Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in today. We're looking at the Palmetto State Armory Dagger It's elusive hard to find some people saw my table review They said it's not hard to find just have to know when to look and perhaps that's true. I didn't know When to look but anyways 3.9 inch barrel. It does have forward serrations It uses Glock mags now I picked this up for 300 bucks used and I'm happy to have it the previous owner gave me a Glock mag Gave me a holster. I feel it was a really good deal one of the things that They're do they knew what the dagger is they have a steel guide rod and Steel sights three dot sights which are upgrades from the Glock 19 also a flared mag Well, nice grip texturing. I could do without that bump right there. It hits my hits my finger Right where it rests, but also this cut out here to rip out a mag If you need to but let's go ahead and take a few shots first shots here with the daggers see how it does I like that has a six-pound hinged trigger Then I seem to shoot this pretty well right Not bad, not bad. I Wasn't expecting that DLC coated barrel black nitride finish on the slides They have what they call carry cuts right there Not exactly sure why that's a big deal but it does have a rail and Or accessory rail not a pick rail, but I want to show the trigger Because I mentioned it's a hinge trigger breaks right at six pounds or website says five and a half I'm calling it six pounds, but that felt great. It really did those were my first shots I took one shot prior just to make sure I knew where to hit on the target But that was pretty much my first shots a mag worth anyways, but anyways Let me go ahead and load it up and we'll fire at some more. All right So let's check out the dagger one-handed when I shoot one-handed. I can't the gun just a little bit You can't see it so much when I'm like this, but I have a video coming out called the art of one-handed shooting I've worked with riders range on that. He's a Phenomenal shooter, but let's go ahead and see how the dagger does from this distance I can't wait to show you that video by the way the art here we go And I wish my target was painted I was doing some shotgun stuff prior to this and you would see that that's a pretty decent grouping With the shots that I've taken with the dagger so far The magazine release is fairly stiff. It is like really stiff to drop that is stiff I'm hoping that loosens up over time, but I didn't tell you one of the most important factors with the dagger MSRP 299 300 bucks if you can find one and It's a great deal. Okay, you get a Magpul mag so Glock bags will be purchased separately or if you already have them like I do It has three dot sights the previous owner black black those out people say well, that's nothing more than a Glock copy well People say that about everything honestly Glock has like five fifty to six hundred dollars is what they ask for the G 19 This so far is pretty impressive the trigger guard has A unique look to it doesn't have a ledge right there a little undercut in the trigger guard right there for a higher grip I'd like to see a little easier to work Magazine release, but I do like the forward serrations and the trigger right at six pounds feels pretty good How about a lip-briss test? Forget you man. I hate you 300 bucks for this it's a Glock copy I'll get you you Glock fanboy Wow the dagger Continues to impress at the range Honestly, I wasn't expecting it. I wasn't sure what to expect a lot of wind coming in cold day 12 degrees out here I kind of like it, you know, just Kind of private and a huge space, but the dagger is impressive. You don't get it done I'm gonna shave that down. I don't like that magazine release tight, but the shooting impressions Really good. So pretty happy with the dagger. I like the price 300 bucks I like to steal guide rod steel sights forward serrations trigger hand trigger not bad I I give it a thumbs up and I hope you give the video a thumbs up Let me close out the right way if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


this gathering of Madison Unitarian Universalists. It is so very good to be together. My name is Kelly Crocker. I use she, her pronouns, and I serve as one of the co-senior ministers at the First Unitarian Society. I begin our time here this morning with the acknowledgement that we are on the ancestral homeland of the Ho-Chunk nation, a place they call Dejope or Four Lakes. My name is Kathy Converse. I use the pronouns she, her. I'm a member of the Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society and I'm currently serving as their president. If you're here today with joy in your heart, we bid you welcome. If you are with us with tears in your eyes and pain in your heart, we bid you welcome. If you are here in a little unsure of this people, this gathering, this community, we bid you welcome. If you are here with an overwhelming love for your faith and your companions on the journey, we bid you welcome. However you found your way here, whatever you're carrying with you, we bid you welcome and we're so very glad that you are with us. We want to bring your attention to our busy hands corner, which is inside the shelter. You'll see, thank you for waving guys. So at any time we invite our children, our families, anyone who would like some movement or activity during the service to gather over there. We also want to let you know that today's service includes elements traditional to each of our congregations. So there will be some things that feel familiar and some things that don't. And finally, instead of sharing our announcements this morning, we want to encourage you to read the weekly announcement email sent from your home congregation. Please read the email. We will now have a moment of centering silence. I'll ring the bell for the chime to start the silence and then ring the bell again at the end. Good morning. Are we not that awake yet? Good morning. Yay. Thank you, Brian. My name is Karen Armina. I use she, her pronouns, and I am the minister for the James Reeb UU congregation. And I'm Kelly Aspruth Jackson. I use he, him pronouns, and I am the other co-senior minister for First Unitarian Society. We gather this morning in witness and in celebration as Unitarian Universalists from three congregations and maybe even beyond. We gather as one body knowing that the faith tradition to which we belong or which we're exploring or which we might be participating in for the very first time is larger than each of us and larger than the communities in which we worship regularly. The flaming chalice is a symbol dating back to World War II Europe when the Unitarian Service Committee commissioned Hans Deutsch to create an image as a logo for brochures created to help Jewish refugees escape Nazi persecution. Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists across the globe now use a flaming chalice in their logos and their services. And it symbolizes many things, including the light of reason, the warmth of community, the flame of hope, and the fire of commitment. As we light our chalice this morning, we invite you to enter the sacred space of our own making, to remember that a thousand or more gathered communities are doing the very same thing, and to open your hearts to the words of the covenant written by Unitarian minister James Vila Blake in 1894 and still adopted by many UU congregations today. These are his words. Love is the spirit of this church and service its law. This is our great covenant to dwell together in peace, to seek truth in love, and to help one another. I invite you now to sing the James Reeve Chalice response. The words are written in your order of service, and Linda will play it through once first. And Alice and Haika are here to help us. Light which is before. And now let's stay seated or rise, whatever you wanna do in body and or in spirit, to sing together our opening hymn, number 347, gather the spirit. Our trials in this light appear all the same. Passion and strength of song.  We've got a little red blanket on the concrete up here. I have a question. It applies to everyone whether you're on the blanket or not, who here likes stories? Yeah, me too. Hopefully all of you, because you came up, right? Okay, stories are great. The characters, the twists and turns, and maybe a lesson at the end sometimes. Well, today we're gonna be talking about the stories of our congregations. And so Kelly found a story that comes from the Zulu people of South Africa, and it's a story about where stories come from in the first place. All right, so here we go. Once upon a time, there weren't any stories to tell yet, but there was a family. Now families can come in lots of different forms, but this particular family had a mother, and a father, and a whole bunch of children. And they were pretty happy, and life was pretty good. But every night when it got dark and it was time to go to sleep, the children would ask their parents. Mama, Papa, tell us a story. Have you ever asked someone for a story when it was time to go to bed? Maybe when you were already supposed to be asleep. Anybody ever done that before? I know it happens quite frequently in my house. Maybe there's that night when you're just not quite sleepy yet and you want just one more. But the problem was there weren't any stories to tell. There were no adventures to remember or imaginary tales to repeat, so the children were always disappointed and the parents were always stumped. So one day, the father said to the mother, we have got to find these children some stories. If I stay here and take care of the house and all these children, will you go out into the world and find stories to tell them? And so the mother agreed to this plan and off she went. Now, in the course of this journey, she met some animals. So I need your help now. What animal do you think that she should meet first? An axolotl. An axolotl? An axolotl, right? An axolotl. What? Half unicorn, half axolotl. Half pegasus. That's pegasus. Wait, that's too many halves. Half. Okay, all right. So a one and a half unicorn, pegasus, axolotl. That's what we got. What about the cat? And a cat. There's another half cat. Okay, it's too full. All right, so axolotl, unicorn, pegasus, cat, that's... It's not an alacate axolotl. Alacate axolotl. Now I understand the name. Thank you for teaching me about this animal. So she met an alacate axolotl and said, hey, alacate axolotl, do you have any stories that I could take home to my children? And the alacate axolotl said, oh yeah, I've got a lot of stories. Oh, so many stories. You wouldn't believe it. I'm just full of the brim with stories. Boy, the stories I could tell you. And she said, okay, so tell me one. And the alacate axolotl remembered that they had something to do the next town over and got out of there real fast because didn't actually know any stories was just trying to look like a big shot. Ah, yeah. So on she goes with the alacate axolotl had left. So she continues on the journey and she comes across another animal, Cleo, an albino woodpecker. Wow. And so she says to the albino woodpecker, here's what's happening at home. My children are always asking for stories. We don't have any stories to tell them. Do you have stories that you can share in the albino woodpecker? Said, oh, I got a million of them. I fly around all day. I see everything. I got so many, but you know what? There's tasty bugs in that tree over there and I don't wanna miss them. And the albino woodpecker was gone. Mm, mm, mm, mm. So she pressed on until she came to a third animal. Did anyone have a third animal for me?  I heard a monkey. All right, so there's a monkey who I would normally, I would be like oop, oop, oop, oop, oop, oop, oop, something like that. But this monkey was a very sleepy monkey. So it was more like oop, oop, oop, oop. And she went to the monkey and she said, monkey, you gotta help me. I'm looking for stories for my kids. They're driving me nuts. I need, I need your help. And I was like, go away, I'm too sleepy. So she didn't get any help from the monkey. All right, on she goes. One more animal, a polar bear. So she comes across, this must be the most interesting. The most, this must be the most interesting place to travel with these animals. So here is this huge, large, lumbering polar bear. And she says to the polar bear, I really need your help. I talked with an ala cat axolotl. I talked with an albino woodpecker. I talked with a world's sleepiest monkey. None of them could tell me any stories. I am at the end of my rope, help me. And so the polar bear says, I don't have any stories to share. But I know who does the sea turtle. I'm going to take you to the sea turtle. And the sea turtle, the sea turtle was helpful, but maybe not as helpful as the polar bear had hoped because the sea turtle didn't have any stories either. But the sea turtle did know where some stories might be found. So the turtle took the mother way down deep under the sea all the way to the place where the spirit people live. These were the people who lived under the sea instead of on dry land, which is a thing that can happen in stories. So the mother explained her problem and the spirit people wanted to help. But they wanted her help in return. See, these were the people who lived deep in the ocean. They didn't know what it was like to live on dry land. They couldn't go up there themselves. So they thought about this and they came up with a solution. Here's what she said. She said, my children's father is very good at carving wood to make pictures of people and animals and other sorts of things.  So the spirit people really liked this plan. And in exchange for her promise to bring back this carving that showed life here on dry land, they gave the mother a big, beautiful shell. It was a magical thing. And what do you think would happen when you held the shell up to your ear? It would tell you a story. So the mother returned home. The mother returned home and that night she told her children everything that had happened on her journey. And she told their father that he would need to carve an especially beautiful picture out of wood. And she showed the children the magic shell and asked if they wanted to hear a story. But they already had and now so have you. So we are gonna rise in all the ways we do. Our next hymn comes sing a song with me. I am Ron with he, him and y'all pronouns because I grew up in Oklahoma. But this is I think familiar song for everyone. The words are in your program. Looks like you already found them. And I understand we're supposed to be able to picnic afterwards. So I think we will throw in an extroversal at the end about come have a picnic with me. Sing a song with me. Come sing a song with me. Come sing a song. It's hard to find. It's in the wind. It was in the wind. Staying for the picnic if you wanna join Barbara and I. Thank you, Ron. I am reminded by you that we have not introduced the rest of our musicians this morning. And so Drew Collins over there in the red from FUS. Linda Warren from FUS. Linda, where are you? Linda's back in the shade. Good for her. And Jennifer Headstrom too back there in the shade from Reeve. Am I missing anyone? Bob Park, where's Bob? Barb, Barb. Thank you, Barb. Sorry about that. It is so good. Is there something fun going on back there? Awesome. Good. It is so very good to see so many of you here. I love this reminder that the hundred something folks who make up the congregation I serve are just a fraction of the Unitarian Universalists in this city. So thank you all for being here this morning. This service was born in the hearts of the reverends Kelly. Is that what they call you? And myself along with the reverend Matt Aspen who served Prairie Society through this past June, I think, right? We thought it might be inspiring and energizing for you all to be together, to meet each other. And I hope that that's true. Our plan was that the worship leaders would tell some stories about our congregations and Unitarian Universalism. And our hope is that you all will tell each other some stories over your picnics. So James Reeb, UU congregation, or Reeb as we call ourselves is 30 years old this year. Yay. We are, go Reeb. We are an offshoot of First Unitarian Society, or FUS as we're often calling you or you often call yourselves. Intentionally planted on Madison's east side to offer another Unitarian Universalist home with support from both FUS and the Unitarian Universalist Association. And Prairie, thank you. Thank you. Love the interaction. The vision of our founders was for a smaller congregation that was connected to their neighborhood, that was vibrant with children, that was welcoming to all and that was committed to the work of peace and justice. I see those aspects of the original vision as threads that have woven and continue to weave the tapestry of our congregation's life. And I'm gonna reflect a little on each of those threads to give you all a sense of who I at least feel like we are. Our connections with our neighborhood for one have varied over time. We started out meeting in a local park and we rented space from a childcare center in the neighborhood way back in our early years. And since we've had our own building, we've used it to offer space for many local organizations to meet and to share our values with banners and messages of peace and justice on our windows and on our walls. We've partnered on workshops and trainings and meals and gatherings, including a long-standing monthly community potluck and program called Sustainable Saturday Night that we recently had to sunset due to a lack of momentum after the worst parts of the COVID pandemic. We're currently restarting our relationship with Just Bakery, who will be selling their yummies after our service next week and trying to reach out to our other neighbors with whom we've lost connections over the last few years. The pandemic has also frayed the thread that is the vibrancy of children at Reeb. We've had a religious education program since the very early days and lots of families supported by dedicated members and professional staff. And we love to have children and youth among us. We are rebuilding our program now. And frankly, it is slow. It's slow going. We're focusing more intentionally on family ministry as we do that. So things like multi-generational worship with a busy hands corner, coming of age in our whole lives programs for our youth classes twice a month. And we're creating more opportunities for people of all ages to come together for food and fellowship like today. And our DRE, Genevieve, who's back there in the busy hands area. She might wave, she might nod. There she is. Hi Genevieve. Genevieve is working with your DREs to build a collaborative youth program among all three of our congregations. That leads really easily to the next thread. Reapers, that's what we call ourselves. We want everyone who comes through our doors to feel included. Members and friends talk with everyone and work hard to help new folks orient to our space and our ways. And we also know that our space and our ways need to change when we learn that they're not as welcoming as we thought they once were. Reapers know that we make an especially beautiful tapestry when there are people of all kinds learning and growing together and they're willing to make that happen even when it's hard. And they take care of each other informally through social connections and more and more now formally through a mutual aid network we call our Caring Tree. And then there is our commitment to peace and justice. Reapers engage in the hard work of learning about the culture of white supremacy and other ways that systems oppress and marginalize people and they show up. We share the money we receive in our offering every week. We've formed ministry teams to work on the issues we're most committed to and we're actually right now figuring out how to organize ourselves even better. We just adopted the eighth principle and we'll be organizing a racial justice team which is consistent with the statements of conscience that we've adopted over the years on over-incarceration and racial justice and solidarity with the immigrant community. The very last thing I want to tell you is about the tapestry itself, the hole made out of those threads, their story. Reeb is an amazing community with a depth of heart that blows me away. They care deeply about each other, their congregation and their community. They are earnest and dedicated to making the world a better place. They're deeply generous with their time and their talent and their treasure. They have remodeled their building twice, mostly with their own labor, the second time during a recession and they keep it up themselves. They care. They pay their staff and me fairly and they contribute to the larger association. They work together from a place of love to create something rare and special, living those threads as articulated now in their mission statement. We are a faith community rooted in Unitarian Universalist principles called by love to welcome the seeker, cultivate relationship, nurture spiritual wholeness and grow justice in the world. Find out more over picnic food. I think we're gonna see some common themes going back and forth here. I'll mention that the question was talk for six minutes. That was the guidelines. So here we go, we're Unitarians. I'm gonna give a brief history of the Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society or I'll be calling it Prairie. Similarly, Prairie was established in 1967 as an offshoot of FUS and at that time it was to relieve overcrowding that was going on in the religious education program, which is probably a problem we'd all like to have back. Some 30 adults and 78 children began a church, school and discussion type Sunday morning services at the Holy Name Seminary. The next year bylaws were drawn up, 41 people became charter members and an executive board was elected. By 1969, Prairie had grown to 65 adults and 100 children and it became affiliated with the UUA. The next 11 years found Prairie renting at four different locations until finally buying our current building which is on Juanona Drive in 1980. Prairie's current membership unlike the 100 children is 110. In 1972, Prairie voted for a system of lay ministries. This was instead of having a called minister. This system engaged Prairie members and others from the wider community to lead Sunday services and this plan continued for 33 years. Our services are still primarily lay led and include discussion periods after each presentation. When we have a minister they present up to twice a month. We love music, we have a choir, we try to include music done by individuals or small groups during each of our Sunday services. Matt Aspen was our first full-time minister and he served until July 2023. We're now developing a transition team to look into our future direction. We've had quarter time, half time and full-time ministers since 2005 and we're gonna see where we go next. We have part-time staff, an administrator, director of religious education and very importantly a janitor. We have a lot of lawns to mow. We have an active RE program despite a much smaller number of children and our RE program and children still remain a major priority. We enjoy their presence in all our Sunday services. They're there for the first half of our services and then we also have a lot of intergenerational services that includes them for the full time. We continue to have our whole lives education and we're certainly hoping that that's one thing that we can get our groups together on to have more young people. We have great participations of families. We form circle dinners every fall and we try to include as many families as possible. Since 1970, Prairie's had annual fall retreats and we now do it at Bethel Horizons, which is in Dodgeville and this is a social and spiritual highlight of the year. We have discussions, art, hiking, campfires, talent shows, talent shows are in themselves worth watching. Singing and Keylogged Ceremony. One of the nice things about Prairie is you can be three years old, play the piano and get a standing ovation. As for governance, in 2012, Prairie changed from a board that included committees and everybody to a policy-based board. We have four officers and three trustees. If a minister is serving, they're an ex-officio member. Board meets monthly. The members on the board are assigned liaison duties to the 11 standing committees to ensure communication. In the past year, we started quarterly leadership team meetings and this is the board with all of the committee chairs getting together to get a sense if we're all going in the same direction. Our building was first remodeled in 1988 and again, 30 years later in a bad pick in 2019. During that construction, we were out of the building meeting at Oak Park Place until the onset of COVID and then we were essentially homeless. We then started meeting virtually until our return to in-person in March 22. Based on the response from having virtual services, we continue to offer both virtual and in-person services. We found that that better meets the needs of many of our members to be able to connect virtually, particularly if they happen to be currently living in California or Arizona. In addition to our main building in 2013, we purchased the building next door which at one time had been a percentage for the former church and we purchased that from a family and we call it the annex. And it's used for offices, RE functions, workshops and storage. And we currently are renting a permanent space there to the Allied Wellness Center staff. And we do rent if people did a building. Prairie has a focus on interaction with the natural world if we're supporting social justice awareness and actions. We have an active prairie in front of our building which we burn every few years. We have a rotating display of local art on our walls. We have a green congregation certification. We donate half of our Sunday offerings to local social justice agencies. Our members volunteer time and many monthly community activities such as food preparation. We became a welcoming congregation in 1998 and renewed in 2020 to support the LGBTQ plus community. Most recently, I had appointed an ad hoc committee to study the UUA report and widening the circle of concern. And that report focuses on making churches more deeply welcoming to blacks, indigenous people of color and those of marginalized identities. Coming out of that, we now have an interweave group which meets monthly. We're hoping that today will be a new step to integrating our three UU congregations and more activities together. And I just wanna say thank you to Mary Mullen, Ruth Calden, Rosemary Dorney and Barb Park who are charter, three of charter members and they put together, this is volume one of two volumes of a complete history from day one, a 50 year history. And they're available if anyone's interested to go on the web. It's very interesting reading about the growing of UU in Madison. Thank you. Well, I really appreciate the opportunity to learn so much about y'all because I'm still learning Madison. You may find it amusing as I do that the role of summarizing the story of Madison's eldest Unitarian Universalist congregation falls to the person up in front of you with the shortest tenure in Madison. While I do not speak from a long duration of experience I can offer you the perspective of someone who arrived recently and had to look closely and listen deeply in order to get acquainted quickly with the community that I serve. As well as the view of someone who had to do their own research in order to accept the invitation to come here in the first place. So this is the story that I can tell you about the First Unitarian Society of Madison. We have 144 years of history. In that time we have been a very small congregation and a very, very large congregation and occupied nearly every other point on the scale in between. The founding generation of the society articulated its purpose in their original bond of union which with small amendment remains an integral document for us to this day. It calls in part for our congregation to make integrity of life its first aim and leave thought free and to accept those of whatever theological opinion who wish to unite with us in the promotion of truth, righteousness, reverence and charity among all. To outline that century and a half of story that followed from this I'm gonna give you three threads that interweave with each other. Place, beauty and moral imagination. Place has an inescapable importance for our congregation. I see your head nodding, yes. You know where I'm going with this. The landmark meeting house building designed by FUS member Frank Lloyd Wright is a crucial part of our identity. Just as our congregation is the reason for that place's creation and the reason it has persisted and endured for over 70 years. It was an ambitious project undertaken when FUS was not especially abundant in numbers or in material resources. But the members of the congregation of that era hold together to make it happen. They literally hauled stone from the quarry to the site of the new meeting house. They built pews by hand and they wove fabric for the auditorium curtain. Now having an internationally recognized piece of art for our spiritual home can be both grandly inspirational and a weighty responsibility. Trying to fit and always evolving and eventually quickly growing congregation into the parameters of that work of art has shaped many of our most important decisions over the years, including supporting the formation of new Unitarian Universalist congregations in Madison as we strained at the meeting house seams and most recently the decision to construct the atrium wing of our building which expanded our capacity to welcome all those wishing to unite with us and gave us the opportunity to embody our values of environmental stewardship on an entirely new level. The place which so informs our past and present leads us inevitably to the second thread of our story, beauty. Now it is natural to appreciate beautiful things and the shared experience of making and enjoying beauty together is I believe important to every congregation. But creating, reveling in and sharing beautiful things is integral to First Unitarian Society in a way that I have rarely seen the like of before in my life as a Unitarian Universalist. Either as a cause or a consequence of this, there is a prominent inscription on the wall of the landmark auditorium, a poetic quotation of ambiguous origin. I've done a lot of digging on this folks and I'm still not confident in where it came from first. Here it is though. Do you have a loaf of bread? Break the loaf in two and give half for some flowers of the narcissist. For the bread feeds the body, indeed. But the flowers feed the soul. Feeding souls with beauty through music, architecture, dance, studio art and yes, literal flowers is a deep, deep part of what we are for and about as a community. But if beauty nourishes our souls, what are they being nourished for? Our efforts over the decades to answer this question leads to that third thread, moral imagination. A recurring theme in our story is the determination to do big things in pursuit of high ideals. The building projects and the congregation fostering I've already mentioned but FUS has also in more than one of its eras sought to be an engine for social progress. In the 1940s, the rabble rousing young FUS minister declared on his local radio program his resignation from the white race. Now the framing of that declaration might make us scratch our heads ever so slightly today but for a white clergyman to offer such a blunt and extremely public indictment of whiteness and its power in the pre-civil rights era was a pretty big deal. Much more recently, our congregation helped to found the Dane Sanctuary Coalition and committed to being a level one sanctuary congregation literally preparing to offer our undocumented neighbors refuge to live within our spiritual home if called to do so. If place has a certain inherent stability to it not permanency but stability and beauty a comforting constancy then it is the moral imagination of FUS that is the most cyclical. The critical dimension of our story which generates the drama of the plot. Just a few months ago, we completed a nearly year long process of consultation and discussion as a congregation with a vote to approve a new set of vision and mission statements. These are our latest attempt to articulate what larger purpose calls us on as a community. So here they are. The vision of First Unitarian Society is to be a spiritual community of belonging. We will transform ourselves and society through the practices of radical welcome, deep listening and compassionate authentic connection. We envision a world fueled by love and justice. And our mission statement. At First Unitarian Society, we question boldly, listen humbly, grow spiritually, act courageously and love unapologetically.  I see y'all getting ready, thank you. So it is traditional for each of our congregations to take an offering. And I understand that all of us also split the money received between our own operating costs and a local organization whose work aligns with our missions. This morning, instead of trying to figure out how much of your gifts should go to each congregation, we're gonna simply give everything that we collect today to Wilma's Fund, a program of Madison Outreach LGBTQ Community Center that provides relief for LGBTQ plus homelessness and support to prevent homelessness. It was started by Donald Haar, an openly gay man who began the fund with proceeds from drag shows that feature his drag character, Wilma Flynn Stone. We will pass offering baskets around here in the park. And if you are watching the service from here or afar or not from here, if you're watching the service from afar or later even, you can give through your congregations donations page. Rhonda and Kevin have baskets to pass and we thank you for your generosity. Hi everybody, my name is John Wunderland, the Forgotten Musician from Prairie. I'm actually playing two short works for you today. The first one is For My Grandfather, which is a traditional Swiss piece. And the second is Lionheart's Call, which was written by a good friend of mine, James Negus, for healthcare workers during the height of the pandemic. Friends, it is so good to be together. And so wonderful to be outside with you all in what the Simpsons, Reverend Lovejoy, dismissively referred to as the cheap showiness of nature. The wrinkle though is that when you worship in the out of doors, you have to move with the rhythm of the earth and the sky. And the sky is deciding that it's time for us to close our time of worship together so that you can move inside if you wanna spend more time together in fellowship or onto the next part of your day and we can move the electronics out of the rain. So I'm going to call forward Karen one more time to offer our benediction and then we'll move in the postlude with deep apologies to the missed and beloved pieces of music. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Kelly. The radar says we have about five minutes. So, and so as we extinguish our chalice, I offer the words of benediction that I share with the gathered community at James Reeve congregation every Sunday. Know that this space through which we connect is made sacred by our presence and our intention. May we remember that we carry with us the power to make sacred space everywhere. May we hold the love, the courage and the strength that we learn and practice together and do everything we can to move them out into the world knowing that we have enough and that we are enough. Go in peace, friends or stay. Blessed be, amen.


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has acknowledged an electoral defeat for his Justice and Development Party. After it was projected to have lost to the opposition in Sunday's municipal elections, the top offices in Turkey as largest cities were among those contested at the ballot box. The ruling party's main challenger, the Republican People's Party has managed to retain the mayorships in Istanbul and Ankara, the economic powerhouse of the country and its capital, respectively. Erdogan had sought to win back the key cities his party seated five years ago, the Republican People's Party prevailed in 36 of Turkey's 81 provinces, including in some traditional Justice and Development Party strongholds, the news agency Anadolu has said, citing preliminary results. It won 37 percent of the votes nationally, compared to the Justice and Development Party's 36 percent. The results represent the strongest electoral performance by the secular nationalist political force in two decades. The outcome has turned the tables on Erdogan, who beat an alliance of six opposition parties led by the Republican People's Party in last year's presidential election, we could not get the result we wanted in the local election test, Erdogan said after the projections arrived, calling it a turning point for the Justice and Development Party. We will correct our mistakes and redress our shortcomings. Regardless of the results, the winner of this election is primarily our democracy, the national will, the president added, Republican People's Party leader Oskar Ozel delivered a similar message in his celebratory speech. He said, there is no loser in this victory. Our success is not a defeat for anyone. He also argued that voters have decided to change the 22-year-old picture in Turkey and open the door to a new political climate in our country, referring to Erdogan's time and power. Some western countries deploy military contingent in Ukraine tacitly. French President Emmanuel Macron's statement about possible sending troops to help Ukraine has become a real information bomb. However, in reality, limited military contingents of western countries are already present on Ukrainian territory. Bloomberg writes about this, citing informed sources. Macron's words provoked a very harsh reaction in Moscow. The purpose of such statements made by the French leader was obvious to make the head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to do guesswork and feel nervous about the possible participation of NATO in this war. In fact, some western military specialists are already present in Ukraine, but this presence is limited. According to individual officials who spoke to Bloomberg on condition of anonymity, several countries already covertly have some contingents in Ukraine, the article said. Macron's psychological pressure on the Kremlin was reportedly eased by the leaders of several EU countries who immediately started to protest and deny the possibility of sending their troops to help Ukraine. Fortunately, this position is not held by all European leaders. A source familiar with the discussions in Brussels says that some EU prime ministers are hoping for Macron's leadership and they welcome his tough stance on Russia, Bloomberg writes. NATO member states have so far sent their servicemen to Ukraine in secret, but in the current situation the West may decide to openly deploy its contingent in this country. On March the 19th, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin said that France was already preparing a military contingent to be sent to Ukraine, which would initially amount to about 2,000 soldiers. At the same time, according to him, French servicemen are already unofficially present in Ukraine and some of them are already dead or injured. Russia attacks the aircraft, passengers and sovereign territory of NATO countries, jams GPS signals. Aircraft flying over the Baltic region are experiencing cases of GPS signal jamming. Russia is considered the culprit of these issues, reports Politico. The blackout episodes known as GPS jamming have been occurring regularly since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, the source writes. Politico specifies that the interferences are concentrated in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation. Russia is regularly attacking the aircraft, passengers and sovereign territory of NATO countries, said Dana Goward, President of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation. She called these incidents real threats and reminded how during the accidental jamming in 2019 a passenger plane narrowly missed crashing into a mountain. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency is studying this issue, but regulators currently state that GPS issues do not pose a danger to flights. Cases of interference reported by pilots have steadily increased since January 2022. This was stated by the European Aviation Safety Organization, which receives reports from pilots through its voluntary incident reporting system EVAIR. During the first two months of 2024, EVAIR recorded high increases in GPS outages reports. In absolute figures, we received 985 GPS outages compared with 1371 for the whole of 2023 Euro control reported. They added that the number of incidents in the first two months of this year was almost seven times higher than in the first two months of 2023. Politico reports that last year Israel began jamming and spoofing GPS signals at the border with Lebanon to protect its territory from Hezbollah missile attacks. Recently Israeli disruptions have caused problems for civilian aviation in Lebanon. It was reported that planes bound for Beirut were forced to turn back due to signal shutdown. While disruptions may be inconvenient, they do not pose a significant risk to safety. An aircraft can safely navigate the globe without GPS, said Stuart Fox, Director of Flight Safety and Technical Operations at the International Air Transport Association.


The ringneck pheasant is a common bird found in southeastern Wyoming, especially in the farming areas where flocks of these birds were introduced from China and Eurasia. Many of the birds we see in this area are raised in captivity at local bird farms and then later released in the wild for hunting enthusiasts. Males are vibrantly colored with blue-green heads, red face waddles and distinctive white neck rings. Females are a rather plain buff brown, but both sexes have long pointed tails. Females raised in captivity have shorter tails than wild birds. These beautiful birds are wily in the wild, preferring fields and farmlands with brushy cover. In natural habitats, male birds establish harems having as many as a dozen female birds. Females nest in fields or in border habitat and lay a dozen or more eggs, which they incubate with no help from the male. Young pheasants grow up quickly and can fly within two weeks. These birds are most comfortable on the ground where they forage for grains, seeds, berries and insects and prefer to run instead of fly. If startled, however, they can subtly burst upwards at a great speed with distinctive warring wing sounds. Despite their ground-dwelling preference, pheasants roost in trees at night, keeping themselves safe from predators like fox and coyotes. From the University of Wyoming Extension, I'm Ashley Garles, Exploring the Nature of Wyoming.


To be in with a chance of winning my weekly Destiny 2 beta call giveaway, simply drop a like on the video and leave a comment down below. What is going on guys? Today I am back with another Destiny video and today I've used this loot and location for the 5th of May 2017. Now it's located in the tower in the vanguard room, so once you head into the vanguard room you'll see him on your right hand side. So let's check out what he has this week. Okay so we have a legacy engram costing 31 strange coins. Remember people this will only give you that year one gear, so if you're after a year two heavy weapon do not purchase this. It is a complete waste of your time and strange coins. Okay for the titan this week we have the Twilight Gauss and probably my favourite PvP exotic in the game, bar none. I'm a hunter I may know hunter but I love using my titan for PvP using this thing. I mean it's just so easy to evade people. It's just crazy I love this thing I really do. It offers 350 defense, costing 13 strange coins, offering intellect discipline. Unfortunately not tier 12 compatible but still definitely worth picking up if you don't own it already. For the hunter this week we have the Don't Touch Me Gauntlets offering intellect strength, again not tier 12 compatible, also costing 13 strange coins. Now I've had these from basically day one I don't think I've ever used them. I mean I just think they're pointless. I mean okay they're okay in the starting room at the quarters end raid and that is about it. I mean they're useless everywhere else. I mean like I don't see a use for them literally anywhere else in the game but yeah it is what it is so in my opinion don't bother wasting your strange coins unless you're an exotic collector like me and then you may as well buy it. Okay for the wallet this week we have the Void Vang vestment offering intellect discipline and 350 defense costing 13 strange coins, again not tier 12 compatible but it actually are quite decent PvP exotic chest piece it really is. I mean spawn with full grenade and axing bolt gains additional seeker.  With these they're just OP they really are. Okay exotic weapon of the week we have the Mila multi-tool an amazing exotic weapon. If you don't own these people make sure you pick it up it is an amazing exotic weapon especially for that PvP costing 23 strange coins also. Okay exotic weapon bundles we have this week we have the Zalo Supercell and Shark Hazard which I'll show you guys on screen now and we have the Monte Carlo and Royal Flush which will also be on screen now. These will cost you 30 strange coins and 25 silver dust and basically besides these things here that is it for this week and now there's a few things to cover and talk about from Bungie's weekly update that dropped yesterday. The main thing is that mayhem clash is coming back in the form of iron banner.  I mean it's going to be annoying it really is I mean I'm seeing it right here right now I can just even I mean PvP now can get pretty annoying with the amount of fusion grenades, sticky grenades that just get you and just you can't do anything about it.  Um gear you can earn you can get the clever dragon pulse rifle and the silver dread as well as the chest piece and the legs I believe yes it is the chest piece and the legs there are the armor and weapons that will drop from the iron banner and besides that from the weekly update they spoke a little bit about destiny 2 which I will cover now basically they start the weekly update with this this week at bungee we are feeling super charged the destiny gameplay reveal event is lightly on your mind it's certainly on us we have two short weeks to get ready to put on a show the venue is booked our presenters have been chosen invitations are still going out soon the stage will be set this is an exciting time for us if internet chat is to be believed some of you are excited as well the only thing better than sure enough our hard work is letting the world storm into the final product but we're getting way ahead of ourselves first we have to show you what we've been up to inside our studio then begins a whole summer of moments when you'll learn more or even play for yourself this is the beginning of a journey and you're all invited to take the first step with us and that's basically all they had to say about destiny 2 which I can just personally not wait for and if you guys don't know because I didn't really make a video about it I have been invited out by bungee to play this game early and record footage for you guys which I cannot wait for and that's basically all down to you guys and the amazing support you've been showing me over the past while since our destiny journey started together I can't thank you enough I really can't and other than that guys that is it for another video did I mention as well that mayhem clash iron banner is coming next Tuesday which is the 9th of May obviously lasting a week but yes other than that guys hope you enjoyed the video thanks as always for stopping by and I will catch you on that next one always in the wrong where we stand


This woman lost her life in the strangest way you could imagine. She'd been working for a company that dealt with dangerous radioactive material, and she found out that the company wasn't following all of their legal safety protocols. Karen Silkwood planned to contact the New York Times and report her company's crimes. But that's when she was mysteriously exposed to a deadly plutonium radiation league, and lost her life before the files could be submitted. She'd been working in the lab while wearing special gloves and handling plutonium, as she did every day. But all of the sudden, buzzers started going off that alerted Karen that her entire right arm was covered in radioactive material. She followed the standard decontamination routine, but it failed. She lost her life soon after. Many people believed that there must have been a cut or a tear in one of her gloves, but none was ever found. It was then uncovered that someone had most likely laced the inside of her gloves with deadly plutonium, likely in retaliation for her collecting files against her employer. Her employer was never held accountable and got away with it scot-free. Subscribe and check out more true crime documentaries on my channel.


what's up guys we're back with another epic video before we get into it i have a giveaway on instagram that i'm gonna announce here we have a starter joey sealed that i'll be giving away to one of you guys all you have to do is go to instagram follow the instructions there to join this giveaway so i just wanted to mention it on here just in case you don't have instagram if you don't have it takes two seconds to create and don't go down the comments say i don't have instagram i'm gonna do it here just just create an instagram just do it all right let's get into what we're doing here we have a note all right i've had this package for a while but i just now got around to opening it up for you guys so let's see what the note says howdy myself my daughter been watching your videos for a while dean irish higgins on youtube thank you for all your content really brightens up our days during lockdown here in ireland i know you will reach 50k points you see i've had this for a while so he sent this before then i got these two boxes a while back they're fake but the prince have weird and wonderful names so i thought you might enjoy them my daughter opened all the pharaoh's servant boxes but i kept one for you kasey loves whenever you pull the dolce the chick a chick a lot days we gotta love that my favorite is probably the red eyes pole or any variation of dark magician or dark magician girl we live in ireland but kasey would love one of your most medocchi chicolates you pulled on stream i'll share the address at the bottom oh let's keep that uh private have a grand new year we're excited to see what you have coming up next kind regards dean higgins okay so we would love a medocchi chicolates so i'll do that after the video but let me show you guys what he sent he kind of uh teased it there all right so first here is one of the pharaoh's servant packs he was talking about we have labyrinth of nightmare first edition fake box by the way so i've seen a lot of these around guys and people are falling for them and thinking they're real on ebay these are not real there's a lot of ways you can tell but this is very crinkly like it's not that crinkly on real wrap the coloring is very orange it should not be like that usually you see a box of this beat up that's usually not a good sign and then there's a metal raiders box so we're not going to open both of them i think we're just going to open the uh labyrinth of nightmare one and check out some of the the cards and see what's in there and then maybe we'll do the metal raiders in a different video and then we'll open up this pharaoh's servant pack so let's see what's in here this is going to be pretty hilarious because these fake booster boxes i mean it's it's insane this is going to be so much fun i've never actually opened a whole box of fake cards this is going to be pretty crazy yeah so uh just take into account if you ever see a box that looks like this like very orange also if you're ever buying boxes to look out loud that is that would never be like that in a real real wrap but whenever you're buying a box make sure you guys look at the another real box you know look at other boxes to make sure that you are not buying a fake box because i've seen people they're like hey can i sell you these or hey should i buy these and i'm like no those are fake do not buy them don't sell them you know all that stuff just just get away from them okay we have the booster box we have one pack of pharaoh's servant i don't know if it's actually gonna have pharaoh's servant cards in them or is it just gonna have random cards okay this is gonna be interesting these yeah these don't fit well at all that's why the box is so beat up so check this out this is a fake labyrinth of nightmare pack so we have an entire booster box of fake cards we also have um it wasn't even sealed we also have another piece of mail i think it's gonna be pretty epic at the end oh my goodness look at these what in the world molten destruction very shiny that's the hollow right at the front okay wait is that the only hollow infinite cards paralyzing potion offerings to the new wait these are the actual right names oh okay here we go here's some that's metal raiders i don't know what that's from that's mrl psv oh we got the black monster the black monster i've seen exodia has been named black monster he's been named uh dark master he's been named all kinds of different stuff i mean he's already ripped up that is insane eliminating eliminating any enemy in one second as soon as the king dvill is on what is this that's supposed to be devil and eliminating eliminating okay and we got the dark magician that's correct they got that one right that's obviously from lob so you can just see how this is guys these cards are crazy they're insane my goodness and yeah don't yeah because you don't ever buy a box like this because i mean unless somebody's selling it to you for like 10 bucks or something and you want to have fun with it but yeah if it's like a real they're trying to price it like a real box do not buy it the bio mage i mean i'm gonna lie this the foil looks pretty cool but i mean the card looks like it's printed on like just a regular printer like not a card brooder 20 to 5 some of these are like completely right the largest wing newman dragon it is a clever and feral dragon if you had been hurt by it would lost life all right okay crab turtle that's like a fusion crab turtle yeah that's hilarious and give them a some of them are completely right yeah these are hilarious okay lauren the nightmare craziness hardly any lauren the nightmare card so far we've got uh we've got we've got we'll pull the uh the largest wing newman dragon i don't know what that was supposed to me i mean obviously supposed to be wing dragon raw but wow this seal is nutty these packs are really hard to open oh the cavalier ride pole drag the cavalier ride pole dragon look he's printed upside down it's a miss print he's got the i have a new miss on the top left look it can be specifically called when mergily call this cards attack will be increased when your dragon monster add wow wow you got to try to butcher it that hard and look that look all the upside down ones they just had them upside down and they just put the i have a new miss on there anyway they're like screw it this is perfect okay that one's right it's when it fired ground collapse and guruchin kua got that these feel disgusting to you like they have this slime to them let's see what's in the psv pack it's not even like sealed some of them are like that we're like barely any of it sealed wait wasn't final destiny or in the other pack no molten destruction okay it looks very similar the rock spirit there's another one the largest wing newman dragon we got two of them let's go the cavalier ride pole dragon it's not foil though the cavalier ride pole dragon guys the cavalier ride pole dragon there might be too many packs there's a metal raiders pack in here it's a miss print box it's a miss print box oh my goodness there's a metal raiders pack in the lavern the nightmare box my goodness this is nuts this is crazy the shiny that's all right that's the correct name commonari attack the largest wing newmond right there's that in every pack formants of sword mask of weakness this is nuts someone were just like correct correct and someone were just like insane it's like what happened there what happened with that one why did that why did that end up like that okay they were just like yeah let's just throw some packs in there throw some cards in there it should be good looks pretty good shadow of eyes here we go shadow of eyes miss print look at all these miss prints wow so many miss prints oh yeah we're just we're just flipping them left and right mechanical snail impris mantis we might not open every single pack this box right now because this this takes a long time without sticky these are also i feel like there's way more than 24 packs in here there's like 30 packs in here or something they give us bonus packs error cards like this is totally worth it just kidding it's just i'm just kidding seven completed this isn't a lot of fun to open the ground collapse shadow of eyes here we go we got the gift the mystical elf mask weakness jigging bucket in four star ladybug of doom okay okay larvin the nightmare larvin the nightmare packs baby this is insanity complete insanity guilty of the d-night miss print oh my goodness we're so lucky we got it we got it miss print hollow we get a fusion crab turtle rai you ran okay oh there we go we're back the largest wing newman dragon perfect respect play the cavalier ride pole drag so it's like we've gotten those two like a ton like messed up ones and then the rest are all just like normal cards i think you end up getting a lot of repeats in these fake boxes because they only printed a few different cards not that ever open one oh rai you ran oh what in the world happened there somebody uh somebody scratched something that's crazy cavalier ride pole dragon gotta love it performance of the sword we've got chain energy gradius all right yeah we're getting into the repeats here we haven't seen a new card in a long time we're getting a lot of cavalier ride pole dragons a lot of poles being ridden by these dragons oh my goodness this is nuts oh another one silk you even got two foils of it another cavalier ride pole dragon all right gradius chain energy wow these are just there's two in one pack two in one pack my goodness all right let's open the last few of these and then let's go into the next piece of mail i have because it looks like we're gonna get a lot of repeats here we're gonna get a lot of cavalier ride pole dragons we're gonna get a lot of a wing dragon of the newman or whatever it was called we'll see we'll see it in this pack oh the the oguchi misprint performance of the sword cavalier ride pole oh we got a sliver what is the sliver called the dragon of grab sky it appeared in the sky when half thunder and lightning and be restrained by incantation but it is as a the largest power trump card yet wow magic golly wait wait did you guys see this magic golly wow that's a powerful magic golly right there oh my goodness is there an obelisk in here please tell me there's an obelisk in here this is hilarious uh what do we even call this video what do we even call this cavalier ride pole dragon shining at this infinite cards opening the rarest yugioh cards yeah this is this is literally the rarest yugioh the black monster the second time we've seen him the black monster we got the dark magician all right black another metal raiders the misprint box continues i should make this uh video be called like opening the rarest cards and say like misprint error all over it i mean technically i mean look at all these errors i mean look at all right mechanical snail dark magician black monster the legend where's the obelisk okay we've got more uh cut the cards we've seen a few times okay last pack we're gonna open are the fake cards it's been it's been nice it's been lit all right here we go we've got lightning conger mechanical snail dark magician black monster again the zero type zero magic crusher offerings to the new infinite cards okay i think we saw most of the cards we'll see so we got a ton of black the black monster we got three in a row right there the dragon of grab sky only one of him he's pretty rare cavalier ride pole dragon we got a couple foils of him where's uh where's the wing dragon the last they're the largest winged mumin dragon so very cool so thanks again for sending us those epic fake boxes maybe we'll open more on the live or in different video or something like that so thanks again dean and kasey for sending that that was a lot of fun to open and let's get into the last thing it has an address on it so i'm gonna have to do it off camera all right let me let me open it like this it's an envelope so we gotta be really careful but this is from the booster box bros the booster box bros have a youtube channel that they showed me it's just a couple bros opening i don't know if they're brothers in the flesh i don't know if they're just bros like hanging out i don't know what the deal is but they are pretty cool guys so go ahead and check them out booster box bros dds yeah come on can't be a real dds right it's gotta be like gotta be like acid trap hole or something right right okay wait okay let's uh let's save the suspense okay it's from the booster box bros they say it they it says dds on it so what what could that mean should we should we read this first all right yeah thank you ruckson you have been a huge inspiration to me you got me back in yugioh and helped me find something to do in my free time making use of this and may bring you good luck just having it made me feel good and i hope it'll make you feel good too thank you for checking out my youtube channel and being a solid dude so yeah go check out the booster booster box bros on youtube and they sent us a card as you can see very beat up card well what card is it dds it could it be a blue eyes white dragon dds and annihilated yet it's a dds blue eyes they sent us a dds blue eyes the booster box bros they're crazy they sent us one of the most epic i would say rarest it's not the rarest but it is definitely really cool and it's a fan favorite for sure let's let's get this thing out of there let's check out this thing let's check out this beautiful card okay this this thing is like stuck in there all right we have a dds this guy has been through the ringer dds blue eyes you're probably put it in the sleeve and make it look better check it out booster box bros sent us a blue eyes white dragon from dds hey we opened the uh the game and we didn't get any promos hey we got one of the promos now thanks to the booster box bros this is awesome let me sleeve it up new sleeve just for the dds yeah that's nice man that thing still looks good looking like that even even this beat up it looks nice just check that card out i had one of these a long time ago and i got rid of it and i've been wanting one ever since so this is this is really cool i'll definitely definitely be keeping this one thanks again booster box bros that's crazy you sent a dds blue eyes like you guys are nuts you guys are nuts i don't care what condition it is that's insane that is so cool dds blue eyes white dragon i'm just looking at that card you see why people like it you see why people look how shiny it is oh yeah that is so cool so hope you guys enjoyed this video go and check out the booster box bros i'll link them down below so you guys can check out their channel if you want and if you guys want to check out the starter deck joey giveaway just check out my instagram at ruxson34 you can check it out down below in the description as well and that's it for this video i'll see you guys later peace i'm a 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