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Privacy Policy
| Franklin Covey Co. Privacy Policy
Franklin Covey respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice describes how your personal data is collected, handled, and stored to meet Franklin Covey's protection standards—and to comply with the law.
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Changes to the Privacy Notice and Request for Current Data
This privacy notice was last updated November 4, 2021.
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We also collect, use, and share aggregated data, such as statistical or demographic data, for any purpose. Aggregated data may be derived from your personal data, but is not considered personal data by law, as this data does not reveal your identity, either directly or indirectly. For example, we may aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature; however, if combining aggregated data with your personal data directly or indirectly identifies you, we treat the combined data as personal data, and subject to the terms of this privacy notice.
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We share your personal data within the Franklin Covey Group, requiring the transfer of your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Additionally, many of our external third parties are located outside the EEA, again requiring the transfer of your personal data to allow processing.
Whenever your personal data is transferred outside of the European Economic Area, we ensure a similar degree of protection is implemented using at least one of the following safeguards:
Transfer is allowed only to countries sanctioned by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data.
- Where certain service providers are used, specific contracts provided by the European Commission may be used to ensure personal data will have the same protection as in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model Contracts for the transfer of personal data to third parties.
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Procedures are in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach. You, and if legally required, any applicable regulator, will be notified of a breach.
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Law requires that we keep basic information about our customers (including contact, identity, and transaction data) for six years following the last use of the website and/or services for liability and tax purposes.
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We may anonymize personal data (to remove any association with personal identity) for research or statistical purposes, in which case the information may be used for an indefinite period without further notice to you.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights relating to your personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Click on the following links to find out more about these rights:
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California consumers may designate an authorized agent to exercise their rights on their behalf. If you would like to use an authorized agent registered with the California Secretary of State to exercise these rights, we may request evidence that you have provided such agent with power of attorney or that the agent otherwise has valid written authority to submit requests on your behalf. We will not discriminate against you if you choose to exercise your rights.
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We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally, it may take us longer if your request is particularly complex. In this case, we will notify you and keep you informed.
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Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (either positive or negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law. You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect to specific activities by contacting us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Performance of Contract means processing your data where necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply With a Legal or Regulatory Obligation means processing your personal data where necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Internal Third Parties are other companies in the Franklin Covey Group acting as joint controllers or processors, and who are based in countries around the world. A list of internal third parties is available here: https://www.FranklinCovey.com/About/global-offices.html, and provides IT and system-administration services.


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Well, we've just reached the end of one of the greatest European Championships of all time. And what have UEFA's member countries voted to do: you've guessed it- radically change the format. The Mail on Sunday reports:
"England will have no excuse in future if they repeat their failure to qualify for Euro 2008 after a proposal to extend the European Championship from 16 to 24 teams by 2016 won unanimous approval from UEFA's 53 member countries yesterday. SFA chief executive Gordon Smith said: "We just missed this tournament behind Italy and France but under the proposed new regulations we would have qualified". UEFA president Michel Platini said: "I'm not worried about increasing the number of teams. Countries like England have the quality to take part."
Well, extending the number of teams playing in the European Championship finals may well give England and Scotland a greater chance of qualification, but it's still a lousy idea. A 24-team tournament would mean six groups of four teams, with presumably the last sixteen being made up of the twelve first and second placed teams, together with the four third placed teams with the best record. In other words we'd play two weeks of group matches just to eliminate eight teams. Such a system would encourage negative, defensive football, as teams would probably be able to qualify for the knockout stages with three draws.
Much of the excitement of the final games in the group matches (just think Czech Republic v Turkey) would be lost.
A 24-team tournament would undoubtedly mean a lowering of quality- as well as devaluing the European Championship qualifiers.
It's quite clear that once again, financial -and not sporting considerations are being put first. The more teams in the tournament, the more matches, the more advertising revenue- and the richer everyone gets- so the argument goes. But a 24-team tournament, involving several mediocre teams, is much more likely to be a bore for viewers than a 16-team one, restricted to Europe's best.
The truth is that there is nothing wrong with the current European Championship format, as the last four weeks have shown. To quote a very old adage, which is ignored far too often in these money obsessed times: If it ain't broke, why fix it?


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Democrats in Denver should skip one of their parties and read the American Monetary Act
How are things going at the Democratic Party National Convention in Denver this week? Are they talking about the fact that the Western world is run by an international financial elite headquartered in London, the financial capitals of mainland Europe (such as Frankfurt, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Paris, and Milan), and, of course, New York City?
Are they mentioning at their cocktail parties that the financial elite exert control over the world's population through the cartels that make up the world's producing economies and through the civilian and military bureaucracies who work for the governments that kow-tow to them?
Of course they know that the most important cartels are those which control energy resources. And of these, the commodity of central importance is oil. But is any of this helping them draw conclusions regarding the doubling of oil prices during the last year or about the largest oil company profits in history?
They should be drawing the right conclusions from the fact that every private and pubic enterprise operates on the basis of a money economy, though it would be more accurate to call it a credit economy. This means that whoever controls the issuance of money and credit controls the world. And the world's monetary systems function on the basis of money and credit being introduced into circulation through loans from the banking system, loans for which interest is charged. So what should that tell them?
They should be pointing out to each other and their TV viewers that the charging of interest for the use of money is a chain around the neck of everyone on earth. That these cumulative interest charges are built into the price of every product manufactured or consumed. And that growth of debt means price increases too.
They should be honest in making it clear that the world is a master-slave society: that the slaves are those who borrow and pay interest, that masters are those who collect interest, and that this unjust system has existed in one form or another for thousands of years.
The candidates and delegates are talking about the aspirations of the American people and how everyone should have an opportunity to achieve their dreams. But if the United States were a free nation, they would also be talking about a financial system that destroys people's dreams. Unfortunately, the highest rung the candidates and delegates have been able to reach on the ladder of modern-day slavery is the need for more jobs - but they fail to note that jobs are not only the means by which people live, but also the instruments for them to pay the heavy burden of interest the masters of finance require.
What they won't say is that the world economy is based on usury, something religions used to consider a crime (Islam still does). Usury is the charging of interest for the use of money. As religions backed off from their prohibitions of interest, usury became just excess interest. But that's not what the word really means. What have over two centuries of usury done to the United States?
The best answer ever given to that question was contained in a paper entitled "Revisiting US Public and Private Debt" published in January 2005 by Dr. Bob Blain, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University. The paper updated an earlier study by Dr. Blain published for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the International Social Science Journal, November 1987, Paris, pp. 577-591.
In his paper, Dr. Blain examined the growth of total public and private debt in the US. Total debt includes "the debts of governments (federal, state, and local), corporations, farmers, home mortgages, and consumer, commercial, and financial debts." Dr. Blain began with data from the Bureau of Economic Analyses of the United States Department of Commerce which covered the years 1916-1976. After that year the Bureau stopped publishing the data.
The figures showed that from 1916-1976, total US debt grew from $82 billion to $3,800 billion ($3.8 trillion). But most of that growth was during the last 21 years, from 1955-1976, when it began to grow exponentially. Dr. Blain wrote, "The consistency of the pattern suggests that some imperative is at work, something that requires debt to increase." Dr. Blain found the answer by researching American history. He wrote: "Then I read G.R. Taylor's 1950 book, Hamilton and the National Debt, which described the debate over Alexander Hamilton's plan to fund the new economy with borrowed money."
He continued: "The most revealing account was a speech by the first congressman from Georgia, James Jackson, on February 9, 1790, in which he predicted that adoption of Hamilton's funding plan would lead to the explosive growth of debt. Jackson said, 'Though our present debt be but a few millions, in the course of a single century it may be multiplied to an extent we dare not think of.'" (Annals of Congress, Vol. I, February 1790, pp. 1141-2)
{NB Alexander Hamilton is the hero of the Larouche movement}
From the very beginning, the US had a monetary system based on borrowing and debt. First came the thousands of state chartered banks that began operating late in the Revolutionary War period and continued in one form or another until today. Then there were the two early central banks: the First Bank of the United States (1791-1811) and the Second Bank of the United States (1816-1836). Today's national banking system began during the Civil War with the National Banking Acts of 1863-64. Then there is the system we are living under today, the Federal Reserve, chartered by Congress in 1913. Even during the times when the government has sold its debt directly to the public, as with war bonds, savings bonds, and Treasury notes and bills, that too has been money borrowed at interest.
Although there have been times in history when money entered into circulation other than through debt, such as with coinage and the Civil War greenbacks, those were exceptions and today are of little importance. Dr. Blain estimated that from the time Alexander Hamilton placed the US under a debt-based monetary system until today, the debt has compounded at 5.8 percent annually. The big problem with this system, he said, was "that no money was created to pay interest."
He continued: "Loans created only the principal. Interest had to be paid out of principal. So payment of interest reduced the money supply and slowed economic activity. Recovery could come only when new loans were taken out at least equal to interest paid." Dr. Blain concluded, "As long as the money supply of a nation is created as debt costing interest, debt must grow by compound interest." From a longer-range view, it's a system that is constantly collapsing and that must constantly be bailed out.
Dr. Blain next sought to update his figures past the 1976 data from the Bureau of Economic Analyses. Turning to the Federal Reserve's series on "Total Credit Market Debt Outstanding," he found remarkably similar indicators. He found that adding data from the Federal Reserve from 1945 to 2003 showed the "debt explosion" continuing. In 1945 total debt was $463.4 billion. In 2003 it was $44,967.7 billion ($45.0 trillion). When he projected the debt level for 2010, he arrived at a figure of $74.9 trillion. By this time the debt curve was climbing so steeply there would be almost a doubling of the amount of total debt in only nine years.
It might be argued that these figures do not take into account inflation. This is because lending at interest is the cause of inflation. The dollars still have to be repaid with interest. The problem occurs when economic growth, measured by GDP, does not keep up.
Looking at the growth of GDP from 1945 to 2003, the increase was from $223.1 billion to $10,987.9 billion, a factor of 49. But the debt ($463.4 billion vs. $44,967.7 billion) grew by a factor of 97, almost twice the rate of GDP growth. Thus the total debt burden on the economy has doubled from a ratio of 2:1 to more than 4:1 (though it was much less than that during the early days of the nation).
But with continued compound growth of debt and a slow- or no-growth state of the economy as we head into a recession, we are starting to see what Dr. Blain called an: "acceleration to meltdown." He wrote: "We are buying more and more in the same amount of time. Witness the efforts of people to get rid of their excess through yard sales, storage units, and big trash pickup days, and the massive size of what are euphemistically called landfills. While two billion people in the world lack basics such as clean water, food, and shelter, Americans throw away their microwave ovens, televisions, computers, refrigerators, furniture, and cars. Meanwhile, acceleration is applauded as increasing productivity. It's like arguing that cancer is good because it grows."
These are the things the Democrats in Denver should be talking about, instead of going to so many parties. They should be making note that the US, to quote economists close to the Federal Reserve, is "functionally bankrupt." In fact, the debt this nation owes to the banks, to foreign creditors, and to each other can never be paid off. Further, one big reason for all of our fruitless military endeavors overseas may simply be to escape unpleasant economic realities at home. But this is pointless. Nothing creates more debt than war, as the bankers have always known.
The only solution is to adopt a monetary system that is not based on debt. Dr. Blain makes a couple of specific recommendations: 1) "Stop using percentage rates to calculate charges for the use of money"; and 2) "Congress must supply the economy with a money base that is debt-free and interest-free."
The second point is a call for a new monetary system, not one based solely on lending by the banks or on government borrowing. One organization that has developed a blueprint for such a system is the American Monetary Institute (AMI), headquartered in Chicago. The director of the AMI is Stephen Zarlenga, author of a massive, groundbreaking work: The Lost Science of Money (AMI, 2002). Zarlenga's assistant is Jamie Walton, a monetary reformer from New Zealand.
AMI will be holding its fourth annual conference in Chicago on September 25-28. Expected as keynote speaker is Congressman Dennis Kucinich, whose wife Elizabeth once worked as an intern at AMI. Dr. Bob Blain will be a featured speaker. On the AMI website at www.monetary.org is a remarkable document, the American Monetary Act. The product of several years of work by Zarlenga and his network, which now includes a number of local chapters around the country, the American Monetary Act would replace today's debt-based monetary system with one where the government spends or loans money directly into circulation.
Under the Act, the Federal Reserve would be retained as a national financial clearinghouse but would no longer be a bank of issue. The system would be overseen by a Monetary Control Board within the US Treasury Department. The Act also includes a provision for a citizens' dividend, similar in some respects to the Alaska Permanent Fund, which would inject desperately needed purchasing power into the economy without additional government debt or taxation.
Also promoting a citizens' dividend, by the way, is Stephen Shafarman in his important new book, Peaceful, Positive Revolution. (Tendril Press, 2008) It's the American Monetary Act the candidates and delegates in Denver should skip one of their parties to read, because it's the only way any of their hopes for America can ever be realized. Says AMI's Jamie Walton: "This is a crucial time. Things are happening. We have got some key media people talking and writing about our kind of reforms. The inertia is starting to yield. Things are starting to roll. The worsening conditions in 2009 will give us a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be heard above the propaganda."
Richard C. Cook is a former US federal government analyst, who served with the US Civil Service Commission, the Carter White House, NASA, and the US Treasury Department. He is a contributor to the American Monetary Act. His book on monetary reform, We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform will soon be published.
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I attended Transportation Camp West in San Francisco as an interested and somewhat informed observer.
OpenPlans — they're the people who initially funded Streetsblog — organized this unconference to bring disparate innovators together to explore the possibilities that current technologies and data sharing philosophies can bring to urban transportation planning.
Information wants to be free
Jay Nath opened Saturday's conference talking about the importance of citizen participation in collaborative planning. His mission as Director of Innovation for the City & County of San Francisco is working toward standardizing and opening all non-confidential publicly-owned data.
Nash's open data philosophy stands in sharp contrast to the status quo in most local and state governments. They own huge datasets that the public has already paid for, then charge private individuals again when they request this data. This lack of access and proprietary data formats hinders innovation, innovation that can help public agencies to serve their constituencies while also lowering their costs in providing these services.
Nash's message to the audience: "Push your elected officials and let them know open data is important. Ask your representatives in city governments to show up these kinds of conferences."
Case Study: San Luis Obispo GIS
Michael Mottman with the San Luis Obispo Council of Governments (SLOCOG, the planning organization for SLO County), has been transcribing bike facility project geographical data into a central county database. The county has something like $100 million on their bike facility wishlist, but only $4 million to allocate toward these projects. Mottman wanted suggestions on how to present this data to the public to (1) determine how to prioritize the money and (2) gauge interest in a possible transportation tax for the county to fund these and other these transpo projects. In other words, what tools are available to help with project visualizations, to convert raw geographical data into human understandable drawings?
Several people gave suggestions on specific software products they use to convert GIS shapefiles, but I told Mottman that the county should make the data available for free download and let SLO Bike members know it's there so the cycling advocates can do the advocacy and let the public servants do their job more effectively.
In 2003 I wrote a rudimentary bike routing application for Boulder County, Colorado. The county itself makes GIS shapefiles available for free download, but at the time all Boulder County cities charged for their bike path data, so I gave up on the project. Two years later, the city of Boulder spent $150,000 to develop their own bike routing application that only works within the city of Boulder. They could've had a county-wide app for free from me if only the data was free!
At the risk of snubbing some people…
I have much more to write, but in the meantime here's a shoutout to the people I met at Transportation Conference West: Damien Newton of Streetsblog LA, Matt Nelson of California Streets, Steve Vance from Chicago, Claire Fliesler the Santa Cruz Metro intern who says she sees me on the bus all the time, Stephen Villavaso of the LA County Bike Coalition, Robin Urban Smith of Streetfilms, Tom Ayres of the East Bay Bicycle Coalition, Alison Cantor of Cascade Bicycle Coalition, Chris Smith with his Transit Appliance, Googler Erick Fischer who does those ultra cool Flickr visualizations and Andrew Casteel who's working to "gamify public transit."
Greetings to the swarms of engineers from Google who attended (and thanks for lunch as well!), Bing / Microsoft mapping product manager Maryam Gholami, Ian White (CEO of Urban Mapping) and Steven Coast (founder of the OpenStreetMap project and whose current project is Transit RSS, an effort to build an open transit specification so developers, agencies, and users can all use a common dataset for real time transit information. There's much interest in this — currently, every agency has their poorly documented proprietary data formats that consumers (e.g. mobile apps that display train arrival times) must reverse engineer and then convert.
Hello also to familiar Bay Area bike people Jym Dyer and Carlos Babcock. Thank you especially to Tom for the shared ride to San Francisco.
Finally, howdy to Sabrina Merlo of OpenPlans who took and posted my photo to the Transportation Camp website.


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Mar 21, 2014
March is National Social Work Month and social workers across the U.S. are celebrating this year with the theme "All People Matter."
Social workers help people overcome life's most difficult challenges: mental illness, addiction, poverty, discrimination, abuse, physical illness, divorce, loss, unemployment, educational problems and disability. They help prevent crises and counsel individuals, families and communities to cope more effectively with the stresses of everyday life. Social workers focus on improving individual well-being in the context of family and other social structures, such as work and community.
The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs of those who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty. Clinical social workers are the largest group of professionally trained mental health providers in the United States, rendering the majority of counseling and psychotherapy services in the country. There are more clinically trained social workers—over 200,000—more than psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric nurses combined. Federal law recognizes social work as one of five core mental health professions. Social workers are highly trained and experienced professionals. Only those who have earned social work degrees at the bachelor's, master's or doctoral levels—and completed a minimum number of hours in supervised fieldwork—are professional social workers.
Social workers are employed in mental health clinics, schools, hospitals, homeless shelters, senior centers, universities, social service agencies, and the military. They can be found in all levels of leadership in the non-profit, for-profit and government sectors, including state and federal elected office.
Since the profession began over 100 years ago, social workers have been leaders in social reform movements in the United States. They continue to address the needs of society and bring our nation's social problems to the public's attention. Social workers were instrumental in the civil rights movement, the establishment of Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, efforts to ensure humane treatment for people with mental illness and developmental disabilities, and on-going efforts to expand health care access for all.
I'm honored to belong to a profession that recognizes that all people matter. I hope you'll join me in celebrating the dedication of social workers throughout our nation.
Angelo McClain is the chief executive officer of the National Association of Social Workers. For more information about social workers, visit www.socialworkers.org or follow hashtags #SocialWorkMonth and #AllPeopleMatter on Twitter.
NAMI HelpLine is available M-F, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. ET. Call 800-950-6264,
text "helpline" to 62640, or chat online. In a crisis, call or text 988 (24/7).


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A metal plating business in Massachusetts has installed a pollution control system that treats the company's wastewater to the point that it is cleaner than most household wastewater.
Absolute Metal Finishing is a metal plating firm that uses large quantities of the heavy metals nickel, chromium, gold, silver and copper, as well as hydrochloric, sulfuric and nitric acids. It is located in an area under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority (MWRA), which has some of the strictest pollution control requirements in the nation. The installation of a microfiltration system has made it possible to meet, and by a large margin, exceed these requirements. As a result, the company is positioned to handle any foreseeable tightening of effluent discharge standards with no additional investment.
Absolute Metal Finishing, which has been in operation only for 19 months, provides a wide range of metal coating and finishing services, and is capable of plating virtually any metal. Most of the work, however, is carried out on steel and aluminum, and the business has grown rapidly in the short period since startup.
The new company's owners, who had 40 years of combined prior experience in metal finishing, had to make a key decision in determining where to locate their plant. Well aware of the fact that a number of plating companies had been assessed substantial fines for violating effluent limits, they looked at several towns in eastern Massachusetts. They settled on Norwood, a dozen or so miles southwest of Boston, largely because it comes under MWRA control. The Massachusetts Authority had developed regulations that were strict but were well enough defined to avoid misinterpretation. Requirements vary for each type of heavy metal, but generally fall in the area of one part per million (ppm).
A second step was to select an appropriate pollution control system to treat the plant's complex wastewater discharge. This called for careful definition of the objectives. A set of criteria was developed to establish the performance required of both the system purchased and its vendor. The system had to meet the existing and proposed limits of the environmental agencies, had to be easy to operate, service and maintain, had to have expansion capability, and, above all, had to be reliable.
The system's manufacturer would have to have demonstrated through experience in the industry, the ability to design, supply and support such a system, must have a clear understanding of the plating process and the accompanying wastewater considerations, and must understand the importance of furnishing a reliable, low maintenance and affordable wastewater treatment system.
Local Knowledge Aids Decision
With much local knowledge of industrial pollution control installations in the area, the company's owners reviewed a variety of systems from different manufacturers. A design incorporating microfiltration technology offered by Manchester Corporation of Harvard, Massachusetts, was selected, but not before another type of system available from the same supplier was considered.
The second unit was a conventional toxic metals precipitation system, while the equipment selected was based on the membrane filtration process. Advantages and disadvantages of each system were weighed, and treatment requirements, capital costs, operating and maintenance costs, energy requirements, facility needs and reliability were considered. The results of the study pointed to the membrane system as the best choice for the Absolute Metal Finishing project.
The company's coating apparatus is almost entirely automated. Toxic or hazardous materials, largely in the form of metal salts, are produced at nearly every stage of the coating process. Electroless nickel also is found in significant quantities. Three separate waste streams are generated and approximately 60 coating baths can be directed to any one of these streams. Each of them is segregated depending on its contents. In this way the most effective treatment may be applied depending on whether the liquid contains heavy metals or complexing agents like soaps and cleaners, or exhibits low pH, high pH, etc.
Process Arrangement
The liquid wastes from the plating and metal finishing operation flow by gravity to chrome and pH sump tanks. They are then pumped to the chrome reduction and pH adjustment tanks. In the chrome section, acid and bisulfate are added for chrome reduction. The reduced chrome wastes flow by gravity to the pH system where acid or alkali are added to precipitate metals as hydroxides. Adjustment of the pH minimizes solubility of the metals in the effluent. Cyanide rinse water from the copper tank is pumped to a cyanide destruction module, where sodium hypochlorite and pH adjustment bring about oxidation of the cyanides to carbon dioxide and nitrogen, and release the toxic metals as dissolved salts. The treated cyanide wastes flow by gravity to the pH adjustment sump for further treatment. Retention times are over two hours for the cyanide treatment, approximately one hour for the chrome reduction and 40 minutes for pH adjustment.
Adjustment of the pH causes formation of a precipitate which then is concentrated by the microfiltration system. Sludges containing heavy metal hydroxides are returned to the concentrator tank, which is pumped out automatically through a series of time-controlled valves to a holding tank for additional thickening. The "clean water" leaving the microfilter passes through a Parshall flume, where flow rate and final pH are measured and recorded prior to discharge of the effluent to the municipal sewer. Overflow from the sludge tank is directed back to the pH tank. Last, the thickened sludge is transferred to a filter press for dewatering. This step results in a dense filter cake, which is transported away as hazardous waste by a licensed hauler. The filtrate is returned to the pH system for reprocessing.
Once they understood its operation, the environmental authorities were suitably impressed with the performance of the system and provided full cooperation in approving the project. Only three months elapsed from the day of application to the day the required discharge permit was issued. Absolute Metal Finishing's staff began operations on the following day, and from startup the system's performance has been virtually trouble-free. It has demonstrated the ability to process the wastewater from the plating operations to a quality level which is better than the one ppm requirement.


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Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. In March 2014 the multinational corporation consisted of 338,875 employees worldwide and, as of November 2014, is theeleventh-largest company in the world by revenue. Toyota was the largest automobile manufacturer in 2012 (by production) ahead of the Volkswagen Group andGeneral Motors. In July of that year, the company reported the production of its 200-millionth vehicle. Toyota is the world's first automobile manufacturer to produce more than 10 million vehicles per year. It did so in 2012 according to OICA, and in 2013 according to company data. As of July 2014, Toyota was the largest listed company in Japan by market capitalization (worth more than twice as much as #2-ranked SoftBank)[10] and by revenue.
The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 as a spinoff from his father's company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. Three years earlier, in 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product, the Type A engine, and, in 1936, its first passenger car, the Toyota AA. Toyota Motor Corporation produces vehicles under 5 brands, including the Toyota brand, Hino, Lexus, Ranz, and Scion. It also holds a 51.2% stake in Daihatsu, a 16.66% stake in Fuji Heavy Industries, a 5.9% stake in Isuzu, and a 0.27% stake in Tesla, as well as joint-ventures with two in China (GAC Toyota and Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor), one in India (Toyota Kirloskar), one in the Czech Republic (TPCA), along with several "nonautomotive" companies. TMC is part of the Toyota Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world.


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Sierra Leone: Shifting Tide On Abortion Law.
FREETOWN, 27 November 2012 (IRIN) - The new government is responding positively to health workers and youth groups who have long called for a change in the 1861 law banning abortion except in exceptional circumstances.
A draft law which would make abortion legal under certain conditions, is currently waiting to be passed by parliament following the 17 November elections, according to Sas Kargbo, director of Reproductive Health at the Health Ministry.
"The present laws are outdated and violate the rights of the women of Sierra Leone," said Al Saccoh, coordinator of a youth network called the National Youth Coalition of Sierra Leone, adding that the current law contradicts international covenants on human rights that Sierra Leone has signed since 1861.
Campaigners say the unavailability of cheap and safe abortions is leading to severe health risks for women and girls and pushing up the maternal mortality rate.
Brima Kamara, advocacy manager at the Planned Parenthood Association of Sierra Leone, told IRIN: "Because there is no legal framework that gives women the right to choice governing abortion, the present law is killing women."
Sierra Leone has one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates: 890 women die for every 100,000 live births.
It is not clear how many women seek abortions in Sierra Leone each year as so many of them do so clandestinely, but reproductive rights NGO Marie Stopes International estimates at least 40,000 women and girls in Sierra Leone had abortions in 2011.
According to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), some 250,000 children across the globe lose their mothers to abortion-related deaths.
The problem is most women seeking an abortion will turn to uncertified doctors or quacks who perform cheap abortions, as few can afford the SL 200,000 (US$46) fee that a certified doctor would charge.
Methods used by quacks include giving women detergent to swallow, administering high doses of aspirin or antibiotics, or using native roots and herbs, according to Williamson Taylor, a gynaecologist at the Princess Christian maternity hospital in the capital, Freetown.
Taylor said he often tends to patients who have undergone botched abortions. Most of them arrive in a state of severe pain, or have heavy bleeding, or may have infections linked to perforations of the uterus, intestines or abdominal cavity.
"I have performed many surgical operations due to abortion complications in young girls," he told IRIN. "Cassava sticks and other objects that they use to abort a pregnancy are a very crude method and usually perforate the womb or the intestines."
Betty Ranney, a gynaecologist at the Médecins Sans Frontières-run Emergency Unit Hospital in Bo, in south-central Sierra Leone, told IRIN: "In the most severe cases the womb has to be removed altogether, to save the young girls' lives."
Some 4-10 percent of women who have a medical abortion will need to have a surgical procedure following it, to remove the remaining tissue, said Sarah Koroma, delivery manager at the Planned Parenthood Association clinic at West Street in Freetown. Uncertified doctors lack the training or equipment to do this.
But it is hard to find certified doctors who are willing to perform the procedure - many fear legal redress. "The present law does not favour us as qualified doctors. As such, there is constant fear. I perform abortion for humanitarian purposes where the life of the girl or woman is at dire risk. It's important that the present law is reformed to create accessibility to abortion services as a right, without fear," Taylor told IRIN.
Most cases require consent from the partner of the woman, or in the case of a minor, her parents, which puts off many would-be patients.
Reproductive health agencies will also perform abortions if the pregnancy is seen to put the life of the patient at risk. A nurse at one practice told IRIN: "It's not yet legal, so we do it within the parameters of the present law."
Pressure mounting
But pressure among many sections of society is mounting for a change in the law. Many doctors who have experienced first-hand the implications of unsafe abortions support a new law. "We have to give people choice. Sex is an unavoidable thing so we must make it safe for people who want to have an abortion in a country like Sierra Leone," said Taylor.
Ex-Minister of Health and Sanitation Zainab Hawa Bangura would not be pinned down, but told IRIN: "Improvements in laws and policies, and a more responsive approach to the reproductive health needs of women is needed in Sierra Leone."
In a recent county-wide Ministry of Health-led survey of health workers and legal professionals on attitudes to abortion, most respondents favoured a review of the law, calling for the government to liberalize abortion as part of its commitment to reduce maternal mortality rates.
However, many religious leaders are not in favour, and see imminent change as destroying the moral fabric of Sierra Leonean society. A group of Islamic clerics recently came forward to announce they would accept abortion if it took place within the first four months of pregnancy and if the mother's life was in danger.
Family planning
Legalizing abortion, however, is just one step in a much more complicated puzzle, say campaigners and health workers.
Access to family planning services remains very poor for youths, especially girls and women.
Sierra Leone has high teenage pregnancy rates due to poor education standards for girls; initiation rites into secret societies which make even young girls eligible for marriage; high levels of sexual violence; low access to contraception; and low awareness of family planning methods, according to reproductive rights agencies.
A number of agencies (including UNFPA, Marie Stopes, Planned Parenthood, and the UK Department for International Development) are trying to boost access to quality family planning services for Sierra Leoneans of all ages, across the country. UNFPA launched a family planning campaign in July 2012.
But while attitudes towards family planning are shifting, particularly among urban women, say health workers, they will not change their behaviour unless access to services becomes much more readily available. Too often health clinics remain under-stocked, particularly in rural areas.
"The use of contraceptives must be pushed aggressively in Sierra Leone to help reduce the huge number of young girls seeking abortions in secret," concluded Taylor.


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Chaos Tools
Hallo and today we are going to create a design wallpaper using Alchemy as our chaos shapes generator and Photoshop for adjustments and coloring.
So let's start our tutorial from creating several chaotic shapes in Alchemy.
Step 1: Alchemy
Here is Alchemy main screen with working area. This is a very fun to use application, i recommend you to try it. You can download beta 007 on http://al.chemy.org/download
In – CREATE – you can find types of shapes you want to make. Try every shape type to feel the difference. The sub panel shows you all the settings of each shape – you can also modify each setting.
For example I did this shape using type shapes. Note that if you want to use a shape in Photoshop in the future the best choice will be to save (export) it like PNG with transparent background.
As you can see all the shapes react differently – for example this spike shape was created using Detach Shapes.
With Type shapes, line style – set to linear and Displace effect you can create quite interesting shapes.
So remember to save all the shapes as PNGs with transparent background. Note that all my created shapes along with brushes will be in support files folder for this tutorial. This is it for the part we played with Alchemy, now it is time to drop into Photoshop.
First thing you got to do is to create a document – Fill the document with this low contrast yellow color.
Begin to drop down the shapes: each to a separate layer.
Shape 2 is dropped to a layer that is underneath the shape 1 layer.
Shape 3 has different color too and is dropped underneath all the shapes. this is the shape that is on image 05.
Line shapes can be dropped to any layer you want – because the lines don't doo much mess.
Flip to check the composition and drop the next shape we are going to use here – the shape created by Detach Shapes.
Then drop another shape – this is actually shape2 ( the brown one ) with different color. I changed the color using Layer styles.
Create a new layer somewhere in the middle of the entire layer stack. Set the layer Blending mode to Overlay.
Select soft edged standard Photoshop brush. Set the flow jitter to about 3-7%. Pick the color you want to expose – meaning if you want to bring more contrast to yellow pick up yellow. Stick to orange yellow gamma.
Expose the colors:
See those Line shape layers – double click on the layer to enter layer styles. Use drop shadow.
I also have this brush – that is like blood spot brush – let's call it Spot brush. Create a layer underneath the overlay layer (the layer with color) and use Spot brush just once or 2. As the Overlay layer stays upper to the layer. We will use the color effect that will affect all the layers underneath.
The next brush I'm going to use is the Whirl brush. Here are the settings – some settings. You will have the brush as support file and test is for yourself.
Here is the brush action. I also done and overlay with color attached to soft brush.
See the brush direction right here.
Ok, the next thing to do is to put some text there. Here is the text – is says CHAOS TOOL. The one that is CHAOS has some effects on it; I've done those using layer styles.
The bevel and emboss:
The inner shadow.
The lower TOOL line from the next – is colored orange.
Select all the shape 2 – the one that was brown in the very beginning. Create a new layer on the top, but lower than the texts. Use Techno round brush within the selection.
The final step is to use this very brush in this direction. Create a layer underneath all. As it stays underneath the color overlay layer the effect of the color affects it too.
…And this concludes our tutorial on design wallpaper. Hope you found something new for you.
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The SECRET for Undetectable Mind Control
Unless you understand how reality is manifested, your destiny and the destiny of the planet will be in the hands of the ruling Elite who do understand it.
"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth, because they don't want their illusions destroyed." -Friedrich Nietzsche
Living in the third dimension can be a blissful experience when you have power, health, wealth, comforts and freedom.
That's what the ruling Elite have manifested for themselves while the rest of the world struggles with poverty, disease, drug dependency, debt and servitude.
The ultimate goal of the Illuminati is not only one world government. It is complete mastery over the 3rd dimension of time and space.
Notice how successful they have been at manifesting a Utopian 3rd dimension for themselves – money, yachts, private jets, castles, resorts, racehorses, corporations, gold, gems, servants and everything they desire.
You are part of their manifestation. You and the rest of the world are literally at their feet. How did they do it? With their knowledge of the tools of Creation and Universal Laws.
The Universal Law of Attraction
What do you think about? The answer is revealed by the life that you lead. If you think your life is miserable or great, you are right. Life is whatever you think it is. The same is true for the state of the world. It is what humanity collectively thinks it is. Energy and all forms of matter attract like-vibrational energy. Our thoughts are energy magnets. They attract whatever we point them at.
"Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics." -Albert Einstein/Bashar (debatable)
"Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6 and 8 hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain's alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between 6 and 8 hertz. Thus, our entire biological system – the brain and the earth itself – work on the same frequencies. If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of humankind." -Nikola Tesla
Your thoughts are living things. When you step into a room full of people, you can sense the living atmosphere created by the collective thought waves of the people in the room. You may sense a calm or a tense atmosphere.
John F. Kennedy talked about the Illuminati – 'a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy' that rules the world. April 27, 1961The collective thought waves of the 7 billion people on Planet Earth also create an atmosphere and it affects everyone either consciously or unconsciously. Like the Borg in Star Trek, you can tune into this "collective consciousness" and broadcast ideas to others who will receive and act on them. You are a drop in the ocean of thought and the ocean of thought is in every drop.
The Universal Law of Attraction is working in your life right now. You are attracting the personal situations that you are experiencing. You are also attracting the global situations through your individual contribution to the collective mass consciousness. Think about what you are contributing. Once you are aware of this Universal Law and how it works, you can start to use it deliberately to attract what you want instead of what you don't want.
Any thought you have, when combined with emotion, vibrates out from you to the universe. Like a boomerang, it returns whatever you focus on. All you have to do is allow yourself to expect what you want. Sounds easy, right? The hard part is becoming 'doubt-free'. You must expect what you want without doubt, act like you already have it and be grateful for it. Like drops in the ocean, each and every person is individually responsible for their contribution to mass consciousness.
By expecting a New World Order, an Antichrist, an Apocalypse and end times, your contribution to the collective consciousness is "dark". Expect miracles. Expect a Golden Age. When you assume 100% responsibility for everything you're experiencing in your reality right now — absolutely everything — only then will you possess the power to alter your reality.
"Our world is a reflection of our subconscious beliefs. Our subconscious mind can process 40 million neural impulses a second while our conscious mind can only process 40 neural impulses per second. We all know that if we focus on something long enough we can do it without thinking, it becomes part of our subconscious routine. Let's make compassion and understanding a part of our subconscious routine by consciously focusing on these higher aspects of the self in our everyday lives." -Vito Santana
You are made up of billions and billions of "programmed" beliefs about what is real and what's not real, what you should or shouldn't be or wear or say or do. You have downloaded beliefs about how attractive you are, about your body, your intelligence, about God, sin, life after death, morality and class. You have been inundated with disaster scenarios about the future of humanity – a global depression, an apocalypse, Armageddon, end times, depopulation, nuclear war, an Antichrist ruler and other dis-empowering, fear mongering, toxic propaganda.
Very few people understand the programming of fear, and why it distorts our perceptions. While fear is a program used for our survival, fear also creates irrational beliefs that cause larger systems of fear like politics, religion and the media.
'A Virus Called Fear' is a short film about the conditioning of fear, and what irrational fears can lead to.
If you stop and look closely at your thoughts and beliefs, you will discover that instead of serving you, they serve the agenda of the ruling Elite. Although you may feel you are immune to religious and political propaganda, your immunity is overpowered by the repetition of messages that burrow into your subconscious just below your conscious radar.
The ruling Elite have taught you slave consciousness. You tick-tack through life with alarm clocks, car clocks, work clocks, the TV clock, the cell phone clock, wrist watches, wall clocks and calendars. It's "breakfast time", "lunch hour", "break time", "traffic hour", "news hour", "happy hour", "week end", "dinner time", "bed time", "tax time". You sit in traffic, stand in line-ups, watch mind numbing TV trivia interrupted by endless commercials.
You settle for a 14 day holiday out of the 365 days it takes for the Earth to circle the Sun. You trade your labor for digits at the bank. You celebrate birthdays, New Years, Valentine's day, St. Patrick's Day and countless other repetitive cycles of commercialized nonsense. From cradle to grave, you obediently tick-tack through life like an automaton, serving the ruling Elite. Despite the servitude, they have somehow convinced you that you are free.
"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal.
"Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does."
They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness.
These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted." -Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Neural electrical activity has been correlated with different states of awareness. Children do not display the neural electrical activity associated with conscious awareness until after six years of age. They spend the first six years of their lives in the state referred to as the hypnogogic trance. This is the same state that hypnotists induce to implant suggestions directly into the subconscious mind.
All patterns of behavior that emerge from experiences where conscious processing is absent or suspended remain below the level of conscious awareness, and tends to be repeated. As an adult any experience that rises above a certain stress threshold induces the hypnogogic state, resulting in a suspension of conscious processing. In this state whatever we experience will be stored in our subconscious memory but not consciously processed.
This is why we are bombarded daily with negative messages that frighten us. It suspends our conscious processing and keeps our subconscious mind open to suggestive programming. In this way we are molded to fit the agenda of the elite. We are regressed daily into a state of hypnogogic compliance and downloaded with predictive programming by the media and entertainment industry." -Vito Santana
The video below is an amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It's shocking because our world has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps.
"Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief." -Frantz Fanon
14 Different Methodologies of Mind Control
These are the most necessary to understand because they are the most influential over mass consciousness.
1) Obfuscation: Just basic confusion of one thing for another- a smoke and mirrors game.
2) World View Poisoning: Conditioning the way people view human nature and their own self-value.
3) Conditioning of Primal Fear: The exploitation of primal fears.
4) Divide and Conquer Strategy: Highlight any perceived differences between people and then exploit those differences to create infighting so they are easier to control and conquer.
5) Indoctrination of Education System: A left brain form of Nazis called it mastery learning. grade school, HS and university. Trivium and quadrivium education could counteract this.
6) Controlled Opposition: Basic dialectics – dialectical mechanics or Hegelianism Creating conflict that you already have an outcome management system for. Create the conflict and wait for a type of reaction to the conflict (usually chaotic that demands a resolution) and then you step in and resolve it. Artificial conflict resolution.
7) Monetary System of Control: Debt based fiat currency fractional reserve banking a system of illusion that we call money yet people believe in it like its a religion or god. People seem to be the most powerless to come out of. It exists purely in the mind.
8) Control of Mass Media: If you can control the info that people get to see hear and read you control their perception of reality. If you limit the scope of what they can take into their minds and awareness you limit their possibilities of solutions. Human perception management.
9) Food and Medicine: attack on the physical aspects of the body relates to how our brain development goes. You affect thought and consciousness you are what you eat. Use techniques that are damaging to consciousness through the modern medical system
10) Illusion of Time: Very important for people to grasp. Play on people's seeming inability to live in true present moment awareness– getting people to live in regret over the past or anxiety over the future. Its a fear based technique. Takes us out of true present awareness. Being fully present now to take on what is happening now. If our consciousness can be manipulated into always looking into what has happened. It takes away effectiveness of dealing with the current situation.
11) The DHR Factor: Denial, Hassle, Ridicule: What other people perceive about you. Denial, hassle ridicule factor. Things are fine the way they are I don't want to rock the boat because I may have to deal with hassle of other people. The hassle free zone is– I don't want all the uncomfortable aspects of life that come with standing up for truth. These are all fear based. Heightening those three forms of mental instability. Trap of inactivity and not really doing anything to make things better.
12) Religion: We need to understand these last three the best. Religion is a form of binding. To tie back Re-Ligare tying back. Forms of modern religion are mind control based on astro-theology. Giving people an exoteric version of something that was once esoteric or internal. Government is the binding on the left brain… religion is the binding of the right brain.
13) Use of Subversive Symbolism: Based on ancient sacred symbolism. Based on symbols that have been with us from antiquity. Solar symbolism, life force symbols, energy, blood, or anything we need for existence and life. They use these in modern institutions— banks, police, media, stores. We're drenched in it. Basic symbols have a powerful psychic influence. They can speak to us without words. A wordless form of communication. Connects to occultism.
14) Problem-Reaction-Solution (Chaos Sorcery): A mass demonstration or a public display of the dark aspects of the Hegelian dialectic. Hegelian dialectic can be used in a positive or negative sense. Chaos sorcery or false flag terrorism. This is ritual magic being used openly in the light of day. You are creating a chaotic situation in the light of day and you know it will elicit an extreme reaction of fear and chaos that demands order be brought as soon as possible. You are manipulating the fear in the limbic system– people are not in a state that they can reason. They are demanding solutions purely out of emotions. They are in a reactive mode of consciousness. They want the outcome of the game known before the game is played. Interject chaos, you know the reaction its going to cause and you know. A leap in consciousness will subvert this technique. This technique works over and over again. Humanity won't wake up. 9-11 was chaos sorcery.
We need to make the public aware of these techniques so people can become street wise to them. Spread the knowledge through your community.
The universe is spoken into existence. We need to be a reflection– speak the truth back into the field of which we are a part of. Actually speaking the knowledge that we have taken back into the world around us. You have the power to heal yourself and the Earth. It starts with the belief that you can do it and then actually 'doing it'!
Learn how to manifest the reality you want instead of the reality that the Ruling Elite are manifesting for you.
"When we give our minds and our responsibility away, we give our lives away. If enough of us do it, we give the world away and that is precisely what we have been doing throughout known human history.
This is why the few have always controlled the masses. The only difference today is that the few are now manipulating the entire planet because of the globalization of business, banking and communications.
The foundation of that control has always been the same: keep the people in ignorance, fear and at war with themselves. Divide, rule and conquer while keeping the most important knowledge to yourself." – The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World
It's when we look at the source of these inspirational quotes in historical biographies of these people that the evidence of the Law of Attraction becomes much stronger.
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." -Albert Einstein
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." -William James
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Lao Tzu
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." -Buddha
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a show that never leaves." -Buddha
"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes." -Gandhi
"Whatever your mind can conceive and can believe, it can achieve." -Napoleon Hill
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." -Benjamin Disraeli
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut
"You create your own universe as you go along." -Winston Churchill
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notion unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." -Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without. Let a person radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life." -James Allen
"By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life." -Gary Zukav
"Follow your bliss, and doors will open for you that you never knew existed. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls." -Joseph Campbell
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists." -Alexander Graham Bell


text: Children learn over 260 sight words as they read aloud and make decisions. Each player draws a sentence card and chooses a sight word to complete the sentence. With a correct answer, the player collects the number of bones indicated on the card and moves ahead. The player who ends up with the most bones wins! For 2-4 players.


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What Is Poison Ivy?
Leaves of three — let them be! You've probably heard that little rhyme about poison ivy, the plant that can cause an itchy rash. But do you know why? It's because of urushiol (say: yoo-ROO-shee-ol), a colorless, odorless oil (or resin) found in the leaves of the plants.
What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Poison Ivy?
Urushiol is considered an allergen because it causes an allergic reaction — the rash and sometimes swelling. Not everyone will get a reaction, but most people will.
This reaction can appear within hours of touching the plant or as late as 5 days later. Typically, the skin becomes red and swollen and blisters will appear. It's itchy, too. After a few days, the blisters may become crusty and start to flake off. It may take 2 to 3 weeks to heal.
When Should I See the Doctor?
It's a good idea to see your doctor if you have any kind of rash, especially if you have a fever too. If your rash was caused by poison ivy or a similar plant, the doctor may recommend cool showers and calamine lotion.
In more severe cases, a liquid or pill medicine called an antihistamine might be needed to decrease itching and redness. A steroid (say: STER-oyd), another kind of medicine, may be prescribed in some cases. This medicine may be applied directly to the rash or taken in a pill or liquid form.
Is Poison Ivy Contagious?
The poison ivy rash itself isn't contagious. But it's possible to get a poison ivy rash without ever stepping into the woods or directly touching one of the plants. Here's how: Urushiol can pass from one person to another. Plus, a person can pick it up from anything that's come in contact with the oil, including your dog that likes to roam the woods! Urushiol even can travel through the air if someone burns some of the plants to clear brush.
How Can I Prevent Rashes From Poison Ivy?
To avoid getting a poison ivy rash:
- Learn to identify poison ivy, oak, and sumac, so you can steer clear of them. The leaves of poison plants release urushiol when they're "injured," meaning if they get bumped, torn, or brushed up against. Once the urushiol has been released, it can easily get on a person's skin. When the oil is released, the leaves may appear shiny or you may see black spots of resin on them.
- Avoid areas where you know these plants live.
- Wear long sleeves and long pants when you're in areas that could contain poison plants.
If you come into contact with urushiol oil, wash it off your skin right away. But don't take a bath! If you do, the oil can get in the bath water and spread to other areas of your body. Take a shower instead, and be sure to use soap. And if your dog has been out exploring the woods, you might want to give your pet a shower too!


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Amazing Black Bean Brownie Recipe by: Ania Catalano
For those of you who have a hard time tracking down agave nectar (which is becoming much more readily available) substitute honey 1:1 for the agave nectar. Ania's head notes encourage you to keep these brownies in the refrigerator, they will slice much better if refrigerated several hours or preferably overnight. I used instant coffee this time around, but you can find natural coffee substitute at many natural food stores.4 ounces unsweetened chocolatePreheat the oven to 325°F. Line an 11- by 18-inch (rimmed) baking pan (hs note: or jellyroll pan) with parchment paper and lightly oil with canola oil spray.
1 cup unsalted butter
2 cups soft-cooked black beans, drained well (hs: canned is fine)
1 cup walnuts, chopped
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
¼ cup (granulated) natural coffee substitute (or instant coffee, for gluten-sensitive)
¼ teaspoon sea salt
4 large eggs
1½ cups light agave nectar
Melt the chocolate and butter in a glass bowl in the microwave for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes on high. Stir with a spoon to melt the chocolate completely. Place the beans, 1/2 cup of the walnuts, the vanilla extract, and a couple of spoonfuls of the melted chocolate mixture into the bowl of a food processor. Blend about 2 minutes, or until smooth. The batter should be thick and the beans smooth. Set aside.
In a large bowl, mix together the remaining 1/2 cup walnuts, remaining melted chocolate mixture, coffee substitute, and salt. Mix well and set aside.
In a separate bowl, with an electric mixer beat the eggs until light and creamy, about 1 minute. Add the agave nectar and beat well. Set aside.
Add the bean/chocolate mixture to the coffee/chocolate mixture. Stir until blended well.
Add the egg mixture, reserving about 1/2 cup. Mix well. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Using an electric mixer, beat the remaining 1/2 cup egg mixture until light and fluffy. Drizzle over the brownie batter. Use a wooden toothpick to pull the egg mixture through the batter, creating a marbled effect. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until the brownies are set. Let cool in the pan completely before cutting into squares. (They will be soft until refrigerated.)
Makes 45 (2-inch) brownies.
Recipe from Ania Catalano's book, Baking with Agave Nectar: Over 100 Recipes Using Nature's Ultimate Sweetener


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Next: Testsuite progress output, Previous: Command-line arguments for test drivers, Up: API for Custom Test Drivers [Contents][Index]
The test driver must correctly generate the files specified by the --log-file and --trs-file option (even when the tested program fails or crashes).
The .log file should ideally contain all the output produced by the tested program, plus optionally other information that might facilitate debugging or analysis of bug reports. Apart from that, its format is basically free.
The .trs file is used to register some metadata through the use
of custom reStructuredText fields. This metadata is expected to be
employed in various ways by the parallel test harness; for example, to
count the test results when printing the testsuite summary, or to decide
which tests to re-run upon make reheck
. Unrecognized metadata
in a .trs file is currently ignored by the harness, but this might
change in the future. The list of currently recognized metadata follows.
¶The test driver must use this field to register the results of each
test case run by a test script file. Several :test-result:
can be present in the same .trs file; this is done in order to
support test protocols that allow a single test script to run more test
The only recognized test results are currently PASS
and ERROR
. These results,
when declared with :test-result:
, can be optionally followed by
text holding the name and/or a brief description of the corresponding
test; the parallel-tests harness will ignore such extra text when
generating test-suite.log and preparing the testsuite summary.
¶If this field is present and defined to no
, then the corresponding
test script will not be run upon a make recheck
. What
happens when two or more :recheck:
fields are present in the same
.trs file is undefined behaviour.
¶If this field is present and defined to no
, then the content
of the .log file will not be copied into the global
test-suite.log. We allow to forsake such copying because, while
it can be useful in debugging and analysis of bug report, it can also be
just a waste of space in normal situations, e.g., when a test script is
successful. What happens when two or more :copy-in-global-log:
fields are present in the same .trs file is undefined behaviour.
¶This is used to declare the "global result" of the script. Currently,
the value of this field is needed only to be reported (more or less
verbatim) in the generated global log file $(TEST_SUITE_LOG)
so it's quite free-form. For example, a test script which run 10 test
cases, 6 of which pass and 4 of which are skipped, could reasonably have
a PASS/SKIP
value for this field, while a test script which run
19 successful tests and one failed test could have an ALMOST
value. What happens when two or more :test-global-result:
fields are present in the same .trs file is undefined behaviour.
Let's see a small example. Assume a .trs file contains the following lines:
:test-result: PASS server starts :global-log-copy: no :test-result: PASS HTTP/1.1 request :test-result: FAIL HTTP/1.0 request :recheck: yes :test-result: SKIP HTTPS request (TLS library wasn't available) :test-result: PASS server stops
Then the corresponding test script will be re-run by make check
will contribute with five test results to the testsuite summary
(three of these tests being successful, one failed, and one skipped), and
the content of the corresponding .log file will not be
copied in the global log file test-suite.log.
Next: Testsuite progress output, Previous: Command-line arguments for test drivers, Up: API for Custom Test Drivers [Contents][Index]


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My object is to keep you awake.
I didn't stay in college the full four years. I quit after three months and joined the Merchant Marines. Men with one eye were not drafted and in the Merchant Marines they were not allowed to work on deck or below deck, but they could work in the kitchen. I sailed out as third cook. My specialty was pork chops.
About the third time I was late, even before I hit my seat, LaGallienne froze me with a question: "Why are you always late?" I said I had to drive down from Hartford. She asked coldly, "What do you do there? There are no theatres in Hartford. How do you make a living?" I told the truth. "I'm not an actor." She snapped back "Well you should be, now sit down."
I remember vividly that particular performance when for the first time I was suddenly startled by a new totally unexpected sound - a rich, deep authentic snore. Holy jamolies. There is someone on this stage that is sleeping - really sleeping.
I have never been arrested in the United States but I have been arrested in Paris, Moscow, Havana, Genoa, Belgrade, and Trieste.
Did he want to be buried or cremated? His answer to them was brief - "Surprise me."
"Here and there you'll find a raisin."
I was struck very early by the dramatic possibilities of playing a man who housed within himself two opposite traits.
For me The Princess Bride was a movie without a blemish, perfect for both kids and adults.


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A study released on Wednesday claims that a small number of people are taking antibiotics designed for fish leading to dangerous unintended consequences.
Co-author Brandon Bookstaver, Pharm.D., director of residency and fellowship training at the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy, released a statement expressing concern over the trend.
"While human consumption of fish antibiotics is likely low, any consumption by humans of antibiotics intended for animals is alarming," Bookstaver said. "Self-medication and the availability of antibiotics without healthcare oversight might contribute to increasing antimicrobial resistance and delayed appropriate treatment. We were particularly concerned that the high volume of positive feedback on the comments about human use might encourage others to attempt to use these drugs."
What makes fish antibiotics unique is that its available over the counter. A bottle of 30 tablets sell for as low as $8.99 online, the study found.
The study found that 55 out of 2,288 interviewed admitted to taking fish antibiotics. But what concerned Michael Ganio, ASHP Director of Pharmacy Practice and Quality, is that the fish pills have the same look as human antibiotics.
"What might seem like a less expensive, easier way to treat an assumed infection can ultimately have very serious negative consequences," said Ganio. "Unlike antibiotics for humans or other animals, these medications are completely unregulated by the Food and Drug Administration. Even if the pills look the same, it's impossible to know that medications purchased in this manner contain what the label says and are safe for humans. Antibiotics, like all medications, should be dispensed from a licensed pharmacy after a diagnosis and prescription from a medical professional."


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Advanced Search
On a TechNet Blog, Microsoft stated that XP Pro, service pack 2c (SP2c) exists for no reason except to provide a way to get new copies of the OS. SP2c doesn't include any new features or functionality.
Microsoft said that SP2c will be released into the system builder channel in September.
"Due to the longevity of Windows XP Professional, it has become necessary to produce more product keys for system builders in order to support the continued availability of Windows XP Professional," states the blog entry. Other versions of XP, including Home, Media Center, Pro in the 64-bit configuration, and Tablet PC still have keys available, and aren't part of the new release.
In the meantime, XP Pro will be available in multiple sales channels until Jan. 31, 2008, when it reaches its product end-of-lifecycle for everyone but system builders. After another year -- Jan. 31, 2009 -- it will stop being available altogether.
Its strength, however, has surprised many, including Microsoft, which expected to see more uptake for Vista, at XP's expense. Dell, for instance, recently started offering XP again on systems in response to customer demand. And Microsoft revised its desktop sales figures for FY 2007, predicting that XP will sell many more copies than anticipated, while Vista sold fewer.
OEMs especially need to heed the somewhat ominous warning Microsoft relayed in its blog posting:
"System builders must update their images to Windows XP Professional SP2c. End users will not be able to successfully complete installation of Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2c if they do not have updated images."
About the Author
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Wiki Macros
Trac macros are plugins to extend the Trac engine with custom 'functions' written in Python. A macro inserts dynamic HTML data in any context supporting WikiFormatting.
Another kind of macros are WikiProcessors. They typically deal with alternate markup formats and representation of larger blocks of information (like source code highlighting). See also: WikiProcessors.
Using Macros
Macro calls are enclosed in two square brackets. Like python functions, macros can also have arguments, a comma separated list within parenthesis.
Available Macros
Macros are still a new feature, and the list of available (and distributed) macros is admittedly not very impressive. In future Trac releases, we hope to build a library of useful macros, and will of course happily include contributed macros (see below).
- HelloWorld -- An example macro, useful for learning how to write macros.
- Timestamp -- Insert the current date and time.
Macros from around the world
The Trac Project has a section dedicated to user-contributed macros, MacroBazaar. If you're looking for new macros, or have written new ones to share with the world, don't hesitate adding it to the MacroBazaar wiki page.
Developing New Macros
Macros, like Trac itself, are written in the Python programming language. They are very simple modules, identified by the filename and should contain a single entry point function. Trac will display the returned data inserted into the HTML where the macro was called.
It's easiest to learn from an example:
# MyMacro.py -- The world's simplest macro def execute(hdf, args, env): return "Hello World called with args: %s" % args
Advanced Topics: Template-enabled Macros
For advanced uses, macros can also render structured output in HDF, to be rendered to HTML using clearsilver templates - like most Trac output. In short, this allows more generic and well-designed advanced macros.
Macros gain direct access to the main HDF tree, and are free to manipulate it.
def execute(hdf, args, env): # Currently hdf is set only when the macro is called # From a wiki page if hdf: hdf.setValue('wiki.macro.greeting', 'Hello World') # args will be null if the macro is called without parentesis. args = args or 'No arguments' return 'Hello World, args = ' + args
You can also use the environment (env) object to access configuration data.
def execute(hdf, txt, env): return env.get_config('trac', 'repository_dir')
See also: WikiProcessors, WikiFormatting, TracGuide


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Baseline Numbers (344HP and 419 Torque)
Gearhead Tuned Numbers (403HP and 491 Torque)
Auto Octane Adjust: Version 2.0
As we all know, 93 octane isn't available at every gas station across the country — and even your local filling station doesn't always receive consistent batches of fuel, So what happens if you get a bad tank of gas or simply can't get the good stuff when you take a trip? Frequently, aftermarket ECU tunes require a certain octane rating and don't take into account the fact that you may not always be able to run that same octane rating in your truck.
Perhaps the most important aspect included in Gearhead's tuning is its retention of the factory "auto octane adjustment" feature present in the ECU. This feature allows the ECU to self-adjust according to the type of fuel being used (be it 87, 90 or 93 octane, etc.). But, not only does Gearhead keep this feature, they improve it. Gearhead augments the factory auto octane adjustment strategy in a way that allows considerably more power to be made as you step up your octane rating (without changing the tune).
What are you getting by choosing Gearhead?
- 400+ Horsepower and 500+ Torque
- "Auto Octane" adjust-ability for all pump gas fuel grades (You will have the best optimization of the tune using premium fuel)
- Transmission shift strategy for the best daily driver characteristics
- Most will see an improvement in fuel mileage with good driving habits
How to order custom tuning?
- First step is to make the purchase off the website
- After the order is complete fill out the tuning form provided
- Typical turn around is 2-3 business days. (If you purchase a device as well typically the device will ship the same day)