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Beyond Imaging— We see you better!
Sakakawea Medical Center's Radiology Department is proud to offer the latest Advanced Digital Imaging Technology. Our state-of-the-art technology equipment is completely digital and filmless. In addition, our medical imaging department provides in-house services Monday through Friday from 7 am – 5 pm and emergency room services on-call evenings and weekends, 24/7, 365 days a year.
All studies are transmitted and interpreted by radiologists in Bismarck to receive same day results, saving you time and money. In addition, studies are stored on a picture archiving and communication system (PACS), where they have the capability to be electronically sent almost anywhere in North Dakota.
The following services are provided
- Computed Tomography (CT scan)
uses x-rays to provide 3-dimensional imaging of the body. Providers can elect to use oral and/or IV contrast medium to further evaluate an area. The in-depth look at the body these scans provide allows our providers to more effectively detect a wide range of illnesses, including, but not limited to, cancer, stroke, blood clots, blockages, lung disease and disease processes in the body.
- Bone Densitometry
Sakakawea Medical Center's DEXA scanner is the gold-standard osteoporosis screening tool. Bone Densitometry is a radiology procedure that determines bone mineral density or bone mass. A dedicated dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) unit is used to produce x-ray images of the spine and hip. The unit will generate a computerized report that will include an image of the tested area, the bone mineral density measurement, and the T-score, which is a comparison to the peak bone mass measurements in a young population of the same gender and race.
Bone mass measurement studies provide information that will determine your risk of fractures and/or osteoporosis. If you are diagnosed with osteoporosis, your doctor may start a treatment plan to slow down or stop bone loss and reduce your risk of fracture
- Ultrasound
also called sonography, uses sound waves to develop ultrasound images of what's going on inside the body. An instrument called a transducer emits high-frequency sound, inaudible to human ears, and then records the echoes as the sound waves bounce back to determine the size, shape, and consistency of soft tissues and organs.
This information is relayed in real time to produce images on a computer screen. Ultrasound technologists, or sonographers, have special training in how to perform the test. Then a radiologist will interpret the ultrasound images. This technology can help diagnose and treat certain conditions.
- Ultrasound imaging has many uses in medicine, from confirming and dating a pregnancy to diagnosing certain conditions and guiding doctors through precise medical procedures.
- Pregnancy: Ultrasound images have many uses during pregnancy. Early on, they may be used to determine due dates, reveal the presence of twins or other multiples, and rule out ectopic pregnancies. They also are valuable screening tools in helping to detect potential problems, including some birth defects, placental issues, breech positioning, and others. Many expectant parents look forward to learning the sex of their babies via ultrasound midway through a pregnancy. And later in pregnancy, doctors can even use ultrasounds to estimate how large a baby is just before delivery.
- Diagnostics: Doctors employ ultrasound imaging in diagnosing a wide variety of conditions affecting the organs and soft tissues of the body, including the heart and blood vessels, liver, gallbladder, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, uterus, ovaries, eyes, thyroid, and testicles. Ultrasounds do have some diagnostic limitations, however; sound waves do not transmit well through dense bone or parts of the body that may hold air or gas, such as the bowel.
- Use during medical procedures: Ultrasound imaging can help doctors during procedures such as needle biopsies, which require the doctor to remove tissue from a very precise area inside the body for testing in a lab.
- Full Field Digital Mammography
uses x-ray to image the breast as a screening tool for cancer. Our full field digital system utilizes a detector that processes images directly to a computer screen. The compression paddles are "flex" paddles and can make the exam more comfortable for the patient. Because of the improved workflow of the unit, exams can be completed in as little as 10 minutes. Sakakawea Medical Center Mammography is an ACR accredited facility
- 3D Mammography
- Low Dose Genius 3D Mammography exams are an advanced type of digital mammogram, otherwise known as digital tomosynthesis, which offers better cancer detection with lower radiation. This enables doctors to more clearly see through overlapping tissue to detect cancers, often at an earlier stage.
- Large clinical studies in the U.S. and Europe have demonstrated the positive benefits of Low Dose 3D Mammography exams, including:
- Earlier detection of small breast cancers that may be hidden in a conventional mammogram
- Greater accuracy in pinpointing size, shape and location of abnormalities
- Fewer unnecessary biopsies or additional tests
- Greater likelihood of detecting multiple breast tumors
- Clearer images of dense breast tissue
- Exams using this technology are recommended for women of all ages and breast densities. Sakakawea Medical Center Mammography is an ACR accredited facility
- MRI (mobile)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a test that uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to make pictures of organs and structures inside the body. In many cases, MRI gives different information about structures in the body than can be seen with an X-ray, ultrasound, or computed tomography (CT) scan. MRI also may show problems that cannot be seen with other imaging methods.
For an MRI test, the area of the body being studied is placed inside a special machine that contains a strong magnet. Pictures from an MRI scan are digital images that can be saved and stored on a computer for more study.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is done for many reasons. It is used to find problems such as tumors, bleeding, injury, blood vessel diseases, or infection. MRI also may be done to provide more information about a problem seen on an X-ray, ultrasound scan, or CT scan. Contrast material may be used during MRI to show abnormal tissue more clearly.
- Nuclear Medicine Exam (mobile)
Nuclear medicine is a branch of medical imaging that uses small amounts of radioactive material to diagnose and determine the severity of or treat a variety of diseases, including many types of cancers, heart disease, gastrointestinal, endocrine, neurological disorders and other abnormalities within the body. Because nuclear medicine procedures are able to pinpoint molecular activity within the body, they offer the potential to identify disease in its earliest stages as well as a patient's immediate response to therapeutic interventions.
Nuclear medicine imaging procedures are noninvasive and, with the exception of intravenous injections, are usually painless medical tests that help physicians diagnose and evaluate medical conditions. These imaging scans use radioactive materials called radiopharmaceuticals or radiotracers.
Depending on the type of nuclear medicine exam, the radiotracer is either injected into the body, swallowed or inhaled as a gas and eventually accumulates in the organ or area of the body being examined. Radioactive emissions from the radiotracer are detected by a special camera or imaging device that produces pictures and provides molecular information.
- Echocardiogram (mobile)
An echocardiogram is an ultrasound examination that uses sound waves to create a moving picture of the heart. It uses single dimension images of the heart along with two-dimensional (2D), M-mode, color, and Doppler to display cross sectional "slices" of the beating heart. During the exam, electrodes are attached to the chest and used to produce an electrocardiogram (EKG) that is used to evaluate the timing of various cardiac events like the filling and emptying of the cardiac chambers.
The Mmode and 2D echo images evaluate the size, thickness, and movement of the heart chambers, valves, etc. Doppler is used to evaluate the flow of blood as it makes its way into and out of the heart. The information is displayed on the ultrasound monitor and is also heard as a series of audible signals with a swishing or pulsating sound.
An echocardiogram evaluates the size of the chambers of the heart, including the dimension or volume of the cavity and the thickness of the chamber walls. Echocardiography can identify if the heart is pumping poorly or if one or more isolated areas have reduced movement. The pumping power of the heart will be calculated as the EF (ejection fraction). Echocardiography identifies the structures, thickness, and movement of each heart valve. It can evaluate valves for scarring, calcification, leaking and narrowing.
For patients in heart failure, an echocardiogram can assess the blood volume that returns from the lower part of the body. Electrocardiograms can also evaluate for congenital heart disease, blood clots or tumors in the heart, infection of heart valves, and abnormal elevation of pressure in the lungs. Echocardiography is useful in the diagnosis of fluid in the pericardium (the sac that surrounds the heart) and can determine when it is severe and potentially life-threatening
- All General Radiography Exams
Radiology exams use very small amounts of radiation to produce high quality digital images with the latest digital technology to assist health care providers in diagnosing a variety of medical conditions.
- Interventional Radiology
A therapeutic and diagnostic specialty that comprises a wide range of minimally invasive image-guided therapeutic procedures as well as invasive diagnostic imaging. Click here for more information


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You've tried lotions, potions and lasers, yet nothing seems to smooth out the dimply appearance caused by cellulite. There's a new treatment option called the Cellfina™ System that's receiving media attention for long-term improvement in the appearance of cellulite in the buttocks and thigh areas.
By Grant Stevens, MD and Robert Whitfield, MD
and The Plastic Surgery Channel
Cellulite is caused by connective bands woven throughout the underlying fat that pull the skin down and create dimpling.
Who has Cellulite?
"If you have estrogen in your body you're at risk for cellulite," says Grant Stevens, MD. Dr. Stevens works in Marina del Rey, California where women love to wear swimsuits, but are often afraid to show off their bodies because of cellulite.
How Does Cellfina Improve the Appearance of Cellulite?
Dr. Stevens meticulously marks the divots on a woman's buttocks or thighs and then places a suction stabilizer on the area being treated. Cellfina works by pulling the skin into the suction device and then treating the connective bands that pull down on the skin. These connective bands are what creates the dimpling effect on the skin's surface. Similar to a rubber band under tension, once released, the treated skin bounces back to and smooths itself out.
"This is a non-surgical, FDA approved treatment for cellulite. We watch the cellulite come to the surface and see the fibrous septa released. In fact, we notice the buttocks is smooth right there on the table," says Stevens.
"This is the first treatment I've felt comfortable offering and saying I can treat someone with cellulite and have confidence, because it makes sense," says Robert Whitfield, MD, a plastic surgeon from Austin, Texas.
Recovery from Cellfina
There is some noticeable bruising and swelling from the treatment, however most women report being able to return to many of their normal activities including work and the gym the following day.
Cellfina reports that more than 90% of patients had no bruising at four weeks following the cellulite procedure. Some patients take over the counter pain medication for about a day to feel more comfortable.
How Long Does the Treatment Last?
"At a year, those people who adopted a healthy lifestyle of watching what they eat and working out, will do better than those folks who are sedentary and don't follow a reasonable diet," says Whitfield.
Dr. Stevens points out that "at two years, 96% of patients ranked it as an excellent treatment, making this a long lasting solution to cellulite." Cellfina reports that at 3 months, 85% of patients were satisfied, and after one year, 94% percent of patients were satisfied.
Both Drs. Whitfield and Stevens say there are lots of treatments that can't come close to the results they're noticing from Cellfina treatments. Until now, there has not been a long term solution.

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Christmas Eve Service
December 24, 2018 @ 10:30 pm - 12:30 am
This Christmas, experience the splendor of Anglican worship, as we lift our voices with the angels, singing glory to God for the great gift he gives us on this holy night. We invite you to join us for one of our three Christmas Eve Services.
- 5:30 p.m., featuring a children's message and our contemporary worship band.
- 8 p.m., featuring organ and choir; child care will be offered at this service
- 10:30 p.m., featuring organ and choir
All three services will include candlelight, traditional Christmas carols, and Holy Communion.


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The boy pictured above is identified as Daniel Edet Inyang. Their landlord Mr. Aniete who is said to be a tailor allegedly poured hot water on him on 14th July at Atan in Oodukpani LGA, Akwa Ibom for stealing his phone.
The case was reported to the police but no action has been taken up till now.


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San Pedro Tiger Sharks vs. Belize Hurricanes Basketball Game
February 3, 2018 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm| $10
The San Pedro Tiger Sharks basketball team face the Belize City Hurricanes at home in San Pedro Town.
9PM at the San Pedro High School Auditorium.
The team is currently 2-0 in the National Elite Basketball League 2018 season!


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There's nothing like packing for your holidays. Checking the endless lists: ticket, money, passport? However, travelling and driving on the Continent is now so simple, that it's easy to forget that there are, in fact, some significant differences in what you need in your car in order to stay legal. We're off to Brittany soon, so I've been doing a little research into what we need, and the list is longer than you might think. There seems to be a certain amount of conflicting advice, but as far as I can find out, if you follow this list you should be OK. I certainly hope so, as it's what I'll be doing!
- Your full driving license – both the photocard and the paper counterpart.
- Insurance certificate and car registration documents.
- Headlamp adaptor stickers, so you're not dazzling oncoming traffic.(I think that it's a great shame that French cars don't use yellow headlights any more. It was one of those things that let you really know you're abroad.)
- A GB sticker on the back of the car, or a number plate incorporating GB identification.
- A fluorescent safety vest and a warning triangle, which you place 50 to 150 metres behind your car if you've broken down. The vest has to be in the car's passenger compartment, not the boot.
- A spare set of headlamp bulbs.
- Currently, enforcement of the requirement for everybody to carry a breathalyser has been postponed indefinitely. .
- Speed camera warning devices are illegal.
- If you use contact lenses, you must carry a pair of spectacles.
This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of requirements. Please make sure to check with your insurance company before you travel.
What else should we be thinking about before we take a British car to France?
Fuss Free Flavours will be travelling to Brittany on a review trip with Thomson Al Fresco Holidays and Brittany Ferries.


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On 25 September 2014, the French Football Federation (FFF), the French Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Municipalities, Youth and Sport formalised a partnership to fight more effectively against the different forms of violence in amateur football competitions.
This alliance is based on two basic principles:
- The exchange of information between the three actors and the fight against different forms of violence in football matches. Sharing such information will facilitate the assessment of the level of risk and the means with which to administer it and meet desired objectives.
- Prevent crime and anti-social behaviour by stressing the competences of the police and the Gendarmerie. Training sessions and matches are moments when young people gather together and risk-related behaviour may occur due to the consumption of narcotic substances. For this reason, it is important that qualified people like police antidrug instructors (PFAD) and the drug-related instructors (FRAD) of the Gendarmerie are involved.
A result of this institutional cooperation is the publication of the Guide for the prevention of violence and anti-social behaviour in amateur football , which provides information about the existing mechanisms related to crime prevention and the fight against reoffending. It focuses on the coordinated actions carried by the actors:
The National Gendarmerie. This organisation provides the prevention officer (OPP), which stimulates and coordinates the actors involved throughout the district to prevent certain types of behaviour. The OPP can ask for the support of:
- The 43 brigades Juvenile Crime Prevention (BPDJ), which carry out prevention measures in support of youth: organise awareness raising sessions related to issues like types of violence, extortion and theft in order to stop any kind of anti-social behaviour among crime concerning minors.
- The police antidrug instructors (PFAD), who are concerned with preventing addictive behaviour involving minors, families and professionals, and reminding them of legal prescriptions.
- The network of related components in the Gendarmerie: gendarmerie – school security, victim support, the association between the French Football Federation and the National Institute of Victim Support and Mediation
The National Police, which includes the National Division to combat Hooliganism (DNLH) and deals with relations with professional and amateur football leagues and departmental directorates of Public Security (DDSP). The DNLH is present nationwide and a privileged amateur football interlocutor.
The local members. The Amateur football League recommends the following initiatives:
- Support clubs involved in matches where incidents are recorded. In the case of the consumption of narcotics in training sessions or when matches are played, the mobilisation of state services is advised to take preventive action, and specifically: the Gendarmerie group (OPP) and the National Police (DNLH).
- Help resource centres by including an educational dimension to the actions started in different districts. For example, taking action in the face of dysfunctional conduct to raise awareness among teenagers of 13 and 14. To develop such action, the National Police must intervene (specifically, the DNLH, with the support of other services).
- The National Gendarmerie (the BPDJ, the FRAD and the gendarmerie network – school security and the victim-support service).
Other issues included in the guide are: how to identify and organise a "sensitive match", repair via alternative measures in judicial procedures, and the role of the mayor as an actor of proximity for prevention purposes, the Citizens of Sport programme and the programme Sports Success to deter young people from dropping out of school.
Related information: Profile of forms of violence in amateur football in France
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CASA Classic tees off Saturday
May 16, 2017
Kirk Noaker and Cindi Ashford-Fry of CASA of the Highland Lakes Area played through with the details of the third annual CASA Classic Golf Tournament. The fun begins Saturday with a 1:30 p.m. shotgun start at Delaware Springs Municipal Golf Course in Burnet. Proceeds raised help CASA of the Highland Lakes Area. For more information or to register, call Delaware Springs at (512) 756-8471.


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Updated May 22,2017
Connecting a copier to perform its scan-to-email function using Office 365 is not too difficult if you know the right settings.
Microsoft has an Exchange TechNet article on 'How to Allow a Multi-function Device or Application to Send E-mail through Office 365 Using SMTP' which provides three options for creating the connection: SMTP Relay, Client SMTP Submission, and Direct Send.
Unless you already have an SMTP Relay setup in your environment and your device supports TLS, the Client SMTP Submission is the easiest route to take while still offering full features. I configured a Konica Minolta bizhub 36 to send to Office 365 and found that the following settings work reliably.
Listed below are the steps (also illustrated in the graphic at the end of the article) :
Logged in as an administrator, under the Network tab you will find E-mail Settings and E-mail TX (SMTP). The settings in here will need to be configured properly to point to Office 365.
Scan to E-mail: Enable
SMTP Server Address: smtp.office365.com
Port Number: 587
SSL/TLS: Start TLS
Device E-mail address: a fully authenticating Office 365 account
SMTP Authentication: Enable
Account: Same email address as Device E-mail address
Password: password for the specified Office 365 account
Your mileage may vary with different devices and models but those settings should work with TLS-capable scan-to-email devices.


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Petrified Wood, 3 inch
Petrified Wood is a perfect gift for young paeontologists. Slice of a petrified wood limb polished on the front, natural on the back with bark patterns on the sides. Page down for a back and side view.
* Size: 3.5 inch x 3 inch x 0.5 inch thick.
Petrified Wood is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. It is the result of a tree or tree-like plants having completely transitioned to stone by the process of permineralization. All the organic materials have been replaced with minerals (mostly a silicate, such as quartz), while retaining the original structure of the stem tissue. Unlike other types of fossils which are typically impressions or compressions, petrified wood is a three-dimensional representation of the original organic material. The petrifaction process occurs underground, when wood becomes buried under sediment and is initially preserved due to a lack of oxygen which inhibits aerobic decomposition. Mineral-laden water flowing through the sediment deposits minerals in the plant's cells; as the plant's lignin and cellulose decay, a stone mould forms in its place. The organic matter needs to become petrified before it decomposes completely. A forest where such material has petrified becomes known as a petrified forest.
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News 19th November 2018 Jon Dingle 0
The British Independent Film Awards is delighted to announce today that Dame Judi Dench will be this year's recipient of the Richard Harris Award for outstanding contribution by an actor to British film, in recognition of her distinguished career in the UK and advocacy of the British film industry across the globe. The award will be presented to her at the 2018 awards ceremony to be held at Old Billingsgate Market on Sunday 2nd December.
Now in its seventeenth year, the Richard Harris Award has previously been bestowed upon Daniel Day-Lewis, Helena Bonham Carter, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julie Walters, John Hurt, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Alison Steadman, Bob Hoskins and, in 2017, Vanessa Redgrave. The award honours an actor or actress who has contributed significantly to British films throughout their career.
Jared Harris, in whose father's memory the award is granted, commented: "Dangerous on stage, on screen and apparently behind the wheel of a car, Dame Judi Dench and Richard Harris have a lot in common! We are delighted that she has agreed to accept this award. Dame Judi has stolen every scene she has ever been in, and stolen our hearts along the way. Although she hates being called a national treasure and prefers to be thought of as a jobbing actor, she is undeniably both the standard bearer and the gold standard for British Actors."
Dame Judi said: "It has been my absolute privilege to spend almost 60 years working in the British film industry, one of the most vibrant and creative homes for filmmakers in the world. To be recognised with this award, which bears the name of the great Richard Harris and counts some of my favourite actors and actresses amongst its past recipients is a source of deep pride and a very special honour."
In a diverse career that has drawn widespread critical and popular admiration, Dame Judi has captivated audiences with a range of classical and contemporary roles across both stage and screen. In recognition of her many achievements she received an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1970, became a DBE (Dame of the British Empire) in 1988, and in 2005 was awarded a Companion of Honour. Her performances have garnered her an Academy Award, ten BAFTA awards, and a record eight Laurence Olivier Awards. Dame Judi's career in film has successfully traversed the entire landscape of cinema, from acclaimed performances in British independent hits A Room With a View, Notes On a Scandal (for which she won the Best Actress BIFA), Philomena and Iris to her legendary role as M in seven James Bond films from Goldeneye to Skyfall. Her global reputation has been cemented with further lauded roles in the hugely successful India-set comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and its sequel, both directed by John Madden; Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, opposite Dustin Hoffman; and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, directed by Tim Burton.
Dame Judi is also revered for her television work. Most recently she starred as Cecily, Duchess of York, in The Hollow Crown for the BBC, and past credits include: The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, for which she received BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award nomination; the long-running hit BBC sitcom As Time Goes By; and the critically acclaimed Cranford series, for which she received a number of major award nominations.
Dame Judi's celebrated career on stage has mirrored her achievements on screen, from her most recent, Olivier award-winning role in Kenneth Branagh's The Winter's Tale, to The Vote, directed by Josie Rourke, which was also broadcast live on UK General Election night in a landmark television event. She has regularly collaborated with the leading theatre directors of her era, including Sir Peter Hall (The Royal Family, Hay Fever), Michael Grandage (Peter and Alice, Madame de Sade) and Sir Richard Eyre (Amy's View).
Following last year's roles in Kenneth Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express and Victoria & Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears, Dame Judi recently wrapped production on Disney's Artemis Fowl, directed by Kenneth Branagh, and will soon be seen in feature film Red Joan, directed by Trevor Nunn.
The 2018 BIFA awards ceremony takes place on Sunday 2nd December at Old Billingsgate, marking the 21st anniversary of the awards.
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Making a move can be challenging, but it doesn't have to be overwhelming. Indeed, you can make a move without all the attendant headaches, but only if you plan with care. To that end we'll take a look at several wise tips for an easy move.
Make your moving arrangements: No matter the method you choose for moving — moving van, truck rental or Smart Box Moving, it is important that you make your choice early on. Get estimates from company representatives, check references, and only choose a vendor when you are satisfied that they meet your criteria.
Pack with thoughtfulness: Acquire your free moving boxes by visiting local retailers and asking for their discards. Choose a variety of box sizes, from small to big. Pack heavy items in small boxes and pack light items in large boxes. That way, no box should weigh more than 25 to 30 pounds. That's also an acceptable weight limit that should be easy on your back.
Take your valuables with you: Not everything you move should be placed in a truck or in a storage box. Certain valuables, such as your jewelry, artwork, or a coin collection should stay with you. This means if you're driving to your new home, then make room for your valuables.
Create a First Open box: When you arrive at your new home, there will be items you will need immediately such as toilet paper and towels. Trouble is, unless you create a dedicated box to house your essentials, you may spend hours looking for what you want. Create a First Open box and fill it with those items you must have as soon as you open the door. Label that box accordingly and instruct the movers to place it in a location where you can find it.
Keep your children busy: Your children can help you make your move by going through toys and other personal effects and setting aside what they no longer want. Donate these items to charity or hold a yard sale to allow your children to make money from the sale. Your children can help pack some boxes and should be able to write their names on boxes associated with them. Involve the entire family and everyone will feel that they are doing their part.
Be mindful of fragile items: Every move involves taking with you items that are fragile. Here, you will need to pack those items with extreme care. Plates should be packed pointed down in the box with sufficient padding between each one. When it comes to your lamps, remove the light bulbs before packing. You may need to invest in special boxes to move your more delicate items, such as mirrors, vases, and picture frames.
Create a bed box: In addition to your First Open box, you should have second or even a third box containing your bedding items. That first day when you arrive in your new home will be crazy enough — make it easy on everyone by keeping pillows, sheets, and blankets in boxes that can be opened and utilized immediately. Of course, that also means putting beds together, so you'll have your work cut out for you the first day you arrive in your new home.
Moving Considerations: Other areas of concern is to clean out your refrigerator before you move, by eating down your food items, then giving away the rest of your food before you move. You might also pack a special bag filled with snack items, to provide to your family en route to your new home. Fill it with an assortment of heathy snacks and sugar-free drinks.


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How I Joined Blameless, Matt Davis, Senior Infrastructure Engineer
There was a rushed stillness in the air. That odd pre-tsunami silence briefly collapsed around us. Then, pandemonium: blasts, screams, horns, cheers... within minutes of each other, Los Angeles had won the World Series and Matt Davis accepted a role as Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Blameless.
Coincidence? Or complexity? How did this happen?
Why did the Dodgers win the World Series? Well, they hadn't won it in 32 years! It was time! Maybe so, but this doesn't tell us much about the ball club or the game. How did they win it? What were the contributing factors, circumstances, and external pressures? Now that is juicy stuff.
A question that we should all ask after incidents is how the system got to this point. There is little use in asking why. Such paths of inquiry do not teach us much about the nature of the system itself because of limited perspective in the question. It rests its laurels on counterfactuals, its corollary is always why not. The road to blame without accountability is paved with bias, and views that lead to judging are not what we want.
Asking the question how gives more shape to the true story of what happened. So instead of trying to summarize the complicated whys about joining Blameless, I stepped back. I thought up and out, and about you, reader. Maybe you are trying to get a job during a pandemic. Or you see a position on the Blameless job board that fits. You may be interested in how someone like me, a music major, ended up as an infrastructure engineer on a passionate technology team. Whatever your truth, I'm here to tell you the story of how accepting the offer at Blameless wasn't actually a choice at all. That's how intuitive decision making works.
Even with tasks like finding a new job, pattern recognition plays a huge part when we are confronted with a decision. Context is absorbed and mental simulation helps us evaluate options. The experience of shared perspectives (team member collaboration) and adverse situations (incidents as wormholes into understanding system behavior) contributes to this emerging mental model. In fact, the higher fidelity our model, the more diverse our set of simulations become, allowing us to respond in more adaptive ways to adversity.
You hear this clearly when blues musicians improvise: there is a set of very resilient melodies that "work" in a 12-bar blues. The music is immediate so it is not recognized as a choice. It is what the mental simulation says should happen.
For instance, understanding my own expertise by examining how I learned is what guided my decision to narrow my job search. I recognized experience solidifying around hands-on areas of operations and chose opportunities that fit. In interviews, this allowed me to emphasize the peaks where I have seen my intuition grow strong (i.e. robust technical operations and incident management).
To bump up my coding, I created an API and filled in gaps beyond my experience deploying them. When I wasn't studying new material, I was learning how the last interview failures further informed my decisions about which future opportunities to pursue (i.e. learning reliability from history).
In addition to considering analytical data (e.g. a side-by-side "pro/con list for joining a company"), several failed interview rounds encouraged me to perform more and more pre-mortem exercises as time went on. What happens if I do not get this job (i.e. practicing proactive experiments)?
I decided to lean on community, an insight I gained from finding success with chat groups during past job hunts (and searching the 'Net for answers is no stranger to any SRE). A ton of emotional support came from social media and even complete strangers! I took a disciplined approach, checking scrollback and job boards in a dozen Slacks each day. The diligence paid off, I seized an opportunity.
I was in that chat channel because of the confluence of my decisions, the culmination of how. My momentum led me to becoming a part of the Blameless mission to build socio-technical tools for humans that care about robust applications, site reliability, and bolstering resilience. All while underlining the just culture in our workplaces we need to navigate complexity in our adaptive world.
Truth is, I know next to nothing about sports. Nevertheless, LA winning a landmark game literally as I received my job offer after months of diligent work... well, they felt connected. Against the dreary backdrop of 2020, these luminous events glowed joy brightly across the LA basin that night, and for a brief second, I was sure the fireworks were for me.


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Bullard Speaks with Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia about Trade and Inflation Expectations
June 1, 2018
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St. Louis Fed President James Bullard discussed reasons for caution in raising the fed funds rate target further in the near term. During his interview with Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia, he shared his views on rising trade tensions, low inflation expectations and the possibility of yield curve inversion.
"The trade talk is increasing uncertainty in the economy and when I talked to people in my District, back in the Midwest, or people over here in the Far East, everyone's talking about how the trade talks might change world trade arrangements," he said. "However, I think the proof's in the pudding. It really comes down to what is actually agreed upon as far as trade arrangements. And I'm not sure in the end that all that much is going to change."
Bullard also reiterated his view that the U.S. policy rate appears to be neutral, meaning it is putting neither upward nor downward pressure on inflation. (For more on this topic, see Bullard's presentation "A Cautionary Note on U.S. Monetary Policy Normalization" delivered on May 29, 2018.)
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So I'm working in London for the week and decided to get along to this gig, despite having heard very little by any of the bands.
First up were local favourites Jailbait who played hardcore with brutal beatdowns. Their mates were obviously all in attendance (as it should be!) and they were launching themselves into kamikaze stage-dives, one lad took a running jump along the length of the bar! A good start.
Next up were Californian psychos Never Healed. They were like early Black Flag in parts, and the singer resembled Henry Rollins' slightly crazier fresh-outta-jail brother! The crowd were more restrained for their performance, but I thought that they were the best band of the night.
I also picked up a copy of their "Only Europa Knows" LP 76/250 too, good times.
So onto headliners Ceremony who were touring their well-received new album "Still Nothing Moves You". It was obvious from the start that the fairly sparse crowd were all huge fans (apart from me!) and were word-perfect on every song. Kids were climbing over each other to grab the microphone from the singer and belt out a line or two.
The modern hardcore "dancing" of karate kicks and windmilling (!) were in evidence, but it was heartening to see one "scene kid" get fucking sent flying by an old-school bloke who took exception to being caught by the lad's swinging foot. Not that I condone violence against "scene kids" you understand…
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Acer C7 Chromebook Reviewby Jason Inofuentes on January 21, 2013 12:30 PM EST
If today we were reviewing the Acer Aspire One A0756-2641 notebook, from which the Acer C7 Chromebook is derived, then it would be really brief. Compromised, and too expensive. Priced at around $329, the spec sheet is spared utter embarrassment by having a low-end Sandy Bridge processor, rather than something from the Atom line. Aside from that, it's hard to argue in favor of this notebook when a little more cash can net you a small caching SSD, more RAM, a better processor and a goodly performance boost. But this isn't the Acer Aspire One. This is the Acer C7 Chromebook, and it only costs $199. Does that make all the difference? Let's take a look.
In consumer electronics, every market segment goes through this moment when the technology becomes affordable enough that it becomes a race to the bottom. The netbook movement pulled the floor out from under notebook prices, and the results were, at first, severely compromised and almost unbearable. The long term result of the ensuing price pressure means a fantastic Windows laptop can be had for well under $1000. Much of this is owed Intel's fabs (and marketing) and we are in an era of high IPC, power efficient and cheap x86 processors powering notebooks of all shapes and sizes.
The full promise of the netbook was never truly acheived, though. There are no "good enough" Windows notebooks available for under that magic $200 barrier. Today's Atom lacks the oomph to make the user experience one we'd recommend. Move up to a more modern Intel CPU, though, and you get a better experience, but a higher price. So what happens if you take the aforementioned Acer Aspire One A0756-2641 (a Windows 8 notebook with an 11.6" screen and a Sandy Bridge-based Celeron processor with Intel HD Graphics and a 320GB HDD and 2GB of RAM) but stripped out that Windows license and charged $199 for it?
Let's talk turkey. Thin, flexible plastic does not inspire confidence, nor does it feel good against your finger tips. That's something we've known for a while, long before the materials experienced a resurgence as the netbook movement really grew its wings and become the benchmark for cheap notebooks. You can make the millimeter thin composites look good, and you can even give it an internal structure that is rigid, but it will always feel cheap.
The Acer C7's design isn't terrible. As a color-blind person, I really am much more comfortable around grey-tone products, I never have to worry that I'm secretly wearing purple pants. What kills me is a poor tactile experience. So I was surprised to discover that the cheap plastic forms a pretty solid feeling device. When you hold the chassis in one hand, opened, you can feel the plastic body flexing in your hand, but there's still enough rigidity that you might be convinced it could survive a short fall. The display's hinges are solid with no jiggle or dead space, and can be laid nearly flat.
The keyboard is narrower than the best of them, but isn't so cramped that typing becomes a chore. Proper QWERTY alpha/numeric key placement is a must for me, and here the C7 acquits itself well. The keys themselves are well sprung, if a little shallow, and provide good feedback that they've been sufficiently depressed. The directional keys are a bit minuscule, and that can be frustrating, particularly given that you may use them more than the trackpad for making selections.
The touchpad is wider than I expected, and fills nearly the full distance from the keyboard to the edge of the device, but is sadly made of the same cheap plastic as the rest of the body. The result is that, though the body feels solid and the mechanical components are sufficient, there's just nothing particularly pleasing to touch. The touchpad's performance is also a bit lacking. Two finger scrolling works well enough, but pinch to zoom was hit or miss and not supporting additional gestures makes it almost impossible to accurately select text or drag a file. For accuracy's sake I prefer the directional keys, their size not withstanding.
While the base of the C7 tapers down towards the user, the display body is a uniform depth and a bit thicker than I might have hoped. Despite its thickness, with just a mild bit of force you can flex the display pretty radically; not a confidence inspiring trait. Bezels aren't too radical, and the camera is centered within the top bezels, with the Acer logo below the display.
With the base tapering to a slim edge, the bulk of the laptops weight is in the battery towards the back of the device. Along the bottom of the C7 are myriad vents and labels, and a pair of speaker grills. A single screw beneath a warranty sticker restricts the removal of the bottom panel; and our review sample just happened to be missing that screw entirely. With no screw in the way it's quite easy to slide the panel off and have access to the hard drive, RAM and wireless module, along with a close look at the cooling mechanism. The left side houses the ethernet and VGA ports on one side of a rather large vent, and HDMI and USB 2.0 on the other. The right side sports the Kensington lock port, power, 2xUSB 2.0 and headset port. Along the front edge are power and charging indicator LEDs, and a sprung SD slot with a molded blank to fill it when the slot isn't being used.
The C7's two speakers sit on the beveled edge of the C7, below the wrist rest. Their output won't rattle your windows, and might not be enough to hear clearly from across the room, but they'll do from arm's length.
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JasonInofuentes - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkIn the terminal I was able to run cat /proc/cpuinfo during lots of scenarios and the output was always 800MHz. Since there's no way to run monitoring programs in a Chrome OS instance, and since the clock and voltage tables aren't exposed as they were in the Samsung Chromebook, we don't know whether this is an intermediate state, but based on the results I'm confident of that figure as the max clock.
Exophase - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkAre you sure it said 800MHz for both cores? Can you test it while running a workload you know is pegging the CPU indefinitely, preferably a backgrounded command line task like dd?
Frankly I think the scores don't really add up for 800MHz. Look at what the lower end Samsung Chromebox achieves here:
That uses a Celeron B840 which is clocked at 1.9GHz, and since it isn't running on a battery they'd have no reason to underclock it. If you scale its Sunspider score of 296ms from 1.9GHz to 1.1GHz you get 511ms, which fits perfectly with the values you got in this review. At 800MHz you would expect a number closer to 700ms. This is assuming linear scaling, but given Sunspider is single threaded and these are fairly low clocks for both I doubt you'd get much worse. I also doubt that V8 made huge improvements in its x86 performance since then.
sonnyrao - Sunday, January 27, 2013 - linkHi, it is definitely a 1.1Ghz processor, but has cpu frequency scaling enabled like any other modern system. I'm not sure what scenarios you ran but looking at /proc/cpuinfo isn't really the best way to determine frequency. At the minmum, you should be looking at /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
but running something like powertop or i7z would be even better (you can copy them onto the C7 from another 32-bit Linux system)
I'd do something like this, put it into dev mode, open a window for crosh (ctrl-alt-t) and run the shell from there sudo to become root
then run
watch -d cat /sys/devices/system/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
and then run your benchmarks in another window.
jabber - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkI've been trying out Lenovo Q180 Nettops recently. The ones I've been rolling out have the top end 2.1Ghz Atom in them, with 4GB of ram and a HD6450 GPU in them.
Tally this together with a Sandisk Extreme 120GB SSD and the computing experience is pretty good. In all the usual computing tasks I couldn't tell it was an Atom based machine. It felt as fast and fluid as any full size x86 PC I have around. I've rolled a few of them out to small businesses and feedback has been excellent.
The problem with Atom is that makers feel they have an excuse to pair them up with even crappier hardware. Throw in an Atom chip with some decent supporting hardware and you have a pretty good low power setup.
lmcd - Saturday, January 26, 2013 - linkThe graphics tied with Atom are probably the most hindering aspect.
max347 - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkGreat review!
I think the pics could use a little less bokeh though :-)
nathanddrews - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - linkLOL - first thing I thought of. DOF is cool, but not if you can't even tell what's on the IO panel.
JasonInofuentes - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - linkFair enough, I'm trying to get a nice light set-up that would facilitate more bokeh-free shots, but in the meanwhile I'm generally just trying to keep people from seeing the mess my house is generally in. :) Thanks for the compliment.
Notmyusualid - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - linkAnd it was so dog dam slow, that I GAVE IT AWAY, as soon as I got back from my deployment in the USA.
Really, it gave me chest pains waiting for it to do anything.
I tried upgrading the RAM, and that made very little difference.
I realised quickly that I was wasting my time.
The 10yr old niece was happy to receive it though....
dj christian - Thursday, January 24, 2013 - linkJustin where did Anand cover the Chrome OS? It would be nice if you could provide us with a link to it.


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Food: kolijar shingara = liver samosa/patties
This is a very scrumptious snack in Bangladesh - the Shingara. We differentiate it from a samosa, because we make samosas mainly of meat. And the shingara is vegetarian except for this very special liver shingara. Here is how to prepare it,
For the liver,
2 cups of cubed beef/goat liver
1/2 tsp ginger paste
1/2 tsp garlic paste
1/2 an onion sliced
1 tsp red chili powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp cumin powder
chopped green chilis
salt and oil
For the dough,
1 1/2 cup flour (you can mix whole wheat and all purpose like me)
1/4 cup oil
1/2 tsp kalo jeera/kalonji/nigella seeds
First chop the liver pieces into very small cubes. Otherwise they will be too clunky to squeeze into the shingara.
The liver cubes then need to be marinated with 1 tsp red chili powder and 1 tsp turmeric powder for an hour.
After an hour, boil water and salt in a pot. Then throw the marinated liver pieces into this boiling water.
After it starts to boil vigorously, then drain the water immediately. There is a distinct smell to liver most of the time, and this process gets rid of that smell.
Right after the ginger/garlic, toss all the dry spices in the oil and pour 1/3 cup of water to cook the spices. Cover and cook until the oil separates.
Once the water dries up, and the liver is cooked through, toss in the sliced onions and chilis. Saute until the onions are soft and translucent.
Making a fist with your hand place the dough inside like a flower. The closed off corner is sitting in the inside of our hands while the open sides are splayed over outside.
Once you have placed the liver inside the dough, fold over the open sides and pinch them close. This side will be flat so it can stand upright.
You can either deep fry or bake the shingaras before eating. I shallow fried mine. Eat with any sauce of your choice. We ate ours with spicy tamarind sauce.


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Still boycotting Tim Horton's, but those look pretty okay haha
Why boycotting them ? lol
Quality and service were both hurt when they sold the company to a Brazilian conglomerate
They seem to be doing good now and putting out a lot of new products. maybe you'll reconsider and try the out ?
I'm not really boycotting them, just preferred their fresh baked goods, they stopped baking fresh years ago.
They par bake everything and ship it to stores frozen, they used to make everything from scratch locally
Local freshness would be good. But I also get that they want their products to look and taste the same countrywide .
They already did, it was more to save money, they didn't want to pay a baker for every major store.
Sacrifice quality for a better profit margin
Everyone knows having a Tim Horton's franchise is a license to print money almost. I'd prefer it fresh too, but it's a cut into their already great profits
Yeah, every Canadian feels oddly attached to a rather average Brazilian owned donut shop lol... granted franchise owners are more local, but all their fees leave the continent.
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It's Your Responsibility
I think it's interesting how people in the social media space often speak about similar topics at similar times.
Whether it's because someone else brings it to light or a mention helps solidify another person's opinion, I find that there's a lot of overlap in what people postulate online.
I have a running list of post topics that I add to as I think of something. Sometimes there are concrete ideas, but other times it's a huge run on sentence with parentheses and question marks because I haven't quite narrowed down what it is I'm trying to say. This post was one of those nebulous ideas, with "it's your responsibility how you react to things (disclaimer on post and things)" as the only descriptor.
I read Alexis's post on the fleeting fad that is the Unicorn Frappuccino at Starbucks and that's what solidified it for me. In a nutshell, she spoke against food shaming but also that it is each individual consumer's responsibility to either drink or not drink it. It's important for people to figure out for themselves how they want to fit it into their lives (or not) and leave it at that.
It was that plus a comment I received awhile ago after I apologized for a post that indirectly triggered someone that solidified what I wanted to say. The comment told me that I had no responsibility to apologize for how someone else read into a post.
So here it is. The world is a tricky place — online and real — but ultimately it is each person's responsibility to take care of his or her own feelings and reactions.
It's easy to point the finger and say that someone else's actions or words made you feel a certain way. That's fair to say as a statement of what you're experiencing. What's not fair is blaming them for your negative reaction.
In recovery, we are taught that once we stop using, we are responsible for our recovery. Everything that happened before has happened, there's no changing it, and we can't control that it happened. What we CAN control, however, is our recovery. Our behaviors. Our thoughts. Our decisions.
I'm reminded of several older posts I've written about playing the victim and my thoughts on the social media controversy, and I think that it's important to remember that we are our own individual beings. No one else can make us feel anything we don't want to feel.
As a recovering addict, I'm not going to put myself in situations where I know I can be triggered. I'm not going to hang out with friends in bars. I didn't finish watching The Wire until last year because Baltimore was where I found drugs and I knew watching that show would take me somewhere I didn't want to go.
As someone who has struggled with over exercising and disordered eating, I make it a point not to follow people who advocate for forcing yourself to exercise and who shun the idea of balance in the form of processed foods. It's not realistic for me and I don't need a broken record of what I've already put myself through. To each their own, but I know it doesn't work for me.
If you know that you are easily triggered by discussions of dieting or images meant to idealize body shapes that aren't yours, it's your responsibility to stop reading or unfollow accounts.
If you inadvertently trigger a negative response, don't blame that person. Use whatever tools you have to examine the situation. What are you feeling? What made you feel that way? What can you do differently the next time? Pointing the finger at someone else doesn't help you improve as an individual.
Of course, as much as I'd like to make it black and white because that's what I'm best at, there needs to be a little gray. If you're writing about a subject that you know could potentially impact others in a negative way, consider adding a disclaimer at the beginning. Put a little bit of thought into the content you create, but remember that ultimately you can't control other people and you will absolutely not please everyone in this world.
Be mindful of your words and remember to take a look at yourself before reacting against someone else. Figure out what's important in your own life and let the rest go.
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Malta has become an unlikely champion for the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people in Europe.
This Catholic bastion, where legal abortion is banned and divorce was allowed only in 2011, three years ago voted for a civil union act granting same-sex partners equal rights and privileges as married couples.
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A year later, the same Labour government of Joseph Muscat passed a law establishing basic rights for transsexual and intersex people, a world-first bill to create rights for intersex people.
Malta also recently became the first EU country to ban "conversion therapy" - the idea that sexual orientation can be changed with psychological treatment - and will within the coming weeks start rolling out gender-neutral passports and id cards.
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This week, Dalli said her staff was working on a proposal to introduce same-sex marriage.
Election fever
The Labour politician also has her sights on changing the EU, under the auspices of the Maltese rotating presidency of the Council of the EU.
On Thursday (23 February), she told a high-level ministerial conference on LGBTIQ equality mainstreaming, that politicians should lead the way rather than be led by public opinion.
"The example of Malta shows that even countries that are often discounted as not inclined to progress can change fast the moment there is political will and civil society," Dalli said.
"Civil society are the real movers… but it's our role, the role of politicians, to do everything in our power to facilitate and support these initiatives," she added. "We politicians are there to shape public opinion and not be led by it."
The high-level conference marked the first time in years that a council presidency has made LGBTI rights a priority.
Activists who gathered in Valletta hoped this will energise their fight at a rather gloomy period in time.
The upcoming elections in the Netherlands, France, Germany and Czech Republic could end with gains for far-right forces. In the run-up, mainstream parties are not putting forward progressive proposals for fear it could cost them votes.
Meanwhile, the council, where EU governments are represented, has for the last nine years been blocking an anti-discrimination directive that would give the EU legal powers to protect people from prejudice because of their age, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
The European Commission has often referred to the lack of this directive to justify its lack of action on LGBTI rights. But some feel the EU executive is simply scared of member states.
"It's not a good time for the EU," said Vladimir Simonko, a Lithuanian gay activist who sits on the board of ILGA-Europe, the European lobby organisation for LGBTI rights.
For the last three years, he has been pressuring the commission to do something about a Russian-style "anti-gay propaganda" law in Lithuania.
But earlier this week, the commission sent him a letter to confirm they weren't going to open an infringement case into the matter under alleged breach of EU audiovisual rules.
When asked if the commission didn't have any other tools at hand than a directive regulating a sectoral business, Simenko said. "Maybe. I don't know. I didn't even appeal the latest decision, I didn't have the energy anymore to try and work out a case."
Some other participants, however, feel let down by justice and gender equality commissioner Vera Jourova, who vowed in her confirmation process to present member states with an EU LGBT strategy. Instead, the commission has only proposed a "list of actions" to implement on a voluntary basis.
According to one source close to the Maltese government, the veiled aim of the high-level conference in Malta was to show the commission that the situation in Europe warrants a more hands-on approach.
Michael O'Flaherty, director of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), told the conference that UN bodies had serious concerns about the situation of LGBTIQ rights in 16 of the 28 EU member states.
"There isn't one country in the EU where more than half of the LGBTIQ population feels comfortable holding hands," he said.
Gays and lesbians face discrimination in the workplace, housing, health services or in the form of bullying and hate speech. In many EU countries, doctors and nurses still see homosexuality as a mental disorder.
Transgender and intersex people are still forced to undergo forced sterilisation before their gender identity is recognised in 12 EU countries.
Daniele Viotti, an Italian centre-left MEP, told EUobserver that Malta's engagement was important, "for the EU, and for us".
Viotti, who is a co-chair of the LGBT intergroup, a cross-party forum in the European Parliament aiming to advance LGBT rights, deplored the commission's back-seat approach and said activists were not strong enough to pressure their governments into implementing the list of actions.
"The street today is anti-establishment. I wouldn't rely on the people to advance our rights," he said, with reference to general moods.
He said he was often coaching young activists.
"I tell them: don't fear. If you cause an uproar from anti-gay forces, that means everything is ok and you are close to winning the battle," Viotti said.
"Maybe I should tell this to Jourova and Frans Timmermans [the commission's vice president in charge of fundamental rights] as well?"
He welcomed that Malta was taking a leading role on the rights of transgender and intersex people in the EU, whose have long been neglected.
"The role of politicians is always to advance new rights," Viotti said.
Marriage equality
Polls show that public support for LGBTI rights has grown in Malta, but that result was far from certain.
"They took a risk with the civil unions act. Nobody knew what kind of reaction that would generate," said Gabi Calleja, a coordinator of the Malta Gay Rights Movement.
"But as the parliament was voting on the bill, a huge party broke out outside the building - nothing such had ever happened before! People who had been in the closet for years came to the square and said they had to be there," Calleja told EUobserver.
She said that Malta's small size - only 420,000 people live in the Mediterranean archipelago - had helped to change the mood of the country.
"Now, there are so many couples in civic unions, that a large part of the populations knows personally someone who benefited from the law," she said.
Helena Dalli told this website she had received "many bad comments" over her trailblazing work, but she didn't seem too concerned.
"I am confident that the Malta of my grand-children will be a liberal Malta where you will be appreciated for you as you are, what you do, contribute to society, whether you're white, black, gay, straight, trans, rich, or poor. We are now sowing those seeds, and I am not expecting results for tomorrow or in five years time - but I believe they will be there in one generation's time."
But as the minister is trying to change the EU, some would also like to change her country.
Malta has the strictest legislation on reproductive rights in the world. Access to safe and legal abortion remains a taboo. Last year, lawmakers tried to stop access to the morning-after pill, although they backtracked when faced with a public outrage.
LGBTI couples also have trouble accessing family planning: it being punishable by a prison sentence to donate eggs and sperm.
When asked by a delegation from Rainbow Rose - the associate LGBTI network of the Party of European Socialists (PES), of which Malta's Labour is part - what the government is doing to enhance women's rights, Helena Dalli said the government was working on an equality bill and a human rights commission.
"We are also implementing the Istanbul convention against gender-based violence," the minister said.


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