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I know it is a little early for another Fedena Flyer (maybe this will make up for the times I am late?), but I feel an update is in order.
First up – Shirley is doing worse than ever! She is in almost constant SEVERE pain. The Dr. has prescribed Vicodin – a narcotic – but it only takes the edge off for a couple of hours. She cries a lot and prays for the Lord to take her home soon. Shirley has a high tolerance for pain and is not a baby.
She has been through several major surgeries and bounced back in a couple of days. After one huge surgery we went on vacation a couple of days later which involved a couple of plane rides. At one point she had several teeth pulled at once and two days later we attended the World's Fair. I mention these only to show that she is not a whiner. When she cannot do the simplest chores at home (making a bed, dishes, etc.) I know she is in a bad way! She is in need of "effectual, fervent" prayer of the righteous. Would you PLEASE ray for her today? (She has only missed one meeting with me in spite of her pain. That was in a church where there were steps all over. Otherwise she grits her teeth and goes along.)
Next - I am scheduled for another Cystoscopy. I won't describe what that is if you don't know, but it is a very painful experience. The last one I had done in the Dr's office (read torture chamber!) and he had to stop because I couldn't tolerate the pain. So he rescheduled another one to be done under anesthetic in the hospital in 2 weeks. I had my semi-annual checkup re: CyberKnife for cancer two days ago and the Dr. there says the Cystoscopy may not be necessary (Yea!!!). But I have to check with the surgeon to see what he thinks. I would love to escape the horrors of this procedure – not just the procedure itself, but the after effects as well. I am NOT a sissy, but neither am I a masochist! Over all I praise the Lord almost daily for the degree of health I enjoy as a 79 year old man. I still preach someplace weekly (I trust not weakly!).
Enough about us and our physical deterioration. There are many others who are in need of prayer as well. I trust you still have the list of preachers (and normal people J) I sent in our last Flyer. Please don't forget to pray for them.
On a brighter note, my son Dan will be throwing the first pitch in a baseball game for the Trenton Thunder tomorrow night. I will be going to see and support him. (I hope he doesn't bobble the ball!!! J)
Next, in less than two weeks our granddaughter Stephanie Lefevers (Jerry & Crystal's daughter) will be getting married at Harbor Baptist Church (July 20th). I will have a part in the wedding along with Pastor Dennis Higgins. Her fiancé is a super nice guy, a good Christian and a soul-winner. They are both members at Harbor B.C. – along with their parents. All the relatives will be "home" for the big event and former friends from Faith Baptist will be staying with us that week (Joe & Sandy Waters).
Also, of course, we are looking forward to seeing our twin great-grandchildren Jack & Julia Lefevers who will be in the wedding (2 ½ years old – should be fun!). Their sister Amelia will be there too and will be a flower girl. She is so sweet and growing up.
Our granddaughter, Taylor Fedena (Dan & Amy's daughter), graduated from High School and will be off to college in the fall. Our grandson, Westley Roy (Dawn & Steve's son), graduated also and will be going to college in a few weeks as well.
We are planning on a 5 day "vacation" in Cape May, NJ (where I will be preaching) this month with long time friends of ours (Dr. & Mrs. Herb Brail) – IF Shirley is up to it. Not looking good at present. L Pray that this will become a reality. We could both use the time with friends and a change of scenery.
I preached in our home church (Straightway Baptist, Princeton, NJ) on Wed. night (July 3rd) a message entitled "God's (Broken) Contract With America." We had a good attendance and I felt the people present were in agreement even though the message pointed out that we have a New Declaration of Independence (we have declared our independence from God as a nation), a New Constitution(with a preamble that no longer reads "We the people" but "We the Government") and a New Bill of Rights where our "rights" are dictated and defined by political correctness and our nation leans towards socialism. It wasn't all "doom and gloom" but was a realistic appraisal of where we stand with God according to my understanding of the Scriptures in these last days. We cannot continue to thumb our nose at our Creator and Redeemer with impunity by embracing the homosexual agenda, butchering 4000 babies daily and dissing Israel! God's judgment will fall (and may be already falling!). My Pastor (Louis Guarneri) seemed pleased with the content and the Holy Spirit's involvement in the service. I still pray "God bless America – PLEASE!!!
Our pastor put his home up for sale and has a buyer. He will use the proceeds to purchase a home and give the rest of the money towards a permanent church home. He has NOT found a place to move yet. The clock is ticking. Please pray. We have an important meeting next Wed. night with Township officials regarding the clearance for a church property we desire in a residential community. Please pray with us that we will get a favorable decision and be able to move forward. We are still meeting in a hotel for our services presently.
Hope you all had a great 4th of July – in spite of the heat and humidity! Keep cool!!
Sincerely in the Savior,
Pastor (e) Paul C. Fedena
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This graph depicts the change in percentage of antibiotics belonging to the 4C group – clindamycin, cephalosporins, co-amoxiclav, and ciprofloxacin (fluoroquinolones) in Grampian, Scotland NHS acute care hospitals. There is a strong association with reductions in C. difficile incidence.
This graph show the changes in the individual classes of 4 C's. Very impressive reductions demonstrating the power of organized stewardship efforts.
Thanks to Dr. Ian Gould for sharing this. This project was specifically designed to reduce the incidence of C. difficile by reducing the use of antibiotics most associated with C. difficile disease. Read more about The 4 C's Project here at the International Society for Chemotherapy's World Inventory of Antimicrobial Stewardship site.
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The Senator vs. the Schoolteacher
Sex scandals were nothing new to American politics, whether it was Thomas Jefferson keeping a slave as his mistress or Sen. Dan Sickles of New York shooting his wife's lover in cold blood across the street from the White House. Sometimes, however, the scandal exposed a double standard in American laws. Sickles was acquitted by an all-male jury and remained in office even after confessing.
But by the mid-1800s, things were changing. Women were demanding more rights and standing up for them, such as Susan B. Anthony, who was arrested in 1876 on the charge of illegal voting in a congressional election and found guilty. She declared she had voted "the straight Republican ticket."
As the nation became more industrialized, more women were forced to leave the home and find work, usually with male employees. Long before the term "sexual harassment in the workplace" was coined or Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill were born, a young female schoolteacher from Tuckerton went head-to-head with the richest, most powerful man in Ocean County.
Ephraim P. Emson was born in Toms River in 1829. He made his fortune in cranberries and owned 15,000 acres in Colliers Mills. Emson was repeatedly elected a county freeholder and served as a Democratic assemblyman, senator and judge from a predominately Republican county.
His hobby was horse racing, and he owned 40 horses and had two tracks on his property. But he was also a philanthropist, building at his own expense a church and school for the people of Colliers Mills. The New York Sun described him in a May 17, 1886, article.
"The Hon. Ephraim Emson is not only an able bodied man, but he is a man of means and importance hereabouts. He runs the village store, lives in a big barracks of a house, and owns pretty much everything in town. He has taken an active part in politics; has been once in the Senate and twice in the Assembly. For more than twenty years he has been a member of the Board of Freeholders of this county. He likes to have his own way and generally he has it. He has a large number of people to whom by exercising his bare power of property, saying nothing of his influence, he could make himself painfully unpleasant if they ventured to play at cross purposes with him."
On the other side was Lovie Blackman, a Quaker schoolteacher born in Tuckerton in 1857. She had left home and was an early graduate of the new State Normal School in Trenton (today the College of New Jersey). She took a position at a school near Colliers Mills.
The National Police Gazette reported, "Miss Blackman is an attractive and remarkably keen-witted lady, about twenty-four years old. Her parents are Quakers, and they reside in Tuckerton. For some time she taught school in Midwood, a few miles from here, and she was not only liked as a teacher, but respected for her womanly dignity of character."
According to The Sun, "It was, Miss Blackman says, through the seductive influence of candy that the respectable Senator and Assemblyman first conveyed to her that he looked upon her with the eye of favor … he had working for him a young man called Ive Reynolds, who frequently drove over from Collier's Mills to call upon Miss Blackman at Midwood, where she was teaching. Senator Emson says it isn't so, but Ive avers that it was a frequent practice of the Senator's when he (Ive) started on one of these trips to Midwood, to take the most gorgeous red sticks of candy right out of one of the jars on his store shelf."
Then, according to the Police Gazette, "At last, after long solicitation on the Senator's part, so Miss Blackman says she decided to abandon her school at Midwood and take charge of the one in the Senator's little school house in Collier's Mills."
The Sun discovered things weren't going as Emson planned.
"Mr. Reynolds in the meantime continued his attentions to Miss Blackman and made rather more progress than did the Senator. The Senator peremptorily dismissed Mr. Reynolds from his service. He did not, however, according to Miss Blackman's story, cease his attentions to her."
But it was over. The Police Gazette picks up the story.
"He did not, however, according to Miss Blackman's story, cease his attentions to her, and these attentions she says culminated one morning last September, when Ephraim coming to the school house before the scholars arrived on the pretence of winding up the clock, did then and there make improper proposals, which Miss Blackman repelled with proper indignation."
Emson was used to getting his way, according to The Sun.
"'From that time,' said Miss Blackman yesterday to a Sun reporter, 'Ephraim began a series of persecutions which drove me nearly wild. He circulated slanderous reports about my relations with Mr. Reynolds and about my character generally. He tried his best to get me removed from the place, which for more than a year he urged me to take with a view to bettering myself. He would have got me out had he been able to control the three school trustees. Some of these trustees, Judge Conover among them, had opposed my taking the school at first, but at Ephraim's insistence they consented. When however he wanted to throw me out, and everybody knew why he did, these very trustees who had opposed me would not hear of it.'"
The Trenton Times gave Emson's version in a March 22, 1886, article.
"A few months ago he conceived a violent dislike for Miss Blackman, who has been the teacher of Collier's Mills school for about a year. She came well recommended from the State Normal School and received ex-Senator Emson's endorsement at that time. The reason of his recent change of feeling toward her is said to have been a desire to put a friend of his family in her place. His fellow trustees of the school were not disposed to discharge Miss Blackman, who has made a very successful teacher and excellent disciplinarian, and Emson was unable to secure a majority. The board was equally divided on the question as to whether Miss Blackman should stay or go."
Blackman responded to his reasons.
"He denies that he sent me candy, does he? He did send me candy, and not only that, but I was foolish enough to eat some of it once, and I had like to have died of dyspepsia. It was awful candy. What I did on the 15th of March last I did because I was nearly insane from that man's cowardly attacks on me. I could stand it no longer, and I had to do something."
The schoolhouse was packed for the meeting, and according to The Sun, Blackman was ready.
"It was at a trustee meeting, or rather a meeting for the election of trustees, and Senator Emson was on hand to get control of the Board, so it was said, in order to put Miss Blackman out. Miss Blackman had … whips conveniently hidden behind a map that hung on the wall, with their ends protruding just far enough to be within easy grasp. She had made up her mind, she said, that if she saw any indication of the spirit by which she believed him to be actuated, she would bring matters to a crisis at once."
The schoolteacher was about to strike a blow for women's rights – literally!
Next Week: Emson vs. Blackman.


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This week the trial of former LRA commander Dominic Ongwen resumes at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The trial of Ongwen, a former child soldier now being charged with 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, is being closely watched for its implications on transitional justice processes in Uganda and around the world. However, comparatively little attention has been focused on what implications Ongwen's departure from the LRA has had on his former comrades still within the rebel group. Today, we attempt to address that question with the release of a new report, Dominic Ongwen's Domino Effect, released in collaboration with our colleagues at Invisible Children.
The report chronicles in detail for the first time how the dramatic series of events surrounding Ongwen's defection in late 2014 led to fracturing within the LRA command structure, including the creation of an LRA splinter group led by Achaye Doctor and an attempt by Kony's bodyguards to take Kony's life in mid-2015. It also examines how the fracturing of the LRA is linked to the sharp increase in LRA attacks in eastern CAR in 2016. Finally, the report examines how the LRA's fracturing challenges the theory that killing or capturing Kony will lead to the swift dissolution of the rebel group, highlighting the need for expanded defection messaging and reintegration programs.


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Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan (and thief) Mary Quinn is surprised to be offered a singular education, instruction in fine manners — and an unusual vocation. Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls is a cover for an all-female investigative unit called The Agency, and at seventeen, Mary is about to put her training to the test. Assuming the guise of a lady's companion, she must infiltrate a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships. But the household is full of dangerous deceptions, and there is no one to trust — or is there?
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He doesn't put forth an opinion about every pregnant woman he knows. He has to get "a feeling" for him to lay it out there. But once he knows, he knows. And for the time being, anyway, statistics back him up.
This is of particular importance to a dear friend of mine who is pregnant with her second. She has a boy right now, and according to Corey, she's going to have another boy next April. She wouldn't mind having another boy. Her first will be two years old when the baby is born, and having two brothers close in age would be a blast. (If you know otherwise, do not tell me. I would like to shield her innocence.)
Problem is, she and Corey have a lovingly antagonistic relationship. And she doesn't WANT him to be right. She's tired of him always being right. She wants him to be WRONG. Not so much because she wants a girl, although that would be delightful. Just because she wants Corey to fail.
When she heard that Corey was right about Amanda, she e-mailed me and said, "Now I'm praying for TWIN GIRLS!"
And Corey, when he heard her say that, laughed and said in reply, "Poor thing. Will she even be able to love her second son, or will he always be a reminder to her of her defeat?"
Anyone want to put money down? Corey's going for lucky 13 here. (Not that we believe in luck. But you know what I mean.) My friend's ultrasound is scheduled for November.


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Should federal employees on furlough be allowed to collect unemployment benefits? Workers at a Navy engineering station in Philadelphia think so.
The local union affiliate of International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers has signed an agreement with the Navy which would allow their civilian federal workers to group furlough days in one-week blocks. It's a strategy with one key goal: enable those employees to recoup some of their lost wages through unemployment checks.
Here's how it works.
Bill Coleman, a mechanical engineer who works for the Navy, makes around $104,000 a year, before taxes. Like most Department of Defense employees, he expects to be furloughed for 11 days between July and September. He will lose roughly $4,400 in pay during that stretch.
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If his furlough days are scattered throughout the three month period, he will not qualify for unemployment benefits in Pennsylvania. Workers in that state cannot earn more than $745 in one week and still qualify for unemployment benefits.


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Hello! I am back after a very long and lazy Easter weekend, wherein I did absolutely nothing, and it was absolutely amazing. I didn't even post a Best of the Internet last week. Why? Honestly, because I didn't really feel like it. I like to include links I find funny or inspiring, with the occasional thought-provoker thrown in now and then to keep things interesting and balanced. But, the last week has brought its share of tragedy, and it seems like I can't log on to the internet without being bombarded with stories of sadness, loss, and terror. So many terrorist attacks in just one short week--Brussels, Iraq, Pakistan. It seems like our world has been wrapped up in chaos with no reprieve in sight. The state of the humanity in 2016 sometimes makes it a bit hard for me to want to laugh at silly articles or talk about pretty things when none of that seems to matter in light of the very real suffering, hardship, and pure hate that exist in the world.
I see hate everywhere. In the news of course, with the coverage of terrorist attacks or the ongoing refugee crisis. Even in coverage of the election back home in the U.S. But I see it more and more in everyday life. It sometimes feels that people are becoming more and more divided in their ideologies and values. With these divisions follows an increasingly stark lack of respect for others, especially for those that may have a different background or point of view. And honestly, it's enough to make anyone depressed from the feeling of pure helplessness that often corresponds with these divisions.
My coping mechanism has mostly been to limit my exposure to news media. But in everyday life, I have also begun to more actively practice gratitude. I have all the food I need to eat a good meal: I am grateful for this. I have a comfortable home to live in with a warm bed: I am grateful for this. I get to enjoy the beautiful sunset in the pictures above on my way home from school: I am grateful for this. With all the negative things that happen in the world, it is so easy to lose focus on the positive things, or to not even see them at all. When I turn my attention to the positive aspects of everyday life, it makes it much easier to shore myself against the potential for falling into a downward hate spiral. Something that all humans are dangerously prone to if the negativity is left unchecked, and I with my generally misanthropic tendencies need to be particularly aware of.
I know that I am far from the first person to feel this way, and long from the first blogger to write about it. And perhaps a post like this isn't necessarily the most inspiring, exciting thing to read, but it's what is on my heart today. Hope you all don't mind.


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We asked our Facebook fans recently to tell us which two leaves tea they love to make iced, and the winner was our Alpine Berry Herbal Blend. Jasmine Petal Green came in second place, and third place was a tie between Assam Breakfast, and Tropical Goji Green (this blogger's preferred pick). We wouldn't stop you from making iced tea with any of our teas, and if you want a unique iced tea experience, try making some with our loose Organic Jade Oolong. It's glassy green, lightly floral and has a hint of nutty sweetness.
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STAGE TUBE: In Rehearsal with Beautiful Soup's LIFT
Beautiful Soup Theater (Rags, Moose Murders, A Doll's Life) will present the American premiere of Craig Adams andIan Watson's musical LIFT, which made its sold-out premiere at London's SoHo Theatre earlier this year after being developed with Pitch Perfect Musicals. A concept album featuring members of the original cast is available on iTunes. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in rehearsal in the video below!
The production will feature the previously announced Kimberly Faye Greenberg (One Night With Fanny Brice, Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical) as The French Teacher. She is joined by Netanel Bellaishe (So You Think You Dance Israel, National Tour of A Chorus Line), Erin Elizabeth Eichhorn as The Secretary, Spencer Kurtti as The Busker, Randall Glen Taylor as Bright Young Thing, Samantha Mercado-Tudda as The Lap Dancer, with Morgan DeTogne and Jeffrey Van Damme as The American Tourists. Aaron Griffin-Vander Yacht serves as understudy. Original West End Lift cast members Julie Atherton (Avenue Q, Mamma Mia!) and Cynthia Errivo (The Color Purple), will lend their voices to unseen roles.
Beautiful Soup Artistic Director Steven Carl McCasland directs, with Will Shuler serving as Musical Director. Hailli Ridsdale stage manages. The production will play New York City's Richmond Shepard Theatre (309 East 26th Street) from November 13th through November 24th. Tickets ($18) are available online now at http://beautifulsoup.showclix.com.
Beautiful Soup's 2013-2014 season will continue with a revival of Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, the inspiration for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, in February. To learn more, visit www.beautifulsouptheatercollective.org.


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A Scots oil and gas well technology firm has secured £3.5 million expansion funding to help it capitalise on booming investment in the industry in areas such as the Middle East.
Coretrax Technology won the funding commitment from the Scottish Loan Fund, which is managed by Maven Capital Partners.
Aberdeen-based Coretrax will use the money to support efforts to maintain its rapid growth by winning more business in international markets and developing new products.
Led by managing director Kenny Murray, Coretrax believes it is well placed to benefit from the efforts of oil and gas companies around the world to boost production to meet strong demand.
Founded by Mr Murray in 2008, Coretrax develops products that can be used for completing wells.
This includes tasks like removing left over drilling fluid to help maximise production efficiency or placing cement plugs in wells that are being abandoned.
Glasgow-based Maven said the business has built a strong customer base in the North Sea and in areas such as Africa.
Following significant contract wins in Saudi Arabia, Coretrax will use some of the funding to help expand its existing Middle East operation.
Mr Murray said the funding deal followed an immensely successful year for the company in 2013, when it recorded £3.3m turnover.
The firm has 15 employees.
"Thanks to this investment, we look to meet and surpass targets in the coming months," said Mr Murray, who has a majority stake in the business.
Kieran Good, investment manager at Maven, said Coretrax provided an excellent example of the kind of high growth business that could benefit from the flexible long-term capital the Scottish Loan Fund can provide. The fund opened for business in 2011, with £55m from Scottish Enterprise.
The pot increased to £113m after the fund won commitments from private sector investors including Lloyds Banking Group, RBS, Clydesdale Bank, Santander and Strathclyde Pension Fund.
The fund has committed more than £37m in total to date.
Around half of the 15 firms it has backed are active in oil and gas markets, including Coretrax.
Other recipients have included Phuel Oil Tools and Fletcher Shipping, which provides offshore supply services.
With an office in Aberdeen, Maven has developed expertise in the oil and gas sector.
Separately, the private equity firm has demonstrated its confidence in the outlook for the economy by leading the £7.25m management buyout of a Lancashire-based company that produces a variety of promotional items such as mousemats and keyrings.
Maven said the SPS business, which was bought out of the 4imprint Group, is well placed to take advantage of increasing demand for its products as advertising budgets increase due to improving market conditions.
Led by chief executive Philip Morgan, SPS has £17m turnover and employs more than 200 people.
Earlier this month, Maven Capital Partners' managing partner, Bill Nixon, noted there had been an upsurge in mergers and acquisitions activity in the small and medium sized enterprise sector on which the firm focuses.
Describing 2013 as the first year of real recovery since the financial crisis, he said activity had been boosted by an improvement in the market for initial public offerings on the stock market and the fact banks had starting lending again.
Mr Nixon said the outlook for deals in 2014 was bright.


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This summit culminating at 793m is one of the 3 summit that makes one of the popular hikes in the Mitake area near Tokyo.
The name of this hike is Takamizu Sanzan consisting of three mountains of Mt. Takamizu, Mt. Iwatakeishi, and Mt. Sogaku has good hiking trails for hiking. It takes more than four hours to walk the trail that covers all of these mountains.
Tama area is the name of the western part of Tokyo Metropolis. It consists of 26 cities, 3 towns and a village. A lot of people (about 4 milion) live in a eastern half part of the area. However, there are many mountains in the western part of Tama area, and there are very little flat land. Many hiking spots are in the western area, so you can enjoy walking on the trail, camping, and so on. If you see the beautiful mountain scene, you may not believe this is also in Tokyo.


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Just a few hours after the Typhoon Sendong devastatingly hit the city, help from various organizations and institutions immediately lent help. My school, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, initiated Operation Tabang (Operation Help) for all the victims of the flood. They even housed the victims at the university covered courts. The University Christmas Party was cancelled and all the food ordered for the party were all given to the evacuees. Various establishments also helped. SM City Cagayan de Oro offered free charging stations until midnight as the power is out all over the city.
Today, I joined the volunteers. I didn't go home as planned. I wanted to help. I went to school around 8AM. I helped packing then I went to the covered courts to help the evacuees housed by the university. By the time we arrived there, the major concern were clothes, slippers and food. We immediately went back to the satellite canteen where the goods were placed. We grabbed a box and started filling it with clothes. We went back to the covered courts thinking those are enough. But it wasn't. We went back to the satellite canteen a couple of times to gather clothes but it still wasn't enough. We stopped giving clothes for a while instead we distributed toothbrushes, toothpaste and bathing soap.
In between our errands, we spoke to and played with the kids. They seem to have nothing to worry about except for clothes and food. They were having fun playing with each other and the volunteers. There was this kid, whom we shall hide in the name of 'Cristin', we found bubbly and funny. He was acting gay, and we think that he is. At first, he acted happy-go-lucky. He had fun taking photos using my camera and played with us. After a while, I noticed he was crying on my co-volunteers' shoulder. I asked my colleague what happened and she said that Cristin was worried about his school stuff. I was blown. He treasures his education as much as his life. We consoled him. We told him that we are going to help. We told him that we will find a way to give school materials for them. After that he smiled, then he laughed.
After an hour, other goods such as slippers came to the covered courts as requested, and everything starts to be stressful. The victims immediately rushed to our station to get their slippers. Unfortunately, the slippers were not enough. There were still many of them who needs slippers. They rushed to our station whenever they see a box coming our way thinking that those are another set of clothes and blankets.
It was stressful, yes. My feet aches a lot from all the walking and playing. My body hurts like it was pound by a hammer. All of it were worthy, every time I see smiles on their faces.
The evacuees are still in need of blankets and pillows, especially the kids. For those who would like to make their donations, click here.


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The buzz is around that you don't need any capital investment to kick start your CPA Affiliate Marketing online venture.
Is it really so?
There are lots of budding internet marketers and e-entrepreneurs who believe that by just having an internet connection, a computer system and Facebook account they can get rich online.
Although the online world promises a lot of riches and particularly CPA Affiliate Marketing; however, this does not mean that you can start your online venture with zero investment.
The truth is plain and simple.
There is no such get-rich-quick formula in the online world.
Like any other offline business, you need to do your efforts and invariably need to supplement your efforts with adequate capital investment.
CPA Affiliate Marketing offers a huge earning potential to the internet marketers. Great success stories have already been written. There are lots of e-entrepreneurs who have successfully done CPA Affiliate Marketing and have become multi-millionaires. However, the bottom line is clear. You need to prepare yourself for doing investment in order to start and run CPA Affiliate Marketing.
So if you aim to profit from CPA Affiliate Marketing, you first need to be ready and willing for making capital investment.
In this context, it would be enlightening to know how much investment you need to start CPA Affiliate Marketing. By knowing this factor, you can then make adequate arrangements for the capital to run your CPA Affiliate Marketing. You can then plan your CPA Affiliate Marketing accordingly.
Well, there are some fixed investments and as well as ongoing capital investments that you need to do. This makes it important to know every area where you need to invest your money in order to run CPA Affiliate Marketing.
So let's see where and how much do you need to invest in order to start, run and manage your CPA Affiliate Marketing.
Budget $500 for Testing and Learning – Although CPA Affiliate Marketing offers a huge potential for making money online but this does not mean that you start earning from day one. You need to prepare yourself by testing and learning. This is the starting phase where you need to experiment in order to come out with a viable marketing strategy. For this, you are required to budget (minimum) $500 for testing and learning. You may be a budding CPA Affiliate Marketer or even having experience in it. This amount of money is used up in finding a suitable offer, designing landing pages, buying ads etc.
Tracking Software – Your CPA Affiliate Marketing efforts are not complete without the use of a competent and efficient Tracking Software. In fact, use of tracking software can help you to optimize your returns from CPA Affiliate Marketing. Running CPA Affiliate Marketing Campaign without using Tracking Software is like batting with eyes closed. Without using tracking software, you just cannot know which campaigns are being converted. There are lots of other answers you need to know.
For example, you need to figure out which Advertising Networks are most profitable for you. Whether you should run your campaigns on Facebook or take up PPV Campaigns. You also need to know which landing pages bring out favorable response from your visitors. So, with a Tracking Software you can do a comprehensive analysis of your CPA Affiliate Marketing Campaigns. In short, Tracking Software helps you to save your time, effort, money and moreover helps to maximize your returns from CPA Affiliate Marketing.
CPV Lab is one such easy-to-use, flexible and powerful Tracking Software. It is self hosted tracking software, which provides you with accurate statistics and metrics. Using CPV Lab it becomes easy to test, track and optimize your campaigns. Moreover, using CPV Lab you can track conversions down to the keyword level.
Web Hosting – CPA Affiliate Marketing cannot function without an efficient Web Hosting. You just cannot retain users and expect conversions without having a proper backup of Web Hosting. With efficient Web Hosting, you end up giving enhanced user experience to your visitors. You end up saving your time, effort and as well as money. Whether it is for hosting landing pages or creatives and whether it is for running your tracking software, you invariably require efficient web hosting services. Ideally you should go for Dedicated Web Hosting; however, a VPS Web Hosting should do the job for you quite effectively. Usually, the average cost of running VPS Web Hosting comes to about $50/month.
Recommended VPS/Dedicated Hosting – Knownhost
Building Landing Pages and Banner Ads – CPA Affiliate Marketing requires you to come up with Text Ads, Landing Pages, and Banner Ads. So you need to be skilled in designing, building ad copy, copywriting, and should possess adequate programming skills too. However, there are lots of marketers who are not fluent in these skills and, therefore, require professional help for building landing pages and Banner Ads. Moreover, in most cases CPA Affiliate Marketers prefer to hire professionals rather than building landing pages on their own. The reasons are pretty obvious. These agencies or professionals have the know-how, expertise, experience and are also aware of the latest trends. Marketers want to take advantage of their expertise and so hire their services. This requires making a handful of investment.
Spy Software or Services – In the context of CPA Affiliate Marketing, it is important to take note of the latest trends. So, you are required to keep an eye on your competitors. You need to know how they are doing CPA Affiliate Marketing, what offers and creatives they are using, what landing pages they are using, what traffic channels they are using, what advertising channels they prefer and so on and so forth. If you want to handle competitors' analysis and spy on your competitors, you need to use Spy Software or Services. This Spy Software provides detailed competitive analysis, with respect to CPA Affiliate Marketing. You need to input the category or niche you are catering as well as some other parameters. Usually, CPA Affiliate Marketers prefer paid Spy Software as they more efficient than free ones. This requires you to make an investment so that you can maximize your returns from CPA Affiliate Marketing. A powerful and efficient Spy Software goes a long way in monetizing your CPA Affiliate Campaigns.
Working Capital for Ad Buying – CPA Affiliate Marketing invariably requires you to make provisions for Working Capital. Actually, Working Capital enables you to take initiatives and carry on your advertising efforts with respect to CPA Affiliate Marketing. When you have the Working Capital, you do not need to stop advertising or ad buying due to lack or shortage of funds. While your earnings get accrued on a day to day basis, there is actually a time lag till you receive your earnings from Affiliate Networks. It usually takes fifteen to thirty days to get your payments. So, if you do not have the Working Capital, your CPA Affiliate Marketing will come to a stand-still. You will never appreciate this scenario as it hampers the goals and targets that you have set for yourself with respect to CPA Affiliate Marketing. So, you need to possess Working Capital for Ad Buying if you wish to run your CPA Affiliate Marketing efforts smoothly.
Apart from the above investments, you may be required to make some other expenses, as well. For example, you may require outsourcing some of your tasks, may want to join some training program related to CPA Affiliate Marketing, or may even want to purchase software for designing landing pages. So you see that although CPA Affiliate Marketing offers a huge potential for earning (online), it is actually a myth that Affiliate Marketing can be done without making any investment. Thus, you should get over the notion that CPA Affiliate Marketing can be done without making any investment. Rather you should prepare yourself for making an investment start CPA Affiliate Marketing.


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The race to represent Eastern Long Island in the U.S. House of Representatives is now set.
Randy Altschuler, a business owner from St. James, secured both the Republican and Conservative party lines in hard-fought primary elections on Tuesday, making him the official candidate for both parties.
Mr. Altschuler, 39, will now go on to face U.S. Representative Tim Bishop of Southampton, the Democratic incumbent, on Election Day on November 2. Mr. Bishop, who is also endorsed by the Independence Party, is seeking his fifth term in Congress representing the 1st District, which spans most of Suffolk County.
As the polls closed Tuesday night, Mr. Altschuler maintained a solid lead over his opponents, Chris Cox of Westhampton Beach and George Demos of Ronkonkoma. At the end of the night, unofficial Board of Elections results showed that Mr. Altschuler had won 45 percent of the 23,300 Republican votes, or 10,531 votes. Mr. Demos received 31 percent, or 7,162 votes, and Mr. Cox came in last with 24 percent, or 5,634 votes.
"Tonight, Republican voters sent a resounding message rolling through the 1st Congressional District," Mr. Altschuler said in a prepared statement released after his victory Tuesday night. "It is a message that we will continue to carry through all the way to November. The voters chose me because I am one of them; raising my family right here in Suffolk County and worrying about what the future will hold for my son."
Mr. Altschuler, a first-time candidate whose name was the only one to appear on the Conservative ballot, managed to win only 60 percent of the 2,200 Conservative votes, or 1,328 votes, according to unofficial results Tuesday night. Write-in candidates, who could include Mr. Cox, Mr. Demos or others, won the remaining 40 percent, or 895 votes.
Conservative leaders chose Mr. Altschuler as their candidate in April, but Mr. Cox, who had the backing of a Suffolk County Tea Party organization, won a legal challenge in August that forced the Conservative primary, and allowed himself and Mr. Demos to run as write-in candidates.
The three hopefuls waged fierce primary campaigns against each other this summer. By securing both the Republican and Conservative lines, Mr. Altschuler, who described himself as a political "outsider," ensured that the opposition to Mr. Bishop will not be split in November—a situation that would likely have been a boon to the incumbent.
Mr. Altschuler, a self-professed conservative who opposes any tax increases, has said that job creation is at the top of his priority list. In a press release on Tuesday night, Mr. Altschuler said Mr. Bishop and the rest of the Democrats who now hold the majority of seats in Congress have "failed," and said it was time for him and his supporters to "take our government back."
"It's time that we send that tax and spend liberal Tim Bishop packing," he said. "And, it's time we send his boss and benefactor, Nancy Pelosi, packing, too."
Mr. Altschuler, a millionaire, outraised both his primary opponents—and, so far, his general election opponent as well, according to campaign finance records. He threw in $2 million of his own money and raised another $800,000 from individuals. When donations from political action committees and other proceeds are taken into account, his total war chest has risen to $2.9 million as of the end of the last filing period on August 25.
Mr. Bishop has raised $1.9 million so far, almost entirely from individuals and political action committees.
Mr. Altschuler grew up in Manhattan and moved to St. James three years ago, where he lives with his wife, Cheryl, a doctor, and his 3-year-old son, Noah. He holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard Business School and currently owns his own startup business, CloudBlue, which is based in Georgia and recycles electronics.
Another company Mr. Altschuler used to own, the outsourcing firm Office Tiger, which he started in 2000 and sold in 2006, proved to be a target for his rivals in the primaries. On Tuesday night, with the primary results still fresh, Mr. Bishop's campaign was already harping on Office Tiger in a press release, calling Mr. Altschuler an "outsourcing pioneer" who "got rich shipping American jobs to India."
"While Tim Bishop has a united party behind him, a strong record of accomplishment throughout his native Suffolk County, and the support of major organizations including the Independence Party … Altschuler faces a fractured Republican Party, the majority of which voted against him on primary day," Mr. Bishop's campaign wrote. "On top of his unpopularity within his own party, Altschuler has been working hard to deny his outsourcing ties to Suffolk County residents, but he has left behind plenty of evidence of his past."
In an interview in August, Mr. Altschuler responded to criticisms of Office Tiger by saying the company created 500 jobs in the United States, and CloudBlue employs about 250 people. The candidate also said he was a member of the Green Party from 2000 to 2002—a fact that also drew flak from his primary opponents. He said he later realized his ideals were more in line with that of the Republican Party.


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|Pico de Gallo, Farmers Wife Original
In February the 4 of us went on a camping/hiking trip, yes we took the baby. It was... interesting... lol! But when we came back I spent a couple days getting back into routine and tried logging onto my computer to share a new recipe with you all... Only my computer wouldn't start... Like at all. FREAK OUT!!!! Let me tell you the 3ish weeks it took us to get in working order were awful for this little Momma! It was like a limb had been removed from my wrists... How did we function before the blessed home computer?!? Well from my experience you clean a lot, like seriously. I completely rearranged whole rooms in my house and went on a crazy cleaning binge, haha! And next thing I knew February was over.
Then came March... And yes, my computer was working now. Only it had a brand new operating system... Windows 8. Which I'm still getting used to and honestly don't know if I like it yet. Then it got crazy. My hubby was out of town most of this last month. Along with various members of our family. The kids and I were also gone a fair amount, with another camping trip, and a couple of our dear friends got married last weekend too, and both of my very handsome boys were in their wedding! And now here we are... The end of March...
If you can't tell, it was insane. I'm still crazy exhausted and we're not done yet! April has more challenges for us, and I'm just praying to get through it all and back to normal. But for now I have a moment to squeeze in this recipe for you, and I hope you like it!
For awhile now I've been wanting to make homemade salsa, living in the Southwest it's pretty much a staple in our house. But I've been putting it off thinking it wasn't worth the extra work, and expense. And basically being lazy... Well I'm here to confess something to you... I... Am... An... IDIOT! Why I waited to try this I will never know, because it's amazing. I love fresh Pico de Gallo, I go insane for it, and now all I have to do is walk to my fridge and get some... Buh Bye Diet! lol! Seriously though, this is fresh, delicious and if you love salsa like me you have to give this a try!
5-6 Roma Tomatoes, diced
1/2 Large White Onion, diced
1 Jalapeno, diced as fine and small as you can get it (if you like REALLY spicy salsa you can add more)
1 teaspoon Garlic Paste, or 1-2 Cloves of Garlic Minced
1/4 Cup Fresh Cilantro, finely chopped
1-2 Tablespoons Lime Juice (concentrate is fine)
1 teaspoon Salt
Pepper to taste
Dice up all your ingredients, being sure to keep the juices from the tomatoes. And place it all in a bowl, and mix well. Taste, to adjust any flavorings you might want to add (just remember it will taste different after sitting in the fridge for a few hours so don't go crazy!). At this point you can either cover the bowl, or place the salsa in a jar and seal it. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour, but preferably overnight.
5 stars!!! Literally I wouldn't change a thing, except to maybe hoard it all for myself.... lol!
Happy Easter!


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"Stop thinking too much and just focus on what you want to achieve."
It sucks that you can't make someone love you when technically speaking, they made you love them.
I want to, but it's difficult. I want to not care about what others think. I want to see my worth. I want to just be me. ...but it's difficult. It's difficult since people compare you to others, judge you, make fun of you, and you're left feeling really down with no idea how to push those things aside.
I am sick and tired of you treating me like shit.
If it feels right, then it probably is.
If you promise someone something, make sure you really stand by it. Don't ever make promises you can't keep.
All my life I've been telling others and myself as well "don't be afraid." Now, though, I realize how wrong that statement is. Saying "don't be afraid" is like saying,"don't move out of the way when someone tries to slap you" or "don't flinch when you get cut" ---it's like saying "don't be human" I'm afraid. We're all afraid. And that's just how it is. What everyone should say is, "Yeah, go, be afraid, but do it anyway."
Last week made me realize how all I've been training for is working. All the sacrifices and right decisions I made are paying off and let me tell you that IT FEELS SO GOOD. I am determined now more than ever to continue doing what I'm doing (and maybe even better) as to achieve the goal I set for myself ever since the year started. I can do this. I know I can.
Believe in yourself and in what you can achieve.
"...we barely know them yet there's something about them."
Don't force things to happen. If they're meant to happen, they will when the time is right.
It's all up to You now. May Your will be done.
"Up until you get to the diving block, there is still time to improve, to get faster & to CHANGE. Think of what went wrong earlier and change that. Do something to make it better."
"When there is doubt, faith." Faith in God. Faith in your family. Faith in your friends. Faith in YOURSELF.
Today made me realize how important it is to be strong, not only physically, but mentally as well. Our minds have power over us, and it's our choice if we'll give in or keep fighting and believing.
DON'T YOU GET IT? Is it really that hard to understand? It will never happen. NEVER. Why can't you fucking accept that.
It's 4 months away & I have a long way to go. I don't know why, but I'm so scared. Scared to fail, scared to disappoint, scared to not achieve the goal I set for myself. Okay, got to brush this off. It's all in my head. I can do this. I know I can. Okay, focus.
I've changed. I'm lost. I'm broken. I need to find my way back.
Red (continuation) I wrote that poem 3 months ago... although the ending said I'd never leave, things changed, you changed, and I just had to forget. You played with me and hurt me in ways I can't even begin to explain..and what's worse is that I let you. I was weak. I fell for your stupid games. I believed your lies. How stupid of me. 3 months have passed since our fall out, and I'm sorry to say this but my life seems and is happier without you in it. I was so blind before that I believed...


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Hi-Wen (US) [HW-5905] 1985
First and only release as Street Kings, better known as Robbie B & Jazzy J (Robbie B & DJ Jazz). There are a couple of label variations: A yellow/beige label promo and a green label general release.
Side A
Gettin' Fresher (Vocal) [4:52]
Side B
Gettin's Fresher (Dub Version) [4:30]


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This is an essential San Sebastian tour not only for lovers of fine cuisine but also for all those who visit our enchanting city. Undoubtedly, a fun way to discover San Sebastian and the intricacies and habits of its inhabitants, our San Sebastian & Pintxos Tour is an eating and drinking experience like no other.
You will explore San Sebastian famous Old Quarter by the hand of a local, who will take you to the best bars of Donostia and let you in on all the insights and secrets of this very local experience. You will enjoy an ample tasting of Pintxos, from the edgiest and modern ones to the great classical ones that never die, each paired with its ideal drink, from Basque cider to local red and white wines.
Go Basque with us and savor this gastronomic adventure with each and every one of your five senses in the city that gave birth to the world-renowned miniature cuisine, San Sebastian.
Noon 12:30h
Afternoon 19:00h
2 and a half hours, approximately
Local bilingual guide
Visit and tastings in up to 5 Pintxo bars
Food & Drinks (local red/white wine, beer, cider, soda, and/or water)
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Manipur Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren Singh-led BJP government proved majority during the floor test in the Manipur assembly on Monday. The BJP has 21 MLAs and claims to have support from NPP, NPF, LJP and three others.
The NPP and NPF won four seats each, the LJP won a single seat and three others. All the legislators along with an independent and one AITC have been lodged in a hotel in Guwahati since Thursday. Singh proved majority with 33 MLAs on his side. One Congress MLA jumped ship and shifted to BJP. Congress now has the support of only 27 MLAs and hence was unable to prove majority.
"There is nothing like fear of poaching by the Congress before the floor test. We are here just to relax and also meet some of our senior party leaders," BJP lawmaker Thokchom Radheshyam Singh said according to a report in The Indian Express.
Singh was sworn-in as chief minister on March 16 after he assured Manipur Governor Najma Heptulla that he has the requisite number of MLAs to form the government.
While Congress had won the most number of seats in Assembly election 2017 with 28 constituencies, the BJP had come forward to form the government.
First initiative of BJP led government in Manipur....Economic blockade lifted after 130 days.. Good will prevails! pic.twitter.com/FO3pnj1BLH— Linda Newmai (@lindanewmai) March 19, 2017
The indefinite economic blockade was also lifted at on midnight on Sunday by the United Naga Council after tripartite talks between the BJP (at the Centre and the state government) and the UNC.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that if the BJP government came into power it would solve the issue of the economic blockade that lasted three months.


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"Whom God would destroy he first sends mad" James Dupont 1606-1679.
If Mr. Dupont was around now and reading the newspapers he would have to assume that God was about to do the dirty on the lot of us. You can't read a newspaper or see a newsreel that doesn't give the impression that insanity rules and is spreading its domain by the day. It doesn't just apply to the public at large. It can more easily be directed at the people who are running the country. The politicians, the judges, the police, local councils and the 'welfare' services. But is that a fair assessment of those who rule our lives? One contemporary case goes a long way to proving my point, I think. The case of the little girl allowed to starve to death in an upstairs room while her mother discussed, on the telephone with a friend, how fat her dog was getting. The mother, Sabina Hirst, was handed down a sentence of twelve years. Which means she will be back on the streets, with remission, by 2014. Is that all a child's life if worth? If ever there was justification for the death penalty, this is it. Or at least making 'life' mean life. And how about 'hard-labour' being applied to sentences handed out for the more horrendous crimes?
On the same day a man, allegedly a member of the IRA, had the case against him thrown out of court because when the victim died the 71 customers in the pub were either talking on their mobile or in the largest communal toilet in the world, so professed to have seen nothing. The victim, Robert McCarthy, has five sisters who intend to fight on to get justice for their murdered sibling. Meanwhile the police, in spite of an apparent wealth of evidence, appear to have given up the fight. Then there is the case of the psychiatrist responsible for letting a schizophrenic patient with a history of violence, out of a mental home. She is suing her employer for £300,000 because she feels humiliated and claims that her career prospects have suffered. The reason Dr. Gillian Mezey is feeling so hard done by? The man she released without actually interviewing, John Barrett, immediately collected some kitchen knives and waited in Richmond Park until a lone cyclist came along and then stabbed him to death. And she feels put upon? What about the family of the victim which is really suffering the effects of her lack of professionalism? Has she spared them a thought?
Then there is the dope addict who stabbed a young mother to death in front of her baby. Serial rapist Christopher Braithwaite, was arrested for yet another rape and let out the following day. A week later he murdered Stacey Westbury. Why? What was he doing back on the streets with a rape accusation hanging over him? It seems that Government lawyers claimed that keeping him in custody without bail would infringe his 'Human Rights'. Perhaps the time has come to redefine Human. What about the two Community Support Offices who stood and watched a little boy drown in the village pond because they hadn't been trained to deal with this sort of emergency? How did we ever get to the state where two adults can stand by and watch a child drown because they haven't been told what to do? Why is it that everyone waits to be told what to do? Because initiative and self reliance has been sucked out of the kids by the fear that if they do something without supervision they will get into trouble. That's why! So, cosseted as infants, they are not prepared for the hostile and competitive world they meet as teenagers and young adults and huddle together in packs to protect themselves. Teachers are not allowed to come into contact with their pupils, physically or mentally, without the fear that their interest will be construed as perverted. Undisciplined at home and in the classroom they learn nothing except what they pick up from their peers - who also know little and make up for their sense of estrangement by resorting to violence. The old chestnut that we should bring back National Service is trotted out. But we know that would never work. The feral packs of children who roam the streets are too mentally infantile to take the savage discipline of the parade ground or produce the resourcefulness and stoicism which the training demands. Then there are the Health and Safety squads to be satisfied. And, of course, the Human Rights lawyers.
But it isn't all murder and mayhem which points to the possibility that we are losing the plot - big time. What about the Police Constable banned from using his bike because he hasn't passed his Cycling Efficiency Test? His what? There is now total meltdown, whatever the politicians pretend. In the twin catastrophes of Afghanistan and Iraq our troops are slaughtered daily as the fiasco to save the 'legacy' of War President Bush and ex- Poodle, Tony Blair, lumbers from disaster to apocalypse. The War President is still chirpy about the civilising influence the troops are bringing to the Afghans. He thinks the war is being won against the Taliban in spite of recent history and evidence to the contrary. Ex-Poodle Blair is still convinced that there is a huge stockpile of weapons of mass destruction hidden under the sands of the desert. This in spite of the fact that the information on which he made the decision to go to war was doctored by his own administration.
For ten years Gordon Brown stood amongst us and took the plaudits for running a strong and efficient economy. There was not a grain of good monetary news which was not claimed as being the result of his own superb fiscal genius. Then one day things started to go against him. He had sold off the gold reserves for a quarter of its value, had rifled the pension funds to such an extent that many hard working and thrifty people are facing poverty stricken old age, poured billions into unpopular and possibly illegal wars and borrowed money indiscriminately to back up his claims of monetary omnipotence. Now the consequences have returned to splurge all over him, he blames the International situation. So it seem that when the International situation is on the up, Brown's your man. When it plunges it's the fault of the international economy. Wouldn't it be better if we had a Chancellor who was a bit laid back in the good times but a financial genius when things go wrong?
Sticking with the politicians for the moment. It now seems that not a day passes without some high flying or low ducking politico isn't outed as a quicksand for any cash which might wander his or her way. They get huge salaries and seemingly endless expenses but it is still not enough. Why do people go into politics? Probably there is a small number who actually want to do something for the country. Unfortunately they are drowned in the effluent of those who can't get a job in the real world outside Westminster and take up politics as a means of stuffing the mattress. The answer to all this is that Gordon Brown wants to rip up the main tenets of the Magna Carta which have been the guiding light for budding democracies for 800 years. He wants to have the power to bang up citizens seen wandering passed Harrods with their hands in their pockets until they have learned some respect. I can't see the connection.
Probably the bar indicating just how far we are submerged in the moral sludge is when two of our most respected ladies in entertainment are willing to confess to anything to grab a sordid headline. Did we really want to know about Valerie Singleton's abortion or the sleazy details of what went on behind her Blue Peter badge? And does the fact that Judith Chalmers wore no knickers when she was presenting Wish You Were Here put men in a sexual whirl or get admiration from the girls as a rampant feminist?
And all this from just a one day's scan of the newspaper!
As Private Fraser of the Walmington On Sea Home Guard warns, "Doomed, doomed, we're all doomed. Aye!"


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Look out!!So Jennifer Garner went on Ellen today and pretty much confirmed my suspicions that being a parent is disgusting. The Butter actress and mom of Violet, 6, Seraphina, 3, and Samuel, 7 months, admitted that her son pees in her eye, to which I say, eew. I know some of you wonderful mothers out there are probably nodding with understanding as you wipe your child's urine from your face, but to a non-parent like m'self, news that that can happen came as kind of a shocker. One minute Jennifer's talking about how virile Ben Affleck is (yesss), and the next she's talking about pee pee going in her eye eye. Come on! It was a total bait and switch. But! There's light at the end of this wee-wee-soaked tunnel.
Garner explains that there's a benefit to having daughters over having sons: "I mean, they didn't pee in my eye."
Boom. There it is. If you wanna have kids but you don't want to have someone spray whiz in your face, have girls. It's simple, it's genius, it's a game-plan I can get behind.
I mean, I'm a girl and I can say with a lot of confidence that I've never peed on Jennifer Garner's face. Girls just don't do that sort of thing. We're nice and well-behaved like that.
Jennifer went on to say that she sometimes sets pee-happy Samuel down then forgets where she put him:
I don't know if it's because he's my third and I forget that I have him ... You know you're just dealing with two and then you think, "I put a baby down. I swear I put a baby down somewhere." And you kind of walk through the house. "There you are!" He's just happy as can be.
Aw, that's cute. But, like, I mean, I don't want to be all whatever or anything, but, you know, who knows -- maybe Samuel's peeing in Jennifer's eye to get back at her for leaving him in random rooms of the house all alone? Stranger things, that's all I'm saying really, stranger things have happened.
Now, about Ben's virility ....
What took you by surprise when you were raising your son?
Photo via brooklyn skinny/Flickr


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Deputy Grand Master's address - September 2016
Quarterly Communication
14 September 2016
An address by the RW Deputy Grand Master Jonathan Spence
Brethren, I am delighted to see so many of you here today and I hope you have all had a suitably refreshing summer. I am particularly pleased to see a large number of younger masons amongst us, especially the delegations from the Provinces of Cambridgeshire and Durham, members of the Universities Scheme and especially those of the Apollo University Lodge in Oxford.
Many of you will be aware of the excellent work undertaken by the Membership Focus Group over the last two and a half years. I hope that you are all still referring to the UGLE strategy, which was a significant development resulting from the group's work.
We have now moved to ensuring the timely implementation of the strategy and the Membership Focus Group has been superseded by the Improvement Delivery Group. This group will, rather like a well- known wood treatment product, "do exactly what it says on the tin". Its remit is to facilitate the delivery of change throughout the Craft in order to secure a successful future for Freemasonry by meeting the needs of "modern man" while retaining our traditional standards; it is chaired by the Assistant Grand Master, the Third Grand Principal is Deputy Chairman and the membership is drawn from London and all the regional groups of Provinces.
This group will be "bedding in" for the next year, but will be reporting to Grand Lodge at the Quarterly Communication in September 2017. There is a considerable amount of work to do and we wish them all well in their endeavours.
Brethren, the Tercentenary celebrations have already begun and I am very pleased to see the variety and breadth of events that are planned to mark this significant milestone in our history. Events are being planned throughout the English Constitution.
So far well over 100 events are scheduled ranging from Cathedral Services, Race Meetings, and Classic Car Rallies; Family Fun Weekends, supporting Youth Activities, to Dinners and Balls, including "The Grand Ball" which will take place here next September and will see this Grand Temple converted into one of the largest dance floors in LondAs the premier Grand Lodge it is appropriate we also celebrate this achievement with the other Sovereign Grand Lodges around the world, which we will do with the event at the Royal Albert Hall. I very much hope there will be a full cross section of our membership, including Master Masons, from London, Provinces and Districts and elsewhere overseas attending the meeting at the Royal Albert Hall.
As you are all aware 2017 will start with the broadcast in January of the Sky observational documentary. I have been fortunate enough to have been part of the small group that has seen all the programmes and whilst, for confidential reasons, I am unable to say more about their content, I can assure you our privacy has been respected entirely for those matters that ought to remain private for our members.
Brethren, it has become very noticeable that the times in which we live are described with some use of either uncertain or uncertainty, or a variation thereof. Uncertainty is used to describe many aspects of our national life almost as a default mechanism. In many ways our predecessors who were there at the foundation of the Grand Lodge would have felt a certain affinity and seen possible parallels with their own time, although they would probably have used the word turbulent to describe the second decade of the eighteenth century.
In their case the uncertain times included significant change with a new ruling dynasty following the accession of King George I in 1714, a significant rebellion from supporters of the old dynasty defeated in 1715 and an incipient share scandal with the South Sea Bubble gently inflating until the spectacular bust. In those and, indeed , in the intervening uncertain times of the subsequent three hundred years, the principles of the Craft have withstood the test of time and are as relevant today as they were then.
We may now restate them in more modern language as integrity; honesty; fairness; kindness and tolerance, but their essence is unchanged and we should all be justly proud of them and, needless to say, act in accordance with them.
To finish, I will quote King Frederick II, or The Great, of Prussia who said his support of the Craft came from its objectives being, " the intellectual elevation of men as members of society and making them more virtuous and more charitable". I do not think that his view can be bettered.
£100k presented to Arthur Rank Hospice Charity at Ely Cathedral
Cambridge hospice challenge
Lynn Morgan, Arthur Rank Hospice Charity CEO, went to a special event hosted by Cambridgeshire Freemasons at Ely Cathedral to mark the retirement of Rodney Wolverson after 10 years as Provincial Grand Master. During the evening, Rodney presented a cheque for £100,000 towards the Arthur Rank Hospice Building Appeal.
This was one of three substantial donations made over the past 18 months since Rodney challenged the Province to raise a six-figure sum for the hospice appeal. A donation of £100,000 was made last June, with another cheque for £15,000 presented during the Act of Dedication for the hospice.
Freemasons support the fight against Alzheimer's with £175,000 boost for Cambridge research team
With half a million people in the UK living with Alzheimer's, the Masonic Samaritan Fund and The Freemasons' Grand Charity have been united in their desire to support groundbreaking research that will help identify new targets for treating the disease, with a staggering donation of £175,000 to Alzheimer's Research UK.
The expert research team, led by Prof Clemens Kaminski at the University of Cambridge, want to understand the chain of events that occur right at the beginning of the onset of the disease. The scientists hope the knowledge gained from this vital research will offer new clues for treatment.
Freemasons from the Provincial Grand Lodge of Cambridgeshire presented the generous donation at a cheque presentation in Professor Kaminski's laboratory.
Ian Wilson, Director of Fundraising at Alzheimer's Research UK who accepted the £175,000 donation said: "We are delighted that The Freemasons' Grand Charity and the Masonic Samaritan Fund have chosen to support Alzheimer's Research UK's fight to defeat dementia.
"Research holds the answers to find ways to prevent, diagnose and treat Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, but it is massively underfunded. This huge contribution will fund two years of pioneering research at the University of Cambridge. As an independent charity, Alzheimer's Research UK is completely reliant on the generosity of donors and this marvellous donation will take us all closer to a world free of dementia."
Alzheimer's disease, which affects memory and thinking, is characterised by the build-up of two toxic proteins – amyloid and tau. These protein clumps cause damage to nerve cells and lead to the symptoms experienced by those living with Alzheimer's. But it is still not fully understood how these clumps of protein inflict damage on nerve cells. This generous support from the two Masonic charities will help Dr Kaminski and his team quite literally shine a light on the initial stages of Alzheimer's.
Peter Sutton, Provincial Information Officer for Cambridgeshire Freemasons, said: "We are delighted to support Alzheimer's Research UK in its mission to undertake pioneering research that brings us closer to a treatment for this cruel disease.
"Alzheimer's is a disease that touches so many of us, family, friends and colleagues. All Cambridgeshire Freemasons look forward to following the progress of Professor Kaminski and his team as they strive to understand the fundamental basics underlying Alzheimer's disease. Freemasons throughout the country are proud to be part of the fight against dementia."
Missouri sees English degrees
Three years of planning – following a suggestion by Jim Morris of St Clair Lodge, No. 24, in Belleville, Illinois – resulted in a trip by English masons to St Louis, Missouri, that involved four degree demonstrations in 10 days. Members of five London lodges, three from Essex, and one each from West Kent and Cambridgeshire, formed the nine-strong demonstration team. One demonstration was held in St Louis and three in Belleville.
Raising the bar in Cambridgeshire for 27th Grand Charity Festival
Raising the bar in Cambridgeshire
The twenty-seventh annual Festival for The Freemasons' Grand Charity was held in September at Queens' College, Cambridge, under the presidency of Rodney Wolverson, Provincial Grand Master of Cambridgeshire. Pro Grand Master Peter Lowndes was in attendance, to acknowledge the impressive £1,283,164 raised by Freemasons in Cambridgeshire.
Grand Charity President Richard Hone was thrilled with the generosity shown, remarking: 'It has been an honour to attend this wonderful event in Cambridge, showcasing the culmination of this festival on behalf of the Grand Charity. The total amount raised is truly inspirational, especially considering the many economic pressures of recent times. Thank you to all those who worked so hard to raise these funds, we will ensure they are put to good use helping people in need.'
Pro Grand Master's address - December 2012
Quarterly Communication
12 September 2012
An address by the MW the Pro Grand Master Peter Lowndes
I have recently finished the two yearly Regional Conferences that I have with Provincial Grand Masters. These are relatively informal affairs and cover a wide range of subjects. I find them extremely useful and they are kind enough to say the same – but, of course, what else could they say!
One theme that ran through them all was a determination to see our numbers on the increase by 2017. Indeed, in one or two cases, this has already started. This means that perhaps we are getting some things right.
I have said frequently that we must not be looking for new candidates simply for the sake of increasing numbers, but if we can start this increase with the right candidates there should be a knock on effect.
Enthusing new members is of paramount importance and we heard from Brothers Soper and Lord at the September Quarterly Communication about the work of the Universities Scheme. Following that talk I have asked the Universities Scheme Committee to think about how best we can implement some of the principles that were mentioned, across the whole Craft.
Recruiting and retaining young candidates is our most important task and I am confident that those who have made the Universities Scheme successful can help us with this important challenge. However this is not just down to them and we must all pull our weight in this respect.
Brethren, in November I visited my Great Grandfather's mother Lodge in Hertfordshire and a splendid occasion it was, with an almost faultless 2nd Degree Ceremony being performed. I can almost hear you all thinking that they would have spent hours rehearsing. Not so, as they didn't know that I was coming.
The reason for mentioning this today is that in the Reply for the Visitors the Brother speaking referred to the Craft as an altruistic society. Altruism is one of those words that I have often heard used and possibly even used myself without having been completely sure of its meaning. The dictionary definition is "regard for others as a principle of action". Rather a good description for a lot of what Freemasonry is about.
If we can instil this ethos into our candidates, we won't be going far wrong. Of course it is not all that we are about, but it is not a bad starting point, as it should naturally lead to a practice of Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth, which in itself leads on to our charitable giving, which seems to be second nature to us.
During this year the Festivals for our Charities in our Provinces have raised a total of nearly £10m, of which Leicestershire and Rutland raised £1.7m for the RMBI; Warwickshire raised £3.16m for the MSF; Cambridgeshire £1.285m for the Grand Charity and Devonshire £3.836m for the RMTGB. In these troubled economic times this, Brethren, is remarkable and I congratulate all those concerned.
I hope that our membership, as a whole, are far more familiar with the activities of all our Charities than might have been the case 20 or so years ago. The promotion of their activities by the Charities is excellent and the Freemasonry Cares campaign has enlightened many people at home and abroad about what support is available.
Whilst 3 of our Charities are Masonic in their giving, and there is nothing to be ashamed of in that - quite the contrary in my view, the Grand Charity, of course, has a wide brief for giving to non Masonic bodies, provided that they are also Charities. Not everyone appreciates this aspect, or how much money is involved and we should be quick to point it out.
Brethren, since 2007 we have had excellent and amusing talks on the past at the December Quarterly Communication from Brothers Hamill and Redman and we should be proud of our history, but it is of paramount importance that we look forward and ensure that we go from strength to strength in the future in both numbers and our usefulness to the society in which we live.
Brethren, I wish you all a very relaxing break over Christmas, particularly if, like me, you will be having your Grand Children to stay.
Community Chest
Launched in 1986, the Relief Chest Scheme provides administrative support for the fundraising activities of masonic units. The Freemasons' Grand Charity operates the scheme for free, enabling masonic organisations to manage their charitable donations more efficiently by offering individual chests that can be used to accumulate funds for charitable purposes. The scheme maximises the value of charitable donations by pooling funds to ensure that they earn the best possible rate of interest and by claiming Gift Aid relief on all qualifying donations. By taking on this administrative function the scheme saves valuable time and resources involved in lodge fundraising.
The scheme is particularly useful to Provinces running charitable fundraising campaigns, including festivals, with Provinces able to request that the Relief Chest Scheme open special chests. 'Following our very successful 2010 RMBI Festival, we decided to maintain the culture of regular charitable giving by making use of the Relief Chest Scheme, which had not been previously used by our Province,' explains Eric Heaviside, Durham Provincial Grand Master. 'The scheme is a very efficient way to generate funds, as it not only makes giving regularly easy but also provides the opportunity for tax recovery via the Gift Aid allowances. All of this is professionally managed by the Relief Chest Department in The Freemasons' Grand Charity office in London.'
With over four thousand chests, the scheme is helping Freemasons give charitable support to the people who need it most. Grahame Elliott, President of The Freemasons' Grand Charity, explains how the scheme has evolved over the years, 'When the idea for the Relief Chest Scheme was announced in September 1985, it was hoped that it would provide a simple and effective way for lodges to give to charity. Lodges would be able to give practical proof of an ever-increasing attachment to the first two of the grand principles on which our order is founded – brotherly love and relief. Twenty-five years later, it is clear to me that the scheme has successfully met these aims, evolving as an excellent way of helping lodges to spend less time on the administrative work involved in processing donations, giving them more time to spend on other important activities.'
With over £14 million donated to charitable causes via the Scheme in 2010, it is hoped that this success will continue, assisting the masonic community in its charitable giving for many years to come.
To find out more, go to www.grandcharity.org
| Provincial supporters
Provincial Grand Masters from around the UK give their experiences of working with the Relief Chest...
'We opened our Relief Chest in the name of the Provincial Benevolent Association principally to take advantage of the Gift Aid tax reclaim facility. In addition, by utilising the expertise of the team we have been able to develop a much more efficient and thorough analysis of donations. The Province looks forward to our continuing association with the Relief Chest team and thanks them for their ongoing advice and assistance.'
Rodney Wolverson
Cambridgeshire Provincial Grand Master
'Relief Chests have proved an immense boon to London charity stewards and treasurers in easing the administration of charitable giving. For our big appeals – the RMBI, the CyberKnife and the Supreme Grand Chapter's 2013 Appeal – the support given by the Relief Chest team is vital.'
Russell Race
Metropolitan Grand Master
'The record-breaking success of the 2011 Essex Festival for the Grand Charity was not only due to the generosity of the brethren, but also to the support we received from the Relief Chest Scheme. The scheme's online reports and personal support made the tracking of donations, interest accumulated and Gift Aid recovery
a seamless operation for our administration.
That information enabled us to keep the lodges and brethren informed of their totals.'
John Webb
Essex Provincial Grand Master
Relief chest breakdown
Who can receive a donation from a Relief Chest?
• Charities registered with the Charity Commission
• Any organisation holding charitable status
• Any individual in financial distress
The benefits provided by the Relief Chest Scheme:
• Interest added to your donation: A favourable interest rate is earned on funds held for each Chest and no tax is payable on interest earned
• Tax relief: The Gift Aid Scheme means HMRC gives 25p for every £1 donated to a Chest, where eligible
• Easy depositing: Make donations by direct debit, cheque and the Gift Aid Envelope Scheme
• Ease of donating to charities: Once a donation is authorised, the payment is made by the Relief Chest Scheme
• Free: There's no direct cost to Relief Chest holders
• Easily accessible reports: Annual statements are provided, plus interim statements and subscribers' lists are available upon request
• Additional help for Festival Relief Chests: Comprehensive performance projection reports and free customised stationery are available
charity gets a big lift
Rodney Wolverson, Provincial Grand Master for Cambridgeshire, presented the cheque to Dr Carrie Herbert, chief executive of Red Balloon Learner Centres. Red Balloon centres are currently found in Cambridge, Merseyside, Norwich, Preston, London and Warwick. In addition, Red Balloon of the Air – a virtual balloon – is available for those children who cannot reach a centre.
Each of these centres provides intensive education and care for severely bullied children who are unable to attend mainstream secondary school. The centres help restore a young person's confidence as well as helping them cope academically and socially. They are supported in their return to mainstream school, entry to further education or employment. At the centres, the students learn how to protect themselves from bullying, recognise when it happens to others and know ways of dealing with this kind of behaviour.
Dr Herbert said, 'We are absolutely delighted to receive this generous donation. As we grow, it is important that the teachers and staff at each of our centres and the virtual Red Balloon are trained to the highest level to ensure we provide the best recovery programme for these severely bullied children. This grant enables us to do this.'
year of gravity and celebration
In March, brethren from Apollo University Lodge No. 359 (Oxford) and Loge Robert de Sorbon (Paris) attended a meeting at Freemasons' Hall, Cambridge, followed at the June meeting with a friends and family garden party. The celebration of the anniversary was held in July, at which the principal guest was the Deputy Grand Master, Jonathan Spence.
The prime purpose of the meeting was to make the substantial charitable donations that the lodge had decided should be the main way in which it celebrated its anniversary year.
The lodge has donated £1,000 for each year of its existence, with £50,000 going to the Grand Charity through the Provincial Festival, £50,000 to other masonic charities and £50,000 to a number of non-masonic charities drawn from suggestions and requests from lodge members.
Past Masters of the lodge presented cheques to the Assistant Grand Master, David Williamson, the Metropolitan Grand Master, Russell Race, and to the Presidents of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institute (RMBI), Masonic Samaritan Fund (MSF) and the Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys (RMTGB).
The Provincial Grand Master received the cheque for his Festival on behalf of the Grand Charity.
Cambridgeshire Lodge Joins Universities Scheme
The notice of motion was proposed by Rodney Wolverson, Provincial Grand Master of Cambridgeshire and seconded by Edmund Brookes, Lodge Secretary.
Alma Mater Lodge has a requirement for admission that the candidate must be a graduate of a recognised university, and it is hoped that it will be able to offer membership to suitably qualified freemasons moving into the Cambridge area, who do not have any links with a Cambridge lodge.


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Features October 2017 Issue
Does Antibiotic Use in Dogs End Up Backfiring, Diminishing the Drugs' Ability to Kill Harmful Bacteria?
Our pets' antibiotic prescriptions may affect our health as well as theirs.
Since antibiotics came into common medical practice in the late 1940s, they have eradicated countless bacterial infections that used to routinely kill people long before they reached old age. They are indeed wonder drugs. But today, antibiotic resistance — a weakening of these drugs' power to do away with harmful bacteria and eliminate sometimes deadly infections — is more and more becoming a threat not only to human health but also the health of our pets.


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This morning we started out with only the library in mind. There were brand new books we had put on hold that were ready. We grabbed a couple more since we were there, while waiting for a bus home, I realized it was a perfect day to visit Tony in Vancouver and grab lunch.
We turned around and caught the skytrain downtown. Mr Sassypants decided to sit beside me on the not so crowded train and then turn around and shout SKYTRAIN at the people behind us. Letting them know what we were riding, check!
This one wanted to stand and hold the bar like big people. She was thrilled that I let her. Bus pass tucked in her pocket and everything.
We met up with Tony near his work and headed to a vietnamese place for lunch.
Noodles and tea for everyone!
They both had to try eating with chopsticks. Might even get them some childrens ones to learn on.
This one was starving and ate Tonys bean sprouts.
Our trip meant that nap time was skipped. They were content to watch a new Max and Ruby DVD from the library and relax on the couch.
Its now 7:41 pm and they are exhausted and grumpy. I think Lucas might be asleep on the couch already.
Oh, and I have to show you all the pot holder I finished.
Since I'll be hand quilting Mikaela's chevron quilt, I need to practice. This batting was not easy, its not fluffy and thick, its weird and metallic and has fuzz on it. I hope it goes through the wash ok. I like these wonky stars. I foresee a quilt in them definitely.