These song always lights my day. Have a great weekend. M
Month: February 2019
Friday Quote Edgar Allen Poe
Have a great weekend! M
Powerlifter Lifts 2-Ton SUV Off Man Trapped Underneath #WATWB
February 19, 2019
A powerlifter in Michigan is being hailed as a real-life superhero after his quick actions helped save a man pinned under a rolled over vehicle.
Ryan Belcher, 29, was preparing to leave work last Thursday when he heard a loud crash outside his workplace.
He noticed an SUV flipped upside down, and he rushed outside toward the wreckage. Ryan said there was a man trapped under the vehicle begging for help.
Belcher, who is 350 pounds and can deadlift over 800 pounds, recalled thinking at the time, “this is where I need to be. All the training I’ve been through… this is the time where it’s really going to pay off.”
But the Jeep Cherokee he was about to try and lift weighed roughly two tons.
“I just jumped right in,” Belcher told Fox News. “I seen a window that was broken out of the back of the vehicle and I knew if I can swing the vehicle in a certain direction I can free him from that pole. So, I just stuck my arms in and I don’t know I just grabbed it, lifted it up and started pushing and all I heard was that’s enough we can get him.”
The man Belcher saved and another woman suffered serious injuries in the crash. No fatalities were reported.
On Sunday, Belcher went to the hospital to visit the man he helped rescue.
“I got to meet Montrell tonight!! He’s the most positive person considering his circumstances,” he wrote in a Facebook post.
Belcher’s son calls him the Hulk, but he said he’s uneasy about hero comparisons since Thursday’s incident.
“To say that I’m a hero, I don’t know. But I’m glad to have been there, and I was put there for a reason,” he said.
We Are The World Blogfest: Spreading Stories of Positivity and Compassion in Social Media
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Today In History February 21
1599 Shakespeare leases marshland on the Thames River
William Shakespeare joins seven other men in signing a lease on a Southwark lot along the Thames. The playwright now owns a share in what will become the Globe Theatre, where some of his most memorable plays will first be staged, including ‘Julius Caesar,’ ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Othello,’ ‘King Lear,’ and ‘Hamlet.’
1804 World’s first steam train railway journey
The steam train makes its maiden run, as Richard Trevithick and his locomotive embark on a rail journey between the Penydarren Ironworks to Abercynon in South Wales, reaching a speed of 5 mph on the 9-mile trip.
BIRTHDAYS
1964
Scott Kelly. Scott Kelly is a retired American astronaut who’s served on four space flights in his …
1933
Legendary performer Nina Simone sang a mix of jazz, blues and folk music in the 1950s and ’60s, later enjoying a career resurgence in the ’80s. A staunch Civil Rights activist, she was known for tunes like “Mississippi Goddam,” “Young, Gifted and Black” and “Four Women.”
1979
Talented performer Tituss Burgess is best known for his roles on ’30 Rock’ and ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.’
1927
Iconic French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy was known for his elegant haute couture designs and years-long professional relationship with Audrey Hepburn.
Finally, something that ACTUALLY works for my Fibro and RLS pain!!! — Fighting With Fibro
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Male Trauma Survivor’s
OF NOTE
Facilitating Male Trauma Survivors’ Meaningful Involvement in Health Research
Sexual abuse is an international problem and an often overlooked public health issue for men and boys. Given the prevalence of trauma and its well-documented connection to mental and physical health disorders, the relevance of male survivor input and engagement in healthcare research is profound.
With funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, MaleSurvivor has partnered with researchers from Yale University Department of Psychiatry, Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD, and the American Psychological Association’s Division of Trauma Psychology in a project to gain understanding of male trauma survivors’ perspectives on involvement in research and equip and empower them to play active and substantive roles as equitable partners in all aspects of research.
Video: Chris Anderson, Male Trauma Expert
Viedo: Amy E. Ellis, Ph.D.
U.S. Pain Foundation Ambassador Network
Last week I joined the U.S. Pain Foundation Ambassador Program. The work the organization does for people with chronic pain is hands-on and at a government level. There are endless opportunities for you to support the organization with the time you have available. I have to learn how to do screenshots on MAC OS quickly, I’m attending a Webinar on Thursday. Melinda
Dear Junior Ambassador,
I would like to personally welcome you into the U.S. Pain family! By joining our Pain Ambassador Network, you are taking action and choosing to help us advocate on behalf of the pain community. Our goal is to support you and provide you with the tools needed to raise awareness.
The U.S. Pain Foundation is a nonprofit organization created by people with pain for people with pain. We want the experiences you have as a junior ambassador to be full of fun and excitement. Our mission is to educate, connect, empower, and advocate for pain warriors as well as their families, caregivers, and friends; the hard work and dedication of ambassadors like you is what allows us to fulfill this mission. We greatly appreciate the time, energy, and passion that you have chosen to dedicate towards raising awareness!
To thank you for your commitment as a volunteer, we will be sending you a starter package in the mail. We encourage you to use these resources to empower yourself.
As a junior ambassador, we would also like to offer you the opportunity to be promoted to be an official ambassador for U.S. Pain. Below, we have outlined the simple steps you can take to bring your awareness work to the next level.
- Complete three tasks on behalf of the U.S. Pain Foundation. These tasks can be done at your own speed. Here are some examples:
- Host an information/awareness table (contact lori@uspainfoundation.org for more information)
- Hand out U.S. Pain awareness resources
- Attend/listen to volunteer webinar updates
- Submit an advocacy letter (only one advocacy activity counts towards becoming an official ambassador)
- Participate in Pain Awareness Month (PAM) activities
- Host a fundraiser benefiting U.S. Pain
Getting credit: Each time you perform a task, take a photo or screenshot if possible and submit your participation via the designated form provided in the ambassador toolkit for the specified activity. Once you have completed these three tasks, you will then become an official ambassador for the U.S. Pain Foundation.
- When volunteering and representing U.S. Pain via email, we ask that you use a signature with a disclaimer. Please include the following information at the bottom of any email related to U.S. Pain:
Melinda Sandor
Texas Junior Ambassador, U.S. Pain FoundationDISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately by email if you have received this email by mistake and delete this email from your system. All content of this email, such as text, graphics, images, or any other material contained in this email are for informational purposes only. Any information provided by U.S. Pain Foundation is not intended for use as a substitute for professional advice. The foundation cannot diagnose or recommend treatment. U.S. Pain does not represent itself as being an authoritative entity; please consult a trained or certified professional with questions pertaining to medical, legal, and financial concerns. U.S. Pain functions as a resource organization with a mission to educate, connect, inform, and empower those living with pain while advocating on behalf of the entire pain community.
- Are you on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and/or Instagram? U.S. Pain Foundation is too! Below are helpful links which will take you to our social media pages! Like and follow the U.S. Pain Foundation on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/U.S.PainFoundation
Twitter: https://twitter.com/US_Pain
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/uspain/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/us_pain_foundation
Your ambassador team regularly creates new tasks, activities, and projects for you to complete when you are feeling up to it or when you have time. Make sure you periodically check emails and the ambassador toolkit for new volunteer opportunities. Emails may come from any member of the U.S. Pain team and will be sent from official uspainfoundation.org email addresses.
Again, welcome aboard! We look forward to working with you in an effort to empower, educate, and raise awareness! If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, we are always available at contact@uspainfoundation.org.
Kindest regards,
Lori Monarca
Director of the Ambassador Program
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Toys for the boys:
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I AM BEAUTIFUL
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Afraid to write? Fear of feeling the truth of what is there? Yet it is as necessary as breathing, the quest to go down below all the garbage and see what’s there. A place kept hidden even from myself.
Fear. Anxiety. Worry. That needs to be felt before moving deeper. Tick off the problems one by one, a wise voice assigning either a solution or acceptance. Yet the stomach curdles with doubt and confusion because for much there are no answers.
Living with the flow and combination of complexities is not my forte. Is it anybody’s? The release and containment of tension, pain, pleasures, and peaceful moments exist at once. How do you make room for it all?
Wouldn’t it be luxurious to be like cat, arching her back against the chair, stretching her full length with delight and abandon? Must we be humans with all this in our heads?…
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