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Libcom.org May 24 2011 Riot police have broken up a strike and occupation of Yoosung Enterprise factory in Asan, south of Seoul. Around 3000 riot police have attacked 500 strikers staging a sit-in at the factory, which manufactures piston rings for Hyundai, Kia, Renault and General Motors in South Korea. The majority of occupiers have been arrested, with the remaining strikers and their supporters being dispersed by the police. The raid marks a significant attack on a building strike wave in the South Korean automobile industry which has seen several victories, but also follows several years of mounting repression against the workers' movement. Hyundai had already suspended production of diesel engines at its Ulsan plant as a result of the strike action creating a supply bottleneck, and had been threatening to suspend production of petrol engines as well. However, Ulsan plant itself has been hit by strike action in recent months, initiating the strike wave leading to the Asan occupation. The end of 2010 saw a wave of strikes in which irregular workers - precarious employees with minimal rights, usually on short-term contracts and who earn on average less than half the salary of permanent employees - took a leading role. A sit in by irregular workers turned into a full-scale occupation after the protest was attacked by security guards and company thugs. The dispute spread to Chunju and Asan, and in Asan was met with significant violence during a prior attempt to organise a sit-in. The tight supply chains utilised by Asian car companies, in particular Hyundai, with its lean production model, have been successfully disrupted by workers taking strike action in recent years, most effectively in
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There are different numbers available about count of arthritis types. Some sources talk about 100 types of arthritis and at the same time there are data that maintain that there are already 200 different types of arthritis found. All these mentioned types of arthritis can be classified in three groups: - Inflammatory arthritis; - Non-inflammatory arthritis; - Connective tissue disease [Source]. You can check out one of our latest posts where are collected around 200 types of arthritis. The most common types of arthritis are mentioned with illustrations below. The picture below shows an example of how osteoarthritis can harm your hands. Yes, it looks pretty bad and, of course, the ability to live with such fingers is much harder as your moves becomes very painful and you might need a help from your relatives or friends to do things that you used to do by yourself. There are around 27 million of people living with this disease only in USA, so you can imagine how many people are suffering from it around the world! Here again comes an example of hands that are hurt this time by rheumatoid arthritis. It looks even worse than the first example we provided you. And again those are millions of people suffering from this type of arthritis. Gout is also called podagra. As you can see from the picture above it mostly attacks the big toe of leg. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis These were just few examples of hundreds arthritis types that might affect your life. If you do notice signs that you might have it in any stage please do not hesitate to visit your doctor!
October 05th 2011 - copyright-Susun S Weed I take my herbal first-aid kit with me on airplanes and on horse-back trips. I keep it right at hand at home and have one in the car, too. My kit is filled with fast-acting, effective remedies gleaned from my forty years of practice as an herbalist. Unless you count the twenty dollar bill I keep folded at the bottom of my kit along with a few Band-Aids, we have emptied my first-aid bag right down to the final remedy: plantain ointment. Plantain leaf ointment is my favorite way to counter stings, stop itches, heal wounds, and relieve pain. This humble, ubiquitous plant told me to call her "Plain Plantain" but I call her "Plain Amazing." When my daughter Justine was small, she called plantain "Oowie Weed" or the "Band- Aid plant." Plantain ointment is easy to carry. But, to tell the truth, fresh plantain is so easy to find that I often leave my ointment at home and trust the Goddess to lead me to plantain should I need some. My friends like to remind me of the year that I decided that plantain was too common, too dull, and too boring to talk about on my Weed Walks. My beloved "guardian angel" Keyawis recalls our Weed Walk in June in Toronto: "We had only seen a few plants when Susun's foot struck a rock and we watched in horror as the wasps swarmed out of the ground and stung her dozens of times. We thought for sure the workshop was over. But she found plantain, had us all chew up as much as we could and spit it on her now puffy foot and leg. The swelling and redness abated before my eyes. I've never seen anything like it." After one more incident - a bee stung me right on the nose and I had to do my talk with a green clown nose of plantain leaves - I got the message. Now I make certain to include plain plantain in every Weed Walk I do. And I haven't been stung since. Students who are allergic to wasp and bee stings carry some dried plantain leaves with them - along with their more orthodox first-aid kit. They tell me that a spit poultice of the dried leaves usually acts quickly enough to prevent shock reactions. The ointment is not as effective in this situation. Plantain leaf ointment can stop itching faster than anything I've ever used, and it eases even the most intense itches. From diaper rash to flea bites, eczema to dry skin, plantain turns tears of pain to smiles of relief. New mothers swear by plantain ointment as a diaper cream, both to prevent and to treat diaper rash. It relieves the itch of heat rash and poison ivy/oak rash, too. A good dab of plantain ointment relieves hot spots on dogs. I use it to quell the pain and itch from all bug bites: mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks, black flies, too. If I don't have the ointment, I use fresh plantain leaf poultices or the oil. Plantain is one of the world's great "wound herbs." I've used it to heal scrapes and scratches from playing sports, cuts and bruises from heavy work, and even sprains. When Sue arrived to apprentice, she came with a crutch, explaining that she had re-sprained her ankle a few days earlier - after spraining it for the first time several months ago. She was willing to use the plantain oil I offered her. She reported almost instantaneous relief from the throbbing pain, and claimed that using plantain oil daily for several months not only completely healed her ankle, it made it stronger than it had been. Cuts treated with plantain, especially spit poultices, heal amazingly fast and virtually scar-free. One morning, while teaching away from home, I cut my finger very badly. My hostess (an MD) wanted to take me to the emergency room for stitches. I insisted on finding some plantain, which I chewed and spit it on the cut. I asked her for a band-aid, and off we went to class. At lunch, when she asked me to take the band-aid off the cut was already beginning to knit. And I experienced no pain at all after applying the plantain, I'm glad to say. I replaced the plantain poultice, holding it on with a fresh bandage each time, every two or three days for about two weeks to insure scar-free healing. Looking for relief from stings, itching, wounds, pain? Look down. One form or another of plantain is under your feet. Plantain gets around. She grows throughout the world, wherever people walk. Yes, look down the next time you're outside. You're sure to see plain plantain's flat leaves growing in your lawn, by the driveway, along the path, between the cracks in the sidewalk, beside the road, as a weed in your garden, in planter boxes, and even in your house plants. Each plantain leaf, whether broad or narrow, has five parallel veins radiating out from a smooth purple stem that arises directly from the earth. Every plantain is useful. Some herbals claim that Plantago lanceolata, narrow or lance-leaved plantain, is the most effective. Nonetheless, I prefer, and mainly use, Plantago majus, the broad-leaved plantain. Whichever variety is common to your home is the one you'll use. A famous variety grows in South America: Plantago psyllium. Instead of using its leaves, we use the seeds, and especially the seed husks. Psyllium seed husks are sold under the brand name Metamucil. I collect the seeds from broad-leaved plantain and use them in the same ways: cooked in cereals, muffins, and breads to ease constipation, reduce blood levels of cholesterol, and possibly lower cancer risk. All wild seeds are rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Instead of adding flax seed to my diet to boost essential fatty acids, I use plantain seeds! (And nettle seeds, yellow dock seeds, grass seeds, amaranth seeds, and lamb’s quarter seed.) Plain plantain offers us so many green blessings. Just look down, and there she is. PREPARING PLANTAIN LEAF Spit poultice: Pluck a fresh plantain leaf and chew it well; then spit it on the wound. Pounded poultice: Pound a large fresh plantain leaf between two stones; apply to wound. Infused oil: Fill any dry glass jar, large or small, with chopped fresh plantain leaves. Then fill jar to the very top with olive oil. Cover well. Label. Place in a bowl or on a plate. After six weeks, decant and use. Ointment: Warm infused oil. Add a large spoonful of beeswax to the warm (not hot) oil and stir with your finger until it melts. Then pour your liquid ointment into small jars. The more beeswax you use the harder the ointment will be. Legal Disclaimer: This content is not intended to replace conventional medical treatment. Any suggestions made and all herbs listed are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, condition or symptom. Personal directions and use should be provided by a clinical herbalist or other qualified healthcare practitioner with a specific formula for you. All material in this article is provided for general information purposes only and should not be considered medical advice or consultation. Contact a reputable healthcare practitioner if you are in need of medical care. Exercise self-empowerment by seeking a second opinion. Wise Woman Herbal Studies - PO Box 64 Woodstock, NY 12498
November 18th 2007 - Bridge Visualization Technique If you think about walking across a bridge that crosses a river, to one side the water is flowing away from you and the other, the water is flowing towards you. Stop on a bridge some time and watch the water flowing away from you. Water under the bridge is appropriate, too late, can’t do anything about it, its history, etc. Now look at the water flowing towards you; infinite possibilities approaching you. Look way up stream, this water has not yet reached you; interesting possibilities yet to arrive. So now, close your eyes. Take a few dozen deep breaths, slow on the intake, slow on the exhale and relax. Visualize a bridge. Walk out on to the bridge. See the river flowing towards you on one side and flowing away from you on the other. Turn to face the water flowing towards you. This is a gently flowing river, no rapids; no flash floods a very easy, moderately flowing river. Just watch it for a moment. Get a feel for it. Now, take the magic marker and your tennis ball. Write on the tennis ball something that you want in your life; $250,000, the perfect mate, a new car, a new home, whatever. You are visualizing so you have lots of room on the ball. Be as specific about what you can, as you want to be specific. Now, throw the ball way upstream. You are visualizing, so you can throw the ball a thousand yards!! Your ball lands WAY UP STREAM and gently starts flowing towards you. Now, take your net. Your net is on a very long pole that will reach the water. This is a slow flowing river. You have plenty of time. So place the net close to the water and start watching for your ball. You have time, so while you are waiting for the ball to gently float down stream, imagine how much you enjoy having received what you have written on your ball. Feel how grateful you are. Imagine what you are doing with it now that you have it. When the ball arrives, scoop it up in your net! It is yours now! 1629 Canyon Blvd. Suite #5
British Columbia Caver Recognized By Caving Community This past Saturday Phil Whitfield, a 64 year old caver from Kamloops, B.C. in Canada was honored for his lifetime of contribributions to the provinces caving community. The award was presented during the annual general meeting of the B.C. Speleological Federation at Thompson Rivers University. He explored his first cave in 1964 at Horne Lake Caves Park on Vancouver Island and has never looked back, he said. Whitfield became involved with organized expeditions in the early 1970s and joined the federation when it formed in 1978. He also started B.C. Cave Rescue, which operates as a search and rescue for cavers. – Kamloops Daily News His latest project is to help develop a conservation plan for Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park. The decades of caving are causing damage to the caves. The goal is to create a route through the caverns in order to help preserve them. Congratulations Phil! Keep it up! A passion for what’s down below [Kamloops Daily News]
This section is from the book "Arts & Crafts Magazine Vol1-2", by Hutchinson & Company. There is a school of art where the students are invited to send in questions, which the principal reads out in the class-room with his answers to them. We give some of the answers; for they will interest a much wider audience than that for which they were primarily intended. - [Under the above heading the Editor will cheerfully answer similar questions from month to month.] Q. Must one have talent to attain success, or can it be acquired by hard work and application ? A. What is talent ? There never will be an exact definition of it; but application, love of the work, and natural aptitude go largely to make it up. Genius is only recognized in people who succeed. Q. If one is able to master the construction of a figure, is it not as advantageous to develop it in paint as in charcoal ? A. If a student can construct, get the action and proportions correctly; then it is time to paint. Of course with different temperaments there should be different rules; but 1 believe that we all see things in colour and form, not in black and white. Form should be associated with colour, not separated from it; studying first for form in the charcoal drawings, then learning colour afterwards, is a waste of time, and disconnects the sense of colour and form, which should be inseparable. Q. For one wishing to paint (not illustrate), how far is it necessary to carry charcoal studies from life ? Is the acquirement of fine finish necessary ? Is there not clanger of losing colour sense in long-continued study in black and white ? A. Abbey told me that since he has taken up painting, he regretted his work in black and white. I thought at one time that he would never learn to paint, but he is an exceptional man, and all students cannot expect to succeed in both as he-has clone, and I urge them strongly, instead of learning charcoal technique, to learn the technique of the brush. Q. Is it well to work when one does not feel like it ? Even enthusiastic workers at times tire of drawing; is it right to carry it to drudgery ? A. We are learning also at other times than when actually at work. Go out into the fields, and see and think. Mental work is necessary, and what is thought and felt at quiet moments is what brings success. Do not overwork. Keep alive the artistic instinct, and put clown all that interferes with it. Q. Can technique (brush-work) be taught ? Is it a desirable thing to acquire the technique of a master ? A. If litterateurs require style and finish, if technique is necessary in music, how much more does a painter need it ! Fifty years ago the paintings of Franz Hals had little value in the picture market. But since the marvellous power of his brush-work has come to be recognised his work is above price. That is the triumph of technique. We constantly hear cleverness sneered at, but when you meet clever people, watch them, and consider before you drop them, for cleverness means ability. Fine brush-work is equivalent to fine oratory; it is the means by which our thoughts are expressed, and without the means of adequate expression the best work of the artist is lost. Chalk Study. By Charles Sprague Pearce. Q. What do you consider the ultimate object in art? A. Self-expression. To represent yourself, your individuality in your work. In a Rembrandt, for instance, it is Rembrandt I see, his view, his feeling, about the man he has painted. Q. How would you compare Velasquez and Whistler ? A. They were too unlike to be compared; but if Velasquez had lived in Whistler's time, he would have grasped him by the hand. They are utterly different in technique, but alike in their great sympathies for nature. Q. Please explain how a picture differs from an illustration. For example, I have heard it remarked by an able critic that the large works of Gustave Dore are merely enlarged illustrations. How should they have been treated in order to be classed as pictures ? A. I should say that a picture differs from an illustration in that the illustration is the expression of another's idea, and a picture is one's own. In the past, historical painting was considered the greatest. " High Art " was somehow supposed to have relation to the size of the canvas and number of the figures. Everything in time gets weighed at its full value. Dore was a vigorous illustrator, but not a painter. He had an ill-regulated kind of mind; no sense of colour, no idea of its quality. Q. What is true " impressionism ? " A. To render your individual impressions as you feel them. Q. I see colour as my instructor sees it, and am accused of imitating. Shall I keep on in my present course ? A. Yes; even though you had a number of instructors, let each one seem to be, for the time being, the only one. Keep yourself in a receptive-state. Q. Would you advise studying from the antique longer than is necessary to acquire a fair knowledge of drawing and construction ? A. Students are required to begin too soon to study from the antique. It should be the finishing touch. The beauty of the antique cannot be justly appreciated until the living model has been studied. When I was in Venice I frequently saw an old man, at least sixty-five years of age, drawing from the casts in the galleries; he told me that for eleven years he had been in the habit of coming there for a time to draw - that each year they seemed more beautiful and necessary. Q. Is modelling an aid to drawing ? Am I correct in thinking that it gives one greater knowledge of form and more vigorous style than one would have otherwise ? A. Modelling is not an aid to drawing, because there is always a tendency to over-model already in drawing, and going too much into detail is just what we have to fight against. In most of the painting one sees, there is too much projection.
Why give gifts we can't afford to people we don't like? Another view of Holiday Gifting “Have you done your shopping yet?,” an acquaintance asked. I gasped, feeling the despair that descends upon me when I witness the scurry run-around that so many folks engage in during the Christmas season. Giving is good, yes. Receiving is good too. Like the ancient native potlatch where tribal members tried to outdo each other in their givingness. But have we moved too far from meaningful giving? Have we accepted the propaganda that the “Christmas shopping splurge” should somehow “save” the retail industry? Have we lost our resistance? Have we given in the fiction that it is socially necessary to buy lots of stuff (that we’d not buy otherwise) for people who we don’t particularly like, when we really can’t afford to do so? The way to end the insanity is simply to end it. End the pointless buying. What are we celebrating, after all? Santa Claus-who-brings-us-toys day? The Winter Solstice? The birth of the Sun? The birth of the Son, Jesus? Most American Christians say it is the latter. So then why the gift splurge? Some say this is because the three Magi brought gifts to the promised One. The Magi gave symbolic gifts, nothing that was in any way useful to an infant. They did not exchange gifts among themselves. Nor was this Jesus born on December 25. Recall, if you will, that animals and shepherds were in the fields, and it was the time of a census that required much travelling. It was definitely not in the dead of winter, as all historians agree. Let’s get out our encyclopedias and learn that the “birth of the Sun” celebrations were pre-Christian. These so-called “pagan” traditions were part of the holy days of Mithraism and other pre-Christian religions. Exchanging gifts was part of that tradition. In the early days of the new cult of Christianity that arose from Judaism, there was the desire to “hide” the new Christian commemoration of the birth of Jesus when others were also celebrating the birth of the Sun. Some credit the Roman Emperor Aurelian with this clever idea. Eventually, when Christianity was the official religion of the empire in the 4th century, no such hiding was necessary as nearly all the pagan holidays became Christianized. Still, our pointless profligate buying and giving is a relatively modern invention of the advertising industry. Gone are the days of making something to give to another – a cake, cookies, a wooden bowl, a pipe, a toy, a hand-written card. Gone are the days of personally handing a thoughtfully-made or acquired object to a person, as both parties exchange the gift of their time, and Selves, to one another, as they examine the physical object. Or is such a day gone? It is only by our choice to be a lemming that we continue the mindless buy and gift command from our marketing masters. I’m not particularly concerned that most of the modern Christmas symbols can be traced back to the pre-Christian days – the wreath, the tree, the yule log, December 25, the birth of a saviour at the time of least light, the cards, and yes, gifting. What matters most is the level of thinking and thoughtfulness that we inject into our observation of what should be a High Holy Day. “Buying stuff” is anathema to this day. We don’t have to choose to be a part of the cattle drive at the local mall. Rather, choose something else. Plan to be with close friends. Plan thoughtful songs to sing. Plan special movies to watch – I never get tired of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Plan thoughtful readings about the meaning of the day. And if you choose to give gifts, avoid the animalistic urge to wildly rip through the packagings of gift after gift. Make each one special. Tell the person why they were given the gift. Let them open it and examine it. Discuss how the gift will enhance their life. I remember a scene in the book “Less Than Zero.” It’s Christmas time and the author is at home when his father visits. The father is divorced from his mother, so he visits on holidays. As he sits there on Christmas, he pulls out his checkbook and writes a check to his son. The author – the son – lamented that his father didn’t take the time to at least write the check ahead of time, put it in an envelope, and include a note. It was just done rather casual. It was a classic “less than zero” moment. In this time of least light, when the sun is about to start on the path to more light and longer days, when so many of us are scrambling at the malls for “good buys,” we can choose to eschew “less than zero,” and choose instead the Light.
When I think of gay-friendly businesses, Walmart does not immediately come to mind. In fact for many years, I've often thought of them as a great evil for gaining a near monopoly on retail stores in small towns (which is still kind of true, but we do live in a capitalist society). However, my overall opinion of Walmart has changed in the last six months. A friend of mine went to work in their corporate office. He is openly gay, and at first, I was a little worried about him moving from a gay Midwestern haven to Bentonville, Arkansas, smack dab in the Bible Belt. So before he even moved, I did a little research, and I was quite surprised at what I found out. In 2014, the HRC's Equality Index gave Walmart a score of 90 (the same as the very gay-friendly Starbucks). When one looks at the HRC report, you see that they offer the same benefits to same-sex partners as they do the opposite sex partners. Furthermore, sexual orientation has been included in their non-discrimination policy available in the employee handbook (since 2003, and they include gender identity. All employees are required to attend LGBT diversity training and even has written guidelines concerning employees who transition genders on the job. They market and advertise to LGBT consumers and support LGBT organizations. They also have a PRIDE Resource Group to help LGBT employees. With all of that, why did Walmart get a 90/100? It's because they do not cover transgender benefits in their health coverage. Since my friend began working for Walmart, I have increasingly became more impressed by them. When Arkansas tried a Religious Freedoms Restoration Act like Indiana, Walmart pressured the governor to not sign it. Instead, the governor sent the bill back and said he'd only sign it if it had the same language as the federal law already in place. I'm glad Walmart stood up, because as much money as the Walton family has, as many employees as Walmart has, and the impact Walmart has on the Arkansas economy, I doubt any candidate could be elected if Walmart put its might behind opposing them. With all that I have already mentioned, I have to tell you what impressed me the most. Each Monday, Walmart send its employees a corporate diversity email covering topics about women, African-American, and LGBT issues. My friend has shared with me several of these emails, but this week's email really caught my eye. Included in the email was a link to a Huffington Post article, "Is the gay community scaring away our straight allies?" by Mason Hsieh. In the article, which I plan to discuss in more depth tomorrow, it begins with this story: Hearing straight men identify as allies to the LGBT community always makes my heart melt a little. So when one of my new straight-male friends asked if he could sit in on a QSA meeting, I immediately said yes and took him to a panel on LGBT dating, hoping to show him how cool the queer community is. The discussion was mostly civil, until my fledgling ally worked up the courage to ask one simple question on a topic he was genuinely interested in: "In gay dating, who's the girl?" This question did not go over well. Within milliseconds the P.C. police had descended on him, vehemently demanding that he check his straight-cis-male privilege as well as his narrow-minded assumptions about dating and gender roles. He should be ashamed, they said. Hsieh notes that he understands that his friend did not phrase the question in the most politically correct way, but, honestly, how many of our straight friends have asked us that same question in one form or another? Straight people always wonder that, just as they often wonder "what do lesbians do in bed?" (Not a question I want to ponder too much, but most of our straight male friends can answer from watching porn.). Hsieh's point is that why should we get offended by a question that was not meant to be mean spirited. Just like with my students when they make an insensitive or ignorant remark, I explain to them what was wrong with what they said. It amazes me the number of people who do not understand that some of the things they say are offensive, so it's our job to educate them and try to make this a better world. So I want to ask you two questions. Does knowing that Walmart makes an effort to be supportive of the LGBT community and to foster a comfortable working environment for LGBT employees, change your preconceived notions of Walmart? And, I'd like to know your opinions (before I wrote more about Hsieh's article) about how to handle our LGBT allies who want to help but aren't always politically correct? P.S. (Knock on wood) I had absolutely no headache yesterday. Hopefully, I can make it two days in a row and more. Maybe the Toradol shot helped to stop the cluster headache cycle. Only time will tell.
In Preparing for War Against Iraq, America'S Image Is Fast Eroding As the U.S. Throws Around Its Weight Dan Vlasin, a 23-year-old teacher in Romania, has no doubts that the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein. But he's just as certain that America doesn't have the right to overthrow the Iraqi leader. "America is acting as if it were God," says Vlasin, from the city of Cluj in Transylvania. "Saddam Hussein is a paid assassin, but it's up to the Iraqi people to get rid of him." Donna Wright, a massage therapist in London, is sensing more anti-American feeling these days. "I'm not anti-American people, I'm anti-American administration," she says. "I don't agree with what they're doing." Both Romania and of course Britain, America's staunchest ally, support a U.S.-led war against Iraq. Vlasin and Wright disagree with their governments, and they're not alone. From a legal consultant in Rome to a housewife in Hungary to a businessman in Madrid, the message is the same: The image of America is fast eroding, and people are concerned about the way the world's lone superpower is throwing around its weight. A poll released Tuesday shows that U.S. favorability ratings have plummeted in the past six months, both in countries that oppose war and countries that support it.
Elle Dowd is a founding member of the #decolonizelutheranism movement. She is a wife and mother. Elle also recently transitioned from being the Youth Missioner for the Diocese of Missouri to being a first year student at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Elle, how do you like your coffee? She likes it fromMoKaBe’s and she orders a sugar free almond italian soda with a splash of cream! Register for October 22nd #decolonize16 As the Youth Missioner Ferguson, Missouri was in her jurisdiction August 9th, 2014 when Michael Brown was shot. White herself, it was a serious time of service and learning for Elle and many others. It is not unusual for our happiest moments or moments of deepest satisfaction or meaning to surface in connection to our hardest times. Such was the case for Elle when she was part of an impromptu time of communion and prayer outside the Ferguson police station in October of 2014. Broken and on their knees they prayed for and imagined what justice might look like. There is no one answer and it is difficult for every individual to figure out her/his role in peace and justice for all. While we see video after video of police taking lives of Americans we must remain committed to everyone. How do we say black lives matter without police feeling like they are being attacked? How do we articulate support for excellent police officers? So far I have not found quick, simple, easy answers myself but I am grateful that most of the souls in America are trying not to be defensive or offensive when it comes to talking race, policing, and justice in the courtroom. It has become quite clear that we need to define by racism because we are definitely all not conceptualizing it the same way. Is racism only racism when it is conscious? If someone doesn’t say it or if I tries not to act on their racial inclinations is one not racist? And it may be slightly less charged a conversation if we talked about a different kind of ‘ism (and maybe not). For example, I was surprised when I was substitute teaching, had an early period in the day with no class, a woman poked her head in the door and asked if everything was going alright so far. It was but I was confused why another teacher would so quickly seem to be asking. It turns out she was the principal, not a teacher. My subconscious brain knew women were teachers and principals were men. Despite all of my efforts to erase my prejudice I was still a sexist. Especially a few years back, teachers were usually women, nurses were usually women, secretaries were usually women, men are usually principals. So it makes sense but it isn’t okay and it does have consequences for women and men. The way you define sexism, do you think what I thought was sexist when the principal checked on me? If that’s sexism what is racism? Use #decolonizelutheranism on social media when appropriate to gather information about changing the norms.
Find the Right Tree—Trees come in many shapes and sizes, and often change dramatically over their lifetime. Before selecting a tree, FPL recommends learning what size the tree will be at maturity. Choose the Right Place — Trees growing too close to power lines can interfere with electric service reliability for the tree owner and the local neighborhood. FPL encourages people to carefully consider where to plant trees and bushes to help ensure they won’t interfere with electric service. Call Before You Dig — Not all utility lines are located overhead, so before reaching for a shovel, reach for the phone. Sunshine State One Call of Florida offers the free marking of underground lines and equipment. Call 811 two full business days before digging, and they’ll ensure that the location of all underground utilities are clearly marked. Don’t Prune Near Power — FPL cautions its customers to never attempt to prune any vegetation growing near overhead power lines. Use only specially trained line clearing professionals to trim vegetation away from the lines. Before work begins, be sure to verify that the contractor is licensed and insured. It is important that FPL customers keep these tips in mind as storm season approaches. Even a minor storm can damage trees and other vegetation, resulting in outages if they’re not planted in the right place. “FPL is committed to providing reliable electric service every day,” said Eli Viamontes, FPL’s manager of vegetation management. “FPL delivered more than 99.98 percent service reliability to its customers in 2011” he added. “While no utility’s service can be 100 percent interruption-free, we’re working every day to strengthen reliability.” For more information, visit FPL.com/trees.
We’ve already discussed how the shoulder has to move a lot and remain stable (click here – to find out more about shoulder range and shoulder dislocation). When this balance is out of kilter we tend to get an impingement syndrome. Essentially the tendons of the dynamic stabiliser muscles of the shoulder, known collectively as the rotator cuff, rub against and get pinched between the bony and connective tissues of the shoulder joint. This rubbing and pinching sets in train an inflammatory process resulting in pain and restricted movement. Risk Factors / Causes: Very occasionally an impingement syndrome can occur as the result of a traumatic injury, but it usually presents in response to repetitive overhead arm movements. Now lots of people perform repetitive overhead movements at work or sport and never develop impingement symptoms, so what puts some at risk and not others? It would seem that some people have genetically “smaller” spaces within the shoulder predisposing the rotator cuff tendons to irritation – note to self: pick better parents next time. Narrowing of the spaces within the shoulder is also more common as we age due to the growth of osteoarthritic bony spurs. At the other end of the spectrum are the “loose” shouldered folk who’ve had previous dislocations or whose sport or work has caused overstretching of the shoulder connective tissue. Combine this tissue laxity with poor posture and you get a shoulder that doesn’t “sit” as it should thus leading to the movement-related impingement. When impingement is the result of a dynamic instability these folk may require surgery to repair the shoulder. Surgery is also used where significant degenerative changes are contributing to the symptoms and in cases where congenitally “narrow” spaces make conservative management unlikely to resolve the condition. Corticosteroid injections are also frequently used to settle bursa and tendon (-sheath) inflammation. In most cases we aim to conservatively manage the painful symptoms and work on regaining range of movement, strength and movement control. In physio-world the way in which the shoulder blade and arm move together is referred to as scapulohumeral rhythm. Restoration of normal rhythm, particularly at the extremes of range, is essential in achieving pain-free movement. Improving posture and increasing range of movement in the joints of the neck, thoracic spine and ribcage plays a big role in managing this condition. Once we get the basics under control it’s time to challenge the patient with higher level sport and work-related tasks such as lifting, pushing and pulling under load and at speed. If you’re goal is to rebuild a dynamic highly functioning shoulder after experiencing an impingement syndrome then contact us and come and see one of our highly qualified physios today [ Click here to Request an Appointment ]
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Stonehenge is about half an hour's drive from here. I haven't been for a while, certainly not since the new visitor centre opened, so this morning we popped over for a look. I got teased soundly by my family for expressing the opinion that English Heritage has done a good job making the roof contours of the new building fit the topography so well. For some reason, they all found this funny, but I stick to my words- the new centre fits the landscape better than it would have done with a flat roof. It also nestles into a dip in the land so from a distance is as unobtrusive as it could be. This is all long overdue and I am glad that horrible monstrosity that was the old visitor centre is gone and the Stones can breath in their landscape again. The museumy bit is good too: not so many glass-fronted cases that you nod off and emerge bleary eyed and drained several days later, and not too few that you feel leaving you've only had a glimpse of the story. It's simple, clean and efficient, a case proved by the fact that L, who is my barometer for all things dull and boring, didn't start asking when we were leaving until we'd more or less finished. This chap was buried in a nearby Longbarrow about three thousand years ago. Sorry the pic is blurry but I wanted to include it because I was struck by how modern he looks- it could be you or I (if I was a man and had a beard). I'm hoping that isn't his real skeleton beside him. I doubt they returned it to the Barrow, but I feel they should. Stonehenge is part of a much wider Sacred Landscape that extends through the valleys of Salisbury Plain to take in Avebury, my favourite place and possessor of that other amazing circle of Sarsen Stones. The Processional Avenue that leads from the River Avon into Stonehenge was built in 2300BC some time after the Circle was complete (Stonehenge started life around 2600BC). The removal of the A344 which cut through the avenue and ran immediately adjacent to the circle and was decommissioned and grassed over earlier in the year (again, long overdue, although I'm sure it's irritating for local people who presumably now have to take a detour to get to the A303), means that eventually visitors will also approach the Stones along this ancient processional way. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Outside the centre there are a small collection of huts, built to represent the homes the builders of Stonehenge would have lived in. There is also a life-size replica of a Sarsen stone sitting on a trolly so you can attempt to move it. M had a go, much to the delight of a watching group of Japanese tourists. He was chuffed because according to the info, he had the strength of five men.... The real Stones are an eight minute drive from the new centre. You can either walk there up the track or hop on a small bus type thing pulled by what sounded like an electric landy. It was quite chilly (understatement) so we opted for the bus. I wished I'd brought my hat. They have taken away the fences that used to imprison the Henge as well as removing the old road. Here it is, all grassed over.... The Stones themselves were looking well, considering they are exposed to a million visitors a year (most of whom seemed to have chosen today to go and see them. We had great fun photo bombing). I don't think I've ever been in a place where so many selfies were being taken, and regretted not getting a picture of a girl who had her camera stuck on the end of a stick which she proceeded to wave about so she could take pictures of herself from every conceivable angle. You'll have to make do instead with pictures of this amazing feat of engineering, the details of whose construction we are no closer to definitively understanding than we were a hundred years ago. I did get side-tracked while M and F were listening to a chap from English Heritage (who was dressed only in shirt sleeves and trousers and must, therefore, have been freezing), waxing lyrical about the Stones' effect on Sir Christoper Wren Apparently, he was so filled with spiritual wonder when in their presence that he designed St Pauls using the Henge as inspiration (the dome, for instance, occupies the exact same space as the circle of the Henge). While they were so captivated, my attention was held by a Kestrel dancing in the skies off to the left of the site. I watched him hanging balanced in the air for several moments before plummeting with pin-point accuracy onto whatever small, furry thing he had spotted several metres below... Apart from the Raptor, the main bird family represented at Stonehenge were the Corvidae. There were Jackdaws sitting on the Sarsens... Rooks wandering about on the ground... And starlings who were keeping a very close eye on the work that is currently underway to break up the old car parks and presumably return that section of this prehistoric landscape to something more closely resembling the rest of it... I'll leave you with a shot of one of the many Barrows that are to be found in this landscape of pre-history Enjoy the rest of your weekend all,
The Lamentations of Sir Teryrnor A makeup session with Sir Teryrnor this afternoon. We’ve established that he is at home during AD 489, but why? His player and I decide to go through the Winter Phase to see if that suggests anything interesting. During the Winter Phase, it is established that his brother is missing! Excellent. One day, Sir Teryrnor’s brother, the honorable Sir Glyn, makes rounds through the county. He is expected back for dinner but does not return. Another day comes and goes, with no Sir Glyn. This is relevant because Sir Teryrnor is without issue, thus Sir Glyn is his heir. Teryrnor and his loyal squire, Caradoc, ride out to search for Sir Glyn. They wander about in the scrub forest for a day and run out of food. Rather than return to the manor, they press on. Hungry and tired, they spend the night in the woods. They spend half of the next day wandering and then come upon a bandit encampment. The bandits have a captive, whose head is in a sack. Is it Sir Glyn? Someone else? No matter, Sir Teryrnor charges! The bandits pull daggers and put them at the captive’s throat, demanding ransom. Sir Teryrnor does not negotiate with terrorists. He charges. [Check Proud, check Reckless.] The bandit leader slits the captive’s throat, and the four bandits scatter into the woods. Teryrnor rides down the leader and cuts him down in a one-sided battle. He returns to the encampment, leaving the bandit to the ravens. As he rides back in, his squire, arms covered in blood, sobbingly relates how he tried to revive his lord Glyn but failed. Sir Glyn is dead; Teryrnor now has no heir. Teryrnor ties Glyn to his horse and returns home. His dowager mother beats her breast, pulls her hair. “I wish your father was still alive,” she says. His mother does not attend the funeral. Teryrnor tosses the torch onto his brother’s pyre. The smoke takes his soul to Valhalla.
Known collectively as the Ormesby almshouses, this attractive brick terrace, now Nos. 33-55 The High Street, originated in a smaller provision of four houses, built in 1718 ‘for impotent poor persons’. Nine more cottages were added later, probably at the same time as the school at the east end of the group. According to its painted tablet, the school was ‘erected in the year 1744 and rebuilt in 1773’. Widows Row, another similar row of estate workers’ cottages was demolished in the 1960s. Although almshouses were often personal memorials to their founders, there is nothing here to suggest such self-aggrandisement. One assumes the hand of the local Pennyman family; the date of the rebuilding of the school coincides with the building of Ormesby Hall. Today we have a modest row of privately owned cottages laid out in an ‘L’ shape, although successive Ordnance Survey maps indicate a ‘U’, enclosing shared space to the north of the terrace. As in this case, the almshouse building type often ‘combined the root architectural form of the private dwelling (terraced house or cottage) replicated in series, to produce a larger collective institution, often anchored by a chapel or a refectory building, with a cupola, clock or sundial over the central door.’ The central two storey house at Ormesby gives the row a self-consciously planned appearance, while the single storey terraces to either side would have provided minimum domestic space for eligible, probably elderly, inhabitants. The sundial on the central house at Ormesby is dated 1776 and carries the motto Ut Hora Sic Vita which translates as ‘Life is as an hour’. Food for thought indeed, in one’s dotage. Ormesby Hall Conservation Area Appraisal, Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, 2011, p.29 Ken Worpole, Modern Hospice Design: The Architecture of Palliative Care, Routledge, 2009, p.16
By Gerald Kaiser This quantity is designed as a textbook for an introductory direction on wavelet research and time-frequency research geared toward graduate scholars or complicated undergraduates in technological know-how and engineering. it might probably even be used as a self-study or reference publication by means of working towards researchers in sign research and similar parts. because the anticipated viewers isn't presumed to have a excessive point of mathematical history, a lot of the wanted analytical equipment is built from the start. the one necessities for the 1st 8 chapters are matrix idea, Fourier sequence, and Fourier quintessential transforms. each one of those chapters ends with a suite of simple workouts designed to force domestic the recommendations simply coated, and the various pix may still extra facilitate absorption. Read Online or Download A Friendly Guide to Wavelets (Modern Birkhauser Classics) PDF Similar electromagnetism books This unified advent offers the instruments and strategies had to research plasmas and connects plasma phenomena to different fields of analysis. Combining mathematical rigor with qualitative factors, and linking idea to perform with instance difficulties, it is a excellent textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate scholars taking one-semester introductory plasma physics classes. From 12 to fourteen September 2002, the Academy of Humanities and Economics (AHE) hosted the workshop "Optimization and Inverse difficulties in Electromagnetism". After this bi-annual occasion, a number of papers have been assembled and mixed during this e-book. through the workshop fresh advancements and purposes in optimization and inverse methodologies for electromagnetic fields have been mentioned. Electromagnetic wave scattering from random tough surfaces is an lively, interdisciplinary quarter of analysis with myriad useful functions in fields resembling optics, acoustics, geoscience and distant sensing. concentrating on the case of random tough surfaces, this ebook offers classical asymptotic types used to explain electromagnetic wave scattering. Extra resources for A Friendly Guide to Wavelets (Modern Birkhauser Classics) 92, pp. ] 5. D. R. Smith, W. J. Padilla, D. C. Vier, S. C. Nemat-Nasser, and S. Schultz, “Composite medium with simultaneously negative permeability and permittivity,” Phys. Rev. , vol. 84, no. 18, pp. 4184–4187, May 2000. 6. R. A. Shelby, D. R. Smith, and S. Schultz, “Experimental veriﬁcation of a negative index of refraction,” Science, vol. 292, no. 5514, pp. 77–79, 6 Apr. 2001. 7. J. B. Pendry, “Negative refraction makes a perfect lens,” Phys. Rev. , vol. 85, no. 18, pp. 3966–3969, Oct. 2000. The rate of divergence of the exiting beam will be determined by its original value and the properties and size of the DNG medium. We also point out that a beam focused into a DNG slab will generate a diverging beam within the slab and a converging beam upon exit from the slab. This behavior has also been conﬁrmed with the FDTD simulator. , ﬂat beam) or a plane wave, since the negative angle of refraction can occur only if there is oblique incidence. To focus a ﬂat Gaussian beam (one with nearly an inﬁnite radius of curvature), one must resort to a curved lens. In other words, when we have a single interface between matched semi-inﬁnite DPS and semi-inﬁnite DNG media, what will happen for an ‘incident’ evanescent wave? This is a markedly different problem. In this case, we only deal with one interface, and the reﬂection and transmission coefﬁcients for such an interface can be easily expressed as η2,transverse − η1,transverse RDPS – DNG = η2,transverse + η1,transverse and TDPS – DNG = 2η2,transverse η2,transverse + η1,transverse For the matched condition, as discussed above, we have η1,transverse = j X1,transverse and η2,transverse = j X2,transverse with X1,transverse = −X2,transverse .
This doesn't mean that everything is written from scratch; I often adapt worship materials from other denominations shared through LiturgyLink or TextWeek, or supplied by our own worship leaders to Gathering, the United Church worship resource. I hadn't been able to find a suitable Call to Worship to begin the Christmas Eve service, so I wrote one from the prophecies of the Christ, found in Isaiah, and the Christmas story from Luke's Gospel, taken from the Common English Bible. The convention in our service bulletins is that the words spoken by the worship leader are printed in the regular font; the congregation says the words in bold. An angel comes to shepherds in the country, and tells them: Your Saviour is born today in David’s city. He is Christ the Lord. And a whole assembly of angels proclaims: Glory to God in heaven, and on earth peace. For the ancient prophecies have come true, The people walking in darkness have seen a great light. On those living in a pitch-dark land, light has dawned. A child is born to us, a son is given to us. He will be named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. God has given us a sign: A young woman will give birth to a son, and he will be called Emmanuel, God with us. Like the shepherds, Let’s go right now to Bethlehem and see what’s happened. Let us worship God who comes among us tonight as a tiny baby.
If you believe you were misdiagnosed with Schizo-Affective Disorder instead of Asperger’s Syndrome, but didn’t have a family member that could advocate for you, where would you start to try to get correct diagnosis/help/treatment? How would you convince medical authorities to take you seriously if they’re starting from a “you’re bat-shyte cra-cra” baseline? I don’t know what you mean by “medical authorities.” I’m not a doctor, but I don’t give anyone authority over my health or my identity. Neither should you. That’s not to say you shouldn’t listen to your treatment team. You should, but if you feel you are being misdiagnosed, go get a second opinion. Find a psychologist who works with people on the autism spectrum and get a comprehensive assessment. Maybe you’ll get a new diagnosis. Maybe you won’t. Maybe they’ll tell you that you have both a spectrum disorder and schizoaffective disorder. (That’s possible too.) Whatever they tell you, try not to let any diagnosis become a part of your identity. If you feel like you’re not getting good treatment, go find it. I know it’s tricky with mental health, because you start to doubt yourself, especially if you’re dealing with psychotic symptoms. Still, you have to be your own advocate. Your treatment team may be experts on certain aspects of mental health, but they aren’t experts on you. You are the only expert on yourself.
England is a small island nation east of America, west of Russia, and north of Africa. It’s referred to by many different names including Scotland, the UK, Britain, “Great” Britain, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Western Europe, America’s Bitch, the UKKK, and so on. England ruled almost the entire world as recently as 1939, but today it can barely take care of itself. England has been around for thousands of years, but has faced constant upheaval and genocide of the various ethnic groups that have occupied it over the millennia. Originally populated by Celts, they were forced off their native soil by the Jutes. The Jutes were in turn massacred by the Angles, who gave way to the Saxon’s lust for murder and conquest. The Romans took over and taught the inhabitants how to talk for the first time. The vikings put a stop to that by raping anyone who spoke in a language they didn’t understand, but finally the Normans lead by William the Conqueror helped him justify his silly nickname by conquering the whole damn Island in 1066, killing anyone who resisted. The English kept up their violent tendencies for the next few centuries, but nothing of any significance took place until Henry the VIII converted to a version of Christianity that accepted matricide. Although the English public generally approved of this and cheered on the beheadings of Henry’s wives, it nonetheless led to a new round of civil wars. Finally one of Henry’s bastard daughters, Elizabeth, took over and began to direct the ultra-violent tendencies of her people outward onto foreigners. Elizabeth united her subjects by starting a war with Spain which the English won by setting fire to the Spanish Armada. After that England was the world’s greatest naval power. They abused this power by often starting wars with France which they knew they could win. They also conquered many backward nations that didn’t have boats or guns in America, Asia, Africa, and even parts of India and China. The English Empire (or British Empire as it was known then) expanded over the next few centuries to rule practically everywhere outside of Europe that the Spanish didn’t already rule. The only setback was when some greedy traitors in America revolted with the help of the French. The English eventually gave up this fight due to lack of interest but came back several years later to burn down Washington D.C. to satisfy their blood lust. Things were going pretty well until the 20th century came around and Winston Churchill took over Parliament and twice declared war on Germany. This initially seemed like a fine idea to most Britons, but unfortunately they hadn’t actually fought any white people in a very long time and were out of practice. Thoroughly outmatched by the superior Aryans, the English nearly lost both wars until they were bailed out by the Americans. After 1945, Britain gave up her Empire and settled into her present role as America’s Bitch. England is a monarchy ruled by Queen Elizabeth II. She’s descended from some Germans who managed to gain control of the country a few years ago. The Queen’s main responsibilities include handing out death sentences, oppressing people, showing off her crown jewels, and collecting taxes on tea. England also has a parliament that is elected by dirty commoners. Their main responsibility is to act like they’re important and to help America start wars. There is also an upper house known as the House of Lords. Their only responsibility is to get drunk and have sex parties with the Queen. England is made up of various Ethnic groups such as the English, the British, the Irish, the Welsh, and the Scots. The English live mostly in London which used to be the largest city in the world, but now has only a few hundred people. The Scots are hill people who live in the Northernmost region of England and wear dresses. The Irish mostly live in America now, but a few dozen remain on a tiny rock off the coast of Wales. The Welsh live exclusively on fishing boats as the English have consistently flooded the swamp they previously inhabited as part of the annual Easter celebration. Everyone in England speaks English except the Welsh who speak Dutch and the British who mainly speak American. The latter 2 groups make up about 90% of the population of England. The official religion of England is Atheism which is strictly enforced. However, the Irish insist on respecting Papal authority despite giving up on Catholicism in the 1980’s. The royal family continues to attend the Church of England which at this point is just a combination of Communism and Islam. London is considered by many to be the financial capital of the world, but in fact those people are wrong. Still, roughly a third of the English population is employed in the banksterism sector.Another third is unemployed and on welfare. The rest of the English earn a living in one of three industries: Tea, English Muffins, or Crappy Pop Music. Exports: Tea, Crumpets, English Muffins, Beatles, Oasis, Spice Girls, Imperialism, Eel Pies. Imports: Pornography, Beer, Ale, Whiskey, Rum, Prostitutes, Pakistanis, Oil, Gas, McDonald’s.
“Always think of the universe as one living organism, with a single substance and a single soul.” — Marcus Aurelius One way to get a sense of what that ancient Roman emperor meant is through music. Music makes us one — at least the humans. Another way is through food. Viewing the world as Marcus Aurelius did, you realize that you are what you eat, even before you eat it. Here in Italy we are enjoying some of the best food in the world. Luca, our Italian booking agent who has been traveling with us, explains it this way: “It is in the ground. You travel fifty kilometers and the food is different, because the earth is different.” The ham and cheese around Parma, for instance, are different from any other ham and cheese in the world. When I think of the giant agribusiness farms of today, the poisons and chemicals and genetic mutations and dead zones in our oceans, I have to wonder what kind of living organism we are turning ourselves into. Well, I don’t mean to get too preachy. Life is sweet. We should all do what we can to make it sweeter.
When it comes to world history, most people are somewhat familiar with the Spanish Inquisition. But did you know that the Portuguese Inquisition was an equally brutal time in European history? This bloody period in Portugal’s history was one that particularly targeted the country’s Jews – a fact for which the country has been showing atonement over the last few decades. Before the Inquisition Let’s step back in time – all the way back to a period when Jews were a successful, and in some ways, favored group in the country of Portugal. During the 13th and 14th centuries, Jews made huge contributions to Portugal’s success in world exploration. During this period, known as the Golden Age of Discovery, over 200,000 Jews lived in Portugal, representing around 20% of the country’s population. While they maintained separate quarters, they had freedom of movement and maintained everything from synagogues to hospitals within their communes. Over time, Jews became some of Portugal’s most wealthy and intellectually elite citizens, largely due to their involvement in medicine, cartography, mathematics, and finance – fields that served world exploration well. Jews played such a pivotal role during this period in Portugal’s history that they were given preferential treatment by its kings. As is common in Jewish history throughout the world, there were periods of mistrust and mistreatment. By the late 15th century, King Joao had threatened many of the rights of Portugal’s Jews. These years served as a foreshadowing of a greater persecution to come. The Portuguese Inquisition Let’s move forward in time to a period about 40 years before the Portuguese Inquisition began. King Manuel I of Portugal ascended the throne. One of his first acts was to restore Jewish freedoms. However, when he later wished to marry Princess Isabella of Spain, her parents would only agree to the marriage if Portugal would deport its Jewish population. When Manuel agreed to these terms, tens of thousands of Jews prepared to flee Portugal. But Manuel struck a deal that would allow him to technically fulfill the terms of his agreement with Spain’s royalty, while maintaining the immense cartographical and technological talent that Portuguese Jews provided for world exploration. Manuel declared that Jews would be allowed to stay in the country if they converted to Christianity. Jewish citizens were threatened or forcibly baptized in many cases, before they became “new Christians.” In many cases, they publically support Catholicism, but privately maintained their Jewish faith and culture. These hidden, crypto-Jews were known as Marranos. In 1536, the Inquisition was formally established in Portugal by King Joao III. The Portuguese Inquisition’s major targets were those who had converted from Judaism to Catholicism, as they were suspected of secretly practicing their original faith. During the Inquisition, an estimated 40,000 Marranos and Jews were tortured, then burned at the stake. Public executions continued under the Inquisition for over 200 years. Thousands of other Jews fled the country. Across the Old and New worlds, Jewish settlers arrived in Salonika, Amsterdam, and New Amsterdam, the latter becoming the first Jewish settlement in what became the United States. After the Inquisition Portugal’s last public Inquisition trial took place in 1765, although the Inquisition was not formally discontinued until 1821. After its brutal treatment of Jews over two centuries, change came gradually to Portugal’s relationship with its Jewish community. By 1800, Portugal was beginning to invite Jews to return to the country, largely due to concerns about Portugal’s severe economic decline. Jewish immigrants gradually arrived from Great Britain, Gibraltar, Morocco, and Tangiers. In 1892, official recognition was granted to the Jewish community, and a new synagogue was built in Lisbon. In 1912, the newly constituted Portuguese Republic reaffirmed the rights of its Jewish community and affirmed its right to maintain places of worship, burial societies and cemeteries, birth and death registers, and other basic community functions. Jews were understandably mistrustful of government largesse, and in the early decades of the 20th century, conversions to Catholicism were not uncommon. It was not until World War II that meaningful change seemed to begin. During the war, approximately 650 Central European Jewish refugees were given resident status in Portugal. After the fall of France to the Nazis, Portugal began a liberal visa policy that allowed thousands of additional Jewish refugees into the country. Later in the war, Portugal agreed to provide entry visas to people arriving via rescue operations, although new arrivals could only use the country as a transit point. But Portugal joined with other neutral countries in rescue efforts for Hungarian Jews. Over 100,000 Jews and other refugees were able to leave Nazi Germany via Lisbon. Most significantly, all of the Jewish citizens and refugees who lived in Portugal survived the war. Portugal and Its Jewish Community Today For many years, Jews in Portugal felt uneasy under the rule of dictator Antonio Salazar, who was considered a Nazi sympathizer. The unrest that followed the revolution in 1974 led to approximately half of the country’s Jewish population leaving Portugal. However, the subsequent four decades have marked a major change in the relationship between Portuguese Jews and the government. An estimated 600-1000 practicing Jews live in Portugal today, mostly in the cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Belmonte. This number doesn’t include remaining Marrano communities that practice certain Jewish rituals only behind closed doors in remote villages. Their numbers may be small, but Portugal has taken numerous steps in recent years to demonstrate its atonement and to honor its Jewish citizens: - In 1977, Portugal established diplomatic relations with Israel. - Also in 1977, Portugal’s National Assembly commemorated the development of exile Jewish Portuguese communities around the world. Portugal’s prime minister also announced his plans to conduct an investigation into the transfer of gold from Nazi Germany into Portuguese banks. - In 1988, Portugal’s president apologized to the Jewish people for the centuries of persecution that were suffered by their ancestors during the Inquisition. - In 1996, Portugal offered atonement for the royal edict forcing Jews to leave the country or convert to Catholicism, in events ranging from the inauguration of a synagogue in a Marrano community to the theatrical re-enactment of King Manuel’s edict at Lisbon’s national theater. - In 2007, the government began a project to place a significant part of the Portuguese National Archives regarding the Portuguese Inquisition online. - In 2008, the Lisbon Council sponsored a ceremony that commemorated the 1506 Jewish massacre in Lisbon. This “Memorial to the Victims of Intolerance” included the unveiling of a sculpture that was jointly contributed by the Jewish and Catholic communities. The most significant step was taken just last year, when the Portuguese Parliament enacted legislation that entitles descendants of Portuguese Jews during the Inquisition period to receive automatic citizenship in the country. The descendants of an estimated 400,000 individuals who were expelled from the country, forced to convert, or killed can now claim Portugal as their homeland. Jewish culture is undergoing a renewed appreciation in the country, and a network of 22 cities and towns have been enlisted to look at research and renovation of their synagogues and Jewish quarters and to establish local Jewish museums. One example is found in the small town of Trancoso, which has recently opened the Isaac Cardoso Center for Jewish Interpretation, along with the first temple in the area since the 15th century. The founder of the network, or Rede das Judarias, is a non-Jewish official who has said he developed this idea to reclaim much of the country’s historic identity. Sentiments such as these seem to point to the legitimacy of Portugal’s atonement and to renewed hopes for its Jewish community. One promising sign: many members of remote Marrano mountain villages have openly decided to reconvert to Judaism, fully and publicly embracing the faith and traditions of their forefathers.
AZLE (CBSDFW.COM) – A veteran who served our country finally received something he’s waited on for decades –– proof of his citizenship. Henry Kamnick has always considered himself an American. He just never had the paperwork to prove it. He was stationed at Fort Hood while he served in the Army. The 65-year-old’s family moved to North Texas from Germany when he was 12 years old. He’s lived in Azle for the past few years, and his plight got the attention of U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess (R –– Lewisville). “Well, I lost my green card in ’69 and I tried to get my green card back and had trouble getting it,” Kamnick said. The veteran hadn’t been able to collect about $40,000 in social security benefits because he needed to prove his permanent residency. He couldn’t do that without the green card. Burgess has dealt with similar bungles. In January, Burgess said he feared the problem may be much larger. “I think we did over a hundred social security inquiries last year,” Burgess said then. “I guess the bigger concern to me, of the 100 I’m be exposed to every year, are there another 100, 200 or 1,000 that are not coming to someone’s attention?” After that previous broadcast, Kamnick said the Catholic Charities reached out and helped him. “They had to go through the archives to find me,” Kamnick said. The nonprofit helps provide legal help in immigration cases. It took six months to finally find Kamnick’s paperwork. “I think the biggest challenge was really figuring out where to begin,” said Jenna Carl, an attorney for the Catholic Charities of Dallas. “It’s nice to be able to contribute to help him out. He served our country, so it’s nice to be able to help him out.” And, at last, he now has the proof he’s been waiting for. “I feel like I’ve been reborn,” Kamnick said after taking the oath. “It’s a form of relief. It’s a lot of pressure off my mind and feels like my heart has enlarged greatly.”
Things made with your own hands occupy in our lives a great place, bringing a uniqueness, individuality and delighting our eyes. Producers themselves popular gadgets released very stylish leather accessories with rough edges, ensuring it is a handmade design. And today we’ll find out how to make a case for a tablet. We need to work quite a bit of time and materials. I repeat: it is not easy – it’s very easy. And we did not take more than an hour. In order to determine how much you need to cover the skin, a ruler measure our tablet and leave indents on the sides. We will need a piece of thick leather. This is a pleasant and harmless material, besides very dense and practical. Leather cover will look luxurious. This is not a problem to buy a suitable piece of skin. We can find the right color that will come to your bag or shoes, select the desired texture of the skin or stay on the skin embossed. It should be remembered that the skin is a natural material and the piece can be irregular in shape. Therefore, in order to avoid mistakes in the calculations, it is necessary to put the finished pattern or tablet to a piece of leather. Also, we need: - Pencil for marking; - A pair of scissors; - Railway line; - Stationery knife; - Punch for the skin; Having prepared everything you need, we can get to work. Mark up the pencil cover parts of the skin and cut. I note that better skin cut with a sharp knife, not scissors. Then get a smooth, neat edge. Better to do it on the board, because on the table can remain cuts from a knife. Although you can certainly use scissors. Folded between a part of the future case and align the edges, mark on the face of the place where we will punch holes. The distance between the studs should be 1-2 in (2.5-5 cm), as long as it is between the studs was the same. When working with leather, comfortable for easy operation, lightly glue the parts together. This will allow you to baste, fasten them together and prevent movement of parts. According to the target point punch holes using puncher and a hammer. In holes on both sides of the cover, insert the two studs and tapping the rivet head, set them in place. Done. Good for you!
Day 23 -"One Day, One Gift" Arthur is 10 years old, his family's only income is a pension. He dreams of having a colorful toys, especially he wants helicopter and machine. He also wants to have warm clothes and shoes. On December 1st World Vision Armenia launched a Facebook campaign titled “One Day, One Gift”, to raise funds for Christmas gifts for 30 children living in the rural communities of Noyemberyan, Amasia and Tchambarak. Each gift costs 10,000 AMD and includes a toy and traditional New Year’s sweets. Every day a story about a child’s life and dreams will be posted on World Vision’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/worldvisionarmenia.official. Join our “One day, one gift” campaign, and give Artur a New Year miracle!
This latest post in my series of World Borders is WITHOUT doubt the best border I have crossed in my travel repertoire. It is the longest ever border crossing I have done between two countries (yes, MUCH longer than flights), the most exciting and the most inspiring. This my friends is the “dreaded drake”, it’s the roughest stretch of water in the world. It’s the Drake Passage and it separates Argentina and Chile, from Antarctica. Crossing the Drake Passage was magical! This isn’t just a border between countries (and strictly speaking Antarctica isn’t really a country), this is a border between: – 2 continents – 2 oceans – the civilised world and the land where no humans ordinarily alway live This was an epic trip, and I’m glad to share it again today and include it in my World Borders Series. How to get from Argentina to Antarctica (crossing the Drake Passage) There will be more posts to come on routes, travel tips etc. but let’s make things concise here. Book yourself a trip to Antarctica and most likely it will leave from Ushuaia in Argentina. So to get from Argentina to Antarctica, you will leave the port of Ushuaia, first sailing along the marvellous Beagle Channel and secondly entering the Drake Passage. Your destiny my friends is no longer in your own hands. It’s in the hands of the able crew and captain plus the joys that Mother Nature provides the ship with. When crossing the Drake Passage, the ship will rock and it will roll. The tour I booked was with GAP Adventures and they included an onboard itinerary every day of the trip, here’s the one from the main day of crossing the Drake Passage… How long does it take to get from Argentina to Antarctica? On the Drake Passage, it takes roughly two days, but ours was less than that. From the exact moment that you leave the port of Ushuaia until you land in Antarctica on soil will be about 42 – 48 hours. If I remember correctly we left on a Saturday night around 6pm and made our first landing in Barrientos, Antarctica on the Monday afternoon around 2.20pm. Ushuaia, Saturday afternoon boarding the boat: Barrientos, Antarctica, Monday afternoon stepping on land: What Visas do you need to get from Argentina to Antarctica? Visas are NOT REQUIRED for visits to Antarctica. You can get your passport stamped at the bases you visit, but no passports or documents will ever be checked on landing. You don’t see penguins waiting in booths, or anything remotely political like that. Antarctica is a natural wonderland of sheer bliss. In terms of other things you need then it’s warm clothes and travel insurance. The rest sorts itself out. How rough a crossing is the Drake Passage? I won’t lie to you – the seas are rough. It’s the roughest stretch of water in the world. But having said that, I didn’t find it particularly rough so perhaps we were lucky. I have spent 2 years of my life working on boats however and I love life on the ocean so that could also be a factor. You’ll have time to relax and enjoy it, or if you do get ill, you’ll be able to just sleep it off. Don’t worry too much. It’s worth going through rough seas to feast your eyes on Antarctica! How to prepare for the Drake Passage This is very much an “each to their own” to be honest – do what you feel you need to do for your own health and body – don’t listen to others too much. Generally I don’t get sea sick so I’m not a good person to comment on this. However I did have a one hour headache on the first morning of the Drake. I had drank some cheap wine the night before to toast to the trip with my room mate Mark, so that possibly affected it. Here are a few things I advise (but do your own thing) – Drinks lots of water and tea. – Eat lots for breakfast and lunch. – Don’t move about too much. – Sleep well. – Avoid alcohol if you get remotely sea sick. There isn’t too much to worry about really and your feelings and illnesses will soon disappear when you see Antarctica for the first time! You will be buzzing!! What is there to do while crossing the Drake Passage? Are you kidding? There is an abundance of things to do!! You will be busy, here are some things you can do: – head out on deck and go bird and whale watching (amazing views and birds follow the boat, plus fresh air) – sleep (you have a comfortable bed to catch up on all that travel sleep you missed out on) – drink tea and coffee (unlimited free supply on board – I got my money’s worth) – update your travel blog (I am constantly writing posts for my travel blog. I most most of them offline so I took time during the Drake to write about my recent stuff) – mingle and mix (get to know everyone on the boat!!!! They’re all fellow Antarctica travellers like you and they’ll be very talkative and have great stories) – visit the onboard library (ours was a Lonely Planet library – I got lost in there reading about Uruguay for a few hours!) – visit the swimming pool and gym – attend all the onboard lectures and documentaries (held in the lounge and highly informative) – have a drink (the bar is open for happy hour and at night – be sociable) – plan your next travel adventures Like I say you won’t be short of things to do or people to talk to and the time will pass by in a flash. It’s a fantastic journey and if you haven’t yet been, get out there and do Antarctica!!! I have about 30 other Antarctica related posts on here and have also guested on these sites writing about it: It’s the best place by far I have travelled to, just an incredible experience. My Videos from the Drake Passage (WORTH WATCHING): First morning on the Drake Passage: First Day on the Drake: Second Day on the Drake: Arrival and first sighting of icebergs in Antarctica:
This week I got a hold of the newly published Billionaire Census from Wealth-X and UBS. It revealed that the 2,325 world’s richest people are holding an average of $600 million in cash – each. That equates to about 19% of their total net worth. It’s roughly a 10% jump from the year before. Somewhat surprisingly perhaps, it’s also 5 times more than their real estate holdings. Staggering statistics, but what could we derive from this information? I’m hawking the global financial trends and have conversations with many of the brightest professionals and investors in the world. Many interpret the stockpile of cash on the sidelines as a potential influx to drive stock prices even higher. Without a doubt there is a lot of money that needs to make some decent yield. With stock prices at an all-time high, interest rates (and bond returns) near an all-time low; every asset class seems squeezed for the last drop of low-risk return. And yet, the billionaires (and their top notch advisors) are still on the sidelines for almost 20% of their holdings, and growing. They are well aware that inflation is slowly diminishing their capital power. But they haven’t found a better alternative yet – but surely are on the lookout every day. I personally am of the opinion that the cash reserves will actually drive the appetite for more risky investments. However, likely not so much in the traditional assets such as stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Risk versus rewards ratios have already been pushed to outer boundaries. The class of private investments (also referred to as Direct Investments) still has many new and undiscovered gems. This asset class is growing and will surely continue to grow. Plus, in today’s global economy, cash is easily moved past borders. It can quite easily be invested in another country than our own. The world has become a smaller place. There is currently a growing trend whereby wealthy individuals, Family Offices and fund managers are sharing investments in private deals. These syndicates or co-investments used to be reserved for the haut-finance world. With so much cash actively seeking alternative opportunities to make a return, the money is collaborating to identify these deals and take advantage of them. These opportunities are widely available, from local start-ups to larger private equity deals. It provides a tremendous chance to be part of the next big thing, before it becomes as big as Google or Amazon. The trick is to cherry pick the very best opportunities, negotiate a Shark-like deal and use your connections to help the investment succeed. That’s why the Billionaires have 46.7% of their assets in private investment holdings. And a war chest of $600 million each to deploy. Wouldn’t it be great if we could all have that problem? We would syndicate together and seek the best opportunities in the world to put our money to work.
Sri Lanka Central Bank Governor is a good soul: Finance Minister Jan 12, 2017 15:33 PM GMT+0530 \| 0 Comment(s) ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Central Bank Governor Indrajit Coomaraswamy is a 'good soul', Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said, in the wake of rising concerns that the independence of the monetary authority was being undermined. "There are two people in the Central Bank - not the Governor, he is a good soul - but he is being led by two cronies who are basically running the wrong way," Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake told reporters Thursday. He said the names of 'two or three cronies' of the former Central Bank governor Nivard Cabraal under the ousted Rajapaksa regime would be revealed in a few days. Last week, Minister Karunanayake said Coomaraswamy was an 'attendant' during the last regime when the economy was pushed into the Intensive Care Unit. Coomaraswamy, a person who is highly respected for his integrity and technical expertise, had earlier said that the economy had now come out of intensive care but was still in hospital. Coomaraswamy, who replaced Arjuna Mahendran last year, has taken action to clean up the Central Bank, which got into a controversy over rigging of bond auctions and dumping pumped-up securities on the Employees Provident Fund during 2015 and 2016. The rupee also collapsed in 2015 as money was printed for finance the deficit and bring down rates, driving the country to an International Monetary Fund bailout. Karunanayake said Sri Lanka's rupee would stabilise soon. In January, the aggregate excess balance of the commercial banking system rose to over Rs100 billion as the tens of billions of rupees were printed to repay a maturing bond. The move can further undermine the rupee, as the newly minted money hits forex markets as imports, analysts say. When large volumes of money is printed, the Central Bank then has to sell rupees and lose forex reserves to keep the rupee from falling or allow the rupee to fall to safeguard reserves and push inflation up. Analysts say comprehensive reforms to the Central Bank law are needed to prevent the Treasury from forcing the Central Bank to repay maturing bonds with printed money. The current law also allows the Treasury to demand so-called provisional advance - a type printed money overdraft - which is another source of economic instability. The Central Bank has scrambled to mop up the rupees and prevent further damage to the rupee, over the last few days, which analysts say shows that fiscal dominance is at work. On Wednesday the central bank called bids to sell up to 15 billion rupees of short term Treasuries in its portfolio but there were no takers. But most analysts expect some of its Treasuries holdings to be trimmed at this week's auction after rates went up. Sri Lanka has a de facto peg with the US dollar, but due to sudden surges of money printing, mainly to finance spikes in budget deficits, the rupee collapses and inflation goes up. The central bank itself can contribute to balance of payments crises by sterilizing interventions (filling liquidity shortages after intervening in forex markets) to keep rates low and purchasing dollar inflows from the Treasury to prevent the rupee from going back up. Sri Lanka's policy rates are more than 10 times that of the US and analysts say it will be an easy to task to keep a strong peg, if the tendency by authorities to repay bonds and Treasury bills with printed money and make so called provisional advances, are resisted. Currencies of so-called soft-pegged countries break because excess domestic money is injected to the banking system, either through policy rate windows, open market operations to sterilize forex market interventions, advances to the Treasury or bank bailouts. (Colombo/Jan12/2016)
- Report: Syrian rebels demanded a $50 million ransom for Ankhar Kochneva's release - "I thought they would have killed me eventually," Kochneva says - The reporter defends Bashar al-Assad regime's war against the rebels - In separate matter, U.N. commission is investigating 20 massacres in Syria A Ukrainian journalist taken hostage by a faction of Syrian rebels in October escaped from her captors Monday, according to a Russian media report. The rebels had demanded a $50 million ransom from the Ukrainian government for Ankhar Kochneva's release, the Russian state-run RIA Novosti reported. "I thought they would have killed me eventually and would say that it was the army who did it," Kochneva told Russian radio website BFM.ru on Monday. "So I made a decision to escape. I simply came to the street and (left) and maybe in 15 kilometers I met normal people who helped me to get to the army's side." Her ordeal as a captive took a toll on her health, Kochneva said. "I lost about 30 kilograms," or 66 pounds. "My health condition is very bad because they didn't treat me at all. I spent the whole winter in a room with a broken window. When the snow fell it was in the room, too, and on the ceiling. It's a miracle that I didn't become seriously sick." She walked around minefields to escape, she told RIA Novosti. Kochneva, who specializes in tourism writing and not war reporting, told BFM.ru that she planned to remain in Syria, saying it is "like a friend who got in trouble. You need to leave everything and help your friend to outlast this trouble and emerge from it." She defended Bashar al-Assad regime's war against the Syrian rebels. "Everyone shouts that Syria is doing something wrong, but I'm sorry, what should it do?" she said. "What would, for example, Germany do if someone would destroy its railway, kidnap its people and ask money for them, kill them? What would they do? None of the countries were in Syria's shoes. The world has gone blind. People need to hear about what's going on here. I will definitely let people know what is really happening here." The opposition activist organization Local Coordination Committees of Syria said 84 people were killed in war-related violence across Syria on Monday, including 18 in Damascus and its suburbs, and 31 in Aleppo. CNN cannot independently verify those figures. A U.N. commission is investigating 20 massacres in Syria, its chairman, Paulo Pinheiro, told reporters Monday. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, a U.N. commission investigating human rights violations, issued a report Monday saying the "main cause of civilian casualties, mass displacement and destruction is the reckless manner in which parties to the conflict conduct hostilities." "In a disturbing and dangerous trend, mass killings allegedly perpetrated by Popular Committees have at times taken on sectarian overtones," the report said. "Moreover, the commission has received consistent testimonies of persons who alleged having been harassed and at times arbitrarily arrested by members of these committees because they originated from regions perceived as being 'supportive of the revolution,' " the report said. Syrian government forces "have targeted civilians and have conducted indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks," Pinheiro said. "Although we have some evidence that the situation amongst anti-government armed groups is improving, they also do not take the necessary precautions, particularly when detonating bombs where high numbers of civilian casualties are likely to result."
The tomb of King Tutankhamun was a treasure trove. Now, in his brilliant new book, author Robert Temple claims there are grander burial sites that are filled with jewels and gold. He writes ... "what if a really large tomb of a powerful and famous pharaoh were found intact? "It would be likely to contain treasure far exceeding anything imagined before. It will happen. Evidence has now been found for not just one but seven intact royal tombs at Giza in Egypt, detailed in my new book, Egyptian Dawn. These seven grand royal tombs, in the shadow of the pyramids near Cairo, are just sitting there waiting for us to open them. "They include the tombs of the three most famous pharaohs of them all, Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus, after whom the three main pyramids of Giza are named. Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple is published in the UK by Cornerstone, £25. Read more: The Daily Express
7 O Lord, you have enticed me, and I was enticed; you have overpowered me, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all day long; everyone mocks me. 8 For whenever I speak, I must cry out, I must shout, ‘Violence and destruction!’ For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. 9 If I say, ‘I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name’, then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot. Why is this a favourite passage? Simply because I identify with it so strongly! The English translations tend to minimise the shocking language being used here - I understand that the language is actually that used to describe seduction and rape, a complete overpowering of the person's own choices. That is certainly how I experienced my own vocation. It becomes a compulsion - a word that must be spoken, that fidgets under the skin until it is released; and then, when it is, the world mocks (and I end up being known as the Vicar who hates Tesco, or - and this is more accurate - the one who is worried about Peak Oil and all that it implies). Which is fair enough, you don't become a clergyman unless you are prepared to put up with being a figure of ridicule. It just means that passages like this one speak directly to how I experience God and my present condition - and that's why it's a favourite passage.
The mission from Unasur (Union of South American Nations) that will be acting as ‘accompanying observer’ in the coming presidential elections in Venezuela, 7 October, and the only organization allowed to fulfil that task, said that the Venezuelan electoral process is one of the “most trustworthy and reliable”. “I know the electoral systems of South America and I can say with full authority that Venezuela has one of the most advanced and reliable electoral systems from the region and the continent”, said Carlos ‘Chacho’ Alvarez head of the Unasur mission on arrival to Caracas to begin the agenda of activities in anticipation of the October 7 event. Alvarez’ delegation includes electoral experts from Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana and Peru and he insisted on getting off the plane, that the Venezuelan voting system has “great transparency” and can be audited in several different ways. The delegation is scheduled to meet with the campaign manager of President Hugo Chavez who is seeking his re-election for a third consecutive mandate, and that from the opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski. The former Argentine Vice-president said it would be “very positive” if the Unasur mission could meet with Chavez who allegedly is leading in the opinion polls made public, as well as with Capriles. He also anticipated that the delegation has scheduled meetings with Venezuelan national observers for the coming election. Alvarez made the statements following a meeting with the president of the National Electoral Council, CNE; Tibisay Lucena and the ambassadors in Caracas of Unasur country members. Unasur will be making its first experience as electoral observer on October 7. The figure of international “accompanying observer”, which is limited to making recommendations on the elections, was incorporated to the Venezuelan legislation following the presidential election of 2006 and will be used instead of that of “international observer” for the first time in October. Precisely on the point Alvarez said the mission he heads will not be “controlling or monitoring the election” but rather accumulate “the best practices of the electoral systems of our countries” The US Carter Centre which sent observers in 2006 rejected last August to participate in the coming elections following the description of “international accompanying observer” as ‘symbolic’, since it has no competence to “assess the electoral process as a whole in a systematic way”. The Organization of American States, OAS, and the European Union which sent observers back in 2006 were not invited on this occasion. Over 19 million Venezuelans are entitled to vote under the new system which is based on the finger print.
Industry, Demographic & Forecast Data Geelong Economic Profile - See our Geelong Economic Profile (link is external) website for detailed Industry, Tourism, Work Force and Trend Data The industrial economic data presented in this profile has been sourced from REMPLAN. Enterprise Geelong has access to the full version of REMPLAN with economic data for 111 industries and an economic impact modelling capability City of Greater Geelong Community Profile Want to know... - How many people live in Geelong? - Who we are? - What we do? - How we live? - Where we live? Answers to these questions and many more can be found on our City of Greater Geelong Community Profile website which provides detailed online socio-demographic profile of the Geelong Local Government Area (LGA) and small areas (that is: suburb/township). City of Greater Geelong Population Forecasts Want to know... - How many people are forecast to live here in the future? - How old we will be? - How we will live? - Where we will live? The City of Greater Geelong Population Forecasts website can provide you with information on what the Geelong community may look like in the future at the Geelong Local Government Area (LGA) and small area (i.e. suburb/township) level. The forecasts are produced by an external agency (.id consulting) and are based on ABS results from the 2011, 2006, 2001, 1996, and 1991 Censuses of Population and Housing, in conjunction with information provided by the City of Greater Geelong. City of Greater Geelong Community Atlas The City of Greater Geelong Social Atlas website delivers Census data in a suite of thematic maps which show how target populations are distributed across a local government area (for example: children, elderly, disadvantaged). There are 64 interactive maps each showing different population characteristics from the 2011 Census. Each map is prepared using the smallest level possible (Census Collector Districts), providing the finest level of detail to help identify spatial patterns and trends in the area. The site compliments the information we have on our community profile and population forecast pages.
Salivary secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor is associated with reduced transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 through breast milk MetadataShow full item record Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI), a protein found in saliva, breast milk, and genital secretions, is capable of inhibiting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 in vitro. The aim of this study was to determine whether SLPI in infant saliva provides protection against mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission. In total, 602 saliva specimens were collected from 188 infants at birth and at ages 1, 3, and 6 months. Infants' median salivary SLPI concentrations were higher at birth than at 6 months (341 vs. 219 ng/mL; P=.001). There was no association between SLPI concentration and HIV-1 transmission overall. However, among 122 breast-fed infants who were HIV-1 uninfected at 1 month, higher salivary SLPI levels were associated with a decreased risk of HIV-1 transmission through breast milk (hazard ratio, 0.5; 95% confidence interval, 0.3-0.9; P=.03). These results suggest that SLPI plays an important role in reducing HIV-1 transmission through breast milk.
Paris's "Bateaux Mouches" tourist boats have been shut down due to the high waters while swans have been seen swimming where there are usually pavements and rats forced up onto the streets. While forecasters believe it will continue to rise, peaking on Sunday night or Monday, it is not expected to reach the 2016 high of 6.1m, AFP news agency reports. About 1,500 people have been evacuated from their homes in the Paris region because of the flooding and a similar number are without electricity. The river had risen 11cm (4.3 inches) in 24 hours by Saturday evening, more than four metres above its normal height, causing problems for commuters and residents near its overflowing banks. But the world's most visited museum was still on alert Sunday, along with the Musee d'Orsay and Orangerie galleries, with the lower level of the Louvre's Islamic arts wing closed to visitors at least until Monday. "There are six studios in the basement, and we've had to set up blocks outside to keep the windows from breaking and covering everything in water", he said. The Seine's water level will remain high for several days as grounds and lakes are saturated. A statue of a French soldier from the Crimean War - known as The Zouave - on the Pont de l'Alma has also always been used as a marker for water levels in the city. Navalny himself served three jail sentences of 15 days, 25 days and 20 days for organising unauthorised protests past year . The opposition leader urged Muscovites not to give up. "You are not going there for me, it's for you and your future". McMaster held a phone call on Friday in which McMaster confirmed the United States would no longer provide weapons to the YPG. Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said on Saturday that Ibrahim Kalin, spokesman for President Tayyip Erdogan , and U.S. Snapchat will enable people to share and view its content outside of its app, Snapchat's parent company Snap announced on Tuesday. Snapchat has been suffering from declines in certain metrics that indicate fewer members are using the app every day. Many on social media used good dose of sarcasm to attack the Hindu right-wing groups for protesting against Padmaavat . He was detained by the police Karni Sena members protested outside a cinema in Lucknow around the same time today. He said the US IT companies' "days are numbered", as their monopoly would eventually be cracked by tighter rules and tax regimes. To ensure peace, Soros called for China to be embedded in the institutions of global government over the next two decades. Some of the rivalry tweets held previous year between Reliance Jio and many others telecom service providers. 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Microsoft Excel can be used for a wide variety of different applications. However, some applications really require the use of a template in order to make sure that the user can keep track of everything, and that all of the formulas are inputted correctly. When it comes to using Microsoft Excel as a donation tracker for instance, it’s important that users know precisely what they’re doing in order to keep an accurate record. Using the Microsoft Excel Donation Tracker The way this donation tracker template works is fairly simple. Users simple fill in the name of the individual, and how much that individual donated to a given cause. Once the numbers are filled in, the template automatically adjusts the amount of money that’s been collected and shows a new total. So, as long as the list of donors and what they’ve given is correct, the Excel donation tracker template can keep a solid record of how much money is in the pool. It can even show how much money a donation drive still has to collect, if that particular function is programmed into the template. Free to All For those who want to have a donation tracker to help make their charity drives that much easier, it’s easy to acquire the template because you can get it for free on this page with a simple click of the mouse. Once you have downloaded the complimentary donation tracker template, it’s just a simple matter of filling it in and making sure that all of the money is accounted for from the beginning of a charity drive all the way to the end. Always Save as a New File In order to preserve the original template, it’s important for any changes made to be saved under a new and different file name. Just clicking the save button will over-write the template and make it necessary for a user to download a new template for any and all future endeavors. While users can opt to do that if they want, it is an extremely time consuming and ultimately unnecessary process. Download: Donation Tracker - Tax-Deductible Donation Tracker - Charitable Donation Tracker - Telephone Conversation Tracker - Pie Chart Template - Excel Income Statement Template View this offer while you wait!
Saturday, June 22, 2013 The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall - Mary Downing Hahn Author: Mary Downing Hahn Publisher: Sandpiper (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), 2010 (Paperback) Length: 153 pages Genre: Children's Horror Started: June 21, 2013 Finished: June 22, 2013 From the back cover: When twelve-year-old Florence boards the horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to her new life at Crutchfield Hall, her great-uncle's manor house in the English countryside. Anything will be better, Florence thinks, than the grim London orphanage she has just left. Florence doesn't reckon with the eerie presence the haunts the cavernous rooms and dimly lit hallways of Crutchfield. It's the ghost of her cousin Sophia, who died the year before. Sophia's ghost seeks to recreate the scene of her death and cause someone else to die in her place so that she will be restored to life. And she intends to force Florence to help her. It was book fair season recently at my schools and this was one of the books I picked up. It's short, so it's a very quick read; but a perfect scary story for middle-grade readers. In 19th century England, orphaned Florence is sent to Crutchfield after being tracked down by a long-lost relative. Things are unsettling from the beginning: being mistaken for her dead cousin Sophia, immediately disliked by her aunt, being left to her own devices in a huge manor house (like Mary in The Secret Garden), and being creeped out by strange laughs she hears (like Jane in Jane Eyre). Once she encounters Sophia and her power to make people do her bidding, Florence becomes a player in Sophia's twisted game of revenge and retribution. The book is very short, so the plot moves very quickly, there's a lot of outright telling versus showing in terms of the writing style, and the characters aren't given enough 'screen time' to really develop; but since it is a middle grade novel I can forgive those things, especially since most kids will be so wrapped up in the ghost story aspect they won't be focusing on the other parts. The author evokes a lot of other classic stories here, from Jane Eyre to The Secret Garden, and older horror stories like The Turn of the Screw and those from Edgar Allen Poe. Granted, these references will go over most young readers' heads (unless they're amazingly well read), but adults and teachers will appreciate them. Wonderful quick read for kids that like scary stories. You might want to skip this if you've got sensitive readers though. Although Sophia's death itself is not particularly violent, the pure hatred for her brother is thinly veiled, and the plot to get James to die in her place is kinda twisted. Thoughts on the cover: I love it. A take on the classic Victorian portrait photo in an oval frame, but with shattered glass and with drops of blood is a great way to draw readers in.
Do you eat a healthy skin diet? If you struggle with acne, a dull complexion, or wrinkles, one of the best choices you can make is to eat more foods that are good for your skin. Put good things into your body and it will reflect on the outside as well! Work to incorporate these superfoods into your meals and snacks, and you’ll have yourself a healthy skin diet: #1 Dark Chocolate Why not mention the best one first? Yep, chocolate can be good for your skin—but make sure it’s dark chocolate, and no more than about an ounce a day (since it does still contain sugar). Dark chocolate is rich in antioxidants and flavanols that help improve circulation and keep your skin hydrated. If you’re going to eat nuts, choose walnuts. They are full of the omega-3 fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid, or ALA, which is great for your complexion. And don’t forget to include your daily dose of omega-3s from fish oil. Mimi’s Omegas gives you a triple strength dose (without the burps of the fishy aftertaste). Disclosure: Note that this website makes a small commission for purchases made through many of the links on the site. All products are carefully vetted for price and value for our customers. When you eat leafy greens like kale, you’re giving your skin all sorts of amazing benefits—including protection from sun damage and increased skin elasticity. And since greens are higher in water content than other foods, they are great for hydrating the skin too. Not only is oatmeal a great option for breakfast each morning (and overnight oats make a quick and easy grab-n-go meal), it’s also a healthy skin booster. Oats contain chemicals that can prevent skin cell damage. They also contain fiber that keeps you satisfied until lunch and prevents crazy blood sugar spikes that aren’t good for your skin. Put down that morning donut and make oatmeal instead! #5 Bell Peppers Colorful bell peppers add beautiful colors to your meals. They also help fight wrinkles and crow’s feet (according to a study in the British Journal of Nutrition)! Bell peppers are packed with antioxidants, which are warriors against free radicals that wreak havoc on skin and promote aging. Did you know eating certain foods can actually change the color of your skin? That’s carrots for you. A UK study from 2011 showed people who ate larger amounts of carrots and other fruit and vegetables that contain carotenoids had a more yellow skin tone. The yellow hue gives off a more glowing and healthy-looking complexion. Pumpkins aren’t just for jack-o-lanterns. Cook up some pumpkin (about a half cup) to give yourself a healthy dose of beta-carotene, which is converted to vitamin A in the body. Vitamin A is used for growing skin cells in the body, so it’s essential for skin that is softer and more free of wrinkles. #8 Sunflower Seeds About two tablespoons of sunflowers seeds will give you a healthy dose of vitamin E, which is often found to be deficient in people with severe acne. Vitamin E is also effective in helping the body better fight inflammation that can contribute to skin aging and acne. Beans are low on the glycemic index and also rich in biotin. That means that avoid rapid increases in blood sugar—which can help contribute to acne—and also help promote younger- and healthier-looking skin. People deficient in biotin may have dry skin, so get your daily serving (at least 1/2 cup of cooked beans) to make sure your complexion stays hydrated. Worried about wrinkles? Have some soy. A 2007 Japanese study in the “Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology” led to the conclusion that eating 40 mg of soy aglycones, a form of soy isoflavone, each day for 12 weeks gave 26 of the female volunteers (between the ages of late 30s to early 40s) better skin, including the decrease of wrinkles and fine lines. Aglycone can also help prevent the breakdown of collagen that causes lines and sagging. To get these benefits, you can eat three ounces of tempeh, six ounces of tofu, or one ounce of dry roasted soybeans each day. #11 Green Tea So far we’ve talked about foods that you chew, but green tea is a great healthy skin drink. Green tea can assist in reducing inflammation, boosting the immune system, and helping your skin make less sebum (reducing the chance of acne and breakouts). So switch out your coffee for green tea to help your skin glow. I saved this one for last, but it’s really the most important. Staying hydrated is crucial for your skin and overall health. Several skin structures that support collagen need water to work properly. It also helps plump up your skin, reducing the appearance of pores and wrinkles. So make sure you drink plenty of water throughout the day and eat plenty of fruits and vegetables since they contain high amounts of water. What you put into your body can have a large impact on how it looks on the outside. If you feed your body foods that contain the vitamins and minerals it needs, you have a better chance of keeping your skin healthy and achieving a glowing complexion. And don’t forget to supplement your healthy skin diet with a high quality organic fulvic acid supplement to ensure you’re getting all the nutrition you need.
It’s summer and time to do some recreational biking! As we eagerly anticipate the bridge to be built, connecting the last section of unfinished trail, it is still easy to travel this path for for 50 miles from Utah Lake north to the Great Salt Lake through Davis, Salt Lake and Utah Counties! On any given day, one can see individuals and families pedaling the Jordan Parkway Trail. How much do you know about this wonderful asset? There are resources to help you get started on this journey. Here are two: Jordan River Commission provides a digital guide, map and information on the river itself: Bike SLC provides maps also, but additional information on the master plan, municipalities along the trail, and more: Remember your helmet and water and sunblock before you set out – and have fun!
Developing Your Personal Power Remember when you put on the super hero cape or crown as a kid? Remember that feeling? You felt invincible, right… on top of the world? Well, we can tap into that feeling again by continuing to develop our personal power. I believe that we all are all born with unlimited personal power. Life bestows this gift upon us. As kids, we test it out in its purest form. Over time our personal power is shaped by cultural, social and parental influences around us. These create layers of structure and conditioning that teach us how to blend and fit in. We unconsciously follow what is ‘acceptable’ behavior for someone in that role being influenced by those who we perceive to have authority around us. Sometimes we play small, perhaps over-awed by the perceived power of others. We become de-sensitized and numb to our own personal power, falsely believing that others have higher value and worth. Your own personal power is ALWAYS available to you… You just have to choose to use it by becoming the power point in your life. Here are three ways to develop your Personal Power… Clarity – People with high levels of personal power are clear and focused on what is important. They know what they want to achieve and can describe it to others. They have clear goals and take deliberate action. Self-awareness – Most people struggle to allow their own voice to speak out. Finding your voice allows you to contribute, lead and make a difference. It is an evolving process: You don’t just wake up one morning and it’s lying next to you! You have to become a Student of YOU and go in search of it. There are untapped talents lying dormant inside all of us. Tap into your strengths: What are you good at? What do you enjoy doing? What are you passionate about? Build on your strengths by looking for opportunities to use them in your daily work. Share them with others: I have value…Here’s how I can help. Energy and Enthusiasm – Energy and enthusiasm are linked. They feed off each other and are key components of personal power. Successful, positive people have an abundance of energy. Enthusiasm is infectious: What are you infecting the people around you with?? My encouragement to you today: Start focusing on actions you can take to increase your personal power! It’s never too late to be great! To your success!
Believe it or not, you can actually make your back injury WORSE by doing the Lat Pull-Down the wrong way. If you’re looking for ways to improve the way you train and promote good health and healing to a bad back, the Lat Pull-Down is another exercise you need to dial in. This week’s video is for anyone who uses the Lat Pull-Down machine or enjoys working in pull-ups into their program. Whether you are a beginner or more advanced lifter, these issues need to be addressed. If you’re doing these wrong, the solution to your pain will always be two steps ahead of you. A few weeks ago we covered a few other popular back exercises when it comes to common mistakes a lot of back pain sufferers make. If you missed that article you can check it out here. Or just click the image below. Today, I want to cover the Lat Pull-Down, another super popular exercise that all beginner to advance “exercisers” like to do. Unfortunately, A lot of back pain suffers are told to “strengthen their backs” in order to get rid of their back pain. Not knowing any better, they run to their nearest gym and hop on one of the most well-known machines available. The Lat Pull-Down. It’s a pretty simple movement that just about anyone can mimic, even if they are not taught how to use the machine in the first place. The problem I have with this is that most back pain sufferers don’t realize that the way they are doing the exercise could be one of the major reasons they can’t kick their chronic pain. Remember, beating back pain is about promoting healthy movements, controlled loads in the gym and progressing only when you can accomplish the movement pain-free. Just because you are doing a back exercise doesn’t mean it’s going to help you combat your pain. Whether you use this exact machine at your gym, have a home gym set-up with bands or do bodyweight pull-ups. The concepts covered in this video are addressing the same faulty patterns. This week’s video is on fixing your broken Lat Pull-Down As you pursue a life that supports healing to your bad back. I encourage you to do a complete audit of your entire training program. We are told constantly by our doctors to just “exercise more”. The scary part about that is we are not given proper instruction on how to do these exercises the right way. Educate yourself and don’t rely on the person next to you at the gym to have a fat clue about what they are doing. You be the expert and take control of your pain! Help me spread the word and help more back pain sufferers like you and me! Share this with your friends if it helped you in any way! Thanks so much! Talk to you soon!
There it is. The topic that every great and small philosopher, poet, musician, pastor, priest, thinker, touches on and elaborates their point of view. It is such a grand topic because it is common among all cultures and people. It is something inherent to our very existence as humanity. But the question is how do we define love? Every person has different ideas about it. Of course many of these ideas overlap, but there is some shade of nuance that makes each person unique. Is love an emotion? A character quality? An action? A virtue? A vice? Something to be used? Something to be cherished? Something to be attained? Something to be given? The list goes on and on. The topic most often falls upon either romance, that is the intimate relationships between a man and a woman, or in Christian circles the love of God as manifest chiefly through Christ, but also through many different mediums as well. It would be very easy to continue and write an entire book on these things and many books have been written on the subject. But I'll just point out one thing that I think is relevant that God has begun to reveal and exhibit in my life. I have recently begun a romantic relationship with a young woman whom I am rapidly falling in love with. And in this sense I am talking about the emotions, attraction, hopes, dreams, etc. I feel towards this woman. But it didn't start out that way. In fact, I had very few emotions concerning her for quite some time except trepidation. But I made a choice. I think love is a choice. Yes, it is actions, the way we treat people, and even emotions. But before any of that can happen a person has to make a choice. The choice is whether to love or not. We make the choice every day when we decide to be kind to our enemies, or to snub the rude driver who just cut us off. I think how we act and how we feel are a result of that choice. So when I made that choice I knew that my actions would fall in line with that choice and the emotions that we so often attribute as love itself would come as well. I've learned that our idea of love can not be dependent on the emotions. Emotions can not be the basis for our love, but must be the natural result of our love. God chose to love us and as a result he sent His Son to be a substitute for our punishment in order to redeem us. It has radically changed all of our existences on a core level. And we are called to love like Christ loved. We need to make a choice, and I've made mine concerning Christ and concerning Brenda. What choice will you make? For His Glorious Name,
What is Sustainability? Sustainability is living with our local resources.… It means thinking of others.… It means thinking of the future.... It means thinking of the environment.... In fact, it means “thinking.” I will treat sustainability only as it regards water because our Arizona legislators set up a system that makes sustainability impossible in municipalities. When they passed the 1980 Groundwater Act, they grandfathered a 2.5 million acre foot deficit in groundwater pumping in central Arizona. They told the cotton growers, the alfalfa growers, and the mining companies (they are exempt from all pumping and transferring rules, “you just keep on doing what you are doing,” we can get Federal funds to import Colorado River water to the cities. No problem, that it has to be paid for by American taxpayers and repaid by Arizona taxpayers, many who will never receive any benefit. As a matter of fact, it will be detrimental to those living on the river to see it disappear. Many people living on the river, including several Native American nations, cannot use the river water. Just think, Yuma used to be a sea port. An Arizona Supreme Court Judge, Noel Fidel, has commented on the situation in the context of water litigation in 1999: So the billion dollar CAP system was meant for municipal use (although obtained under the guise of agriculture use), but it was widely known that the agriculture sector would not use it. In the 28 years since 1980, that 2.5 million acre foot deficit means 70 million acre feet of water—enough to water the present population and agriculture use of Tucson, using 300,000 acre feet for 233 years. Currently, non-agriculture usage in all AMA’s is just over some 785,000 acre feet per year, so that 70 million acre feet would have provided water for all Arizonans and industry for 89 years. Then, after giving the groundwater away (the Groundwater Code does state water is a public resource), the legislators told the cities that they had to have an “assured water supply.” So the model was set and mandated: “Import water, a ‘renewable’ supply from somewhere else to replenish the water use.” So to build a sustainable model on such criteria is simply impossible…. But that’s not all our enlightened legislators did for us. In 1995 the developers pressured them to subsidize development. The Groundwater Code stipulated that there had to be replenishment (not including agriculture or mining)—but the CAP pipeline was not available to replenish in many regions, it was crippling building in certain areas, especially those without water. So the legislator created the Groundwater Replenishment District and put it under the CAP authority to make it look legit. Because the truth is there were no CAP allocations left for the Groundwater Replenishment District to use. So now builders could build in south Pima County and replenish in north Pima County with an unknown supply of water—however, there would be excess CAP water for 20 years…. Never mind that the 100-year-water supply certificates that the State Water Agency issues, they do not include to the Replenishment District water. So Replenishment District are the ones who need to desalinate water in the Sea of Cortez with total disregard to what a desalinization plant will do to the sustainability of that region. There are successful desalinization projects around the world, but they are delivering the brine out to a deep ocean, not to a small enclosed bay. What will be the cost? The price tag of a state-of-the-art desalinization plant is now $1 billion dollars. That’s not including the processing and the pipes for delivery. The “Add water” persons spoke about space for water in the existing CAP pipeline, but they did not speak of the cost of the infrastructure to get the water to the CAP pipeline. Who will pay for the price? The new water users who come under the Groundwater Replenishment rules? No, all the water users in the water provider district will pay. In other words, all Tucson Water Company customers will pay for the high-priced water, and will affectively be subsidizing new growth—currently 20,000 units, although at this time since Tucson Water does not have capacity for all 144,000 acre feet of their allocation, they do not have to pay for GRD water. We already have the example of the big-spending fiasco at the Yuma desalinization plant. Taxpayers and water users have to be aware of how government agencies love big projects. The Federal project in Yuma cost over a billion dollar when the task could have been accomplished by buying up the agricultural operations for a few million that were dumping salty water into the Colorado, causing the need for a desalinization plant. So the first step of living within our means with the limitations imposed on us by importing CAP—would be to eliminate the Groundwater Replenishment District, which was created by and for the sake of new development. The second step would be to capture our stormwater. It was well known decades before the CAP project was begun that agriculture would not use the water: See Testimony from Don Hummel, Mayor of Tucson 1955-1962
HEATERS & BOILERS Prevention of scale buildup on heating elements, walls, and bottoms of hot water heaters is a must. According to the US Bureau of Standards, 114" of scale buildup on heating elements requires 55% more energy to attain the same temperature. This translates into real dollars wasted with an inefficient water heater, not to mention the added expense of repairing and replacing overworked water heaters due to scale buildup. HYDROBLEND will not only prevent scale buildup but also remove existing scale. Typically, dishwashers require chemical flushing to remove scale deposits that form inside the machine. This chemical flushing cannot rid the BOOSTER HEATER of unwanted deposits. Spotting associated with hard water will also be eliminated without the use of expensive water treatment. EQUIPMENT, COMBI‑OVENS, COFFEE MACHINES Food service equipment, especially those generating steam are constantly plagued with scale buildup reducing efficiency and life. Since HYDROBLEND is suitable in applications up to 200' F, hard water no longer threatens equipment. Prevents scale buildup on evaporator plates. Prevents bridging (ice frozen together) which is common in ice bins makes hard clear ice. Reduced energy costs, as bin stays full. Precipitated calcium carbonate forms a tenacious scale on R.O. membranes when softeners are not used prior to the membranes, resulting in loss of ability of water to pass through the membrane, and a subsequent reduction in performance. HYDROBLEND prevents calcium carbonate and silica fouling without the use of added, expensive, water softening equipment. By forming a microfilm coating inside pipes, HYDROBLEND protects plumbing from aggressive water. This prevents lead leaching from solder used to join copper pipes and protects these pipes from forming leaks due to corrosive water. When exposed to air, iron & manganese ions will oxidize and come out of solution leaving unsightly red‑brown stains. HYDROBLEND sequesters these ions keeping them from oxidizing and staining fixtures. Furthermore, it protects water softeners from iron fouling. There are many benefits to using in residential applications. It provides 11soft" water by sequestering hard minerals and protects plumbing, appliances, and fixtures from scale buildup. Also prevents iron & manganese staining. Provides corrosion control in aggressive water areas and is a natural post treatment for acid neutralizers. Misting systems used in either agricultural or temperature control applications are susceptible to scale buildup and clogging of the fine misting heads. This also applies to foggers and drip irrigation. This equipment is notorious for having scale problems. reduce this problem on the tower and clean the scale that has been allowed to build up thereby increasing the life of the cooling tower. The proven Solution. a unique composition blended to exhibit superior limescale (calcium carbonate) prevention and corrosion control. It is superior in the treatment of scaling caused by hard water minerals, plus controls staining caused by the precipitation of iron and manganese. HYDROBLEND utilizes the same principals of preventing scale build‑up and corrosion control as polyphosphates. However, this is accomplished without any of the problems which often plague the use of common polyphosphates. utilized as a solid block in cartridge form, exposing a predetermined amount of surface area, from which accurate dissolution rates can be predicted. The system feeds a controlled, consistent amount of HYDROBLEND into the water stream by way of a specially designed media delivery head (MDH), which diverts water into the cartridge sump, dissolving a predetermined amount of HYDROBLEND . This system allows accurate feed rates and predictable treatment volumes unlike standard polyphosphate treatments. The media delivery heads are designed to treat water flows from as low as .1 gpm to as high as 50 gpm. The most important advantage in using HYDROBLEND instead of standard polyphosphates is that unlike polyphosphates, HYDROBLEND is not affected by high temperatures, retaining its full ability to alter the morphology (shape) of scale causing minerals. This provides the greatest amount of scale prevention available. Moreover, HYDROBLEND will remove existing scale once formed in pipes and water fed equipment, plus provide corrosion control in high temperature equipment. When compared to the cost of standard water softening equipment, HYDROBLEND provides effective corrosion control (which softeners aggravate) and scale prevention, at a fraction of the cost and maintenance. Since the HYDROBLEND systems work on water volume, not time, there is no waste with its use. When it has dissolved, you simply replace it. A simple glance at the clear or translucent housing lets one know when replacement is needed. HYDROBLEND systems require no electricity, maintenance, or guess work.
Shiwa Ng'andua Rural Development Project The aims of SNDRP are to improve the basic standard of living of the residents of the Shiwa Ng'andu rural community through improved education, communication, health care, and nutrition. We also aim to improve farming methods and diversification, address water and sanitation issues with an emphasis on environment and health. TO MAKE A DONATION CLICK HERE 1. Promoting women and children's health through encouraging women to deliver at the hospital. This helps reduce unnecessary maternal and child death and illness, which unfortunately occurs more frequently with at home village births. Mothers are now encouraged to deliver in the hospital and are provided with a baby packet when they do. Since this program has started babies born in the hospital has increased from 2 per month to 12 per month in 4 years time. 2. The clinic services 11 satellite stations in the region and registered members have increased from 7,000 to 12,000 in the past 7 years. SNRDP sponsors Child health weeks which deal with growth monitoring and immunizations at all the satellite stations. More than 2,000 children are seen during these weeks. 3. The Chinsali Ministry of Health comes every 6 months to do free HIV testing and counseling. Have received donations in the past which allowed for 4 HIV workshops to be put on. Would like to continue this practice to keep awareness alive in this area. 4. The SNRDP also purchases medications and supplies for the clinic. The Ministry of Health stores are currently empty and more often than not do not have what the clinic needs so it has fallen to SNRDP to help provide important medications and supplies for the clinic to help prevent any serious health crises. 5. Mpika District Hospital Physiotherapy Department Building of New Clinic The Shiwa Ng'andu Rural Development Project (SNRDP) has been a registered charitable organization in Zambia since October 2004. Donate to the Shiwa Ng'andua Rural Development Project. Make checks payable to "Philanthropic Ventures Foundation " and note on the "memo" line on the check - "SNRDP Fund." Mail donations to: Generosity in Action c/o Philanthropic Ventures Foundation 1222 Preservation Park Way Oakland, CA 94612-1201 You can make a donation to the Shiwa Ng'andua Rural Development Project via the internet once at PVF/Donate page, locate the section "Designated Funds" - click the button for "Generosity in Action" - and specifiy "SNRDP Fund" in the text box. There is a 3% administrative fee for internet transactions \|Return to Home Page\|
Med-e-Tel is an event of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH), THE international federation of national associations who represent their country’s Telemedicine and eHealth stakeholders. AFRICA BUILD will present a Skills Building Workshop on April 9th at Luxembourg. The skills building workshop will show all potentialities and experiences gained through the AFRICA BUILD Portal (ABP), from the ICT profile to the benefitting educational role to health researchers and other health care professionals and biomedical informatics developers, deployed in resource-limited and/or North countries, with the following schedule: - A general overview of project - Technical discussion: - Introduction technical aspects and architecture of ABP; - Specific experiences illustrated with technical cases and practical aspects; - DUDAL webcasting: technical issues; - Interactive discussion. - Closing – looking at the next steps for development of the ABP, and lessons learnt from the uptake of the ABP and courses by health researchers. More information at: Med-e-Tel.
Artists: you can use your skills without the pesky burden of creativity. Today, August 2, is National Coloring Book Day! Sometimes it’s a relief to color inside the lines. Anyone who follows the bestseller list or keeps up with the latest trends knows that adult coloring books have been a craze for a while now. There are adult coloring books for Catholics, for Buddhists, and for gun enthusiasts. There is the “Have a Nice Life Asshole: Breakup Stress Reliever Adult Coloring Book,” a coloring book on the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the NSFW “Sweary” coloring book, the very NSFW coloring book depicting sexual positions, and an upcoming coloring book based on “Games of Thrones.” In an article about the phenomena, CNN.com reports that, “Just like meditation, coloring also allows us to switch off our brains from other thoughts and focus only on the moment, helping to alleviate free-floating anxiety.” Self.com created its own fitness-themed coloring book, adding, “Studies have shown that coloring can help reduce anxiety, and the calming, therapeutic-like hobby creates an outlet for creativity, without requiring you to actually be artistic.” Voilà! To celebrate the day, there are a number of events taking place throughout the state. To find one near you, go here.
Just five years ago, in the tiny region of Ormansag, Hungary, bordering Croatia, Tamas Lantos used his background in agricultural engineering and sociology and his love for the land to found the Ormansag Foundation. A non-governmental organization, the Foundation promotes sustainable development projects in the area involving local populations at all stages of planning and implementation. Today, as the Foundation's President, Lantos leads six permanent staff and a team of volunteers in projects concerning organic farming, water resource protection and the preservation of the area's natural and cultural heritage. Through the Organic Agriculture Reference Programme, the Foundation operates a school farm and provides training and equipment to local farmers. This project helps local farms compete in the marketplace using conventional methods. The Foundation is also introducing pollution prevention technologies and setting up a transborder nature park along the banks of the Drava River which will encompass 46 villages scattered between pastures and wetlands. To encourage the preservation of Ormansag's cultural heritage, Lantos has directed the Foundation in its work with the local Gypsy population to enlist their support in sustainable development. Projects have included courses in traditional Gypsy crafts and organic gardening as well as cultural exchanges with Gypsy populations living abroad. In 1993 the Foundation was awarded the Hungarian Prize for Regional Action. Ormansag Foundation, Arany Janos u. 4, 7967 Dravafok, Hungary; Tel./fax 011-36-73-352 333. Unpaid gardening work in orchard, herb garden, etc. at sustainable farm. Also coordinates volunteers for neighboring farms. Free accommodations. Minimum stay 1 week.
A Yale-led ubiquitous organisation of researchers took a initial step in identifying genetic factors in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). According to Dr. Thomas Fernandez, Assistant Professor in a Yale Child Study Center and Department of Psychiatry who led a team, really small investigate has been finished into a genetics of OCD. The treatments have altered small in a past dual or 3 decades, even as treatments for other determined mental and behavioral diagnoses have multiplied. “We motionless to follow one process that valid cultivatable in autism genetic research, namely, looking during de novo mutations,” he said. De novo extemporaneous mutations that are not hereditary from parents. Partnering with Euripedes C. Miguel and a psychiatrists during a Institute of Psychiatry in Sao Paulo, Brazil, they identified 20 families where a relatives have no symptoms, and a children are diagnosed with OCD. These families are renouned for genetic research, since it is expected that a children have new mutations of genes closely concerned in OCD. The 1.5% of a genome that codes for genes, called a exome, of a relatives and children was compared to a ubiquitous race to see if there was a disproportion in a rate of de novo mutations. The initial doubt to answer, pronounced Fernandez, is “are there some-more de novo mutations in a OCD race than in a ubiquitous population?” If a answer is yes, it sets a theatre for endless sequencing. The commander organisation of OCD subjects showed a significantly aloft rate of de novo mutations, providing a motive for incomparable sequencing efforts. “Currently we are sequencing 200 families,” says Fernandez. The incomparable representation will concede for investigate of patterns among a mutations, such as networks of genes with common biological functions. Further investigate also analyzes a incomparable suit of a genome, including regulatory functions, that were left out of a pilot. Source: Yale University
Today's First Reading [2 Kgs. 5:14-17] from the Second Book of Kings spoke of the healing of Naaman, a foreigner in the land of Israel. Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favour with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy." [2 Kgs. 5:1] On one of their raid in the land of Israel, the Arameans had taken a young girl captive. [2 Kgs. 5:2] This young girl served Naaman's wife. She told her mistress that if Naaman was with the prophet who is in Samaria, he would be cured of his leprosy. [2 Kgs. 5:3] Hearing of this, Naaman repeated this comment to the king of Aram. Consequently, the king of Aram told Naaman to go and that he would provide him with a letter to the king of Israel. Naaman left, taking with him a number of gifts to present to the king of Israel. [2 Kgs. 5:3-5] When the king of Israel read the letter, he got very upset and tore his clothes. The letter said, "I have sent to you my servant Naaman, that you may cure him of his leprosy." [2 Kgs, 5:6] Somehow, the king of Aram believed that the king of Israel was a god. This greatly offended the king of Israel. Not understanding the true purpose for the letter, the king of Israel believed that the king of Aram was trying to pick a quarrel with him. In the meantime, Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes. He sent a message to the king, asking him to let Naaman come to him so that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel. [2 Kgs. 5:8] Taking his horses and chariots, Naaman went to Elisha. After he had halted at the entrance of Elisha's house, Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean." [2 Kgs. 5:9-10] What followed was most interesting! How Elisha had decided to proceed with the healing did not please Naaman at all. Naaman expected Elisha to come out of his house, to stand before him, to call on the name of the Lord God, to wave his hand over the spot of the leprosy and he would suddenly be healed. [2 Kgs. 5:11] From the tone of Naaman's voice, it was obvious that he believed things should have gone according to his way because of his greatness. He was a very proud man! Over and above this, he resented being told to wash in the Jordan river when in his opinion, the Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, were better than all the waters of Israel. He questioned why he could not have washed himself in those rivers. Naaman turned and went away in a rage. [2 Kgs. 5:12] After awhile, some of the servants approached Naaman and asked him, "If the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it?" [2 Kgs. 5:13] Therefore why not obey what Elisha asked of you that is so simple, to wash and be clean? And "so Naaman went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean." [2 Kgs. 5:14] Naaman was made well by his faith in the Word of God that was spoken through the great prophet Elisha. Following this, Naaman returned to Elisha, acknowledging that there is no greater God on earth except in Israel. And then he offered Elisha a present in thanksgiving but Elisha would not accept anything. Consequently, Naaman asked permission to take two mule loads of soil from the land of Israel so he could take it back to Damascus and build an altar on it to worship in his city the true God. Having been touched by the grace of God, Naaman promised that he would never again make burnt offerings or sacrifices to any other gods except the true God of Israel. From this reading, there are a few lessons to be learned. These are: (1) When praying to God for a favour, we do not dictate to God how He should answer our prayers. For God knows what is best for the spiritual growth and personal sanctification of each and everyone of us. In God, we trust. (2) In our personal daily relationship with God, there is no room for pride in obedience. Before Naaman could be healed, he had to humble himself. "For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted." [Lk. 14:14] When Naaman humbled himself, the glory of God was manifested through him. (3) When Elisha refused to accept any gifts from Naaman in thanksgiving, he was practicing what the Lord Jesus preached eight centuries later. "Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment." [Mt. 10:8] Today's Second Reading from the Second Letter of Paul to Timothy begins by saying, "Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David." [2 Tim. 2:8] The reason as to why St. Paul said that Jesus was a descendant of David, it was to emphasize the Messianic Kingship of Christ. [Rom. 1:3] Paul continued by saying, ".. I suffer hardship, even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained." [2 Tim. 2:9] Through these words, Paul was telling those who would read his letter that although he is a prisoner, he can still preach the Word of God. The Good News can be delivered within the prison and to those outside from within the prison. Not only has Paul's suffering encouraged him even more to persevere in preaching the Word of God, it has also motivated others to also do so. We read of this is the Letter of Paul to the Philippians. "I want you to know, beloved, that what has happened to me has actually helped to spread the Gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to everyone else that my imprisonment is for Christ; and most of the brothers and sisters, having been made confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, dare to speak the word with greater boldness and without fear." [Phil 1:12- 14] Because of this marvellous end result, St. Paul was even more determined to persevere for the sake of those who have been called and who have answered their calling from God, so that they may also persevere to the end and obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. [2 Tim. 2:10] Not only was the sufferings of Paul of value to those who had already become Christians, it was also of value to those who had not yet converted. [Col. 1:24; 2 Cor. 1:5-6] Today's Second Reading concluded by saying, "The saying is sure: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful - for he cannot deny himself." [2 Tim. 2:11-13] This statement of Paul is a paraphrase of the Words of Jesus that are found in the Gospel of Matthew. "Everyone therefore who acknowledges Me before others, I also will acknowledge before My Father in Heaven; but whoever denies Me before others, I also will deny before My Father in Heaven." [Mt. 10:32-3] In this part of his letter to Timothy, St. Paul was reminding the Christians that following the receiving of the Sacrament of Baptism, part of the Christian life experience includes physical sufferings and the dangers that are associated with spreading the Word of God. [1 Cor. 15:31; 2 Cor. 4:8-11] Having died with Christ, our lives are hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life is revealed, then we also will be revealed with Him in glory. Therefore, we are called to put to death whatever is earthly in us, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry. [Col. 3:3-5] Like Paul, we must want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the sharing of His sufferings by becoming like Jesus in His death. [Phil. 3:10] In the end, it shall be seen that what is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body." [1 Cor. 15:42-44]. Our perseverance in the living faith, in whatever the Lord God permits to come our way for our sanctification, will be our assurance of salvation. Our perseverance is one of the many ways of saying thanks to God for what He has given us. Because we believed, we obey Jesus. Because we obey Jesus in complete submission, we endure the trials that cross our daily path. Because we endure, in the end, our faith shall make us well." [Lk. 17:19] During today's reading from Chapter 17 of the Gospel of Luke, [Lk. 17:11-19] we heard that Jesus healed ten lepers, nine being Jewish, the tenth being a Samaritan. It is interesting to note here that while the Jewish people normally did not mix with the Samaritans, misery so loves company that this group of lepers consisted of both Jews and a Samaritan. As we heard, out of those ten, the one who was a foreigner, was the only one who returned and thanked Jesus. Only ten percent of those who were healed showed gratitude. How offended the Lord Jesus must have been! As a general rule, when a Jewish leper was healed, he had to go to the local priest to confirm that he was now clean and permitted to mix among the general public. For the Samaritan, more was demanded. Most likely, he had to go to his own priest near Mount Gerizim. This demand of Jesus required a greater act of obedience because of the travelling involved. While the demand was greater upon the Samaritan, he was the only one to show gratitude for the gift of healing that he received. Today's readings provide us with an opportunity to reflect upon our own disposition during prayer. Do we beg God for a special favour but forget to show gratitude by giving thanks when our favour is obtained? Do we persevere in our prayers as Paul persevered in his sufferings? If praying while in a state of mortal sin and told by the priest to go and clean ourselves through the Sacrament of Confession so our prayer will be pleasing to the eyes of God, do we grumble, hesitate or even hardened our hearts? Today's readings provide us with answers as to why some prayers are not answered. They teach us that we are healed when we show gratitude to God for the abundance of blessings that He has bestowed upon us from the moment that we were created. This week, let us reflect upon the richness of the Word of God that we have heard today. Let us ask the Holy Spirit to always remind us to be most grateful to the Lord Jesus for His love, His grace, His mercy and His salvation. Let us all support one another to ensure that each and everyone of us will persevere until the end. Then we will hear the Words of Jesus in our hearts, "Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well." [Lk. 17:19]
\|Golden rice. Photo Creative Commons\| In Greiner's experience, "rice-consuming populations were extremely picky about their rice and unwilling to accept even the tiniest changes in its appearance, taste or smell". There's a good reason for this. Several of the common fungi produce toxins, and some of these can produce a wide range of symptoms similar to 'beriberi', a serious and sometimes fatal condition caused by vitamin B1 deficiency. These toxins turn the rice yellow. Rice-eating populations know not to eat yellow rice. Failure to be picky about their rice could kill them. How easy will it be to sell these people the idea that the high-tech yellow GM rice called 'golden rice' is good for them? In a typically low-income, low-schooled population, how easy will it be to educate them to distinguish safely between stored GM rice which is yellow because it generates carotene (vitamin A precursor) and stored non-GM or GM rice which is yellow because it's toxic? Two decades ago, as a communication NGO for the Worldview International Foundation, Prof. Greiner worked with 10 million people in Bangladesh, convincing them to grow and eat high-carotene foods. Operating, for example, through a network of women recruited from the villages, through schools, and through the provision of seeds and gardening advice, the project promoted the growing of 15 vitamin A-rich and oil-containing plants for smallholders and the landless. This was along with nutrition education aimed at children and the women who feed them. A subsequent large-scale evaluation of their success concluded the project had worked. It cost $0.15 per person and had the added benefit of supplying other important nutrients in the fresh vegetables. About the same time as the evaluation was published, the development of GM golden rice got underway, ostensibly to solve the problem of vitamin A deficiency in developing countries. The GM industry had soon spent over $50 million promoting golden rice. They did this "well before the technology was completely worked out, let alone tested. Let alone consumer acceptability tested. Let alone subjecting it to standard phase 2 and 3 trials to see if it could ever solve problems in the real world". Convincing people that yellow-hued rice is safe to eat may never happen, but if it does it will require a huge investment to overcome consumer resistance. As Prof. Greiner points out, at 15 cents a head, all this PR cash injection could achieve a great deal more in terms of human health if it were devoted to convincing people to add low-cost plant foods to their diets. Interestingly, several organisations including the Worldview International Foundation have been working on another simple, low-tech, remedy for child-hood vitamin A deficiency. Breast milk and, in particular, the colostrum produced during the first few days after birth, provides all the vitamin A a baby requires, generating long-term benefits for eye health. The problem has been to overcome cultural barriers to early breast-feeding, and to promote the continuance of breast-feeding up to age two years. Targeting the most vulnerable people with a sustainable supply of natural, fresh, varied, high vitamin A foods plus the oil-rich foods needed to absorb the vitamin A has been proven possible, effective and cheap. Ultra Rice has been improving health in multiple countries since 2005, but although the first golden rice trials were underway in 2004, the high-tech crop has yet to leave the starting gate. It's obvious that the multiple micronutrients in Ultra Rice or in home-grown veg are what's needed to improve health in impoverished rice-eating areas. Why then has so much money, time and scientific expertise been thrown year-after-year at a single-nutrient fortified GM crop? Proof, if you ever needed it, that GM golden rice has no altruistic agenda whatsoever, and was never anything more than a PR stunt for GM foods whose creators knew from the word go wouldn't be popular, even without the added hurdle of a funny colour indicative of toxic mould. Just remember this next time golden rice is trotted out of the PR cupboard for its annual blame-the-greens stunt . THE REALGOLDEN RICE STORY - August 2016 First made generally available in 2005, the fortified grains produced using Ultra Rice technology are made with rice flour and micronutrients - including iron, thiamin, zinc, vitamin A, folic acid and other B vitamins - that can be varied to match local dietary needs. This mixture is extruded through pasta-making equipment and formed into the shape of rice grains. Nutritional integrity is preserved throughout transport, storage, washing, rinsing and cooking. Ultra Rice grains can usually be manufactured locally, and are blended with traditional rice (typically at a ratio of 1:100), so that the meal is nearly identical to the conventional diet in preparation, appearance, aroma, taste and texture. The market for Ultra Rice has been expanded to India, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Mali, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Funding for the Ultra Rice Project came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the US Department of Agriculture, and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. - Ted Greiner, Don't eat the yellow rice: The danger of deploying vitamin A golden rice, Independent Science News, 11.07.16 - Addressing hidden hunger - rice fortification adds needed nutrients to a staple food, www.path.org/projects/ultra_rice.php - Ultra Rice, Wikipedia - C. A. R. Rosa, et al., 2009, Production of citreoviridin by Penicilium citreonigrum strains associated with rice consumption and beriberi cases in the Maranhâo State, Brazil, Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A - Ted Greiner and S. NM. Mitra, 1995, Evaluation of the impact of a food-based approach to solving vitamin A deficiency in Bangladesh, Food and Nutrition Bulletin 16:3 The United Nations University
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FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- Residents of Fairfield County breathe easier knowing that Connecticut ranks as on of the best states in the country for disease outbreak prevention, according to the Hartford Business Journal . States were ranked on a scale of 2 through 8, with 8 as the healthiest. Only New Hampshire secured an 8 rating. Connecticut was rated a 7 out of 8 along with New York, Delaware, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington, according to the Hartford Business Journal. The study ranked the states on a range of criteria from public funding to HIV screening. The Nutmeg State was docked points for not requiring HPV vaccinations and for not vaccinating half of the population for the flu, the Hartford Business Journal said. Click here to sign up for Daily Voice's free daily emails and news alerts.
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Alternate Headline: Dear Gabby Giffords… Far left wing, anti-gun website says 6,000+ women are killed each year with guns (take that number with a grain of salt) Every year mammograms diagnose more than 1,000,000 women in this country with an abnormality that would never become life threatening… often leading them to being treated with radiation and possibly treated with tamoxifen, a drug that increases risk of uterine cancer. And I quote… This means that my chances of being harmed by a mammogram are far greater than my likelihood of being helped. Mammograms also lead to a 54% higher likelihood of women getting breast cancer. 40,000 women die of breast cancer each year. If only 16% of those are women who had breast cancer from the increased risk posed by mammograms then its safe to say that mammograms pose a bigger threat to the lives of women than guns.
The Autism and Law Enforcement Education CoalitionThe ALEC program provides training to First Responders so that they are able to recognize situations involving children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The ALEC program began in 2003 as a collaborative effort of the South Norfolk County Arc Family Autism Center and the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office. ALEC training helps foster a deeper understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorders among public safety and law enforcement personnel. Training is available for Police Officers, Firefighters, EMTs, Paramedics and Hospital Emergency Room Personnel, using curriculum and videos specific to each group. Presenters are First Responders with direct knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorders through a family member. Because of this personal knowledge, in addition to their specific professional background, they are able to answer questions on a wide range of possible situations. The goal of ALEC training is to provide additional tools for First Responders to use in assessing the risk of a situation. ASD is now believed to occur in one out of every 110 births. It touches nearly everyone’s life at some point. Make certain that you and your organization have the knowledge that you need to protect and communicate with people with ASD. To find out more about ALEC, contact Bill Cannata at BCANNATA@SNCARC.ORG. Bill is a Captain in the Westwood MA Fire Department and is the Statewide ALEC Coordinator. The ALEC Project is supported in part with funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Autism Spectrum Division. Click here to get a copy of the ALEC brochure From my DDS caseworker!! Yaaaay for change. If we have to suffer hardship, this is what we hope to see due to it. Thank you all for your action!! You are Guru V!
Hampton University has been awarded a $74,055 grant from the Election Assistance Commission’s (EAC) 2009 Help America Vote College Program. Through the grant, HU will recruit the next generation of poll workers, training students to work the polls for the 2009 and 2010 elections. Through the grant, HU will educate student poll workers through a curriculum on democracy and election processes. The university will also host mock elections to prepare student recruits on their upcoming duties. Students from Thomas Nelson Community College will also be recruited. Of the 71 programs that applied for monies, the EAC awarded a total of $749,000 to 11 colleges and universities and two non-profit organizations, including HU. Individual amounts ranged from $20,000-$75,000. Poll workers play a critical role in the election process – responsible for the set up of polling place materials and equipment, checking voters’ registration, and demonstrating how to use voting systems. The program seeks to ease the shortage of poll workers, a problem in the 2004 election, where 5.8 percent of polling places and four percent of precincts reported having too few poll workers, according to the 2004 EAC Election Day Survey. “We are excited about the college poll worker program because too many young people are disengaged from the political process,” said Dr. Mamie Locke, dean of the School of Liberal Arts and professor of political science. “By serving as a poll worker students can be a part of democracy at work and witness directly the importance of voting in the process.” The EAC was created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and the College Program grants are authorized by this act.
The HeartGlow Challenge: Wear White for Peace We, at the HeartGlow Center, strive to make our world a better place through our dedication to conscious living. We promote love, unity, diversity, holistic wellness, understanding, and peace. We celebrate family, friends, animals, freedom of expression and our environment…we celebrate life. At this time of great unrest in our world, we ask you to make a COMMITMENT TO PEACE AND LOVE by simply wearing an article of WHITE clothing or an accessory. Show others you are a beacon of Light, love, and positivity and that fear does not rule your heart. You may choose a white scarf, coat, or even a white manicure. You may wear it head-to-toe or a tiny pin. Do what you are called to do. By making a choice to wear white you are setting a strong intention to raise our collective consciousness into the highest vibration of love. It is a simple gesture that doesn’t cost a cent. Wear White for Peace. The HeartGlow Challenge: Wear White, tell your friends why and post a picture of yourself on social networking channels. Use hashtags #wearwhiteforpeace and #heartglowchallenge Let’s spread the Love and Light worldwide. Deb Snyder, PhD & Rev. Mark D. Storck Founding Directors of The HeartGlow Center
Scientists have discovered the earliest known Hebrew writing — an inscription dating from the 10th century B.C., during the period of King David's reign. The breakthrough could mean that portions of the Bible were written centuries earlier than previously thought. (The Bible's Old Testament is thought to have been first written down in an ancient form of Hebrew.) Until now, many scholars have held that the Hebrew Bible originated in the 6th century B.C., because Hebrew writing was thought to stretch back no further. But the newly deciphered Hebrew text is about four centuries older, scientists announced this month. "It indicates that the Kingdom of Israel already existed in the 10th century BCE and that at least some of the biblical texts were written hundreds of years before the dates presented in current research," said Gershon Galil, a professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, who deciphered the ancient text. BCE stands for "before common era," and is equivalent to B.C., or before Christ. The writing was discovered more than a year ago on a pottery shard dug up during excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, near Israel's Elah valley. The excavations were carried out by archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At first, scientists could not tell if the writing was Hebrew or some other local language.
Parent’s Guide to Talking about Elections with Young Children by Dr. Ginny Trierweiler, the Born 4 Brilliance Parent Coach It’s now 2 weeks to Election Day. Doesn’t it feel as though this Presidential campaign has been interminable and exhausting? Teachers have been sharing concerns about how the increase in coarse talk and addressed the level of stress and anxiety associated with this election in ways I’ve never seen them do before. And I heard a preacher recently telling parents to quit expressing their worries about all this so openly, saying “you’re scaring the children!” Some of my parent coaching clients have asked for a guide to talking about elections with young children so here are some guidelines. Scenario A: My young child hasn’t asked any questions—she’s only 2 years old! But, she looks wide-eyed and worried when we talk about the candidates while watching an ad or a debate on television. How should we talk about this with her? You have noticed that your toddler seems worried about this when you talk about it. One thing you can do is talk calmly about the worried feelings she is observing, and then reassure her. For a 2 year old, parents are practically all-powerful beings, so if the parents are afraid, maybe the world is about to end! You could say, “Your Daddy and I are talking about the upcoming Presidential election and we are a little worried about it. But it’s all going to be okay. Everyone is safe.” Scenario B: My young child has noticed all the talk about the presidential campaign and politics and has been asking questions. He’s too young to understand our system of government. How should we answer his questions? - What is “voting?” Voting is a way for a group to make decisions. You can share an example, such as “When we order pizza, we all vote on what toppings to have. We get the ones that most of us agree on.” That may be all he wants to know! - What is the President? The President is an important leader in our country who makes agreements with other countries and chooses people for government jobs. Personally, I would also say a little bit about how the President is not a monarch or dictator. There are other important groups that work with the President to lead our country, such as our Senators and Representatives and the judges on the Supreme Court. A young child won’t understand all of this but it may be worth stating anyway. When they hear it later in school, it will be familiar. - Can I vote? In our country, a person has to be 18 years old to vote; you can vote for President when you’re 18 years old. Scenario C: My children are 3, 5 and 7 and they have heard derogatory words about women and minorities that I don’t even want them to know about. I feel like I want to provide calm guidance to them, but it makes me so mad! What should I do? This is an opportunity for you to talk about values for how to treat other people. Talk about how people sometimes use mean and ugly words to hurt or try to control other people, and it’s not okay. It’s never okay to grab someone. It’s scary and upsetting. You don’t ever have to let anyone grab you and I never want to hear that you grabbed someone else. OR Calling names to hurt people is not okay. That’s not how we want to be talked to and that’s not how talk to people. We’re not that kind of people. We’re the kind of people who care about others and treat them with kindness and respect. Engage them in dialogue. It wouldn’t benefit anyone for your young child to parrot your choice for President and argue it with other young children on the playground. However, you can use “teachable moments” like these to help them develop critical thinking abilities that will help them make good decisions, including choosing the best leaders, when they grow up. Questions like these may be helpful: - If your child is talking about the election, you can ask them what they have noticed about it. Then, just listen. You can discover if they have some misconceptions that you can clear up and you can discover if they have some fears or worries that you can reassure them about. - When your child says they like something, ask them “What do you like about it?” Just wait and hear out their reasons. You can reflect it back, i.e. “You like Thomas the Train because he can do it.” It doesn’t matter what they say. You are helping them think through their reasons for liking something. I bet you can think of many life circumstances in which thinking through their reasons for liking something or someone could be beneficial for them. - Similarly, if your child says “I don’t like him (or her),” you can help by asking them to articulate their thoughts and feelings on the matter. “What don’t you like about him?” You can reflect it back, i.e. “You don’t like him because he seems mean. I think I can see what you’re talking about there. It is harder to like someone when they seem mean.” - Ask “What was your favorite part about this book (or the trip to the zoo today)?” You’re helping them articulate their thoughts, reactions and preferences. By accepting them, and not trying to make them think, react and like the same things you do, you’re also communicating that you value your young child as an individual with their own heart, mind and soul. And that is a precious gift indeed. What have you done to help your child understand what’s going on this election season?
When you first create a task, its early start and early finish dates are the same as the scheduled start and finish dates. As you link the task to predecessor and successor tasks and apply any date constraints, the early start and early finish dates are calculated as the earliest possible dates this task could start and finish if all predecessors and successors also start and finish on their respective early start and early finish dates. If there is a leveling delay on the task, this delay is also figured into the early start and finish dates. These calculations are based on a fixed duration. Add the Early Start field to a task view, along with the Early Finish, Late Start, and Late Finish fields, to analyze delays and find any available slack time in your schedule. Note You can quickly see these fields on Gant Chart view. Apply the Scheduling table, then insert other desired columns. Early finish date: The earliest date that a task could possibly finish, based on early finish dates of predecessor and successor tasks, other constraints.
6. Live browsing and editing: WYSIWYL™ HyperPublish takes full advantage of its hypertext orientated architecture in many productive ways. For example, the innovative WYSIWYL™ (what you see is what you link) dramatically increases speed in link browsing and management. Simply put, you can browse links while in the editor, without the need to switch to preview mode. Just double click any link or click the right mouse button over the link. You can place elaborate frame-to-frame links, show or close pop-up windows, and all through simple visual dialogs, without scripts or other complications. You can even check links with the link explorer (internal links are automatically checked). There are two main kinds of link. The first are normal links ("Insert >Link"), and then special links as detailed below. It is simply not practical to display all available options, as you will see below: You can easily link to internal pages within your hypertext, Internet addresses (such as http://...), other hypertext, and much more. You can even create new pages while linking. You can select a link destination even while browsing the preview! With special links Hyper Publish offers almost limitless links, to a different frame, a different browser window, to a popup, even with or without an “anchor” (i.e. a fixed point in the page). As above, available options are too numerous to list here. When creating a CD you can link to PDF, EXE, PowerPoint, AutoCAD, any kind of file... The special link insertion window. You can link to frames, windows, internal pages, internet addresses (such http://...), other hypertext, and more.
British Columbia Locals Help Teachers Win September 25, 2014 On Sept. 10, IBEW locals in British Columbia joined seven other unions in the province to loan $8 million (Canadian) interest-free to teachers who went on strike since last June. The strike was settled eight days later with teachers winning not just salary increases, but improvements in benefits and a $400 million fund to hire more specialist teachers to improve education in the province. Intervention from the leader of the Canadian Labour Congress helped bring about the settlement. “All unions, public sector or private sector needed to be concerned about the outcome of this strike,” says First District International Representative Laird Cronk, an officer of the B.C. Federation of Labour. The teachers’ victory will improve the quality of education and the province’s approach toward future collective bargaining. Cronk says teachers won contractual guarantees over a decade ago limiting class size. The limitations were supported by parents, especially those of students in special education classes, who recognized their children’s needs for personalized attention. Years ago, despite the contractual mandate, a Liberal government stripped class size from the collective bargaining agreement and the teachers appealed that action in the courts. The teachers won their court challenge in lower courts. But the province refused to reinstate class size protections and have appealed to Canada’s Supreme Court. “The teachers and province were not far off on wages or other issues,” says Cronk. “But the government wanted language that would negate a favorable ruling on class size by the Supreme Court.” The settlement provides for $105 million to resolve retroactive grievances related to the class size issue. The issue is left to be resolved in the courts. While a majority of citizens appeared to still be in support of the teachers before the settlement was announced, says Cronk, the longer the strike went on, the more union adversaries would have exploited growing impatience over the closure of schools. Parents rallied to support the teachers’ call for binding arbitration. The province refused and continued to attempt to marginalize the teachers by emphasizing its relationship with other public sector worker unions whose contracts have been resolved. That was an unfair comparison says Cronk because, in prior negotiations, the teachers took less in compensation than other public sector workers to win class-size and other protections. “The IBEW mostly represents private sector workers. That made it even more important to contribute to supporting the teachers and letting them know, “We’re with you,” says Cronk. A story in The Province reports that the strike’s “silver lining” was the growing activism of parents and students who wrote letters, showed up at meetings and became more aware of what it will take to improve education in British Columbia.
It turns out that food is one of the best stress relievers that you can cling when anxiety and stress strikes. Food is the most convenient way to release your stress since they are almost readily available. There will always be new bridges to cross everyday and getting stressed is part of it. We all know that tension can cause disorder on our eating patterns. But the right healthy foods can often help us lower overall anxiety and its symptoms. The lower my emotions become, the higher my appetite is. That has been my mantra for quite sometime now. However, not choosing the right food to treat your stress can result to unexpected weight gain that you would never want to happen. If you’re searching for healthy stress relievers, this list is going to help you a lot: Chocolates – High in flavonoids, known for their relaxing properties, chocolate contains phenethylamine, a chemical that enhances your mood. The darker the chocolate, the more healthy substances you’re getting in your diet. Go and look for bars that are 70 percent cacao or higher. Milk – A glass of warm milk really is calming. A study found that those who drink four or more servings of lowfat or skim milk every day will likely to experience lesser stress-related PMS symptoms than those who drink less than one serving a week. Carbo – Oatmeal, Rice or Pasta – Carbs help you produce serotonin, a calming hormone that helps fight anxiety’s negative effects. This is very obvious to many who crave them when we’re stressed. Sure I am on that list. Go with the craving and choose healthy sources. Oatmeal, rice or pasta are high in fiber. Your body will absorb it slowly. Omega 3 – Look for food rich in Omega 3. Definitely good for the heart. Research shows that omega-3fattyacids — abundant in fish like salmon — can help reverse stress symptoms by boosting serotonin levels. An omega-3–rich diet can also help suppress the production of the anxiety hormones cortisol and adrenaline. Nut Fruits – It has been shown to help lower blood pressure, which is essential for those whose hearts are already working through extra high levels of adrenaline. In fact, so strong research back to its benefits for U.S. health food And Drug Administration recommended until 1 / 2 oz per day. Mostly recommended nuts are walnuts, almonds, cashew & pistachio. Sunflower Seeds –A good source of folate, which helps your body produce a pleasure-inducing brain chemical called dopamine. For Filipinos, a great substitute would be pakwan seeds. Go Green – Studies show that magnesium, which you’ll find in leafy greens like spinach, improves your body’s response to stress. Eating vegetables reduces chronic stress, boosts vitamin C levels in blood. Berries – Their antioxidants counteract the effects of stress hormones like cortisol on your body. One of the most important health attributes of berries is that it is high in anthocyanins known for its antioxidant capacity. Blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, etc. are highly protective to your brain. Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. Release it. In everything you do that seems to stress you, try slowing down for fast-acting relief. Always find time to break free, let loose and live a healthy lifestyle. When stress knocks you off, find the best stress relievers, get up and fight!
Bernie Madoff’s reputation as the largest ponzi scheme operator will probably outlast the 150-year jail sentence he is now serving. For decades, the man created an aura around himself that spoke to the romantic ambitions of Wall Street's sycophants: unyielding success, exclusivity and power. Moreover, Madoff conjured a mystique so intriguing he had investors practically begging to surrender their money. But not everyone was blinded. Harry Markopolos, a financial consultant turned famous whistleblower, was convinced that the magician hath no magical abilities. For close to ten years, he nudged US regulators to no avail. His journey is detailed in the book, No One Would Listen. Accounting \| Business \| Finance and Financial Management Copyright Owner and Holder Copyright © Singapore Management University 2012 Finance and Accounting Secrets and lies: How one man charmed his way into the hearts, minds and wallets of New York's rich and powerful. (2010). Knowledge@SMU. Available at: http://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/75
The most common question we are asked about our travels is: “How do you afford to travel so much?”. Our usual response is that we don’t travel nearly as much as we’d like to… More seriously, here are some tips on how you too can travel cheaply for long periods of time. Sleep For Free or Cheap Most people think Hawaii is expensive, but our two week trip to the Big Island was one of our cheapest yet. We spent a total of $20 on our accommodations. How so? Well, we spent most of the nights camping for free at county campgrounds or on deserted beaches, and a few nights with hosts from Couchsurfing and Warm Showers. Accommodation can be expensive, or it can be cheap or even free, and you have a lot of control over this. Ask your friends, perhaps they know someone who could host you. If this doesn’t work, consider Couchsurfing: every year, millions of Couchsurfers all over the world stay at another person’s home, most often a stranger, exchanging no money whatsoever. House sitting is another way of way of sleeping for free while travelling, and some people have even made it into a way of life, as well as house swapping, which doesn’t even have to be simultaneous (especially useful if you happen to have another home). If you are cycling, check out Warm Showers, a network of individuals who host travelling cyclists. Camping for free is possible almost anywhere, outside of urban areas – if you are near a town or houses, just ask a local to camp on their land, they will seldom say no. Otherwise just stay low (“guerilla camping”). In some countries, camping on public land is allowed and free (including National Forests in the US) or even all land (in Scandinavia). Finally, be creative and try to engage people and make friendships. You might just be invited into someone’s home and have the most memorable experience of your trip. Eat Like the Locals I love eating at “local institutions”, the kinds of places that people return to again and again and will even travel to especially. In Israel, many hummus places have attained this status, such as Abu Hasan in Jaffa, the arab quarter of Tel Aviv, serving steaming plates of Masabaha (a type of hummus) to an almost always present line-up. Instead of eating at touristy restaurants, look around you and observe where the non-rich locals are eating. If you choose a busy restaurant, it is more likely to be a good, authentic and clean place to eat. Eating on the street is a time honoured tradition in much of the world, and it is often tasty, fresh, clean and cheap. I’ve tried following guidebooks to find good restaurants, but this usually fails miserably – invariably, the restaurant has moved, is touristy or just has bad food. A better way is to ask a few locals, being careful about how you pose the question so that they don’t send you to the local tourist trap or to a junk food joint. Slow Down – Stay Longer in Each Place A colleague returned from a trip to Europe. I asked her how it was, and she said she’s tired, and could really use a “vacation after the vacation”. You know how some people “do Europe” in 10 days travelling to a new country every day? It’s tiring, expensive, and you get to spend much of your time on trains, airplanes or buses. Being in a hurry leads to higher costs for transportation, accommodation, attractions and food, since staying in one spot for longer, you learn to find the best cheap eats, and don’t have to visit all the attractions in one day. Staying in one place for longer periods of time will allow you to get a more in-depth view of the place and its people. After a few days in one place, you might start developing habits, such as visiting the bakery or outdoor market daily, and the streets will become familiar, lending a place a sense of home. Flights are often the most expensive part of a trip. By travelling longer, this expense is spread out over a longer time period. Going long also allows you to get into the groove of the trip, focusing just on the trip itself and living in the present, as opposed to the things you will have to do immediately after the trip. Travelling for a longer period of time also forces us to think about our expenses in a different way – you are less likely to splurge daily if you travel for a few months than if you travel for a week or two, simply because you know it would be difficult to afford it. Travel Off the Beaten Track When reading a travel guidebook such as the Lonely Planet, I often look for the sections that are the shortest, or for words such as “remote”, “little visited” and “out of the way”. Travelling to less popular areas, towns or countries has many benefits – they tend to be less affected by tourism, and can be much cheaper. More importantly, they allow the traveller to feel “special”, as if they are discovering a new place. This sense of discovery can be hard to find when you are surrounded by fellow travellers. Consider choosing your destination or vacation period based on which locations are less touristy or cheaper to fly to. Look for a deal on flights, try to travel during the low season in your destination, and try to avoid travelling during holidays. You might end up going somewhere that you hadn’t thought of going, but that’s part of the adventure. Do Less Sightseeing Sightseeing can be expensive, but it’s not necessarily the best way to experience a place or have a good time – there are plenty of free or cheap things you could do instead. Strolling through a town, sitting on a bench and people-watching are great free ways to get to know your surroundings. In many parts of the world, markets are a happening place, and they are almost always free to enter. Take a Hike The mountains drew us to Nepal. After a bit of research, we bought a guidebook and decided to hike for four weeks in the Khumbu region, near Everest. For those four weeks, we were immersed in the mountains, spending almost the whole day every day outside, and spending very little money. If you want to focus on seeing the outdoors, hiking is a great and cheap way to do so. You won’t be spending much money, since there won’t be anything to spend it on! Then again, try to ditch the guide and porter, if you can, to have a more independent and adventurous trip, or if you need a guide, porter or pack animal, take extra care to choose a cheap location. Get Your Own Set of Wheels In the past few years, we have been travelling almost only by bicycle. It’s a great way to see the world at a slower pace, spending most of our time in between the tourist hotspots, while spending our days outside and getting plenty of exercise. Interactions with people are just a quick pump of the brakes away. It can also be extraordinarily cheap, especially if you are camping or can find free or cheap lodging. It (almost) eliminates any transportation costs too. Even if you can’t or don’t want to cycle, consider an e-Bike or a motorbike – having your own set of wheels is the key to your independence, as well as your wallet. Travel to Poorer Countries If you travel to an expensive country, it might be harder to live on the cheap. The good but unfortunate news is that if you are reading this, probably most of the countries in the world qualify as “poorer countries” for you, where your next meal might cost less than a $1, and your hotel room might cost $5-10. Yes, this comes at the price of spending time in a place where poverty might be more exposed than in “developed countries” where it is hidden under the rugs, the streets might be dirty and the best hotel room in town might be far below a one star hotel and charge by the hour. But, what you get in return, is the real deal – a quick view into the life in most of the world. Take the Kids Along Don’t stop travelling, just because you have kids! You don’t even need to change your style of travelling all that much. We took our son Neil on his first overseas cycle tour when he was seven months old, to South Korea and Japan. Amazingly, South Korea has a bike trail right across the country. We did a lot of camping during the trip, stayed in cheap hotels, and were sometimes hosted through Couchsurfing and Warm Showers. And guess what? bringing a baby along can even lower the costs of your trip. In Japan, a relatively expensive country, we got invited over and over again to stay in people’s homes. Having our baby with us only connected us more with the locals and made the experience richer for all of us. In addition, if you live in a country with decent social benefits, like Canada, take advantage of the parental leave and travel while getting paid as well as being there with your kid, 24/7.
File Sharing is a very helpful feature of the Windows operating system that helps the users of a computer share the files of the computer with other users in the same network. This avoids the need to copy the files from one computer to the other. This article discusses the working of the file sharing feature of the Windows operating system. You can also contact our computer tech support team to know more on the Windows file sharing feature. Local Set Up This feature is used to share files between computers running Windows OS, which are on same network or remote systems. In this, the host computer must be first set up with the file sharing system. In the host computer, the user should go to the files or folders that they have to share and right click on the items to be shared. By this way, they will be able to configure the settings of the Windows file sharing. The users can decide which all users should be able to access the shared files and whether the file sharing feature should be password protected. This can be done from the Security and Sharing options. Microsoft suggests all users to enable the Firewall settings. This will protect the computer against the incoming network connections that are not verified. The firewall prohibits the file-sharing feature from working properly; therefore, the user must edit the firewall settings on the host computer for file sharing to work correctly. Either the user can edit the Control Panel settings to allow the file sharing as an exception to the firewall rule or shutdown the Windows Firewall completely. Following any of the above methods will allow the file sharing to work properly. After the host computer is setup for file sharing with the correct firewall settings, other users on other remote computers can start to access the shared files from the host computer. For single time access, the user in the remote computer may type in the Run window the name of the host computer together with the location of the shared files. By doing this, the remote computer will contact the IP address of the host computer and will open a new Windows Explorer window which contains the shared files. The user can also map a network drive to the host computer in My Computer window of the remote computer. This will make sure that the remote computer connects to the shared files each time it starts up. This is how the Windows file sharing feature works in the Windows OS. Windows support for such file sharing options makes it the most preferred OS among business and home users alike.
They may a parent’s answer to a crying child but a dummy or pacifier could be affecting your child’s speech development and causing health problems. A child using a dummy, regularly, beyond the age of 12 months could be more likely to struggle to develop speech sounds made the front of the mouth including p, b, t , d, s and may then need speech therapy. The Daily Mail reported recently that Victoria Beckham has been accused of stunting her daughter’s speech and putting her teeth at risk of damage by still letting her use a dummy. At three years old, Harper Beckham is beyond the age that most health experts would advise giving a child a pacifier. Dummies are intended to help settle a restless child at bedtime and are recommended only for small babies, as prolonged use can cause speech impairments and wonky teeth. However some parents use them to comfort their child, or because it has become a habit. Yesterday Mrs Beckham, 40, was pictured emerging from a shop in Los Angeles and carrying her daughter, who was sucking on her pink dummy. The toddler turned three in July and is well beyond the usual recommended cut-off point of 12 months. Pregnancy expert Clare Byam-Cook said that Mrs Beckham was putting her daughter’s well being at risk. Most people agree that prolonged use of the dummy can damage the teeth, by pushing them forwards and getting them misaligned. It can also affect speech development, because so many mothers stick a dummy in their toddler’s mouth just to shut the toddler up. The toddler just sits there sucking away on its dummy and doesn’t talk or do anything…If a mother allows her toddler to have a dummy in her mouth for large parts of the day, she will definitely stunt her speech development. ‘[Harper] should be looking at her surroundings and pointing things out to her mother but anything she says will be unclear because of the dummy, so she will get used to mumbling speech.’ Most experts recommend parents wean a child off dummies before their first birthday because the habit becomes harder to break as they get older and can lead to thumb-sucking, which can also damage teeth. Harper is the youngest of Mrs Beckham’s four children with her husband, former England footballer David, 39, and is the couple’s only daughter. The pair, who married in 1999, are also parents to Brooklyn, 15, Romeo, 12, and nine-year-old Cruz. The organisation Talking Point outlines some of the disadvantages. There are a number of disadvantages associated with the use of dummies, most of which impact upon the child’s speech and language development. The many critics of dummy use include the World Health Organisation which says that dummy use may encourage the child and mother to stop breast feeding earlier than is in the best interests of the child. Other concerns raised by various professional groups include the increased risk of: - stomach and mouth infections; - middle ear infections (otitis media). This is due to the fact that sucking opens the Eustachian tube, which links the nose and middle ear, and this can allow bacteria into the middle ear from the nasal area; - dental problems such as open bite and cross bite; - over development of the muscles at the front of the mouth compared to those at the back of the mouth which may lead to a persistent tongue thrust and further effect placement of the teeth; - reduced babbling and experimentation with sounds. When a baby or young child has a dummy in their mouth they are less likely to copy sounds adults make or to attempt to babble and play with sounds themselves. This is important in the development of speech skills. One author suggests that it is better to let a baby suck on their own fingers or hands, rather than an artificial object, as they will get more sensory feedback which is comforting, and they are more likely to stop the behaviour when they are developmentally ready. South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust offers practical advice for parents and carers. There is a lot of confusing advice available about the use of dummies and it is important to be aware of the range of arguments. Dummies may be useful in settling young babies and encouraging strong sucking patterns, but their specific usefulness declines after a developmental age of about six months. The increased risk of ear infections, dental problems and limiting of babbling and use of sounds (both of which are essential in the development of speech and language skills) are all very good reasons for not giving dummies to infants after about one year of age, especially during the day and when they are interacting with other children and adults. - It reduces the amount of babbling, a vital stage needed before a child can talk. Children need to practice this at all times - Children learn words by listening to & copying adults. A dummy prevents a child from copying words & sounds back correctly. - Many speech sounds are made at the front of the mouth (p, b, t , d, s) Regular dummy/ bottle users will struggle to develop these sounds and may then need speech therapy. - The more a child talks with a dummy the higher the risk of needing long term speech therapy. - A child is much less likely to talk if they have an object in their mouth. - A Manchester study has shown that over half of all dummy users in the area werereferred for speech therapy To develop speech, babies and young children need to explore a range of mouth movements e.g. opening and closing the mouth, smiling, sticking their tongue out. Dummies limit these movements. Children need to learn to control saliva by closing the mouth and swallowing. Overuse of dummies & bottle sucking stops this, leading to drooling and saliva problems. This can then lead to soreness around the mouth. Children need to be wide awake to learn, and explore. Dummies have the opposite effect by soothing & relaxing a child. Regular dummy/bottle use can severely affect teeth development. The front teeth in particular are at higher risk of decay. Practical ideas to help - Give the dummy to Santa or the dummy fairy - Swap a dummy for a reward - Offer a comfort blanket or try reading a story instead - Pretend to give the dummy to a friend’s baby - Get your child to throw the dummy in the bin now they are grown up - Once you remove the dummy, don’t be tempted to give it back
Describing the town of Postdam - it's hard to know where to start.Situated about 10 km from Berlin suburbs like Charlottenburg where we stayed, this town has so much to offer.It played an important role in German history and is a beautiful little town, surrounded by lakes, marshes and forests. The magnificent castle of Sanssouci comes to mind first. The smallish castle is a gem with beautiful gardens and water fountains. It was built by "The Old Fritz", as this king was lovingly called ( King Friederich II of Prussia or Friederich the Great, * 24. January 1712 in Berlin; † 17. August 1786 in Potsdam). He got his name for being a successful yet reluctant king, statesman and hero - he won 3 so called Silesian Wars and the 7-Year War establishing Prussia as a super power besides Austria, England, France and Russia in the 18th century. A friend of Voltaire, he was dedicated to the idea of Enlightenment; he abolished torture and practiced tolerance towards the Huguenots and Catholics.. We had visited the castle on a winter day winter before a couple of years ago. It was a joy to stroll through the gardens on a summer's afternoon. Potsdam maybe mostly known for its role at the end of World War II. The three heads of state, Josef Stalin, Truman, Winston Churchill and later France met in Potsdam's Cecilienhof (another castle) to discuss the future of Germany in July- August 1945. The Allies signed the Potsdam Treaty which effectively decided paved the way for denazification, the establishment of democracy and the rebuilding of Germany. Until 1989 when the wall fell, Potsdam, however, remained in the hands of the Russians and under GDR rule (German Democratic republic=communist Germany and not so democratic at all!). So worth a day trip! We still want to go back on day.
Delicious Propaganda About America’s Central Bank: The Federal Reserve — Inside America’s Money Vault @ 8:20: “…The Fed’s discretion and intense security is so trusted that few depositors have ever even asked to see if their gold is still here…” @13:30: “Every couple of hours, Trillions of US dollars changes hands around the world. All of that money used to be backed by gold. But, not any more. Today, our buck is backed by a PROMISE from the US government. The fact that it all works based on trust alone, is simply taken for granted.” from Zero Hedge: “Whether its cash, gold, or digital-data bits, we all know that money makes the world go round; but what that money is worth depends on trust.” In this fascinating documentary, National Geographic Channel takes you inside the heart of the money machine to places that you’re not allowed to bring a camera (unless you’re a blind-folded Bob Pisani)… straight into some of the world’s largest vaults. America’s Money Vault follows 55 million dollars worth of gold as it makes its way down into the most valuable gold vault in the world. Hidden deep under the streets of New York City, hundreds of billion dollars in gold bars – the wealth of nations – are tucked away in a bunker that is anchored to the bedrock of Manhattan Island itself.Following this introduction, tomorrow, we will reveal much more on the world’s biggest vault.
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I’ve always loved the story of David and Goliath. I suppose it’s because I’ve always rooted for the underdogs, believed in them even when they failed to believe in themselves. Here was a shepherd boy who took on the champion of the Philistines. Who would have believed David even had a chance. After all, Goliath was stronger, bigger. He had everything going for him. Or did he? David, armed with a bag of stones and a sling, defeated the mighty warrior. He might not have been stronger, but he used what he knew how to use. I’m sure King Saul, after watching David remove the armor he had dressed him in, doubted the young boy had a chance. But David used the talents given to him to achieve great things. When I began writing “The Lion Awakens,” I wanted to tell the story of David and Goliath with a twist (or two, or three). I knew that Gabriel would be the messenger and that Peter would provide the foundation Annie and David would need to build a new world. I incorporated a lot of religious imagery in the book, from crosses to a crown of thorns. And of course, the lion. The book involves a parallel universe, mean girls who will make your blood boil, and loyal friends who you can’t help but love.While this book is aimed at the young adult market, I think people of all ages will enjoy it. And the ending? Let’s just say it will make your jaw drop!
In Malay it is known as buah kedondong. It is known as Ambla in Penang. Amla fruit, often referred to as Indian gooseberry, is one of the richest known sources of vitamin C it contains 30 times the amount found in oranges making it useful for treating throat and respiratory tract infections.. It is regarded as sacred by Indian and Tibetan healers who believe it has special anti-ageing and immune enhancing properties. Traditionally, healers have used the dried fruit to help overcome a wide range of problems like indigestion, fever, liver problems and anaemia. Not only is amla fruit revered by Ayurvedic (ancient Indian) practitioners, extensive research is revealing that it is beneficial in preventing and treating many conditions including stress, hay fever, arthritis, cataracts, and even cancer. Amla is proving a useful tool in the fight against cancer Chinese researchers have discovered that amla fruit is a rich source of therapeutic chemicals, including quercetin (which is also found in apples), gallic and ellagic acids (found in green tea), and other less well-known ones such as chebulinic acid, chebulagic acid, corilagin, and isostrictiniin (Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 2003 Oct;28(10):940-3). All of these chemicals are powerful antioxidants, which help protect you from harmful free radicals that can increase the risk of a wide range of serious diseases including cancer. BILA SHUIB BERGAMBAR DENGAN KERETA IDAMAN, LAMBORGHINI - "Alhamdulillah, berkat usaha dan bisnes madu, akhirnya dapat bergambar dengan kereta idaman tapi ni memang terhad sebab cuma ada 4 biji dalam Malaysia. ... 1 hour ago
In remarks before the New York City Bar Association, federal district judge (SDNY) Jed Rakoff noted that, in striking contrast with past prosecutions engendered by past financial crises, not a single high level executive has been successfully prosecuted in connection with the recent financial crisis, and given the fact that most of the relevant criminal provisions are governed by a five-year statute of limitations, it appears very likely that none will be. One possibility, already mentioned, is that no fraud was committed, a possibility that should not be discounted. While he has no opinion as to whether criminal fraud was committed in any given instance, Judge Rakoff remarked that the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, in its final report, uses variants of the word fraud no fewer than 157 times in describing what led to the crisis, concluding that there was a systemic breakdown, not just in accountability, but also in ethical behavior. The Commission found that the signs of fraud were everywhere to be seen. Without multiplying examples, the point is that, in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the prevailing view of many government officials was that the crisis was in material respects the product of intentional fraud. Examining the issue of the difficulty of proving intent, Judge Rakoff noted that willful blindness or conscious disregard are a well-established basis on which federal prosecutors have asked juries to infer intent, in cases involving complexities, such as accounting treatments, at least as esoteric as those involved in the events leading up to the financial crisis. And while some federal courts have occasionally expressed qualifications about the use of the willful blindness approach to prove intent, the Supreme Court has consistently approved it.
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Nurturing/ Teaching Courses The November Institute 2008 Malaysia Bible Seminary 17-20 November 2008 Biomedical Ethical Issues in the Contemporary Malaysian Church Advances in medical treatment modalities, biotechnological innovations, and genetic-molecular manipulations have brought about a set of unique challenges to issues not faced by the Church before. In this course, a pastoral-theological approach will be used to examine, reflect and develop responses to these difficult moral and ethical issues – test tube and designer babies, facts and fallacies of stem cell therapies, cloning, reproductive issues, abortion, mercy-killing, allocation of scarce healthcare resources, living will, gene therapy, prenatal diagnosis, aesthetic surgery- facing the contemporary Malaysian Church. This course is relevant to pastors, theologians, church leaders, counsellors, seminarians, doctors, and all Christians who are committed to living ethically in these changing times. Intended Learning Outcomes The desired outcome of this course is that participants will demonstrate analytical and evaluative skills in their approach to biomedical ethical issues in their own ecclesiastical and cultural context. By the end of this course, it is hoped that participants will Session 1: Introduction to Biomedical Ethics Session 2: Issues in the Beginning of Life Session 3: Issues in Reproduction Session 4: Issues about genes and cells Session 5: Issues about the end of life (Part 1) Session 6: Issues about the end of life (Part 2) Session 7: Developing a Christian pastoral-theological approach to Biomedical Ethics "treat, heal, and comfort always" "spiritual forming disciples of Jesus Christ with informed minds, hearts on fire and contemplative in actions" Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is © 2006-2018 Alex Tang
RPK's latest post carries a very provocative title. Nonetheless he has a few good points which (coincidentally, would you believe it?) I share and would have posted last night but alas I was too busy. However, I have to state that my thrust would have been different to his point. Thus, I won't follow RPK's provocative path wakakaka. In any Westminster-styled democracy, a majority ruling party has the legitimate right to govern the country for the full term prescribed in the constitution, whether the term is 5 or (in the case of Australia) 3 years. There seems to a current fallacy that Najib is cheating the voters because he has thus far refused to call or ignored the calls for an election now (though there are now hints he might do it in November, this year of course wakakaka). On a related issue, though not central to my post topic, there is also a fallacy that Britain does not have a written constitution. It does, except the articles (rules) are not written in one convenient 'book' like ours, with all its rules (or articles) in one single tome. The Brits have their constitutional rules scattered all over, among the pages of the Magna Carta, Petition of Rights, Bill of Rights, Act of Settlement, Parliament Acts, Representation of the People Act, case laws such as Case of Proclamations, each written at various stages in their history stretching from around 1215 (Magna Carta) to 1969 (Representation of the People Act), over a period of some 750 years. And no Pakistani legal expert helped, thank you, wakakaka. Anyway, fast forward to the present, and the topic to be discussed. As we read almost everyday, there have been condemnations (or at best, criticisms) of Najib for 'refusing' to call for an early general election when the actual 5-year term for the BN as the ruling party will only expire some time in March 2013. Understandably, most of the condemnations have been from PKR where an impatient and at the same time optimistic Anwar Ibrahim believes the tide has swung in his favour. His party and supporters have been conducting psy-war against Najib, attempting to goad Ah Jib Gor into an early election. Understandably too, Najib appears to be going for the full term, or at least not dancing to Anwar's tune, because it's obvious he (Najib) has assessed BN will be at a disadvantage if he were to call for an election now. And why would he, when the more time he has, the more monkey tricks he can bring about, wakakaka. Alas, it's his prime ministerial constitutional right. Now, why did I want to (coincidentally) write about the full term for an elected government, though I had already mentioned Najib's prerogative to go for the full 5 years in a couple of previous posts? Two recent events persuaded me to. One - Down in Australia, PM Julia Gillard has just stated very clearly her government will go the full 3-year term BUT in exhibiting her prime ministerial prerogative a la Westminster-styled democracy, reserves the right to call for an early election, even if 'early' means a month or two before the run-out date. In fact, recently I read in the newspapers downunder that Australia's Constitution allows a ruling term to be slightly over the so-called maximum 3-year term, of course by only a few weeks for some administrative reasons. I am not sure whether the Malaysian Constitution provides for that. Thus Najib has the same prime ministerial prerogatives to run his government for the full term of 5 years, or if he wants to, sneak in an early request to HM the Agong to dissolve parliament. I have a different view to RPK in that the Agong doesn't have much say, as he 'has to' heed the PM's 'advice' to dissolve parliament, more so under Malaysian constitutional terms. Two - The other reason which suggests to me to blog on this issue had come as a total surprise to me. Actually I was mildly shocked when 3 days ago, I read Free Malaysia Today's Delay polls and risk punishment. If it had been Anwar who said that, I would have accepted that he's correct in pushing for the election a.s.a.p. because the BN is currently in a politically precarious position. If it had been Pak Haji Hadi Awang, Lim Guan Eng or even my hero Karpal Singh, it would be normal politics. But when I read that it was another of my heroes, Ambiga Sreenevasan, who warned Najib that his continuing dilly dallying in calling for an election could prove to be perilous for him and BN, I was gobsmacked. She said that it would not come as a surprise if the voters, including the fence-sitters, punished him for this feet-dragging in the next polls. “I understand it is the Westminster system and it is the prerogative of the prime minister. But a good government should be prepared to take on the election and not be afraid to set a date,” she told FMT. “We have been in election mode since he [Najib] took over and everyone has been pumped up. He drops hints [about the polls] and that is irresponsible. You don’t toy with people’s feelings. “People are fed up! They can’t plan things like going on holidays and so forth. Furthermore, it affects investor confidence. “That’s why I say it is irresponsible. If this is how a government is going to play with the election date, then it would be best to have a fixed date for polling,” she added. Obviously Ambiga knows her laws as she said "I understand it is the Westminster system and it is the prerogative of the prime minister." So why did she see it necessary to warn Najib into an early election. I don't know then, and I don't know now. I'm intrigued because Ambiga is not a politician where her only aim (at least thus far) as Bersih's co-chair has been about clean and fair elections, so whether Najib wants to run the full wicket or call for an early election would and should not be her concern. Besides, in March this year, she had as co-chair of Bersih called for a Delay in polls until all reforms have been met. In fact she said "Hold off polls until reforms are met. We still have until next year, there is still time" in response to Ongkili's excuse that the Parliamentary Select Committee on electoral improvements could not meet all of Bersih’s demands as some matters required a longer-term solution. Why has she since changed her mind and by her statement appears to be 'politically' involved? Is she thinking of standing as an election candidate in GE-13? But regardless, since when has a PM of a nation which has adopted the Westminster type of democratic system advised his/her intention to call an early election well in advance? Julia Gillard has just shown she is exercising her prime ministerial prerogative vis-à-vis calling an election before the term of her government runs out, specifically only when she wants to, and probably at the very last moment - though in practical terms, the Aussie system requires a few weeks (to include a reasonable period of election campaigning)! The other point about Westminster-styled democracy is that it is NOT a presidential election involving voting for an individual to be PM, but about which political party emerges with a ruling majority (yes, I'm aware of minority governments but those would be exceptions to the rule), ... ... and for that winning party to nominate who should be the PM. I believe Ling Liong Sik was once PM for a while, when Dr Mahathir and Ku Li bashed it out, wakakaka. Thus it doesn't matter that Najib didn't head the BN when it won the March 2008 general election. What matters would be BN as the party with the majority of parliamentary seats, where the party can then nominate one of its MPs to be the PM. Anyway, though it'll be a first for Westminster-styled democratic system, Ambiga had been right in stating "it would be best to have a fixed date for polling" and which Lim Guan Eng is now pushing for.
The Virginius Affair: Key West Art & Historical Society to Host Presentation and Reception of Rare Naval Painting On Friday, July 28, from 5:30 – 7:00pm, Key West Art & Historical Society welcomes the public to a champagne reception and presentation of “The Virginius Affair,” the only known painting that depicts an unprecedented show of naval force that helped postpone war between the United States and Spain in early 1874. As part of the champagne reception, Florida Keys historian Tom Hambright will offer brief observations about this extraordinary painting by I.H.F. Düksen that evening in the Bumpus Gallery at the Custom House Museum, 281 Front Street. “The Virginius Affair is a scantly-examined incident in American history that almost resulted in a war with Spain,” says Society Curator Cori Convertito, Ph.D. “Essentially, if we went to war in 1874, the United States would have had a difficult time winning due to its outmoded naval fleet. Instead, the country decided to send a large number of navy ships to Key West to flex its muscles in front of the Spanish who ruled Cuba, the site of the incident that sparked the Affair.” Hambright, from the Key West Library’s Florida History Department, will give a brief account of the Virginius Affair in the Bumpus Gallery of the Custom House, calling particular attention to specific elements of the painting. Tickets or reservations are not required to attend. The painting is timely in its arrival as The Society is currently celebrating the connection between the U.S. Navy and the island of Key West with a Custom House Museum exhibit, ‘The Navy in Key West,’ which runs through December 2017. Held in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of Naval Air Station Key West, the exhibit explores how the island and the navy have relied on each other by highlighting unique images, artifacts, uniforms and military memorabilia along with interactive displays for learning about Key West’s maritime past. “The painting helps visitors examine how strategic Key West was during the time of the incident, and just how hectic the port was, particularly during military engagements,” says Convertito. While the presentation, reception, and entrance to the museum are all free during this special event, donations are appreciated to help support The Society’s exhibits, programs, and events. For more information, contact Curator Cori Convertito, Ph.D. at email@example.com or 305.295.6616 x112. Your Museums. Your Community. It takes an Island. IMAGE: Detail from a painting by I.H.F. Düksen depicting the 1874 “Virginius Affair” – a scantly-examined incident in American history that almost resulted in a war with Spain. On Friday, July 28, from 5:30-7:00pm, Key West Art & Historical Society invites the public to a champagne reception and viewing of the artwork at the Custom House Museum, where it will continue to be on display, forming part of “The Navy in Key West” exhibit, which runs through December, 2017. (Image courtesy Key West Art & Historical Society)
I just finished what quickly became one of the best books I have ever read. It was very tough at times to get through it, as a woman and as a mother, and there were nights I put the book down and cried myself to sleep because I was so invested in the lives of the women in the story. Although I have been an avid reader from a very young age and I have an active enough imagination to slip into the world of a lot of books I read, rarely does a book affect me this way. I should also backtrack and point out that I have read several books by American authors of Middle Eastern descent, and the writing is always astounding to me. These are people who speak my language secondly, yet the way they have with words is beyond any imagery I could create. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini was on my Christmas list after I read "The Kite Runner" a few years ago and loved it. I knew I would enjoy the book, but I had no idea that as a free Christian woman, I would become so involved with the characters and the storylines. I'm not meaning this to be a book review, and I hate giving spoilers, so I will just wrap up with the thought that this book taught me so much about human nature, as well as how lucky I am to live in this society, in this time and age, when elsewhere in the world women and families are forced to make unimaginably heart-wrenching decisions every day. Even better, at the end of the book was an answer to the questions that hung around in my subconcious as I was reading: How can I help the people who are living this devestation? And since my goal is to highlight 12 worthy charities in 2011, it is only fitting that I begin with the Khaled Hosseini Foundation. January is even more fitting a time to donate to this organization, as somewhere in Afghanistan a family is struggling to stay warm in a makeshift tent with temperatures of only 19 degrees. Right now, one of these mothers' children the same age as my son is suffering from starvation and clinging to life, while I complain that Jacob's runny nose and cough caused him to wake up at 11PM suddenly, interrupting my viewing of "The Bachelor". No matter what position in life you are, if ever person who reads my blog only donates $10, we will likely have enough to provide shelter for a family this winter. What could make your January more warm and fuzzy than that? Letting Them Go With Confidence 1 day ago
The highest share of renewables in the EU is in Sweden (53.9%), Finland (39.3%) and Latvia (37.6%), says Eurostat. This means that Latvia has almost reached its target of 40% in 2020. The share of renewables in energy consumption in the EU is still on the rise to almost 17% in 2015. Eleven Member States have already achieved their 2020 target. The share of renewables in gross final consumption of energy is one of the headline indicators of the Europe 2020 strategy. The target to be reached by 2020 for the EU is a share of 20% energy from renewable sources in gross final consumption of energy. However, renewables will continue to play a key role in helping the EU meet its energy needs beyond 2020. For this reason, Member States have already agreed on a new EU renewable energy target of at least 27% by 2030.
It’s not Google Glass’ nerdy aesthetics, somewhat douchey reputation or lofty price tag that will prevent a whopping 72 percent of Americans from donning the headset of the future—it’s concerns about privacy and safety.A new study from market research firm Toluna found that privacy worries are a major stumbling block for Google Glass, with two in five consumers citing concerns such as the potential for hackers to access private data, the ease with which others could record their actions without their knowledge and the potential for private actions to become public. There is also the chance that federal agents will descend upon you if you wear the device in a movie theater. “Google Glass is not yet available on the open market, although it is clear that a high proportion of individuals have concerns about the potential impact on their privacy,” said Mark Simon, Toluna’s North American managing director. “This is something Google and other tech companies using the technology should address before the product can become mainstream.” Read more via adweek.com
Disclosure: I received an ebook copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion. Buy the Book: Amazon Kathryn Kelly: The Moll Behind "Machine Gun" Kelly is a biography of the woman who made a career of crime. With a lust for danger, she masterminded the crimes that took her and her husband, and others who included her own mother and stepfather, on a spree across Minnesota, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Texas. Starting with smaller crimes that included bootlegging, smuggling liquor onto an Oklahoma Indian reservation, and other petty crimes, she encouraged her husband, George Barnes aka George Kelly, toward a life of more serious criminal activity that eventually escalated into bank robberies, kidnapping and extortion. Many believe that it was Kathryn, after giving him a machine gun, who developed George's feared persona and the name of Machine Gun Kelly. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was even convinced that the two were somehow connected in the Lindbergh kidnapping. Kathryn and Machine Gun Kelly were eventually captured after kidnapping Charles Urschel, a wealthy Oklahoma City oilman, and collecting a $200,000 ransom the largest ransom ever paid at that time. Eventually, the two were captured in Memphis, where Kelly had grown up as a boy. During their trial in Oklahoma City, movie cameras were allowed into the courtroom for the first time as curious spectators across the nation watched. Kathryn, while claiming to be an innocent victim in a bad marriage, remained unrepentant, smiling and primping for the cameras, and writing threatening letters to the judge and attorneys assigned to the case as well as her victims. Convicted in 1933, Kathryn served twenty-five years of her life sentence at FPC Alderson, West Virginia, when in 1958 she was finally released into obscurity. Although much has been written about Machine Gun Kelly, there is very little known about Kathryn. Through narrative, FBI files, rare quotes from George Kelly's son and other relatives and associates, extensive research, and several photographs, Kathryn Kelly ¬The Moll behind Machine Gun Kelly is the first book ever written about a woman who chose to follow a life of crime during the Prohibition era. Add on Goodreads This was an incredibly interesting read. I am not a big history person. I am more of a “if you weren’t there, how do you know it really happened” kind of person so to me, this was reading half fiction, half truth. I had no idea of the things that occurred back in the “gang era” with the way things worked with criminals and law enforcement officers (I think sawed off shot guns was the biggest shock of it all.) I have to admit, I had a really hard time following the book. There were a lot of names, nicknames, characters, dates, incidents; and they did not go in a numerical time line. I think if the story read in a sequence of events (dates/years) it would have helped me follow the story, but there was just so much, I struggled to keep everything straight and found myself going back and forth several times trying to clarify. All in all, it was an interesting story to read and outside of the confusion, it was a good story. It wasn’t long so it made for a fairly quick read. About the Author Barbara Casey is a partner in Strategic Media Books, and president of the Barbara Casey Agency, representing authors throughout the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Japan. She is also a manuscript consultant and the author of numerous articles, poems, and short stories. Her award-winning novels have received national recognition, including the Independent Publishers Book Award. Her novel, The House of Kane, was considered for a Pulitzer nomination, and The Gospel According to Prissy, also a contemporary adult novel received several awards including the prestigious IPPY Award for Best Regional Fiction. Her most recent young adult novel, The Cadence of Gypsies, received the Independent Publishers Living Now Award and was reviewed by the Smithsonian for its list of Best Books. Ms. Casey makes her home on the top of a mountain in northwest Georgia with her husband and three dogs who adopted her: Benton, a hound-mix, Fitz, a miniature dachshund, and Gert, a Jack Russel terrier of sorts. Follow the Author… Website
It’s now been eight long years since the beginning of what amounted to the financial crisis and the ensuing countless predictions of the demise of big law firms. But nothing like it happened. Looking back, you can only conclude that law — as practiced by the big firms — is a stable business. The perpetual rise in firms’ revenue and income reversed briefly as demand dropped by 10% to 15% over an 18-month period between the middle of 2008 and the end of 2009. Rates — the equivalent of prices — showed softness as a result of lawyers rushing to offer discounts to their good clients and prospective ones. Lawyers also entered into alternative fee arrangements without much of an idea of how to manage them commercially. And since law firms uniformly reacted by shedding excess supply, i.e. firing underproductive lawyers, their realized rates trended downward only by a few percentage points. Many legal pundits suggested that firms faced existential threats from dropping demand as General Counsels and Corporate Legal departments demanded “more for less”, while technology-assisted disrupters and alternative service providers ate away at the law firms’ share of legal spend. And yet, firms’ rates have recovered, rising year-over-year since 2010: demand is stable, and firms have figured out other ways to grow revenue and profit, albeit at a slower pace than before. Some firms, especially in the UK, have decided to compete with technology and alternative providers by offering their own solutions. But most firms have done, frankly, nothing beyond adding some fig-leaf “fixes”. The Threat at the Doorstep So why should law firms take alternative providers seriously now? Well, unless law firms integrate alternative delivery (including technology) robustly, they may be facing an existential threat after all. And that threat could be arriving on their doorstep sooner than you think. Currently, alternative delivery in the US is estimated at less than 1% of the total market. Europe is probably a bit lower; the rest of the world is lower still. The alternative players, from first movers who became industry leaders like Axiom Law and Pangea3 (now Thomson Reuters Legal Managed Services) to the many, many tech-focused legal market ventures that have seen the light of day in the past few years, are said to be growing at 20% annually. Still, you may ask: what’s the big deal? Growing a less-than 1% share at 20% every year still doesn’t get you to even 1/20th of market share in a decade, right? And that doesn’t even factor in that over the next 10 years, law firms will have figured out how to compete with the alternative providers through their own, captive means. All true, and yet this view ignores three factors which all lead to a very different outcome by the year 2020: - We project a linear development when, in fact, it is more likely to be exponential. Today’s less than 1% market share represents the bottom of the S-curve. Money, hungry for returns, has discovered the legal market and made its first killings. That sight attracts more money. And all that capital will get better and better at finding profitable revenue within legal services. You should expect growth more in the 50% per annum or even higher range. The math quickly becomes scary. - We don’t account for the displacement effect of revenue earned by the alternative players. Law firms in the aggregate have been growing revenue at around 2% to 3% annually since 2010 (excluding revenue changes from acquisitions and divestitures). If one dollar earned by an alternative provider means a dollar lost to law firms, the rise of the alternatives would only stop total revenue by all law firms from growing in about 10 years. But a dollar earned by the alternatives displaces approximately three dollars lost in law firm revenue. If the displacement effect is at a factor of three, then total law firm revenue stops growing six years from now. - Finally, we are also forgetting that law firms implode because they don’t make enough money to keep partners happy. The partnership business model of every law firm today requires growth: stagnation and/or shrinkage tanks profitability, risking key partner defections. Of course, firms can manage a bit of revenue shrinkage from one year to the next if they react early and take action by cutting costs. But an unexpected shortfall of revenue by 3% translates to a 7% to 10% shortfall in distributable profit and almost certainly will also translate into the end of that firm. It doesn’t require a huge revenue decline for fickle partnerships to bite the dust. And still, you might say: Meh, I am still not convinced that law firms must collaborate with alternative delivery providers now. And you are right in that a few will never be threatened because of what they do. But the group is quite small while the number of firms who think they are part of the group is a lot larger. Of course, every firm does a good amount of work that is only tangentially affected. The mistake, however, is to look only at that work and conclude that the firm is doing fine. Today, 25% to 50% of the revenue of most large law firms is already squarely under attack. And that portion will only grow over time. It is smart to face this reality and embrace alternative providers and technology, and to proactively show clients how to integrate both of those factors to achieve better, faster and cheaper delivery of legal services overall. That offers the best chance for most large law firms to survive and thrive in this market.
The Hajr-e-Aswad also known as The Black Stone is set in the eastern corner of the Holy Kaaba. The Tawaf is started and ended by facing this sacred black stone. Over the years, throughout history, numerous people which included the Prophets of Allah (Peace be upon them) and the Holy Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon him), the Sahaba (may Allah be pleased with them) and other pious Muslim personalities have performed Hajj and Umrah around the Holy Kaaba and have also placed their blessed lips on the Holy Stone. Today we are going to present some lesser-known facts about Hajr-e-Aswad.[irp] 1-The Hajr-e-Aswad also known as The Black Stone was brought down from heaven (Jannah) and was presented to Ibrahim (peace be upon him) so that he could place it in the corner of the Kaaba. Sunan an-Nasa'i 2935 2-The Hajr-e-Aswad was reportedly stolen from the Holy Kaaba during 930 CE by the Qarmatian warriors. These warriors sacked Makkah while desecrating the Well of ZamZam with corpses of Muslims and carried The Black Stone back to their base in Ihsaa, in the medieval region of Bahrain. The Black Stone was returned around 952 CE according to Historian Al Juwayni and restored to its original location. 3-The Hajr-e-Aswad was initially a complete single stone however due to various incidents which occurred throughout history, the Stone is now in eight pieces of different sizes which have been affixed to a large stone which is also encased in a silver frame. The original silver frame was built by Abdullah bin Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him) and was later replaced by the latter Khalifas as and when the need arose. 4-Six other pieces of the Hajr-e-Aswad are claimed to be in Istanbul, Turkey. One is displayed in the Mihrab of the Blue Mosque, one is located at the entrance of the tomb of Sulaiman and 4 are in the SokulluSehit Mehmet PasaCamii mosque. 5- The Messenger of Allah said: “The Black Stone descended from the Paradise, and it was Whiter than milk, then it was blackened by the sins of the children of Adam.” – Jami` at-Tirmidhi 877 6-The Messenger of Allah said about the (Black) Stone: “By Allah! Allah will raise it on the Day of Resurrection with two eyes by which it sees and a tongue that it speaks with, testifying to whoever touched it in truth.” – Jami` at-Tirmidhi 961 7-Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) stated while leaning against the Kaaba that the Hajr-e-Aswad and Maqam-e-Ibrahim are two of the jewels out of the jewels of Paradise. If Allah had not concealed the radiance of these jewels, they would illuminate everything that lay between the East and West. (Tirmidhi)
Viešojo intereso apsauga naujajame Lietuvos Respublikos Civilinio proceso kodekse. The modern doctrine of law aspires to harmonious interaction between an individual and a society, and it pays more attention to the public interests. Public interests in Lithuania are protected by the enactment, traditionally concerned to be acts of private law, such as the Civil Code. Therefore, the necessity to protect public interests, i.e. the interests of community and state, collective rights and interests of very large groups of persons, by means of the judicial protection, is absolutely clear. The individual liberal model of civil procedure has been criticised for a long time, because it was mainly used for the protection of private interests of separate individuals. Therefore, the model of social civil procedure has been selected as a basis of the new code of civil procedure of Lithuania in order to ensure the balance between private and public interests. This article deals with the comparison of the regulations of protection of the public interest in the past and present Code of civil procedure: the participation of the public prosecutor, public institutions, institutions of local governing and other persons in civil procedure with the purpose of protection of public interests. It is made an overview about the new forms of public interest actions – individual and group (class) actions for the protection of public interests. - Articles / Straipsniai
Poor irrigation management in pastures can lead to yield and quality reduction as well as loss of income through extra pumping and leaching of nitrate fertiliser. A number of irrigation scheduling techniques of varying levels of sophistication have been developed over the years to address limited irrigation water availability and maximise productivity. Despite this, the adoption of irrigation scheduling tools by farmers remains low. The objective of this study was to assess the use of simple irrigation scheduling calendars based on average weather data to improve irrigation management in ryegrass. The calibrated Soil Water Balance (SWB) model was used to generate simple irrigation calendars and assess effectiveness for different scenarios by mechanistically simulating water dynamics and pasture growth. Scheduling irrigation using the calendars gave similar irrigation applications, water losses and yields compared to a more scientific real-time scheduling (in response to soil water depletion by the crop). While site-specific irrigation scheduling calendars can easily be generated by consultants and irrigators, even simpler monthly estimates of average daily water use can also be useful. Application of calendars by farmers is encouraged to improve water and nutrient use efficiency of irrigated pastures, if real-time irrigation scheduling is not employed.
In current turbulent times, sustainable relationships hinge on the mutual understanding created by a clear communication strategy between a business unit and its stakeholders. The purpose of this research was to develop a corporate communication strategy model for the University of Pretoria Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC). Purposive sample testing was conducted to determine the stakeholder perceptions of the main variables of this study, being: communication management, social media, stakeholder relationships and the corporate communication strategy. Objectives were achieved, the hypotheses stated duly tested and the results applied towards the development of a conceptual framework for a more formal and sustainable corporate communication strategy with a specific focus on communication about science related matters. This study contributes to effective stakeholder communication between the organisation and its stakeholders through the introduction of communication mediums like social media and traditional media. This research proposes a corporate communication strategy with integrated social media platforms, which helps organisations manage the relationships with their stakeholders. It suggests that when communicating about science, the UP CSMC should aim to communicate through different forms of interpersonal communication such as one-on-one engagements, events, seminars, exhibitions and other presentations. The Centre's corporate communication strategy should also include objectives to improve communication about science through interpersonal communication with stakeholders. The new model proposes concepts that focus on an analysis of the environment, identification of strategic issues, development of communication hierarchy, communicating an effective communication strategy, developing a strategic communication plan and monitoring complete embedment. The new proposed model is founded on an empirical study that comprises a descriptive study based on 45 developed questionnaires developed specifically for this study and answered by stakeholders of the UP CSMC. The standard corporate communication model presented by Steyn and Puth (2000) was analysed, evaluated and tailored to fit the organisation's requirements. The proposed model developed in this study includes critical components relevant to the establishment and maintenance of sustainable relationships and can be adopted by any organisation with similar communication challenges as covered in this study. Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
This research investigates characteristics of entropy generation on stagnation point flow of Nimonic 80a nanoparticles over a convectively-heated stretching sheet in porous medium. The Buongiorno model is used for the Nimonic 80a metal nanoparticles of brick shape and includes both tBrownian motion and thermophoresis effect with thermal radiation. Similarity transformation variables are used to simplify the governing flow problem. Numerical solutions for temperature distribution, velocity of fluid, concentration of nanoparticles and entropy profile are established and examined. Moreover, the results obtained from the present methodology are validated when compared with research articles in the existing literature. Excellent agreement is obtained. Expressions for skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number are also taken into consideration and presented via tables. Papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Portoroz, Slovenia on 17-19 July 2017 .
US consumers spent freely in July, sending retail sales up 0.6% over the previous month, according to initial estimates by the Commerce Department. And the estimate for June sales was revised to show a gain. Year over year, retail sales were up 4.2%. But on an individual sector basis, the report showed mixed results, with some areas of the industry thriving and others continuing to struggle. While the data overall points to bright spots, it doesn't signal an end to the worrisome trends that have led to widespread store closings, declining same-store sales and financial challenges for many chains. The beleaguered department store sector did manage to eke out a gain in July, bolstered by back-to-school shopping, although fell by 1.3% from the prior year. Many department stores, particularly those with an outsized presence in mid-tier malls, are hurting from declining mall and store traffic, partly because of increased spending online as well as shifting shopper preferences. Another struggling category, electronics and appliance stores, saw a 0.5% decline from June. The sector, which has seen high-profile bankruptcy filings by chains such as hhgregg and Radio Shack, was off 0.9% year over year. Nonstore retailers—ecommerce pure plays like Amazon.com, in the main—increased 1.3% over June's levels, and grew 11.5% annually, by far the largest of any sector tracked by the Commerce Department. Amazon's Prime Day sales were one spur for growth. Hardware and gardening supplies stores saw sales rise a strong 1.2% for the month, or an 8.3% gain from a year ago—likely the clearest signal of broader economic strength, as the memory of the painful economic downturn of 2008-2009 recedes in consumers' memories.
[URBAN NOTE] "U of T assistant prof reviving Mohawk language" The Toronto Star's Jesse Winter reports on how linguist Ryan DeCaire, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, is taking part in an ambitious revival of the Mohawk language. When Ryan DeCaire was a kid, he couldn’t speak his own language. Growing up in the Wahta Mohawk Territory near Bala, Ont., he’d often hear his elders speaking the mysterious tongue, but he never knew what they were saying. “You’d hear it spoken sometimes, and you always wonder ‘oh, that’s my language but I can’t speak it,’ ” he says. Now 29, DeCaire has not only learned to speak Kanien’kéha — the Mohawk language — but he’s leading a revival of it in the heart of downtown Toronto. In July, DeCaire joined the University of Toronto’s Centre for Indigenous Studies and the linguistics department as an assistant professor. He’s teaching the first-ever Mohawk language classes at the university, and helping to revive a language that eight years ago he feared might die out forever.
The demonstration at Mall of America in Minnesota led to numerous arrests, but some charges have now been drooped according to Minnesota Public Radio. According to a story by reporter Curtis Gilbert, there was never a clear order to leave given to the demonstrators before their arrest, therefore the charges of “trespassing” have been dropped. Bloomington prosecutors have dropped trespassing charges against the organizers of a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mall of America in December. While mall officials that day told the group repeatedly over a loudspeaker that the demonstration was unauthorized, they forgot to use one key word: leave. “For a good trespass case, somebody in a position of authority must tell you you have to leave the property,” Bloomington City Attorney Sandra Johnson said Wednesday. The mall’s announcement simply told the crowd to “disperse,” said University of St. Thomas Law School Professor Nekima Levy-Pounds, who helped organize the protest. “Disperse means to spread or to spread out,” she said, “and that’s what we did.”
Another Handful of Tips 76 – Managing Others Five of the best tips when managing people To get the best work from people follow these simple basic principles. 1. People must know exactly what is expected of them They should have a precise job specification. What is required? What is their job? It must be clear and put in writing in a job description stating to whom they are responsible. People appreciate being told what their long-term prospects are and future possibilities if they perform well. 2. Workers must have a safe working environment They must have a safe, healthy workplace and be given the tools to do a good job. 3. Give them responsibility If clear guidance is given, delegate to where the action takes place. That’s the place where the quick decisions need to be made. Too much red tape and too many controls frustrate workers and prevent them doing their best work. They must be trusted and given responsibility, but a good two-way communication system is essential. All changes must be explained and discussed fully. 4. Give and encourage feedback Have regular and honest discussions with staff to guide and encourage them. Keep them fully informed of developing situations and proposed planned changes. Honest feedback from both staff and clients must be encouraged. Relevant worthwhile training must be given to keep people up-to-date with new skills required and developing situations. Training workshops can be a good time to get honest feedback. 5. Praise and reward good work If people make an extra effort they should be praised and rewarded. Praise can be given publicly but constructive criticism should be given in private. Rewards given to encourage workers can take many forms such a pay rise, a gift, time off, a car park or the latest equipment to do a better job. A letter telling an employee they are doing a good job is a great incentive to encourage them to progress further. “Successful management requires clarification of purpose, total commitment, and first class team work.” Source: “Secrets for New Managers” first published by Moss Associates Ltd., New Zealand (www//mossassociates.co.nz) and Cengage Learning Asia, Singapore. Also available as a hard copy and as an e-book from Amazon.com and VitalSource.
Share your love of music with future generations. Creativity and artistic talent take long hours of training and dedication and this requires years of nurture and support. If you have had a lifetime’s pleasure from music why not make a legacy gift in your will to the Royal Philharmonic Society? Or you may wish to remember a music lover by making an In Memoriam gift. It doesn’t have to be a large sum: even a very small amount can make all the difference. However much you can give, your gift will count. Some people leave us specific gifts of money, while others choose to leave us the residue of their estate once family and friends have been looked after. If you decide you would like to include a legacy to the RPS in your will a simple addition or codicil can be added. We can also offer advice on how to word your bequest so your intentions are honoured. To discuss how you can make a difference please contact Alison Pavier, Development Consultant. Emily Hoile, harpist: studied at the Juilliard School in New York thanks to funding from the RPS Julius Isserlis Scholarship. DID YOU KNOW? Sing Up! won the RPS 2010 Education Award in for introducing high quality singing to millions of children in English primary schools.
The Vampires of Finistère Peter Saxon \| Berkley Medallion Books \| 1970 \| 190 pages The Guardians, an organization dedicated to combating the Powers of Darkness, take up the search for a young tourist who disappeared after stumbling upon a strange ritual in the wilds of Brittany, in this fourth outing in the supernatural series. Nicholas Brooke and his fiancée, Margot Prys, were enjoying an idyllic holiday of swimming, sunbathing, and touring the sights of Brittany before a fateful walk took them away from the main road toward an unknown section of coastline. Following a bobbing series of lights through the woods to a small village, Nick and Margot discovered a carnival-like procession through the cobbled streets that ended in a strange ritual. Skelton figures ushered the arrival of a Green Wolf, who commanded a debauched ceremony that the young tourists felt strangely compelled to join. Waking the next morning, Nick found Margot to be missing, and no amount of pleading could convince the local authorities to investigate. Advised that no conventional agency could assist him in finding Margot, Nick takes his case to the Guardians. Upon hearing the young man’s story, Steven Kane, former anthropology professor and de facto leader of the group, recognizes the tale of the Green Wolf as an ancient fertility ritual. Kane narrows down the search area to the isolated village of Trégonnec, with its sheltered harbor protected from the outside world by the treacherous waters surrounding the nearby Ile-des-Morts. The deserted island is now only home to ancient ruins and Druid tombs, but is said to mark the location of the mythological drowned city of Ker-Ys, the reputed home of sirens and sea vampires. Heeding the notice of fellow Guardian (and clairvoyant), Anne Ashby to “Beware of a woman who isn’t what she seems,” Kane infiltrates the village under the guise of an academic stranded by his poor yacht-handling skills. With the exception of Yves Lenoir, the black-bearded captain of the fishing boat that helped Kane with his “distressed” yacht, the members of the village are immediately distrustful of Kane’s arrival. Henri Verne, the fox-faced mayor (and barber), Jean-Battiste, the inn owner who reluctantly provides Kane a bed, and Pére Bonard, the nervous parish priest, show a range of reactions from contemptuous indifference to outright hostility. Maître Hubert de Caradec, the village landowner and master of the castle, shows Kane a respect in accordance to his intellectual stature, but seems to be hiding a secret somewhere within his guarded rampart walls. The Vampires of Finistère loosely shares a template with The Wicker Man, or perhaps more precisely, Ritual, its 1967 source novel by David Pinner. Steven Kane acts as the lone investigator for the Guardians, an outsider uncovering the pagan rituals at the heart of a community cut off from the advances of the outside world. The main suspense derives from Kane’s justifiable paranoia regarding whom to trust in the village, and his sense of isolation inherent in the premise. The other Guardian members are mostly sidelined, but Anne Ashby does seem to insert her telepathic skills at one point. She comes to Kane’s rescue with a potentially scientific-boundary shattering telepathic link with a school of dolphins—-or perhaps they were just being friendly. Private investigator Lionel Marks and occult-minded priest Father John Dyball move in at the conclusion to provide support for the inevitable battle for control of the village. Kane’s investigation ultimately leads to the expected source, but along the way mythology and folklore cross with the appearance of otherworldly creatures, some supernatural and others the product of Dr. Moreau-like experimentation. Plus, the presence of a feral girl living in the streets may hold a valuable clue to the nature of the rituals. Kane spends much of the time asking questions and plodding around the village, wondering when his enemies will move against him. When the deadly action finally comes, it takes an unexpected form, and kicks the narrative into a satisfying rush towards the conclusion. The “Vampires” of the title could arguably be corrected to the singular “Vampire,” since the lore surrounding one the characters becomes a bit muddied [Vampire? Werewolf? Vampire-werewolf?]. However, the remaining title character’s alluringly androgynous charms should more than compensate for the somewhat misleading appellation.
Controlling the User Journey If you were a child who learnt to read anytime from about 1975 onwards, then like me, you were probably unable to avoid the ‘Choose your own adventure’ book phenomenon. Rather than following a linear progression from page 1 to page 342, these books provided decision points that would send the reader all over the place from page 5 to page 84 and then back to page 61. There were times when I was just not that impressed with my final outcome in a story and so I’d keep trying over and over with different decisions in pursuit of an altered destiny. Despite my best efforts, all of these attempts seemed inevitably to lead time and again to my unfortunate descent from the edge of a cliff or the temporary satisfaction of a vampire’s insatiable thirst. These books were somehow cleverly programmed so that regardless of which next steps I chose, I always ended up where the author wanted me to go. Most websites have a small number of key outcomes that they are striving to achieve. These are usually calls-to-action, such as buying a product, subscribing to the newsletter or contacting the business directly with an enquiry. For all of the whiz-bangery and doo-gidgets on a website, as a website owner, all we ever really want is for the user to end up at that final pre-determined step. Visitors to your website typically do not want a prescription about how they should use and navigate your collection of pages. I personally feel that if a website only provides me very limited lateral movement and tells me that I have to follow the rules then I’m most likely to turn it off and watch a Game of Thrones instead. However, people can be manipulated. This is where a lesson can be learned from Choose your own Adventure books. Just as a Choose your own Adventure always led me to a horrific death, your website can lead a user to completing your desired goals. Without forcing someone into a linear pathway you can still strongly influence where they are heading through clever use of visual cues and persuasive content. Next time you’re visiting a website and find yourself signing up for a newsletter or even buying a fluffy case for your iFone 7, think about the pages you turned to arrive at this ending and how you can write a similar story for your prospects.
New series idea: Let’s Talk About… This series, as with my previous post about shlock, will talk about certain topics that deserve serious discussion. The topics will be totally random. This time around, since The Giver is coming out this Friday (expect a rant video if the movie is as bad as it looks) we’ll talk about dystopias. Dystopian societies aren’t anything new. One of the first dystopian novels is George Orwell’s 1984, which practically every high school kid has read for class or will. If you never had to read this book in class and you live in Canada, America or any of the British countries, you went to a poor school. This book pretty much defines dystopia: a corrupt society where people live in fear and there’s no hope for change. From this book there have been a ton of dystopian novels. Some of the more prominent ones are The Giver, The Hunger Games, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451. There are plenty of others, but they’re too many to list. The big question is why do writers bother writing them and why do us readers bother to read them? It all boils down to fiction imitating life. What that means is that a lot of these books (the good ones anyway) take a scenario that society is afraid of and make it reality. Going back to 1984, that book shows a country where the government is so powerful that all residence is dealt with promptly and easily. Basically, a communist scare. Hell, Animal Farm shows what a communist society looks like. Granted it’s from the point of view of an Englishman living in a parliamentary democracy, but Orwell had plenty of knowledge with “reds.” The Giver is a different kind of dystopia. This type is where people are ignorant of this fact and accept whatever the government tells them. Hell, here everything is regulated from the clothes people where, what job you have, how many babies are born and what you have for dinner. It’s total control but the masses accept it because they don’t know any better. As you can tell, many of these book curb off of the idea of living in a repressed society such as communist or a totalitarian state. This fear does not just stem from those two types of governments. People feared succoming to the Roman Empire thousands of years ago. Today there is a fear of sucoming to terrorism or North Korea ( even though the North Korean military is woefully small that they have to rely on China if they start a war.) As you can see, this genre is there as a warning of what might become. It’s basically telling people “hey, love your freedom? Stand up for it before things get really bad.” Yes, there are plots in them, but the message is the same no matter which book you read. Think of them as books that make you really think about what you have and how easily it is to lose it. Of course, most of the time stuff like this only happens due to people wanting it to happen because they though they were getting a better deal than what they had. I’ll stop right there because I don’t want to get any more political than that. This IS supposed to be a light-hearted blog after all.
April 5, 2010 The two-toned surface of Saturn's moon Iapetus is demonstrated in the dark region of the moon visible on the top left and the bright crater in the lower right of this Cassini portrait. See PIA11690 to learn more about the brightness dichotomy on Iapetus. The moon's oblate shape is also visible here. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Iapetus (1,471 kilometers, or 914 miles across). North on Iapetus is up and rotated 35 degrees to the right. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Feb. 23, 2010. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.6 million kilometers (994,000 miles) from Iapetus and at a Sun-Iapetus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 51 degrees. Image scale is 9 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
As the discussion of the amazing performance of the K machine continues, one needs to ask how well correlated the numbers are against end user realizable and likely performance. That is, how useful is top500 as an actual predictor of system performance for a particular task? Same question of Graph500, SPEC*, etc. ? How useful is Green500 at predicting power utilization and likely throughput of a specific design? Basically, I am not trying to minimize the efforts put into these. I am trying to ask how useful they are for real system comparison. Way back in the early SPEC days, people made the mistake (and likely still do make this mistake) of comparing SPEC numbers, and assuming that ratios of numbers will yield even a rough performance ratio guide. What I remember from those days was taking actual customer benchmarks running on one of them thar hot alpha chips with some amazing (at the time) SPEC numbers, and comparing them to an obviously “slower” (according to the SPEC numbers) R8000 processor. The R8000 was faster at the actual test code. Customer didn’t understand it. I think the issue is that these numbers are oversold in terms of utility. Doug Eadline wondered about this not so long ago in an article (I’ll dig out the link soon). At the end of the day, top500 really doesn’t matter. As James Cuff tweeted, its something of a … er … member length contest … more than anything else (go to urban dictionary and look it up if you aren’t sure of the context … won’t link here … its a semi-professional blog!) I’ve had this discussion before, and never really reached a satisfactory conclusion. Most customers want to test their codes, and should test their codes. Benchies are nice, but they only tell you part of the story. In the case of storage, it may be a little simpler, but still, its a similar problem. IOP measurements tell you something, but don’t give a feel for how responsive something is. Viewed 37609 times by 7547 viewers

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