ages, when many people were unable to read or write, documents were often signed using an X. Kissing the X represented an oath to fulfill obligations specified in the document, The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous.
Q: Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called "passing the buck"?
A: In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal. If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility, he would "pass the buck" to the next player.
Q: Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?
A: It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would then just touch or clink the host's glass with his own.
Q: Why are people in the public eye said to be "in the limelight"?
A: Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and stage lighting by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. In the theatre, performers on stage "in the limelight" were seen by the audience to be the center of attention.
Q: Why do ships and aircraft in trouble use "mayday"as their call for help?
A: This comes from the French word m'aidez -meaning "help me" -- and is pronounced "mayday,"
Q: Why is someone who is feeling great "on cloud nine"?
A: Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares..
Q: Why are zero scores in tennis called "love"?
A: In France , where tennis first became popular, a big, round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called "l'oeuf," which is French for "egg." When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans pronounced it "love."
Q: In golf, where did the term "Caddie" come from?
A. When Mary, later Queen of Scots, went to France as a young girl (for education & survival), Louis, King of France, learned that she loved the Scot game "golf." So he had the first golf course outside of Scotland built for her enjoyment. To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and guarded) while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military school to accompany her. Mary liked this a lot and when she returned to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she took the practice with her. In French, the word cadet is pronounced 'ca-day' and the Scots changed it into "caddie."


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Have you used my Kids' Mitzvah Checklist for Rosh Hashanah? My kids loved it and it was cute to see them get even more excited about doing each thing because they would also earn a sticker. (In some cases they earned more than one like for hearing shofar, davening, and setting the table.) I told them that after this set of holidays (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur), we would take a special outing in honor of all the mitzvos they had done! I don't want to reward them with a prize, because we do that for their regular behavior charts. I want this to be special!
I left a few things off the checklist. I added "I benched nicely after a meal," and "I was helpful in welcoming or serving guests." These were two things I gave my older son extra stickers for.
I also reorganized the chart to have the tasks in chronological order for the holidays. This will make it much easier for me to find each item!
I also added clip art for my younger children to make it easier for them to find the right square for their stickers. Thanks to Chinuch.org for their great clip art!
Here is the updated result. Hope you like it. It may be too late to use it for this year, but you can save the file for next. I plan to do another one for Sukkot!
Hope you have an easy fast today and that your Rosh Hashanah was meaningful!


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Travesty Generator
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Publisher: Noemi Press
SKU #: K14F
Description Author Bio
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry. Like a ghost in the machine, TRAVESTY GENERATOR remixes programming codes and turns them to ruminate on the intersections of race and gender. Rhythmic, hypnotic, and percussive, the poems are iterative and suggest the infinite recursions of nano data. The poems pay homage to lives taken too soon, those of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, pulls heroes like Harriet Tubman into the present, and offers the wisdoms spoken by Black mothers to their children. TRAVESTY GENERATOR reminds us that programming languages and computer codes are not neutral. But while oppressive algorithms abound, the poems hack their way into new connections and possibilities for Black life.
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts- Boston, where she teaches in the UMass Boston MFA in Creative Writing Program. She has previously taught at St. Lawrence University, Ithaca College, and Williams College. She was recently named the new director of the Chautauqua Institution Writers' Festival. She is the author of the poetry collections TRAVESTY GENERATOR (Noemi Press, 2019), PERSONAL SCIENCE (Tupelo Press, 2017); a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press 2016); and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2012), chosen by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Award. Bertram's other publications include the chapbook cutthroat glamours (Phantom Books, 2012), winner of the Phantom Books chapbook award; the artist book Grand Dessein (commissioned by Container Press), a mixed media artifact that meditates on the work and writing of the artist Paul Klee and was recently acquired by the Special Collections library at St. Lawrence University; and Tierra Fisurada, a Spanish poetry chapbook published in Argentina (Editoriales del Duende, 2002). She collaborated with the artist Laylah Ali for the exhibition booklet of her 2017 art show The Acephalous Series.
Author City: BOSTON, MA USA
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GeNtry!fication: or the scene of the crime
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Understanding the physics of small bodies such as asteroids, comets, and planetary moons will help us understand the formation of the solar system, and also provide us with resources for a future space economy. Due to these reasons, missions to small bodies are actively being pursued. However, the surfaces of small bodies contain unpredictable and interesting features such as craters, dust, and granular matter, which need to be observed carefully before a lander mission is even considered. This presents the need for a surveillance spacecraft to observe the surface of small bodies where these features exist. While traditionally, the small body exploration has been performed by a large monolithic spacecraft, a group of small, low-cost spacecraft can enhance the observational value of the mission. Such a spacecraft swarm has the advantage of providing longer observation time and is also tolerant to single point failures. In order to optimize a space-craft swarm mission design, we proposed the Integrated Design Engineering & Automation of Swarms (IDEAS) software which will serve as an end-to-end tool for theoretical swarm mission design. The current work will focus on developing the Automated Swarm Designer module of the IDEAS software by extending its capabilities for exploring surface features on small bodies while focusing on the attitude behaviors of the spacecraft in the swarm. We begin by classifying space-craft swarms into 5 classes based on the level of coordination. In the current work, we design Class 2 swarms, whose spacecraft operate in a decentralized fashion but coordinate for communication. We demonstrate the Class 2 swarm in 2 different configurations, based on the roles of the participating spacecraft.


David Hopkins, b-boying in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY in May 2010.
When I led trips to New York City with students, I often asked them about any special plans they had in the city. They'd almost always respond by mentioning key places that they would like to visit, like Times Square, the Empire State Building, Harlem, and so on.
But not David Hopkins, one of my student travelers. Back in 2010 when I asked him about his plans, he gave a novel answer. He said he was going to do b-boy poses around the city.
Early on when I'd ask my men travelers why they were interested in the trip, they all had a common answer: New York is the birthplace of hip hop.
Al Henderson, Justin Slay, Dometi Pongo, and of course David were all deeply immersed in various kinds of music and especially rap. A trip to NYC was, for them, a kind of spiritual journey to a place that gave rise to an art-form that they cherished.
For David, striking b-boy poses around the city was a playful, thoughtful, and creative way to pay homage to a history of music that he long studied and observed. He was also acknowledging that hip hop was not confined to the realm of the sonic. Instead, the music or, better yet, the culture of the music was also visual and kinetic.


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i do know i can't aford shimano xt or xtr v brakes.
that more or less cost the same as the LX. I would like to get opinions which brakes are better and why.
The Avid v-brake stuff is excellent and you can get them pretty cheap.
As far as performance goes pads make a much bigger difference than what brand of brakes you get. In terms of construction the nicer brakes are usually lighter, use more stainless steel hardware that resists rusting, use cartridge pads, and have better bushings or even bearings in the pivots so they feel smoother for longer.


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Art Director of the Metropolitan Opera starts up an innovative opera company that produces shows on site outside of the theater.
There are many moving pieces in a performing arts company. To connect fans, productions and public relations, OS Opera need an engaging multifaceted digital communications platform. They where looking for a company that would understand their audience, and how to craft an experience that would not only draw them to the show, but engage them through out various touch points. The company needed to be creative, collaborative and able to create a user friendly cross platform experience by harnessing the power of desktop browsers and the accessibility of mobile.
After researching the best way to approach this project, the founders of OS Opera reached to Digimix for a face to face meeting. We learned about vision, their goals and their audience. We analyzed their situation, and created a strategy that clicked with their ambitions.
DigiMix guided OS Opera through a content strategy process, which served as the foundation for an exceptional cross platform user experience. By combining the best of desktop and best of mobile features available using responsive web design, we developed a site that engage it's visitors throughout the stages on their OS Opera experience.
From discovering upcoming performances, booking tickets and meeting the cast, to mobile programs, mobile donations, and real time social media, the OS Opera audience stays connected, informed and entertained.


A narrative essay is one of the simplest essay types that can be written by a student. If you are writing an essay of this type, you simply speak about a certain topic, without needing to prove anything or make your readers believe in a certain point of view that you have.
Before you start writing, you need to understand your goal. Let's imagine that you have been assigned to write about a certain aspect of drug addiction. You cannot speak about drug addiction as a whole because the problem is too wide. You need to narrow down the subject to something specific, like teenage drug addiction. Having this topic, you can move further and, using a number of reference sources, explain the problem of drug addiction among teenagers to your readers. You don't need to express your point of view or involve readers in any discussion. You are just supposed to choose a topic that will allow you to provide readers with enough fresh, interesting, novel information.
Quite often, students are offered a list of narrative topics that are composed by their teachers. If you have such a list to use, look through it. Even if you don't choose anything on it, you will see which aspects of the problem catch your teacher's attention and are offered for your consideration. It's very likely that you will be inspired by this list and come up with your own topic ideas.
Sometimes, when creating a narrative essay topic on their own, students have no idea whether the stuff they have invented is good or poor. Remember that a good subject is one that allows you to reveal its essence within several pages. A poor idea is too specific, complicated, or broad; meaning that you either can't find any reliable information on it or you cannot summarize it in the size that is recommended by your teacher.
A good subject is one that is interesting to you. Even if the problem of drug addiction as a whole is not something you feel excited about, try to find an aspect of the problem that will make you want to find out more about it.
If you feel that the difficulty of creating an interesting narrative essay subject on your own is overwhelming you, try searching for suggestions on the Internet. There are many websites that offer lists of interesting ideas that you can use in your work. If you want more originality, you can work on them and alter them slightly.