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Many adults don't look forward to going to the dentist, but some people are so scared that making the phone call for an appointment takes an enormous push of self-discipline. They are so terrified of having to go to the office that they push it out of their mind until an emergency forces them to make the call.
"There are many underlying reasons people are afraid," says Dr. Carol Ford from her Phoenix office, "and there are ways for the dentist and patient to work together to reduce fear as well." It's not surprising that claustrophobics (people scared of enclosed places), adult survivors of child abuse and adult victims of physical or emotional abuse are terrified of the dentist. Some dental phobia comes from a bad dental experience in childhood; those victims can suffer reactions from mild to breaking out in a sweat when driving by a dental office.
"Many people fear the lack of control from the reclining chair," says Dr. Ford. "We begin anxiety-reduction when the patient calls for an appointment. Part of that treatment is building trust," adds Dr. Ford. Trust in your dentist reduces anxiety and helps patients relax. "A relaxed patient feels less fear than a tense patient," says Dr. Ford, "so we help patients feel comfortable right from the beginning."
Patients dealing with past trauma often feel embarrassed to tell the dentist why they are afraid. There's a simple solution: Don't. That sounds odd in our tell-all, too-much-information world, but your dentist doesn't have to know about your abuse or trauma. Re-telling the story adds embarrassment to anxiety. There is no need to re-live trauma. Substitute facts instead—be open about your specific fear.
"We want our patients to tell us what makes them feel uncomfortable," Dr. Ford says. "But we don't need to know why. If a patient says they feel uncomfortable with noise, we know what to do—sound cancelling earphones and soothing music, " Dr. Ford explains.
The key to overcoming fear is to be specific about what you'd like to avoid. If you don't like instruments in your mouth, say so. Some people love to know every step of the procedure, others prefer to listen to music or an audio book and not know exactly what's happening. Also, ask the dentist to agree to a "stop" signal that you can give if the pain is severe for you. Not everyone experiences pain the same way, and the dentist needs to know if you are in pain.
If you are afraid of procedures, make a list of questions ahead of time and ask to speak to your dentist about what will happen. Some good questions to ask are:
- What are the steps in this procedure?
- What pain-avoiding steps do you offer?
- Would you recommend this procedure to your family members?
- What are the consequences of this procedure?
- What are the consequences of doing nothing?
An informed patient makes better decisions. When you feel comfortable about your decisions, you'll be able to relax.
"We eliminate a lot of fear because our surroundings are soothing," says Dr. Ford. "The entire office is designed to be calming, with great views and enjoyable music, " she adds. "We prevent fear because our technicians are trained in providing answers that reduce fear," Dr. Ford explains. Our entire dental office is experienced in communication and trust building, and you can expect to be treated with dignity. That is another fear reducer—treating patients respectfully.
"We understand fear," says Dr. Ford, "and we work carefully to prevent it."
For some specific insights into dental phobias, visit the dental fear center, a resource for phobic patients.


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Women's Rights Movement has been a long existing reality. While focussing on the various issues governing the empowerment process of women, it has been observed that women's empowerment is as much an economic issue, as it is about a social issue. And it wouldn't be unfair to even state that perhaps the social discrimination faced by women stems from economic discrimination. It is all about bread. It is the mislead belief that men are the bread-earners that gives them the power to over-power women – socially, economically, politically.
International Land Coalition is an amalgamation of organisations, led by International Land Coalition itself, from across the world, which have been involved in active land rights movement. Since 2003, ILC has grown to a coalition of 207 organisations representing 64 countries, working together to promote secure and equitable access to land for rural people, mainly through capacity building, knowledge sharing and advocacy. http://www.landcoalition.org/
ILC and it's member organisations keenly focus on Women's Land Rights, thereby addressing the root cause of discrimination. It recognises that power and control over land gives the control over food and money – thus giving a social recognition and strength of decision-making to women. Also by focusing on the issue of women's land rights – both from the grass root level as well as from the policy making level. ILC focuses on the issue holistically.
Hence Women's Land Rights has been a cross cutting issue in the different activities undertaken by the members of ILC, especially, as part of the National Engagement Strategies (NES) processes in different countries.
If we focus on the activities of ILC-Asia, we would find that:
– For NES India, activities involving women pastoralists are highlighted; housewives and teenager women are being trained to adopt kitchen gardens to operationalize land productivity starting at a small scale. Notably, kitchen gardens are now done with the help and support of the men family members in most communities.
-NES Bangladesh, apart from CEDAW shadow reporting, has been training women in land management and media engagement on land issues.
-NES Nepal members have been very successful in facilitating the granting of joint land ownerships reflected in their land titles to target rural communities.
-Indonesia and the Philippines NES has been involved in GLTN tool pilot testing and in pursuing its adaptation on a larger scale through localization of the processes.
-NES Cambodia has noteworthy efforts on ensuring practices adhering to CEDAW through local trainings and information dissemination seminars.
From the experience of all these progress in Asia in terms of women's land rights, there had arisen a need to complement the activities of each in order make the impact bigger and significant at a regional scale. It was realized that the existence of these national programs could be utilized and maximized starting with constant and effective knowledge management mechanisms which include learning exchanges, among others.
During the ILC Global Land Forum in May 2015 at Dakar, Senegal, equal land rights for women have been set as one of the ten commitments the ILC and its members adhere to as a contribution to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Thus Equal Land Rights of Women is getting a special thrust through the ILC Commitment Based Initiative 4. Commitment Based Initiative -4 exclusively focuses on the issues of Women's Land Rights. This, according to ILC would focus on understanding, researching, documenting and developing activities directly related to Women's Land Rights – as an important global, regional, and national issue. Moreover, this being a cross-country initiative, it is a huge scope for knowledge exchange with regard to women's land rights. Another advantage is that, there would be an identification of core issues that are related to women's land rights and affect the region as a whole.
In addition to the already existing efforts, the advantages of this intervention are:
1) Bringing in a global thrust to the perspective thus strongly identifying the land and gender equation as a primary thrust point for the days to come.
2) Tabling a set of comprehensive issues that affect women's land rights and land management as a whole – thus helping in developing common tools.
3) Providing a thrust forward to the actions being undertaken at each country-level.
4) Understanding the common causes and issues that affect women as land owners or land users.
5) Having a scope of developing model situations from each country and incorporating within individual country perspective.
6) Providing an exclusive platform for regional and global sharing through –
* exclusive portal focussing on women's land rights
* global Women's Working Group for addressing the issue of land and women.
She Land is a Common Portal – an e-platform focusing exclusively on Women's Land Rights, Management and Practices. The uniqueness of 'She Land' is that it is a knowledge sharing platform that focuses on Women's Rights from the perspective of her rights over her land, her property, her money!
The platform aims to:
1) Document good practices and lessons from all over the world on the issue of Women's Land Rights.
2) Share new ideas on sensitization and awareness building.
3) Put forward information on policy changes with regard to Women's Land Rights.
4) Document different tools to ensure a fair gender practice related to land issues.
5) Give regular happenings on gender and land issues – happening globally.
6) Share news items, articles, blogs on the issue.
7) Record different stories of achievements, including struggles of women land activists, grass-root experiences.
8) Share information on agricultural and pastoral practices which are women-friendly.
The e-platform would not only help in inter learning process among the members but also help in the advocacy process, in knowledge sharing and building a thrust globally – on claiming Women's Land Rights NOW!!!
This landmark initiative has been initiated by the Asian Region of ILC under the Commitment Based Initiative on Women's Land Rights. Beginning with Asian region, the portal would gradually incorporate news, views and sharing from all across the world – even beyond the members of ILC.

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Police Report Feb. 9 and 10
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Feb. 9
An accident occurred at 5:26 p.m., at the city hall parking lot, involving a pickup driven by Eric A. Chadd, of Milo, and a parked pickup owned by David A. May, of Sheldon. No injuries were reported.
Feb. 10
An accident occurred at 12:31 p.m., at Adams and Maple, involving a car driven by Peggy L. Butler, of Nevada, and a pickup driven by Gary L. Jones, of Nevada. No injuries were reported.
An accident occurred at 9:05 p.m., at Walnut and Elizabeth, involving a parked truck owned by Sports Associated, Kansas City, Mo., and a vehicle that left the scene. No injuries were reported.


text: This is one passed out cat. She had to eat first however. This is the same cat that managed to get out and spend the night outdoors when we took our overnight trip to Old Forge. I am glad she is ok. To our surprise, we came home to a dead mole by the back door and it was a mystery until we found the cat outside of the house.


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Bermuda Historical Society Museum stores prime collections, important historical documents and artifacts of the island.The public rooms are small but full of Bermudian treasures. Coins, Silver and furniture have been gathered together, including rare and valuable "Hog" money.
Opening hours:
Monday thru Saturday 10am to 4pm. Closed all Sundays and Public Holidays.


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This Sunday we have moved our meeting because there is a Wedding Fayre taking place at the Winding Wheel during the day. So Sunday 23rd March we will be meeting 6 pm - 8 pm in the Ball Room at The Winding Wheel. Because of this Cafe Church is cancelled just for this one week but will be back on Sunday 30th March at The Compass.
Normal service is resumed the following week when we have a whole church meeting at 10.30am at The Winding Wheel with guest speaker Tony Ling.


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- Working with people you don't really like
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I already feel overwhelmed, how much time is going through this going to take?
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Great power, not clinging to power,
has true power.
Lesser power, clinging to power,
lacks true power.
Great power, doing nothing,
has nothing to do.
Lesser power, doing nothing,
has an end in view.
The good the truly good do
has no end in view.
The right the very righteous do
has no end in view.
And those who act in true obedience to law
roll up their sleeves
and make the disobedient obey.
So: when we lose the Way we find power;
losing power we find goodness;
losing goodness we find righteousness;
losing righteousness we're left with obedience.
Obedience to law is the dry husk
of loyalty and good faith.
Opinion is the barren flower of the Way,
the beginning of ignorance.
So great-minded people
abide in the kernel not the husk,
in the fruit not the flower,
letting the one go, keeping the other.
—Lao Tzu
Ursula K Le Guin's version
Le Guin's commentary:
The vast, dense argument in a minimum of words, this poem lays out the Taoist values in steeply descending order: the Way and its power, goodness (humane feeling); righteousness (morality); and–a very distant last–obedience (law and order). The word I render as "opinion" can be read as "knowing too soon": the mind obeying orders, judging before the evidence is in, closed to fruitful perception and learning.
We come to perhaps the most prescriptive poem in the text, in certain ways. Still, it demands nothing of you, but it does lay out a hierarchy, or order of virtues.
It's shockingly similar to theories proposed by psychologists and psychoanalysts like Erik Erikson, where obedience is among the lowest orders of moral development. The Tao, of course, doesn't top those lists, but it's interesting to think of the differences there.
What we come to, here, is the pettiness of force. Of law and order. To demand that one simply obey because you want them to obey is surely the poorest way to interact with another human. It's the way we treat pets. Even there, it's kind of an unpleasant way to have a relationship.
But if all you have is force and the ability to make people obey, you have very little indeed. Very little power and very little leverage, for the moment you stop exerting force, they'll probably begin again to disobey.
When following the Tao, people will follow you. Not because you force them, but because they'll be drawn to you. To be like you. In a way, it's a form of obedience, but it's a voluntary and spontaneous kind. There's no risk or reward involved. Only choice.
That, to me, is kind of the essence of the Tao.
If you must use force to get your way, you've already lost.
If people follow you spontaneously and voluntarily, then you may be doing something worth doing.


text: Heart Health Heart Disease Palpitations & Arrhythmias Print Sick Sinus Syndrome: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment By Richard N. Fogoros, MD facebook linkedin Richard N. Fogoros, MD, is a retired professor of medicine and board-certified internal medicine physician and cardiologist. He is Verywell's Senior Medical Advisor. Learn about our editorial policy Richard N. Fogoros, MD Medically reviewed by Medically reviewed by Yasmine Ali, MD on January 14, 2020 facebook linkedin Yasmine S. Ali, MD, MSCI, FACC, FACP, is a board-certified preventive cardiologist and lipidologist. Dr. Ali is also an award-winning writer. Learn about our Medical Review Board Yasmine Ali, MD on January 14, 2020 SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images More in Heart Disease Palpitations & Arrhythmias Causes & Risk Factors Diagnosis Treatment Living With Prevention Atrial Fibrillation Heart Attack Heart Valve Disease Chest Pain & Angina View All Sick sinus syndrome occurs when the sinus node becomes diseased enough to cause bradycardia (slow heart rate) that produces symptoms. People who have sick sinus syndrome require treatment with a permanent pacemaker to relieve their symptoms. In addition to symptomatic bradycardia, sick sinus syndrome also is very often accompanied by episodes of atrial fibrillation, which may require additional treatment. Sick sinus syndrome is a disorder of older people and is most commonly seen in people over 70 years of age. Causes The most common cause of sick sinus syndrome is age-related fibrosis affecting the sinus node (the tiny structure in the right atrium that generates the heart's electrical impulse). "Fibrosis" means that normal tissue is replaced by a form of scar tissue. When fibrosis affects the sinus node, bradycardia can result. And when bradycardia is caused by a problem with the sinus node, it is termed "sinus bradycardia." The same, age-related fibrosis that affects the sinus node can also affect the atrial muscle itself. This generalized atrial fibrosis leads to the atrial fibrillation that often accompanies sick sinus syndrome. Furthermore, this fibrosis can also affect the AV node. If it does, the sinus bradycardia may be accompanied by episodes of heart block. So in sick sinus syndrome, there may actually be two causes for bradycardia — sinus bradycardia, and heart block. In some cases other medical conditions can affect the sinus node, producing sinus bradycardia. These conditions include: AmyloidosisSarcoidosisChagas diseaseHypothyroidismCardiac trauma However, fibrosis associated with aging is by far the most common cause of sick sinus syndrome. Symptoms The most prominent symptoms are usually those due to a slow heart rate, and include: Easy fatiguability LightheadednessSyncopeDyspneaConfusion In some people with sick sinus syndrome, these symptoms will only occur when they attempt to exert themselves, and they will feel perfectly well while at rest. In these cases, the chief problem is an inability to increase the heart rate appropriately during activity, a condition called "chronotropic incompetence." Sick Sinus Syndrome and Atrial Fibrillation People with sinus node disease who also have episodes of atrial fibrillation will frequently experience symptoms caused by sinus bradycardia, and in addition, they may have symptoms of tachycardia (fast heart rate), especially palpitations. People who have episodes of both slow and fast heart rates are said to have bradycardia-tachycardia syndrome, or "brady-tachy syndrome." The most troublesome symptom associated with brachy-tachy syndrome is syncope. The loss of consciousness usually occurs immediately after an episode of atrial fibrillation suddenly terminates, leading to a prolonged pause in the heart rate. This prolonged pause occurs because, when the sinus node is already "sick," an episode of atrial fibrillation tends to even further suppress its function. So, when the atrial fibrillation suddenly stops, the sinus node may require several seconds to "wake up" and begin generating electrical impulses again. During this interval, there may be no heartbeat at all for 10 or more seconds — leading to extreme lightheadedness, or syncope. Diagnosis Diagnosing sick sinus syndrome is usually not difficult. The correct diagnosis is most often pretty apparent when a person who complains of typical symptoms is found to have significant sinus bradycardia on their electrocardiogram (ECG). The "brachy-tachy" variety of sick sinus syndrome is diagnosed when a patient with sinus node disease is also discovered to have episodes of atrial fibrillation. Because the fibrosis that causes sinus node disease sometimes affects the AV node, people with brachy-tachy syndrome may also have a partial heart block, and therefore, a relatively slow heart rate when they are in atrial fibrillation. So, whenever a person with atrial fibrillation is discovered to have a relatively slow heart rate (in the absence of medication aimed at slowing the heart rate), that should give the doctor a strong clue that sick sinus syndrome is likely also present. Doctors can make the diagnosis of chronotropic incompetence simply by observing the patient's heart rate during exercise — for instance, during a stress test. Because chronotropic incompetence is a fairly common condition in the elderly and is readily treatable (with a rate-responsive pacemaker), it is important for older people who are experiencing fatigue with mild or moderate exertion to make sure their doctors do the proper evaluation. Treatment Virtually all people with sick sinus syndrome should be treated with a permanent pacemaker. A pacemaker is especially important for people who have the brachy-tachy form of sick sinus syndrome, for two reasons. First, these people have a relatively high risk of experiencing syncope (from those prolonged pauses when the atrial fibrillation terminates). And second, many of the drugs that are often used to treat atrial fibrillation — beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, and antiarrhythmic drugs — may make sinus node disease much worse. Implanting a pacemaker will prevent syncope, and will allow the doctor to treat atrial fibrillation much more safely. A Word From Verywell In sick sinus syndrome, a disease of the sinus node causes sufficient bradycardia to lead to symptoms — most typically, easy fatiguability or lightheadedness. This condition may also be accompanied by atrial fibrillation which, in combination with sinus node disease, makes episodes of syncope likely. Sick sinus syndrome is treated with a permanent pacemaker. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Did you know the most common forms of heart disease are largely preventable? Our guide will show you what puts you at risk, and how to take control of your heart health. Sign Up You're in! Thank you, {{form.email}}, for signing up. There was an error. Please try again. What are your concerns? Other Inaccurate Hard to Understand Submit Article Sources Verywell Health uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read our editorial policy to learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. Epstein AE, DiMarco JP, Ellenbogen KA, et al. ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities: a Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the ACC/AHA/NASPE 2002 Guideline Update for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices): developed in collaboration with the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Circulation 2008; 117:e350. Fogoros RN, Mandrola JM. The Electrophysiology Study in the Evaluation of Bradycardia: The SA Node, the AV Node, and the His-Purkinje System. In: Fogoros' Electrophysiologic Testing, Sixth Edition. Wiley Blackwell, 2017. Josephson, ME. Sinus Node Function. 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Soldier, it has come to my attention that the last time Rathorial and I tried to survive all 50 waves of horde mode, our host died on level fifty. He and I, old soldiers that we are, never got over that. And we want THREE brave souls to join us in accomplishing this task. Should you survive, there'll be an achievement in it for you. Unless you've already got the achievement, in which case, well, lol, I guess.
But yeah. We're looking at doing it some time on New Year's Day right now, though we may change things if you've got another preferred time. All you'll need is an Xbox 360, a microphone, Xbox Live, and a copy of Gears of War 3.
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I've been hearing about Melissa de la Cruz from some of my friends, and by all rights I should have checked her out months, even years, ago. After all, her "Blue Bloods" series – about teen vampires that run elite Manhattan society – has already sold close to 3 million copies. She's also been part of other collaborative young adult (YA) works that sound interesting to me. Add to that the fact that she's a Filipino – it's a wonder that even my misplaced nationalism never compelled me to buy her books.
Whatever my reasons for not picking up any of her books before, that's no longer the case now, as secret developments have made it necessary for me to familiarize myself with her work. There's quite a lot to work with – there are already five books in the "Blue Bloods" series, with two more on the way – so I decided to start with the book that had the least baggage: "Witches of East End", her latest novel. "Witches" is the first in the Beauchamp family series, and is de la Cruz' first novel aimed for adults.
"Witches of East End" follows the story of the Beauchamps, a family of three women living in the fictional town of North Hampton. On the surface, the three women are just like your everyday suburbanites: Joanna, the matriarch, maintains a vegetable garden and constantly remodels and renovates the Beauchamp family home; Ingrid, the eldest sister, is the town librarian struggling to keep the library open in the face of an unsupportive town mayor; Freya, the youngest of the three women, is a bartender about to marry the love of her life.
Of course, the women are more than they seem. The Beauchamps are immortal witches, cursed to live their lives without the use of their magic because of the horror they visited upon themselves and their kind during the Salem Witch Trials. Centuries have passed since they've been able to last use the powers at their command, and the three women are chafing under the restrictions placed upon them.
However, when strange things begin happening all over town, the three women begin to question the wiseness of their decision. Should they take a chance and use their magic to help out the people around them? Or should they hide their true selves so that they can save their own skin?
Having no idea what I would get from Melissa de la Cruz, I went into "Witches of East End" with minimum expectations. At the very least, I was hoping to be entertained. If it blew me off my feet, then all the better. And early into the work, it looked like de la Cruz was really on to something.
I loved, for instance, the way de la Cruz re-imagined witches as something more than just human beings manipulating otherworldly powers. In her universe, the witches come from an even more mythical bloodline, and the trouble they face extends beyond just an excitable community of local fishermen.
De la Cruz also shows some skill in building up her world, taking her time and establishing some local color while slowly ratcheting up the tension as the three witches test the limits imposed upon their use of magic. By doing so, de la Cruz manages to infuse immediacy to a plot that sometimes seems to move at a glacial pace.
However, the problem with subtle world-building and slowly increasing tension is the fact that the reader is made to feel that there is going to be a huge pay-off to come at the climax of the novel. As de la Cruz began to pull the threads together near the end of her novel, I was expecting a dramatic encounter between the novel's conflicting characters.
It is at this critical point in the story that this witches' brew turns sour. Rather than an emotional, dramatic, or exciting resolution, the novel's conflicts are resolved with an information dump that de la Cruz doesn't even have the decency to couch within a magical or physical confrontation. For all the elaborate set-up de la Cruz had throughout the novel, she flounders at bringing everything together in a satisfying manner.
Aside from a clumsily executed resolution, "Witches of East End" also suffers from a tacked on set-up for the next book in the series. Aside from the fact that the set-up seems hastily put together, it's hard to get excited for the next book when the first one ended so disappointingly. The succeeding book in the series would have been better served by a better written conclusion to this one.
I don't know about the quality of the books in the "Blue Bloods" series, but "Witches of East End" has certainly not been a nice introduction to her work for me. While it's far from being the worst book I've read this year, it's doubly frustrating and disappointing than the outright bad ones because "Witches" has so much potential to be great.


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Hey Tim,
Nice updates to the iPad Pro and that Mac mini looks pretty cool (finally). But can we talk about the price of this stuff? I literally can't afford it and I'm pretty well off. Every single product you announced is hundreds of dollars more expensive than the products they replace. And in many cases, you kept the old one around at the same price as it was selling for yesterday.
That's just crazy.


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Who We Are:
The Heart of Carolina Mustang Club (HCMC) is a regional chapter of the Mustang Club of America (MCA) serving the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill area. We enjoy the cars we drive (or wish we drove) and gather to discuss anything and everything related to the Mustang hobby. All owners of any year Mustang are cordially invited to attend a monthly meeting of the Club as our guest.
What We Do:
We sponsor a local car show or cruise-in each year and attend many car shows in the Mid-Atlantic region. The Club also participates in local club displays, cruise-ins, parades and track events. We cater to all types of Mustangs: show cars, street cars, race cars, and daily drivers. Members can provide first hand knowledge of common repairs and techniques to keep your Mustang on the road. In addition we offer money-saving tips and discounts from local merchants.
Meeting Schedule (UPDATED LOCATION):
HCMC will hold its monthly club meeting on January 9 at the new Crossroads Ford showroom in Apex at 7:00PM. When you arrive, ask for the location of the meeting room we will use.
Naturally most of the conversation is related to Mustangs,
but you don't have to own one to attend the meeting =)
To Join:
Please complete the online HCMC application by clicking "Join HCMC" in the left margin. We also encourage all of our members to join MCA. You will get X-Plan pricing on new Ford vehicle purchases as well as a monthly magazine, The Mustang Times.
Heart of Carolina Mustang Club
P.O. Box 523
Cary, NC 27512


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NEW YORK (WFAN) — What would a WFAN anniversary show be without Don Imus and Chris "Mad Dog" Russo?
In an entertaining segment, the two radio legends joined Mike Francesa by phone Thursday during the station's 30th anniversary bash at Grand Central Terminal.
Calling from Texas, Imus recounted when Emmis Communications purchased WNBC and moved WFAN from 1050 AM to 660 AM.
"When Emmis bought WNBC, then I knew they bought my contract," he said. "And I didn't know anything about sports. I liked sports, but I wasn't prepared to talk to somebody about sports. So they said, 'We're going to do sports, but you do your show, and we'll get some people to do sports."
MORE: Francesa Interviews Darryl Strawberry, Bernie Williams At WFAN Anniversary Show
Imus hosted the morning show on WFAN from 1988 to 2007.
Russo, Francesa's radio partner from 1989 to 2008, gave Imus a lot of credit for not only their success, but for the station's as well.
"That was great radio," Imus said of "Mike and the Mad Dog." "Man, I know something about radio. That was great radio."
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1.2 billion people (out of 7.2 billion on this planet) shop online, spending 1,173.5 billion euro in 2013 on B2C web shops. A third is spent in Europe, making the European e-market bigger than North America's.
Europe larger than North America
In 2013, European B2C internet trade reached 363.1 billion euro, narrowly beating North American sales at 333.5 billion euro. Asia is still larger, with 406.1 billion euro in turnover. Ecommerce Europe has compiled all these numbers in an extensive report on European e-commerce.
The United States are still the world's most important e-commerce country with a turnover of 315.4 billion euro. China and the United Kingdom are numbers 2 and 3, worth 247.3 and 107.1 billion euro respectively. Together, these three represent 57 % of the world's total e-commerce trade. Japan, Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Russia and South Korea are also in the top 10.
European e-commerce up 16.3 % in 2013
Out of 816 million Europeans, 565 have access to the internet and 264 million have bought something online. In total, they acquired 363.1 billion euros' worth of products and services online last year - lifting the European e-commerce turnover 16.3 % higher compared to 2012.
Three European countries make up more than half of the continent's total expenditure online: United Kingdom (107.2 billion euro), Germany (63.4 billion euro) and France (51.1 billion euro) realise 61 % of Europe's e-commerce market.
Eastern Europe grows fastest
Out of the 161 million people who live in Western Europe (United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands), 142 million have access to the internet and 95 million have purchased online. Trailing the Brits, the French and the Germans, the Dutch are fourth with 10.58 billion euro. Belgium is fifth with 3.82 billion euro. On average, Western European shoppers spent 1,864 euro on average in 2013.
In Central Europe Germany obviously leads the pack by far with 63.4 billion euro, making up two thirds of the region's online turnover. Austria and Switzerland both manage slightly more than 10 billion euro, twice as much as Poland (5.2 billion euro). The Czech Republic (2.1 billion euro) and Hungary (0.8 billion euro) are next, while Slovakia and Slovenia are untapped territories.
Southern Europe is still way behind, despite a 19 % growth in 2013. Spain and Italy, the two local powerhouses, bring in more than 50 % of the region's turnover (14.4 and 11.3 billion euro out of 41 billion euro). Turkey (8.93 billion euro), Greece (3.2 billion euro) and Portugal (2.6 billion euro) are next, while Croatia, Cyprus and Malta are virtually nonexistent. While 65 % of the 212 million South European inhabitants have access to internet, only 48 million actually shop online.
Northern Europe has 29 million people (out of 32 million) with internet and 19 million of those have bought online. It is the smallest of the 5 regions, but it has the highest average spend at 1,926 euro. Sweden (8.62 billion euro) and Denmark (8.37 billion euro) are ahead of Norway (7.6 billion euro) and Finland (6.5 billion euro). Lithuania, Iceland, Latvia and Estonia are basically negligible.
Eastern Europe has 248 million inhabitants, but only 34 million purchase something online - caused by the extremely low internet penetration of 54.4 % (Western and Northern European internet availability reaches 88 %). Nearly its entire online turnover (15.5 out of 19.3 billion euro, up 47 % from 2012) comes from Russia. Ukraine (1.85 billion euro) and Romania (1.04 billion euro) are numbers 2 and 3, with every other country not even worth mentioning.
The full report and regional detailed reports can be found here.


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Ah admit it, you skipped straight here, didn't you? In which case, you missed a lot of cool stuff about lizards, that's for sure.
In this part, I'll tell you the key tests and principles from the Acts and case law, for each sort of order. I will keep this up to date if the law changes, and it will be up on the front page on a tab.
Let's start with the thing that is changing more dramatically than anything else at the moment, and it ISN'T an order.
Section 20 accommodation
Section 20 is the voluntary agreement of a parent for the child to come into foster care. For almost 22 years of the Children Act 1989 it was completely ignored by the Court and barely got a mention. Then all hell broke loose.
It started with a decision by Mr Justice Hedley, where a mother was asked to agree section 20 consent immediately after a C-section. She also had learning difficulties and was basically scared into signing it by threats that if she didn't, the social worker would go to Court and get an EPO.
From that case, which you can read about here,
the following principles were derived. These are REALLY important for all social workers to know. I would seriously recommend having them on a piece of paper that you have on your person when doing any visit – because if the issue of section 20 comes up, it is on YOUR shoulders to evidence that you knew about all of this and took it all into account – the records are going to need to show all of it.
i) Every parent has the right, if capacitous, to exercise their parental responsibility to consent under Section 20 to have their child accommodated by the local authority and every local authority has power under Section 20(4) so to accommodate provided that it is consistent with the welfare of the child.
ii) Every social worker obtaining such a consent is under a personal duty (the outcome of which may not be dictated to them by others) to be satisfied that the person giving the consent does not lack the capacity to do so.
iii) In taking any such consent the social worker must actively address the issue of capacity and take into account all the circumstances prevailing at the time and consider the questions raised by Section 3 of the 2005 Act, and in particular the mother's capacity at that time to use and weigh all the relevant information.
iv) If the social worker has doubts about capacity no further attempt should be made to obtain consent on that occasion and advice should be sought from the social work team leader or management.
v) If the social worker is satisfied that the person whose consent is sought does not lack capacity, the social worker must be satisfied that the consent is fully informed:
a) Does the parent fully understand the consequences of giving such a consent?
b) Does the parent fully appreciate the range of choice available and the consequences of refusal as well as giving consent?
c) Is the parent in possession of all the facts and issues material to the giving of consent?
vi) If not satisfied that the answers to a) – c) above are all 'yes', no further attempt should be made to obtain consent on that occasion and advice should be sought as above and the social work team should further consider taking legal advice if thought necessary.
vii) If the social worker is satisfied that the consent is fully informed then it is necessary to be further satisfied that the giving of such consent and the subsequent removal is both fair and proportionate.
viii) In considering that it may be necessary to ask:
a) what is the current physical and psychological state of the parent?
b) If they have a solicitor, have they been encouraged to seek legal advice and/or advice from family or friends?
c) Is it necessary for the safety of the child for her to be removed at this time?
d) Would it be fairer in this case for this matter to be the subject of a court order rather than an agreement?
ix) If having done all this and, if necessary, having taken further advice (as above and including where necessary legal advice), the social worker then considers that a fully informed consent has been received from a capacitous mother in circumstances where removal is necessary and proportionate, consent may be acted upon.
x) In the light of the foregoing, local authorities may want to approach with great care the obtaining of Section 20 agreements from mothers in the aftermath of birth, especially where there is no immediate danger to the child and where probably no order would be made.
At the moment, Human Rights Act damages are being paid out by Councils not just for misuse of section 20 to get a child INTO care, but delaying too long in making decisions about a child's future once they are IN care – an issue called section 20 drift.
The law has developed still further, with the Court of Appeal in Re N suggesting that section 20 agreements should always be in writing and that it is not sufficient for a Local Authority to rely on an absence of objection. Also that if a parent withdraws their consent, the LA have to either get an immediate Court order (very very hard at present due to Court access) or return the child. I'd suggest that Re N is a major factor in the volume of care proceedings going up 20% this year, and it is going to keep going up.
Re N is here http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2015/1112.html (don't read it, because 98% of it is unintelligible stuff about international law, but if you MUST, skip straight to para 157
Be REALLY aware that going to a maternity ward to ask for s20 consent with a police officer there as back up is liable to make the s20 consent invalid as made under duress
- Surrey County Council –v- M, F & E [2012] EWHC [2400] a decision of Mrs. Justice Theis and at paragraph 60 she said this:-
"To use the section 20 procedure in circumstances where there was the overt threat of a police protection order if they did not agree, reinforced by the physical presence of uniformed police officers, was wholly inappropriate. By adopting this procedure the local authority sought to circumvent the test any court would have required them to meet if they sought to secure an order, either by way of an EPO or interim care order."
And that leads us nicely into
Police Protection
First things first- EVERYONE calls these PPOs (because they sort of sit beside Emergency Protection Orders EPOs) but there's no O. There is no Order. This is the police exercising their power to remove a child
46 Removal and accommodation of children by police in cases of emergency.
(1)Where a constable has reasonable cause to believe that a child would otherwise be likely to suffer significant harm, he may—
(a)remove the child to suitable accommodation and keep him there; or
(b)take such steps as are reasonable to ensure that the child's removal from any hospital, or other place, in which he is then being accommodated is prevented.
And you can see from the statute that the test for this is pretty low. It is an administrative decision taken by a police officer at the time, on the scene. There's no filing of evidence, no legal argument, no representation of a parent, no voice of the child, and no Judge weighing things up
It is for that reason that the Court's don't like them and have made it clear that "Wherever possible, a decision to remove a child from a parent should be made by a Court not as an administrative decision". Police Protection should be reserved for situations where the risk can't even be managed long enough to go to Court and seek an EPO. That's a LOT rarer than their actual use.
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Maruekhathaiyawan Palace (Cha-Am)
This year seaside palace like most of Hua Hin was constructed in the early 1920s during King Rama VIs reign. An Italian architect designed it plus it features latticework, many verandahs, as well as covered boardwalks. Among the many charming attributes of the complex is really a beautiful passage from your boardwalks creating the sea.
Cicada Market
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Santorini park Cha-Am
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One of the most mysterious and mystical landmarks of Thailand will be the magnificent Phraya Nakhon cave. However, only a number of travelers ever get the opportunity to snap a picture of it. The reason is very easy: it really is hidden within a difficult to reach cave and only few dedicated visitors ever make the effort to go to it. The ones that do put in the effort be able to enjoy a stunning view resembling something from a scene within an Indiana Jones movie. The cave is positioned in the Khao Sam Roi Yot National park, that is a 45-minute drive south of Hua Hin. To attain the cave you first must drive into a small village of Bang Pu sitting through the beach and from there you may require a boat or trek. The trek is a half-hour on top of the hill that leads to the Laem Sala beach.
Black Mountain Water Park
Black Mountain Water Park promises to offer a fun-filled day for anyone wanting to get a major splash including families. This park has 9 different water slides, beach pool, lazy river, kids pool, a wave pool, and much more. All of these are set on a vast mountain hugging landscape that fronts a man-made lake about 10 km north of Hua Hin. A similar people behind the Black Mountain Golf Course are the ones that own and manage this type of water park and it is the best attraction in their portfolio. It can be situated opposite the golf course, over a local road passing through Baan Silapin and Wat Huay Mongkol.
Plearn Wan Shopping Village
This themed shopping complex is located not faraway from Klai Kang Won Palace. It unique brown wooden building has multiple shops, a caf้, and guestrooms all decorated in 1960s Thai style. The complex is open daily for dining and shopping from about 10:00. The village is famous for its live music, nang klang plaeng or open air movies, and temple fair festival running each night from Friday to Sunday.
Hua Hin Night Market
The Hua Hin Night market is situated in the heart of town involving the Railway line and Petchkasem Road plus it encompasses one street. The marketplace comes to life from 18:30 when traders start lining the street with their stalls selling a myriad of merchandise. A wonderful choice of seafood restaurants line the path that hosts the Night Market and draw plenty of attention in the visitors.
Hua Hin Railway Station
The Hua Hin Railway station was constructed during the reign of King Rama VI. It is just a short distance from the centre of town. The railway station combined with the adjacent royal waiting room are indisputably beautiful. The brightly painted wooden buildings are Thai in design and concept and somehow manage to have a Victorian feel to them. You must go have a look at the railway station although you may dont arrive by train. It really is photogenic, quirky, and charming.
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Orthomolecular Medicine, as developed by double-Nobel Prize laureate Linus Pauling, aims to correct imbalances or deficiencies in individual biochemistry and restore the body and mind to their optimum states. Because Orthomolecular Medicine utilizes substances natural to the body, including diet, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, trace elements and herbal medicinals, it is a powerful complement to any detoxification protocol. Diagnosis can be performed via functional medical testing, Traditional Chinese Medicine practices and patient assessments.
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Dietary Medicine
The importance of diet in the maintenance of optimal health has been understood throughout recorded history. In fact more than 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates regarded food as a primary form of medicine. At Health for Heroes, rather than prescribe a particular dietary style, we identify those foods that should be eliminated or added to support the healing of our patient's concerns and conditions.
Herbal Medicine
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DL-Phenylalanine extends the life of pain-relieving chemicals called endorphins. Endorphin deficiency symptoms: crying easily even over commercials on television, chronic pain, emotional fragility, particularly sensitive to pain.
L-Tyrosine is used to manufacture catecholamines like dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine. These neurotransmitters cause us to wake up in the morning alert and refreshed with a clear mind, able to concentrate and focus on our goals. Catecholamine deficiency symptoms: fatigue, unfocused, lack of motivation, depression, apathy, feeling of boredom but no energy to do anything more interesting, possibly diagnosed as "attention deficit disorder" (ADD).
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Amino Acid therapy is powerful medicine for the treatment of substance addiction or dependence as individuals will often the substances chosen are also specific to the release of neurotransmitters. For example, nicotine is a catecholamine so that tobacco is often utilized by individuals that are dopamine deficient. Yet, the nicotine and other components of tobacco smoke are highly toxic and threatening to one's health.
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DJI CEO Frank Wang, creator of the Phantom drone, speaks about DJI's start and the future of unmanned aircraft.
The rapid rise in demand for consumer drones has made China's SZ DJI Technology Co. a global brand in short order. But this is only the beginning, says founder and Chief Executive Frank Wang, who foresees a decade of promise ahead for drones and for DJI.
Mr. Wang recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal at the company's Shenzhen, China, headquarters. Edited excerpts:
WSJ: How did you get into model aircraft and what gave you the inkling to start a drone company?
Wang: This stuff has been my dream since childhood. At elementary school I saw my first model helicopter in a shop. It cost the equivalent of several months' salary for average people. My family could not afford it. But finally, after I did a good job on my high-school finals, my parents rewarded me with a model helicopter. I assembled it but I wasn't able to fly it properly because to do that needed months of practice. So when I did try to fly it, the helicopter immediately crashed. It was impossible for ordinary people to fly that machine.
Still, I imagined flying those kinds of things everywhere—following the trains and cars in which I rode, or when I climbed mountains with my father. I always imagined something flying beside us that could reach places we could not.
WSJ: Tell us about starting the company.
Wang: Before we started the company, I spent three months intensively working on the project. At that time I was still enrolled at the university, but I skipped all the courses and just went to my home in Shenzhen. I would wake up at 2 p.m. and then work until like 5 or 6 a.m. for days at a time.
One time, when I did go back to the university lab, I tried to use my ID card but it didn't work. My heart sank a little bit, because I thought I was kicked out of college by my professor. But actually I had forgotten to pay my tuition.
At the beginning when we started the company four years ago, we made flight-control systems. We focused on the operating system for drones. But it was hard to use, the drones were complicated and the controllability was relatively poor. People couldn't use it on a larger scale. We felt a multirotor drone should be very simple, very small, very reliable and very cheap. If people could use it the market will be larger. So slowly we went from making the flight-control systems to multirotor drones.
WSJ: How do you think DJI is different from other Chinese companies?
Wang: I think it's not necessary for us to compare ourselves with other Chinese companies. Many Chinese companies manufacture cheaper versions of advanced foreign products. But we are proud to say that we have been leading the industry since we started—even now. We also can use a lot of manufacturing resources in China, which also gives us some cost advantages. Technology plus high-volume production allowed us to attain our recent position in international markets.
WSJ: Who is your role model?
Wang: Of course, it's Steve Jobs. Personally, I was very aggressive. At college I took part in a team competition for robotics twice. The first time, I worked very hard and technically we did very well. But my teammates did not feel comfortable working with me. I was too aggressive. I just wanted to win. The second time, I was still aggressive, but I found the right team partner and the leadership was stronger, so that time we won. I realized that not being so easygoing is not such a good thing. But after I read about Steve Jobs and discovered he had the same type of personality, it encouraged me. I understood that staying aggressive is the right thing to do to build a company.
WSJ: DJI has brought drones to the masses. That, in turn, has created a lot of fallout, in both good ways and bad ways. How do you see DJI's role in this new cultural phenomenon of having hovering cameras overhead?
Wang: People talk about privacy, but I think that will not be the issue. Because when the cellphone makers started installing cameras in cellphones, privacy concerns meant manufacturers were required to ensure there was a click sound when the photo was taken. But now people have become used to it so that limitation is no longer there.
Drones will also become like this. First people have some suspicion or worry but later they see it as a useful tool and finally they will accept.
WSJ: Are we seeing the emergence of a new breed of Chinese company such as DJI?
Wang: Chinese companies now are getting better; before, they lagged behind. Now, more and more Chinese companies are doing well world-wide, like Huawei, Tencent and Alibaba. I think, later, more Chinese companies will go global and their image will gradually change. I think the important thing is vision. Those companies have one that is in sync with the world.
WSJ: What's the future of DJI?
Wang: I believe that the direction of our company is driven by our initial dream: to make a very easy-to-use product that can realize the human dream to fly. And to make it perform well so that everyone can enjoy it. In addition, we will develop our business in agricultural and industrial and all kinds of fields. The next five to 10 years will be a very exciting period for unmanned aircraft and I am looking forward to the future.
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"Song of Ice and Fire" author George R.R. Martin has been very open about Natalia Tena's Osha being the character whose incarnation on "Game of Thrones" he perhaps prefers to her version on the page.
Last week, on the "Game of Thrones" premiere red carpet in Hollywood, I talked with the "Harry Potter" franchise veteran about how her Osha is different from the Osha in the books? The key differences, apparently? She's younger and plumper. But how did she come to be plumper? Well, Tena has theories.
In the conversation, Tena explains how Osha is "like a psychopathic mother-bodyguard" this season and describes the closeness of the Belfast contingent of the "Game of Thrones" cast.
Definitely one of my favorite interviews from that red carpet, Tena also uses at least one word that may not be safe for your workplace, depending on said workplace. You've been warned.
Check out the interview above. And you should also check out my red carpet interviews with Martin, Rose Leslie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Oona Chaplin. And stay tuned for a couple more interviews in the days to come.
"Game of Thrones" returns to HBO on Sunday, March 31.


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