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Self Improvement – Why Bother?
Does it seem as if your life is so full of just trying to get things done that the ideas of acquiring new skills, enhancing your spiritual growth, or implementing a personal development plan seems almost impossible? And yet, is there also a gnawing question that lingers in your mind, "Is this all there is?" "Am I missing out on something that's not on my to-do list?"
If any of this sounds familiar, then the next time you're confronted with the hectic pace of daily life, take a moment and find the time to "bother" with your personal development. Gaining a clearer understanding of ourselves always adds value to our lives and can also increase our sense of significance and purpose in those daily activities.
Finding meaning in our lives starts when we begin investigating who we are and what is going on around us. We are the only one that can say for certain what is deeply important to us. So when WE DON'T take the time to stop and look at our life, it fills up with things that might not give us the kinds of joy and meaning we truly want.
Is Your Cup Overflowing?
Here's an old Zen story that speaks to the truth of this:
A university teacher visited Nan-in, a Japanese master. The professor was interested in learning about the Zen philosophy. Nan-in served the professor tea. He poured tea in the professor's cup until it was full. But he kept on pouring.
"Like this tea cup," Nan-in replied, "you are full of your own ideas and opinions. How can you learn about Zen unless you first empty your cup?"
To learn anything new, you need some room for it in what you already know. With life's crazy pace, every once and awhile it's important to invest the time, energy and attention to let in new ideas and awareness.
That was Zen – This is Now
You can begin emptying your cup by examining what you believe and what you value.
o Do some things just seem "right or wrong", "good or bad", or "appropriate or inappropriate"?
o Are your beliefs broader than the set of cultural beliefs permeating our lives on an unconscious level?
o Are you easily able to recognize which beliefs are motivating your actions?
o Do you know the values that are reflected in your beliefs?
o Are you able to recognize when your beliefs are not accurately reflecting your core values?
Unless you occasionally take the time to consciously empty your cup of beliefs that do not fit with your core values, it will fill up with various cultural beliefs that come to you from the outside, which become the unconscious motivations influencing the choices you make and how you live your life.
As you empty your cup, you begin to make room in your life for the question, "Are the beliefs I hold as the truth really my own beliefs?"
Another question to ask is, "Did I knowingly choose these beliefs as my own or did I simply take them on without question?"
You answer these questions by exploring whether your beliefs support what you really value, or if they are just beliefs you learned simply because they have been part of our culture for hundreds or thousands of years.
Bother to Be – Continue to Ask – and Be Willing to Listen
To understand more about how cultural beliefs might be influencing you, look at the principles you live by and rules you follow. Or consider all those little adages you were told growing up such as, life is hard, it's a dog eat dog world, only the strong survive, etc.
Explore these for yourself. Ask, "Do I truly believe these?" Do these principles, rules or sayings really support me in living the life I desire, one that is a reflection of what I truly value?
Here are a set of questions you can ask yourself as you go through your day that will help you figure this out for yourself:
o What do I really desire in this area of my life?
o What would I like to experience right here and right now?
o What motivates the action I'm about to take?
o Is what I'm about to do going to get me the results I really want?
o Is what I'm doing now really what want to do?
Take pause and remember that in the process of questioning, there are no hard and fast rules, no good or bad answer, no right or wrong beliefs. The purpose is to begin taking time for your self-improvement and spiritual development, to experience the fact that this is worth "bothering" with.
An Empty Cup Allows Room to Grow
We trust that as you uncover your own personal values, start developing empowering new beliefs that reflect those values, and begin taking actions that are in alignment with them, your discomfort or dissatisfaction with the hectic pace of life with begin to diminish.
You'll start clearly recognizing which of your daily activities reflect what you value and experience an increased sense of significance and purpose in these. You'll also start easily pruning away the clutter in your life as you get more clarity about what is important you and what is not.
As your life becomes more meaningful, taking the time for self-improvement will not only be worth bothering with, you will welcome it because you know you have plenty of room for it in your cup!


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There's something that lies within my memory. Hidden in the dark. Something that can kill me and those that I love. But I was in an accident, covered in mystery and deception. And my memory…was lost. There are those who want me to remember. I don't trust them. And those I do trust…are fighting for me to forget.
Elsabetha Ellery wants to get her memory back, even if it kills her.
After waking up in a hospital with no memory, Elsabetha quickly learns those who claim to be her friend are anything but. And those who are her true friends keep themselves unseen.
Stuck with piecing together her broken memories alone, Elsa struggles with having faith in those she trusts and heeding the warnings of the dangers in recovering her memory. Ignoring them, she faces heavy consequences. Ones she doesn't see until it's too late, and a life is lost.
A Kansas native, Samantha LaFantasie
spends her free time with her husband and three kids. Writing has always been a
passion of hers, forgoing all other desires to devote to this one obsession, even though she often finds herself arguing with her
characters through much of the process. She's primarily a fantasy writer but
often feels pulled to genres such as sci-fi, romance, and others.Among her writing credentials, she's a
board member of the Kansas Writer's Association and has founded her own
critique group, lovingly named, The Fighting Hamsters.Samantha loves to take time to enjoy
other activities such as photography and playing her favorite game of all time,
Guild Wars 2.
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Thursday, July 18, 2024
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director.
- The drugging, abduction and violent gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil calls us all to turn the tide of sexual violence against women and girls in Brazil and in every country in the world.
Her silence was broken by the men who boastfully posted their images of the rape, deepening her abuse by showing her body to the world, in the confident expectation of approval by their peers and impunity from punishment. This is Brazil's moment to shake that confidence to its core and reassert the rule of law and its respect for human rights. This is the time for zero tolerance for violence against women and girls.
The men's casual expectation of zero retribution reflects the impunity known by most rapists across the world. Their confidence illustrates a climate of normalized abuse, a culture of daily violence against women and girls, and a stark failure of justice. It is estimated that only 35 per cent of rape cases in Brazil are reported. Even so, the Brazilian police record a case of rape every 11 minutes, every day.
The Brazilian teenager did not get medical attention until after her attack was made public. Fear, shame or hopelessness contribute to the gross under-reporting of sexual violence. Far too few women and girls are getting the help they need—and to which they are entitled—to support healing and protect them from unwanted pregnancy as well as from HIV or other sexually transmitted infections.
One simple fact illustrates this: alongside the horrifically high rates of sexual violence experienced daily by women and girls in Brazil and throughout the region, 56 per cent of pregnancies in Latin America and the Caribbean are unplanned or unintended. Women and girls need access to the full range of reproductive health services and rights at all times.
Attention to the critical lack of access to these services in Brazil and elsewhere has sharpened even further in the light of the unprecedented spread of the Zika virus. The risks are highest for the most vulnerable, who are unable to protect themselves adequately against infection, nor against unwanted pregnancy—especially in the context of rape. There has never been a more urgent time for action against sexual violence and for women and girls to be able to confidentially and easily access the health services they need. Both legal and medical structures need to be mobilized to deal with the cases that already exist and strong action taken to build comprehensive services for survivors.
This one case throws into stark relief the daily discrimination and intimidation experienced by women and girls, not just in Latin America, but all over the world. Violence against women and girls deeply damages our societies, our economies, our politics and our long-term global potential. It constrains lives, limits options, and violates human rights. In all its forms, from physical brutality against women human rights defenders like Berta Cáceres, who was murdered in western Honduras in March, to the character assassination of female political figures, it plays out daily in visible and invisible ways, and diminishes us all. It is both why increased representation of women in leadership positions is so important, and why it is so difficult to achieve.
The intensity of protest in Brazil trending through social networks reflects the deep anger against the unrecognized or undeclared abuses that have suppressed or extinguished so many women's lives. For so many years the struggle of women's movements, only now governments share their vision of a world without violence by 2030. The young girl in the news commented: "It does not hurt the uterus, but the soul because there are cruel people who are getting away with it."
Zero tolerance needs the full weight of the laws already in place to track down, prosecute and punish perpetrators. From the highest levels of government, through the police, lawyers and the courts, all need to act with renewed responsibility and accountability for what is happening to women and girls and understand its real cost and consequences.
Most important of all, this is a situation for every man and boy to consider, and to decide to take a stand to change and positively evolve the 'machismo' culture. This must not wait another day.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director.


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Dr Abduljalil al-Singace is a prisoner of conscience and a member of the Bahrain 13, a group of activists arrested by the Bahraini government for their role in peaceful protests in 2011. Dr al-Singace is a blogger, academic, and former Head of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bahrain. Dr al-Singace is currently serving a life sentence ordered by a military court on 22 June 2011.
The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry met with Dr al-Singace in 2011 and collected testimony regarding his arbitrary arrest and torture. Despite the existence of this testimony, in 2012 a civilian appeals court refused to investigate Dr al-Singace's credible allegations of abuse and upheld the military court's decision. Dr al-Singace has received no compensation for the acts of torture that he suffered, nor have his torturers been held accountable for their actions.
On 21 March 2015, Dr al-Singace went on hunger strike in protest at the collective punishment and acts of torture that police inflicted upon prisoners following a riot in Jau Prison earlier that month. Today, he passed 160 days of hunger strike.
Dr al-Singace suffers from post-polio syndrome and is disabled. In addition to the torture Dr al-Singace has suffered, his medical conditions have deteriorated considerably as a result of his incarceration. Prison and prison hospital authorities have denied him physiotherapy and surgery to his nose and ears. He is currently being held in solitary confinement in a windowless room in Al-Qalaa hospital.
We remind the Bahraini government of its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which Bahrain acceded to in 2006. Under the ICCPR Bahrain must ensure that no individual is subjected to arbitrary detention (Article 9) and that everyone enjoys the right to freedom of expression (Article 19). We demand that the government release all individuals who are arbitrarily detained for exercising their right to free expression, whether through peaceful assembly, online blogging or other means. We also remind the Bahraini government of its obligations arising from the 1984 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), to which Bahrain is a state party. In 2015, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that arbitrary detention and torture are used systematically in the criminal justice system of Bahrain.
We, the undersigned NGOs, call on the Bahraini authorities to release Dr Abduljalil al-Singace and all prisoners of conscience in Bahrain.
We further call on the international community, and in particular EU member states and the United States, to demand release of Dr al-Singace.
Background Information
Dr al-Singace has been the target of judicial harassment since 2009, when he was arrested for the first time and charged with participating in a terror plot and inciting hatred on his blog, Al-Faseela, which was subsequently banned by Bahraini Internet Service Providers. Dr al-Singace had blogged prolifically and critically against governmental corruption in Bahrain. He was later pardoned by the King and released, although his blog remained banned in Bahrain.
In August 2010, police arrested Dr al-Singace on his return from London, where he had spoken at an event hosted by the House of Lords on Bahrain. A security official at the time claimed he had "abused the freedom of opinion and expression prevailing in the kingdom." Following his arrest, Bahraini security forces subjected Dr al-Singace to acts of physical torture.
Dr al-Singace received a second royal pardon alongside other political prisoners in February 2011. He was rearrested weeks later in March following the imposition of a state of emergency and the intervention of the Peninsula Shield Force, an army jointly composed of the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
On 22 June 2011, a military court sentenced Dr al-Singace to life imprisonment. He is one of thirteen leading human rights and political activists arrested in the same period, subjected to torture, and sentenced in the same case, collectively known as the "Bahrain 13". A civilian appeals court upheld the sentence on 22 May 2012. The "Bahrain 13" are serving their prison sentences in the Central Jau Prison. Among the "Bahrain 13", Ebrahim Sharif, former leader of the secular political society Wa'ad, was released by royal pardon on 19 June 2015, but was rearrested weeks later on 11 July, following a speech in which he criticized the government. He currently faces charges of inciting hatred against the regime. On 9 July 2015, the EU Parliament passed an Urgent Resolution calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the "Bahrain 13" and other prisoners of conscience in Bahrain.
During his time in prison, authorities have consistently denied Dr al-Singace the regular medical treatment he requires for his post-polio syndrome, and have failed to provide him with the surgery he requires as a result of the physical torture to which he was subjected in 2011. Dr al-Singace has an infected ear, suffers from vertigo, and has difficulty breathing.
A combination of poor quality prison facilities, overcrowding, systematic torture and ill-treatment led to a riot in Jau Prison on 10 March 2015. Though a minority of prisoners participated in the riot, police collectively punished prisoners, subjecting many of them to torture. Authorities starved prisoners, arbitrarily beat them, and forced them to sleep in courtyards for days, until large tents were erected. Fifty-seven prisoners are currently on trial for allegedly instigating the riot.
In response to these violations, Dr al-Singace began a hunger strike on 21 March. It has now been 160 days since Dr al-Singace has eaten solid foods, and he has lost over 20 kilograms in weight. Dr al-Singace subsists on water, drinking over four litres daily, fizzy drinks for sugar, nutritional supplements, saline injections and yoghurt drink. His intake is monitored by hospital nurses.
Since the start of Dr al-Singace's hunger strike, he has been transferred to Al-Qalaa Hospital for prisoners, where he has been kept in solitary confinement in a windowless room and has irregular contact with medical staff and family. Prison authorities prevented condolence visits to attend his nephew's and mother-in-law's funerals. Dr al-Singace should be immediately released, allowed to continue his work and given full access to appropriate medical treatment without condition.


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10 Essential Movies That Turn 50 in 2021
From box office blockbusters to cult classics, 1971 was a banner year for movies.
The 10 choices below represent a portion of what hit theaters 50 years ago. You'll read about everything from family fare to selections that caused controversy or needed to be edited to avoid an X rating. The year saw a rise in detective films, including one of the seminal entries in the nascent blaxploitation genre, along with more science fiction movies in the post-2001: A Space Odyssey world and Sean Connery's return to James Bond.
Two of Hollywood's most celebrated directors, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, made their big-screen debuts in 1971. Lucas' THX-1138 showed off some of the futuristic ideas he would soon put to use in Star Wars, while Spielberg's Duel premiered as a made-for-TV movie, but the audience response prompted a cinematic release.
Some were critically praised and won Oscars, while others were panned and flopped, only to find their audience years later. But they all have something special about them, like the iconic car chase in The French Connection or Clint Eastwood's memorable "Do I feel lucky?" line in the original Dirty Harry. Just about the only thing that connects all these films is that they went on to influence generations of filmmakers.
Join us as we look back at some of 1971's seminal films and examine exactly what leaves us still talking, writing and thinking about them a half-century later.


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Eric Church, Brad Paisley and More Sign on for Tribute Show to ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons
Eric Church, Brad Paisley, Lucinda Williams and Travis Tritt are all confirmed performers at an upcoming tribute concert and TV taping to honor Billy Gibbons, who is best known as the lead singer and guitarist of rock group ZZ Top.
Called "A Tribute to Billy Gibbons," the show will take place live and in person on May 16 at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House, where it will be taped in front of a limited-capacity audience.
According to Rolling Stone, the concert will also feature performances from acts like Ronnie Milsap, Larkin Poe, Dennis Quaid, Jimmie Vaughan and more. Other performers, including surprise guests, are expected to be revealed soon.
The event will be produced by America Salutes You, an organization that works to harness the power of music to support veterans, service members and first responders. "A Tribute to Billy Gibbons" will benefit nonprofit groups geared towards first responders and military members, including the USO and ThanksUSA.
Formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas, ZZ Top rose to blues-rock fame over the past five decades, thanks in large part to Gibbons' signature guitar-work and style. Their renown as a Texas rock act, plus Gibbons' well-documented musicianship, make both the band and its leading figure an inspiration to artists of every genre, particularly acts like Church and Paisley, who are especially beloved for their rock stylistic leanings and guitar chops, respectively.
Tickets to the limited-capacity, socially-distanced event go on sale beginning Friday, April 30 on the Grand Ole Opry's website.
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Nothing personal, just business.
"Banks foreclosing on churches in record numbers"
Tim Reid
March 8th, 2012
Tim Reid
March 8th, 2012
Banks are foreclosing on America's churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose patience with religious facilities that have defaulted on their mortgages, according to new data.
The surge in church foreclosures represents a new wave of distressed property seizures triggered by the 2008 financial crash, analysts say, with many banks no longer willing to grant struggling religious organizations forbearance.
Since 2010, 270 churches have been sold after defaulting on their loans, with 90 percent of those sales coming after a lender-triggered foreclosure, according to the real estate information company CoStar Group.
In 2011, 138 churches were sold by banks, an annual record, with no sign that these religious foreclosures are abating, according to CoStar. That compares to just 24 sales in 2008 and only a handful in the decade before.
The church foreclosures have hit all denominations across America, black and white, but with small to medium size houses of worship the worst. Most of these institutions have ended up being purchased by other churches.
The highest percentage have occurred in some of the states hardest hit by the home foreclosure crisis: California, Georgia, Florida and Michigan.
"Churches are among the final institutions to get foreclosed upon because banks have not wanted to look like they are being heavy handed with the churches," said Scott Rolfs, managing director of Religious and Education finance at the investment bank Ziegler.
Church defaults differ from residential foreclosures. Most of the loans in question are not 30-year mortgages but rather commercial loans that typically mature after just five years when the full balance becomes due immediately.
Its common practice for banks to refinance such loans when they come due. But banks have become increasingly reluctant to do that because of pressure from regulators to clean up their balance sheets, said Rolfs.
"A lot of these loans were given when the properties were evaluated at a certain level in 2005 or 2006," Rolfs said. "Banks have had to reappraise the value of these properties, whether it's a church or a commercial office building. Values have gone down, so the loans cannot continue in the same form."
The factors leading to the boom in church foreclosures will sound familiar to many private homeowners evicted from their properties in recent years.
During the property boom, many churches took out additional loans to refurbish or enlarge, often with major lenders or with the Evangelical Christian Credit Union, which was particularly aggressive in lending to religious institutions.
Then after the financial crash, many churchgoers lost their jobs, donations plunged, and often, so did the value of the church building.
Solid Rock Christian Church near Memphis, Tennessee, took out a $2.9 million loan with the Evangelical Christian Credit Union at the beginning of 2008, to construct a new, 2,000 seat, 34,000 square-foot building to house its growing congregation.
In the middle of construction, the economy crashed. The church raided its savings to finish the project, but ended up defaulting on the loan.
The ECCU foreclosed and put the church up for auction.
"We are still fighting this," a church spokesman told Reuters. "We have filed for bankruptcy to stop this foreclosure and to restructure our debt."
At the iconic Charles Street African American Episcopal Church in Boston, Massachusetts, churchgoers and clergy accuse the bank of being unwilling to negotiate.
The church is being threatened with foreclosure and a March 22 auction by its lender OneUnited bank, America's largest black-owned bank.
The bank says the church, which was founded in 1818 and played a major role in the anti-slavery movement, has defaulted on a $1.1 million balloon loan that came due in December 2011.
A balloon loan is a long-term loan, often a mortgage, that has a large, or balloon, payment due upon maturity. They often have very low interest payments and require little capital outlay during the life of the loan due to the large end payment.
The church is also involved in separate litigation with OneUnited involving a 2006 loan of $3.6 million that financed the refurbishment of two buildings into a community center.
"We want to refinance and we want to pay. It's doable, we have the means to do it but we can only do it if they actually sit down and talk to us," said the Rev. Gregory G. Groover Snr, the church's pastor.
Groover said the church did not default by missing monthly payments, but is in trouble because the loan ballooned.
"We don't have a million dollars to pay off the loan. I don't know what church does. The idea of auctioning off a church is senseless," he said.
In a statement provided to Reuters, OneUntied said it was not its practice to discuss the details of "any discreet customer relationship".
"It is not the practice of the Bank to exercise collection remedies including foreclosure in the absence of good cause. We trust the community will not rush to judgment without full knowledge of all the facts," it said.
Axel Adams, an Atlanta, Georgia official with the Rainbow PUSH coalition, the civil rights and economic justice organization led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, said he had seen a "tremendous increase" in churches facing foreclosure.
"And some pastors have not notified their congregants," Adams said. "They are fearful that if they do, they will lose congregants prematurely."
Flat Rock Church in Lithonia, Georgia, which dates back to 1860, took out an $850,000 balloon loan with Sun Trust Bank in 2005 to fund a new 300-seat church.
In May 2010 the loan became due. The bank foreclosed and the church is due to be auctioned off next month.
"The bank has refused to negotiate and to this day I just don't know why," said Binita Miles, the church pastor.
A spokesman for Sun Trust said: "We view foreclosure as an action of last resort. We have been working for several years to address the issue with the client in hopes of avoiding foreclosure."
There are more than 300,000 churches in the United States.
"The church foreclosure market isn't anything extraordinary," said Rolfs. "It's simply another byproduct of the credit bubble."


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LIMA, Peru — Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the brutal Shining Path insurgency in Peru who was captured in 1992, died on Saturday in a military hospital after an illness, the Peruvian government said.
Guzmán, 86, died at 6:40 a.m. after suffering from an infection, Justice Minister Aníbal Torres said.
Guzmán, a former philosophy professor, launched an insurgency against the state in 1980 and presided over numerous car bombings and assassinations in the years that followed. Guzmán was captured in 1992 and sentenced in life in prison for terrorism and other crimes.
The Shining Path "murdered thousands of innocents and undermined the peace of the country. We do not forget the horror of that time, and his death will not erase his crimes," Economy Minister Pedro Francke said.
Guzmán preached a messianic vision of a classless Maoist utopia based on pure communism, considering himself the "Fourth Sword of Marxism" after Karl Marx, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Mao Zedong.
He advocated a peasant revolution in which rebels would first gain control of the countryside and then advance to the cities.
Guzmán's movement declared armed struggle on the eve of Peru's presidential elections in May 1980, the first democratic vote after 12 years of military rule.
Throughout the 1980s, the man known to his followers as Presidente Gonzalo built up an organization that grew to 10,000 armed fighters before his capture inside a Lima safehouse in September 1992 by a special intelligence group of the Peruvian police backed by the United States. Since then, he was housed in a military prison on the shores of the Pacific that was built to hold him.
By the time Guzmán called for peace talks a year after his arrest, guerrilla violence had claimed tens of thousands of lives in Peru, displaced at least 600,000 people and caused an estimated $22 billion in damage.
A truth commission in 2003 blamed the Shining Path for more than half of nearly 70,000 estimated deaths and disappearances caused by various rebel groups and brutal government counterinsurgency efforts between 1980 and 2000.
Yet it lived on in a political movement formed by Guzmán's followers that sought amnesty for all "political prisoners," including the Shining Path founder. The Movement for Amnesty and Fundamental Right failed, however, to register as a political party in 2012 in the face of fierce opposition from Peruvians with bitter memories of the destruction brought by the Shining Path.
In its songs and slogans, the Shining Path celebrated bloodletting, describing death as necessary to "irrigate" the revolution.
Its militants bombed electrical towers, bridges and factories in the countryside, assassinated mayors and massacred villagers. In the insurgency's later years, they targeted civilians in Lima with indiscriminate bombings.
For 12 years, Peruvian authorities could not crack the Shining Path's ranks, organized in a near-impenetrable vertical cell structure. Guzman was nearly captured at a safehouse in Lima in June 1990, but slipped away.
A January 1991 police raid in Lima found a videotape showing Guzman and other rebel leaders mourning at the funeral of his wife, Augusta La Torre, known as "Comrade Norah." About 15 years Guzman's junior, La Torre was No. 2 in the Shining Path's command structure before dying under mysterious circumstances in 1988.
Analysts believe she may have been murdered or forced to commit suicide over an internal political dispute.
The video showed a portly Guzmán, wearing thick glasses and snapping his fingers as he drunkenly danced to music from the 1960s movie Zorba the Greek. It was the first image Peruvians had seen of him since a mug shot taken during a 1978 arrest.
After La Torre died, she was replaced as No. 2 by Elena Iparraguirre, alias "Comrade Miriam," who later also became Guzmán's wife.
Guzmán married Iparraguirre in 2010 at the maximum-security prison inside the naval base in Lima where he was serving a life term. Iparraguirre, also captured in 1992, was brought from the women's prison for the ceremony.
Guzmán was initially sentenced to life imprisonment by a secret military tribunal, but Peru's top court ruled in 2003 that the original sentencing was unconstitutional and ordered a new trial. He also received a life sentence at the 2006 retrial.
The Shining Path was severely weakened after Guzmán's capture and his later calls for peace talks. Small bands of rebels have nevertheless remained active in remote valleys, producing cocaine and protecting drug runners.
Guzmán was born the illegitimate son of a prosperous trader in Tambo, Arequipa, in Peru's southern Andes on Dec. 3, 1934.
He studied law and philosophy at the University of San Agustin in Arequipa, where he wrote two graduate theses: "The Theory of Space in Kant" and another on law titled "The Democratic-Bourgeois State."
"Mr. Guzmán was an extraordinarily brilliant man, very studious, very disciplined," recalled Miguel Rodriguez Rivas, one of his professors.
Guzmán took a teaching job in 1963 at the state University of San Cristobal de Huamanga in Ayacucho, an impoverished central Andean capital neglected for centuries by Peru's traditional power elite in coastal Lima.
In Ayacucho, he joined the pro-Chinese Bandera Roja political party, or "Red Flag," becoming head of its "military commission" and visiting China in 1965.
Later returning to Ayacucho, Guzmán discovered that political rivals had expelled him from the party and he formed his own splinter group.
A descendant of the white elite that had governed Peru since the Spanish destroyed the Inca empire nearly 500 years earlier, Guzmán recruited the sons and daughters of Quechua-speaking indigenous peasants as he gradually took control of the university.
During the 1970s, his student followers spanned out into the countryside to conduct detailed studies of communities that would be used years later to consolidate guerrilla control in the zone.
Over 10 years, Guzmán patiently planned before launching his war on what he characterized as Peru's "rotten and antiquated" state, taking the government by surprise.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Since the very early days of Java (and C-like languages overall), the canonical way to start your program has been something like this:
public class A { public static void main(String[] args) { new A().run(args); } public void run(String[] args) { // Your application starts here } }
If you are still doing this, I'm here to tell you it's time to stop.
Letting go of 'new'
First, install Guice in your project:
<dependency> <groupId>com.google.inject</groupId> <artifactId>guice</artifactId> <version>3.0</version> </dependency>
and then, modify your main method as follows:
public class A { public static void main(String[] args) { Injector.getInstance(A.class).run(args); } }
So, what does this buy you exactly?
You will find a lot of articles explaining the various benefits of Guice, such as being able to substitute different environments on the fly, but I'm going to use a different angle in this article.
Let's start by assuming the existence of a Config class that contains various configuration parameters. I'll just hardcode them for now and use fields to make the class smaller:
public class Config { String host = "com.example.com"; int port = 1234; }
This class is a singleton, it is instantiated somewhere in your main class and not used anywhere else at the moment. One day, you realize you need this instance in another class which happens to be deep in your runtime hierarchy, which we will call Deep. For example, if you put a break point in the method where you need this config object, your debugger would show you stack frames similar to this:
com.example.A.main() com.example.B.f(int, String) com.example.C.g(String) com.example.Deep.h(Foo, int)
The easy and wrong way to solve this problem is to make the Config instance static on some class (probably A) and access it directly from Deep. I'm hoping I don't need to explain why this is a bad idea: not only do you want to avoid using statics, but you also want to make sure that each object is exposed only to objects that need them, and making the Config object static would make your instance visible to your entire code base. Not a good thing.
The second thought is to pass the object down the stack, so you modify all the signatures as follows:
com.example.A.main() com.example.B.f(int, String, Config) com.example.C.g(String, Config) com.example.Deep.h(Foo, int, Config)
This is a bit better since you have severely restricted the exposure of the Config object, but note that you are still making it available to more methods than really need to: B#f and C#g have really nothing to do with this object, and a little sting of discomfort hits you when you start writing the Javadoc:
public class C { ... /** * @param config This method doesn't really use this parameter, * it just passes it down so Deep#h can use it. */ public void g(String s, Config config) {
Unnecessary exposure is actually not the worst part of this approach, the problem is that it changes all these signatures along the way, which is certainly undesirable in a private API and absolutely devastating in a public API. And of course, it's absolutely not scalable: if you keep adding a parameter to your method whenever you need access to a certain object, you will soon be dealing with methods that take ten parameters, most of which they just pass down the chain.
Here is how we solve this problem with dependency injection (performed by Guice in this example, but this is applicable to any library that implements JSR 330, obviously):
public class Deep { @Inject private Config config;
and we're done. That's it. You don't need to modify the Config class in any way, nor do you need to make any change in any of the classes that separate Deep from your main class. With this, you have also minimized the exposure of the Config object to just the class that needs it.
Injecting right
There are various ways you can inject object into your class but I'll just mention the two that, I think, are the most important. I just showed "field injection" in the previous paragraph, but be aware that you can also prefer to use "constructor injection":
public class Deep { private final Config config; @Inject public Deep(Config config) { this.config = config; }
This time, you are adding a parameter to the constructor of your Deep class (which shouldn't worry you too much since you will never invoke it directly, Guice will) and you assign the parameter to the field in the constructor. The benefit is that you can declare your field final. The downside, obviously, is that this approach is much more verbose.
Personally, I see little point in final fields since I have hardly ever encountered a bug that was due to accidentally reassigning a field, so I tend to use field injection whenever I can.
Taking it to the next level
Obviously, the kind of configuration object I used as an example if not very realistic. Typically, a configuration will not hardcode values like I did and will, instead, read them from some external source. Similarly, you will want to inject objects that can't necessarily be instantiated so early in the lifecycle of your application, such as servlet contexts, database connections, or implementations of your own interfaces.
This topic itself would probably cover several chapters of a book dedicated to dependency injection, so I'll just summarize it: not all objects can be injected this way, and one benefit of using a dependency injection framework in your code is that it will force you to think about what life cycle category your objects belong to. Having said that, if you want to find out how Guice can inject objects that get created at a later time in your application life cycle, look up the Javadoc for the Provider class.
Wrapping up
I hope this quick introduction to dependency injection piqued your interest and that you will consider using it in your project since it has so much more to offer than what I described in this post. If you want to learn more, I suggest starting with the excellent Guice documentation.


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Research Summary
The goal of my research program is to translate findings from cognitive and affective neuroscience into interventions that target transdiagnostic mechanisms underpinning substance use disorders, emotion dysregulation, and chronic pain syndromes. My treatment development research is focused on Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement, a novel therapy that unites mindfulness training, CBT, and principles from positive psychology into an integrative intervention for addiction and chronic pain.
- PhD, with distinction, Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Project: Biopsychosocial assessment of a mindfulness-oriented cognitive intervention for alcohol dependence
- MSW, Social Work, West Virginia Univesity
- BA, magna cum laude, Psychology, minors Anthropology & Religious Studies, University of Delaware
Dr. Eric Garland, PhD, LCSW is Distinguished Endowed Chair in Research, Associate Dean for Research, and Professor in the University of Utah College of Social Work, Director of the Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development (C-MIIND), and Associate Director of Integrative Medicine in Supportive Oncology and Survivorship at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Dr. Garland is the developer of an innovative, multimodal mindfulness-based intervention founded on insights derived from cognitive, affective, and neurobiological science, called Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE). As Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator, he has received over $65 million in research grants from a variety of prestigious entities including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to conduct translational research on biopsychosocial mechanisms implicated in stress and health, including randomized controlled trials of MORE as a treatment for prescription opioid misuse and chronic pain conditions. In recognition of his national expertise in mindfulness research, in 2019 Dr. Garland was appointed by NIH Director Francis Collins to the Multidisciplinary Working Group of the NIH HEAL (Helping to End Addiction in the Long Term) Initiative. Dr. Garland served as past Chair of the Research Working Group of the national Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health. Dr. Garland has had over 185 scientific articles and book chapters published in respected, peer-reviewed outlets, and he currently serves as Associate Editor for the journal Mindfulness. To complement his expertise in clinical research, Dr. Garland is a licensed psychotherapist (LCSW) with more than a decade of clinical experience working with persons suffering from addictive behaviors, mood disorders, traumatic stress, chronic pain, and psychosomatic conditions. He has provided mindfulness-based therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and clinical hypnosis for these patients across a wide range of integrative medicine and mental health settings.
Selected Works
Garland, E.L., Atchley, R.M., Hanley, A.W., Zubieta, J.K. & Froeliger, B. (2019). Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement remediates hedonic dysregulation in opioid users: Neural and affective evidence of target engagement. Science Advances. Vol. 5.
Published, 10/16/2019.
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Garland, E.L., Brintz, C.E., Hanley, A.W., Roseen, E.J., Atchley, R.M., Gaylord, S.A., Faurot, K., Yaffe, J., Fiander, M. & Keefe, F.J. (2019). Mind-body therapies for opioid-treated pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis of mental techniques to improve clinical pain and opioid-related outcomes. JAMA Internal Medicine.
Published, 11/04/2019.
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Garland, E.L. , Hanley, A.W., Riquino, M.R., Reese, S.E., Baker, A.K., Salas, K., Yack, B.P., Bedford, C.E., Bryan, M.A., Atchley, R.M., Nakamura, U., Froeliger, B. & Howard, M.O. (2019). Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement reduces opioid misuse risk via analgesic and positive psychological mechanisms: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Published, 10/2019.
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Garland EL, Hanley AW, Kline A & Cooperman NA (2019). Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement reduces opioid craving among individuals with opioid use disorder and chronic pain in medication assisted treatment: Ecological momentary assessments from a stage 1 randomized controlled trial. Drug and alcohol dependence. Vol. 203, 61-65.
Published, 09/01/2019.
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Garland EL, Trøstheim M, Eikemo M, Ernst G & Leknes S (2019). Anhedonia in chronic pain and prescription opioid misuse. Psychological medicine. 1-12.
Published, 08/19/2019.
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Garland E., Baker A., Larsen P., Riquino M., Priddy S., Thomas E., Hanley A., Galbraith P., Wanner N. & Nakamura Y. (2017). Randomized Controlled Trial of Brief Mindfulness Training and Hypnotic Suggestion for Acute Pain Relief in the Hospital Setting. (pp. 1106-1113). Vol. 32, Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Published, 10/01/2017.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28702870/ - Garland EL, Bryan CJ, Nakamura Y, Froeliger B & Howard MO (2017). Deficits in autonomic indices of emotion regulation and reward processing associated with prescription opioid use and misuse. Psychopharmacology. Vol. 234, 621-629. Published, 12/01/2017.
- Garland, E.L. (2016). Targeting hedonic dysregulation with Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement: Restructuring reward mechanisms in addiction, stress, and pain. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1373, 25-37. Published, 07/04/2016.


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Although digital currencies have shown a substantial amount of progress over the past few years, recent volatility in the crypto world is giving skeptics more reason to stay doubtful.
While we have seen a consistent stream of innovation with new currencies, particularly in the past 18 months, there are now more than 800 of them that have been pronounced dead. This means that the coins have no value, trading at less than 1 cent. Most commonly the failure of these coins is due to their lack of integrity — being a scam or a joke — or because the product did not materialize. Many of the obsolete cryptocurrencies are listed on the website Dead Coins, which describes itself as a "strategic partnership to clean up crypto." Coinopsy is another site that has reported dead coins. When considering reports from both sources, the number of dead projects accumulates into the thousands, with reasons ranging from true abandonment to outright scams.
A process called an initial coin offering (ICO) can create new digital tokens. In this process, a start-up can issue a new currency that is available for purchase by investors. While the investor does not obtain an equity stake in the company, the purchased cryptocurrency can be used on the product of the company. Since the coins are cheap while holding potential for substantial returns down the line, people often buy into an ICO.
By their very nature, ICOs are highly risky. Moreover, these kinds of investments have been riddled with fraud. Just in 2018, a scam ICO called Giza was reported by CNBC. It was a fake startup that ran off with $2 million in investor money, giving plenty of fuel to skeptics to continue to doubt the legitimacy of this industry.
It is important to keep in mind that everyone expects the startups to fail. The problem is the massive amount of cash that floods into these projects before they are ready — this is the primary cause for concern. When startups receive more fuel than they can keep up with, the resulting conflagration ultimately consumes both the company and the founders, which is not helpful to the investors in return.
The conflagrations are, unfortunately, a global phenomenon. In 2017 alone, dead ICOs and scams raised $1 billion, and nearly 300 startups had been marked as questionable. The lock-ups and pricing scams within the ICO market are using greed rather than rational thinking, and are hurting the industry more than helping it. In the end, it is crucial to invest only what you can afford to lose and expect any token that you invest in to fail. Then if it succeeds, you will be pleasantly surprised, and if it fails, you will avoid devastation.
Even Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization or value, has had a tough year.
Although it hit a record high of nearly $20,000 last year, it has since decreased by nearly 70%, according to data from CoinDesk. While Bitcoin is still among the stronger of coins, many others have not been as fortunate. To note are five of the greatest failures in cryptocurrency history thus far.
SpaceBit has long held the status of one of the most ambitious cryptocurrency projects thus far. And perhaps rightly so, as this is the company that wanted to launch several "nano-satellites" into orbit to provide a globally-accessible blockchain, which would be used for the storage of Bitcoin as well as helping unbanked regions access financial services. This announcement attracted much attention and enthusiasm from the public, gaining massive support behind them. However, the project ultimately disappeared. There was never any prototype or proof-of-concept, and eventually, all talk about SpaceBIT faded out completely. Supposedly the team behind SpaceBIT is now completely focused on a new project called BlockVerify, so SpaceBIT has been put on the shelf for good.
Originally branded as "Gems" but now named "GetGems," this was a social networking platform that uses cryptocurrency to pay members that view advertisements within the app. Having made grand claims in 2014 about disrupting social media, the result was somewhat disappointing with an underwhelmingly low crowdsale that year. Since then, GetGems has been overtaken by competitors, but they are still running; they have seen the most success in the country of Uzbekistan, ranking in 63rd place among apps.
Although this cryptocurrency began as a joke, it quickly evolved into a success with a passionate community behind it that became known for donating to charity with DOGE. After a successful streak, the Dogecoin collapsed. To make matters worse, founder Alex Green had disappeared with everyone's money, shutting down the exchange. This led to the crashing of DOGE and disbandment of its community.
Launched in 2014, PayCoin grew to be one of the largest cryptocurrencies worldwide by market capitalization. The coin's white paper presented a vision for new variations of blockchain technology that would produce a new breed of cryptocurrency. However, it quickly became evident that the coin would not live up to this vision when its founder converted PayCoin into a generic altcoin clone, which made it easier to push onto the market faster. As it lacked follow-through, people ultimately lost faith in the coin. By 2015, GAW shut down entirely and faced a federal investigation, with its founder fleeing the United States.
Taking first place in cryptocurrency failure is the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), an Ethereum-based coin. While its beginnings were met with great enthusiasm, including large purchases of the token, one incident had changed the entire course of this currency transactions. When an attacker exploited a vulnerability in the DAO smart contract, this led to a loss of more than $50 million. After information about the attack became well known, the token became abandoned by traders, throwing it into a downward spiral.
There has been intense pressure and skepticism placed on the crypto world, perpetuated by consistent news of novel scams or unsuccessful coins. However, optimism for the industry remains strong. Proponents of crypto expect regulators to learn to be more favorable towards the field, which could boost participation in the market. Similarly, there is a lot of optimism for the future of ICOs as an alternative to initial public offerings and venture capital funding. It is true that many coins have not survived, but there are also many coins that have. Every impactful innovation has its trials and tribulations, but that does not mean that it cannot evolve into a success that improves the way we live our lives.
"This article was originally published at MintDice"


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Fire accidents are the worst kind of man-made hazards that cause severe damages and unbearable loss of live and property thus, in order to stop or control such fire accidents, we, Jyoti Industries, are here to provide you with an ultra modern range of Fire Fighting Equipment and Systems. Our offered range consists of Fire Extinguisher, Fire Alarm System, Fire Hydrant System, Fire Bucket, Sprinkler and many more. During the engineering of these goods quality is never compromised by our professionals.
Installation of Fire Fighting Equipment is a necessity today, as with the efficient use of the equipment on time fire can be easily controlled through which one can save hundreds of life. From homes to schools, airports, corporate, malls, colleges to hospitals fire fighting equipment is needed everywhere. Fire Audit and Fire NOC Installation services are also given by us to all our esteem clientele. By serving all our clients in an appropriate manner we have gained respect as a Manufacturer, Trader and Service Provider.
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Preparing and Planning a Web Site Using Dreamweaver
What You'll Do
Begin with a Plan
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You might have heard the expression: A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. While that makes perfect sense, there is one other thing that must be accomplished before taking that fateful step... proper planning.
Attempting to design a complex Web site without proper planning would be akin to taking a trip from New York to California without the benefit of any roadmaps. You might understand that you need to travel in a westerly direction; however, without proper planning, you would probably make a lot of wrong turns before arriving at your final destination. Planning therefore is a fundamental part of any journey, and it's a fundamental part of any Web design project.
Planning for a new Web site involves understanding in two key areas: knowledge of the applications you will be using (the logical side), and knowledge of what direction you want to take this new Web project (the creative side).
Dreamweaver will help any Web design project run more smoothly; whether you are building a Web site from scratch, collaborating with a Web-design team, or anywhere in between. So, before starting the planning process, you need knowledge of Dreamweaver and what's it's capable of doing.
Regardless of the scope of your project, take some time in advance to think through the architecture of your site (the layout structure of the pages as a whole, and the options for navigating the site), develop a look-and-feel (graphic design and interface), and gather the content (the information you want to include on the site pages). When this preliminary work is done, you can plunge into the development, staging, launching, and the very important maintenance of the site.
Creating a comprehensive plan of the project will simplify the process of creating a complex Web site, and like a road map, will help to keep you on track as you make that journey of a thousand miles.


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This website is all about Concord grapes and the products made from them. When we taste something and think, "now that's grape," its flavor came from a Concord grape. Concord grapes are one of only three native North American fruits. Juice made with this delicious and nutritious grape also delivers natural anti-oxidant power over many other 100% juices.
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My Wife Has a Hearing Problem
Fred feared his wife Rhonda wasn't hearing as well as she used to and he thought she might need a hearing aid.
Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family Doctor to discuss the problem.
The Doctor told him there is a simple informal test the husband could perform to give the Doctor a better idea about her hearing loss.
'Here's what you do,' said the Doctor, 'stand about 40 feet away from her, and in a normal conversational speaking tone see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and so on until you get a response.'
That evening, the wife is in the kitchen cooking dinner, and he was In the den. He says to himself, 'I'm about 40 feet away, let's see what happens.' Then in a normal tone he asks, 'Honey, what's for dinner?'
No response.
So the husband moves closer to the kitchen, about 30 feet from his wife and repeats, 'Rhonda, what's for dinner?' Still no response.
Next he moves into the dining room where he is about 20 feet from his Wife and asks, 'Honey, what's for dinner?'
A gain he gets no response.
So, he walks up to the kitchen door, about 10 feet away. 'Honey, what's for dinner?'
Again there is no response.
So he walks right up behind her. 'Rhonda, what's for dinner?'
'Damn it, Fred, for the fifth time, it is chicken!'


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How to set up QoS for VOIP in TD-8816/8817,TD-W8961ND/W8951ND/W8151N/W8901G/W8901N
Please make sure Internet is OK first, and then configure QoS as below:
Here is a typical topology for a small home network, please follow the steps to make the voice data have the highest priority for the whole network.
Configuration for QoS:
Step 1 Open your browser and enter 192.168.1.1 in your address bar, then press "Enter".
Step 2 Enter the username and password of your modem. By default it will be Username: "admin" and Password: "admin" or if you have changed this, please enter the new username and password.
Step 3 Click on "Advanced Setup" on the top menu and click on "QoS",
Set following parameters as below:
Note:If QoS is applied in some single computer,please set the source IP Address with Subnet Mask or Source MAC address in the rule.
At last click add button to finish adding the rule.
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Skunks In Your Area
There are 10 different species of skunks, however the striped skunk is the most recognizable to us and the most prevalent in North America. Most people repel from skunks the minute they see them, and this can actually increase their chances of getting sprayed. Skunks can spray up to 10 feet. However, skunks are mostly docile creatures, you can sit and watch a skunk pass right in front of you and not be in any danger of getting sprayed at all. Skunks will only spray you if pose a threat to them. If you ever see a skunk turn around, lift its tail, and start stomping its feet, then it is time to run away. Skunks however, only travel about 2 miles from where they set up their den, which is typically near a water source in the area, so if you see a skunk multiple times then it is possible you have a skunk living near you and will see it again many times.
Identifying if Your Yard Has A Skunk
Skunks are very adaptable to the environment they choose to live in, so there are some signs you will see around your home that makes it identifiable that skunk is living near your home:
- Holes: Skunks will leave 3-4 inch diameter holes in the ground in your yard. These holes actually take on a cone shape to them when they burrow. If you have seen these and a skunk many times, you have one living near you.
- Tracks: Sometimes you can even spot their trackers through your yard or flower bed. Skunk tracks have 5 toes on each foot and have claws as well. If you have seen tracks near your home, then you might want to reach out to an animal removal specialist near you.
- Trash Cans: Skunks are omnivores actually. They will eat anything from smaller animals to bugs, to insects, and flowers. So if you see your trash cans in disarray it is not always raccoons who are responsible.
- Smell: Obviously the smell in your home is a great indication you might have a skunk living inside. Skunks can have 2-20 kits (baby skunk) at a time so if you smell something in your home then it is time to get it removed before a bigger problem develops.
Skunk Dangers
Skunks can be cute, however, skunks usually have a lifespan of only 3 years in the wild. This is because they are susceptible on average to lots of other predators bigger then them, being run over, and being killed by humans. Even though skunks seem docile it doesn't mean that there isn't a danger when they move into your home. Skunks can carry diseases and parasites that CAN be transferred to humans and even your pets. Leptosporisis, canine distemper, canine hepatitis, roundworm and rabies. So if you or a family member ever get bitten or attacked by a skunk make sure you go to the emergency room as soon as possible. This is also a great reason to have an wildlife removal specialist that's local to help you with whatever you need when you find out that there might be a skunk in your home.
Skunk Prevention
There are some ways that you can prevent a skunk from coming on your property and not settling down in your home. There are market products like shock fences, and critter sprays and granules you can use, there are some other effective measures you can take that are cost efficient as well:
- Add Light – Skunks do not like light. They can't see very well to begin with and adding light makes it harder for them. Skunks will always prefer a dark location so by adding light around your house you will be able to help prevent a skunk from living in your home.
- Seal Up Your Home: Make sure that outside holes around your home are sealed tightly. If you are unsure about whether something can get in, you can call an animal removal specialist in the area and most do animal proofing.
- Less Attractive Items: garbage, vegetables, fruits, pet food bowls, water bowls, these are all invitations for not only a skunk to come near your home, but also other wildlife animals as well.
- Motion Activated Sprinklers: This is a method that can actually reduce a lot of other wildlife from invading your home and lawn. Motion activated sprinklers will repel animals because it will spray them whenever they are near them. These will make more skittish creatures keep avoiding your home in the future.
Skunk Removal
If you think you have a skunk in your home, then please call us at Animal Wildlife Trackers. We will ensure to remove the skunks and help with whatever damage they might have caused to your home. There is danger to having skunks in your home so if you see any of these signs, or notice an awful odor emanating from your basement or attic please call today!


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This week in America, "Dubya" signed a legislation named the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005, which is a "movie piracy and filtering bill" (according to GovTrack).
Now, I don't mind it being illegal to make distribution copies (ie. not backups in case something should go wrong), but that filtering part of it just makes me mad. I mean, when will it stop? So much for the "land of the free and the home of the brave" when the freedom is ripped from you by means of additional legislation, lawsuits or overzealous politicians, and the brave are just sitting around, waiting for someone else to do something about it.
Quoted from the CNN news story:
The bill gives legal protections to the fledgling filtering technology that helps parents automatically skip or mute sections of commercial movie DVDs. Bush signed it privately and without comment, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.
There goes the artistic freedom out the window along with the actual parenting responsibility of parents. It's simply allowing parents to slack off when it comes to being parents to their children. I mean, for crapping out loud, the movie ratings are there for a reason, right? "Not intended for ages below 18". OK, so don't let your children under 18 watch it, then.
In other political news from the US this week, Gerald Allen (Alabama) wants to ban all books containing subjects about homosexuality as well as books written by homosexual authors. As librarian Donna Schremser points out, this seems to be the beginning of some sort of "though police". Now that's 1984. George Orwell might've been right after all, he just missed the year of the events by a few decades.
By the way, from what I can tell, you can read the entire book 1984 by George Orwell online, and for free. Also, I'd recommend watching the movie with the same name, starring John Hurt ("Alien", "Contact", "Hellboy").


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A question I've had in my head since I first saw screenshots of the display preference pane on the new Retina MBP is this: Can it be made to run with what you could call a 1.0 UI scaling factor (same amount of pixels for the same widget as you'd get on a regular MBP or say, an iMac)?
To clarify, the preference pane appears to allow you to select between several predefined scaling factors from "Like 1920x1200" (UI scaling factor = 1.5) through "Like 1440x900" (UI scaling factor = 2.0) to "Like 1024x640" (UI scaling factor = 2.8125) and there is also a radio button for "Best for Retina display".
Does this radio button for "Best for Retina display" set the UI scaling to 1.0 or does it simply set the scaling to the "default" 2.0?
If the latter, has anyone checked if there's some defaults write com.apple.[...] 1.0
setting available which forces the scaling of the UI to 1.0?
It might not always be a useful mode to run things in but I can see several use cases where it would be very useful for me to be able to set the UI scaling to 1.0 rather than somewhere between 1.5 and 2.8125...


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In cooperation with the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is organizing a comprehensive survey of works by the internationally acclaimed Turner prize-winning photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. A key artist of his generation, Tillmans has subjected decisive aspects of the medium of photography to further development while redefining it as an art form.
Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968) first attracted attention at the beginning of the 1990s, with his apparently mundane pictures of subjects taken from his own surroundings. After studying in Britain, he published photographs in prominent publications such as i-D, Spex and Interview. Today, these pictures are considered trendsetting for the young generation of the 1990s, and raise questions about subcultures and sexual identities.
By turning everyday situations into almost monumental images, Tillmans very strikingly captured the spirit of the times. It soon became evident that his pictures renegotiate photographic conventions and reflect contemporary currents related to culture and identity. Since then, Tillmans has continued his in-depth investigations, expanding the the realm of photography and redefining the very medium as an artform.
Recently Tillmans' art has taken a number of different directions, revolving around various issues, everything from still lifes and modern landscapes to his lifelong interest in astronomy and the night sky. He has also taken his in-depth exploration of abstract photography even further. Tillmans' abstract images are more closley related to the painterly tradition and he researches photography as a self-reflexive medium. Abstract images, such as Freischwimmer and Silver, are made in the darkroom, striking a balance between the deliberate and chance.
Since 1995, Tillmans has been working actively and strategically with the exhibition space, so as to reveal the possibilities and limitations of the space in interplay with the photographs. His installations display a bewildering variety of formats and sizes, ways of composing the hanging of the pictures, and contexts. The exhibition at Moderna Museet should thus be seen as a site-specific installation. In recent years, Tillmans has been travelling the world taking photographs with the general title Neue Welt.
These pictures relate to the new world of markets and trade, to politics and economics, and to the hypermodern. The title also refers to the new digital camera that Wolfgang used to take these pictures, which captures and documents more detail than we can perceive with the naked eye.