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I've personally had to move on now to other projects, other visions. The timing for VIDA wasn't right 5 years ago. But conceptually it still feels real.
If you're interested in VIDA as a company, here is a link to the Business Plan I wrote back in 2014.
As I write this I sit here smiling. I've come to terms with the fact that this is not going to be me that makes this a reality, but smiling in that I still think it's a great vision and could be a fantastic product, I'm also smiling because it's made me think about my travel experiences and adventures, and that feeling is priceless.
I really hope some people do read this and want to pick this project up.
I would be more than happy to give advice, on the pitfalls of the past as well as what I think could be done in the future.
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Tired short-term, 'quick-fix' solutions, MaShunda (@shundyg) decided to join the PumpUp community in September 2014 in search of consistent motivation to lead a more healthy and active lifestyle. Ever heard of the lemonade diet, military diet, and 'cabbage soup' diet? MaShunda has tried them all. "They would only work for a little while, but I was not healthy," she explained. "I felt fatigued and flabby." Our app is the only social network that she uses! "So far, it has been completely life-changing," she professed."I try to stay away from social sites because of the negativity that they manifest, but I don't know what I would do day to day without PumpUp."

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Teachers are waiting for new trainings.
From February 23 to February 24 at Egindikolsky high school No. 1 of Akmola region, the chief specialist of " Regional Monitoring Centre, new technologies, informatization and educational and methodical work in education" under the Department of education of Akmola region B. Bigozhina and the head of the Center of family education of Kokshetau Yu.Sarsekeyeva carried out for psychologists and head teachers discussions connected with strengthening of the institute of family education in the region and increasing of the responsibility of parents for education of children.
The main goal of a seminar is increasing pedagogical culture of parents on family problematic issues and showing the ways of solving these problems painlessly. In this connection, the coaches used the following methods: family games, a minute of vivacity "Shipwreck", the video "Melt water" in a practical part "Phototherapy", "A balance wheel", "Conceptual Map", showed the video on the types of family education. Stage play "Let's hear children", prepared by teachers of school for parents, was very interesting and informative and was pleasant to participants of the meeting. At the end of the seminar parents shared their opinions and impressions of what they have heard, especially in the questions of child upbringing. "The corner for parents" with different instructions and recommendations was made in the foyer of the school for all attendees.
Next day the head of Kokshetau Center of family education Yu.Sarsekeyeva held the training seminar with class teachers, psychologists, kindergarten teachers, social teachers. She demonstrated the application in practice of art therapeutic exercises "My family is in the image of flowers", "The image of the family", "The letter to the partner in life", "Who am I in the world of fairy tales?". During the seminar teachers got new knowledge, the atmosphere at the meeting was very positive and creative. Participants thanked the coach for getting a lot of useful and interesting material necessary today for work with parents and a family. These new methods and techniques in the work of the teacher with children will help parents to understand their children better. Finishing the meeting, all participants of the seminar received certificates.
"We are very grateful to the head of Kokshetau Center of family education Yu.Sarsekeyeva for an exit training workshop, which is so important for teachers. She came to our remote area in spite of the difficulties connected with weather conditions on the roads. We ask her to come to our region again with the new topics connected with education of children", - the participant of this seminar, the school psychologist Sh. Abdrayeva has told.
The school psychologist – Sh.Abdrayeva.
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Благодарность Институту из Петропавловска
Большое спасибо организаторам Конференции за предоставленную ценную информацию. Было бы очень хорошо, если б такие мероприятия проводились чаще. Особую благодарность выражаю за то, что с помощью психолога Института Семейного Воспитания я смогла разобраться в давно интересующих меня вопросах. Мама ученика 6 класса, г. Петропавловск
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- Lead arrangers of the conference for parents of first-graders received diplomas from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- Review of the parental conference in Pavlodar region.
- The Family Education Institute's 4th Anniversary.
- Nearly 97,000 people visited the parental conference.
Воспитывая детей, нынешние родители воспитывают будущую историю нашей страны, а значит — и историю мира.


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Grand Fiesta Americana Puerto Vallarta is a stunning adults-only resort where all the rooms have ocean views, the employees are top-notch and the food is amazing. During my stay, the Grand Fiesta Americana gifted my group a complimentary excursion – Las Caletas Beach Hideaway offered by Vallarta Adventures in exchange for sitting through one of their vacation home presentations.
Vallarta Adventures is hands down the best tour group in Puerto Vallarta. They pretty much have PV on lock down and rightfully so. They're great at what they do – deal with masses of foreigners looking to have a fun, safe time. When I visited Puerto Vallarta for the first time a couple of years ago, all my tours were automatically booked through Vallarta Adventures. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that this was still the case. Las Caletas, located a short catamaran ride away in Banderas Bay, is a secluded beach that serves as Vallarta Adventures' own exclusive tropical beach hideaway. Once there, guests can scuba dive, snorkel, visit the jungle spa, relax on the beach or even take a cooking class. Can you guess what I wanted to do?
That's right, it was the cooking class for me. I had one of my best days in Puerto Vallarta at Las Caletas. The Chef and the other cooking class participants made the day so wonderful. The Chef was kind enough to write out his homemade fish stock recipe; I included below along with the rest of the recipes from the class. I'm calling him Chef because he is the one name that I don't remember unfortunately. Seriously though, the paella we made came out delicious. I haven't had the guts to try to make it remake it at home by myself yet.
Cooking Class – Seafood Paella
One word – PAELLA!! I've never made it before. It smelled so good while we were making it that I almost fainted haha.
So…after we let the paella set to cook, we hopped off to our spa treatment. It was magnificent. We climbed up what seemed like a million stairs into the jungle to a quaint lodge where we had massages in side-by-side rooms. Great atmosphere, great massage. The downside is that while we were getting rubbed down, the paella was being served. And then the rest of the lunch buffet was served as well. So unfortunately I don't have a final pic of the paella. I missed that. But in the pic below, you can see some of the paella underneath the food. All the food served at the lunch buffet was delicious.
Cooking Class – Side Dishes
In addition to paella, we also made guacamole, ceviche and salsa.
Las Caletas – beautiful hideaway in Puerto Vallarta
Las Caletas is a beautiful hideaway with lots to offer. If you don't want to do anything, sit back and enjoy the views. Upon arrival everyone is ushered into a beautiful open-air restaurant where for vegetarian mushroom tacos served in homemade tortillas. Then you're off to explore the hideaway at your leisure.
It doesn't show from my pictures but Las Caletas is extremely family friendly. It has an entire kids adventure park and a teen adventure cove. There's zipline, 'the blob' and a huge water slide down into the water. Overall the 7 hours spent with Vallarta Adventures at Las Caletas were some the best during our stay. On the way back, a couple of dolphins swam along side or boat for a few minutes. Perfect ending.
Cooking Class – Recipes
I didn't forget. Here are the recipes from the class starting with Chef's homemade fish stock.
While I was not compensated monetarily, I did enjoy certain perks during my stay at Grand Fiesta Americana. All opinions expressed are 100% my own and uninfluenced.


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I'm no enemy of published adventures and campaigns, but I usually mine them for ideas rather than running them as written. There are however four notable exceptions, two of which pertain to other game system than D&D&family: The Great Pendragon Campaign (Pendragon), The Enemy Within (WFRP), Dragonlance and The Temple of Elemental Evil.
I ran all these campaigns during the past 20+ years, but for many reasons I managed to finish only one of them. The Great Pendragon Campaign is still open, and I get to play it almost once a year (not much, but better than nothing); The Enemy Within was never completed; Dragonlance was abandoned after the 10th or 11th module; only The Temple of Elemental Evil was ever concluded (many, many years ago).
When I think about TToEE I still remember the long hours spent with my friends while their characters unraveled its secrets and battled its inhabitants. It was fun of the best sort, and if I had the chance to run again the whole campaign, I'd jump at it with no hesitation whatsoever!


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Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morning
Christ, whose glory fills the sky
Praise ye the Lord
Oh word if God Incarnate
Christ, of all my Hopes the Ground
Rejoice, ye Pure in Heart
Thanks we give and adoration
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life-- 2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us-- 3 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.
People had come in who were teaching believers falsely, causing them to question what they had been learning.
Teaching Jesus only appeared human. Teaching that the God part left Jesus before he died. That only the spiritual was important the physical actions you made were immaterial. They didn't really care for each other as well.
So John wrote to address these issues.
1. Jesus was a real, live person. He was seen. He was looked upon. He was talked to, looked at carefully, listened to, he was even touched. Jesus was as real as can be. So it is important to know that he was real.
2. God Joined himself to human nature. Eternal life came into this world. So if you want eternal life you need to come to him.
3. John speaks to this so that we can have fellowship, a close connection, with him. Fellowship with each other and fellowship with God. We need those walls between us broken down. To make a new stronger body. A shared life with each other.
Back to Genesis three. Adam and Eve were so connected and in harmony with each other. Sin immediately severed that connection. So our fellowship is through God.
Authentic life starts with Christ. He is God in the flesh who lived the life we should have lived.
John shares our life in Jesus Christ. This is his joy, and as we fellowship with each other, it should bring us joy as well. It is in fellowship with Christ that we have joy. It is our pleasure forevermore. The opposite of joy is discontent.
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Episode 75: Goodbye 2017, Hello 2018
For our first episode of the new year, Wyndham, Jeremy, and Christian are getting together to bid adieu to 2017 and hello to 2018. With the difficulties of 2017 behind us, we take one last look at the year in music, discussing some of our favorite songs and album covers, reminiscing about our first full year as a podcast, and taking a moment to remember the artists we lost this year. Setting our sights for 2018, we take a look at the music we're most excited about in 2018 and tease out a few upcoming Brother Brother Brother features you can expect in the near future.
To cap off a long but musically-rewarding 2017, take a listen to our custom "Goodbye 2017, Hello 2018" podcast on Spotify and share your musical highlights with us on Twitter @thebrotherpod. https://open.spotify.com/user/thebrotherpod/playlist/27zQArAqlE2s5NbACrrbXQ


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Dear Kelley Jo,
I listened to your drama DUCKS ON THE MOON on CBC IDEAS on Friday, April 16, which I enjoyed. I appreciate your dilemna - in particular using your creative powers about your son, - something you do not bring up but which I'm sure occurrs to you. Would be interested in your feed-back about this.
I myself am the mother of an autistic son, now age 33. I went through the same trauma as you - only worse, because little was known by 'experts' about autism in the early 1980s when my son was diagnosed, nor about mothering except that mothers were regarded as "refrigerator mothers", causing their child's autism - a common attitude among professionals at the time.
I wrote a book about raising my son - its focus was on how he became violent in his teens and how we coped (sort of. . .) I felt guilty at times writing about Julian (I used his real name ) but in the end I felt I was helping other parents who go through the same terrible ordeal when their children become violent, usually in their teens. . . and I mean VIOLENT and SELF-MUTILATING! Your son hasnt hit his teens yet. You may have quite a lot of trauma to go through I'm afraid . . . or not, so my book may help you recognise the warning symptoms & also give you some knowledge of medications.
My book is: My Sad Is All Gone, A Family's Triumph Over Violent Autism. Lucky Press, 2004.
I'm also on Google! Have given many talks & presentations on the subject.
I'd like to send you a copy of the book, if you wish, but will need some sort of mailing address..
We probably have a lot in common. I'm in Toronto.
Would like to be in touch if you have the time. . .
With all good wishes,
Thelma Wheatley.


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The Beatitudes Series #10: Bartimaeus the Blind Beggar/
What does God see in us? Does he see the ugly in us? He sees what others don't--what we are hiding from everyone. How much mercy does God give us? How can we withhold mercy from others when we have been given so much mercy by God? Dennis Steward gave this sermon on May 20, 2018.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Gusty North East Winds For Wednesday
Gust winds for LA, Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties for WEDNESDAY. Hightened fire danger for the Southland. Todays fire on Interstate 5 was held at 17 acres. A fire in San Luis Obispo County on Hwy 46 near the Kern County line ran 350 acres.
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Dear Terra, Love Lunar
The lunacy that Lunar sees.
Life forms arguing with oceans between,
Beauty in its form though thought only as a barrier,
Why must she separate herself in such a manner?
A question to Earth from a curious neighbour,
Why oh why do you do nothing for your favor?
You're such a contradiction in all shape and form,
That even your children struggle to look to dawn.
They stay forever begrudged and always ached by something,
Consumed by greed and terrified of unfamiliar company.
How did you get here? Has this always been?
Do you enjoy the conflict? Satisfaction of a kink?
Or is there something between the lines of unreason; something unseen?
So many questions answered with only silence,
Either Terra is a mute or she is blinded by violence.
A deafening repetition of an age old record,
Can she not hear her own soul beckon?
Has her skin grown thick and vailed her eyes?
Or is it love? Does she turn and turn her cheek to compromise?
For your flowers are paved over,
Yet still proud you wear that makeup guise.
Now if love is the cause I can truly understand,
As it has made me locked on a gaze to stand,
For love follows no logic, only sure reason,
To feel that feeling; oh what a bittersweet demon.
So that must be the answer, your love is too strong,
You know your in pain, but for which you prolong,
To spend more time with your cherished,
Or rather you ever perish.
Some things require sacrifice,
Some things are fatally selfish.
Yes I know the struggle,
I am in the same sea boat,
As I too would rather die slow,
Than leave you alone in this infinity to float.


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Thursday, March 20, 2008Death Of Science Fiction Writer ....
Excerpts From NYTIMES:
"Mr. Clarke's influence on public attitudes toward space was acknowledged by American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts, by scientists like the astronomer Carl Sagan and by movie and television producers. Gene Roddenberry credited Mr. Clarke's writings with giving him courage to pursue his "Star Trek" project in the face of indifference, even ridicule, from television executives.
In his later years, after settling in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Mr. Clarke continued to bask in worldwide acclaim as both a scientific sage and the pre-eminent science fiction writer of the 20th century. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Mr. Clarke played down his success in foretelling a globe-spanning network of communications satellites. "No one can predict the future," he always maintained. But as a science fiction writer he couldn't resist drawing up timelines for what he called "possible futures." Far from displaying uncanny prescience, these conjectures mainly demonstrated his lifelong, and often disappointed, optimism about the peaceful uses of technology — from his calculation in 1945 that atomic-fueled rockets could be no more than 20 years away to his conviction in 1999 that "clean, safe power" from "cold fusion" would be commercially available in the first years of the new millennium.
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Mr. Clarke was well aware of the importance of his role as science spokesman to the general population: "Most technological achievements were preceded by people writing and imagining them," he noted. "I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon," he added, if it had not been for H. G. Wells and Jules Verne. "I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books."
Arthur Charles Clarke was born on Dec. 16, 1917, in the seaside town of Minehead, Somerset, England. His father was a farmer; his mother a post office telegrapher. The eldest of four children, he was educated as a scholarship student at a secondary school in the nearby town of Taunton. He remembered a number of incidents in early childhood that awakened his scientific imagination: exploratory rambles along the Somerset shoreline, with its "wonderland of rock pools"; a card from a pack of cigarettes that his father showed him, with a picture of a dinosaur; the gift of a Meccano set, a British construction toy similar to American Erector Sets."
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Even if you are a Wikipedia fan who thinks the site is usually accurate, you can't help but feel that there's an implicit marker on all the content: "Maybe this is correct." That "maybe" is what sticks in the craws of so many people. Teachers often insist that their students cannot cite Wikipedia. Journalists and academics are embarrassed to admit they use it, and most would not consider writing for it. But if your goal is to improve human understanding, isn't one of the world's top websites a better outlet than University of Nebraska Press?
The old model of publishing non-fiction, borrowed largely from academia, promised a straightforward result. You picked up an academic journal to find the latest word on French tax farming in the 18th century. You knew that what you were getting was tried, tested, vetted, and replicated, at least as much as was humanly possible. You thought of the author as laying small bricks for subsequent scientific advances. But this model of knowledge accretion never had the accuracy it pretended to. If I had to guess whether Wikipedia or the median refereed journal article on economics was more likely to be true, after a not so long think I would opt for Wikipedia. This comparison should give us pause.
The issues of trust and accuracy have come to the fore lately with the "revelation" that a number of published autobiographies are little more than fiction. Most notably, Margaret B. Jones's acclaimed new memoir Love and Consequences was discovered to be fraudulent; a week before that, Misha Defonseca's European bestseller Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, first published in 1997, was admitted to be a fabrication. Ms. Defonseca had told tales about running from the Nazis, living with wolves (really), and searching for her deported parents across Europe. Last month the author confessed that most of the story, including her identity, was simply made up.
Let's examine the Defonseca case. The only news here is the belief that the falsity of this story is in fact news. A quick look at Amazon.com shows that the first book review--dated 2001--charges the following: "Uplifting and entertaining though this story may be, it is impossible to tell how much of it is true. Let's face it, no one has ever been brought up by wolves, beautiful idea though it is. I would love to believe that wolves would take care of children, bring them up and feed them, but they don't." As of early March 2008, 48 out of 61 people found that review to be helpful, yet only now is the fabrication a story for the mainstream media. On the academic side, doubts were raised about the book's veracity by potential blurbers even before it was published.
The earliest Wikipedia article I can find on Defonseca comes on French Wikipedia, on February 29, 2008; by the end of that day, one of the revisers noted that the story is false. (By the way, the longer Wikipedia page on literary hoaxes is impressive; see it here.) That the mainstream media did not challenge the original story reflects one of the most important and most pernicious biases of print media and TV. If something isn't reported, people assume it either didn't happen or isn't important. Since just about everything is reported on the web--whether it is true or false--issues of verification become more important than issues of omission. On the positive side, we're less likely to take a lot of claims for granted.
Defonseca's fabrication joins a long list of hoaxes, along with Clifford Irving's fake biography of Howard Hughes, the so-called Hitler Diaries, James Frey's partially false memoir about addiction, James Macpherson's 18th-century marketing of Ossian--and dare I mention the claim that Moses wrote the Torah and thus authored the story of his own demise in Deuteronomy?
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Matthew Burford interviews Dr. Tremper Longman in this edition of Tactical Faith Radio.
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God, Love, and Power, Part 1: Knowing God and Knowing About God This piece, which covers an issue that I think has become a prevalent problem in thinking about God, is rather long. Nevertheless, rather…
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Leaving the EU: Implications for Wales (Environment & Marine)
Yesterday two EUrefEnv authors, Dr Richard Cowell from the University of Cardiff, co-author of our Land Use and Planning chapter, and Dr Charlotte Burns from the University of York, lead author, gave evidence to the Welsh Assembly committee in charge of examining the implications for Wales of the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
You can watch the evidence session (start time 14:26), part of a whole afternoon of discussions about Brexit, Welsh devolution and the environment.
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User Experience (or UX as it is abbreviated) is something I've considered without thinking upon specifically.
What I mean is, I'll ponder what makes one game more fun than another, what sort of teaching methods I find most helpful, or what assembly manuals I find the most clear and enjoyable to read. These are all cases of user experience.
Creativity is a tough thing. In one aspect, we want only to create in our own private world without having to bother about anyone else. But, really, if you want your work to be effective, you must consider your audience.
What will they think? How will they be affected by your work? Is your message easy to understand or veiled?
Engaging with creativity is as much a part of user experience as anything else. With a little forethought and planning, us creatives can make the "user's" experience that much better.
A friend of mine shared this article with me about the subject. Upon reading, I found it to be quite helpful. In short, it was a good experience.
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The 7 Factors that Influence User Experience


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The Star Side of Bird Hill (Compact Disc)
July 2015 Indie Next List
"In the summer of 1989, sisters Dionne and Phaedra -- aged 16 and 10, respectively -- are shuttled from their Brooklyn life to their grandmother Hyacinth's home in Barbados. Dionne is filled with palpable teenage angst and the desire for romance, while Phaedra prefers to experience the mysteries of Bird Hill with her grandmother. Both girls have a tentative curiosity about their mother's early life on the island, but it is not until their father shows up unexpectedly that they question their very identities and what it means to be 'home.' Reminiscent of Jamaica Kincaid, Jackson's coming-of-age tale makes Barbados spring from the page with humor, beauty, and heartbreak."
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The Reverend Marceli Godlewski became a parish priest in All Saints' Church in Warsaw in 1915. He served there for 30 years. He did not leave the parish even when the church was surrounded by the wall marking the boundaries of the ghetto. When I'm thinking about him, wrote Prof Ludwik Hirszfeld, I am overcome with emotion.Passion and love in one soul. In days of yore an aggressive anti-Semite, a priest waging in writing and speaking. But when the fate made him meet dire poverty, he got rid of his attitude and devoted the whole of his priest heart to the Jews. Today marks the 70th anniversary of his death.
A long time before Poland regained independence, Rev. Godlewski proved himself to be an exceptionally active community worker. His actions were targeted mainly at the working circles growing along with industrial development. The will to gain as much profit as possible, he wrote later, stifles all emotions. A worker was looked at only as work force, as a machine purely mechanical, out of which they wanted to squeeze as much benefit as possible. Ministry for workers run by Rev Godlewski and chit-chats on social subjects taking place in the parish room in 1905 transmuted into Stowarzyszenie Robotników Chrześcijańskich (SRCh) [Association of Christian Workers]. SRCh very quickly spread countrywide, organizing workers' self-help, law counselling, food associations and day-care rooms.
The Catholic priest, socially sensitive, took up fight with socialists over the working souls. However, simultaneously, a fight with other enemy was taking place — the Jews, who in his opinion were exploiting the Polish. In the press published by him, including a weekly "Pracownica Polska" targeted at women, Rev Godlewski very strongly supported the motto "swój do swojego po swoje" [*most generally, a motto used to encourage the Polish to buy products from shops run by Polish merchants rather than Jewish ones; especially popular a few years just before the World War II]. To some extent, of anti-Jewish character were also cooperative movement and loans schemes also promoted by him. They allowed to omit "foreign" middle men, not only the Jews but also the Germans, and make trade national, what Rev Godlewski regarded as chief asset.
After 1918 Rev Godlewski's way of operating clearly changed. He focused on his parish, more and more rarely taking part in bigger social actions. He engaged himself in politics and in 1930 he was a member of leaders of the National Party. In the interwar period, more and more of his journalistic writing was devoted to the Jews. He became recognised, of which mentions Hirszfelt, as "an aggressive anti-Semite" in a cassock.
When the World War II broke out, Rev Godlewski was finishing his preparations to retire. A house which he had been building in Anin, wishing to spend his old age in, was almost ready. However, the war thwarted his plans. Rev. Godlewski decided not to leave the All Saints's Church even though it was now on the territory of the ghetto. It is estimated that in November 1940, when the ghetto was closed, about 2 thousand Jews-Catholics were living there. Rev. Godlewski managed to get an official agreement from the bishop to do his pastoral work in the ghetto. This mission was given to Rev Godlewski and a vicar in All Saints' Church, Rev. Antoni Czarnecki.
Rev. Godlewski's activities in the ghetto did not limit only to ministering to a parish. At the parish, he organized a social kitchen which gave meals to about 100 people daily. Similar amount of people lived in presbytery and a few separate outbuildings. The kitchen as well as the shelter in the parish could be used by both Christian Jews and people not baptised.
There are legends about the aid given by Rev Godlewski to the Jews. Some say that he used to smuggle Jewish children though the ghetto wall, hiding them in his cassock or that he personally took part in smuggle of weapon into the fighting ghetto. However, these activities were impossible for a 78-year-old, sick man. The actual merits of Rev Godlewski were a bit less spectacular but they were associated with a wider scope of activity. His parish office issued hundreds of forged birth certificates which gave chance of survival to the Jews who decided to escape to the "Aryan side". As both priests had passes allowing them to cross the ghetto gates, they regularly smuggled to the other side of the wall letters and information necessary for organizing escapes.
Forged birth certificates issued by Rev. Godlewski allowed to take some number of Jewish children to the other side. Mainly, Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary took care of it; with Rev Godlewski's approval, they established an orphanage in his house, leaving only one room for his use. In the orphanage in Anin, in total about 20 Jewish children were staying during the war.
On 22nd July, 1942 the great liquidation action of the ghetto began, which resulted in more than 300 thousand Jews being taken to the gas chambers in Treblinka. During first days of the action, the Germans ordered the priests to leave the ghetto. Rev. Godlewski went to Anin where later he helped the sisters with running the orphanage. However, this time was not calmer than the one spent in the ghetto. A few times, the orphanage was pestered by the Germans looking for hiding Jews. The aged priest also had to resist szmalcowniks, rightly suspecting that among his charges there were also Jewish orphans. All Jewish children hiding in the orphanage in Anin survived the war.
Rev Marceli Godlewski died in his house in December in 1945 at the age of 80. In 2009, Rev Marceli Godlewski was awarded Righteous Among the Nations medal for his merits.
The figure of Rev Godlewski still causes controversies. It is hard to find the reason why a person of negative attitude towards the Jews would decide, firstly, to serve in the ghetto and secondly to be so much involved in helping the Jews, which was extremely dangerous. The parson of the ghetto did not leave any "declarations of a reformed anti-Semite". As a matter of fact, we do not even know whether he changed his negative attitude towards the Jews. Maybe, in the fact that the ghetto was created on the area of his parish, he saw the hand of God and decided to fulfil this mission the best as he could? A typical-for-him habit of sympathising with the weakest must have got the upper hand over prejudices.
Also, ambiguous is the fact that the priests conducted baptism in the ghetto. According to some sources, only a few thousand Jews locked up in the ghetto decided to receive the sacrament. However, estimates of a few hundred seem more realistic. Some neophytes must have treated conversion of the religion as an important spiritual experience. The others, perhaps the majority, had a more pragmatic attitude. They thought that as Christians they would be treated by the Germans better than the Jews. Maybe, they also hoped for help from the Polish.
Leaving the ghetto at the Germans' behest, Rev. Czarnecki took with him a statue of Theotokos, at which catechism of those preparing for baptism took place. The statue survived the war. It stands today on the territory belonging to St. Catherine's Church in Warsaw in Służew district and is called "Theotokos from the Ghetto". A plaque on the pedestal says "Before this statue of Theotokos in the Warsaw Ghetto thousands of Jews adopted Catholic faith." Is it only a touchy ear that can hear in these words an echo of triumph? Certainly, it lacks information that not vague "thousands", but more precisely three hundred thousand Jews from this ghetto, baptised or not — died.
Quote from the first paragraph of the article from: L. Hirszfeld, "W cieniu kościoła Wszystkich Świętych" [in:] "Ten jest z ojczyzny mojej. Polacy z pomocą Żydom 1939–1945", ed. W. Bartoszewski, Z. Lewinówna, Kraków 1969, p. 817.


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Soul Parent | Spiritual Child™ Women's Conference ~ Toronto 2018
During this 2-day conference, we will dive into what the Soul Parent | Spiritual Child™ model is for women, what it looks like to you, your child's future and to the planet as a new system of parenting from the heart of your relationship based on soul evolution. You and your child have been together before, they choose you as their parent for many reasons and during this conference, we will dive into understanding what is being asked of, by these new children as their mothers.
If you are a seasoned mother or grandmother, these teachings will open you up to a new awareness of your own childhood upbringing and how to change the current relationship dynamic that you have now with your adult children, grandchildren, teenagers or toddlers.
There are five main areas the conference will cover:
Preconception ~ Intuitive Guidance From Your Spiritual Child
Conception ~ Healing Your Womb, Body & Mind To Conceive Your Child
Birth ~ A Women's Initiation In Her Own Power & Creative Life Force
Motherhood ~ Embracing Motherhood With Compassion & Love
Soul Parenting ~ Leading From The Heart of Your Spirit of Your Child
Children's core needs are very different from when you or your parents grew up, they have a higher sensory input and sensitivities to their environment and seek a meaningful deep relationship with their Mother especially in preconception and during pregnancy where most healing needs to take place, prior to birthing a new human into our world.
Our children and the children of the future want to be fully expressed, seen and heard.
The current parenting model is over 70 years old, it's seeped in unconscious behaviours that have been passed down from generation to generation fitting an idea of this is what a family should look like in society, which to most, is traumatic to the emotional and mental well-being of a child's need for safety and security in the world. This model is so outdated that it is crippling the future by the way parents are bringing up their children as they are more sensitive emotionally to their environments than generations past. 1 out of every 4 households is steeped in conscious and unconscious emotional abuse, that is painful and leads to children who grow up in a painful psyche and emotional body.
Do you have a child who is sensitive and is not fitting into the mould of how society expects her/him to behave and socially interact or receive information? Today's child is very different, they do not want to experience the pain from the past of your unhealed wounds from childhood, they want you to do the work on yourself before they arrive or at least as they grow up, to take a responsible lead in healing the family's lineage of abuse and trauma. Most of these children come here knowing exactly what their life purpose is, they are gifted and unique with their own set of talents and goals. They want to get busy doing what they are here to do at a very early age, no longer waiting until graduation from a university or high school to begin their lives.
Who should attend?
Women who desire to have children and want to understand what it truly means to become a new mother, personally and in relation to her partner and the larger community and world. If you are wondering about the spiritual paths that support birth and conception then this is a perfect place to understand what those avenues are.
If you've have had a challenging relationship with your mother, and want to heal yourself so that your emotional wounds don't get passed onto your own children, via epigenetics, this is the place to be as Deborah Skye will go into detail about the relationship of the mother-child bond, how this seeps into every relationship and how you view the world and yourself in it.
Why you should attend
The world needs heartfelt, soulful, strong & vulnerable conscious women to take the lead in creating a new model of being a mother. Women are the decision-makers in the upbringing of their children and when a mother is empowered with the awareness of choices available to her and her child or pregnancy she can experience her life as a mother in a new way.
To have a powerful connection with the spirit of your child from pre-conception to adulthood is a new model of honouring each child's uniqueness and providing them with the opportunities to express their own brilliance and beauty into the world.
Parenting is a lifelong relationship, women see this utopian vision of what becoming a mother is, and the truth is, it's nothing like what you see on tv or in movies. Its real, raw, intense, challenging, it will push every button you have, it will bring up unhealed aspects of your own childhood, it will show you possibilities of how incredible and resilient you can be, areas in your life that your spiritual child is here to support you in claiming. Your child is here to serve your evolution, and live their own with your guidance and support. To be able to embody this relationship fully in the way your child desires prior to birth, old models, social conditions and family patterns need to be cleared up and reframed into a new model of living as a family, one where anger and fear are replaced by respect and love.
Deborah Skye King, CEO of Soul Therapy School® + Founder of Soul Parent | Spiritual Child™
Deborah Skye is the world's leading authority on Soul Therapy, CEO of Soul Therapy School®, Founder of Soul Parent | Spiritual Child™ and The 13 Mystical Wisdom Teachings ~ Generational Healing™.
She is a Bestselling Author and fierce Earth Mama Warrior, whose goal is to protect the rights of all sentient beings. She lives the life of an Ancient Wisdom Keeper travelling to sacred destinations around the world and researching the origins of humanity. Her teachings are the platform for how to live with ancient sacred heart wisdom to empower women globally at Soul Therapy School®.
Her mission is to eradiacteMothers into the human family for future generations.
Her primary focus is on dismantling old conditioned systems while creating new pathways of freedom for women and future generations to be authentically& fully expressed through her programs, global retreats, online training and private practice in Toronto.
Vanessa Benlolo, Soul Parent | Spiritual Child™ Evolutionary Educator
Vanessa Benlolo is a professionally certified life and executive coach, soul guide and spiritual healer. Vanessa guides women who desire to experience flow, freedom, joy and fulfilment by showing the connection each woman has with her inner guidance system, embodying her feminine essence, and manifesting positive change in her world.
Vanessa's intention is to support the evolution of human consciousness and that means supporting you in remembering who you truly are – releasing past conditioning and generational trauma, to allow your real essence to emerge and share its magnificence. She knows the mother earth desires you to be as you truly are – limitless, loving, and free.
Vanessa supports your healing though Soul Speak Sessions™ an intuitive, soul-based, holistic coaching program, Generational Healing™ healing your family lineage from generational trauma, and sacred women's circles. She is a Soul Parent | Spiritual Child™ Evolutionary Educator.
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One of the most popular hashtags to represent a perfect, loving, supportive, admirable relationship. #relationshipgoals. When scrolling through Instagram, Snapchat, and Youtube it's nearly impossible to miss a young couple- seemingly in love and committed to each other.
They post pictures of themselves kissing under the stars, splashing each other in the ocean, cooking together in the kitchen, and surprising each other with epic gifts.
Now scroll through the comments and view nothing but heart emojis, "aww"s, and a declaration of Relationship Goals.
Assuming that the majority of commenters are under the age of 21, these social media stars are their role models and people they truly look up to. These couples are demonstrating what other young couples should strive to be – popular, famous, and open to putting all their business out on the street.
I've seen far too many couples begin and/or end their relationship in the social media spotlight- all because they want to be considered relationship goals.
But do you want to know how to truly get to #RelationshipGoals status?
Easier said than done for most, but this is crucial to keeping your relationship strong, stable, intimate, and healthy.
There is a reason you can't find any juicy details about my marriage. There is a reason I do not promote #RelationshipGoals (although we are modeling a healthy relationship). There is a reason I do not share our special moments with the world to see- good or bad. Because once you open the flood gate to allow people into your relationship-you've now interjected a third partner. You, yourself, and Twitter-land.
Now I could preach to you that the only third partner that should be in your relationship is God and he should be at the center. I could tell you that God did not put you, your partner, and the rest of the world together. He put you two together. I could tell you that most relationships that are largely social media based, have ended.
But I wonder, would they listen? Or will they continue to think their homegirl's opinion should be weighed when making a partner decision? Will they continue to post their rants on Facebook when they get into an argument with their partner? Will they snap photos of how happy they are just to be validated by "you're so cute" and "you're so lucky" and "he's such a good man?"
After inviting others' opinions, you will naturally want to consider them or at least listen. Especially if those opinions are from friends and family.
On the surface, those posts seem harmless. There's nothing wrong with sharing what makes you happy and acknowledging someone special in your life, right? The problem is that once you begin posting several positive comments and no negative comments- people will assume you have no issues. People will assume everything is great and your relationship is healthy and effortless. Vice versa, once you begin sharing several negative comments with little or no positive comments- people will assume your relationship is doomed and will be counting down the seconds to your break-up.
As you can see- this is a lose-lose situation! The public will form an opinion either way. Not only that, they will feel entitled to interject their opinion and will take sides with one partner once turmoil is on the horizon.
After inviting others' opinions, you will naturally want to consider them or at least listen. Especially if those opinions are from friends and family. Even those relationships could consequently be impacted due to you not taking their advice-which you solicited.
Once you begin overly seeking opinion, validation, advice and attention from the public and social media, you will slowly but surely start to value their position more. Some may take it as far to value their position more than their partner's and even more than God's. Eventually, there will be so many voices, it will be nearly impossible to ignore.
I do not want to see our young black couples continue to post their business on social media. If you want to share certain moments, please do so out of the sake of sharing. Do not do it with the intention of seeking attention, feedback, or validation. Do not do it out of a feeling of obligation to your followers. Do not do it because you care what they think. Or here's an idea- share a post and disable the comments! That way you are sharing with your friends, but are not influenced by their comments- good or bad.
The next time you see a couple and think #RelationshipGoals, just know they are not perfect. And most are only choosing to share isolated "feel good" moments of their relationship. And even if they chose to share negative moments, you must realize that this is not the full picture. Never look to someone else for relationship goals. Focus on yourself and your partner- forsaking all others.


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We believe that God is the creator and ruler of the universe. He has eternally existed in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are coequal and are one God.
We believe the Holy Spirit is present in the world to make us aware of our need for Jesus. He lives in every believer from the moment of salvation and provides the power for understanding of spiritual truth and guidance.
We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He lived a sinless human life and offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all people by dying on a human cross. He rose from the dead after three days proving power over sin and death. He ascended to Heaven and will return to earth to reign as King.
We believe in the Word of God as originally given by God, divinely inspired, infallible, trustworthy and the authority in all matter of faith and conduct. We believe it is living and breathing, a message of Hope for us here and now.


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Aliens & Anorexia by Chris Kraus
Aliens & Anorexia by Chris Kraus
Amber's Pick: Aliens and Anorexia by Chris Kraus. At this point, I'm going to read everything Chris Kraus has ever written. An amazing meditation on what it means to be a filmmaker, a philosopher, a sadomasochist. What it means to be a woman. She possesses intelligence and insight that I simply can't get enough of.
About the book: As the rope was tightening around my neck, an Alien made love to me. Belief is a technology for softening the landscape. The world becomes more beautiful when God is in it. Here is what happens inside a person's body when they starve.Written in the shadow of Georg Buchner's Lenz at razor pitch, Aliens & Anorexia, first published in 2000, defines a female form of chance that is both emotional and radical. The book unfolds like a set of Chinese boxes, using stories and polemics to travel through a maze that spirals back into itself. Its characters include Simone Weil, the first radical philosopher of sadness, the artist Paul Thek, Kraus herself, and "Africa," her virtual S&M partner who's shooting a big-budget Hollywood film in Namibia while Kraus holes up in the Northwest Woods for the winter to chronicle the failure of Gravity & Grace, her own low-budget independent film.In Aliens & Anorexia, Kraus argues for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool, and reclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of poor "self-esteem." Anorexia, Kraus writes, could be an attempt to leave the body altogether: a rejection of the cynicism this culture hands us through its food.


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Etching - Hard grounds
Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal (the original process—in modern manufacturing other chemicals may be used on other types of material). As an intaglio method of printmaking it is, along with engraving, the most important technique for old master prints, and remains widely used today.
The process can be repeated many times; typically several hundred impressions (copies) could be printed before the plate shows much sign of wear.
The work on the plate can also be added to by repeating the whole process; this creates an etching which exists in more than one state.
Etching has often been combined with other intaglio techniques such as engraving (e.g. Rembrandt) or aquatint (e.g. Goya).
Artists using this technique include:
Albrecht Dürer
Jacques Callot
Francisco Goya
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Marc Chagall
Otto Dix
James Ensor
Edward Hopper
Pablo Picasso
Leon Wyczółkowski
Józef Mehoffer
Józef Pankiewicz
Wojciech Weiss
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A sense of self-protection would save you being cheated by your partner in a relationship. You want to fall in love however you don't want to give anyone power to hurt you and play with your
1.She encourages you on every front. Two people who share life together in a relationship have equal place, neither inferior nor superior. Though, you have flaws in your personality so does she has
1.Acknowledge your shortcomings and deficiencies. There is a need to change your approach to love because you seem too arrogant to accept that you need self-improvement. No matter how meticulously
Be open to your partner is what we hear a lot but not all the details are relevant to spit out in front of your guy. Choice of words, tone of your voice, feelings, and how much do you want him to
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Alyssa & Curtis' Brooklyn Bridge Park HoneyMoon Vacation
With the busy lives we live today Alyssa & Curtis weren't able to immediately go on a honeymoon right after their wedding. This is pretty normal. So two years later they decided to go on an epic trip and visit a couple of places they've always wanted to. From San Diego they hung out in NYC and then went to Boston. I had the honor of showing them around the Brooklyn Bridge and also Brooklyn Bridge Park. They were in awe of the sites. Here are a couple of photos from their time hanging out with me!


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NORCROSS, Ga.—Kiran Ahuja was treated like a cross between a movie star and a long-lost relative at Ashiana Restaurant in Gwinnett County on June 27. She was given so many keys to cities, mayoral proclamations, and small mementos that one guest joked she would need a new suitcase for her return to Washington.
Bucky Johnson, mayor of Norcross, before presenting Ahuja with a key to his city, said: "It's important to find leaders in different communities who are willing to go across cultures."
Ahuja is executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The event, "Building Georgia's Asian American Future," was meant to honor Ahuja's work. The Georgia Asian American and Pacific Islander Task Force and the Center for Pan Asian Community Service hosted the event, which was also meant to highlight the growth and needs of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI).
The host groups want Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to authorize a bi-partisan state commission of Asian-Americans to do a feasibility study to determine how to help the AAPI community, according to Farooq Mughal, co-chair of the Georgia Asian-American Pacific Islander Task Force.
The mood was jubilant, partly because immigration reform seems possible for the first time in many years. Demographic changes are altering the American landscape, Ahuja said.
She has "funny and fond memories" from growing up in Savannah, Georgia, where her mother sometimes embarrassed her with "immigrant bloopers," like marching into a MacDonald's and asking for a hamburger without the meat. Back then, her mother would approach every South Asian she saw for conversation, because they were so rare.
They are no longer so rare. "In one generation there has been a seismic shift in the U.S. population. AAPIs are now 12 to 13 percent of Gwinnett County's population–and nationally 6 percent, the fastest growth of any ethnic group," said Ahuja.
She said the purpose of the initiative she leads is to make sure the federal government understands and responds to the needs and wishes of AAPIs. For example, 40 percent of New Orleans fishing boats are registered to people with Vietnamese surnames, and her initiative tried to make sure they got federal help after the BP oil spill. President Obama told her "no community should be invisible to its government," she said.
Gwinnett has become a majority minority country, with much of its growth fueled by immigration. Immigration reform passed the Senate the day of the reception, and is a vital issue to Asian Americans.
"Now the fight continues to the House. It's an issue that deeply, deeply, affects our Asian community," said attorney and activist Bonnie Youn.
State Rep. Pedro Marin (D-96) agreed with and expanded on her thought. Watching the Senate pass its immigration reform bill made an "exciting afternoon," he said.
"I was glued to the TV at 4:00 [p.m.]."
Marin echoed Youn when he said, "Now the fight goes to the House." Border security is not entirely relevant, he said, because "40 percent of people undocumented came to the country with a visa."
"It's not just Asians," he said. Latinos, Africans, and others all are concerned with immigration reform. Marin is the highest-ranking Latino elected official in Georgia.
He was also glued to the TV in 2007, he said, only to be disappointed when immigration reform failed. But the Senate compromise bill is "an important message, a bipartisan message, something we don't have very often."
Elected officials, volunteers, diplomats, young artists, community activists, bankers, lawyers and business leaders applauded the potentially historic legislation.
Stephen Day, board member of the Gwinnett County Board of Registration and Elections, was among the minority as a native Atlantan at the event. He wrote in an email afterwards that he "found the event inspiring to me as an American.
"The United States' multi-cultural heritage is one of our great strengths and continually re-energizes us as a nation," he said.


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The songs used in the slide show are from the correct species of whale, but are not the exact recordings that were used to create the wavelets. This was the best I could do with the materials I could find! What is interesting to me is that every recording will produce a different picture... I wonder what a wavelet of my voice would look like?
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CANCER SURAKSHA For Children/
Cancer remains a leading cause of mortality in Kerala. Among children, though many types of cancer are curable today, the treatment is often prolonged and expeRead more
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The scheme acts as a relief measure for the Endosulfan victims in the state. Children studying in buds school – Rs 2000/- Children studying in class 1 toRead more
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No one is prepared when death hits, especially when it hits repeatedly for reasons many know could have been avoided. What do you do when reality and news broadcasts seem to be moving closer to one another at lightning speed?
Caught in the middle is Noname (formerly known as Noname Gypsy), a 24-year old Chicago emcee whose highly anticipated debut Telefone was released last Sunday. An impressive string of defining feature verses such as 'Lost' and 'Comfortable', and standalone SoundCloud tracks (that often get deleted) have built a strong following around the enigmatic rapper. And Telefone was truly worth the three-year wait.
The project is about so many things: her reflections on topics ranging from lovers to Bill Cosby, childhood memories to Brother Mike's passing to life itself. On tracks like 'Diddy Bop', Telefone is a conversation about Noname's, personal experiences in the Chi. The track feels like a one-take summer music video through her neighbourhood that stops at a still of her sitting on "my front porch in my new FUBU and my A1's too," just to pan out over the whole block dancing to Raury's soothing voice.
Telefone is also about lives taken by both street and police violence, an underlying theme in almost every song, no matter how subtle. Noname's poetic prowess unleashes words that make you pause and reflect more than once. Bars like "I sold my name for seven bags of skittles on Sunny Set Boulevard. Please tell me God is rainbow pretty" on 'Forever,' a song about shining despite hardships, are up for personal interpretation. One still can't help but wonder; was God at least rainbow pretty for Trayvon?
The production on Telefone is crucial to the project's success. Cam O'bi, Phoelix, Saba, Monte Booker, THEMpeople and Noname create a soundscape that hints at neo-soul in a light and dreamy way. At times, it all almost seems "too pretty" for Telefone's subject matter. But this very specific choice of sound contributes to the project's constant tiptoeing between trauma and calm, violence and peace, life and death - Telefone grows on you progressively, going from easily enjoyable to hauntingly beautiful.
On her best tracks off the project, Noname holds our emotions in a twilight zone she skillfully created for her audience to stand in and observe the 360 view of her reality. On 'Casket Pretty's hook, Noname sings that "all of (her) niggas is casket pretty, ain't no one safe in this happy city," dragging us into the heart of her fears regarding the imminence of death in her surroundings. She does so while singing in an eerie manner that leaves a bittersweet feeling on your tongue after having sung the hook a few times too many. Her "casket pretty" friends could die at any moment.
The way in which Noname chose to tell her story and that of Chicago is a testimony to the resilience of both herself and her city - strength and beauty in the face of adversity. And while she hopes that her "telly don't ring," because they all made it home safe, I like to think Noname always carries her Telefone with her, and that she will continue to use it as a way to share her world with us as she did on the project. Communicating, transmitting, translating both the anguish and beauty of her experiences in the enchanting portrait that is Telefone.


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(Reuters) - Amtrak, the U.S. national passenger railroad, said on Thursday it will cancel at least 15 trains in the northeast and midwest this weekend because of an impending major winter storm, and reduce operations on other trains.
At least five people have died in severe rain and snowstorms that blanketed parts of California and forecasters expect the bitter weather to push eastward into the Rockies and U.S. Midwest through the weekend.
Amtrak said it will cancel six trains on Saturday from Chicago to Washington and New York.
For Sunday, Amtrak has canceled six of its Keystone Service trains that normally travel from New York to Philadelphia and then on to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Bill Berkrot


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Stop the Burghfield Warhead Assembly facility
Eastern Area Planning Committee consider MoD application for warhead assembly facility, 6.30pm, 4 March, Council Offices, Newbury; demonstration from 5.30pm. More than a thousand objections to the warhead assembly facility have been received by West Berkshire Council, which on 4 March will consider the Ministry of Defence's application to build a warhead assembly facility on a flood plain at AWE Burghfield. The Eastern Area Planning Committee have received a record number of objections, exceeding any previously received by the council. With a growing local opposition and media interest, AWPC urges the committee members to do the right thing, refuse the application and call for a public inquiry. Demonstration organised by local groups from 5.30 outside the council offices.


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Youth is the way forward: millennials are facing new challenges almost every day, whilst some generations find ways to label; we look for ways to brighten our future. Sam Selvage is a very good example of this. No degree needed, just a pure passion turned into his career. Freelance is a wonderful thing and Sam genuinely enjoys his work, seizing every opportunity to take the next photograph.
We sit down at the local Wetherspoons, both having a pint of lager. We start with our small talk about being freelance and how it can be easy and stressful at the same time. Sam sits on the other end of the booth from me, dressed from head to toe for winter. Sam's always been a stylish type of guy, an adopter of the topknot in its early stages, buying items that would make him stand out in a sharp and piercing way. We settle down to talk about his first solo shoot.
You are starting your very first solo shoot, but first let us hear about the work you've done in the past?
Sam takes a minute before looking into my eyes to answer my question; he moves his hands around the table.
"One at the minute, its pretty much going to go on all year its called 'Splay' which is with my mate Elvis. He's basically making clothes but he's doing it for the basketball community as well, so every Sunday there's a small basketball game and stuff like that. I shoot and help out with the branding, there'll be a lot more to come with different styles and stuff. We're hopefully going to travel around the country a little bit to different locations, setting it up better. That one is quite well made, it's pretty much everyone really, there's kids going round from twelve and then you also have like 30-year olds, so it is really nice, like really diverse. I also do a lot of weddings, they're my thing at the minute, I've got quite a few booked. I'm starting to get into new-born shoots, a lot of people when they have babies, they want family photos. I'm getting into that, I've only done a couple at the minute but they're the main ones I'm going for."
How did you find your way into freelance?
"I done photography at school, it was my passion ever since I grew up. I got my first camera when I was probably like eight! I've always liked photography since then. My uncle is a professional photographer, he done weddings and stuff like that as well. He passed away about two years ago and my auntie was like 'I've got all of this, would you like it seeing as you were so close and helped him?' So I got all of my uncle's camera gear and I kind of do it in his memory but I do it because I love photography as well. My passion is photography: I do a little bit of cinematography but I'm not a big fan of doing that so I try to stick under the photography side. Companies really, they just seem like 'I have to do this, I have to do that". Tapping on the table his voice clear: "There's too many rules and regulations that I have to follow in a company whereas freelance I have my own choice, there's no dress code, no set time for when I need to work and I can charge my own rates. Because I'm still up and coming and small, my prices are still affordable, they're not like ripping you off like two to three thousand pounds, I'm extremely cheap. That's the main thing that I like about that, even if I get a lot of bookings at this price, I can stay at this price and I can make a living quite nicely, that's the main reason I like freelance." He freshens up after his speech by taking a long, slow sip of his lager.
Why have you decided to do the solo shoot now?
"I've been freelance for two years and I've never done a solo shoot. I do miniature projects here and there and just travelling the country, doing nature and stuff like that but I've never physically done my first solo project just for one particular subject. I thought now, two years in, I've got enough experience". He drags his hands across the table as to show a timeline. "Enough people who know about my projects and know how I can shoot. I've done weddings and stuff so I've got the experience so I thought it might be a good time to do it now. I could do it later yes, but then if I start now I've got more projects in the future to come."
Tell me about the shoot.
"It's basically just going to be profile shots, chest upwards maybe the waist upwards, I haven't got too many details on what I want to do at the minute. It's all going to be shot in black and white on a black and white screen". He clears his throat. "We're going to do two different styles to see what I like best, what's going to happen is they're going to get a solid black line, either make up or face paint, from the forehead to their chin, straight down the middle of the face, when I put that on the black and white, that's going to stand out. It's not going to separate everyone but they're all going to look the same but it will separate them in their own way, if that makes sense. Everyone is going to look the same which will bring them together as one and it just basically means that no one is different. You shouldn't separate anyone or single them out, everyone is the same person, no matter what we look like, how old we are, if we're black or white, stuff like that. I'm just trying to bring everyone together to be one person in my own format."
Did you have any inspiration for doing this?
"I think its the national geographic, its played everywhere even on Netflix; it's called 'Tales by Light'. There's a photographer on there, I can't think of his name but he paints backgrounds with different patterns like African tribes and then he'll paint the same design on their face and stand them there so they vanish into the background. I like that idea of the contrast of standing out from something but blending in with your surroundings; so that's why I thought keep it simple with a plain background but, then something standing out on their face that isn't normal, but will look the same on everyone. That's kind of my inspiration but I've put my own twist on it to make it my own. Just mixed it up."
What do you hope to accomplish with this shoot?
"As I said, its my first solo project so its more experience for me but its also helping people who want to get into modelling. I've got a few people who are setting up their portfolio so its helping them add to it and showing that they've done different stuff rather than the 'standard photo of me, here you go' sort of thing, so its helping them out but its also helping me out with experience, and there's a magazine called 'Coy". He spreads his hands out across the table. "They are a small magazine, they've only made two issues at the minute and pretty much anyone can submit work and tell them what its about and they'll decide whether they publish it or not, so I'm going to send all of it to them. One of my mates who lives in Essex, he's a really good photographer, he's got into it like three times and I shoot the same stuff that he does. So hopefully mine will go into there and that will be published which will get me out there more. I'm still looking for more magazines that I like the style of to get into or to publish but that's the main one I'm aiming for because I've followed them since they started".
Explain your style as a photographer?
"I don't really have a style… I will shoot anything, whenever, whatever, day, night. It's just me and my camera. I'll take a photo of anything and have my own interpretation of it. If I have to say I'd shoot anything, I'm more of a landscape and wildlife photographer, I do a lot of that. I don't live central London, I live more countryside of London so there's a lot of nature around so I like doing that. I've started shooting a lot of sports as well now and hopefully I'm going to get into that. But I'm going to stick with photography of landscape and nature. That's the main stuff that I do shoot."
Knowing his job is done, he picks up his half empty pint of lager and takes one large swig. Day done.


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Kiki is a certified Reiki Master and teacher in the lineage of Usui Shiki Ryoho. She combines this with her Masters degree from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and ancient shamanic and yogic techniques to work with her clients. Often uprooting old stories and beliefs in order to begin the process of healing, growth and expansion—intuitively aiding them in their psychospiritual development.
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In her opening statement on Justice, Judge Jeanine Pirro slammed the mayor of Philadelphia for bringing "nonsense apologetic politically incorrect baloney" to a law enforcement press conference after the shooting of a police officer by an alleged Islamic extremist.
Mayor Jim Kenney emphasized Friday that the shooting of Officer Jesse Hartnett the previous night had nothing to do with the teachings of Islam.
Pirro called it "one of the most astounding asinine statements that I've heard since the last time I listened to a White House press conference."
"How dare you take the sympathy away from the victim — Officer Hartnett — and the men and women in blue under siege every day by the haters and turn it into sympathy and understanding for a different group?" she said.
"I don't need you to tell me or lecture me what I should be thinking because you want to suck up to the commander-in-chief. So how about you drop your liberal ideological nonsense and stop apologizing and start focusing on the threats to kill those in your department?""
She reminded the mayor of Philadelphia's historic and symbolic importance in upholding the right to free speech.
"Philadelphia is the place where the Declaration of Independence was signed and the Constitution was written. Its location the symbol of freedom where Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell sit. Last I checked, the First Amendment reigned supreme.
She also called out congressional Democrats for a recent resolution which condemned violence and hate speech toward Muslims, yet made no mention of Christians or Jews.
Pirro said that "offensive speech is protected" and that the resolution is "an affront to freedom of religion by prioritizing one over others."
"I have feared for some time that Sharia law is already here," she said.
Watch Judge Jeanine's opening statement above and read the full transcript below.
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Berrone and Gomez-Mejia (2009)
Berrone, Pascal and Luis R. Gomez-Mejia. "Environmental Performance and Executive Compensation: An Integrated Agency-Institutional Perspective." Academy of Management Journal, 2009.
Explores the relationship between environmental performance and executive pay for 469 U.S. firms (2,008 firm-level observations) over the 1997-2003 time period, focusing on companies in polluting industries. Citing prior research showing potential financial and valuation impacts to poor environmental performance, the authors argue that "[i]t makes sense that firms should reward their executives for environmental actions that confer greater legitimacy and may directly or indirectly improve firm performance."
The study tests the following hypotheses:
Environmental performance has a positive effect on CEO total pay.
Evidence of pollution prevention strategies has a greater impact on CEO total pay than evidence of end-of-pipe pollution control strategies.
(a) The positive effect of environmental performance on CEO's pay is higher for firms that have environmental governance mechanisms in place. (b) Firms with environmental governance mechanisms in place put greater emphasis on pollution prevention than on end-of-pipe pollution control as a criterion for CEO pay.
(a) Long-term pay has a positive effect on subsequent environmental performance. This positive effect is greater on pollution prevention than end-of-pipe results. (b) Long-term pay has a greater effect on subsequent environmental performance as a firm's presence in polluting industries increases. This positive moderating effect is greater for pollution prevention than end-of-pipe result.
The empirical analysis consists of a group of cross-sectional time series regressions.
For hypotheses 1 and 2, the dependent variable is CEO total pay, "the sum of salary, bonus, and all long-term components of CEO pay (stock options, restricted stock, and other long-term compensation). Rather than use an option pricing formula, the authors value stock option grants at 25% of their exercise value - the authors report that "separate analyses using Black-Scholes values yielded results almost identical to those reported here." The key independent variable is environmental performance, which is measured using Toxic Release Inventory data from the Environmental Protection Agency, weighted by 'human toxicity potential factor', an adjusted method introduced by Hertwich (2001). Many control variables are used, notably firm size, ROE, and Tobin's Q. This analysis shows that environmental performance has "a positive and significant effect on CEO total pay." The authors comment that "although the increase in variance was modest, the impact of environmental performance on CEO compensation was not due to random chance."
For hypothesis 3, the dependent variable is again CEO total pay, but the environmental measure used is 'end-of-pipe pollution control', defined as "a ratio in which the numerator was the sum of chemicals recycled, treated on-site, and transferred to other locations for further treatment, and the denominator was the total waste generated by a firm." Control variables were that same as those used for hypotheses 1 and 2. Results of this analysis were inconclusive, and the authors comment that "as a whole these results fail to support both Hypothesis 3a and Hypothesis 3b."
For hypothesis 4, the dependent variable is environmental performance, with long-term pay (total compensation excluding salary and bonus) as the as the primary independent variable and controls as in prior regressions. This analysis appears to support Hypothesis 4a and Hypothesis 4b.
The authors comment that "good environmental behaviors are important in achieving social legitimacy; firms should support environmental strategies by using environmental performance criteria to reward their CEOs. Such incentives can help shareholders, managers, and the general public benefit from good environmental performance."
The paper includes a very strong literature review.
Link: https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amj.2009.36461950


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Normal Knee Joint and Arthritis
The Knee joint has a smooth, slippery, fibrous connective tissue called articular cartilage which acts as a protective cushion between bones inside the joint.
Arthritis develops as the cartilage begins to deteriorate or is lost because of wear and tear as part of aging or because of disease like Rheumatoid arthritis. As the articular cartilage is lost, joint space between the bones become narrow. This is an early sign of osteoarthritis and is easily seen on X-Rays. The synovium (a membrane that produces a thick fluid to nourish cartilage and keep it slippery) becomes inflamed and thickened. It may produce extra fluid that causes additional swelling. Slowly over time bone ends rub against each other and wear away. This results in the deformity of the joint. The normal activity becomes painful and difficult. Pain can even interfere with simple daily activities.
Common osteoarthritis symptoms include pain, stiffness, some loss of joint motion, swelling, cracking sounds and changes in the shape of affected joints
Common Causes of Arthritis
- Primary osteoarthritis typically affects patients over 50 years of age, but is common in India
- It is more common in persons who are overweight, or suffering from Rheumatoid arthritis. In some patients arthritis tends to run in families.
- Other factors that can contribute to developing knee arthritis include injury to the knee joint.
Treatment Options of Knee arthritis
- Conservative treatments include Anti-inflammatory medications, physical therapy, Weight Control.
- If all these fail to produce satisfactory response, one should consider knee replacement for better quality of life.
What is Knee Replacement Surgery?
An arthritic or damaged cartilage is replaced with a new, artificial joint called a prosthesis. The soft tissues around the knee are carefully balanced to correct the alignment of the joint and optimize the function of the knee.
Benefits of Total Knee Replacement
After the completion of healing, the patient will have improved quality of life due to the ability to return to normal activities.
The benefits of TKR are:
- Reduced joint pain
- Increased movement mobility and stability
- Correction of deformity
Post operative recovery and precautions
Patients are encouraged to start in-bed exercises within 24 hours of the operation. After 24-48 hours, drain from the knee joint is removed and the dressing is reduced in size. Patients are made to sit on bedside with legs supported.
- 2-3 days after the operation, patients are encouraged to stand and walk using a walker and a day or two later, they are able to visit the toilet, with assistance, using a high seat.
- Stitches are removed 2 weeks after the operation.
- 3 weeks after the operation, patients are encouraged to walk with a walking stick.
- 4-6 weeks after the surgery, patients are trained to start climbing stairs.
- The patients are discharged from the hospital 5 days after the surgery with instructions regarding medicines and physiotherapy.
- 12 weeks post operative, one can usually begin driving vehicles, with due precautions.
- One is advised not to squat or sit cross-legged after the operation, particularly on the floor.
- The post operation schedule gets slightly extended in case of surgery being performed on both the knees.