This post first appeared on the YL Capernaum Everywhere blog.
When I was getting started with Capernaum in Baltimore, Sarah was the first friend I met. She, along with her parents, taught me so much about what it meant to do ministry alongside of my new friends with disabilities. She has since graduated from YL Capernaum and is heavily involved in her local church. I have asked Sarah if she would be willing to type out some of her thoughts about Capernaum and what it's like to now be involved in her church. Her answers are stunning. I hope you enjoy!
What did you love about being involved in Capernaum?
My name is Sarah Brintnall and I am 26 years old. I am writing this by two head switches because I can't use my hands to type. The first thing I loved and still love about being involved in Capernaum is that I was able to make friends from night one. You see, I am in a wheelchair because I have cerebral palsy. Due to the kind of cerebral palsy I have, I am unable to speak, feed myself, and do the daily tasks the average person would probably take for granted. You know, my first church wasn't "disability " friendly at all except for one or two dear friends like Ms. Kathy (who is an amazing woman in my eyes ) and my own grandmother (which now my family is taking care of because she has really bad dementia ), and my own family, nobody made the effort to learn how to communicate with me. Nobody made their programs accessible for me. The physical church building also wasn't totally wheelchair accessible for me. The only way I could "participate " in these programs was if a family member took me and stayed with me to help me to participate in these programs.
What I immediately fell in love with Capernaum is that they were all in with both feet from night one. My amazing mother was planning on staying with me that first night at the Goodman's house where regular middle school WyldLife club was going on. Because my middle school speech teacher was actually the one who invited me, when I arrived, my speech teacher and these two amazing girls told my Mom "see you in two hours!" I also have two wonderful older brothers who do not have disabilities. Capernaum helped my parents spend time with them because when I was with my new friends, my parents now had the "freedom" to spend time with them without always taking care of me. From night one, my new friends made everything at WyldLife club totally accessible for me. They made the effort to learn how to communicate with me, they made the effort and the necessary time that summer to learn how to take care of me before going to a regular 5-day middle school WyldLife camp at Rockbridge down in Virginia. I absolutely loved how my 3 new friends did everything humanly possible down at Rockbridge for me to participate in every single camp activity just like all the regular middle school campers. Before I started Capernaum, I only had so many activities to do outside of the typical school day because of my cerebral palsy. Capernaum literally opened a brand new world for me and everybody in my world. Thank you Capernaum!!!
How did Capernaum help you grow in your relationship with Jesus?
Like I mentioned earlier, my first church wasn't "disability" friendly at all. The only person outside of my family who really intentionally took the time to really sit down with me and talk to me and help me grow in my relationship with Jesus was once again my dear friend Ms. Kathy. She had 3 kids younger than me. It was hard for her to get out during week nights to come over to my house to help me grow in my relationship with Jesus besides after church on Sundays. When I got involved with Capernaum, again my leaders made everything accessible for me and for my other friends who also have physical/mental disabilities to help us get familiar with Jesus Christ and they helped us get familiar with the bible. After about a year or so of doing regular Young Life club (which is a weekly fun time where we play games, have a awesome worship experience, and hear a short message from a Young Life leader about the God who created and loves me unconditionally), I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. I was at a Young Life weekend when I accepted Jesus Christ. Before that time, people in Capernaum gave me things to help me to start my personal journey with Jesus Christ. Things such as: a bible, good worship cd's for me to listen to regularly, and personal time with my Capernaum leaders to talk about Jesus. Another way Capernaum helped me grow in my personal journey with Jesus Christ was something called campaigners. In regular Young Life, Campaigners is where you meet before or after club to learn and grow deeper in your personal relationship with Jesus Christ. They would share a meal together out. For my disabled friends and me, my Capernaum leaders would make another night possible during the week to have campaigners. We would have a short time for light supper to share together but most of the two hours of campaigners was teaching time for our Capernaum leaders to teach and proclaim the word of God and they would proclaim the gospel to us. We would talk about who Jesus Christ was and we would talk about why Jesus Christ had to die on a cross for our sins.
Without my Capernaum leaders which played a huge role in my life, along with my amazing family and a couple other of my amazing friends, I don't think I would be the woman I am today without them. Once again thank you Capernaum!
Now that you are older, you have gotten very involved in church. Can you tell me about the things that you do with your church?
I have to say that my church which is now Grace Fellowship Church is completely and utterly awesome! My family and I have been attending Grace regularly for about the past 5 years or so now. There is so much I could talk about that I can't decide where to start. First things first. When you just step inside the doors at Grace Fellowship Church, you automatically feel accepted and loved just by the awesome greeters who stand at the door every Sunday rain or shine. What I also I fell in love with at Grace was that the physical building itself was already totally wheelchair accessible. The building didn't look "churchy" which I personally liked and still like. I think I was around age 22 or 23 when my Mom and I started what is called Women In The Word which happens almost every single Wednesday morning from late September to early May with a winter break. That is where my brand new "church world " literally opened up and took off running. My first year at Women In The Word was just amazing.
I will just share 2 or 3 of my experiences. Number 1, when I started, the classes were broken up into semester classes. My first two semester classes were taught /led by two amazing women in my eyes. I remember the very first morning when I "walked " into that classroom. Ginny Becker and Christine Beck welcomed me personally. I would say probably after just 2- 3 weeks just from watching my amazing mother communicate with me, Ginny and Christine picked up how to communicate with me basically all by themselves. I absolutely loved that experience. Number 2, I "walked " into class one morning and without my Mom saying anything, Ginny and Christine immediately knew something was very very wrong with me. I didn't smile at them. They stopped what the rest of the class was getting ready to do and they prayed over me. I had hurt my back at home the night before. I couldn't stay in class that morning. Christine told my Mom "I will take Sarah out and I will take good care of her. You stay in class and pay attention and let the other women take good care of you." I love my church!
Another thing I have the privilege to get to be involved with at my church is what we call REST days. Rest day is where we take 4 Saturday afternoons during the school year to love on families affected by disabilities. Basically what a typical rest day looks like is: first we setup the entire church for the afternoon. Second, we have a little training from 12-1pm for the volunteers who might need a little help. All the kids with disabilities come at 1pm and stay until 4pm. The parents leave and they get a break. We have 4-5 activity rooms where each group will rotate through. When the parents come back to get their kids, they get a fully prepared dinner which the kitchen team prepares for them during the afternoon. It is just an awesome afternoon to see God work! I used to be a "kid " who participated in rest days but now I get the privilege of serving kids! Another thing I get the privilege of doing every year with my church is decorating the whole church building for the Christmas season. It is just a awesome morning to serve and work alongside my church friends!
How has it been meeting regularly with women like Sarah Batley and Kit Elmer?
Totally awesome! I didn't really meet regularly with Sarah Batley and Kit Elmer until just this past year. It is a privilege to me that they would take time out of their busy schedules and busy lives just to hang out with me. This past year Sarah Batley and I have been meeting once a month to just hang out and do different activities outside my house. Some activities we do are: going to the mall to go Christmas shopping, going to the movies and then lunch afterwards, going to her house and doing different activities like helping her make cookies for a bake sale, and going to an art museum. This past year Sarah has been a huge blessing in my life.
This past spring was when I really started to hang out with Kit Elmer. Kit is such a amazing woman in my eyes along with Sarah. Now that I am a young woman at 26, I was outgrowing Capernaum and everything that goes along with that. I kind of feel like God has put these two amazing women along with some other amazing women like Ginny Becker to bridge that gap for me. Again, it is just amazing to see God work and it is amazing to watch how God weaves people in and out of our lives!


The Medicrea Group (Euronext Growth Paris: FR0004178572 " ALMED ; OTCQX Best Market " MRNTY & MRNTF), pioneering the transformation of spinal surgery through Artificial Intelligence, predictive modeling and patient specific implants with its UNiD"¢ ASI (Adaptive Spine Intelligence) proprietary software platform, services and technologies, announced today the publication of a new study validating the use of UNiD"¢ Patient-Specific Rods (PSR) for surgical correction of sagittal imbalance in adults.
Five years after its initial launch in September 2013, over 2,800 patients have benefited from UNiD"¢ ASI 100% proprietary pre-operative planning technologies and services associated with patient-specific spinal realignment rods, with a strong acceleration in adoption rate in 2018 especially in the USA (+62% cases year-to-date 2018 and +90% in Q3 2018).
Since its inception, the technology has supported surgeons specializing both in adult and pediatric indications with planning services and patient-specific implants focused on restoring sagittal and coronal alignment.
Federico Solla, M.D., Orthopaedic and Scoliosis Surgery Unit, Lenval Hospital, Nice, France and UNiD"¢ ASI user recently published the Article titled Patient-Specific Rods for Surgical Correction of Sagittal Imbalance in Adults: Technical Aspects and Preliminary Results. In this article, Federico Solla emphasizes the expected benefits of patient specific spinal care which include the optimal execution of the plan, decreased mechanical complications, and reduced operating time, no longer requiring the bending of rods during surgery.
This study demonstrates that the use of patient specific rods improves the correspondence between planning and surgical realization.
Evalina Burger, MD, Department of Orthopedics, University of Colorado SOM, Aurora, CO, co-author, stated that these results support the use of the UNiD"¢ ASI platform to obtain the expected patient-specific sagittal balance with a special focus on the difference pelvic incidence (PI) " lumbar lordosis (LL).
Medicreas proprietary UNiD"¢ ASI technology uses Artificial Intelligence that digests scientific data to generate intelligent surgical planning through machine learning while simultaneously allowing the Spine Surgeon to perform detailed, custom analyses of his cases. The entire clinical workflow is thus managed from start to finish through the UNiD"¢ comprehensive Platform.
Christopher Kleck, MD, Department of Orthopedics, University of Colorado SOM, Aurora, CO, co-author, added With its proprietary UNiD"¢ ASI technology, Medicrea started revolutionizing the spine world by developing a model taking into consideration compensatory mechanisms to individually predict each patients outcomes.
By simulating surgical strategies using proprietary data and algorithms taking into consideration patients optimal sagittal alignment and compensatory mechanisms, Medicrea produces a patient-specific rod industrially bent. This process preserves the rods full integrity, and limits stress points that could lead to rod fracture once implanted.
Vincent Fiere, MD, Spinal Unit, Santy Orthopaedic Center and Mermoz Hospital Ramsay GDA, Lyon, France, and co-author, concluded With Medicreas breakthrough technology, we showed that patients implanted with UNiD"¢ PSRs were 2.6 times more likely to be optimally corrected.
We are extremely pleased to see an increasing number of publications focusing on the application of UNiD"¢ ASI in the treatment of complex spinal deformities said Denys Sournac, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Medicrea. A month ago, we concluded the first Artificial Intelligence focused meeting in Lyon with 20 international spine surgeons considered thought-leaders in their field. Medicrea Artificial Intelligence and Analytics (MAIA) was a success. A couple weeks ago, Jean-Luc Clement, MD, Fondation Lenval, Nice, France, published an Article validating our predictive modelling for AIS patients. Today, we are announcing another publication validating this technology for the adult population. The revolution is only starting, and we are looking forward to the surgeon community embracing the UNiD"¢ ASI technology to provide their patients with the best possible care.


This summer, Ripley Entertainment will be opening a brand new, patriotic-themed family-friendly experience replacing Ride the Ducks. There will be an interactive outdoor maze, indoor laser tag, and more, with 10% of all proceeds from the attraction, with a minimum amount of $100,000, to be donated to the first responders "who make the Branson community safer – specifically local police, the fire department, and EMS.Moreover, all first responders and military will be offered discounted admission to the attraction," according to Ripley Entertainment.
The attraction will be opened along Highway 76 in Branson in the same location as the former Ride the Ducks business. The company closed Ride the Ducks after the deadly sinking of one of its boats on Table Rock Lake. The amphibious duck boat sank amid strong winds, killing 16 passengers and a crew member.
In the face of lawsuits, Ripley closed the Branson Ride the Ducks, releasing a statement that said in part that it had been "an important part of the Branson community for 47 years. We are deeply appreciative of the support we have received. Branson Ride the Ducks will not operate this season. Our building and property are a gateway to the economic engine of this community, however, and we want to ensure it continues to contribute during the upcoming season. To do so, we will be offering an all-new visitor experience at this location." The company relates that more information about Branson Top Ops will be coming soon, and art renderings depict and bright red, white, and blue patterned building with a military jeep in front of it.
Looking ahead, the Branson Aquarium will be opening in spring 2020. The new aquarium recently had $51 million in funding approved and is also known as the Aquarium at the Boardwalk.
The aquarium is planned as an adventure in which visitors take a walking journey through the world's oceans, with looks at colorful fish, seahorses, octopi, and sharks. The project will be completed by developer Kuvera Partners in stages, and take up 46,000-square-feet on the site of the former Grand palace in Branson.
Kuvera Partners bought the former theatre four years ago. Through its affiliated entity Branson Entertainment Center – Branson, LLC, Kuvera plans to finance the attraction using $15 million (29.4%) of its own equity, $29 million (56.9%) in debt equity, and $7 million (13.7%) in Tax Increment Financing or TIF assistance.
Like many Branson attractions, the exterior will be part of the entertainment and a draw for guests. And, it will be as much an adventure experience as an educational aquarium itself. Once they've entered the aquarium, guests will be able to control a color-changing environment in the Jelly Fish Infinity Room. They will be able to travel through a tunnel inside the attraction, and pass into what is billed as an ancient, sunken city. The attraction starts with creating what Kuvera describes as "the atmosphere for a classic boardwalk" and moves into bringing visitors "under the sea" to explore and play, while enjoying up-close views of sea animals.
Another aspect of the aquarium will be the "Mermaid Palace," a themed-area in which schooling fish, sea horses, and butterfly fish will be on display. Guests will be able to interact with a touch pool and visit a coral reef, as well; there will be photo ops with a high-tech diving suit and inside a fish bowl. In the touch pool, animal life will include horseshoe crabs, cow-nose rays and bamboo sharks.
Sundher explains that the company studied the Branson market for three years, and determined an aquarium would have the greatest positive impact on the area for visitation. The company partnered with H2R Market Research to conduct consumer testing for the planned aquarium.
Kuvera Partners is working on the planning and design for the project with the St. Louis-based PGAV Destinations, which also designed the Georgia Aquarium. Kuvera itself also operates an existing Branson attraction, the Hollywood Wax Museum Entertainment Center, Castle of Chaos, Hannah's Maze of Mirrors, and Shoot for the Stars Mini Golf.


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Goose Egg Mountain
Washington, United States, North America
EastKing
46.65198°N / 121.11377°W
Goose Egg Mountain is relatively small mountain in the southern Cascades located right off of Highway 12 roughly ten miles east of White Pass. Despite it only being 4566 feet it has substantial prominence (1566 feet in the region) and is home to both off-trail hiking and technical rock climbing. It is part of the Tieton Rock Climbing area, which is one of the more popular rock climbing areas in the southern Cascades of Washington. The summit located on the lee side of the Cascade Crest which means it receives considerably less precipitation and more sunlight than mountains west of the crest. The snow-free hiking season starts here in early May and last until November which is much greater than most mountains in the region. It though is also prone to forest fires and though and extremely heat so summer so keep that in mind if you plan on coming here in August.
Looking west from the summit
Goose Egg Mountain is well known for being part of a well known rock climbing area known as Tieton in the southern Cascades of Washington. There are a number of excellent routes going up to the eastern cliffs of Goose Egg Mountain. Among them are Dirty Sanchez and Ride the Lightning. These routes are very popular on Goose Egg Mountain and are what Goose Egg Mountain is famous for.
Rockclimbing on Goose Egg Mountain (SP member rpc)
That being said Goose Egg Mountain can also be climbed via the Southwest Ridge which is no more than a steeper off-trail hike which comes up to near the top of the ridge where it becomes much more of an established boot-path all of the way to the true summit ridge. From there will be a quick off-trail hike to the true summit rocks. As of October 2015 there was a summit log that unfortunately was empty! From the one can see the dramatic Kloochman Rock, Rimrock Lake, Fancy Peak and many of the other summits in the region. This area tends to melt out rather quickly in spring so the hiking and climbing season for Goose Egg Mountain can be from May to November.
Looking over at Kloochman Peak
VIA HIGHWAY 12: Take Highway 12 to roughly 10 miles east of White Pass and just east of the Rimrock Lake Dam. Head south on Tieton Reservoir Road. If you are rock climbing there are a number of pull outs for one to park. If you are heading to the Southwest Ridge hiking area you should continue on Tieton Reservoir Road until you reach a turnoff to the campground. This campground may have fees in the spring and summer so be aware of that potential. I hiked the southwest ridge in late October and did not notice fees but that was the offseason. From there look for a bathroom area, park there and head up.
For more information on rock climbing routes on Goose Egg Mountain refer to Martin Cash's Tieton page.
Map of the route and the rock climbing area
This section though will be dedicated to the non-technical route to the summit of Goose Egg Mountain. From the camping area one must just head toward the southwest ridge. There was no real developed boot-path in the beginning of the ridge but relatively soon you will run into a number of boot-paths that criss-cross eash other as you are going up. The important thing is to stay on the ridge and don't go too far off track. As one gets closer to the top all of these bootpaths merge onto as one and form a very well developed boot-path to the point that it almost feels like a trail. The bootpath at first traverses just to the south of the ridge and then alternates to the north of the ridge before again going back over to the south of the ridge. As the route gets near the summit it fades out to a barely noticable path. Once on the high ridge head to your right and you will eventually hill the summit block where excellent views of Rimrock Lake await.
The Route I did started from a camping area so in summer this area has potential to camping fees. There are pullouts before the camping area in order to avoid the fees while the campground is open. As for the rock climbing area there were no fees from the pull-outs that I saw.
Mid-October is a great time to head to Goose Egg Mountain
This mountain can be hiked and climbed snow-free from May to early November. In summer this area though can get extremely hot and in the past couple of year this area ha had a major problem with forest fires which usually hamper the area in August and September.
Beautiful tree at the trailhead
There is camping just at the southwest base of Goose Egg Mountain. There is a fee to camp here in summer. As for the summit, there is no reason to camp on or anywhere near the summit.
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Rock Climbing Routes on Goose Egg Mountain
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This simple and elegant dinner set includes a dinner plate, a salad plate and a bowl. The dinner plate is 8.5 inches in diameter and the sides are 1.5 inches high, salad plate is 7 inches diameter, the bowl is 5 inches in diameter and 4.5 inches tall.
Made by hand with natural, unglazed, food safe clay in the hills above the Oaxaca Valley.


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Walgreen aims to stop disclosures in lawsuit
By Ellen Jean Hirst and By Ellen Jean Hirst
Oct 31, 2014 | 7:26 PM
Walgreen lawsuit. (Ellen Jean Hirst)
Walgreen is aiming to put a stopper in further disclosures of what it deems confidential information by asking the court to redact parts of a defamation suit brought by its former chief financial officer.
"Make no mistake: This lawsuit is brought by a bitter former executive who, after he was told he would not become the CFO of the combined Walgreens-Alliance Boots company, and only after he was subsequently told that he would not be allowed to continue as the Chief Financial Officer ('CFO') of Walgreens, has lashed out with a series of threats, untruths and half-truths," Walgreen wrote in its request to redact parts of the defamation suit and two undisclosed exhibits.
A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Thursday.
The information was originally made public weeks ago when former Chief Financial Officer Wade Miquelon sued Walgreen for defamation, saying news reports suggested he was "personally responsible" for a $1 billion error in the company's earnings forecast.
Miquelon said in his suit that the company's characterizations of him have torpedoed his efforts to find a new position. He stands to collect a $3.2 million severance package after his nonexecutive role with the company officially ends Dec. 1.
Jim Pfander, a Northwestern University School of Law professor, said the company probably is concerned about the possibility of additional confidential company information being compromised.
"Although it cannot, of course, put the genie entirely back in the bottle," Pfander said, "it can show that it has taken reasonable steps to ensure the continued confidentiality of materials that it regards as protected by trade secret law."
Walgreen spokesman Michael Polzin acknowledged in an email Friday that sealing parts of the original complaint "will have little effect at this point."
"However, the protective order that is included in our motion would govern the future disclosures of both parties and provide appropriate protection of sensitive competitive and financial information,'' he said.
Walgreen said that the lawsuit and exhibits Miquelon filed Oct. 16 in Cook County Circuit Court inaccurately present Miquelon as the "driving force" that led Walgreen to make major revisions to its 2016 forecast, while the company asserts that he "defended the forecast and resisted any revision before finally relenting."
The company also said in the motion that Miquelon's lawsuit suggests he was against moving the company's corporate headquarters overseas for tax purposes, while, according to the company, Miquelon was for the tax inversion, but changed his mind after "he knew that his tenure at Walgreens was on shaky ground." Walgreen recently announced it will buy a remaining 55 percent stake in European counterpart Alliance Boots, forming a new holding company Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.
Walgreen said Miquelon has attempted to rewrite history by portraying himself as a "financial forecasting whiz" and a "conservative voice"; when "he had a long history of being overly optimistic in a variety of forward-looking internal discussions."
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Walgreen also said Miquelon falsely asserted he was "next in line to be CEO of Walgreens — when, in fact, he was never promised as much and, instead, Walgreens lost faith in him due to his erratic behavior, further hastening his departure from the CFO role."
"It is likely too late to undo the harm (Miquelon) has caused to Walgreens through his publication of a misleading and slanderous narrative using confidential information plucked out of context," Walgreen said in an additional court filing Oct. 24. "Walgreens' ultimate remedy will be vindication when the judicial process has fully played out and (Miquelon's) narrative is exposed as false."
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The October 1984 issue of Mad Magazine included Volume Five of the "Mad Nasty Book" -- a not-so-neighborly feature that "take[s] pot shots at...popular celebrities and hallowed institutions."
Written by Tom Koch with art by Harry North, The Mad Nasty Book takes on everything and everyone from Billy Martin and Jesse Jackson to Saturday Night Live and, of course, Mister Rogers and his Neighborhood.
The December 1986 issue of Mad Magazine clearly included a Top Gun parody but also included a four-page feature titled "Mister Jolly Rogers' Neighborhood (Visits a Local Bank)."
Written by Larry Siegel with art by Angelo Torres, this feature follows Mister Rogers as he experiences some of the problems and corruption of the local Neighborhood bank.
The March 1999 issue of Mad Magazine advertised parodies of Dharma & Greg and the Waterboy but also included a five-page feature titled "The Special Prosecutor's Official Report on Mister Rogers."
Written by Desmond Devlin, this parody was loosely based on the Ken Starr report on the wrong-doings of then-President Bill Clinton. As the opening page says...
"First, megalomaniac Ken Starr hounded the President, his staff, his friends, his former intern and just about everyone else in the Clinton White House, except Socks and Buddy! With that investigation in shambles, the overzealous prosecutor has turned his attention to others who, in his eyes, "threaten" the very foundation of our society! Here's a sneak peek of a confidential report sure to be illegally leaked by Starr and his thugs any day now."
The parody details all of the "illegal" actions of Mister Rogers and his Neighborhood friends including his violation of "Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution by recognizing the royal sovereignty of King Friday XIII within the United States borders" as well as Mr. McFeely's "resemblance" to the Unabomber.


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Two things that go hand in hand are movies & food! More times than none we find ourselves with a bowl of popcorn or a box of pizza as we fill our minds with movie magic. We are proud to announce that we are teaming up with Little Miss Nerd Chef to add some tastiness to our future content! Learn more about our newest friend after the jump!
With a keen sense of incorporating the love of food and nerd culture, Brooke (aka The Little Miss Nerd Chef) grew up in the media capital of the world, Burbank, California.
As a child (and into her adult years) she was constantly reading, or playing a video game of some sort, whether it be Mario Kart, Final Fantasy, Zelda, or World of Warcraft. She also fell in love with such classic science fiction/fantasy movies like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, District 9, Flash Gordon, and of course her all time favorite, Spaceballs!
In her teenage years she grew an interest in cooking, as she was always watching the Food Network (back when they actually had instructional cooking shows) and reading on cooking websites. As her interest grew and grew she decided to take the non-traditional route after high school and enrolled in the California School of Culinary Arts and graduated with a degree in Patisserie in 2008.
On where it all began Brooke says, "One day I was thinking to myself, how can combine my love of cooking and love of video games, books, movies, sci fi and everything nerdy? April 6th, 2014: I hosted a Game of Thrones season four premiere party and all my friends raved about the food. I prepared a traditional feast of The North, consisting of a whole chicken, turnips, lemon cakes, meat pies, bread, you name it – all made from scratch. It then suddenly clicked. Why not make recipes inspired by all these nerdy things I hold so close to my heart and share them with the world?"
From creating recipes & drinks inspired by certain films, games, and tv-shows to actually recreating dishes featured in them, Little Miss Nerd Chef has the skills to do it all!
We look forward to announcing what our first partnership content will be soon!
For more on Little Miss Nerd Chef you can find her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and her website!
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Figurative Language in Popular Songs
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Song Meanings and Facts
"Rebellion (Lies)" by Arcade Fire
by George Spencer · Published October 17, 2022 · Updated October 17, 2022
"Rebellion (Lies)" by Arcade Fire is almost entirely symbolic and metaphorical in its approach, but it isn't such that a meaning cannot be ascertained, especially when taking Win Butler's explanation of Rebellion into consideration.
Well said explanation is, all wording considered, a bit out there itself. But what it most discernibly points to is the vocalist attacking marketing culture, or let's say the fact that now marketing and culture have become pretty much intertwined.
Win doesn't like it that many of us are living in a situation where someone is always trying to sell us something, whether you want them or not. So the implication behind that sentiment seems to be him acknowledging that sometimes we are being advertised to without realizing it, or something like that.
Indeed while explaining the premise behind this piece, Butler seems to imply that even Arcade Fire itself ranks amongst such forces, i.e. not being entirely altruistic in their professional endeavors. So it's like even while listening to this song you're being marketed to, so to speak.
The Lyrics of "Rebellion (Lies)"
But with that out of the way, the lyrics themselves aren't actually about economics. Instead as presented, it can be said furthermore what's being marketed to us, as criticized above, is ideas.
So for instance, in the first verse, we find the vocalist lambasting the notion of "sleeping" which, in context, would imply a person adopting a docile mind-state, as if they are not under constant socialization-based attacks, which he concludes that we are.
And with that in mind the vocalist proceeds to lash out against fear itself, or let's say, all things considered, it being used to direct people's thoughts and actions.
Meanwhile in the second verse what the singer appears to be saying, further along the lines of "sleeping", is that 'dreaming', as even espoused by some prominent socializing agents, is not a good thing. Instead it is within our dreams, in a manner of speaking, that our worst selves proceed to come out.
Or as inferred in the refrain that follows, dreaming itself is a form of sleeping, and "sleeping" makes one more vulnerable to believing the lies they are being fed.
The third verse is not as easy to understand. But once again going back to Win Butler's explanation, this appears to be the part of the song where he really begins to espouse the rebellion.
In other words, if someone is bullying you, as the unspecified antagonists of this piece are portrayed, then hiding from them is not going to solve the problem.
Also, this verse seems to be laden with a keep-it-real type of ideology. So not only are agents of socialization guilty of being untruthful, but so too are we on an individual level.
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Finally, the first half of second refrain, which precedes the outro, seems to be countering all of the fear-based lies we are fed by rather encouraging us not to be afraid to go out and experience life more fully.
That said, all of the above are theoretical understandings of this piece, since neither the lyrics nor the explanation upon which they are based are straightforward.
But it does seem pretty clear, if nothing else, that what the vocalist is spazzing against is all of the untruthfulness in the system. Therefore, it would logically be such that he's ultimately calling for a "rebellion".
When did Arcade Fire release "Rebellion (Lies)"?
"Rebellion (Lies)" is the penultimate track on the playlist of "Funeral", Arcade Fire's first-studio album.
Moreover it served as the project's fourth single. It was released by Rough Trade Records on 12 September 2005. This was just a couple of days before the album itself came out.
Credits for "Rebellion (Lies)"
Arcade Fire is acknowledged as the entity which wrote and produced this track. Officially, the band consisted of the following member when "Rebellion" was dropped:
Win Butler
Régine Chassagne
Richard Parry
Tim Kingsbury
William Butler
Howard Bilerman
Success of "Rebellion"
"Rebellion (Lies)" made it onto the top 20 of the UK Singles Chart. It did the same on the Canada Rock Top 30.
The track has also been certified platinum up north, with Arcade Fire being native to Montreal. Additionally, this song is known to be a fan favorite and regularly serves as the group's closer during live performances.
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Home Hematology and Oncology Correlated Spectroscopy IDs Changes in BRCA1/2 Carriers
Correlated Spectroscopy IDs Changes in BRCA1/2 Carriers
Use of localized correlated spectroscopy shows significant changes in women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations
Lipid and metabolite deregulation seen in breast tissue of women carrying BRCA1/2 mutations
WEDNESDAY, March 4, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Use of localized correlated spectroscopy (COSY) shows significant changes in women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, according to a study published online March 3 in Radiology.
Saadallah, Ramadan, Ph.D., from the University of Newcastle in Australia, and colleagues compared localized COSY images recorded at 3 Tesla in the breast tissue of women carrying BRCA1 (nine women) or BRCA2 (14 women) gene mutations and in 10 healthy controls with no family history of breast cancer. Participants also underwent contrast material-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonography.
The researchers found that there were no abnormalities recorded with MRI or ultrasonography. In the BRCA1 cohort, metabolite levels were reduced by 79 percent compared with triglyceride level (P = 0.014), and a 19 percent increase was seen in lipid unsaturation and triglyceride levels versus cellular cholesterol level (P = 0.027 and 0.086, respectively). Compared with diallylic lipid level, cholesterol level was reduced by 47 percent (P = 0.027). In the BRCA2 cohort, metabolite levels showed increased unsaturation of 21 percent relative to triglyceride levels (P = 0.030). Significant increases were seen in cholesterol levels compared with diallylic lipid level and triglyceride levels in the BRCA2 cohort. Compared with cholesterol level, there were significant reductions in levels of diallylic lipid, unsaturated lipid, triglycerides, and terminal methyl on the acyl chain.
"If these changes are ultimately proven to be a premalignant stage, this method may prove useful in screening," the authors write.
Two authors disclosed financial ties to Hunter Cancer Research Alliance; several authors disclosed holding a U.S. provisional patent application.
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ENIAC Accumulator #2
ENIAC was built by a team of engineers at the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania between May 1943 and February, 1946. The team was working under contract for the Ballistics Research Laboratory of the U.S. Army Ordnance Department. The name ENIAC is an acronym of Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. Principal engineers on the project were J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly. When complete, ENIAC filled a room measuring 30 feet by 50 feet and weighed 30 tons. It used around 18,000 vacuum tubes of 16 types, 1500 relays, 70,000 resistors, and 10,000 capacitors. It was 8 feet high, 3 feet wide, almost 100 feet long (if stretched out), and consumed 140 kilowatts of power. Construction costs were around half a million dollars.
The Army commissioned ENIAC to perform a specific function: computing ballistics tables for aiming Army artillery. Creating accurate tables was a laborious process of solving differential equations for hundreds of positions and configurations for each gun. When the ENIAC project was started, human "computers" (largely women) were performing the calculations by hand with mechanical calculators, and they were falling hopelessly behind schedule. If the operations could be done in a pre-programmed sequence by an electronic machine, not only would they be completed faster, but results should include fewer errors than hand calculation.
By the time ENIAC was finished, the war was over, and the original goal was no longer a pressing matter. All along, however, the development team realized that what they were creating in ENIAC was much more than a special purpose calculating device.
An Army press release announcing its creation in 1946 proclaimed boldly: "A new machine that is expected to revolutionize the mathematics of engineering and change many of our industrial design methods was announced today by the War Department…. This machine is the first all-electronic general purpose computer ever developed. It is capable of solving many technical and scientific problems so complex and difficult that all previous methods of solution were considered impractical…. Begun in 1943 at the request of the Ordnance Department to break a mathematical bottleneck in ballistic research, its peacetime uses extend to all branches of scientific and engineering work."
The claim, voiced here, that ENIAC was the "first all-electronic general purpose computer…" has been a source of controversy ever since. Much of the debate has centered on patent issues. To summarize a complicated story, Eckert and Mauchly belatedly filed a patent application based on ENIAC in June 1947. They finally received a patent in 1964. The claims in their patent were broad, and soon Sperry Rand, the company with which Eckert and Mauchly were working by this time, began seeking infringement fees. Sperry Rand settled privately with IBM, but another target, Honeywell, challenged the patent. After a detailed investigation and trial, Judge Earl Lawson invalidated the ENIAC patent in late 1972. In part he ruled that crucial elements of ENIAC derived from prior work by John V. Atanasoff, an inventor who had built a special-purpose electronic computer at Iowa State College in the late 1930's. Although Atanasoff machine never worked well and he ultimately dropped the project, John Mauchly had known and visited him, and arguably got some ideas from this connection.
The ruling by Judge Lawson has been taken by some to be proof that Atanasoff was the "Father of the Computer" and that Eckert and Mauchly were of subsidiary importance.
Most computer historians claim, however, as Mauchly himself did, that if he and Eckert got anything from Atanasoff's work, its significance was of limited importance to the success of the project. In large part, this is because the genius of ENIAC derived more from the brilliance of its engineering than its fundamental conceptual design.
Like most important technologies, the electronic digital computer ultimately derived from many sources and the work of many people. Besides contributions made in the United States, important developments were also made in Europe before and during World War II. Many people in addition to those involved in the patent fight made important contributions to the evolution of the digital computer. These included pioneers such as George Stibitz at Bell Laboratories, Howard Aitken at Harvard University, Konrad Zuse in Germany, and others.
ENIAC remains singularly important, however, because it marks a major transition. It stood at the beginning of the digital computer industry in the United States. No machine before ENIAC was as large or powerful. None had its technical sophistication. Before it, no companies were striving to create and sell electronic digital computers as a principal line of business. ENIAC proved that a general-purpose electronic computer was both possible and valuable. After the War, and largely because of ENIAC, the field of digital computers was open. ENIAC was a clear, public announcement that the digital electronic computer had arrived, and that the Federal Government was strongly supporting its development.
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What was the Government project name for the ENIAC? All I read was what ENIAC stood for but did not know if that was the name the government gave the project.
"Proposers of the what came to be called the ENIAC initially called it an "electronic difference analyzer. " This name was quickly superseded by ENIAC. A code name used for the ENIAC project was Project PX. However, staff at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering regularly filed "ENIAC " progress reports with the government. Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley, and Crispin Rope discuss these matters in their recent book, ENIAC in Action."
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Developing Confidence
Some of us have it and some of us don't. Confidence. It's an essential part of life happiness and success, at work, in relationships and within yourself. Building confidence is all about taking action, discovers David Goding.
Fortunately, you can learn how to be more confident, says Dr Russ Harris, author of The Confidence Gap.
"Confidence is a game – a skilful psychological game. And unfortunately, our society gives us the wrong rules to play it," he says.
Having a lack of confidence can prove costly.
"Whether you call it 'lack of confidence', 'fear of failure', 'performance anxiety' or 'self-doubt' the chances are it's cost you dearly in your life. Take a moment to consider: What have you given up? What have you missed out on? What opportunities have you lost because of it?"
Dr Harris says people wrongly blame themselves for a lack of confidence, which prevents greater opportunities.
"It is certainly not because of stupidity, or laziness, or negative thinking, or a deprived childhood, or a chemical imbalance in the brain," he says. "It is simply because they do not know the rules of the confidence game."
What is confidence?
There are two meanings – it is a feeling of certainty and self-reliance as well as the less commonly associated meaning of an act of trust or reliance.
"Both meanings of 'confidence' – a feeling of certainty, or an act of trust – are perfectly valid," says Dr Harris.
Together, they form what could be called 'complete confidence', something most of us would ultimately love to achieve; the feeling of confidence with the ability to follow through and confidently trust a situation or person when required to do so, such as a doctor, teacher or even a friend or family member.
A lack of confidence holds you back
There are numerous reasons people lack confidence and they can vary depending on the situation at hand. According to Dr Harris, the top five reasons most people lack confidence are "excessive expectations, harsh self-judgement, preoccupation with fear, lack of experience and lack of skills."
Coupled with this is the misguided belief that in order to get the results of being confident, and overcome the inhibitions resulting from a lack of confidence, you need to first have the feeling of confidence.
"The trouble is, if you wait for the feelings of confidence to show up before you start doing the things that are truly important to you, the chances are you're going to be waiting forever," says Dr Harris.
"Sure, you may be able to cultivate them while you're listening to a self-hypnosis CD, or reading an inspiring book, or participating in a motivational seminar, or when a friend, coach or therapist says something that boosts your confidence. But those feelings don't last. Once you get into the real situation they just vanish in a puff of smoke."
Over-analysing the situation can also lead to over-worrying, which is the natural enemy of confident action, according to Sarah Litvinoff, author of The Confidence Plan.
"When worry gets out of hand it is paralysing," she says. "This can happen for three reasons: The first is that worry becomes a habit. You look for new things to worry about as soon as other worries are solved. The second is that you don't identify the action you should take when you are worried about something. The third is believing that worrying is more 'realistic' than having an optimistic attitude."
Action before Feeling
The first step to building confidence is realising that, contrary to what most of us have long thought, the actions of confidence come before the feelings of confidence. It's not, however, a case of 'fake it 'til you make it'. Nor does it require you to grit your teeth and behave in a way that is unnatural or awkward.
"If we want to do anything with confidence – speak, paint, make love, play tennis, or socialise – then we have to do the work," says Dr Harris. "We have to practise the necessary skills over and over, until they come naturally. Each time you practise these skills, it is an action of confidence, an act of relying on yourself."
It's also important to assess the results of your efforts positively and make modifications as needed. It's far easier to affect the way you feel by your deeds than through trying to change the way you feel, claims Dr Harris.
"Unfortunately, it's just not that easy to control your feelings, and the further you go down that road, the more likely you are to feel disappointed, frustrated or hopeless," he says.
Self-acceptance
Accepting your thoughts, even the negative ones, is the core philosophy behind what is referred to as Acceptance and Commitment Training, or ACT.
"ACT starts from the assumption that negative thoughts are not inherently problematic," says Dr Harris. "Negative thoughts only become problematic if we get all caught up in them, give them all our attention, treat them as the gospel truth, allow them to control us, or get into a fight with them. The technical term for responding to our thoughts in this way is 'fusion'."
On the other hand, when we 'defuse' our thoughts, they cease to hold a great power over us.
"The moment you've been hooked by an unworkable thought, acknowledge it," says Dr Harris. "Silently say to yourself, 'Just got hooked'."
Then replay the thought, observe it for what it is then defuse it. There are many defusing techniques. Among the most popular and effective methods is 'singing the thought', where you replay the negative thought to the tune of 'happy birthday' or another tune of your choice. Alternatively, add the words 'I'm having the thought that…' before the negative thought you are focused on. For example, saying 'I'm having the thought that I'm fat and ugly' acknowledges the thought but creates a distance so you can then move on.
With the acceptance and defusion of our thoughts comes self-acceptance and the fear of failure ceases to be such a threat.
"What matters most in life is what you do, what you stand for, the way you behave," says Dr Harris. "This is far more important than the stories you believe about yourself."
Confident action comes before feelings of confidence
Practise the skills you want to develop
Worrying is your enemy
Acknowledge negative thoughts but don't dwell on them
Establish your core values
Make an effort to be present and engaged.
Values and Engagement
Establishing our own personal values is an important part of increasing confidence.
"Values are like a compass," says Dr Harris, "they guide our journeys, give us direction and keep us on track. If we pursue goals that are not aligned with our core values, it almost always leads to disappointment and dissatisfaction. But if we use our values to set personally meaningful goals, the opposite holds true."
Examples of core value principles include respect, freedom, adventure, courage, flexibility, creativity, romance, humour and responsibility. Design your own top six core values and keep them firmly in the back of your mind.
Lastly, to be truly confident you need to be present and engaged.
"Don't just do something, be there," says Dr Harris. "It is impossible to do something well if we are not engaged in what we are doing. If we 'just do it' mindlessly, lost in our thoughts, or we go through the motions on automatic pilot, then we probably won't do it very well." NH
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SASKATOON — A Saskatoon man says he was cut on the forehead and suffered a concussion after an axe came flying through his truck's windshield.
Mackenzie Peddle says he doesn't remember getting hit in the face while he was driving home to Saskatoon from Yorkton, Sask., earlier this month.
He says when he came to, the truck's windshield was shattered, there was an axe lying near him and blood was spattered over his face and seats.
Peddle says he must have passed out after somehow managing to pull over to the side of Highway 16 near the community of Plunkett.
The electrician says his foot was on the brake and the truck was still in gear when a passerby approached.
RCMP say they are investigating but have no leads as to where the axe came from.
"A lady pulled over and woke me up on the side of the road. I didn't really know what happened or how long I'd been out," Peddle told CKOM Radio.
He credits the sunglasses he was wearing for saving his eye from the axe blade.
Peddle said he managed to phone RCMP and take some photos of the damage to his face and truck.
An officer arrived and took his own photos, then drove up and down the highway to see if any other debris had fallen off a vehicle.
"He went around to the farms and farmhouses, but no one had seen anything," Peddle said.
Humboldt RCMP said Tuesday they were looking for the public's help in the investigation.
Peddle said it's not the first time something has flown through his windshield while he was driving on the highway.
He said about a decade ago, he was driving his car when a long piece of rebar fell off a truck, bounced off the pavement and pierced the windshield on the driver's side — missing him by inches.


AIGA Monsters is a personalized experience that allows users to see how they fit in with (or stand out from) other designers.
Based on data in the 2017 AIGA Design Census, we designed an system that allows a user to generate a monster based on some of their personal information. Using their monster, the user can then start looking at how they might resemble or differ from any number of designers (also represented as monsters) along different data points. At the end, the user would also be able to get a postcard featuring their generated monster and individual data, as a way to continue the conversation.
We worked collaboratively to develop the concept and style. I helped establish aspects of the visual design including typography and color scheme, as well as create the print pieces and video.
You can view the live prototype here.
How can we meaningfully represent the census data?
The 2017 AIGA design census was intended to help gain an understanding of the current state of design, asking designers a variety of different questions about topics like demographics, their careers, and how they felt about design. Our initial challenge was to look through over 13,000 responses and find a way to translate such a huge dataset into something meaningful.
Since none of us had experience handling such large sets of data before, we spent a lot of time exploring how to organize the data. At one point, we decided to try to figure out how many designers in the census were like each of us. This started opening up interesting discussions around why there might be more or less of designers that fit certain criteria, and also gave us an entry point to better understand the other responses.
Based on this idea of personalization, we discussed the idea of generating unique forms that drew from each designer's responses, eventually arriving at the idea of unique generative monsters. We felt that monsters could immediately feel more personal than something like a landscape or abstract pattern, and reinforce the idea that all these data points are still individual people, regardless of similarities or differences.
What do you think of your current job?
What are the most critical issues facing design right now?
We chose these questions as they covered a variety of topics and helped provide a more well-rounded view of a designer as a person.
We then tried generating different forms based off of these questions, breaking down different features we could generate for our monsters and matching them to the questions. We wanted viewers to be able to have some idea of which questions generated which parts of the monster (for example, hours worked per week became number of arms), and we also needed to be sure that each variation on a feature was distinct enough so that different monsters could easily be compared.
More generally, we wanted to ensure that the designs were not stereotypically gendered (even if we weren't taking gender into consideration when generating the forms) and were relatable to a wide range of people. We also wanted to make sure there weren't any "good" or "bad" designs, as everyone would have their own particular context and story.
We further developed our monster generating system & visual style based on feedback, resulting in this final ruleset.
Once we had our generative system more finalized, we began thinking about how users could interact with our system as a whole. We started by considering what actions we'd like a user to take & what information we'd want them to know, and then putting together an ideal user flow diagram for the website on which to base development.
We wanted users to have some sort of takeaway after interacting with our site, and decided to create postcards based off of an individual's monster design & data. I worked with Rachel to create the postcards. The final design was a series of speech bubbles that could be dynamically placed depending on the individual designer's data, to correspond with the playfulness of the monsters.
Finally, I worked with Katie to storyboard and create the video, working with the visual design we had established for the postcards and site. We wanted it to function as a short introduction to the website, and chose to focus primarily on how monster generation worked as well as visually highlight the comparison aspect of the project.
This project helped me start understand the importance of storytelling when working with data, especially in order to create something interesting for users. There are so many ways to approach large datasets, and how you frame your approach can drastically change the message and experience.


Conservation programs are important, but they are not a substitute for a farm safety net.
Due to severe and prolonged economic crisis, Congress has delivered market loss assistance each of the last four years.
This "ad hoc" approach has been vitally important, but farmers and creditors around the country never know how or when Congress will step in to help.
In order to provide a more consistent 'safety net' for the nation's producers, funds were provided in the FY2002 budget resolution for farm bill enhancement.
The House Farm Bill as passed out of Committee devotes more than $16 billion over ten years to soil, water and wildlife programs.
This represents over a 75% increase in baseline spending for conservation efforts.
Conservation programs can be used to assist livestock producers in complying with new Combined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) and Animal Feeding Operations (AFO) regulations.
Many feel that agriculture can play a role in carbon sequestration as the debate on global warming continues.
Farmers make their living annually from the land. It is in their best interest to observe environment-friendly practices. Providing cost-share assistance for land improvements and economic incentives for retiring marginal land has proven successful. Increasing funds and resources available to these time-tested programs is worthwhile.
However, traditional commodity programs must be strengthened to assist farmers as they compete in a growing global economy.
Without an adequate commodity title, Congress will be forced to continue addressing farm income needs annually on an ad hoc basis or risk losing America's farm families that provide the majority of food and fiber.


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Images of America - Fort McNair
John Michael | Alexandria, Virginia
From southeast Washington, DC, where the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers meet, this fort has continued to protect America's capital. In 1791, Pierre L'Enfant designated it as a military reservation.
The post is the third oldest in continuous operation as an arsenal, a penitentiary, a hospital, and now, a military education center. It was renamed in 1948 to honor Lt. Gen. Lesley J. Mc Nair, who was killed in World War II.
Over the course of two centuries, the fort has born witness to the British ransacking during the War of 1812; a Civil War explosion that killed female arsenal workers; and the incarceration, trial, and hanging of Lincoln assassination conspirators. Over time, it became the home of several artillery commands, the first federal penitentiary, the US Army Engineer School, the US Army Music School, the US Army War College, and the US Army Band (Pershing's Own).
Today, it has evolved to where the National Defense University, National War College, Inter-American Defense College, Center of Military History and the headquarters of the Military District of Washington are located.
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Steven W. Dunn: "Midafternoon San Miguel de Allende"
"Midafternoon San Miguel de Allende"
A beautiful time of day as the sun is beginning to lower in the western sky creating cool, long shadows and highlighting colorful painted walls.
I have only one thing to say about this wonderful painting: Ah-h-h-h.
I'd love to be there at this very moment.
What a beautiful place! You captured such an inviting environment. I would love to come visit here.
I too would certainly enjoy being there right now. Next best thing is to be there in my joy of creating this. We artist are lucky in our imagining ourselves anywhere we want to be and produce images of that place.
Yes, San Miguel is very beautiful! It's interesting architecture and color make it easy to enjoy creating images of such a warm and charming place.


RICHFIELD, Pa. (BP) -- Pusey Losch begins his day in God's Word. Like many men who make a living with their hands, he seeks spiritual preparation for the mental and physical challenges his workday presents.
Losch is a painting contractor -- owner/operator -- starting his business 32 years ago after seeing an opportunity while laboring as a carpenter in rural Pennsylvania.
"I started building houses to make a living," said Losch. "I did that until I figured out I could make a better living with a bucket of paint than a stack of 2X4s."
While some working men eschew Facebook, Losch checks it regularly. He isn't worried about his status -- he's checking on his flock.
Losch is one of the many bivocational pastors serving congregations across the Southern Baptist and Canadian National Baptist conventions. According to data reported in the Annual Church Profile, some 8,000 pastors and associate pastors report being bivocational. Even more bivocational ministers serve as student pastors, worship leaders and in other roles. Losch joins men like adjunct professor Martinez "Tez" Andrews and engineer Carlos Soca who work more than 40-hour weeks at their day jobs, give spiritual leadership to their churches and remain engaged in the lives of their families.
A new phrase -- Iron Men of the SBC -- coined by Tim Dowdy describes these men. The thought came to the senior pastor after attending a triathlon. He serves as pastor of Eagle's Landing First Baptist Church in McDonough, Ga.
"A couple of days later I was in a meeting at NAMB discussing bivocational pastors," said Dowdy, immediate past chairman of the North American Mission Board's trustees. "Then it hit me. I thought, 'Most of them don't swim, bike and run, but they are the Iron Men of the SBC.' They hold down full-time jobs, pastor churches and take care of their families."
To raise awareness for the need to help bivocational pastors, Dowdy will participate in his first full triathlon November 3 in Panama City, Fla.
"There are 345 million people in North America, and conservatively 70 to 80 percent still need to come to faith in Christ," said Dowdy. "We need bivocational pastors leading churches. In some urban and rural settings, there may never be a base that can support a full-time pastor."
Losch, Andrews and Soca may be in the minority in the SBC, but it is a large one. Only 63 percent of Southern Baptist congregations are led by full-time pastors, according to Southern Baptist Directory Services.
"We believe the only way for us to have a true church planting movement is to garnish the efforts of bivocational pastors and to train our young people that they, too, can be bivocational," said NAMB president Kevin Ezell.
Ezell recently announced a partnership between Union University in Jackson, Tenn., and NAMB to offer a 33-hour, online master's degree in theology. NAMB will support the effort with Iron Men of the SBC scholarships. NAMB honored bivocational pastors with a luncheon at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in New Orleans and featured a bivocational pastor in its report to the convention.
A typical day in the life of the average bivocational pastor is anything but typical.
"Sermon preparation is probably the toughest. I've been told how I'm supposed to do it and then there is reality. When you work all day, come home and then are up until 1 a.m. counseling someone with serious issues, and you have to be up the next morning for work, sometimes sermon preparation takes a hit. I'll admit it. I've written one or two on my way walking to the pulpit."
Finding family time is daunting, too. Tez Andrews, father of four sons, ages 13-2, was hit recently with the sudden need to find a new worship location for his church plant, Connect Church in Decatur, Ga.
"I was, of course, concerned about the move," said Andrews. "As I was preparing my sermon, God made it clear to me I should focus on my sons, not where the church would meet."
He sensed the Lord prodding him, "Don't worry about the location. Be with your boys. You let me take care of where the church will meet."
Andrews spends 40-50 hours per week in lesson preparation and classroom lectures at Carver College and Belhaven University, both in Atlanta.
Although the calling can be challenging, bivocational pastors have support in the form of The Bivocational and Small Church Leadership Network (BSCLN).
"The BSCLN is the champion of the validity, importance and resourcefulness of the bivocational and smaller membership church pastors," said Ray Gilder, BSCLN national coordinator. "Bivocational pastors are vital to planting churches across North America. They are double-duty ministers, willing to do whatever it takes to make a difference for Christ in their communities."
Engineer and pastor Carlos Soca appreciates the members at Open Door Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., where he leads the multi-ethnic congregation's Hispanic ministry. Travel is tough enough leaving his wife and three children behind, so having confidence in men who can step in at services is important.
"I lead the Spanish Fellowships on Sunday and Wednesday evenings," said Soca. "The balance of a professional career, a growing family, and the demands of leading in a congregation are challenging. What do you put your energy and your time into?
"Recently I was told I was needed the next week in Mexico for a presentation. There is no way to make services when you're out of the country. Thankfully we've developed men who can lead."
Recognizing those challenges, NAMB supports pastors with people like George Garner, who leads Bivocational and Rural Missional Strategies on NAMB's behalf.
"Kingdom explosion and spiritual awakening will come when the vast army of bivocational and lay leaders are released to be Kingdom agents ... in the marketplace of our continent," said Garner.
At 54, Losch has planted four churches, including his current pastorate, Mountain View Community Church in Richfield, Penn. He and his wife raised four children.
Losch's habit of keeping up with Facebook allowed him to lead an old friend to faith in Christ. It also helped a family make a major change.
"We had a boy come to our VBS," said Losch. "Three years later he sent a friend request. I asked him if he was going to church. When he said no, I invited him. His entire family showed up. Three weeks later his dad came to say the entire family were giving their lives to Christ.
"My advice for anyone considering bivocational pastoring would be to do it," Losch said. "Make sure you are good at both preaching and working. It is hard work and you need to be good at what you do."
"It can be challenging and tough," said Soca. "But at the same time I have learned to rely on the Holy Spirit. That's been a big lesson, a big growth area for me. You cannot do this in your own strength. You have to rely on God."
Joe Conway is a writer for the North American Mission Board.


Plateau iris is one of the most common angle-closure glaucomas presenting in younger patients. This condition is characterized by closing of the anterior chamber angle secondary to a large or anteriorly positioned ciliary body that mechanically alters the position of the peripheral iris in relation to the trabecular meshwork.
In plateau iris configuration, the pars plicata may be large and anteriorly positioned, mechanically positioning the peripheral iris against the trabecular meshwork. In addition, the iris root is inserted anteriorly on the ciliary face further crowding the anterior chamber angle. The iris crowding of the angle obstructs aqueous flow via the trabecular meshwork and may lead to angle-closure glaucoma.
Except in the rare younger patients (age 20-30s), some degree of pupillary block also is present. Because a component of pupillary block may exist in patients with plateau iris configuration, laser iridotomy should always be performed as the first intervention. If the angle remains capable of closure despite a patent iridotomy, the condition is termed plateau iris syndrome.
The exact prevalence of plateau iris is unknown. A 2016 study found that one third of eyes with primary angle-closure glaucoma had plateau iris.  In another report, it accounted for more than half of recurrent angle closure cases in young patients.  The diagnosis of plateau iris should be suspected when angle closure occurs in patients who are young or myopic and when angle narrowing persists despite iridotomy.
Plateau iris is an important cause of angle-closure glaucoma in patients younger than 50 years.
Plateau iris is seen most commonly in women.
Patients with plateau iris usually are younger than those with primary angle-closure (relative pupillary block) glaucoma.
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Ultrasound biomicroscopy. (A) In plateau iris, the anterior position of the ciliary body holds the peripheral iris against the trabecular meshwork. (B) The angle is obstructed further in the dark as the peripheral iris thickens with physiologic pupillary dilation.
Ultrasound biomicroscopy, plateau iris syndrome. (A) Appositional anterior chamber angle in dark condition prior to laser iridotomy. (B) After laser iridotomy, the angle remains occludable. (C) After peripheral laser iridoplasty, the peripheral iris is thinned, opening the angle and significantly reducing the risk of closure.