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- Calcium Sulfate
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- Azodicarbonamide
- Ethoxylated Mono
- Calcium Peroxide
- Calcium Propionate
- Sodium Benzoate
- Calcium Disodium EDTA
- tert-Butylhydroquinone
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How To Measure Your Balls
After our post about the Ballbra we had to bring you this as a matter of public service.
The Ballbra
The Ballbra is comfortable and soft to the touch and leaves the penis area free for movement. Each Ballbra user can make the decision to leave the penis free, or to tuck it away within the Ballbra pouch.
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Children's Cold Medicine Pointless & Dangerous
Viral Learning Center
Take a course a the Viral Learning Center if you want to create a great viral video! This is a great parody video that points out the desperate race to create great viral videos that is spreading around the traditional media world. It was produced to promote Ziddio.com which is a new video sharing site run by the US cable operator Comcast.
Ziddio will hold contests that are brand sponsored and will ask users to submit their videos for a chance to win a prize or even have their video shown on TV.
Colonel Sanders Gets Cosmetic Surgery
KFC has changed its logo and announced that it will stop using trans-fats by some time next year. The rebranding exercise has seen their usually chubby Colonel Sanders undergo some extensive facial surgery, probably involving botox injections into his forehead, lips and chin with some hardcore liposuction on his cheeks and chins. Continue reading
Pubic Hair Dye
This is the world's first hair dye kit designed especially for pubic hair or 'the hair down there' as the packet says. Apparently the release of the Betty Beauty range of pubic hair dye kits this summer has made the impossible possible for women all over the world.
Regular hair dye is too toxic for use 'down there' so company founder Nancy Jarecki went on a quest to research and develop a solution to the mismatching hair problem. With the help of a chemist, a toxicologist and a gynaecologist she developed a non-drip, non-toxic product and came up with the Betty euphemism and the rest was history. Continue reading
Tamiflu Gets 'Delirium' Health Warning
The 'slightly effective' flu drug Tamiflu will now carry a health warning after around 100 cases of delirium were reported by users in Japan. The drug which is being used to limit outbreaks of bird flu in Asia is also being heavily promoted as a treatment for general flu in the US.
Wikipedia describes delirium as a 'decline in attention-focus, perception, and cognition' and the cases reported in Japan were mainly from children and involved confusion, self-harm and in some extreme cases suicide.
It seems Roche is eager to influence your children in some way with Tamiflu considering it recently funded the children's film 'Happy Feet'.
TV Networks Ban Ad Skipping Ads!
Now this is interesting. Free to air and pay TV networks in Australia have banned an advert from LG that promotes the 'ad-skipping' facility of its new range of TV's.
The ads feature TVs with a built in hard drive than enables users to pause, rewind or forward TV shows as they air. It also shows people how the TV can be used to jump forward to skip ads!
Roche's Heavy Promotion Of Tamiflu
What should a pharmaceutical company do when it realises it has spent billions of dollars in R&D to come up with an anti-flu drug that is only slightly effective? Well Roche, the makers of Tamiflu, have decided the best thing to do is increase its advertising campaign for the drug.
Tamiflu is an antiviral drug that is supposed to be taken at the first signs of flu to reduce the severity and duration of symptoms. A single treatment will cost around $80 but the drug has come under fire for only being modestly effective, maybe only reducing symptoms by 1 or 2 days. Critics say the real benefit of using Tamiflu is only when there is a genuine flu epidemic such as a break out of avian flu when the drug should be circulated to minimise the transmission of the new strand of virus.
Fed Up With Clogged Toilets, Right?
We came across this gem of an idea over at AdRants.com and just had to say something about it. The best marketing ideas always target a specific group of people and this one does just that, this is for all you folks who are tired of dealing with a blocked toilet each time you take a big dump. Continue reading
Healthy Food? This Grocer Doesn't Think So
Recent healthy eating trends have seen an onslaught of new food brands hit the market that claim to be healthier than a morning run, we have snacks made from oats and microwave meals that will solve all of your health problems and still only take 60 seconds to 'cook'.
But one small chain of grocery stores has decided to step in and help customers judge for themselves whether or not those OatDonuts really are healthy. The chain is Hannaford Brothers which is based in New England and says it is responding to consumer confusion regarding the health claims made on food labelling. Continue reading
Japan: Deepresso Coffee Drink
The business of branding in Japan probably creates some of the most unique imagery in the world and hopefully we will be bringing you some examples here as time goes by. A nice place to start is this coffee drink that seems to promise more than just a caffeine boost, 'Deepresso' is owned by Coca-Cola and is part of a general trend of brand names that appear strange to western minds.
Hopefully it won't give any ideas to the pharmaceutical companies who make anti-depressants. At least we'll know what to expect if Eli Lilly ever merges with Coke.
Source: JapanVisitor.blogspot.com
Toothpaste Ads On Coke Vending Machines
This Perlodent toothpaste ad finds a good niche by targeting people who have rotting teeth because they often have the urge to buy coke at vending machines. The mouth is a bottle opener and suggests that people with strong teeth would be able to open a coke bottle with their front teeth. Not sure if this is real, but it makes a good point.
Source: AdArena.blogspot.com
World Debates Ban On Kids Junk Food Ads
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is to hold a conference for health ministers at the end of the month where it will urge them to sign up to an anti-obesity charter stating that children should not be "exploited" by food companies. The main policy aim is to ban advertising for unhealthy foods aimed at children and adolescents, the WHO says "Special attention needs to be focussed on vulnerable groups such as children and adolescents, whose credulity should not be exploited by commercial activities."
Good Stuff: Wrigley's Extra White Gum Coffee Cup Ads
This quirky advertising idea was the result of a marketing brief that wanted to promote Wrigley's 'Extra White' gum with minimal financial outlay. The idea has been named 'Extra Smile' and is simply a round sticker for the bottom of Starbucks coffee cups that will get you noticed each time you take a gulp.
The person actually drinking the coffee generally won't notice the sticker but will probably have more of a yellow teeth issue than passers by.
The Truth About Junk Food Adverts
The truth about junk food advertising is that the part they show in the ads is the food and the thing you get in real life is the junk. This fact is being explored at badfoodad.com where food ads are compared in great detail to the actual product with some interesting results.
Our favourite is Taco Bell's Cheesy Gordita Crunch that looks so appealing in the advert, with its perfect cuts of lettuce and delicate cheese arrangement. Badfoodad.com points out the high expectations you might have after seeing the adverts and the photo of the actual item illustrates perfectly how crazy junk food adverts are.
Visit: www.BadFoodAd.com
Nude Models Used To Sell Coffins
Sex has been used to sell everything from gum to gadgets but this has got to be the most insane use. Italian coffin maker CofaniFunebri.com has been using naked girls to promote its 'fashion line' of coffins for some years now and has even released 5 sexy coffin calendars. The 2007 calendar uses the tag line 'The Last 2 Let You Down' and features calendar girls who are probably used to posing with Ducatis and Ferraris.
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Buy Axe And GET LAID
Axe is trying to convince men of the world that spraying its fumes on your armpits will result in more sex with better looking females. Everyman wants more sex without actually having to make an effort to get some, so all you need to do is watch an Axe advert and the answer will pop into your head.
This Axe tunnel advert says it straight, Axe will get you where you want to go. The TV adverts have the same sneaky message and will be followed by ads for even more magical diet pills and, to complete the life changing transformation, antidepressants.
McDonald's Launches Nutrition Facts Label
McDonald's has executed its latest corporate tactic in trying to convince the world that junk food is not junk by launching food labelling in New Zealand and Australia. The low key launch in these isolated markets is obviously a test launch as the company prepares itself for a worldwide launch of nutritional labelling.
The McDonalds cheeseburger is probably the 'healthiest' burger they have because it only weighs in at an unsatisfying 106 grams. But as the McDonalds nutritional label shows, you get 13.4 grams of fat which includes 6.4 grams of saturated fats. What they don't show on their nutritional labelling is how much of the non-saturated fats are actually trans-fats which are the worst types of fat. We all know the real reason McDonald's has taken this step is because its sales fell sharply in 2000 and its shareholders were demanding a change.
New Cocaine Energy Drink – Loaded With… Caffeine
Jamey Kirby, the drink's British creator, says the name for the drink Cocaine, came to him in the middle of the night. He describes the drink's taste as a "fruity, atomic fireball".
The smart thing about this drink is that they have gone further than just the 'Cocaine Energy Drink' branding, they have a second USP which is the 280 milligrams of caffeine per can. Continue reading
Cillit Bang Advertising with 'Barry Scott'
'Cillit Bang' is a brand owned by the $9 billion consumer products super power Reckitt Benckiser and has been pushed down our necks in a multi-million dollar TV advertising campaign. It's a household cleaning product probably the same as all the rest in the $15 billion industry. In the USA, Canada and Australia it os known as 'Easy-OFF BAM' but uses the same sneaky branding techniques.
Reckitt Benckiser has a clear strategy behind its branding of Cillit Bang: it wants to create a feeling about this product as if it is an obscure company that has come into its luck by discovering this 'amazing and new' cleaning product. It has achieved this in part by using TV commercials that mimic the infomercials that are used to sell genuinely obscure products like Continue reading


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Fellowship Cups are portable prefilled Communion juice cups and wafers in one convenient set. Each individually wrapped set contains one fresh unleavened bread wafer and 100% Concord grape juice blend with no artificial sweeteners. Opening the cup is an easy two-step process with an outer seal accessing the wafer and an inner seal accessing the juice.
Designed to perfectly fit into communion trays or simply pass in baskets to the congregation as you celebrate the Lord's Supper. The "one pass" serving method allows extra time in service with fewer trays to pass around the congregation. Fellowship Cups are also highly convenient for home and hospital visitation, retreats, camps and any large group assembly.
No refrigeration needed. Made in the U.S.A. 100% freshness and quality guarantee when used before the printed Use By date. Wafer size is 0.75 inch diameter; juice is 0.6 ounces (5 ml). Box of 250.
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text: 118 How to have great expectations of others Posted on June 2, 2016March 22, 2017 by Leary Gates Anything worth pursuing will involve others. And, when we do involve them, we form expectations—some of them not so great. This episode discusses how to have great expectations of others. View show »


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Stylish, Durable, Comfortable, Multi Colors Women's Leggings
Stylish, Durable, Comfortable, Multi Colors Women's Leggings
• Fabric is 82% polyester, 18% spandex
• Four-way stretch
• Elastic waistband
• Precision-cut and hand-sewn after printing
• Blank product components in the US and Mexico sourced from China
• Blank product components in the EU sourced from China and Lithuania
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When will I get my order?
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* Please Note - Some shipping times may also vary depending on our supplier's location which will affect the number of days. (Please refer to the table below for more precise shipping times.)
** Covid-19 may also affect shipping from our manufacturers locale and restrictions in your local area may also impact shipping times.
[Covid-19] When will I get my order?
Our fulfillment times [for all products/t-shirts/phone cases/etc.] may be longer than usual and may continue to increase until things get back to normal. We're seeing delays in our supply chain, including distributors and shipping carriers as the entire industry is grappling with challenges.
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Ask Ben: Detecting When DOM Elements Have Been Removed With jQuery
I know that jQuery is great for event management, but I was wondering if you have come across a way to detect if a DOM element (say a row in a table) was removed? I have a table and I want to run an ajax request every time a tr was removed, but there are several ways that the tr could be removed.
If you look at the W3C, there is actually an event that gets triggered when a DOM element is removed from a document sub-tree:
DOMNodeRemoved: Fires when a node has been removed from a DOM-tree.
This DOM event will bubble up the document tree with the removed node as its target. But of course, even though this is a standard in the W3C, it's not fully supported in the various browsers. And, somewhat to be expected, from my brief testing, the one browser that I have that doesn't support this event type is Internet Explorer. However, if we are going to be using jQuery to perform our DOM mutations, we can actually simulate this event if the current browser is IE:
Before we look at the IE hack, let's just take a look at our standard test code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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whereType<T> method
Null safety
Returns a new lazy Iterable with all elements that have type T
The matching elements have the same order in the returned iterable as they have in iterator.
This method returns a view of the mapped elements. Iterating will not cache results, and thus iterating multiple times over the returned Iterable may yield different results, if the underlying elements change between iterations.
Iterable<T> whereType<T>() => WhereTypeIterable<T>(this);


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Starved of Truth: The Assonance of Atrocity in the Afghan War "Review"
History never repeats itself, of course. But human nature being what it is — and the tropes of power and dominance being what they are — there is a great deal of assonance in history: near-rhymes, recurring echoes in the present which do not chime exactly with the past but fall closely enough to resonate with meaning. Reading Timothy Synder's account of the genocidal famine in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s (in his new book, Bloodlands), I ran across the following passage. In it, Snyder describes how Stalin sought to explain away the manifest, catastrophic failure of his policy


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OVERVIEW OF IIEP's 2017 SUMMER SCHOOLDates: Online phase (7–18 August 2017) + Residential phase (Paris: 21–25 August 2017) Objective: To strengthen the planning capacities of future female leaders, enabling them to better identify information needs and make policy suggestions in view of monitoring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Participants: Female planners and managers from ministries of education who are involved in the formulation of policies, plans, programmes, and projects. Priority will be given to professionals from least developed countries. Language: English Fees: Free of charge, based on a competitive selection process. Selection procedure: know more about our prerequisites to be part of the Summer School 2017. Registration deadline: 14 April 2017 If you think you might be eligible to participate in our Summer School 2017, please contact us at |
Introduction to IIEP's 2017 Summer School
Women's participation in the formulation of policies, plans, programmes, and projects related to SDG 4 is a top priority for both IIEP and UNESCO. Nevertheless, evidence shows that even though the teaching profession is highly feminized, the highest-ranking positions in educational leadership and management continue to be held by men.
IIEP is committed to gender equality in educational decision-making, planning, and management. To make this possible, women must be given greater opportunities to acquire leadership skills and technical knowledge. This is the goal of this year's Summer School, with a programme tailored to help participants to understand, obtain, and practise management skills, and thus to realize their full potential as leaders. It offers a blended course on educational planning, combining an online phase and a residential phase.
Our hope is that this Summer School will capacitate all participants, helping them to become change agents and leaders in their professional environments.
For more details about our Summer School 2017, consult the information note.
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Chile-Rubbed Turkey
['10 dried guajillo chiles', '6 dried ancho chiles', '8 dried chiles de árbol', '2 tablespoons cumin seeds', '1 small onion, chopped', '1 head of garlic, cloves peeled, crushed', '6 (12-ounce) cans pale lager (such as Tecate or Budweiser)', '1/2 cup (packed) light brown sugar', '2 bunches oregano, divided', '1 cup plus 2 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt', '1 (12–14-pound) turkey, giblets and neck removed', '1 large onion, quartered', '1 head of garlic, halved', '2 cups (or more) low-sodium chicken broth', '1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted', '1/4 cup fresh lime juice', 'Lime wedges and fresh chiles and herbs (for garnish; optional)']
Using kitchen shears, cut open guajillo and ancho chiles along one side; place seeds in large bowl; set aside. Open chiles and place flat in a large dry skillet over medium heat. Cook, turning once, until lightly puffed and toasted, about 4 minutes. Add chiles de árbol and cumin seeds; toast until fragrant, about 1 minute. Transfer to bowl with chile seeds, add 4 cups boiling water, and let soak until softened, about 10 minutes.
Purée chile mixture with soaking liquid, onion, and garlic in a blender.
Combine beer, brown sugar, 1 bunch oregano, 1 cup salt, 3 cups chile paste, and 8 cups water in a very large stock pot. Add turkey, cover, and chill at least 12 hours and up to 14 hours.
Remove turkey from brine; pat dry. Place, breast side up, on a rack set in a large roasting pan. Mix remaining 2 1/2 teaspoon salt into remaining 1 1/2 cups chile paste. Working from neck end of turkey, gently loosen skin from breasts and rub under skin and all over outside of bird. Chill turkey at least 8 hours and up to 12 hours.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Stuff turkey with onion, garlic, and remaining bunch of oregano; tie legs together with kitchen twine. Add broth and 2 cups water to pan and roast turkey 30 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 325°F and roast, basting every 30–40 minutes with melted butter, adding more broth or water as needed to maintain some liquid in pan, and tenting with foil if turkey browns too quickly, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 165°F, 2 1/2–3 hours longer.
Transfer turkey to a platter; tent with foil. Let rest at least 30 minutes before carving.
Meanwhile, strain pan drippings into a measuring cup. Let sit 30 minutes, then skim fat from surface. Bring to a boil in a medium saucepan; reduce heat and simmer until reduced to 1 cup. Stir in lime juice.
Garnish turkey as desired and serve with pan sauce alongside.
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Taxpayers shouldn't be forced to subsidize labor unions
DRAWING A LINE: New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is challenging public sector unions that withdraw union dues through the state of the New Mexico.
By Paul Gessing
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" — George Orwell
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez stated recently that her administration wants to stop allowing union dues to be withdrawn automatically from state employee paychecks. The head of one government employee union called this statement a "declaration of war" against the unions.
What could generate such heated rhetoric from one of New Mexico's most powerful special interest groups? Simply put, government employee unions benefit greatly from having their members' dues and non-members' "fair share" payments automatically deducted from their paychecks ("fair share" payments are funds extracted from non-union workers for the supposed purpose of funding union bargaining efforts).
Before the unions and their supporters "go to war," it's worth pointing out that former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the hero of so many liberals, opposed the very existence of government employee unions and expressed these views in a 1937 letter, writing, "The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.
FDR was right. Whereas private-sector unions are limited by the ability of their employers to survive in a competitive marketplace, government unions can use their tremendous political power to put politicians in power that will tap the tremendous taxing and spending powers of government to provide ever higher wages and benefits. This system eventually faltered with Detroit's bankruptcy, but that is the exception that proves the rule.
It would seem that using taxpayer resources for the benefit of a private organization is a violation of New Mexico's "anti-donation clause." Undoubtedly, collecting union dues is a benefit given to the unions that is not available to other, similar organizations. Imagine the State of New Mexico collecting dues on behalf of the National Rifle Association, National Right to Life or the ACLU, for that matter!
The idea that refusing to collect dues on unions' behalf is a declaration of "war" illustrates the unions' strong sense of entitlement.
The government unions will make several arguments against the proposed change. For starters, they will claim they need to take "fair share" payments from non-members because state law mandates that unions negotiate wages and benefits on behalf of all workers, not just union members. Of course, government unions are the ones that have demanded such collective bargaining laws as a means of accumulating political power in the first place.
When given the choice, many government workers choose not to support the unions. According to the Wisconsin-based Capital Times, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in the state suffered a 45 percent drop in revenue as workers opted out of dues payments in the wake of reforms in Wisconsin that included the end of taxpayer-funded dues collection.
This is why Martinez's proposal to stop collecting dues on behalf of the unions strikes such fear in the hearts of union bosses. Whether they will admit it publicly or not, union dues are fungible. They can be used for whatever the bosses wish, including political activity. Less dues money to spend means less political power for government employee unions.
To be sure, this political activity is incredibly partisan. According to Followthemoney.org, one prominent New Mexico-based government labor union, AFSCME Council 18, gave 100 percent of its political contributions between 2004 and 2012 to Democrats. Even if collecting union dues were somehow a justifiable use of taxpayer funds, is it any surprise that Martinez, the elected leader of New Mexico's government, wants to stop taxpayers from fundraising for her opposition?
The legality of actually stopping dues payments is somewhat murky. It appears that Martinez could act unilaterally to stop collecting dues for the unions despite "evergreen" provisions put in place under former Gov. Bill Richardson. Any efforts to curtail the power of government unions will be seen as a "declaration of war," but "war" on taxpayers and any effort to reduce dependency on government is exactly what the unions have been engaged in for years. Finally, that battle has been joined.
Paul Gessing is president of New Mexico's Rio Grande Foundation, an independent, nonpartisan, tax-exempt research and educational organization dedicated to promoting prosperity for New Mexico based on principles of limited government, economic freedom and individual responsibility. Contact him at email@example.com


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Perfume continues to make the crime blotter.
White burgundy gone bad? Blame global warming!
The English are justifiably pissed off about public urination, but this idea smacks of desperation.
Speaking of malodorous urine, I took a leak at Nordstrom in the Short Hills Mall this week. (In the men's room, thank you very much.) The brand-new waterless urinals stank. This particular green inspiration leaves a lot to be desired. And it only impacts men: isn't that sexual discrimination? Just askin' . . .
Six million hits and climbing: signs of life in fragrance marketing?


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Sri Sarada Devi, the Mother of All
As a child Sarada was devoted to God, and spent most of her time helping her mother in various household chores like caring for younger children, looking after cattle and carrying food to her father and others engaged in work in the field. She had no formal schooling, but managed to learn the Bengali alphabet. When she was about six years old, she was married to Sri Ramakrishna, according to the custom prevalent in India in those days. However, after the event, she continued to live with her parents, while Sri Ramakrishna lived a God-intoxicated life at Dakshineshwar.
Visit to Dakshineshwar
At the age of eighteen she walked all the way to Dakshineshwar to meet her husband. Sri Ramakrishna, who had immersed himself in the intense practice of several spiritual disciplines for more than twelve years, had reached the highest state of realization in which he saw God in all beings. He received Sarada Devi with great affection, and allowed her to stay with him. He taught her how to lead a spiritual life while discharging her household duties. They led absolutely pure lives, and Sarada Devi served Sri Ramakrishna as his devoted wife and disciple, while remaining a virgin nun and following the spiritual path.
Life at Dakshineshwar
Sri Ramakrishna looked upon Sarada Devi as a special manifestation of Divine Mother of the universe. In 1872, on the night of the Phala-harini-Kali-puja, he ritualistically worshipped Sarada Devi as the Divine Mother, thereby awakening universal Motherhood latent in her. When disciples began to gather around Sri Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi learned to look upon them as her own children. The room in which she stayed at Dakshineshwar was too small to live in and had hardly any amenities; and on many days she did not get the opportunity of meeting Sri Ramakrishna. But she bore all difficulties silently and lived in contentment and peace, serving the increasing number of devotees who came to see Sri Ramakrishna.
Worship by Sri Ramakrishna
In 1872, his wife Sarada, now nineteen years old, came from the village to meet him. He received her cordially, and taught her how to attend to household duties and at the same time lead an intensely spiritual life. One night he worshipped her as the Divine Mother in his room at the Dakshineswar temple. Although Sarada continued to stay with him, they lived immaculately pure lives, and their marital relationship was purely spiritual. It should be mentioned here that Sri Ramakrishna had been ordained a Sannyasin (Hindu monk), and he observed the basic vows of a monk to perfection. But outwardly he lived like a lay man, humble, loving and with childlike simplicity. During Sri Ramakrishna's stay at Dakshineswar, Rani Rasmani first acted as his patron. After her death, her son-in-law Mathur Nath Biswas took care of his needs.
Leading the Sangha after the Master's Passing
After Sri Ramakrishna's passing away in 1886, Sarada Devi spent some months in pilgrimage, and then went to Kamarpukur where she lived in great privation. Coming to know of this, the disciples of Sri Ramakrishna brought her to Kolkata. This marked a turning point in her life. She now began to accept spiritual seekers as her disciples, and became the open portal to immortality for hundreds of people. Her great universal mother-heart, endowed with boundless love and compassion, embraced all people without any distinction, including many who had lived sinful lives.
When the Western women disciples of Swami Vivekananda came to Kolkata, the Holy Mother accepted them with open arms as her daughters, ignoring the restrictions of the orthodox society of those days. Although she had grown up in a conservative rural society without any access to modern education, she held progressive views, and whole-heartedly supported Swami Vivekananda in his plans for rejuvenation of India and the uplift of the masses and women. She was closely associated with the school for girls started by Sister Nivedita.
She spent her life partly in Kolkata and partly in her native village Jayrambati. During the early years of her stay in Kolkata, her needs were looked after by Swami Yogananda, a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. In later years her needs were looked after by another disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Saradananda, who built a new house for her in Kolkata.
Simplicity and Forbearance
Although she was highly venerated for her spiritual status, and literally worshipped as the Divine Mother, she continued to live like a simple village mother, washing clothes, sweeping the floor, bringing water from the pond, dressing vegetables, cooking and serving food. At Jayrambati she lived with her brothers and their families. They gave her endless troubles but, established as she was in the awareness of God and in Divine Motherhood, she always remained calm and self-possessed, showering love and blessings on all who came into contact with her. As Sister Nivedita stated, "Her life was one long stillness of prayer."
Mother of All
In the history of humanity there has never been another woman who looked upon herself as the Mother of all beings, including animals and birds, and spent her whole life in serving them as her children, undergoing unending sacrifice and self-denial. About her role in the mission of Sri Ramakrishna on earth, she stated: "My son, you know the Master had a maternal attitude (matri-bhava) towards every one. He has left me behind to manifest that Divine Motherhood in the world."
Ideal Woman
On account of her immaculate purity, extraordinary forbearance, selfless service, unconditional love, wisdom and spiritual illumination, Swami Vivekananda regarded Sri Sarada Devi as the ideal for women in the modern age. He believed that with the advent of Holy Mother, the spiritual awakening of women in modern times had begun.
Last Days
Under the strain of constant physical work and self-denial and repeated attacks of malaria, her health deteriorated in the closing years of her life, and she left the mortal world on 21 July 1920.
Endearingly known as 'Holy Mother', Sri Sarada Devi, the spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna, was born on 22nd December 1853 in a poor Brahmin family in Jayrambati, a village adjoining Kamarpukur in West Bengal. Her father, Ramachandra Mukhopadhyay, was a pious and kind-hearted person, and her mother, Shyama Sundari Devi, was a loving and hard-working woman. She is revered as a symbol of universal motherhood, whose wisdom and spiritual grandeur remained hidden beneath her natural veil of modesty. Holy Mother was not only devoted wife to Sri Ramakrishna but also his spiritual companion and object of worship.
Some Sayings of Holy Mother :
God is one's very own. It is an eternal relationship.
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
One who makes a habit of prayer will easily overcome all difficulties.
As wind removes the cloud, so the Name of God destroys the cloud of worldliness.
My child, you have been extremely fortunate in getting this human birth. Have intense devotion to God. One must work hard. Can one achieve anything without effort? You must devote some time for prayer even in the midst of the busiest hours of the day.
Do the Master's work, and along with that practise spiritual disciplines too. Work helps one to keep off idle thoughts. If one is without work, such thoughts rush into one's mind.
One must perform work. It is only through work that the bondage of work will be cut asunder and one will acquire a spirit of non-attachment.
One should always discriminate and strive hard for the realization of God.
Even water, which has a natural tendency to flow downwards, is drawn up to the sky by the sun's rays. In the same way, God's grace lifts up the mind which has got a tendency to run after sense objects.
Through spiritual disciplines the ties of past karma are cut asunder. But the realization of God cannot be achieved without ecstatic love for him.
It is idle to expect that dangers and difficulties will not come. They are bound to come. But for a devotee they will pass away under the feet like water.
Can you call a person who is devoid of compassion a human being? He is a veritable beast.
I tell you one thing – if you want peace, do not find fault with others. Rather see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; the whole world is your own.
When a man sees defects in others, his own mind first gets polluted. What does he gain by finding faults in others? He only hurts himself by that.
All teachers are one. The same power of God works through them all.
I am your true mother, a mother not by virtue of being your guru's wife, nor by way of empty talk, but truly the mother.
I am the mother of the virtuous as well as the wicked.
If my son wallows in the dust or mud, it is I who have to wipe all the dirt and take him on my lap.
My son, if a thorn pricks your foot, it hurts me like a spear entering my heart. Never fear, and whenever you are in distress just say to yourself, "I have a mother"


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By Shannon Crocker MSc RD, Vibrant Nutrition Communications
One of the greatest turkey days of the year – Christmas – is just around the corner, but you don't need to wait until the holidays to enjoy the goodness that turkey brings.
As much as I look forward to a festive feast featuring a whole roast turkey and all the fixings, I don't wait for those few days a year to cook with turkey. In fact, I have turkey on my table on weekly basis.
Why do I choose to cook with turkey all year long?
- Turkey is nutritious. Turkey is protein plus so much more. It's lean, nutrient-rich and packed with vitamins like brain-boosting vitamin B12 and minerals like zinc and selenium for a healthy immune system.
- Turkey is delicious. Turkey is moist and full of flavour making it ideal for simple weekday meals. It also pairs perfectly with all sorts of seasonings from all around the world. Curry? Yes! Ginger? Sure! Coconut? Yep!
- Turkey is versatile. From thighs and wings to breasts and steaks, there are so many turkey cuts and so many tasty ways to enjoy them. I seriously love getting creative in the kitchen and swapping turkey into classic recipes like lasagna, burgers, fajitas, curries and casseroles.
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- Make Ahead Breakfasts
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Double Up! Make extra turkey thighs when you're cooking dinner and use the leftovers to make a couple trays of these muffins. They freeze perfectly.
- Lightened Up Lunches
Keeping lunch light yet satisfying is one of the keys to staving off the 2:00pm afternoon energy slump. Turkey is lean yet packed with protein so it's an ideal light lunch choice, especially in this oh-so-good Healthy Turkey Bowl with Cashew Lemon Dressing.
Meal prep for the win! Roast a turkey breast on the weekend so you have fresh roasted turkey for sandwiches and salads for a packed lunch that won't weigh you down.
- Big Batch Dinners
Cook once and eat three times with these baked Big Batch Meatballs. Double or triple the recipe and freeze in meal-size portions so you'll have meatballs at the ready for meals through the month.
No repeats! I switch up how I serve these meatballs: in saucy submarine sandwiches, simmered in this Classic Italian Tomato Sauce and served with salad or in this tasty Tuscan Turkey Meatball Soup.
Next time you're at the grocery store or butcher, ask about available cuts, let your inner chef fly and try turkey in your favourite recipes.
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News | May 20, 2020
NASA Telescope Named For 'Mother of Hubble' Nancy Grace Roman
NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first chief astronomer, who paved the way for space telescopes focused on the broader universe.
The newly named Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – or Roman Space Telescope, for short – is set to launch in the mid-2020s. It will investigate long-standing astronomical mysteries, such as the force behind the universe's expansion, and search for distant planets beyond our solar system.
Considered the "mother" of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which launched 30 years ago, Roman tirelessly advocated for new tools that would allow scientists to study the broader universe from space. She left behind a tremendous legacy in the scientific community when she died in 2018.
"It is because of Nancy Grace Roman's leadership and vision that NASA became a pioneer in astrophysics and launched Hubble, the world's most powerful and productive space telescope," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "I can think of no better name for WFIRST, which will be the successor to NASA's Hubble and Webb Telescopes."
Former Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who worked with NASA on the Hubble and WFIRST space telescopes, said, "It is fitting that as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, NASA has announced the name of their new WFIRST telescope in honor of Dr. Nancy Roman, the Mother of Hubble – well deserved. It recognizes the incredible achievements of women in science and moves us even closer to no more hidden figures and no more hidden galaxies."
Who Was Nancy Grace Roman?
Born on May 16, 1925, in Nashville, Tennessee, Roman consistently persevered in the face of challenges that plagued many women of her generation interested in science. By seventh grade, she knew she wanted to be an astronomer. Despite being discouraged about going into science – the head of Swarthmore College's physics department told her he usually dissuaded girls from majoring in physics, but that she "might make it" – Roman earned a bachelor's degree in astronomy from Swarthmore in 1946 and a doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1949.
She remained at Chicago for six years and made discoveries about the compositions of stars that had implications for the evolution of our Milky Way galaxy. Knowing that her chances of achieving tenure at a university as a woman were slim at that time, she took a position at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and made strides in researching cosmic questions through radio waves.
Roman came to NASA in 1959, just six months after the agency had been established. At that time, she served as the chief of astronomy and relativity in the Office of Space Science, managing astronomy-related programs and grants.
"I knew that taking on this responsibility would mean that I could no longer do research, but the challenge of formulating a program from scratch that I believed would influence astronomy for decades to come was too great to resist," she said in a NASA interview.
This was a difficult era for women who wanted to advance in scientific research. While Roman said that men generally treated her equally at NASA, she also revealed in one interview that she had to use the prefix "Dr." with her name because "otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries."
But she persisted in her vision to establish new ways to probe the secrets of the universe. When she arrived at NASA, astronomers could obtain data from balloons, sounding rockets and airplanes, but they could not measure all the wavelengths of light. Earth's atmosphere blocks out much of the radiation that comes from the distant universe. What's more, only a telescope in space has the luxury of perpetual nighttime and doesn't have to shut down during the day. Roman knew that to see the universe through more powerful, unblinking eyes, NASA would have to send telescopes to space.
Through Roman's leadership, NASA launched four Orbiting Astronomical Observatories between 1966 and 1972. While only two of the four were successful, they demonstrated the value of space-based astrophysics and represented the precursors to Hubble. She also championed the International Ultraviolet Explorer, which was built in the 1970s as a joint project between NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and the United Kingdom, as well as the Cosmic Background Explorer, which measured the leftover radiation from the big bang and led to two of its leading scientists receiving the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Above all, Roman is credited with making the Hubble Space Telescope a reality. In the mid-1960s, she set up a committee of astronomers and engineers to envision a telescope that could accomplish important scientific goals. She convinced NASA and Congress that it was a priority to launch the most powerful space telescope the world had ever seen.
Hubble turned out to be the most scientifically revolutionary space telescope of all time. Ed Weiler, Hubble's chief scientist until 1998, called Roman "the mother of the Hubble Space Telescope."
"Nancy Grace Roman was a leader and advocate whose dedication contributed to NASA seriously pursuing the field of astrophysics and taking it to new heights," said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science. "Her name deserves a place in the heavens she studied and opened for so many."
What is the Roman Space Telescope?
The Roman Space Telescope will be a NASA observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets and infrared astrophysics. The telescope has a primary mirror that is 2.4 meters (7.9 feet) in diameter and is the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror. The Roman Space Telescope is designed to have two instruments, the Wide Field Instrument and a technology demonstration Coronagraph Instrument. The Wide Field Instrument will have a field of view that is 100 times greater than the Hubble infrared instrument, allowing it to capture more of the sky with less observing time. The Coronagraph Instrument will perform high contrast imaging and spectroscopy of individual nearby exoplanets.
The WFIRST project passed a critical programmatic and technical milestone in February, giving the mission the official green light to begin hardware development and testing. With the passage of this latest key milestone, the team will begin finalizing the mission design by building engineering test units and models to ensure the design will hold up under the extreme conditions during launch and while in space.
NASA's Fiscal Year 2020 Consolidated Appropriations Act funds the WFIRST program through September 2020. It is not included in the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request, as the administration wants to focus on completing the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Testimony in Defense of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
On January 22, 2014, Environment New Hampshire's Madeline Page and Travis Madsen gave oral and written testimony before the New Hampshire House Energy, Science and Technology Committee in support of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Full written testimony below:
On January 22, 2014, Environment New Hampshire's Madeline Page and Travis Madsen gave oral and written testimony before the New Hampshire House Energy, Science and Technology Committee in support of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Full written testimony below:
TO: House Science, Technology and Energy Committee Members
FROM: Madeline Page and Travis Madsen, Environment New Hampshire
SUBJECT: OPPOSE House Bill 208
DATE: January 22, 2015
Environment New Hampshire Testimony in Support of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Oppose House Bill 208, Which Would Repeal RGGI
From accelerating sea-level rise, to stronger hurricanes, to more devastating downpours, global warming is already having an impact on New Hampshire. Inaction poses grave risks to citizens and communities across the Granite State.
Despite these risks, Representatives Barry, Moore and Notter have proposed House Bill 208, which would repeal the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), an important program designed to clean up power plant emissions of climate-altering pollution across the Northeast.
RGGI is a critical ingredient in New Hampshire's response to global warming, and an investment in the health and safety of both current citizens and future generations across New Hampshire. It is also an important tool that New Hampshire can use in designing a compliance strategy for the Clean Power Plan, an upcoming federal rule to clean up global warming from power plants that EPA will finalize this summer. Finally, RGGI is an important source of revenue for consumer benefit – we have generated nearly $73 million to date for investments in energy efficiency and ratepayer rebates.
Repealing RGGI would be a mistake for New Hampshire, both in terms of our environment and our economy. Accordingly, we urge the New Hampshire legislature to reject House Bill 208.
Global Warming Risks New Hampshire's Future
The scientific consensus on the threat posed by climate change is clear. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) puts it this way:
- "Climate scientists agree: climate change is happening here and now."
- "We are at risk of pushing our climate system toward abrupt, unpredictable, and potentially irreversible changes with highly damaging impacts."
- "The sooner we act, the lower the risk and cost. And there is much we can do."
Global warming is primarily caused by human combustion of fossil fuels, which produces carbon dioxide pollution. When carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping emissions are released into the air, they act like a blanket, trapping heat in our atmosphere and warming the planet. One blanket is good… but we're heading for a 5-blanket world.
The third U.S. National Climate Assessment makes it clear that global warming is already having an impact on New Hampshire:
- The average temperature in our state is about 2° F warmer now than it was in the late 19th century. Globally, 2014 was the warmest year on record.
- Melting ice and warming oceans are causing sea levels to rise. On average, sea levels are now about a foot higher than they were 100 years ago. As a result, the risk of coastal flooding on the scale caused by Hurricane Sandy has doubled over the last 60 years.
- Warmer air holds more water vapor, which means heavier storms. Our region has experienced a greater recent increase in extreme precipitation than any other region in the United States. Between 1948 and 2011, the frequency of intense rain or snowstorms more than doubled in New Hampshire – more than anywhere else in the country. These heavy storms increase the risk of flooding and infrastructure damage all across the state.
If we do not alter course, average temperatures in New Hampshire could increase by as much as 10° F by the end of the century, and impacts will become more severe. For example:
- Heat waves will become much more common, increasing the risk of heat-related illness and damaging our agriculture. The number of days above 90 degrees could more than double by 2050, with parts of the state experiencing more than a dozen such days in a typical year. Increased heat will shorten the ski season and damage the fall foliage season, reducing tourism income in the state.
- Scientists anticipate that if we do not alter course, sea levels could rise by as much as 6 feet by 2100. Sea level rise on that scale would make Sandy-scale coastal flooding an annual or bi-annual event, dramatically reshape the Eastern Seaboard, and displace hundreds of thousands of people from their communities.
How bad the problem gets depends on how quickly and how deeply humanity can reduce emissions of global warming pollution.
Major Reductions in Global Warming Pollution Are Urgently Necessary
Science is clear about what we need to do to avoid the worst consequences of global warming: stabilize worldwide emissions of the pollutants that cause global warming by the end of the decade and reduce them by more than half by mid-century.
For the United States and other developed countries, emission reductions must occur more quickly and more steeply, with reductions of 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 to 95 percent by 2050.
New Hampshire Helped to Create the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative – A Groundbreaking Program Designed to Clean Up Power Plants
New Hampshire's leaders recognized that cleaning up power plants would be an important part of meeting its climate targets. That's why the state helped to create the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The state worked with nine other northeast states from Maryland to Maine – across geographic and partisan divides—to craft this groundbreaking program and accelerate the shift to clean energy.
The program originated in 2003, when New York Governor George Pataki, a Republican, circulated a letter to the governors of 10 other northeastern states calling for the creation of a regional agreement to reduce global warming pollution from their states. New Hampshire joined eight other states—Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont—to develop a cap-and-trade program for power plants.
By joining together, northeastern governors knew that their states could achieve greater results in the drive toward clean energy, and do so at lower cost, than they ever could ever achieve separately.
In addition to ensuring that power plant carbon emissions decline over time, RGGI generates revenue that states can use to benefit citizens.
RGGI Is a Proven Success
RGGI has significantly helped reduce carbon pollution, while at the same time supporting economic development, creating new jobs and saving consumers money on energy in the nine states that currently participate.
To date, the program has generated more than $1 billion in auction revenues that states have largely invested in clean energy solutions – providing significant benefits. According to a recent report by ENE (Environment Northeast) and by RGGI Inc., since it launched in 2009, RGGI has already helped:
- Reduce carbon pollution by almost 30 percent;
- Cut electricity prices by 8 percent;
- Create more than 23,000 job-years of work;
- Lock in more than $1.8 billion in long-term savings on energy bills; and
- Add more than $2.4 billion in economic activity to the region.
Incredibly, pollution levels in the nine-state RGGI region is now down almost 50 percent below the original target set in 2005. (See Figure 1.) To ensure that the program remains effective, RGGI state governors agreed in February 2013 to make deeper cuts in power plant carbon emissions (represented by the green line in Figure 1). Through 2020, the new limit will prevent as much pollution as would be emitted by 16 million cars. At the same time, it will generate more than $8 billion in economic benefits, including energy bill savings, and more than 120,000 job-years of employment across the region.
Figure 1: Pollution is down almost 50 percent from the original RGGI target.
New Hampshire has generated more than $73 million through RGGI. New Hampshire has invested a portion of RGGI revenues into energy efficiency – which reduces carbon emissions and makes the electricity system less expensive for everyone. The legislature mandated in 2012 that another portion of RGGI revenues be returned directly to ratepayers through rebates.
Repealing RGGI Would Harm New Hampshire
The proposed House Bill 208 would repeal the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in New Hampshire. This would have three major consequences.
- First, New Hampshire would give up the environmental benefits of reduced power plant air pollution.
- Second, the state would give up the revenues associated with auctioning carbon allowances. According to analysis by Regional Economic Models, Inc, over the next 10 years, RGGI will bring states an additional $4 billion in revenue, which will generate $8.7 billion in economic growth, and 132,000 job years of employment. In New Hampshire, the Public Utilities Commission and the Department of Environmental Services estimate that repeal would cost state and local governments $20-30 million annually in coming years. Cutting funding for energy efficiency programs in particular would be a missed opportunity. Every RGGI dollar that states put into energy efficiency programs delivers more than $2 dollars in benefits, in addition to reducing carbon pollution.
- Third, the state would give up a tool that states have promoted as an ideal compliance mechanism for the federal Clean Power Plan, a rule that EPA will finalize this summer to limit carbon pollution from power plants nationwide.
Repealing RGGI Will Make it More Difficult for New Hampshire to Comply with the Clean Power Plan
On June 2, 2014, the federal Environmental Protection Agency proposed the Clean Power Plan – a new rule to limit carbon pollution from power plants nationwide. New Hampshire has worked with other RGGI states to promote RGGI as an ideal compliance mechanism. The infrastructure of the program is already developed, New Hampshire has a history of participation and its utilities are familiar with the program, and it generates revenue that the state can use to accelerate its transition to clean energy and make the goals of the Clean Power Plan easier to achieve.
Without RGGI, the state will be left without a critical tool that it is planning to rely on to ensure that New Hampshire does its part to reduce carbon pollution as required by the Clean Air Act.
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"I saw a call by 700 mosques to vote for Mr. Hollande on the site of a leftist magazine."—FT1 television interview, TF1 April 25, 2012, echoing claims by aides that French mosques are influencing Muslims to vote for the Socialist frontrunner.
France's official Islamic organization, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), has said its inquiries have found no evidence of endorsements of Hollande by or in any member mosques. Later comments by Sarkozy suggest he was aware of the CFCM's refutation of the endorsement claim, yet he aired the view of a grand Muslim conspiracy again anyway.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple has posted a new security warning for users of its iCloud online storage service amid reports of a concerted effort to steal passwords and other data from people who use the popular service in China.
"We're aware of intermittent organized network attacks using insecure certificates to obtain user information, and we take this very seriously," the computer-maker said in a post Tuesday on its support website. The post said Apple's own servers have not been compromised.
Apple's post did not mention China or provide any details on the attacks. But several news outlets reported Tuesday that some Chinese Internet users have begun seeing warnings that indicate they had been diverted to an unauthorized website when they attempted to sign into their iCloud accounts.
That kind of diversion, known to computer security experts as a "man in the middle" attack, could allow a third party to copy and steal the passwords that users enter when they think they are signing into Apple's service. Hackers could then use the passwords to collect other data from the users' accounts.
Chinese activists blamed the attacks on that country's government, according to news reports and the Chinese activist website GreatFire.org, which suggested the campaign was spurred by the fact that Apple recently began selling its newest iPhone models, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, in China. The new smartphones have software with enhanced encryption features to protect Apple users' data.
Apple, which is based in Cupertino, California, said in its post that the attacks have not affected users who sign into iCloud from their iPhones or iPads, or on Mac computers while using the latest Mac operating system and Apple's Safari browser. But the company suggested users should verify they are connecting to a legitimate iCloud server by using the security features built into Safari and other browsers such as Firefox and Google's Chrome. The browsers will show a message that warns users when they are connecting to a site that doesn't have a digital certificate verifying that it is authentic.
"If users get an invalid certificate warning in their browser while visiting www.icloud.com , they should pay attention to the warning and not proceed," Apple said in the post.
The attacks appear unrelated to an episode last month in which hackers stole nude photos from the iCloud accounts of several U.S. celebrities. In that case, Apple said its investigation concluded the hackers had obtained the users' passwords through so-called "phishing attacks" or by guessing at the answers to security questions that allowed access. The company said its servers were not breached in that case.


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State Prisons Need More Smoking-Cessation Programs: Study
MONDAY, Feb. 4, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Many inmates in U.S. state prisons who want to quit smoking have nowhere to turn for help, a new study finds.
That increases their risk of smoking-related diseases, including cancer, heart disease and stroke.
And the risk is especially high for black men, who are six times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Hispanic white men. They also have higher rates of tobacco use both in and out of prison and are more likely to die from smoking-related illness, researchers said.
The Rutgers University study included 169 inmates in three Northeast correctional centers. Smoking rates were high, especially among blacks, who were slightly more interested than other inmates in kicking the habit, according to the study.
Many smokers who had tried to quit said it had been a year or more since their last attempt, and most who did quit relapsed within a year. Most inmates who quit did so without treatment.
"Many of these inmates want to quit. They just lack the means and understanding on how to do so," said lead author Pamela Valera, an assistant professor of public health at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Cigarettes were the most widely used tobacco product, with pipes, cigars and chew/snuff among others used at the three correction centers, the study found. Inmates had a high rate of menthol cigarette use.
More than half said their cellmate smokes around them.
"Our study will help health researchers and smoking cessation treatment specialists to better understand the smoking behaviors of inmates -- why they begin and continue to smoke -- in order to better tailor and implement important cessation programs to assist them in quitting for life," Valera said.
Many prisons could do more to help inmates quit, but have instead imposed smoking bans, which can't prevent smoking or a return to tobacco use after their release, according to Valera.
Less than half of people studied had a medical professional in prison talk to them about quitting, Valera said.
She called for prison-wide smoking-cessation programs and helping inmates who have quit be a positive influence on others, Valera said.
The study was recently published in the journal Health Psychology Open.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a guide for quitting smoking.
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Marco Pistoia, Ph.D. has worked for IBM Corporation since January 1996 and is currently an IBM Distinguished Researcher and Senior Manager at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, where he manages the Mobile Enterprise Software research group. In January 2010, he was one of 38 IBM employees worldwide to be bestowed the title of IBM Master Inventor. In June 2016, he was nominated the Chair of the Mobile Computing Professional Interest Community at IBM Research. He is the inventor of 115 patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and 171 patent applications. Dr. Pistoia has designed and implemented numerous analysis components and contributed large amounts of code to several IBM products. Dr. Pistoia has lectured at 22 top universities in 9 countries worldwide. He has written 10 books and published numerous papers and journal articles on various aspects of Program Analysis, Language-Based Security and Mobile Computing. In the course of his career, Dr. Pistoia received three ACM Distinguished Paper Awards (2007, 2011 and 2014). In September 2007, the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, the National Committee of the Italian Presidents of Faculties of Sciences and Technologies, and Confindustria, Italy's leading organization representing all the Italian manufacturing and service companies, presented Pistoia as one of the 70 most successful Italian mathematicians who graduated from an Italian university between the years 1980 and 2000. His biography was published in the book "Matematici al Lavoro".
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Last month while I was I spending time experiencing the mLife in Las Vegas I snuck away from the group for a few hours. It was JUST enough time for one of MY favorite past times….SHOPPING. If you were following my twitter feed while I was away, I KNOW you saw the check-ins at Nanette Lepore and a few other stops along the way as I cruised through one of my favorite Las Vegas shopping mecca's – The Shops at Crystals.
No, this was not the first time I've been shopping there (search through my older posts and you'll see how I just "happened" to visit when they first opened).
With Mother's Day merely a WEEK away, I wanted to share some of the wonderful "VIP Vegas" Mother's Day gifts that are available at Crystals.
For the Mom Who Wants to Dazzle
Tiffany & Co. offers a gorgeous Ziegfeld ring made with freshwater pearls and black onyx set in sterling silver. Stella McCartney'sstunning new prismatic Plexi Clutch is made entirely from sustainable materials. Harry Winston's Lily Cluster Necklace is not only a sensational piece, but Harry Winston Inc. will donate 20 percent of the retail price to seven philanthropic groups across the United States. Crystals' boutique will donate to Keep Memory Alive: a Las Vegas organization committed to improving the lives of patients and their families as they navigate the extraordinary challenges of brain disorders.
For the Mom Who Adores Colors
Fendi's new collection of Crayon wallets lets Mom select from a variety of colors to complement any outfit. Versace's luxurious Medea bag is fit for any goddess. It's made with leathers quilted one by one with tone-on-tone cotton thread that creates the distinctive three-dimensional look and feel of Versace's iconic Barocco quilting pattern. Paul Smith's Westbourne bag, which features a soft leather hobo style with a spacious interior and a short handle, is perfect for all maternal fashionistas on the go.
For the Mom Who Wants to Make a Statement
H.Stern's Tellina Earrings are part of the brand's recently updated Iris collection and are made of 18k rose gold layers united by an 18k Noble Gold bar with a Victorian style diamond setting. Ilori's Sama Ashton Sunglasses, available in platinum pearl with 18k white gold lenses and titanium frame, will have her looking chic. This trendy Multi Loop Short Quartz Necklace from Brunello Cucinelli is handmade from blue quartz, grey quartz and wood.
For the Mom Who Collects Art
A piece from one of The Shops at Crystals' featured galleries will be a gift she can admire for years to come. From The Art of Richard MacDonald, the "Joie de Femme" sculpture will intrigue Mom with two female figures playing a trumpet and a horn as they dance with exuberance. An incredible photograph from Rodney Lough Jr. Gallery, such as his spectacular "God's Garden," will be a piece she'll cherish forever. For Mother's Day weekend only (May 10-12), guests who purchase a framed RLJ Gallery photograph for their mother will receive a complimentary copy of the photo for themselves.


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The New York Times reports that the US Senate Permament Subcommittee on Investigations named Australian property maven and philanthropist Frank Lowy in a 114-page Staff Report on how the investment bank UBS created offshore tax havens in Liechtenstein. The report is part of a Permanent Subcommittee investigation on Tax Haven Banks and US Tax Compliance which held a hearing on 17th July 2008.
The Permanent Subcommittee's press release claims that Lowy used Liechtenstein's LGT Bank to 'transfer companies and a foundation with a Delaware corporation to
help the Lowys hide their beneficial interest in a foundation with $68
million in assets.' NYT reveals the foundation was Laperla based in Liechtenstein and used to funnel up to $US100 million.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports Lowy is cooperating with an Australian Taxation Office audit. Lowy's son Peter is rescheduled to appear at a Permanent Subcommittee hearing on 25th July.
The Australian Financial Review's forensic journalist Neil Chenoweth investigated Australian entrepreneurs with Swiss offshore tax havens in Packer's Lunch (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2007). For a broad international context also see my 2006 essay on anti-money laundering initiatives.


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Feast Day: 14th December
Born: 1542
Born in Spain in 1542, John learned the importance of self-sacrificing love from his parents. His father gave up wealth, status, and comfort when he married a weaver's daughter and was disowned by his noble family. After his father died, his mother kept the destitute family together as they wandered homeless in search of work. These were the examples of sacrifice that John followed with his own great love — God.
When the family finally found work, John still went hungry in the middle of the wealthiest city in Spain. At fourteen, John took a job caring for hospital patients who suffered from incurable diseases and madness. It was out of this poverty and suffering, that John learned to search for beauty and happiness not in the world, but in God.
After John joined the Carmelite order, Saint Teresa of Avila asked him to help her reform movement. John supported her belief that the order should return to its life of prayer. But many Carmelites felt threatened by this reform, and some members of John's own order kidnapped him. He was locked in a cell six feet by ten feet and beaten three times a week by the monks. There was only one tiny window high up near the ceiling. Yet in that unbearable dark, cold, and desolation, his love and faith were like fire and light. He had nothing left but God — and God brought John his greatest joys in that tiny cell.
After nine months, John escaped by unscrewing the lock on his door and creeping past the guard. Taking only the mystical poetry he had written in his cell, he climbed out a window using a rope made of strips of blankets. With no idea where he was, he followed a dog to civilisation. He hid from pursuers in a convent infirmary where he read his poetry to the nuns. From then on his life was devoted to sharing and explaining his experience of God's love.
His life of poverty and persecution could have produced a bitter cynic. Instead it gave birth to a compassionate mystic, who lived by the beliefs that, "Who has ever seen people persuaded to love God by harshness?" and "Where there is no love, put love — and you will find love."
John left us many books of practical advice on spiritual growth and prayer that are just as relevant today as they were then. These books include: Ascent of Mount Carmel, Dark Night of the Soul, A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and The Bridegroom Christ.
Since joy comes only from God, John believed that someone who seeks happiness in the world is like "a famished person who opens his mouth to satisfy himself with air." He taught that only by breaking the rope of our desires could we fly up to God. Above all, he was concerned for those who suffered dryness or depression in their spiritual life and offered encouragement that God loved them and was leading them deeper into faith.
"What more do you want, o soul! And what else do you search for outside, when within yourself you possess your riches, delights, satisfaction and kingdom — your beloved whom you desire and seek? Desire him there, adore him there. Do not go in pursuit of him outside yourself. You will only become distracted and you won't find him, or enjoy him more than by seeking him within you." — Saint John of the Cross
In His Footsteps
John of the Cross believed it was just as dangerous to get attached to spiritual delights as worldly pleasures. Do you expect to get something — a good feeling, a sense of God — from prayer or worship? Do you continue to pray and worship when you feel alone or dry? St John of the Cross always strived to be constant in prayer and in his duties no matter his emotional desire to carry any of it out.
Prayer to St John of the Cross
Saint John of the Cross, in the darkness of your worst moments, when you were alone and persecuted, you found God. Help me to have faith that God is there especially in the times when God seems absent and far away. Amen.


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Paired with RS's range of structural systems our selection of work station components allows you to build a range of workstations that can be used in almost any application. Our range of work station components such as panel clips, connectors and adapters along with wheels and tool-based parts such as drilling and cutting jigs.
This range of parts and tools fits with a broad selection of tubing and profile to ensure the modular functionality along with enabling a robust and reliable system.
Work Station Components can be used in any application where the corresponding structural systems are being used examples of this include use commercial applications such as in storage systems within warehouses and a working bench or platform space within manufacturing. Other applications include more residential and DIY applications such as in storage in garages or workstations within home workshops.


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Application Map is a visual layout of the dependency relationships of your application components. It overlays KPIs such as load, performance and failures, availability test failures, and presence of active alerts to help you get to the component causing the performance or failure issue. Once you have identified the component needing attention, the map helps with handy in-context links to further diagnostics with Application Insights, to the alert rules, or to diagnostics provided by other Azure resources, like the Database Advisor recommendations by SQL Azure. You can learn more about Application Maps here.
We have added the ability to filter the map. You can now filter the Application Map by the Operation Name to only show the server side or client side request, and page-view and dependencies called in their context. You can then pin this filtered view onto a dashboard. From the dashboard, you can click through for diagnostics (click on the node for options, or the icons) or open the full map experience. The screenshots below show the experience:
1. Click on "Options", expand the list of Operation names, select one or more operations to include, and press "Update":
2. After the map is filtered, you will see the applied filters in tags at the top. You can remove any filters by simply clicking on the "x". If you have more than three filters applied, manage them from the Options pane. To pin this view, simply click on the pin icon:
You can also filter by Dependency Name, for a filtered view of the KPIs of those specific dependencies.
Here are some tips on the map:
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Hawaiʻi Police Department
Criminal Investigations Section, Area I
Lieutenant Gregory Esteban
Phone: 961-2252
Report No. C13029246
Media Release (update)
Hawaiʻi Island police are renewing their request for information about an attempted robbery that occurred in Hilo on October 31, 2013.
At about 8 p.m. on that date, police responded to the Waiākea Villas after receiving a report from a 49-year-old Hilo man that while walking in the complex toward his vehicle in the parking lot, he was accosted by a man who brandished a weapon and demanded money. After the victim refused the demand, the suspect fled the area. The victim was not injured in the robbery attempt.
The suspect is described as a local male in his late 20s, about 5-foot-10, about 200 pounds with a light mustache. He was wearing a black T-shirt, dark shorts and a cap embroidered with the words "BJ Penn."
Police released a composite drawing of the suspect with hope that someone will recognize him. Anyone who may know the identity of the suspect or who has any information on this incident is asked to call the Police Department's non-emergency line at 935-3311 or to contact Detective Dean Uyetake at 961-2379 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at 961-8300 and may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000. Crime Stoppers is a volunteer program run by ordinary citizens who want to keep their community safe. Crime Stoppers doesn't record calls or subscribe to caller ID. All Crime Stoppers information is kept confidential.


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Le Relais Saint-Jacques is a boutique hotel of unrivalled character, perfectly situated for your Parisian stay only a few steps away from the renowned Luxembourg Gardens.
Sheltered from St Germain's daily bustle, the hotel offers a breathtaking view over the Panthéon located a short stroll away. Experience the charm of the Left Bank during your stay at Le Relais Saint-Jacques; located in the heart of the Latin Quarter, there is ample opportunity to savour the quaint little shops that typify this authentic and historic part of Paris.
You will find a refined and intimate setting at Le Relais Saint-Jacques. The impressive 1870 building by Hausmann houses 22 uniquely designed bedrooms. Custom-made furniture from Les Histoires d'Alice & Cie harmonises perfectly with our Manuel Canovas and Pierre Frey wallpaper fabrics, and the Toiles de Jouy from Toiles de Mayenne. Our rooms are also fully equipped with the latest conveniences, making them a place where tradition and modernity are impeccably combined.
Le Relais Saint-Jacques invites you to discover its inimitable brand of customer service – comfort, style, elegance and la belle ville de Paris at your doorstep.


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P 2720 Employment of Students/Work Certificate
The Superintendent of Schools will make provision for the issuance of work permits to students between the ages of fourteen (14) and sixteen (16). In addition, principals/designees and District employees holding a student service certificate and, who is authorized by the Superintendent, may issue work certificates to students who are attending their schools. Employees with authority to issue certificates may not issue a certificate to their own child.
Principals issuing work certificates will provide self-certification that the principal understands the legal requirements for issuing work certificates. The principal issuing a work certificate will submit a copy of each certificate and the certificate application to the Superintendent. The Superintendent may revoke a certificate issued by a principal if the Superintendent becomes aware of any grounds upon which the student may be ineligible for a work certificate.
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Previous volumes in the Nuggets From The Golden State series devoted to the late Frank Werber's Trident Productions have been enthusiastically received, and Big Beat is proud to issue the best of the rest in this double CD package, "Sing Me A Rainbow: A Trident Anthology 1965-67".
Werber formed Trident Productions in 1964 and dissolved it in late 1967. As manager and 'fourth member' of the incredibly successful Kingston Trio, he had taken the act's profits and invested them on their behalf in a range of intellectual properties, such as publishing, and physical ones, such as the Trident Restaurant in Sausalito and, most significantly, the flat iron Columbus Tower building in San Francisco's North Beach district. With the production company, Werber wanted to apply his proven management abilities to a new wave of artists, but he didn't bargain with how different, and contrary, that next generation might be. Based as it was in the San Francisco of the mid-1960s, Trident was at once in the vanguard of rock's next phase, and a victim of it. The organization only foundered because, after ten years at the top of his profession, the man driving the whole shebang didn't want to play the game anymore.
Based on a thorough investigation of his catalogue, this collection documents Werber's attempts to create a Brill Building-like production line of writers, producers and acts, though focused on the new folk-rock San Francisco sound. His flagship artist in this regard was the hugely popular We Five, and the comp includes rare mono single and album mixes not previously on CD. Cuts by the Mystery Trend, Sons Of Champlin and Blackburn & Snow are also previously unissued rarities that are not featured on their respective anthologies.
Werber believed in nurturing his handpicked acts, and we have included his best examples here, such as the Justice League, the San Franciscans, the Front Line and the Tricycle. Outside of We Five, none of Trident's acts had any success. Yet, although Sing Me A Rainbow contains 95% unissued material, it is a surprisingly strong and accomplished set of folk rock, pop and garage band sounds with a San Francisco flavour. There is also a rare folk rock experiment by Kingston Trio member John Stewart and selected demos by hopefuls who auditioned for Trident, including Thorinshield, The All Nite Flight and The New Tweedy Brothers.
By Alec Palao
Further reading:
Frank Werber died last year - see our obituary here - but since first getting to know him over a decade ago, Frank became one of my favourite people and assembling this package provide further remembrance of the many pleasant hours I had spent in his company (an account of my first visit to Werber country is here). Frank touched the lives of everyone he met, and to a man, all those involved with the noble experiment that was Trident recall him fondly and continue to cherish the lessons they learned from this singular individual. Click here for further reminiscences upon the noble experiment that was Trident Productions, from Werber's lieutenants Joe Gannon, Randy Steirling and Jon Sagen.
Related Releases: The Sons Of Champlin, The Mystery Trend, Blackburn And Snow.