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I had the honor of meeting Chris on two-three different occasions. Our church hosted an informational seminar on addiction (open to anyone) and he came as a guest speaker telling his miraculous story.
Ann and George have started a recovery group that meets on Wednesday evenings at 5:30 pm at Dallas First Methodist Church (chrisitian based recovery, all invited) and this lead to a group gathering on Saturday night, once a month, called F.A.I.T.H (families and individulas in therapeutic healing) where everyone gathers and eats, then plays games and socialize. Chris and his wife came to the first one and they were just two of the most wonderful people I have had the pleasure of meeting.
Chris' story, After the Storm by Ann Pennebaker, will live on forever and hopefully will be the inspiration for many an addict to start their road to recovery.
What is available for friends and family? I noticed you mentioned therapeutic healing.
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Christopher Anthony English, 41, entered into rest on Saturday, June 29, 2013.
Chris was born on August 31, 1971 in New Orleans, Louisiana to the late Dennis English and Neda Keenum and was employed with Bombardier Aerospace. He was a member of The Well - A United Methodist Church Congregation where he was a Launch Team Leader and was involved in peer support with the Methodist Children's Home. Chris enjoyed carpentry, playing basketball and was an avid LSU and New Orleans Saints fan.
His memory will forever be treasured by his loving wife, Stephanie English of Warner Robins; children, Christopher Harris of New Orleans, Louisiana, Lucas English of Warner Robins, and an expectant child; siblings, Danah Stanley, Daniel Stanley, Rocky Keenum, New Orleans, Louisiana and Jason English and Kaylan English, both of Atlanta, Georgia; parents-in-law, Arthur and Mary Jo Orta; sisters-in-law, Trisha Orta and Amanda Guillot, and brothers-in-law, Andy and Richard Orta and Jesse Glossup; and several loving nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be Wednesday, July 3, 2013 from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at McCullough Funeral Home in Warner-Robbins, GA. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, July 5, 2013 at The Well – A United Methodist Congregation (formerly Doles United Methodist Church) in Macon with interment following in Parkway Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully suggests that donations be made to Dallas Therapy Service, P.O. Box 232, Dallas, GA 31032 or to The Well – A United Methodist Congregation, 6258 Thomaston Road, Macon, GA 31220.
Note: Chris English was the main charter in the book After The Storm by Paulding Resident Ann Pennebaker, who heads Dallas Therapy Services and is engaged in helping drug dependent people recover.
English was given the name "Nate Matthews" in the book and the story was an inspirational one of recovery from the depths of dependence. English visited often in Paulding and other parts of Georgia as part of the Ms. Pennebaker's recovery program. George Pennebaker, "English aided greatly in our recovery ministry."
English left a 10 month old son and has a baby due in December. He died Saturday night of cancer. Ms. Pennebaker is delivering the eulogy at the funeral on July 5th and George is an honorary pall bearer.
Pubby, thanks for sharing that. I can only imagine how many emotions his wife must be feeling. I pray that she has support from others and her beliefs will comfort her in many ways.
Is the book you mentioned available in print? I'd like to read it. I noticed amazon.com has it in kindle:
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I've heard of some restaurants that have a garden in the back where they grow many of their salad ingredients fresh. I wonder where the closest one is ....
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Want to share a YouTube video on Paulding.com? Here's how to embed the video in your post.
1) Copy the YouTube video URL from your browser's address bar. Do not use the truncated link from the "Share" tab that looks like
The correct format for the video URL ishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
2) To embed the video in your post, click on the
"Insert media" button. It is above the composition box, all the way on the right.3) Paste the YouTube video URL into the text box that pops up and click on the "Insert Media" button.
The result should look like this
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A recent forum software upgrade made it possible to embed a YouTube video simply by pasting the full video URL without using the media tags. However, this may change again in the future.
Thanks.
I do what you say and have been doing it successfully for a long time but then sometime in the last few months the image would appear sometimes and sometimes it wouldn't. I don't know of anything I was doing differently.
What about posting a image I see online somewhere. How can I post it here?
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Monday 01/21/13
Meat: Chopped Steak
Country Fried Steak
Pot Roast
Vegetables: Lima Beans
Broccoli & Cheese
Squash Casserole
Mac & Cheese
Green Beans
Mashed Potato's
Cream Corn
Fried Okra
Green Tomato's
Do you have an all vegetable plate? Do you have carry out?
What vegetables don't have meat and/or meat based boullion added?
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sister called in,brother threatened suicide said it will be suicide by cop
So her brother wanted to be shot and killed? Sounds so painful for all ...
Prayers for them to find much needed peace.
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I pray that God will give your Dad strength beyond what is expected and that all will recognize it as His doing and also peace for all of you. Jesus said he would send the Holy Spirit to comfort and counsel us.
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I didn't see this at Netflix for instant streaming. Has anyone seen it available to watch online?
I saw Fireproof and the other two movies made by the same group, to those that have seen it how did you like it?
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We love MeTV, RTV (Retro TV), This, Moxie, Bounce, My Family TV, Antenna TV.
They show "Gunsmoke", "Bonanza", "Big Valley", "Emergency", "Twilight Zone", "Night Gallery", "Cheers". That's just to name a few! My daughter has always loved Sanford and Son and The Jeffersons and she can watch these.
I was remembering another old show: Candid Camera. Is it shown on any of those?
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We love MeTV, RTV (Retro TV), This, Moxie, Bounce, My Family TV, Antenna TV.
They show "Gunsmoke", "Bonanza", "Big Valley", "Emergency", "Twilight Zone", "Night Gallery", "Cheers". That's just to name a few! My daughter has always loved Sanford and Son and The Jeffersons and she can watch these.
I bet 90% of the time our TV is on it is tuned to MeTV. Definitely our favorite!
Haven't seen Bronson yet. At least not THAT Bronson.
I loved the Then Came Bronson's Bronson
The pilot is available on DVD. This quote is part of one review from amazon.com/:
While it's only the superb pilot film for this long-lost but not forgotten TV series, at least it's finally available on an official DVD, rather than on faded, jumpy bootlegs. Not only that, but it features additional footage from the European theatrical release, never before seen in the United States.So what is it about this story of man & motorcycle that makes so many remember it with such fondness? Part of it is the lure of the open road, the sense of freedom. Part of it is the deeply personal motivation of Jim Bronson, trying to make sense of life after the suicide of an old friend. And part of it is the ethos of a vanished time & sensibility, when searching for meaning in this world was considered a worthwhile pursuit. That final part is even more pressing today, when the world seems to worship money, success, fame, and the superficial illusions of the consumerist culture above all else.
Jim Bronson offered a fascinating model of manhood, one that sadly wasn't followed. He combined the best of the old-fashioned style of manhood -- responsibility, honor, integrity -- with the best of the newer, youthful model -- a disdain for violence, a genuine desire to understand others, a need to live life on honest terms. Rather than go to the extremes of the blustering macho man vs. the overly wimpy New Age guy, he steered a middle course between them. In the entire series, he only ever threw one punch, and that one in this pilot film. Yet he never backed down from confronting injustice or aggressive ignorance.
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http://www.amazon.com/Then-Came-Bronson-Michael-Parks/dp/B0039UU3KA
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Does anyone remember?
I don't know why it had such a short run. I wish they had the old shows available to watch:
The series featured Michael Parks as the protagonist Jim Bronson, a newspaperman who becomes disillusioned after the suicide of his best friend Nick (Martin Sheen) and, after a heated argument with his editor, "working for the man."
In order to renew his soul, Bronson becomes a vagabond searching for the meaning of life and seeking the experiences life has to offer (as revealed in the series pilot). During his travels, he shares his values with the people he meets along the way and lends a helping hand when he can. Bronson rides a Harley-Davidson Sportster motorcycle and, as such, was viewed by some as a modern version of the solitary cowboy wandering the American west. The motorcycle had previously been sold by Bronson to his friend. After it is left at the suicide scene by his friend, Bronson buys it back from the widow.
Curiously, though the opening promises a journey of self-discovery, the premise of each episode is that Bronson enters someone else's life at a crucial point and acts as a catalyst for change. When Bronson encounters an Amish community, for example, a local boy becomes enraptured by the outside world and steals Bronson's motorcycle to run off to Reno, Nevada. In another episode, located in Reno, Nevada, Bronson meets his cousin Eve on her wedding day and lends her money for the wedding service, but she runs off to the casinos and blows it.
The first three episodes, including the end credits scenes, were shot in and around Jackson, Wyoming. The premier pilot movie was also shown at the town's then only theatre to give the locals a sense of what the series was about since they were shooting in town and at local area popular spots.
Bronson is committed to pacifism and often redirects an antagonist's anger into self-examination. Always, like a true catalyst, he rolls out of every episode unchanged.
The show was sometimes accused of being a knock-off of the movie Easy Rider, but it actually preceded the release of that movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Came_Bronson
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OMG! I am just stunned!! We love Triple Creek because of John!! I am so sad for his family and my heart is breaking for them. John was a wonderful guy who knew EVERYTHING about plants. Such a loss.
I was sad when I learned about it. I know he will be missed by his family and many others in the community.
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I thought some of you might want to know:
John Charles Rowley, 47 of Carrollton, GA born February 24, 1965 passed away suddenly on September 22, 2012. He was born in Akron, Ohio and grew up in and around Akron, Ohio and Wilson, NC. After graduating from Hunt High School in Wilson, NC he joined the Army. While in the service he was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood MO and Camp Kasey Korea. While stationed at Ft Leonard Wood MO he met a fellow soldier whom he would fall in love with and marry. So on a Beautiful day in early September, 1987 he married the love of his life Rhonda Gayle Rush. He served his country for 4 years and received an Honorable discharge in March of 1988. He would remain at Fort Wood for almost another year until his wife was discharged in January 1989 and they moved to Georgia.
John worked for Teledyne Continental Motors, Baby Does, Mia Spiagia and Park Place before he stumbled into what would become his greatest passion. A backyard hobby of growing hastas by his stepfather turned into a 19 year venture and the creation ...
http://www.martin-hightower.com/sitemaker/sites/martin0/obit.cgi?user=732848Rowley
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Has anyone heard anything about it?
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I came across this thread at www.gardenweb.com/ in one of the craft forums about the Aleene's Creative Living craft TV show that used to come on several years ago. I watched it when we lived outside of Olive Branch, Ms in Bridge Town. I used shop at craft stores in German Town:
http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/crafts/msg1212092816637.html?129
Anyway the thread tells some about Aleene and where you can watch projects online now by her daughters, Tiffany and Heidi.
Also, someone posted a link to HGTV and suggested people contact them about the kind of craft shows they want to see.
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I watched one episode of Craft Wars online. It was the episode where they made the pet houses. When they were dipping the dog bones (looked like maybe milkbone dog biscuits) in glitter I wondered if a lot of dogs wouldn't get them off the sides and eat them---glitter and all. I didn't see it as a good idea ...
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Here's a list with descriptions of all the old Carol Duvall shows:
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I can only relay how I hear the calls reported. There are calls with 10-44 threats - I'm gonna kill myself with a pencil.... as well as 10-44 attempt - caller reports man has cut himself or took 50 pills.
There was a successful 10-44 attempt a few days ago on Roman Drive. This was reported as a 10-44 attempt, with gun. I don't recall if the EMS units call him signal 48 at the scene or if they worked him all the way to the ER where the doctors there made the call that he was dead.
In your example, if you came home to someone that was "blue and cold" then it would be called to the EMS units and SO as a possible deceased person with the facts that you found the person blue and cold. If you stated you found 5 empty pill bottles then that would be relayed and they would probably dispatch as a 10-44 attempt.
Thanks. I guess I was wondering if there is a code for a suspected overdose when it's believed it was accidental. I remember several years ago a woman who was said to have abused Soma for years. Her family was used to her taking a lot and they were home with her when she died. They thought she died of an accidental overdose.
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10-44 - it is an attempt or threats and reported to officers and EMS as such
if it was successful then it would be reported as a signal 48 with a request for coroner
I've heard of people dying from what was believed to be an accidental overdose---say of pain pills or sleeping pills. Maybe it's still debated if Marilyn Monroe and some other deaths were accidental? Or occasionally someones receives medical attention and survives an accidental overdose. How are those situations reported vs. someone who intends to commit suicide?
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Maybe he just really likes to get high and isn't trying to kill himself
Sad whatever the details.
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Has anyone seen it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_72A-MKq0FI
Christine Anthony and Owen Masterson want to inspire young men and women to consider sustainable farming as a career. To do so, the couple produced and directed a 50-minute documentary entitled GROW! that follows 20 young sustainable farmers on 12 farms in Georgia as they doggedly pursue careers in agriculture despite challenges related to land ownership and lack of farming experience.
“We need more farmers,” Anthony said. “We felt that by showcasing and highlighting some people that were doing it successfully, other people would be able to explore the idea of farming.”
Getting to GROW!
When Christine Anthony and Owen Masterson moved from California to Atlanta, Georgia in 2005, they found a dearth of farmers markets.
“The bottom line is we’re foodies and we like to eat well,” Anthony said.
To invigorate the local food scene and promote local farmers, Anthony and Masterson decided to ...
http://seedstock.com/2011/08/23/documentary-seeks-to-inspire-next-generation-of-farmers/
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There need to be more resources for suicide prevention based on what's been found to be most effective.
Man who inspired local recovery ministry dead at 41
in May they rest in Peace
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Who comes to the Wednesday evening meetings? Is it just for folks who struggle with drugs, alcohol, prescription drugs, etc.?
Does it use 12 steps or something else?
Is how the program works included in the book, After the Storm By Ann Pennebaker? Is the book available in printed form or only as an e book?