Dr. Justin Rodriguez was born and raised in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and is a 2007 graduate of Life University in Marietta, Georgia. He holds a bachelor of science in biological studies and has his doctorate in Chiropractic. He was a member of the two time National Championship hockey team at Life as well as helping to start the "full spine club" (an adjusting only group that focuses on technique). Dr. Rodriguez is currently a member of the American Chiropractic Association, the Wisconsin Chiropractic Association, and the Northside Business Association. Growing up playing sports, Dr. Rodriguez takes special interest in treating athletes as well as those people with special needs such as Cerebral Palsy.


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Learning to market in virtual worlds
At the inaugural Virtual Worlds conference, big media companies to discuss how to take advantage of social 3D environments.
Daniel Terdiman
March 29, 2007 8:45 PM PDT
NEW YORK--Think the recent flurry of big media and technology operations setting up shop in virtual worlds like Second Life is a passing fad? Think again.
Starting on Wednesday, representatives of companies including MTV Networks and its Nickelodeon, IBM, AOL and Disney, as well as institutions like Harvard University, the American Cancer Society and the Centers for Disease Control, will gather here for Virtual Worlds 2007, the first major conference designed specifically to promote marketing in virtual worlds to Fortune 500 companies.
"It's all about the future of marketing and media," conference organizer Chris Sherman said. "It's about finding the right partner for whatever partnership you might be looking for."
The two-day conference comes at a heady time for virtual worlds and 3D social environments. Even as the Virtual Worlds event kicks off, the Accelerating Studies Foundation is readying its formal written report from last year's Metaverse Roadmap Summit--in which participants were tasked with prognosticating the look and feel of the 3D Web in 2016--and a congressional committee is nearing completion of recommendations on whether the economies of virtual worlds should be regulated.
Such developments might seem absurd to those people who see virtual worlds like Second Life, There, Entropia Universe and others as little more than games. Yet the list of companies that have staked out space in these virtual frontiers is impressive: Microsoft, Warner Music, Toyota, Major League Baseball, Starwood Hotels, Bain and many others.
That's why Sherman and his colleagues at Show Initiative, which formerly ran the Austin Game Conference, have decided now is a good time for a conference where media and technology professionals can converge with developers of virtual-world platforms. More than 600 are expected to attend.
"There's critical mass now," Sherman said. "There's a number of people looking at the space; it's permeated the consciousness of Madison Avenue, as well as Silicon Valley."
Certainly, one of the main topics--how to profit from marketing in virtual worlds--has drawn its share of skeptics. Their hesitancy centers around the notion that there's no proven business model for big companies marketing in virtual worlds, and there is little, if any, demonstrated return on investment.
There's no doubt that those concerns will get a healthy hearing at the Virtual Worlds show. Yet there's also a level of enthusiasm among participants that comes from the perception that they're on the cutting edge of what could be the next great marketing canvas.
"There's a number of people looking at the space; it's permeated the consciousness of Madison Avenue, as well as Silicon Valley."
--Chris Sherman, conference organizer
"It's not going to be the case that any one company is going to solve a bunch of these issues, and it's going to take a bunch of companies talking about it," said Corey Bridges, co-founder of The Multiverse Network, a company that has developed a platform allowing anyone to create their own online game or virtual world. "So even though it's early in the applicability of this new medium, this show, in particular, has got just a dynamite roster...It's the best of the best of this market."
Of course, Virtual Worlds is hardly the first conference devoted to immersive digital environments. Others have included State of Play, an annual event focused on the legal, social and academic aspects of virtual worlds and online games; and the Austin Game Conference, which looks at the latest design and development innovations of such environments.
But this week's event is the first real business conference devoted entirely to virtual worlds.
Keynote speakers include Jeffrey Yapp, executive vice president of MTV Networks; Colin Parris, vice president of digital convergence at IBM Research; and Matt Bostwick, senior vice president of franchise development at the MTV Networks Music Group.
Panelists, meanwhile, plan to explore such subjects as "Defining your strategy: What does ROI mean to you"; "Integrated marketing: Merging virtual activities with real-world activities; and "Virtual world applications that work."
Some regular attendees of the other gatherings say they're excited to go to a place where there's potential for witnessing change in action.
"For once, I'm actually interested in the subject matter that's going to be examined," said Mark Wallace, editor of 3pointD.com, a leading blog about virtual worlds and 3D digital environments. "The panel topics that have been chosen are a lot closer to the kinds of things that the edge thinkers in the space are looking at than they are the kind of mass-market panels you often get at broader conferences, where a lot of what's going on is audience education, and the real conference goes on in the hallways."
Wallace, whose blog is a "media partner" of the conference, said he expects to see a high level of expertise on the part of the participants. "It's almost like this has been set up to be the Davos of virtual worlds," he said.
At the actual
The conference will also be a place to see what the third-party companies developing projects in Second Life and other virtual worlds for big clients are up to. And that's what some attendees are most looking forward to.
"I'm looking to meet with the people who are in charge of levering their existing properties and taking them online," said John Donham, vice president of production at Areae. "I'm (also) interested in meeting the other developers and seeing what they're making. It's a good opportunity to spy."
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Designed a character in 2014. I went from a rough sketch to figuring out if I wanted a more realistic, cartoon-like, and it's body type.
Nel is a crocodile (formally alligator) who pretends to be a huge bully, but is a softy deep down. I try to show this bully through his exterior. Second page bottom is his current design I made a year later in 2015.
Very first concept I did of Nel. Took this silhouette and ran with it!
More conception. Trying to figure out the face shape, body proportions, and playing with possible colors. The final design is on the right side!
I redesigned this character about over half a year later. Kept his trade mark pink shirt, but this is when I made him a crocodile instead (crocodile works better with the name Nel in my head). His more rounded beak shows the more crocodile resemblance.
I created this piece sometime on August 2015. This is just for my own practice as far as creating Illustrations and working more on my background skills. Below I break down my process.
I created this piece near the end of 2015. This is just for my own practice as far as creating Illustrations and working more on my background skills. Below I break down my process.
On the side I have been creating an art package to put up on the unity asset store. Unity is a game engine that some programmers use to create games. On the store you can buy code, art and shaders to enhance game aesthetics. I have been making a package that is environment art, so people can just build a grassy fantasy level without having to make the art themselves. I've included different trees, rocks, plants, and tillable pieces to create land with. It is still a work in progress, but I plan to release it by the beginning of 2017.
At the very beginning of August I started an internship at Seventy7 Studios located in Royal Oak, Michigan. During my internship so far I have gotten to do a couple storyboarding assignments. This is the reason I wanted this internship badly. It is an amazing experience because doing the assignments really pressed me outside my comfort zone. From storyboarding work pushing me outside my comfort zone I am growing as an artist and a person, and I am thrilled. I also adventured to a shoot with the team, and also another tough but rewarding experience. Getting to see the magic of cinematics is extremely amazing both in an experience and educational standpoint. I am hoping for more great opportunities in the future, and below is some samples from my assignments.
The first assignment I got (known by "Fair") is about this character who makes his living by being a clown. His life is not the easiest, but during a show he sees a child being dragged away by a man passing out candy. Sensing danger, he flees to the girl's rescue and shoots the man to help the girl. The clown gets arrested for killing the man, but the clown did what he thought is best and is happy for that. This is a huge 80 shot story I boarded, so I provide a little sample from the work. In this scene he is contemplating shooting himself, but decides not to and goes to shower.
The next project is a fish skydiving into a fishman's hands. Confused, the fisherman looks up and sees a ton of fish falling. Possibly for some commercial project.
From January 1st to April 10th 2016 I pushed myself to create work outside of class to hone my skills. Hence my 100 Days of Animation and Illustration project came to be. It really benefited me with learning more about animation and I enjoyed experimenting. The work ranged from illustrations to storyboards to animations. Everyday I put these on my Patreon page while doing the project. For those that have not heard of Patreon it's a site where art can be pledge money monthly from people, and the artist provides with them with art, photoshop documents, WIP videos or other things. I plan to keep giving myself projects like filling sketchbooks or artist challenges to keep me drawing in the future. To see my Patreon page click here.
Below is some samples of work I did for my 100 Day Project and to see all of it click here.
Illustrating a friend's cat if they were more human (yes, they are a neckbeard).
Sonic in someone's style to practice my cartooning.
I spent a couple of weeks creating a story with boards and did animatics of some of the parts for practicing storyboarding and animating.
This zine (mini magazine) is studying the style of one of my big inspirations, Rebecca Sugar (creator of Steven Universe). This is including researching her inspirations and showing the similarities in her style with her inspirations. This also goes into detail of how she sketches, shades, etc. to get the most authentic "Rebecca Sugar" look. I do both studies of her own sketches and applying that knowledge into my own sketches of her Steven Universe characters in that style.
In Character and World Design our class built a world and each group built a race in that world. The race I created is the Wugoys which is a group of monkey-like creatures that can glide around, but are unable to fly. The Wugoy live in the sky (or the ground since this world's design is based on the holo world theory), and they do not leave since they cannot fly back there.
Breakdown explaining the silhouettes more.
Anatomy Breakdowns of how the wings work.
Mat painting depicting the world of the Wugoys.
A game I worked on with three other people (one other artist and two programmers). The game is a super smash brother's style fighting game, but you use blocks as the means to fight instead of punching or kicking. The world is a fantasy world created in the minds of the children (the playable characters).
For this project I did all the animation work for the characters. I did about two- three passes overall for each animation, and the first pass I spent the most time ironing out the sketches and learning character movement.
For more of my animation work on the game click here.
I also did some graphic design work for the blog and business card to pass out at the booth when presenting the project. Also created the UI for the game.
First Concepts of the Business Card. Went with the simple look of the top left.
More Iteration: Playing with Contrast and Brightness.
Messing around with another design still go with the one above.
Iterations for Final Look. Went with #1.
Our booth to present the game for people on campus to play. Including the business cards I designed as takeaways from the game.


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Scotiabank teams up with trans athlete for next chapter in 'Hockey For All'
December 15, 2021 by David Brown
Who: Scotiabank, with Rethink for strategy and creative, Revolve Films for production (directed by Mark Bone).
What: "Hockey For All: Harrison Browne," a new chapter in Scotiabank's "Hockey for All" platform, which was introduced in October and is all-in on making hockey more inclusive and diverse. This new spot focuses entirely on transgender hockey player Harrison Browne.
When & Where: This ad launched last week, and is running on TV and social, with spots focused on other players coming in the New Year.
Why: Scotiabank and Rethink launched "Hockey For All" at the beginning of the NHL season in early October, with a minute-long spot introducing its central objective of changing hockey culture to be more inclusive, welcoming and less, well, painfully stuck in the past.
"We believe there is a place for all Canadians within the game, but until now, too many children from coast-to-coast-to-coast have faced obstacles," said Scotiabank's chief marketing officer Laura Curtis Ferrera when the campaign was launched. "'Hockey For All' is our effort to change the game forever by eliminating barriers, challenging norms and stereotypes, and breaking the game wide open—for every future."
This new ad tells the story of what Scotiabank has been doing to build a more inclusive game. In this case, the focus is on LGBTQ+ hockey players, and Scotiabank chose Harrison Browne—who has worked with the bank in the past—to tell that story as the first openly trans professional hockey player. "This spot is really meant to highlight his story, some of the challenges he faced, as well as his work with Scotiabank," said Rethink creative director Robbie Percy.
How: The 30-second spot is shot documentary style, with Browne explaining how hockey was his safe space when he was growing up, but because there were no trans hockey players, he was scared of coming out. He credits Scotiabank and its work with You Can Play—which works for LGBT+ inclusion and safety in sports—for having a real impact for other LGBT+ hockey players.
"Our director Mark Bone met Harrison before shooting and sat with him and asked him about his story, and from there, we pulled quotes from Harrison to create the most seamless way of sharing his story," said Caroline Friesen, creative director at Rethink.
They wanted to share Browne's real story and speak to the difficulties of growing up in hockey as a transgendered young person, but end on a hopeful note that Scotiabank and groups like You Can Play are making the game more inclusive.
"The launch spot was a little bit more intense to show the problem, and this one we wanted to highlight the good that Scotiabank is doing," said Friesen.
"There's this perception of hockey as a very white, male-dominated sport," said Percy. "And I think by them using this platform, the hope would be that trans and queer youth see this and see there actually is a place for them… that hockey is becoming a much more welcoming place and they can feel at home.
And we quote: "Scotiabank wants to show how they want to change the game and make it more inclusive for everybody… it's not just a one and done thing, they're committed to creating change," said Friesen. "So you're going to see more stuff from "Hockey for All" in the future."
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After the Removal of 30 Types of Plants and Animals from the Junior Dictionary
Nature Morte II, Estée Preda, esteepreda.com
The author was inspired by the removal of words from the dictionary to make more room for technology.
Acorn no more. Blackberry blanked out. Cheetah cast off.
But if no almond, because the young will use language for nature less,
by that logic, no arousal, brief surge of blood that cannot continue but lets lives be conceived. If no bluebell because flowers are fleeting,
no beauty to begin with for these bodies which wither. If no cygnet, the downy being preceding permanent feathers, then no childhood
since those who are sheltered under a wing cannot stay, not the same. As we might wish mother, many children's earliest word, will always
be one they hold in mind, could we let their mouths keep
mistletoe, minnow, and magpie? Leave a few things intact,
allow the possibility of turning books' pages in reverse
to lobster then leopard then lark, to the letter of last—of lasting—of live.
"In 2007, the editors of the Oxford Junior Dictionary removed words related to nature to make room for more words for technology on the book's pages. I learned about this decision when writers, including Margaret Atwood, composed an open letter in protest, and many others have written about these exclusions' implications about our culture and for the wider world.
What is most worrisome about dictionary-makers dispensing with words for nature is that it suggests humans are ready to accept the eradication of species other than our own, and the actual living things whose rightful places on this earth are threatened are more important than the symbols and sounds we use to represent them.
I am not a traditionally spiritual person, but, with some frequency, my writing sounds like prayer. In the case of this poem, in the final sentence, the imperative 'Leave' is not so much a command as a wish and appeal."
— ROSE MCLARNEY
From Forage by Rose McLarney, published by Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. © 2019 by Rose McLarney.
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Rockwood First Congregational Church
Schedule of Worship Services
The Lord's Supper
Identity and History
Learn More and Get Involved
Rockwood Area Historical Society
The Giving Basket Food Pantry
Hall Use
The Early History of the Rockwood First Congregational Church
Perhaps because of its size and location, many in the metropolitan Detroit area do not know that such a community as "Rockwood, Michigan" exists in their county. It is the smallest and most southeastern city in Wayne County, claiming 3,442 citizens as of the year 2000. Originally occupied by representatives of the Huron Native American tribe, evidence of their presence remains in the naming of the Huron River that borders the city to the south and Huron River Drive, the primary east-west road through town. Later French settlers also impacted the development of the community, establishing fur trading posts and purchasing large plots of land; many of the descendants of these French families continue to populate the city.
In his local history, It Happened at Rockwood, Oscar A.Carlson reports on the remnants of a French fur trading post being found on farmland owned by Frank Gay, one of the early citizens of Rockwood and one of the first members of the Rockwood First Congregational Church, as well as a record of the first official land deed executed in 1796 with the title "French Private Claims #636" in the general Rockwood vicinity.
It is no surprise that with the historical tensions among the French, British, and Native American populations in this region of the country in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that the Rockwood and Brownstown area was the stage for significant conflict during the War of 1812, most notably the Battle of Brownstown.
Many of the original French settlers were Roman Catholic, and the French presence in the area of Monroe, Michigan, northward into southern Wayne County secured the emergence of a strong Roman Catholic influence that persists to this day. The oldest church in Rockwood began as a mission in 1834 by the Rt. Rev. Peter Lefevre, who was at the time the Bishop of Detroit. It was not until July 11, 1880, that the congregation of St. Mary of the Annunciation was able to dedicate a solid, new brick church building. After a fire destroyed the interior, this was replaced by a new, larger structure in 1911, and a school was instituted in 1930. Both of these achievements were due in part to the industrious efforts of their long-time pastor, Father Toussaint Rose. St. Mary remains the largest church in Rockwood, and the school continues to operate.
Early in the J 880's, a group of dedicated Protestant Christians were meeting in the old schoolhouse near the site of the present post office. Sabbath services were led on alternating Sundays by the Rev. Robert Parsons of the Flat Rock Congregational Church and the Rev. William Cook of the Flat Rock Methodist Church.
Some among these Protestants felt called to build a church meeting house in which to hold their services. While they considered the possibility of forming a distinctly Methodist church, they felt more drawn to the Congregational ideas that many of those who moved to Rockwood brought from the East, especially from New York.
On March 9, 1886, a meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Emeline Swallow, and the body that would become the Rockwood First Congregational Church was organized according to the state statutes of 1871, as amended in 1879.
Plans and specifications for a new church building were presented and accepted, and a building committee was appointed. J. J. Stevens of Monroe was awarded the contract to build, and the estimated cost was $1,800.
The Rockwood First Congregational Church was officially formed on April 4, 1886, during a ceremony of institution at the home of Mrs. Emeline Swallow, who became the congregation's first treasurer. The service was officiated by the Rev. Leroy Warren of the Michigan Congregational Conference. Their first minister, the Rev. Robert Parsons, was serving as the pastor for the First Congregational Church of neighboring Flat Rock, Michigan. The first meeting house for the Congregationalists was constructed during the year, on the main east-west thoroughfare, Huron River Drive.
The structure was completed and furnished at a total cost of $2,505.06. Under the leadership of Mrs. Reed, the Ladies' Aid Society earned the $148.00 to purchase the brick. Contributions were received, ranging from twenty-five cents to $250. The church negotiated an interest-free loan of $500.00 from the American Congregational Union on July 31, 1886 to fully furnish the building.
In December 1950, sixty-four years later, the loan was finally paid in total. The pulpit was donated by the Rev. Leroy Warren of Lansing and the organ was given by Mrs. Austin B. Chapman. That organ has been reworked and is now being used monthly as the communion table from which the elements are served.
Dedication services for the church building took place on September 19, 1886, and were conducted by the Rev. Richard Lewis of Bancroft and Rev. Moses White of Detroit. The property next to the church was purchased in 1957 to provide additional Sunday School space. A basement remodeling project was finished in 1958.
Originally called "Huron Station" when the community first came into being on July 11, 1961, the now-city of Rockwood sta1ted as a typical Mid-western small town in the late 1800's. A thriving basket facto1y was Rockwood's most enduring industry, generating the need for three basket shops to manufacture and sell its products. Trolley cars and railroads also went through the heart of the community, declared the incorporated village of Rockwood in 1926. Many small businesses flourished in downtown Rockwood. As the automobile companies blossomed in the region, many residents of Rockwood received employment and became beneficiaries.
An interruption in community life in Rockwood occurred in the late l 950's and early 1960's when urban renewal ideas transformed the architectural image of the downtown and the T-75 expressway was birthed. Many historic homes were demolished, one of the last of which was the Swallow home where the Congregational Church was conceived, torn down in the summer of 2007. Ultimately, in order to make room for an entrance ramp to I-75, the Rockwood First Congregational Church building, as well as the adjacent funeral home facility, had to be relocated. The church obtained number of acres of land an eighth of a mile north of its Huron River Drive location, which became 22600 Mather Street.
Congregationalism
The hallmarks of Congregationalism are faith, freedom, and fellowship.
Congregationalists trace their roots back to the Puritan movement in England in the 1600s. Those who eventually broke away from the Church of England sought to worship their Lord in their own way and not by the dictates of the kings and queens or the Book of Common Prayer.
In North America, Congregationalists established settlements first at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 and then the Massachusetts Bay Colony near Boston, in 1630. The group that came in 1630 was much larger and influential in eventually spreading Congregationalism westward. In the 1800s, many churches and colleges were founded by Congregational and Presbyterian efforts to move both beyond the boundaries of New England.
The individual often credited for bringing Congregationalism to Michigan in the 1800s is the Rev. Isaac Ruggles. He introduced the Congregational Way to southeast Michigan and founded several churches that still continue in ministry, including the First Congregational Church of Clarkston.
This Congregational Way of being church holds that each local church is free to determine its own course in government and theology under the headship of Christ alone. Congregational churches are gathered, meaning that individuals ("saints by calling" according to early Congregational documents) are free to feel the Holy Spirit move them to form communities. As Jesus said in Matthew 18:20, "For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them." No outside authority, then, can create a church. It is the people who are called by God to be a church who become a faith community.
Despite this freedom, a central part of being a church of the Congregational Way is choosing to fellowship with other Congregational churches, celebrating achievements and transitions, advising in times of conflict or in the calling, ordaining, or installing of a minister, and supporting one another in occasions of need.
Those who become members of a Congregational church are bound together by a covenant freely entered into by each individual. A covenant is a sacred agreement or promise made to God and to one another in order to clarify one's decision to walk with a particular community in faith, service, and mutual care. The particular covenant of the Rockwood First Congregational Church is stated as follows:
We the people of Rockwood First Congregational Church covenant with the Lord and with one another, to proclaim the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, to study and work together so that we may worship and serve Him according to His word.
We pledge to attend the services of our church, observe its sacraments, to teach and listen to God's Word, provide financial support through out offerings and to participate in the administrative, worship, servicing and maintenance needs of this church as our individual abilities afford.
We pray for wisdom, strength, patience, and God's guidance as we enter this adventure of faith together.
A declaration of belief is often generated and used in a Congregational church to express what is most commonly held as truth among the members of a particular community. It is not a test, but a testimony of faith.
As the Constitution of the Rockwood First Congregational Church explains, "We believe in the freedom and responsibility of the individual and the right of private judgment. Declaring our steadfast allegiance to the faith which our fathers confessed, which from age to age has found expression in the historic creeds of the Church Universal and of this communion, we hereby set forth the things most surely believed among us:
We believe the Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired Word of God and the final authority for all Christian faith and life.
We believe that there is one God, Creator of all things, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We believe in the deity of Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His sacrificial and atoning death on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling power and fullness the Christian is enabled to live a godly life, and by whose gifts the Christian is empowered for service.
We believe that salvation is the gift of God based on what Christ has done for us on the cross and that it is to be appropriated personally through faith in Jesus Christ as Savior.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead; of the believer to everlasting blessedness and joy with the Lord, and of the unbeliever to judgment and eternal separation from God.
We believe in and recognize, in accordance with the teachings of our Lord and the practice prevailing among evangelical Christians, the two Sacraments: Baptism and the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion."
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches
The Rockwood First Congregational Church chooses to be affiliated with the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches. These several hundred churches are bound together by a common heritage of faith, a conviction to worship and minister as free churches, and by voluntary fellowship. Congregational churches have the liberty to determine their own government and Christian theology as each local body is under the headship of Christ alone. Authority rests, then, with each church, and not with a hierarchy beyond the individual congregation. The National Association serves as a resource to assist each member church with programming, pastoral transitions, decision-making processes, and other needs. There is an annual meeting held each year at a different location within the United States and the Association has offices in Oak Creek, Wisconsin and Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan. Olivet College is the home for the Center for Congregational Leadership, a ministry of the NACCC that promotes the educational development of clergy, lay ministers, and lay congregational leaders in a variety of areas, including Congregational history, stewardship, congregational governance, technology, and spirituality.
Michigan Conference of Congregational Christian Churches
In addition, the church is a member of the Michigan Conference of Congregational Christian Churches, which includes congregations throughout the state. The Conference helps local churches with discernment in times of transition and conflict through its Resiliency Team that brings concerned clergy, trained professionals, and congregational leadership together to strengthen and sustain local churches, offers a retreat in January for clergy, holds an annual meeting in the fall, and hosts youth retreats and a Michigan Congregational Summer Camp each year.
Southeast Michigan Association of Congregational Churches
Further, the congregation is a part of the Southeast Michigan Association of Congregational Churches, a regional fellowship of approximately a dozen churches in the greater Detroit area. An annual meeting is held in the spring, mission work is organized including an annual trip to New Orleans to aid in the ongoing restoration effort after Hurricane Katrina, and Christian education events are planned. The ministers gather monthly September-May for support and enrichment.


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Hundreds of trekkers, including three Australians, are heading down Mount Rinjani on Indonesia's Lombok after a powerful 6.4 magnitude natural disaster struck the tourist island, terrifying the climbers as boulders tumbled down the slopes of the volcano.
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More than 120 aftershocks were recorded, the biggest measuring 5.7, according to Indonesia's meteorological agency.
A STRONG quake has shaken Indonesia's Lombok Island, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens more.
At least 14 people were killed and 40 others injured.
The quake was centred 50km north-east of the city of Mataram on the northern part of Lombok island, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
"Fortunately there was no panic during the quake even though it was quite strong", said Lilis Letisha, receptionist at the Ombak Paradise Hotel on Gili Air island.
It is frequently hit by quakes, majority harmless.
The Lombok quake struck at 6.47am (local time) on Sunday at a shallow depth of seven kilometres, which would have amplified its effect. Bali and Lombok airports are still operating, the spokesperson said.
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By sdf1	 Last updated Jan 14, 2022
The U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed a new round of sanctions on Syrian entities and personalities, including the Turkish-backed militia (Ahrar al-Sharqiya) that committed, according to previous international and local reports, war crimes and serious violations against civilians and integrated former Daesh members into its ranks.
We, the SDF, are welcoming these actions and considering them to be compatible with the calls of human rights organizations and the first step towards comprehensive accountability for all crimes committed by this militia and its leaders against the population in the north and eastern Syria and all other Syrian regions, including Idlib and Aleppo. We call on the international community and human rights organizations to continue political and legal pressure on other similar organizations and their supporters regarding the crimes committed by them and call on them to provide redress for the victims especially in the occupied areas in northern Syria.
It is no secret the dark catalog of the "Ahrar al-Sharqiya" militia since its founding by the terrorist Abu Maria al-Qahtani, a former leader in Jabhat al-Nusra, with a history full of war crimes especially in Afrin, Tal Abyad, and Ras al-Ain, the most recent was the execution of the politician Hevrin Khalaf and a large number of health workers and civilians. Therefore, despite the importance of the recent U.S. sanctions on the terrorist militia, we believe that the level of the crimes of that militia urgently calls for comprehensive and swift international action to gather more evidence and listen to the victims, and to initiate legal proceedings to bring the militia's leaders and elements to the international tribunals.
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The Coalition has revealed the federal budget would be improved by $1.1 billion over the next four years, largely due to a welfare crackdown and saving on unspent community and transport funds.
In releasing his election costings on Tuesday, Treasurer Scott Morrison said the Coalition would overhaul the "checks and balances in the system and use technology more effectively" to recoup the money.
"The measures which we are releasing today relates to strengthening our welfare system. We have a strong social welfare net in this country. As a former minister for social services I am very appreciative of the support for ensuring the integrity of the welfare net for those who need it. That's why we have means testing in our welfare system," Morrison said.
"We are not weakening the system, we are strengthening it, so those entitled to the payment and support which are important get that support, by ensuring that the system doesn't have the leakage and the waste and the overpayments or the abuse of the system which at the end of the day cost Australian taxpayers.
"Eight out of 10 taxpayers go to work each day to ensure we can pay for our welfare system and we know the majority of those who receive those benefits… try and do the right thing but it is a complex system to try to engage with.
Morrison said the plan included "practical measures that improve the efficiency of the social welfare system and that it delivers the savings that are central to what we have delivered here today for an improvement in the budget bottom line".
However, welfare peak body ACOSS has strongly opposed further "crackdowns" on welfare payments to fund spending promises in this election.
ACOSS CEO Dr Cassandra Goldie said they were concerned about the Coalition's proposals to take further funds out of the welfare system, while doing nothing to ensure income adequacy for those living on the lowest incomes.
She said the risks that the welfare "integrity" policy announced today could lead to significant hardship for vulnerable people affected if it results in more automated or aggressive debt recovery approaches.
"Australia's lowest income earners and most vulnerable households have borne the brunt of Coalition savings measures in three successive budgets and enough is enough," Goldie said.
"ACOSS strongly opposes taking any more money out of income support payments. This is the last place the Coalition should be looking for savings to fund new election spending promises.
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Huh... I always understood that it was the earth's precession that causes annual climate changes and ocean temperatures which affect a broader climate cycle. All along it was those pesky European settlers! Who knew? Add that to the list of apologies. Now if we could just figure out how those hooligan European settlers killed off all of the dinosaurs!
Another conspiracy theory from the acolytes of the Cult of Warming.
The worse of the little ice age occurred in the 1600, after the population of the Americas had stopped declning and was probably rising again. And the Little Ice Age had ready started by 1300, long before the Americas were discovered.
And if there was a drop.after the European colonization due to the loss of people, there should have been a loss due to the Black Death, yet the Little Ice preceded the Black Death by around 40 years.
If there was a drop in CO2 , by how much? Did their claims.od drop.comd from actual measurements, as from the ice core samples, or is it just speculation ? The article doesn't say.
"We investigate whether the decline in global atmospheric CO2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late 1500s and early 1600s which globally lowered surface air temperatures by 0.15∘C, were generated by natural forcing or were a result of the large-scale depopulation of the Americas after European arrival, subsequent land use change and secondary succession."
"Accounting for carbon cycle feedbacks plus LUC outside the Americas gives a total 5 ppm CO2 additional uptake into the land surface in the 1500s compared to the 1400s, 47–67% of the atmospheric CO2 decline. Furthermore, we show that the global carbon budget of the 1500s cannot be balanced until large-scale vegetation regeneration in the Americas is included"
So they seem to be saying that the reforrestation that occurred after the depopulating of the Americas removed between 2-5ppm of CO2, with an associated temperature change of 0.03-0.08C. Considering how broad they inter quartile ranges are everywhere in their data, I'm somewhat sceptical that they can identify such a minute effect. People studying the modern climate, where we have far better data, don't try and make predictions that accurate!
I'll stick with my original assessment: it's a plausible result, but not convincing.
Annual climate change is the seasons... That's caused by the earth's tilt, not by its procession.
Note, that CO2 levels reached a pre-modern peak of 320 ppm around 1300, which was the start of the Little Ice Age.
The CO2 record is characterized by high-frequency variability. Focussing on centennial-scale changes (the 3 point moving average), prominent minima in CO2 of about 260 ppmv are present around 860 AD and 1150 AD, and smaller minima of 275-280 ppmv occur around 1600 AD and 1800 AD. In between, CO2 maxima of 300 ppmv around 1000 AD, 320 ppmv around 1300 AD, and 300 ppmv around 1700 AD are recorded.
So the earth was cooling as CO2 levels were at their pre-modern peak in the last 1000 years.
The Mississippi mound building cultures prospered from c.900 AD to 1500AD driven by a global warm and moist period that allowed good corn crops to be harvested--it's decline on the eve of European contact co-incided with a cold period and drought that would, presumably, have caused lower plant growth and thus lower CO2 levels.
Where there Africans in the Americas before European colonization?
Should Europeans offer their apologies for their colonization?


THE COQUETTES DANCE at halftime during the basketball game. The girls rocked the basketball court with a hip hip dance while the basketball team prepared for the second half.
The Coquettes, frequently confused with Cox Cheer, is the school dance team that performs at half time during varsity football and basketball home games, as well as many other school events from summer through basketball season. Senior captains Lily Moen and Maddie Thomas and junior captain Katherine Harriman, create the dance routines for all events and help head practices for Coach Craft.
Q: What differentiates the Coquettes from the cheerleaders?
A: "Coquettes are a dance team and the cheerleaders do more stunts and flips. Also, our practices are different intensity wise. I feel like our practices can get very very intense at some points. We also have to learn a lot of routines to perform whereas the cheerleader learn more cheers and stunts," sophomore Kenzie White said.
Q: How much time do you put in dancing each week to practice for Coquettes?
A: "I'd say a pretty decent amount. We have practices Mondays and Thursdays with our coach and at home I go and practice to make sure I know everything," sophomore Kayleigh Cannaday said.
Q: What type of events are the Coquettes involved in?
A: "The Coquettes perform in all the varsity football and basketball games. We also go to UVA during the summer to participate in a competition and have two other competitions in November and December. We do the Christmas Parade in December down at the Oceanfront. We perform at Bonfire, Mr.Cox, Fashion Show and all the pep rallies," senior Lily Moen said.
Q: How many dances does the team have to perform each year?
A: "It varies each year, but it's usually about fourteen," freshman Jamie Stone said.
Q: How has your experience on Coquettes changed after getting a new coach?
A: "Things like our practice schedule and how events are prepared for have changed but although I miss our old coach, I love our new coach Ms. Craft and she has done a lot to help our team," junior Emily Smith said.
Q: How do you balance your schedule from teaching at Hickory High School to coaching the Cox Coquettes?
A: "Balancing my schedule, requires a lot of early mornings and late nights and multitasking to make sure my coaching duties are taken care of as well as my teaching responsibilities. Also, being super organized doesn't hurt either," Coach Stephanie Craft said.
Q: How has your overall experience with the Coquettes been so far?
A: "I have loved working with the team the last two years. I have been blessed to have amazing captains who help make sure practice runs smoothly and the team has amazing dances to showcase. The girls are all well behaved and kind and are the best to work with," Coach Stephanie Craft said.


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Downside of allowing uncertified Certificates
I've seen Firefox poping up the message "Untrusted Connection" where self signed certificates are involved.
However, I could not understand what the following means (in bold) : XXXX.XXXX.XXXX:8443 uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed. The certificate is only valid for DI-PRE-UFCG
(Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer)
Also firefox shows the following under "I understand the risks" If you understand what's going on, you can tell Firefox to start trusting this site's identification. Even if you trust the site, this error could mean that someone is tampering with your connection.
Can anybody please explain what does tampering with connection in this scenario mean ? Also what does valid for DI-PRE-UFCG mean ?
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The purpose of certificates is to prove the identity of the remote party you are communicating with. Failing this would make it possible for impersonation to take place: active MITM attackers could intercept the traffic and alter it to make it pass as their own.
It's quite similar to verifying someone's identity by checking a passport. Suppose you want to verify the name of the person in front of you, who is showing you a passport.
You want to verify that you trust the authenticity of the passport itself. A local sports club membership card might not be enough. Checking this aspect of a certificate is what building a certification path to a trusted CA in the PKIX specification (RFC 5280/RFC 3280) is for; it also provides other aspects such as what purpose the CA was willing to allow it for.
You want to verify that the passport belongs to the person whose identity you're trying to check. (In this analogy, the server name is more akin to the person's picture, since you're trying to find the person's name, knowing what they look like (*).)
It's one thing to trust the the passport is real, but it should be issued to the person who is claiming its usage. Failing that, anyone who has got hold of a passport of a country you recognise could claim they're anyone in any country you recognise.
In the HTTPS world, this is done following the rules in RFC 2818 (Section 3.1), and more generally in SSL/TLS in RFC 6125.
The last point is not strictly part of the certificate verification itself. You want to verify bind the picture in the passport to the person in front of you. In this analogy, the picture to person link is ensured by the authenticated key exchange in TLS, which guarantees that the remote party has the private key matching the public key in this certificate.
Having performed those three steps successfully, you can then bind the name in the passport to the physical person in front of you.
Certificates in SSL/TLS have the same role: you want to make sure the certificate comes from a CA you trust, make sure that it's issued to the server you want to communicate with, and make sure you're talking to the party to which that certificate was issued.
More specifically in your example, the certificate was issued to DI-PRE-UFCG, which is a different name to the one you're trying to contact and sec_error_untrusted_issuer indicates that the browser doesn't even recognise it as issued by an entity it trusts (which makes sense for a self-signed certificate that wouldn't be imported explicitly).
(*) I'm only making the analogy in that order because it's more natural in practice in my experience. You rarely start off by looking for a specific person by name, given a crowd and their passports, but this could make sense in some circumstances. You would have similar problems if someone had multiple aliases, but the one you're looking for wasn't the one of their passport.
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The possibility of a someone interfering with the connection is mainly a concern for Man in the Middle(MITM) Attacks. When the user attempts to connect to the server if an attacker is able to get inbetween the server and client by sppofing the IP, the DNS, or even possibly the MAC address (If the attacker in on your LAN) there is a way that the attacker can present a bogus ssl certificate and website facade or proxy the website connection. Now that unsuspecting user clicks trust the certificate that is not signed by a legitimate Certificate Authority(CA) (i.e. Verisign) the attacker then will have access to the cleartext (unencrypted data) and be able to sniff/record all the traffic between the user and SSL enabled webserver.
Lucky for most of us browers come preinstalled with a list of CA's that you can generally trust and when one of those CA's that signed a cert is not on that list or if the certificate is self signed you will get that sort of error asking "are you sure?".
As for the string you mentioned I beleive DI-PRE-UFCG probably has something to do with the SSL website you are connecting to and a mesage that this exception is only valid for the CA DI-PRE-UFCG that signed that particular certificate.
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Depends which site you log into. If it's a bank and a self signed cert obviously there's a MITM attack problem going on. If it's a small forum or something and they just generated their own self signed cert then no problems.
If you want a better SSL method then go to convergence.io and install the firefox plugin. Look up Moxie Marlinspike's BlackHat 2011 SSL presentation for more information, you'd be surprised how many stolen private keys are floating around from cert authorities that can be used to sign your own fake MITM site. Some of them just leave them out in plain view for anybody to download. Yes, private SSL signing keys just lying around.
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The weeks when you are in between two seasons are often the best. Pre-fall is fabulous, because you get the opportunity to mix the brightness of summer with rich tones of fall. Here are the polish colors I have been most inspired by lately. What is your current favorite pre-fall polish?
Nautical blue. The lighter under-the-sea shades such as aqua clash with fall's darker color palette instead keep with a marine theme by picking darker navy hues.
Teal. Gives your nails a whimsical look.
Peach. Paired with a deep jewel tone on your toes… it's pre-season perfection.
Chocolate. A cozy shade that is perfect before turning to fall taupe.
Pink-ish, Purple-ish mix. A perfect proportion or bright purple and deep pink pairs perfectly with a bright outfit or basic black.
Peach will probably be my go-to color for early fall. A darker navy might be a fun look too!
I think the Nautical Blue looks fun and of course the Pink-ish, Purple-ish mix. Fun colors!
Dont you just love fall colors?!
Thank for ur comment on my blog! Love these polish options!
I can't wait to wear the taupey chocolate shade!!!
I love the blues and purples!
I love ALL of these colors! So pretty!
I love the peach color! It's perfect.
I would say peach- although the teal is a close second!


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