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This morning Mary was telling me about a friend and a familiar phrase came to my mind and elements of the Book of Job were highlighted.
I have many friends who are going through very difficult times right now, and we all share similar stories. Allow me to set the scene as to where they are…
They all had areas in their lives where once they felt strong and blessed, but for some reason they have lost that. They have been separated from other people as if by force, and often wonder if God is even listening. They are having to stand, seemingly alone and in the dark, holding on to those things that once proved to be true, but now not so easily obtained.
In my own instance with this physical attack. I was a fairly strong guy and I relied to my strength. I remember being able to lift the backend of a friend's Honda Accord off the ground. I was a fairly healthy guy, and even though covered in a pretty layer of blubber, I could still jog 2 miles if I had the inkling to do so. I also stood on faith quite often, and remember a time when I fell off the deck and know I cracked my leg bone. I said, "Lord, if I was on the mission field, I would not be able to get it set, so I call my bone set and whole." I got up, and walked as if nothing happened.
I have friends who have had similar things happen, but in different areas. Their strengths have been reduced, and areas of their lives where they never had to consider needing help, were taken from them. One might have always had jobs and wealth, but now those things elude them. Another might have had a healthy family environment, but now their whole family is under attack. Other people might have had a strong spiritual group of friends, but now sit alone and wonder if anyone cares. The list is long, but you get the idea.
So here we are sitting, the strengths we once relied on have been stripped from us. But we know we are not alone, because "God is faithful" and "He will never leave nor forsake us." We are in a place where the only thing we have to rely on is The Lord, and the fact that His Word is truth and unchanging.
I often refer to this time as "my Job-esque experience" All that was once wealth in my life has been robbed from me, close "family" is basically telling me to "curse God and die" as they question my faith that God has got this, and "friends" look at me as if to say "What did you do to make The Lord so mad at you?"
I know I did nothing wrong to be attacked. Like Paul before he got the thorn in the flesh, I was getting many dreams and insight from The Holy Spirit before this happened. I often question The Lord as to why He would give me direction and desires, only to allow me to get slammed to the dirt as I was ready to move out.
I remember praying through the worst pain I have ever experienced, and it was as if I heard Satan laughing at me. Taunting me, saying that I needed to stop wasting my time because God quit listening to me long ago. Scripture told me otherwise though, and I continued on.
If what I have described to you sounds very familiar, please read on.
So this morning, as Mary was talking to me, a familiar phrase was highlighted to me. "Patience of the saints."
Twice (with the mouth of two to three witnesses let something be established) is this phrase mentioned in The Book of Revelation. The first time is Revelation 13:10 and it is referring to the time when the beast will be allowed by God to blaspheme for a span of 42 months. The second time is in Revelation 14:12 and it is concerning the refusal of "The Mark of The Beast".
These two instances show that the saints (christians, believers, born again folks) will face instances in their lives where there will be trials and tribulations and false opportunities to accept Satan's "assistance" in the form of the spirit of the mark of the beast. I am not referring to pre, post, mid, already happened… I am referring to spiritual concepts here. If End Times events are ringing true as well, then good because we are there.
You see, there have been times when God has allowed blinders to be places on people, until things were meant to be revealed in His Word. There have been times when Satan has been allowed to move in people's lives in the past. Revelation 13 mentions areas where Satan is allowed to move.
5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. 6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. 10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
It sometimes has nothing with what you might have done, but like John 9:1-7 when asked about who sinned that a man was born blind, Jesus answered in essence "no one sinned, but that God might get the glory, I will heal him."
When Job demanded an audience with God for the attacks on his life, God gave him one. The Lord asked Job a series of questions. Questions like, "where you there at the beginning?" "Do you have a clue about how the universe works?" God even asks him about massive deep sea creatures…
With all of our self perceived scientific knowledge about the universe, we must admit that we are wearing blinders and are still basically clueless. We can cry out for justice, but do we want that same justice to come looking for us one day?
What does God offer us. When I first prayed about this attack, and asked about obtaining medical help, The Lord just said, "Allow me to just walk through this with you." Now that I see it, it was the same thing that He offered Job…
"Trust Me, and allow me to orchestrate a solution for you and let's get through this together" Sometimes He will ask us to move, other times He needs us to just "sit down and be quiet."
There are so many variables to consider in this existence, and we don't have enough information to work out a solution. But The Lord does, and we need to allow Him to work on our behalf.
Having those things, that we once considered strengths removed, just might be the blessing we need to place complete 100% trust in The Almighty, so that we stay out of the way so that He can move the mountain we need moved.
Matthew 17:20, Matthew 21:21, Mark 11:23 require that we speak to the mountain to be removed. Have you ever removed a mountain? Do you have the information about the mountain for it to safely be moved? Do you have a place to place the rubble? Would you risk flooding the earth by throwing all that rubble into the ocean causing tsunamis to tear through the planet?
With all of our personal understanding, knowledge and strength we still don't have a clue. We can't place our faith in what we or other people know, but we can trust The Lord enough to know that His Words are true. If we would trust Him, he will deal with the "unknowns" and He will walk with us through to the end.
We don't need to know why or how, we just need to know that He is faithful, unchanging, loving and on our side. Satan is a liar, and his tactics are really no different from person to person.
Yeah Satan might have this season to blaspheme, but we have the knowledge of an eternity with The Almighty. Yeah none of this makes sense, but does it really have too, before we are willing to trust God 100%? Yeah it hurts and the pain is real, but we must still be patient until the end.
I have decided to cause this low time in my life, to be one that causes The Lord to receive all the glory and honor. Not by wallowing in it and allowing it to kill me, but by overcoming it and proving that The Word of God is true and good.
I pray all the time, for a way to be able to live a life that gives God glory for the suffering Jesus went through for me. So like He defeated sin, death, hell and the grave by fighting until the end for the promises of God, I can do the same by standing one the promises that His actions afforded me.
5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.


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Wireless telecommunications company Vodafone said it is not planning to bid for Verizon Communications, responding to a report it was considering a $160 billion offer.
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Verizon shares gave up most of those gains after Vodafone's denial and were up only 2.23 percent at $42.69 at midday. Vodafone shares trimmed earlier losses but still traded lower.

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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Last winter, the Wesleyan University women's ice hockey team broke a two-year hiatus from the NESCAC Tournament, and the Cardinals are looking to carry that positive momentum into the 2017-18 campaign.
Wesleyan will open up its season on Friday with a 7 p.m. matchup at Manhattanville in Rye, N.Y., and then the squad will take part in its home opener on Saturday (7:30 p.m.) against Post at Spurrier-Snyder Rink. The Cardinals will open up their conference schedule with back-to-back home games against Little Three-rival Williams on Dec. 1 and 2.
Overall, Wesleyan will host 11 games in Middletown, Conn., while competing in 16 conference tilts and a total of 24 regular-season contests. Wesleyan will look to nail down its sixth all-time berth into the NESCAC playoffs this winter, with the tournament scheduled to start on Feb. 24.
During the 2016-17 year, the unit fought its way to a 7-12-5 overall record and a 4-9-3 mark in the league, which was good enough for the eighth seed in the postseason tournament. The Cardinals traveled up to Middlebury, Vt., for the quarterfinal round, but the top-seeded Panthers prevailed, 4-1, on Feb. 25.
There were many positives during the season for Wesleyan, as they improved drastically from the 2015-16 year, adding three wins to its overall and conference records. The unit went up to Waterville, Maine, in early January and swept Colby with a pair of three-goal victories, and then outlasted No. 9-ranked Connecticut College, 2-1, on Jan. 15 in Middletown, Conn.
Head coach Jodi McKenna returns for her 10th year behind the bench for Wesleyan, as she added assistant coach Keira Goin to her coaching staff. McKenna powered the program to the fifth seed in the 2013-14 NESCAC Championships, and the team proceeded to give fourth-seeded Bowdoin everything it could handle during a 2-1 setback in Brunswick, Maine.
The 2017-18 Cardinals will be led by a strong captain in senior Alex Horton, as the forward finished with two goals and two assists last winter. The Great Neck, N.Y. native tallied the game-winning marker with just over 10 minutes remaining during a 4-3 win at Salve Regina on Nov. 22, 2016.
Senior forward Maddie Nash and junior defensewoman Sarah Goss assumed the roles of assistant captains going into this campaign. Goss picked up a huge assist on senior forward Cici Frattasio's game-tying goal in the second period during a 1-1 tie against Little Three-foe Amherst on Feb. 18, 2017, at Spurrier-Snyder Rink.
Frattasio, who is originally from Walpole, Mass., will be a focal point for Wesleyan from an offensive perspective, as she led the team in goals (seven), assists (seven) and points (14) last year.
Wesleyan will have some gaps to fill, as last season's talented senior class accounted for 39 points, highlighted by Abigail Rutt (four goals, five assists), Ellery Sarosi (five goals, three assists) and Jessica Brennan (four goals, three assists).
- Wesleyan's group of 18 returners features seniors Frattasio, Nash and Horton, juniors Kendall Carr, Bridget Sherman, Katherine Flaherty, Gina Mangiafridda, Grace Keogh, Jackie Kilar and Goss, and sophomores Allegra Grant, Miranda Nestor, Caroline Seibold, Colleen Castro, Allie Damren, Alicia Nickolenko, Alexis Banquer and Sam Smith. The rookie class is headlined by Maggie Curran, Sophia Marra, Sarah Takahashi, Laura Garvey, Sydnee Goyer and Bella Jaffe, while junior Hedi Droste has also joined the program.
- Seibold (two assists) came through with an enormous assist on Sam Curran's ('17) game-winning tally with just under 10 minutes left in the 2-1 triumph over the Camels. Kilar (one goal, four assists) helped orchestrate the equalizer in the game, which was a power-play tally by Rutt with 12:22 left in the third.
- During the squad's 2-1 win at Hamilton last January, Mangiafridda (three goals, four assists) assisted on Frattasio's power-play goal 2:42 into the game, and then Kilar netted the game winner at the 8:33 mark of the third, assisted by Nickolenko (three assists).
- The unit will also seek continued production from the likes of Banquer (three goals), Sherman (two goals, one assist), Damren (one goal, two assists), Carr (one goal, two assists) and Keogh (two assists).
- Grant and Smith return with some high-end experience during their rookie seasons in net, and the group also added Jaffe into the mix. Grant did a phenomenal job in between the pipes last winter, carrying the load with 18 appearances, as she boasted a 6-9-3 record, to go along with team highs in save percentage (.947), goals-against average (1.75) and shutouts (four). Smith appeared in six games, compiling a .918 save percentage and a 2.60 goals-against average, and she earned her first collegiate win at Salve Regina last November.
"I am really looking forward to the season, and we have a group of freshmen full of energy and potential to infuse enthusiasm into our group. As a senior, I would like to go out with a winning season. The ice hockey team has always been a hardworking unit, and we have the talent to be in the middle of the NESCAC pack; we just have to do the correct things on the ice to make it happen."


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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to second-guess reductions to a more than $800,000 award of attorneys' fees and expenses for consumers and a winery that successfully challenged New Jersey's allegedly unfair barriers against out-of-state wineries.
The high court denied certiorari to consumer Robert Freeman and fellow petitioners a little more than one year after the Third Circuit slashed the fees confronting the New Jersey Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The petitioners contended in the underlying dispute that the state had run afoul of the Commerce Clause by discriminating against out-of-state wineries.
In its September 2013 opinion, the Third Circuit ruled that the district court improperly compensated the plaintiffs based on their prior appeal and the time spent arguing whether the lower court could award those appeal-related fees. The Third Circuit had rejected the plaintiffs' request for an interim fee award without explanation, shortly after its 2010 decision that backed most of their constitutional arguments.
The district court also went too far in awarding fees for work solely involving a winery that exited the case through a voluntary dismissal, efforts to swap out one plaintiff winery for another, and time spent seeking more plaintiffs, the Third Circuit said last year.
Leading up to the battle over fees, the individual participants and Walter Hansel Winery Inc. failed to convince the Third Circuit that New Jersey's ban on direct shipments of wine to consumers is unconstitutional – the prohibition covers both in-state and out-of-state wineries – but prevailed on arguments that other statutory restrictions were discriminatory.
For example, one such provision allowed in-state but not out-of-state wineries to sidestep wholesalers and sell directly to consumers, while another provision capped the amount of out-of-state wine that a consumer could import for personal use without a permit. In the wake of the appellate ruling, the New Jersey Legislature changed the statutory language at issue, and the parties reached a consent agreement.
While the district court awarded the plaintiffs $802,221 in attorneys' fees and expenses, the Third Circuit in its 2013 decision trimmed fees tied to the earlier appeal, based on its 1992 decision in Yaron v. Township of Northampton, which bars district courts from entertaining fee applications once the appellate court already has.
The Third Circuit brushed aside the district court's logic that Yaron was different because it involved prevailing defendants and that applying Yaron in the present dispute would clash with binding case law. It also made no difference Yaron involved a fee request after the case was over while the wine plaintiffs' fee petition to the Third Circuit came before the litigation was finished.
"We are sympathetic to the appellees' argument that what may have been a procedural denial should not bar a later fee award, but there is simply no sound basis to exempt this case from Yaron's broad holding," the opinion said. "Pursuant to that precedent, the district court lacked authority to award appellees fees for the prior appeal."
Despite a win on the appeal fees and other issues, the state fell short in arguing that the district court didn't do enough to exclude fees from the plaintiffs' defeat on the direct shipment ban, which they said was excluded from the hours calculation that the district court ultimately accepted.
"ABC contends that appellees' records were too vague to be credible, and that the district court should have further reduced the fee award to account for the fact that the direct-shipment ban was the focus of the case," the opinion said. "It is clear, however, that the core of the lawsuit was the larger discrimination claim. Furthermore, appellees' fee petition contained ample detail to support the district court's determination."
Representing the plaintiffs, James A. Tanford of Indiana University's Maurer School of Law said his side remains baffled.
"Although we won on the merits in the Court of Appeals, and the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Award Act requires the court to award us a reasonable fee, the Third Circuit awarded nothing and did not explain why," Tanford said. "Prior Supreme Court cases had said that a prevailing plaintiff in a constitutional case is entitled to reasonable fees to be paid by the state except in extraordinary cases, which the court must explain."
An ABC spokesman declined to comment.
The plaintiffs are represented by James A. Tanford of Indiana University's Maurer School of Law; Robert D. Epstein of Epstein Cohen Donahoe Mendes; and Gary S. Redish Winne Banta Hetherington Basralian & Kahn PC.
The state is represented by Assistant Attorney General Andrea Silkowitz.
The case is Freeman et al. v. New Jersey Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, case number 13-1442, in the Supreme Court of the United States.
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CA, Nevada and Three Other States to Receive Home Assistance
- July 8, 2010
- Posted by Mcfarlin Law, in Foreclosure Issues
The Obama administration has tried, time and again, to introduce new assistance programs, in effort to assist those caught in the tornado of the foreclosure crisis, and unfortunately, not much has helped. Over a third of the Obama administration's mortgage modification programs' roughly 1.2 million borrowers, have left the program.
The nearly 340,000 homeowners who have remained with the program from its inception, have received a permanent loan modification and consistently make their payments on a timely basis.
The Obama administration has recently developed five, state-specific plans to assist homeowners; utilizing a $1.5 billion budget to provide help to the states hurt most by the housing market's turn for the worst. According to The Treasury Department, the states most recently approved to receive aid from these plans are California, Nevada, Michigan, Arizona and Florida.
The aforementioned states were chosen for assistance as the five saw a 20% drop in home prices. The programs will vary by state and will aid borrowers who have lost jobs and make mortgage payments, those who may have canceled second mortgages, or may have blocked loan modifications.
The state receiving the most funding will be California—approximately $700 million which will go towards helping roughly 45,000+ borrowers. California officials are apparently already asking for "matched contributions" from its lenders, for its programs, which ultimately produce subsidies for unemployed borrowers and homeowners who miss their mortgage payments, as well as seek reductions in these borrowers' principal balances.
Assistant Treasury Secretary, Herbert Allison said, "These states have identified a number of innovative programs that will make a real difference in the lives of many homeowners facing foreclosure." Since President Obama introduced the state assistance programs back in February, state agencies have developed similar plans to help borrowers who owe a substantial amount more on their properties than they are actually worth.
The newly funded states project the introduction of the plans will help 93,000 homeowners. Florida is receiving $418 million which will assist approximately 12,000+ borrowers. Treasury officials agreed with Florida's plan to help its unemployed, but rejected a plan to offer legal representation to homeowners facing foreclosure.
Michigan has been approved $155 million to provide assistance to its 17,000 borrowers, 11,000 of whom are presently receiving unemployment benefits. Arizona gets $125 million for its 12,000 borrowers while Nevada will have $103 million for its nearly 5,000.


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Wrongful Death: Legal Tips
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When a family member dies, it is an overwhelmingly sad and emotionally draining time. It is difficult to focus on anything else except your grief and how you will be able to move on without your loved one. If you suspect the death was caused by the negligence or recklessness of another individual, company or entity, you are rightfully angry and upset, but you probably don't know what critical actions you can take to help prove a wrongful death case in court. Here's a short checklist to help you during this difficult process.
- There is a statute of limitations to all wrongful death cases in New York, so you will need to contact the personal injury attorneys of John Feroleto Attorneys at Law as soon as you are emotionally ready to do so. We can ensure your family's rights are being protected and begin planning for the investigation that will be necessary.
- Help us collect any evidence you can related to the wrongful death. Although it will be difficult, the sooner you can help us do this, the better. If you have access to medical records, coroner reports or witness information, this will help us determine if there is enough evidence to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit and if so, where to begin our investigation.
- Find a grief counselor or join a support group that can help you through this difficult time. Wrongful death lawsuits can take a considerable amount of time to prepare and litigate. During this timeframe and beyond, it is very important to connect with others who have been through similar situations and understand the healing process. They can give you some much-needed support.
If you are dealing with the loss of loved one in the Niagara, Buffalo, or New York state and want to know if a wrongful death suit should be pursued, contact our office today to schedule a free consultation with one of our wrongful death lawyers. We understand how much pain you are going through and will do everything in our power to ensure that justice will be served and help you find the closure you need. No recovery, no fee.


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Among the many agencies and departments available to the CT residents to assist those who are subjected to harm from physical attack, one stands out for its diligence and dedication to protecting the most vulnerable victims....the Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
This organization, has for the past four years, been led by their capable Chief Executive Officer, Karen Jarmoc. Susan Regan, Host of CT Valley Views interviewed Karen in their Wethersfield Office to discuss their recently completed findings and recommendations on improving outcomes for children exposed to family violence resulting in amendments to current laws through legislation. This report can be seen in its entirety on the CCA/DV website: www.ctcadv.org and they can be reached on their state hotline 1-888-774-2900.
Key to their success in handling the critical majority child protective services where 75% of families involved have domestic violence in the home, is their ability to act independently as a non-profit organization. CCADV is a true asset to the people of CT and this show segment would be important to view for any family members, relatives or neighbors who are victims of domestic violence and who could benefit from this discussion.
See this informative interview on Cox/Enfield Channel 15 and Frontier Digital TV Channel 99 Friday May 8 &15 at 6:00 PM; streaming on Nutmeg Community TV Comcast Channel 5 and Frontier Digital TV Channel 99 Saturday May 9 &16 at 8:00 PM and Thursday May 14 &21 at 10:00 AM; streaming on Windsor Community TV Comcast Channel 5 and Frontier Digital TV Channel 99, Thursday May 14 &21 at 9:00 PM, Saturday May 16 & 23 at 6 AM, Monday May 18 & 25 at 1 PM and Wednesday May 20 & 27 at 10 AM; on Hartford Public Access Channels 5 and 95 Wednesdays at 1:00 PM and Simsbury Community TV Thursdays at 1:00 & 7:30 PM and Fridays at 3:30 & 10:30 PM.
All programs are available on the CTVV website: www.ctvalleyviews.com
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Gamification Concepts in Software Design
In late 2012 I embarked on a project to implement Gamification for a technical community (devcentral.f5.com). The intent was to introduce the elements of game playing (point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to encourage a deeper engagement.
The implementation of Gamification in an app or website is fairly trivial if you understand a few high level concepts.


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Maloney nets his first hat trick of his career
Jewett scored his second goal of the season and 11th of his career
FOXBORO, Massachusetts (November 17, 2018) – The Stonehill College ice hockey team posted its first victory of the season in a Northeast-10 Conference battle against Franklin Pierce University, as the Skyhawks cruised to a 5-1 win Saturday night at Foxboro Sports Center.
For Stonehill, (1-3-0, 1-2-0 NE10) Shamus Maloney scored three goals for his first-career hat trick and second game of his career with three points. Connor Jewett and Kyle Woodruff also chipped in goals, while Charles Page, Ryan Meade, Connor Collier, and Thomas Mahoney registered an assist each. Senior goaltender Billy Palmer registered 34 saves in his first win of the season and 25th of his career.
Stonehill had the shot advantage in each of the three periods, holding a small advantage in the first, 14-12. Both teams were even strength through the first frame and the Skyhawks were able to get a 2-0 lead with Jewett's second goal of the season, 11th of his career, while Maloney registered his second of the season and 10th of his career. Jewett put Stonehill up 1-0 at 6:46 in the first with helpers from Page and Meade. Maloney's first goal of the game extended the Skyhawks' lead to two, 2-0 at 16:57.
Woodruff scored his first goal of the season and third of his career
Stonehill was able to extend its lead to three, 3-0, with Woodruff's first goal of the season and third of his career at 4:39 in the second period. Franklin Pierce continued to fight back, getting more and more aggressive by the minute. The Ravens were called for the first penalty of the game at 6:05, as the Skyhawks were unsuccessful at capitalizing on the man advantage. Two more penalties were called before Stonehill picked up its fourth goal of the game, 4-0, from Maloney who tallied his second-career power play goal at 11:43.
Franklin Pierce was able to cut the deficit to three, 4-1, with their first goal of the game by Sean Crowley at 6:05 in the third period, as Anthony Nikolopoulos and Cameron Shepardson tallied helpers. Late in the third frame, there was a four-on-four situation and neither team capitalized on the opportunity. Stonehill, however, scored another goal to get the lead back to four, 5-1, as Maloney scored an empty net goal at 19:41 in the third period for his third of the game.
Stonehill will compete in the Steve Hoar Memorial Tournament in Worcester, Massachusetts this weekend, starting with a 12:40 p.m. game against Franklin Pierce University, hosted by Becker College on Saturday, November 24. The Skyhawks will compete in either the consolation game at 1:00 p.m. or the championship game at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 25 at the Fidelity Worcester Ice Center.
For the latest on Stonehill Athletics, follow the Skyhawks via social media on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Fans can also download the Stonehill Skyhawks "Front Row" mobile app, powered by PrestoSports, on iTunes and the Android Market.


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Tom Vanderbilt Thinks The Future of Transport is Smaller, Slower and Shared. Others Don't.
Small Cars "Almost Cheaper Than Walking"
In January I wrote a prediction for this year, The Three Ss For 2010: Small, Simple and Shared. Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic, says much the same thing a year later in World Policy Blog, writing A Car for the Future: Smaller, Slower, Shared. He points out the simple and unavoidable reality:
As plentiful as the benefits of individual vehicular mobility may be, the large metropolis can never comfortably accommodate any more than a fraction of its citizens in this manner, and we have learned the consequences of trying to do so. Ever-lengthening commutes have meant degraded public spaces, negative health outcomes, social fragmentation, infrastructure whose maintenance goes underfunded.
He concludes:
We need to recognize that streets are public spaces too, and not merely, in the old view of 1930s utopian modernism, channels for moving as many vehicles as quickly as possible. The car will continue to exist, but should be treated as a "renter" of the city, not its landlord. The urban car of the future should be shared, smaller,and slower.
More at World Policy Journal.
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Unfortunately, in most of North America, exactly the opposite is happening. According to Yonah Freemark in the Next American City,
Republicans soon to head the House of Representatives have made apparent their interest in limiting transportation expenditures on modes other than the automobile. Unless they suddenly have a collective change in heart, this could mean an elimination of funding for the grant programs that have funded these projects. The immediate result: The dreams dozens of American cities now have to create their own streetcar systems may have to be put on hold.
Freemark writes in Transport Politics what it is all about:
The issue here is not so much fiscal sanity as it is remarkably differing visions about how Americans should get around in the future. Whereas the current Congress and the White House have staked out relatively progressive policies in terms of providing adequate and equal funding to non-automobile modes of transportation, the incoming House leadership appears poised to take advantage of fears about increases in the federal budget deficit to reduce spending on everything but roads.
It's not just in the US; in Toronto, Canada, the new mayor is removing some of the rent that cars pay to use the roads by eliminating a $60 per year tax that the last mayor imposed. He is cancelling a huge infrastructure investment in light rail transit because he doesn't like streetcars. His suburban driving supporters are cheering. But without cars paying their way and without decent transit in the suburbs where these lines were going, he is going reap exactly what Tom Vanderbilt predicts: "degraded public spaces, negative health outcomes, social fragmentation, infrastructure whose maintenance goes underfunded."
Other options to the automobile:
Los Angeles Loses Streetcars, Cairo Wins
Streetcars Back on Rails in America
Seattle's Streetcar: Modern, Efficient, Mass Transit (Video)
Volt, Schmolt; Get a Bike Instead
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Bold-text ones stick out to Rebekah the most. She also ranked them on a scale from 1-10 interest level.
1. Calvin's T.U.L.I.P. Plucked Apart: A Display of Biblical Arminianism – 10 Rebekah wants to work on this with me
2. Biblical Theology: An Arminian Pentecostal View – 9.7 – Clarke's Christian Theology (1835), Wesleyana (1840), Charles Finney's Lectures on Systematic Theology (1851, 2 vols), William G. T. Shedd's Dogmatic Theology (1894), William Seymour's Doctrines and Discipline (1915), P. C. Nelson's Bible Doctrines (1948), Wayne Grudem's Bible Doctrine (1999, has section on miraculous gifts; Nelson only talks about tongues), Donald Gee's Concerning Spiritual Gifts, Jack Deere's Surprised by the Voice of God, John Wimber's Power Healing
3. The Moral Law of God – 9
4. A History of the Prophetic – 8.5
5. The Desert Fathers: Their Lives and Teachings – 8.4
6. Holiness: Progressive Sanctification in the Christian Life – 8.3
7. Hellfire and Brimstone: The Doctrine of Hell as Preached by the Puritans – 7.5
8. Pornography: The Vice of This Generation – 7.4 – see Neil Gallagher's The Porno Plague
9. Contemplation: The Way to God – 7.3 –
Scaramelli, Hilton, the Cloud, Devine, Poulain, Teresa, Groeschel, Aumann
11. Miraculous Gifts – sequel to How to Experience God
12. use the Zondervan "Counterpoints Library" as a reference.
13. The Six Day Creation
14. Old School Evangelicalism – see The Spectrum of Evangelicalism; The Old Evangelicalism
15. Charismatic Worship
16. See Amazon Shopping List
17. Charles Finney and Leonard Ravenhill: Their Lives and Teachings – the 2012 DREAM


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Here are the five reasons most commonly given by our students for choosing to learn Croatian:
Your boyfriend or girlfriend comes from Croatia and you want to impress (and understand) their family!
You plan to travel to Croatia on holiday - or have done so in the past - and have discovered a passion for the country and it's culture.
Your family originate from Croatia and you would like to learn - or improve your knowledge of "our" language.
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VDI and power users don't have to be oil and water
For a long time, it's been a fact of VDI that power users and VDI don't mix. But with advances in technology and a little planning, your power users could soon be booting up their persistent VMs.
VDI can work for all types of users, but power users have different requirements than task and knowledge workers have.
Tailoring desktops to users' needs is important to the success of virtual desktop deployments. Task workers only need one or two tightly controlled applications; knowledge workers have a standard set of apps they use to get work done. Neither class really needs to be able to customize desktops.
But power users may need many different applications and customizations. They're exceptions to most of the VDI rules, and they need different desktop configurations.
Power vs. task and knowledge
In most organizations, the task and knowledge workers make up the bulk of the user count, and they can use a standard desktop build because they usually access a consistent set of applications and have well-controlled environments. Task workers are often call center workers, and people such as HR, accounting and management employees are examples of knowledge workers. These are the types of users that VDI is a good fit for, and they are where organizations should start their VDI projects.
You can usually prescribe how these workers' desktops look and feel, and give them only limited ability to customize with VMware Linked Clones, Citrix Provisioning Services or some other magic to create many identical virtual machines (VMs).
Power users, such as software developers and creative artists, are different. They use unusual applications and require customized desktop builds to get their jobs done. Power users also have a higher level of technical awareness than normal users.
Mixing power users and VDI
One of the first differences between power users and everyone else is that power users need unique VMs. Their VMs should be full clones so that the customizations persist with the user. You might even allow users to be administrators of their own VMs so they can install software and change their settings. As a general rule, any user who needs admin rights to their desktop should have a full clone VM.
Power users also usually need more virtual hardware than task and knowledge workers. Their applications might need multiple CPUs or lots of RAM, and you should prioritize them when it comes to resource allocation.
With task and knowledge users, desktop VMs spend a lot of time idling. This lets you overcommit CPU and RAM without drastically affecting desktop performance. But power users tend to be more active, using multiple applications at the same time and often running processes that consume CPU and RAM for longer periods of time.
So that power users can get their work done in a timely fashion, you need to make sure their desktops get priority access to CPU and RAM. You might need to host their desktops on separate physical servers with less resource overcommitment, or you could prioritize the resources on the same hosts as the lower-priority users.
Power users may also need hardware accelerated video or a physical GPU to take over the heavy lifting of graphically intense applications. These workers might be Computer Aided Design or Geographic Information Systems users, or they could have to work a lot with images or video.
All of these desktop workloads have only recently become possible with VDI. To accommodate them you may need to add physical GPUs to your virtualization hosts. Such a hardware upgrade may be another reason for a dedicated set of physical servers -- it lets you avoid upgrading every server for the benefit of a small number of power users.
Other challenges of power users
Identifying power users and qualifying users out of the category can be tricky, too.
Some staff members might see prestige in being a power user and want to be in that group. Think of the partners in a law firm or the traders in a bank. Though their technical requirements may be more akin to those of knowledge workers, these people may want to be called power users. Carefully consider whether you want to expose the power user identification to your users. A less descriptive name for a power user desktop configuration might be the way to go. For example, a desktop called GIS may be a better option than one called Power users.
As the scope of VDI extends from the task and knowledge workers to power users, you may need to rethink some of the design decisions that suited less demanding users. Power users need more powerful desktops and will usually need more rights to their desktops. With the right infrastructure, VDI can accommodate many power user workloads that were unthinkable under VDI in the past.
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For some reason that I have never seen explained, the early 1961 issues of Archie's Pal Jughead had covers far more in tune with the creatures from Weird Tales than Riverdale's favorite love struck teens. Why? I have no idea. Probably someone just decided that that was the cool thing with all the kids that year.
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The Legacy of Barubash is a story-driven action RPG being developed for Android tablets and phones. It follows the story of a young hunter named Kaleb. Choices made during gameplay will decide how Kaleb develops throughout the game and may even have long-reaching effects on the game world. A story complete chapter 1 will be released in Q1 2014.
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Happy New Year!
As many of us make promises to get into the gym and get fit this 2013, I want to give you some ideas to welcome fitness and healthy activity into your life without dealing with crowded gyms. I know that my body is still a work in progress after having my son 14 months ago. Looking at your body as a work in progress will help you to be more successful with your fitness goals this year!
So, forget the gym and hit the playground! I love this for lots of reasons
free -no membership
do it alone or with friends
provides an example of activity for healthy kids and families
great for all fitness levels
There is a new movement of adult fitness rising in major cities; "it starts in the parks", adult playgrounds. To fight the growth and global epidemic problem of obesity major US cities are developing outdoor fitness areas to encourage more adults to get outside and be active. Europe and China started designing parks for this purpose and have seen success in the health of park users.
Many of you may be familiar with a quarter mile track with various stationary fitness equipment. You walk/run from station to station preforming the various exercises; chin up, push ups, crunches, and triceps dips. New adult playgrounds have all the pieces in one place and the equipment is moveable. They add moving cardio pieces and strength equipment. It looks like a playground for kids but is designed and built for adults to use. I think that you will see these new playgrounds being built throughout the country and replacing many of the stationary parks that we currently have. If you live in a large city you are more likely to find them faster. The cost is much less than a child's playground.
No matter where you live, check your local parks and recreations website for a list of parks in your community and the amenities that they have. If you read the article from the New York Times you will also see the power of moms! They started a grass roots movement to get more funds to build an adult playground to help moms get back in shape after having a baby. So, even if you don't have a park, you could be that person to start a movement in your community to do more for your health.
Photos from New York Times
Here are two examples of parks that are in my area.
Recreation area in a residential and commercial parkway in St. Petersburg, FL. (who wouldn't want to walk with that handsome guy)
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Here are 9 coconut flour cookies from my blog and some of my other favorite bloggers. I know what you are probably thinking – another post about coconut flour? Does she eat anything else? The answer is yes, I do eat a variety of foods, but currently, I incorporate a lot of coconut (in all forms) into my diet.
I'm definitely not the only one who loves coconut. More and more people are using it as a substitute for all-purpose flour to make foods Paleo or just because they love the flavor. Either way, I hope you will enjoy some of these cookie recipes.
All of these cookies recipes are gluten-free. Some of these are for chocolate chip cookies. Some of these recipes have a lot of flour and some don't have so much, but they all have coconut flour and are all Paleo. Some of them are even gluten-free, which means they don't have any grains or dairy.
Under each title I have listed the main ingredients in the cookies, so you can easily see if you can eat the main ingredients of those cookies.
If I missed any coconut flour cookie recipes that you love, feel free to comment below. Enjoy!
You may also like these recipes:
Double-Chocolate Paleo Brownies Plus The 9 Best Paleo Brownies Recipes to Satisfy Your Craving
Coconut Flour Cookies
1. Chocolate Chip Cookies – My Natural Family
Almond Flour – Tapioca Flour – Real Salt – Maple Syrup – Raw Honey – Coconut Oil – Eggs – Dark Chocolate Chips
Since starting a Paleo lifestyle I've really missed chocolate chip cookies about as much as anything. I was so glad to learn about almond flour and other gluten-free flours. They saved my sanity and my life. I am so excited to have found these. They are a classic that no one can resist. Whenever I decide to make something sweet, my kids always want these.
2. Chocolate Peppermint Swirl Soft Sugar Cookies – My Natural Family
Almond Flour – Coconut Oil – Honey – Peppermint Essential Oil
These cookies are great for a Christmas party or just for a Holiday treat. These cookies combine peppermint and chocolate in a soft sugar cookie which is easy to make, Paleo and festive. You could also make these cookies and give them to your neighbors. I would certainly love it if someone gave them to me.
3. Best Chocolate Chip Cookies – Soft Batch – My Natural Family
Butter – Maple Syrup – Honey – Cassava Flour – Arrowroot Starch – Chocolate Chips
These chocolate chip cookies are the best SOFT grain-free cookies around. They are not crispy or crunchy, they are soft. So if you like soft chocolate chip cookies as opposed to crunchy you should try these. Actually, I prefer these to the crunchy ones. I like them soft, I just don't like when they fall apart in your hand.
4. Grain-Free "Oatmeal" Raisin Cookies – My Natural Family
Almond Flour – Flax Meal – Dates – Honey – Butter – Raisins
These cookies are soft and chewy, yummy and still healthy. I eat them all the time for snacks and dessert. One thing I really like about cookies is that they have automatic portion control. That is unless you eat too many of them. I also like the convenience of cookies because you can grab them and go. Sometimes I eat these for breakfast because they are so healthy.
5. Grain-Free Snickerdoodles – My Natural Family
Ground Flax Seed – Maple Syrup – Coconut Oil – Vanilla Extract – Cream of Tartar – Coconut Sugar – Ground Cinnamon
These snickerdoodles are made with a flax seed egg and CF. They are perfect for those people that don't like the taste of eggs and for those people who can't eat eggs. My mother hated the taste of eggs her whole life. What a predicament for someone that was raised on a farm and raised their own chickens who incidentally laid a lot of free eggs.
6. Shortbread Cookies – Paleo Hacks
Butter – Maple Syrup – Chocolate Chips – Vanilla
For Christmas every year our neighbor gives us one of those tin cans of shortbread cookies. He's a very kind older gentleman but to say it nicely. There isn't anyone in our family that likes them. We even have a hard time giving them away to any of the 35 extended family members I have. You won't have to worry about that with these shortbread cookies. Everyone will gobble them up, especially if you choose to drizzle chocolate on top like in the picture.
7. Caramel Apple Gingersnaps – Faith Food Fitness
Coconut Sugar – Butter – Coconut Milk – Molasses – Almond Meal – Apples – Coconut Oil – Egg White – Baking Soda – Ginger
Here is a healthy gingersnap cookie recipe that is drizzled with caramel sauce and mixed with dried apples. They have the teeniest tiniest pieces of sweet chewy dried apples then they are doused in the creamiest, thickest Vegan caramel sauce. The caramel sauce so good you'll wish you could drink it.
8. Lemon Thumbprint Cookies – My Baking Addiction
Almond Flour – Sugar – Butter – Egg – Lemon Zest – Lemon Curd – Baking Powder – Real Salt
These cookies are good on their own but do you know what sends them over the top? Yeah, you're right, it's the lemon curd. There is lemon zest and lemon extract in the dough, but the lemon kick comes from the lemon curd. A recipe for homemade lemon curd in included but if you want to buy some in a jar, life just got easier, you can buy it on Amazon here: Lemon Curd I suggest using almond flour instead of almond meal, it's finer and doesn't have the specks of brown skin like almond meal. That's the only difference, almond flour is ground more times the almond meal so it' finer and the skins are taken off first.
9. Double Chocolate Chip Cookies – Ditch the Wheat
Palm Sugar – Cocoa Powder – Dark Chocolate Chips – Coconut Oil – Coconut Sugar – Eggs – Vanilla – Baking Soda – Real Salt
Coconut flour tends to have a bad reputation. They are usually too gritty and dry and pancake-like. If you like your cookies crispy, I like mine soft, Carol tells about a little secret she discovered accidentally to make them crispy. She says to put them in the freezer for half an hour only soon after they are baked. She says they are hardly even cold after being in the freezer for that amount of time. Plus they are crisp and yummy.


text: LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 2, 2011) —The University of Kentucky College of Social Work's Center for the Study of Violence Against Children (CSVAC) lived up to its promise to bridge research and the real world this past spring with a forum titled, "Exploring the Context of Child Trauma: Opportunities for Action." Students, clinicians and faculty presented on a variety of topics relating to CSVAC's work on April 22 at the Hillary J. Boone Center. The interdisciplinary team of presenters included 18 students from social work, clinical, developmental, school and counseling psychology, and nursing that are completing practicums, research fellowships, internships and rotations at CSVAC. "Interdisciplinary research forums like those sponsored by CSVAC truly showcase the great work that UK faculty and students are doing for the community, the Commonwealth, the nation and the world," said UK Provost Kumble Subbaswamy, who also opened the forum. "Participation in the research forum provided a great opportunity to formally present and discuss my research with members of the community, my professors and my peers," said doctoral student Jessica Eslinger, who presented research on rates of caregiver completion in children's trauma psychotherapy. "Although many of us presenting at the forum focused on different aspects of the work done at the center, it is always interesting to hear about how others are tackling their research questions and the results that they have found." In addition to Eslinger's research, forum topics included child trauma symptoms; the assessment of the trauma-exposed child and of caregivers for child maltreatment risk; the relationship of parental substance use to child trauma; secondary traumatic stress and healthcare professionals working with traumatized children; and predictors of fatal child maltreatment. "Discussion and translational application is critical to any research project," said CSVAC director and Buckhorn Professor of Child Welfare and Children's Mental Health Ginny Sprang. "Through forums like these, we continue to inform best practices in understanding, assessing, preventing and intervening with children who have experienced all types of adversities in the Commonwealth and beyond." Eslinger's study yielded some interesting results and forum discussion. According to her research, children with exposure to domestic violence were at an elevated risk of early dropout from psychotherapy treatment, while neglected children more frequently completed treatment. Both younger and biological or adoptive caregivers were more likely to drop out early from treatment, she said, while children in foster care were more likely to complete treatment. "This suggests that external pressures to comply with case planning recommendations may be a factor impacting treatment completion," she explained. "Helping professionals are constantly challenged with trying to figure out how best to help children and their families who have experienced trauma while balancing limited financial resources," Eslinger said. "Continued research into clinical practices that lead to more positive outcomes for children and their families is universally relevant. Kentucky, in particular, faces many challenges regarding the provision of effective and efficient mental health services to both rural and urban parts of the state." Eslinger recommends student-focused research forums like these to her peers in all disciplines. "This is the best place to practice presenting one's work in a context similar to that found at professional conferences," she said. "There were also several presenters whose work offered possible insights into my own research as well." CSVAC is a translational research center that uses clinical practice, research and training on child and family trauma in an effort to address the detrimental effect of violence against children in the Commonwealth, as well as the nation.


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I've gotta say, I was pretty intimidated when I got the word that Faith Hunter was going to participate in this, but it ended up being a lot easier to come up with questions to ask her than it was for many other writers. The main problem was cutting them down to five! Anyway, I enjoyed this — hope you do, too.
|Ms. Hunter, before we begin, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to provide some A's to the Q's here. I've been reading the Yellowrock series since 2011 and have been become a big fan of your work. I want to ask about a dozen questions about the last two or three chapters of Flame in the Dark, but I don't think you'd want to answer them — and if you did, you wouldn't let me post your answers. Here are their replacements, which should be spoiler-free, and hopefully you haven't been asked too many times.
|First off, what's been the reaction from your fans toward this spin-off? Anything surprising about the reaction (hopefully positive surprises, but I've been online long enough to not know to assume that).
|Each book comes with its own particular set of challenges. What were the particular challenges of Flame in the Dark?
|For me, one of the highlights of the Soulwood books is Nell's reaction to the food (mostly of the "junk" variety) her colleagues are introducing her to. It's such a subtle and effective way to remind/demonstrate just how far away her life was from the world we all know before she joined up with PsyLED (and so fun to watch this farm-to-table type woman revel in processed foods). Assuming I'm not reading too much into that — why food? Why not . . . the Internet or music? Was it a conscious choice, or just something that started that you ran with? Is the research for it just dreadful? How many Krispy Kremes do you have to eat to make sure you get it right? 🙂 [sorry I babbled a bit there . . . ]
|The religious lives of Jane and Nell play a more significant role in the novels than any other Urban Fantasy series I can think of, where does that come from? How do you approach bringing their faith (understanding that Nell's is in flux given her past) into the stories in a way that seems authentic?
|What's the one (or two) book/movie/show in the last 5 years that made you say, "I wish I'd written that."?
|Again, thanks for your time and participation. I hope Flame in the Dark is as successful as it deserves to be, and I can't wait to see what's next for either Jane or Nell.


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If TPP Is So Important, Why Are Those It's Supposed To 'Help' Fighting Against It?
from the because-it's-not-about-helping-them deptThe USTR's position on trade agreements is incredibly antiquated. It acts as if it's an extension of "American business" and seems to believe that the only ones fighting against its various trade agreements, like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) are these meddling "public interest" groups, which don't understand the importance of big business. It's why the USTR recently created a special "public interest" committee to pretend that it was listening to criticism while shunting them off to their own little corner to be ignored.
But the real problem is that the USTR doesn't pay much attention to actual innovative business: entrepreneurs and startups that are doing much of the important work today that will be important for the future. Instead, they tend to only listen to the last generation of companies: the legacy players and behemoths who are looking to protect themselves against competition and innovation. So it was great to see during this week's TPP negotiations (though held in even more secrecy than usual) the EFF presented negotiators with two important letters about different aspects of the TPP, signed by the organizations that the USTR would like to pretend its helping -- and yet those organizations are not at all happy about it.
The first letter, signed by dozens of internet and technology companies, warns about dangerous intermediary liability concerns based on the leaked draft of the TPP's intellectual property section. We were among those that signed this letter. We'd prefer to comment on the actual draft of what's in the document, but the USTR still keeps that as a closely held secret (unless you happen to be an RIAA lobbyist, then you have full access).
The provisions regarding intermediary liability are particularly concerning. We are worried about language that would force service providers throughout the region to monitor and police their users' actions on the internet, pass on automated takedown notices, block websites and disconnect Internet users. Irresponsible righsholders can burden intermediaries with many thousands of automated takedown requests every day, using systems that operate with little or no human oversight. These systems rely on a "takedown first and ask questions later" approach to pages and content alleged to breach copyright.The second letter comes from a large group of libraries, public archives, authors and educators, decrying the possibility of copyright term extension being enabled by the TPP. It's hard to argue that librarians and public archivists are "freetards" and "digital anarchists." These are folks who are legitimately concerned about the impact of excessive copyright on knowledge.
Burdening these service providers with these new liabilities could also add new costs that may be passed onto Internet users. These automated systems have also led to many forms of legitimate speech being taken down, even when they are protected under fair use... We oppose any kind of proposal for an enforcement regime that could lead to a "notice and staydown" system, where there is little to no recourse for users to challenge takedowns and restore removed content.
The public domain provides an immense social and economic benefit to all sectors of society. Through the public domain, in conjunction with today's affordable communications technologies and networks, access to knowledge is available to even the most impoverished members of the community. The public domain also spurs the creation of popular and valuable new derivative works, both commercial and non-commercial. For example, the spate of recent Sherlock Holmes spin-offs was made possible by the passage of that property into the public domain, as recently affirmed by a US court decision.One would hope that the USTR is actually willing to listen to these organizations most directly impacted by the rules it's trying to force in through the backdoor known as international trade agreements. Unfortunately, it often seems tuned only to the voices of legacy industries looking for greater protectionism. Still, the more that organizations speak up, the more the USTR may finally be forced to listen. The EFF is still allowing more companies and organizations to sign onto both letters. You can do so on the intermediary liability letter or the copyright term extension letter at each of those links.
The most immediate threat to this invaluable resource would be the extension of copyright terms by another 20 years, adding to the TRIPS minimum term generally of life plus 50 years. Despite wide divergence on other issues, almost all contemporary economists are in agreement that copyright term extension makes no sense.
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AllSaints Siri Embellished Dress, Python Clutch and Patent Leather Court Shoes
AllSaints Siri Embellished Dress, Python Clutch and Patent Leather Court Shoes
AllSaints have updated their party look for the new season and this is an example of an extravagant and opulent look you can put together right now but it will also be current well into the festive season too.
AllSaints Siri Embellished Dress
The AllSaints Siri Embellished Dress has to be the show piece dress of the new season. Embellished all over with metal pieces, chains and silver coloured plates, interspersed with sequins, this dress contours the body whilst your curves gleam. It's a statement look and the most luxurious AllSaints dress of the season.
AllSaints Python Clutch
This leather clutch has been embossed all over with a python print design, and the luxurious feel teams well with the dress above. Fully lined, the clutch fastens with a zip and the zip pull doubles as a wrist strap for ease of use.
A special technique has been used to engrave the python design into the leather, which creates the effect of a a shimmer across the scales adding a 3D effect to the design.
The back of the clutch is not embossed; it is lined in cotton and has an interior zipped pocket.
The neutral grey colour of this clutch means it's a winner for teaming with all of your wardrobe and could also be teamed with silk or florals for a summer wedding. For an alternative clutch, check out the AllSaints Siri Small Clutch, which is the same shape but made from black nubuck leather.
AllSaints Black Patent Leather Court Shoes (Cigarette Heel)
A wardrobe staple, no party outfit would be complete without a pair of glamorous stiletto heels, and there are none more glamorous than this luxurious patent pair.
Featuring a slim high stiletto heel (approximately 12.5cm) together with a balancing platform sole, these heels are super comfortable as they are made entirely from leather. The lining of the shoes is made friom the finest kidskin leather.
The sleek, glossy lines add sophistication to any look, and if you like wearing heels during the day they would also be great for the smart business professional, teamed with a sharp suit and a briefcase.
For an alternative shoe, check out the AllSaints Cigarette Concealed Platform 125 Heel, available in black or taupe leather (not patent).
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Learn Arabic words using the Learn Arabic with Pictures series from ArabicPod101.com.
Beautiful images clearly show Arabic vocabulary divided into units by topic.
Each word is introduced in English and Arabic. It's a great way to study new vocabulary words that will build up your proficiency in Arabic and lead you on your way to mastering this beautiful language! In this Arabic lesson you'll learn the Arabic vocabulary related to kitchens: sink, plate, bowl, kettle, pot, frying pan, knife, spoon, chopping board, and fork. Have an Arabic friend coming over for dinner? You can try out your new vocabulary with them as you set the table. If you do a good job, maybe they'll wash the dishes in return! Follow along with the language lessons in these videos and you'll be speaking Arabic in no time.
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Each year, thousands of people are diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, or certain immune system or genetic metabolic disorder. Many of these patients need an umbilical cord blood or bone marrow transplant (also called a BMT). Because the qualities that make a suitable match for bone marrow or umbilical cord blood are inherited, a match from a sibling or other family member is often checked first. However, 70 percent of patients will not find a matching donor in their family. For these patients, a transplant of bone marrow or cord blood from an unrelated donor may be their only transplant option.
Umbilical cord blood is the blood left over in the placenta and in the umbilical cord after the birth of the baby. The cord blood is composed of all the elements found in whole blood. It contains red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, platelets and is also rich in hematopoietic stem cells. There are several methods for collecting cord blood. The method most commonly used in clinical practice is the "closed technique", which is similar to standard blood collection techniques. With this method, the technician cannulates the vein of the severed umbilical cord using a needle that is connected to a blood bag, and cord blood flows through the needle into the bag. On average, the closed technique enables collection of about 75 ml of cord blood.[3]
Taking time to consider helping another person when you are already busy planning for the birth of your child is greatly appreciated. A gift of cord blood may someday give someone a second chance at life.
Find a public bank that participates with your hospital. Public banks usually partner with specific hospitals, so you will usually only have one choice. If your hospital doesn't partner with a public bank, or if you don't like the facility they work with, several private banks offer a donation option, which means public banking may still be possible.
Along with cord blood, Wharton's jelly and the cord lining have been explored as sources for mesenchymal stem cells (MSC),[19] and as of 2015 had been studied in vitro, in animal models, and in early stage clinical trials for cardiovascular diseases,[20] as well as neurological deficits, liver diseases, immune system diseases, diabetes, lung injury, kidney injury, and leukemia.[21]
We are excited to share an advancement in #newborn #stemcell science. A recent study published findings showing the safety of using a child's own cord blood stem cells for #autism. Learn more on The CBR Blog! blog.cordblood.com/2018/02/resear…
Your free donation will be part of a program that is saving lives and supporting research to discover new uses for cord blood stem cells. Units that meet criteria for storage are made available to anyone, anywhere in the world, who needs a stem cell transplant.
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If you do decide to bank your baby's cord blood, there's one more thing to keep in mind: It's best not to make it a last-minute decision. You should coordinate with the bank before your baby is born so nothing is left to chance.
In New Zealand, a hopeful couple are participating in a study that will use one of their son's cord blood stem cells to research treatment for another son's cystic fibrosis. In Chicago, people are using their sibling's stem cells to successfully treat sickle cell disease. And countless other families have banked their second child's cord blood after their first child was diagnosed with leukemia. Many of those children are alive and well today thanks to their sibling's stem cells. Since the first successful cord blood stem cell transplant on a sibling in 1988, over 30,000 cord blood transplants have been performed worldwide.
Private or family banks store cord blood for autologous use or directed donation for a family member. Private banks charge a yearly fee for storage. Blood stored in a private bank must meet the same standards as blood stored in a public bank. If you have a family member with a disorder that may potentially be treated with stem cells, some private banks will store the cord blood free of charge.
In a report to the HRSA Advisory Council, scientists estimated that the chances of a pediatric patient finding a cord blood donor in the existing Be the Match registry are over 90 percent for almost all ethnic groups.
When considering cord blood, cord tissue, and placenta tissue banking, you want all of the facts. Americord's® Cord Blood Comparison Chart gives you information not only on our costs and services, but also on how other companies measure up.
Stem cells can be used in treatments for many different types of diseases. One of the main places young stem cells are found is in cord blood, which can be stored at birth and saved for future use if needed. Stem cells are also found in other places in the human body, including blood and bone marrow.
Several research teams have reported studies in animals suggesting that cord blood can repair tissues other than blood, in diseases ranging from heart attacks to strokes. These findings are controversial: scientists often cannot reproduce such results and it is not clear HOW cord blood may be having such effects. When beneficial effects are observed they may be very slight and not significant enough to be useful for developing treatments. If there are positive effects, they might be explained not by cord blood cells making nerve or heart cells, but by the cells in the cord blood releasing substances that help the body repair damage.
For the 12- and 24-month payment plans, down payment is due at enrollment. In-house financing cannot be combined with other offers or discounts. *Please add $50 to the down payment for medical courier service if you're located in Alaska, Hawai'i or Puerto Rico. **Actual monthly payment will be slightly lower than what is being shown. For the length of the term, the annual storage fee is included in the monthly payment. Upon the child's birthday that ends the term and every birthday after that, an annual storage fee will be due. These fees are $150 for cord blood and $150 for cord tissue.
CBR Cord Blood Education Specialists are available 7 days a week (Monday – Friday 6 AM – 9 PM PST and Saturday – Sunday 6 AM – 4 PM PST) to respond to consumer inquiries. In addition, consumers may request to schedule a call with a CBR Cord Blood Education Specialist at a specific date and time.
There are no health risks related to cord blood collection. Cord blood is retrieved from the umbilical cord after it has been cut, thus preventing any pain, discomfort, or harm. This process is completely safe.
Sometimes, not enough cord blood can be collected. This problem can occur if the baby is preterm or if it is decided to delay clamping of the umbilical cord. It also can happen for no apparent reason. If an emergency occurs during delivery, priority is given to caring for you and your baby over collecting cord blood.
Cord blood collection is a completely painless procedure that does not interfere with the birth or with mother-and-child bonding following the delivery. There is no risk to either the mother or baby. Cord blood collection rarely requires Blood Center staff to be present during the baby's delivery. There is no cost to you for donating.
To prevent graft-versus-host disease and help ensure engraftment, the stem cells being transfused need to match the cells of the patient completely or to a certain degree (depending on what is being treated). Cord blood taken from a baby's umbilical cord is always a perfect match for the baby. In addition, immediate family members are more likely to also be a match for the banked cord blood. Siblings have a 25 percent chance of being a perfect match and a 50 percent chance of being a partial match. Parents, who each provide half the markers used in matching, have a 100% chance of being a partial match. Even aunts, uncles, grandparents and other extended family members have a higher probability of being a match and could possibly benefit from the banked cord blood. Read more reasons why you should bank cord blood.
For these and other reasons, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and many physicians do not recommend private cord blood banking except as "directed donations" in cases where a family member already has a current need or a very high potential risk of needing a bone marrow transplant. In all other cases, the AAP has declared the use of cord blood as "biological insurance" to be "unwise." [Read the AAP's news release at http://www.aap.org/advocacy/archives/julcord.htm ]
To learn more about umbilical cord blood and banking please watch Banking on cord blood, Cord blood – banking and uses, Cord blood transplantation – how stem cells can assist in the treatment of cancer in our video library.
The blood that remains in the umbilical cord and the placenta after birth is called "cord blood". Umbilical cord blood, umbilical cord tissue, and the placenta are all very rich sources of newborn stem cells. The stem cells in the after birth are not embryonic. Most of the stem cells in cord blood are blood-forming or hematopoietic stem cells. Most of the stem cells in cord tissue and the placenta are mesenchymal stem cells.
CBR Clients: Did you know that when you refer a friend, and they preserve their baby's stem cells with us, you receive a free year of cord blood storage? After your first referral, you start earning even more rewards. (Exclusions apply): http://bit.ly/CBRreferafriend
There have been several reports suggesting that cord blood may contain other types of stem cells which can produce specialised cells that do not belong to the blood, such as nerve cells. These findings are highly controversial among scientists and are not widely accepted.
Collected cord blood is cryopreserved and then stored in a cord blood bank for future transplantation. Cord blood collection is typically depleted of red blood cells before cryopreservation to ensure high rates of stem cell recovery.[4]
The main reason for this requirement is to give the cord blood bank enough time to complete the enrollment process. For the safety of any person who might receive the cord blood donation, the mother must pass a health history screening. And for ethical reasons, the mother must give informed consent.
You can check the status of your child's cord blood unit any time by contacting the public bank. In most cases, the parents won't have much control over any donated stem cells, so you probably won't hear much from the storage facility. They may keep you updated if your cells are being used in a patient or clinical trial, but this is up to the bank. By signing the consent form, you are giving the bank full rights to use your child's cord blood in any patient or clinical trial available.
As a mother-to-be, you can decide that your baby's first act may be saving another person's life. You can do this by choosing to donate your baby's umbilical cord blood to the St. Louis Cord Blood Bank's First Gift℠ Donation Program.
Stem cells are able to transform into other types of cells in the body to create new growth and development. They are also the building blocks of the immune system. The transformation of these cells provides doctors with a way to treat leukemia and some inherited health disorders.
iPS cells are artificially-made pluripotent stem cells. This technique allows medical staff to create additional pluripotent cells, which will increase treatment options for patients using stem cell therapy in the near future.
The United States Congress saw the need to help more patients who need a bone marrow or cord blood transplant and passed the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, Public Law 109-129 (Stem Cell Act 2005) and the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2010, Public Law 111-264 (Stem Cell Act 2010). These acts include support for umbilical cord blood transplant and research.
Banking cord blood is a new type of medical protection, and there are a lot of questions that parents may want to ask. The Parent's Guide to Cord Blood organization even has questions it believes all parents should ask their cord blood banks. We have answers to these and other frequently asked cord blood questions in our FAQs. If you can't find the answer for which you are looking, please feel free to engage one of our cord blood educators through the website's chat interface.
What is cord blood and why should we care? Cord blood contains stem cells that have huge potential to help your family. It can only be collected from a newborn's umbilical cord immediately after birth. They're unique and can be used to treat life threatening diseases such as anemia and leukemia. We're just beginning to tap into its potential.
Though uses of cord blood beyond blood and immunological disorders is speculative, some research has been done in other areas.[17] Any such potential beyond blood and immunological uses is limited by the fact that cord cells are hematopoietic stem cells (which can differentiate only into blood cells), and not pluripotent stem cells (such as embryonic stem cells, which can differentiate into any type of tissue). Cord blood has been studied as a treatment for diabetes.[18] However, apart from blood disorders, the use of cord blood for other diseases is not in routine clinical use and remains a major challenge for the stem cell community.[17][18]
Bone marrow and similar sources often requires an invasive, surgical procedure and one's own stem cells may already have become diseased, which means the patient will have to find matching stem cells from another family member or unrelated donor. This will increase the risk of GvHD. In addition, finding an unrelated matched donor can be difficult, and once a match is ascertained, it may take valuable weeks, even months, to retrieve. Learn more about why cord blood is preferred to the next best source, bone marrow.
Be the Match is a nonprofit organization that supports public cord blood banks' efforts to encourage donations. It maintains the largest public listing of donated cord blood available for transplantation in the United States. The organization has facilitated more than 7,000 unrelated cord blood transplants since the year 2000.
Private companies offer to store cord blood for anyone who wants it done, whether or not there is any medical reason known to do so at the time. The fee for private storage varies, but averages about $1,500 up front and $100 per year for storage. When there is no one in the family who needs a transplant, private storage of a newborn's cord blood is done for a purely speculative purpose that some companies have termed "biological insurance."


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2012 Harmonized System Changes: Is Your Company Prepared?
In today's era of heightened security, national governments are constantly adding new names to watch lists to avoid the risks linked to terrorism and prohibited commerce. It's tough for companies to keep up with all the changes without spending excessive amounts of time or money in the process. Global trade compliance experts Anthony Hardenburgh and Ty Bordner from Amber Road will discuss the importance of up-to-date trade content and integrating new restricted party lists into your global trade operations.
To learn more about Amber Road's Global Knowledge, visit us at http://bit.ly/GlobalKnowledgeBrochure