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A Farm Show visitor checks out the butter sculpture

A dizzying fall from grace is in store for the Pennsylvania Farm Show’s famed butter sculpture.
Through tomorrow, the thousand-pound work of art will be the star attraction of the annual indoor agriculture festival. Thousands of people have snapped pictures of the refrigerated sculpture, which depicts a boy leading his prize-winning calf through a county fair.
Next week, however, a Juniata County farmer will unceremoniously dump it into a manure pit.
That’s because he’s turning the sculpture into methane gas. One thousand pounds of butter, it turns out, creates enough energy to power a farm for three days.

How does this work?
Mary Hoffman and Linda Mustacchia – both from Allentown – couldn’t figure it out as they peered at the sculpture through its eight-sided display case. “I don’t know, but I’m glad they’re doing that,” said Hoffman, who was worried the sculpture would have otherwise been thrown out. “I like butter,” she said. “But that’s a lot of butter.”

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A closer look at the thousand-pound sculpture

Turns out, butter becomes gas through the work of a methane digester. Glenn Cauffman, the manager of Penn State University’s Farm Operations, said the butter will be dumped into a big heated tank where microorganisms will feast on it. “Those microorganisms can break those fat molecules apart into the less complex molecules,” he explained. “Then further take that to produce a gas called methane, which burns readily in an engine, and can be converted into…electricity.”
As long as the farmer keeps the digester hot, the bacteria will do all the work. “Those organisms at a hundred degrees, are working hard,” said Cauffman. “They’re trying to live. They’re trying to reproduce. They’re trying to eat food, be happy, make more bacterial.”
Steve Reinford is the lucky dairy farmer who will take custody of the sculpture. He’ll be the one dumping it into the manure pit, where it will sit for several days, before he grinds it into fuel and feeds it into the digester.
Reinford said it will take about five days to load the butter/manure mix into the tank.  “And as it’s heating it’s breaking down. It’s going to take probably up to 25, 30 days to break it down completely. And that will make the methane. And then I’m going to run a generator,” he said.
Reinford has been generating energy this way for a while. He said he gets a lot of fuel from the nearby Walmart, which hands over food product that has gone bad. The methane digester creates so much energy, Reinford said, that he sells it back to the grid.
He expects the butter sculpture – or what used to be the butter sculpture – to power his home and farm for about three days.
Reinford did make sure to visit the Farm Show, to see the sculpture on display. “I took a lot of pictures of it down there so I’d be able to see it before and after. We’ll actually enjoy the heat – the electricity in our houses about a week, two weeks from now.”
Today’s butter is tomorrow’s energy.

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Lycoming County Studies Impact Fee Uses

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Pennsylvania’s natural gas drillers are cutting big checks this week. Their impact fee payments – in most cases, $50,000 per drilled well – are due by September 1. The Public Utility Commission will process the money and distribute it to state agencies and local governments by December 1.
With the money coming soon, counties and municipalities are figuring out how to spend it. Lycoming County’s commissioners are utilizing impact studies to figure out how to spend the estimated $4.8 million the county will receive.  More from the Sun-Gazette:

The impact area of housing required a careful look at all aspects of housing, including temporary housing, hotel lodging, rental property supply, affordability, resale market, the supply of subsidized and public housing and population change.
The issue of water and sewer infrastructure had to take into account the fact that there already were demands for expanded water and sewer service before the industry arrived here, Kelly said.
Dr. Vincent Matteo, president and CEO of the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce, said he supports the studies, especially those that focus on infrastructure.
“Without infrastructure, you are not going to get industry to locate here,” Matteo said. “We have decent infrastructure now, but with the growth we see now and will see in the future, we’ll want to make sure our water and sewer is up to snuff. It’s critical to economic development.

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Steelers Ranked Second In Most Well-Built Teams Of The 00s

For much of the early years of the modern National Football League, it seemed that there was often a dominant team throughout most, or at least a good portion, of a decade.

Even prior to the NFL-AFL merger, for example, Vince Lombardi’s  Green Bay Packers were certainly the dominant football force, and they went on to win the first two Super Bowl championships during the 1960s.

As the 1970s began, a new power gradually emerged from what was once the doldrums of the game to become one of the great dynasties of professional sports. That was, of course, Chuck Noll’s Pittsburgh Steelers, who won four Super Bowl championships in a six-year span between the 1974 and 1979 seasons.

In the 80s, there was the San Francisco 49ers. In the 90s, the Dallas Cowboys controlled the league’s fortunes for a good while. But free agency helped shift the balances of power, and made it more difficult to maintain championship teams.

That is why we have seen sort of mini-runs of late, usually with no clear, dominant team from year to year. It seemed that we might see that in the early 00s, but looking back on that decade, we see that it would be a disservice to leave out all but one name from that period.

Recently, former Washington Redskins and Houston Texans front office executive Charley Casserly took a look back at the 00s for the NFL Network, exploring the top five most well-built organizations through the decade. The Steelers were ranked second, behind, of course, the New England Patriots.

Here is what Casserly had to say about the Steelers, who claimed their fifth and sixth league championships in the 00s, each with a different head coach:

What gets them into number two is their postseason record. Now, they were tied with [the Philadelphia Eagles] for number three in wins, so that puts them behind New England and Indianapolis. However, in the postseason, they were 10-4. That’s the second-best winning percentage. But more importantly, 2-0 in Super Bowls. That gets them to number two ahead of Indianapolis.

Of course, the Steelers also began the 2010s with their record-tying eighth Super Bowl appearance in 2010, even though they eventually lost. They have yet to win another playoff game in one try since then.

In case you were wondering, Casserly ranked the Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants tied for fifth, with the Eagles, Indianapolis Colts, and Patriots filling out the top spots around the Steelers at number two.

I find little to argue about in his rankings, at least as far as his placement of the Steelers is concerned. They and the Patriots were the only teams to win multiple championships during the decade. The Steelers also accomplished the rare feat of a 15-1 season in 2004, and routinely sent representatives to the Pro Bowl.

The fact that they did so amidst a regime change at head coach while hardly missing a beat only adds to how wonderful a decade the 00s was for the Steelers, during which they became the most decorated franchise in the modern history of the sport.

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2016 Steelers Pre-Training Camp Roster Review: Cornerback

The Pittsburgh Steelers have wrapped things up in minicamp and put an end to their spring practices, which means that we are officially into the dead zone, the slowest time of the year for football news and general activity, the time between the end of spring drills in mid-June to the opening of training camps in late July.

Before we get there, we are going to take a look at how the team’s roster has evolved since prior to the draft, the last time that we broke down the Steelers by position, and obviously a lot has changed since they have fleshed out their 90-man roster.

Position: Cornerback

Total Positional Figure: 8

Additions: 2

Deletions: 1

Players Retained:

William Gay: William Gay is now absolutely and decidedly the old man of the group, as aside from Donald Washington, at 31, he is the only cornerback over the age of 24. But he is also still the best they’ve got, and he’s been pretty good. How much longer can he hold the fort?

Ross Cockrell: Ross Cockrell came out of close to nowhere last year, signed on the final roster cut day. He was playing within two weeks and ended up starting in the nickel defense. He figures to enter the starting lineup full-time, hopefully improved physically, mentally, and schematically.

Senquez Golson: Last year’s second-round pick, the goal is for Senquez Golson to be a heavy contributor this year, of course, after missing all of last season. He should be full-go for training camp, and will likely get a lot of work in the slot and outside, and will play where the defense works best, provided he proves to be one of the top three cornerbacks on the roster.

Doran Grant: Another second-year player, Doran Grant is often forgotten about, but shouldn’t be. He was a fourth-round pick and showed some potential in the preseason, even if his performance was pockmarked by missed tackles and a couple of blown coverages or bites on double moves.

Montell Garner: A Reserve/Future signing, Montell Garner got some positive press during spring drills, but that’s all that is for now.

Al-Hajj Shabazz: The same can be said for Al-Hajj Shabazz, who was also signed as a Reserve/Future player. The two may be more realistically competing for a practice squad spot.

Players Added:

Artie Burns: The Steelers finally used a first-round selection on a cornerback with Artie Burns this past draft. An underclassman and somewhat raw, however, he is far from guaranteed to be an immediate contributor. He is an intriguing prospect, however, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if they work him into the defense to give him some snaps even if he doesn’t immediately earn a role.

Donald Washington: A college cornerback who later played a few years at safety, Donald Washington was out of the NFL a bit but won a roster spot during tryouts at rookie minicamp. At 29, as mentioned, he is the second-oldest cornerback on the roster by far, yet his NFL experience was at safety.

Players Waived/Released:

Tobais Palmer: Another Reserve/Future Player, Tobais Palmer was waived in order to accommodate the signing of Washington, among three other tryout players. He was clearly the low man on the totem pole behind Garner and Shabazz based on that decision.

Notes and Camp Outlook: Though it has been known for some time, it struck me while writing this article and going down the list of names and writing about each just how little this group has accomplished at the NFL level.

Gay is the only player assured to be in the starting lineup at the moment, so there should be plenty of intrigue during training camp and the preseason as to how the starting lineup gets sorted out, but it will also be compelling to see how the bottom of the roster is shaped. Is Grant safe? Can Washington reclaim a roster spot? Might they keep six this year?

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“Green Car Crash” by Lauren Eyler

I’d just dropped out of med school, but I hadn’t yet gone for the powder so I was poor on account of being unsure of who I was. Then, I mostly slept to escape the body I inhabited. I failed because every third dream showed me the ways that the girl who had left me could torture me from afar. In those dreams she called and asked me to help her move. When I got to her house and rang the bell, she never answered. But every time she called, I went. Something I would’ve done when I was awake.

That day I’d awoken to the sound of the train bleating its way across the city. Strange, as I’d become used to it over the years I’d lived in Columbia. I rolled over to check the alarm clock and saw it was only eight, four hours before I usually got up.

The bleating transformed into the phone’s ringing in my dreams. For a few minutes, I lay paralyzed beneath the covers wondering if the train had called me into a somnambulant state. After a long swill of whiskey from a bottle on the nightstand, the hard taste vanquished this concern. Pretty soon I longed for coffee, but I only had the energy to turn on the TV.

It was on the History Channel, even though I knew I hadn’t watched it in weeks. A documentary was on about the Army of Tennessee’s destruction. At that moment, the narrator began discussing the Battle of Franklin that had taken place about five miles from where I’d grown up. A new train moaned. I flicked off the TV.

When I was in fifth grade, I went on a tour of the Carter House with my uncle. The house had served as Union headquarters during the battle. After the tour, I cried when he wouldn’t buy me a toy saber in the gift shop. Instead, he bought me a book called Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin. When I’d finished reading it, I called him on the phone and explained that a pile of bodies had trapped the Carter family in their basement for three days. Then, I recited the names of the five Confederate generals that had died. I read it twice more before my mom took it away because she thought I had an unhealthy obsession.

I did, however, write a poem about five mice named after the generals for the school poetry contest. The poem won honorable mention. After that I decided to become a poet. Then a year later, my poem about five wolves named after the generals failed to place. I gave up on verse.

I got out of bed to make coffee. I tried to remember the names of the generals, the names of the mice or the wolves, but nothing came to me. When I looked at my clock, it was only 8:45 so I decided that I might as well make a trip to the university library and see if I could find the book I’d read as a child.

Maybe it was the sun. Maybe it was the way cars stopped for me as I crossed the street. I started thinking of writing poems again. Poems might be the way out. Or stories. I could write a story and inhabit it with my characters. There I would find a place to hide from her.

The Civil War generals. What would they be thinking in the here and now? Their faces, the setting came to me. Ten of them would be sitting on folding chairs in a room. Their legs would be crossed. The carpet would be orange. And on the room’s walls, TV screens would be playing a continuous feed of The Falling Man. As The Falling Man fell, the generals would discuss matters of polite society. Is Lincoln really in love with what’s his name? Where was President Davis dining this evening? The generals would not wonder at the steel building. Neither would they be concerned by the smoke thicker than any they’d seen in battle nor the figure falling from a height at which they believed men could not breathe. But why?

If my story were discussed in a classroom, some tired student would posit that the generals were all blind. That student would complete my story. And if there were a second student who guessed this, she would also complete my story. The story would then be endlessly completed. If the student also suggested that the generals could not leave the room because janitors of the building had piled bodies outside, then that student would not only complete the story but also understand the author. The professor in that classroom would take that student’s idea and write a paper that the committee of the American Journal of Literature would accept. The published article might be enough for the professor to get a tenure-track position.

By the time I walked in the library doors, I’d decided that the professor would ultimately lose out because the story and the author would be overlooked while the next cannon construction took place. The professor would wither into an old woman housed somewhere at a satellite campus in Idaho. She’d never teach the story again.

At the library computers, I found the book’s call number. I hadn’t brought paper with me so I took a notecard from a pile and wrote E468.9 .F385 2008. As I was riding the elevator down to the third floor, I realized I held a card from the library’s dismantled card catalogue. I flipped it over thinking, wouldn’t it be a story if the card held the location of the book that I was looking for? It didn’t of course.

No. The author of the book on this card was Achen, Lotte. She had entitled her book, Hand in her Pockets: The Abridged Memoirs of Lauren Eyler. The call number read PT 2687. E85 S7 1996. This number indicated that the book had been translated. Since I knew Ms. Achen hailed from Dortmund and I had spent a number of years of my life with her, I knew the book had been translated from German.

Before I returned to the elevator, I retrieved the book on Franklin. I thought over General Hood, who’d had an arm and a leg amputated during the war. In the black-and-white photos I remembered, he looked no better than the Army of Tennessee that he had spent the entire war destroying in an attempt to win. He had gone about planning battles as stupidly as a general could and for this I took a strong disliking to him as a child. For me, as a Tennessean and uninformed youth, he lost the war for us. This was a bad thing when I thought about it then. Here I am obliged to say that I don’t think of it as a bad thing now. In fact, it is a fine thing, a fine thing what General Hood had done in trying to win because he had lost.

Envision a library, a college library. Imagine a forest. Allow the shelves to become trees and the trees to become shelves. The experiences are now one. In both places, you never know what you might find, a flower that leads to a stream that leads to a hill—the book you stumble across whose index leads you to another that leads you to a magazine in which you encounter a phrase that defines you at that very moment in time. I strode across the carpet of the library’s sixth floor. The sense of merging urged me forward. I felt the same tears flow together, the exact same tears I cried when I read the line you haunt me from a letter I had received from Lotte two years before.

I did not find a book. Instead, I found a piece of paper. The paper looked as if it had been jammed in a bag full of rocks before it had been shelved between two titles of which I feel ashamed to write the names.

The title of the book only existed on the card. The ink was blue, the only color she wrote letters in, but the handwriting was as unfamiliar and insignificant as the font of any book worth reading.

She lived nineteen years before she discovered me, she the conquistador and I from Aztlan. And though you want this to be from her perspective because of this volume’s title it is not. She does not understand herself as what she trod upon and left. In her mind, she is a character in a novel. She is the character that disappoints her crowd and then won’t go home again.

We went to Normandy. She walked out onto the pier and stood above water where the remnants of 10,000 men soak and float. There she put her hands in the pockets of her long black coat. Her posture said I am looking at myself as a person who is looking at a tragedy. Later that night, she said she should have died weighted down by a helmet and bullets before arriving at the beach. She also told me she loved me, but she told this to too many people and the words were no more than soaked and floating skin.

I am the non-existent victim of the car crash she had. I am the one that would have landed her in jail for the rest of her life. I am also the police officer that would have given her the ten DUIs she had snuck by.

Tell her when you see her that she wants answers to questions that cannot be answered. She wanted to know over the phone why I could not answer them. I never answered those questions because if I had she would have attempted to live them. She could not have lived those answers any more then she could have died on D-Day. No more than she could have ever died for a cause.

If she wants to know if I will talk to her please tell her I will not. Wreckage cannot speak.

And if she finds that this is overwritten tell her it is not more overwritten than her account of her own life.

Do I write that I never left the library? No, the truth is more important. I left. Do I say I learned that liking General Hood left me looking like him? No. I will still say that I will be like Pollock and will kill people when I’m drinking and driving and leave my wife a widow. After I have died, she will make mediocre art. And she will think she has gotten rid of me, but I will hang across from her in the Tate Modern next to a can of Campbell’s Soup.

Lauren Eyler is a second year MFA student at the University of South Carolina. She is also the co-editor of their literary magazine, Yemassee.


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Oh, man. The Christmas special of The Office did not disappoint. Although it was almost more painful to watch than ever.

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The second part, and the final episode ever, is on tomorrow night, and I can't wait. I need to know what will happen to Dawn and Tim! Oh, I hope you Americans get these last two episodes before the remake spoils the series for you forever.
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Understanding "Pasture to Plate" - Part Three

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Part Three: Shipping Direct to You

For our final post in this three-part series, we share a Q&A focused on a “day in the life” of our shipping team, along with responses to some commonly asked questions from our customers.

Where do you ship? We ship to all 50 states. Orders typically arrive within 1 to 2 days of leaving our shipping facility.

What happens after I place my order? Orders are shipped out from our warehouse every Monday/Tuesday via next day or two-day shipping. That means if you place your order by midnight on Sunday it will likely arrive the same week! Our small shipping team starts their day at 6 am early each week to ensure all orders are processed in a timely fashion. Our goal is to process, pack, and ship your order so that you receive it within 7-10 days of when you placed the order.

Does the meat come fresh or frozen? All our meat is shipped frozen for optimal storage in transit. Fresh and frozen meat is available at our AIM farmers market booth, every Thursday and Sunday year-round, from 8am-1pm at the Marin County Civic Center.

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How is the meat packed for shipping? A team member uses each order slip to pull cuts from the warehouse freezer, place them in crates, and carry them to the packing station. Each order is then boxed and packed with dry ice. In keeping with our eco-friendly philosophy, our box liners are made from recycled water bottles, and our cardboard boxes are fully recyclable. Extra ice packs may be added at our discretion to keep the product well chilled during transit. These ice packs provide extra protection in the event of an unexpected delay once the product has left our warehouse facility.

What else comes in my box? Each box includes a sticker with information on the proper handling and disposal of dry ice, as well as instructions for thawing the meat, and recommended cooking temperatures. You will also find an order summary slip, and either a brochure (new customers) or postcard along with a handwritten note of thanks from one of our team members.

Do you track your orders? Yes. We work closely with our shipping companies to track each order, and provide customer support in the event of an unexpected delay in arrival. Customer service is very important to us, and our small team takes great pride in providing a personalized customer experience.

Do you ship whole animals? Yes we do! We can ship half and whole lambs, 1/8th of a pig, and 1/16th and 1/8th of a beef. We also offer our beeves by the half or whole animal with custom cut & wrap, and customer pick-up at partner butcher shops in the North Bay. Click here to learn more about whole animal purchase.

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My Deepest Wound and a Story of Healing

“In my deepest wound I saw your glory and it astounded me.” – Saint Augustine

This is hard for me to write. I feel uncomfortably vulnerable, but I also feel compelled to tell my story and witness to what God has done for me.

Six Octobers ago on this day, I shared the story of my first miscarriage,  which had occurred earlier that year. I lost my baby early in the first trimester, but it was still such a horrible experience and an intense grief. I think every newly expecting mother knows loss is a possibility each time she says yes to life, but it’s still so unreal, so unbelievable and unacceptable, when it happens to you.

Last year on Labor Day, we lost our second baby. The day before it happened, we had made the cute video of our kids announcing their new baby, and I had planned to text the video to both sides of relatives that very day I started spotting and experiencing all the telltale signs of what was to come.

We were heartbroken. In many ways this grief was much harder to bear than our first because we had children old enough to experience the loss with us. When we told the kids, my youngest son started bawling – just weeping uncontrollably and my heart broke into a thousand shards and splinters in that moment. It was like watching my own grief lived out in a newly minted four year old and the hurt just soaked into all of us.

Shock and fear is what I felt holding a positive pregnancy test just six weeks later. I couldn’t even believe it was possible so soon after a miscarriage. So naturally I took two more boxes worth of pregnancy tests just to be sure.

We had cautiously told my parents, and only them, when the first signs of miscarriage started shortly before Thanksgiving. And to this day we’ve barely told anyone that we have a third little soul waiting for us in Heaven. Someday we will tell our children, but at the time they were still grieving miscarriage #2 and we didn’t want to overly burden their little hearts.

I’m sharing this to tell you the story of what happened next. It started subtly at first, but over the course of the fall and winter, my heart glazed over and calcified.

Have you been in that place where you don’t want to feel anything? I didn’t want to feel joy or happiness, physically, spiritually, sexually, or emotionally, because that meant I’d have to feel the full gamut of emotions, including the anger, sadness, jealousy, and grief. And I couldn’t deal with the hurting stuff. It was easier not to feel anything at all.

I remember sitting in Mass feeling literally nothing. I recall avoiding husband hugs and Christmas cheer, putting off date nights and intentionally avoiding morning devotional reading and prayer time. Prayer felt wooden. Everything just felt gray.

As Lent approached, I started consciously trying to put myself back together. I ate a really clean diet, exercised consistently, went on date nights and girl’s nights, and tried to restart a prayer and devotional life. I felt inspired to read the book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament as a Lenten devotion. I had no particular reason for picking Ezekiel besides the fact I couldn’t remember reading it cover to cover as an adult, and figured it would be a good thing to do for Lent. It’s 48 chapters long, Lent is about the same length, it just worked.

Ezekiel is the story of the Nation of Israel during the hardest years of the Babylonian Exile. It’s the story of God’s called and chosen people not living their best life, easily susceptible to the pagan culture they are surrounded with in Captivity. Ezekiel is God’s mouthpiece warning of the impending Fall of Jerusalem, the necessary purification for Israel’s disobedience and hardness of heart.

Ezekiel tells Israel that a painful purging is coming. But with the unavoidable bad news comes the promise of a New Covenant, of a good work of grace that God would do for Israel that would make their obedience and faithfulness to Him possible:

“And a new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.” – Ezekiel 36:26-27

Even though Israel wanted to walk rightly with God, they couldn’t break the cycle of a hard heart on their own. So God, the loving Father and merciful King, did it for them.

As I sloughed my way through Lent with my own stony heart, I realized maybe I was going through the whole healing process wrong. I was trying to fix me and heal me by doing a lot of stuff: healthy habits, healthy lifestyle, spiritual exercises. It wasn’t working very well.

As simple as it sounds, I said a little prayer and specifically asked God to break my heart of stone like he did for Israel, and heal me.

It happened a few weeks later, at the end of Lent. I had one of the most profound experiences of the Holy Spirit I’ve ever had in my life.

It was like I was zapped. I felt FLOODED by His love, His grace, His mercy. It was so unspeakably beautiful, profound, simple, complete, all rolled into one. I felt loved. I knew Love. I wanted to be with Him and for Him and just – heart bursting stuff. It’s like I saw things in color again, and my heart was singing for no reason at all, or maybe for every reason. I felt happy. This probably sounds charismatic, and I don’t consider myself charismatic at all, but it was definitely a Holy Spirit breaking and healing and all I can say is I am not the same person. I feel enveloped in love and mercy unlike anything I have ever known.

I share this because I think many of us try to fix our own hurt and end up just spinning our wheels or wallowing in our sorrow unhealed. And I think God wants us to ask Him for help. Simple and sincere, just ask Him for help. He is the great Healer. And just as He healed Israel and turned a nation of stony hearts (Ezekiel 36) and dry bones (see Ezekiel 37) into a people pulsing with a new spirit and a new song to sing, He can do the very same thing for me, and for you.

I don’t know what your deepest wound is, but I’m certain you have one. We all do. We are a people full of wounded hearts in a messy world, most of us hiding our sorrows and sufferings on the inside where no one can see (at least that’s what I do).

Bring it to Christ. Grab Him in prayer and just like Jacob (Israel) who wrestled with God and refused to let go without a blessing, cling to him until He works in you. Even with rock in your heart and no emotion left, cling and ask.

I still hurt about my three babies. I always will. But in the midst of a deep wound that is personal, private, and different for each couple who walks the journey of loss, I have encountered Him in a way that makes words seem trite. And I am bowed down and bowled over by His glory.

P.S. Read Ezekiel 36-37 and then listen to this.

10 thoughts on “My Deepest Wound and a Story of Healing

  1. Wow, Stephanie. This is so beautiful. Whenever someone suffers such deep wounds and yet remains faithful to God I am always reminded of what a pastor friend told me a long time ago; that if you pull back the skin of a righteous man (woman) you’ll see nothing but scars. Thank you for sharing your story in a way that some women just can’t.

  2. Please pray for healing for my sweet friend Kaitlyn who miscarried her first baby back in June. She is from Charlotte originally.

  3. Hey Stefanie,

    Thanks for sharing your story. I started a ministry for couples and individuals of child loss 2 years ago in the Diocese of Lafayette, La and I was sent this blog that said “you should know her!”

    Don’t know if you would be interested in jumping on a podcast with me and sharing your story. So many families out there sometimes just need Christ to speak through us straight to their hearts.

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Action Bronson – Legend in the Making / NYC Music

Browsing through my twitter tweets a year ago, I received a tweet from my man Dante Ross referring to rapper Action Bronson as one of the best rappers to succeed. I gave Action a listen, and ever since I have been a fan of the Queens rapper. Dante was on point to no surprise.

Finally, I hear and see a rapper that is representing the sound and humor of New York City.

Often Action Jackson gets compared to the likes of Ghostface from the infamous Wu Tang Clan, but this doesn’t phase Action. He is very comfortable in being compared to Ghost, but in actuality, Action truly aspires to be Kool G Rap.

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The native of Queens, New York is not only a talented rapper, but is also known for his talents of cooking. He has had a cooking show and also displays some of his ability on his videos laying down some serious home cooking.

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Representing Discontent: South Africa in words and on screen

This project focuses on the affective shaping of identity in South African texts of the 21st century. In particular, I wish to examine how South African creatives (a category that truces South Africa as a zone of activity rather than a geographical starting point) have written about the South African post-transition. I propose to read a variety of South African creative texts (novels, short story collections, films) as scenes of relation from which we might conceptualize how affect is shaping depictions of South African cultural subjectivities. The project thinks about discontent as a structure of feeling that attends to the negotiation of attachments and alienations represented in these works: what fantasies of ordinariness are displaced, reformulated or disordered by life in the durative present?

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Comfy Chic is the New Normal but Shoes are Now Optional

Since working from home seems to be the new normal for most individuals these past couple of weeks, I put together some comfy work from home outfits that are sure to make you feel chic. The first week you were probably extremely excited to be at home working in your pj’s this week, but you might need some help navigating this new normal of comfy chic we all find ourselves in. If you are like me then at times you find yourself wondering why should I even get dressed. I have found that: getting dressed, putting minimal makeup on, or even just brushing my hair puts me in a boss bitch mode. whenever I’m in that mode I typically get a lot of shiii done. Try these tips and tricks and I promise it could help with your mental health, make you feel more confident, and you will get shi done.

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| Anna Boleyn

Anna Boleyn

Anna Boleyn

Ernst Lubitsch

Germany, 1920

Review by Ian Johnston

Posted on 02 June 2007

Source Kino Video DVD

It always seems surprising today that in his own day Ernst Lubitsch’s reputation as a silent filmmaker was based as much on his big historical epics – works like Madame Dubarry and Anna Boleyn – as on comedies of the likes of The Oyster Princess. Certainly modern taste favours the effervescence and frivolities of Lubitsch’s comic touch rather than the heavier hand at work in these epics. There are nice touches, and Anna Boleyn is relatively successful, but it is hard to escape a certain turgidity inherent in the genre.

The historical story is a well-known one. Anne Boleyn – whom Lubitch’s film calls for whatever reason“Anna” – was a former lady-in-waiting who King Henry VIII married in 1533 after ensuring his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon was annulled; the English Church’s break with Rome occurred as part of this process. But Anne never produced a male heir and by 1536 the king had grown tired of her, and she was charged with adultery and treason, imprisoned in the Tower of London, and then beheaded.

The Anna of Lubitsch’s film is an innocent, a naïve and guileless young woman who never seeks the King’s attentions but who also never has the strength to completely reject them either. From early on, she is a victim whose motivations and intentions are misunderstood by those around her. At their “meeting cute” – she attracts Henry’s attention when her dress is comically caught in a door – she is as flirtatious as he is, but she’s quickly resistant to his advances, advances which are very close to physical/sexual assaults, one in the bushes, the other in her own bedroom.

Yet in spite of her essential innocence she’s immediately ostracised by the courtiers in attendance, as she is, on the Queen—as Lubitsch shows us in one scene in the Queen’s chamber with Anna alone on the left, the Queen and her courtiers huddled together on the right, and a wide, empty, alienating space between them. Her lover Norris similarly misinterprets her behaviour, and Lubitsch underlines this with two parallel scenes of observation through a window. In both cases a figure stands outside a window, looking in and interpreting the scene unfolding before him.

In the first case, Lubitsch repeats the interior shot of Norris and Anna embracing with one that now frames them within the open window frame; Anna’s uncle the Duke of Norfolk stands in the extreme foreground, looking in and in the process discovering the relationship developing between the two. In the second, it is Norris himself who is the outside observer when he catches sight of King Henry climbing out of Anna’s window. But this time the observer misinterprets the scene before him. She has just rejected the King’s advances but Norris mistakes what he sees as a sign that exactly the opposite has occurred. This pattern of misinterpretation will continue through the film, in minor note (Smeaton spots Norris kissing Queen Anna’s hand in the woods and reads this as giving him licence to try the same) and major (the enmity of the court; the false accusations at Anna’s trial).

Anna’s innocence is underlined through the contrast with the very different character of Jane Seymour. Jane is in a sense a mirror image in negative of Anna, where the false motivations ascribed to Anna hold to be true in Jane’s case—Jane very deliberately attracts Henry’s attention in order to win his affections away from Anna. In the late confrontation between the two Jane claims that “I serve you as you served Catherine”, but the film once again positions Anna as innocent: here, dressed in a simple nightdress, Anna kneels before the haughty Jane in her fine clothes.

Anna Boleyn does everything to meet the requirements of the historical epic. There are the large and elaborate exterior and interior sets, the lavish furnishings, the rich clothing, and the big outdoor scenes—a court sports event, Anna’s coronation, a Spring Festival, a hunt, a joust, and even a street battle outside the cathedral which must have had a contemporary resonance for the German audience of the day. But the film suffers from Anna’s bland characterisation and a general plodding, predictable tone. It only really comes alive with the character of King Henry.

Henry is played by Emil Jannings, and his portrayal of Henry is characteristic of the power and strength he always brought to his roles. (Jannings even made his “loser” roles – like the doorman in The Last Laugh and the professor in The Blue Angel – invested with the grandiose, although there was always a whiff of the hammy as well.) The King Henry of Anna Boleyn is a sensual man of powerful appetites, greedy, lubricious, and sometimes violent. The scenes of his exuberant carousing around the table with his drunken cronies/courtiers are set up in deliberate contrast to the stately formality of Queen Katherine’s court.

In his excessive sating of his senses, Henry is also a source of comedy. There’s the way in Katherine’s presence he peeks surreptitiously at Anna, which he then tries to cover up with the pretence of a coughing fit. Or, how at the Spring Festival, Henry sneaks away while Anna is not looking in pursuit of one of the scantily-clad maidens. Or even the slapstick note of the scene where Henry stands up and the girl sitting on his lap tumbles to the ground.

Not that the darker side to Henry’s exuberance doesn’t also become apparent. We see it in his violent attacks on the jester and on Smeaton, and in the ruthlessness with which he conducts his campaign to produce a male heir, involving as it does his courtship of Lady Jane, his ignoring of his own new-born daughter (in one scene, literally abandoned to one side), and his orchestration of the downfall of Anna herself.

But for all the moral failings of his character, which the film does take to task, Henry is still the lively centre of a rather ponderous tale, a tale that fortunately is also enlivened by instances of Lubitch’s directorial wit. There’s a lovely touch right at the start which introduces Anna by having her rise up into the frame to match the rocking of the ship she is on. There are some nice occasions where Lubitsch plays with contrasts between foreground and background—as when two porters open a pair of heavy gates onto a busy dockside scene, or when a wall of vegetables is pulled down to reveal the palace kitchen. And there’s some fascinating use of masking that creates geometric shapes (ovals, squares, triangles, even avant la lettre widescreen rectangles) to highlight a character or characters within a scene.

Lubitsch also effects a very satisfying change to the aesthetic/visual tone of the film at the end as Anna’s story winds down to her inevitable death. The wide spaces and elaborate furnishings vanish in favour of the stark empty prison walls; Anna’s rich clothing is replaced by a simple pale gown; and our final image of her is the sombre image of her standing between two dark-hooded executioners, an age away from the lyricism of her early scenes in the film. Now she is led away, literally off the screen and out of the film—to her death.

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Everything I know about love and sex now I’m 26. Part 2/2

Inspired by Dolly Alderton in her book, ‘Everything I know about love’.

See Part 1/2 here.

Nice guys are hard to come by.

If you spend the entirety of your teenage years in ONE long-term committed relationship by the time you turn 21, you won’t know how to talk to a boy you like, flirt, or know what it’s like to have sex with another man.  You’ll think you know everything there is to know about sex, but you don’t.

When you find yourself single, everyone else will be shacking up with partners because they will have had their dodgy teenage years and found a decent bloke.

If you sleep with someone on a first date, you won’t prove to him you’re not a prude and actually really cool and sexy.  And he won’t stay.

You cannot make someone fall in love with you.

You won’t necessarily love the people who fall for you.

It’s never easy to dump someone.

It’s never nice being dumped.

Blind dates through dating apps are torture in disguise.

Friends don’t want to talk about sex anymore.

Friends don’t want to hear when you’re sad, lonely and depressed.

Your sisters are some of the best people to give you dating advice because they know all your flaws and charms.

Getting drunk and flirting outrageously with friends’ partners is NEVER a good idea.

Drinking 3 bottles of wine and going to a random guy’s house for sex and drugs does NOT show him you’re edgy.  It shows him you are desperate and don’t respect yourself.

Shave your legs and Immac your vag for you.  If you do it in anticipation of a hot weekend, you are bound to be disappointed on Sunday night when it’s gone to waste because no one has appreciated it.

Some people have loads of luck with dating.  It’s not a reflection of your qualities.

Some people will still brag about their relationship on social media.  Try and ignore them.

If a behaviour isn’t working, change it.

If you can’t change it yourself, get help.  Consider paying a therapist to help you sort yourself out and move forward.

If someone seems too good to be true, they probably are.

People will ALWAYS say that love happens when you least expect it.  Try and heed this advice and stop looking for love.

Confidence has got to come from within; you cannot rely on someone else for your happiness.

You can’t convince an addict to love you more than their vice.  The substance will always come first.

Fuck buddies only work when you’re both on the same page.

Spend your time working on yourself, doing things you enjoy.  That way, you’ll be smiling and occupied and your love for life will attract the right person for you.

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  1. The V Pub says:

    “Some people will still brag about their relationship on social media.” And a lot of it is a fairy tale. I loved both segments today!

    1. Yes absolutely! It’s so easy to forget that online life is filtered life. Thanks for the support!

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The applicant must have a solid background in accounting, generally accepted accounting principles, and comprehensive financial reporting.  The position will be responsible for the accurate preparation of monthly financial statements with comparison to budget and prior year results in accordance with Diocesan Policies and Procedures.  Coordinate and complete annual budgets.  Preparation and presentation of Financial information for Parish Finance Council meetings.  Processing of customer receipts, payroll processing, payment of supplier/vendor bills, bank reconciliations and correctly reconciling all general ledger accounts and ensuring proper maintenance of accounting records. The applicant needs to be an effective communicator and be able to provide specific operational and good financial advice to the Pastor.

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Robert Phillips is George R. Gardiner Professor in Business Ethics and Professor of Strategic Management at the York University’s Schulich School of Business in Toronto. His work on stakeholder theory and corporate responsibility has appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Management, and the Academy of Management Review among others. He is author of Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics (2003) and is co-editor (w/ J. Harrison, J. Barney, & R.E. Freeman) of the Cambridge Handbook of Stakeholder Theory (2019). He has held leadership positions in the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society and is also past president of the Society for Business Ethics. He was awarded the titles of Master Teacher in Ethics by The Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University, Senior Fellow at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at Darden, and Affiliate Research Scholar at the Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation (RICSI). He was a founding member of the Stakeholder Strategy IG.


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Gisele and Bob Sinclar-Heart of Glass

Could this be the Song of Summer 2014?

Even though it’s only May 7, 2014. Myself and Streetzblog are calling Gisele and Bob Sinclar’s Heart of Glass, the Song of Summer or as we say on my DJ blog-This years #1 SUMMER STORMER *TM/DJSW.

Gisele hooked up with one of the hookiest producers of all time to re-make Blondie’s Heart of Glass for H&M. Ever since H&M came to Hawaii, I can’t stop  writing about them. And Now, Bob Sinclar! and Gisele! Together! This deserves a blog post for sure. Gisele Super Model. Bob Sinclar Super Producer/DJ.  I played the full song on my radio show this past Saturday and received many great calls and compliments. See the the Mini Ultra video of Heart of Glass here:

Watch the making of the video here:

And for my Birthday, Friday May 2nd Bob Sinclar performed for H&M right next to Walgreens in the Heart of Times Square, NYC.

If you liked Heart of Glass I’m sure you’ll ll enjoy these fun, older, extremely catchy Bob Sinclar tunes.   World Hold On, What a Wonderful World and one of my favorite songs of all time Love Generation.

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I don’t really mention my music and Dj world on Streetzblog, I tend to keep that part of my world a bit on the DL. But, since Heart of Glass could be the #1 Summer Stormer of 2014, I figured I couldn’t keep my other world a secret and have you miss out on some of Bob’s older tunes. He’s been one of my favorite artists ever. One that American radio has not embraced too much, but as you can see, Bob is quite talented, popular and one of the world’s most popular best kept secrets. BTW: He’s really good friends with the biggest EDM groups of all time-Swedish House Mafia, as you can see in the middle video above,  he did What a Wonderful World with Axwell.

Since I spent all my birthday money on clothes and music, I now need to go eat one of my favorite cheap foods. Savory Lemon Yellow Potatoes.  Ahhh, they really are good and very inexpensive.  Since I also had caffeine for the first time in weeks, I’ll keep typing and give you my recipe for this Delish meal.

Buy a Big bag of round yellow potatoes from Sam’s Club or Costco. Put  them in the fridge so they last a long time. Take out 3 each time you make this dish. Slice them thinly with a sharp steak knife. Put in micro for 2 minutes. Flip potatoes, and press 2 more minutes. Take out, Pour heart healthy olive oil on them, Add lemon juice from the plastic yellow Lemon, and two small twists of Sea Salt. Put back in microwave for 45 seconds. Make sure you let them sit for a bit. Then eat the potatoes. Next up, the best part…drink the Olive Oil, Lemon, and Sea Salt mixture.It tastes just like lobster or crab  or whatever you like to dip into delicious Lemon/Olive Oil/Sea Salt Sauce.  Oh yeah, totally yummy and  saves you money for More clothes, More clothes and More  music.

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The Spirit of Aloha is Alive and Well with the Hokule’a Homecoming

The Hokule’a coming into shore to Magic Island. My View from the Ocean. June 17, 2017

The Polynesian voyaging canoe entitled the Hokule’a returned to the island of Oahu today: 7/17/17. It traversed the world for 3 years, 40,000 nautical miles to 19 different countries spreading the Aloha Spirit and Malama Honua-Caring for the Earth. Without using modern navigation instrumentation available in 2017. Navigated by the stars, winds and waves, eyes and arms.

Many of you may know the saying Eddie Would Go. This comes from the 1978 sailing of the Hokule’a, when a horrendous storm capsized the canoe and Eddie Aikau left the boat to seek help on his surfboard. Eddie never returned. The rest of the crew were eventually saved. The Saying Eddie Would Go, would become Quicksilver’s biggest selling shirt and the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Surfing Invitational, the biggest big Wave surfing Event in the World.

Nainoa Thompson, navigator and president of the Polynesian Voyaging society looks forward to continue to educate Malama Honua visiting over 100 schools in the next 8 months. (2017-18)

The Hokulea means the Star of Gladness. And as mentioned the Hokulea visited many lands to share their Aloha.

You can learn more about the Hokule’a on many news sites. Today I will tell you about my day in the ocean with the Hokule’a & the Gladness and Aloha I noticed.

As many of you know, I may live most of my months in Hawaii, but I’m a clothes, shoe and city type person. I’ve tried surfing in the 80s for 4 years and again in the 90s for about 7 years. I’ve had fun at it, but still have trouble not doing 360’s under water and getting as they say; Pounded.

Today 6.17.17 I awoke at 6am to meet my Stand Up Paddle board at exactly 630am. It was hard to wake up. I made it just in time. Got smashed by 6 waves in a row which woke me up very quickly.

Then it was off to the races, I paddled to the Magic Island destination in 20 minutes. (On the way back it took 1.5 hours).

Got there, was able to watch 5 or 6 Voyaging Canoes from all over the world,  come through the channel up close and personal right next to the red number 2 buoy.

Next we were all able to watch 8 dolphins which looked a little like sharks OMG, bob up and down through the waves. This was amazing, to see dolphins in their natural habitat.

Then, all of a sudden canoes took off, traversing horizontal against the Hawaiian beaches. Some people left and thought things were done. I luckily followed the canoes.

It was here that we saw the incredible Hokule’a escorted in to the Magic Island harbor. At one point I was paddling right beside them on a (SUP) stand up paddle board! Very Exciting to say the least.

The elation in my eyes and my neighbors eyes was unbelievable, complete awe and propelled ecstasy.

Canoes, SUP boards, Surfboards, Kayaks, Sailboats, even a couple of motor boats all in sync with the Hokulea.

Myself, My friend Don and my new acquaintances are all somewhere in this picture. High Speed Ocean Highway June 7, 2017.

It was like a Highway in the Ocean! Without the road rage, with pure Aloha and Gladness.

Sometimes being on land, I and many other people get lost in our air-conditioned office jobs and never see the Beach or Ocean, this was not that day.

After the Hokule’a passed and went on to the party at Magic Island. I saw the most Aloha Spirit ever. Me, being a bit awkward on my paddle board, it was very nice to hear so many happy people saying things like:

Are you ok?
Give congrats for going for it today
& Good for You

The Aloha Spirit was more than alive and well in the Pacific Ocean today. Was it the Dolphins? The instant friendship with strangers? The Sun and Ocean? The Hokule’a?
Whatever it was, it was very nice to see. The Aloha Spirit is alive and well in Hawaii Nei.

After the thrilling & exciting Ocean Highway, the world stopped. I was there in the middle of the ocean all by myself. Was I scared? No. Did I Know how far away I was from land? No. Did it matter? No. I was at peace, happy and definitely Glad-filled.

It did take an hour and half to paddle back to home base, but as I was going there, people:

Asked if I was ok?
Laughed when I slipped and  fell in the ocean.
Smiled and said Hi
Were in a super good mood, conversing with me, playing music and making friends

After an intense paddle back. I timed my entrance to the beach perfectly, caught a HUGE wave, and no I didn’t fall. I rode that wave like Kelly Slater in a crouched surfer position with a huge smile on my face…all the way to the Beach.

Story doesn’t end here. I was smiling so big, I received more smiles from the beach AND for the first time in my life, someone helped me carry my heavy board down the beach. It felt like I was walking in quicksand and today, I was helped. Amazing!

The happiness didn’t stop there. I met a nice lady from Amsterdam, watched her things for her and had a nice chat. Then I met a couple honeymooners from Mexico and had a nice conversation with them. Wow! barely ever does any one speak to me on the beach. I must have taken some of the great enchanting Mana from the Hokule’a event.

Streetzblog view from the beach. Post SUP paddle. Relaxing and enjoying the mana & the friendship on land.

I hear about the Aloha Spirit, I know it exists, I try my best to be positive and happy, Today I saw it in action, with everyone around me.

Thanks for the nice day. Today was a good day. Special Mahalo to @donfujiyama for the invite. A Magical, Exciting, Fun, Historic and Memorable day had by all! #TodayWasAGoodDAy

See you on the Streetz or maybe in the Ocean! Have a good one, wherever you are, we are…Aloha. Eddie would have been there too. Most likely was in spirit.

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Minutes: Meeting 50
Date held: Wednesday 13th Oct 2010
Chair: Dr Emma Bird
Emily Goodall -Neuroscience
Dan Hampshire- Cardiovascular
Clare Druce – Infection and Immunity
Cher Cartwright – Human Metabolism
Kay Guccione – Post Doc Developmental Officer
Kate Vaughan – Infection and Immunity
Emma Bird
Heather Mortiboys
Laura Ferraiuolo
M Trikic
Q Wang
Claudia Paiva
Amanda Burnett
Scott Allen
1. Apologies for absence
Julie Preston
2. Minutes of previous meeting
The minutes from the previous meeting were agreed and signed.
3. Actions agreed from previous meeting
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Tim Skerry meeting regarding BRIDGING FUND
Comments: We have £1000
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As we have an unsupported source of money it may not be advantageous to bridge
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Clare Stokes Secretary, Post Doctoral Society
[email protected]
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The weather started out mostly sunny yesterday, but we did have a rain shower later in the evening. The waves became rougher during the day, but not enough that we had to stay out of the water.

This is what was left of the sand castle we built the day before. The high tide got some of it, but we just built another one.

I thought this clam shell was interesting. I didn't do much beach combing yesterday - only picked up 2 shells. I was too busy watching the waves keeping an eye out for rip currents while the kids swam. With that sand bar building up, the waves were going all different directions which had me a bit worried. No rip currents, though :D

This is the sunset we saw from our deck last night. This was about an hour before the rain started.

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Linked to your site from someone else's. Love your journal of Dauphin Island. I don't like the ocean, but your photos make me long for such a vacation. I have even looked it up on the internet.
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