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In March 2009, Yoweri came to Asylum Welcome asking for help. He said he had been tortured and imprisoned in his home country, and was taking medication for depression and for pains in his head and body. He had only the clothes he was wearing and a bag full of his paperwork.
Yoweri is a failed asylum seeker from East Africa and had come to Oxford for an appointment with a legal representative whom he hoped would help him make a fresh asylum claim. Until three days before his arrival in Oxford, Yoweri had been living in National Asylum Support Service (NASS) accommodation in Stockton-on-Tees, in the north east of England. Upon his asylum refusal, this support was terminated and he spent three nights on the street. He said he had not been able to sleep as he had been too frightened to close his eyes. He said even in his home country he had never had to sleep outside. In England, people just ignored him and sent him away.
When Yoweri was evicted from his accommodation, he walked from Stockton-on-Tees to Middlesbrough trying to find help. A refugee support group helped him make an application for further NASS support. They said they knew of nowhere for him to sleep until this was provided, and that he should try to find a friend to stay with. Yoweri's only friends in England are asylum seekers living in NASS accommodation. The conditions of their support mean that they are unable to let him stay with them without risking their own housing.
Eventually, Yoweri made his way to Oxford and came to Asylum Welcome. Our Advice and Information Volunteers liaised with local charities in Oxford to arrange emergency short-term accommodation for Yoweri, and advised him about local drop-in soup kitchens where he could eat hot meals two days a week. We helped him to make an appointment with a local GP and a counselling service. We also helped him to obtain a change of clothes and provided basic toiletries and groceries from our Food Cupboard. One of Asylum Welcome's volunteers, who also volunteers at the Open Door drop-in centre, has also given his time to support Yoweri in making community contacts and accompanying him to appointments.
Like all our clients, Yoweri is always welcome to come to Asylum Welcome's office during opening hours and have a hot drink, heat up food and use the computer. At Asylum Welcome, Yoweri has somewhere he can sit and relax - somewhere he knows he is safe.
The assistance and emotional support provided by Asylum Welcome Volunteers has supported Yoweri in building a local social network. He has been able to find someone in the local community willing to share their home with him until NASS support is provided.
Yoweri says before he came to Asylum Welcome, he did not know people in England could be so warm and kind. He says the people he has met through Asylum Welcome have made him so happy. He says for the first time in a long time he feels safe enough to sleep at night.
Since this article was written, we are delighted to say that, after further dispersals, detention and legal wranglings, Yoweri was finally granted full refugee status almost four years after he first arrived at Aslym Welcome.


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Michael Chiarello's Grilled Zinfandel Sangria
Grilling lemon and orange slices and halved grapes intensifies the fruit and gives the sangria a smoky, rich flavor. You can increase the amount of this drink easily by following this proportion: for every 1 cup of red wine, pour in 1 ounce of brandy and 1 ounce of simple syrup.
2 oranges, cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices with peel
2 lemons, cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices with peel
1 large cluster of grapes, fruit cut in half
4 cups Zinfandel
4 ounces simple syrup (see below)
4 ounces brandy
On a clean grill rack over a gas grill or a charcoal fire that is half burned down, grill the citrus slices. Put the grape halves in a fine-mesh grill basket. Grill until the citrus slices show some brown, about 2 minutes per side. Shake the grill basket every 30 seconds or so to allow the grapes to cook evenly. Take all the fruit off the fire when it's juicy and smoky; don't let it develop too much black char. Put all the fruit in the fridge to cool.
In a large glass pitcher or decanter, mix together the Zinfandel, simple syrup and brandy. Add the fruit to the pitcher and chill until ready to serve. Add ice to the pitcher, but not until your guests are there and you're starting to pour.
Simple Syrup
In a small pan over high heat, bring 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup granulated sugar to a boil. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, and then take pan off heat and set aside.
Recipe reprinted from Live Fire: 125 Recipes for Cooking Outdoors by Michael Chiarello. Available at amazon.com.
Notes: If you like, grill extra fruit and set up a small sangria bar where people can garnish their drink with as much fruit as they like. Make this at least 4 hours in advance to give the wine time to absorb the flavors of the fruit.
Makes about 5 cups
Originally published in the June 2014 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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The social mind: Understanding five basic human needs boosts business success
With even a cursory understanding of the brain's social structure, business leaders can improve employee satisfaction levels and performance and pick the right social networking tools to create an entrepreneurial, performance-motivated corporate culture.
Human beings are complicated, but the premise for how our brains process our perceptions and experiences can be quite black and white. With even a cursory understanding of the brain's social structure, business leaders can improve employee satisfaction levels and performance and pick the right social networking tools to create an entrepreneurial, performance-motivated corporate culture.
Everything we perceive is broadly sorted into two categories: positive (reward) or negative (threat). These positive and negative perceptions are then filtered through the social framework of our brains, triggering either a threat or reward response.
David Rock is the founder and CEO of Results Coaching Systems (RCS) and is a respected speaker, business coach and author of many successful books and papers, including Your brain at work. When coaching and educating enterprise business leaders, Rock often references the SCARF model, which he calls a brain-based model for collaborating and influencing others
The SCARF model identifies five key, primal needs of our social-centric nature: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness and fairness. Our minds qualify our experiences and perceptions on these five needs and mandate a threat or reward response accordingly.
Threat and reward
How we perceive and respond to threats and rewards is central to human behavior. In a UCLA study , brain imagery revealed that the circuitry of the human brain does not distinguish primal threats to our physical survival from perceived negative social interaction. A primitive part of our brains, the limbic system, becomes actively engaged when we perceive both physical danger and social rejection. Simply put, our brains do not distinguish between physical pain and emotional insecurity.
When a threat response engages the limbic system, oxygen and glucose are diverted from the blood, which significantly hampers an individual's mental capacity -- stifling memory and information processing, and analytical and creative thinking. When this threatened individual is your employee, you can expect a sharp decrease in his or her productivity level.
A negative comment, the feeling one's work is unrecognized, a bad performance review -- all elicit a threat response or neural impulse similar to being attacked by a predator. A threat response within the social context translates primitive, fight-or-flight messages (being attacked by a predator) to social survival mode -- disengage or do only what's minimally expected of you.
Status, certainty and relatedness
How we are perceived by others, or our status, also stimulates our threat and reward response. If we feel unfairly judged by others, stress-related hormones such as cortisol are released. On the other hand, being acknowledged increases dopamine levels, a chemical associated with motivation and reward.
How familiar we are with a task or a person -- or our ability to relate tasks or people to what we know -- affects neurological responses. Having already established neural pathways for familiar (or relatable) activities or situations, our brains automatically route familiar experiences through established neural pathways, freeing up energy to do other things simultaneously. Disrupt what we know, introduce an element of uncertainty, and our threat response kicks in. In most cases, productivity drops, though uncertainty can sometimes spark motivation and innovation.
A threat response is also a common biological response to new, unfamiliar people. When meeting a new person, our minds instantly assess him. Is this person like me? Can I relate to him? What's interesting is how our brain chemistry shifts once a social connection is established with someone. Interacting with the person stimulates the release of oxytocin, a happy hormone commonly associated with love, affection, maternal instincts and generosity.
Autonomy and equality
As 3M's William McKnight aptly put it, people want to work in their own way. Being micro-managed produces a threat response. Psychological disorders are characterized as a loss of control. In a series of experiments conducted by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, researchers found that people who felt they lacked control were more likely to hallucinate, perceive conspiracies, and develop superstitions.
Employees who are afforded a reasonable degree of autonomy are generally less stressed and more content -- in part because they feel in charge of defining their work/life balance.
Lastly, people want equality and fairness. People tend to value being treated fairly and equally more highly than monetary compensation.
Augmenting these intrinsic social drivers with social networking tools will invigorate business innovation in unprecedented ways.


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Poor Monica!! She's in a REALLY bad way and her day is about to get worse with the evil intentions of The Hell's Belles. This is how the Belles roll, so if you didn't know, now you know. They're also making the most of this situation by taking a shot at Sabrina too, hoping to sucker her into coming to the ring to do to her, what they're doing to Monica. Good thing Sabrina's got some friends, like Sun and Krystin looking out for her, though its killing Sabrina not to help.
But, Monica COULD sneak her way out of this, a well timed dodge and run. It's certainly possible, but I don't know how probable. What do you think?


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Anyone who sets out on one needs to get their head examined. And those who think it would be a "fun vacation" are even more delusional! I would know. . . here we are on a "fun vacation" that will include over 30 hours of car time by the time we are done.
I HAD to blog about our day. Of course I have to start with how our day yesterday ended. Yesterday, somehow, a section of the trip that we thought would take 15 minutes ended up to be over two hours of winding through the mountains. . . all the while we are promising the children that when we stop (in just a little bit, of course!) we would swim at the big indoor water park. When we get there, we find out that we would have to fork out over $50 more for the park admission. Nice. The children are crying in the car and mom is crying at the front desk and dad is ready to choke us all because we are all crying. Even nicer.
We did get good sleep last night, praise the Lord, and Jeremy was hoping to get on the road by 8:00 A.M. after breakfast at this big pancake place. By 9:30 or so we finally get out of the parking lot of the hotel. Skip the pancakes, we'll eat cereal in ziplock baggies , milk in sippie cups on the road, and fruit snacks for our vitamin C for the day.
Of course we HAVE to get out of the parking lot without looking at and agreeing on directions for the day because we are in a hurry. We go right out of the parking lot, and after 5 minutes, decide to turn around and go back, past the hotel into the little town. When we get into town we stop for directions (finally.) We are told to go back past our hotel, past where we drove already, and we will get to the highway we are hoping to get to. When we are about 45 miles or so from our hotel (almost two hours later!) Merry throws up everything all over herself and her carseat. Elijah tries not to look, Jeremy pulls over and tries not to throw up himself. I Lysol everything, Jeremy fills up with gas, I change Merry, clean her carseat with babywipes and we are on the road again.
We stop for lunch, and of course we have to have vomit session number two a little while down the road. This time JEREMY is in the back seat. All I see in the rearview mirror is him holding a blanket in front of Merry sort of shielding himself from the onslaught of partially digested KFC and milk. Stop again, air out the car (it's below freezing). Elijah declines an offer to use the bathroom. On the road again. 20 minutes down the road "I need to go peepee." Pull over and pick to use the ONE gas station that doesn't have a working bathroom. So since Elijah HAS to go, I give him a little privacy at the back of the gas station with my winter jacket and let him do his thing, as two trucks pull up, and from what I can hear, some kind of "transaction" takes place. . .in broad daylight with lots of people around.
A few hours later we arrive to the AFB where Jeremy is getting his lasik done, and he asks if we can go to the hospital just so he knows where to go check in in the morning. We drive the 2 minutes out of the way and pass the military hotel. They already told us they were booked a few weeks ago, but we decided to go in and check. It was so close to the hospital and we just had a regular room booked off base. He comes out of the lodging office with a key to A THREE BEDROOM TEMPORARY LODGING UNIT for less than what we were going to have to pay for a regular hotel room, and right across the street from the hospital! And they have a washer and dryer so we can wash all the outfits and blankets we went through today! God is so good to us. . . crazy day, great end!
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Ahhh!!!! I'm so glad to hear it ended so well! That's just wild!
I am sorry you had such an eventful trip! I hope the rest of it is more relaxing! 🙂
Praise the Lord for a good ending! Do you carry Lysol with you on a regular basis? You ARE prepared!
Oh Adina! Thank you for sharing this story. This is a look at how life will change, but how God will give grace in these times. Funny, but throw up is the one thing that I am so worried I will not master handling as Hannah grows. Thanks though again for sharing how real and how humbling having children can be. I am sorry that you had such an awful trip, but glad that things worked out in the end. God does always know exactly what we need. I will pray for y'all as you come back and for Jeremy's surgery.
that sounds like every trip we made as children until my mom realized that it was easier to wake us up at like 12 am and drive while we felt back to sleep. i have been on a number of these trips! AND i am sorry that you had a hard drive there, and that is really crappy about the water park, because i know what happens when you tell kids that you may do something. everytime we were "maybe" going to do something we just had to keep it a secret from my brother, or else he would scream, "YOU PROMISED!" at least at the end of the road things were good. see perseverance on the rough road really is worth it! hope you have a better rest of the trip!
O Goodness Adina, you had us rolling with laughter. We can relate! Love ya Girl, Angela
30 hours+car+family=one wacky road-trip!
thanks a great laugh. I totally understand it all and that's why I can laugh! We love you and are glad you are in a mansion, lol!!!
Adina, your family of littlies is so divine! Come to think of it, I never had a long car trip with the girls – because of Guam being what it is. I had a nightmare flight once. Must share that one day.
How'd Jeremys eye surgery go?
Much love across the ocean; hugs and kisses to cleaned up kids. Mwah
Hey guys!!! It is so good to see ya. What a cute family! You have had 3 kids since we saw you. That is crazy. Looks like you are doing so good. Where are you guys at now? Jermey how was the lazer eye surgery. I want to get it done, but I'm so scared! Send us an e-mail and we will invite you to our blog. firstname.lastname@example.com. Then we can keep in touch. So good to see ya.


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10 Ways to Combat Depression and Anxiety Through Your Diet
The body and mind are intrinsically connected. Are there dietary solutions to widespread mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and stress? Yes. I believe your diet can greatly help these conditions.
While Western medicine treats the body as a group of separate parts that function independently of one another, the truth is that our bodies are holistic organisms that need attention paid to the entire biological system as opposed to its various parts. This includes the mind and emotions, which can benefit from a holistic, nutritional approach to self-care.
The Body-Mind Connection
Your body is not a series of separate systems that operate independently. Instead, all of your body's systems are intertwined, controlled by the brain and nervous system. In fact, multiple scientific studies have showed just how strong a connection there is between the body and mind.
How Emotions Affect Biology
For example, a firm causal link has been established between stress and heart disease. Once thought to be purely emotional, it turns out stress has significant physiological effects on the body. When people are put in a situation they perceive as threatening, they experience what is known as the stress response. While the stress response begins in the brain, it quickly spreads to the rest of the body through the release of chemicals such as adrenaline and cortisol. Continually high levels of stress hormones affects multiple systems in your body including glucose metabolism, blood pressure regulation, immune function, and inflammation.
How Biology Affects Emotions
If your emotions can affect your biology, then it stands to reason that the opposite can occur, as well, and biology can affect emotions. While depression and anxiety were once believed to exist purely within the realm of mental and emotional health, scientists have come to realize that many mental health conditions also have a strong biological component.
According to University of Massachusetts Medical School Professor Anthony J. Rothschild, depression stems from many biological aspects including neurotransmitter levels, receptor malfunction, and regulation failures in neurotransmitter systems. These understandings have led to the development of many medications to help neurotransmitter systems where they are impaired, thus creating the appropriate biology for improved mental health.
Food as Medication
If medicines can affect depression, can the way you eat have a similar affect? Many foods do affect the brain's neurotransmitter systems, increasing levels of chemicals that commonly inversely affect depression and anxiety.
Eating for Mental Health
How can you eat to combat depression and anxiety? Here are my suggestions.
- Eat a healthy, plant-based diet. If your body chemistry is off, chances are your brain chemistry is, as well. Not only that, but when you physically feel terrible, it can negatively affect your emotional state. Eating a plant-based diet like the one I outline in The Beauty Detox Solution will help you create the ideal environment in your body for vibrant good health. Additionally, the diet offers foods for energy that can help combat other problems that may lead to anxiety or depression, including exhaustion, body aches, and excess weight.
- Cut out the chemicals and eat organic. Human beings were not meant to eat all of the chemicals we consume in the form of additives, preservatives, artificial flavorings, and artificial colorings. All of these ingredients increase toxicity in our bodies, which can affect both mental and physical health.
- Choose hormone-free foods. If you're consuming dairy, eggs, or animal proteins, then chances are you're also consuming the hormones and antibiotics ranchers use to increase growth, improve milk production, and keep the animals from getting sick. Hormonal imbalances can significantly affect mental health, so avoiding foods that are likely to contain them can help you avoid this problem.
- Avoid caffeine and sugar. These stimulants may give you a little kick of energy to start, but they ultimately deplete serotonin, which is a necessary "feel good" brain chemical.
- Eat a varied diet of brightly colored fruits and vegetables. Vitamin deficiencies can lead to stress, tension, depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. By selecting a variety of colorful plant foods, you can ensure you are getting the vitamins and minerals you need for optimal mental and physical health.
- Cut out gluten grains. Gluten is found in wheat, rye, barley, and some oats. It is also present in many other foods such as soy sauce. For many people who are sensitive to gluten (and I believe most people are), consuming it causes a reaction that damages the nutrient absorbing villi in the small intestines. This hampers the body's ability to absorb nutrients, which can lead to significant nutritional deficiencies.
- Eat healthy fats. With such an emphasis on "fat-free" and "low-fat" in Western food culture, many people fail to realize that fat plays an important role in our bodies. It assists in the absorption of fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. Fatty acids also play a significant role in brain health. In fact, a 2007 study showed just how important fatty acids were when researchers showed a link between Omega-3 fatty acids and protection against Parkinson's disease. The trick is in obtaining the right types of fats for good mental health. These include fats in raw nuts and seeds, avocados, and coconut oil. Eat plenty of these foods to protect your overall brain health, particularly those containing Omega-3 fats like chia and flaxseeds.
- Support your thyroid. Low thyroid function is linked to depression, while high thyroid function is linked to anxiety. Providing thyroid support is essential for maintaining good health. Coconut oil, almonds, Brazil nuts, and sea vegetables all contain nutrients that support thyroid health.
- Get vitamin D. According to the Vitamin D Council, low serum levels of vitamin D can lead to anxiety or depression. Many people can get the vitamin D they need from the sun; however, in some northern locations or in the winter, vitamin D levels may wane. Consider supplementing vitamin D for optimal mental health, and try to spend at least 10-20 minutes in the sunlight without sunscreen each day. While overdoing sun exposure can lead to issues like skin cancer, in small doses there is a lot of healing power in the natural light of the sun, which gives life to all beings on earth.
- Avoid alcohol. Alcohol serves as a depressant, and can heighten depression and anxiety. If you suffer from these conditions, limit or cut out alcoholic beverages altogether.
If you suffer from depression or anxiety, there are natural steps you can take. Following a plant-based diet and ensuring adequate intake of Omega-3 fats, vitamins, and minerals may just put you on the path to better mental health.


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04 Oct LGiU Survey of Children's Services Leaders
(This was first published on the LGiU blog)
"The LGiU conducted a survey of 80 Lead Members and Directors of Children's Services in August 2011 in partnership with NUT and Unison. The survey focused on the future of local government's role in the changing education system. It found that:
1.Two-fifths of respondents expect 80 per cent or more of secondary schools in their area will choose to convert to academy status within three years
2. Nearly all respondents believe that performing a "strong, strategic role" in education will require councils to have the following additional powers:
- intervene in a poorly performing academy
- approve academy admission arrangements
- direct that a child is admitted to an academy
- name academies in School Attendance Orders
- charge an academy for pupils attending council-funded alternative provision.
3. Respondents expect that meeting the resource challenge presented by academy conversions will require:
- councils to continue back office reform, commission charities and the private sector, and establish employee mutuals
- councils to compete to provide services in other areas (50 per cent of respondents)
- maintained schools to pay more for traded services (74 per cent of respondents)
- councils to reduce the range of school support services available to maintained schools (64 per cent of respondents)
4. Nearly all respondents were optimistic about the prospects of establishing positive relationships with academies. Ninety per cent of respondents believe academies will continue to purchase council-provided services."
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text: BUSINESS 'Criminal Minds' headed to A&E, ION 4:16 PM PDT 4/24/2008 by Kimberly Nordyke , AP FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Mark Burnett follows in famous tracks with new series A&E Network and ION Television have snapped up rights to "Criminal Minds" from CBS Television Distribution.Separately, A&E sister channel History has partnered on a new series with Mark Burnett about U.S. newsman Henry Morton Stanley's legendary quest to find Dr. David Livingstone in Africa. A&E's multiyear deal for the exclusive cable rights to "Minds" allows it to air episodes from the first three seasons on a weekly basis starting in May before being able to strip the first four seasons starting in September 2009. A&E executive vp and GM Bob DeBitetto said he hasn't determined whether he ultimately will strip the series, but he's eyeing a 7 p.m. slot as well as "opportunities to use it vertically in primetime." ION's multiyear deal for broadcast syndication rights to the procedural, which is in its third season on CBS, allows that network to strip the show in primetime starting in September 2009.Sources said A&E paid $650,000-$700,000 per episode, while ION ponied up $175,000 per episode. A&E's license fee indicates that the market for off-net procedurals in cable has cooled a bit from just a few years ago, when it seemed as if every new sale was a record-setter. For example, "Minds" sold to A&E for less than half what TNT paid for "Cold Case" and "Without a Trace" ($1.4 million each) and a third of what Spike TV paid for "CSI: NY" ($1.9 million). However, "Minds" did top other shows like "Bones," for which TNT shelled out about $450,000 an episode.DeBitetto said "Minds" will complement the network's schedule, which includes such other off-net acquisitions as "The Sopranos" and "CSI: Miami" and unscripted series like "The First 48." A&E also is debuting its first original drama in several years, "The Cleaner," in July." 'Criminal Minds' is a great drama in a genre that we know well and works very well for us," he said. "It's a franchise that we had our eye on for quite some time."He also pointed to the nonserialized nature of "Minds." A&E has tried its hand at highly serialized off-net dramas like "24," which the network acquired with the intention of airing as a primetime "event" before moving it to daytime. It has since been pulled from the schedule."We found that after a time, because it was so hyper-serialized, it became more of a challenge for us," DeBitetto said. "That was not a surprise or unexpected. We also acquired it at a price that made it a success for us."ION, meanwhile, has been building its off-net coffers with recent additions including "Boston Legal" and "Quantum Leap.""This high-caliber TV series strengthens and broadens ION Television with target audiences and advertisers long term," ION Media Networks chairman/CEO Brandon Burgess said. Scott Koondel, executive vp off-network, cable and interactive media at CBS Television Distribution, also praised the quality of the series. "It's got a great ensemble cast and great characters, and it's very well-written," he said."Minds," produced by ABC Studios in association with CBS Paramount Network Television, is exec produced by Mark Gordon, Ed Bernero and Deborah Spera.Meanwhile, Mark Burnett Prods. will produce the unscripted series "Expedition: Stanley and Livingstone" for History. The show, which History emphasized is not a competition or a game, will re-create Stanley's quest, with five explorers retracing his journey using only a compass, the map and journal from the original expedition. The series goes into production in the fall in Tanzania for a 2009 premiere. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Kimberly Nordyke email@example.com @thr AP email@example.com @thr


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You slither out of bed and crawl to living room. You drag yourself like a busted Terminator over to the sofa, fall upon it with the impact of an dinosaur-wiping asteroid, and try to think of a game with which to sooth your tortured mind. But they're all too loud, or too reliant on skill, or too fast-paced, or have narratives you couldn't possibly concentrate on through your current haze of hot-skulled stupidity.
But fear not, friends. Games can have the answer to this disgusting state. They require very careful choosing (after all, the trip back to the shelf if it all goes wrong is hardship enough to make you give up on the whole escapade), but choose carefully we have. This list is tried and tested, andone weekend soon, it maysave your life.
GodFinger (iPhone)
There are certaininarguable criteria that a game must fulfil in order to be a safe and therapeutic hangover experience. It must be engaging enough to distract from the pathetic misery being suffered in the real world, but not complex enough to tax the pathetically detuned brain suffering said misery. It must have a pleasant, but not dull, ambience. It must provide a sense (or at least illusion) of real achievement and progression in order to massage the sufferer's hideously mangled sense of self-worth, but should never require much in the way of serious skills. And there should never, ever, be any major penalty for being rubbish. Because the hungover gamer will be. At all times.
Above: GodFinger will make it all okay, even if you feel like the guy on the left
GodFinger,the marvellous little 2D god-gamefrom Wonderland Software,achieves all of these goals with such effortless finesse that it's like a cyborg app sent back from the future to save the world's drinkers from themselves. Soothing, breezy, summer's day atmosphere? Check. None-more-instinctive, drag-and-drop interface, letting you spin, scale and modify a whole planet at the flick of a finger? Check. A sedate, player driven-pace, total lack of pressure, rapid levelling-up, and building objectives that auto-complete over the course of hours, inciting no pressure to micro-manage at all? Check check check.
Above: Ignore the plonky tune. In game all you'll hear are light breezes and tweeting birds
It caneven berun in the background and give you a gentle nudge whenever it needs you to do anything, so you can take intermittant snooze breaks and still form a full-functioning planetary society over the course of an afternoon. Perfect. GodFinger is just perfect for a hungover day. My last Saturday afternoon proved this beautifully.
Dynasty Warriors (Various)
If however, your poor mind is so far gone that only outright oblivion is a workable release from your pain, you need to go deeper. You need a drawn-out, one-note, utterly monotonous, yet strangely compulsive task. You need something that you can lock your brain into with total focus, but which will never require it to hit a single gear above neutral. You need comfortable repetition and simple rewards. In short, you need Dynasty Warriors.
MASH MASH MASH MASH MASH MASH SMASH MASH SMASH MASH SMASHY MASHY SMASHY MASH MASH MASHY MASHY SMASH MASH SMASHY SMASHY SMASHY MASH. That's it. That's all there ever will be, and that's all that needs to be, when your head feels like it's falling out of your arse through Olympic booze consumption.
It's pointless, but instantly gratifying. It's bog-simple, but weirdly satisfying as long as you don't think too much (which you won't). And it's utterly, mindlessly, pioneeringly repetitive, which means that in terms of separating your brain from cruel, hungover reality, there is no better therapy. It's just like a lobotomy, only it doesn't last as long.
Flower (PSN)
If instead, you want to drown out the heady maelstrom of pain, self-loathing and paranoia with something more sedate and calming, then Flower is the one for you. A thorough dousing of cool ambience, delicate aural therapy, and gameplay so dreamlike thatyou canslump in and out of semi-drunken consciousness without even noticing, it's ideal if you want to replace your hungover head with one filled with peace, colour and gentle thoughts. You stinking hippie.
It's controlled with broad sixaxis tilts, so your sloppy, uncoordinated, detox-driven hand shakes won't be an issue. There are absolutely no enemies or penalties, and you get to play as the goddamn wind, fuggodsake, manipulating daintily swirling flower petals through a peaceful meadow. It's all the soothing, head-clearing pleasure of being outdoors in the country on a sleepy summer's day, only without the eyeball-searing agony of actually being outdoors and having to deal with the hellish burdenthat isreal sunlight. Ideal.


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The history of The AMES® Companies is the history of many companies that launched leading brands in the landscape and garden tools industry.
In 1774, Captain John Ames began making the colonies' first metal shovels in his blacksmith shop in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. By 1835, his son Oliver was running nine four-ton tilt hammers and turning out 480 shovels per day. By 1870, Oliver Ames & Sons were producing 60 percent of the world's metal shovels, filling orders from Europe, Australia, South America, Africa and China. The AMES and True Temper companies merged in 1999 to form Ames True Temper, which today is known as The AMES Companies, Inc.
In 1895, Télesphore Garant founded a forge in Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, where he manufactured and repaired farm implements and wheels for carriages and carts. Over the course of several generations, the Garant family built his business into one of Canada's leading manufacturers of snow removal and garden tools. The company became part of Ames in 1991, and carries on today as part of The AMES Companies, Inc.
In 1808, blacksmith Alexander Miller began forging hoes and other tools in "The Old Stone Shop" in Wallingford, Vermont. In the 1830s, the shop passed to Lyman Batcheller, and in 1902, Batcheller & Sons joined 16 other forging companies to form The American Fork and Hoe Company. By 1930, the company was supplying 90 percent of hand tools for America's farmers, and in 1949, it was renamed for the quality pledge associated with their tools: True Temper®. In 1999, True Temper merged with AMES to form Ames True Temper, which today is known as The AMES Companies, Inc.
In 1876, Caleb Jackson left his manufacturing job to start a wheelbarrow company in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, founding a business that would go on to become the largest wheelbarrow manufacturer in the world. The company was purchased by True Temper in 1981.
In 1907, George Britton Durrell, an officer of American Fork & Hoe, arranged the merger of Continental Tool Co. of Frankfurt, New York and several other companies to form The Union Fork & Hoe Company in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1993, Union Fork & Hoe was renamed UnionTools, and in 2006, UnionTools became part of The AMES Companies.
In 1937, Captain Edward Durrell, an employee of The Union Fork & Hoe Company, designed a shovel that was thicker along the spine for exceptional strength. He named it Razor-Back after North American wild hogs, which have a tough, raised spine and a reputation for tearing up turf. The Razor-Back brand of professional tools joined the AMES family of brands in 2006.
In 1945, Lancelot (Lance) Leonard Hill returned home from the Second World War. He found his wife Sherry struggling to hang the washing between the overgrown trees in their back yard, so he took some old pipe, a welder and an innovative idea and created what was to become a world famous Australian icon and the Hills Hoist was born. Over the years, Hills has expanded into clothes line, ironing boards and gardening products. Hills was acquired by The Ames Companies in 2017.
In 1945, Lancelot (Lance) Leonard Hill returned home from the Second World War. He found his wife Sherry struggling to hang the washing between the overgrown trees in their back yard, so he took some old pipe, a welder, and an innovative idea and created what we know today as the world famous Australian icon, the Hills Hoist. Over the years, Hills has expanded into clothes line, ironing boards and gardening products. Hills was acquired by The Ames Companies in 2017.
Westmix was founded in 1972 by Michael Cantone in Kewdale, Australia, and rapidly grew into Australia's leading supplier of products to the hardware industry. Westmix includes the Kelso brand, a leading Australian wheelbarrow manufacturer. The company was acquired by The AMES Companies, Inc. in 2010.
The AMES Companies, Inc. acquired the Southern Patio brand of decorative planters and pots in 2011. For more than 30 years, Southern Patio has continued to grow and offer one of the most diverse lines of planters in the market.
In 1897, George Westmoreland established a pottery factory in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Today, Northcote is the largest distributor of pottery and garden décor in Australia and New Zealand. Northcote became part of The AMES Companies, Inc. in 2014.
With more than 100 years of history in Australia, Cyclone Tools is a market leader in the supply of garden and hand tools to the Australian retail and industrial hardware markets. Cyclone includes the Cyclone, Nylex, Supercraft, Gardenmaster, Weldcorp and Eagle brands. It was acquired by The AMES Companies in 2014.
Trojan provides digging, cultivating, lawn maintenance, and pruning tools for the home and garden and DIY projects. Trojan tools are available Australia-wide through all Bunnings stores.
In September 2010, AMES True Temper was purchased by Griffon Corporation, a diversified management and holding company. In May 2014, the companies announced a name change to The AMES Companies, Inc.
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Dallas Honey Bee Removal
Honey bees do not tend to infest homes as often as other flying pests do. However, when they do, they can do quite a bit of damage to the buildings. Honey bees are able to chew through walls and get inside where they can then begin storing large amounts of honey, which in turn invites other bees and even wasps. Also, moths and beetles will be attracted by their waste.
If a bee colony is found within the wall of a building then it should be removed as soon as possible. Call Best Dallas Pest Control for honey bee removal services today.
Dallas Africanized Honey Bee Extermination
Africanized Honey Bees are often feared more because they are more aggressive than standard bees. Whenever a bee stings it releases an alarm pheromone that signals for others to come and attack. This can prove to be be dangerous for anyone, not just those who have bee allergies.
Africanized Honey Bees will often find their way into a home through small holes in the exterior walls of the home. Once they are inside they will create a nest. Nests can also be found hanging in various places on your property. You should call our Dallas Africanized Honey Bee specialists if you think you're being invaded by bees.
Ground Nesting Bee, Wasp, and Hornet and Removal
Generally people only think to look up when looking out for stinging insects such as bees, wasps, and hornets. However, that will not protect them from those insects that have ground nests such as yellow jackets, wasps, and hornets. These insects will burrow into the ground with multiple entry points. Burrows can usually be found along the edge of a bank or along a line of trees. Some types of ground bees, wasps, and even yellow jackets are very dangerous to treat and for this reason it is important that all children and pets are kept away and do not try to remove them yourself. Protect your family by having our Dallas bee and hornet experts come out to exterminate any ground nesting bees, hornets, wasps or yellow jackets.
Dallas Carpenter Bee Extermination
Carpenter Bees can cause quite of damage due to their burrowing into the exposed dry wood of building decks, soffits and fascia, window sills, railings, as well as wooden siding. They bore holes that are about 3/8″ in diameter then build their nests inside the hollowed out space. You should suspect a carpenter bee infestation if you find large amounts of sawdust and pollen below the hole which is being chewed and excavated. Best Dallas Pest Control will get rid of carpenter bees for you and seal up any areas where they have bored holes.
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Life without electricity Imagine life without electricity, not just a brief power outage. We all know how inconvenient life becomes when our electricity is out for only a few hours. How hard it is to remember for that short period of time that the light switch will not produce instant light, the hair dryer will not immediately blow dry our hair, or that we can't even run water into our homes.
Our homes and lives have become so dependent on electricity it is really hard to imagine everything that would change without it. You walk into your house today, flick a switch, and you expect a light to come on. You press a button on the remote control and you expect the TV to come on. There are many things you depend on electricity to do each day, from running your well pump if you live in the country to washing and drying your cloths.
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So, how did people get by before they got electricity? If you wanted a light you would get a match, go over to the kerosene lamp, lift the globe off, strike the match, light the wick, put the globe back on and adjust the flame for the best light. There was a little knob on the side of the lamp that you could use to raise or lower the wick to adjust the amount of light the lamp put out. After several days of use the wick would get crusted over and would not burn very well.


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It is extremely important for you to register with a local doctor, (GP) as soon as you arrive. Do not wait until you are unwell as it may not be possible to be seen immediately if you are not registered. The nearest doctor's surgery is at the address below, and sign-up forms are available at the reception:
- The Hoxton Surgery, 12 Rushton St, Hoxton, N1 5DR
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For minor ailments, always try a pharmacy before visiting the doctor. Describe your symptoms to the qualified pharmacist and he/she will either sell you the necessary medication or advise you to see a doctor. There are several pharmacies and chemists in the local area.
- Spring Pharmacy Ltd, 233 Hoxton Street, Hoxton, N1 5LG
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All students are advised to have the Meningitis C vaccination. Ask the practice nurse at your surgery. For more details on Meningitis, GP registration and other health matters, please visit the health section of the Student Services website or pick up a Healthful Pack from the Students Services office at your college. For further info about NHS services visit the NHS web site at www.nhs.uk. You can find information about local dentist practices, etc. at this site.
You will also receive information about UAL Health which is a service that is connected to Holborn Medical Centre; you will receive information about this when you move in.
For more serious illness or in an emergency you can attend the Accident and Emergency at any hospital. This service is free of charge. The local hospital nearest to Will Wyatt Court is
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We do not provide first aid products to residents. We recommend you bring your own first aid kit with you to halls.
Residents can register with a dentist upon their arrival at the hall. Please speak with a member of staff about where your local dentist is located or visit this website. In an emergency, residents should contact Homerton University Hospital (see above).


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After working in so many industries and software companies, I have thought back to common successes, failures and amazing lack of common sense in some situations.
In today's economy, downsizing and modernization, I see the same concepts from the 60's and 70's that were a 'brick to kill a worm'.
One of the ways I use to measure sillyness was to count the number of acronyms used and created.
Way back in the 70's I created a term HSOA, Help stomp out acronyms :)
My latest research of abbreviations and acronyms has the count at 11,873!


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Rock Hill, SC – Jazz pianist/composer/vocalist Marc Hoffman will perform with his quartet Saturday, February 15, 2014 at The City Club of Rock Hill in Rock Hill, SC as part of the 2nd Annual Celebrate with Heart Gala for the Heart2Heart Foundation. Joining Marc will be trumpet player Jeremy Shaw, bassist Tim Hartis, and drummer Brent Deaton.
Hoffman is well known throughout the Southeast US, having appeared at clubs, arenas, and other venues. Marc also performs nationally and internationally for jazz festivals and private events, and has entertained crowds at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston SC; Speedway Motorsports Inc. and the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, both in Charlotte; the Annual Old Town Blues & Jazz Festival in Rock Hill, SC; Ashe Civic Center; NC State; and outside the US in the UK and The Netherlands.
The event features a shrimp and grits bar, a wine tasting with complimentary food pairings, an open martini bar also serving beer, mixed drinks and wine and music and dancing with DJ Travis Dupree in the main ballroom and the Marc Hoffman Quartet in the lounge. "It's a pleasure returning to The City Club of Rock Hill and especially for this great event," Hoffman says. "Many thanks to the foundation organizers for inviting us and especially to Tim Hartis." Marc's recent performances include performances by the Lake Norman Symphony, the Salisbury Symphony, an annual piano concert at Ashe Civic Center in W. Jefferson, NC, and an invitation-only concert in Charleston, SC. As a soloist and with his trio Marc performs 75+ events each year including festivals, concerts, private engagements and recitals. In addition, Marc recently scored the films, "Chancing Dreams" and "40 Fears" for Charlotte-based Dalliance Films. Previous film work includes the score for "The Mill". Marc has been music supervisor for several films and was music historian for the Hugh Hudson film, "Revolution". Also an author, Marc's Essential Worship Keyboard is published by Emerald Books and picture book, Sleep, Little Child by Virillion Music Publishing.
About Heart2Heart Foundation
The mission of The Heart2Heart Foundation is to educate, support and advocate for women's heart health, thereby affecting not only their lives, but those of their families. In addition to educating women about heart disease and prevention, the foundation also plans to provide financial assistance to help cover expenses relating to heart health risk assessments and cardiac rehabilitation. Funds raised locally will remain local to help residents here in our communities.
About Marc Hoffman
Marc Hoffman received a degree in composition from the North Carolina School of the Arts and studied film composition at Univ. of Southern California. He also attended The Dartington International Summer School of Music in Devon, England. His composition teachers included John Corigliano, Leo Arnaud, Neil Hefti, and Sherwood Shaffer. A member of BMI and the American Composer's Forum, he is also founder and artistic director of the Salisbury School of Music. Marc lives in Salisbury, NC with is wife, Anne, and their daughter August.
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In 2017, Pointy became a proud affiliate member of the American Specialty Toy Retailing Association. Since then we've been working closely with ASTRA retailers, providing insights into how they can improve their online presence and drive more foot traffic to their brick & mortar store.
We were delighted when Ahren Hoffman who is director of education and training at ASTRA, invited us to do a podcast alongside two of our very first Pointy retailers and proud ASTRA members Jackie Anderson and Keith Schumacker.
In 2015 Jackie took a leap of faith and opened Playthings Aplenty in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Almost three years on her business is going strong and has become an integral part of the community.
Keith is the general manager of Talbot's Toyland, an iconic toy store that's been serving customers in California's Bay Area since 1953.
In this podcast Jackie and Keith talk about their experience of Pointy so far and explain how it has supported traffic, sales and marketing in their stores. Tune in to hear how you CAN get more traffic in your store with Pointy!
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Louth man Stephen Minister has been sent to prison for 16 weeks after repeatedly breaching a restraining order - just a few days after a suspended prison sentence had been imposed.
Stephen James Minister, 54, of Hardwick Close, had been placed under a 12 month restraining order by Lincoln Magistrates' Court on August 29 after he admitted harassing a woman with numerous calls, texts, and visits to her home.
However, within a week, Minister had breached the restraining order by contacting the woman again.
He admitted the breach when he appeared at the same court on September 5, and an additional community order with an unpaid work requirement was imposed.
Minister breached the restraining order again three days later, and appeared at the same court on September 10 where he was given a 12 week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.
He breached the order again between September 13-17, by calling and messaging the woman. He admitted the breach when he appeared at the same court on September 19, and his suspended prison sentence was activated.
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U.S. offers $5 million in hunt for killer of federal agent
The U.S. is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the capture of whoever is responsible for the slaying of an American federal agent in Mexico, suggesting Washington seeks to snare the person who ordered the killing or doubts those in Mexican custody acted alone.
So far, Mexico has arrested about a dozen people in the death of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata and wounding of a fellow agent, Victor Avila.
The agents were attacked Feb. 15 as they drove along a main highway during the day in an armored spurt utility vehicle bearing diplomatic plates.
"As with any investigation, it is important to look for all possible information and the rewards announced today are part of that," said Laura Sweeney, spokeswoman for the U.S. Justice Department.
After the ICE agents' SUV was run off the road, an AK-47 and a high-powered pistol were fired through a slightly open window on the passenger side.
According to the Mexican government, those arrested after the shooting are part of the Zetas drug cartel.
One gangster supposedly confessed that the U.S. agents were mistaken for rivals.
In addition to efforts in Mexico, the United States has traced one of the guns used in the attack to a Dallas-area gun dealer. Three men are charged there in federal court with conspiracy and lying to buy a firearm.
'Arrested a few lowlifes'
Mike Vigil, a retired Drug Enforcement Administration executive who was based in Mexico, said the reward is a clear sign that the U.S. government wants to go after top Zetas, much like it went after those responsible for the torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, in 1985.
"They have arrested a few lowlifes that apparently were involved, but what is not known is if they were the only ones responsible," Vigil said.
"Regardless of that, you have direct or indirect involvement by the Zeta leaders because they are the ones who send out these teams of assassins looking for rival gangs and individuals out there to massacre," he continued.
Alonzo Pena, who recently retired as deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, suggested nothing should be read into the timing of the reward. The delay between the shooting itself and the posting of the reward is most likely due to bureaucratic delays.
"This is a great motivator to get people to come forward," Pena said.
Drug cartels, which often operate across the Rio Grande from Texas, have a reputation for brutality against rivals as well as any civilians who cross their paths.
An American missionary was shot in January and died after a dramatic escape in which her husband raced his pickup back to Texas to reach an emergency room. Last October, a Colorado man was allegedly slain while jet skiing at Falcon Lake, on the Texas-Mexico border.
FBI sets up tip line
A spokesman for Grupo Savant, a private intelligence and security firm based in Washington, D.C., said it is peculiar the U.S. government would now offer a reward.
"I do not know what the thinking is there," he said. "It is kind of a slap in the face to the Mexicans."
He speculated that U.S. officials either don't think Mexico got the right guys, or the guys that were arrested were "sacrificial lambs."
Before the attack on the ICE agents, top leaders of the Zetas were already fugitives from U.S. justice for alleged drug trafficking and were the subjects of rewards of up to $5 million.
The FBI has a 24-hour tip line based in the United States to handle confidential calls about the attack as well as other major cases.
That phone number is 866-859-9778.
Information can be shared online at https://tips.fbi.gov.


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Been eyeballing the Microsoft Surface Book since it came out? I have. Our waits have been rewarded.
Microsoft is knocking $150 off the price of their i5 Surface Book models. The one to get is probably the formerly-$1,900 model with the 256GB SSD and the discreet GPU.
It's just $1,750 today.
Want to pay even less? Skip the dGPU and try the base model. You still get 8GB of RAM, you just get a smaller SSD and the onboard GPU. It's just $1,350 today. Check them out:
Microsoft Surface Book, i5 models, $1,350-$1,750 (was $1,500-$1,900)
Want to just blow it out at Microsoft? Grab an Xbox One + Kinect Bundle for $400 and save $100. You also get $50 in MicrosoftBucks and a free game.
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Maybe it is time to leave. There are signs.
I've been here nearly six months, yet already, when I was taking a photographer to my neighborhood antique flea market last month, there it was, or should I say there it was not. The neighborhood square was eerily empty where a week before it had teemed with dozens of squatters. I wrote about it in an earlier posting.
A week after that, only half a block away, the ladies who used to sell me fruit disappeared. Overnight, the building that they kept lit and open for 14 hours a day and the metal shutter that they would bring down over the front for a mere few hours a day, were crushed and crumbled. A pile of rubble stood where they used to be. A week later, huge posters surround the space, posters exhorting growth and praising the quality of life, the Olympics.
As quickly and as easily as you would remove a stage set, neighborhood scenes change, and people barely look up or notice. In my immediate neighborhood, my apartment complex stands where a similar area of low homes and courtyards used to stand. And by the end of September, another phase of the makeover will begin and the remaining stores and homes that surround the open courtyard of squatter vendors – the bonsai and bird cages, rockery, antiques, paintings, garden tools, baby crickets and turtles, and my tea shop, where I have learned so much and brought so many friends, will tumble to the wrecking ball.
The strangest part about this is that not a storekeeper or resident is sentimental about moving out. They know this is the pace of urban China. They scatter to other, brighter, shopping complexes with higher rents. They print new business cards. There's a new business in a new location to grow, no time to squander on the past. Life goes on. They are willing pay the price of advancement.
A voice in me whispers, "Little do we know." I miss the tenuous relationships I have formed, the safe places where I now no longer bargain. Places where I know I am being charged a little more but not four times the price of a local. Places where I know they will select the best and recommend the good products, honestly.
If I feel unmoored with the loss of their presences, how do they feel about their connection with each other? Will this motion unsettle the underpinnings of Chinese families? Perhaps in the face of such radical change, it will tighten them further?


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The enhanced effect of a hexameric deoxyriboguanosine run conjugation to CpG oligodeoxynucleotides on protection against allergic asthma
JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY, vol. 108, no. 4, page. 570 - 576, 2001-01
Park, Y; Chang, YS; Lee, SW; Cho, SY; Kim, YK; Min, KU; Kim, YY; Cho, SH; Sung, YC
Association between genetic variations in prostaglandin E-2 receptor subtype EP3 gene (Ptger3) and asthma in the Korean population link
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGY, vol. 37, no. 11, page. 1609 - 1615, 2007-01
Park, HW; Shin, ES; Lee, JE; Kim, SH; Kim, SS; Chang, YS; Kim, YK; Min, KU; Kim, YY; Cho, SH


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About Me.
I do what I love. I am who I am. Get to know me better.
Fahd Rashid
Temporal Galaxy Exploration Officer (Graphic Designer)
I often ask myself if one page on a book would be enough to tell everyone about me. In fact, even a child who's lived for one day would need more than one page to describe themselves. I can always write in simple words that I'm Fahd Rashid, a guy who firmly believes in the saying 'age is just a number'. But is that all you want to know? Or do you think and believe that there is much, much more to the story.
Where? When? Why?
Where have I come from? When did my survival on this planet begin? Why do I believe that age is truly just a number? So many questions yet only one page to write it all. I'm from 30° 00 N, 70º 00 E. Life is a puzzle; figure it out. My survival you ask? Well I've been told it was a Monday, 12:20am, 10th of August in the year MCMXCVIII. That's when the real game of life started.
People have always told me that they get amazed by looking at tall buildings. I tell them that I get amazed by the logos on building or the design of the doors. They leave. Every. Single. Time.
You see, age is always just a number. We think that some things can only be achieved after a certain age. But my thinking is that there are some things in life that can't be learnt or taught. They come naturally. Some people can make others laugh near instantly. They've never been to a school of laughter. Is that even a thing? Do stand-up comedians go to school of stand up comedy? No. Seriously, no.
All it takes is some time, a lot of self exploration and experimentation and you're ready stand against all odds. Age is just a number that does nothing but tell you how early or how late you've explored yourself.
Now that you know 2% of the 'real' me, let me quickly run you through everything else.
- Name: Fahd Rashid
- DOB: Aug 10 1998
- Profession: Designer
- Degree: Foundation in Design (Distinction)
- Interests: Photography, Cinematography, Gaming, Writing.
- Dream City: Los Angeles
TL;DL: Read it. You might just hire me for being creative.


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BioDr. Brenda Norman has served as department chairperson and social work program director. Under her direction, the social work program achieved accreditation standing in 2007. She has chaired numerous university committees, including: SACS Faculty Committee and Social Work Assembly. She is a Commencement Marshal, and served as a mentor for the Ronald McNair Summer Research Program. Dr. Norman is involved in numerous civic organizations, and has had several articles published. She is fluent in Sign Language.
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You likely have health insurance to assist with your medical emergencies, car insurance to assist with auto emergencies, and homeowner's or renter's insurance to help manage costs associated with home emergencies.
What about your dog? Should you consider pet insurance, to help address medical costs?
In this guide, we'll discuss the basics of pet insurance and give you the information you need to make educated decisions regarding pet insurance for your dog.
When Should You Purchase Pet Insurance?
Health insurance for dogs can be purchased at nearly any time during your dog's life. Providers typically offer coverage to puppies as young as 6–8 weeks old and often allow the enrollment of healthy senior dogs up to 14 years old.
Ideally, though, you want to purchase insurance for your dog as soon as possible. The goal is to have pet insurance in place before problems arise, so that the costs associated with medical problems are covered. As your dog ages and potentially develops "pre-existing conditions," your options may become more limited and insurance rates will likely increase.
Getting dog insurance before health problems arise will help you qualify for the lowest possible rate and have coverage when you need it.
How Much Does Health Insurance for Dogs Cost?
There are a wide variety of pet insurance plans available for purchase. These plans vary in many ways, including deductibles, co-pays, maximum coverages, what services/diseases are covered, and many other factors. The options that you select, in addition to your dog's health status, play a significant role in determining the cost of insurance coverage for your dog.
In general, accident and illness insurance for a single dog costs between $25-70/month, averaging $43.14/month. Accident-only plans may be available at a lower cost, while more comprehensive coverage may be available at a higher cost.
Your dog's overall health status (which includes age, breed, and pre-existing medical conditions) also plays role in determining insurance costs. Mixed breeds are typically the least expensive to insure, therefore coverage rates for mixed-breed dogs may be even lower than those mentioned above. Purebred dogs are more expensive to insure, due to their increased likelihood of hereditary problems. According to Trupanion Pet Insurance, the most expensive dog breeds to insure are: English Bulldogs, Bernese Mountain dogs, Rottweilers, Great Danes, and French Bulldogs. These breeds are at higher risk of respiratory problems, orthopedic (bone and joint) problems, and/or certain types of cancers, and this increased likelihood of medical expenses is reflected in higher insurance premiums.
What Common Health Expenses Can Pet Insurance Offset?
Pet insurance can offset a variety of medical costs that may occur over the lifetime of your dog. The primary benefits of pet insurance are the coverage of accidents and illnesses.
Accidents, such as broken bones, dog fight wounds, and intestinal obstructions due to ingested foreign bodies, are common in young dogs. These accidents can carry significant costs.
Illnesses, such as diabetes and hypothyroidism, become more common as pets age. The costs associated with illness may be substantial, including diagnostics, acute treatment, and possible ongoing, lifelong care. Pet insurance can help cover many of these expenses. Cancer is also a concern in aging pets; some dog insurance policies offer coverage for cancer, although this is not always the case.
What Common Health Expenses Are Not Covered By Dog Insurance?
Several categories of medical conditions may be excluded from coverage. Check carefully with any insurance provider that you are considering, in order to find out their policies.
Pre-existing Conditions
If your dog was diagnosed with a particular medical condition before you obtained pet insurance coverage, your insurance will probably not cover that condition. For example, a dog diagnosed with skin allergies prior to receiving pet insurance may be ineligible for coverage for future skin conditions, or may have a waiting period before becoming eligible for coverage.
Inherited Conditions
Many pet insurance policies exclude conditions that are considered hereditary. Providers' lists of inherited conditions may include orthopedic conditions (such as hip dysplasia or patellar luxation), respiratory conditions (e.g., tracheal collapse), eye issues (e.g., third eyelid prolapse or "cherry eye," entropion), and other conditions that are known to have a genetic basis. Additionally, some providers make additional exclusions for specific breeds. For example, heart disease is a common problem in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels; therefore, some providers exclude heart disease from coverage in this breed.
Congenital Disorders
These are disorders that are present at birth, although they may not become clinically apparent until later in life. Examples include heart valve defects and portosystemic shunts (liver shunts). Insurance providers differ in how they handle these disorders; some companies exclude them from coverage, while others will cover these conditions if they were undiagnosed and asymptomatic at the time the insurance was purchased.
Wellness Care
Pet insurance does not typically cover wellness care, unless additional coverage is purchased. Wellness care includes vaccines, heartworm, flea prevention, spay/neuter, dental cleaning, and grooming.
Breeding and Pregnancy
Pet insurance typically does not cover conditions related to breeding and pregnancy.
Cosmetic Surgery
Tail docking, ear cropping, and dewclaw removal are not covered, unless medically necessary (due to injury, etc.).
How Does Health Insurance for Dogs' Work?
In most cases, insurance for dogs differs significantly from human health insurance. Understanding these differences is essential to choosing the right policy and being happy with your coverage.
With pet insurance, you choose your own veterinarian and you are the one who authorize diagnostics and treatments. Typically, you pay your veterinarian directly for these services at the time they are performed, out of your own pocket. After you have paid your veterinarian, you then submit your receipts (and additional paperwork) to the insurance company. The insurance company will reimburse a portion of your expenses.
For example, if your policy includes a $100 deductible per incident and a 10% co-pay, a $300 veterinary visit for a covered accident or illness would result in the following reimbursement:
[$300 (paid) – $100 (deductible)] x 0.90 (reimbursement rate) = $180 reimbursement
There are a number of other factors that may influence your reimbursement. These factors include:
Schedule of Benefits
Some pet insurance policies reimburse based upon a pre-determined schedule of benefits (standardized list of prices for each service), instead of basing it upon the actual amount billed by your veterinarian. If your insurer uses a schedule of benefits, it is important to know this and review the schedule of benefits, so that you will not receive any unpleasant surprises.
Maximum Payout
Some policies have maximum payout limits. These limits may apply to an individual incident, body system (for example, a maximum payout for orthopedic issue), calendar year, or pet's lifetime. Review these maximum payouts carefully before selecting insurance coverage.
Best Three Pet Insurance Companies For Dog Owners?
Each pet insurance company has its own benefits and drawbacks. A company that is an excellent fit for one dog/owner pair may be a terrible fit for another dog/owner pair, depending on the medical status of the dog and the owner's preferences. Therefore, it's important to do your own research and see which company is the best fit for you, instead of basing your decision on the opinions of others.
As you begin your search, however, you may want to start with these three providers, presented in no particular order. Each of these providers has consumer satisfaction scores and has at least ten years of history offering pet insurance in the U.S.
Trupanion was initially established as a Canadian pet insurance provider in 1998; the company began offering insurance for dogs in the United States in 2007.
Trupanion's most unique feature is that they are the only pet insurance company that reimburses veterinarians directly. Veterinarians can log into a computer system, submit expenses, and receive reimbursement directly from Trupanion within a period of minutes. This allows you, the policyholder, to pay only your co-pay at the veterinary clinic, avoiding the need to pay the entire bill at the time of service, submit receipts, and wait for reimbursement to arrive.
Additionally, Trupanion offers lifetime "per condition" deductibles. If your dog has a chronic condition, you may only have to pay one deductible for that condition during your pet's lifetime, instead of paying a new deductible each year. This can reduce costs significantly if your pet has chronic conditions that require lifelong care.
Trupanion coverage is available for dogs ranging from 8 weeks – 14 years of age.
Trupanion does not offer any wellness care in their dog insurance policies.
Embrace Pet Insurance was established in 2006.
Unlike many providers, Embrace Pet Insurance policies do not have exclusions or coverage limits for genetic or breed-specific conditions. Incurable pre-existing conditions, however, are excluded from coverage. A dog that is already covered by Embrace Pet Insurance at the time it is diagnosed with hip dysplasia, for example, will receive coverage for that condition. If an owner applies for insurance through Embrace after hip dysplasia has already been diagnosed, no coverage will be available for medical treatments related to hip dysplasia.
All Embrace policies include coverage for alternative therapies, such as acupuncture and chiropractic care.
Dogs from 6 weeks – 14 years old are eligible for full accident and illness coverage. Dogs 15 years old and up are eligible for accident-only coverage.
Embrace offers wellness care insurance options, in addition to their accident and illness policies, to help owners budget for wellness care.
Read our full-review of Embrace Pet Insurance.
Nationwide/Veterinary Pet Insurance
No discussion of pet insurance is complete without a discussion of Nationwide/VPI. Established in 1982 as Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI), this program is now owned by Nationwide and is the oldest pet insurance provider in the United States.
Nationwide's most popular plan is a program called Whole Pet with Wellness, which reimburses preventive care fees in addition to the accident and illness fees traditionally covered by pet insurance. The Whole Pet with Wellness program is open to any age dog, with no age restrictions. Other Nationwide Pet Insurance programs, however, may have age restrictions.
Some Nationwide plans reimburse off a benefit schedule (instead of actual veterinary costs) and Nationwide policies may come with a longer list of breed-related and congenital disease exclusions than some providers, so it is important to read all paperwork carefully in order to make an informed decision. In exchange for these trade-offs, however, many customers find the cost of Nationwide pet insurance to be lower than other providers.


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Monday, January 28, 2008
LIVING IN STORMS. Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic Depression. Edited by Thom Schramm.
LIVING IN STORMS. Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic Depression. Edited by Thom Schramm. (Eastern Washington University Press Spokane, Washington 2008) $24.
The "black dogs" of depression are never far outside our gate, as Winston Churchill once wrote. The euphoria of mania and the freefall of depression are known in the field as "manic depression." This rapid cycling tornado of mental illness has affected (according to recent studies) poets and writers to a greater degree than the general population. In fact in the New York Times awhile back it was reported that poets and writers, and particularly poets, have a shorter lifespan than the rest of the masses. Could it be we are more prone to suicide or have we just forgotten to take our daily dose of statins?
Having worked at the renowned Boston-area psychiatric hospital: McLean Hospital for the past twenty-five years, I have witnessed mental illness in all its infinite variety, from the locked ward to the outpatient milieu. McLean Hospital itself has a history of "thoroughbred mental cases" as Robert Lowell put it in his poem: "Waking In The Blue." (A poem that is set at Bowditch Hall at McLean where I worked for a number of years.) Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, and I am told John Berryman have been hospitalized at McLean. Anne Sexton ran her famed poetry workshops on grounds and later was treated on the locked ward for a short period. A friend of mine who was a counselor on the ward she was housed on asked Sexton why she always wore sunglasses indoors. She replied, " Because I am a poet of course." I have also interviewed the social worker to Plath and Sexton: Lois Ames. Ames is a poet in her own right and wrote the introduction to Plath's novel "The Bell Jar." And more than this, I have been treated for depression myself. And as a poet, I can tell you there is nothing romantic or poetic about depression and mental illness. And if you have been through it, even if it has given you some good material, you wish that it never would rear its ugly head again. Unfortunately, especially among some younger poets, the "Mad" poet has been lionized, and drug and alcohol abuse viewed as necessary as a laptop or pen or pencil in the writers' life. I say it ain't so..
So when the distinguished Boston University professor and poet Tino Villanueva handed me "Living In Storms", (at a meeting of the Boston-area writers' group the "Bagel Bards,") a collection of poetry having to do with contemporary poets whose lives have been some way touched by manic depression, I was intrigued.
And perhaps there is something about our dark natures that lends itself to art. In the foreword to the collection David Wojan quotes one of my favorite poets Philip Larkin:
"Happiness writes white. It's very difficult to write about being happy. Very easy to write about being miserable. And I think writing about unhappiness is the source of my popularity, if I have any—after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?"
I was happy to find in this collection that there were many poets I have read with, booked for events, interviewed, etc… over the years like: Lyn Lifshin, Daniel Hoffman, Robert Pinsky, Steve Cramer, and of course Tino Villanueva.
I think the poems in this collection capture the true tragedy of the illness through art not clinical reportage. The poems here capture the maw of the depression; with the poets' struggle with his or her self, the world-at-large; the claustrophobic tunnel vision, with no light in sight. And it also covers the sizzle and no steak that takes the poet racing to the heights, only to drop like a dead weight.
Hayden Carruth in his poem " Depression," captures the relentless cycles of nature, and depression itself:
" We have tried hard, have labored against the seasons/ like the geese, year after year, against mania, fear, / depression, death in the heart/ the endless mockery/of the children in our minds, we have hurled fat insults/ at each other/ have hurled silence, the same/occult and cloudy words over and over in the wet/ wind, we have persisted, tattered and worn out/ and sorry. / Thank God we love each other and can hold/ our tongues and go to bed, otherwise this/would be intolerable, traveling so far, so long, and never/
Arriving anywhere. Nor do the geese. / Nor the seasons."
And in Tino Villanueva's poem "Shaking Off the Dark" Villanueva, like a dyed-in-the-wool pugilist fights through the tight wrap of darkness.
mad-eyed from told formulas
bound to rule my easy ways,
I look, I see,
but fail once more to know.
Such rites of life
can waste the wit;
can be like strictures
rushing to the head.
Mine is a palpable body
that cannot stand itself.
Yet, a rebellion overtakes the mind
the kind that breaks the shadow's hold:
I ram a fist into the howl of the wind,
shake off the dark locked
within the hell of these rare depths.
The common street
and shifting sky become a song."
Also in this collection are poems by William Matthews, Jane Kenyon, Liz Rosenberg, C.K. Williams, Leo Connellan, and many others.
Highly Recommended.
Doug Holder/ Ibbetson Update/ Jan. 2008
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Nutrition influences a child's development, health, well-being and potential for learning. Each school day, the Food Service Department is charged with providing nutritious, breakfasts and lunches as well as snacks for students in organized after-school education or enrichment programs. During the summer school break period, meals are provided in designated need areas under the guidelines for the federal Summer Food Service Program for Children.
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Countryside Magazine, December 2013 edition, is running a competition where you could win one of my scarves.
Handwoven with beautifully soft lambswool and alpaca, this scarf was inspired by the vibrant colours of the Fife fishing villages. It's perfect for the coming winter months.
The magazine is due out in mid November. So go on have a go, somebody has to win it!