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Yim andlt;firstname.lastname@example.com; August 13, 2004 ( v 1.01 ) Introducing CIM: Introducing CIM CIM Engineering, Inc. - San Mateo, CA Incorporated in California – Jan. 1989 CIM: Computer Integrated Manufacturing (with our origin in manufacturing and manufacturing systems) CIM3: originally, 'Computer Integrated-Man-Machine Manufacturing' now, 'Collaboration In huMan-Machine-Methodology' Effectively, we are about optimizing systems of: People, Tools and Process What Does CIM3 Do?: What Does CIM3 Do? Mission: to enable more effective distributed collaboration and virtual enterprise through bootstrapping collective intelligence over the Internet Doing business as: 'cim3.com', 'cim3.net' and 'cim3.org' cim3.com – the business arm of the company cim3.net – the collaborative work environments where client Communities of Practice and distributed team workspaces are hosted cim3.org – the research arm, and holder of the company's open technology, content and other intellectual properties Products/Services: providing an ISP/ASP based Collaborative Work Environment ('CWE') infrastructure that enables distributed project teams, virtual enterprise partners and communities of practice to work effectively over the Internet. Our Focus:Communities & Distributed Teams: Our Focus: Communities andamp; Distributed Teams People as an integral part of the system The Community Spectrum [Kaplan/iCohere] Affinity Networks Learning Communities Communities of Practice (CoP's) Project Teams We optimize our infrastructure, tools and process for CoP's and Distributed Project Teams Our Hosting Facility: Our Hosting Facility CIM3's Approach: CIM3's Approach Augmentation - human-machine interaction - collaboration - communities Openness - we use open-source software andamp; comply with open standards as much as we can; we open-source our technology and content, and participate in open standards development Capitalizing on the Internet technology: taking it from the research and academic network to the current form as publishing media to Transactions and Web Services onto being its future as knowledge media in the Semantic Web Providing Enterprise performance, quality, robustness, security andamp; fault tolerance Providing platform neutrality: supporting machines on PC's, Mac's, Linux, Unix, … System built upon a knowledge architecture optimized for distributed teamwork Emphasis on effectiveness and strategic value - not technology Supporting entire user spectrum: from the everyday users to the power users While we do open-source work, we believe in properly remunerating our contributors, and in helping create a viable economic model for open work The Case for the Augmentation Approach in CWE: The Case for the Augmentation Approach in CWE We work towards providing a work environment for both humans and machines, optimizing between objectives like Supporting the expressiveness that humans need to convey their ideas, and the structure and rigor that machines need to properly interoperate - in essence, promoting both creativity and operational efficacy The ease-of-use that everyday users need, and the versatility and extensibility that power users need to take their work to the next level Securing the borders of the cwe to malicious intruders, while encouraging access, participation, sharing and the free flow of information and knowledge among members of the trusted communities Catering to the quality requirements of information and transaction processing systems and the realities of human behavior that just aren't * Fully describable, fully online, fully informative, fully accurate, or fully responsible Our intent is to foster shared understanding and learning We are trying to spur innovation, as well as organic or emergent behavior in the user communities and teams * Ref: Winograd, Newman, Yim 'Including People in CIM Designs' The Collaborative Work Environment Features: The Collaborative Work Environment Features archived email forum Wiki : a read-and-write web document repository/file sharing workspace Community of Practice (CoP) portal Fine-grain access and linking ('purple numbers') Full-text search voice conferencing screen/application sharing instant messaging real-time chat session Optimized for distributed community and teamwork Platform neutral Some Current CIM3 Projects & Pilots: Some Current CIM3 Projects andamp; Pilots eGov - andlt;sineandgt;, andlt;colabandgt;, andlt;gov-cweandgt; Open standards development: [ontolog] Forum - an international forum on business ontologies NIST – semantic distance workshop on andlt;interopandgt; OASIS-UBL TC work/collaboration support International Collaborative Randamp;D: Millennium Project - State of the Future Index System Development AC/UNU-Millennium Project - hosting and collaboration support Digital Art Ontology - andlt;daoandgt; Learning/Education: Aragon Robotics Team - andlt;artandgt; Western Region Robotics Forum - an adjunct to the FIRST Robotics Competition initiative http://sine.cim3.net: http://sine.cim3.net http://interop.cim3.net/: http://interop.cim3.net/ The CWE where NIST is engaging an international community of multi-disciplinary experts in a discourse on 'semantic distance' http://colab.cim3.net/: http://colab.cim3.net/ The 'pilot' and the 'sandbox' for eGov CWE's http://gov-cwe.cim3.net: http://gov-cwe.cim3.net For the community of Government CWE users and administrators A walk-through of the <ontolog> Community CWE: A walk-through of the andlt;ontologandgt; Community CWE The Discussion Forum The Wiki – a read+write website The File Workspace/Repository Best Practices Archived discussions Project HomePages Sharing documents and Resources Augmented Conference Calls Virtual Presentations andamp; Workshops Knowledge sharing, re-use, access andamp; exploration An open collaborative work environment ' … on tackling 'wicked problems': it's about arriving at a shared commitment, with a shared understanding, augmented by a shared display and a facilitator.' -- citing the work by the IBIS people (Horst Rittle/Jeff Conklin) CWE use cases – Archived Discussions: CWE use cases – Archived Discussions ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/ CWE use cases – wiki augmented meetings & calls: CWE use cases – wiki augmented meetings andamp; calls ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MeetingsCalls CWE use cases – shared document repository: CWE use cases – shared document repository ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conference_Call_2004-01-08 CWE use cases – collective intelligence: CWE use cases – collective intelligence ref: http://art.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ResourcesLinks UseCase: TheList - ThePlate: UseCase: TheList - ThePlate An Organizational Form that the CWE aims at Supporting: An Organizational Form that the CWE aims at Supporting Source: Institute for the Future: Johansen, R., Swigart, R. Upsizing the Individual in the Downsized Organization The Fishnet Organization References: References Doug Engelbart's Bootstrap Vision and Mission [ontolog-forum]: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/ CWE Community: http://community.cim3.net CIM3 ISP/ASP Product andamp; Pricing: Collaborative Work Environment Hosting More Information: CIM Engineering, Inc. Peter P. Yim (bio) (cv) You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.


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Leave it to Grand Admiral Thrawn to frame one of his prized portraits both grandly AND cleverly ... note that Vader doesn't quite fit into the painting ...
Inspired, of course, by Pride Comes Before the Fall Iella's "hum" dedicated to our favorite Chiss!
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We're teaming up with our friends at Sals in Sun Prairie to bring you a night of pups and pizza! On Wednesday, June 20th, we will have pups on site at Sals for you to meet (weather permitting), and they will also be running a special pie: The Hot Diggity Dog! Get a large (16") pizza with herb roasted potatoes, roasted peppers, onions, all beef hot dogs, and a garlic Alfredo sauce, for $25! $10 of each pie sold will go directly to Fetch to help bring pups in need to Wisconsin, where they will reside with dedicated fosters until they find their furever homes.
Join us to pet some doggos and eat some pizza for a great cause!


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Students at Malbank School and Sixth Form College in Nantwich showed off their culinary skills when they hosted a Ready, Steady, Cook fun food event.
The group worked with the school's caterers Chartwells, who are part of the Compass Group and who have won a number of school catering contracts in Cheshire East.
The session is based on the TV programme Ready, Steady, Cook and requires students and a member of staff to cook a nutritional dish in 15 minutes.
Students watching the session then get to taste the dishes and vote which one they prefer and choose the winner.
Fay Yeng, from Chartwells, said: "I've had a wonderful time working so closely with the students.
"They have been really engaged with the cooking and have enjoyed learning about the different types of food and nutritional elements of the dishes."
Teacher Mr Sweetman, who supported the Red Team at Malbank School, said: "I do a lot of cooking at home and I was surprised how competitive the students were.
"They were really good to work with and it was good to see their cooking skills and it was a bonus that our team won."


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Stratford Festival – Caesar & Cleopatra
Caesar & Cleopatra is a witty and seductive comedy about the relationship between a veteran Roman political strategist and an enchanting Egyptian teenage queen. Stratford's production was hailed by The New York Times as "the climactic event in the company's impressive current season." Now movie audiences can witness the acclaimed performance of legendary Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, and experience the drama, intrigue and comedy of George Bernard Shaw's celebrated play. The production also stars Nikki M. James, who later went on to receive the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon. The high quality production captures the true experience of witnessing Shaw's celebrated play on the prestigious Stratford Festival stage.
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Cast and Crew
Directed for the stage by Des McAnuff
Executive Producers Christopher Plummer, Barry Avrich, Michael Levine
Produced by Barry Avrich
Christopher Plummer – Caesar
Nikki M. James – Cleopatra
Diane D'Aquila – Ftatateeta
Peter Donaldson – Rufio
Timothy D. Stickney – Pothinus
Steven Sutcliffe – Britannus
John Vickery – Lucius Septimius
George Roulston
The Stratford Festival has been setting the standard for classical theatre in North America for more than 60 years. Since its revolutionary first season in 1953, it has welcomed more than 26 million theatregoers from around the world, people who flock to this small Canadian town for one reason: an unparalleled quality of performance. Now a select number of these Shakespearean masterpieces will be presented in cinema events. See the best of Shakespeare on cinema screens in spectacular HD!


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Every Friday The Psychogenealogist shares a "Pic of the Week." The intent is to encourage thought and imagination about the spaces where psychology, genealogy, and history converge.
This week we have a lovely cabinet card of seven similarly aged young men and women. Presumably, they are from or near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, as the photographer marketing on the front suggests.
Usually with these types of group photographs I assume the subjects are family members. In this case my first impression is that they were siblings. That they seemed all to be the same or very close in age led me to reconsider.
The back of this photographic is unique, in my experience, because it has a "copyrighted" date listed as 1889 in the lower left corner. We can assume that the photo was taken around this time.
Also, if you look closely on the far right it says "friends in Uniontown 1889 or 88" written in pencil. My guess is this was written much later. So, it seems likely that this was a group of friends, perhaps even classmates.
I searched for information on "Kough and Leeper" and very little showed up. I did find some other images online with the same or similar photograph paper, but I didn't find any information specific to this "Photographic Art Studio".
I found a couple early 20th century references to an O.C. Kough who was a photographer in Uniontown, PA.
Here was short newspaper mention of an O.C. Kough who took a group photograph worth mentioning in the paper. It was in the June 5, 1908 Daily News Standard in Uniontown, PA.
This one was from a 1912 volume of Bulletin of Photography: A Weekly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Professional Photographers.
That would be a tragic accident for anyone. But for a photographer to lose his sight seems an especially cruel fate.
Finally, to give you a sense of the times when the this photo was taken, here is an advertisement for men's clothing on the front page of the March 21, 1889 Uniontown Evening Standard.
As you reflect on this Pic of the Week consider the following:
Genealogy questions:
- Who are the young men and women in this photograph?
- If not their names, what are their relations (siblings, classmates, friends)?
- Why can't I find anything about "Kough and Leeper Photographic Art Studio"?
Psychology questions:
- What is it like for a photographer to lose his eyesight?
- What were these young men and women thinking and feeling at the time of this photograph?
- Is there a meaning to the two woman on the right holding their left hands behind their backs?
- What do you think, wonder, and feel as you look at the the faces of those in the photo?
Do you have an old photograph or a genealogical story that you would like to share? I am happy to consider guest submissions for possible Pic of the Week or other blog posts in the future. Send an email to email@example.com for more information.
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Yesterday, myself and four other LGBTQ Activists from GLSEN had the honor of sitting down with US Secretary of Education, Dr. John King, in his second to final day in office. For example, in case you make payments on your loans during your five years of qualifying employment for Teacher Loan Forgiveness after which receive mortgage forgiveness for that service, the payments you made throughout that 5 year interval will not rely towards PSLF.
It included personal elementary and secondary school enrollment, teachers, and graduates; enrollment by topic field in public high schools; public college income receipts by supply; and earnings and worth of bodily crops of institutions of higher education.
Even if you happen to don't train at a low-revenue faculty, you could qualify should you teach mathematics, science, foreign languages, bilingual or special education, or totally different topic decided by your state education company to have a shortage of qualified academics in your state.
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Eaton continued Barnard's interest in collecting education statistics, publications, and reviews, and in disseminating them to local and state education authorities. The coed group ran the gamut from properly-rounded education applications that included native committees on education and curriculum, growth of arts and culture programming, and social justice initiatives for youth. The ED also expects to spend more than $1.1 billion on scholar help administration.


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Murakami & Abloh: "Future History" at Gagosian Gallery
Future History is a colourful, urban inspired exhibition by Takashi Murakami and Virgil Abloh, currently on display at the Gagosian gallery in Davies Street. The exhibition presents a beautiful mixture of colourful street art and graffiti, with many cute and charming details. The giant sculptures that are seen through the windows of the gallery do a marvellous job of drawing viewers in to see their outstanding magnificence.
Abloh and Murakami create their art together, which is inspired by social observations, media, and the desire to see the future, to see new things and create those things, calling it art.
In the middle of the room stands a huge glass house structure. The glass has been dirtied and covered in black paint, giving the appearance that it has been burnt and damaged over many years of neglect. Along the side of the house, the words, 'Life itself' are written. This could represent the glass structure being the fragile minds and bodies of human beings, with an enormous amount of damage and ageing happening to them on the outside.
Next to this dark and filthy structure stands a huge cartoon flower sculpture. It is the complete opposite of the house in that it is shiny and joyful, with bouncy curves to its shape and bright colours on its smiling face.
On the other side of the room, a towering silver sculpture of what appears to be an interpretation of Mickey Mouse faces the window, allowing the sun to shine on it, illuminating all its glory.
Other paintings around the room feature bright and bubbly colours, as hundreds of flowers are spread over a canvas, each one donning a wide smile, beaming down at viewers.
A quote by American Novelist, Toni Morrison, says, "If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." This quote speaks volumes for 'Future History' as that is what artists Murakami and Abloh wanted to portray with this exhibition. Murakami & Abloh want to spread the message that any piece of art you imagine and wish to create is a small glimpse into the future and that you should go ahead and create it with your vision.
Murakami and Abloh's Future History exhibition is on at Gagosian Gallery, Davies St. until 7th April. More information may be found here.


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Seriously. They don't.
And this is how they let you know for certain:
They will never be honest enough to post this truthful version instead:
Anti-gun bigots aren't honest. They are dangerous and delusional.
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So as if I don't have enough to do in life, I'm in love with Pinterest. I avoid recipes more often than not, because I am a snob, but I do take food ideas (especially ideas for shots and cocktails!). However, a friend pinned this the other day and I simply couldn't ignore it. Not only did I save it, but I made it. Already. Today.
And I will make it again because OH MY GOD. These are incredible. I would make them for guests and for parties and for any occasion I can think of. BEST BEST BEST. Directly into the favorites folder.
S'more Cookie Bars
Baked Perfection via Pinterest
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs (approximately 7 full graham crackers)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 super-sized (5 oz.) dark chocolate bars (e.g. Hershey's)
1 1/2 cups marshmallow creme/fluff (not melted marshmallows)
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8-inch square baking pan.
2. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light. Beat in egg and vanilla.
3. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt. Add to butter mixture and mix at a low speed until combined. Divide dough in half and press half of dough into an even layer on the bottom of the prepared pan. Place chocolate bars over dough. Two 5 oz. Hershey's bars should fit perfectly side by side, but break the chocolate (if necessary) to get it to fit in a single layer no more than 1/4 inch thick. Spread marshmallow fluff evenly over the chocolate layer.
4. Place remaining dough in a single layer on top of the fluff. This is most easily done by putting the second half of the dough in a gallon size freezer bag. Use your palms to flatten it out, and then use scissors to cut down both long sides of the bag, so it will open up book-style. Open it up carefully, and the dough will stick on one side of the bag. Then place the bag, dough side down, on the other three layers. From there peel the bag up ad spread the dough where it is uneven.
5. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool completely before cutting into bars
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According to Variety, Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor, Robin Williams was found dead of an apparent suicide Monday around noon.
Williams, 63, was found dead and the reported cause is suicide by asphyxiation, per the coroner's office in Tiburon, CA. Best known for roles in Good Will Hunting, Mork and Mindy and Mrs. Doubtfire, Williams' recent CBS sitcom, The Crazy Ones with Sarah Michelle Gellar got cancelled in May.
A renowned standup comedian, film and television actor, Williams has influenced present-day comedians and actors such as Eddie Murphy, Conan O'Brien and Frank Caliendo.
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Whenever we think about makeup, makeup brushes always include in the list. And how to use makeup brushes? This is a common question of any newbie. There are so many brushes in the market now-a-days that any new makeup lover can get confused. Also without makeup brushes any makeup kit.
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Christmas is over and also the year of 2017. Everyone is very happy and excited about the New Year's Eve. There are going to be parties everywhere and if you are not planning to stay at home on New Year's Eve then check out these eye looks. These are so.
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way!!! Yes people, it's officially December and Christmas is knocking at the door. It's time for the preparation for Christmas look, especially Christmas party makeup. This is one of my most favorite festivals and I get all glam up from head to heels..
Makeup is a substance that used for your beauty to enhance it and make a difference to your look and personality. Applying makeup is an art. It can be complicated sometimes but we all do have our own rules and paths to create a masterpiece on our faces. Everybody has.


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Autozam AZ-1
So today on the show we took a quick trip over to Japan! Just kidding, I wish… We did, however, drive this stunning little Autozam AZ-1 on a tiny mountain road, being sure not to take ourselves too serious because this car is one of the most hilarious cars we've ever had on the show. With a 657cc turbocharged 3-cylinder engine mounted in the middle of the chassis, it allows the AZ-1 to have an exotic look, while still contained in a package, smaller than your carry-on luggage.
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journals of life , marriage , hope and aspiration.A happy go lucky anaesthetist working in a complicated and haphazard world. Enjoying his life no matter what !!!! SEMPOERNAKAN HARIMU
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
The Dabo Singkep experience
I am practically rushing to pack for Sabah but I just have to blog this down. I don't want whatever is still fresh in my mind disappear and me missing the best time to write it all out !
24th June
I boarded flight Firefly to JB in the evening. Mutee was waiting for me in Senai as the plan was to stay at his place overnight. Of course, as transformers hardcore it was irresistable not to go and watch it ! Mutee booked the tickets and we straight away went to Tebrau mall after landing ! The movie was really full of action for that 2.5 hours and to those who say tak puas..i will reply ..biar betul !! JB looks cool at night and i guess having singapore as your rival really push you forward.
25th June
We woke up for Subuh and Mutee sent me to the ferry terminal in Stulang Laut. I met the USM OFMS delegation there. Old faces from Palembang like Dr Lah , Dr Noor Hayati , Kak Zah etc were there with their friendly nature! I met Dr Rowi as well , who is my mentor for anaesthesia in this trip. Prof Zainal and gang from UM joined us this time around . we waited for the Melaka enoturage to arrive before departig to Tanjung Pinang on our charted ferry ! Hehehe..best jugak naik boat. It took us 3 hours and the boat ride was plentiful. Sapa yg kecut perut susah jugak tu.. hehehe
Upon arrival , we were greeted with lunch by the local Belia and we went around for a bit. Tanjung Pinang is the main hub for the Riau islands. Imagine having 531 islands in the province .. wuuhhuuu... The people here speaks less indonesian and sounded a lot like Johoreans ! I guess if i look up my roots , most likely the family originates here!
We were celebrated by the Governor of KEPRI at his official residence for dinner. The garden banquet setting was impressive and I guess , we were here on an official mission and i guess they appreciate it a lot
26 June
We were up early to catch our boat to Pelabuhan Jaguh , Dabo Singkep. It took us 4 hours and my..my.. it ws a long journey! And as we were arriving to our destination ; we saw where one Pantun Melayu originated from. Pulau Pandan..was jauh ke tengah.. and Gunung Daik had 3 cabangs !! hehehehe.. It was true after all and the pantun did originate from this area!
Gunung Daik
Pulau Pandan
After the long sea sickening trip , we had to endure another hour of 4 wheel ride to Dabo Singkep.. i went " mabuk" here and not in the ferry !!! ehehehe luckily i did not vomit as that would be very embarrasing!
We were celebrated in a grand fashion by the Dabo Singkep people! Memang betul2 mcm kampung melayu with their dance and silat before the opening ceremony started. It was past noon by this time and eveyone was hungry.We had to wait for another 2 hours for the official thingy before having lunch !! Hahahaha Semua memang muka kebulur !! MY room mate was Prof Zainal from UM OFMS and he is a cool bloke! I wish my Profs were like him and he really inspired me in this trip to be like him.. tabik spring Sir !!!
THe medical team screened the patients later that night. Most were previous patients from their previous trip in 2007 ; making the operating procedure this time more challenging with the limited backup and resources that we have ! Mak ai... We had a look at the OT and i was glad when they brought in their Drager machine from the main hospital in Tanjung Pinang for our use.. hehehe.. Otherwise , I'd be using Halothane which i don't mind using really !!
27 June
8 cases were listed and we started at 9am after everything is ready. It was a bit chaotic in the morning upon starting the first case but everything went into place as we went along. All our patients were below 12 years old making it paediatric posting for me ! Doing mostly palate surgery was challenging considering the limited backup resources. We can't even have blood ready and if we have to transfuse , it will be purely form thier family in situ !! Giller ape !! We were not familiar with the machine earlier and Prof Rowi ordered hand ventilation! It was a good practice after all training the hands to become sensitive and our minds alert.. hehehe We had few cases which bled immediately post extubation where one of them we had to reintubate.. hmmm.. heart stopping but good experience ! We finished at about 2 am.. and we thought that we will only have 3 patients the next day..
28 June
It would be too good to be true to have only 3 patients to do.. More patients turned up as they only arrive in Dabo Singkep the day before. Having the op free is a temptation not to resist by the poor because they can never afford in their lifetime to have this surgery done. At times, i guess as Malaysians we have to be very thankful that our helathcare system is still free and for us to use it wisely.
The list expanded and we went on till 3am ! We had a 7 year old who is obese , 40kg and we started this elective case after midnight ! Hahahaha.. Unfortunately there was a bit of complication as he bled a lot post op. I was called in to be ready for OT if needed at 5am.. but my boat off the island was at 7am! We were going of early because of our commitments. Otherwise , the plan was to return on the 1st of July! After assessing the patient with Dr Rowi , the boy is not too bad and Dr Rowi said he can handle the case himself.
29 June
AND i was rushing ! PAcked my bag and off to the port !
1 hour - 4 wheel ride to Pelabuhan Jaguh
4 hours - Ferry to Tanjung Pinang
3 hours - ferry to Stulang Laut
3 hours - JB to KL via Prof Zainal's CRV
And with all that... I still enjoyed the trip and hoping that more will come ! An eye opener and of course , more stories for me to tell my grandchildren !!
Perrgggh..and i was so tired with the travelling !! Luckily we went home early ahead of schedule
Posted by mafeitz at 10:50 am
Labels: Anaesthesia, interest
3 comments:
- dochisyam said...
Bro, good job there man!
I felt so proud reading the entry.
Keep up the good work.
At times we complain that our health care here needs a lot of improving, all we have to do is look at our nearby friends.
We are blessed actually. We just don't realise it kan?
BTW: did you run KL marathon?
- 12:05 pm
- Maswafi Abd Samat said...
Aku rasa macam nak daki je gunung Daik tu!!!
- 11:11 pm
- Dinoe said...
nice content..salam kenal dari blogger dabosingkep..
- 12:22 pm
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"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together." - Thomas Dekker
Are you currently getting enough hours of sleep? How much sleep do you need to be effective? Are any areas of your life suffering because you aren't getting enough sleep?
We all are guilty of not getting enough sleep at times. However, we can't make it a habit. If it does become habit, then we end up becoming sleep deprived.
When I miss out on sleep, I am usually less focused and easily distracted.
We can make a million excuses justifying why we are unable to get enough sleep. At the end of the day, the excuses will still be excuses. We all need a good night's sleep.
According to an article called Sleep and Health from the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, it states that insufficient sleep can be link to the following:
- Day-to-day feeling of irritability,
- Obesity,
- Diabetes,
- Cardiovascular disease and hypertension,
- Deficient immune function,
- Common cold, and
- Decrease in life expectancy.
Go to Bed
My parents would always say three words to me as a child, "Go to bed." I always felt like I was going to miss something if I went to bed. So I would try to stay up as long as I could before falling asleep. Sometimes I would just stare at the ceiling for hours.
That was as a child. As an adult, I look forward to sleep and I know the benefits of it. I don't have my parents saying those three words to me now, but I do still hear the same sentiments from my wife these days. When I start working on something, it is quite easy to get lost in trying to successfully complete the project. I may not hear the words, "Go to bed." But sometimes my wife will say, "Honey, are you going to come to bed?"
There are many reasons why we all need to hear these words, "Go to bed."
Just remember that sleep is a precious commodity. Use it to your benefit.
Benefits of Getting a Good Night's Sleep
When we get really busy with other things in our lives, we tend to cheat on our sleep.
I'm not telling you to hit your snooze button and lay in bed all day. You may end up losing your job. However, discover ways of taking back something so precious as sleep.
You may need to take short naps during your short breaks at work or take a longer nap during your lunch breaks. Just make sure you set your alarm clock, phone, or watch so you can get back to work. You may need to go to bed earlier or change your work hours.
Find a way because the benefits of getting a good night's sleep are worth your time. Here are the benefits of getting a good night's sleep:
1. You will perform better in every aspect of your life,
2. You will stress less,
3. You will live longer,
4. You will have better control of your weight,
5. You will improve your memory,
6. You will decrease the effectiveness of the chemicals that cause inflammation in our bodies,
7. You will be more creative,
8. You will have a stronger concentration, and
9. You will feel better overall about life
How Much is Enough?
I have heard a variety of people give a wide range of responses when it comes to the proper amount of sleep hours for an adult. The answers have been from six to ten hours of sleep.
According to the Mayo Clinic and other health experts, most healthy adults need seven to nine hours of sleep per night to function at their best.
After writing this blog, I feel the need to go take a nap. How about you?
Make the best of your life by getting more sleep. It is critical to your success.
Please share your thoughts on the benefits of sleep by leaving a comment below, sending me a tweet on Twitter, or by leaving a comment on Facebook. How can get more sleep or improve your sleeping habits?


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For Immediate Release:
March 29, 2018
Primary Media Contact:
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Phone: 540-868-7134
LFCC students and the community at large are invited to Focus on Health: Education, Employment and Wellness Career Fair 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. April 10 in the Corron Community Development Center on LFCC's Middletown Campus.
The fair, an annual event, is designed for those who are looking for a job in the health care field, interested in transferring to a four-year university, or searching for health and wellness services.
Hiring employers who will be at the expo include Valley Health, Winchester Family Health Center, Fauquier Health, Synergy HomeCare, Winchester Medical Center Medical Radiography Program and assisted living facilities.
Representatives from various universities will be available for consultation, including the University of Virginia, Shenandoah University, George Mason University, Old Dominion University and Shepherd University.
Vendors who provide health and wellness services and who have committed to the fair include the LFCC Food Pantry, The Laurel Center, Our Health, Valley Health Wellness Center and the LFCC Fitness Center.
All who come to the fair will be entered to win a raffle prize.
Founded in 1970, Lord Fairfax Community College is a multi-campus public institution of higher education. With four locations — Middletown, Warrenton, Luray-Page County and most recently, Vint Hill— the College serves eight localities in the Shenandoah Valley and northern Piedmont regions. The localities are the counties of Clarke, Fauquier, Frederick, Page, Rappahannock, Shenandoah and Warren and the city of Winchester. LFCC offers more than 75 associate degree and certificate programs in a wide variety of disciplines, in addition to providing access to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs offered on site by a four-year institution. LFCC also serves the business community by offering workforce preparation programs for employees and employers. LFCC serves more than 9,000 unduplicated credit students and more than 11,000 individuals in professional development and business and industry courses annually.
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Past Projects
School Council Projects Completed:
Children In Need
The School Council organised some fun activities on Children In Need Day and the school in total raised £249.
Friendship Stops in the Playground
We would like to thank the Friends of Hinguar who donated the money to the School Council so that we were able to purchase two Friendship Stops.
The School Council answered a questionnaire to help the teachers find out what we are doing well and what we could do even better.
In your lessons what helps you to move your learning on?
- Next steps comments in books
- Teachers modelling an example to look at.
- Teachers giving us praise for what we have done and then changing the way we have to do it to support us if we don't understand.
- Questions on the board.
- Asking us questions.
- Children adding to working walls.
- Displays in the classroom.
What one thing could we do to make it better?
- Having a few more things around the classroom to help with learning like vocab and punctuation.
- More chance to continue work after break or after lunch, carry on all day until finished.
- Having more chance to work together with other classes e.g. not just 5 and 6 but 4 and 5.
- Teachers levelling work more when they come around to mark so you know how you are doing and what you are working towards.
How teachers will further help to move our pupils learning on:
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- To increase teaching blocked lessons within the class topic.
- For inter-class learning through the development of whole school themed weeks.
Class teachers to use age-related feedback to help children know whether they are:
- Working towards age-related levels
- Meeting age-related levels
- Exceeding age-related levels


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Key Word Study: JESUS (transcript)
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Whoretography scored a nice blog entry as part of the Beyond the Gaze Project , you can read the blog post here. It's a redacted version of the one that I'll publish in the Whoretography magazine https://www.beyond-the-gaze.com/2016/11/17/false-photographic-consciousness-the-visual-war-on-sex-work/
Here is a snippet ....
The prohibitionist visual portrayal shapes everyone's understanding of the lives and bodies of sex workers. It's that; we must challenge and call out. A new interpretation of sex worker imagery can change the visual landscape that forms the political and social views that rob so many of us of autonomy. Change what people see of sex work, and we change what they understand.
People's perception of other people's experiences is informed by the images they see, so it's unsurprising prohibitionist picture selection always drums out the victim narrative. Except Rachel Moran, because Moran thought it fit to sell a harrowing tale of a working class girl abused with a fashion inspired photograph airbrushed and photo-shopped to boot. I believe they are not aware they are doing it, a false photography consciousness. So blinded by their visual rhetoric they believe it to be the obvious visual truth. This denial is handy if you seek to indoctrinate people perversely with their not so subtle attempts at visual rhetoric.


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Adults under 30 read more print books than older adults, study says
Despite their avid use of technology, young adults read more print books and use the library just as much as older adults, according to a study from the Pew Research Center.
Communicators—and adults in general—like to lament that young people today don't know proper grammar and spend too much time on technology.
If you're among those who fear the English language, traditional media and everything else sacred will perish in the hands of today's youth, consider a recent study from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
The study found that, despite all of the time young people spend on technology, 75 percent of Americans between the ages of 16 and 29 have read a book in print within the last year, compared to only 64 percent of older adults.
It also found that Americans under the age of 30 are just as likely as older adults to visit the library, and they borrow and browse for print books at similar rates.
Today's young adults seem to have found the best of both worlds: they blend libraries' traditional and technological services.
Perhaps more predictably, young adults are significantly more likely to use technology at a library, or access library websites and services remotely. Almost 50 percent (48 percent) of Americans ages 16-29 have visited a library website, compared to only 36 percent of those aged 30 and older.
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whole roasted cauliflower with fluffy whipped feta
Whew, chillay! This cold and flu season tooketh me all the way out. What started as a sinus infection over the holidays turned into the flu and eventually the bout of bronchitis that had me laid out, incapacitated for over a week. I'm all the way serious when I say I didn't leave the couch for five straight days, much less the house.
To keep things interesting, day two of this all-encompassing plague was spent as a 13-hour travel day back to SF from Mobile after an emergency trip home to visit family, where I caught the bronchitis, mind you. Major airport delays came courtesy of the government shutdown (ugh, screw that stupid ass wall and everything it stands for), and left me lying on a stone bench in the Houston airport for too many hours, wearing a hospital mask, wrapped in a blanket, looking like a germaphobe's worst nightmare.
So I cannot even accurately relay with words how good it feels on this MLK Monday to be back on my feet and back in the kitchen. Today, I cleaned out my fridge and cooked up everything that needed to be used, plus a few fresh things from the corner market, to do some meal prep for the week. I made a batch of our favorite meatballs from Ina Garten, tomato soup, boiled potatoes, all the components for the very best low key kale caesars, green beans, parsnip puree, and this whole roasted cauliflower with a side of whipped soft cheeses that is basically a rich and fluffy cloud of umami. Whenever I set aside the time for a big meal prep sesh, I make sure to include one recipe that really excites me to make, and this little babykins was the one today.
This recipe has been heavy on my mind lately, as a well-known star dish of the place I just can't seem to stop talking about, though it originally caught my eye in an issue of Bon Appetit over five years ago. I remember the experience of making it quite well (not least of all the shock on Cos's face when I pulled a giant hunk of cauliflower out of the oven, "so, um, is that, uh, all you made for supper?" Don't worry, it wasn't) back in what just may have been in the sweetest chapter of my home-cooking journey yet.
We were living on the Upper East Side, working way too late everyday and squeezing in weekend trips to visit Cos's mom in Connecticut as often as possible. But when it came to cooking, logistics weren't even a consideration. I was happily doe-eyed and relentlessly committed to getting my hands dirty in the kitchen. I had just figured out I wanted to write about food and couldn't think of anything else to do about it other than cook my ass off, trying any remotely interesting vegetable-forward recipe I could. That is, after a full day at the office and a run around Central Park; we rarely ate dinner before 10:30pm. (Late supper 4 life.)
Occasionally I look back at the ridiculous cooking tasks I pulled off in that tiny kitchen on East 83rd Street and wonder if all the fun of it was in my mindset, rather than the cooking itself. But then I come back to these same recipes (sometimes even a whopping half-decade later), and am made to remember that it was both my enthusiasm for tearing it up in the kitchen and the mouth-watering results that made the food so memorable. Which is why on the first day I could stand up for an hour straight, I was at the stove poaching cauliflower in white wine and butter, whipping cream and cheese together, and happy as a clam to be doing it. Ya girl is back, bitchachos.
Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Whipped Feta, by Alon Shaya' via Food 52 Genius Recipes. I made this from the Genius Recipes cookbook (which is almost identical to what is printed online), only changing the recipe slightly. For the white wine, I used one cup instead of 2.5 (didn't want to waste the good stuff), and a tiny pinch, rather than a tablespoon, of red pepper flakes for the poaching broth.


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The Christian's Earth Day Celebration Guide
According to the liberal establishment bent on convincing mankind that the biggest threat to our existence is climate change, logging, and manufacturing, today, April 22, is Earth Day. Really, it is just another day for propaganda and promoting leftist thought through education.
That is not to say, however, that a conservative or Christian or Christian conservative should ignore the plight of the planet or be less thankful for its bounty. The difference is that Earth Day is more in tune with neo-paganism and its earth-centric worship. It is a reverence for "mother earth" or "Mother Nature." It is creature worship.
The Christian rejects this form of humanism and worships the Creator, not the creation.
I say it is neo-paganism, because it has its modern twists and proponents, but it is as old as man-made religion itself.
Paul addressed the fallacy of his "earth day" contemporaries in Romans 1:25...
They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. (NLT)
So, how should a Christian celebrate Earth Day? The same way he celebrates every other day, but maybe with a more concentrated appreciation for all that God has provided in terms of our environment.
I. Acknowledge His Lordship over all things.
You alone are the LORD. You made the skies and the heavens and all the stars. You made the earth and the seas and everything in them. You preserve them all, and the angels of heaven worship you. (NLT) Nehemiah 9:6
II. Praise Him for the privilege of caring for His creation.
The Psalmist led a hymn for just this sort of praise and worship In Psalm 8...
For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument.a
1O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
Your glory is higher than the heavens.
2You have taught children and infants
to tell of your strength,b
silencing your enemies
and all who oppose you.
3When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
the moon and the stars you set in place—
4what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
human beings that you should care for them?c
5Yet you made them only a little lower than Godd
and crowned theme with glory and honor.
6You gave them charge of everything you made,
putting all things under their authority—
7the flocks and the herds
and all the wild animals,
8the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,
and everything that swims the ocean currents.
9O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
III. Protect and preserve His Creation as a responsible steward.
Should Christians be concerned at all about the environment? This question was posed to the great evangelist Billy Graham. I think his answer is brilliant, biblical, and instructive:
Does the Bible say anything about taking care of the environment? I have some friends who are very passionate about this issue, but they don't really believe in God or Jesus the way I do, and they even claim the Bible is anti-environmental. Are they right?
I'm grateful for your friends' concern for the environment—but no, they aren't right when they say the Bible isn't concerned about the environment. In fact, of all people, Christians should be the most concerned for the environment.
Why is this? The reason is because Christians know God created the world, and we are only its stewards or trustees. The very first verse of the Bible says, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). When we see the world as a gift from God, we will do our best to take care of it and use it wisely, instead of poisoning or destroying it.
We don't worship the earth; instead, we realize that God gave it to us, and we are accountable to Him for how we use it. After creating Adam, the first man, the Bible says, "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it" (Genesis 2:15). God didn't tell him to exploit the world or treat it recklessly, but to watch over it and use it wisely. Like a good ruler, we should seek the welfare of everything God entrusts to us—including the creation. The Bible says, "A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal" (Proverbs 12:10).
Yes, we should take care of the environment. But most of all, we should take care of our souls. Is Christ the center of your life, and are you seeking to live for Him every day?
Happy earth day.
Or, let me put it a better way. Happy Lord's Day. Every day is His day and every celebration is of His lordship, his goodness, His grace, His glory.
Even those who ignore Him in their revelry or deny him in their rhetoric, only celebrate because of Him. Today, every knee should bow and every tongue should confess that he is Lord. One day, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess.
It is not about us. It is not about Al Gore. It is not about the ice caps, the rain forest, or the spotted owl.
It is all about Him. Always has been. Always will be.
But the LORD is in his holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him. Habakkuk 2:20
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AstraZeneca makes $1B-plus in cash-and-stock deal granting Sobi US rights to RSV drug Synagis
AstraZeneca $AZN has divested the US rights to its preventative RSV drug, Synagis, to Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (Sobi) for $1.5 billion in cash and stock, as the British drugmaker continues to refine its pipeline and focus on its newer flagship products.
Synagis, known chemically as palivizumab, is used to prevent serious lower respiratory tract infections caused by the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in infants and young children, and is the only medicine approved for the prevention of serious RSV disease. US sales of the drug declined by 27% to $133 million in Q3, AstraZeneca reported last week. Sales of the drug outside the US, which is the responsibility of AbbVie $ABBV, were up 4% to $281 million.
Despite some pipeline setbacks, AstraZeneca has enjoyed some some landmark successes in oncology under chief Pascal Soriot, following years of shrinking revenue and growing generic competition eating into sales of the company's mainstay products. Soriot's approach, characterised by new drug approvals and asset sales, is focused on the principle that the company must simplify its approach, concentrating on blockbuster, standard-of-care assets that can make a major difference. This strategy has changed the company's trajectory — last week AstraZeneca reported a significant spurt in Q3 sales, driven by new product development and success in the growing China drug market.
As part of the transaction, Sobi will commercialize Synagis in the US and roughly 130 AstraZeneca employees will be transferred to the Swedish drugmaker. Sobi will also have the right to participate in AstraZeneca's share of US profits and losses related to potential new medicine MEDI8897, a monoclonal antibody that neutralizes RSV and has been engineered to have a long half-life, so that only one dose will be needed for the entire RSV season.
AstraZeneca will continue to develop MEDI8897 in collaboration with France's Sanofi $SNY, the British drugmaker added on Tuesday.
The deal consists of $1 billion in cash and $500 million in ordinary Sobi shares upon completion, which roughly translates to an 8% stake in the Swedish company, based on Sobi's current share price. AstraZeneca will also receive up to $470 million in sales-related payments for Synagis, and Sobi is eligible to get a $175 million milestone following the submission of the BLA for MEDI8897 among other potential milestone payments.
The Sobi agreement follows a spate of such deals by AstraZeneca, including the sale of three assets to Switzerland's Covis Pharma last week, and the divestiture of certain rights to two assets — Nexium and Vimovo — to Germany's Grünenthal late last month.


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Hi there everyone!
Today I am back to share a layout that I have recently created using the Epiphany Crafts Pennant Tool and the pennant bubble caps!
I have teamed the tools with the bright, summery 'I Love Sunshine' collection by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park Paper!
It's almost Summer here in Australia so I wanted to encourage it a little more by creating a fun, bright Summery layout! I have used the pennant 25 tool and the pennant bubble caps to create the banner that runs along the bottom of my photo!
I have included some journalling on the tag that can be pulled on the left hand side of my layout. I quite often include hidden journalling on my layouts...I find it handy to do if you want lots of embellishments to help with your design!
Thanks so much for joining me on my blog today...I hope I have inspired you to pull out your EC tools and have a play!
Happy creating!
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What happened — or did not happen — Thursday night?
President Trump on Thursday approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for shooting down an unmanned American surveillance drone. The American operation was to be carried out before sunrise against Iranian military sites to avoid human casualties, which would have been around 9 p.m. Thursday Eastern Daylight Time.
Throughout the day on Thursday, Mr. Trump was not specific about how he planned to respond to Iran's strike, which American officials say happened over international waters while Iran asserts the drone was in its airspace. Mr. Trump responded to questions with wait-and-see answers and also suggested that the Iranian attack was a mistake. Around 7 p.m., military and diplomatic officials were prepared for a strike, and the operation was underway.
"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights," Mr. Trump said in a Twitter post on Friday morning.
Then, Mr. Trump called it off.
Read on: Trump Stopped Strike on Iran Because It Was 'Not Proportionate'
What started the latest crisis?
The United States and Iran have a long history of tensions, but the latest escalation started when American officials blamed Iran for attacking two oil tankers on June 13 in or near the Strait of Hormuz, a major thoroughfare for transporting much of the world's oil.
Days later, the Pentagon authorized the deployment of an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East with surveillance and military equipment, intended to serve as a deterrent to Iran. In April, the Trump administration also designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist organization and in May imposed even tighter sanctions on Tehran's aluminum, iron and copper industries, sectors that make up about a tenth of its exports, according to the Trump administration.
This week, Tehran said it would soon violate a significant piece of the 2015 international agreement designed to contain Iran's nuclear program. The countries in the pact had agreed to reduce economic sanctions on Iran as long as Iran held up its end of the deal, which includes curbing its uranium enrichment activities. Iran said it would soon violate the limit on uranium stockpiling.
Under Mr. Trump, the United States in 2018 backed out of the Iran deal, though it remains in force with five other countries. Trump administration has reinstated crushing economic sanctions and pressured other countries to do the same, leaving Iran's economy in serious trouble.
Read on: The U.S. Has Turned Up Pressure on Iran. See the Timeline of Events.
Further context: Trump Abandons Iran Nuclear Deal He Long Scorned
Why did Mr. Trump call off the strike?
The president on Friday said the prospect of casualties stopped him. An attack with the potential to kill 150 people, he said, was not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned American aircraft. He said he called it off with 10 minutes to spare.
How soon was the attack canceled?
Mr. Trump said he called off the strike with 10 minutes to spare. No missiles had been fired at that point, but a senior administration official said American military planes were in the air and ships were in position. Mr. Trump later denied that the planes were in the air when he changed his mind about the operation. Officials said the strike was to be carried out in the early morning hours on Friday, which would have been around 9 p.m. Thursday in Washington.
Is this crisis affecting anything else?
Some international airlines on Friday diverted planes flying over parts of Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, and the Federal Aviation Administration gave an emergency order early Friday, banning all American flights in Tehran-controlled airspace above the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman because of "heightened military activities and increased political tensions."
Oil prices for Brent crude, the international standard, rose about 5.8 percent since the American drone was shot down. It was trading at about $64.80 a barrel on Friday morning, which is below the recent high in mid-May when prices were about $72 a barrel.
About a third of the world's crude oil and other petroleum products is carried by tankers that pass through the Strait of Hormuz, described by one federal agency as one of the most important oil choke points in the world. The body of water separates the United Arab Emirates and Oman from Iran and sees dozens of ships pass through each day.
Read on: Airlines Divert Flights Around Iran After U.S. Drone Is Shot Down
Further context: The Oil Market Shows It Can Take a Punch
Three Attacks in the World's Oil Choke Point
The attacks have escalated the crisis between the United States and Iran.
Would this have been the president's first military action in the Middle East?
No. Mr. Trump struck twice at targets in Syria in 2017 and 2018 in response to the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons. The operation against Iran would have been his third in the region. Among his campaign promises was a vow to get the United States out of conflicts in the Middle East.
Read on: President Trump Talked Tough. But His Strike on Syria Was Restrained.
Does the president need congressional approval to start a war with Iran?
Not necessarily, but some members of Congress have asked Mr. Trump to seek congressional authorization.
The Constitution gives Congress the decision of whether to declare war, but government lawyers have argued that the president alone can order attacks if it is in self-defense or if the attacks would benefit American interests.
Read on: Could Trump Use the Sept. 11 War Law to Attack Iran Without Going to Congress?
What does Iran hope to accomplish with these escalations?
It wants its economy, crippled by sanctions, to improve.
That objective was at the heart of the 2015 nuclear deal: As Iran complied with international demands for limiting its nuclear program, sanctions against the country would decrease over time. But that changed when the United States backed out of the deal and resumed the economic squeeze.
Some experts view Iran's recent aggressions as part of strategy to provoke the United States into action and to pressure American allies in Europe and Asia — countries already uneasy about the escalating tensions — to reign in the world superpower and force the Trump administration back to the negotiating table. The strategy, however, carries significant risks: total collapse of the nuclear agreement and possibly war.
Read on: In Trump's Iran Response, Some See a Dangerous Ambiguity
Further context: Iran's Gambit: Force the World to Rein In Trump
What is the political reaction to this?
Mr. Trump's decision to pull back on the strike has divided Republicans, pitting hawks who criticized his midoperation retreat against a noninterventionist wing that sided with most Democrats to praise it.
Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the third-ranking House Republican, said on Friday that she was concerned about Mr. Trump's restraint in response to the downing of an American drone, comparing it with President Barack Obama's unfulfilled threat to strike Syria if it crossed a "red line" by using chemical weapons.
But other Republicans said the episode raised questions about Mr. Trump's decision-making on the gravest of issues. His assertion that he canceled the strike after hearing from military commanders that it could kill as many as 150 Iranians indicated a lack of preparedness, they said.
On the campaign trail, Democrats seeking the party's 2020 presidential nomination reacted with a mix of horror, anger and stupefaction. Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington said Mr. Trump's actions amounted to "governing by chaos." Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who is an Army National Guard veteran, warned that war with Iran was "HIGHLY likely unless Trump swallows his pride & returns to the Iran nuclear agreement he tore up."
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts urged restraint, saying, "There is no justification for further escalating this crisis." And Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont called on Congress to "assert its constitutional authority and stop Trump from going to war."
Read on: Trump's Iran Response Underlines Republican Rift Over National Security
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Matt Stevens contributed reporting.


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This year I wanted to start sharing more pieces of our everyday life. Things we're finding inspiring at the moment: books we're reading, podcasts we're into, recipes we are using - that kind of thing. So here we go!
Blogs I'm actually reading/inspired by right now :
- My friend Steph (we grew up together and even had nicknames for each other, I love her) just started a blog and I love how honest and real she is. She writes about her life, her modern family, being a working mom, dating...a little of everything.
- I thought this abeautifulmess post was an accurate reflection of how I've been feeling towards Instagram this year.
- Obsessed with laceandlikes style + her florals - that's all.
Podcast episodes we LOVE:
- Joe Rogan: this one and this one
- Seth Godin's first Akimbo Episode
- I'm a true crime lover through and through. Since I've pretty much exhausted/listened to all of the true crime podcasts I find it difficult to find new content. BUT I really enjoyed CBC's Someone Knows Something's first season, and just discovered their fourth season and I'm hooked.
- Missing + Murdered: Finding Cleo is excellent. Canadian Podcasts are my new thing apparently!
- Okay, just one more true crime recommendation: Criminal This is consistently my favourite. It's not a series, it's just really well told stories about crime. It's not all murder stories, each one is pretty unique. This one and this one are really good.
Movie/Film you have to watch:
- Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable on Netflix
- Get Out is SO good, we loved it.
- Baskets is our favourite show on TV right now. If you need more convincing, Louis Anderson plays Zach Galifianakis's mom. Zach Galifianakis plays twins. That's all. Go watch it.
Let me know if there are any recommendations or more categories you want to hear from us! Playlists? Music? Books? Recipes? Instagram accounts? Other genre's of podcasts? James isn't a true crime fan, but he loves listening to history, self help and philosophical podcasts. Also, his taste in music is my favourite. Maybe I could have James compile a list to share? Let me know!
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Use light only where needed.
Use light only when needed. These two rules will not only decrease light pollution, but could potentially save you money on your electricity bill.
Shield light to reduce glare and improve efficiency. This will direct light down to the ground, instead of upwards and will illuminate the correct area.
Use yellow light when practical and minimize blue light emissions. Blue light can increase vulnerability to losing vision, especially for the elderly and put humans at higher health risk. For more information, click here to read a study by the IDA.
Use the minimum amount of light necessary for the task. Dimmers, motion sensors and timers can help to reduce average illumination levels and save even more energy.
Use energy efficient lamps. LEDs and compact fluorescents (CFLs) can help reduce energy use and protect the environment, but only warm-white bulbs should be used.
finding dark sky approved lighting
Dark Sky Friendly Lighting is required to be full shielded and minimize the amount of blue light that trespasses in the night sky. To buy Dark Sky Friendly Lighting, look for International Dark-Sky Association (IDA)'s seal of approval on lighting products, or click here.
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Below are model lighting ordinances that can be adaptive for various types of communities with varying levels of development.
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Chronic Venous Disease: Varicose Veins And Venous Insufficiency
Physical Examination
The diagnosis of chronic venous disease is typically based on a detailed history and physical examination (Fort 2017a; Fort 2017b). The primary goal of the initial evaluation is to rule out serious conditions that can manifest similarly to venous disease (Fort 2017b; Fort 2017a; Wittens 2015).
Imaging Studies
Duplex ultrasonography. Duplex ultrasonography is the gold standard for evaluating the veins. Combining traditional ultrasound with Doppler ultrasound, duplex ultrasound is a non-invasive diagnostic tool that uses sound waves to capture images of both the superficial and deep venous systems, and of the movement of blood through the veins. It can detect reflux at malfunctioning valves, as well venous obstruction (Wittens 2015; Scherger 2012).
For the routine evaluation of venous disease, duplex ultrasonography has largely replaced other diagnostic techniques such as handheld Doppler and venography. Duplex ultrasound is also used to assess treatment results (Wittens 2015; Fort 2017a).
Air plethysmography. Air plethysmography is a noninvasive test that measures changes in leg volume. It gives information about venous reflux, obstruction, and calf muscle pump function. Although used less frequently since the advent of duplex ultrasound, its use is indicated when the results from duplex ultrasound are inconclusive (Wittens 2015; Fort 2017a; Dezotti 2017; Gloviczki 2011).
Venography. Venography is a more invasive and complex imaging modality that also has been largely supplanted by duplex ultrasound. However, it retains an important role in more advanced disease including post-thrombotic syndrome and is critical for venous evaluation prior to surgical procedures (Fort 2017a; Gloviczki 2011).


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At the DT Nightclub, voluptuous bartender Victoria is confronted by olive-skinned beauty Cleopatra who brags about making love to Victoria's boyfriend the night before. Cleopatra even attempts to show Victoria what it was like by caressing, fondling and kissing the curly-tressed blonde--who returns the flirtatious advances measure for sensual measure. The girls are soon stripped to their thongs and heels as hands, lips, butts and breasts slip and slide over light and dark flesh. And just as the orgasmic concerto is about to reach its crescendo, the tempo changes and the exotic Cleopatra tosses Victoria onto the couch. It's catfight time now with breasts mauled instead of fondled, limbs twisted instead of embraced. As hot as they were as lovers, these two newcomers, both named after historic queens, are even hotter catfighters.
Our second match marks the return of one of our all-time favorite girls, Eve Ellis, as she fights that other fan-fave Stacy Burke for, of all things, a box of Valentine's Day chocolates. The girls are dressed in tiny dresses, sheer tights and heels, but the dresses don't stay on for long. Waist scissors squeeze the breath out of one girl then the other and soon dresses and hose are shredded and those shreds are torn even more. At one point one girl straddles the other and shoves a piece of candy in her mouth. And still they tear at each other, spanking round rumps, squeezing bared ribcages, until one tootsie in tattered tights lies unconscious--with one last piece of chocolate perched mockingly in her mouth.


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. . . toasted temperance. In the late 1800s, dentist Henry Cogswell hit upon the answer to Americans' woes: water, not liquor. To further his goal, he sent the city this four-columned, heron-crowned hodgepodge. The monument to moderation may have seen its better days, but this is hardly its low-water mark. It sat empty while the old Apex Liquor Store did a bustling business just behind it. And for more than a decade, a rusting hanger dangled from the heron's neck -- unbecoming if not unnoticed. A tip for today: If you're willing to drink to Cogswell's ideal, bring your own beverages. The fountain has again run dry.
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text: Passed away on July 2, 2016 at the age of 79. Cordellia was born July 8, 1836 to Andrew & Emma (Amy) Canning of Roddickton. She married Fred Denney of Englee and raised their only son Everett. Cordellia was a very special soul with a great sense of humor and loved to laugh and have fun. She loved her family dearly, her grandchildren and great grandchildren were very special to her. She leaves to mourn her Son Everett (Tina), Grandchildren -Christa, Megan & Nathan, Great Grandchildren - Noah & Hunter. Brother Simon Canning (Clara), Sisters Dorcas Cassell (Hubert) and Dora Eddison (Fred) along with a large circle of friends and relatives. She was Predeceased by her Husband Fred Denney, Parents Andrew & Emma (Amy) Canning, Brothers Donald, Arthur & Walter Canning and Sister Ruby Canning Pollard. The Funeral Service was held on Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 2:00 pm from the Calvary Pentecostal Church in Roddickton, with Pastor Ben Brown officiating. Interment followed in the Roddickton Pentecostal Cemetery. Funeral Arrangements entrusted to Kerry M. Fillatres Funeral Home, St. Anthony and Roddickton, Siobhan Mauger Funeral Director.


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I find so many parallelisms in my relationship with Christ and my relationship with fitness.
Couple things I've found out as I've gotten older:
1. Your faith doesn't become YOUR OWN until you OWN that RELATIONSHIP and put in the work for it. Reading the bible, praying, serving, loving others, baptism, church... not rules or regulations, but something you do to learn more about Christ and grow deeper in relationship with him.
2. Your health and wellness doesn't become YOURS until you OWN that relationship and put in the work for it. Grocery shopping, filling your cart with wholesome foods, working out, being around positive people who support your goals, and drinking your water.
Proverbs 22:6
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
I was raised in the church. The hard headed me fought this tooth & nail in my teenage years. My parents required my brother and I to attend church and Wed night youth group. There was no budging them on that. I went & thankful for my youth pastor and his wife at the time who made it enjoyable when I was rebellious and didn't want to go.
But to be HONEST, your faith doesn't become your own until you OWN it. When my cousin Alex was killed in a car accident, I was a mess. Seeing my family grieve in a variety of ways made me sick to my stomach. I'm a "fixer" and "helper" by nature. But this was something I couldn't fix. Being mad at God was an understatement, and it's taken me 10 years to actually enjoy going back home to see my family. Not because I didn't want to see them. But because of the ill feeling of the memories "going home" brought me. It was easier to be away.
In the last 3 years I've made my way back to a stronger relationship with Christ. I've healed from being angry at God. And I've returned to church. I actually go to church by myself. And no it doesn't bother me. My parents raised me in the church I make the choice to go each Sunday because I realize it's not about me. Life is about serving. Service to others. And loving others through a relationship with them.
And fitness. Sure I once was 230 lbs, but that was self inflicted to be honest. I was my worst enemy. I chose to turn to food as an outlet to deal with my anxiety and stress and pain. But you know what? I can remember my mom demonstrating healthy habits. We always had a garden thanks to my dad. My mom always served fresh fruit and vegetables at each meal. And I remember my mom always going on walks or doing fitness tapes and DVDs. In high school, I don't know how many "walks" my mom and I went on just so I could vent to her. So now that fitness is apart of my adult life, I can say thank you to my parents for encouraging me to be healthy. I went astray on my own, but I returned to the positive relationship they taught me to have with myself. My parents never once condemned me, told me I was fat or overweight. But always encouraged me to be healthy. And for that, I love myself better every single day.
Funny how things come full circle as we grow up. The things like health physically and spiritually was important to them and they are important to me now. I consider the things they taught me then are what I now consider non-negotiables.
So with that...
I've heard people say I don't go to church because hypocrites are there. Well do you skip the gym or workouts because everyone there is already perfect? No. Everyone at the gym and church are far from having it together. Both church and gym are full of broken people working on becoming better versions of themselves mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Let this be encouragement for you parents out there. No I don't have children, but I was once the stubborn hardheaded kid. Teach them. Pray over them. And trust the process of God having a plan for them. God's plan is always better than the ones we have. Trust in that.


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text: Back in the summer, we took a 7 day trip to our friends family villa in Spain. Such a white minimal town. We didn't really explore much as it's hard to do so without a car but we enjoyed relaxing by the pool and being able to cook our own dinners. There was a few local bars, where we played pool and drank beer.


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the main reason i fell in love with photography in the first place was that i could come up with an idea, and without much further ado, make it happen. i love music and i love the art of sound, but the results are often slow. not only that, but more often than not you'll also find yourself in need of a musician or even several musicians, singers and some sort of studio to realize your vision.
of course, many visual and/or photographic ideas also need major planning, a crew - think stylist, wardrobe, lighting, model(s), make-up artist - and that can be slow as well, but my point is - there's natural light, you grab your camera and you shoot. instant gratification. it's awesome...and when you have an idea and you succeed in making it happen --> you've got a one-way ticket to oompa-loompa-land.
this post explores several things i've been contemplating for quite some time. first, it's the vertical format. in my minds eye, i see horizontal images. or so i thought, anyway. then it's the look you want your images to have...as i've stated in my earlier post i've been in a kind of black & white mood for the last few months. colors have been...how should i put it..i've almost felt as if colors have been intruding on the motif of the image. colors have distracted me. sort of. don't get me wrong. i love colors. it's just been a thing.
then there's film. analog 35mm photographic film. now that's c o l o r s. i'm working on a film-post, scanning frames (almost as we speak) and also sending some rolls off to a lab in the states to see what they're all about. very exciting. stay tuned for that.
but...i digress...i've mentioned format, color and last, but not least - there's how you put photographs together. when you're working with horizontal images they usually work on their on. at least that's the way i think about them. vertical images, on the other hand, are excellent for experimentation...which really is what this post is all about. see - i'm getting there eventually! ;)
enjoy the images and feel free to click the like-button, share the love with your friends - you know the drill. i'm off.
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We are accepting submissions for the official launch of Strange Fire Magazine. All varieties of roots, folk, country, Americana etc from a queer perspective are welcome to submit! please send links, EPKs and press releases to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Hello I'm Drew Arriola Sands, a Trans femme…who fronts the band Trap Girl and I'm currently writing and reecording my first solo record, going back to golden age of country, recording some classics and some dark country originals too Under The name 'Andrea Dangerfield'! Ala, Dottie West, Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells, Loretta and early Dolly….sending links to my folky country tinged project from the past.