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What war funding could buy
The Bush administration reportedly intends to seek about $70 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This would bring the total cost so far to almost $225 billion.
Has it been worth it? The White House sees the huge expenditure as a down payment on global freedom. Critics see the money as being flushed down a rat hole of unrealistic expectations and failed policy.
Just for fun, let's see what U.S. taxpayers could have bought instead for $225 billion.
With the economy treading water and investment in infrastructure lagging, the American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that three-quarters of the nation's 86,000 schools are inadequate due to aging facilities and overcrowded classrooms.
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The Department of Education says it will cost $127 billion to bring all public schools into satisfactory condition. The National Education Association places the price tag at $268 billion.
Clearly, though, most if not all of the country's schools could be improved for $225 billion. As it stands, a portion of that money is going toward construction and renovation of classrooms in Baghdad and Kabul.
"It's a misplaced sense of priorities," said Joel Packer, a lobbyist for the NEA in Washington. "What's needed is more teachers in this country and more space to put them in."
More teachers? The American Federation of Teachers says the average teacher salary in the United States last year was $45,771. The average starting pay for teachers was $30,496.
The unemployment rate may be at 5.4 percent, but with $225 billion, nearly 738,000 new teachers could be hired and have their salaries (excluding benefits) covered for the next decade.
On the health care front, the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that demand for registered nurses will grow by 40 percent between 2002 and 2020. The supply of new nurses, however, will rise by just 6 percent during this period.
Carol Cooke, a spokeswoman for the American Nurses Association, said there just isn't enough money to train new nurses.
"We turned away 16,000 qualified applicants for the fall of 2003 because we didn't have sufficient resources to educate people who want to go into nursing," she said. "We have struggled to obtain money to deal with the nursing shortage."
As of 2000, the latest year for which data is available, Cooke said the average U.S. nurse was paid $46,782.
With $225 billion to throw around, you could hire about 475,000 nurses and cover their wages for the next 10 years -- and still have a few billion to spare for training programs.
Similarly, the United States now has a record 45 million people lacking health insurance. Researchers at Harvard Medical School estimate it would cost about $1,500 per person to provide annual coverage to the uninsured.
With $225 billion, you could protect all uninsured Americans for at least a few years. Or you could lay the groundwork for a so-called single-payer system that would guarantee health care for every U.S. citizen.
What else? The Department of Transportation says an average of $59 billion needs to be invested annually over the next five years to remedy the crumbling condition of roads and bridges nationwide.
That $225 billion now going in part to fixing roads and bridges in Iraq and Afghanistan would get us almost the whole way there.
It would also address the $52 billion in annual vehicle repairs that U.S. drivers are saddled with as a result of driving on poorly maintained roads, according to the Road Information Program, a Washington nonprofit organization focusing on transportation research.
It would probably also reduce the $69.5 billion in lost productivity and wasted fuel resulting from traffic congestion, according to the group's estimates.
Meanwhile, the federal government spent about $2.5 billion this year on programs to assist the homeless. Yet advocates say at least 150,000 people nationwide remain chronically homeless, living on the streets and funneling in and out of emergency rooms, psychiatric facilities and jails.
It would take just a fraction of the $225 billion being spent in Iraq and Afghanistan to end chronic homelessness in the United States. The key would be investing in so-called supportive housing, which gets people off the streets and provides the care they need. Carla Javits, president of the Corporation for Supportive Housing in Oakland, estimated it would cost almost $7 billion to construct enough residential space for the 150,000 chronically homeless. An additional $2 billion or so would be needed annually to provide services.
The beauty of supportive housing, though, is that enormous savings can be achieved through reduced use of ERs and other public facilities. These savings in turn can be channeled into the program, significantly lowering annual costs.
As it stands, however, money that might otherwise go toward ending chronic homelessness in the United States is instead being spent in part on housing in other countries.
"National security has to include providing security to the poorest in this nation," Javits said. "Having a place to live is part of that."
A matter of priorities: Campaigning in New Hampshire on Friday, President Bush told supporters that strong leadership means "the president must make America's priorities absolutely clear, especially in our uncertain world."
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Taking Your Functional Temperature
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By Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, A.C.T., MCC, SCAC
Part 1 of a 2-part article in a series of excerpts from my upcoming book,
TaskMaster™ – see article list below
Functional Temperature
Some days I don't wanna'
When I look at my wide and wonderful list of things I DO want to do, it seems the items I must do to keep a roof over my head, food on my table (and some semblance of organization and order in my life) are seldom the items that make me drool.
I often fantasize about what I'd do if I were to win the lottery, so I know, without stopping to think, exactly what I'd do first: I'd prepay everything for a decade or so!
Next, I'd throw a couple of years of generous support to a would-rather-be-a-stay-at-home Mom to add me to her list of charges.
THAT would allow me to coach and train, and write, and jump on the speaker's circuit to advocate and educate for NOTHING — following my bliss every single second of every single day — freed from the constraints of capitalist imperatives.
Alas! Since I would probably need to drive someplace to purchase a ticket to said lottery (and my car is currently feeling too lazy to run), I doubt I'm likely to experience said windfall any time soon.
So if anybody knows somebody in that 1% who's in
a philanthropic mood, send 'em my way.
Until then I, like you, must figure out an effective way to bob and weave between the tasks that allow me to make a living and the activities that make life worth living.
Challenges of Living
On a utility pole next to the sidewalk, right in front of my abode in this lovely walking neighborhood I currently call home, somebody has stapled a laminated quote by E.B. White that reminds me of ONE of the challenges I face each day.
If the world were merely seductive,
that would be easy.
If it were merely challenging,
that would be no problem.
But I arise in the morning
torn between a desire to improve the world
and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day.
THAT, and more
Like I said, that is ONE of my challenges each day. Would that it were all!
Working with ADD brain-wiring is a little bit like working around a trick knee: I might PLAN to walk to the store and back, but I never know for sure whether my knee will support the journey or my groceries will end up all over the sidewalk.
And even THAT would be a problem I could circumnavigate with ease compared to the one I face practically every waking moment of every single day:
Will she will or will she won't?
What's going on here?
The ADD clue-free would probably chalk it up to something psychological or biorhythmic. While I'm sure that is PART of what's going on, it is certainly not the root cause — not by ANY stretch of anybody's imagination. How many times to I have to say the following before it lands?
ADD is a NEUROBIOLOGICAL disorder; look there first!
Like the computer models that imperfectly describe how our brains are "wired," our seemingly limitless brains actually do have SOME limits built into the design. No matter how much "memory" we add, there comes a time when we have to wait for the "machinery" to finish one task before it can be expected to handle the next. That's true no matter HOW your brain is wired.
It is simply a myth that we multi-task.
What's really going on is a sort-of cognitive
time-share, parsed in nano-seconds — what
I sometimes refer to as time-slicing.
A more accessible analogy is juggling.
When we juggle successfully, we rapidly and repeatedly toss and catch any number of objects, always keeping one or more in the air
while we hande the others.
I will expand on that concept in future articles (and I go into more detail in The Boggle Book), but for right now, let's focus on the implication of three primary points — what I refer to as juggling's three realities.
Juggling Realities
- The greater the number of objects that must be juggled, the tougher the task.
- The more varied the objects that must be juggled, the fewer objects the juggler can manage before they ALL come tumbling down.
- Even the most accomplished jugglers eventually reach their limits.
There is SO much more going on in the world than we can attend to consciously if we are to be able to FOCUS on anything at all.
Our brains are brilliantly designed as metaphorical tuning stations, so that every metaphorical transmitting station isn't competing for our attention at the same time.
For the most part, not only are we completely unaware of what's going on "backstage," we aren't forced to spend precious cognitive resources worrying about whether our brain's "tech support team" is is doing whatever it is that they do that makes it possible for us to do what we do. Most of us "poor players" are then free to simply "strut our hour upon the stage," as Shakespeare's Macbeth likes to think of life.
Car Alarms and Concentration
Think of how much harder it is to continue your current train of thought when, right outside your window, your car alarm suddenly goes off — even if somebody shuts it off less than a minute later. Wouldn't at least part of your attention be focused on wondering what set it off and who shut it down?
Imagine how much harder it would become to concentrate on much of anything if a band of pranksters set it off again a moment or two later, followed by ANOTHER car alarm a moment or two after that. And then another. And another after that.
How many additional attentional demands could you handle in that situation?
A LOT fewer, I'll bet, than you could if you didn't have to adjust to sudden changes in volume, your own rising irritation, and rising concern about the source of all that racket.
Let's take the analogy further.
Once everything is finally quiet, aren't you mentally wondering if it's truly over or if this is just a temporary reprieve? NOW how well do you concentrate on what you were doing when the whole situation begins again.
When all becomes quiet for a second time, for how long afterwards is at least part of you half-expecting a third round, and how does THAT affect your ability to concentrate?
- Isn't even a small part of you wondering what had to happen to stop the racket, or if the pranksters would be back again — and when?
- Aren't you thinking just a bit about what you would do to put a stop to it once and for all if they were to return one more time?
- Weren't you tempted to go check it out for yourself, even though you may have been in the middle of an extremely important task with a looming deadline?
- Isn't some part of your brain wondering if maybe it would have been wise to have followed that instinct?
Welcome to our World
That's a small taste of what life is like for most of us with Executive Functioning struggles, MUCH of the time.
Some of us are exquistely sensitive to sound, some of us to tactile stimulation, and some to visuals or smells or temperatures.
Most of us are moderately sensitive to ALL of it, relative to the majority of those with "vanilla" brainstyles (unflavored by concerns that characterize ADD/EFD-brain wiring).
Even though they don't even notice much of the incoming sensory stimulation that is making it hard for us to concentrate, for a great many of US it is as distracting as those blasted car alarms in the analogy above.
MORE to juggle
Because the filtering and focusing areas of the brain are impaired in ADD/EFDers, we are already juggling many more balls than most non-ADD/EFDers (those with more "vanilla" functioning) ever realize are there TO BE juggled.
- Most people have brains that screen out irrelevant, omnipresent, "unimportant" stimuli unconsciously — it is part of the mechanism that has evolved to ensure survival of the species.
- In order to have the cognitive bandwidth to be able to notice new stimuli that might indicate something potentially life threatening, neurotypical ["vanilla"] brains automatically determine that some of the ongoing stimuli is merely "background," not important enough to note consciously.
Unfortunately, for those of us with ADD/EFD brain-wiring, much of the process of filtering ambient stimuli is a conscious one. We expend a great deal of our cognitive resources actively ignoring what many others don't even notice.
I have a term for conscious attempts to screen out background stimulation:
— juggling invisible balls.
- On an average day, we may well be able to handle a great many things that become,"suddenly" impossible when it is necessary for us to do it again some other day – which makes sense ONLY if we start paying attention to those invisible balls.
- In the presence of overwhelm and over-stimulation, shutdown is inevitable – but predictable.
- We can head it off at the pass if you can see it coming.
Part of the value of ADD Coaching is helping you to learn to take your functional temperature — to notice and count your invisible balls BEFORE you agree to take on more of the kind that everybody else is juggling than you can manage.
But how come we can juggle more balls sometimes?
Ah, Grasshopper, you must take a second look at juggling reality number two:
The more varied the objects that must be juggled,
the fewer objects the juggler can manage before
they ALL come tumbling down.
It is certainly frustrating, for us and for everyone around us, when some days we can and other days we can't. It's especially frustrating when there doesn't seem to be much in the environment that might explain the difference — meaning that you don't seem to be forced to juggle more invisible balls than you were able to manage yesterday.
But for some reason, you know you can't manage one more thing TODAY, because
you just don't feel like you are able to juggle quite as well or quite as much today.
Or maybe you don't realize that you aren't juggling quite as well until everything comes
crashing down around you as you howl in frustration, "How come? "
Well, one reason is because the more varied the objects,
the fewer the juggler can manage.
What you are able to add to the number of objects you are tossing and catching is a factor of what you are juggling already:
- How many objects of what kind have been tossed your way, moment by moment
as well as
- How long you've been testing the limits of your juggling skills.
The next part of this article will expand on this concept, so you will be able to figure out how to calibrate your functional thermometer and use it to change how you move from task to task – stay tuned.
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- NEW 11/2012: What's Your Functional Temperature? (from Dr. Monique Y. Wells, Paris Muse of Time Mgmt on Getting Over Overwhelm)
- I Got Rhythms… I Just Never Noticed (blog of the Totally ADD guys)
- My Brain vs. Me (illusionofnormalcy.wordpress.com)
- When "Just Do It" becomes "Just Get Up and Wash Your Face" (kgleasonski.wordpress.com)
- Better Not Stop – An Explanation (betternotstop.wordpress.com)
- Gone Fishing: How to Successfully Take Time Off When You're an Entrepreneur (forbes.com)
- The Neuroscience of Adult Learning: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education (learningwithscience.wordpress.com)
- Study: Cognitive Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) (sharpbrains.com)
- The relationship between technology use and cognition (cogsciblog.wordpress.com)
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Persistence is an important issue in higher education (Tinto, 1987a). Although social and economic benefits of a college education are well documented (Baum & Ma, 2007; Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2004), during the last 100 years the college graduation rate has remained at approximately 50% (Education Policy Institute, 2004). While prior academic achievement has proven to be a successful predictor of success in college (Camara & Echtnernacht, 2000; Sadler, Cohen, & Kockesen, 1997; Tinto, 1993), it does not account for all the variability in student retention. Research has shown that other factors, including social adaptation, physical fitness, and emotional stability can contribute to whether an individual continues to persist past the first year of college (Astin, 1993; McClanahan, 2004; Tinto, 1987b). The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between self-reported wellness and academic success in first-year health science college students. In addition the study sought to determine if the relationship between wellness and academic success differs by gender, academic program, or ethnicity. Also examined was whether the factors of wellness could be used to predict academic success. Wellness was defined using the Myers and Sweeney (2005) conceptual framework, as measured in a series of constructs, including the coping self, creative self, essential self, physical self, social self and an overall wellness score. Academic success was defined as first semester grade point average. The study also controlled for high school grade point average (HSGPA) and scholastic aptitude test score (SAT) as factors of prior academic achievement that may affect academic success in college. The findings suggest that the impact of wellness differs by ethnicity and academic program. In addition, certain factors of wellness can be used to help predict academic success in the first semester of college. Finally, overall wellness had little if any bearing on academic success in first-time, first-year students.
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Up to 200 late entries will be accepted on the day at $65 for The Big Swim and $60 for The Little Big Swim. Both cash and credit card will be accepted.
You must enter WBSLSC Macquarie The Big Swim and/or WBSLSC URM Little Big Swim before race day.
The Entrant/Parent/Guardian of the Entrant named overleaf in consideration of the acceptance by Whale Beach SLSC Inc ("the Club") of my entry in the 2020 THE BIG SWIM, Palm Beach to Whale Beach Ocean Race and / or The Little Big Swim and / or Dash for Cash ("The Big Swim and Associated events") consent and agree:
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Learn how you can really enjoy our beautiful spring in the Northstate
While Chico and Redding can look pretty heavenly in the spring, it can be a living hell if you suffer from allergies and you're sensitive to all those things that bloom.
Do you or someone you know suffer from allergy like symptoms such as sneezing, coughing, watery eyes; sinus problems, skin rashes, or digestion upsets—yet traditional allergy testing by your doctor has not shown any "true allergies"? You may ask: Why does this happen?
The traditional medical view of allergies is that a "true" allergy occurs when the body produces antibodies to a sensitizing agent.
You or your friend may actually suffer from sensitivities or intolerances instead of "true" allergies. Sensitivities and intolerances both can produce symptoms that are similar to the symptoms of allergies. However, with a sensitivity or intolerance, no antibodies are produced, and your doctor cannot diagnose a "true" allergy.
Intolerance is a lack of enzymes to digest a food. Lets take lactose intolerance as an example. A person who is lactose intolerant does not make enough of the enzymes that digest lactose, a two-part sugar that is found in milk. If you are lactose intolerant, you may experience gas, bloating and explosive diarrhea if you drink too much milk. That's one of the reasons that people often see eating lots of carbs and diarrhea occurring together. Your allergy-like symptoms may be caused by other food intolerances as well.
For all practical purposes it doesn't make a difference whether you have an allergy, sensitivity, or intolerance because all of them can give you allergy-like symptoms and make you feel miserable.
Traditional medicine treats these conditions with costly drugs that produce side effects, or a long series of desensitization shots, or avoidance of the allergy producing substance. That avoidance method of treatment can be particularly tough to follow when you cannot control your environment, such as the air you breathe.
The good news is that there are effective alternative approaches that can help you identify the root cause of your allergy-like symptoms, and reduce the overall stress that these problems place on the body.
If you find that you are becoming increasingly sensitive, the first place to improve the problem should be your digestive system. Your digestive system? Yes!
Here's why you should focus on improving digestion. Whenever we eat too much food, or eat foods that we cannot digest, the bowel lining becomes inflamed and irritated. When this occurs, the bowel becomes damaged, and small fragments of undigested food leaks into our blood. Once the gut lining leaks, your body becomes sensitized to the undigested food, and your immune system reacts to the particles of undigested foods as if they were a virus or bug.
It's not an accident that your digestive tract contains more immune cells and tissues than any other part of the body. Intestinal immune tissues are your natural barrier and defense against infections. Compromising this barrier repeatedly with undigested food yields sensitivities and allergies to the foods you frequently eat, and runs down your immune system.
Enhancing your digestion is crucial to lowering the overload on the immune system that occurs with allergies, sensitivities and intolerances. Hence some simple steps to improve and support the digestive system can go a long way towards reducing your allergy-like symptoms.
Taking a good probiotic once a day between meals can help keep your gut flora healthy. Probiotics reduce the damaging effects of harmful bacteria and yeast in the bowel. Also using a good digestive enzyme can enhance your digestion and reduce irritation to the bowel. Unfortunately, the quality of over the counter probiotics and enzymes vary, and they just aren't as effective as the professional grade enzymes and probiotics that we offer.
One supplement that does an excellent job of reducing the inflammation and symptoms caused by allergies is Quercetin. Quercetin is a bioflavonoid found in the rind of citrus fruits and onions. It acts as a natural antihistamine without the side effect of drowsiness that drugs have, and can be a powerful weapon to help you reduce the allergy-like symptoms.
Reducing refined carbohydrate intake, wheat, dairy and sugars, can also help you lower the load on your body. This may help many people reduce allergy symptoms, but if you are sensitive to other foods, its effect may be limited.
If you find that you still need help after making dietary changes and improving your digestion, you may want consider our Total Body Rejuvenation program, a revolutionary allergy treatment that helps people eliminate sensitivities. Total Body Rejuvenation works with the body's energy meridians to reduce symptoms. Treatments do not involve drugs or shots, and are painless and non invasive.
There's a lot you can do to end the suffering that comes along with our beautiful spring. Once you've reduced your sensitivities, naturally, you can really enjoy the beauty of the Chico, Redding, and Northern California.
Dr. Patrick Giammarise, DC, Internal Health Specialist, Founder of the Digestion Relief Center, in Chico California, specializes in effective, natural relief for IBS, food sensitivities and digestive problems. Learn more at www.digestionreliefcenter.com.
Published in the Inside Out Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2009.
2009, © Dr. Patrick Giammarise, DC. All Rights Reserved.
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Change a Q&A pair, add levels, change an image–your students will always see the latest version of your activity
Every time your students launch their SmashFact app they will see the latest version of your activity. This allows you to build your activity as the semester progresses, rather than in one sitting. It also means you can go back in and modify any of the content used in your SmashFact activity.
Smashing Suggestion: With the semester coming to an end soon, challenge your students by adding in additional bonus levels.


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The year is 2084 and the liberal party has a stranglehold on Fairland. A limited nuclear exchange between Asia and the North Americans in 2033 set both peoples back to the Middle Ages. Conservatives, largely annihilated in the Revolution of 2034, were either prosecuted as enemies of the state or eliminated.
Thus rose the Liberal fairyland, Fairland. Established within the borders of the US and Canada, it was a country of ultimate caring, fairness and equality. Fairland's citizens are cared for with a firm but loving hand by the beneficent dictator, Big Mama, who knows each of her dependents by name. Big Mama loves each of her charges equally, but--as John Winston is to discover--some are more equal than others. 2084 is parody, but also biting satire. As in the satire of Voltaire and Swift, 2084 bends outrageous plot and motley characters to the cause of exposing the hypocrisy of the present and recent past with a humor as irresistible as it is acerbic.


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Captain Scott Kelly, an astronaut who spent a year on the International Space Station, talked with Axios about the results of a new survey that found the public has mixed views on science, his path to space, and the disconnect some people perceive between science and their daily lives.
Why science matters, per Kelly: "As time goes on, and our population grows on this planet, there are going to be problems with climate change, food, and water availability. These issues and problems are only going to be solved by science."


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|Cognitive Components
|Behavioural Components
|Introduction to Therapy Video
About Anxiety & Depression
Case Study Introduction
Define your Problems
|Pinpointing Problems
What We Think
|Pleasurable Events
|Understanding how your thoughts affect your behaviour
|Setting Goals
Automatic Thoughts
Thought Recording
|Choose from Activity Scheduling or Problem Solving according to your problems
|Distraction Techniques
Thinking Errors
|Challenging Unhelpful Thinking
|Work on the technique which wasn't selected above
|Downward Arrow Technique
Challenging Inner Beliefs
Identifying your Successes
|Understanding your Successes
Attributional Style
|Choose from:
|Attributional Style (cont.)
|Program Review
Planning for the Future
Setting New Goals
Session 1
- Helps you to identify and establish a clear picture of your problems and their causes.
- You will be introduced to the five video case studies to help you through the eight sessions.
- Helps you to understand anxiety and depression and sets the scene for future sessions.
- Weekly project - Participate in a pleasurable activity and see how this makes you feel.
Session 2
- During this session you will be helped to set goals that you will work towards during the program.
- You will begin to see the link between your thoughts and feelings and how you feel and behave.
- You will be introduced to two new ways to deal with your individual problems- Activity Scheduling and Problem Solving.
- Weekly project - Complete a thought record, work on a "Doing Technique" and complete a pleasurable activity.
Session 3
- During this session you will see how your thinking can become distorted when you are stressed, anxious or depressed. This process is called thinking errors.
- You will be guided through the process of how to check your thoughts for these Thinking Errors.
- Learn quick distraction techniques.
- Weekly project - Catch Thinking Errors and work on specific Doing Techniques.
Session 4
- During this session you will be shown how to challenge and change any unhelpful thoughts you may have.
- Weekly projects - work on Problem Solving, Activity Scheduling, challenge unhelpful thoughts.
Session 5
- During this session you will find out more about your beliefs to check whether they are helpful or not.
- You will be introduced to the techniques for changing unhelpful beliefs in order to feel better and stay better.
- Weekly projects - Record successes, Work on problem solving and activity scheduling and look for evidence against your negative inner beliefs.
Session 6
- During this session you will look at the reasons we give for events in our lives (attributional style). Some types of reasoning lead to feelings of low self esteem and hopelessness. Others boost self esteem and well being.
- You will be introduced to the other useful techniques for dealing with your problems–Graded Exposure, Task Breakdown and Sleep Management.
- Weekly projects - Attributional Style, Inner beliefs and your final Doing Technique.
Session 7
- During this session you will continue to look at how to change your attributional style, focus on your specific problems and Inner Beliefs.
- During this session you will also learn new thinking habits and further ways to deal with your problems.
- Weekly project - Noting good and bad things that happen and the reasons for them and use the learnt techniques to work through these.
Session 8
- During this, the last session, you will review all that you have learnt in the program and check your progress and see how well you are dealing with your problems.
- You will be helped to set goals for your future life.
- Help you to make a personal action plan to build on changes you have made.


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She's just a little thing at 14 inches but she's got big brown eyes full of hope and a sweet little smile.
I let her eyes, smile and hair do all the talking for this doll. Her hair is really long and soft. Her lips are soft and pink and turned up just a little bit. She looks up to the sky in hope and wonder...and she finds it.
Her name is Gillian and she's currently in my Etsy shop waiting for her new home. You may also use PayPal, which ever is most convenient for you.
As you can see in the last photo in the gallery, I couldn't help myself. I had to hug her a little bit.... just a small snuggle.
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For bridge & river fans! These gently rolling hills are not as challenging as other routes, since they follow the river and the farming valleys.
LENGTH: 18.5 mile loop. For a shorter trip, take the Carey Road turn off from 9N.
DIRECTIONS: Start at the famous Jay Covered Bridge and take County Highway 9R to John Fountain Rd, picking up Route 9N on the river side, with its gorgeous views and pull off opportunities. Take the right over the river to County Highway 9S/Stickney Bridge Rd, taking a right onto North Jay Road, past the North Jay Cemetary. Take North Jay road to the south back to the covered bridge.


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The Washington Wizards might want to send President Obamaa jersey. Or even buy him a season's pass.
The Prez, who got a Chicago Bulls' jersey when the team visited the White House Thursday, seems to have brought the Wizards the energy they needed for a win against the First Fan's hometown team Friday.
Despite receiving a standing ovation from over 18,000 fans, even Obama couldn't bear to stay until the very end, when the Wizards sent the Bulls running 113-90.
The Wizards, who haven't exactly been on a winning streak this season, seemed to take it all in stride as JaVale McGee slam dunked a pass from a butterflies-in-the-stomach Caron Butler, then turned and saluted Obama in the front row.
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Yesterday mornings frost arrived a day late! However it had no effect upon us all tucked up and warm on Waiouru. The effort we've put into the insulation appears to be working and we've also been refining our condensation management system.
In an vain effort to prove she exists Jan went to Oxford today. Whilst the journey on the two community buses was interesting taking her through the attractive countryside it did take most of the day. By the time she arrived at the Oxford Job Centre Plus there was just enough time to briefly ask a couple of questions before the last return bus. The staff weren't that helpful merely giving her a card with a number to call to make an appointment and telling her the waiting time for an interview was approximately four weeks! At least she had a day out and managed to see some attractive villages as the buses made their way through rural England. It was dark by the time she returned and I had already started to get worried. Who would cook my dinner?
Richard thought he was reducing the outstanding tasks on his joinery list until I added three more today. He made five oak trims for the 240v power sockets in the saloon and galley before making six oak rings for the speakers in the ceiling and at the end of the day modified the oak mounting block for the TV in the bedroom.
The 12v Cello TV doesn't have very good peripheral viewing. If you're not looking directly at it the screen looks black. After some testing we think the screen is now at the right angle. Above the TV are two plugs. One is a combined 12v power and aerial socket whilst the other is a HDMI plug. Richard has started making an oak mounting block for the two plugs. I'll give it a coat of varnish first thing tomorrow morning.
The five double power sockets in the galley and saloon have now been wired into the 240v system and tested. It's a relief to remove the last of the extension leads running through Waiouru. There is now only one combined 240v/12v socket left to fit. It will be located by the rear hatch.
James is making progress on the extension for the rear bed.
It will consist of four hinged pieces when assembled and then fold away for storage under the rear steps.
Tomorrow should see the installation of the three Houdini hatches along with the internal frames and doors for the two side hatches. Time permitting, we may even fit the six ceiling speakers.


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By Charles Rotblut, CFA, AAII
Index funds are better than the majority of their actively managed peers, according to Standard & Poor's. In the 10th annual SPIVA (S&P Indices Versus Active Funds) Scorecard, S&P bluntly stated, "The only consistent data point we have observed over a five-year horizon is that a majority of active equity and bond managers in most categories lag comparable benchmark indices."
The numbers favor index funds across market capitalizations, styles and geography. Index funds also hold their advantage across asset classes—returns are better for stock, bond and real estate index funds. Though there are actively managed funds that bested their category benchmarks, the majority failed to do so.
Since numbers can often speak better than words, here is the percentage of funds that were outperformed by their benchmarks over the past five years:
- Domestic Large-Cap Stock Funds: 61.93%
- Domestic Small-Cap Funds: 72.56%
- Domestic Real Estate Funds: 70.24%
- International Stock Funds: 77.98%
- Emerging Market Funds: 82.89%
- Government Long-Term Bond Funds: 93.62%
- Investment Grade Long-Term Bond Funds: 96.77%
- High Yield Funds: 96.06%
- General Municipal Debt Funds: 90.24%
Was there any category where active managers, in aggregate performed better? Only two: large-cap value and international small-cap.
During the past five years, only 36.71% of large-cap value funds underperformed their benchmarks. However, 54% of large-cap value funds lagged their benchmark over the past one-year and three-year periods. Hence the advantage of active management is questionable at the aggregate level.
International small-cap is an area where you may to consider favoring active management. Only 26.09% of actively managed international small-cap funds lagged their benchmark over past five years, and the one-year number is not considerably higher at 38.18%.
These numbers suggest that active managers, as a group, need inefficient markets to excel. Though domestic micro-cap was not broken out as a separate category, this may be one other area that would favor an active, instead of an index, approach. The numbers also suggest that individual investors may achieve higher returns by seeking out value stocks with smaller market capitalizations and lower average daily trading volumes. (OurModel Shadow Stock Portfolio follows this type of strategy.)
It should be noted that some active managers are beating their benchmarks, so astute selection of mutual funds may produce benefits. Pay attention to the investment styles, since more than half of domestic stock funds incur style drift. This is not a problem if you want a "go anywhere" manager, but it can cause headaches if you are buying a fund to fill a specific allocation need in your portfolio. (Real estate, international equity, and bond funds have higher style consistency rates.)
Charles Rotblut, CFA is a Vice President with the American Association of Individual Investors and editor of theAAII Journal.


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Marilyn Manson made a surprise appearance at Coachella over the weekend, joining Japanese metal icons X Japan during their set at the festival.
The surprise appearance from the shock-rocker saw Manson performing the Eurythmics' 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)', where he was joined by X Japan's Yoshiki on piano.
Manson previously recorded the cover for his 1995 Smells Like Children EP, which was produced by Trent Reznor.
Check out footage of the performance below.
Manson's surprise appearance was previously confirmed on Friday night, when he claimed that he was once banned from Coachella.
The shock-rocker took to Instagram to announce that he will be joining Japanese metal band X Japan for their set at the second weekend of Coachella this coming Saturday (April 21).
Manson then elaborated on Twitter, tweeting that the group's drummer and leader Yoshiki had extended the invitation, before teasing: "You don't want to miss this one".
I never thought I would play at a festival I was banned from. But… Yoshiki invited me to join the stage with XJAPAN. You don't want to miss this one
— Marilyn Manson (@marilynmanson) April 18, 2018
He also suggested that he was once barred from the California festival, saying: "I never thought I would play at a festival I was banned from".


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Ross E. de Lipkau is a shareholder in the Environmental, Energy & Natural Resources practice group, where he practices primarily in the area of water law. He is involved in governmental permitting and licensing of water projects and due diligence analysis of water rights and sales and acquisitions thereof. As part of his duties, Mr. de Lipkau is heavily involved in administrative hearings before the Nevada State Engineer and judicial matters in both state and federal courts.
Prior to joining Parsons Behle & Latimer in 2006, Mr. de Lipkau was a shareholder in the firm of Marshall Hill Cassas & de Lipkau. He served as the deputy attorney general assigned to the Nevada State Engineer. He represented that agency in adjudications and all judicial matters.
From 1982 to 1986, Mr. de Lipkau served as the geothermal representative on the Department of Minerals Commission. He is recognized in Best Lawyers of America, 2001-2020, Natural Resource Law. He is also recognized in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers For Business.
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I Debated Presidential Candidate Ayariga. Critical News, 4th November 2012
Posted by Business in Ghana on November 4, 2012
Sydney Casely-Hayford, email@example.com
I spent four hours of my life listening to the Presidential debate. I thought it was very critical to my future, so I gave up the time, devoted my full attention to those who would be President and run the affairs of this country. We either turn things round in the next four years or we lose our edge and lead on the African continent. Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo, John Dramani Mahama and Abu Sakara, were privileged in Tamale last Tuesday when they mounted their platforms together with the People's National Convention party's, Hassan Ayariga, to share their thoughts and vision with Ghanaians. I do not know Hassan, I heard his views for the first time last week and I looked up his profile on the net. Not too sure how he got the nod from the PNC to become their candidate, but his performance that night has created a new ring tone for mobile telephony. On Saturday morning, Joy City breakfast show voted him the "tornuu" of the week. Now, other celebrities have won this accolade before so no worries, but clearly Hassan was not in the same league as the other candidates and I think on that performance alone, he can chalk his Presidential bid goodbye. But I liked him. He appeared in a suit and condemned all those who would come to us wearing foreign apparel to convince us of their sterling qualities. He obviously has a great sense of humor too. I found jollity in his Toyota car seat supply idea, amongst many others. So, enough said.
Who won the debate? The NPP say Nana won, the NDC say Mahama won and the CPP say Abu Sakara won. The PNC has not claimed victory yet. Someone has to come out in the lead, and we are following the politically correct approach by talking loudly for our candidates. Does it matter who won? Yes, it does. This is about showing your mettle and it is important to us voters to make a distinction between candidates. There are two more debates to come. The Vice Presidential debate in Takoradi and the final Presidential debate in Accra.
Abu Sakara did very well, and I hope he will accept a position in a forward-looking government if he is offered one, because I don't believe the CPP can win this election. I am sure both the NDC and the NPP strategists are already thinking about this. The PPP is waiting to crow over the number of votes more they will get than the CPP and that will be Paa Kwesi Ndoum's crowning moment. He has a point to prove.
The NDC played their cards well with President Mills when they boycotted the IEA forum. Atta Mills would clearly not have survived the marathon 4-hour standing event, and he might also have had a lot of difficulty remembering the facts and figures he would have needed. Then his vocal chords too might have failed him. Strategically, the NDC spinners knew this and steered him away from the debate. So did JDM's turn around do him any good? The results are mixed to me whether he did well or not.
Abu Sakara stayed away from confrontation, he had no need to brazen out with anyone. Nana Addo and John Dramani did as expected and played out a civil discussion until we hit the two highlights of the debate, Free SHS and Health Care. I have said in previous articles that the free SHS message is too strong for the NDC to counter, and I still stand by this conviction. As much as they try, the debate on this issue is closed to the NDC. Their new campaigns are screaming free education, but you hear voters clearly noting that this is an afterthought from the NPP early blitz. We wait to see how this message plays out on voting day.
But numbers and statistics became key as we moved into a more abrasive section during the debate. Our concern is not the rate or the output it is the deficit gap we need to close between the supply and the demand of goods and services. Government statistics show a decline in growth in the agriculture sector and that is what it is. Of course if you tear the numbers apart, you can find all sorts of reasons why plans go awry, if that is the point you want to make.
So, some numbers were used but another, the cost of training medical students in Cuba, created a furore. Nana Addo started by claiming the cost of training the 250 medical students would be ghc105,000 a year. President Mahama said no, it would only cost $5,000 (approximately ghc10,000 at highest rates). The fact that both candidates got it wrong is an issue, but what is the true cost?
A Scholarship Secretariat memo (SCR33/352/03) supported by a cabinet memo to the GETFund requesting a release of funds for the 250 students states the cost over a six-year period of ghc79,905,180. It works out at ghc53,270 per student a year. So where Nana Addo was two times over the amount, JDM was five times below. Does it matter? Yes it does. JDM was involved in arranging the scholarship and should have known the figure for sure, and the NPP has made health care one of its pillars in the campaign. Both had access to the information and it is a disservice to Ghanaians that our leaders cannot manage accurate numbers in a debate.
But there is an even bigger problem behind all this parrying. In a rebuke to the Ministry of Education, the GETFund points out that a request for payment for the students cannot be met from the fund's account, one because the fund is not for that purpose and two, it was not allocated in the 2012 budget. The request for payment came from the President's office in February 2012. Why bring all this up? Because political expediency is the override in our search for pragmatic solutions to resolve budgetary overruns and proper use of funds. We have to get past this crick in our development paradigm and soon.
But for me, the real positive in the debates starts from July 1958 with the Preventive Detention Act (PDA). A leading member of the CPP, Mr J.A. Braimah, debating against the Bill, said "the bill is going to make slaves of all of us in the land of our birth. It is a threat to the liberties of all citizens of this country, including even Ministers and party members of the Convention People's Party. With these powers in the hands of the Prime Minister, he holds everyone in the country to ransom. The bill denies to every citizen, I repeat, every citizen of Ghana the freedom of expression. It seeks to deny the citizens of Ghana the right to criticize the Government; it will deny the people of this country the freedom to meet even at street corners to discuss the events of the day; it will deny the people the right to complain when they are hurt; we are being denied the right to remonstrate publicly against the abuses of power in the strongest terms. And above all, it seeks to deny to this country the freedom of the press." (Parliamentary debates, official report – first series, Vol. 2. July 1–September5, 1958.
Nkrumah used this law to oppress all his political opponents including the rest of the Big Six just as J.A. Braimah pointed out. No one was safe, even to the point where Parliament introduced an Exit Permit Bill to determine the bona fides of persons leaving Ghana for whatever reason.
I bring this up to point out how precious our democracy today. As we stand on podiums and debate each other, I hope all candidates realize how hard we fought for freedom and are now looking for Justice. My privilege is to have seen this process in my lifetime and I am looking forward to the next evolution.
The load shedding will end by the middle of November, so said JDM. He showed the inside of his palm to Ghana and said so. It is not too far away and the date is before Election Day. We can wait.
Ghana, Aha a ye de papa. Alius valde week advenio. Another great week to come!
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Japan Display in talks for $704 million bailout from INCJ: WSJ
TOKYO – Japan Display Inc is in advanced talks to receive a bailout amount of about 75 billion yen ($704.49 million) from Innovation Network Corp of Japan (INCJ), a government-backed fund and the display maker's largest shareholder, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The two companies are looking at options including the issuance of subordinated bonds by Japan Display to INCJ, the Journal reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
INCJ owns a 35.58 percent stake in Japan Display, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Japan Display's banks also are considering additional support for the company, the Journal reported. No final decision has been made yet, according to the report.
INCJ was not immediately available for comment and Japan Display could not be immediately reached.
Japan Display said on Wednesday it was slashing 30 percent of its workforce, or 4,700 jobs, to improve profitability but added that concerns about its cash position have eased as it is seeing strong demand for its screens from Chinese smartphone makers.
The firm faced a funding crunch earlier this year and took out short-term loans from lenders due to slower iPhones-related demand from Apple Inc, whose products account for more than half of Japan Display's sales.
Japan Display was formed in 2012 by combining the display units of Hitachi Ltd , Sony Corp and Toshiba Corp. -Reuters


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And by the way. If you have the slightest doubt concerning Amazon's ethical bankruptcy, but don't have time just now to read the entire George Packer article, please scan what he as to say about the working conditions at Amazon's "fulfillment centers" (aka warehouses), on pp. 73-74 of the magazine. Where is Charles Dickens when we need him?


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North Korea is currently testing ballistic missiles and has successfully launched four in the last month into the Sea of Japan, this is causing international issues between the United States and its allies. Many students are unaware of this international problem so here are five facts about North Korea that you need to know.
1. North Korea is officially titled The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and is considered a unitary one-party socialist republic. The country is located in East Asia and is ruled by supreme leader Kim Jong-un. The hermit nation has an estimated 24 million people living in its confined borders.
2. In recent years North Korea has faced scorn from the United Nations about human rights violations and has been referred to the international criminal court for crimes against humanity.
3. The Sony Pictures film "The Interview" parodied the regime and resulted in the hacking of Sony Pictures which the United States claims was North Korea but Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, denies any inclusion.
4. In the latest missile launch three missiles landed within 200 miles of the Japanese coastline which the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calls, "A clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions."
5. The North Korean regime has been accused of having multiple prisoner camps that practice extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions, and other forms of sexual violence.