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Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People
By John W. Whitehead
Global Research, August 22, 2018
The Rutherford Institute 21 August 2018
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"A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear."—John Salter
Police in a small Georgia town tasered a 5-foot-2, 87-year-old woman who was using a kitchen knife to cut dandelions for use in a recipe. Police claim they had no choice but to taser the old woman, who does not speak English but was smiling at police to indicate she was friendly, because she failed to comply with orders to put down the knife.
Police in California are being sued for using excessive force against a deaf 76-year-old woman who was allegedly jaywalking and failed to halt when police yelled at her. According to the lawsuit, police searched the woman and her grocery bags. She was then slammed to the ground, had a foot or knee placed behind her neck or back, handcuffed, arrested and cited for jaywalking and resisting arrest.
In Alabama, police first tasered then shot and killed an unarmed man who refused to show his driver's license after attempting to turn in a stray dog he'd found to the local dog shelter. The man's girlfriend and their three children, all under the age of 10, witnessed the shooting.
In New York, Customs and Border Protection officers have come under fire for subjecting female travelers (including minors) to random body searches that include strip searches while menstruating, genital probing, and forced pelvic exams, X-rays and intravenous drugs at area hospitals.
At a California gas station, ICE agents surrounded a man who was taking his pregnant wife to the hospital to deliver their baby, demanding that he show identification. Having forgotten his documents at home in the rush to get to the hospital, the husband offered to go get them. Refusing to allow him to do so, ICE agents handcuffed and arrested the man for not having an ID with him, leaving his wife to find her way alone to the hospital. The father of five, including the newborn, has lived and worked in the U.S. for 12 years with his wife.
These are not isolated incidents.
These cases are legion.
This is what a state of undeclared martial law looks like, when you can be arrested, tasered, shot, brutalized and in some cases killed merely for not complying with a government agent's order or not complying fast enough.
This isn't just happening in crime-ridden inner cities.
It's happening all across the country.
America has been locked down.
This is what it's like to be a citizen of the American police state.
This is what it's like to be an enemy combatant in your own country.
This is what it feels like to be a conquered people.
This is what it feels like to be an occupied nation.
This is what it feels like to live in fear of armed men crashing through your door in the middle of the night, or to be accused of doing something you never even knew was a crime, or to be watched all the time, your movements tracked, your motives questioned.
This is what it feels like to have your homeland transformed into a battlefield.
Mind you, in a war zone, there are no police—only soldiers. Thus, there is no more Posse Comitatus prohibiting the government from using the military in a law enforcement capacity. Not when the local police have, for all intents and purposes, already become the military.
In a war zone, the soldiers shoot to kill, as American police have now been trained to do. Whether the perceived "threat" is armed or unarmed no longer matters when police are authorized to shoot first and ask questions later.
In a war zone, even the youngest members of the community learn at an early age to accept and fear the soldier in their midst. Thanks to funding from the government, more schools are hiring armed police officers—some equipped with semi-automatic AR-15 rifles—to "secure" their campuses.
In a war zone, you have no rights. When you are staring down the end of a police rifle, there can be no free speech. When you're being held at bay by a militarized, weaponized mine-resistant tank, there can be no freedom of assembly. When you're being surveilled with thermal imaging devices, facial recognition software and full-body scanners and the like, there can be no privacy. When you're charged with disorderly conduct simply for daring to question or photograph or document the injustices you see, with the blessing of the courts no less, there can be no freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
And when you're a prisoner in your own town, unable to move freely, kept off the streets, issued a curfew at night, there can be no mistaking the prison walls closing in.
This is happening and will happen anywhere and everywhere else in this country where law enforcement officials are given carte blanche to do what they like, when they like, how they like, with immunity from their superiors, the legislatures, and the courts.
You see, what Americans have failed to comprehend, living as they do in a TV-induced, drug-like haze of fabricated realities, narcissistic denial, and partisan politics, is that we've not only brought the military equipment used in Iraq and Afghanistan home to be used against the American people.
We've also brought the very spirit of the war home.
"We the people" have now come full circle, from being held captive by the British police state to being held captive by the American police state.
In between, we have charted a course from revolutionaries fighting for our independence and a free people establishing a new nation to pioneers and explorers, braving the wilderness and expanding into new territories.
Where we went wrong, however, was in allowing ourselves to become enthralled with and then held hostage by a military empire in bondage to a corporate state (the very definition of fascism).
No longer does America hold the moral high ground as a champion of freedom and human rights. Instead, in the pursuit of profit, our overlords have transformed the American landscape into a battlefield, complete with military personnel, tactics and weaponry.
To our dismay, we now find ourselves scrambling for a foothold as our once rock-solid constitutional foundation crumbles beneath us. And no longer can we rely on the president, Congress, the courts, or the police to protect us from wrongdoing.
Indeed, the president, Congress, the courts, and the police have come to embody all that is wrong with America.
For instance, how does a man who is relatively healthy when taken into custody by police lapse into a coma and die while under their supervision?
What kind of twisted logic allows a police officer to use a police car to run down an American citizen and justifies it in the name of permissible deadly force?
And what country are we living in where the police can beat, shoot, choke, taser and tackle American citizens, all with the protection of the courts?
Certainly, the Constitution's safeguards against police abuse means nothing when government agents can crash through your door, terrorize your children, shoot your dogs, and jail you on any number of trumped of charges, and you have little say in the matter. For instance, San Diego police, responding to a domestic disturbance call on a Sunday morning, showed up at the wrong address, only to shoot the homeowner's 6-year-old service dog in the head.
Rubbing salt in the wound, it's often the unlucky victim of excessive police force who ends up being charged with wrongdoing. Although 16-year-old Thai Gurule was charged with resisting arrest and strangling and assaulting police officers, a circuit judge found that it was actually the three officers who unlawfully stopped, tackled, punched, kneed, tasered and yanked his hair who were at fault. Thankfully, bystander cell phone videos undermined police accounts, which were described as "works of fiction."
Not even our children are being spared the blowback from a growing police presence.
As one juvenile court judge noted in testimony to Congress, although having police on public school campuses did not make the schools any safer, it did result in large numbers of students being arrested for misdemeanors such as school fights and disorderly conduct. One 11-year-old autistic Virginia student was charged with disorderly conduct and felony assault after kicking a trashcan and resisting a police officer's attempt to handcuff him. A 14-year-old student was tasered by police, suspended and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and trespassing after he failed to obey a teacher's order to be the last student to exit the classroom.
There is no end to the government's unmitigated gall in riding roughshod over the rights of the citizenry, whether in matters of excessive police powers, militarized police, domestic training drills, SWAT team raids, surveillance, property rights, overcriminalization, roadside strip searches, profit-driven fines and prison sentences, etc.
The president can now direct the military to detain, arrest and secretly execute American citizens. These are the powers of an imperial dictator, not an elected official bound by the rule of law. This mantle is worn by whomever occupies the Oval Office now and in the future.
A representative government means nothing when the average citizen has little to no access to their elected officials, while corporate lobbyists enjoy a revolving door relationship with everyone from the President on down. Indeed, while members of Congress hardly work for the taxpayer, they work hard at being wooed by corporations, which spend more to lobby our elected representatives than we spend on their collective salaries. For that matter, getting elected is no longer the high point it used to be. As one congressman noted, for many elected officials, "Congress is no longer a destination but a journey… [to a] more lucrative job as a K Street lobbyist… It's become routine to see members of Congress drop their seat in Congress like a hot rock when a particularly lush vacancy opens up."
As for the courts, they have long since ceased being courts of justice. Instead, they have become courts of order, largely marching in lockstep with the government's dictates, all the while helping to increase the largesse of government coffers. It's called for-profit justice, and it runs the gamut of all manner of financial incentives in which the courts become cash cows for communities looking to make an extra buck. As journalist Chris Albin-Lackey details,
"They deploy a crushing array of fines, court costs, and other fees to harvest revenues from minor offenders that these communities cannot or do not want to raise through taxation."
In this way, says Albin-Lackey,
"A resident of Montgomery, Alabama who commits a simple noise violation faces only a $20 fine—but also awhopping $257 in court costs and user fees should they seek to have their day in court."
As for the rest—the schools, the churches, private businesses, service providers, nonprofits and your fellow citizens—many are also marching in lockstep with the police state.
This is what is commonly referred to as community policing.
After all, the police can't be everywhere. So how do you police a nation when your population outnumbers your army of soldiers? How do you carry out surveillance on a nation when there aren't enough cameras, let alone viewers, to monitor every square inch of the country 24/7? How do you not only track but analyze the transactions, interactions and movements of every person within the United States?
The answer is simpler than it seems: You persuade the citizenry to be your eyes and ears.
It's a brilliant ploy, with the added bonus that while the citizenry remains focused on and distrustful of each other, they're incapable of focusing on more definable threats that fall closer to home—namely, the government and its militarized police.
In this way, we're seeing a rise in the incidence of Americans being reported for growing vegetables in their front yard, keeping chickens in their back yard, letting their kids walk to the playground alone, and voicing anti-government sentiments. For example, after Shona Banda's son defended the use of medical marijuana during a presentation at school, school officials alerted the police and social services, and the 11-year-old was interrogated, taken into custody by social workers, had his home raided by police and his mother arrested.
Now it may be that we have nothing to worry about.
Perhaps the government really does have our best interests at heart.
Perhaps covert domestic military training drills really are just benign exercises to make sure our military is prepared for any contingency.
Then again, while I don't believe in worrying over nothing, it's safe to say that the government has not exactly shown itself to be friendly in recent years, nor have its agents shown themselves to be cognizant of the fact that they are civilians who answer to the citizenry, rather than the other way around.
As Aldous Huxley warned in Brave New World Revisited,
"Liberty cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government."
Whether or not the government plans to impose some more overt form of martial law in the future remains to be seen, but there can be no denying that we're being accustomed to life in a military state.
The malls may be open for business, the baseball stadiums may be packed, and the news anchors may be twittering nonsense about the latest celebrity foofa, but those are just distractions from what is really taking place: the transformation of America into a war zone.
As I document in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if it looks like a battlefield (armored tanks on the streets, militarized police in metro stations, surveillance cameras everywhere), sounds like a battlefield (SWAT team raids nightly, sound cannons to break up large assemblies of citizens), and acts like a battlefield (police shooting first and asking questions later, intimidation tactics, and involuntary detentions), it's a battlefield.
Indeed, what happened in Ocala, Florida, is a good metaphor for what's happening across the country: Sheriff's deputies, dressed in special ops uniforms and riding in an armored tank on a public road, pulled a 23-year-old man over and issued a warning violation to him after he gave them the finger. The man, Lucas Jewell, defended his actions as a free speech expression of his distaste for militarized police.
Translation: "We the people" are being hijacked on the highway by government agents with little knowledge of or regard for the Constitution, who are hyped up on the power of their badge, outfitted for war, eager for combat, and taking a joy ride—on taxpayer time and money—in a military tank that has no business being on American soil.
Rest assured, unless we slam on the brakes, this runaway tank will soon be charting a new course through terrain that bears no resemblance to land of our forefathers, where freedom meant more than just the freedom to exist and consume what the corporate powers dish out.
Rod Serling, one of my longtime heroes and the creator of The Twilight Zone, understood all too well the danger of turning a blind eye to evil in our midst, the "things that scream for a response." As Serling warned, "if we don't listen to that scream – and if we don't respond to it – we may well wind up sitting amidst our own rubble, looking for the truck that hit us – or the bomb that pulverized us. Get the license number of whatever it was that destroyed the dream. And I think we will find that the vehicle was registered in our own name."
If you haven't managed to read the writing on the wall yet, the war has begun.
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected].
The original source of this article is The Rutherford Institute
Copyright © John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute, 2018
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a man that the United States celebrates with a holiday the third Monday of every January. Although we recognize his work for humanity, our society teaches its citizen little more than the fact that he gave an "I Have a Dream" speech and that he died in Memphis, Tennessee. We are not taught that he kept working for the civil and human rights of all citizens at great risk to his life.
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Pittsburgh, PA – May 19, 2016 – Nicholson Construction Company will begin work on the Dugway Storage Tunnel (DST) as a part of an overall program by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) to improve the control of combined sewer overflows in the Greater Cleveland service area. Nicholson will be installing secant piles as the temporary support of excavation for a baffle drop structure, as well as two rectangular gate structures across two site locations that will each connect to an existing sewer system.
The 24-foot diameter tunnel will be 180 to 230 feet below ground surface and stretch 2.8 miles from the Easterly Tunnel Dewatering Pump Station (ETDPS) to its upstream terminus at Superior Avenue. The DST will share the terminus with the Euclid Creek Tunnel and connect to the ETDPS. Following a storm event when treatment capacity is available, combined sewage overflow will be pumped from the tunnels to the Easterly Wastewater Treatment Plant by means of the ETDPS.
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Facts about Japanese Chin Dogs, "Scientific name for Japanese Chin Dog, or domestic canine, is Canis lupus familiaris". The Japanese Chin Dog is a variety of dog that is recognized for its significance to Japanese dignity. The Japanese Chin Dog breed belongs to the toy dog category and the Japanese Chin Dog are outstanding lap and companion dogs. The Japanese Chin Dog is a toy dog variety has a unique inheritance. The unique expression of the Japanese Chin Dog breed is distinguished by a big broad head, big wide-set eyes, small wide muzzle, and ear feathering, and consistently patterned facial marks. Japanese Chin Dogs sweat glands are between their paw pads.
It is a Fact a Japanese Chin Dog sees in color and have better low light vision. Japanese Chin Dogs have three eyelids, a lower lid, an upper eyelid lid and a third lid, that is called a haw or nictitating membrane, this keeps the dogs eye protected and moist. Japanese Chin Dogs eyes have a special membrane for seeing better at night, called a tapetum lucidum - a dogs reflective layer in the choroid chiefly of nocturnal, causing the eyes to glow when light at night hits the eyes and they consist of some layers of smooth flat cells covered by a section of double deformed crystals.
The average height of the Japanese Chin Dog at the shoulder is 8 to 11 inches (18 to 28 cm) and the average weight is 4 to 15 pounds (2 to 7 kg) Japanese Chin Dog come in two classes under 7 pounds (3.1 kg) and over 7 pounds (3.1 kg).
The ears of the Japanese Chin Dog breed are small, and look like the alphabet "V". The ears are set separately and somewhat underneath the crown of the head, and well enclosed with hair. The forehead of the Japanese Chin Dog breed is circular in shape and the stop is profound and the muzzle is broad and short. The Japanese Chin Dog breeds have a wide nose, with an extremely small nasal passage. The white and black colored dogs will have a black nose, whereas the other colored dogs will have the nose color, according to the color of the markings on their coat.
The Japanese Chin Dog breeds have dark colored, big, circular protruding eyes that are situated wide apart. The length and the height of their body are about identical. The Japanese Chin Dog breed has straight, fine-boned front legs, with the elbows set near the body. The curved, high set tail of the breed is carried up over their back, suspending on both sides of the body with feathering. The Japanese Chin Dog fur is white in color with tinted patches. The patches are habitually black in color, but they can also be a lemon, red, orange, black, sable, brindle, or white with tan dots.
Japanese Chin Dog's nose prints can be used to identify them, their nose prints are like a humans finger print. It is a Fact a Japanese Chin Dog smells more than 1,000 times stronger than that of a human. A Japanese Chin Dog's nose, secretes a thin layer of mucous that helps it absorb scent, after that they lick their noses and sample the scent through their mouth.
Average body temperature for a Japanese Chin Dog is between 101 to 102.5 degrees
Female Japanese Chin Dogs are in heat for matting for about 20 days twice a year. Female Japanese Chin Dogs are pregnant for 60 days before they're puppies are born.
A Japanese Chin Dog is an omnivore, (definition-they eat both other animals and plants). All Dogs are direct descendants of wolves.
The Japanese Chin Dog breed is an amiable, energetic, and happy dog. It is agreeable, loving, clever, friendly and extremely loyal to its owner. The Japanese Chin Dog breed loves everybody to whom it is accustomed to, but is recognized to be aloof around unfamiliar people and strange situations. The Japanese Chin Dog breed performs well with other pets and dogs. The Japanese Chin Dog have a mind of their own and like to be the core of attention. This breed does not bark and is gentle mannered, attractive, yet playful.
All dogs are identical in makeup big or small– 42 permanent teeth and 321 bones. Japanese Chin Puppies have 28 teeth and when they become adult Japanese Chin Dogs they have 42 teeth. When Japanese Chin puppies are born, they have no teeth and are deaf and blind. Japanese Chin Puppies for their first few weeks will sleep ninety percent of the day and their vision is not fully developed until after the first month.
Japanese Chin Dogs have two times the amount of ear muscles than people. It is a fact a Dog can hear a sound at four times the distance of a human. Sound frequency is measured in Hertz (Hz) Def-Hertz is the measurement of frequency, explicitly it's one cycle per second. The higher the Hertz are, the higher the pitched the sound is. Japanese Chin Dogs hear best at 45,000 Hz to 65,000 Hz, while humans hear best at around 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz.
The maximum life span of the Japanese Chin breed is 10 years.
If purchasing a Japanese Chin Dog from a breeder, make sure to find a good breeder with references check at least two to three of the puppies that were purchased from this breeder.
The Japanese Chin Dog belongs to the Toy Group and in 1888 was recognized AKC American Kennel Club.
The number one heath problems amongst Japanese Chin Dogs is obesity, so always make sure your dog doesn't get to fat. Many foot problems that Japanese Chin Dogs have are just an issue of long toenails. Some of the health problems that might happen in the Japanese Chin Dog are Cataracts, Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease, Heart Murmurs, Patellar Luxation, (PRA) Progressive Retinal Atrophy and Atrioventricular Endocardiosis.
Japanese Chin Dogs pant to keep cool with 10 to 35 breaths per minute with an average of 24 breaths per minute. A large dog breed resting heart beats between 60 to 100 times per minute, and a small dog breed's heart beats on average between 100 to 140 pant a lot.
A Japanese Chin Dog's mouth can apply approximately 150 to 200 pounds of pressure per square inch and an American Pit Bull Terrier, German Shepherd Dog and a rottweiler can have 320 LBS of pressure on avg.
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A partnership between churches in Keystone Heights to feed youth this summer wasn't just about food. It was a chance to show the community the Gospel in action.
LAKELAND — Six months after the earthquake that killed more than 220,000 people in Haiti, recovery is slow and conditions in many areas remain dire. Despite such circumstances, Florida Conference leaders urged members to "give great care" to the process of helping the Haitian people.
The Rev. Jack Jackson says the struggles United Methodists in Florida have with evangelism are similar to those faced by other Wesleyans around the world. And one of the biggest challenges, he says, is clarity about the path to mature discipleship.
LAKELAND — Are conference churches making disciples or members? Conference leaders asked laity and clergy to consider that question, and its implications for ministry, during the recent conference session.
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Static Injection Mixer features short laying length.
Static Injection Mixer is a fixed plate that installs in-line, and into which one or more fluids are injected and rapidly mixed by combination of alternate vortex shedding and intense shear zone turbulence. It achieves over 98% injected fluid dispersion only 10 diameters downstream from mixer. Unit fits inside mating flange bolt circle of any piping system and comes in PVC, FRP, 316 SST, Titanium, Hastelloy®, and carbon fiber. Sizes range from 2-72 in. dia.
A patented, low-cost static injection mixer that eliminates the need to inject upstream and features a short laying length for a wide variety of chemical, industrial, and water treatment applications is being introduced by Westfall Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island.
The Westfall Static Injection Mixer is a fixed plate that installs easily in-line and into which one or more fluids are injected and rapidly mixed by a combination of alternate vortex shedding and intense shear zone turbulence. Featuring a short laying length, this compact static mixer achieves >98% injected fluid dispersion only 10 diameters downstream from the mixer.
Designed to fit inside the mating flange bolt circle of any piping system, the Westfall Static Injection Mixer is available in 2" to 72" dia. sizes and can be manufactured from PVC, FRP, 316 SST, Titanium, Hastelloy®, carbon fiber, and other materials. Providing predictable mixing and maintenance-free operation, this static mixer has no moving parts.
The Westfall Static Injection Mixer is priced from $295. (list), depending upon size and material of construction. Literature and price quotations are available upon request.


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My dev envirnments are Windows7 and powershell, the latest versions of Virtual Box and Vagrant.
PS C:\Users\user\devstack> vagrant up
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By the way, I was able to fix the problem by open and save Vagrantfile in UTF-8 format using a text editor (i.e. notepad or sublime text). Is there a better way to fix the problem? I wonder whether it is something to do with my dev environment problem or Cypress release problem.
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I would have to say, a few of my favorite things, 1. Before the service, Juliana, my 3-year-old niece, just randomly went up and kissed Grandmas picture!!! She just went right up on her tip-e-toes to reach her lips, it was the cutest thing ever!!!! 2. when Bishop Abbott talked about my mom, one of the things that he said that I thought was sooooo NEAT was that he said my mom was one of the best friends he ever had!!! I was like, WOW!!! What a HIGH COMPLIMENT!!! Not only because it was a man of God that called her one of his best friends, but because like he said, in the ministry, you don't always have a lot of people that your friends with AND just because I KNOW Bishop Abbott's personality and for him to say that about ANYONE is a VERY HIGH COMPLIMENT!!! That was just AWESOME!!!
The outfit I wore for my mom, she would have LOVED IT!!!
Seriously, it was a MOM OUTFIT through and through!!!!
Thank you to All my out of state friends that either drove in or flew in, specifically just for my mom's service!!! Jen Connell, Joe and Anali Velez and Bro. Kifle! These friends didn't even personally know my mom, they just came to support me and that really meant a lot to me!!! I know I've said it like a million times BUUUUUUT thank you guys, your the best!!! Purrrrrrrrr!!!
And also thank you to all my AZ friends that also took the time to come and support me, that meant just as much to me as well and it really stood out to me that you came!!!
Annnnnnnd the church was packed out!!!
sooooooooo many lives that my mom touched!!! She truly was an AMAZING WOMAN!!! I'm so blessed to get to call her MOM!!! Thank you God for giving her to me!!!
Annnnnd after the service was over and before we ate, we passed out 62 purple and lavender balloons and you could write a message on them and then we sent them all up to her!!! I LOVED THAT MOMENT!!! It was so cool looking at them all flying!!!
P.S. More pics to come as they're sent to me and i'll talk about the service more to come and i'll eventually post her eulogy and stuff too!!!
One prayed back through to the Holy Ghost!!!
A direct result from my mom's death!!!! He told my brother when he found out my mom had died that she had always told him to live for God!!!
You guys, I have the AWESOMEST friends!!! After Joe and Anali drove all day to be at my moms service, THEN, they stayed up late helping me finish baking cookies for after the service!!! And Stultz coulda been doing homework buuuuuut... He was helping too!!!
Look, his hands are even glowing!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
My Mom's going home service!!!
Anyone that would like to come to my mom's service, it will take place this Saturday at 2:30!!!! All are welcome to join us to celebrate in the life of my mom...I just want you all too see HOW amazing of a woman of God she was!!! Your welcome to wear whatever you like to her service, BUUUUUUT, her favorite color was lavender and purple so we're telling everyone that if they would like to wear that in honor of her that would be GREAT!!! Also, the family make a simple website where you can leave a message or share a memory with the family. Go HERE to see it!!!
Look who came in this Sunday???
Sooooo Hanna decided to surprise me and come for a visit, just cuz she knew that I was SAD about my mom!!! Isn't that the awesomest thing everrrrr??? Sooooo super-duper SWEET!!!
mom in the world HEAVEN!!!
I never got to give you your birthday present this year mom, I got you some Bible drama stories from lamplighter theatre, I had planned for us to listen to them together buuuuuut instead you got the best gift of all...YOU MADE IT TO THE FINISH LINE and I know that your having the best party everrrr now!!! Love you foreverrrrr!!! Purrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!
When my mom first got diagnosed with kidney failure in December I bought her this sign and hung it up in her hospital room!!!
WE PRAYED FOR HER HEALING!!!
"For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."
Then I went to sleep, and the whole time I was sleeping next to my mom in the recliner, holding her hand, You guys, yesterday I asked God to please, please, PLEASE let me be there with her when she crossed over and he answered my prayer!!!
And not only did he answer it, he answered it in just the perfect way because I'm pretty sure I would have just freaked out if I had known she was dying and I couldn't stop it, but even tho I was sleeping, I still got to be there!!!! It means so much to me that I was holding her hand as she stepped into glory land, I will treasure this as long as I live!!!
As most of you all know, I told you that my mom was not doing well and in December she was diagnosed with kidney failure and she then began getting dialysis treatments. Weeeeeeeelllll, I had dreamed of my mommy getting better buuuuuuuut God had different plans and last week, even with dialysis treatments, she really took a turn for the worst in the physical sense, BETTER in the spiritual sense!!!
This past Saturday while at the hospital, she told my sister that she wanted to go home. My sister said, you want us to bring you back home to the house? She said, No, I want to go home with Jesus!!!
Then she had all of the family in the hospital room with her and told us she was leaving, to remember to be kind to each other and to always walk in His ways, then we all prayed together! Sunday she came home with hospice to spend the rest of her time there till she leaves this old earth behind.
This was late Saturday morning, Pastor and Sis. Abbott and then they called Bishop Abbott, because he travels around preaching now and they all prayed together!
I wish I could just hold her hand foreverrrr!!!
She read her Bible til the very end!!!!
today I put all her stuff animals with her, she always loved stuffed animals like me!!! And I put her tambourine with her, cuz IF she could, she'd be shouting and worshipping about heaven, she was always banging that thing as loud as she could!!! you know what, remember a few years ago she was telling me at WCC that these girls NEEDED to be wearing their skirts LONGER!!! She was like they need to be MORE than JUST covering their knees!!! I was like, Okaaaaaaaay mom, what do you want me to do, I WEAR MY SKIRTS LONG!!! Weeeeeeellll then that very night the preacher was preaching and he was like, GIRLS, your skirts need to be WELL PAST YOUR KNEES!!! Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd let me tell you, I was sitting on completely different side of the conference from my mom, BUUUUUUUUUT at that very moment I knew where she was cuz I could hear her tambourine going off like crazy!!! Oh man, MY IS SOOOO AWESOME!!!
ON HER WAY TO HEAVEN!!!
Happy Monday my peeps, and A belated Happy Valentine's Day to my ONE TRUE LOVE!!!
"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it."
" I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord."
YOUR JEALOUS OF YOUR GALLON OF MILK IN THE FRIDGE!!!!
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllll once again, I'm pretty behind on the times, buuuuuuuuut, I wanted to do a post on our annual Church Thanksgiving Feast!!! This years was AWESOME!!! We had soooooooo MANY GUESTS and of course GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD FOOD!!!
The food set up was BEAUTIFUL!!!
This was a Muslim family that came...they lived at the apartments where all the kids lived YEARS AGO and they just RANDOMLY ran into Sarah Greenbank at the store, of course we know that it wasn't really RANDOM, it was of course, GOD!!!
The spirit of God was sooooooooo STRONG, a lot of the kids were really touched!!!
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd DEEDEE GOT THE HOLY GHOST!!! We are still SOOOOO EXDCITED ABOUT THIS!!! I've literally known Deedee since she was born so this is pretty exciting to me!!!
I made a BOMB pistachio cake...I mean, I don't wanna brag or anything, BUUUUUT its soooooo GOOOOOOD that my brother Joe has requested that I make it for HIS BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR!!! That's like a HUGE COMPLIMENT!!!
All the little kidders singing Christmas Carols together!!! Awwwwww!!!
Annnnnnnnnd of course Bro. Miraflor preached and AWESOME message!!!
All together, we had 26 people from the Paradise Valley outreach... SO AWESOME!!!
award for making A MESS THE FASTEST???
You are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!!! Hee, hee!!!
Jen and Hanna just HAPPENED TO MATCH in the exact dress!!! They had NO IDEA the other was going to wear that...I guess that's why they're kindreds, I wouldn't be surprised if Anali was over there in Roswell wearing the same dress!!! Bahahahaha!!!
we were both even wearing black pleated skirts!!!
HAPPY person!!! ;) Hee, hee!!!
Yuuuup ALWAYS something to be thankful for...liiiiiike COFFEE!!! JK! JK!!! There IS A LOT MORE to be thankful for than that!!! God has been sooooo good to me, I CAN NOT TELL IT ALL!!!
My kind of Super Bowl!!!
Duuuuuuuude SERIOUSLEY, I don't even know WHO'S playing, buuuuuuuut, A SELF CLEANING TOILET, that would be the SUPERIST- SUPER BOWL EVERRRR!!!! Like Pastor Abbott said today in his preaching referring to the Super Bowl, today, someone's god is going to FAIL THEM!!! Buuuuuuuuuuut I'm sooooooooo glad I have a God that HAS NEVER AND WILL NEVER FAIL ME!!!
When Mary Gets To Heaven!!!!
Sooooooooooo last Sunday Eve after church, a bunch of us all went to Red Robin annnnnnd of course we almost ALL got the bottomless fries, that's where you can get as many refills as you want on their fries!!!
I GET IT YOU GUYS!!!


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Toss the strawberries in a bowl with the 1/4 cup sugar and set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together the coconut milk, coconut cream, juice and zest of lemons, powdered sugar and vanilla extract. Whisk all ingredients together until combined.
If using an ice cream maker, make sure the bowl is pre chilled and make ice cream according to manufacturer's directions. I let mine churn for about 20-30 minutes, but this may vary.
When ice cream is done, pour into a dish and freeze for an additional 2-4 hours, or until firm. To serve as a banana split, serve over a banana halved with nuts, chocolate sauce and additional toppings.


Boy's shirt sewing pattern. No. 6054, Simplicity sewing pattern from the 1980's. Includes teen boys too. Designed for knit fabrics. Raglan long and short sleeves. V-neck and buttoned collar necklines. Three sizes in each pattern. Sew several different shirts for the young man or boy in your life. A nice, vintage sewing pattern from Simplicity and the 1980's!
Original, authentic pattern. Not a download or copy.
Size: K (8, 10 and 12). See photo for measurements.
Condition: Unused and uncut. Still in factory folds. Flap is missing from the envelope. Some crinkling and wear and residue from an old sticker on the envelope.
Vintage, one of a kind item. As with all vintage items, slight imperfections can be expected. Anything of note will be mentioned.


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Innovators Changing the South
Credit: Miller Mobley
One thing we love about the South is that it's always evolving. We cherish our traditions, but we're also the first to cheer the rabble-rousers, the underdogs, the people who are shaping the South to be something new, something different, something we've never seen before
Brandon Ballard
Brandon Ballard is an elementary school teacher with a secret mission: to get America back to our national parks. His website, Road Trip Dad, has in-depth information about traveling with kids and planning great vacations around hectic schedules and tight budgets. He outlines basics like "Eating on the Road," "Gathering Gear," and "Day Hiking 101," and he's working on step-by-step instructions for getting the best out of each individual park visit—with over 26 national parks under his belt (and counting), he's committed to creating a community that loves to get outside. roadtripdad.net; Instagram; Facebook
Credit: David McClister
You'd think, once you'd achieved global success as a singer and actress, become a living legend, and inspired an entire theme park, it would be time to settle down—but that's just not our Dolly. She continues to inspire us in new ways all the time. We still love her Imagination Library, a project that brings books to kids who may not be able to afford them, and we were excited to curl up at Christmastime and watch her first biographical TV movie, Coat of Many Colors. It was a hit, and we're eager to see the follow-up, Jolene, her next special in development. dollyparton.com
Cornelia Walker Bailey
Credit: Terry Manier
Words matter, and Cornelia Walker Bailey is determined to make hers count. Through storytelling, oral history, and a lot of hard work, she's preserving the Gullah culture of her home, Sapelo Island. Sapelo is the last of the South's barrier islands that still retains certain distinctive qualities, including the Geechee dialect historically spoken by its African American residents, and Bailey is stalwart in her fight against anyone who pushes her community to sacrifice culture in the name of progress. gacoast.com/geecheetours
Sometimes those most in need of help are the most likely to fall through the cracks of the criminal justice system. Bryan Stevenson not only defends those marginalized people but empowers others to do the same through Montgomery, Alabama's Equal Justice Initiative and through his bestselling memoir, Just Mercy, a moving account of his own journey fighting for the powerless. eji.org; Facebook; Twitter
Chris Bennett is changing the South literally from the ground up. He's a lover of the earth's bounty, but where most farmers stop, Chris begins: He's a forager, meaning he hunts and scavenges for things like berries, mushrooms, and shrubs that have big flavor even though they're often overlooked. Chris is a favorite of some of the South's finest chefs, but he's not all about the white tablecloth. His book, Southeast Foraging, makes foraging accessible to everyone, and his Instagram account, where he continually posts discoveries in South Carolina's Lowcountry, is fascinating not only to foragers but to anyone who loves the undiscovered beauty of the South. Twitter; Instagram
Aaron Brazelton
Aaron Brazelton traveled to Serbia for the first time as a 15-year-old; now a junior at The University of Alabama, he's creating a way for other students to have the same transformative exposure to other cultures. He founded The Serbia Fellowship Experience, which acts as a mediator between students in Serbia and their counterparts in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with the aim of helping young people learn the value of experiencing new cultural experiences. alumni.state.gov/alumni-story/american-belgrade; uaheritagepanel.wordpress.com
Ben Burkett
Ben Burkett is the kind of man you can find in a room with the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank one day and selling melons at a famers' market the next, then in Zimbabwe speaking about farm co-ops the next—that is to say, there isn't another man like Ben Burkett. He's a seemingly tireless supporter of small farms and cooperatives and a frequent speaker about the struggles farmers face. He's a farmer himself in Mississippi, and he changes the world by traveling and talking about what he knows best.
Deanna Hoelscher
There's a lot of talk about how school lunches and access to healthy food affects kids, but Deanna Hoelscher does more than talk—she puts her findings into action. Through initiatives like Lunch is in the Bag, which helps parents pack healthier meals, and multiple projects studying nutrition and activity in children, Hoelscher helps make schools in the South a little healthier through her work at The University of Texas School of Public Health in Austin. sph.uth.edu
Aziz Ansari, one of our favorite comedians, has been everywhere lately. We marathon-watched his Netflix series Master of None—the main character attended South Carolina's School for Science and Math, just like Ansari himself did—but we were most surprised by his excellent book, Modern Romance. Written with sociologist Eric Klinenberg, it's a funny yet surprisingly serious and insightful take on dating and relationships in the age of the Internet. azizansari.com; Twitter; Instagram
Lots of people tell us to live without fear, but Brené Brown teaches us to thrive in the face of it. With three New York Times bestsellers (Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection), a popular TED talk, and a host of online courses and speaking engagements, this researcher and very Texan storyteller helps us become people capable of changing our own communities, families, and selves for the better. brenebrown.com; Twitter; Instagram
Annie B. Jones
Jones took over management of Thomasville, Georgia's bookshop The Bookshelf in 2013. Since then, we've been continually impressed with her entrepreneurial spirit, creative inspiration, and rock-solid daily reading picks available through her blog, on social media and by listening to From the Front Porch, her podcast. With fun in-store events like a letter-writing club and an adult coloring book night, plus frequent author visits and collaborations with her local library and community organizations, Jones exemplifies the best of small-town shopkeeping and Southern charm. bookshelfthomasville.com; Twitter; Instagram
Dylan LeBlanc
Credit: Abraham Rowe Photography
The sounds of Muscle Shoals are the stuff of legends, but Dylan LeBlanc's new album shows that, although he owes a lot to his legacy, he has a style and sound that's all his own. Judge him by his collaborators—Emmylou Harris, or Ben Tanner, or Zack Cockrell of Alabama Shakes—or judge him by his unique sound, but LeBlanc has the kind of potential that makes us stand back and take notice. His January release of Cautionary Tale is already getting major rotation on our personal playlists. dylanleblanc.com; Twitter; Instagram
Donna Ladd
Donna Ladd is an old-fashioned muckraking journalist with a sharp modern voice. She helped create Mississippi's The Jackson Free Press, and her columns and reporting make national news as she takes bold stances that contrast typical Southern stereotypes. In addition to being a writer, she's a speaker and a teacher with particular focus on children in vulnerable situations, race relations, and police reform. donnaladd.com; Twitter; Instagram
Becca Stevens
Many women in the U.S. survive trafficking, addiction, prostitution, and abuse just to find new battles against poverty, lack of education, and public mistrust. Thistle Farms, founded by Becca Stevens, is fighting to change that, providing work, therapy, and more to around 700 women each year. Stevens, an Episcopal priest, is continually pushing through boundaries to help more and more women. Thistle Farms now includes residential services, bath and beauty products, a café, retail artists, and global outreach—and they don't seem to be stopping any time soon. thistlefarms.org; Twitter; Instagram
Chandler Nutik
Credit: Kathy Anderson
Chandler Nutik's vision for Community Works is simple: Kids learn better if they're inspired by things that don't seem like schoolwork, so why not put programs in place that help them learn in ways that feel creative and fun? Not only does Community Works rigorously evaluate which teachers and programs will benefit kids, but also they help with every step of making those programs reality. They assist with grant writing, gathering funding, and evaluating the effectiveness of programs once they've been implemented. communityworksla.org; Facebook
Dennis Calvert
Credit: Dennis Calvert
Dennis Calvert creates lush, intricate photographs that are one part Southern gothic and one part science fiction and fantasy. But these images aren't just beautiful, they're also made without any digital manipulation. All the intricacies of Calvert's photographs come from using simple light sources—think LEDs or Christmas tree lights—combined with long exposure times to create gorgeous, glowing images. He calls them light paintings; we call them magical. Facebook; dennis-calvert.deviantart.com
Aisha Nyandoro
Affordable housing programs can help families get on their feet, but the challenge is how to facilitate further success. This is where Mississippi's Aisha Nyandoro steps in. As Executive Director and co-founder of Springboard to Opportunity, Nyandoro helps community members with practical problems like improving educational opportunities for children and setting long-term goals. More than a helping hand, they act as a springboard not just for making ends meet but for reaching real goals for the future. springboardto.org/index.php/beta; Twitter; Instagram
Entrepreneur Bill Smith chose to launch his new on-demand grocery delivery app not in New York City or Chicago, but in the heart of Alabama. When defending his choice, Smith paints his hometown of Birmingham as being poised on the edge of growth, and with Shipt now in over 20 cities nationwide (mostly in the Southeast), his choice of headquarters is looking rather inspired. Shipt partners with existing grocery stores to provide quick, inexpensive delivery, and its popularity is growing fast. shipt.com; Twitter; Instagram
Morgan Brian
In the South, our sports heroes usually play with pigskin, but Morgan Brian is kicking preconceptions to pieces. Soccer is her game, and she's owning it: She's a midfielder for the Houston Dash, played in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, and is the youngest player on the U.S. Women's Soccer Team. But Brian isn't done yet, and she's not limiting herself. She helped open a training camp for kids interested in soccer where she teaches the next generation how to become winners. morganbrian.com; Twitter; Instagram
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Jessamyn Stanley teaches yoga out of Durham, North Carolina. But when her students walk out of the studio, her teaching has just begun. As a writer and social media powerhouse (she has over 155,000 Instagram followers and counting), Stanley stands out because of her unflagging honesty and commitment to challenging our ideas of beauty, of yoga, of the "perfect" body, and even of what it means to be Southern. She's intense, inspiring, and incredibly beautiful. jessamynstanley.com; Twitter; Instagram
Benjamin Watson
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Baltimore Ravens player Benjamin Watson doesn't leave his fight on the football field—this former Georgia Bulldog is actively using his platform as an athlete and social media commentator to talk about race and how it affects the South and the nation every day. His book, Under Our Skin, explores the topic with empathy and understanding, and his One More foundation meets needs in Louisiana and beyond. thebenjaminwatson.com; Twitter; Instagram
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Her stories aren't just set in the South; they're deeply personal works that delve into the issues that mold our lives. Ward won the 2011 National Book Award for her book Salvage the Bones, and her most recent book, Men We Reaped, mined her own past and tapped into a deep national conversation at the same time. In addition to weaving fiction, Ward teaches it: She's an associate professor at Tulane. jesmimi.blogspot.com; Twitter
Joe York
Documentary filmmaker Joe York's short films show Southern food at its most raw and mouth-wateringly delicious. More importantly, his storytelling highlights incredible characters and unsung cooks who inspire us to incorporate passion not just into cooking but into our entire lives. York continually pushes boundaries with form as well as content, and we can't wait to see what he's doing next. Find his films at the Southern Foodways Alliance, or check out his longer films: Sorry We're Open and Mississippi Innocence. Twitter; Instagram; Vimeo
Javacia Harris Bowser
Writing might be something done alone, but the business of writing benefits from support—and that's where Javacia Harris Bowser comes in. In 2011, she launched See Jane Write, a Birmingham, Alabama-based network for female bloggers and writers. Since then, See Jane Write has grown, providing constant support through blogs, workshops, guest speakers, an active Facebook group, and frequent Periscopes. By encouraging women to blog and write, See Jane Write has activated an army of female voices in the South. javacia.com; Twitter; Instagram
Jessica B. Harris
Credit: Kristy May
To hear Jessica B. Harris talk about food is to understand how a meal can tell a story, how a glass of wine can hold heritage, and how community is built while bread is broken. She's been a researcher, writer, cookbook author, and journalist for years, and her work in the field of African diaspora and African-influenced culture, food, and art is truly amazing. We're huge fans of her books (High on the Hog and Rum Drinks are favorites) and of her podcast My Welcome Table on the Heritage Radio Network. africooks.com; Twitter; Instagram
Eric Levin
Atlanta's Little Five Points neighborhood is a haven for quirky independent businesses, and Eric Levin is a big part of that success. His record store, Criminal Records, has been in business for 25 years, and he shares his success with shops around the country as a co-founder of Record Store Day, one of the country's most successful buy-local movements, and as president of the Alliance of Independent Media Stores. criminalatl.com; Twitter; Instagram
Jonathan Sanchez
Young Adult literature has been having a renaissance with the success of franchises like The Hunger Games and Twilight and hits like John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, and Jonathan Sanchez has brought our favorite YA storytellers together in a two-day festival in Charleston, South Carolina, YALLFest. It celebrates Young Adult literature and authors, bringing some of the biggest names in the business to the Lowcountry. yallfest.org; Twitter; Instagram
The Shakes are proving that Southern-rooted music, the kind that speaks to our landscape and culture, still has a very important place in American life. In 2016, the band won three Grammy awards for its second album, Sound and Color. (It also received a fourth award, for best-engineered album.) Singer Brittany Howard is taking her place in a long line of powerful female musicians from Etta James to Tina Turner. High praise? Sure, but she is poised to not only fill their shoes but strut around in them, owning every stage she sets foot on. alabamashakes.com; Twitter; Instagram
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Jonathan Green's paintings are vibrant, bright, and gorgeous. He depicts the South Carolina of his childhood, determined to connect the Lowcountry of today with its complicated roots. In capturing and preserving the culture so important to him, he's also creating it: Green is loved and heralded by art critics, and his work is used to connect us to our history, to celebrate our recent past and our present, and to teach us about beauty and ourselves. We can see Green's influence in many young artists—his style inspires paintings, music, and even a ballet based on his work. jonathangreenstudios.com
Josh Owen
Specialty coffee is the norm in the Northeast and Northwest, but when Josh Owen started his coffee company, Revelator, he saw opportunity in the overlooked South. Revelator Coffee may be a Southern company, but it rejects Southern stereotypes—these sleek and modern shops do not have cozy front porches. Revelator represents a different kind of Southerner, and in less than two years, it's opened high-end coffee shops in Birmingham, New Orleans, Atlanta, Nashville, and Chattanooga; plans are in the works to open a Charleston store soon. revelatorcoffee.com; Facebook; Instagram
Edwin Marty
Edwin Marty literally wrote the book on Urban Farming with his 2012 release Breaking Through Concrete, and now he's set his sights on Austin as the city's first-ever Food Policy Manager. He's working to bring all relevant city agencies together with community members to create a sustainable agriculture movement in the city, complete with healthier food, better government policy, and new community organizations that help people eat more locally and more organically. austintexas.gov/page/edwin-marty-food-policy-manager
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 6 (TV) (Blu-ray) (1992-1993)
Set decades after Captain James T. Kirk's 5-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers in a new Enterprise set off on their own mission to go where no one has gone before.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont, Cliff Bole, LeVar Burton, James L. Conway, Dan Curry, Jonathan Frakes, Winrich Kolbe, Les Landau, Adam Nimoy, Robert Scheerer, Alexander Singer, Patrick Stewart, Robert Wiemer
Blu-ray ALL America - Paramount Home Entertainment - Chain of Command
Episodes (with Play All function)
- "Time's Arrow, Part 2" (45:39)
- "Realm of Fear" (45:41)
- "Man of the People" (45:40)
- "Relics" (45:37)
- "Schisms" (45:40)
Episodic Promos
- "Time's Arrow, Part 2" (0:34)
- "Realm of Fear" (0:34)
- "Man of the People" (0:34)
- "Relics" (0:34)
- "Schisms" (0:34)
Audio commentary for "Relics" by writer Ronald D. Moore and Star Trek experts Mike & Denise Okuda
Deleted Scenes (1080p)
"Archival Mission Log: Mission Overview Year Six" featurette (17:55)
"Star Trek" start-up promos (8:34) (1080p)
- "True-Q" (45:39)
- "Rascals" (45:38)
- "A Fistful of Datas" (45:39)
- "The Quality of Life" (45:39)
- "True-Q" (0:34)
- "Rascals" (0:34)
- "A Fistful of Datas" (0:34)
- "The Quality of Life" (0:34)
Deleted Scene from "Q Who" (2:08) (1080p)
"Bold New Directions" featurette (17:57)
"Departmental Briefing Year Six: Production" featurette (15:33)
"Departmental Briefing Year Six: Dan Curry" featurette (19:56)
- "Chain of Command, Part 1" (45:08)
- "Ship in a Bottle" (45:09)
- "Aquiel" (45:09)
- "Face of the Enemy" (45:09)
- "Chain of Command, Part 1" (0:34)
- "Ship in a Bottle" (0:34)
- "Aquiel" (0:34)
- "Face of the Enemy" (0:34)
"Special Crew Profile: Lt. Cmdr. Data" featurette (19:00)
- "Tapestry" (45:09)
- "Birthright, Part 1" (45:12)
- "Starship Mine" (45:10)
- "Lessons" (45:12)
- "Tapestry" (0:34)
- "Birthright, Part 1" (0:34)
- "Starship Mine" (0:34)
- "Lessons" (0:34)
Audio commentary for "Tapestry" by writer Ronald D. Moore and Star Trek experts Mike & Denise Okuda
"Archival Mission Log: Select Historical Data" featurette (18:14)
- "The Chase" (45:10)
- "Frame Of Mind" (45:10)
- "Suspicions" (45:11)
- "Rightful Heir" (45:12)
- "Second Chances" (45:10)
- "The Chase" (0:34)
- "Frame Of Mind" (0:34)
- "Suspicions" (0:34)
- "Rightful Heir" (0:34)
- "Second Chances" (0:34)
Audio commentary for "Frame of Mind" by director James L. Conway and director of photography Jonathan West
"Archival Mission Logs: Inside Starfleet Archives: Sets and Props" featurette (13:10)
- "Timescape" (45:07)
- "Descent, Part 1" (45:06)
- "Timescape" (0:34)
- "Descent, Part 1" (0:34)
"Beyond the Five Year Mission: The Evolution of Star Trek: The Next Generation" documentary (1080p)
- Part 1: "The Lithosphere" (24:52)
- Part 2: "The Biosphere" (29:32)
- Part 3: "The Noosphere" (29:59)
Gag Reel (5:21)
Danish, Dutch, English HoH, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
French Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
German Dolby Digital 2.0 surround
Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 dual mono
Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0 dual mono
Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 dual mono
Extras are in 480i NTSC except where noted.
All extras except commentaries include optional Danish, Dutch, English HoH, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish subtitles.
Also available in Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Complete Series with all 7 seasons.
Audio commentary by actor Ronny Cox, director of photography Jonathan West, and Star Trek experts Mike & Denise Okuda
"The Privilege of Rank: Making Chain of Command" (28:35) (1080p)
Deleted Scene, Part 1 (1:49) (1080p)
Deleted Scenes, Part 2 (11:40) (1080p)
- Part 1 (0:34)
English HoH, French, German
"The Privilege of Rank: Making Chain of Command" (28:35, 1080p)
Deleted Scene, Part 1 (1:49, 1080p)
Deleted Scenes, Part 2 (11:40, 1080p)
Episodic Promos:
Also available in a Steelbook case.
Also available in Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Full Journey" with all 7 seasons.
The season sets for including all the episodes.
Identical specs for the season sets.
Note that the "Chain of Command" episode standalone release (and the disc in Picard: Movie & TV Collection") have exclusive extras.
Blu-ray ALL America- Paramount Home Entertainment - No cuts - The original standard definition special effects are replaced with newly remastered or newly created effects.
Blu-ray ALL Chain of Command America- Paramount Home Entertainment - No cuts - The 2-parts are edited together into a single episode. The original standard definition special effects are replaced with newly remastered or newly created effects.
Blu-ray ALL Star Trek - Picard: Movie & TV Collection America- Paramount Home Entertainment - No cuts (86:11), the 2-parts are edited together into a single episode. The original standard definition special effects are replaced with newly remastered or newly created effects.
Blu-ray ALL Australia- Paramount Home Entertainment - No cuts - The original standard definition special effects are replaced with newly remastered or newly created effects.
Blu-ray ALL France- Paramount Home Entertainment - No cuts - The original standard definition special effects are replaced with newly remastered or newly created effects.
Blu-ray ALL Germany- Paramount Home Entertainment - No cuts - The original standard definition special effects are replaced with newly remastered or newly created effects.
Blu-ray ALL Italy- Paramount Home Entertainment - No cuts - The original standard definition special effects are replaced with newly remastered or newly created effects.
Blu-ray ALL Japan- Paramount Home Entertainment - No cuts - The original standard definition special effects are replaced with newly remastered or newly created effects.
Blu-ray ALL Scandinavia- Paramount Home Entertainment - No cuts - The original standard definition special effects are replaced with newly remastered or newly created effects.
Blu-ray ALL United Kingdom- Paramount Home Entertainment - No cuts - The original standard definition special effects are replaced with newly remastered or newly created effects.
Comparison added by James-Masaki_Ryan on 21/02/15
21/02/15: Initial entry.


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#OTD in 1920 – Court-martial of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork for possession of seditious articles and documents.
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#OTD in 1920 – Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, arrested by British; he immediately goes on hunger strike.
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#OTD in 1920 – The inquest into the death of Tomás Mac Curtain, Lord Mayor of Cork killed by policemen in disguise on 20 March, returns a verdict of wilful murder against the RIC, and indicts Lloyd George and the British government.
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Do you like the sound of savoury, creamy, rich, coconuty, mushroomy, flaky, bite sized puffs of goodness? Perfect, then you will like this recipe! If you don't then move along please, why don't you try my Cucumber Avocado Rolls instead.
Phew! Got rid of the mushroom haters. Ok, now to the mushroom lovers, hi! There are two kinds of people in this world, mushroom lovers, and mushroom haters. I am a proud mushroom lover. Not only are they incredibly good for you (Dr. Fuhrman says so), they are basically always tasty no matter how they are prepared. Now multiply always tasty by puff pastry plus coconut milk, and what do you get? Little puffs of flavour bliss.
These Coconut Mushroom Puffs make the cutest little appetizers, don't you think? They are surprisingly easy to whip up too. You can even make the mushroom mixture ahead if you like, and about 30 minutes before you would like to serve them, just fill the the puff pastry cups, pop them in the oven, and then impress your guests.
The mushroom mixture is based on my recipe for Creamy Coconut Garlic Mushrooms, which I know some of you clever people have been tossing with pasta, or serving over crusty bread (um, yum)! I decided to take this recipe to another level, and add puff pastry. Believe it or not, most store bought puff pastries are accidentally vegan. Joy! Just check the ingredients to make sure that there is no butter or lard, and you are good to go!
To make the coconut mushroom filling, just slice all of the mushrooms, and mince the garlic.
Mix together the cornstarch and coconut milk, and set aside.
Heat the oil in a pan over medium high heat, then sauté the mushrooms for about 5 minutes until the mushrooms soften and begin to release their juices.
Stir in the coconut milk mixture and the spices and cook for another 5 minutes until the sauce begins to thicken. Remove from heat and set aside.
When you are ready to make the puff pastry cups. Preheat your oven to 400F (200C). Lightly flour a clean work surface and then roll out the puff pastry. Sprinkle a little flour on your rolling pin and the top of the pastry if it starts sticking.
You want to roll out a rectangle that is about 9″ x 12″. Once you do that, cut the pastry into 24 squares. To do this, slice three long cuts from top to bottom (the longest direction) which will make four columns. Then slice five cuts from side to side (the shorter direction), which will make six rows. Sounds complicated, but just check out the picture above.
Push each puff pastry square into the mini cupcake pan, so that the edges of the puff pastry, come up the sides forming a little cup to hold the mushroom mixture. (I have two of these pans seen in the photo to make 24 coconut mushroom puffs in total). Divide the mushroom mixture evenly among the cups, and bake for 25 minutes until the edges of the puff pastry are golden. Use a knife to pop them out, and enjoy!
Preheat the over to 400F (200C).
Mix together the coconut milk and corn starch and set aside.
Heat the coconut oil in a pan over medium high heat. When it's hot, add the mushrooms and garlic. Sauté the mushrooms for about 5 minutes until they soften and begin to release their juices. Stir in the coconut milk mixture, nutritional yeast, thyme, oregano, salt and pepper. Reduce heat to a simmer. Continue to cook for about another 5 minutes, until the sauce thickens a bit. Remove from heat.
Lightly flour a clean work surface and use a rolling pin to roll out the puff pastry to a rectangle that's about 9" x 12". Use a long knife to cut the puff pastry into 24 squares. that's 3 cuts down the longest direction, and 5 cuts across the shortest direction.
Push each puff pastry square into the mini cupcake pan, so that the edges of the puff pastry, come up the sides forming a little cup to hold the mushroom mixture. If any of your squares are a little too small, just use your rolling pin to roll it out a little more. Divide the mushroom mixture evenly among the cups.
Bake for 25 - 30 minutes, rotating the pan once until the edges of the puff pastry are golden. To remove them, use a knife to pop them out of the pan. Finely chop chives, cilantro, or parsley, and sprinkle on the mushroom puffs for garnish.
*If you like, you can make the mushroom mixture ahead of time and store in an airtight container until you are ready to full the puff pastry.
*You will need a rolling pin which you can purchase here, and a mini cupcake pan which you can purchase here.
super yummy! made them last night. I added a bit of vegan cheese on top.
Glad you liked them Martha!
Oh I haven't seen that movie, and now I want to see it, just for the cupcake scene!! It's true, if you just bring out food, people tend to devour it, if you tell them it's vegan, it somehow must be scary. Haha. Vegan food is the best food!
Oh, I am loving this recipe! I love little bites like this…they are perfect party food! I make little bites on pizza crust, topped with pesto, mushrooms and tomatoes. I love that you used puff pastry…that stuff is awesome!! And mushrooms are just the best!!! I am definitely going to make these!
I'm definitely a mushroom lover! And a lover of pretty much everything else in this recipe. These sound fantastic, and are super cute too!
Aren't they just the cutest? So happy to find a fellow mushroom lover! High five!


The Instituto Ronald McDonald is a nonprofit organization. Founded on April 8, 1999, at McDonald's and institutions linked to combat childhood cancer, the organization was a pioneer in promoting specific actions for the benefit of children and adolescents with cancer in Brazil.
With 17 years of operation, the Instituto has helped transform the history of Brazilian Pediatric Oncology by developing and coordinating programs that enable early diagnosis, appropriate referral and comprehensive and quality care for young patients and their families.
Every year, more than 60,000 children, adolescents and families are served by programs developed by Instituto Ronald McDonald, which helps to increase the chances of curing cancer, the leading cause of death by disease in the age group of zero to 19 years.
To promote health and quality of life of children and adolescents with cancer.
To be recognized as a reference institution in the fight against childhood cancer in Brazil by supporting the early diagnosis, quality treatment and comprehensive care to children and adolescents.
The Instituto Ronald McDonald has left its legacy in Brazil, turning the history of pediatric oncology in the country.
In Brazil there are only 17 years, has allocated more than $ 100 million to the fight against childhood cancer, assisting approximately 2.9 million children, adolescents and their families, resulting in increased healing chances of young people patients benefited the programs carried out and projects supported by the competent authorities and engaged in this cause.
We, as a company committed in this fight, we are pleased to hold the largest mobilization campaign in the country against the childhood cancer. With the Happy McDay, busiest day in the year in restaurants McDonald's, we engage our whole system in the cause: employees, franchisees, suppliers and volunteers.
But the most important is to engage society in the relevance of the issue and educate our public about the importance of the contribution.
The result of this commitment of the entire McDonald's system, in partnership with the Instituto Ronald McDonald, can be analyzed at the prospect of healing of childhood cancer in Brazil. Almost 30 years ago, this figure was 30%. Today, you can reach 80% when the case is diagnosed early with appropriate referral and quality treatment. All this is the result of hard work of people engaged in doing good to others.
It is with pride in the trodden path and attentive to future challenges that we present the results achieved in 2015. The Instituto Ronald McDonald for 17 years, working for adolescents and children with cancer and their families have health and quality of life. There are many lives that depend on the success of our mission.
For 2016, reviewed the institutional management in order to improve the coordination of the Institute's programs and processes to support the projects. Another big step for this new year will be to rethink the role of the Institute in the face of new challenges and make it increasingly stronger, optimizing processes and qualifying increasingly the development of actions.
Fulfill our mission requires a tireless work. And follow it with the primary help of our partners who invest and support us to follow this journey. Only then we will save more and more children and adolescents with cancer and have overcome more stories to share. Celebrate with us!
The McHappy Day is the largest campaign in Brazil for the benefit of children and adolescents with cancer. Much more than a fundraising campaign, the McHappy Day is an initiative that mobilizes the most diverse sectors of society to contribute to the increase in cure rates of childhood cancer in Brazil.
In 2015, McHappy Day was held on August 29, and all proceeds from the sale of the Big Mac, sale promotional products with the McHappy Day brand, mobilization events, in addition to financial donations from companies, was reversed to projects of institutions working for the benefit of children and adolescents with cancer in Brazil.
to the cause of childhood cancer.
collected during in the year.
The Happy Meal makes a very important role in combating childhood cancer in Brazil. Each unit sold of the Happy Meal, three cents is donated to the Instituto Ronald McDonald.
The allocation of the money from the Donation Box at McDonald's restaurants directs 50% of the general collection of restaurants for projects supported in the restaurant location and 50% for the National Fund of Donation Box, which, added to other collections, supports projects benefit the Instituto Ronald McDonald.
donated by passengers during flights.
The Donation on High Campaign, a partnership between the Instituto Ronald McDonald and Avianca Airlines, invites the company's passengers to know a little more about the cause of childhood cancer and contribute to the Instituto Ronald McDonald programs. The campaign is held in airlift route Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo and São Paulo-Brasília.
Collected for the implementation of the new Ronald McDonald House in Barretos, São Paulo.
The Gala Dinner Instituto Ronald McDonald is one of the most important events for fundraising for the cause of childhood cancer in Brazil. The 7th edition of the event was held on October 16 in Espaço Villa Vérico with the participation of 400 guests and 40 sponsors. Journalists Celso Zucatelli and Camilla Galeti were the masters of ceremonies of solidarity night.
For the projects to combat childhood cancer.
Since 2006, the Instituto Ronald McDonald Icatu Seguros are partners in Winning Payback Campaign. Customers who perform payments in partner networks can choose to donate your change from $0.01 to $10.00 reais, getting a savings bond. The resources from the savings bonds donation and the payback, are sold in retail networks and energy distribution, partner of Icatu Seguros. Each acquired title, the part transferred to the Instituto Ronald McDonald is invested in projects to combat childhood cancer across the country.
The traditional Invitational Golf Cup Instituto Ronald McDonald were held on June 13 at Terras de São José Golf Club in Itu, São Paulo with 300 participants, 108 players and 49 sponsors and supporting companies. Considered one of the largest charity golf tournaments in Latin America, the event brought together hundreds of participants for a day of sport, leisure and a lot of solidarity for the cause of childhood cancer.
The Instituto Ronald McDonald is the largest private social investor in pediatric oncology in Brazil.
children and adolescents with cancer.
in childhood cancer in Brazil.
Supported projects all over the country.
Treatments to adolescents and children with cancer and their families.
Indirect beneficiaries (adolescents and children aged zero to 19 years, in the area covered by the municipalities where the trainings were held).
States covered by the Program.
Adolescents and children with cancer and their families benefited.
In Brazil covered by the Program.
for acquisition of equipment and /or furniture for Hospital.
for construction of the Ronald McDonald Family Room, funding institutions support, funding Hospitals, humanization areas, and implementation of computerized systems.
for organization of Congress, Forums and Seminars and reform, adaptation and expansion of outpatient.
for acquisition of basic food, not chemotherapy drugs, dietary supplements and / or prostheses, acquisition vehicle, construction of Ronald McDonald House. feasibility study for implementation of Ronald McDonald House and specialized services.
for acquisition of equipment and / or furniture.
for maintenance of psychosocial projects.
for funding Ronald McDonald Family Room and Data Manager.
for acquisition Catheter, adequacy and / or housing reform, acquisition of equipment and furniture for the Playroom, acquisition of equipment and / or furniture for Hospital Class, infirmary construction, funding institution support, Class Hospital maintenance, training workshops for families, conducting strategic research, reform, adaptation and ICU expansion, reform institution support and strategic partnerships.