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Q&A WITH ASHLEY BROWN: FROM HARMONY TO HOUSING BY HANNAH HERNER In her last job, Ashley Brown worked to make deciding who got arts grants a more transparent process, and bring more diversity to the barbershop quartet world. Now the grant expert seeks to become an affordable housing expert. As the city’s affordable housing program manager, she’ll also be the grant manager for the Barnes Affordable Housing Fund. This fund gives grants to nonprofit organizations and developers that build or preserve affordable housing units The 27-year-old Nashville native looks to expand the fund in more ways than one. Can you tell me about your responsibilities in your new role? A lot of my job right now is focused on understanding how they have run their process in the past, and getting accustomed to just all the different requirements of the government as it relates to grant funds. Then in the future what I’ll be focused on is growing the fund and expanding the processes and procedures to help developers and those folks that are actually out in the world doing the affordable housing work better understand the application process and the reporting process; grow our measurement and evaluation, grow the fund and look at how we can expand on how we’re contributing to affordable housing as a whole in Nashville. How much money is allotted to the Barnes Fund changes from mayor to mayor. Are you looking to get more outside funds in the future? There is a lot of benefit of having buy-in from the executive level of the mayor and the council and those kinds of things to make sure that we’re stewarding affordable housing from the highest level of government in our municipality. So I think that there’s a lot of benefits to still using capital dollars and taxpayer dollars that way. But I think that there is a way to grow the fund that includes having more for-profit partners and getting other funds that diversify our pool from which we’re funding. We just received some funds from the Regions Bank Foundation. That was the first time The Barnes Fund had ever received dollars outside of the operating budget dollars for the city. So we’re looking at, what are the opportunities there? How can we grow that?

What are some of the things you picked up from your former role at Barbershop Harmony Society that you will bring to this role? It is a wonderful organization. I managed their grant fund, which was a significantly less amount of money. It was about $100,000 per year versus now, which is between $5-10 million. I created executive summaries for every single applicant. I made our review criteria public. The review criteria for Barnes fund is actually public, so that’s something you can already look at, but things like that, which are not as common in the arts world, I tried to align those processes a little bit more to what’s from a government perspective. I was also their diversity, equity and inclusion program manager. So I was managing all the projects related to equity in that role. It was just a need that needed to be filled in that organization, and they knew I had a passion for DEAI work. I did a lot of learning and I still have a lot of learning left to do, but one of the great things about doing all of that work is that it’s now ingrained into what I want to do in every job. Every single thing, if we’re always thinking from an equity lens, then we’re making correct decisions. As a Nashville native, what’s your take on the housing crisis here? I grew up on a farm in Nashville, off of McCrory Lane. When I tell people that they’re like, ‘where was there a farm in Nashville?’ And I was like, ‘Well, Nashville used to be all farms.’ I haven’t even seen as much change as my dad has, for instance. But this is a

totally different place than how I grew up. I’ve personally been pushed out of neighborhoods. I lived in Green Hills for a while, obviously a renter situation because I was still in college at the time. Then the landlord sold that house so that they could build two houses on the same lot that it was in. So they bulldozed the house and I got pushed out. I’m very blessed and privileged to have the safety of housing every day and know that my shelter needs are met. But I also recognize that it’s something that a lot of my friends and loved ones have experienced where like they have been pushed out to farther suburbs and farther suburbs to where their commutes if they were going to work downtown would be 45 minutes to an hour because it just wasn’t realistic for them to be able to live within Metro. I know that the housing crisis here is significant. What else would you like to add? I guess the last thing I would say is, I’m not a housing expert. I come from the land of arts and culture, and really my basis of understanding of what affordable housing is has only really come from doing my own homework. I have so much more to learn. I definitely want to just come from a place of humility and I feel really encouraged by the housing community already and how kind everyone has been. I really care about affordable housing and about Nashville and about the culture of Nashville. I love my home here. I love Nashville. My family has been here since like the 1800s. So I feel very committed to this work and to make Nashville a great place.

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The New Christian Year Selected by Charles Williams (1941)

Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886–1945), the editor of the following selections, is today probably the third most famous of the famous Inklings literary group of Oxford, England, which existed in the middle of the 20th century, and which included among its ranks the better-known and longer-lived Oxford Dons J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis—but he was arguably the most precocious and well-read of this eminent and intellectually fertile group. He was also known to have influenced Dorothy Sayers, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden. Lacking a proper degree unlike his fellow Inklings, this genius Cockney-speaking author, editor, critic, and playwright was eminently well-versed in both philosophical and theological writings of the remote past as of the present day (the mid-20th century) and used this familiarity to good effect in his poetry, supernatural fiction and his lesser-known devotional selections designed for the spiritual benefit of the faithful in the Church of England. This series of profound quotations, encompassing all walks of life, follows the sequence of the themes and Bible readings anciently appointed for contemplation throughout the church's year, beginning with Advent (i.e., December) and ending in November, and reaches far beyond the pale of the philosophical and theological discussions of his day. It was under his hand, for instance, that some of the first translations of Kierkegaard were made available to the wider public. It is hoped that the readings reproduced here will prove beneficial for any who read them, whatever their place in life's journey. — Matthew Carver

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3rd Monday in Advent

FAITH, therefore, is never identical with 'piety', however pure and however delicate. In so far as 'piety' is a sign of the occurrence of faith, it is so as the dissolution of all other concrete things and supremely as the dissolution of itself. Faith lives of its own, because it lives of God. Barth: The Epistle to the Romans.

OUR relation to God is unrighteous. Secretly we are ourselves masters in this relationship. We are not concerned with God but with our own requirements, to which God must adjust Himself. Our arrogance demands that, in addition to everything else, some super-world should also be known and accessible to us. Our conduct calls for some deeper sanction, some approbation and remuneration from another world. Our well-regulated, pleasurable life longs for some hours of devotion, some prolongation into infinity. And so, when we set God upon the throne of the world, we mean by God ourselves. In 'believing' on Him, we justify, enjoy and adore ourselves. Barth: The Epistle to the Romans.

ALL faith consists in Jesus Christ and in Adam, and all morality in lust and in grace. Pascal: Pensées.

2nd Thursday in Advent . . . WHEN a soul is truly troubled about the mighty burden of his stony heart interposed, hindering him from coming to Christ; I say, when he is seriously and sincerely solicitious about that impediment, such desiring is a doing, such wishing is a working. Do thou but take care it may be removed, and God will take order it shall be removed. Thomas Fuller: A Wounded Conscience. THOU, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour. Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks.

2nd Friday in Advent WE are further required by this consideration of Christ crucified to work out our own salvation; for God himself, so exalted (and so far removed and strange unto us), did use such diligence in obtaining our redemption and salvation that it is our bounden duty to take heed for ourselves and our salvation and to further the will of God, showing penitence for out sins. Angela of Foligno: The Book of Divine Consolations. COME and come strong, To our conspiracy of spacious song. Crashaw: Hymn to the Name of Jesus.

2nd Saturday in Advent THIS therefore is a certain truth that hell and death, curse and misery can never cease or be removed from the creation till the will of the creature is again as it came from God and is only a Spirit of Love that wills nothing but goodness. All the whole fallen creation, stand it never so long, must groan and travail in pain, this must be its purgatory till every contrariety to the divine will is entirely taken from every creature. Which is only saying, that all the powers and properties of nature are a misery to themselves, can only work in disquiet and wrath till the birth of the Son of God brings them under the dominion and power of the Spirit of Love. William Law: The Spirit of Love.

Third Sunday in Advent HERE is opened to us the true reason of the whole process of our Saviour's incarnation, passion, death, resurrection, and ascension into Heaven. It was because fallen man was to go through all these stages as necessary parts of his return to God; and therefore, if man was to go out of his fallen state there must be a son of this fallen man, who, as head and fountain of this whole race, could do all this, could go back through all these gates and so make it possible for all the individuals of human nature, as being born of Him, to inherit His conquering nature and follow Him though all these passages to eternal life. And thus we see, in the strongest and clearest light, both why and how the holy Jesus is become our great Redeemer. William Law: An Appeal.

3rd Tuesday in Advent HE enters by the door, who enters by Christ, who imitates the suffering of Christ, who is acquainted with the humility of Christ, so as to feel and know, that if God became man for us, man should not think himself God, but man. He who being man wishes to appear God, does not imitate Him, who being God, became man. Thou art bid to think less of thyself than thou art, but to know what thou art. St Augustine: On the Word.

YOU have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut up yourself in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your whole heart is His dwelling-place and he lives and works in you as certainly as He lived in and governed that body and soul which He took from the Virgin Mary. William Law: The Spirit of Love.

Fourth Sunday in Advent THEY do greatly err who acknowledge that the flesh of man was taken on Himself by Christ, but deny that the affections of man were taken; and they contravene the purpose of the Lord Jesus Himself, since thus they take away from man what constitutes man, for man cannot be man without human affections. Whence could I to-day recognize the Lord Jesus as man, who's flesh I see not, but whose affections I read of—whence, I say, could I recognize Him as man, if he had not hungered, thirst, wept? But He is known by these things to be man, who by His Divine works is accounted to be more than man. He assumed the affections of man from His mother, that He might take on Himself our weaknesses. St Ambrose: On Psalm 61.

3rd Wednesday in Advent

GOD hath nothing in him that is best, but he is altogether one entire best. Donne: Sermons.

GOD promises union, and this union is himself. St Ignatius: Epistle to the Trallians.

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LOVE does not make you weak because it is the source of all true strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it. Léon Bloy: Letters to his Fiancée.

WHATSOEVER is spoken of God or things appertaining to God otherwise than as the truth is, though it seem an honor it is an injury. Hooker: Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.

3rd Thursday in Advent

WE know that when one of us falls he falls alone, but no man is saved alone. He who is saved is saved within the Church, as a member of the Church, in union with the other members . . . If you are a member of the Church, your prayers are required for all the members of the Church . . . You are necessary to the Church so long as you are of the Church . . . The blood of the Church is prayer one for the other and her breath is praise of the Lord. Alexei Chomiakov: Collected Works.

IN moral actions divine law helpeth exceedingly the law of reason to guide a man's life, but in supernatural it alone guideth. Hooker: Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. IT seldom happens that Zion's travelers are qualified to salute each other, even in a thorny difficult way, but the immortal birth in some degree leaps for joy. Sarah Grubb: Journal.

3rd Friday in Advent FROM this temple, which is the body of Christ, everything that is irrational and savors of merchandise must be driven away, that it may no longer be a house of merchandise . . . And everyone who is of this nature, Jesus purifying him (John xv, 3), puts away things that are irrational, and things that savour of selling, to be destroyed, on account of the zeal of he Logos that is in him. Origen: Commentary of John. IT is to be feared, lest our long quarrels about the manner of his presence cause the matter of his absence, for our want of charity to receive him. Thomas Fuller: Good Thoughts in Bad Times.

3rd Saturday in Advent THOU that art among many bodily, thou mayest be solitary and alone ghostly if thou will not and love not these worldly things that the comunalte loveth and also if thou despise and forsake the things that all men commonly desire and take. Also, if thou flee strifes and debates, and if thou feel not with sorrow thine own harms and have not in mind wrongs done to thee for to be avenged. The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, tr. by Nicholas Love.

4th Monday in Advent THE positive relation between God and man, which is the absolute paradox, veritably exists. This is the theme of the Gospel, proclaimed in fear and trembling, but under pressure of a necessity from which there is no escape. It proclaims eternity as an event. Barth: The Epistle to the Romans. THERE are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous. Pascal: Pensées.

4th Tuesday in Advent WITH the baggage of this present world was I as sweetly overladen, as a man uses to be in a dream: and those thoughts with which I meditated upon thee, were like the struggles of such as would get up; who being yet overcome with a deep sleep, fall into it . . . Nor had I anything now to answer thee calling to me: Arise, thou that sleepest, and stand up from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light: and whereas thou on all sides showedst me, that what thou saidst was true; I had nothing at all to answer for myself, being convinced by that truth; but certain lither [sluggish] and drowsy words only: Anon, see I come by and by: let me sleep a little while. But my now and anon had no measure with them, and my little while drove out into a mighty length. St Augustine: Confessions.

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HOBOSCOPES SAGITTA R IUS

When I was a kid my grandparents would always get a huge Christmas tree. They had these weird high ceilings and the tree would go all the way to the top. I had to sleep on the sofa in the living room so I’d just lay there and stare at all the lights and ornaments and wonder what great things were under the tree for me. This year, I got myself a little 3 footer at the grocery store. I found some lights and a couple of ornaments. That part was easy, but it’s harder to hope than it used to be. Remember, Sagittarius, that though it’s never quite what we expect, we’re allowed to hope for the things we want. Sometimes we get even better.

CAPRICORN

I think all the best Christmas songs have a little sad to them. In 1944, when Judy Garland’s recording of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” was released, it became a huge hit among American soldiers fighting abroad in the second World War. On the surface it’s a song about happy golden days and shining stars. But one layer down, those soldiers heard about good times that feel far away-lost and a lonesome hope that we might all be together (if the fates allow). If the season feels a little sad this year, Capricorn, remember that it’s not the first time. And if it’s lonely, remember that faithful friends may yet gather near once more.

AQUA RIUS

“So what are your plans for the holidays?” they always ask and I usually just list off some scattered unconnected things that seem like likely holiday traditions, “uh... travelling, family, presents, snorkeling (is that one?)” I’ve just never been good with plans. This year, Aquarius, we can stop pretending. Instead of plans what you get is space. A big open space where the plans used to go. But there’s a lot you can do in a space. Clear out a little and sit quiet for a bit. See what ideas arrive.

PISCES

In medieval German lore, elves were tall, pale, powerful people of the forest. They were thought to abduct travellers and seduce villagers away from their families and into the woods. These days elves are tiny and organized and they make toys for Santa at the North Pole! It’s unclear how this happened. We all change, Pisces. Sometimes we even change back. Maybe you feel like you used to

be more fierce and unpredictable. Maybe you could put down that toy boat and paintbrush and go scare some townspeople into dropping their firewood.

ARIES

Where did I set down my hot chocolate? I spent a good 15 minutes making hot chocolate so I could sip on it while I watch movies about snow-covered sidewalks and holiday miracles and now I can’t find it any where! It’s probably cooling off by now, Aries, I feel like I’m running out of time! But the thing I’ve found is, there’s enough time for everything you need, even if it doesn’t happen the way you expected. You’ve got enough to get through this, Aries. Maybe you just left it on top of the refrigerator.

TAURUS

I grew up in a little town and then I moved to a bigger one. I guess a lot of people have that story, Taurus. I think for a long time it felt like bigger was the only way to succeed. More people, more friends, more places to go. These days it sounds easier to go little. The hopes and fears of all the years tend to pile up and you just want a place where you know what to expect. I get it, Taurus. But whatever the size of your town, you’re gonna have to figure out who you are inside of it. Start there.

GEMINI

The days just keep getting shorter, Gemini. It feels like I get up and take a shower and feed the cats and make breakfast and by the time I open the door the sun is already going down again. And then it’s dark for so long. I eat dinner and watch TV for what seems like hours, I get ready for bed and it’s only 6:30. Time is strange these days, Gemini. You may need to take more control over yours. The best way I’ve found is to stop trying to fill the time up and to sit still in it instead. See how that goes.

CANCER

Looking for the perfect gift for that special someone? Need a holiday gift idea that will knock their socks off without breaking the bank? Yeah, me too. I’ll let you know if I find anything, Cancer. Until then,

I’m just trying to remember that the best things in my life are so seldom my possessions and so often the people I love.

LEO

You know the feeling when you get out of the house just in time to get to your appointment and you’re flying down the road at a nice (and perfectly legal) clip and then you roll into a school zone. There’s nothing you can do but slow way, way down. No matter how much you strain your neck and grit your teeth you’re riding in a wonderland of slow. The whole world feels that way lately, Leo. All I can say is, it won’t last forever, so relax your shoulders and turn up the music.

VIRGO

This is my first time having my own Christmas tree and I really hope I can keep up with all it’s demands. The YouTube video I watched said not to let it dry out so I check the water level about every 20 minutes. Does that sound like enough, Virgo? I figure if I just sleep next to the tree with my hand in the basin, I should wake up if it starts to dry out, right? Sometimes, Virgo, we all overdo it. What would really happen if you stopped pushing so hard for one day?

LIBRA

So what happens in The Nutcracker, exactly? I know there’s, like, a soldier and a Rat King and a giant christmas tree and probably some Sugar Plum fairies. I really lost the plot after that. There are some stories that we tell ourselves year after year. Stories about who we are and why we do the things we do. But it can be hard to understand what’s really going on unless we tell them to somebody else. Who are you telling your stories to, Libra?

SCORPIO

Maybe go the long way home tonight, Scorpio. I heard there’s some great Christmas lights up on the hill at Pinion and Riverrock. It’s the good kind that look like some real dad did them and not more of those weird overly-professional monstrosities. The Stars know you’ve done enough worrying for the week. It’s a great night to drive slow and take in the glow.

Mr. Mysterio is not a licensed astrologer, a certified reindeer trainer, or registered elf. Mr. Mysterio is, however, a budding intermediate podcaster! Check out The Mr. Mysterio Podcast. Season 2 is now playing at mrmysterio.com. Got a question, just give Mr. M a call at 707-VHS-TAN1

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COVID-19: Oleada de casos en todo EE. UU. ¿Qué hacer?

Más de 14 millones de personas en los Estados Unidos ahora han sido infectadas con el coronavirus, y más de 280,000 han fallecido a medida que los números de casos alcanzan nuevos récords alarmantes Por Yuri Cunza La Noticia en todo el país. En la Editor inChief última semana ha @LaNoticiaNews habido, en promedio, 161,228 casos por día. Ahora no es el momento de bajar la guardia. Sigue siendo esencial que las personas tomen medidas para intentar reducir la cantidad de personas enfermas y protegerse a sí mismos y a sus seres queridos. La Cruz Roja Americana ofrece medidas que puede tomar, sobre la base de la guía de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades. Asegúrese de seguir las pautas de los funcionarios de salud pública estatal y federal.

Si presenta síntomas de COVID-19 y desea realizarse una prueba, primero llame a su proveedor de atención médica. Los departamentos de salud local o los proveedores de atención médica toman las decisiones con respecto a las pruebas. Puede visitar el sitio web de su departamento de salud estatal o local para buscar la información local más reciente con respecto a las pruebas. No todos necesitan ser sometidos a pruebas. Si usted recibe una prueba, debe hacer cuarentena/aislarse en su hogar a la espera de los resultados de la prueba y debe seguir el consejo de su proveedor de atención médica o profesional de salud pública.

de drive-through, retiro desde la acera o servicio de entrega para limitar el contacto personal con otras personas. Mantenga una distancia física entre usted y los proveedores de servicio de entrega durante los intercambios.

1. Quédese en casa si está enfermo. Llame a su médico antes de ir a buscar atención médica.

5. Cúbrase al toser o estornudar con un pañuelo descartable, y luego arrójelo a la basura. Use el interior del pliegue del codo si no tiene pañuelos descartables.

2. Lávese las manos frecuentemente durante al menos 20 segundos, especialmente luego de haber estado en un lugar público, o después de sonarse la nariz, toser o estornudar. Use un desinfectante para manos con un contenido de alcohol al menos al 60% cuando no tenga agua y jabón. Evite tocarse los ojos, nariz y boca con las manos sin lavar.

6. Limpie y desinfecte con frecuencia las superficies de mucho contacto todos los días. Esto incluye mesas, manijas de puertas, interruptores de luces, encimeras, manijas, escritorios, teléfonos, teclados, inodoros, grifos y lavabos. Si las superficies están sucias, use detergente o agua y jabón antes de desinfectar. Luego, utilice un desinfectante para el hogar.

3. Use tapaboca de tela en público, especialmente si tiene mayor riesgo de contraer una enfermedad grave del COVID19 (mayor de 65 años o cualquier edad con condiciones médicas subyacentes).

7. Manténgase conectado mediante llamadas de teléfono, video chats o las redes sociales.

4. Practique el distanciamiento social y mantenga una distancia de 6 pies de los demás. Limite el contacto cuando haga los mandados. Si es posible, use el servicio

8. Si asistirá a una reunión pequeña de familiares o amigos, mantenga una distancia de al menos 6 pies con las personas con las que no vive. 9. Evite los lugares y las reuniones con

mucha gente. Si está en un espacio con mucha gente, use un tapaboca de tela, especialmente si será difícil mantener el distanciamiento social. 10. Conozca cuáles son los síntomas del COVID-19, que pueden presentarse dos a 14 días después de la exposición. Incluyen, entre otros, fiebre o escalofríos, tos, falta de aliento o dificultad para respirar, fatiga, dolores musculares o corporales, dolor de cabeza, nueva pérdida del gusto o el olfato, dolor de garganta, congestión o goteo nasal, náuseas o vómitos y diarrea. ¿QUIÉNES DEBEN UNA PRUEBA?

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• Las personas que presentan síntomas de COVID-19 • Las personas que han tenido contacto directo (menos de 6 pies de distancia de una persona infectada por un total de 15 minutos o más) con un caso confirmado de COVID-19 • Las personas a quienes se les ha solicitado que se realicen una prueba, o que han sido derivadas para ello, por parte de su proveedor de atención médica, departamento de salud local o estatal

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NUEVAS INDICACIONES DE CUARENTENA

El miércoles, los Centros de Control de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) lanzaron una nueva guía para que las personas expuestas a COVID-19 realicen la cuarentena. Si bien el CDC sigue recomendando un período de cuarentena de 14 días, los funcionarios locales de salud pública pueden fijar opciones para sus regiones. Estas dos opciones incluyen una cuarentena de 10 días sin realizarse la prueba si no se presentan síntomas durante el monitoreo diario. La segunda opción es una cuarentena de siete días si los recursos de prueba para detectar el virus son suficientes, no aparecieron síntomas durante el monitoreo diario, y la persona arroja un resultado negativo para el virus en los últimos dos días de la cuarentena de siete días. La persona expuesta al virus igualmente debe controlar sus síntomas y usar mascarilla durante 14 días, incluso si se terminó su período de cuarentena. Para más información, revise la guía de los CDC y visite redcross.org o cruzrojaamericana.org, o en Twitter en @RedCross.

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BY JACKIE S., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR tell her that the person who called MNPD was helped by catching the monster that did something to another person. When asked about why people are angry at the police I tell her that in some places there are a few officers that should have had a different job. They were bad a their job and hurt some people. But say hi and be nice to all of them. If one was mean, then ignore them and say hi to all the others. She does not know, but I didn’t even

know that there was such a thing as ‘good’ officers until I moved to Davidson County (and met a few from surrounding areas, too). In my opinion, there’s a large area in East TN that needs an oversight board, legislation change and deserve the protests much more than Nashville does. Sadly, a number of the ‘good’ ones I met here have been killed. While on that subject, the following are a couple of ways lives can be saved. I strongly encourage people to abide by the “Move-Over Law,” (TCA 55-8-132). Tennessee was the 30th state to enact one. This also applies to firefighters

Desperation has no friends. It is always here ‘til the bitter end. No matter how old or young you may be… Desperation sucks,

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You have probably seen many different flags around town and across the country lately, and might not know what they stand for. They are colored variations of the American flag. The blue stripe (“Blue Lives Flag”) represents the line between order and chaos. For those that doubt, despite anything negative, officers save lives, too. I teach my daughter (age 4) that MNPD helps people. When she asks how it is helping if people go to jail, I

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(see red line flag), emergency personnel, tow trucks, utility vehicles (included in 2011 after original law passed in 2006) and even you (the reader) changing a tire. Speeding in Construction Zones Law (TCA 55-8-153). Also, I read on the odmp.org website about a nonprofit called St. Michael’s Shield Project,” formerly known as the Armor of God Project. Did you know that the average warranty for a bulletproof vest is five years? And many across the country do not have one issued to them. St. Michael’s tests vest and makes them available to agencies that need them (minus shipping costs).

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They accept vest donations too. The next flag (I briefly mentioned earlier) is the red line flag for firefighters. The yellow line is for dispatchers and EMTs. And again, remember TCA 55-8-132. The gray line is for corrections officers. The green line is for military. Choose what you want to represent and help be the positive change. And remember “every day is celebrated.” If you know someone that is “no longer with us” celebrate their lives. Carry on what they would do. Be thankful for more than you already do, and try to support the blue line for “Nashville’s Guardians.”

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