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These miniature inductors are designed for applications where magnetism must be kept to a minimum, such as in medical x-ray machines
The SMG1812 RF inductor series is touted by its manufacturer, Gowanda Electronics, as featuring the world’s smallest nonmagnetic RF inductor. The wire-wound, surface-mount inductors are 40% smaller than the company’s previous smallest non-magnetic molded RF inductors, the SMG3013 series. They are designed for magnetically sensitive applications, such as test equipment and medical diagnostic equipment. The miniature SMG1812 inductors measure just 4.8 x 3.4 x 3.5 mm. The components are available with inductance values of 0.010 to 0.082 μH, minimum quality factors (Qs) of 35 to 40, minimum self-resonant frequencies (SRFs) from 750 to 1000 MHz, maximum DC resistance (DCR) values of 0.10 to 0.25 Ω, and DC current ratings from 700 to 1230 mA. A lead-free RoHS-compliant version is available as model SMG1812LF.
Gowanda Electronics Corp., 1 Magnetics Pkwy., Gowanda, NY 14070; (716) 532-2234, FAX: (716) 532-2702, www.gowanda.com.
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Blah, blah blah… new review by me..
“I’ve got another quick review for you of a very useful product, at least for me anyway, it’s a microUSB to USB adapter that can be used with tablet and cellphones with accessories or even storage. The cable is from a company called eForCity but it might also be from a company called Insten. The packaging says one thing and the Amazon page for it where I purchased it says something else, so who knows, doesn’t really matter does it? Anyway, read on to learn more… ”
New review by me…
“Today I’ve got a quick review of what for me is a very useful product, it’s simple, it’s just an adapter to go from microUSB to standard USB so I can use various things with my phone and tablet. It’s called the Micro USB OTG adapter and it’s from Monoprice actually but I purchased it from Amazon. Read on to learn more… ”
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When considering what could be one of the greatest challenges in life, a woman pursuing a fulltime rugby career could be one of the toughest feats.
Melanie Kawa, also known to many as Mel, is no stranger to rugby in Oceania, having played for more than a decade, been involved in many rugby clubs and most notably and recently – the Melbourne Rebels and the Papua New Guinea Palais 7s team.
“The single greatest challenge for me has been choosing to pursue rugby as a profession for many years at my own cost because of the love of the game,” Kawa said.
“As a woman, there are extremely limited options for me to make a living doing what I love (playing rugby), and therefore I’ve sacrificed jobs, relationships, and moved internationally and across Australia to pursue my rugby dreams.
Also, because there is no professional women’s league in Australia, any injuries or time spent in rehabilitation is also at my own cost, unlike the men’s game around the world,” she added.
Kawa who joined the Queensland Rugby team at her first go, began her rugby career in 2006 and has not looked back since.
“I joined University of QLD rugby team in 2006 when asked by a Papua New Guinean friend to give it a go. I attended one practice and it changed my life," Kawa said.
She added that the most significant for her in rugby has been the friendships she’s made that she believes will be lifelong.
Kawa’s lists among her key achievements:
Playing for the Brooklyn Women’s Rugby club in New York City,
Being the first PNG woman to ever play professional rugby in France (Montpellier Herault Rugby Club),
Captaining the first PNG Women’s XVs team at the Oceania tournament in 2016, the Hong Kong Qualifiers in 2018 and at the Oceania 7s in 2018.
She was also part of the PNG Palais 7s team that played in San Francisco in the Rugby 7s World Cup in 2018, the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa and is currently the co-Captain of the Melbourne Rebels Super W XV women’s team.
“I know I’m unstoppable because of the many challenges and obstacles that I’ve encountered and overcome with perseverance and patience.
Through challenges such as injuries, financial levies as a woman athlete, sexism in rugby, managing my professional career and full time work with my rugby training, and other struggles in life that affect my goals of playing high-level rugby, I’ve learned that there are many roads to the proverbial “mountain top” and while the road may change, the goal doesn’t have to change,” Kawa said.
Despite these challenges Kawa, stills thrives as she works as Development Officer with Rugby in Victoria, working with schools and rugby clubs to coach and introduce rugby to new players.
Kawa’s background is in International Public Health and she enjoys working with people in local settings to enhance health detriments for safer communities.
When speaking about her biggest supporters, Kawa said that her biggest supporter has been her family and friends.
“My brother Jonny in Cairns is also my oldest friend and always proud of me. He pursued community development work as well as art and creative music, and I’m also very proud of him,” she said.
When describing his sister, Jonny Kawa said
“It’s remarkable how much Mel has endured, and still triumphed. You cannot escape rugby’s physical, mental and emotion assault on the body and mind. I think that it’s her entire rugby experience and depth of knowledge of the game that gives her an auspicious presence on the field, here lies Mel’s greatest achievement and I could not be more inspired and proud of my big sister.”
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Clif bars (fav flavour : coconut chocolate chip)
Clif Shots (fav flavour : vanilla)
Clif Blocks (fav flavour : black cherry)
This past summer I started baking my own snacks for the bike to go along with my classic Clif choices. I discovered this recipe while on a 3 week training block in Tahoe. Here's a recipe for simple banana-oatmeal bite-sized cookies that are easy to make, and perfect to eat on long rides. Give it a shot!
This recipe requires a Vitamix - traditional blenders aren't strong enough. Don't have one yet? Visit Vitamix and use coupon code 06-009501 for free shipping, or click on the link below to get a deal on a refurbished model!
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What is Alzheimers Disease? The most common form of dementing illness, Alzheimers Disease (AD) is a progressive, degenerative disease that attacks the brain, causing impaired memory, thinking and behavior. The person with AD may experience confusion, personality and behavior changes, impaired judgment, and difficulty finding words, finishing thoughts or following directions. It eventually leaves its victims incapable of caring for themselves.
What happens to the brain in Alzheimers Disease? In AD The nerve cells in the part of the brain that controls memory, thinking, are damaged, interrupting the passage of messages between cells. The cells develop distinctive changes that are called neuritic plaques (clusters of degenerating nerve cell ends) and neurofibrillary tangles (masses of twisted filaments which accumulate in previously health nerve cells). The cortex (thinking center) of the brain shrinks (atrophies), The spaces in the center of the brain become enlarged, also reducing surface area in the brain.
What are the symptoms of Alzheimers Disease? Alzheimers Disease is a dementing illness which leads to loss of intellectual capacity. Symptoms usually occur in older adults (although people in their 40s and 5Os may also be affected) and include loss of language skills such as trouble finding words, problems with abstract thinking, poor or decreased judgment, disorientation in place and time, changes in mood or behavior and changes in personality. The overall result is a noticeable decline in personal activities or work performance.
Who is affected by Alzheimers Disease? Alzheimers Disease knows no social or economic boundaries and affects men and women almost equally. The disease strikes older persons more frequently, affecting approximately 10% of Americans over age 65 and 47% of those over age 85.
Is Alzheimers Disease hereditary? There is a slightly increased risk that children, brothers, and sisters of patients with Alzheimers Disease will get it, but most cases are the only ones in a family. Some patients who develop the disease in middle age (called early onset) have a "familial" type more than one case in the family. It is important to note that AD can only be definitively diagnosed after death through autopsy of brain tissue. Thirty percent of autopsies turn up a different diagnosis. Families are encouraged to ask for an autopsy as a contribution to learning more about the genetics of AD.
Are there treatments available for Alzheimers Disease? Presently, there is no definite cure or treatment for Alzheimers Disease. Unfortunately, there are many unscrupulous individuals who market so-called "cures." These treatments are often expensive and they dont cure AD. However, since senility is such a scary problem and because families are desperate to find help for loved ones, these bogus treatments continue to sell. Most of them have no scientific proof of effectiveness.
What is the scope of Alzheimers Disease? Alzheimers afflicts approximately 4 million Americans and its estimated that one in three of us will face this disease in an older relative. More than 100,000 die annually, making Alzheimers Disease the fourth leading cause of death among adults. Half of all current nursing home patients are affected, making AD a costly public health and long term care problem. An estimated $80 billion is spent annually on the care of AD, including costs diagnosis, treatment, nursing home care, at-home care and lost wages. Alzheimers also affects the patients caregivers, who become the second victims. Persons with AD often require 24-hour care and supervision, most of which is provided in the home by family and friends. In addition to the tremendous stress of providing care, families also bear most of the financial burdens of the disease as well.
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Spooky events in S.A.
By Robert Johnson : October 26, 2011 : Updated: October 27, 2011 8:05am
Photo By Courtesy Six Flags Fiesta TexasA scene from "Mayor Slayer's Monster Mash Bash," the Fright fest production at Six Flags Fiesta Texas
Photo By Courtesy Ana FloresVisitors to the 13th Floor haunted house east of downtown San Antonio check out the New Orleans-style graveyard, where the dead sometimes don't rest in peace.
Photo By EXPRESS-NEWS FILE PHOTO
Dr. Frank N. Furter (Jonathan Pennington, right) comforts Columbia (Jovi Lee Gonzales) while Rocky (Kurt Wehner, left) looks on in the Woodlawn Theatre's "Rocky Horror Show."
Photo By EXPRESS-NEWS FILE PHOTO
The Zoo Boo will draw little witches to the San Antonio Zoo Sunday and Monday.
Remember the good ol' days, when Halloween happened AFTER daylight saving time ended? When it got dark earlier, meaning your doorbell stopped ringing earlier, because candy-sucking urchins had already filled their plastic pumpkins and pillowcases and were home taking inventory?
That all stopped in 2007, when the Energy Policy Act of 2005 took effect. Now fall back happens the first Sunday in November, not the last Sunday in October. That means the sun won't set until almost seven on Halloween, which also falls on a Monday.
The good news: There are lots of spooky party choices this weekend.
Nightmare on Grayson, 201 E. Grayson St. Who could resist rabid zombie dogs? That's one of the key attractions this year at the long-running haunted house, along with the mad, mad Mindshaft and Terror in 3-D. Plus entertainment on the grounds for those who survive. Through Monday; nightmareongrayson.com.
13th Floor, 1203 E. Commerce St. Second year of the new facility, housed in a century-old cold storage warehouse, is a trip through scary rooms and graveyards in the basement and on the 13th floor with Mr. Hallows and Gravedigger as tour guides. Through Monday; also Nov. 4-5. 13thfloorsanantonio.com.
Terror Mansion, 414 W. Laurel. Jason, Freddy, Leatherface, Michael and Jigsaw like to chill in the 23 rooms of terror, along with evil clowns. There's also a human meat locker. Open through Halloween; terrormansionusa.com
Coffins on Parade, River Walk, 6-8 p.m. Saturday. The barges are converted into floating coffins filled with revelers who are far from dead.
Ripley's Haunted Adventure, Alamo Plaza Every day is Halloween here, where visitors ride a coffin cage to the top floor and then have to find their way out. Carefully.
Mayor Slayer is running the show once again at Fright Fest at Six Flags Fiesta Texas, which features the rockin' “Monster Mash Bash” and the undead revue “Last Chance Legends.” And beware the zombies in Rockville and the ungrateful dead in Midnight Mansion.
SeaWorld's Halloween Spooktacular offers trick-or-treating and a meet-and-greet with sea creatures as part of its Halloween Fantasea. Both parks open Saturday-Sunday.
Halloween Fetish Ball, Saturday, Backstage Live. With its S&M/bondage stage show, Genitorturers seems made for this event, especially since the band is fronted by Gen, a real-live dominatrix. Plus three other bands and a costume contest with prizes. Backstagelivesa.com.
Symphony Spooktacular, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Laurie Auditorium So how scary can orchestra music be? Find out in this program of haunted works from the costumed musicians. Dress for excess.
SAC Recital, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, McAllister Auditorium. Not to be outdone, the San Antonio College music and theater faculty break out the costumes, too.
“The Rocky Horror Show,” 8 p.m. Thursday, 10:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m. Monday, Woodlawn Theater. Of course, ol' Rocky and his cotillion of weirdos has to turn up this time of year,
“Stage Fright,” 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Harlequin Dinner Theater. A Halloween musical extravaganza.
Zoo Boo, 6:30 p.m. Sunday-Monday, San Antonio Zoo Kids 12 and younger can enjoy trick-or-treating, face painting and games. Prepare for big crowds, though.
Mall party, 5:30-8 p.m., Wonderland of the Americas Trick-or-treating throughout the mall, costume contest, games, face painting.
Trunk or Treat Various YMCAs hand out candy from the trunks of decorated cars. Schedule: 6-8:30 Friday, Braundera and New Braunfels Ys; 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Boerne.
Off the beaten path
Almost every club has a Halloween event this weekend. But here's something you don't see every day ...
Cajun Halloween, 5 p.m-midnight Saturday, Sisterdale Roadhouse. Talk about too strange for Sisterdale; celebrate in the town north of Boerne with Chef Paul's boudin balls and gumbo and music by Cher La-Bas.
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Winners and Losers: Merrill, Nissan Post Solid Gains
The Merrill Lynch saga continued Monday, with the imminent departure of Chief Executive Officer Stanley O’Neal leaving investors wondering who the board will pick to mend the struggling brokerage. Laurence Fink, chief executive of Blackrock , is the front-runner for the top job.
At the close of trading, Merrill Lynch shares had climbed more than 2 percent to $67.42.
Other winners of the day included Nissan Motor , which leaped more than 11 percent to $22.57. The automaker known for luxury brand Infiniti turned in better-than-expected earnings.
Alcoa was up 2.7 percent to close at 40.43, and Exxon Mobil closed at $93.61, up 1.51 percent.
On the losing side, Office Depot reported that its third quarter results would be delayed due to accounting concerns. That was enough to send the stock down more than 14 percent to $17.43.
Other losers were Yahoo ,which fell 5.47 percent to $31.79, Caterpillar which declined 1.52 percent closing to finish at $73.90, and JP Morgan , down 1.37% at $46.67.
You can get up-to-the-minute investor news at www.cnbc.com.
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I don't think pictures will do it justice. This is going to be one of those cars that needs to be appreciated in the flesh.
Having said that, I like what I'm seeing so far.
The tail is very Sagaris as is the goofy exhaust pipe and it's pure TVR and gorgeous. The face is underwhelming. I'd have liked more "fire" like the Sagaris. It's almost like their were doing a new Sagaris and at the last minute decided to call it Griffith and grafted on a retro-inspired nose. I don't like the Miata look of the face.
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While there are many ups and downs to moving, one of the major disadvantages tends to be that, no matter how careful you are, something inevitably gets broken or damaged in the midst of the move. Perhaps it’s a beautiful piece of china that suffers a crack, a large scratch on your kitchen table top, or a damaged corner on your set of drawers. Whatever it is, discovering that an item–especially a much-loved one–has been damaged during a move can be frustrating. As you plan to move and get your moving truck ready, here are some tips to help you avoid damaging any items—
You may think that putting your kitchen table or TV stand into the moving truck without covering it is A-okay, especially if you have corner protectors in place. But if you really want peace of mind, completely covering your furniture with blankets or furniture pads is strongly recommended.
Of the items most at risk of being damaged during a move, dishware is at the top of the list. You can take action to avoid broken plates and glasses by ensuring that dishware is packaged carefully. Tips for packing dishware include:
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when moving is forgetting to label boxes that contain various items. When this is the case, all boxes are treated equally when loading and unloading, despite the fact that boxes containing more fragile items demand more care. If you have something fragile contained within a box, label the box as such so you and any movers know that the box needs to be handled with care.
If you are planning for a move in the Chicago area, you’ll surely need a rental truck to help you get from A to B. At Elite Truck Rental, we have a large fleet of moving trucks and vans, and have been serving customers in the area for nearly 40 years. To reserve your truck today, please send us a message or call us at 312-942-1001.
Turn to Elite Truck Rental for personal, dedicated service that will make your moving day easier.
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(Local – Portland metro area) 503-574-7500
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(Toll-free long-distance) 800-452-7390
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(Toll-free long-distance) 888-874-9378
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Medicare-related phone numbers
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Call for lost Medicare card, address change, Social Security benefits, Medicare enrollment and Medicare premium amounts.
Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance (SHIBA) Program
Call for Medicare bills, information on Supplemental Insurance policies and long term care insurance, payment denials and appeals, Medicare rights and protections, treatment complaints and help choosing a Medicare health plan.
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Call for Part A coverage and bills, hospital care and skilled nursing care.
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Call for local seminars and health fairs on your new Medicare health plan choices.
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For Medicare-related questions.
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From John Ledyard
Cairo Novr. 15th. 17871
This is my third Letter to you from Egypt and I shall address it under cover as I have my others to Mr. Cathalan at Marseilles. Above all things that respect you you have my constant and ardent wishes for a good state of health. The rest you can command. I hope Mr. Short is well and Madme. Barclay and family. I should certainly write to the Marquis de la Fayette if I knew where to find him. I speak of him often among the French at Cairo. But if our news here with respect to the affairs of france is authentic, he would hardly find time to read my Letter if his active spirit is employed in the conflict in proportion to its powers.
It is possible however that my compliments may reach him; and I most humbly request that it may be by your means. Tell him that I love him and that among the french patriots at Cairo they call on the names of Souffrein and la Fayett: the one for point blanc honesty and the other as the Soldier and Courtier. The old veteran in Finance and civil æconomy (Mr. Neckar) is welcomed to the helm: the same plaudits that attend on that event, attend those who have damned to destruction the ecclesiastic that preceeded him.
I have been at Cairo three months and it is within a few days only that I have had any certainty of being able to succeed in the prosecution of my voyage: the difficulties that have attended me have occupied me day and night: I otherwise should not only have wrote to you oftener; but should have given you some little history of what I hear and see. My excuse now is that I am doing up my bagage—and most curious bagage it is-for my journey; and that I leave Cairo in 2 or 3 days. Perhaps I should not have pleased you if I had wrote you in any detail. I know your taste for ancient history I think: it does not comport with what experience teaches me. There are besides yours many fine minds in the West in the same situation. The enthusiastic avidity with which you search for treasures in Egypt, and I suppose all over the East will, and ought, in justice to the world and your own generous propensities, to be modified, corrected and abated, when———you hear the truth. I should have wrote you the truth. And it is dissagreeable to hear it when habit has accustomed one to hear falshood. You have the travels of Mr. Savary in this country. Burn them. Laugh at the elegant loquacity of writers like Thucidides. The sublime poetry of Homer has nothing to do with historic facts. Leo, Herodotus, and Diod. Siculus never traveled themselves, and lived besides in epochs very unfriendly to history. Without entering into an investigation that would be too long for my Letter I cannot tell you why I think all historians have written more to satisfy themselves than others. I am certainly very angry with those who have written of other countries where I have travelled as well as of this, and of this particularly: they have all more or less decieved me: and they are the more blameable because I am (I suppose like others) inclinable by the common operations of the imagination to decieve myself in reading history, and therefore stand in double need of truth. In some cases it is perhaps difficult to determine which does the most mischief: the selflove of the historian, or the curiosity of the reader: but both together have led us into errors that it is now too late to rectify.
You will think my head is turned to write you such a Letter from Egypt but the reason is I do not intend it shall be turned.
If I have been less decieved, and was in any other country I should not write thus. I have read but little of Egypt and have heard less: but this little is beyond what I see—everything is exaggerated.
I have passed my time dissagreeably here. Religion does more mischief than all other things. In Egypt it has always done more than in all other places.2 The humiliating situation of a Frank would be insupportable to me—but for my Voyage. It is a shame to the sons of Europe that they suffer this arrogance at the hands of a banditti of ignorant fanatics. I assure myself that even your Curiosity and love of Antiquity would never detain you in Egypt 3 months.
I travel from here SW about 300 leagues to a Black King: there my present conductors leave me to my fate—beyond (I suppose) I go alone. I expect to cut the Continent across between the parralels of 12.°and 20°N. Lat. I shall if possible write you from the Kingdom of this Black gentleman. If not; do not forget me in the interum of time which may pass during my voyage from thence to Europe—and as probable to France as any where. I shall not forget you. Indeed it would be a consolation to think of you in my last moments. Be happy. I have the honor to be with esteem & friendship yr. Excellency’s most obedt. & most humble servant,
RC (NHi); at head of text: “To his Excellency T. Jefferson Esqr. Embassador from the United States of America to the Court of France”; endorsed by TJ: “Ledyard John.” Tr (Mrs. Jane Ledyard Remington, Cazenovia, N.Y., 1951); with minor variations in spelling, punctuation, and phrasing which have not been noted here. Recorded in SJL as received 21 May 1789 (see note to Cathalan to TJ, 13 May 1789, for explanation of the delay in transmission).
This was possibly the last letter that Ledyard wrote, for he died soon after; the exact date of his death and the place of burial, despite extensive investigation, are alike unknown (Helen Augur, Passage to Glory, p. 280 ff.; Jared Sparks, Ledyard, p. 323). You have the travels of Mr. Savary: Claude Etiènne Savary’s Lettres sur l’Égypte, où l’on off re le parallèle des mœurs anciennes & modernes de ses habitans, où l’on décrit l’état, le commerce, l’agriculture, le gouvernement du pays (Paris, 1785–6, 3 vols.) was acquired by TJ from Froullé on 27 June 1787 (Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–1955, 4 vols. description ends No. 3949). Savary also died in 1788, and was just Ledyard’s age; he was in Egypt from 1776 to 1779.
1. This date was corrected subsequently by overwriting, but TJ received it as dated above, as proved by the entry in SJL which reads: “[May] 21. Ledyard. John. Cairo. Nov. 15. 1787. for 1788.”
2. The two preceding sentences afford an interesting illustration of Jared Sparks’ editorial principles; his editing of the text caused him to distort Ledyard’s meaning by rendering the passage as follows: “Religion does more mischief in Egypt than all other things, and here it has always done more than in most other places” (Sparks, Ledyard, p. 323).
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papilla nervi opticiType: Term
Synonyms: optic disc
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Canter's Deli celebrated 80 years in business Tuesday by rolling back the price of their popular corned beef sandwich to the 1931 tag of 80 cents.
The landmark, family-run business was founded in 1931 by Ben Canter and his two brothers. The restaurant, then known as Canter Brother's Delicatessen, was located in Boyle Heights.
In 1953, Ben Canter's daughter, Selmo Udko, and her then husband, Harold Price, partnered with Canter and his wife, Jennie, and purchased the old Esquire Theatre at 419 North Fairfax North Fairfax Avenue. The new partners moved the restaurant and renamed it Canter's Fairfax, where it remains today as a fixture of the neighborhood.
In 2003, it opened its first franchise at Treasure Island in Los Vegas featuring a 130 seat modern version of the original location. A food truck followed in 2010, serving up many of the company's signature items.
Over the years, Canter's has sold nearly 9 million pounds of corned beef, 20 million bagels and 24 million bowls of chicken soup, according to the company's website.
The 80 cent sale continues through midnight Tuesday.
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Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities. In these contexts, the capital letters and the small letters represent distinct and unrelated entities. Those Greek letters which have the same form as Latin letters are rarely used: capital A, B, E, Z, H, I, K, M, N, O, P, T, Y, X. Small ι, ο and υ are also rarely used, since they closely resemble the Latin letters i, o and u. Sometimes, font variants of Greek letters are used as distinct symbols in mathematics, in particular for ε/ϵ and π/ϖ. The archaic letter digamma (Ϝ/ϝ/ϛ) is sometimes used.
The Bayer designation naming scheme for stars typically uses the first Greek letter, α, for the brightest star in each constellation, and runs through the alphabet before switching to Latin letters.
In mathematical finance, the Greeks are the variables denoted by Greek letters used to describe the risk of certain investments.
The Greek letter forms used in mathematics are often different from those used in Greek-language text: they are designed to be used in isolation, not connected to other letters, and some use variant forms which are not normally used in current Greek typography.
The OpenType font format has the feature tag "mgrk" ("Mathematical Greek") to identify a glyph as representing a Greek letter to be used in mathematical (as opposed to Greek language) contexts.
The table below shows a comparison of Greek letters rendered in TeX and HTML. The font used in the TeX rendering is an italic style. This is in line with the convention that variables should be italicized. As Greek letters are more often than not used as variables in mathematical formulas, a Greek letter appearing similar to the TeX rendering is more likely to be encountered in works involving mathematics.
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|Delta||Δ δ||Theta||Θ θ ϑ||Nu||Ν ν||Sigma||Σ σ ς||Psi||Ψ ψ|
|Epsilon||Ε ϵ ε||Iota||Ι ι||Xi||Ξ ξ||Tau||Τ τ||Omega||Ω ω|
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- How To Choose Rosin Series - Part 2 - Color
How To Choose Rosin Series - Part 2 - Color
So now that we know how the bow makes sound on the string, and how rosin works (see How To Choose Rosin Series - Part 1 - How Rosin Works). What is the difference between all the different types of rosin on the market, and how do I know which one will be the best? There isn’t a steadfast rule or a brand that will always be the best for everyone, but here are a couple of guidelines and general variables to think about when choosing rosin.
The first thing you have probably noticed about rosins is that they come in various colors. This is intentional. Rosin can be categorized loosely on a spectrum of brightness and darkness, with each side of the spectrum offering different qualities. Brighter rosins (ex. Pirastro’s Gold or Goldflex Rosin) will be harder and more dense, and therefore will produce a smoother sound. Because of this, violinists tend to lean towards lighter rosins in order to get the best tone on their light and high pitched instruments. In contrast, darker rosins, (ex. Hidersine) are softer, and therefore much stickier. They produce a larger and grittier sound. This is why cellists tend to use darker rosins. The lower notes and thicker strings call for more resistance to make the notes resonate the way they need to in order to produce the deep, thick tone that cellists usually seek. There are also even rosins that sit in the middle between light and dark (ex. Jade) which can be a good kind of rosin to experiment with on your instrument. Bassists usually use their own category of rosin (ex. Pops) which are extra sticky and gritty, due to the instrument being so huge and the strings being so thick. These instrument generalizations are not hard rules that you have to follow. You can use any type of rosin on any instrument, but the results might end up not being as desirable depending on what instrument-rosin combination you decide to go with.
For more information on rosin, such as why color makes a difference and good considerations for choosing it, stay “tuned” part 3 of our series. Also see How To Choose Rosin Series - Part 1 - How Rosin Works).
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Although they’ve never personally experienced hunger, Frank and Charlene are passionate about helping to connect their hungry neighbors with the food they need.
When asked how he feels about hunger and food insecurity, Frank says, “I wouldn’t want it for myself and I wouldn’t want it for anyone else.”
Both he and Charlene care deeply about their community. Now retired from a career in systems engineering, Frank volunteers with SCORE, an organization that provides free mentoring services to small businesses. Charlene supports the local arts through singing and playing French horn in a community orchestra.
The two want their children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyone is able to meet their basic needs. They could think of no better way to share their legacy of caring for others than by donating part of their estate to Philabundance. For them, it feels wonderful to know that their family’s values will live on through these gifts.
“[We] might not know them, but [they’re] our neighbors”
“[We] might not know them, but [they’re] our neighbors,” Frank says of the people his and Charlene’s gifts will help in years to come.
We want to sincerely thank Frank and Charlene for choosing to support the work of Philabundance in driving hunger from our communities. With the help of committed friends like them, our neighbors will have the food they need — today and long into the future.
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My first point is a Jewish one. Marriage does not equal Kiddushin. It is a civil concept. Were it not a civil requirement for certain privileges, many Jews would simply not be involved in secular marriage.
Kiddushin is well defined. It is JEWISH marriage. On that front, there is no compromise and there can not be a change. The Torah is explicit. Those who find an opening can call it what they like, but it’s not KIDDUSHIN, and anyone who calls it Kiddushin belongs to the Reform movement and is not considered part of mainstream Judaism.
How should Jews then react to the Civil contract of Marriage? I look at these issues through the eyes of Halacha. The Halacha which is germane, is that of B’nei Noach. The reality is that we cannot be seen to be supporting something contrary to the Noachide laws. Those people, however, have free choice. When they live in a union, which they already do, without the civil contract, they are technically in breach, although one wonders whether Tinok Shenishba applies 🙂 I do not think the Jewish vote classifies as Mesayea Lidvar Aveyra or that this even applies because they already do it without the contract.
So, what would I say if asked? I would say that Judaism does not support same gender marriage contracts. Judaism doesn’t proselytise, and whilst we have our views we recognise that the non Judaic world are governed by the laws of that land. We adhere to the laws of the land, but our personal stance as a religion is that there should be no change. At the same time, we do not support making someone an outcast because of their proclivities. Those are personal matters. We also feel that should the civil concept be legalised, all groupings based on gender preference should dissipate as this only causes animosity.
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Perfect Love-Antidote For Fear Of All Types Today
by Ngozi Nwoke
4/23/2013 / Christian Living
Are you always afraid of one thing or the other? And do you want to live your life without fear of anything? The good news is that there is an antidote for fear and it is called perfect love. It is a cure for fear of all types. A full dose of it keeps you perpetually free of fear. This post reveals how to access this perfect love.
"... God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love's complete perfection] - 1 John 4:16-18 (AMP)
You are a believing Christian and you know that fear is not of God but you find that you are often fearful of one thing or the other: afraid of tomorrow, of your family members dying, of getting any of these deadly sickness and diseases, of lack and want, etc. You have prayed, consulted counselors either personally or through their books and yet you are not free of the torments of fear. It is because your love is yet to attain perfection.
Fear is a spirit, and God has not given you the spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind, 2 Timothy 1:7. Perfect love casts fear out and keeps it far away from you. And your love is made perfect as you remain in union and communion with God.
God is love, and so communion with God is communion with love. The stronger your relationship with God, the more your love is perfected and less fearful you become. This antidote for fear takes root within you and expels fear from you.
Now let's look at the three major ways by which we commune with God to secure this cure for fear.
The three major channels of communing with God
1. The Word Channel
The Word of God is God's love letter to His children and to all mankind. As you read and study the bible, you are actually having encounters with the love of God: as you increase your word in-take, you also increase your love level, leading to perfection of your love.
When you dwell and continue in the word you are communing with God, and love will dwell and continue with you leading to perfect love. As iron sharpens iron, so God's love sharpens your love as you study God's word, Proverbs 27:17. Also, as you continue in the word of God, you are constantly being transfigured into His very own image of love, 2 Corinthians 3:18
2. The Prayer Channel
Another channel for you to access perfect love is prayer. Prayer is communication with God. It is a perfect way of communing with God and His love. You speak to God and He also speaks to you in return. It is going into God's presence to seek His face for various reasons including being basked in His love. Any time you truly access God's presence you will be enveloped with His love, because that is Him. You will become so aware of His awesome love for you and it will certainly rub off on you.
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of the Testimony in his hand, the skin of his face shone and sent forth beams by reason of his speaking with the Lord, Exodus 34:29. Dwelling in God's presence never leaves you the same, you will return with joy and pleasures, including the cure for fear, Psalm 16:11
3. The Praise Channel
This is the third powerful access to the antidote for fear. God dwells in the praises of His people, Psalm 22:3. And so when you praise God, He comes and dwells within you: His love will dwell in you. And when perfect love is in you, fear is cast out.
When you praise God, bear in mind that you are praising not just God of love but love Himself, and what makes Him love will be imparted on you. Praise is what God can't give Himself, so when you praise Him, He will give you what you can't give yourself, including the cure for fear.
In conclusion, fear is a mighty weapon in the hands of the devil. Anybody caught in the trap of fear is already defeated by the enemy. But when you are armed with perfect love, victory is guaranteed for you because the enemy will have no access to you anymore. Therefore learn to dwell in God and you will secure the antidote for fear.
Ngozi Nwoke is a teacher, counselor, and author of "Peace Money Can't Buy" and "The Man Jesus". She has a passion to teach people how to enjoy peace, God's love, and Christian living for a more fulfilling life. Want a more fulfilling life? Subscribe for free email updates today. http://stepswithgod.com
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Monday, August 31, 2009
If you are not using Twitter, you are probably asking, why in the world would you want to? I asked that myself until recently, but I am now finding that joining the flow on Twitter is making me aware of writing and opinions I would like to see and would otherwise have missed.
You've probably heard that Twitter consists of 140 character "tweets" that ostensibly answer the question "what are you doing?" People on Twitter "follow" each other's tweets. And if you have anything you value to do in life, you probably don't want to know on a minute by minute basis what your friends are doing!
That's not how I use Twitter. Instead, this is what I'm doing. I've always chosen which books to read, and which journalism to scan, and which blogs to follow, by establishing a more or less conscious list of people whose information and opinions I've learned to value. It used to be (like last year!), when I'd encounter a new candidate for that list in an online venue, I'd put a Google alert on the name and read mentions of them for awhile, figuring out whether I really wanted to follow them.
Now, many interesting thinkers seem to have adopted Twitter. I don't have to mess with Google alerts. They tweet their stuff and they tweet what interests them, often just as interesting. If I follow them on Twitter, I can sample the stream. I don't have to attend to all of it, but can dip in and out.
This development has me tweeting myself -- moderately. Every blog post gets tweeted automatically (sometimes twice -- I'm working on the glitch). Occasionally I'll throw out a tweet about an interesting article I've run across online. And if I'm at some more or less political event, I might tweet a "twitpic" -- a picture.
For a thoughtful rant (nice idea, huh?) on the authority of various forms of communication, try this from Coturnix. And I should say that the previous post here on health reform journalism owed a lot to Twitter folks @emptywheel and @jayrosen_nyu.
An amplification of this.
The Washington Post ombudsman last week had an interesting column responding to complaints about the paper's coverage of the fight over universal health care reform. He explains that readers send him notes like this:
Neal Gabler, writing in the Los Angeles Times, adds another implication of the critique of the media: reporting has not helped its audience discern what is true.
That is, health care reform is drowning in horserace journalism, more suited to covering a sporting event than helping people form smart opinions about life and death policies.
Matt Thompson at Newsless.org has offered a critique of the way "news" is currently delivered to us that provides a good description of why the ombudsman is hearing what he hears and Gabler is so frustrated. This article should be required reading for anyone trying to understand discontent with journalism.
Thompson says the media are pretty good at telling us "what just happened." That's fine, if we already know (as we hope the reporter does), 1) "the longstanding facts," 2) "how the journalist knows what s/he knows," and 3) "what we don't know." Unfortunately, the latter three are almost never part of the story, yet without them "the news" is just a meaningless stream of gobbledeeguck with occasional emotional hooks.
Truly -- go read Thompson.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
On a boarded door on Valencia:
This once was tagged by a more ordinary graffittist before I snapped the picture, but you get the idea.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Our friend Van Jones made this speech at a wingding for the Washington legal rights advocacy outfit Alliance for Justice on the evening before the inauguration in January. (Van now works on green issues for the administration.)
Everything he said is still true.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Looks like most of us don't know. Polls conflict, some showing huge approval -- others not so much. This story casts some light on the conflicting answers we see:
Blumenthal's observations agree completely with my years of going door to door to talk with voters during elections. People seldom have very formed opinions about policy issues. They have loose affinities -- a sense that some candidate or party is "on their side." Lots of them couldn't tell you why, but they know.
And above all, if you ask them a question about something they don't understand, most are not going to admit ignorance. The one thing you can be sure that all of us learned from being schooled is: don't look stupid. Folks guess, usually answering what they think you might want to hear. (That can be very informative if you are listening.)
Does this mean that President Obama and the Democrats have failed to explain the "public option" well? Yes.
If they'd advocated for something like "a choice for coverage that will make sure insurance companies can't rip-off anyone" they'd have boosted support -- among people who trust government. But they'd have brought down the visible wrath of the insurance companies on themselves and had to make a public fight about that, something most Democrats evidently don't want. They understand that most people don't like it when the public arena is filled with anger. (Obviously, the Republicans know that too and they are providing lots of furious scenes.) A more assertive definition of the public option would cost Dems campaign contributions, not only from the insurance giants, but also from the entire financial sector that plays in the same funny money arena.
The Blumenthal piece quoted above makes it pretty clear that, in terms of actual public preferences, the "public option" is still so little understood that some version could be sold if real effort was made at selling.
So -- it's up to people who want universal health coverage to 1) hammer the President to use his bully pulpit; here's a link for that. 2) hammer our Congresspeople to legislate for accessible, affordable universal quality care. Start here. 3) Talk with and listen to people we know about health care reform. Educate ourselves -- here's a good place to start. [.pdf]
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Assessment of reporting on Afghanistan war by a military contractor.
The Afghanistan war isn't going well for the United States. So what does our Army do? It's obvious: try to fix the reporting from the war zone. Stars and Stripes, an independent newspaper for the military, has broken the stroy that Pentagon is profiling journalists who write about our Central Asian imperial adventure.
The assessments offered aren't flattering about the professionalism of the journalists the military is trying to influence. I particularly liked this one:
Fortunately all this is having minimal influence on U.S. public opinion. A majority of us have figured out that election theatrics and the latests offensive are doing nothing for U.S. interests, according to a recent Washington Post poll.
How long will it take Washington to notice that this war, like the Iraq one, is something we don't want anymore? How many more of our troops and how many more Afghans will have to die for this mistake -- a mistake President Obama has adopted as his own?
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
But I keep being jarred. The reader keeps mispronouncing the names of individuals who were the stuff of nightly newscasts in my youth, the household furniture of the time. Obviously, he's too young to have grown up on a nightly diet of these guys:
Can you name who they are? I'll stick the answers in the first comment.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Their finding: if policy were set by people under 30, only 12 states would forbid gay marriage TODAY.
Soon enough, these folks will set policy. The interim is about trying to live through the backlash before the inevitable happens.
Note too, that Maine, facing an anti-gay marriage referendum in November, sits right on the cusp of acceptance by "all" according to this study. If you can, help out Equality Maine.
H/t The Lead.
This yuppie hangout in my 'hood, Medjool, has broken ranks with the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and joined a brief in favor of the city's requirement that employers pay toward giving their employees health insurance. GGRA struck out with its objections in lower courts, but is appealing the mandate to the Supreme Court. San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco jumped the gun on health care reform and has managed to get most of our 60000 residents previously without insurance into a local program called Healthy San Francisco. According to health economists, writing in the New York Times, the scheme works well without hurting businesses:
A "public option" works if lawmakers will only take the plunge and write smart legislation that subsidizes those who can't pay by making moderate charges on those who can.
Congress: take note of San Francisco's experience.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Perlstein vividly recounts the violence the right adopted when young people who would be drafted to fight began to question the Vietnam war.
As in violently segregationist neighborhoods (in the South, but also in the North), it wasn't the left that turned to violence in the 1960s, until much later. (Full disclosure: I was in that march in Oakland and knew the Voluntown folks. These were not, then or ever, violent people.)
This bringing your piece to the party practice is about intimidation. It's got nothing to do with free speech or democracy -- it is a naked effort to impose, by threat of force, a minority point of view that was rejected at the last election. E.J. Dionne hammered home this truth in a recent column.
If there is no Constitutional way to outlaw people carrying assault weapons to threaten other citizens with whom they disagree, this country is pretty far gone. Under the last administration we got to see a lawless government; under this one, we're getting to see a lawless minority faction of disappointed bullies trying to bust up the country out of spite. Can we find a way to stop them that doesn't itself escalate into violence? We better...
Sunday, August 23, 2009
And that's how I feel about his message of good wishes to Muslims on the eve of their Ramadan month of devotion, reflection and fasting. You can view it here:
[5:04] It is worth watching, even though it contains nothing earthshaking. Some highlights:
Seems like kind of trite stuff -- just pro-forma courtesies about someone else's religious observances -- unless you hear off to one side the cacophony of voices trying to gin up the United States (and Europe) for a war to the death against Islam and its adherents. I've been noticing a lot of these voices lately in some likely and unlikely quarters. Here's a random sample of a few:
- One Christopher Caldwell, a U.S.-citizen who is a columnist for the British Financial Times, has a new book promoting fear that Europe is being overrun by Muslims. (Muslims are 3 to 4 percent of the population of the European Union.) This hardy perennial fear taps into the historic reality that, half a millennial ago, European Christians were at war with an advancing Islam. Today it is hooey, but it gets the phobic adrenalin flowing and leads to stupid policies. Caldwell will be widely discussed. There is no reason for the United States to adopt Europe's ancient enmities and Obama knows it.
- Meanwhile, a Brandeis University professor is enduring a small re-igniting of the 2005 controversy over the Danish cartoons depicting and defaming the Prophet Mohammed. The story is complex, but political scientist Jytte Klausen apparently tried to write a nuanced account that focused particularly on how demagogues in Libya, Nigeria, and Pakistan used the cartoon flap to pursue local political quarrels. Now the respected scholar finds herself re-visiting the issues of disrespect v. free speech that were the original flash points.
- Jim Naughton has chronicled how breakaway Episcopalians (they style themselves Anglicans) not only are building a pure refuge from gay cooties, but also are turning to promotion of fear of Islam. This accords well with the concerns of their right wing funders. Having left their church of origin, perhaps they needed new enemies to keep their coherence?
Saturday, August 22, 2009
That exchange about summarized the mood at last night's 200 person event in the southernmost reaches of San Francisco in the Outer Mission-Ingleside neighborhood alongside the huge Park Merced rental housing complex.
The Congresswoman represents California's 12th Congressional District, having succeeded Tom Lantos when the later died in mid-term in early 2008. She's a longtime Democratic fixture on the Peninsula, still best known as having nearly been murdered as a young aide to Congressman Leo Ryan who was killed during the Jonestown massacre in 1978. Subsequently a member of the California legislature, she accumulated a strong record of working for various consumer-oriented reforms and of climbing the Democratic Party hierarchy.
She's smart and she gives good townhall, at least where the questioners mostly come from her left. Accordingly to her figures, 46,000 people in her affluent district would gain access to health care if the House bill were enacted.
A pediatrician asked about continued funding for children's health. Another questioner asked about "rationing". Speier pointed out that there is rationing now. At San Mateo General, poor patients wait four months for a doctor visit and as much as a year for non-emergency surgery.
A doctor who had just returned from working with the charity Remote Area Medical dispensing free medical services to people without health care access in Los Angeles pleaded for help. State licensing laws are preventing sharing volunteer medical expertise across state lines.
One questioner was concerned about costs; where was the money going to come from? Someone else asked about limiting malpractice damages; Speier supports California's caps on "pain and suffering" litigation, a measure she voted for in Sacramento. But nothing like that is likely in the current national reform.
Another man pointed out that there always seemed to be federal money for wars. Speier agreed that Washington had skewed priorities. She pointed out that somehow the Treasury had come up with $200 billion to bail out the insurance giant AIG.
The crowd was full of advocates of a single-payer system and/or of "Medicare for all".
Speier was asked whether she would stick up for the public option by refusing to vote for any bill that didn't have it. (The "public option" is the name of a new government competitor to the insurance companies that would be available in part of the health care market. It is expected to have lower costs than for-profit plans and to force them, through competition, to improve their practices if they want to retain market share.) Speier hedged. She's supports the public option; she is one of the 57 signers of a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking that it be retained in the House bill; but she is determined to pass some kind of reform, indicating she might be willing to live without this part of the proposed package.
She thrilled the crowd by saying she did support the Kucinich amendment that would allow states to experiment with their own single-payer health plans. As a member of California legislature, she has voted for single-payer plans that were vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger.
A retired school principal caught the mood of frustration in the room. "We worked hard. We elected a Democratic President. We elected a Democratic Congress. Why aren't these people really speaking up? You do your best -- but we need lions on our side!" There was wild applause.
Speier seemed to concur: "It's all about leadership ..."
Then she tossed it back to us. Not everywhere she goes is like this meeting -- we need to persuade more of our friends and neighbors if we want to see quality, affordable health care mandated for all.
It's still up to us.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Insurance companies decide who lives and who dies far too often. They also ration how much care we get. I don't want some company that is trying to squeeze out every last penny of profit to make those decisions. Do you?
Now that you are back in town, are you going to do something about all this mail? Although I do like to sleep on it...
We've been neglecting her with all this traveling around. Time to get back to our regular duties: cleaning the box, scratching her head, providing laps on demand, opening cans. We are remembering our places.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Health care reform is not morally complicated. Unless you like your country ruthlessly selfish and amoral, the issue is clear: guaranteed access to affordable health care should be a right for residents of the richest country on earth. Every other country that can afford this does it. The United States should to. How complicated is that? There are implementation issues, but there should be no question about policy objectives.
What turns out to be complicated is that our political system makes it very difficult deliver what should be a simple imperative. This post is a catalogue of the obstacles from an old campaigner. The obstacles can be overcome, but the list reveals a lot about the incompleteness of our famous democracy.
The President: this Obama guy's attachment to "bipartisanship" was probably a necessity to get where he is today. A Black man couldn't win by just replicating the behavior of the many politicians who win constituents by "doing their hating for them." (That's Rick Perlstein's phrase describing a Nixonland style of politics of resentment.) He has a lifetime of convincing skeptical people that he's a safe, rational guy. But in this, as in everything, he's up against the haters who are mobilized against him. So, as Paul Krugman points out, he's been coming off as
He needed that rational affect to get elected -- it hurts him in pitched battle over his policy agenda.
The Senate: the geniuses (that's sincere) who cobbled together our system of government put the Senate into the Constitution to temper the populist passions (mostly assaults on property) they feared would hold sway in the House of Representatives. It also mollified small state leaders who feared they'd be swamped by large states. So a couple of guys from North Dakota and Montana, who together represent about the same number of people who live in the city of Philadelphia, can gum up the works for the whole country as Max Baucus and Kent Conrad are currently doing.
The Senate has undergone several waves of reform (direct election; lower standards for filibusters; less power to seniority) since it was invented. If it blocks health care reform, look for more pressure to change the rules. Senate reform may be a reform whose time has come. As it stands, we get Ezra Klein writing stuff like this at a Washington Post policy blog:
The House of Representatives: if the problem with the Senate is that Senators get to live above the fray, the problem with the House is that, having to campaign for office every two years, they tend to come cheap for the funders of campaigns. They scare easy at the prospect of a challenger; in a sea of undistinguished colleagues, most of them come off as empty suits buffeted by competing demands, but ever alert for the calls of funder and lobbyists. Still, they are the closest to the people of any part of our government and they've shown it in the health care reform debate. If we want to get reform done, we need to support those who support us. See my post here.
The merchants of confusion: There are, of course, people who don't want you to think health care is a moral issue. In fact, they want you to believe you couldn't possibly understand the issues. Mostly, they are folks who make a profit from selling medical care, drugs, and above all insurance. (Aside from the insurers and the drug companies, some of them also do care if you are sick and try to help you, if it is not too costly for them.) For them, health policy is complicated, because they are continually redesigning the system so they can make the most money out of it for themselves. They are fighting for survival and will do anything they have to do to hang on to their profits.
We're living through a test of our democracy: can it overcome the selfish private interests of the health profiteers in order to achieve health care reform? They have always been slippery, deceitful and vicious in holding on to what they have; can we pry some fairness away from them?
We the people: did you know that there is almost a one to one correspondence between those people who have health insurance and those who vote? That creates some friction, because we the voters can get scared by the idea that bringing into the system all the 45 million folks or so who are now without health access might somehow mean we have less access. We know that health care costs more and more and that staying insured is more and more chancy and arbitrary. That last is true even if we are old enough to be on Medicare: what if the country decides caring for old people costs too much?
We the voters have a choice -- it's the basic choice that always confronts a democracy. Do we want to use the political influence our participation gives us to hang on to what we have? Or can we dare to believe that sharing what we have will mean that we all will live more abundantly? Like all major social choices, the health care reform debate is about a choice between fear -- a death grip on our existing entitlements -- or hope -- risking change in the belief that a better society is possible. Last November we chose hope over fear; will we persist in demanding change or will timidity prevail?
Democracy is a lot of work.
This post is my contribution to Elders for Health Care Reform Day.
Over at Time Goes By, Ronni Bennett is linking all the posts reported so far. To prime my own pump, I just read through some. Some snippets [my emphasis]:
For Ronni, health care reform is a moral issue:
For some elders, this debate raises up the truth they'd prefer not to think about.
We can't fight off time's changes forever (and may not want to), but right now we can show the President we want real health care reform:
Thanks to The Tempered Optimist for that last link.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
This morning I'm working up a good rant for tomorrow's Elders For Health Care Reform Day. Fury comes easily.
But I don't like living with fury. And I've lived long enough to know the remedy: don't just fume -- DO SOMETHING.
So today (while I get adjusted after traveling 3000 miles yesterday) I want to pass on a few suggestions to folks who are frustrated that the process of winning meaningful health care reform has gotten stuck in the August political doldrums.
- If you are internet-inclined, bookmark and hook up with the campaign for health care reform at FireDogLake. These folks have taken the lead on trying to ensure that progressive Democratic politicians keep pushing for something real from within their ever-so-tepid coalition. We need this kind of street heat! Sign the FDL petition and check out their event listings. It's a great place to get connected.
- If you relate to more conventional advocacy, there's the usual union and liberal suspects at Health Care for American Now. They feel a little stodgy, but we need them too.
- We know the health profiteering lobbyists will donate generously to kill reform. Bundled together, our dollars can count too. Let's reward the Democratic members of the House of Representatives who have told the President and the centrists that, if "reform" is watered down to nothing, they won't vote for it. This keeps reform pressure on. ACTBLUE has set up a donations page for this purpose.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
It takes at least 12 hours, often far more. If the Vineyard weren't such a lovely place to be, we wouldn't put ourselves through this so often.
UPDATE: It took 16 hours. I'm pooped.
Meanwhile, the Island awaits the hullabaloo next week.
It's nice to see even the tourist establishments feel the need to support health reform.
Monday, August 17, 2009
The United States may have thought North Vietnam was a foreign country "invading" South Vietnam -- the Vietnamese never did. The vast majority of them thought they lived in one country arbitrarily divided by foreign invaders.
Like the nationalist Vietnamese, many Pashtun Afghans and Pakistanis apparently have no truck with the "border" bequeathed to them by the departing colonial empire. Taliban "sanctuaries" in Pakistan probably look like where Uncle Mohammed lives in his family compound to many Afghans. The area got by, insofar as it did, when central governments in both countries left people alone and didn't attempt to impose an outside hegemony. If local governments couldn't prevail in these mountains, how likely is it that a foreign power 15000 miles around the world can establish control?
"Broader political-strategic considerations" perhaps should have "weighed against military expansion" in Vietnam -- but once a series U.S. leaders got in further and further over their heads in a hopeless morass, U.S. troops and bombers managed to devastate and destabilize all the countries of the area. It took those countries -- Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam -- a generation to get back on anything like an even keel. We're drifting in that direction once again -- in the middle of a region dominated by two hostile nuclear powers.
Escalating in Afghanistan is simply foolish -- and for General Clark to be misrepresenting the U.S. experience in Vietnam won't help.
The flow chart above was created by Nicholas Beaudrot at Donkeylicious. Chris Hayes gave him the idea. I'm visually oriented as I think many people are. If you look this over carefully, you can begin to understand what the proposed health care reform might do for (or to) you.
It's not surprising that I wish the reform were in place today, since I reside in the lower right hand corner of the chart. Click on the picture for a larger image.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Thought for Food summed up what this means:
A blogging friend pointed out a scary Bloomberg headline:
As far as the galloping climate crisis goes, maybe we should be happier if they don't enact health care reform. More of us would then live less long; given the detrimental effect every living American has on the planet's carrying capacity, slightly fewer of us might be a gift to the world's other peoples.
Yup, the system is looking more and more broken. The unrepresentative, sclerotic Senate is the obvious culprit -- too many old guys who represent hardly anyone have too much say over everything. But the House isn't really much better; Congresscritters need to run every two years and they welcome the campaign cash that listening to lobbyists can win them.
Scientists have for quite a while felt as hemmed in by idiocy as do those of us who are confronting birthers and deathers raving against health care reform this summer.The Reveres published an essential essay over a year ago and brought it out again last month. Just one excerpt from Why the Right Wing attacks science:
Yes -- refuting the right is a major time sink. The folks at Real Climate pointed out the good that going over the arguments yet again can do:
Unfortunately, on health care and on climate change, opting out is impossible. Giving up means people and the planet die. Human beings seem hard-wired to resist our own extinction, though not necessarily to be sensible about how we try to do it.
All of this is to introduce a new widget I'm adding to my already crowded blog side bar. This one, from CO2 Now, (as is the large illustration at the top of the post) reports a running tally of the number of parts per million of carbon dioxide currently in the earth's atmosphere. Thanks to human industrial activity and the burning of fossil fuels, that CO2 level is now the highest it has been in the last 2 million years. Climate scientists think humans can avoid the most devastating results of global warming if we can get the CO2 level below 350 parts per million. We haven't been that low since 1988. As I write this, the widget reports 387.81 ppm.
That's what the bill the Senators can't get their minds around is about. It's not perfect, but if the U.S. doesn't contribute to reducing carbon emissions we can't very well expect anyone else to. One more thing to batter the politicians about ...
Saturday, August 15, 2009
For people who care about democracy, it ought to be axiomatic that we don't create two- (or more) classes of persons. If you haven't committed a crime, and you are part of this country, you are part of this country. If you are a citizen, you are a citizen, with the same rights and responsibility as anyone else. Pretty simple, really.
The current health care discussion uncovers too many instances in which we don't seem to know that.
- Item: Massachusetts has made an effort to cover all its residents with health insurance. But at present, as the recession cuts state tax receipts, it is running into the failure of the federal government to reimburse it for covering all residents. So 30000 legal immigrant residents have begun receiving letters informing them that their state-subsidized health insurance is ending Aug. 31.
- Item: naturally, the nativist faction in politics think this is just fine. They want to write a provision into the health reform bill that would exclude future legal immigrants from whatever emerges from Congress. Adam Serwer points out who would be victimized by such a provision:
Friday, August 14, 2009
LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto
I just got around to viewing Errol Morris' film Fog of War. I've been hanging on to the DVD so long its subject, Robert McNamara, died while it sat in its Netflix wrapper.
As Secretary of Defense (War) in the early and mid-1960s, McNamara was one of a trio of political figures -- along with President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk -- who I hated as war criminals during those awful years when they were sending guys my age off to die in their war to eradicate Vietnamese nationalism. I didn't find the old man's apologia for that horror particularly appealing or enlightening, even today.
But there were a couple of moments in the film that opened up possibilities I'd not thought much about.
For one, if McNamara hadn't been lured to Washington by President Kennedy, this country might still have an auto industry. He had just been made president of the Ford Motor Company. His claim to fame was introducing a small car (the Fairlane; my parents had a series) to compete with the VW Beetle. A guy in the center of the auto industry back then who was smart enough to compete with the Beetle could have set U.S. manufacturers on a different path.
Also, the film shows McNamara reduced to looking like a stammering, simmering little boy when being awarded a Presidential medal by Lyndon Johnson. This was after Johnson had fired him from leading a war effort that he claims to have known was doomed from early on and that was destroying Johnson's reputation.
Lately I've been trying to understand more about Johnson. Back then, I hated him so much because of the war, I didn't appreciate his accomplishment in getting both our core civil rights legislation and Medicare through a Congress probably more conservative than the one we have today. Johnson was apparently a very unpleasant, bullying legislative genius. He seems to have had a knack for making powerful grown men dependent on his approval. The scene (contemporary footage) showing McNamara pathetically grateful to this seemingly indifferent President is searing. No wonder Johnson beat Congress into submission -- and no wonder he couldn't imagine a people that would hold out against U.S. firepower.Worth seeing.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Harvey was right -- and this President was right to say it. Now let's get to work.
LGBT people want a lot from the ascendant Dems. Victory on a hate crimes enhancement statute is in sight; it is hitched to the Defense Department authorization bill now in conference. A fully inclusive (that means transfolk are in) Employment Non-Discrimination Act has been introduced in House and Senate. We want Don't Ask, Don't Tell revoked -- that takes passing a law also.
And as soon as possible, we need the mis-named Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) repealed. That's the one that prohibits the Feds from recognizing our marriages, even though more and more states let us get legally hitched. Without doing away with DOMA, we usually can't share health insurance with our spouses if we're covered or ensure they can inherit without expensive legal arrangements. For sure they cannot receive our Social Security benefits when we die as heterosexual partners would. DOMA has to go as a simple matter of justice.
A wise friend of mine says we should hope; she has lobbied on Capitol Hill for several years:
I like that. If we want something from these people, we have to do the work. Harvey certainly knew that.
As I ditz around the blogosphere this morning, I'm struck by how many folks I regularly read report they are "on vacation". I know August is sometimes described as "the vacation month", but that association is not strong for me. This is particularly the case since kids now seem to return to school during this month, instead of staying blissfully free past Labor Day, as we used to. Sorry, kids.
Nonetheless, I too am "on vacation". And I am realizing there's an almost physical relief when I say that.
For the first summer since 2001, I am not living this August with a nagging fear that my quasi-democratic government will do something aggressively, intentionally vicious. Cruel, perhaps. (Well, certainly). Stupid, maybe. But not something of the sort that means I am morally bound rise up in horror at the actions of my country. I could be mistaken about this, culpably complacent even. I hope not.
This chance to take a bit of a vacation in the midst of citizenship is what the Obama election and Democratic majorities mean to me, even as I try to find the right mix of support and criticism of this administration's numerous shortcomings.
The screaming townhall meeting crowds obviously feel differently. I note they mostly seem to be afraid of potential evils, while by mid-2002, I believed I was living in the backwash of far too actual ones. (That was the year we ramped up anti-war work, the year we found ourselves on the no fly list.)
I wish the screamers could feel safe enough to take a vacation, to just chill a bit. But obviously they don't dare.
The pastoral scene at the head of this post is an experiment with the new blog template.
If anyone has trouble with the new set up, please email me and I'll try to fix it.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Equality California, the 800 pound gorilla at the hub of the gay and lesbian marriage fight in the state, has made a sensible decision:
That is, they haven't let themselves be stampeded into trying to go back to the ballot in 2010. Cheers for good judgment!
- The electorate in a Presidential year is likely to be younger and more progressive than next year.
- With some luck and good management, the economy may be stronger. Voters are much more open to innovation when they aren't so scared about their own situations.
- Waiting will give the individuals and communities that need to get to know each other better a longer window to do that.
- Potential donors needn't shell out again immediately.
- Some of the current, slightly hostile, electorate will no longer be voting.
On Thursday, August 20, older people can take part in a demonstration that elders are not credulous, selfish nitwits -- so secure in their government-provided Medicare that they can be persuaded to serve as shock troops against health care reform for everyone else. Read all about ELDERBLOGGERS FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM. And if you've got a blog, join the day of blogging!
Our age cohort -- beginning at about age 50 and working up -- are out of sync with the rest of the country.
None of the proposed reforms would cut Medicare -- part of what reform would try to do is lower costs and consequently save this vital government program.
Opponents have seized on a reform proposal to pay doctors to talk with people about their wishes for end of life care -- to ask delicate questions like, do you want to be hooked up to feeding tubes and breathing machines? At present, you are not going to find doctors asking these things -- they get paid for hooking us up, not listening to us or helping us understand options. Opponents label the availability of such conversations with medical professionals a form of euthanasia. I'd call them offering us dignity and choices.
But then, since I think we need health care reform (almost certainly far more than we'll get), I must be a Nazi or a Communist or something.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
But on the other hand, a titanic struggle of over healthcare reform seems to be playing out this August around the country. And that struggle raises all sorts of issues this blog deals in -- issues of campaigns, how public opinion gets formed and gels, ultimately, of how much of a democracy we have in this country and can we have more of one?
I could try to write some thoughtful tome on this stuff. There are oceans of material, scads of interesting angles. But I've got other stuff to do. So I'm going to throw out occasionally short posts about the healthcare reform brouhaha, not asking myself to think particularly deep thoughts, but just hoping to share some light into corners that catch my eye.
And you may get some pictures and thoughts from vacationland too.
This woman, seen at a community march in the San Francisco Mission district, knew what she wanted.
Here's an oddment: one of the best summaries of the impetus behind healthcare reform from the ordinary person's point of view that I've heard was from a Heritage Foundation economist, not usually where I'd go for an overview that I can agree with.
What we have is quite simply, NUTS. But you don't hear that from President Obama and our democratic leaders -- we hear "unsustainable" and "smart investment." Healthcare reform might be doing better if they'd honestly name the lunacy.
But that would put in play the question of whether we have enough democracy to enable our leaders to sell change to a workable majority of the people by telling the truth. Unfortunately, that is an open question.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Over 20 soldiers from the Welsh Guards' unit of the British Army have died in the current offensive against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Independent (UK) has published what amounts to a wail of grief over the loss of these men in a conflict which an anonymous captain in their unit sees as endless and unavailing.
The author is a veteran of two tours in Iraq, but somehow fighting in Afghanistan is more debilitating. He describes his reactions to fellow soldiers dying:
How long will citizens of the United Kingdom be willing to keep sending their people into this fruitless hellhole? The Netherlands will leave Afghanistan in 2010 and Canada in 2011. Eventually Afghanistan will be a solely U.S. war, without an understandable mission and costing billions this country doesn't have. Just why is the United States so committed to this futility? Can't all the genius of the security apparatus be put to figuring out a less costly, in lives and money, way to ensure that some wackos in caves in distant mountains don't pull off another 9/11?
One gets the sense that our military is hamstrung by its procurement successes: got weapons of massive destruction, must use them. Hammer, meet nail. There has to be a better way.
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Kill pesky slugs with soapy water by simply spraying them. Slugs feast on plants and vegetables during the day and evening hours; however, finding a slug during the day is quite difficult. W.S. Cranshaw from Colorado State University Extension describes slugs as difficult and destructive pests that are hard to control. Locate the slugs by searching at night, or following their slime trail to find their homes. Once they are found, spray them with soapy water to melt them by removing their protective layer.
Things You'll Need
- 1 gallon water
- 2 Tbsp. dish soap
- Spray bottle
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Fill a gallon bucket with fresh water and add the dish soap. Add the soap after the water to prevent the soap bubbles from taking up space within the bucket.
Mix the soap and water together, and pour the mixture into a spray bottle. Set the spray bottle nozzle to “stream.”
Look for slugs at night. They will be out and about more than during the day. During the day, slugs hide from the heat under rocks, plants and other small objects.
Aim the nozzle directly at the slug and spray two to three squirts. The soap will peel the protective layer from the slug and kill it.
Follow the slime trail to catch other slugs. Slugs will travel along the same slime line to a food source.
Squirt around the base of the plants to deter other slugs from eating on the plants. Do not squirt the leaves of the plants. The soap will sit on the leaves, and the sun will burn the plant.
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American Friends, ask yourself: Why are the banks (who claim to care about the euro’s future) charging such high interest rates on borrowing to cash strapped Greece, Italy & Spain? This seems self defeating to me. If the euro fails (which it will if Spain fails), don’t the banks fail? Furthermore, when the ECB was created, it was forbidden that this monolith could interfere in governments. And yet, here is the ECB’s President Draghi promising to ‘do anything it takes’ to save the euro. I thought that was illegal? Friends, I smell a big rat in all this. ‘Independent’ banks won’t lend to those who need it (even though they are sitting on record amounts of cash) and a giant bank (ECB) that is forbidden from benefiting governments is promising to ‘help’ the EU. Isn’t that odd? Let’s break this down, shall we?
If you scare the People enough, they will agree to almost anything. Tell them they are about to lose everything they have ever worked for and they will allow you to take over their government. What does it mean when a bank buys all your county’s bonds? Just how much of you do they own at that point? How much leverage do they now have over the policies & laws you make? Friends, nothing in this world is free- the money these banks are ‘lending’ to these countries come with a much worse string than mere failure. They come with a string that equals a full takeover of your government. THIS is the goal of the Progressives in the European Union. The creation & manipulation of the euro has always been about government unification in Europe- something that the People of each country there hate & do not want. And yet, they are discovering an ugly truth: you can’t combine the MONEY from all those countries without combining the GOVERNMENT of those countries. With Germany being the main proponent of the Euro about 13 years ago and with Germany being the main proponent of more government control of weaker EU countries now, and with Germany’s history of European takeover attempts, what can one assume but that they are about to achieve a bloodless coup of Europe via the euro ‘disaster’?
Friends, be on the lookout for the next big unification effort- right here in America. Here is my prediction:
Obama & his lackeys will continue to stir up Middle Eastern violence. They will not, in any way, thwart Iran’s threats against Israel and will instead drag their feet with ‘peace talks’ with Iran . Israel will attack first, which will lead to U.S. condemnation of Israel. The escalated tensions in the Middle East will prompt the Obama Progressive team to suggest a more intense oil program with Brazil. America will throw Israel to the Muslim wolves because we no longer need a strategic military ally in the region if we don’t need the oil from there. Obama will be lauded for decreasing Muslim violence toward U.S. interests as we no longer support Israel. Terrorism problem solved.
Concurrently, the EU will achieve governmental, legislative powers over EU states under the justification of ‘saving the euro’. Although the new laws will take aim at weaker countries, they will actually encompass all countries legally. An EU Presidency & Constitution will be created which will seal the deal. The EU will officially become one big country with each ‘old’ country as mere States of the EU. This will signal the rise of the euro because the banks will suddenly allow weaker EU states to borrow due to the new ‘confidence’ they feel in the euro’s management. In essence, the money will flow again.
The rise of the euro against the dollar will bring calls from Progressive politicians to unify our dollar with other currencies in North & South America. It will be sold to the public the exact way the euro was sold to the People of all those once independent European countries: it will be said that the poor, failing dollar can no longer compete with the mighty euro & Chinese Yuan unless it combines with the might of Canada & Brazil. Americans will panic because they will feel that they are about to lose everything they have worked for.
The Middle Eastern violence that will be raging at this time will be one more reason to build financial ties with Brazil- they are a huge, ‘friendlier’ , source of oil. Perhaps Venezuela will be included too- especially since their oil crude is so cheap & Chavez has been waxing mighty poetic about Obama recently.
Mark my words, Friends, this is coming to America. Progressives will not rest until they have consolidated as much power as they can under the fewest hands possible. THIS is the dream of the Progressive movement: world governance by a few elite. Money, oil & the Middle East will the means they use to contrive it. FIGHT against Progressivism if you love the idea of having your own country- America- to live in.
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The severity of attacks matches the hike in volume. Over 60% of the worms detected could disable existing desktop security software and undermine traditional existing antivirus protection.
"The alarming prospect of IM threats that disable virus protection software is a wake-up call to enterprises to put additional protection for defence-in-depth," says Imlogic's chief technology officer Jon Sakoda.
IM threats pose a particular problem for traditional antivirus software because they mutate so fast. AOL is the most common victim of attack, attracting 66% of threats, followed by MSN with 33% and Yahoo! with just 1%. Companies can combat the risks by educating users not to click on a link attachment.
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2007 Honorary Degree Recipient
Described as one of the leading poets of the Arab world and one of its "best-known intellectuals and critics," the Syrian-Lebanese poet, Adonis, is renowned not only as an innovative poet and the forerunner of poetic modernism in the Arab world, but also as literary critic, essayist, editor of anthologies, and translator. He has been a leading voice in Arab poetry and culture for five decades, and is considered by many as the most influential modern Arab poet, very much in the vanguard of what has been called "the revolution of the 'New Poets'".
Ali Ahmed Said grew up in the small town of Qassibin, near Latakia, in Syria. As a boy he often worked in the fields, but his father, a student of Arab culture and Islamic theology, ensured his immersion in Arab poetry, and by age 14, he was already penning his own verses. He may have chosen the pen name Adonis in order to improve his chances of publication, but probably with full understanding of the mythical and cultural implications of fertility, resurrection, and spiritual renewal implied in the pagan god's legacy. Following early schooling in Tartus, the poet studied law and philosophy at the University of Damascus. While serving in the Syrian army, he was briefly imprisoned for his political views, and in 1956 he chose exile in Lebanon, becoming a Lebanese citizen four years later.
During these years of exile in Beirut Adonis was writing poetry and immersing himself in the local literary scene. First Poems appeared in 1957 and Leaves in the Wind in 1958. The work often perceived as his most lyrical, his masterpiece Aghani Mihyar al-Dimashqi (Songs of Mihyar the Damascene), was published in 1961. Between 1956 and 1963 he coedited, with his friend Lebanese poet Yusuf al-Khal, the avant-garde magazine Shi'r, an influential poetry journal which championed new poetic forms and introduced modern ideas about Arabic poetry. He later founded and edited his own journal of poetic modernism, Mawaqif (Positions), which promoted new subjects and new language for poetry. In 1960-61 he spent a year in Paris on a French government scholarship. While teaching Arabic literature at the Lebanese University (1970-85), he obtained his doctorat d'etat from St. Joseph's University in 1973 (his dissertation, "The Static and Dynamic in Arabic Culture") and was in 1976 visiting professor at Damascus University. He has lectured at the College de France in Paris, the University Censier Paris III, the University of Geneva, Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He has several times been visiting professor at such places as Princeton University and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin. Today he lives in Paris, but returns frequently to Beirut and Syria.
Adonis has focused on Arab culture and Arab poetic traditions. Gradually poetic statements of his political and social views developed into a search for self-identity, national identity, and future hope for Arab society and culture. He shunned direct statement and wrote in ever more complicated metaphor. His social concerns, aspirations for Arab society, and hope for universal reform, sought expression in language change. According to biographer Kamal Abu Deeb, Adonis's poetry seeks to "change the world and to bring about a fundamental transformation of language".
In an essay called "The Time for Poetry" (1972), Adonis defined the New Poetry as "a change in the order of things and in the way of looking at them". The New Poetry, he wrote, "appears to be a rebellion against the forms and methods of old poetry, a rejection of its attitudes and styles which have outlived their usefulness". The New Poetry concerns itself with a "metaphysical sensitivity ... which cannot be apprehended by reason and logic but by imagination and dreams ... New Poetry is the metaphysics of human existence". The New Poetry thus has to make use of new language, and Adonis experimented adventurously with new syntax, new metaphors, and new structures.
Adonis abandoned traditional forms and harmonies for a natural meter, saying poetry arises from "an inner harmony". For him the language of the New Poetry is "made to say what it has not been taught to say," and provides "an immediate apprehension of inner truth". In the poetry of Adonis language and ideas fuse together in a technique called " tarab," which "aims at a sort of ecstasy reached when the musicality of the verse corresponds with the visions and thoughts expressed in the poem". In capturing the illogical absurdity of modern life, the New Poetry abandons logical order and encompasses ostensibly meaningless imagery and sometimes obscure symbols. Frequently charged with unintelligibility in his later poetry, Adonis acknowledged the difficulty and said, "It is not necessary to fully understand poetry in order to enjoy it".
Often described as a poet of revolution and rebellion, Adonis is passionate about the future of the Arab world. In a recent interview Adonis said that modern Arabs face the world with old ideas from an obsolete context. "We must sever ourselves completely from that context, on all levels, and think of a new Arab identity, a new culture, and a new Arab society". Young admirers of Adonis are sometimes known as "the Adonisian school". Syracuse University professor, Shawkat Toorawa, said Adonis offered his students "a way, sometimes new, sometimes just newly formulated, of thinking about self, world, language, and commitment".
An outspoken critic of modern society, Adonis harshly rejected dehumanizing aspects of American materialism in a prose poem about New York written in 1971. "A Tomb for New York," the poem, while directly addressing people such as Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln, recorded the poet's reaction to Harlem, Wall Street, and American policies in Vietnam and the Middle East.
New York, a woman, the statue of a woman holding in one hand a rag called liberty by papers we call history and with the other hand strangling a child called the Earth. (II, 647)
Adonis remained resolutely tied to the realities of everyday life. On the day of the United States invasion of Iraq, a poem by Adonis appeared on the front page of an Arabic newspaper.
Although often overtly pessimistic in his outlook, in "Beyond East/West: Towards a Culture of the Future," a lecture delivered at Dartmouth College in 2001, Adonis seemed to express hope in the future, while continuing to reject twentieth-century materialism and technology. Reflecting Sufi thought, he envisions a perfect human in a creative movement evolving toward universalism. In words recalling his own life of exile, he wrote, "For between rootedness and uprootedness, between the country of birth and the country of migration, between alienation in the homeland of the self and exile in the homeland of the Other, creativity ... finds expression." An art which transcends "political-national borders" will "assume a universal scope".
Adonis has received numerous honors and awards for his poetry: the first ever International N�zim Hikmet Poetry Award, the Syria-Lebanon Best Poet Award, the highest award of the International Poem Biennial in Brussels, and the Goethe Medal of the Goethe-Gesellschaft. In 1983 he was elected Stephan Mallarme Academy Member in Paris, and in 1986 he was an honorary guest of the Pen Club meeting in New York and nominated Permanent Assistant Delegate of the Arab League at UNESCO. He has several times been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature.
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What We DoOur two camps look to help those affected by cancer.
Camp Enchantment New Mexico is a seven-day resident camp session for pediatric cancer patients and survivors ages 7 to 17. Deep in the Manzano Mountains, campers are immersed in nature where fresh air and wildlife are abundant. Campers participate in activities like:
- Arts & Crafts
- Mountain Biking
- Talent Show
- Ropes Course
The composition of the camp are all volunteers, who are well trained and devoted to the cause. A caring medical team is always on hand to ensure any special medical needs are met, but they are also there to get to know the campers for whom they really are.
Camp SuperStars is for brothers and sisters of cancer patients.
This four day retreat for children ages 9 through 17 is held at Fort Lone Tree Ranch in Capitan New Mexico. For information and exact location of the facility please visit www.lonetree.org/welcome-page-fort.
The staff at camp are dedicated to comforting, encouraging, and empowering siblings during their family’s struggles with childhood cancer. The hope is that these children and teens can face the future with courage and hope.
Campers are given the opportunity to participate in a high ropes course, zip line, water slide, hiking, giant swing, remote control car racing, shopping cart races, archery, and horseback riding. The camp is usually held in September or October. To register please click on the Sign Up tab on the home page. Download and complete the application by the due date listed on the application. There will be no applications accepted after the posted due date.
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CFR Dime Bag
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Quick overviewThe CFR Dime Bag was designed by Birkin, BC Canada based FYI designs. Tom Routh head designer/snowboard legend/sled/moto head wanted a waterproof and super tough bag for his CFR rack. The Dime Bag was the result. Tom chose leading fabric...
The CFR Dime Bag has Velcro strips that wrap around the CFR DD, i and Mountain racks tubular bars in four spots to keep the bag locked into place. The waterproof zipper on the outside will keep your contents dry. The inside waterproof pocket is perfect for your wallet and the key hook keeps your keys in the right place.
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- Professionally used and Approved By Dan Treadway and Travis Rice.
- 10 Liters of waterproof carrying capacity.
- 3 layer laminate construction with waterproof zippers.
- Built-in Velcro straps secure The Dime Bag into the CFR DD rack/irack nice and tight.
- Designed specifically to be used in CFR DD, i and Mountain racks.
- Inside pocket for holding wallet and other valuables.
- Attached key hook keeps keys in a safe place.
- CFR Snow/Ice scraper included.
- YKK Zippers and thicker stitching on all bags.
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Honestly, I've never really thought that much about whether print marketing people coordinated with online marketing people or direct sales marketing or even whether any of them checked Web metrics to see if their efforts coalesced into actual sales.
Hey, su problema es mi problema, and as far as I could figure, this wasn't IT's problema, right?
Wrong. Of course.https://o1.qnsr.com/log/p.gif?;n=203;c=204663295;s=11915;x=7936;f=201904081034270;u=j;z=TIMESTAMP;a=20410779;e=i
This week, I started rethinking my assumptions after reading a Search Engine Watch column titled, "Integration in a Decentralized World," written by Gregg Stewart, who is the senior vice president interactive for TMP Directional Marketing.
Stewart makes an excellent case for better integration and, frankly, any effort at coordination between marketing, sales and online e-business divisions. He notes, for instance, that 39 percent of sales follow-ups from online search actually happens via the telephone-yet, companies don't always track offline conversions to sales from telephone inquiries, even though those inquiries might have been prompted by national or local search campaigns.
Translated into English, I think that means that companies are spending money on marketing, but then really aren't tracking the range of ways that campaign might generate sales.
To some extent, this is about management rather than technology. And Stewart covers the management issue, outling how marketing divisions can address this problem on their own, with the help of a calendar and a spreadsheet.
But keep reading, because he also touches on technology solutions-and this is where IT comes in. It turns out, a few companies offer solutions to address these marketing integration issues. It's a category of technology called Enterprise Marketing Management, or EMM and, according to Stewart, it isn't cheap. Stewart notes the "better known" EMM solutions are Siebel/Oracle, Unica, Eloqua and Aprimo.
There's even a Gartner Magic Quadrant for EMM solutions, although when Gartner looked at the market in July, 2008, it was apparently underwhelmed by what it found.
Gartner evaluated solutions from Unica, Aprimo, SAS, Oracle's Siebel application, SAP Teradata, Infor, Alterian and Oracle's E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft. For some reason, Eloqua was not evaluated. And Gartner didn't consider any of the eight vendors mature enough to be labeled a leader. It did rank Unica, Aprimo, SAS, Oracle's Siebel application and SAP as visionaries. Gartner considered the rest all niche players.
Kimberly Collins, managing vice president of Gartner CRM, told SearchCRM.com that EMM is still an emerging field, with "less than 5 percent adoption."
Still, you have to assume it won't stay an emerging field. And we all know what happens when divisions adopt new technology-particularly tools that might require application or data integration - without IT's input. So, the smart CIO will bone up on these products now.
Even if you decide EMM isn't a good fit for your company, it couldn't hurt to become more aware of marketing's integration problems. As Stewart pointed out, tighter budgets are forcing marketing divisions to be smarter about how they spend their funds. To that end, I've found this article on marketing analytics. It will help you understand more precisely which data and information are most important to marketing.
After all, in the final analysis, IT doesn't operate in a silo, immune to the failures or successes of marketing and sales. Marketing's problema es su problema.
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CORNER CHRISTMAS SNOWMAN
Copyright 2015 NorthPoleChristmas.com
You may make as many of these as you want, and sell the finished product at craft shows, art festivals and other handmade affairs. You may not sell this copyrighted pattern, nor is this pattern or the finished product to be manufactured for wholesale. This pattern is original cannot be reproduced on the web or otherwise without permission. All rights reserved
Corner Christmas Snowman
Paint - Delta Ceramcoat:
Fruitwood liquid stain
2 Scraps of material
Scrap of greenry or garland
Tape together the pieces of the patterns. Join the arm to the body at the dotted line.
Cut the snowman and his hands out of wood - 1/4" wood if possible for the hands. You will need to tape pattern pieces A and B together where indicated. Basecoat with Lt Ivory paint, then transfer the hat and face pattern lines to the wood. Paint snowman hat with Black and Maroon. Paint the hands black. Spackle (using old toothbrush) with watered down Lt Ivory paint (including the hands). When dry, rub a little stain lightly on all surfaces.
Paint snowman's nose Tangerine. With either a stylus or a toothpick and black paint, make 2 dots for the eyes. Paint his eyebrows and mouth with black. Use a little blush on each cheek.
Nail or staple the hands onto Snowman (see picture for placement). Tie a knot in the center of a 4" x 3/4" piece of material. Bend a 3" piece of garland in half. Hot glue the knot of the material onto garland at the bend. Glue a button on the knot of the material. Hot glue this garland bow to his hat brim. Using another material, make a bow about 5" across and hot glue it under his mouth.
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This dish of Spaghetti with Shrimp in a Spicy Tomato Sauce combines typical Spanish ingredients – tomatoes, onions, lots of garlic and smoked Spanish paprika. It is tasty and quick to prepare. Lets enjoy Spanish food : Spaghetti & Shrimp in a Spicy Tomato Sauce....
- 1/4 cup virgin Spanish olive oil
- 2 medium-size yellow onions
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 24 oz can crushed tomatoes
- 1/2 red bell pepper
- 1 tsp Spanish smoked paprika
- 1 lb. shrimp 20-25 count, peeled
- salt to taste
- 1/2 lb. spaghetti or wide noodles
- Peel and slice the onions in very thin rings. Peel and slice garlic cloves.
- Pour about half of the olive oil into a large frying pan and heat on medium. Once hot enough, sauté the red pepper, onion and garlic slices in the pan. Once the onions are translucent, add the can of crushed tomatoes. Sprinkle in the paprika. Stir and cook on medium-low.
- While sauce is simmering, boil water for pasta in a large pot. When water boils, add pasta and cook until it is “al dente.”
- In a separate frying pan, pour the rest of the olive oil and heat on medium. When hot, add the shrimp and cook for 4-5 minutes until the shrimp turns pink.
- Add the shrimp to the frying pan with the tomato sauce. Mix and cook sauce for another 3-4 minutes. Salt to taste.
- Plate the spaghetti and ladle sauce on top of each serving.
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Today, I have an article under this title over at OnePeterFive. Some excerpts:
It seems that the missionaries who went to the New World were able to take up elements of the culture of the people they encountered, including something from their music. Vatican II tells us that we should do the same thing wherever the Gospel is preached. Why can we not take up elements of today’s popular culture around us, such as rock or pop styles of music, and turn them into vehicles for evangelizing our contemporaries?
My answer—at least as far as the realm of the liturgy is concerned—is a resounding no, for the following reasons.
Inculturation, correctly understood, is the process of carefully discerning and integrating harmonious elements of an indigenous culture into the teaching and practice of the Faith, so as to make the Faith at home in a culture. In this way the people to whom it is being introduced experience it not as something completely foreign to them but as something that completes and elevates the good already present in their midst. . . .
Today’s Westerners, in contrast, are post-Christian aliens, estranged from their own history and the great cultural synthesis that could and should be theirs. The history of modern music, whether atonal or jazz or rock or pop, is a history of deliberate rebellion and revolt against the great tradition of Western music, against its high art forms, its slowly developed musical language, its explicitly or implicitly Christian message. In its origins and its inner meaning, much of modern Western music is a rejection of the Catholic (and European) tradition. As a result, it is not morally, intellectually, or culturally “neutral”; it is already laden with an anti-institutional, anti-sacral, anti-traditional significance. This music is not naïve raw material waiting to be Christianized, but highly articulate anti-Christian propaganda. It rejects the ideals of lofty beauty and grandeur, spiritual seriousness, evocation of the divine, openness to the transcendent, and artistic discipline, in favor of vapidity, frivolity, profanity, sensuality, and banality.
Read the rest at OnePeterFive.
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Russell Romano, a longtime Illinois clergyman who left the active priesthood in 1991, is thought to have sexually abused more than a dozen boys in his heyday. As recently released records show (with the Catholic Church, there are always recently released records that astonish, despite everything we’ve already learned), church officials were perfectly clear about what Romano did.
The Chicago Sun-Times recounts how at Quigley Preparatory Seminary, where Romano worked, Rector Rev. John Klein stated in writing in 1985 that he knew his employee “liked the boys.”
When he confronted Romano about his habit of kissing and hugging boys, serving them alcohol and showing them pornography, “Russ immediately and without hesitation admitted that these (actions) showed poor judgement and they would stop immediately — that sincerely I should never worry about him doing any of this again.”
Next, Klein offered words of praise for the priest’s “sincerity” and his brave admission about his “judgement” problems.
I thanked him for his quick recognition of this, and he really seemed sincere — as if it had been something he had been thinking about and realizing was not too wise,” Klein wrote.
“Not too wise,” indeed.
“Russ needs to be supported and loved as he tries to work on things; he appears to really be trying hard.”
Isn’t that precious. Note that Klein didn’t say that the children Romano diddled needed to be supported. Or that the padres should “really be trying hard” to secure justice for the victims. Going by the records, those weren’t even secondary concerns. Just non-existent ones. Because when Klein thought about what he should do if someone ever complained about Romano’s rapey routine, he swiftly decided that
“We don’t want to be snitches.“
A year later, after the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services decided it had “credible evidence” that Romano got kids at the Seminary drunk, showed them porn, and abused them,
… the priest was quietly ordered by the archdiocese to stay away from children.
And that was it. Romano was never prosecuted.
No secular janitor or engineer could have gotten away with repeated sexual child abuse if such behavior was known to colleagues and superiors. But a priest? A representative of God on Earth, ensconced in a Church that imagined itself to be above the plebeian law? Different story, apparently.
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What beats what in poker: rankings and card combinations
Fundamental knowledge of poker is understanding poker combinations. For a beginner at a poker room, at first it will be difficult to remember all of them, but this is just a matter of time. Texas Hold’em is a very simple form of poker (in terms of rules), so you should not be afraid. When you know what beats what in poker, you are ready to play and win.
Hand Rankings in Poker
We have prepared a brief review with a clear image of all poker hands – from the highest (Royal Flush) to the youngest (One pair and kicker).
- Royal Flush. Royal Flush is the king of all combinations, it beats everyone else, but getting it is extremely difficult. Even if you play online at several tables at once, you can wait for years (or never wait at all). Royal Flush is, in fact, an ordinary flush (five cards of the same suit), only from a dozen to an ace.
- Straight flush. A straight flush is also a flush, but consisting of five consecutive cards (hence the name: straight + flush). The second most powerful combination in poker is also extremely difficult to obtain, but when this all happens, the victory is almost always guaranteed.
- Four of a kind. Four of a kind is a four-card combination in which there are always four cards of the same face value, for example, four kings or four queens.
- Full house. A full house is three cards of one face value + two cards of another face value. For example, three deuces and two sixes (they say “deuces and sixes”). Moreover, the seniority of full houses is primarily determined by the face value of three identical cards. Aces and tens are stronger than kings and tens.
- Flush. A flush (five cards of the same suit) refers to those poker combinations that are almost always heard. Flush is quite common and, in most cases, guarantees victory. The seniority of flushes is again determined by the seniority of the cards. Suppose a flush with an ace-high card is always stronger than a flush with a king.
- Straight. A straight is five consecutive cards of any suit. An important feature of this combination: an ace can be either a junior or a high card. What beats a straight in poker? All the combinations above beat the Straight.
- Three of a kind. A set is three cards of the same face value. The Three of a kind is collected when there is already a pair in the starting hand (and one card on the table).
- Two pair. Two pairs speak for themselves – these are two pairs of cards of the same denomination, for example, tens and aces. Suppose two pairs of kings and nines beat two pairs of kings and sixes.
- One pair. You will get one pair of any strength in almost every second hand. This is one of the most common poker combinations.
Now, you know in poker what beats what, so it is time to try your hand in a real match. Play with no bad beats.
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The actual statistics relating to America’s drug and alcohol use are no longer necessary. Every person can see the damage being done by the increased drugging and intoxicating of America. Whether it is the loss of a family or friend from an overdose, a DUI related car accident or the daily turmoil a legal drug, illegal drug or alcohol is doing to you or a loved one, North America blissfully continues to market, sell, produce and import more. The number of well known personalities who have succumbed to an overdose over the years has become nothing more than emotionally driven tabloid news with no endgame.
We pass by the panhandlers on our streets as if we don’t see them. All victims of substances they can’t control. But, no worries, our insatiable thirst to alter the natural state of mind rationalizes the despair we choose to ignore.
In 2015, over four billion prescriptions were dispensed which averaged out to about twelve prescriptions per person. If you are over 65, the average was about 27 prescriptions per person. About 1.2 million college students drink alcohol every day and an estimated 700,000 smoke marijuana. The feel good drugs containing amphetamines are called “the smart drugs” for our children and young adults of all ages. We spent over $374 billion dollars on prescriptions drugs in 2014. That equates to about $1400 per person.
Opioids accounted for 259 million prescriptions in 2012, 255 million prescriptions for anti-depressants, and at least 13 million people received a prescription for an anti-anxiety producing benzodiazepine. So called mental health and pain related drugs accounted for over $40 billion dollars in 2013.
It doesn’t matter how long we have to wait for a prescription as long as the drug store promises they will fill it.
In 2013 our veterans were killing themselves at the rate of 22 per day, almost one lost soul per hour. Most were on a combination of drugs that had been written and dispensed by a person wearing a white coat. In North America, a drug will cure all of our natural God given reactions to life.
A response of love, caring and extra time has been eliminated by the promise of a pill. Suicides and murders are antidotal to our drug and alcohol culture.
A new love affair with marijuana is just beginning knowing Colorado is expected to reap $5 billion in sales since it became legal in that state. Recently a law maker in Atlantic City suggested legalization of marijuana “to help revitalize the economy” of that city.
The last statistics from the White House estimated $191 billion dollars in lost revenue to business is due to drug abuse. Alcohol wasn’t mentioned.
Some estimates are as high as 80% of all prisoners are in jail for a drug or alcohol related crime. We have over two million people incarcerated to help fuel the prison system economy with drugs and alcohol the leading culprit as an accomplice.
President Obama recently suggested over another $1 billion dollars to maintain people on legal opioids after the addiction process is full blown. There was no mention by the President of curtailing the production of any prescription drug.
Congress will support and overwhelmingly approve the President’s initiative to create long term dependency allowing doctors the “bait and switch” for another opioid. The addiction industry is asking that doctors can prescribe drugs for addiction at the rate of 500 patients per doctor instead of limiting them to “only” 100 patients. That equates to 400 more people under medical supervision destined to face severe withdrawal if they don’t take their drugs daily. Avoiding withdrawal has become modern medicine. All know the power of buprenorphine and methadone.
Pharmaceutical companies have received billions of dollars in fines for miss marketing and misrepresentation and it remains drug production as usual with no jail time.
And the legal drugs are not enough for North America. We import billions of dollars of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine from our global neighbors. The idea of building barriers to curtail the import of illegal drugs is met with demonstrations and violence against the messenger of the idea.
Along with drugs, we cannot get enough guns. It is now reported that we have more guns in America than people. With every new massacre, more guns are sold. One estimate had an underground gun economy (illegally sold) at $750 million.
As I write this, Chicago lost another 13 people due to gun related violence during the Father’s day week-end. The inner city of too many cities has a daily fear of death and carnage from gun violence.
It would be naive to believe that the economy for too many people in too many communities does not rely on the sale of drugs and guns. This translates into billions of dollars in cost from lost lives, judicial system costs and prison costs.
For those lucky enough to not be killed or arrested, the money generated from drugs and guns buys brand names that will garner prestige. As Nike sells it shoes, they and every brand name clothes manufacturer reaps large rewards from the “drugs and guns economy”. Hats, shirts, pants and shoes define the success for too many surrounded by drug and gun deals.
Corporate America secretly understands what the drug and gun dealer want. They market directly to the drug and gun culture.
Police are told to back off and let the dealers ply their trade, but are the first to be called after the next bullet is fired. Corporate America has remained silent in the “All Lives Matter” conversation.
“LET’S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”
We have millions of people who can’t function due to drugs and alcohol, millions more who can’t go a day without their legal fix, a government and corporate culture that relies on the dysfunction and money drugs and alcohol create, and a younger generation that only knows a culture of drugs and alcohol.
We have millions of people who are part of a dysfunctional workforce that our drug and alcohol consumption can be blamed for. The corporate and government enablers are endless.
The pharmaceutical and gun organizations have the most influence in Washington and the profits drugs and alcohol bring to so many is a reality this country needs to understand.
When Nike, Reebok, Ralph Lauren and Timberline convene for a meeting in Washington, along with leaders from every religious and ethnic background, I will have some hope for the future of America.
Air Jordan’s replaced by work boots or dress shoes? What a concept to make America great again.
Larry Golbom: Author of “NOT SAFE AS PRESCRIBED”
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Numerical Analysis 10e
- ÜRÜNÜN BULUNDUĞU ŞUBELERİMİZ
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
This well-respected text introduces the theory and application of modern numerical approximation techniques to students taking a one- or two-semester course in numerical analysis. Providing an accessible treatment that only requires a calculus prerequisite, the authors explain how, why, and when approximation techniques can be expected to work-and why, in some situations, they fail. A wealth of examples and exercises develop students’ intuition, and demonstrate the subject’s practical applications to important everyday problems in math, computing, engineering, and physical science disciplines. The first book of its kind when crafted more than 30 years ago to serve a diverse undergraduate audience, Burden, Faires, and Burden’s NUMERICAL ANALYSIS remains the definitive introduction to a vital and practical subject.
- Virtually every concept in the text is illustrated by examples. In addition, concepts and examples are reinforced by more than 2500 class-tested exercises ranging from elementary applications of methods and algorithms to generalizations and extensions of the theory.
- The exercise sets include many applied problems from diverse areas of engineering, as well as from the physical, computer, biological, and social sciences.
- The algorithms in the text are designed to work with a wide variety of software packages and programming languages, allowing maximum flexibility for users to harness computing power to perform approximations. The book’s companion website offers Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB worksheets, as well as C, FORTRAN, Java, and Pascal programs.
- The design of the text gives instructors flexibility in choosing topics they wish to cover, selecting the level of theoretical rigor desired, and deciding which applications are most appropriate or interesting for their classes.
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I found this on thingiverse the other day. I wanted to see how it would print on the Behemoth. The only way it can be made is on a 3d printer. It can’t be assembled or dissambled (at least without breaking it). It printed great and it was very easy to break the gears free and start rotating it. I ran it in a drill a little bit and it loosened up very nicely. I’m not sure how long they will last but I intend to use them in the smaller 1 pound spools.
I picked up a piece of 41cm x 35cm x 3mm float glass at the local glass shop. It weighs in at a hefty 1029grams. I’m printing a 300x300mm square picture frame just as a test of the large surface area. The glass does sag a bit in the center but that can be easily remedied with some supports underneath. So far it doesn’t seem to effect the print.
I think I’ll work on a system to make these print beds easier to interchange. I’d like to be able to put the smaller bed back on there when I need heat on the bed.
This is the second PLA rocket I am building. The first one flew well and is ready for another flight. See it here. The bottom section of this rocket is 300mm tall. I will print a 300mm tube and a 70mm nose cone for a total height of 670mm.
The layer alignment on this section is the best I have ever seen on any of the printers I have built. I was worried about issues surfacing as I printed at higher and higher elevations. So far I have not had any. This one was printed at 0.35mm layer height and took about 2 hours to print.
I measured the Z height again and I can print 390mm high.
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How to play
Winter Beauty Dress Up
This beautiful girl is out in the city in a wonderful winter day. She is a very chic and trendy person who wants to look impeccable all the time and right now she needs your help on deciding what to wear today. Be her stylist and check out her new winter wardrobe to choose the perfect outfit for her in this cool dress up game! Enjoy!
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Houses in flood-hit Townsville and other parts of north Queensland are “on track to become uninsurable”, according to analysis that shows the risk to homes from flooding will more than double under climate change.
The modelling, based on current global emissions trajectories, says flooding in Townsville is already about 20% more to likely to occur than previously thought. The total flood risk in the region is likely to increase by 130% by the end of the century.
Climate Valuation, which advises the property and finance industry, said the result would be that more homes would find flood cover difficult to obtain and too expensive.
Home and business owners have reported being caught out by the scale of this month’s flooding in Townsville. Many say they did not have specific flood cover, and that the city planning codes rated properties outside the “one in 100 years” flood zone as effectively flood-free.
Experts have repeatedly said planning controls must be tightened to account for the increased likelihood of extreme natural disasters fuelled by climate change.
The director of science and systems at Climate Valuation, Karl Mallon, said the risk of increased flooding left homeowners and business financially vulnerable.
“Unfortunately, there are a lot of properties out there that planners in years past considered acceptable, but which homeowners may find are not insurable today or won’t be very soon,” he said.
“Generally insurance companies often draw a line in the sand at the frequency of a one-in-100 year flood event. This means that as the risks of flooding increase, many Townsville houses will be uninsurable or the owners will find cover unaffordable.
“We strongly urge people to check with councils and insurers if their homes are in flood zones, and if they can expect long-term affordable cover. If not they should know they will have to plan for the risks on their own and think about adapting their homes for climate change.”
Insurance is already a problematic subject in north Queensland.
According to an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission report last year, insurance in the cyclone-prone north can be three to five times more expensive than elsewhere.
Most policies cover flooding as standard but it is not a requirement. Some exclude it. On others it is an optional extra. Guardian Australia reported last week that people in Townsville had in many cases opted for the cheaper option, in the mistaken belief their properties were not at risk.
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Brentwood Animal Clinic
4605 Brentwood Ave.
Jacksonville, FL 32206
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Client Feedback - How are we doing?
We at Brentwood Animal Clinic are always looking for ways to improve our service to you. Your suggestions, ideas, and comments are always welcome.
Thank you again for helping us be a better practice.
Our Policies | Your Privacy
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AN Irish priest has forced red-faced EU officials into an embarrassing apology after they omitted Christian holidays from a diary circulated to thousands of schools around Europe.
The unnamed cleric successfully complained to the EU Ombudsman, P Nikiforos Diamandouros, that the diary had contained other religious holidays such as the Jewish and Islamic New Years but had left out key Christian celebrations like Christmas and Easter.
The European Commission publishes the Europa diary every year for students in secondary schools in the EU as a tool for homework and other notes.
The 2010/2011 edition of the diary was distributed to more than 3.2 million students in over 21,000 secondary schools in the EU.
Last January, the Irish priest made an official complaint to the EU Ombudsman that the European Commission failed to include Christian holidays.
The priest called on the EU to apologise for the error, to recall copies which had already been distributed and to reprint the diary.
Mr Diamandouros notified the priest last February that the commission had formally apologised on an EU website for what it called “a regrettable error”.
The European Commission also sent a correction notice to all the schools last February to advice teachers that some important religious holidays had been omitted from the diary. It also promised that the main public holidays will be included in all future editions.
The EU Ombudsman said he was not convinced that the priest’s request to have the diary recalled and reprinted would be “proportionate” given it will only be used for a few more months.
© Irish Examiner Ltd. All rights reserved
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The neck is a visible area of change as one ages. The youthful neck is characterized by a taut neck skin without creases or excess droopy skin, an absence of loose muscle bands, a distinct lower jaw border, good muscle tone, and a well-defined angle between the chin and the neck.
Neck rejuvenation is an essential complement to achieving comprehensive and harmonious facial rejuvenation. A youthful, aesthetic neck imparts the image of an individual who is energetic and in good health.
Neck bands are popularly termed as “turkey neck”. They consist of vertical bands of skin and muscle running from the lower jaw down to the collar bone. This frequently occurs at the front of the neck and is a conspicuous sign of facial and neck aging. The bands tent the neck skin and cause contour irregularities that are not seen in the youthful, aesthetic neck. Platysmal bands also obscure the normally well-defined and acute angle between the chin and the neck. This chin-neck angle becomes increasingly obtuse with age, in contrast with the acute angle observed in youth.
Platysmal bands occur due to a few concurrent processes with age: thinning and laxity of the neck skin, loss of the subcutaneous fat, and age-related separation of the two halves of the neck platysma muscle.
After the third decade of life, the skin becomes thinner and less elastic due to reduced production of elastin and collagen fibers. Changes in adipocyte (fat storage cell) netabolism results in loss of fat volume and thickness. The soft tissue layer overlying the platysma muscle and the action of the muscle becomes more prominent. The inner edges of the separated platysma muscle become prominent and manifest as neck bands.
The optimal treatment for neck bands depends on their severity, the individual anatomy and treatment goals. There are two options for the treatment of neck bands: botulinum toxin injection and neck lift. Successful neck band treatment reverses these aging changes and improves self-confidence and social functioning.
Botulinum toxin reliably reduces neck bands by partial weakening of the platysma muscle of the neck and a high degree of satisfaction is achieved in most cases. The popularity of botulinum toxin injection has grown rapidly since the 1990s, and it is now one of the most commonly administered procedures in the world. A detailed explanation of botulinum toxin treatments may be found here.
Individuals with early neck bands and with minimal skin laxity may consider botulinum toxin injection.
Botulinum toxin causes partial weakening of the platysma muscle that is involved in the formation of neck bands. The platysma muscle lies close to the muscles for speech and swallowing. Injection of neck bands is a delicate art balancing the desire to remove the creases whilst avoiding weakness of speech and swallowing.
The effects of botulinum toxin generally take 1 to 3 days to be observed, and will last for 4 to 6 months. Repeat treatments are necessary for maintenance of the result.
Individuals are advised to avoid vigorous massage to the treatment area for 2 hours following the injection. This is to prevent spread of the botulinum toxin, which may result in potential unintended adjacent muscle paralysis. Individuals may resume their usual activities immediately following the procedure.
The neck lift is the most comprehensive method of neck rejuvenation. It addresses the multiple causes of neck aging and delivers effective, elegant, and long-lasting results. It addresses many of the processes involved in facial aging that cannot be achieved by non-surgical methods. The scar is well-sited to permit good exposure of the underlying platysma muscle for its tightening and elevation and is well-concealed when healed. Platysma (muscle) tightening is the most important step in achieving natural and long-lasting results seen with this procedure.
There is often more significant improvement and long-term expense reduction with neck lift as compared with recurrent treatment with non-surgical therapies. Neck lift is often performed as an ambulatory procedure under intravenous sedation or a short general anesthesia.
The following are good candidates for neck lift:
The neck lift tightens the neck skin and muscle, repairs the muscle separation that gives rise to the neck bands, restores the angle between the neck and the chin, removes excess double-chin fat and restores the appearance of a youthful neck. Depending on the anatomy and the individual’s wishes, neck lift surgery may be performed through an incision behind the chin, or at the posterior hairline, or a combination of both. The scars are well-concealed when healed. The result is elegant and harmonious improvement of the individual’s neck appearance and reduction of the perceived age. Successful outcomes are attained in most cases and individuals experience improved body image, self-confidence and social functioning.
Individuals are advised to stop herbal supplements and traditional medicine and start special medications 7 days prior to surgery to minimize bruising and swelling. Hypertension, if present, should be well-controlled, and smoking needs to be stopped for at least 2 to 4 weeks prior to surgery to minimize the occurrence of complications.
In cases where neck bands are the predominant problem, an incision is performed just behind the chin. The skin and subcutaneous fat is lifted off the underlying platysma muscle after the incision. The platysma muscle, which becomes gradually separated with age, is stitched together to form a strong sling. This sling corrects the neck bands and restores the acute chin-neck angle of youth. Other findings such as the double-chin deformity (excess neck fat), or enlarged salivary glands may be removed. The incision is closed meticulously to deliver optimal postoperative outcomes. The face lift and neck lift are often performed together for simultaneous and synergistic improvement.
Stitches are removed on the 5th postoperative day. Mild swelling and bruising is expected, which will mostly resolve by the 14th postoperative day. Most individuals are able to return to work after 1 week.
Neck swelling is improved by lying supine on a neck pillow only (without a head pillow) when sleeping at night for the first 2 to 3 days. Gentle face washing is possible from the second postoperative day onwards. Postoperative swelling is reduced by remaining upright during the daytime and by elevating the head of the bed when asleep at night. Strenuous activity should be avoided for the first two weeks to minimize bruising.
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Much has been said about a collaborative project between Drake and Rick Ross. Early reports indicated that the project might be called Y.O.L.O. and while that may no longer be the case, both emcees have said that there is still a possibility of a joint album.
Most recently, Rick Ross shared this with MTV's Rap Fix.
"It’s still a huge possibility," he noted. "Me and the homie [Drake] stay in contact and we record often. It’s just us making that decision and then moving forward with it. I was just focusing on Self Made 2 and finishing my album, God Forgives, I Don’t.
He then added that more will come from the two.
"You could expect me and the homie to put some type of work in."
For more from the interview, check below:
RELATED: Maybach Music Group-Self Made Vol. 2
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If you only do one thing this weekend – get some Cookies and Milk
Go: Some things in life are always a good idea: one for the road, a book you like the cover of (better not start all that again), ringing up an old friend, or milk and cookies. The latter is even better when it is less of a midnight raid on the fridge and more of a storytelling, theatrical, punk-culture extravaganza. Tomorrow night, the Milk and Cookies team are bringing the Seven Deadly Sins to the Complex in Smithfield. Expect two stages of music, poetry, storytelling, dance, comedy and some right oddball goings on. Among the nutjobs letting their screws go loose are the Jazzberries, Crazy Dog Audio Theatre, The Brownbread Players, Colm Keegan and many, many more. The show starts at 7pm, it’s €7 on the door, and bring your own sherry.
Get involved: Midweek saw the excellent Urban Party event come up with a host of brilliant ideas for the capital city, from paying street entertainers, keeping butchers open late and reclaiming unfinished sites to taking over the Bank of Ireland on College Green for the city, and establishing a poet laureate for Dublin. There’s still time this weekend to stick your oar in our cultural waters (and if you have any suggestions as to how I can stop torturing my imagery and analogies then send ’em over). On Saturday at noon, the Harry Clark lecture theatre in NCAD will host a public discussion on alternative art spaces. A number of activists, venues and collectives will give short presentations, and then there will be a good old verbal rumble around the arts jungle (please, I’m begging you here, I need help). Signed up so far are Vaari Claffey, Pallas Projects, Annette Moloney, Ormond Studios, Soma, Block T, 126, The Joinery, Angel Luis Gonzalez, Exchange Dublin, and plenty more. Click here and here for more information. This is a free event.
Browse: We all like pretty things, shiny things, bits and bobs that glitter and glow (yep, shallow as a thimble despite the arty pretensions) – and there are nowt better shiny things than those made by Irish artisans. The Cow’s Lane Designer Mart in Dublin’s Temple Bar makes a welcome return from Saturday on, with 26 artists and designers setting out their colourful stalls. This is the year of craft, so there will also be a series of workshops in association with the Crafts Council of Ireland. Handweaver Evelyn Murray will be showing off some rigid heddle looms (must get mine out of the attic), and Trinketbox will be showing punters how to make a beaded oolga lace bracelet. Live music on the day will come from the Ottoni Brass Ensemble. The fun runs from 10am-5pm. Click here from more details.
That’s it for our weekend, but here’s a little musical interlude. We have only just gotten our hands on Alive, recorded by jazz ensemble Phronesis live in London in 2009 (with thanks to Karen Dervan for sending it our way). If you like your Esbjorn Svensson Trio or the Bad Plus get you hot under the collar, then get your hands on this album. And here’s a little sample to get your fingers snapping and your chin scratching – do not leave this video until the drummer really picks things up near the end. Incidentally, the bass player writes the tunes. Which means they have to be brilliant.
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New research led by CU-Boulder/LASP scientist Greg Kopp will advance scientists’ understanding of the contribution of natural versus anthropogenic causes of climate change. The research improves the accuracy of the continuous, 32-year record of the sun’s energy output, which scientists call total solar irradiance (TSI). Energy from the sun is the primary energy input driving Earth’s climate, which scientific consensus indicates has been warming since the Industrial Revolution.
Kopp said, “Improved accuracies and stabilities in the long-term total solar irradiance record mean improved estimates of the sun’s influence on Earth’s climate.”
Judith Lean of the Naval Research Laboratory, co-author of the study, specializes in the effects of the sun on climate and space weather. She said, “Scientists estimating Earth’s climate sensitivities need accurate and stable solar irradiance records to know exactly how much warming to attribute to changes in the sun’s output, versus anthropogenic or other natural forcings.”
The research, which was published in the January 14, 2010, issue of Geophysical Research Letters, supports a lower TSI value than scientists had previously accepted. This new value has been reported by the LASP-built Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) instrument on the NASA Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) mission; validation tests at a new calibration facility at LASP support the lower TSI value. The ground-based calibration facility enables scientists to validate their instruments against a reference standard calibrated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under conditions similar to on-orbit. Before the development of the calibration facility, solar irradiance instruments frequently returned very different measurements from each other, depending on their calibration. To maintain a long-term record of the sun’s output through time, scientists had to rely on overlapping measurements that allowed them to intercalibrate between instruments.
Kopp said, “The calibration facility indicates that the TIM is producing the most accurate total solar irradiance results to date, providing a baseline value that allows us to make the entire 32-year record more accurate. This baseline value will also help ensure that we can maintain this important climate data record for years into the future, reducing the risks from a potential gap in spacecraft measurements.”
Lean said, “We are eager to see how this lower irradiance value affects global climate models, which use various parameters to reproduce current climate: incoming solar radiation is a decisive factor. An improved and extended solar data record will make it easier for us to understand how fluctuations in the sun’s energy output over time affect temperatures, and how Earth’s climate responds to radiative forcing.”
Lean’s model, which is now adjusted to the new lower absolute TSI values, reproduces with high fidelity the TSI variations that TIM observes and indicates that solar irradiance levels during the recent prolonged solar minimum period were likely comparable to levels in past solar minima. Using this model, Lean estimates that solar variability produces about 0.1°C global warming during the 11-year solar cycle, but is not the main cause of global warming in the past three decades.
- SORCE: http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/
- LASP Interactive Solar Irradiance Data Center (LISIRD): http://lasp.colorado.edu/lisird/
- Kopp, Gregory, and Judith Lean. 2010. A New, Lower Value of Total Solar Irradiance: Evidence and Climate Significance. Jan. 14, 2010. Geophysical Research Letters. AGU.
- Greg Kopp, lead author: 303-735-0934 or Greg.Kopp@lasp.colorado.edu
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2018-12-13T21:39:09Z
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Almost anyone with a credit card will always have the goal of a higher credit line. A higher credit card limit will allow you to make much higher purchases, usually purchases you can’t get with your current credit line. There are ways to get a higher credit limit. Below are some tips to help you raise your credit limit.
How to Apply for a New Card with a Higher Credit Limit
When improving your credit limit, the most important thing to do is to improve your overall credit value. This tells banks and lenders that you can rely on credit and that you are little to no risk to them. This is the first thing we are searching for when creditors or banks glance at a credit report.
With your monetary transactions, you will attract a lot of positive attention from a credit card company or bank. You should pay them every once in a while, although you shouldn’t go out of your way to make a habit of it. Normally, this should be done as a last resort when all else fails to increase your overall chances of raising your line of credit.
When you demonstrate that you can be able to borrow money from a bank or credit card company, they can boost your credit line. With this approach, though, you should be cautious, as this could only refer to your bank and current credit card company. Having a higher credit line may allow you to have more purchasing power, but it may also leave you with more fees and even higher interest and APR fees.
Best way to increase your credit limit
Another great way to increase your credit limit is to use every chance you get with your credit card. Do not use it for emergency purposes only if you have a credit card. You will rarely use it if you only save your credit card for emergency purposes.
Please try to pay more than the minimum amount if you submit in your fee. If you can afford to pay the whole outstanding amount, you must try to pay. This shows credit card firms and banks that you are striving for better credit. You’re going to show them that you deserve a higher credit line.
You will get your credit limit higher in no time if you follow the tips above. Once you raise your limit, it should be protected at all costs. If you keep striving for perfection–you’re going to get a higher credit line than you ever thought possible.
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The challenge of strong-QCD is to discover the connections between the basic theory of strong nuclear forces known as Quantum ChromoDynamics, which accurately describes the interactions between quarks and gluons at small distances, and the phenomena of strong interactions at larger distance scales, like the radius of the proton or the pion. The exact way that QCD works itself out in the spectrum and decays of physical states at the hadronic scale is an active area of current theoretical research. In experiments at Jefferson Lab and elsewhere we are working to test these theoretical ideas and hope to point the way toward a solution to the general problem of strongly interacting fields.
- Ph.D., Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1988
- B.Sc., Physics, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC, 1981
- 1996-present: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
- 1990-1996: Research Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- 1988-1990: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana IL
- American Physical Society
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2018-06-23T15:34:52Z
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Remember all the fuss over on-again, off-again plans to spend millions changing highway signs to tell distances in kilometers rather than in miles?
That plan fell by the roadside, but the metric system is still on the way. And now the fuss is over the roadway itself-the width of the lanes, the depth of the concrete and the distance from intersection to intersection.
Most roads, traditionally measured in miles, feet and inches, will have to be broken down in meters and millimeters after Oct. 1, 1996.
It is a change that isn't going over well with some engineers and several members of the DuPage County Board.
This week, a County Board committee recommended without enthusiasm that a Rolling Meadows engineering firm be paid an additional $40,000 to convert to metric measurements the plans and specifications now being drawn up for future improvements to Army Trail Road through parts of Glendale Heights and Bloomingdale.
"It's a total waste of the taxpayers' money," grumbled board member William Maio Jr. of Itasca.
The culprit is the same 1988 law and the same agency, the Federal Highway Administration, that once proposed withholding federal road-building funds unless states changed road signs to metric by Sept. 30, 1996. Those plans were put on hold indefinitely last year after much public criticism.
But so far, federal officials continue to insist on implementing a separate requirement that federally funded road projects be designed and built to metric measurements.
Local highway and planning departments get sucked into the metric maelstrom because they generally use specifications prepared by the Illinois Department of Transportation, even for projects that are not federally funded. And state transportation officials are converting their design manuals to metric because it doesn't make sense to have one set of specifications for federally funded projects and another for projects paid for with state motor-fuel tax revenues, according to a spokeswoman for IDOT.
"Local departments, with few exceptions, use IDOT specifications, and ultimately it does not make sense to have two, dual measurements," said spokeswoman Martha Schiebel.
Highway engineers, though, say the conversion is likely to result in more costs and more confusion.
They point out that much of the information used to design roads and other types of projects has been collected in non-metric units of measure. For example, existing drawings showing streets, lot lines and utility easements are in feet and hundredths of a foot; flood plains are plotted in feet above sea level; and stormwater runoff is measured in cubic feet a second.
"It will require converting all these units to metric, and you do lose accuracy in rounding off numbers," said John Pezl, president of CE Design in Arlington Heights and a former city engineer for Arlington Heights. "I have yet to hear anyone give a good rationale as to why this is beneficial to anyone."
The Urban Planning and Development Committee of the Illinois chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers has asked its national group-without success, so far-to oppose the change.
"We feel like this is another unfunded mandate," said Vince Wroblewski, committee chairman and director of engineering for Schaumburg.
Wroblewski and others predict there will be mistakes in the field as engineers and project managers convert back and forth between the foot and cubic-yard measurements with which they are familiar and the metric measurements required on plans and drawings.
"An experienced engineer knows how many yards are in a bucket (of concrete) and understands that and can estimate the quantities needed," Wroblewski said. Cubic meters of concrete are something else again.
DuPage County ran into problems with the Army Trail Road project because it overlaps the deadline. Design work on the improvements between Swift and Schmale Roads has begun, but construction is at least three or four years away.
Other projects won't run into that metric mire because they will either be contracted before Sept. 30, 1996, or will be designed entirely using metric measurements, said Charles Tokarski, DuPage County's chief engineer.
Other highway officials are also preparing for the change. In Lake County, Pezl said, highway officials are already requiring that the distances from intersections to driveway cuts be measured on plans in meters rather than feet.
Schiebel contends that the switch to metric is needed so that U.S. goods and services can compete in an increasingly global economy. She conceded, though, that there is no compelling reason to use metric on highway signs-presumably because a sign informing motorists that Rockford is 50 miles from Elgin is unlikely to be exported.
And many are skeptical that the global economy has much impact on the curbing or concrete used to widen a road in the Chicago area.
"To say that metric is needed for projects in Illinois is a far stretch," Pezl said.
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Impact of the change on users:
Users may not be able to log into the Virtual Private Network (VPN) to start new VPN sessions or MESA Support Tools (tools.mesa.gmu.edu) during the maintenance period. Engineers do not expect there will be an interruption to the VPN service. Existing sessions will not be impacted.
Reason for the change:
ITS is mitigating a vulnerability. (ID # 230464)
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2022-09-30T16:12:21Z
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Is it possible to restore a breast after a lumpectomy using lipofilling? I had a large amount of tissue removed from the top part of my breast. I don't want Breast implants, but would like to have breast asymmetry.
Breast Reconstruction Via Lipofilling After Lumpectomy?
Doctor Answers 7
Breast reconstruction via lipofilling after lumpectomy?
The decision to have the procedure performed once again will be on you - if you are happy with the results thus far. It is true that some of the fat does resorb (survival rate of fat grafting is 50-80%). At our Breast Reconstruction Center, we have utilizing this technique almost routinely to maximize the aesthetic outcomes after lumpectomy or mastectomy. We have utilized the micro-fat grafting technique, and have been obtaining maximal fat graft survival into the breast. After harvesting of the fat from areas with excess fat, usually the belly, hips, or thighs, the fat is processed and injected back into the breast using the aforementioned techniques. Our patients have been very happy with the results as well as the areas where the liposuction was performed. Contour has been much improved using the micro-fat grafting technique, and the downtime is minimal.
Fat grafting has become a mainstay in breast reconstruction and has added another edge to breast reconstruction for aesthetics with minimal morbidity and complications. It typically takes up to a year to see vascularization of the area, which will ameliorate some of the radiation damage present. Hope that this helps! Best wishes!
Lipofilling Lumpectomy Defects
If you had a lumpectomy, then it is reasonable to assume that you had radiation to the area as well. Because of this, the vascularity of the area is not as good as it should be, meaning that injected fat may have a hard time surviving in the area. In these cases, you often need some rearrangement of the tissue internally along with an implant, or some type of flap to add more volume.
Lipofilling for breast lumpectomy defects
Fat injections were strongly frowned upon several years ago because of concerns about mimicking breast cancer and clouding detection. There has been a resurgence in interest in recent years and many surgeons are doing this. The smaller the defect the better. A large defect may need a latissimus flap for example but this is much more surgery. Make sure you go to someone who has experience in all methods so you can sort out the best choice for you.
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Breast reconstruction with fat injections.
1) It all depends on the exact deformity.
2) But fat injections can be a simple and safe way to reconstruct a localized breast deformity after lumpectomy. It is so much less surgery than a flap.
Lipofilling for breast reconstruction
Lipofilling has been the rage lately in the press and at the plastic surgery meetings. In most cases for breast reconstruction, autologous tissue transfer as a free flap or pedicled flap are usually the best way to go.
Fat injection breast reconstruction after lumpectomy
Fat injections are increasingly being used for breat reconstruction with acceptable results. There are some downsides associated with it including the probable need for multiple procedures. You can also have a muscle fat flap from the back and obviously implants.
It has been my experience that smaller defects respond well to injections depending on the amount of scar tissue present. Larger defects are more difficult to treat in this manner. You may also wish to consier a reductio on the opposite side to match the volume.
Fat injections to the breast
This is an old idea that is getting a resurgence in interest. Post-lumpectomy partial defects are sometimes quite problematic. Depending on your specific situation, fat injection or flap reconstruction or attempts at rearrangement of existing breast tissue can be contemplated, They all have pros and cons that you need to discuss with your surgeon. Fat injections is highly controversial since there is unpredicatability of survival of the grafts and risks of cysts and lumps forming that may confuse cancer detection in the future, although some surgeons and radiologists dispute this. Approach this technique with caution and full information.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.
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Monster, Red Bull, Rock Star, 5 Energy… I’m sure you know of all these products. The energy drink market has…
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Pimping and pandering charges against a North Hollywood woman accused of forcing her 16-year-old daughter into prostitution were dismissed Friday because the prosecution was unable to produce the girl to testify against her mother.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Kenneth Freeman said that, without the girl's testimony, he could not proceed with the preliminary hearing in Van Nuys Municipal Court. Judge Robert Wallerstein then dismissed the case for lack of evidence.
The prosecutor said he had not decided whether to continue his search for the girl in the hope of refiling the charges.
'Above the Law'
Freeman asserted that the defendant, Cheri Barbara Woods, 36, had placed herself "above the law" by hiding her daughter, Regina, in a Midwestern state in an effort to escape prosecution.
In a hearing on whether Woods could be forced to bring her daughter to court, the woman's attorney argued that such an order would be a violation of her constitutional right against self-incrimination. But the defense attorney did not concede that Woods knew where her daughter is living.
Freeman argued that the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination should not extend so far as to allow Woods to hide a witness.
Girl's Current Location
Wallerstein agreed with the prosecutor on the legal issue. But the judge concluded that, although Freeman had presented evidence that Woods probably knew where her daughter was a month ago, he had failed to prove that Woods could locate her as of Friday.
In a tape-recorded interview with Los Angeles Police Detective Alan Vanderpool on Sept. 5, Woods implied that she knew where her daughter was living, Freeman said.
The prosecutor also cited a letter dated Sept. 10 that was confiscated during a search of Woods' home. The writer, whose identity is unknown, said that police apparently were not smart enough to look for Regina in St. Paul, Minn., where Woods' parents live.
Authorities in St. Paul confirmed that Regina had been living with her maternal grandparents and attending school there but disappeared Sept. 30, Freeman said. She disappeared just as Los Angeles police were preparing to go there to apprehend her, he said.
The timing of the girl's disappearance suggested that Woods had tipped her parents that investigators were closing in on Regina, Freeman argued.
Defense attorney Peter L. Knecht denied that Woods was hiding her daughter and argued that his client should not be forced to perform detective work to find her.
"There is no evidence that she ever knew the whereabouts of her daughter," Knecht said. "All she knows is that her daughter is missing."
According to court records, Regina went to police in January and complained that her mother had forced her to become a prostitute. Regina reported that her mother employed more than 185 prostitutes in an out-call service named "Cheri's Angels."
After filing the report, Regina was placed in protective custody at county-run MacLaren Hall, but she ran away in late January, Freeman said.
Knecht maintained that Regina fabricated the allegations to get back at her mother for being too strict.
A related case against Woods is scheduled for preliminary hearing in Van Nuys Municipal Court on Oct. 24. In that matter, she is charged with serving as a pimp for four suspected prostitutes and two undercover police officers.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday took a dig at Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal for organising a fund raising dinner.
“They are collecting Rs 25 lakh with invitations to dinner parties. I condemn the hypocritical practice of raising money from dinner and lunch invites,” Banerjee said at the release of the Trinamool Congress manifesto.
“Maybe they had different prices for vegetarian and non-vegetarian food, different rates for plain water and coloured water,” she said.
Without naming BJP or its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, she said some political parties were taking donations from people to sit in the front row of their rallies. “I can’t think about doing such a thing … “For first row seats, one has to pay Rs one lakh. I hate to talk of about this,” she said.
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It’s that time of year again! Frances’ and supernaut’s Books of the Year for the 9th time. And some most excellent books were read indeed. This time last year, I realised I’d been struggling a bit with enjoying reading. I looked back over what I’d read in previous years, compared it with 2015’s crop, and noticed I’d dug myself into a bit of a hole with mediæval art and history.
What to do, Frances? I dunno, Other Frances, how about read about space travel and stuff? Good idea!
Unlike last year, my ninth iteration of looking back on a year’s reading — and it’s in October because that’s when I first started blogging about reading, almost a decade ago — has some absolute slammers on the fiction side. Last year I didn’t even name a fiction book of the year. This year, if it wasn’t for one in particular, there’s be 4 or 5 smashing at it for joint Book. And in non-fiction the situation’s pretty similar, or even better, cos there’s barely a single non-fiction work I’ve read in the past 12 months that was anything less than well awesome. It’s also one of my least-read years, only 29 that I read and blogged (possibly a couple of others I’ve forgotten); definitely plenty of internet — I mean Rainbow Autobahn distraction in the last year, exacerbating my inability to focus on pages. I blamed my poor reading last year on that distraction as well, probably time to harden the fuck up and put away the internet.
Of those 29, only 10 were non-fiction; the remaining 19 non-fiction skewed more to fantasy than sci-fi, with around 7 works explicitly skiffy, 9 explicitly fantasy, and a trio (maybe more depending on how dogmatically I apply those categories) deftly straddling both. I call those Speculative Fuckery, ’cos I love when the only two genres I read start boning each other.
On the non-fiction side, mediæval Northern European history continues filling my shelves, and there’s a bunch of “not easily categorised on their own” which nevertheless fit predictably into my decades-long interests.
Then there’s the new, or maybe to say newly clarified bunch that I kinda want to call Islamicate Studies, though that might miss something, so it encompasses that, human rights, identity, philosophy, feminism, and is primarily from women from and/or writing on Iran, Near/Middle East (I’m a bit iffy on this appellation right now, and have been trying out ‘West Asia’ also because it shifts the centre and subject of focus out of Europe, dunno though), and people from or descended from those regions in Europe, North America, Australia. I arrived at this field of interconnected subjects after increasing dissatisfaction with how feminist/queer/left-ist writing addressed brown and/or Muslim identities; regarded these people living in Europe, North America, Australia; and when I spent some time thinking about how the diverse subjects I was reading needed to come together. Also it’s a lot of living in Berlin/Germany/Europe and getting increasingly pissed at the racism against anyone not unequivocally ethnically correct, and the white feminist/queer/left-ist bullshit distractions, and my own personal, slow movement towards identifying if not myself as Turkish/brown/West Asian/Muslim, then definitely my family history (as you can see from all the slashes, I have no idea).
Books! I have read them!
Fiction first. This was a fine year. If I hadn’t read Sofia Samatar’s A Stranger in Olondria, she’d still be my Fiction Book of the Year with The Winged Histories, though sharing with a few others. I don’t actually know how I would pick a book of the year from a pile comprised of that plus Jo Walton’s Necessity and The Philosopher Kings; Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng’s The Sea Is Ours; and Ann Leckie’s masterful finish to her debut Imperial Radch trilogy, Ancillary Mercy. Impossible. I would probably give it to the latter, but then … Necessity, a brilliant conclusion to another trilogy, and The Winged Histories: sublime. So I could possibly get it down to a trio of exceptional literature, but no further. Lucky then A Stranger in Orlondria saved me from that anguish.
I don’t want to say it’s ‘better’ any of those other three — though perhaps that’s the case when comparing it to The Winged Histories, which would lose its spot in the trio just as The Philosopher Kings does to Necessity. I think of the two Samatar has written it’s a more major work. If this is my final trio then, I’m not claiming one is better than another, simply A Stranger in Olondria has had a significant effect on me. Would that effect stand up under re-reading? How would that re-reading compare to one of Leckie’s trilogy? If I read them both back-to-back, what then would be my judgement? The best questions always involve more reading.
This is all anyway just writing from memory, how I remember a book made me feel. I’ve been thinking recently that eventually my memory of a book dissolves until it’s just feelings, colours, a glimpse of an image or two. It’s like sediment, like geology, layers upon layers of this.
Breed was a romp of Oglaf proportions and probably the most fun I had this year. I wish she’d write more of this. Reynolds’ Revelation Space I read because I needed some hard operatic space sci-fi, and his Slow Bullets novella was a favourite of mine last year. This one was good enough for me to slog through the whole, uneven trilogy. I like him, but there’s a hopelessness in his work, like the heat death of the universe.
As with Reynolds, Genevieve Cogman is another whose previous works got me to read her latest. The Invisible Library, which I also read last year was well tasty. I was super excited to find she had this sequel — and OMG! Just like last time when I discovered The Masked City, she has a sequel to that! Excellent! The immediate result of me writing about my favourite books is I’m ordering more.
Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning. Yeah, loved a lot. Glorious cover art, almost almost one of my first choices, but a few flaws in it, and the cliffhanger “Will bad things happen? Stay tuned for Book 2!” guaranteed to piss me right off. Please, don’t do that to me. I’ve paid for a story, not half a story. If your story’s too big for one book, then at least divide it in a way that doesn’t leave me hanging.
All of these authors I’ll read again (along with a score of others on my Have You Written A New Book Yet? list). I might be a bit crabby here and there about the works, but I also possess a modicum of self-awareness that I’m a pretty fucking demanding reader. The authors and works above if you’re into sci-fi / fantasy (or if you’re not) are about as good as it gets. Not just for this year, but of everything I’ve read in the last 12 years or so. (And just wait for next year’s Books of the Decade! It’s gonna be hectic!)
I didn’t read much of this in the last year, but I lucked out here too, barely a dud among them (and that single one was an old book I realised I’d never finished), running out of superlatives here.
I tried to broaden my non-fiction reading a little again, move outside the clag of mediæval history. So I read Amy Shira Teitel’s Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA, Julie Phillips’ James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, and Jo Walton’ What Makes This Book So Great. All excellent works in completely different ways, and which remind me I need to read more astronomy, astrophysics, and geology this year.
The Book of the Year though — and I’m forcing myself to pick only one — comes from another trio: Kathryn Babayan and Afsaneh Najmabadi’s Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire; Seyla Benhabib’s The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens; and Svetlana Alexievich’s Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War.
Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, in no small part for her writing on the Soviet occupation and war in Afghanistan. Her writing is chilling. Heart-rending. I even said Zinky Boys would be my Book of the Year. Pretty sure I said the same thing about Seyla Benhabib’s The Rights of Others. In truth I shouldn’t pick one over the other, except that Babayan and Najmabadi’s Islamicate Sexualities somehow is tying all this together, mediæval history, human rights, feminism, identity, migration, religion, and it’s so urgently pertinent to the slow stumbling back to the abyss Europe is currently taking. Read them all, or at least familiarise yourself with the writers.
Other books well worth reading: Kecia Ali’s Sexual Ethics in Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence. Mediæval of course: Miri Rubin’s Emotion and Devotion: The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures, and Gude Suckale-Redlefsen’s Mauritius Der heilige Mohr / The Black Saint Maurice.
And that’s my reading for the last 12 months. As if I’m not sated and replete already, I’ve already got a pile of new stuff.
Reading is a great privilege. It’s not however, explicitly a human right. Article 26 i. and 27 i. of the UN Declaration of Human Rights either directly imply or by extrapolation intend reading as a human right, yet nowhere is it explicitly stated that reading comprehension or literacy, and the opportunity to gain this ability is a right. Perhaps I’m splitting hairs, yet I can interpret the UNDHR in a way that fulfils the letter of declaration while still populating my dictatorship with illiterate proles.
My ability to read, at the level I do, at the frequency, my ability to critically consider the works I read (with or without concomitant swearing), to write about them here, to discuss them with others, all this is a privilege. And I mean that in the sense of a special honour. And that necessitates obligation.
Buy books! Buy books for your friends! Encourage people to read. If you know someone who Can’t Read Good (And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too), help them, reading is only difficult if you’ve been told it is. Support your local libraries!
So here’s to the writers, and their publishers and proofreaders and editors and typesetters and designers and artists and agents and friends and families who make it possible for them to write so that I may read.
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LVL UP’s latest single is a clashing of two worlds. On one hand it’s luminous and sanguine, its pop hooks climbing, falling and shining with brilliance. But then Dave Benton’s slacker drone melds into the mix and “Ski Vacation” nosedives into a mellower moodiness. The track isn’t as lo-fi as LVL UP’s previous work, nor is the subject matter as carefree. But as guitar arpeggios rappel off of the familiar rhythmic sway reminiscent of ‘90s indie gods Dinosaur Jr., it’s clear that the departure isn’t all that drastic. You’ll find “Ski Vacation” on the band’s new LP Hoodwink’d, out September 23rd via Double Double Whammy and Exploding in Sound Records.
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(Courtesy of Rebbeca Glasscock and You Tube)
Media Coverage of the Protest
This is a FOX5 coverage--what is most amusing is their statement that there was a somewhat smaller group of pro-war protestors (hundreds of thousands of Peace protestors and 20 Pro-War protestors... hmmm, yeah that is somewhat smaller...), there emphasis on a minor event where people charged the Capitol steps, and their huge emphasis on Jane Fonda's appearance (knowing the gut reaction of their target audience) with no mention of any other speakers that were present. There was this 12 year old named Maria who spoke to the Washington Mall crowd, she was very inspirational and the best speaker of the whole event--I look forward to what she will do in the future!
Most telling for me--hundreds of thousands of protestors and not one arrest!!!
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The past month or so since Brian Flores was hired he and his new coaching staff have spent a lot of time dissecting the roster, evaluating strengths and weaknesses and projecting how each player might fit with the changes they plan to employ.
We've already gotten some indications of the things they've learned such as the announcement on Tuesday that former No. 1 pick DeVante Parker has signed a contract extension. But we'll start finding out a whole lot more beginning today.
Because that's when free agency officially begins — precisely at 4 p.m. — along with the NFL's new calendar year.
What should we expect from the Dolphins? What are the priorities? The mindset? The objectives?
Rumors are the norm this time of year. You can't escape them. You just have to wait and see how they play out. All indications, though, are that we're going to see a different philosophy, a different direction. The days of a quick fix remedy, of the Dolphins going all in with one or two big money signings are apparently a thing of the past. I say good riddance.
Fiscal sanity and a long-term vision have taken hold in every corner of this organization. It doesn't mean the Dolphins won't be active in free agency, it just means what they are now primarily looking for are young players in their prime, players with a large upside and players they can envision growing with this team beyond the upcoming season.
A new day — a better day — has dawned and what we will see over the next several days and weeks, I believe, are clear indications of the thinking now in place.
There will certainly be some brutally tough decisions. There are salary cap issues that must continue to be addressed. There are players in the fourth quarter of their careers whose days with this team might be numbered. There are some veterans who just aren't worth the enormous salary numbers teams are now paying. There are young players whose contracts, though palatable now, will get far more costly over the next few years.
And then there is a player like Parker, a 26-year-old wide receiver who has an enormous upside, but has been slowed by injuries for much of his first four seasons. It is apparent this staff sees untapped potential here, certainly enough to justify bringing him back. As for Parker, it could serve as a re-start of sorts for his career. Low risk. High reward. Makes plenty of sense.
Through all of this, though, it is the big picture not the individual parts that must take precedent. It is the idea of solidifying a foundation and implementing a clear strategy that emphasizes sustained success instead of an occasional 10-6 record.
This is the mission beginning today. This is the core of those difficult decisions.
The structure is now in place to do it the right way with one voice in General Manager Chris Grier running the football operation and with a head coach in Flores who stands at Grier's side, embracing the same vision and building an important trust in one another.
Needs? The Dolphins have a long shopping list. You can even argue that, with the exception of tight end after the recent signing of Dwayne Allen, there isn't one area of this team that is set moving forward. But the exact needs will only come into better focus once more of the salary cap related moves begins, and I expect that could happen as early as today.
The bottom line is this: If you are expecting the Dolphins to be one of the league's most active players in free agency, especially over the first few weeks when the big names usually come off the board, you're probably going to be disappointed.
But if you look at things through a different lens, if avoiding past mistakes are paramount, then you need to step on board with Grier and Flores, whose decisions over the next several months will come down to one simple question.
What's best for the long-term success of this franchise?
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At 6:46 p.m. on October 10, 2018, Springfield police were dispatched to 1617 N. Benton Apt. #B at after a 911 caller asked the police to check the well-being of the female resident at that location. When officers arrived, they found the female deceased inside the apartment with apparent stab wounds.
The victim was identified as Toni M. Brooks, a 39-year-old female from Springfield. Next of kin notifications have been made for the victim.
A suspect has not been identified at this time. Detectives continue to investigate and are asking anyone who has information about this incident to contact the Springfield Police Department at 417-864-1810 or make an anonymous call to Crime Stoppers at 417-869-TIPS (8477).
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Once again I’ve sewn this design – this time out of dark blue faux leather and a cotton canvas with an Aztec print. I now regret that I didn’t make a removable shoulder strap. As some of you suggested – this bag would look great as a large clutch.
The changes are minor compared to the green version. I’ve put some additional stiffening to the navy blue bag to emphasize the quilting. I’ve also changed the zipper sewing technique. Although I like how the zipper panel looks in the green bag, it was quite difficult to sew. Another change was the shift of the seams on the side. Sewing through so many layers was a big challenge for my domestic sewing machine, and the shift made it easier.
The pattern for this bag is availble here: Envelope bag
This is how the bag looks like in its full glory:
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DEPARTMENT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (DIN) (STATE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM)
|Data Element:||DEPARTMENT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (DIN) (STATE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM)|
|Definition:||A unique identifier assigned by the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) to all newly committed inmates at Reception.|
|Standard of Verification:||Not Applicable|
|Field Format:||2N - Year
1A - Reception Center
4N - Sequential Number
|User Teams:||Corrections and Courts|
|Tables / Codes:||See Department Identification Number Reception Center Table (State Correctional System).|
|Comments:||For detailed information regarding DIN Number, refer to DOCS Directive #4007.
To illustrate the assignment of this number, see below:
1. The first individual received at Downstate as a new commitment in January 1983 was assigned 83A0001, the second 83A0002, etc.
2. The first individual received at Elmira as a new commitment in January 1983 was assigned 83B0001, the 99th 83B0099, etc.
The Departmental identification numbering system is on a calendar year cycle. Each year on January 1, each of the reception facilities will, in addition to changing the first two digits to represent the new year, start at "0001" again in assigning the consecutive four digit numbers.
This official Departmental number will stay with the individual while under Departmental jurisdiction until the maximum expiration of that particular sentence. The inmate will be identified by this number irrespective of the institutions he or she is transferred to or the parole area to which assigned.
A returned parole violator will not be assigned a new Departmental number. The Departmental identification number under which he or she was paroled will be retained.
A parole violator returned as a new court commitment will be assigned a new Departmental identification number at the time of reception. Prior DEPARTMENT IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS (DINs) may be determined by inquiry using the NYSID Number.
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My Goddess manga the 15th chapter , during a beauty contest at Nekomi Tech, Urd hooked a finger into the top of Sayoko's swimsuit and took a good look inside. During the pocky scene between Yomi and Kagura in Ga-Rei -Zero- , Kazuki was obviously interested, if initially embarrassed, in what was going on in the backseat. Teen Genius Tedd is more or less the incarnation of this trope Both Tim and Jimmy approve.
I think you're pretty. A hole in the fence appears, and we realizes it's Quagmire and another hole in the fence appears around his groin area. You know how we all dreamed of dating Nanase someday? Hey, how many of you guys have girlfriends and how many of you girlfriends have guy friends? During the pocky scene between Yomi and Kagura in Ga-Rei -Zero-Kazuki was obviously interested, if initially embarrassed, in what was going on in the backseat. I figured that was the end of the line as far as my prospective future with the opposite sex was concerned
As if I needed to be more insecure. In the Skypiea Arc, Nami ends up kissing Robin in the midst of her gold-fueled euphoria. In Emi's route, Emi ends up giving Rin her cold. However, if a female PC sleeps with the man's daughter, he admits to being a little turned on by catching two women in bed despite one of them being his kin. An imaginative range, we are assured.
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It is now fully five years since the greatest upheavals in the modern history of the Arab World started in Tunis. Always impressed by the latest events, we tend to forget the deep roots of the current violent struggle. But unless we confront the causes, there is little chance that the symptoms will be healed.
(A partial version of this article in Spanish was published earlier in Free Haifa)
The wave of refugees that has reached Europe and the terror attacks in Paris reminded many people in Europe and beyond of the crisis in our region – but at the same time led them to forget that the main victims of this crisis are the people of the region themselves.
Divide and Rule
For many centuries the people of the Middle East were not really free. They could not manage their own economies and politics as they would like.
After the Ottoman Empire was destroyed in the First World War, the European powers were quick to grab control of the region. Britain and France divided the region that expands from Turkey to the Indian Ocean between themselves in the secret Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916.
In order to ensure their control of the region, the imperialist powers used the well-tried policy of “divide and rule”. In many regions of the Middle East they supported minorities and gave them privileges over the majority, knowing that the minority would always be dependent on external powers to maintain its influence and control. In other areas they gave control to local families and made them kings or emirs, concentrating power in the hands of small elites.
- They gave Palestine to the Zionist movement to build a state for Jewish immigrants at the expense of the local Arab population.
- They built a sectarian state in Lebanon with the Christians at the top of the hierarchy.
- They granted Sunni Islam a privileged position in Iraq.
- They created the kingdom of Jordan and bestowed it on the Hashemite family from the Arab peninsula, which relies on and secures privileges for the Bedouin minority.
Syria comprised what was left over after the rest of the Arab East was divided between imperialist clients. It went through a period of instability, until it also came under the rule of a dictatorship based on the Alawite minority.
The Political Economy of Oil
The economy of the Middle East is mostly characterized by its dependence on oil as the main export product. Oil is a very political product, as it is easy to control and to monopolize. Even in many developed countries, oil taxation is an important source of government income. In our region, oil is the main export product and the main source of revenue for many governments.
An oil-based economy differs from one based on agriculture or industry. Primitive agriculture requires a large workforce. Developed industry requires educated workers. In normal economies the prosperity of the government or the elite is to a degree dependent on the well-being and cooperation of the masses and on some level of peace.
Oil requires a very small workforce to extract. The key to controlling its
Top spenders on Arms as proportion of local GDP – 2011 (below) – 2012
riches is sovereignty, or control of the state apparatus. The masses are not useful in this process. The rulers regard their people as unwanted extra mouths: you have to feed them and they may complain. In addition the price of oil tends to soar at times of war and insecurity and to slump at times of peace.
The interest of the imperialist powers is not only to secure the flow of oil to their economies. They also gain much of the proceedings through ownership of the fields themselves or of the shipping, processing and distribution facilities. It is also in the interest of the western economies that the oil wealth will not be invested in the development of the local economy or the wellbeing of the local population. Trillions of oil dollars, which were accumulated by the local rulers, are kept in western banks or investment funds and constitute a mainstay of the western economies.
Another way that the oil money is going back to the western powers is through selling weapons to the local regimes. In the arms industry profits are very high. A few western powers still maintain the technological superiority to control the markets. The security and political alliance with the top world powers is also a safety belt for the local rulers against any demand for reform from their wretched people.
The division of the Arab region between small artificial states helps to prevent the utilization of local resource to develop the local economy. Generally speaking – the oil belongs to some states while the hungry people live in other states. One special example for this policy was the creation of the state of Kuwait. It was an Iraqi oil field that was separated from Iraq by the British and given by them in 1961 to the Sabah family to rule.
The destructive role of Zionism
The Zionist colonization of Palestine was designed from its beginnings to serve the imperialist powers (initially Britain, later the US) as a bulwark against Arab independence. The Palestinians were the immediate victims
Ethnic Cleansing in the Galilee 1948
of Zionism, as 78% of Palestine was occupied by Israel in 1948 and most of the population was expelled in the ensuing Ethnic Cleansing.
The regional role of Zionism was first emphasized in the “Tripartite Aggression” of 1956, when Israel spread-headed a joint attack with Britain and France against Egypt over the nationalization of the Suez Canal.
In the 1967 war Israel succeeded not only to complete its occupation of Palestine but also to take Sinai from Egypt and the Golan Heights from Syria. One dangerous consequence of that war was the decision of the Egyptian leadership, led by Anwar Sadat, to change course and “sell-out” Egypt economically and politically to the US, in return for regaining formal control of Sinai. In Syria the sense of vulnerability in face of the Zionist aggression was an important factor behind the right-wing coup that brought the Assad dynasty to power. This pattern was consolidated into a comprehensive US strategy for the Middle East: Let Israel beat the Arabs and later hold Israel back in return for Arab political concessions to US interests.
To enable this mechanism, it was set in official agreements that the US should guarantee Israeli military superiority over any coalition of regional countries. This was possible when the Arab armies were mostly composed of illiterate peasants led by corrupt officers. But to keep this promise of military superiority of a small settler state with a few million people (currently 6 million) over states representing hundreds of millions Arabs requires putting a brake over the development of the whole region.
After the 1979 Iranian revolution toppled the US-sponsored dictatorship
The Iraq-Iran war (1980-88) left colossal destruction on both sides
of the Shah, the US encouraged their then-client Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein to attack Iran. At the same time, Israel supplied weapons to the Iranians – at the highest days of the Islamic revolution – with the clear goal to prolong the conflict and increase the destruction on both sides. In the war that lasted from 1980 till 1988 hundreds of thousands were killed on each side and the suffering and destruction were colossal.
In the aftermath of this war, Iraq became a main target of the US-Israeli policy of containment, utilizing the excuse of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Iraq was a rare case among the Arab states where Oil and Population met in one state – so it could become a center of economic and military development. This led to 13 years of intense sanctions on Iraq, including systematic prevention of food and medicine, which led to the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children and many more adults. Not satisfied with this creeping genocide, the US, with active prodding from the Zionist lobby, occupied Iraq in 2003 and dismantled the foundations of the Iraqi state.
Even as Israel is not as useful tool for imperialism as it used to be, the commitment of the Western powers to preserve its racist system comes at a high price for the region as a whole. When, in 2006, there was a rare attempt to hold semi-democratic elections in the 1967-occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinians gave clear majority to Islamic Hamas, rejecting the corrupt rule of Fatah that was oppressing Palestinians at the service of the occupation. The whole “international community” hurried to sanction the Palestinians for not showing more sympathy with their occupiers. The siege of Gaza, reinforced regularly by massacres, was designed to be a lesson in democracy and its outcomes for the whole region.
Israel very much wanted a repetition of the war on Iraq with another, bigger, imperialist war against Iran. This was too much for the US to swallow, as it already paid a very high toll for the Iraqi adventure, not least some 1 trillion dollar of expenses that could revive the crippled US economy. Now, as Syria is burning and bleeding, Israel doesn’t hide its satisfaction, as another “potential danger” is neutralized.
The rise of political Islam
In spite of all the above mentioned problems, many analysts still describe the current conflict as a result of the rise of “Islamic Extremism”. As if the people of the Middle East are not revolting against their oppression. As if all was well until unexplained crazy mood of extremism took hold.
This is the most superstitious and out-of-context explanation of political events.
Islam, as any other religion, and as many other ideologies like “liberalism” and “socialism”, all proposing a methodology for organizing society, can be used (or misused) to all sorts of political purposes: Justifying oppressive regimes, instigating war and genocide or struggles against oppression and discrimination.
In the 1980s the US used and paid for Islamic Jihadists to fight the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Almost all Arab regimes use the Islamic religion, by one way or another, to legitimize the rule of elites of different types, most of them serving foreign imperialism more than anybody else. Not long ago it was official policy of Saudi Arabia and Mubarak’s Egypt, orchestrated by the US, to re-invent and inflame the Sunni-Shia conflict in order to distract Arab public opinion by describing Iran as “the real danger” – sparing Israel, the US and local “Sunni” Tyrants.
As all kinds of political expression are oppressed all over the region, it is just natural that the main form of mass organization that can’t be
Masses in Tahrir Square in Cairo
criminalized, practicing religion, becomes a central conveyer of the aspirations of the masses. But when Islam is used as an ideological or organizational framework for struggle against oppression it suddenly loses all legitimacy and described as a danger.
The dominance of Islamic movements in the Middle East is not only a result of political oppression. Nationalist and socialist movements were at the center of Arab politics for decades, but they lost credibility between the masses due to their own mistakes and shortcomings. At the same time Islamic movements, like Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brothers in Egypt and the Sadrists in Iraq, kept the right balance between grassroots work to care for the daily needs of the masses and political struggle against occupation and tyranny. They implemented the methods taught by Lenin and Mao on how to build a movement effectively. Those Islamic movements that were connected to the masses and opposed local rulers (until Hezbollah took sides with Assad) were also more ready to support democracy and form coalitions with other parties and people from different religions.
What actually pushes masses of people to look for extreme solutions is not “ideology” but extremely harsh conditions. The Sunni communities in Iraq engaged in peaceful protest throughout 2013 against discrimination and oppression by the Shia-led Maliki government that was supported by both US and Iran. It was only after the government rejected any political solution, preferring to send the army to besiege their cities and bomb them, that the local militias organized with the so-called “Islamic State” to throw out the army. Only the shock caused by the victory of the Islamic State in Mosul forced the US and Iran to push aside Maliki and try to sponsor a less sectarian Iraqi government.
In similar conditions, years of bombing of their cities by the Assad regime pushed some Syrians into the arms of the Islamic State. The massacre of more than 200,000 Syrians was not regarded by “the international community” as an emergency until foreigners started to be in danger. It should also be said that the brave Kurdish and Arab opposition in Syria started to fight against the extremism of the so-called Islamic State long before it became an international affair.
Other regimes are likewise driving their people towards extremism. Egypt’s dictator Al-Sisi is doing it in Sinai. In Libya it is the policy of the army led by retired general and CIA agent Haftar, supported by the “internationally recognized” government in Tobruk. The method is well known: Bomb the people instead of listening to them. The reason is also familiar: When you’re the only “defender of the country” against “extremists” you will get plenty support and nobody will dare to question your crimes.
No mechanism for change
The Arab countries, with more than 300 million inhabitants, are now the most politically retarded and oppressive region in the world. There are several reasons for this.
First, it is the region where imperialism is making most money. When the US was forced to withdraw from Vietnam (in 1975) they declared the Middle East to be their next red line: Here they will fight rather than giving up control to nationalist or socialist movements.
The traditional support by western powers for Israel is another reason why they see any democratic reform in the region as a threat. Arab democracies which would need to take public opinion into consideration might well give more support to the Palestinians.
Since the beginning of the 70s and the dramatic rise in the price of oil, and until the beginning of the Arab Spring in 2011, there was no political change in any country in the region. The ruling elites had enough resources to buy or crash any opposition.
While there were significant steps toward democratization in every other region in the world, in the Arab world the ruling elites have only became more oppressive.
A general rehearsal for things to come was played in Algeria in 1991. After
Leaders deposed by the Arab Spring
the Islamists won the first round of the elections, the army took control in a coup and outlawed the Islamists. In the civil war that emerged some 200,000 people died. The military government was fully supported by the western powers all along.
The accumulation of contradictions all over the region inevitably led to a much wider wave of protests and upheavals – the Arab spring.
For forward looking analysis you can read in Free Haifa: The Arab Spring, five years on, is here to stay and win.
UK Arms exports licenses 2013 – source: “Independent”. Israel and Saudi Arabia are not marked with “Human Rights concerns”.
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|Facebook has acquired a social networking startup backed by the creators of Twitter. The nine-person team behind Branch Media, creators of the Branch conversation service and the iOS link-sharing app Potluck, has confirmed the acquisition and will form a new Facebook Conversations group, though the entire team will remain in New York City instead of relocating to Facebook's headquarters in California.
Josh Miller, CEO of Branch, made the confirmation in a Facebook post earlier today, with sources of The Verge suggesting the purchase price to be around $15 million. According to Miller, the social network's pitch to the startup was an offer to "build Branch at Facebook scale," and though the company has taken up the offer, the existing Branch and Potluck services will continue to operate outside of Facebook.
Branch allows users to highlight sections of websites and to start a conversation with other people, adding more by invitations over Twitter and e-mail, as well as embedding the conversation itself on web pages. Potluck is an app that provides images and links to items online, allowing users to share stories with other users and to converse over what is shown. Considering the two services, the new Facebook Conversations group could help Facebook improve its existing conversation system, as well as working on alternative ways for users to talk to each other on Facebook in ways not currently offered through the website nor its apps.
The company raised $2 million in investment from a number of investors, including some funding from Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, Obvious Corp, Lerer Ventures, Betaworks, and SV Angel.
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"you are open to whatever the universe may do," a Mentat instructor once said. "Your mind is not a computer; it is a response-tool keyed to whatever your senses display."
People who believe that the mind can be replicated on a computer tend to explain the mind in terms of a computer. When theorizing about the mind, especially to outsiders but also to one another, defenders of artificial intelligence (AI) often rely on computational concepts. They regularly describe the mind and brain as the “software and hardware” of thinking, the mind as a “pattern” and the brain as a “substrate,” senses as “inputs” and behaviors as “outputs,” neurons as “processing units” and synapses as “circuitry,” to give just a few common examples.
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Informations and abstract
Keywords: digitalizzazione, capitale fisico, capitale umano.
Digital transformation is increasingly taking on the characteristics of a dominant paradigm to bring the Italian productive system to structurally higher levels of competitiveness. According to some studies, however, Italy would still suffer from an acute form of «European disease», identified in the inability to fully exploit the ICT revolution. In addition to the small average size of the company (and a modest capitalization), the largely imperfect mechanisms of staff selection and training would be affected. The Business Plan 4.0 stimulates the renewal of tangible and intangible assets with a view to digitizing production processes, which has a key element in the integration of technology, business processes and human capital. The effectiveness of such measures, however, depends on how the economic and territorial characteristics of the production system affect the ability to absorb the advantages of the ICT. Understanding these last dynamics therefore becomes essential to be able, subsequently, to measure the effects of the provision. To this end, the work aims to provide a territorial map (defined at the region/province level) of the competitiveness of Italian companies in relation to the levels of digitization and capital endowments (human and physical), and to investigate the transformation of the system to the light of its most recent developments. For this purpose a detailed data set has been defined, which integrates various sources of both administrative and statistical nature. In this way, from the national detail it is possible to highlight the presence of territorial clusters that geographically represent the heterogeneity of the economic system in terms of digital transformation in the years of recovery, proposing a non-canonical reading but more functional to the analysis of the issue in question. The results highlight: a) the possibility of identifying «virtuous» digitalisation paths, that is of complete digital transformation; b) the presence of constraints linked to the allocation of productive factors (a complete digitalization cannot be separated from an adequate availability, in terms of quality and quantity, of physical and above all human capital); c) the persistence of large territorial divides in the digital path; d) the presence of significant repercussions on the territory of the links between digitization and quality and the amount of employment generated.
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I was just listening to Jon Ronson’s piece for Radio 4 about how writing to MPs via email is apparently deemed to be irrelevant and that, unsurprisingly the No. 10 Petitions are ignored. The thing that struck me was that it took a while for radio to be adopted as a tool by politicians. Why should it be surprising that the Internet should be viewed with equal suspicion by politicians?
Ultimately, like a lot of technology someone comes along who has grown up with it and uses it instinctively as part of their lives. You have kind of already seen this in the Obama presidential campaign (although far from perfect). You see it with computer games and social networking.
No-one thinks that an MP’s office shouldn’t have a phone or a fax but you wouldn’t send them a telegram. So let the Luddites pour scorn on web constituents, someone else will probably value the votes.
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LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HeartVista, a pioneer in AI-assisted MRI solutions, today announced that it will be presenting its new One Click™ Cardiac Package at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2019 Annual Meeting on December 1-6, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois.
HeartVista’s One Click™ Cardiac Package is the industry’s first FDA-cleared AI-assisted solution to perform Cardiac MRI scans, and will be presented at the AI Showcase Theatre at McCormick Place on December 4, 2019, at 2 pm. The company will also be at Booth #11137 for the duration of the conference, from December 1-5.
Despite the many advantages of manual cardiac MRI, its use has been largely limited due to a lack of trained technologists, high costs, long scan time, and complexity of use. HeartVista’s software solves these issues by using AI-assisted software to prescribe the standard cardiac views with just one click, and in as few as 10 seconds, while the patient breathes freely. The software also leverages a novel neural network that helps detect artifacts on scans and alerts physicians when the image quality is below the acceptable threshold.
“HeartVista’s Cardiac Package is a vital tool to enhance the consistency and productivity of cardiac magnetic resonance studies, across all levels of CMR expertise,” said Dr. Raymond Kwong, MPH, director of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
“As AI continues to transform the healthcare landscape, we are pleased to introduce the industry’s first AI-assisted cardiac MRI software solution to radiologists, their facilities and patients at this year’s RSNA meeting,” said Itamar Kandel, CEO of HeartVista. “Our latest advances with HeartVista’s One Click™ Cardiac Package, represents a transformation in cardiac MRI technology, where exams are now simple, time-efficient, affordable, and highly consistent.”
HeartVista believes in leveraging artificial intelligence to improve access to MRI and improve patient outcomes. The company’s One Click™ software platform enables real-time MRI for a variety of clinical and research applications. Its AI-driven, one-click cardiac localization method received first place honors at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine’s Machine Learning Workshop in 2018. The company’s innovative technology originated at the Stanford Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory. HeartVista is funded by Khosla Ventures, and the National Institute of Health’s Small Business Innovation Research program.
For more information, visit www.heartvista.ai
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MONTREAL — The Vancouver Whitecaps have the lead, but the Montreal Impact will have a lot on their side in the second leg of their Canadian Championship semifinal at Saputo Stadium on Tuesday night.
Not only will the Impact be at home, they will be well rested against a Whitecaps side that will play its fourth game in 11 days.
They also have an away goal in the bag after their 2-1 defeat in the first leg of the two-game, total goals series in Vancouver last week.
And the Impact, who haven't played since then, will be free to use more of their regulars because they will still have time to rest up before the New York Red Bulls visit for an MLS regular-season match on Saturday.
"It is (an advantage), but in soccer it's not something you want to dwell on or put into the bank as a guarantee," said forward Dominic Oduro. "If you don't start right, like we did in Vancouver, we're going to be in trouble.
"We have guys who are rested but it doesn't matter. We have to come out strong."
After beating Montreal, the Whitecaps lost 1-0 at home to D.C. United on Saturday, conceding a goal on a penalty while hitting the woodwork four times at the other end.
But they will likely use a mostly different first 11, much as they did in the first leg, to try to keep the Impact off the scoresheet or add another goal or two to their total.
"It's a great opportunity for the other guys," said Whitecaps coach Carl Robinson. "I'm going to obviously go with a similar squad as I did the last time. Give them the opportunity to play, which is what it's about.
"Maybe we can score a goal. We might need to score a goal."
Montreal can take the series with a 1-0 victory, but a trip to the final gets farther away each time the Whitecaps add a goal.
The Whitecaps dominated the first half of the opening leg, taking a 2-0 lead through teen wonder Alphonso Davies and Nicolas Mezquida. Montreal turned the tables in the second half, picking up a 61st minute goal from academy product David Choiniere. Captain Patrice Bernier had a chance to equalize six minutes later but hit a post from the penalty spot.
It was the kind of Jekyll and Hyde performance the Impact have produced repeatedly en route to a 3-4-4 start to the MLS season.
"We've been in this situation over and over where we don't play great soccer in the first half and then we just flip it 180 in the second half," said Oduro. "This time we have to fix it.
"We're trying to prove that we're the best team in Canada. It'll be a tough one but I think we'll be more prepared than last time."
Coach Mauro Biello confirmed that backup Maxime Crepeau will be back in goal and suggested some veterans who didn't play in Vancouver may see action in the second leg. Right back Chris Duvall, centreback Laurent Ciman and defensive midfielder Hernan Bernardello were regular starters who played in the first leg. Top players like Ignacio Piatti and Blerim Dzemailli may see some minutes.
"That's the plan in terms of having that extra day,"said Biello."I have options in terms of guys who rested the last game.
"It's important for cohesion. We had success against Portland (a 4-1 win on May 21) with a certain lineup, so it's important that some of those guys get some minutes."
The Canadian Championship is the first step toward participation in the CONCACAF Champions League, and the Impact yearn for a chance to relive their thrilling run to the final in 2015.
First they need to get past the Whitecaps.
"I wouldn't say we're in the driver's seat because we're down a goal," said Biello. "They've got the lead.
"For sure, it makes for an interesting game. When it's a two-game series it's always a little tricky. The game is never over till the end because of the away goals rule. So we need to be able to manage the game the right away and be focused for 95 minutes. A 1-0 win lets us pass, but you can't play too defensive or too offensive. You've go to balance it out and play a smart game."
Bill Beacon, The Canadian Press
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The crib-womble is a dangerous fey beast, indeed; although it can subsist on fruit and insects, its chief goal is to sneak into nurseries like some kind of marsupial cuckoo, and steal infants, which it then devours. With each baby eaten, the crib-womble slowly takes on the form of a small child; perhaps five or six infants are sufficient to complete the transformation, at which point the crib-womble infiltrates an orphanage, to be raised as a human. Most crib-wombles, being horrible little beasts, grow up to be human politicians.
|A taxidermied crib-womble found in the bedding of one of River-Town's movers and shakers (who shall remain un-named); no doubt a kidnapping threat against the gentleman's children from persons unknown.|
The cause of mutation behind these strange ground-fowl is unknown, but certainly they are related to, if not descended from, wild turkeys. In fact, they greatly resemble large, horse-sized versions of the turkey, save for their single, luminous eye. The sinuous neck of the turklops bobs and weaves like a serpent as the glowing eyeball remains fixed upon its prey - chickens, ducks, quails, and any other small creature the turklops can chase down. And what could be better evidence of the rationality of nature? Just as cyclops devour men, so too does the turklops swallow ducks whole. Despite its size and strength, the turklops is not well-suited for riding, as it lacks all depth perception and tends to run into trees at speed.
Although Wampus Country is named for a predatory cat, and best-known for its owl-creatures, it is also home to a large number of serpentine species, some of which are far more noteworthy to the curious naturalist than the rattlesnake or hoop-snake, both of which seem plain by comparison.
First in our short survey is the Serpentree, a deciduous tree whose seed-pods are, in fact, poisonous snakes. During the proper season, the serpentree grows numerous snakes, then drops them to the ground, where they slither off in search of prey; sometimes the plant will drop snakes directly on passersby. The serpentree seed-snakes carry in their venom tiny fertilized seeds which are transferred to the bloodstream of creatures bitten. These seeds then make their way to the heart, where they implant themselves within the muscle and eventually grow into young serpentrees, killing the host. Sadly, the serpentree is just one of many deadly trees of Wampus Country, many of which use their victims' decomposing bodies as fertilizer for their young.
Another fascinating snake is the spring-snake, which can be manhandled and forced to compress itself lengthwise. Thus manipulated, the spring-snake is sometimes used in two ways: the classic trick is to stuff several spring-snakes in a box or jar (peanut brittle canisters are popular). When the container is opened, the spring-snakes erupt furiously. A more modern application for the spring-snake is to procure a smaller specimen, compress it - with that characteristic wrenching sound the vertebrae make - and stuff it inside the barrel of a shotgun, to be fired at an intruder. The tail of the spring-snake is very bony, and usually the firing of the weapon does not kill the beast, instead merely enraging it as it flies across the room and sinks its fangs into the target. It is perhaps worth mentioning that the spring-snake carries a painful paralytic poison.
Our third interesting serpent for this installment is a kind of small, inoffensive beast with tiny, needle-like teeth. Related to the garter snake (which, obviously, can be trained to bite its own tail and wrap around a thigh to protect a lady's virtue), this delightful amphisbaena is the suspender-snake. With a head at each end and a prediliction for clamping down on cloth, the suspender-snake is easily trained to hold up a pair of pants. At least one fashionable boutique in River-Town is selling these reptiles in color-matched pairs, knotted together, as "snake-spenders"; whether the critter becomes fashionable amongst the hoi-polloi remains to be seen.
The picture of the crib-womble comes to us from Jack over at TotGaD. The spring-snake is the invention of my Friday night group, and the other serpents and the turklops were created by the Boy (age seven).
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Increasingly foreign films are having an impact in British North America. After "Parasite" (2019) won best film as well as best foreign film for the Oscars, "Drive My Car" (2021) not only won the Oscar best foreign film, but was also nominated for best film.
My contention for several years has been that the best foreign films are at the level of English speaking films. Of course it is very natural to feel most comfortable with the most familiar, but when more people take a good look at foreign language films we are all better off as it will raise the standards. Check out: http://www.therealjohndavidson.com/2020/09/parasite-breaks-oscar-tradition.html
We are introduced to the naked wife, Oto as she relates a story to Yesuke Kafaku and they collaborate on its plot. She works for a television station responsible for scripts while he works in the theatre. They seem to have an enjoyable sex life and it seems to involve collaborating on stories. On another occasion when he returns unexpectedly he encounters her having sex with an actor, but discretely backs away. At the beginning of another work day she asks him to have a serious talk, but when he arrives she has died from a cerebral hemorrhage.
The viewer skips two years after his wife's death when Yesuke is asked to direct a play "Uncle Vanya" with an international multi-lingual cast. One requirement is that he has to accept a driver, but is given accommodation on an island with a desirable ocean view. The driver turns out to be a young woman named Misaki Watari.
The relationship between the two is very gradually built. With Yesuke sitting in the back a cassette is played that lets him rehearse lines from the play. She is not bothered and gradually becomes familiar with the lines. He invites her to a dinner meeting with one of his assistants. It turns out the assistant's wife, a mute actress is one of the actors in the play and the assistant had not wanted to influence the director's decision. Misaki later attends some of the rehearsals and other conferences involving the cast. They do in fact tell each other personal aspects of their lives. You might expect a romance, but really it is more like a close father daughter relationship. Misaki is a damaged person from her youth who learned to drive to take her mother back and forth to a station and learned to drive smoothly while her mother slept in the car.
At the auditions we encounter a variety of languages including one pair that do not understand each other (she speaks English and Mandarin while he speaks only Japanese). We also watch the Korean sign language actress and various other languages that include Tagalog and Indonesian. The first rehearsals are strict reading without emotion which puts some of the actors off, but eventually they see the merits.
An interesting relationship is between Yesuke and Koji Takasuki who was the last man Yesuke saw having sex with his wife. Koji explains that he often had sex with women just to know them better. Yesuke responded that "sex is not the only way to know someone." When Yesuke's daughter died (she would have been 23, the same as Misaki)
their life went downhill. Subsequently admitted to Takasuki that
Oto came up with stories after having sex, but couldn't remember them the
next day, but he remembered and they developed a habit. He knew she would have sex
with other men. A big surprise is when Koji is able to carry on with the story Yesuke and Oto talked about at the start of film. Yesuke recognized both men loved the same woman.
As the play is almost ready for a performance Takasuki is involved in fatal brawl and has to withdraw from the play. Yesuke is asked to take the Uncle Vanya role which he is very familiar with, but refuses at first.
The DVD provided a lot of background information which helps to appreciate the film. Oscar winners must have more capable cast and crew to reach the podium. Here are a few components.
Short story writer Haruki Murakami takes titles from Beatle Songs such as "Norwegian Wood" He translated into Japanese many of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, J.D. Salinger and John Irving.
Teruhisa Yamamoto was a big Haruki Murakami fan and discussed with the director who also was a Murakami fan. Then he went onto get permission to adapt "Drive My Car" for a movie.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi was the director and co-writer. Rysuke was nominated for both best directing and best adapted writing at the Oscars and did win at several festivals. He felt a car encouraged intimate conversation, especially if the people are facing forward and not each other. Chose a red Saab over the yellow Cabriolet in the original story for
cinematographic factors. My father had been a champion rally driver and
at one time had been offered an opportunity to join the Saab team. He
turned it down, but maintained Saab was his favorite car.
Hidetoshi Nishiijima played Yusuke Kafuku, the main character who loved his wife, though well aware she had been unfaithful and found life difficult after her death. Hideotshi had won a few awards, but "Drive my Car" garnered international awards including best actor from the National Society of Film Critics, USA..
Toko Miura played the driver, Misaki Watari. She didn't even have a driver's license when accepted for the role. She also is a singer and was able to take a song from "Weathering With You" (2019) to the top of the Japanese hit parade.
Reika Kirishima played Oto, the wife. She has numerous film credits including "Norwegian Wood" (2010).
Masaki Okada played Koji Takatsuki who auditioned for the role of Astrov, but later he was switched to Uncle Vanya, a much older man, which displeased him.
Park yu rim plays a mute actress who uses Korean sign language. Also in one episode of "Extraordinary Attorney Woo" (2022),.
"Uncle Vanya" as the play within a play warranted a closer look. Many years ago I had seen a Russian version, but only had a vague recollection of the dynamics. The BBC version of "Uncle Vanya" (1970) displayed a younger Anthony Hopkins and it made it easier to understand Takasuki's disappointment of being expected to take on the title role. One can also imagine how such a play could be a foundation of the film.
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“You’re teasing me, Kyrie. Testing me.” He glared at me, head tilted down, jaw hard, looking primal and dangerous. “It’s not smart.”
I lifted one knee, and the sheet fell away; Roth growled. I ran my middle finger up the seam of my core. Roth’s growl turned feral.
“Last warning, Kyrie.”
I didn’t need the warning. He was a man on the edge. I was playing with fire, and I knew it. But I was aching. Unsatisfied. For all that I’d come hard last night…three times? Four?…I was unsatisfied. I’d made do with my own fingers and battery-operated toys for a long time before Roth sent for me, and it just didn’t do the trick. I could get off, but that wasn’t enough. Merely achieving orgasm wasn’t enough. Even with Roth’s hands and fingers making me come, it wasn’t enough. I needed the connection. I needed to be filled. Held. Touched. Wanted. Loved.
And Roth knew it.
I still ached, deep inside where his tongue and fingers couldn’t reach. An ache that no amount of skillful cunnilingus could sate. I needed the man. Especially now that I’d seen his face, seen the heated glare in his eyes, seen the slight tremble of need in his hands.
I dipped my finger inside me, withdrew it.
“Fuck.” Roth’s curse was an angry rumble. He straightened, let go of the doorframe, and then, faster than my eyes could track, he was lunging forward, crawling across the bed. Hovering over me. Eyes inches from mine. “Don’t f**k with me, Kyrie. If you want to do this right now, we’ll do it right now. I’m barely holding back. The fact that I have an enormous amount of self-control is all that’s protecting you from your own foolishness.”
“Foolishness?” I breathed. “I thought this was what you wanted?”
“What? Games? Teasing? No. I want honesty. I want your desire, and I want to know what you’re thinking. What I don’t want is power-play games.” He grabbed my wrists in one hand and pinned them above my head. “You want to know the power you have over me?”
“Yes, I do.”
“Then ask me a question. Anything.”
“What is your first name?”
His eyes went hard. “Valentine. My name is Valentine.”
“Valentine Roth.” It fit him so perfectly.
“Yes.” His grip on my wrists was tight, iron-hard, and almost painful. His knees were between my thighs, forcing them apart. “Now. What else?”
“How old are you?”
Ten years older than me. Should I be worried about that? I knew, instinctively, that I didn’t give a shit how old he was. I just wanted to know if he’d tell me.
He was breathing hard, as if revealing so much about himself was physically difficult, even painful. I saw actual pain in his eyes, perhaps even fear. As if he’d exposed himself to me and was now waiting for the repercussions.
“Thank you,” I said, my voice small and quiet.
“For what?” He seemed honestly confused.
“Letting me see you. Telling me your name.” I think he expected me to struggle against his hold on my wrists, but I didn’t.
Instead, I lifted up and kissed him, sucked his lower lip between my teeth. I devoured his leonine rumble of surprise and pleasure and kept kissing him. His tongue slid between my teeth, his weight lowered so our bodies touched, and I felt his jeans rough against my skin, felt the bulge behind his zipper scraping on my lower belly.
“I want you, Valentine.” I flicked my eyes open and met his own. “Make love to me. Touch me. Come inside me. Do anything you want.” I couldn’t resist my desire anymore.
I didn’t know what this meant, where it was going, but I didn’t care. This was the last vestige of my control over my own life, over myself, and I’d just given it to him.
“Anything I want?”
“That’s a dangerous thing to offer a man like me.”
“And still you offer it?”
I nodded, not taking my eyes off his. “I do. Make love to me, your way.” I was shaking all over, nervous, scared, excited.
Being Roth, he did the last thing I expected. He pulled away, slid off the bed. “Then I choose to wait. I will have you, Kyrie, and I will have you soon. But not here. Not now. I want you in my bed. I’m going to make you scream, and weep, and beg me for me. And I’m going to do it where no one has ever been: my bed.”
I watched him back away yet again, jeans strained from the erection behind his zipper. This time, I didn’t let him get away. I followed him, scooting off the bed and catching him by the belt loops before he got too far. “I like the sound of that.” I looked up at him. “But I want to see…this. I want to feel you first.” I tugged at the button of his jeans.
His eyes met mine, and he nodded. “As you wish.”
I lowered his zipper, then pulled his jeans down around his thighs. I breathed in, let it out. I tore my gaze from his and curled my fingers under the pale gray elastic waistband of his boxer-briefs. Hesitated. And then I tugged the elastic away from his body and pulled his underwear down, baring him to me.
I knew he was big. Of course he’d be big. But…holy shit on a shingle. I didn’t expect him to be that big. His c**k was long and standing straight up, the tip rising past his navel. So thick. He was so hard it looked painful, his balls tight against him. He’d stretch me, that was for sure. For now, though, all I wanted was to feel him in my hands, to make him come, to give him relief.
I wrapped one hand around him, and he was so thick my thumb and middle finger couldn’t meet around his girth. Jesus. Sweet baby Jesus. I slid my fist down his length and back up, my hand barely brushing his flesh. He breathed out through his nose, eyes narrowing, jaw clenching. I cupped my other hand around his taut sac, sliding my fist down and twisting gently, watching his expression as I touched him. He licked his lips and blinked several times, breathing hard, eyes fixed on me.
“Don’t start what you won’t finish, Kyrie.”
I let my lips curve up in a grin. “I would never do that, Valentine.”
His brows lowered, jaw squaring as he clenched his teeth. As gently as I could, I squeezed his balls, a caressing pressure. Slid my middle finger onto his taint and applied pressure. He rumbled in his chest, fists clenched at his sides. I kept my eyes locked on his as I stroked his considerable length ever so slowly, then leaned in, closer, closer, opened my mouth as wide as it would go. Curled my lips in over my teeth and took his broad head into my mouth. I closed my lips around him, just beneath the groove at the base of his tip. He made a sound that was suspiciously close to a moan as I lowered my mouth around him, still stroking slowly at the root of his cock. I could only take a few inches of him before I felt him at the back of my throat, and then I drew away. I let my saliva coat his flesh, returning my gaze to his as I rubbed my palm over his head, smearing my spit over him, making him slick and slippery. I fisted his length, replacing my lips around his thick, soft, springy head, tasting pre-come on my tongue. I drew off again, licked the pre-come away with a fat swipe of my tongue, twisting and plunging my fist around him, squeezing his sac in time with my sliding fist, pressing up against his taint.
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Before being discovered by med spas, lasers were used exclusively for slicing turkeys during space Thanksgiving. Give thanks for lasers with this Groupon.
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Technicians sweep the Cutera CoolGlide laser over unsightly veins on the face or legs, causing the blood to constrict for natural absorption within the body. During the photo-facial treatment, high-intensity pulses of light help reduce the appearance of age spots and sun damage along the face, chest, or hands. Treatments last 15–30 minutes, and can effectively shrink veins in 30 minutes with minimal bruising.
Soleil Medical Spa
Medical Directors Dr. Ryan Tavakoli M.D and Dr. Vida Talebi N.D. lead a team in enhancing clients' appearances with noninvasive treatments. Pulling from a diverse collection of lasers, including the Cutera and Titan systems, techs clear unwanted hair or wrinkles, and help tighten the skin. Medical aestheticians customize facials and peels to treat specific skin troubles and gently knead muscles to evict stress. The spa's decor fosters feelings of calm with warm colors, flickering candles, and comfy leather seats.
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Importing current and holistic employee data is the first step in becoming SameWorks certified, and unlocks useful diversity and pay data charts and analytics.
In this article, we explain how to create a valid and complete employee data import file. Along with this article, please download and refer to our most recent example file as a guide for how to format your data import file.
Tips for a successful upload:
- We accept .xls and .xlsx formatted files.
- Do not alter or remove any of the data in the first row in the spreadsheet, or the column headers in the second row.
- Do not include any data outside of a continuous set of rows, or you will encounter errors upon upload.
- Employee ID: Unique user ID for each employee. Can be alphanumeric.
- Department: The major department the employee reports into, such as Finance or Marketing.
- Title: This is the employee’s current title. Note that this responds to a unique role, so you should consider whether to use the level field if you need additional granularity in defining roles.
- Exempt, Non-Exempt, Contractor: This is their employment type. Contractors are not considered for certification, but are used in the case one of them is acting as a manger of employees in the system. You do not need to disclose contractor pay.
- Hourly Rate: For hourly employees, the unit of pay for an hour’s work.
- Base Pay: For salaried employees, their standard annual salary excluding bonuses.
- Percent Time: The amount of work the employee has agreed to do as a standard and typical work week, expressed in % of full time.
- % Variable Compensation: For employees with variable compensation, the amount of compensation associated with their bonus expressed as a percentage. If this does not apply for a specific employee, leave it blank.
- Hire Date: The date the employee was hired. If the employee leaves the company and is re-hired, use the more recent of the two dates.
- Gender: Male, Female or Other.
- Birth Year: Use the whole year to four digits, for example, 1982.
- Office Location: The physical location they report to for work, the majority of the time. This should be at the city-level at its most granular. This field is part of our calculation of a “role” in the system. Remote employees should have a zip-code or other identifier of their remote location.
By submitting optional data, you can enrich reporting and analytics, or provide a greater amount of flexibility for your business.
- Team: The specific team the employee works on. Could be for instance, “Product Management”, or “Human Resources”
- Manager ID: The Unique user ID of the manager that employee reports to.
- Job Level: Larger companies will want to use job levels to discern the seniority levels within a specific title. For example a “Sr. Software Developer” may have 3 sub-levels. This provides more granularity for equal pay and smaller increments. Note that if a Level 1 employee makes more than a Level 2 employee, the system will flag this as an issue.
- EEOC Category: This data will be used for EEO1 reporting in a future enhancement.
- Race/Ethnicity: You may use whatever categories your system provides to categorize employees. It is perfectly acceptable if individuals do not disclose their race or ethnicity. This data is used for diversity reporting purposes as an FYI only.
Exemptions to disclosing pay data
In certain circumstances it is permissible to not disclose pay data:
- You may choose to not disclose pay data of your most senior executive team, (Those with C-level titles). In order to pass file validation, leave their base pay blank and choose “Confidential Executive Compensation” in the exemption reasons column.
- Contractors do not need to disclose pay data.
How to Import Employee Data
- Prepare a complete and well-formatted import file using the instructions above and the example file as a guide.
- On the “Onboarding” page, use the file picker to select the file from your computer.
- Upload the file from your system.
- SameWorks will immediately validate the file for errors. If there are serious errors, you will need to fix the issues before you can proceed with certification.
- If they exist, review validation errors on the page.
- Resolve those issues by amending them according to the error messages.
- Once you have fixed the issues, re-upload your file.
- Once you have uploaded a valid file, you will see a success message, and you can begin to view analytics, and resolve issues.
Making Exceptions Using the Import Process
It is possible to make exceptions and justifications for employees that are paid differently during file import. If you are aware of a situation where two employees have different pay, you can choose to add a justification in the spreadsheet, and it will be imported along with the other employee data. In this case, the situation will be imported in a pre-resolved state, requiring no action in the application.
You will need to choose the exemption reason in the “Compensation Exemption Reason” column, and provide your justification in the “Compensation Exception Notes” Column.
For more information about exceptions, please read our article on the topic.
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Collected and edited by Pauline Ames Plimpton, his daughter, and with a Foreword by George Plimpton, his grandson, these journals, letters, and diaries, written in the first half of the century, give a vivid autobiographic picture of the era. Oakes Ames was one of the group of extraordinary teachers that Harvard drew to its faculty under Eliot and Lowell; he devoted his life to the study and teaching of botany and became a world authority on orchids and economic botany, directing the Botanical Museum and the Arnold Arboretum. The book gives a description of family life in Boston and the small town of North Easton, Massachusetts, as well as the experiences of travel in those early days. The main theme is his love of nature, whether in collecting orchids or acquiring land for his home. It is a book to be savored by those interested in the University, in orchidology and in the striking contrasts between the past and the present. His austerity of character and his subtle, surprising humor and insights are particularly relevant for the present time.
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Graham Parker has recorded and performed non-stop for the last 35 years. Refusing to compromise, Graham marched to his own drum. Together with his passionately remembered band the Rumour, Graham was the inspiration for artists that followed him. But in the end he defied the movement that he helped spark. And when the music business continued to change beyond recognition, he remained true to his musical vision. A modern troubadour, Graham releases new music almost on a yearly basis, while touring small clubs around the country to a die hard fan base. THE TWIST: Graham, at 59 years old, has had a slight change of heart. He just may be ready to go commercial. Leaning on his publishing company to place his music in ads and TV shows Graham makes his last attempt at selling while not selling out. The film documents the history of his independent spirit and defiant optimism, celebrates the sincerity of his music and delights in his self-deprecating wit.
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Jake Pohl wanted to get the Rocky Point wrestling team headed in the right direction. The Eagles big man at 285 pounds led off Saturday’s Suffolk Dual Meet championship tournament.
He responded with a near perfect win over Jean Jasmine, 5-0, and Rocky Point never trailed in a 37-33 win over Brentwood to capture the title at Bay Shore High School before a packed house of 1,200. It was the third straight dual meet title for the Eagles.
“There was a little bit of pressure because Brentwood was coming off a big win over the top seed,” said Pohl, who improved to 27-10. “And I wanted to give our team some momentum with the first win.”
Seventh grader Nick LaMorte, the youngest starter in the Rocky Point lineup, followed Pohl’s win with a rousing 12-9 win over Fernando Romero at 99 pounds. LaMorte scored a reversal and two back points in the final 13 seconds for the comeback win.
“That was a key win to build the momentum with LaMorte,” said Rocky Point coach Darren Goldstein. “He battled to the very end and came through with an excellent move.”
Rocky Point (17-1) won nine of the 10 bouts wrestled to build a 37-3 lead and clinched the title when junior Corey Connolly pinned Hugo Vasquez in 1:35 at 145 pounds. The Eagles elected to forfeit the final five weight classes and head upstate to the state’s first-ever dual meet championships with an entirely healthy lineup.
“We put them away early and that afforded us the option of not wrestling the final five weights,” Goldstein said. “We’ve had a very competitive month of wrestling all over the state and our guys could use some time to heal and get ready for the state tournament. It’s exciting that we’re representing the best section in the state next week.”
Logan Sciotto used a third period takedown to key a 5-2 win over Wenchard Pierre-Louis at 113 pounds and Evan Matias edged Richard Diaz, 5-3, at 120 for the 12-3 team lead.
Runnerup Brentwood (14-2) will look for an at-large bid to the state tournament, which will be announced Sunday along with the team seeding.
Brentwood coach Ralph Napolitano won his 254th dual meet in 16 years when the fifth-seeded Indians upset top-seeded Eastport-South Manor, 41-24, in the semifinal round. Napolitano became the all-time wins leaders at Brentwood passing legendary coach Joe Campo, who retired in 1985 with 253 wins.
Port Jefferson and Mount Sinai battled for the Suffolk Division II title and the right to go to the state dual meet championships. Junior Joe O’Brien pinned Ryan Robertson in 3:47 at 138 and Mount Sinai went on to record six total pins in a 45-28 victory over Port Jefferson.
The key win for the Mustangs came at 145 pounds when Mike Zarif edged Joe Evangelista. Mount Sinai improved to 11-1 in dual meets and Port Jefferson (5-1) lost for the first time this season.
“We wrestled well today and we had some role players that really came through in this dual meet,” said Port Jefferson coach Matt Armstrong. “I thought Ryan Shanian and Zarif really did a great job. Sometimes not winning is still a team win by not giving up key points. We have a very competitive squad and I think we can place in the state tournament. We’re fired up to represent Suffolk upstate.”
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Recently announcing her plans to wed girlfriend Michelle Rounds, Rosie O’Donnell has even more good news to share! The talk show host revealed on Friday that she and her fiancée are trying to have a baby, according to new reports.
“She's trying to get pregnant,” the 49-year-old gushed of Michelle while speaking with guest Dr. Mehmet Oz on her show Rosie via E! Online.
The OWN star, who already has four children, was married once before in 2004 to Kelli Carpenter, but the relationship ended in 2007.
Congratulations, Rosie and Michelle!
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US President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on Wednesday, overturning decades of international consensus on the highly contested city, half of which was occupied and annexed by Israel following the 1967 War.
In 1980, Israel passed a law that declared Jerusalem the “complete and united” capital of Israel, in violation of international law.
The Palestinians, however, see East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.
Al Jazeera highlights the numerous resolutions made by the United Nations and its bodies regarding the city since the 1967 conflict.
UN Security Council
Resolution 242: November 22, 1967, the unanimously adopted resolution called on Israel to withdraw its armed forces from territories occupied in the 1967 conflict.
Resolution 250: April 27, 1968, asked Israel not to hold a military parade in Jerusalem.
Resolution 251: May 2, 1968, condemned Israel holding the military parade in Jerusalem.
Resolution 252: May 21, 1968, asked Israel to cancel all activities in Jerusalem, and condemned the occupation of any land through armed aggression. It also demanded Israel “desist from taking any further action which tends to change the status” of the city.
Resolution 267: July 3, 1969, confirmed resolution 252, reaffirming that “acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissible”.
Resolution 271: September 15, 1969, condemned the extensive damage caused by arson to the Holy Al Aqsa Mosque, a building under the military occupation of Israel. It called on Israel to observe the provisions of the Geneva Conventions and “refrain from causing any hindrance to the discharge of the established functions of the Supreme Muslim Council of Jerusalem”, including “its plans for the maintenance and repair of the Islamic Holy Places” within the city.
Resolution 298: September 25, 1971, confirmed in “the clearest possible terms” that all actions taken by Israel to change the status of Jerusalem, such as land confiscation, were illegal.
Resolution 465: March 1, 1980, demanded Israel to stop the planning and construction of settlements in territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem. It also called on Israel to “dismantle the existing settlements”.
Resolution 476: June 30, 1980, reaffirmed the “overriding necessity for ending the prolonged occupation of Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967” and reiterated that all measures which had altered the status of Jerusalem were “null and void” and had to be rescinded.
Resolution 478: August 20, 1980, condemned in “the strongest terms” the enactment of Israeli law proclaiming a change in status of Jerusalem. The resolution called on all states “that have established diplomatic missions” in Jerusalem to withdraw them from the city.
Resolution 672: October 12, 1990, expressed alarm at the violence which claimed more than twenty Palestinian lives at the al-Aqsa Mosque on October 8, 1990. The resolution condemned the acts of violence committed by Israeli security forces and referred to Israel as an “occupying power”.
Resolution 1073: September 28, 1996, expressed concern about developments in Jerusalem relating to Israel’s opening of an entrance to a tunnel near the al-Aqsa Mosque, which resulted in a number of civilian deaths, and called for “the safety and protection of Palestinian civilians to be ensured”.
Resolution 1322: October 7, 2000, denounced the visit made by Israeli opposition leader, Ariel Sharon, to the al-Aqsa Mosque and the “subsequent violence there and at other holy places” which resulted in more than 80 Palestinian deaths.
Resolution 1397: March 12, 2002, called on Palestinian and Israeli leaders to resume the peace process through negotiations regarding a political settlement.
Resolution 2334: December 23, 2016, condemned Israel’s construction of settlements in all territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem. The UNSC emphasised it would not recognise any changes to the pre-1967 conflict lines, and stressed that the “cessation of all Israeli settlement activities is essential for salvaging the two-State solution”.
UN General Assembly
Resolution 2253: July 4, 1967, expressed concern at Israel’s attempts to change the status of Jerusalem and called for “all measures already taken” to be rescinded and no further such action.
Resolution 36/15: October 28, 1981, determined that Israel’s transformation of Jerusalem, including historical, cultural and religious sites, constituted a “flagrant violation of the principles of international law”. Such acts, the resolution stated, “constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive and just peace in the Middle East”.
Resolution 55/130: February 28, 2001, demanded that Israel cooperate with a special committee set up to “investigate Israeli practices affecting the human rights of Palestinian people and other Arabs” in the occupied territories. The resolution expressed “grave concern” about the situation in Jerusalem “as a result of Israeli practices and measures … [especially] the excessive use of force … which has resulted in more than 160 Palestinian deaths”.
Resolution 10/14: December 12, 2003, requested the International Court of Justice to provide an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s construction of a wall in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem”.
Resolution 60/104: January 18, 2006, requested the Special Committee, “pending complete termination of the Israeli occupation”, continue to investigate Israeli actions in “the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and other Arab territories” since 1967.
Resolution 70/89: December 15, 2015, condemned the continuation of Israeli occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, as a violation of international law. The resolution also denounced Israel’s “unlawful construction” of a wall inside occupied territories, including “in and around East Jerusalem”.
Resolution 71/96: December 23, 2016, reaffirmed that the Geneva Convention, relative to the protection of civilians during conflict, was applicable to the “Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967″.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
150: November 27, 1996, stated the “Old City of Jerusalem” was inscribed on the endangered world heritage list, and labelled Israel’s opening of an entrance to a tunnel near the al-Aqsa Mosque “an act which has offended religious sensibilities in the world”.
159: June 15, 2000, expressed concern at “the measures which continue to impede the free access of Palestinians to Jerusalem”.
184: April 2, 2010, expressed “deep concern” regarding Israeli archeological works, including excavations, at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. The resolution stated the works “contradict UNESCO decisions and conventions”.
192: January 13, 2014, criticised Israel’s “continuous, [and] intrusive” archeological demolitions, excavations and works in East Jerusalem.
196: May 22, 2015, stated “deep regret” at Israel’s “refusal to implement previous UNESCO decisions concerning Jerusalem” and called for the deployment of a permanent expert to East Jerusalem “to report on a regular basis about all the aspects covering all UNESCO fields of competence in East Jerusalem”.
202: November 18, 2017, expressed regret at Israel’s refusal to “implement the UNESCO request … to appoint a permanent representative to be stationed in East Jerusalem”, and stressed the “urgent need to implement the UNESCO reactive monitoring mission to the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls”.
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The Veterans Affairs Department is more efficiently cutting checks for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to attend college this semester, following a rocky rollout last fall that left veterans so cash-strapped there was concern some wouldn’t re-enroll.
As of Feb. 5, nearly 90 percent of enrollments for the 167,000 veterans submitted to the VA for the Post-9/11 GI Bill had been paid out, the VA said. And it said all those submitted by Jan. 19 were paid.
The new GI Bill was designed to be the most comprehensive benefit for veterans since World War II. Last semester, however, there were so many hiccups that the VA had to issue $3,000 advance checks to 122,000 veterans who needed help with expenses as they waited for their claim to be processed.
Even as the fall semester was wrapping up, thousands of colleges and universities were waiting for tuition reimbursement from the VA and there was concern affected veterans wouldn’t be allowed to enroll for the spring semester by their schools or would drop out of frustration. Amid the problems, there were complaints that calls to a helpline went unanswered, although even now the helpline is only manned Monday to Wednesday.
The VA was able to make processing improvements by hiring new staff and streamlining operations, VA spokeswoman Katie Roberts said in an e-mail.
Advocates say they’ve not heard widespread reports of veterans not returning for the spring semester because of GI Bill problems. While there are still complaints about some back pay issues and about the accuracy of payments, "What we’ve seen has been pretty encouraging," said Ryan Gallucci, a spokesman for AMVETS.
Roberts said the VA has processed all claims from last semester if it has all the veteran’s paperwork and there is no outstanding information to verify.
On Feb. 4, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki told the House Veterans Affairs Committee that a more automated system to process new GI Bill claims will be implemented by December. The president’s proposed budget seeks $44 million to help fund the upgrades.
The maximum benefit under the new GI Bill allows eligible veterans to attend a public college or university for free for four years, provides a monthly housing stipend, and up to $1,000 a year for books. Active duty service members can transfer the benefit to immediate family members.
In recent weeks, veterans have been notified that they must begin to pay back the $3,000 advance checks.
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Humbrol Crystal Clear 150ml
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Humbrol Spray Crystal Clear 150ml
Acrylic spray coating. It goes on clear and stays clear. It prtects wood, metal, plastic, ceramic, fabric and paper surfaces permanetly. Seals prpous surfaces, clear finish will not yellow with age. Adds strength and warer resistance- helps prevent tarnish and rust.
Pressurised Container - Cannot be sent by Royal Mail - MUST USE COURIER
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Just like any infection, different STIs need different treatments. Treatments range from pills, to creams, to injections.
Treatment is often quick, easy and painless
The quicker you start your treatment, the more effective it will be
Some STIs like Chlamydia can be cured with antibiotics
Depending on treatment, costs can vary but are often inexpensive
Some STIs can be cured through antibiotic medication, such as Chlamydia, the most common STI in young people. This involves taking two tablets once and then avoiding sexual activity for seven days. Your doctor will prescribe them for you.
STI treatments depend on the STI
Other STIs, like Herpes, can’t be cured but can be managed through medication which reduces symptoms. It’s important to remember that it’s a very common STI (one in eight people) and to talk to your doctor or Nurse Nettie if you have any questions.
Some treatments are available over the counter at the local pharmacy and others will require a prescription from your doctor.
Remember, STIs are very common. In fact, most people who are sexually active will come into contact with an STI at some point in their life. It’s just reality. You can share or hear about other people’s experiences on our forum.
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Feel The Noize by SladeRelease date: September 6, 2019
Everybody loves Slade, don’t they? Well, to anyone over a certain age they are woven into the fabric of our youth, eliciting a rosy glow and a cheesy grin at the mere mention of their name. As British as black pudding, Noddy’s tipsy town-crier voice and Dave Hill’s oddball fringe and outlandish outfits on Top of the Pops are like an aural and visual shorthand for simpler, happier days. And then there’s that Christmas song. . . Yet despite their unshakable position in our collective memory, once you get past the flash-card Slade signifiers I suspect most people are relatively unfamiliar with the majority of the band’s back catalogue. Even some of the “smashes” in this new singles box-set may be only a dim glow at the back of the mind, possibly due to the band’s, let’s face it, quickly tiresome habit of deliberately daft spellings – can you whistle the melody to ‘Take Me Bak ‘Ome’ ? I can’t, and I readily admit to approaching this band as a novice.
This box-set Feel The Noize, compiles ten rare European released 7-inch singles, including the very rare ‘Night Starvation’ but that aside, and wherever they were distributed, the rest of these tunes were terrifically successful at time of release, Slade being a virtual hit machine in the early seventies. The Christmas song, tellingly isn’t among them.
I decided to approach this review by avoiding looking at the running order, the chart positions or any other influential information and just played the songs on random regularly for about a week. My aim was to avoid the received ideas of the band and just concentrate on the songs. Let’s face it, if you’re a casual fan you’ll start with a Best of. . . and as I have sadly only been given digital versions of these singles I cannot enlighten the committed Slade-ophile as to the various divertissements of the packaging.
The first thing I note is the incredible gift chief songwriter Jim Lea had for strong melodies. My methodology was, as I say, to play the tracks randomly, the idea being I would let my ears pick up on the most interesting songs, and there is barely a tune here that doesn’t beg for your attention. You can’t usually tell what’s an A side and what’s a B.
Strangely, despite this method, it is still the first single here ‘Coz I Luv U’ that makes the biggest impression. The more you hear it the greater, and yet odder it sounds. Built around Lea’s serpentine violin melody and incredible rising bass thwack, the resonance of which grows to that tension releasing, jubilant “la la la” from Noddy near the close, it is a masterpiece of sonic invention. Ostensibly a love song, the structure of the song gives it a creepy stealth at odds with the open hearted lyric. That is until that break in the mood where it becomes a huge knees up. Yes, you think you know the song, but go back and play it loud through decent speakers and you’ll be convinced of its genius.
Lyrically it’s the usual fare for rock bands: touring, loving and leaving, but they are done with charm and aplomb – two standouts being the Beatles-ish melancholy of ‘Everyday’ and the more heroic ‘Far, Far Away’ with its infamous “I’ve had a red light off the wrist, without even being kissed” line which radio stations at the time missed!
There are certainly some curveballs amongst all the boozy stomps and misty-eyed reveries, including the flip side to ‘Coz I Love U’ – ‘My Life Is Natural’. Driven by a restless acoustic strum, it has the energy and cadence of a Blue-era Joni Mitchell number, mixed with a more flashy and muscular Led Zep drive. It is an absolute belter! Elsewhere ‘Kill ‘em At The Hot Club Tonite’ is the only real misstep, being a whimsical bit of nonsense played in a hot-jazz style which really doesn’t suit the band.
What it does show though is that although the band are mainly remembered for their Super Yob style and beery, working-man anthems, there is a lot more to their music in a catalogue ripe for rediscovery. It has been an absolute treat, and something of an education, listening to this box-set; so come on, feel the noize!
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Men are known to eat less fruit and vegetables than women and now US psychologists think they have worked out why.
It's got to do with the value men place on eating fruit and veggies, and that men feel they have less control over their intake than women.
"Men don't believe as strongly as women that fruit and vegetable consumption is an important part of maintaining health," study researcher John A Updegraff, associate professor of social and health psychology at Kent State University in Ohio, told MyHealthNewsDaily.com.
Related: Curtis Stone's sweet corn and zucchini ratatouille (pictured above)
"Men feel less confident in their ability to eat healthy foods like fruits and vegetables, especially when they are at work or in front of the television."
Updegraff and a team of researchers looked at data from almost 3400 people who were surveyed in 2007 about their attitudes, beliefs and behaviours about food. They investigated whether a psychology theory called "the theory of planned behaviour" explained why men are less likely to choose natural foods.
To measure the impact of this theory, the researchers looked at men and women's attitudes towards fruit and vegetables, how much control they felt they had over their diet and how aware they were about other people wanting them to consume a healthier diet.
They found women had a better attitude towards eating fresh produce, and knew that by doing so they would live longer and look better.
The researchers also found women had more confidence when it came to choosing fruit and vegetables to snack on, even if they were tired, ravenous or surrounded by people eating unhealthy food.
The study suggests that public health messages about the importance of eating fresh produce are being absorbed by women, but not by men.
"It's important to help men understand the importance of a healthy diet, as well as to develop confidence in their ability to make those healthy choices, whether it be at work or at home," Updegraff said.
Now Updegraff would like to see a more practical approach to educating men about healthy eating.
"What might work best is teaching men ways to take control over their fruit and vegetable consumption," he said.
And Updegraff warns against increasing the pressure on men to eat better.
"It turns out that this peer pressure is not a particularly strong motivator, for either men or for women," Updegraff said.
Julie Gilbert, spokesperson for the Dietitians Association of Australia, told ninemsn men are often resistant to vegetables, so it's important to find creative ways to include them in the diet.
"The best way to start with men is to get them to incorporate the vegetables and the fruit in the meals they are already eating," she said.
"So put your fruit on your cereal, grate vegetables into bolognaise sauce and put tomato, beetroot, lettuce on a burger."
Gilbert says once people get used to the flavours and textures of fruit and vegetables they become a lot more appealing.
In pictures: Veggie breakfast ideas
"You can't force someone into eating vegetables and fruit, but you can subtly add it and get them used to those lovely flavours," she said.
"If you have to add a low fat white sauce to your cauliflower or add gravy to the roast vegetables, do it."
The study was published in the journal Appetite.
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To make reservations by phone, call 1-800-331-3131 in the USA and Canada (or any of our worldwide reservation telephone numbers).
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Welcome to Residence Inn Houston The Woodlands / Market Street, an award-winning, extended-stay hotel in The Woodlands, TX. Find us conveniently located within walking distance of The Woodlands Mall and Market Street, as well as treasured local attractions such as The Woodlands Waterway Taxi, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion and various corporate destinations. Each and every stay delivers unequaled value with a host of complimentary amenities including daily hot breakfast buffet, free Wi-Fi and free parking. Enjoy our refreshing indoor pool and whirlpool, evening manager's reception, equipped 24-hour cardio room, and all-suite accommodations featuring full kitchens. We're also pet-friendly and a 100% smoke-free environment. Residence Inn The Woodlands Hotel / Market Street has perfected the extended-stay experience by combining all the comforts of home with our passion for making every guest feel welcome. Discover the preferred choice of hotels in The Woodlands, TX.
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Click here for the 2018 Scholarship packet. The deadline for returning the complete application package to Ms. Pressley (Career and College Counselor) is March 9, 2018.
The Dave Bame Making A Difference Scholarship
This scholarship has been renamed in honor of our Past-President Dave Bame who passed away in 2015. Our annual scholarship program awards are for male and female senior athletes. The scholarship is designed to recognize, reward and encourage STUDENT ATHLETES who have made a significant difference on their team, in their community or within Steinbrenner High School. (The scholarship may be awarded to an individual that has performed a particularly selfless act or to someone that may have continually provided a superior example for their peers.) Among the key characteristics that will be heavily weighted in awarding the scholarship will be strong moral character, exemplary work ethic, commitment to putting others (i.e., team, school, community or peer) before self, leadership and mentoring skills, and a positive attitude. To a lesser extent, the student athlete will be evaluated on their participation in school and community activities.
Please see your Guidance Counselor or download the application by clicking here.
The Frank Vasquez Memorial Scholarship
The Steinbrenner High School Athletic Booster Club is honored to offer the Frank Vasquez Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is designed to recognize and reward one SENIOR STUDENT ATHLETE, nominated by their coach, who exemplifies the characteristics that were part of the makeup of Frank Vasquez…that being work ethic, charisma, character, leadership and a fierce competitor.
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This boot camp is the best thing to do for anyone wanting to become a hearing aid dispenser/hearing instrument specialist, no matter what state they are in. All of the instructors are amazing and really help to develop and enhance your clinical skills. Dave could not be any nicer and even picked my colleague and I up from the airport. 10 stars!!!
I just attended the hearing aid academy live boot camp and it was AMAZING! I learned so much valuable information and got the hands on training/learning that I needed! The staff members/trainers are all so knowledgeable and encouraging! I loved it and would absolutely recommend! We learned, had fun, and lots of laughs.
Great class! Very beneficial to your future career as a Hearing instrument specialist! I have walked away with more knowledge and feel very ready for my state testing !!
This was such an amazing experience. Learing with Dave, Paul, Scott, Mike, Larry, TJ, and Todd was extremely beneficial. They was to help create great and caring Hearing Instrument Specialists. Would highly recommend!
HAA is awesome! I can’t believe my luck to have found it. I love the depth of knowledge the instructors have and the passion for the industry and the people. I am so excited to learn more and do more! Thank you HAA!!!
Wonderful staff & a great experience to be able to see and learn everything live! I recommend this to everyone interested in this profession! I have gained so much knowledge from this academy 😊
I have enjoyed the boot camp it was insightful and hands on was simply amazing
This academy is the best experience. I have learned a lot of information from world class clinicians and instructors, above what I have learned in clinic. I am very thankful for the opportunity to learn from these great instructors!
Great experience at the bootcamp. I learned a lot and enjoyed my time there.
Great weekend learning so much!!
Hearing aid academy i was at the event in georgia and to meet a lot of experts that they had there the questions they answered and the expertise in the room was very pleasing i was happy to see they were happy to teach us they were not lazy and unmotivated they helped us all with individual questions and many other things i deffinettly recommend going here.
I started the Hearing Aid Academy a few months ago and I have loved every moment of it! At first I was a little skeptical because there are not many programs like this but I promise it is worth every penny and they are completely legit. The instructors are always available to answer questions for you which is nice when everything is online. I’m currently at the bootcamp and I am very happy I decided to go; the hands on training is one of a kind. If you are interested in becoming a Hearing Aid Specialist this is the program for you!
I am about 1/2 way through the HAA curriculum and just attended the weekend bootcamp for hands on clinical training. I cannot say enough good things about the staff and instructors that run the program.
I was skeptical of the program at first, mainly because I couldn't find anything else out there to compare it to. This weekend put any hesitations I had at bay. I am very excited to complete the program, get licensed, and I hope 🤞🤞 that HAA will put on CEU courses in the future so that I can continue working with this group!
It's just an amazing experience, they have amazing support, instructors hands on training bootcamps and live zoom calls every week to teach you more things along the way as you go through their course.
Ryan Wayne Douglas
I just completed the Dallas Bootcamp and it was awesome!! It was a great experience for anyone interested in becoming a HAS. There’s tons of shared resources, support and expertise that will ensure you have an unforgettable experience! Thanks to all the instructors, Dave & TJ.
Sohodra N. Singh
The Hearing Aid Academy is everything and more than what is advertised. The Academy is not just learning what is necessary to pass your state test but it is the path to obtaining a complete education about the science of hearing and the intricacies of hearing aids. I have a business finance background but wished to change my life’s path and sincerely help people with their hearing. I personally had no previous hearing experience or science experience for that matter. Yes, I was completely lost at first, but the required information is available from the Hearing Aid Academy and I am completely satisfied with the pace and structure of the education. Then to top it off, the Hearing Aid Academy was able to refer me to a Board Certified, 20 year experienced, hearing aid specialist for additional practical training. I am now employed in the industry with a great career job after only 8 months from beginning my education. Thank you Dennis and Dave for literally assisting me in changing my life. Troy Birmingham
I am currently a student with the hearing aid academy and I highly recommend! Even with working in a hearing center, the academy has taught me so much I need to excel my state exams. I recently attended the boot camp seminar with the Hearing Aid academy and it was a huge game changer. All the hands on experience with the instructors was a blessing!! I am so grateful I found the academy and feel great about my upcoming state exams.
I highly recommend Hearing Aid Academy. They will guide you through out the course until you can get a license. I recently attended the boot camp here in Dallas,Texas. I enjoyed every minute of it, I learned a lot as well. Thank you for the following coaches/instructors who made this event possible, Dave, TJ, Larry, Scott , Paul , Todd and Mike.
Janet Yao Cinco Armstrong
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Elizabeth M. Martinez
All I have to say is that joining the Hearing Aid Academy's program, has been the wisest decision I have made in a long time.
I initially was naturally skeptical because it is an online self-pace program, but I have come to find out that they have an amazing program. They have an amazing group of very knowledgeable, professional and down to earth instructors who really care and want you to succeed.
I just attended their Orlando bootcamp, and the information and hands on training is invaluable. There is nothing in the industry like this program.
Thank you so much Hearing Aid Academy instructors and fellow students for making this an amazing experience.
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Shares of the Max Financial rose more than 13 per cent on Friday after the Board approved merger of Max Life Insurance Company Limited and Max Financial Services Limited into HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company.
The proposed arrangements would be subject to due diligence, definitive documentation and applicable board, shareholder, regulatory, respective High Courts / NCLT, and other third party approvals, as may be applicable.
The board has approved entering into a confidentiality, exclusivity and standstill agreement to evaluate a proposal for a potential combination through a merger of Max Life Insurance Company Limited and Max Financial Services Limited with HDFC Life by way of a scheme of arrangement, HDFC Life said in the BSE press release.
Shares of Max Financial services were seen trading at Rs 485 higher by 13.46 per cent on BSE at 1.15 pm IST. It touched an intra-day high of Rs 514 during the trade.
Shares of HDFC Life were seen trading at Rs 1221, higher by 1.64 per cent on BSE. It touched an intra-day high of Rs 1225 during the trade.
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- Identify potential funders
- Assist with proposal concept development
- Connect grant-seekers with resources
- Edit and provide feedback
Grants & Sponsored Programs at Smith College facilitates the efforts of faculty and staff to develop and achieve their goals in research, instructional, creative and service activities through successful competition for external funding. We promote research integrity and oversee external funds.
Please note that the team members for Grants & Sponsored Programs are all now located at 76 Elm Street.
Learn about external grants awarded for the 2018–19 academic year.
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While you came here, please see my friend’s photos about Rusafa, which some of them uniquely pictured.
Resafa (Arabic: الرصافة), known in Roman times as Sergiopolis, was a city in Syria. It is an archaeological site situated south-west of the city of Ar Raqqah and the Euphrates.
The site dates back to the 9th century B.C, when a military camp was built by the Assyrians. During Roman times it was a desert outpost fortified to defend against the Sassanids. It flourished as its location on the caravan routes linking Aleppo, Dura Europos, and Palmyra was ideal. Resafa had no spring or running water, so it depended on large cisterns to capture the winter and spring rains. Fortunately, the rainfall in the area was more than sufficient. Resafa was planted right in the path of the Persian-Byzantine wars, and was therefore a well-defended city that had massive walls that surrounded it without a break. It also had a fortress.
The city’s naming comes from “Sergius”,a Roman soldier who was persecuted for his Christian faith. Sergius was brought to Resafa for his execution, and there he became a martyr for the city. A church was built to mark his grave and the city was renamed Sergiopolis.
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Top Story Instapoll 8/25/11:Is U of I Responsible For The Death Of Katy Benoit?
Katy Benoit, a 22 year old undergraduate student of the University Of Idaho was allegedly shot and killed by a former professor who she claimed had held a gun to her head on several occasions. Benoit apparently filed reports and did all she could. Do you think the U of I holds any responsibility in what happened to Benoit? Vote Here
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
The Ant In Us
The ant being a perfect image of oursleves, carries more than his own wieght. The load is a symbol of truth; a symbol of the secrets hidden inside ourselves which we carry on our shoulders throughout life. For what reasons? Such question cannot be answered. For the jusifications are obscured deep in our hearts only for us personaly to know. It is locked away in the chest we built out of protection. While embarressed, guilty, doubtful,...we move foward just as the ant, never disposing the leaf from our backs because we never find the destination that we feel provides safety for such information. We fear the power of others having knowlege of such information, so we hold on to it even though it cuases pain. Thus, each of us become a feeble ant that is overpowered by the magnitude of its load.
However, unlike the ant, we are not built to hold the extra weight and therefore, our frames are weakened over time. The strain adds to the discomfort and we feel helpless. Our ability to withstand such feelings diminishes and we are left vulnerable.
Yet, while we all reach such point more than once where the feeling of impowerment takes control, we can also escape its wrath. It may take longer than anticipated, but we do have the strenghth to win such battle. Every individual has the capability of releasing the burden that is being carried. It does not matter whether it may be large or minute. Thus, do not lose faith. Somewhere along the path leading to our destination is a place of where it is safe for us to dispose of our burdens. When the right moment comes, such a place will be revealed. And when such a time occurs, the true black ant in all of us will finally appear.
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President Obama hasn't met with Immigration and Customs Enforcement union boss Chris Crane, and neither have the corporate leaders set to lobby Congress in favor of the Senate immigration bill.
"They do not represent the interests of your constituents, the law enforcement community, or the nation itself," Crane wrote in a Monday letter to House lawmakers.
"They are interested in power and money. ICE officers are pleading with you to resist their well-financed pressure campaign and stand with American citizens and the immigration officers who put their own personal safety at risk each day to provide for public safety. The American public is fed up with rich individuals, corporations and special interests using money to control the legislative process," he said.
Crane, who is often critical of the Department of Homeland Security and many of the proponents of the latest immigration bill, has long sought a meeting with the government officials crafting the latest legislation. The Senate's informal Gang of Eight rejected his requests for a meeting, as have White House officials.
“No reforms to our immigration system will succeed as long as federal officials can continue to unilaterally select which laws are to be enforced — and which are not — based on their own political agendas,” Crane wrote in April.
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Posted by Michael Kenny
on 12 July 2016
To mark the 70th anniversary of continuous Lasallian education in Papua New Guinea, a record number of delegates from across the country are in Port Moresby this week attending the National Gathering of Lasallian Teachers.
Hosted at the La Salle Technical College in Hohola, the event is held once every three years and this year has proven to be by far the most popular ever- with 230 delegates attending from urban and remote provinces.
The high attendance is a powerful reflection of the inspiring zeal and commitment to the Lasallian charism which is helping it to expand well beyond Port Moresby to some of the most remote areas of the nation.
This year's event has featured keynote addresses and workshops on topics such as Lasallian leadership, classroom management, using smartphones in teaching and engaging Lasallian youth.
In her opening keynote address, the Principal of Jubilee Catholic Secondary School in Port Moresby, Mrs Bernadette Ove reflected upon the rich and enduring legacy left by St John Baptist de la Salle over 300 years ago and which continues to inspire generations of teachers today.
"The Founder faced many obstacles in setting up his network of schools for the poor in France, but he never gave up", Mrs Ove said.
"Just as the early apostles didn't make excuses and went about spreading the good news of Jesus, we too need to maintain that same faith and zeal in what we do in schools across PNG today", she added.
Mrs Ove assumed her current role in 2001 and has led Jubilee Catholic Secondary School into a position where it is one of the best performing schools in the country, helping many young Papua New Guineans access a tertiary education.
"As Lasallian partners, the responsibility is very much in our hands to keep the mission going, of living up to the Founder's call to change minds, touch hearts and transform lives- these are indeed the greatest miracles we can perform in education", Mrs Ove told the gathering.
Another committed Lasallian educator, Mr Gary Burrows delivered a thought-provoking keynote address at the conference, offering some insights into an innovative program he implemented during his time as Principal of a Sydney school, De La Salle College Caringbah.
The restorative justice program first introduced at De La Salle Caringbah has been so effective that it has been adopted across Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Sydney.
The model moves away from the authoritarian approach to classroom discipline adopted by past generations.
It instead relies upon students taking personal responsibility for their own behaviour in a positive environment which focuses upon the need for respectful relationships in schools.
Mr Burrows told the PNG teachers, the program led to a far more productive environment at De La Salle College Caringbah, including a 43 percent drop in absenteeism in its first two years and much improved academic results.
"It helps students appreciate how their behaviour has a direct impact upon those around them because time is set aside for daily conferencing where teachers can meet with students and discuss the behaviour which is generating the concern", he explained.
Mr Burrows said restorative justice practices tie in closely with Lasallian education because the Founder himself emphasised in his writings the need to move away from corporal punishment and more towards correction of bad behaviour.
One of the teachers at the PNG Gathering from the Southern Highlands region, Mr Erick Maukos said he was looking forward to implementing restorative justice practices in his classes when he returns to school next term.
"There is definitely a danger in focusing too much on the negatives when trying to tackle bad behaviour", he said.
"We really need to create avenues to give students the opportunity to learn from their own misbehaviour and this is a very sensible way to go about it".
Another key focus of the PNG National Teachers Gathering has been the need to meet the challenges of the digital classroom in a country where telecommunications can be unreliable.
In many remote areas of PNG, laptop computers are scarce and the smartphone is the preferred means of communication.
Teacher Mr Joshua Moish delivered an interesting workshop around ways in which the smartphone can be used as a teaching tool, covering key areas such as basic mathematics, using online dictionaries and accessing the periodic table of the elements in science classes.
"The smartphone can help engage students in their learning because it can be a far more creative way to learn", Mr Moish told the workshop.
Auxiliary Visitor and PNG Sector Coordinator Br Chris Gorringe joined in with the PNG teachers in a group exercise in which they had to interview one another on their smartphones about what it means to them to be a Lasallian as practice for a similar exercise they could draw upon with their students.
The Lasallian Youth Minister for Papua New Guinea, Mr Dagia Aka also led a workshop looking at creative ways of engaging youth in the Lasallian mission in schools.
Mr Akia drew upon the core Lasallian values of faith, service and community to trigger a group discussion around what sorts of activities teachers could lead under each of these categories.
While a mass or a retreat would cover the faith dimension and a volunteer project in a community centre could cover the service side, the community dimension is generally left more to the teacher to organise, whether that be through activities like a movie day or a community sports event.
"Through the community based activities, it's more your turn then as a teacher to help build a stronger relationship with your students, whereas the faith and service dimensions are more in the hands of the students to make them work effectively".
Goroka-based teacher, Ms Grace Wrakia also delivered a memorable workshop on effective classroom language teaching.
In a country where most students speak English as their second or possibly their third language, Grace argued that teachers across all year levels have a responsibility to help students improve their spoken and written English.
Through the workshop, teachers working in different parts of PNG shared insights around the challenges they face in addressing the needs of second language learners.
As a primary school teacher from the remote Enga Province, Mrs Aileen Saleu is well aware of these challenges based upon 17 years of teaching in remote regions of PNG.
Mrs Saleu believes teachers working with limited resources in isolated areas need to increasingly rely upon smartphone technology to cover basic areas such as literacy and numeracy.
Another way of addressing the resources challenge for PNG schools has been through Twinning, whereby many Lasallian schools in Australia and New Zealand are using their annual Mission Action fundraising to help strengthen resources for primary and secondary teachers in Papua New Guinea.
Mrs Saleu said the National Lasallian Teachers Gathering has been a great opportunity to share ideas and insights with fellow teachers from around the country, facing similar challenges but united under a common charism.
"It's been very inspiring seeing so many fellow Lasallians here and to see the way in which they draw upon the legacy of St John Baptist de la Salle to animate and sustain such an important vocation as a teacher across our schools and teachers colleges in Papua New Guinea", Mrs Saleu said.
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Day 12 – Globe Theatre and St. Paul’s Cathedral
Today, we went to see the third globe theatre. The first theatre was burned down on
June 29, 1613 due to cannon exploded and a spark landed on the roof and it caught fire. A
replica of the cannon is there in the new globe theatre. The second Globe Theatre was taken
down. The third Globe Theatre was built in 1997 and is the theatre that you would see
today. Shakespeare lived during the reign of Elizabeth I and James I. The poor peasants
would stand before the stage and it would only cost one pence. The rich gentlemen would
have boxes on the top floor directly left and right of the stage. Back then, the theatres
would be closed sometimes for a year or two because of the plague that would sweep
through England but mainly London. There were only male actors in Shakespeare’s time and
the guys would play female roles in Shakespeare’s masterpieces The marble columns were
actually wood painted.
We went to a room where we warmed up like a real actor would do. We even got to act out
a scene in Romeo & Juliet. We went to the Tate museum and we ate lunch there and saw
magnificent paintings that were exquisite. Overall, I think seeing the Globe Theatre replica
changed our lives for the better of our minds.
Aren (Woodward); Gokul (HRA); Jennifer (CPB); Marianna (OLM); Giovanni Luiz(OLM)
When we crossed the millennium bridge towards the cathedral there was a
wonderful site of the building across the street. Once we got in you could see the attention
to detail by the architect Sir Christopher Wren. The inside of the cathedral the art is very
large and extravagant, and the detail is extremely precise, also there are about 528 steps so
have fun getting to the top.
After the long journey up, everyone decided that the amazing view from the Golden
Gallery was worth it. The way down felt way shorter than the way up, and after we came
down, we decided to go all the way down to explore the crypt. It was very interesting to see
tombs that were over 100 years old. You could even see the tomb of Lord Nelson, Captain of
HMS Victory, where we had visited earlier last week. We also saw the tomb of the duke of
Wellington, who defeated Napoleon in the battle of Waterloo. The tombs were really big
and they had a plaque that described the important thing they made in their life that lead to
their death eventually.
Thiago (CPB), Maria (Davy), Lucila (Quilmes), Caroline (Woodward), Ivanna (Quilmes), Leonardo (Lima)
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Walk along the beach one day and notice the footprints of those that walked before.
Some with deep heel strikes into the sand, others with toes gouging the sand as the person thrusts forward into the day. Each set of imprints can be felt and can tell its own story.
The ocean rises up the beach and as it recedes, washes the path ready for the next person. Sometimes the imprints are so deep that it takes a number of washes to clear the traces that were left behind.
Along life’s path, we all walk in a certain way and we all leave our imprint on places and people. This is our ultimate and inescapable responsibility. There is nothing that we touch, say or do that is not registered by the sands of time, and sometimes what we leave behind takes a number of washes before the path is clear once again.
As a society we invent ways to mask our footprints: the stimulating drinks that give the illusion that our steps are not as heavy and fatigued as they actually are, the photo-shopped images to keep the illusion of surface beauty intact, the false smile or the phrase “it’s all good.” There are multiple mechanisms and faces we show the world to pretend everything is okay.
But everything is registered by the sands of time. They have no interest in the facade and can only ever register the energetic imprint we leave behind.
Did we walk with joy, sadness, anger, reverence, appreciation, or bitterness? It all registers and can been seen and felt, and we can even be affected by the imprints of others.
Everything is registered by the sands of time, but this doesn’t mean we should be scared to walk, because what is registered is not done to judge or punish, but to allow us the grace of responsibility. We are free to walk how we choose and to have enough integrity to be honest about the wake and trail that we leave behind.
Energetic Responsibility is the new frontier in integrity, ethics and responsibility. It is a willingness to be held accountable for not only how things look, but also how they feel. It is an acceptance of the fact that we all walk the same stretch of beach time and time again, and the deeper the imprint, the harder we and the earth have to work to clear them.
The new age may have reminded people about the fact of energy, but The Way of The Livingness is reminding people that being aware of energy is only the beginning. Our Energetic Responsibility is to be aware of the type of energy we are using.
By Joel Levin
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On the verge of insolvency. What to do? Across Borders With Information – ABOWI asks Johann Tillich, board member of the Verein für Existenzgründung e. V. in Karlsfeld / Munich, as an expert on debt counseling.
In Germany, more people are sinking into their debts. In 2020, almost 17 percent of Germans believed to be struggling with payment difficulties. More than the years before. But what to do when the bailiff is at the door and banks and creditors are putting pressure on. Many people panic and fear they will never be able to lead a normal life again. Debtor counseling centers can help those affected, and those in debt realize that a new start is possible. Long-standing experience of established debt counseling centers indicates that consumers and companies find it very difficult to go to a counselor for reasons such as pride or shame. But why the course is to debt advisors particularly as precaution the correct way, asks and explains we with debt advisor Johann Tillich from Munich.
In the discussion the experienced debt advisor Mr. Johann Tillich from its practice of many years explains, how it points to concerning step by step possibilities for the way back into the economic life. Johann Tillich, executive committee of the association for business startup in Karlsfeld helps humans and enterprises again the rudder into the hand to take and not in the debts drown. In addition, Mr. Tillich is a state-certified investment and asset consultant, lay judge in several courts, trustee for insolvency proceedings and author for specialized books.
We are looking for answers: What are the ways out of debt? What are the differences between bankruptcies? When is it time to turn to a counseling center like Mr. Tillich’s?
Josefine Schulte: Hello Mr. Johann Tillich, please introduce yourself and your work briefly.
Johann Tillich: Hello, my name is Johann Tillich and I am a member of the board of directors of the Verein für Existenzsicherung e.V. (VfE) from Karlsfeld near Munich. We have also been represented in Berlin for some time. We help humans by a debtor consultation for over 30 years, led in the meantime over 4.000 comparison negotiations, in the topic tax savings models and since 1999 we worry mainly about consumers and rule insolvencies for consumers and for companies.
Josefine Schulte: Why do people contact you?
Johann Tillich: On the one hand, we have consumers who, especially in today’s pandemic, many have become unemployed or are on short-time work and are now unable to pay their installments due to the lower income. So, the banks and the creditors are putting pressure on people. There are two ways.
- bury your head in the sand or
- to turn to a professional debt counseling, which can help them.
Today there is now the possibility to negotiate settlements, even with the banks or even with the creditors, if there is only a short passage or in the worst case to prepare and carry out the insolvency. In the case of companies, it is the same way that companies get problems, slide into debts because of the pandemic, because they have no more income.
In the case of limited liability companies, it is very important not to miss the deadline for filing for insolvency, otherwise you will be liable to prosecution. In the case of individual companies, this deadline does not exist and these companies are not liable to prosecution. But it is important to accompany the insolvency. In addition, most problems occur after filing for insolvency or as soon as the insolvency administrator gets in touch. Here, too, we support people throughout the entire insolvency process.
Josefine Schulte: When does it become necessary to seek advice?
Johann Tillich: Early on, when you notice that something is stuck somewhere. At that moment, you should go to a debt counseling center. Then we still have the possibilities to help. If we are only consulted when the bailiff is at the door and the Schufa has been shot up, it becomes more difficult. Comparable with medicine. It is best to visit your doctor for preventive care and not for aftercare.
Many damages can be avoided by an early consultation. So we always advise, don’t be shy about debt counseling. Things can only get better.
Josefine Schulte: Your specialties are consumer and regular insolvency. What is behind these two terms?
Johann Tillich: Consumer insolvency has the advantage that our customer can have all creditors written down by us. We take over the entire procedure and file the insolvency petition with the court. The procedure, since we have no waiting periods, takes about six to twelve weeks. After that, the customer is insolvent and has nothing to do with the creditors from that point on. From this point on, the insolvency administrator takes care of all further procedures and after three years the debtor is debt-free.
In the case of companies, things are a little different. No creditors are written to, but the creditors are simply included in a table. And the insolvency application is submitted to the court, which can sometimes take place in two to three weeks. Of course, it is important to note that there are also charitable debt counseling agencies that are not allowed to process companies. Companies are dependent on either going to a lawyer or to a professional debt counseling center, which can usually also work cheaply.
Josefine Schulte: What kind of consulting difference is there between a non-profit organization like IFC, charitable offices or going to a lawyer?
Johann Tillich: Charitable agencies do not work for free, as is often claimed. These bodies are financed by the state and every taxpayer finances them. We do not receive money from the state, but we have to charge the fees, which are based on the advisory assistance of the courts, i.e. we start at 500 euros with few creditors. The highest number of creditors with us was 186. With such a high number, you have to expect up to 1500 euros. In contrast to legal advice, which is based on the fee schedule of lawyers and can then also cost between 8000 to 10000 euros. Therefore always to ask before about the costs.
There one fights on the side of the people also for our mandators.
Josefine Schulte: What is your classic case in debt counseling?
Johann Tillich: The classic case is the consumer who comes to us. There are many consumers who buy via loans, purchase without interest, interest-free at home improvement stores or furniture stores, etc. Many small installments eventually add up to one big rat and people lose track. Then it makes sense to see if you can make a big rat out of these many small installments to achieve debt to a bank. Our first goal is always to avoid insolvency. We fight on the side of our clients and most of the time we succeed. I always say the worst case for a client is always insolvency. After the three years of insolvency, it is also in the Schufa for three more years. The customer is blocked for six years. We always try to avoid that.
Josefine Schulte: From your experience, is there a social group that is particularly affected?
Johann Tillich: It starts with young people but mainly it goes 28 to 30 years and of course it goes up to 60 and 70. Maybe a loan to finance a house is running and the pension is not enough for a washing machine repair. Then it can happen that also everyone comes into the emergency. Anyone in Germany can be affected.
Josefine Schulte: How do you manage to deal with the emotional burden?
Johann Tillich: It is difficult. Of course, it also affects me personally because we are so invested in our customers and also often fight very hard for our customers. After 35 years, I personally have managed to separate my professional and private life.
Johann Tillich thank you very much for the meaningful answers and for taking the time for this interview.
Josefine Antonia Schulte
Student & Blogger ABOWI
Across Borders With Information – ABOWI, an interview series by Josefine Antonia Schulte, law student from Berlin in Germany. Questions and Answers: A virtual journey around the world to uncover differences and prejudices. Finding answers to questions around the world, that’s our goal. Josefine Antonia Schulte asks her way from Azerbaijan to Cyprus.
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President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday night to personally insult Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers 1999, which represents workers at Carrier’s manufacturing plant in Indianapolis.
The tweet came shortly after Jones appeared on CNN and criticized the recent Carrier jobs “deal” for which Trump took credit.
Trump announced last week that he’d reached a deal with Carrier's parent company, United Technologies, to keep 1,100 of the company’s Indianapolis jobs from leaving the state. Jones was later informed that out of that announced number, only 730 of the jobs would, in fact, remain. According to Jones, he had hoped that Trump would explain this when the president-elect appeared at the facility last week. But when he did not Jones was disappointed and said that Trump “got up there and, for whatever reason, lied his ass off.”
This criticism has apparently led Trump, the next leader of the free world, to publicly bash the union leader. Jones told The Washington Post he learned of Trump’s tweets only after a friend called to tell him he was about to get a lot of attention. “My first thought was, ‘Well, that’s not very nice,’” he said. He later shrugged off the incident and decided to focus on other things—something he said Trump should do as well. “He needs to worry about getting his cabinet filled and leave me the hell alone,” he said.
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