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Depression treatment in homeopathy
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At this time, I don't have much anxiety but am emotionally more or less flat, feel sleepy all the time and am obsessive about my problem. Has
worked for anyone
the long run and can anyone give hope that I will get out of this rut?
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Hi, has anyone tried
for dealing with anxiety and
? I just started seeing a homeopath this week and he gave me a remedy that I have been taken for 4 days. He put something in it to give me the immediate benefit of better sleep (and it's working!), but since this is a holistic treatment I know my body has to heal itself, and so it'll take time to see my anxiety and depression improve. But I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this sort of thing.
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hi im trying out
for my panic attacks and anxiety anyone know if its allowed to drink lavender or honey balm tea?
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I've been under natrum muriaticum and nux vomica for a bit longer than a week and I saw some good results at first, then the dose decreased by half but my doctor said if I felt anxious I increased the frequency by as much as I needed, like 5 times in 1 hour and that would help but I don't know, I feel like I've been going backwards with feelings like the first times(horrible times) and like I can't control it anymore like I felt I could the first few days the treatment started.
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Those psychological attributes of people, sometimes go against what is known about medical science and common sense.
is one such case. If it is true, then what we know about chemistry cannot be. If it is false, which I believe it is, it is at best a benign placebo, but as you shall read in the embedded link, it is at worst a harmful form of charlatanism, perpetrated on people (and animals owned by like minded people) who are at their most vulnerable and at risk.
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I believe in an earlier post you said you would be starting Riba and Peg
January, 2012, to treat Hep C Genotype 3, correct? I don't know about the
part. I recommend that you talk to a doctor about any herbs or supplements that you might be taking as some may be contraindicated with your treatment.
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The most important thing doctors ever did was to create the modern water
system. From that point on, people living
areas with such systems have lived much longer lives. Sterilization of tools was also very important, especially in childbirth, which also lengthened life because much of the life expectancy problem was in not surviving childbirth. A lot of good has been done. But a lot of harm has also been done.
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During the course of these 3-4 years, my family doctor referred me to many specialists- nose, throat, eye, neurologist and had several tests to rule out thyroid disorder, anemia and even
the way, I was being gently coaxed to take a series of pain killers to treat the secondary symptoms of what turned out to be a more serious underlying condition. I could not help feeling like I was not being taking seriously. I had a second mammogram on March of this year.
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Can you please point some alternatives for GAD and resulted from it mild
. I am against medication. I appreciate your responses.
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I went down the natural root first and saw a homeopath but the remedies I took gave me extremely bad reactions, I felt like i'd been given a '
remedy'. I've never felt so low
all my life, i was like a shell, crying everyday which is not like me, completely desolate. At this point my family got so worried about me I went to see my doctor who put me on 50mgs of Sertraline. That was 11 weeks ago.
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John's Wort just for
, taurine for GABA, and eleuthero and ashwagandha for balancing the adrenals.
other words, a program, not just one herb. Now, you can try one herb, and it might just hit the spot. Homeopathy also helps some people. But it isn't as easy as saying, here, take this, it'll help. Only trial and error will determine if anything helps.
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please google myers cocktails and hydrogen peroxide drips, you will find lots of useful information on the benefits from these 2 therapies. any practitioner that believes in homeopathy shoiuld be familiar with this.
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Meds for acute heart conditions also affect metabolism and often the uptake of magnesium and other nutrients such as CoQ10, which can also lead to a feeling of
. Lots of factors to consider
such a complex case, and with so many acute ailments all at once, a homeopathic physician has the additional advantage of being a doctor. Good luck.
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Well, I started to get better after about a week of not having the nvaring
but I am still going thru a
period. I think that its because I consumed myself with panic, racing thoughts the whole nine that I now I dont know how to get out of it. I started therapy two weeks ago and also went back to the doctors where they put me on YAZ. Its been four days so I will see how that goes. Hormones definitely by all means have something to do with how we feel.
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Are there any
options for CRPS or RSD other than painkillers or
combination with painkillers that can help someone who has had the disease for over two years? Does anyone have a story about CRPS or RSD that has a happy ending? What are the best medications and treatment options? Any information would be a really huge help. Currently I am taking Methadone, Lyrica, Cesamet, Baclofen, Citalopram as well as Hydromorphone for breakthrough.
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It's about the other people who did NOT get SVR on their trial or otherwise - it's about my friends on the forum, my friends in my community, the people in my support group
my area and anybody
the whole world frankly, where
didn't work, who are waiting out the new meds OR who cannot do treatment either because they've advanced to cirrhosis or have other health issues that mean they can't do treatment.....
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My husband did his treatment 8 to 10 months before I did. He started
1999 into 2000. I started my
2000 into 2001. Six months for the both of us. Now we are in terrible health. There are times that we feel good for a short period. It seems like a cycle. Our first onset was with costeochondritis. Felt like a heart attack.
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Maybe a psychiatrist, the kind of MD who is all about the brain, which is where the GAD and
are coming from
the first place. Sound like a plan? I hope you'll let us know what you find and, in the end, I hope you are relieved of the GAD and depression -they can be a big burden.
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Patients having delirium symptoms often had co-existing liver disease, history of psychiatric disorder or previous brain injury. Severe Reactions
The most severe effects have been seen
patients treated for cancers. In these patients death due to encephalopathy (widespread brain injury) and associated seizures have been described. This may be a result of combined toxicities of radiation, chemotherapy and interferon.
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Hi, If anyone can suggest me the best place for
of Hepatitis B
India? I have tried hard but could not find a hospital is specialised for such treatment.
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My doctor - who is actually a great physician when he can see something but terrible when he cannot see solid evidence - does not believe
but I have found another world
homeopathic medicine. Instead of stopping the hydrochloric acid, I am taking digestive enzymes and garlic oil and slippery elm. I advise people to find a medical doctor who will let you try homeopathic treatments and find naturopath to help guide you through the options.
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vertigo weight gain nausea/dizziness vision blurred, can't read close up irregular menstral cylce - every two weeks
ears/sound waves-by at times forgetfulness hand-eye coordination off, Treated with hidose antibotics, 49th day headache stopped. Pressure in top of head began and exist daily, especially when I bend over or strain. Mild headaches daily with occasional severe pain.
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From experience, my doc has never seen a cirrhotic liver go undie
4 weeks, and he did everything to prep me that I was going to be taken off tx if I didn't drop a log. WELL......... This was his email I just received. I love that man, and I love all the herbs and milk thistle I've been taking, and in spite of what many of you think of them or me, I love you all, too.... Dear Chris, Congratulations!
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An FDA spokesman said the agency has revoked device approvals before, although the step is rare. ReGen, based
Hackensack, N.J., asked the FDA
2005 to approve its device under the so-called 510k system, which allows speedy approval for devices that are similar to products already on the market. ReGen argued that the Menaflex was comparable to shoulder joint implants sold by Johnson & Johnson, Stryker and other companies.
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I am wondering why I feel a vibration
my left leg. When it first started I thought it was my cell phone ringing but my phone was not in my pocket. I feel the vibration all day long and it has a pattern to it. It is a weired feeling and I can not figure out what causes this and why it will not go away. Can you tell me why I feel this?
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However, Three years ago I began experiencing additional symptoms and complications.
2007, I began experiencing slight discomfort
my lower right abdomen. Upon having an ultrasound done, I was found to have a cyst. A few weeks after my period (late again) came and it was more painful than ever. For the months that followed, some months I missed my period and when it did come it was more painful than the last time.
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If you would care to know my opinion, I believe that if your sufferring is significantly greater than before you discovered this
your skull (and granted your symptoms aren't a suggestive effect of what you have read online) then of course consult a true physician who can feel the severity of the indent and add up the symptoms to make a correct diagnosis.
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the last two weeks i have had three blood vessels just pop
my fingers. i was not doing anything out of the ordinary. what could be causing this? should there be a cause for concern?
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I just cant do it, I am
recovery for several years (NA) I thought the Ads would just hold the sides at bay and maybe stop the rage/grief/deppression cycle, but I felt SO stoned it freaked me out, not what I need, Im glad it works for you guys though, whatever it takes to get through the Tx. I may try seeing a herbalist or homeopathy, worth a try and I am learning about the water, loads of it.
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I've had eczema in my ears for 15 yrs. It is very cyclical, starting w/intense uncontrollable itching, then clear fluid leaking from skin, followed by crusting over & flaking of skin in ears that is itchy in & of itself, leading to more scratching & picking at ears. The skin in my ears gets very damaged and ratty during outbreaks. I also have swelling of the ear canal after these itch/scratch episodes that are sometimes quite painful, & Motrin helps that. ENT Dr.
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According to PetNames.net, the top ten chicken names are Anastasia, Katie, Aryana, Clovis, Angel, Blossom, Dixie, Chanel, Lou Ellen, Abby and Yetta. Suggested names for roosters include Ricardo, Angelo and Sherlock.
The MyPetChicken website notes that most pet chickens are girls. Therefore, the majority of names for chickens are feminine-sounding names. Because females in a flock can greatly outnumber the males, some flocks even adopt a female as the "rooster." This female guard often takes on male traits. She not only crows like a rooster, but she may even cease laying eggs. Some hens in this position will grow small spurs like a rooster, too. If you name a chicken with a female name and it takes on some male characteristics, you may have to switch the name, perhaps changing "Angel" to "Angelo." Giving a bird a unisex name such as "Skylar" can avoid this issue.
According the Humane Society, chickens not only come when they are called, they also communicate in up to 24 different ways. Even baby chicks within their eggs can communicate. Little peeps let the broody hen know that her chicks are shivering, which prompts her to turn the eggs. If they make a purring sound, then the baby chicks are letting the mother bird know they are comfortable

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I know when ever i sit down to blog or play a game on line that it is time i have set down for myself. Does it always mean i will get that time? fat chance. These past few weeks when i had something special i wanted to blog about or maybe post a review i found myself a little frustrated. ( i had face book on my ipod) Which in turn i would kinda of put off on my children. I had to take a step back. I had to ask myself if there was no internet what would i be doing with my own time?
So these past two to three weeks i have been reading more, something i stopped doing for some reason. I have done more with the children along the lines of projects and quality time. I have started to work out more. Who couldn't benefit right. But most of all i have taken the time to see what i was lacking. I see that i haven't taken enough time each day with each child. That i haven't taken enough time to sit and read scriptures like i like doing. That i haven't take enough time to keep my home the way i want to.
Mommy hood isnt something we can take a break from. Even when we have our time set aside, there time still means more. As i sit and type this up i hear one of my children whining to get out of the play pin because his sisters are driving him crazy. I hear my oldest two girls pretending to be nurses and of course there little brother is who they are working on. And my youngest daughter daughter well she is calm watching her favorite show. For me i could be right there with them pretending to be the patient they are working on or cuddled up with my little monkey on the couch. Even saving my son from what ever the two little princess have come up with.Mommy hood. A never ending yet totally fantastic way to live.


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"My name is Kim Smit. Before I started The 10 Minute Mind I had a fantastic life. I was living the dream. I had moved to Holland and was working in Amsterdam in a very prestigious job as a personal chef to a high government official. I cooked for celebrities, royalty and representatives from governments all over the world. I had met the man I wanted to marry and life was looking almost perfect for me. Then I had a freak accident some years ago which left me unable to walk. I ended up in a wheelchair. This was just completely devastating. As you can imagine the accident completely changed my life. Surgery after surgery was needed. Year after year. At the last count I've had 7 surgeries. I became very depressed. Very anxious. And I couldn't get out of it. I didn't know what to do. Life was not supposed to be like this. And I was desperate for a way out of this incredible unhappiness and stress that I was experiencing daily. And thenI discovered The 10 Minute Mind. I was a bit unsure if anything could really help me but I was prepared to give it a go. So I started. Day after day I practised with The 10 Minute Mind. And slowly but surely things began to change. I starting working with her mind. I started seeing that my happiness didn't exist outside of myself. I started becoming naturally more positive. And calm. And centred. All that had happened was that I had started working with my mind. And this changed how I was showing up in my day by working with The 10 Minute Mind. With this change in my life I was able to set a goal I had not imagined was even possible. My goal became to be able to walk down the aisle on my wedding day. That become my personal goal, my dream. And the incredible thing is that 6 months after starting The 10 Minute Mind I did it." - Kim Smit, Amsterdam, Holland


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On ethics
The question of whether or not a diasporic Nigerian has ethical obligations towards Nigeria (or whether the carbon guzzling Westerners are obliged to reduce their footprint) is ultimately a question about what it is to actually be ethical. The question of ethics is a deep philosophical issue which can quickly lead to confusion. A failure to think through these issues can often result in a confused relationship to ethics itself.
There are some simple ways into the forest however. One age-old question in ethical philosophy is whether one can derive an ought from an is. That is, can one derive ethical obligations - what one ought to do - from descriptions of the world. A large chunk of Anglo-Saxon philosophy in the past century has argued that you cannot derive oughts from ises. The argument is that ethical propositions are of a different order to descriptive propositions, and that therefore the two should not and cannot be confused.
I fundamentally disagree. If we cannot derive ethical propositions from descriptive ones, where are we to place the origin of ethics? Where does an ethical response come from, if not in relation to the world? Put it like this: someone who believes that ethical propositions must be divorced from descriptions would say that there is no ethical obligation implied by the reality that genocide is taking place in Darfur. Genocide in Darfur is simply a description about the world. Whether one relates ethically to this description is, on this basis, neither here nor there.
In other words, maintaining a strict split between description and obligation leads to absurdities, where what are clear unjust situations cannot be described as such. The basic error is to assume that injustice and unethical behaviour has an origin outside of the world - presumably inside someone's head. Ethics therefore becomes a mental state or intention towards the world. This is confused cart-before-horse thinking which reduces ethics to pyschology and whim.
Ethics, and ethical relations, inhere in the world, prior to anything we might think about them. We face an obligation before we can articulate it in language. Ethics is not about what we think, or about how we might decide to act: the origin of ethics - where the ethical obligation arises - lies in tensions in the world not in ourselves. There are imbalances, forms of injustice, to which we are obliged to respond, if we are to remain human.
Much of the time, we blinker ourselves off from these realities. We deny the ethical relation, explain it away as someone else's problem in a somewhere elsewhere world. We insulate ourselves in worlds of immediate concern, feed ourselves excuses about how busy our lives already are. Most of the time, we fall short of being ethical.
In part, this is why we have laws. If we were ethical all the time in each and every situation, there would be little need for the law. Aside from a structured mechanism for contractual negotiation, the law functions for the most part as the formal mirror of ethical obligation, society's fall-back. The trouble is, the law deals with issues of what should not be done (or should not have been done), rather than with what should or should have been done. The law is to ethics what a fossil is to the flesh and blood of animal life.
So, we can and must derive obligations from descriptions. In fact, one can even say that we are obliged to describe in such a way that we can derive an obligatory response - in other words, we must continually work to refine our ethical sensibilities - complacency is the usual curse. Ethics is a call from the world, for us to wake up to its immiserations.
How we respond ethically is an altogether different question: do we act to create the greatest good for the greatest number (utilitarianism), or do we dedicate ourselves to virtuous behaviour - asking first what the virtues reallly are...
The question of ethical response should be clearly separated from the question of ethical obligation. Only then can we be clear that we continually owe the world a form of response that reduces suffering. It is a test of our humanity, how far we can push ourselves in this direction.
Given that we cannot do everything to reduce suffering and increase happiness everywhere, all at once, it makes sense for us to focus on what little we can do in our spheres of interest and involvement. In which case, Nigerians in the diaspora can be said to face ethical obligations towards Nigeria, whether or not they consider this to be the case.


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Sonia and I had a hilarious "girl moment" during this shoot. She wanted cute "having ice cream" engagement photos, and she specifically wanted gelato from L' Albero dei gelati on 5th Avenue in Park Slope [the section of Brooklyn we both live in, and where all of these photos were taken]. Paul mused, "Oh, any ice cream will work, right? Because there's a [redacted*] Ice Cream Parlor right here, and we don't have to walk quite as far to get to it. Let's just go there." and I was like, "No. No. I get it. You want what you want when you want ice cream, and it is SUPER NOT the same." and Sonia nodded. I was right, of course, and we got the gelato, because I take dessert very seriously.
I took them to a few of my tried-and-true spots for photos first, and we "borrowed" a few stoops here and there throughout.
How great is their dog, Bayze? He's was so incredibly sweet and mellow during our shoot, and he has the best smile. My other favorite detail about this shoot is that I really loved that Paul wears an engagement ring, too. So egalitarian!
*[inferior ice cream shop I won't call out, because rude, but you probably know if you live in Brooklyn, too, because they're all over, and even though the Italian ice they sell is pretty good, the ice cream is most certainly not anything close to fancy and wonderful gelato.]


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Interviews with Escapists – The Images
I thought I would share the images of all of the pieces from Interviews with Escapists. Above: Alvin, Homeless – Acrylic on board, 1000 x 1000mm Above: Sophie, Stay-at-home solo mum- Acrylic on canvas, 1000 x 1000mm Above: Lloyd, Homeless … Continue reading
Stranger in the Sky-Bridge: The Stalker Rises Again
Well this time I was not actually stalking him. Honest. I was having a conversation with a few people about my exhibition and it just so happens that one of the people I interviewed for Interviews with Escapists, actually knows Mac … Continue reading
My Artist Talk Tomorrow
If you have nothing to do tomorrow night, why not come along to my artist talk.
Viva Magazine
The scan above is a little hard to read, so I have retyped the interview below for you. The feature is in the 'My 10 Favourite Things' column. Viva interviewed me about what my 10 favourite things are – to … Continue reading
Don't forget…
I just wanted to do one last reminder about the opening of my exhibition this weekend… When: Saturday 10th July, 3pm – 4.30pm (the show will run until the 22nd July) Where: The Depot Artspace, 28 Clarence St, Devonport, Auckland
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I am the featured artist for July on the I HE♥RT ART website. Check out the page HERE I came across the I HE♥RT ART website about a month or so ago via Twitter. I instantly liked this site as it … Continue reading
Morph Magazine – Featuring an interview with Your's Truly
I just wanted to share with you an interview I have done with MORPH Magazine about my up-coming show Interviews with Escapists. Check it out HERE MORPH is an online only magazine produced by the Depot Artspace in Devonport, Auckland. … Continue reading
Artist Talk
I will be doing an artist talk on Wednesday 14th July as part of my upcoming exhibition, Interviews with Escapists. This will start at 6.30pm and will be held at The Depot Artspace, Devonport. I will be discussing about how … Continue reading
UPDATE on Interview #5: Sophie, Mother of one, Solo Mum
I received an email today from Sophie, she was the 5th person I interviewed for my show. It was in response to my original blog written about her and with her permission, I would like to share it. It's very … Continue reading
Art, Forums and new Taxidermy series
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Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
When I was in yeshiva, one of my rebbeim asked me a question that I've never forgotten: "If you could have a 25th hour in your day, what would you do with it?" Besides for trying to gain a better understanding of his talmid, I think my rebbe was trying to help me reflect upon my priorities and value system. In today's world, we're so preoccupied with "saving time," but rarely do we focus on what we're actually saving time for.
The holiday of Pesach is primarily focused upon the idea of "liberty." As we refer to it in shemoneh esrei, it's "zman cheirusainu" — the "time of our freedom." It's when we were redeemed by HaShem from slavery in Egypt and granted our freedom from bondage. However, what was that freedom ultimately for? What was the point and purpose of all this freedom? Why did it matter? Was it just to simply "be free" and that's it — merely an end in itself?
This line of questioning may seem foreign to us today, when we grow up with the concept of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" being one of the most sacred ideals of our culture. But while "the pursuit of happiness" may be an important element of Western culture, the Torah doesn't believe in merely "freedom for freedom's sake." With the arrival of Pesach, as we start sefiras ha'omer and head towards Shavuos and Matan Torah, we can fully appreciate the Torah's conception of "freedom." Pesach is not the end of the story of Yetzias Mitzrayim — it's only the beginning. The main part of the Exodus was its place in the lead up to Matan Torah.
Pesach isn't just about mere "nationalism," a time to celebrate when the Jews — like any other nation in the world — first achieved "national independence." There's Ukrainian nationalism, Chinese nationalism, Turkish Nationalism, Brazilian nationalism etc. Pesach is about much more than just that. As Senator Joe Lieberman writes in his book, The Gift of Rest:
It may seem paradoxical that freedom is achieved by adhering to laws, but that is another great lesson of the Bible. The liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery was only the first part of God's reentering human history. Freedom without purpose and law too often leads people to degeneracy and chaos. The Israelites and all of mankind were given their mission and destiny when Moses received the Law from God on Mt. Sinai… Our true freedom as human beings is dependent on our acceptance of the responsibility to serve God by obeying His laws.
Pesach is about us being granted our freedom as the beginning of the process towards getting the Torah and becoming the "mamleches kohanim vi'goy kadosh" — "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." Part one of Pesach is intricately connected with part two of Matan Torah.
This brings us to our main idea, namely, that there can be no freedom without law. Freedom without the law is anarchy. The freedom of Pesach was balanced and kept in check by the law, order, and structure of Matan Torah. Even though we were "liberated" and given our freedom at Pesach with Yitzias Mitzrayim, we still needed Matan Torah to become Jews. The Exodus wasn't just about running away from Egyptian slavery, but also about running towards the life of spiritual productivity which we were charged with at Sinai. The freedom of Pesach was important, but it wasn't an end in itself. As Nelson Mandela once said, "To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." Angela Merkel echoed this sentiment when she remarked, "Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something." Pesach was the beginning of the process towards Matan Torah, when we dedicated ourselves to leading lives devoted towards avodas HaShem.
Freedom needs structure and order. Anybody who's ever been on a vacation without any structure and order knows that nothing good and productive ever really comes of it. As Warren Buffett once said, "I want to leave my children with enough money to do anything, not nothing." Freedom is great, but Pesach and Matan Torah teach us that freedom needs to be accompanied by law, structure, and order. The great historians, Will and Ariel Durant, once wrote: "Since men love freedom, and the freedom of individuals in society requires some regulation of conduct, the first condition of freedom is its limitation; make it absolute and it dies in chaos." This Pesach, as we celebrate our freedom, let us also ask ourselves: What will we do with that 25th hour of freedom?


text: Who could not forget this on screen couple? I really dig this movie. Yes, they've been apart, and learn many things in life. Yes , they did have a happy ending. But you know what? The story seems so close to reality. If you failed to have a trust to your partner, all systems shuts down and you close yourself to everyone else. It's your decision to forgive and forget.


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A recent study released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds that 1 in 10 of the 12.5 million veterans in the U.S. is currently uninsured. Those veterans are more likely to be younger, less likely to be married and are less connected to the labor force—all factors that contribute to lower insurance rates.
In Illinois, 25,000 veterans, or 10.1% lack health coverage. Add to that their family members, and that's 68,000 men, women and children in military families without adequate access to health care.
The Affordable Care Act has the potential to make a sizable dent in those numbers. Nearly half of uninsured veterans will become eligible for Medicaid under the program's extension in 2014, when all citizens below 138% of the Federal Poverty Level will gain coverage. Another 40% of those veterans will receive subsidies to use toward purchasing insurance in state health insurance exchanges. (For more information, see the Illinois Health Matters map of where all of those who are newly eligible for Medicaid live in Illinois.)
The RWJF report also found that insurance rates among veterans were higher in states that had made more progress toward implementing health insurance exchanges, as called for by the ACA. The opposite is true for those states that have made the least progress toward implementing health reforms, which are home to 40% of uninsured veterans. Illinois has made "moderate progress" toward implementation of an exchange -- the Illinois General Assembly tabled efforts to establish an exchange earlier this month, opting to wait until the Supreme Court releases their decision on the ACA before attempting to move forward. Advocates still are urging Governor Quinn to sign an Executive Order to establish the Exchange.
Progressing forward with health reform efforts, the study claims, will be crucial to getting coverage for uninsured veterans. In addition, other barriers to health care, such as a lack of nearby health centers, or potential disruptions on coverage from public benefits, or a lack of awareness of potential benefits, need to be addressed.
At Health & Disability Advocates (HDA), we have seen firsthand that this is reality for service members in Illinois. For Veterans who are not insured it is important for them to have a good understanding of other state and local programs that could provide services for them and their families. HDA's Illinois Connections program assists veterans and military families connect to community services including health benefits. We have worked closely with the Illinois National Guard since those that have not been deployed are not eligible for veteran's services, including health care through the federal VA system.
HDA's new volunteer veteran program, Illinois Warrior to Warrior, brings volunteers to Illinois National Guard units who are trained in community resources - including health care. This partnership with the National Guard allows trained volunteer veterans to be assigned to individual National Guard units and offer assistance to soldiers and their families in locating resources to meet their needs. This program is in a pilot stage in the Chicago area but will be expanded state-wide.
How military and veteran programs interact with civilian programs is complicated. At HDA, we provide tools and trainings to service providers in military/veteran and civilian systems. See our complete list of trainings and services here and our YouTube video of our program here. If you know of a veteran in need of health insurance or health services, have them contact HDA at 312-223-9600.
Laura Gallagher Watkins, Director
Illinois Connections: Assisting Veterans & Military Families
Health & Disability Advocates


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Oracle has made a move in the real time analytics market with the announcement of a bunch of In-Memory Applications for its Oracle Engineered Systems.
It says this will wipe out the runtime for complex data crunching, providing support for quick decisions on the relevant business areas.
This comes shortly after Oracle indicated it aims to grab a significant share of the 'fast data' business through it 'device to data centre' concept.
The new range includes Oracle e-Business Suite In-Memory Cost Management, variations on its PeopleSoft applications, EnterpriseOne Sales Advisor and Project Portfolio Management, and applications for Oracle Supply Chain Management and Siebel Customer Relationship Management.
The applications will run on Oracle Engineered Systems, which it says can make apps run as much as 16 times faster.
Steve Miranda, Oracle Executive Vice President of Application Development, said: "The release of Oracle In-Memory Applications will help organisations not only complete load runs faster, but also discover new insights for efficiencies that would have been previously overlooked."
The applications are expected to be available later in the year.


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Home Improvement And You: Tips For A Better Home
Many home renovation projects can be completed easily by a novice. Besides making your home more livable and attractive, good home improvement work can significantly boost its market value. Within this article, you will read some excellent advice for getting the job done, and educating you as well.
One of the quickest, easiest and cheapest ways to improve your home is paint. Whether it is the outside or the inside, both areas will look new and transformed. Pick neutral shades and brighter trim colors. Plain white walls tend to make your home look like a rental and not owner occupied.
When doing a DIY home improvement project, put safety first. Make sure you wear protective equipment such as a hard hat and goggles when needed. Use power tools (especially ones you are not familiar with) with extreme caution. Read the directions and ask for help when needed. Home improvement stores are a great resource of information.
If you heat with a wood stove, smoke will cause your walls to become dingy and you will need to repaint more often than if you heat with a furnace. When you do repaint, it is worthwhile to wipe the walls and ceiling down with a damp sponge to remove as much soot as possible before putting on a new coat of paint.
If you have a cabinet door that just won't stay closed, try replacing the cabinet lock. You might want to try using a magnetic cabinet lock, as they generally last longer than wheel based cabinet lock systems. Simply remove the old lock and attach the new lock in the same location. Use wood screws if needed to create new holes.
When it comes to home improvement, consider adding more fans to your house to help during the warm months. This is important because running fans will cost considerably less than air conditioning, and provide a cooling benefit as well. Remember also that a fan only provides cooling benefit when you are in the room, so turn it off if the room will not be occupied.
Smoke detectors are required for safety in your home. Many homes only put them in certain areas. You can increase the safety in your home, by installing additional detectors in places like bathrooms, kitchens and basements. These areas can sometimes be overlooked, though prone to fires as much or more than the rest of the house.
One of the smallest improvements to your home with the biggest impact is a deep cleaning of the house. Spending the time to clean every section of your house will improve the overall smell, look, and environment of your home. A thorough cleaning is often overlooked as a cost effective method of home improvement.
If you notice that you are starting to get large cracks in your drywall, it is time to do some handy work. Fixing the cracks won't cost you a lot of money, and it will make your walls look fresh and new. Once you fix the cracks, the value of your home and the pride you have in it will go up.
As mentioned earlier, there are lots of improvement projects that anyone can undertake. Making repairs in your home can be rewarding and also intimidating. This article has hopefully given you some tricks on doing remodeling yourself.


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freescale semiconductor is betting big-time on mram, or magnetoresistive random access memory. mram has some very promising properties; in particular, it will permanently place pieces of data in their bit-position–either on or off–for storage even when the power is off. it's faster than all other forms of non-volatile memory, rivaling even sram and its variants, which are used for computer memory.
the first freescale chips are 4 mb chips (512 kb of real data) operating at 3.3 volts. they have 35 ns access times for read/write operations, and store data permanently once written to. the chips sell for us$25 in 1,000-unit quantities and will likely become very popular for companies that want to use a single-source for its memory and permanent storage.
mram represents a potential dream come true. the state of a machine could be stored exactly where it was when it was powered down, with only a minimal amount of time required to boot the machine back up when turned back on. no hard disk, no separate memory, just a single-source for all of your data and memory needs. i can even envision a portable device–about the size of a pda–that holds the mram-based storage and processor abilities and simply plugs into a type of kiosk for use at home, in the office, or on the go at pay-for-service facilities. you'll never have to worry about any of your data being corrupted, because all permanent and temporary storage is straight in the portable device. the kiosk is used only for keyboard/mouse input, internet access, and video/printing abilities.
these are very exciting times for technologies such as this. however, i can also make the argument that we're deep enough into the technology king-pins that we'll be seeing politics play as much of a roll–if not more–than anything else on future products such as these.
read more at red herring.
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|follow the money (10:13am est mon jul 10 2006)
before this ends up in consumer grade stuff, that is going to have to drop.
a lot.
|geek.com editor error (11:43am est mon jul 10 2006)
they are 4 megabit chips (512 kb), making them $50/mb.
– by rickgeek
|agreed. (11:46am est mon jul 10 2006)
when we are talking about 1-2gb for $100 or so, using this for ram becomes somewhat feasible, assuming other memory technologies do not perform far better by the time this reaches such a price point. as for using this as a storage device… that might work if we saw 500gb for less than $200 or so. (assuming that will be minimal hdd size by the time this might reach a point where the price per gb is low enough to make it worthwhile.) therefore, i doubt this technology will be very widespread in the near future. after they manage to improve the latency, using this for ram might work. once the price per mb, and eventually per gb comes down substantially… mass storage might be a possibility for consumers.
it may be useful for cell phones, pdas, and other devices which do not need large capacity storage as yet. i will be watching to see where freescale is able to take this particular solution. – by maximumcat
|something to ponder (12:59pm est mon jul 10 2006)
you know how i know this will not make it into full production?
we're talking about it on here. – by x-plattform
|hey rick (1:02pm est mon jul 10 2006)
"the first freescale chips are 4 mb chips (512 kb of real data)"
should be changed to:
the first freescale chips are 4 mb chips (512 kb of real data)
just being technical, i hate it when b is used where a b is meant. its misleading. – by ggm
|interesting (1:19pm est mon jul 10 2006)
[ggm – thanks for the typo/check.]
i do wonder whether this thing might have its best utilization married to traditional nand flash. i mean, the #1 'failure mode' of flash as a pretty high speed random access non-volatile memory device is the degradation to cells that gradually makes the units unworkable. unworkable because only 1% or so of all the 'sectors' are repeatedly rewritten, degrading them.
i should think that mram, coupled with conventional flash could be integrated on pcbs about the size of a 2.25 inch laptop or 3.5 inch desktop hard drive. with dual sided … what, maybe 40 gb a platter? (is it fair to use the word 'platter' in this context?) the mram would figure in about 16 mb or so to contain the filesystem, file allocation tables and other high write data block ares.
immediate customer would be the military. they just hate 'battery backup' memory devices. another might be the laptop market, since really most of the performance loss comes from the pathetic hard drives in portable devices. might find a market for 'ultra durability' flash chips for digital cameras. maybe not.
but as others have posted, they really need to at least show that sub-gigabit densities are realistically achievable. that's their #1 problem, actually. so, the question is, is the limitation because freescale is using some third-world fourth-hand 350 nanometer litho, or is it due to the paramagnetic limit of the overlying ferromagnetic material, and needing to prevent bit leaks between adjacent cells?
inquiring minds need to know. even if they are goats.
– by goatguy
|battery backed up ram (1:23pm est mon jul 10 2006)
for now, these chips replace battery backed up ram devices. they are just as fast and cheaper and longer lasting.
they say that there is no wearout of the non-volatile memory. i wonder if we ran a full-speed read/write of one memory address. that would create 10 million reads/writes in one second. suppose we did this for an hour. that is 34 billion reads/writes. how about for a week, or for a month.
somehow, i have my doubts. we'll see.
long term, if this can scale, it could replace flash.
but i don't see it replacing dram unless they really have solved the wearout problem. – by chip vision
|ggm (1:32pm est mon jul 10 2006)
it was submitted that way, but the geek.com editors changed it to "mb".
|$50/mb (4:08pm est mon jul 10 2006)
$9,000,000 to replace my hard drive? not anytime soon.
– by nobody special
|this stuff cost 5x -10x the same ammount of flash (5:38pm est mon jul 10 2006)
do you really think it's going to replace flash anytime soon? – by cynic
|bubble memory? (6:46pm est mon jul 10 2006)
isn't this just evolved from bubble memory developed by ibm back in the late 70's and traded to intel during the 8086 & 8088 negotiations? – by anqe
|cage match! mram vs. nram (7:29pm est mon jul 10 2006)
who will be the undisputed champ and market leader by 2010?
my money's on nram…any takers?
– by technocrat
|jokes on geeks.. (10:24pm est mon jul 10 2006)
mrm.. at that cost.. draw the curve and figure when the cost / bit become competitive that the wear out of flash is taken over by mrm..
also they don't scale so nicely either
another stupid post of fud. – by a geek
|a trekkie.. (10:25pm est mon jul 10 2006)
i guess you can't be a amdie so revert back to being a trekkie.. – by not a geek
|mram advantages (8:16am est tue jul 11 2006)
no need for separate main-memory and permanent storage. a single-source will serve for both. this will not only allow instant-on computers, but also "saved state instant on" computers, where the last thing that was in memory and being worked on when the machine/device was shut down is literally still there in memory when the machine boots back up.
– by rickgeek
|for now (1:14pm est tue jul 11 2006)
it will be useful in devices where shock and vibration are an issue,
writing is frequent (data looger) and storage requirements arent to large.
something like the diagnostic store in a car computer or an industrial loop controller would be a good match.


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Learning Acceptance by Example
Ginny's blog piece about the gay-bashing video struck a deep chord. Bigots hate by dividing a person into irrelevant parts of genetic coding, like skin color or sexual nature. Parts unrelated to the quality and life of the person carrying the DNA. The only counter to mob hatred is the truth, often one example for one child at a time.
I'm the product of a 58-year, gay union between my father's brother, Ed, and his partner, Bob. While not our parents, "The Uncles" loved my brother and me as if we were their own children.
My parents were physicians but they never talked about sex. Nor about Uncle Ed and Uncle Bob living together, year after year. If their relationship, or what it implied, bothered my conservative parents, they never said. We were family. Inclusion was a value.
We celebrated family birthdays and Thanksgivings, chorused, "Christmas gift!" as my uncles disembarked in our driveway each Christmas Eve. My brother and I stayed with them in San Francisco once-a-year, delighted by exotic charms of the big city: toy shopping on Union Square, dinners in Chinatown, classical music, Grace Cathedral for Sunday service, rides in the Fairmont Hotel's glass elevator with its stunning views. Dull for today's kids, but it was a chance for us to be special and safely away from home.
When Ed and Bob grew up there was no "Out and Proud." Gays and lesbians lived quietly and carefully. Ed was almost 80 when the dam broke and he came out to his sister, then the rest of us. He and I collected the family's history. My uncles' lives bulge the files, but there is little about being gay. Living openly was BIG for Ed and I was proud of his coming out and their new activism. He and I talked about his sexuality, but more important was their model of love and commitment.
The gay backlash my uncles faced was from the ignorant and socially frightened. Early in Bob's psychiatric career, his boss announced he and Ed must live separately so any scandal in their lives wouldn't reflect back on the institution. I'm not alone in claiming shy, gracious Bob rarely said an unkind word to, or about, anyone. He told his boss to, "go to hell, " and retired 30 years later, an honored and beloved emeritus professor and director of Clinical Services within U.C. San Francisco's Medical School.
During World War II, Ed knew being outed meant dishonorable discharge and an end to his career in social work. His first, post-war job, ironically, was with the Veteran's Administration, counseling emotionally damaged soldiers. In the late 1950s, he pioneered state legislation, securing short and long-term support for struggling parents and their developmentally disabled children. For eleven years he was their advocate as the first director of
's San Francisco . When he retired, his involvement in the Episcopal church kept him busy. He started a one-stop-shop at Grace Cathedral, helping the elderly navigate confusing government programs. He devised weekly, senior-centered markets where children from the Cathedral boys' school sold bread and produce to local elders, some of whom had no family. Golden Gate Regional Center
In the mid 1980s, Bob and Ed applied for an apartment in a San Francisco retirement home. They were rejected. No one used the word "gay," but two men living together wasn't allowed. They were turned down twice by an Episcopal home in a nearby city for the same reason.
"What happens if you split up?" they were asked.
"What happens when any couple splits up?" they answered.
|Bob gardening at the nursing home
{Eventually accepted}they became the home's first gay couple. Initially, shunned by some, Ed and Bob did what they'd always done--be themselves. They gave parties, inviting singles, couples, the whole darn building at times. Bob's green thumb transformed the dull garden outside the large dining room windows so, three meals-a-day, everyone looked out on beauty and life. He gave tours and wrote in the newsletter about what was growing, volunteered to take care of residents' plants when they went on vacation, even diagnose ailing greenery. Ed joined the home's boards, rousting residents out of complacency. He helped start the first LGBT, low-income, retirement home in San Francisco, giving the "non-straight" elderly a decent place to spend their declining years. When Bob fell victim to Alzheimer's in the early 2000s, he and Ed helped the hospital unit be more responsive to these patients' needs.
|Uncle Ed & Katy
Pye/Harris Legacy Project: http://pyeharrisproject.org/
A month ago, I sat by my Uncle Ed's side as we eased toward his death and the end of 62 years, accepting and celebrating who they were, and we were as a family.
Hyperlinks to use or not:
Ginny's blog piece: /grorby/2012/06/adorable-children-singing-in-church.html
OpenHouse-LGBT senior resources and housing project: http://openhouse-sf.org/


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The Hurricane Junior Golf Tour's Bluffton Junior Open had a hometown winner May 19 when Alec Weary took home the tournament's boys 11-14 division title at Crescent Pointe Golf Club.
Weary, a freshman standout on the Bluffton High golf team, finished the 36-hole tournament at 2-over par to beat out Savannah's James Wholer and Mount Pleasant's Wil Sheppard by one shot.
Wohler had a chance to force a playoff on the final hole after making a close approach shot, but he failed to make the putt. Sheppard carded a birdie on No. 18 to into move into a tie for second place.
Weary led the field in birdies and had its best score on par-3 holes. He shot 2-over 73 in the first round and followed with an even 71 in the final round.
Wohler shot a tournament-best 69 in the first round, with an eagle on 17, but he could not carry the momentum into Sunday and shot 76.
Fourth-place finisher Sam McGee of Charlotte, N.C., was the most consistent player, scoring 27 pars over two days.
Weary's brother, Drew, tied for fourth at 7 over. The seventh-grader, who competed on the Bluffton High varsity this spring, had rounds of 75 and 74.
Zach Zediker of Gray, Ga., won the boys 15-18 division with a two-day score of 1-over 143. Three Bluffton residents also competed in the division: Bryson Nimmer (T10, 10 over), Elliott Johnson (T20, 22 over) and Matt Lehman (25th, 25 over).
Isidora Quevedo of Chile shot 7 over to defeat Hilton Head Island's Nathalie Lezcano by four shots in the girls division.


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Well a lot has been said about the conduit, but its hard to begin, I've never written a review of a game but this isn't supposed to be one.
The Conduit was a game that I had been looking forward to for a long time, it was the sort of game I have wanted to play on Wii since it's release. The build up to it was long and HVS did a great job of keeping the game in the public eye during its development. We were promised a lot of things by Eric Nofsinger, he seemed to have tapped into what the Wii core wanted and was telling them that HE was going to deliver, but did he?
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Well this blog post may be something that a lot of people will wish happen but in true fashion may never.
What does Nintendo need to do to win back the bread and butter of the industry, shock and awe. The bread and butter I refer to is the consumer that purchases more than one game a month, who vocally express themselves insatiably, who go nuts over every title that satisfies their cravings in games.
Now I fully understand that Nintendo do have a large fan base, but the industry knows that the base on the Wii do not pick-up titles to the same extent as on other systems. The core fans of the Wii tend to stick stringently to Nintendo software, they find it hard to stray from this due to years of disrespectful treatment from 3rd parties on Nintendo hardware with poor ports, features missing and down right negligence for quality. Some of this is still true on the Wii even though it is the highest selling console.
So how do Nintendo solve the riddle, well they can't necessarily solve it like a maths equation all they can do is take steps in the right direction to rectify and attract those who in the early years of the Wii's lifespan were ignored for the attraction that was the casual expanded audience. I will try to outline the steps that Nintendo should investigate and take measures to attain these goals.
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Well the simple answer to this is the same as always. The Video Standards Council (VSC) is the body behind which will enforce and have the power to enforce the ban on video games that do not receive a rating for retail. I have contacted the VSC for information and Laurie Hall gave me the following statement;
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Granted throughout my blog i have mentioned Michael Pachter once or twice, maybe more. But this is due to the fact that he is a representative of the industry, not through development but through his research and analysis work at Wedbush Morgan Securities. As an industry analyst it is Michaels job to know the industry inside out and provide reliable information to his employers as well as their consumers, on the sideline he is an analyst that regulars on GTTV with Geoff Keighley, to provide his unique insight to the future of the industry.
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So just for laughs I thought I would shoot off a "small" email to High Voltage Software about their upcoming game, 'The Grinder'. It was generally about my thoughts on the IGN E3 walkthrough on Youtube. Well I'll let you guys read what I sent to HVS;
I've been thinking about the grinder and how awesome the whole game appears.
I have a couple of thoughts that I'd like to share these thoughts with you guys if your willing to listen, which I know you are 😀
Well first off, The Slasher, great character, i dont think its been done before in all honesty. A thought though, as the influence is Jason, maybe after so long of a pursuit without out-running him mid attack he could disappear (of course when not on screen) This would give the impression of throughout the game it is the single same Slasher that pursuits you. In the IGN live demo i could help to see the slasher still trying to attack you from the high office within the warehouse while the battle with the first werewolf was happening, it kinda gave the opinion that he isnt so formidable if he cant climb and jump down to the floor like the player did. And the influence of Jason leaves me hoping of a Freddy Krueger style/armed foe that possibly crawls about like the lickers from Resident Evil/Voldo from Soul Calibur.
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Nintendo pioneered the move for console manufacturers to rethink control designs with the Wii remote. This was quickly and somewhat unashamedly ripped off my Sony with the Six Axis controller, we have Microsoft heavily hinted to release their new control scheme at E3 (you can read more about this in my previous blog). We have Tony Hawk's RIDE coming soon for a rumoured $120 that includes a motion sensing board controller which is the only control option. It leaves me thinking, what about the other component of the Wii Remote.
Now everyone seems to have an opinion on new ways to play videogames, whether you love it or hate it this seems to be the future for the industry. This is not exclusive to console manufacturers, it is also open to publishers/developers of video games the best examples are EA/MTV/Harmonix and Red Octane/Activision with their seemingly never ending stream of music controllers, or an even more recent one would be with Tony Hawk's RIDE with the new board peripheral that simulates a skateboard for the game but could also be used in the future as a snowboard, surfboard or even wakeboard.
Nintendo was the pioneer of opening up the games market to new control types, going all the way back to the NES with the power glove, the power mat and the synonymous R.O.B the robot. Up until the recent times Nintendo had a prototype controller for the Gamecube that is similar to the Playstation 3's sixaxis controller they also had Donkey Kong bongo's moving to the Wii with the Remote as a primary control option with motion and infra-red pointer control. Also looking at what the touch abilities have done for the handheld market and the possibilities for the in-game use of the DSi's cameras already showing with augmented reality games in the works.


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Friday, February 2, 2018
4 comments:
- Ed Barreras said...
They needed something, anything. And despite having full access to the intelligence, this is what they could come up with. Pathetic.
- February 2, 2018 at 5:18 PM
I am no lawyer, but I have read lawyers saying that the FBI agents identified in the Congressional committee's report are guilty of felonies. Regardless of your feelings about Mr. Trump's sidekick, you should be concerned about the FBI et al. breaking the law (again).
- February 5, 2018 at 11:47 AM
- Robert Paul Wolff said...
If they are guilty of felonies, they should be prosecuted. Since the Attorney-general, the Deputy Attorney general, and the Director of the FBI are all Trump appointees, I assume we can be confident that this will happen quite quickly, yes?
- February 5, 2018 at 2:57 PM
As we have learned from the saga of Hilary Clinton's emails, perhaps not. It seems to be as much to do with politics as law. What the Republican Party thinks will have some bearing (and they are not all on President Trump's side in this). And the prudent preference of all Presidents not to mess with the security services (all 17 of them!) will also play a part. President Trump has already proved full of bluster and backsliding, wholly obedient when pressure is exerted - we now have three generals running foreign policy and Wall St the economy (pretty much business as usual despite the daily tweetery).
- February 6, 2018 at 9:09 AM


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MAYK Salon is an informal monthly space where we can keep in regular contact with the spirit of Mayfest. It's a space for socialising, listening, chatting and good old fashioned hanging out.
At our first ever Salon we were captured by stories past and present of Bristol's infamous Old Market (thanks to authors of Vice and Virtue: The History of Old Market, Edson Burton and Mike Manson). Nestled upstairs at the perfectly positioned SPACE, a gentle evening of wine and insight was aptly underscored by the sounds of West Street revving up for the night.
MAYK Salon #2 will be held somewhere completely different, our topic will be something else entirely and our speaker will be someone new. So stay tuned for the location, turn up as you are, and we'll do the rest.
Look our for links to our Facebook events and Eventbrite.
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As you have already noticed, Paul deals with some pretty "Messy" topics in 1 Corinthians, and this Sunday is no exception. The people and church of Ancient Corinth struggled greatly with sexual immorality-both personally and in family life-and Paul didn't avoid addressing the topic. As you know this topic an be sensitive, but Paul addressed it clearly so we should as well. Parental discretion is advised. We recommend that only teenagers/adults join us this Sunday as Counseling Pastor Larry Snapp speaks on these vital topics.
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What an experience! This expo is attended by funeral directors and other interested parties all over the country, we even had a visitor from Zimbabwe who said all his customers are here in South Africa which is no surprise. We hope he will sign up with Funeral Guide so that all our South-African-Zimbabwean's get reunited with their motherland when there time here is through.
We were too busy running our own stall to run around much, but I took a few pics to show some of the eye-catching things I saw.
For me this Hummer Hearse stole the show, I didn't get to chatting to the owners, but it had the words Kagiso Funeral Parlour printed on the side window, it looked absolutely fantastic, I couldn't get over the origionality and the brilliance of this vehicle, the Hummer honestly looked right as a hearse. This vehicle is simply too good not to share.
Sonja Smith in the background and her coffin weaver in the foreground. Sonja Smith is a funeral director in Pretoria who manufactures and imports eco friendly coffins and also does custom made coffins for individuals. She recalled a recent story where she made a coffin up for an Alfa fanatic with Alfa badge from a scrap yard and other thoughtful details like number plates with his birth and death dates on it. Sonja Smiths creations are tasteful and inspiring, she is a true origional.
Eco friendly funeral products are catching on and they look superb, Cape Town's Flaura Funerals prefer the eco-friendly route.
Johan and Tertius were in the stall opposite mine and kept me well entertained for two days and happily shared their tasty sweet snacks. Their product sounded like a must have for funeral directors, not only do they facilitate electronic payments, but they do micro-lending at a a reasonable interest rate, this is handy to fill the gap where the funeral policy doesn't quite cover the cost of a funeral. I'm not sure but I think it could even be used as a cost effective alternative to funeral policies. The big thing is that it apparently gives the funeral business a far higher success rate at collecting debt. Every business needs that.
These Altech payment solutions are having success in other markets, they are just introducing it to the funeral industry now and finding the funeral businesses comparatively slow at the uptake. Funeral Guide is experiencing a similar general resistance to technology. I know that resistance well, I had it myself, I think Facebook cured me.
Funeral Guide has many requests for odd things like gazebo's in the Free State, and chapels that are attached to crematoriums, we try to help the public search for the products needed, but we often cannot find them because they're not on the internet, yet their customers are. Even though the funeral related businesses in general don't seem to have a big presence on the internet, the assumption that customers are not surfing the internet would be short sighted.
The lady from Union Life – (Doves underwriters) made an impression on me every time we walked past each other, a vibrant spirit indeed, I hope her stand did well at the Expo.
Another interesting man I met was Geoff Gilfillan who manages the independent crematoriums of South Africa, he had a beautiful presentation that fascinated me no end. I didn't get any pictures, but I will definitly look him up when I have some time to have an inside look at a crematorium which should make for another interesting blog (with pictures) later.
This Mortuary Cabinet is from: Dalucon Refrigeration Products cc. They had these neat fridges and some other interesting looking mortuary equipment. I just had a look at their website, it looks like they've got refrigerated trucks too.
Overall the Funeral Expo was a success, it was an education and a well attended networking opportunity which was worthwhile for all who participated. A big thanks to the NFDA for organising so well
2 Responses to "The 2011 Funeral Expo"
Sonja Smith Says:
April 14th, 2011 at 21:56
Hi Heather
It was nice meeting you at the Funeral Expo!
You are indeed a breath of fresh air in this industry and I wish you well in your future endeavours.
Kind regards.
Sonja Smith
Heather Says:
April 16th, 2011 at 09:56
Hi Sonja
Nope, the fresh air was next door to me, the ozone guys, but I'll gladly take the credit 🙂
Pjlr 03 Consultants – 011-828-6671 firstname.lastname@example.com – Ozone air disinfectant and odour neutralizer. The more I think about their product the more I want one especially for the health benefits – I think they're going to do really well.
lol, I couldn't resist!
have a great week-end Sonja, I hope you get some rest


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Sheila Purcell (Hastings) provides this synopsis of the Northern California ADR Faculty Conference which Hastings hosted on February 1st. Sounds like it was a fantastic event.
On February 1, 2014 the UC Hastings Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution and the Gould Center at Stanford Law School co-hosted the Northern California ADR Conference. Faculty and adjuncts from law schools such as Berkeley, Stanford, UC Hastings, Santa Clara and USF joined undergrad and Business School faculty from San Jose State, San Francisco State and Berkeley's Haas Business School. Scholars and practitioners included Melissa Nelken, Santa Clara Dean Lisa Kloppenberg, Carol Izumi, Jay Folberg, Jan Martinez and many others.
We kicked off with Keynote speaker Prof. Michael Wheeler from the Harvard Business School whose new book, "The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World," was just published by Simon & Schuster. Discussion centered on what we as students and practitioners of negotiation arts have to learn from the world of jazz, improve comedy, psychotherapy and military strategy about staying nimble and strategically agile in the often unpredictable negotiation process.
Michael's conceptual framework was followed up on by presenter Mark Perlmutter, (University of Texas School of Law and now an adjunct at UC Hastings) who demonstrated a role play that drew out issues involved in trying to maintain emotional intelligence in the midst of a hard ball negotiation.
Our final afternoon session led by Deb Gerardi, a healthcare conflict engagement specialist, picked up on Michael's themes with two provocative hours of experiential activities drawn from her decades of work in the field of improvisational comedy and applied improvisation. This helped us all consider how to best activate and use student's capacity to sense and respond in negotiation and ADR situations that require presence, focus, deep listening and recognition of offers. The days evaluations indicated that our session leaders were very well received for the mix of theory, practice, fun and collegiality that they each engendered.
My co-host, Jan Martinez, Director, Stanford Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program, and I were happy to work with our colleagues from throughout the region and hope others from around the country can join us next year for a great chance to learn from each other about our best teaching efforts and ideas.
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Knox Hall, 606 W 122nd St., Room 509
Watch the video of this workshop!
This session will be an informal talk and discussion reflecting on the connections between my use of memoir in Depression: A Public Feeling (2012) and oral history in An Archive of Feelings (2003) as genres of public feeling. In each case, I was interested in how personal narrative can intervene in challenging medical models of trauma (Archive of Feelings) and depression (Depression) and in how the documentation of personal experience can lend itself to social and political critique and forge new kinds of collectivity around shared feeling. In addition to discussing how the practice and study of memoir can inform oral history, I'd like to consider why I didn't use oral history for Depression, as well as what might have happened if I had. More generally, I will discuss my past and current research in the context of the Center for Oral History's focus on public health, with a particular emphasis on the implications of queer and affect theory for oral history practice. I will also hope to discuss some new work on disability, mental health, and queer studies and how oral history might be of methodological use, as well as what challenges it might present.
Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (Rutgers, 1992); An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Duke, 2003); and Depression: A Public Feeling (Duke, 2012). She co-edited (with Ann Pellegrini) "Public Sentiments," a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, and (with Janet Staiger and Ann Reynolds) Political Emotions (Routledge, 2010). She has been coeditor, with Annamarie Jagose, of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Her current writing projects focus on the current state of LGBTQ archives and the creative use of them by artists to create counterarchives and interventions in public history.
SPONSORS: This talk is part of the "Paul F. Lazarsfeld Lecture Series," co-sponsored by the Columbia Center for Oral History Research (CCOHR), the Oral History Master of Arts Program (OHMA), and the University Seminar on Narrative, Health and Social Justice. Support from the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) is provided for programming that embodies late Professor Paul Lazarsfeld's commitment to improving methodological approaches that address concerns of vital cultural and social significance.
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