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Thomas (Tom) A. Butler was an editor for the English-language
North China Daily News
in Shanghai from the early 1930s until 1948, when he and his family fled from Communist forces to Hong Kong. The collection consists of a selection of editorials written by Butler while at the
North China Daily News
on a variety of current issues, two news articles written about Butler upon his retirement and passing, and eleven silver trophies won by Butler as a member of the Shanghai Bowling Club.
Thomas A. (Tom) Butler was born in Clonmell, Ireland in 1910. He immigrated to the United States in 1923, where he attended high school in Pittsburgh and then joined the United States Marines. Butler was stationed in China, and he stayed there after his time in the Marine Corps, becoming a radio announcer, a foreign war correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, and an editor for the English-language newspaper North China Daily News. While living in Shanghai, Butler married Ceciia dos Remedios, and they had two daughters, Cathy and Patricia. In 1948, upon hearing that Chinese Communist forces were incarcerating journalists, Butler fled with his family to Hong Kong, where he became the night editor of the South China Morning Post until 1955, when the family moved to Vancouver, Canada. Butler then worked as the news editor of The Vancouver Sun for 20 years until his retirement in 1975. He passed away at the age of 91 in 2001.
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The woman behind a movement against radical feminism has had her Twitter account erased after she merely quoted the words of the radical feminist she was engaged in debate with.
Janet Bloomfield's account @JudgyBitch1, which had amassed 15,000 followers and boasted a weekly reach of approximately 50,000, was removed from Twitter after Bloomfield, innovator of the hashtag #WomenAgainstFeminism, tweeted out a quote from a feminist writing in the London Guardian.
Bloomfield took issue with an article penned by Jessica Valenti, who argued on the Guardian website's Comment Is Free section that women are oppressed at Christmas time because they are burdened with all the chores that come with the festive season, such as wrapping up presents.
Yes, that's right, Valenti seriously argues that wrapping presents, a practice that is joyous and pleasing to the vast majority, is oppressive to women.
"And it's not enough that women actually manage to finish all of these chores – we're also expected to plaster Christmas grins on our faces the whole time, lest the masses think we're not thrilled with all the wrapping-paper-inflicted paper cuts." Valenti miserably scrawls.
On her Facebook page, Bloomfield explained how her difference of opinion on this matter ended in yet ANOTHER Twitter ban:
I have twice been suspended from Twitter after harassment campaigns from other Twitter users who are angry with me for being the main driver behind the #WomenAgainstFeminism hashtag. My account has never tweeted abuse nor have I ever threatened anyone, although I frequently get death threats myself.
My most recent suspension is the result of me tweeting the actual words of Guardian journalist Jessica Valenti back to her. Prompted by @davidfutrelle, a harassment campaign to report me for spam/abuse was undertaken by users who appear to be under the impression that I made up the Valenti quotes and falsely attributed them to her. This is not true. Valenti did indeed write that wrapping Christmas presents oppresses women, and that "jingle bell time aside, it's [Christmas] a goddam clusterfuck.". I did not make these words up. They are her own.
The other quotes are also taken from articles Valenti wrote at the Guardian and for Atlantic magazine.
This is the third time that I have been wrongly targeted, and I have requested that Twitter restore and verify my account to avoid further issues. To date, Twitter has not responded. Is Twitter allowing their harassment tools to be used to silence dissenting voices? Since when is tweeting a journalist's words back at her harassment?
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Janet Bloomfield
This is yet another example of radical feminists latching onto anything they can find to promote misandry, and acting as an authoritarian politically correct brigade, instead of focusing on real women's issues. Millions upon millions of mothers, grandmothers, daughters, and sisters, as well as fathers, sons, grandfathers and brothers, enjoy engaging in the Christmas spirit willingly, and happily anticipate doing so.
While Valenti argues that women are burdened with "gendered expectations that make the season less about simply enjoying fun and family and more about enduring consumerism, chores and resentment," women in Saudi Arabia are routinely charged with terrorism for driving cars, and stoned to death in Pakistan for marrying men their families do not choose for them. Hardly on the same scale as a paper cut now is it?
Everyone and anyone should be free to dismiss the sanctimonious and priggish opinions espoused by Jessica Valenti, without fear of being harassed or silenced by the vast vast minority who agree with her.
If radical feminists intend to fight this battle, they can surely add it to the long list of failures and defeats they have racked up in 2014, as we have recently documented:
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the first project of the world community grid will be the human proteome folding project. this project hopes to identify proteins that make up the human proteome. that knowledge can lead to cures for diseases such as malaria, hiv/aids, sars, and tuberculosis.
projects centered on humanitarian research will be selected by the newly created world community grid advisory board, whose chairman is linda sanford, ibm senior vice president in charge of enterprise on demand transformation. the board, which also includes "members of some of the world's most prestigious scientific, research and charitable organizations," will oversee 5 to 6 projects a year.
the infrastructure for the world community grid was donated by ibm, which will host the grid as well as provide ongoing maintenance and support. the grid will also be integrated into an existing worldwide grid created by united devices. it is anticipated that ibm will eventually transfer ownership of the worldwide community grid to a non-ibm entity according to the license agreement for the world community agent. this agent, which will join a computer to the new grid, can be downloaded at the world community grid website.
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give us your tired, poor, and unused computer cycles. a pretty simple request, especially since it's for a noble cause like finding treatments and cures for some of the world's most deadliest diseases.
ibm estimates that there are more than 650 million pcs that could potentially participate in the new world community grid. that's an awful lot of processing power. a previous grid developed by ibm and united devices used two million computers in 226 countries to analyze drug molecules that could be used as a potential treatment for smallpox. those results were handed over to the u.s. department of defense.
no matter how philanthropic this computing grid is, you can't deny the marketing tool this gives ibm. after all, the grid's infrastructure consists of ibm eserver p630 and x345 servers, ibm's shark enterprise storage server, and the ibm db2 database. that provides a pretty good real-time model of what ibm's technology is capable of supporting. i wouldn't be surprised to see performance numbers, based on the grid's infrastructure, appearing in ibm support materials.
user comments 37 comment(s)
|hmmm… (12:42pm est wed nov 17 2004)
i like
folding.standford.edu myself.
its for a good cause too. – by voicesinmyhead#!@
|great idea (1:01pm est wed nov 17 2004)
its good to think that if something really horrible were about to happen(ex: an asteroid field was headed towards earth), and we needed a real supercomputer to handle some crazy calculations, that they can tie all the computers in the world together for the good of mankind. everyone helpin everyone… always good news – by nugget
|umm (1:02pm est wed nov 17 2004)
i dont like their licence agreement.
-"if you provide any personally identifiable information about yourself through your participation in the wcg, you give us and affilliated companies and our suppliers and others who are working on or with the wcg permission to use that information worldwide in connection with the wcg and projects under the wcg. you also agree that we can send you information, including in emails, about the wcg. "-
is that reffering to spam? so, if i gave them free resources (my unused processer cycles/disk space), i get more spam out of it? or am i just being paranoid? – by usenet33
|better cause than seti (1:14pm est wed nov 17 2004)
imo people would rather give up their computer idle time to cure diseases and such than to look for aliens from outerspace. – by caliber fx
|seti & wcg (1:40pm est wed nov 17 2004)
can we use our computer for finding cures for alien diseases? – by i hope so
|i just wish… (1:41pm est wed nov 17 2004)
i just wish that they had decided to use boinc (berkeley open infrastructure for network computing) as the basis of this initiative. most other grid computing projects are migrating to boinc. i'm not going to have multiple grid computing agents competing for resources on my pc. if they move to boinc, i'll take part. otherwise i'll be sticking to supporting the many other good causes. – by hal
|very cool (1:41pm est wed nov 17 2004)
ibm is on the ball and for a great cause no less… – by nunhgrader
|i joined a long time ago. (1:43pm est wed nov 17 2004)
you can do the same project at – by cwtrex
|seti is fun (1:47pm est wed nov 17 2004)
it may be a better cause than seti, but seti is cool. you could have all kinds of real-time graphics displays on your pc while it is running.
what does ibm offer us for entertainment while it is using our computers?
i know this sounds selfish, but i'm just being realistic on why i don't think this will be as successful as the seti project. – by pragmatic
|there's always a "but!" (1:52pm est wed nov 17 2004)
it may be for a good cause, but there's always an agenda. to me this looks like one hell of a tax writeoff for ibm and united devices, as well as a marketing campaign for their products. otherwise this could have been done with many other tools that are available. – by ablejohnson
|bad cause? (2:16pm est wed nov 17 2004)
when all these cpus are processing stuff instead of sitting idle, won't they create more heat? how much heat dissapation would there be from 650 million pcs running full throttle all the time? could it lead to more global warming? – by kidding sort of
|kidding sort of (2:34pm est wed nov 17 2004)
you're right on the nose. the cpu cycles do not come for free. they come at the cost of the energy, which for modern cpus is significant. – by grover
|brian (2:36pm est wed nov 17 2004)
"a pretty simple request, especially since it's for a noble cause like finding treatments and cures for some of the world's most deadliest diseases."
hiv, malaria, sars…. they're all virus's…. not diseases.
i know… i'mma bitch… a bitch who likes to correct others. ) – by johny-d
|seti (3:00pm est wed nov 17 2004)
i have plenty of unused clock cycles baby! – by bono-apple sell out
|what the? (3:02pm est wed nov 17 2004)
at least seti is a worth while project but this is just lame. – by alf
|re: johny-d (3:09pm est wed nov 17 2004)
it takes one to know one. – by johny-disease
|re: grover (3:14pm est wed nov 17 2004)
quoting from the faq for climateprediction.net (), another grid computing project
assume a computer running 24hrs/day requires, on average, 50w of power. if 100,000 computers join the climateprediction.net project, the project will require 5,000kw of power. there are 24 hours in a day, so each day the project will consume 120,000kw-hrs, or 432,000,000kj of electrical energy.
that's a big number, so let's try and put it in perspective by calculating how much energy is necessary to boil water for a cup of tea. let's use a tiny bit of physics to do it. assuming a specific heat of water of 4.19 kj/(kg-k), 0.237kg/cup of water, a necessary temperature rise from 20 degrees celsius to 100 degrees celsius, and that only one cup of water is boiled for each cup of tea, then about 80kj/cup of energy are necessary (assuming our kettle is 100% efficient). this means that running the climateprediction.net project for one day is equivalent to boiling water for 5,400,000 cups of tea!
is five and a half million cups of tea a lot? according to the tea council, some 37 million people in the united kingdom drink, on average, 3.4 cups of tea per day. that's nearly 126 million cups of tea per day in the uk alone!!!
each day, about 23 times more energy will be spent boiling water for tea in the united kingdom than would be used by the computers involved in the climateprediction.net project. more seriously, a rough calculation suggests that 100,000 computers running 24hrs/day for one year at a power consumption of 50w will contribute approximately 0.0001% of the total amount of co2 generated in one year. this is not an insignificant amount, but seems (to us) a worthwhile investment to better understand the climate system.
|would you? (3:24pm est wed nov 17 2004)
are you the 9000 model hal? – by alf
|are you? (3:34pm est wed nov 17 2004)
are you that puppet on tv with the hand shoved in it? -) – by hal
|re: hal (4:17pm est wed nov 17 2004)
open the door hal….
this not funny, not for one minute…hal!!! – by alf
|oddly enough (4:27pm est wed nov 17 2004)
people on this site have often expressed fear and resentment at the thought of it jobs being shipped over to india, but in fact the biggest global industry in india is tea. coincidence??? – by investigate hal now!
|it'll never work (4:42pm est wed nov 17 2004)
not that i have anything against the concept of these grids, and not that i have anything against the people who believe in the concept of these grids, and not that i have anything against the companies that create these grids, but if you really think you will ever see a cure for aids, sars, hiv, sids, or even pms you're sadly mistaken. – by cynical bastard
|hal (4:49pm est wed nov 17 2004)
you must be english to come up with stats like that. a man drinking tea is one of the most effeminate things out there. also, why do english men find it necessary to strap a "carry all" around their wrists?
anyway, i agree with usenet33. there is always a hidden agenda. running a program like this or seti is opening up the gates for spam. they will sell your soul like a $10 street walker. – by some mofo
|re: cynical bastard (4:50pm est wed nov 17 2004)
i believe stem cell research and gene therapy are going to cure everything. why cure all disease when you can just engineer tougher humans?? – by geekzilla
|protein folding not so important (8:00pm est wed nov 17 2004)
even if we know how every single protein folds, what does that do? makes more sense to just concentrate on proteins we actually care about, then you can look for functional sites and design pharmaceutical agonists or antagonists. – by wasting my cycles
|anyway, (8:03pm est wed nov 17 2004)
nobody's going to believe a computer model. you need to get crystal structures before it's even close to being empirical. – by wasting my cycles
|re some mofo (10:27pm est wed nov 17 2004)
hey some mofo, im english and for a start, what the hell is a "carry all"??? i for one have never worn one let alone even seen one. and whats wrong with drinking tea? – by the english geek
|what????????????????????? (11:37pm est wed nov 17 2004)
"those results were handed over to the u.s. department of defense. "
no thank you.
– by camper x
|you know (3:53am est thu nov 18 2004)
those govenment employees, who will have to clean up your country if some terrorist creats a smallpox epidemic… – by ukgeek
|good cause. (6:39am est thu nov 18 2004)
join team "ethical computer hackers for humanity" should you decide to participate in this venture. if you want… make yourself known. – by s.k.
|where's the joke? (8:46am est thu nov 18 2004)
since when do geeks aspire to help humanity in any way?
geeks are only good as hackers- anything else is beyond us!
i mean, c'mon, look at us!
– by mr. cynic
|geekzilla (8:53am est thu nov 18 2004)
seeing as this is a geek site i feel it's pertinent to mention that the current season of star trek is spending a lot of time illustrating exactly why geneticallty engineering tougher humans is a bad idea. considering the other valuable lessons star trek has taught us in the past, such as beware of cybergenics, beware of klingons, and beware of female-oriented societies, it's good advice to follow their teachings on this issue as well. also, beware of tribbles. – by cynical bastard
|re: some mofo (12:41pm est thu nov 18 2004)
nope, not english. the climateprediction.net project is run out of the uk though. and it was the first time that i've ever seen the cost of a large grid computing project converted into dollars and environmental impact. interesting stuff. oh, and tea is good stuff. – by hal
|you all miss the point (4:02pm est thu nov 18 2004)
all this bable about the amount of energy and blah blah blah…
the point is, most of you already have your computer on. to increase the cpu usage from 5% to 100% isn't going to yeild the numbers you're talking about. your numbers all assume your computer is turned on for the sole purpose of these projects. it's not about that. it's about maximizing the energy you're already using. sure it will use a little extra energy, but is that not worth it if a cure for cancer is found? can you really put a price tag on something like that? if you want to extend it further, think of it this way…find a cure for cancer, people live longer and die of other things, which means less costly health care which means lower insurance rates. – by thechain
|re: thechain (5:07pm est thu nov 18 2004)
i didn't miss your point at all. it is a fact that many home users that participate in projects such as seti@home, folding@home, etc, have been found to leave computers on full time now, whereas they used to turn them off when not in use. but my point was that even if you turned all of those computers on just for the purposes of grid computing, it still doesn't amount to that much in the grand scheme of things. better to burn a bit of fuel supporting something worthwhile, as opposed to burning it for any of a thousand worthless things that we currently spend our money on.
– by hal
|whatever (6:57pm est thu nov 18 2004)
things like the world community grid, seti@home, folding@home, etc. and a friggin joke. the are designed to lure in sheep to run them on their machines. do you morons not realize that you are being used as an open relay for spam?!
i say shoot them all and then beat their children.
bah…bah…bah… – by wd
|u.s. department of defense (9:19am est sat nov 20 2004)
what a bunch of introspective monkeys.
any results & data from such a project should be published on the net.


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All our teachers are qualified and have experience teaching Chinese. They have a passion for helping students make the most of their time. Besides they're also very nice people!
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What did you study? Tourism Management at Jilin Engineering Normal University
What have you taught? Travel Chinese, Business Chinese,General Chinese.
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Why One to One Chinese? Teachers here are highly experienced and well-qualified. They systematically help you improve your communicative competence and develop your confidence and fluency.
What are your hobbies? Reading, Travel, Movies, Songs.
Why did you become a teacher? I'm happy that my profession is to teach Chinese to all ages. I enjoy this job so much and my happiness reaches its utmost degree when I deliver a lesson and I feel it resulted in a great effect on my students. I feel that I open windows for them and lower walls in their realm of education.
My hometown is Henan Province and now I live in Beijing. I graduated from Tianjin Foreign Studies University with English bachelor degree. My former job is an administrator in a foreign-capital enterprise in Beijing, which involves lots of communications with foreigners in the company.
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What did you study? English Language Literature at Hebei Normal University, Master's degree
What have you taught? Business Chinese, Travel Chinese, General Chinese, HSK Chinese, College English
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Why did you become a teacher? I like both Chinese and English literature, and I hope to teach foreign students how to read and write Chinese and help businessman learn more about Chinese people and culture.
I'm from Hebei Province but now am living in Beijing. I graduated from Hebei Normal University with master degree. I was once a Chinese and English teacher at a college, and then I've been working as a Chinese language teacher since theree years ago. I'm very enthusiastic in teaching Chinese and pleased to see any progress made by my students.


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One of the key benefits of intermittent fasting is the lowered insulin resistance, or increased insulin sensitivity, that can be gained. Over 180 million people across the world use cannabis in some way, many of them doing so chronically.1A concern that chronic cannabis users may be curious about, is whether or not cannabis use affects insulin sensitivity. There is not a large amount of research on this, but some current research suggests that marijuana usage may be associated with lower insulin resistance and potentially lower body mass index. Given some of the potential benefits of cannabis, such as potential improvements in creativity, and changes in mood, it is important to take into account potential undesired effects when considering whether or not to use cannabis.
In general, there is a lot of scientific evidence suggesting that intermittent fasting can be beneficial for increasing insulin sensitivity. Studies have shown that in both animals and humans, intermittent fasting could lead to higher activation of insulin-like growth factor activity, which is positively correlated with insulin sensitivity.2,3Further, research has shown that intermittent fasting would significantly increase glucose uptake in the bloodstream.3Read more about the metabolic benefits of intermittent fasting here.
The effects of marijuana consumption on insulin sensitivity have not been widely studied, but one recent study on 4657 subjects is of interest. In this study, 579 were current marijuana users, 1975 were past marijuana users, and the rest were controls. The subjects were followed over a time period of 5 years (2005-2010) via self report surveys and glucose and insulin level measurements. It was found that marijuana usage was correlated with 16% lower fasting insulin levels, which is a proxy for insulin resistance (P<0.0001, average of 10.1 mU/mL for people who never used marijuana vs. average of 7.5 mU/mL for current users of marijuana). Furthermore, this study also used the Homeostatic Model Assessment (HOMA) model of Insulin Resistance to assess the groups of patients, and found that by this measure there was a lower amount of insulin resistance / higher insulin sensitivity in the people using marijuana compared to those did not. The HOMA model is a mathematical formula taking into account physiological parameters including production rates of insulin and changes in blood levels of insulin and glucose over time, and has been used in over 500 publications. Thus, it is promising to see this trend with the HOMA model in relation to marijuana use.
What is also interesting is that in this study the marijuana users also exhibited lower average body mass index (BMI) (P<0.0001).4However, the relationship between marijuana usage and BMI is unclear as there are studies that have suggested that marijuana does not significantly change BMI,5as well as studies that suggested that marijuana leads to significant reductions in BMI.6,7
An important study indicates a potential drawback of diabetes. In a study involving 2,676 individuals, an association was found between marijuana usage and prediabetes. It was found that over half of all people who did not have prediabetes or diabetes at the start of the study, ended up developing prediabetes during the follow-up period (average of 13.8 years follow-up ((51%; n=1,410)).8Note that prediabetes is defined as fasting glucose 5.6–6.9 mmol/L (100 – 125 mg/dL), 2 h glucose post OGTT 7.8–11.0 mmol/L, or HbA1c 5.7–6.4%, whereas diabetes is typically defined as having a fasting blood glucose > 126 mg/DL, 2 h glucose post OGTT > 11 mmol/L (>200 mg/dL), or HbA1c > 6.5%.9
Marijuana usage has been found to be associated with increased visceral body fat (P<0.05), compared to control subjects, in a study involving 30 marijuana users (using for an average of 9.5 years, and 6 joints per day) and 30 controls.10However, in this study, there was not a significant association of marijuana usage with insulin resistance, BMI, or fasting levels of glucose, insulin, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, or free fatty acids (FFA).
In a study involving 30 marijuana users and 30 controls, it was found that marijuana users had significantly higher amounts of visceral body fat, but similar levels of total body fat and hepatic fat as non-users.
All in all, due to some conflicting research papers, as well as relative dearth of large-scale studies on physiological changes with respect to insulin sensitivity and other metabolic correlates, future research should focus on teasing out how all of these factors relate to each other in large populations.
Some of the short-term side effects of marijuana include short-term memory disturbances, anxiety, lowered reaction time, problems with coordination and sexual dysfunction.11Longer-term side effects include decline in IQ, increased cortisol levels12,13, disruption of the menstrual cycle14, and decreased prolactin levels13.
While there are studies that show that marijuana usage has been correlated with favorable metabolic trends with respect to weight loss and insulin resistance, there are some potential undesired effects with respect to hormonal changes and cognitive changes that are important to be aware of. Usage of marijuana should be assessed on a case by case basis by the potential user. Note that marijuana is only legalized in certain parts of the world.
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Brandhorst, S., Choi, I. Y., Wei, M., Cheng, C. W., Sedrakyan, S., Navarrete, G., ... & Di Biase, S. (2015). A periodic diet that mimics fasting promotes multi-system regeneration, enhanced cognitive performance, and healthspan. Cell metabolism, 22(1), 86-99.
Halberg, N., Henriksen, M., Söderhamn, N., Stallknecht, B., Ploug, T., Schjerling, P., & Dela, F. (2005). Effect of intermittent fasting and refeeding on insulin action in healthy men. Journal of Applied Physiology, 99(6), 2128-2136.
Penner, E. A., Buettner, H., & Mittleman, M. A. (2013). The impact of marijuana use on glucose, insulin, and insulin resistance among US adults. The American journal of medicine, 126(7), 583-589.
Rodondi, N., Pletcher, M. J., Liu, K., Hulley, S. B., & Sidney, S. (2006). Marijuana use, diet, body mass index, and cardiovascular risk factors (from the CARDIA study). The American journal of cardiology, 98(4), 478-484.
Smit, E., & Crespo, C. J. (2001). Dietary intake and nutritional status of US adult marijuana users: results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Public health nutrition, 4(03), 781-786.
Le Strat, Y., & Le Foll, B. (2011). Obesity and cannabis use: results from 2 representative national surveys. American journal of epidemiology, kwr200.
Bancks, M. P., Pletcher, M. J., Kertesz, S. G., Sidney, S., Rana, J. S., & Schreiner, P. J. (2015). Marijuana use and risk of prediabetes and diabetes by middle adulthood: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. Diabetologia, 58(12), 2736-2744.
American Diabetes Association. (2015). 2. Classification and diagnosis of diabetes. Diabetes care, 38(Supplement 1), S8-S16.
Muniyappa, R., Sable, S., Ouwerkerk, R., Mari, A., Gharib, A. M., Walter, M., ... & Kunos, G. (2013). Metabolic effects of chronic cannabis smoking. Diabetes Care, 36(8), 2415-2422.
Julien, R. M. (2013). A primer of drug action: A concise nontechnical guide to the actions, uses, and side effects of psychoactive drugs, revised and updated. Holt Paperbacks.
Kirkham, T. C. (2009). Cannabinoids and appetite: food craving and food pleasure. International Review of Psychiatry, 21(2), 163-171.
Klumpers, L. E., Cole, D. M., Khalili-Mahani, N., Soeter, R. P., te Beek, E. T., Rombouts, S. A., & van Gerven, J. M. (2012). Manipulating brain connectivity with δ 9-tetrahydrocannabinol: a pharmacological resting state FMRI study. Neuroimage, 63(3), 1701-1711.
National Institute on Drug Abuse, & United States of America. (1995). Marijuana: Facts Parents Need to Know.
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Harvest Honors Multiplayer
It is time for you to go and get the rest of the family so you can go into the fields and harvest all the food that you have been waiting for so you can take it to the farmers' market and make some lovely money. You should ensure that you get enough money so you can buy supplies and also some gifts for the family; a new pair of boots for your son, a lovely frock for the daughter and a lovely ring for the missus. This is a free online gems game that has a tale to tell even as you play it. You get to create a set of 3 or more tiles with the image of the same vegetable, and they are removed from the game, however, once the tiles are removed, they are added to your harvest and you can see how you are doing by looking at the interface. When the level is up, you can then sell the produce and get your total points for the level. This is quite an interesting feature of the game. You also get to remove the tiles when they are in combos and this will earn you more in terms of the amount of crops that you harvest. Combos increase your score substantially so you can get more produce added as bonus. A combo score is made when the tiles are removed and the ones that fall in end up forming another set; the set is created without further interaction with the game and this is why you get bonus scores when you play this type of strategic game,. You end up winning big; see if you can win against your opponent, who happens to be on the other side of the game waiting to see if you are as good a farmer as you claim to be.


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Our First Liturgy in Rolla
Last Saturday morning we celebrated our first Divine Liturgy in Rolla. It was a lot of work to get ready for it – building an altar, a temporary iconostasis (four icon panels), cleaning the building, baking the prosphora (bread), and so on – but it was worth it. Walking into an Orthodox church building that has…
Photo: Freshly Baked Prosphora
Photo: Altar in Progress
Received: Altar Tabernacle & Lampadas
On Friday last week we received a beautiful altar tabernacle from Fr. Daniel Mathewson and Nativity of the Theotokos Orthodox Church in Coaldale, PA. Fr. Daniel messaged us a couple months ago after he saw the website and asked if we could use one – we're thrilled to receive it as they…
Received: A Plethora of Liturgical Items
Yesterday after Liturgy at St. Thomas, Mother Sergia said she and Mother Alexandra had some things they wanted to give to the mission effort in Rolla. They then proceeded to have three large boxes of …
Received: Chalice Set & Censer
This afternoon we are very grateful to have received the new chalice set from St. Tikhon's Monastery and used censer from Fr. Elijah Bremer. These liturgical items were received thanks to the new and very necessary ministry of St. Tikhon's seminarians Theophan Mackey and Gregory Levitsky called Elijah's Mantle.


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Hi lovely, I'm Stella. Your 'Bringer of Peace'. I'm a writer/poet, soul healer, Priestess & experienced teacher of soothing yoga & meditation.
I combine rebalancing a stress-overloaded nervous system with grounded spiritual practices to provide balm for the soul, to help you reclaim profound peace, clarity and confidence: I'll guide you home to your soul.
I'm also a nature-lover; a moon-gazer; a tree-hugger; a cloud-watcher; and a highly sensitive person.
I work with sensitive, intuitive women like you, who feel overwhelmed, frustrated and misunderstood and I help you to experience the inner peace and calm confidence you yearn for, so you can access your inner wisdom and turn your soul's whispers into action.
I'll guide you to reconnect to the inner intuitive guidance available to you through the sacred temple of your body; the wise whispers of your heart and soul; and the divine feminine energies of the seasons and cycles of life as a grounded spiritual practice.
And in doing so you'll find clarity of mind, grounded inner peace, self-acceptance, a confident mindset, spiritual nourishment, and you'll feel in flow with life.
I take a grounded spiritual approach to emotional healing and self-empowerment based on what I have studied, learned and practised on my own journey over these last 20 years. I am a Priestess of the Goddess Brighid (in training), an experienced Dru Meditation & Yoga teacher, a writer (author of 'Peace Lies Within'), and an energy worker/healer through energy medicine techniques, energy tapping (aka Energy Emotional Freedom Technique or Energy EFT) and Elemental Healing.
~ Let me guide you home to your soul so you can live with peace and purpose ~
I see you…
Beloved soul. I see you.
I see your divine radiance … the light within your heart with its infinite capacity for healing, guidance and compassion.
Peace lies within you. Radiance shines from every cell. You are divine!
But I know that sometimes you feel sad and frustrated at not feeling quite good enough, and sometimes you feel overwhelmed and misunderstood and can't see the way forward… I see this, because I've experienced this myself.
- You feel your emotions deeply and can often feel overwhelmed by the intensity of your own thoughts and emotions;
- You pick up on other people's energies and moods and you tend to be very aware of the subtleties in your environment – which can sometimes feel like a gift and other times like a curse;
- You feel the pain in the world of greed, cruelty, intolerance, rampant consumerism and environmental destruction;
- You feel frustrated and misunderstood, like you're the only person you know who feels all these complex feelings so intensely.
You yearn to feel calm, peaceful & relaxed and at ease in your own skin, instead all too often you feel anxious/depressed.
How do I know? Because I know that, like me, you're a highly sensitive woman… and this is how we can feel!
Let me help you, radiant woman. For I know that deep within you, you know what you need to shine with peaceful confidence. You just need to remember…
So, please know, dear one, that you are not alone. I am here for you.
The sensitive, radiant souls who are already in my online and Hampshire UK-based communities are here for you too.
Like us, you probably also love spending quiet-time thinking, dreaming, and reflecting (when you can get it!); find comfort in being in nature and feeling that beautiful sense of how all of life is connected; and love connecting to the unseen world of soul and spirit and the longings and wisdom of the heart.
And now you're ready to reclaim the peaceful joy that is your birthright. You're ready to make space in your life for healing rest and reflection. You're ready to act on the wise whispers of your soul.
Yes? Then let us welcome you home. It's time to come home to your soul.
I believe…
I believe that the epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression in Western cultures is due to a profound sense of disconnection.
We've disconnected from our bodies: our need for movement and rest and we've disconnected from the messages our bodies are constantly giving us through emotions and intuitive feeling, and instead we've got stuck in our fretful minds and the voice of our inner critic and worrying about what other people think.
We've disconnected from the natural rhythms, energies and ebbs and flows of the menstrual cycle, the lunar cycle and the cycles and seasons of the year.
We've disconnected from meaningful spiritual practices which are grounded in place and time and the web of life.
We've disconnected from the joy of simple, sustainable living in accordance with nature and become programmed to believe that doing and busy-ness and achieving and winning and growing and consuming more, more, more of everything is the way to happiness.
It's not.
It's the path to burnout and ill health … via stress, anxiety and depression.
So I believe that in our stressed, pressured, busy culture we need space and time to be; to reconnect to our bodies; to reconnect to our breath; to reintegrate body, mind and soul; and to quieten the din of external stimuli and our anxious, analysing noisy mind so we can hear the inner intuitive voice of wisdom guiding us to reconnect to our own needs; the natural rhythms and cycles of the day, month and year; and to live radiant, joyful lives based on meaningful connection.
This is how I try to live my life and it's brought me so much more contentment and fulfillment now I embrace who I am: an eternal, radiant soul born into this highly sensitive, cyclic female body.
And I'd love for you to feel this same sense of coming home. Of reconnection to something that was there all along: the guidance of your sensitive, loving heart and soul, and the guidance of the natural rhythms and cycles of the moon and the seasons which will show you how to live your life in a state of flow (instead of resistance and stress and low energy).
I'd love for you to embrace your sensitivity, connect to flow and live life radiantly!
My story
My journey to this place came from a place of stress and anxiety – and from being highly sensitive (and not realizing I was).
I've been deeply stressed and anxious, and experienced the sweaty palms, dodgy digestion, chronic tension and lack of sleep which can come with it. I've lacked confidence and not loved myself nor trusted my intuition – not even hearing it, blocking it out through the noise of my busy mind and lack of self-trust.
But I've come through. Movement, rest and meditation as well as charting my menstrual cycle and connecting to the elements and energies of nature was and is my lifeline to move from stress to peace, from tension to relaxation, from confusion to clarity and from self-judgement to self-love and acceptance.
Let me tell you how it started.
Sensitive and misunderstood
A sensitive child, I loved my own company. I loved to read or to stare at the clouds. I loved to create music. But as I grew up I never quite felt I fitted into the norms of society. I was called shy – but knew deep inside that this wasn't true: I just liked to watch and listen to those around me and take it all in and contribute when I felt I had something meaningful to say (to this day I'm pretty crap at small talk, hey, life's too short!).
I realize now this discomfort in my own skin was about being highly sensitive in a culture which doesn't seem to value emotions, intuition, soulfulness, quirkiness. School didn't understand me. I had no idea how to take my place in the world. I didn't know what career I should have. I was academically gifted but then got rejected from all unis I applied for – I didn't shine in interviews because I had internalised the label "shy" and felt I couldn't show myself because I didn't know who I was.
Lost and confused
I went to University (twice – BA Hons in English and an MSc Econ in Information and Library Studies) and wound up a librarian – a noble profession if that's your calling, but it didn't let me be me: to sing my song, to shine my light and unique gifts in this world.
I didn't know how to take my place in a world which valued loud, extrovert team players; where being successful meant climbing the ladder, stomping over other people and accruing material goods as a badge of success. I was creative, quiet, reflective and artistic.
So, through my 20s and into my early 30s I spent a lot of time feeling I was wasting my life. I wound up working in web content and internal communications – communicating with people from behind a web page or computer screen.
But I wanted to give, to help. I wanted to do something creative. I wanted to feel free and in charge of my life and my destiny. I didn't like myself in this state. I was negative, stressed, snippy, cynical. Always looking on the negative side.
I experienced varying degrees of depression, anxiety and stress, which led to IBS, all under-pinned by feeling ill-at-ease in my body and a sense of low confidence.
Beginnings of transformation
Looking back now, I can see that discovering yoga was the beginning of my transformation. I first discovered it in 2000 aged 25, not long after I'd moved to a new city (Cardiff) where I knew no-one, for my first professional job in a large organisation.
I was tense, anxious, self-conscious and seriously stiff and inflexible and totally disconnected from my body.
But slowly and surely, I felt years of suppression being released from my body – it came through as a lot of anger and tears! I realized how much I disliked myself. For no apparent reason I had such strong feelings of not being good enough.
Yoga helped me peel back the layers of physical tension, through the holding of my breath, to the self-sabotaging critical thoughts… It was like therapy using my body and breath to reveal my soul.
Yoga helps me through
I attended weekly class, then from around 2005 I started to go on weekend and week-long retreats, I practised daily, and my interest in yoga began to deepen.
I discovered yoga as a way of life: a path to navigate the demands, stresses and busyness of my life.
It helped me stretch and relax my body, to find self-acceptance and peace of mind and offered a philosophy to guide me through life.
And in 2009 I discovered Dru Yoga – and came home.
At first it felt "easy" and like I wasn't doing much. But quickly I felt and fell in love with the subtlety of Dru Yoga. The heart-opening, soul-nourishing, empowerment of reintegrating body, mind, emotions and soul.
The more physically demanding styles of yoga I'd experienced before often hit my "not good enough" button. But with Dru I felt good. I felt seen. I felt at home. It was accessible. It was full of heart and soul. It fed my soul. It let me hear the whisperings of my inner guide.
Dru Yoga became my life-line and my passion. I decided I wanted to help others to come home to themselves to find the ease of body and mind I had found in yoga.
So in April 2010 I began to train to become a Dru Yoga teacher (qualifying in 2012) and in 2011 I founded Living Yoga with Stella to teach yoga and meditation to ease anxiety and stress and to share my love of writing through my blog.
And to this day this is why I love Dru Yoga & Meditation. It connects me to my heart and intuition – my sixth sense. It helps me to connect to joy; to stillness; to silliness; to laughter; to love; to all living things; to my sensitive soul; to source (which I experience as a vast, benevolent, life-giving light).
But over recent years I've felt my own practices and approaches changing.
I've felt called to connect in a different way.
To connect to the inner guidance of my menstrual cycle; to follow the waxing and waning rhythms of the lunar month and the seasons of the year. To honour the divine feminine principles of flow and cycles. To explore freedom of movement because the structures of yoga which were codified by men often don't feel nurturing for this highly sensitive female body (though the unique Dru Yoga sequences are beautifully flowing and nurturing).
Here's why…
Discovering high sensitivity and menstrual cycle awareness
In 2015 I read two books which changed my life.
The first was The Highly Sensitive Person by Dr Elaine N. Aron.
The second was Code Red by Lisa Lister.
So, let's start with the trait of high sensitivity. Sensory Processing Sensitivity is a trait shared by 15-20% of the entire population (and all higher mammals).
This means having a nervous system which is more sensitive to your surroundings and stimuli. In practice this means a tendency to be very aware of the subtleties in your environment, picking up on other people's moods, needing quiet-time on very busy days, being sensitive to caffeine, being overwhelmed by loud noises, bright lights, strong smells, coarse fabrics, startling easily, having a rich inner life. Sound like you? Then you're probably a highly sensitive person (HSP) too.
Oh, this is SO me! Reading the book, I felt this explained so much of my life – the feeling of not fitting in, of needing to withdraw and have quiet-time. Because, let's be frank, we don't live in a world which values quiet, thoughtful, kind sensitivity do we?
And I have an intuitive feeling that those of us who often feel anxious, tired, and over-whelmed are probably HSP and shouldn't judge ourselves for feeling this way. If this is you too, realize it's simply that your nervous system becomes overwhelmed more quickly than others'.
And this is why I practise and share techniques to slow down, reconnect to your body and breath; to ground your energy and connect to inner peace and heart guidance through meditation. Because this safe, loving, calming space is what HSPs need to thrive and come to accept their sensitivity for the gift it is.
And at the end of 2015 I read Code Red by Lisa Lister and discovered the power of my menstrual cycle. As she puts it: "know your flow, unlock your monthly super powers and create a bloody amazing life. Period." Great advice indeed!
This offered another profound moment of awakening: why didn't I already know this? Why wasn't I taught about the natural and powerful ebbs and flows of the menstrual cycle? Why had I been disconnected from this ancient blood wisdom which flows through all women?
I got angry.
And inspired.
And I've been charting my menstrual cycle since the beginning on 2016 – every day I know which part of my cycle I'm at and make a note of the feelings and emotions I'm experiencing.
I know my cycle. I know my own ebbs and flows. It's empowering. (I know that around day 25 I'll likely feel like everything's going to shit and I can't be bothered anymore – and I know that this will pass and I don't take any important decisions based on this feeling!).
Reclaiming my connection
So, since 2015 I've been living differently. I've been recognising and honouring the cyclic nature of life, and of life as a woman – and a highly sensitive one at that.
I've been attentive to the seasons as they change. I've been marking the Celtic Wheel of the Year: the summer and winter solstices, the spring and autumn equinoxes, Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas and Samhain. I've been following the cycles of the moon phases. And I've been honouring the cyclic nature of being a woman: the monthly cycle. And alongside this I've been watching and noticing the ebb and flow of my high sensitivity and how it interacts with these cycles.
I've also become drawn to feeling and working with the subtle energies of the body through the energy block release sequences of Dru Yoga; energy healing with Jikiden Reiki; and improving emotional and energetic understanding and flow through Energy Medicine and Energy Emotional Freedom Technique.
And in the last few years I've felt my soul calling me more deeply to honour the feminine principles of flow and rhythm … calling me to the Goddess. To the Goddess Brighid to be precise – and I am now Her Priestess.
And what has all of this brought me?
It's brought me home.
It's brought me in touch with Mother Earth and the cycle of the moon, months and seasons.
It's brought me in touch with my needs and has connected me to my inner landscape.
It's brought me home to my sensitive nature and to love how I can tune into the subtle energies of the shift in light and energy in nature and the shifts of my energy and focus as they change throughout each month and season.
It's a reclaiming. A tuning in. A recalibration.
A reclaiming of my inner power and wisdom – to deeply know what I need to allow myself and give myself to nurture and honour my needs.
It's brought me in touch with my power as a woman: cyclic, wise and intuitive.
It's reminded me (what I intuitively saw as a sensitive teenager but almost forgot) that this planet is not a resource to be used up and wrung dry. All living beings and systems are intimately connected – even if most of humanity seems to be ignoring that inconvenient truth.
We are part of nature. Its rhythms and flows are our rhythms and flows – and reconnecting to them offers us the medicine we need to heal from the depression, anxiety and stress which so many of us (particularly sensitives) feel.
And this is what I wish for you too.
What I wish for you
I'd love for you:
- To understand and embrace your sensitivity so you can thrive in this often insensitive world.
- To feel your body, mind and soul are connected and to help you feel at home there.
- To know that you can rebalance your nervous system, release tension from your body and feel at ease and relaxed in body and mind.
- To connect to the monthly cycle and flows of your menstrual cycle and the lunar energy cycle (if you don't or you no longer menstruate you can attune to the lunar monthly cycle).
- To come home to the natural world and honour the cycles and seasons and their energies and gifts of connection as a grounded, embodied spiritual practice.
Above all, I want to empower you to feel grounded, empowered and living in sacred connection with your sensitive body and soul and the natural rhythms, cycles and flow of life.
Is this what you'd like in your life?
Here's how I can help
I am currently realigning how I work to focus very clearly on being a guide to fellow sensitive soulful women to empower you to understand, care for and love your sensitive body, and to reconnect to and live in accordance with the rhythms and flows of the cycles and seasons in order to come home to themselves and a more natural way of living.
In the meantime this is what I offer as in-person teaching, in the Southampton area, Hampshire, UK:
Soul Space: Let your soul speak to you
Step off the treadmill of modern life and into a magical space of reconnection. Connect to the wise whispers of your soul and come home to yourself, with these grounding, inspiring and uplifting monthly seasonal events in Wickham, Hampshire, UK. Find out about Soul Space Events.
Soul Rest Yoga Nidra Class: Spend some time simply being
Spend time simply being with Soul Rest Yoga Nidra, a monthly Yoga Nidra class in Horton Heath, near Eastleigh, first Monday morning of the month AND last Tuesday evening of the month in Bishopstoke, near Eastleigh. Find out more about Soul Rest here.
Weekly Dru Yoga & Meditation class to feel more positive, peaceful & present
I run a calming weekly yoga class in Horton Heath near Eastleigh, Hampshire, you can see my current timetable here
'Peace Lies Within' book
Read my first book 'Peace Lies Within: 108 ways to tame your mind and connect to inner peace' available in print and as an ebook. In this book you'll learn ways to tame that busy, fretful mind so you can feel less stressed and more resilient, centered and calm.
Stress Relief for Sensitives Tool Kit & Ebook
Pathways to peace when your feelings & the world overwhelm you. A tool kit of videos and audio recordings of techniques to find relief from stress, tailored to your needs of a highly sensitive person. Stress Relief for Sensitives Tool Kit.
Soul Wisdom' blog
I've been blogging since 2011 so there is lots of wisdom to inspire and help you here. Visit the blog.
My certifications & courses
- Dru Yoga Teacher Training: 200 hour teacher training course (Dip DYT) with the International School of Dru Yoga, April 2010-April 2012.
- Postgraduate Back Care Foundation Course with the International School of Dru Yoga (March – May 2013).
- Dru Meditation Teacher Training with International School of Dru Yoga. (November 2014 – July 2016.)
- Restorative Yoga Teacher Training (30-hour immersion, September 2016) with Adelene Cheong, Senior Assistant to Judith Hanson Lasater. Certified Restorative Yoga Teacher.
- Hormone Harmony (Red School Online) 2017.
- Menstrual Cycle Literacy (Red School Online) 2017-18.
- Jikiden Reiki Zenki (Shoden) Attuned – July 2017, certified by the Jikiden Reiki Institute.
- Energy Emotional Freedom Technique Foundation (Guild of Energists), November 2017.
- Energy Emotional Freedom Technique Master Practitioner (Guild of Energists), April – June 2018.
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Does Calif. Republican Scott Jones 'want to build a wall' and 'deport folks' ?
Democratic Congressman Ami Bera has repeatedly described his Republican challenger's immigration stance as "extreme," saying it compares with Donald Trump's.
Bera tried to draw that connection again during a recent interview with Capital Public Radio, in which he said Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones "wants to build a wall" and "wants to round people up and deport folks."
Bera and Jones are in a tight race for suburban Sacramento County's 7th Congressional District.
Here's Bera's recent statement in context:
"I mean this is a guy Scott Jones who's extreme, extreme on immigration. You know he wants to build a wall. He wants to round people up and deport folks and yeah I'm worried that Scott Jones and Donald Trump are right there in tandem on immigration and I disagree with that approach."
In May, Jones said he planned to vote for Trump for president. Three months later, he said he did not know who he would vote for. Bera is backing Hillary Clinton.
We decided to fact check whether Jones "wants to build a wall," and whether he "wants to round people up and deport folks."
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Asked to back up the "build a wall" assertion, the Bera campaign pointed to a widely-viewed November 2014 video in which Jones calls on President Obama to reform immigration. Jones made the video weeks after Sacramento County Sheriff's Deputy Danny Oliver was killed during a shooting rampage by an undocumented immigrant who had been deported twice.
At the end, Jones says: "An American patriot, Ronald Reagan, once told Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' to preserve democracy and secure safety and freedom for a nation. Mr. President, I'm asking you to build up that wall for the very same reasons."
Scott Jones makes the "build up that wall" comment at the 7:00 minute mark in the video above.
Jack Pitney, professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College and former Republican National Committee staffer, said "it's a stretch" to say Jones was advocating for the same massive wall along the Southern border that Trump has since called for.
"It's an exaggeration of what (Jones) has said in the past," Pitney said, adding it's not exactly clear what Jones meant by "build up that wall."
In the "Immigration Reform Plan" released by the Jones campaign last month, Jones called for a "combination of beefed-up border patrols, increased fencing and technology, and certain consequences for illegal entry will help us keep America safe," to secure the border.
A spokesman for the Jones campaign said in a statement: "Sheriff Scott Jones has never advocated for building a wall on the entirety of the Southern Border."
"Round people up and deport folks"
To back up its claim that Jones wants to "round people up and deport folks," the Bera campaign pointed to Jones' support for the federal Davis-Oliver bill.
That legislation, according to a Washington Post article, would authorize state and local governments to enforce federal immigration law and direct money to help in that effort. It would also punish localities that have created "sanctuary cities," where illegal immigrants need not fear being arrested for their immigration status.
It is named after the Sacramento County deputy killed in 2014, and Placer County Detective Michael Davis, Jr., who was also killed in the rampage.
Trump specifically mentioned and supported that bill during his immigration policy speech in August. The Bera campaign says the bill would "amount to a strategy for comprehensive mass deportation."
Pitney said linking Jones to the federal bill shows the Bera campaign has "at least a smidgen of documentation" to back up part of its claim. The professor noted, however, that deportations are common under Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
Jones has not called "for the mass deportation of those in our country illegally," his campaign said.
In his reform plan, Jones says: "All immigrants currently living here illegally should be given a pathway to legal status, provided they register and pass criminal background checks. Working immigrants should be allowed to stay and support their families, pay taxes, and live out of the shadows."
When the Sacramento Bee asked Jones in January about his immigration stance, he responded: "No. 1, you are not going to deport 11 million people. I wouldn't even advise you do that because by and large they are productive members of our community. They deserve more than what we are giving them despite the fact that they are here illegally. I would advocate for a pathway to legal status for each and every one of them."
In the 2014 video, Jones also said he was open to a pathway to citizenship for the nation's undocumented immigrants.
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Congressman Ami Bera said his Republican challenger Scott Jones "wants to build a wall. He wants to round people up and deport folks."
There's some truth to that: In a 2014 video, Jones calls on President Obama to reform immigration and to "build up that wall," to "preserve democracy and secure safety and freedom for a nation."
The statement hints at Jones' possible preference for border security. But his official immigration reform plan released last month calls for "increased fencing and technology," and doesn't mention the word "wall."
Bera's next claim that Jones wants to deport people might be technically correct: Jones has called for deporting undocumented immigrants "who have committed serious crimes."
Bera's overall statement is partially accurate. But it makes too broad a connection between Jones and Trump, who's called for deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, not just those who have committed major crimes while in the United States. Bera ignores this key context.
We rate his claim Half True.
HALF TRUE – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.
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Creative work that drove results. Double-digit revenue growth. Throwing open the doors to reinvention.
That was the formula that propelled ten agencies to the heights of this year's Advertising Age A-List.
In looking at the winner's circle, we analyzed some of the traits that helped comprise the winners who are shaking us out of comfort zones and reshaping the advertising industry.
Blazing the way was Droga5, winning both Ad Age's and Creativity's Agency of the Year award. Described by Ad Age as "restless", Droga5 found ways to extend the reach of dynamic brands like Under Armour and Google, as well more conventional ones like insurance giant, Prudential and toilet paper manufacturer, Great Northern. The marketplace embraced Droga's creativity as seen by several new client wins which contributed to a jump in revenue growth from $78 million in 2014 to $126 million.
Double-digit growth was a factor common to all members of the A-List ranging from a low end of 10 percent (McCann/VML) to a high of 62 percent (Droga). A-Listers were able to ratchet up their growth through organic, as well high profile client wins.
The ability to inspire new and innovative ideas was also on display in this year's round-up. In 2015, Los Angeles based 72andSunny expanded its in-house incubator, 72U, while launching Brand Citizenship, an offering that connects with consumers on a cause to build brand love. R/GA partnered with Owlet, a product of its own "accelerator program," to develop a sock that monitors infant's vital signs. Already it has been attributed with saving three lives. These are tremendous ideas that serve as industry benchmarks.
Beyond the A-List, was another group of agencies that are solving client challenges and are poised to take a shot at top slots in the future. WPP creative shop Ogilvy & Mather was recognized as an Agency Stand Out for landing a piece of Coca-Cola's media business coming out of one of this year's biggest media reviews – further evidence that big, bold ideas and pushing the boundaries always prevail .
Daring to take a fearless and ambitious approach to marketing contributed to The Community's Multicultural Agency of the Year recognition. Their work for brands such as, Corona Extra and Modelo Especial, were so well-received that they've now moved into the mainstream market.
While the DGC team is very familiar with the submission process and the standard form agencies fill out is imperative, the process truly begins at early on each year. All of the winners in this issue, and in the past, had been eyeing Ad Age's A-List as soon as the prior year's results were published. It is no easy feat – a huge effort that demands excellence from all aspects and areas of agency business: creative, strategy and finance. Fostering relationships, sharing news, ideas and agency developments with Ad Age throughout the year (both on and off the record) will keep you on their radar and put you in prime position for the 2017 A-List submission.
Congratulations to all of the winners, we're especially delighted and proud that so many of our clients are on the list…you know who you are!
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We had our first ever carnival for USANA True Health Foundation Day last Saturday. We all had so much fun, and not only that, but we raised thousands for the USANA True Health Foundation.
Money raised for the USANA True Health Foundation in New Zealand goes to KidsCan, which helps our local Kiwi kids. KidsCan partners with low decile New Zealand schools to provide basics like food, clothing and health care.
We are proud to say that everyone got together to work as a team, and we managed to raise over $3,500.
USANA associate Dr. Dawn Ngatokorua's kids and Romela Quinn's niece did traditional Cook Island dancing. They even got the audience involved, teaching us a move or two! This was definitely one of the cutest and most fun parts of the event. Dawn hand-made all of the outfits and taught her kids, as well as other kids how to dance.
We had another incredibly talented little dancer doing an Indian dance. Her mum spent hours getting her ready, even painting her feet.
We also had a third dancer, the beautiful lady below. Our carnival wasn't short of fun and dancing.
There was a wide variety of delicious food. Beautifully decorated red velvet chocolate balls, Indonesian food, coffee, and Rev3 drinks. Our wonderful associate's showed us their specialty dishes and they didn't disappoint.
Bill and Jenny Huang at their teams table – the highest earning stall with snacks and their famous coffee.
We were surprised how low people could go on our limbo. We also played pin the tail on the donkey, ring toss and more.
Simone Edwards, Olivia Marks, Valeria Edwards and Desrae Popata did an amazing job with setting up the Sensé hand spa and pampering everyone. We were blown away by their set-up.
The best part was seeing everyone enjoying themselves. The laughs and smiles were contagious and made all the hard work and contributions behind the scenes worth it.
It doesn't stop there. There were beautiful hand-made items, hena, and even a raffle.
A massive thank you to everyone who helped make this day a success.
Thanks to our AWESOME associates. You got together, gave your time, put in so much work and donated so much. Not only are you great entrepreneurs, but we saw such a variety of skills and creativeness come out. You gave so much to make this event possible.
Thank you to the families who came along and helped raise money for KidsCan and added to the positive atmosphere. We heard the parents could have even had more fun than the kids!
A big thank you to our corporate staff. It was completely optional to help out for this carnival and our USANA New Zealand staff generously volunteered on their day off to help the event run smoothly and clean up afterwards. Not only did they come along to help out, they even brought along family to help out too. Thanks to our extended USANA family.
Thank you to our behind the scenes helper, Gabriel. Not only did our associate Sunday Tsoi organise some amazing stalls, but her son Gabriel offered a big helping hand to corporate behind the scenes. From blowing up balloons to creating a music playlist for the event. We can't thank him enough.
Sunday Tsoi and her son Gabriel
All and all, we're very happy with how our carnival went. Not only did we raise thousands to give back to our local kids, but we had an awesome time while doing it. We worked together, worked hard and laughed even harder. Most of all, we did it as a USANA team.
Check out more photos of the event here. Tag your photos with #THFcarnival on social media so that we can check out your photos too!
Written by Monique Sparks
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What a nice summer it was with the light traffic on the way to work…I really got spoiled. Usually it took me about 45 minutes to get to work and at the most was an hour.
Today it hit me that we were back to the real world. I left at (approx) 7:05 and didn't get to work until just after 8:30. It's insane. It put me in such an annoyed mood but of course things could be worse and I calmed myself most of it with my Keane cd.
I can't wait until the day we can move even just a little bit closer.


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Amazingly little. But let's think a bit.
You can hear part of the track here. When the song hits YouTube Oct 30th, I'll update this.
The song has one of those classic U2 ballad sounds I think, from what I can hear. Swelling tunes with a choral chorus! So does that mean we are getting more of the same from U2?
I have a feeling this may end up a b-side or lone release single. Given the purpose – a very specific soundtrack setting a very specific mood and tone – I have to believe this was done outside of the current incarnation of the album.
That said, it also adds another bit of information. Despite a change in producers, or maybe that should be an addition to a litany of producers in the last five years, U2 is still U2 at the end of the day. This album coming is going to be very U2. The question is how far from the centre line that defines their sound, will they go? I'm guessing on at least two tracks that will mean some real risks. I'm also thinking we might get some stripped down, clean, bare songs.
And since I am in wish list mode, I really hope for a couple of angry, kick-ass, modern, War-like tracks. Blowout punk rock blasts. Not holding my breath there though. Something that will kill on tour. I can dream. So there!!
Any thoughts out there?
Other interesting items of late:
A recent photo/video shoot in Ireland (Bray) here – given that you can JUST hear Desire, it might be for the Rattle and Hum anniversary rather than the new album.
Another pic:
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Thanks AtU2 and Alex Schweigert for some info, pics and video!!


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The harbor district of San Pedro turns out to be just as jam-packed with dangerous criminals, clueless cops and variously complicit citizens as anywhere else in Wambaugh's storied Hollywood Division.
Young and ambitious, Sgt. Thaddeus Hawthorne of Hollywood Vice thinks he sees a way to put pressure on Hector Cozzo, an errand boy for a gang that's smuggling and prostituting illegals: Persuade the surfer officer universally known as Jetsam to use his amputated foot to ingratiate himself with a shadowy Russian associate with a fixation on amputations. If this sounds like a crazy idea, it's no goofier than what goes on during a normal Hollywood shift. A fight among superhero panhandlers leads to the hot pursuit of a purse snatcher. A domestic violence call discloses a kinky sex contract gone wrong. A homeless man beds down in a dumpster that's already hosting a corpse. In the middle of this junkyard, a flower struggles to bloom: the unlikely romance between Lita Medina Flores, an incoming Mexican illegal hired to dance even though she's a terrible dancer, and Dinko Babich, the old school friend Hector pays to deliver her to Club Samara. When Lita sees and hears one detail too many about the deaths of a dozen Asian women in a cargo container, Dinko helps her escape and stashes her in his mother's house as Hector's seriously ruffled bosses start looking for her. The sideshow acts Wambaugh presents mix legal justice and rough justice, laughter and tears, so inventively that it's hard to tell until the very end who'll come out on top.
A welcome recovery from the middling Hollywood Hills (2010), with enough juice for one wild miniseries.