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Sunday Sermon

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Today's Sunday Sermon is delivered in part by the survivors of a religion.

30 years ago today, the not so reverend, Jim Jones, murdered 900 acolytes by deed and by proxy. Here is an excellent account that includes statements from surviving survivors. I use that term because a number of those who escaped that evil day were later done in, some by others, some by their own hand.

This is an

Obama-do

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I saw Trouble the Water tonight — excellent, deeply moving film. I think the tag line sums it up nicely –

It’s not about a hurricane… it’s about America

Cavalcade of Capitalists: Walgreens Requires Ike Victims to Work

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A Houston Walgreens manager required two employees suffering catastrophic home damage--one's ceiling had caved in and the other's car was blocked in by a large tree across the driveway--to stay on schedule for work.

Cancer seminar scheduled at Vanderbilt

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The Colon Cancer Alliance and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center will conduct "Conversations About Colo rectal Cancer" at 9 a.m. Sept. 20 at the Vanderbilt University Student Life Center, 310 25th Ave. S.

The educational seminar will teach patients how to initiate and maintain an open dialogue with their doctors, as well as present information and options on treatment strategies.

you + 45 minutes + burnout

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you are going to a conference.

you decided to attend a breakout session on burnout.

what do you need to hear in those 45 minutes?

stories from survivors? statistics? practical steps? broad things to ponder?

no stupid answers…anything is possible.

what helps you?

Sarah Jeffress

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Sarah Jeffress, 82, of Unionville died Monday at Bedford County Medical Center.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Feldhaus Memorial Chapel,
Survivors include a daughter,...

Winners

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If you are reading this then you probably survived Leap Day. (I say "probably" because there is always that remote possibility that you didn't survive Leap Day and are still somehow reading this, so I'm hedging my bets. Dead people don't talk to me, near as I can tell, so I don't know for sure.)

So for all you survivors, it is another beautiful day in paradise. Spring is barreling down the

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