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In recent research published this year in the medical journal Pediatrics two scientists set out to estimate the annual cost to the United States of babies not being breastfed according to medical recommendations.*
Their calculations showed that if 90% of all babies in the US were breastfed exclusively for six months it could save the US $13 billion and prevent 911 deaths (mostly infant deaths). Alternatively they calculated that if 80% of all babies were breastfed it would have a cost savings of $10.5 billion and save 741 lives. The scientists, Bartick and Reinhold also suggest that these figures are a conservative estimate.
These amounts are staggering, it is brilliant to have these numbers to hand and to be able to show that breastfeeding has a measurable monetary value. However, I think it is more interesting to look at how the researchers came up with these numbers because this really demonstrates how vitally important breastfeeding is to the long term health of a human being and the other cost of not breastfeeding – the human cost.
The method the researchers used was to look at 10 specific illnesses and compare the incidence of each illness between two groups; babies who were exclusively breastfed for six months and babies who were not breastfed at all. The ten illnesses that the researchers looked at were as follows: ear infections, gastroenteritis, necrotizing enterocolitis, chest infections, asthma, eczema, SIDS, childhood leukaemia, type 1 diabetes and obesity. These illnesses are, for the most part, very serious and even life threatening and the researchers were able to determine was that there was a measurable difference in the occurrence between a baby who was breastfed exclusively for six month and a baby who was not breastfed at all.
To just take one of these illnesses, asthma for example; this has a huge impact on a person for the whole of their lives, lifelong medications, visits to doctors, possible hospitalisations and although it can be well managed these days it still is a life threatening disease. Also for the mother and father caring for a child with asthma there is the worry and stress and distress of seeing their child suffer. This is the human cost. It is all well and good to know how much it costs the country when babies aren't breastfed, but on the human level you have many many people whose lives are negatively affected when babies aren't breastfed.
This piece of research is indeed very important, it demonstrates in a rigorous scientific format that breastfeeding has an enormous monetary value and it also clearly illustrates the risks of not breastfeeding are greater than just the financial cost, breastfeeding is essential to long term health and well being. This is why it is so important for pregnant women to make a well informed decision on whether to breastfeed or not. When we really know the true cost associated with not breastfeeding it doesn't make sense to deny ourselves and our babies of this wonderful human resource!
*( Pediatrics. 2010: 125e1048-e1056).


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No function is as troubling and as important to archivists as records appraisal (Ngulube 2001; Garaba, 2007; Greene, 2009; Cook, 2011). Greene (2009) avers that since the 1940s, most archivists agree that archival appraisal is their primary function but they do not agree on how it should be done. There is simply no one way of doing it. This is also attested to by scholars such as Stuckey (2004), Kenosi and Moatlhodi (2012), Thanye, Kalusopa and Bwalya (2015) and Couture (2005), just to mention a few. The Queensland State Archives defines it as "the process of evaluating business activities and records to determine which records need to be captured and how long those records needs to be kept to meet business, accountability requirements and community expectations" (Queensland State Archives, 2010, p. 5). The first activity involves the evaluation of records either for preservation or destruction, the second has to do with the totality of measures taken to ensure long term access. In agreement, IRMT (1999) and the National Archives of UK (TNA) (2004) note that records appraisal involves making decisions on what records need to be kept and for how long in order to enable an organisation to keep utilizing them for operations. Secondly, appraisal is done for purposes of deciding which records have archival value and can be transferred to an archival repository for permanent preservation as archives. This kind of appraisal is often referred to as appraising for enduring value while the former is appraisal for continuing utility (IRMT 1999). Although the second reason for undertaking appraisal as espoused by Queensland State Archives (2010) refers to ensuring access to archival records, in essence it is more or less a similar reason to the one put forward by both IRMT (1999) and TNA (2004), which is the selection of records for permanent preservation. This is because the whole idea of preserving the future archive is to make it accessible (Ngulube, 2001; Forde, 2007; Oweru & Mnjama 2014).
Theory: Some statement meant to explain how something is done or ought to be done, including the relationships between constituent parts that make up the whole entity.
Appraisal School: The approach that informs a particular method of records appraisal. It can also be regarded as an appraisal approach. Further still, in this context, the term means records appraisal methodology.
Archives: Records with enduring value beyond the use of the creating agency and selected for permanent preservation through the archival appraisal process.
Appraisal: The practice and process of assessing values in records to determine what can be preserved as archives and destroyed because they are no longer useful.

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1. That I live in South Africa. Today I am thankful, other days I am not, but today on this Thursday I am!
2. God's continuous provision for our family. He came through again today!
3. I am thankful for Sli! I know she will read this and chick I just wanted to let you know that I thank God for you! Love youxx
4. I am thankful for women in my life who have hearts that are after God's own heart. Mum, Amy, Alice, Steph, Danae, Sli, Kelly, Cristy (and all the other adoptive mummy's that I am becoming friends with). Karris, Jacee and Courtney. I love you all very much.
5. Bevan......the guy at STA travel who got me the best flight deal ever!


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What better way to online date than on an app that already knows pretty much everything about you?
Okay, maybe that doesn't sound like the best idea, but it would make for better online dating. If you're still on Tinder, or have gotten tired of the app and deleted it, you should consider switching to Facebook Dating, the social network app's newest feature that is currently being tested in Colombia. Whether you're into dating apps or not, Facebook Dating actually looks promising enough to add to your rotation of dating apps.
Here are seven reasons why you should consider getting on board with Facebook Dating. And while they may never corner the casual dating find n fuck market, chances are the Facebook will be dominating the mainstream dating space very soon.
You won't have to download another app
The great thing about Facebook Dating is that it's integrated into the Facebook app itself but still has its separate features. We're all picky with what takes up our phone space, and for some, a dating app isn't worth it. Or maybe you already have enough and don't really feel like trying out a new app, but with Facebook Dating, chances are you probably already have Facebook downloaded.
There's no ads or paid subscription
The best things in life come free, and that's what Facebook Dating is — free. You don't have to pay to use Facebook, so it makes sense that you wouldn't be charged for their dating service, considering they're making it a part of their app. While most dating apps charge you extra for premium subscriptions and locked features, Facebook Dating won't. At least for the time being, Facebook doesn't plan on charging you a dime for their dating feature, and won't place any ads throughout your use.
Make decisions based off more than a profile picture
I think that we can agree that at first glance, most dating profiles are superficial. Until you match and get to message them, you only seeing their best pictures of themselves and minor details about the complex person inside you could potentially date. On Facebook, you tell more about yourself than anywhere else. The goal of Facebook Dating is to make you consider the person behind the profile instead of impulsively swiping through everyone.
It's stalker-and-dick-pick-proof
Ever stop messaging someone or unmatch with them, only to have a follow request from them on Instagram the next day? Or match with someone, they message you, and now you realize you're actually not interested, and never respond to their message, and now they won't leave you alone?
Facebook Dating wants to prevent that by making it impossible to follow up with people who don't respond to you. That means you can finally ghost people in peace (ahh). Also, they've made it so that you can't send pictures through your messages at first, so no one will try sliding in your messages with a dick pic asking if you like what you see (or no text at all).
You won't be matched with people you wouldn't want to
You never have to worry about someone you blocked on Facebook popping up in your matches. Or even your friends for that matter. If you're concerned with everyone you're friends with on Facebook finding your dating profile, that won't happen. A big reason for why people stay away from dating apps is 'cause they don't want their friends and families to find their profile.
On Facebook Dating, you'll only receive matches from friends-of-friends or strangers (people you aren't friends, or don't have any mutual friends, with), because they assume you know if you'd want to date one of your Facebook friends or not. You also have a totally separate profile for Facebook Dating than your original Facebook account, and only people on Facebook Dating can see that you have one.
More accurate matches
The biggest indicator for a match on most dating apps is if you're in the same location. But it's not like you want to date just anyone in your area, and the whole reason you're on a dating app in the first place is to check out people you don't already know in your area. All the data Facebook collects on you will finally be put to good use — finding you a girlfriend/boyfriend!
Less cringey pick-up lines and first messages
When creating your profile, you can answer up to 20 personality questions, and when someone first messages you, they are supposed to pick one of your answers as a conversation-starter. If you decide you want to talk to them, you can respond and keep in contact with them, but if not, just don't respond and their profile will be ridden from your messages. I personally think this is a better tool than swiping right to match with somebody based off their looks.


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You are designing a site for a new start up which generates cartoon images for people automatically.
Customers will log on to the site, upload an image which is stored in S3. The application then passes a job to
AWS SQS and a fleet of EC2 instances poll the queue to receive new processing jobs. These EC2 instances
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Don't get me started on finding the right shoes.
Too late: UGH. I take size eleven, and PEI already has a pretty pathetic selection of shoes to begin with, so pickin's are slim. It's especially frustrating because I'm never asking too much, either. This is all I want: a flat, at least sort of comfortable, neutral sandal, with a back to it, preferably strappy but not totally necessary, for walking around NYC & Toronto on my road trip. Is that so much to ask? Well, it seemed like it.
Visited many stores, including Aldo, Winners, Le Chateau, and Payless, and some less promising possibilities, such as Sears, Mark's Work Wearhouse, and Rockport. Found very few styles, tried on even fewer. The only one that I couldn't get out of my head at the end of the day was this:
This is "Dauster" from Aldo. $35 (no PST, which I always forget about, so just under $37 with GST!), thick leather, understated, neutral, wearable. Problem? No size 11 in-store, had to order it... time to play the waiting game! Can't wait to see if it fits, or if I have to go back in for a different pair... We'll see!


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Posted by miera angela , Friday, December 31, 2010 7:47 AM
It was a DATE DAY with Mr.Apek today starting at his Grandma's house in Petaling Jaya where she cooked a MEAN feast of Briyanis & other dishes!
Then we decided to usher in the New Year together by exploring Bukit Bintang.
Sg.Wang Plaza-BB plaza-Lot 10-Farenheit 88-Pavillion-Lot 10-Sg.WangPlaza
We did enough exploring (and shopping), all right !
The Sale was CRAZY but the people there are CRAZIER!
I mean, the crowd i tremendous & all i could see were oceans of people EVERYWHERE!
We decided to leave early because everyone knows how bad the traffic will be once the sun sets.
But once we left the building... OMFG!!!
Its like the whole of the Armed Forces were there!
Police, Army, Rela & even the FRU, man!!!
I was thinking, is there going to be a war or something???
Trying to escape from BB is agonizing enough & we were so darn relieved once were outta that place in ONE PIECE!
So its celebrating New Year in front of the TV for us then!


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The arrest (now released on bail) of Tamil Nadu cartoonist G. Bala under Section 67 of the Information Technology Act and Section 501 of the Indian Penal Code for showing the state Chief Minister in "bad light" reflects the emergence of a new kind of atmosphere of suppressing the freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution. Bala's case has come a few years after the arrest of controversial cartoonist Aseem Trivedi in Mumbai on September 9, 2012, on charges of sedition related to the content of his work which mainly focused on exposing corruption.
In Bala's case, it was the district administration which acted against him for lampooning the state government for its failure to prevent farmers' suicides, but the situation is not comforting at the national level too. There is the prominent case of NDTV which has been made to suffer for its policy of remaining adversary to the administration at the national level or functioning independently, not dancing to the tunes of the government of the day.
But before having a look at what happened in the case of NDTV, let us focus on Bala's case first. He had tried to highlight through his cartoon the plight of a farmer family in Tami Nadu's Tirunelveli district, exposing the inaction of the Chief Minister and his government for their inability to prevent the labourer's family from committing suicide. The cartoon also shed light on the failure of the district collector in saving the poor family from harassment by loan sharks. The collector did not agree with Bala's viewpoint and brought the matter to the notice of the state's Chief Secretary leading to the condemnable action against the cartoonist.
Bala committed no crime by putting his cartoon on his Facebook page. He exercised only his constitutional right to express his views, though uncomfortable, on the functioning of the administration. The district collector, however, got furious at this, asserting that he recognised the right to criticise, but one must understand that there are "limits to creativity". Who has to decide the "limits"? The district collector or the Chief Secretary or a court of law? Silencing a critic of the administration by misusing official powers by a government functionary in a democracy can never be justified. It is a clear case of denial of the constitutional freedom of expression – the right to express one's thoughts freely, fearlessly and without favouring any individual or institution.
Now the NDTV case: The CBI swung into action against the media company's promoters making certain corruption-related allegations against it at a time when NDTV had come to be known as the only major news channel which highlighted the failures of the government on various fronts. The investigation agency has claimed that the raids were conducted only at the premises of the company's promoters, which should not be construed as action against media as such. The fact, however, remains that the CBI raids on the NDTV premises came when it was perhaps the only news channel which focused on the weaknesses of the government. Here the conclusion that can be drawn is that the NDTV establishment was punished for trying to be fiercely independent.
This led to many senior journalists coming down heavily on the NDA government. Prannoy Roy, one of the NDTV owners, told The Washington Post, "In American media, it is considered patriotic to question and make the government accountable; here to be patriotic is to just agree with everything the government says."
His observation told a lot about the state of affairs in India with regard to the media today. The government would, of course, always wish the media to shower praise on its functioning. The government has also been favouring some media organizations obviously owing to their cooperative policies. It has rarely been seen when most of the newspapers and news channels avoid criticizing the government even when it is required. Most of the media organisations, particularly news channels, have, unfortunately, been taking pride in singing paeans for the government obviously with a view to seeking official favour. This is a sad commentary on the functioning of the media today, but who bothers when making money is the primary motive of today's media, including the newspapers. Such a depressing scenario has never been witnessed in the history of Indian journalism except for the black 19 months when the infamous national emergency was declared on June 25, 1975.
There may be two primary reasons for the news media coming down to this level: either there is widespread fear of the government's vindictive attitude or there is little difference between the agenda of the government and those running media companies. Whatever the truth, this is the time for soul searching so that the respect the Indian media enjoys at the world stage does not become a thing of the past.
It appears that there is a race for being more loyal to the government than others to ensure that the media organisation which indulges in playing this game will be a major gainer. That this kind of behaviour will affect credibility is not the concern of newspapers and news channels. A media organisation feels comfortable so long as it gets the maximum advertising support from the government. In such a scenario, it is not surprising that being the media adviser of the Prime Minister or a Chief Minister is considered a big achievement for a journalist!
The media scenario in the country has become so pathetic that no one these days talks of yellow journalism as if the problem has come to an end. It is very much there which could be seen when newspapers and news channels gave undue prominence to any development related to Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh of the Sirsa 'dera' fame, now in jail. Even his controversial adopted daughter, Honeypreet, got almost similar treatment.
Trivialisation of news and debates on various issues by TV channels has contributed a lot to the electronic media, in particular, having become a laughing stock. This combined with their public image of most channels and newspapers functioning like mouthpieces of the government, has led to the people calling the media as being sold out to the government (Sab bikey huay hain).
In such an atmosphere, the government is bound to feel emboldened to suppress the voice of any media organisation or professional showing courage to criticise the official viewpoint on any issue or development. The media too is equally to blame for the pitiable situation being witnessed today. But the government cannot escape its responsibility of letting this significant pillar of the edifice of democracy function freely and fearlessly. Any step taken to weaken the institution of mass media, including the press, will amount to ultimately working against the interests of the world's largest democracy.
(The writer is a Delhi-based political commentator.)(Published on 13th November 2017, Volume XXIX, Issue 46)


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buy korean ginseng online india I really need to give major props to the Rock n Roll event staff. The mass shooting in Las Vegas was a mere six weeks before the race. Often, plans for an event of this scale happen months (if not a year+) in advance. The team had to work with local officials to determine whether or not it was feasible to have this event in a way that was safe and manageable for all parties. Once the decision was made to move forward, then it was a quick set of decisions to reconfigure the event within the new parameters. All in all, I would call this weekend a smashing success. I want to thank the staff at Rock n Roll, the city/state/other officials who all came together to make this happen. This was the first major event in the city since the shooting.
I had fully planned to make Friday my expo day. The Las Vegas expo is far away the largest in the series and it's worth spending time here. Sadly, my 45 minute flight was 3 hours late and I lost most of my afternoon. Thankfully, LAX has therapy dogs.
I landed in Las Vegas around 5, and the expo closes at 6 on Friday (so early!). So I bee-lined to the expo with luggage in tow. I knew Saturday would be crazy, so if I could get my bib and shirts, at least the required logistics were complete. While there, I grabbed my Vegas Strong pre-order shirt (a fundraiser for the Las Vegas Victims Fund), and a pre-order from Sparkle Athletic. I saw on the way out that Night Runner 270 was there, who I'd seen on Shark Tank in 2016. We were being ushered out, so I said hello and told them I'd come back the next day.
Of course, when I went back on Saturday, it was PACKED. I still didn't get to see everything, but I hit up the things I most wanted: Sparkle Athletic for the reflective visor (for Ezra and me), PRO to get Ezra his neon jailbreak socks. Andrew stopped at Hoka to try on shoes (they weren't selling this time) and we made a few other stops including chatting with Night Runner 270 about their shoe lights (more to come in a post soon!).
Rock n Roll Las Vegas 5K presented by the SLS hotel
Then it was off to the 5K. Brandi (@funnerrunner) and I offered to co-host a donut meetup again this year since it was a hit last year. We picked up donut holes from a local shop (love to give a local business some love). Security was tight—all bags had to be searched and we were wanded with a metal detector. We knew there would be extra security, but weren't sure how much. The security personnel and police officers patrolling the scene were all very friendly, professional and helpful—really had a great experience!
We entered the festival grounds and headed to the meetup spot. One of the changes to the weekend was that the headliner concert (which has historically been before the Sunday races) would be AFTER the 5K.
The 5K band, MarchFourth! was playing when we arrived and the place was jumping. We found the group and many donut holes were eaten and pictures taken. A group of us had decided to wear our favorite red, white and blue attire (or socks) since it was Veteran's Day. The race always provides light up things, but it seemed this year there may have been fewer as they were gone well in advance of the race.
The 5K has grown each year and this year introduced color zones for the first time. There were 23 corrals and around 9,000 runners! WOW! Each year I've run this race (since the inaugural in 2014), there has been a new course, and this year was no different. We started on the festival grounds and then turned onto the streets. This year, the street portion of the course was all out and back, while the portion on the grounds were separate.
After our meetup and pix, I hopped into the corrals with Dani (@irisheyes1982), Brian (@pavementrunner), Carlee (@carleemcdot), David (@fitfam6). Andrew (@smartwatermelon) and Libby (@runninboots) were in the same corral. Since I was doing the Rock n Roll Snapchat, I wasn't planning to race it, and wanted to capture the race experience.
There was more music this year than in previous years. I think they continue to adjust the course for the 5K since it's hard to get the city to agree to shut down too much for the sake of the locals. With the 23 corrals, we saw people still on the outbound the whole way back… I'm guessing it may have taken 25-30 minutes to get everyone started. I was in an early corral and was done in about 32 minutes. Had a blast with this crew on the course and we chatted most of the way (with lots of jokes).
Dani and I got some good pix at the finish line and even a video of some of the folks finishing. Then we found Andrew and Libby, who finished in about 29 minutes. Ezra walked up… he'd arrived a bit late and ended up in a later corral, so he worked it to get through the crowds (it's a narrow course).
Absolutely loved the medal this year—one of my favorite 5K medals ever!
We chatted with each other and some other runners while listening to March Fourth from afar. We headed in to see the Goo Goo Dolls. I didn't mind having the concert on Saturday night. Unfortunately, folks who'd planned to come in on Sunday and had arranged same-day bib pickup missed it. Again, a bummer, but I thought this was a good solution to an event that was reconfigured on very short notice.
After that, Dani, Andrew and I headed out for dinner, because after you run, you gotta eat, right?
Rock n Roll Las Vegas 5K
Chip time: 31:58
Disclosure: I am a member of the 2017 Rock n Blog crew, and Competitor Group, Inc. (owner of the Rock n Roll Marathon Series) provided me with a Global Tour Pass. All opinions expressed herein are my own and reflect my experience at the event. All expenses beyond the race were incurred by me (unless explicitly stated).


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The following should be attributed to Roger Lowe, executive vice president of strategic communications at the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).
The POLITICO story relies heavily on nameless sources and former GMA staff who are out of touch with the organization's work in recent years or who are eager to advance their own personal agenda. Those critics have little knowledge or interest in acknowledging GMA's trailblazing work in transparency that gives people more information than could ever fit on a package label, its leadership on strong food safety regulations or its work with the Obama Administration – and now with the Trump Administration – on health and wellness, including front-of-pack labeling.
GMA and its employees are dedicated to the support of an American food system that delivers food grown sustainably and affordably so that GMA member companies can produce the product choices that consumers want as well as the tools and information to make the best choices for each family. We are proud of the results we have achieved and how these achievements serve American consumers. At the same time, we seek every year to continually improve how we serve our members and consumers.
Passage of the GMO disclosure law in 2016 was recognized as one of the top lobbying victories of the year. It's no surprise that those who vigorously opposed this common-sense law – passed with widespread bipartisan support – would now try to tear down its significance. GMA led the industry's successful campaign for passage by Congress of a uniform national standard for GMO disclosure, supported by a broad coalition of agriculture, processing, manufacturing and retailer groups. Our commitment to consumer transparency has continued this year as the rules are developed for the disclosure law. GMA and its members are firmly committed to product transparency for consumers. We strongly support the mandatory disclosure of refined ingredients derived from bioengineered crops under the federal bioengineered disclosure law. Consumer interest in bioengineered food reflects their questions about how a crop or ingredient was grown. Our recommendations to USDA call for the National Bioengineering Disclosure Law to provide consumers with a level of product transparency that will allow them to easily determine if a product has been sourced from a bioengineered crop.
The food industry is facing significant disruption and is evolving at an unprecedented pace. There's no question that companies – and GMA – are all different today than they were five years ago, three years ago or even a year ago – and that we all will continue to evolve and change at a faster pace. Many brands that are part of GMA have been around for over 100 years because they stay close to their consumers, and they are evolving their companies to meet changing consumer needs. Not surprisingly, each company evolves differently, and sometimes that evolution is seen in their public policy positions. As a member-driven organization, GMA is evolving along with our member companies.
The Politico article's disproportionate attention on issues where some companies differed over the years fails to give the proper focus on the many issues where the food, beverage and consumer products industry has come together through GMA on matters important to both consumers and companies – including product safety, transparency, uniform labeling laws and food waste:
- The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is the most comprehensive reform of our nation's food safety laws in 70 years, and GMA and its member companies helped develop and pass FSMA to meet a common goal with FDA and with our customers of having the safest possible products. We have been very active on behalf of companies in working with FDA throughout the implementation of various FSMA rules.
- SmartLabel and Transparency – Consumers want more and more information about the food, beverage, personal care and household products they buy and consume. And our industry is doing something to meet that need with SmartLabel. GMA (along with FMI) spearheaded the creation of SmartLabel, which gives consumers easy access to more information than could ever fit on a package label. It is a modern label that enables consumers to get the information they want, when they want it. There are already more than 16,000 products using SmartLabel from 40 companies and 445 brands – and the number is constantly rising.
- Food Waste Reduction – GMA and FMI joined together on an initiative to streamline more than a dozen different product code dates to just two: BEST if Used By and USE By. This product code dating initiative earned widespread and bipartisan praise for reducing consumer confusion and food waste. It builds on our work on food waste through the Food Waste Reduction Alliance. GMA joined with retailers and the restaurant industry in 2011 to create FWRA, which identifies sources of food waste, ways to increase donations to food banks and cut the amount of food sent to landfills, and share ideas with other companies.
GMA is working with and on behalf of its members to build trust with consumers in our industry, advocate with government leaders on solutions that enhance the lives of consumers, collaborate with retailers to find ways to deliver products more efficiently and effectively, and to provide manufacturers with 21st Century capabilities and services to meet consumer needs, such as in food safety training and services, nutrition and labeling.


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This rather brilliant tree-trunk sculpture is at the start of the magical little spot in our favourite country park that I posted about on Monday.
Although he'd seen it many times before Jake seemed fascinated by it, almost as if he was seeing it for the first time!
Could it be his first moment of art appreciation?
Whatever it was I think it's a terrific, although slightly surreal, picture.
The question is though: can you come up with a suitable caption for it?
Witty, silly, profound – anything you like: go for it!
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Booker T. Washington National Monument, April 10, 2011
Statue Depicting Booker T. Washington as a Slave Child
Restored Kitchen House Like That
Inhabited by Booker T. Washington's Family
Restored Kitchen House Like That
Inhabited by Booker T. Washington's Family
Stream, Booker T. Washington National Monument
Booker T. Washington Bust
Inscription: A RACE, LIKE AN INDIVIDUAL,
Gravestone That Reads "SID DID, The 30 August 1893"
(Maybe "1873"), Sparks Cemetery
Stable, Booker T. Washington National Monument
Sleeping Rare Pig, Booker T. Washington National Monument
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Booker T. Washington National Monument Web Page (National Park Service)
Some quotations by Booker T. Washington
Note: Use Google Maps or MapQuest to plan your journey beforehand, as there are not many road signs leading to this park. Or use GPS! The park is about thirty minutes east of Roanoke in western central Virginia.
The Booker T. Washington National Monument made such a strong impression that the next morning I imagined myself waking up with Booker T. Washington, his mother, brother, and sister, on the dirt floor of the kitchen house in which they all lived. As Chris and I walked miles through the beautiful park the day before, we visualized ourselves walking with Booker as a child.
You don't just read about Booker T. Washington's life here — you live it. You feel what this tobacco farm was like when Booker T. Washington lived here from 1856 to 1865.
We spent a good four hours walking the complete trail, taking in the restored period buildings, farm animals, Gills Creek, and Sparks Cemetery. While we walked, obviously happy and curious kids bounced in and out of the exhibits and ran to look at farm animals. Even small toddlers were energized by the place. This park is so well set up that it offers something for everyone — all ages; all backgrounds.
The park guides are unusually friendly and helpful. The information about Booker T. Washington's life and the times in which he lived is presented in many ways — art work, informational tableaus, well-written brochures, a movie (which we did not even watch; we spent four hours absorbing everything else they had to offer).
The guides give you a number to dial on your cell phone and, as you walk through the hiking trail, you can listen to pre-recorded information about certain trail stops. There is a lot of very interesting information presented in many different ways.
For instance, did you know that slaves introduced licorice to the United States in necklaces made out of licorice seeds? There are so many little details to absorb.
We hiked by a cemetery about which almost nothing is known. Only one gravestone had very simple letters carved into it; the rest of the stones were unmarked but positioned like gravestones. Perhaps the Sparks Cemetery is a slave cemetery; no one knows. The National Park Service guides know its name from oral history.
The Booker T. Washington National Monument is on a section of the 207 acres owned by the Burroughs family. It was a tobacco farm on which Booker T. Washington was born to a slave named Jane. He knew very little about his father, a neighboring white plantation owner. As a slave child, Booker worked hard literally as soon as he could walk.
I find it ironic that at birth his mother Jane named him "Booker" and that early on he developed a love for learning that persisted throughout his life. It was a prophetic name. Booker T. Washington also always believed in the value of hard work. Perhaps a little too much so — I read online that after his death, doctors discovered that his blood pressure was twice the normal range; they thought that he had developed congestive heart failure from overwork.
The Burroughs Farm was a smaller farm where the master and slaves worked side by side. Young Booker did not experience the extreme cruelties known at the larger plantations. When Booker was nine years old, Master Burroughs read the Emancipation Proclamation to him and his family on the porch of the "Big House."
As you walk through the park, you see this man's humble beginnings — sleeping on a dirt floor in a scratchy flaxseed slave shirt he hated — and you take in information about what he later became. He strove on to remarkable achievements. Booker T. Washington became a famous educator, author, orator, influential advisor, and civil rights activist.
When his money ran out for train transportation to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) in Hampton, Virginia, he walked the rest of the way to begin his education.
He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama at the age of twenty-five. He obtained funding for thousands of small African-American community schools and higher education institutions from Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, George Eastman, and many other famous self-made businessmen of the time. He also obtained support for these schools from prominent African-American educators, ministers, and businessmen. He was an advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt.
Booker T. Washington wrote fourteen books, including the classic, Up From Slavery. In 1895, he was thrust into national prominence by his famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech.
These are all admirable achievements for any man, but how did someone born a slave bring his idealistic visions to life while the Ku Klux Klan was on the rise and segregation was becoming the new norm? (There is a disturbing photo of lynching victims and other information about racism's harsh realities on display at the park to remind you of the general sociopolitical climate.) Once the bizarre economic system of slavery was abolished, how was American society to be organized? This had to be a difficult transitory period.
Booker T. Washington seemed to size up a given situation's limitations and possibilities, and magically transform it into new opportunities no one else had envisioned. Blessed with unusual intelligence, inner strength, resourcefulness, interpersonal skills, and a persistent need to see concrete results, Booker T. Washington negotiated pathways even more remarkable in light of the time in which he lived.
Washington became one of the most famous men in the country during the last twenty years of his life; his opinion was sought by many. He had become a spokesman for civil rights. Some thought his message should be less compromising. W.E.B. Du Bois was perhaps his most outspoken critic, wishing that Booker T. Washington would talk and write less conservatively about civil rights. A man who knew how to get things done, Washington believed that outright confrontation would harm African-Americans. After his death, it came to light that Booker T. Washington had secretly been financing litigation for civil rights cases.
Optimistic and idealistic, but also a pragmatic man of action, Booker T. Washington strongly felt that men could lift themselves up by hard work. He thought that if they first contributed to society by educating themselves and developing skills so that they could make a living, African-Americans could move forward in other areas. His own life experience was that economic strength was the necessary first step, the base from which to spring forward. An unusual Renaissance man, he wrote, "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
Cyrus McCormick Farm and Workshop, April 9, 2011
Grist Mill and Workshop, Cyrus McCormick Farm and Workshop, Raphine, VA
Reaper, Cyrus McCormick Farm and Workshop, Raphine, VA
Grist Mill Wheel, Cyrus McCormick Farm and Workshop, Raphine, VA
Grist Mill Machinery, Cyrus McCormick Farm and Workshop, Raphine, VA
Workshop, Cyrus McCormick Farm and Workshop, Raphine, VA
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Lexington, Virginia, Web Page
Commonwealth of Virginia Web Page
On Saturday Chris and I stopped at the Cyrus McCormick Farm and Workshop in Raphine, Virginia, a little south of Lexington, Virginia, in western central Virginia. We quickly walked around the beautifully landscaped grounds and through a couple of the buildings — we need to go back and explore it more thoroughly.
Cyrus McCormick was most famous for his invention of the reaper, a precursor to the harvester. His reaper, which he developed with members of his family, was patented in 1834. Cyrus McCormick is often called the "father of agriculture," since his reaper was the beginning of agricultural mechanization.
He founded the McCormick Harvester Company, which eventually was bought by International Harvester Company. He became a prominent Chicago businessman.
The McCormick family farm was known as Walnut Grove. The 620-acre farm now belongs to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ("Virginia Tech") and is part of Virginia Tech's Shenandoah Valley Research Station. The beautiful grounds include nine renovated buildings. We walked through the grist mill and blacksmith shop.
The McCormick family used the grist mill to grind wheat into flour. It was built around 1800 and was operated through the late nineteenth century.
The blacksmith workshop was used to repair farming tools. The McCormicks also built their reapers there.
We are going back to look at the McCormick Farm and Workshop in the future to look through the museum, carriage house, slave quarters (nine slaves lived at Walnut Grove), smokehouse, schoolhouse, and other buildings. We read online that eight of the nine original buildings remain. Robert McCormick, Cyrus' father, created the farm in 1822.
I like the working miniature reaper models that were used by the McCormick Harvester Company salesmen. Most of all, I love the beautiful landscaping at this site.
Admission is free to this pleasant byway. You can stop by any day when the weather is good. One web site lists the hours as 8-5; another one says 8:30-5:00.Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )
History and Cherry Blossoms, April 3, 2011
Magnolia Blossoms Along the Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C.
Looking Up at the Iwo Jima Memorial, Arlington, VA
Jefferson Memorial Through the Cherry Blossoms, Washington, D.C.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Statue, Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Cherry Blossoms Along the Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C.
Eleanor Roosevelt Statue, Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Washington Monument Cherryscape, Washington, D.C.
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Locals by transplant, Chris and I became tourists last Sunday, April 3, probably the best day in 2011 to view the almost four thousand cherry trees in full bloom around the Tidal Basin. Washington, D.C. was so jam-packed with tourists and traffic that our bus could not make all the stops on the itinerary. Still, it was exciting to be among the throngs of people from all over the world.
We took a bus tour where we stopped at several attractions. We got out at each destination, walked along the gounds, and listened to our guide, Ralph. We walked along the Jefferson Memorial, the Roosevelt Memorial, the Iwo Jima Memorial, and the D.C. wharf down on the Potomac River.
On the tour we learned that historical documents from the National Archives were lowered fifteen feet below the ground into a sealed vault for security on 09/11/2001.
Also Ralph told us that President Grant smoked cigars in the Williard Hotel lobby near the White House because his staff didn't like them. He would cut deals with movers and shakers there in the Williard Hotel lobby — this was the origin of the term "lobbyist."
The Smithsonian Institution was created from $500,000 willed by a British scientist named James Smithson. James Smithson was born illegitimate, worked himself up through an impressive scientific career, and had never been to the United States.
The Roosevelt Memorial — very inspiring and peaceful to walk through — is the largest Washington, D.C. memorial, sixteen acres in size.
As we drove through the crowded streets that included homeless people's belongings, Ralph noted that there are about 6,500 homeless peope in Washington, D.C.
One good tip Ralph gave us is that the best hotel deal in Washington, D.C. is the historic Hotel Harrington, which never charges more than $128 per room.
I know most people rave about the cherry blossoms, but I have always been captivated by the magnolia flowers since I moved to the Washington, D.C. area from New England and New York state. Magnolia trees seem so southern to me.
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Organ Cave: Finally Got the Bat Picture
|Hibernating Bat, Organ Cave
|Hopper Used by Confederate Soldiers
Click for Organ Cave's web site
Saturday Chris and I drove to Organ Cave, West Virginia to take the Organ Cave Tour. It was well worth the trip. (Organ Cave is about a four-hour drive from northern Virginia.)
Chris and I have been touring many, many caverns in Virginia and West Virginia over the last couple of years. We found Organ Cave most memorable for its history, fossils, naturalized state, wildlife, and extended tours.
We prefer more natural caves over the showy, commericialized caverns. Organ Cave has lights reminiscent of old-style lanterns so you get a feeling of how people visited and interacted in the cave in times past.
The cave is unusual in its many hoppers which soldiers left behind after the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The soldiers refined saltpeter with these hoppers. Saltpeter is derived from bat guano found in the caverns.
Many fossils have been discovered at Organ Cave. Most famous is the giant three-toed sloth, the remains of which were sent to Thomas Jefferson. Also the remains of a sabre-tooth cat, nine-banded armadillo, reindeer, and other prehistoric animals have been found.
We finally obtained our elusive bat picture. We have seen plenty of hibernating bats at Endless Caverns (New Market, VA) and Dixie Caverns (Salem, VA) but have not gotten good photos of them yet. The bats hibernate in caves in Virginia from November through April. During the spring and fall, they may go into the caves to sleep during the daytime. During the summer they tend to sleep outside of the caves.
Organ Cave also has many extended tours where you can do "real" hiking and caving to explore deeper parts of the caverns. The tours that we are going to go back for seem to range around $50 per person. Also they have an "undernighter" where you can even sleep in the cave overnight!
Our tour guide and the people running the gift shop were very knowledgeable and obviously enthusiastic about Organ Cave.
We recommend a visit to Organ Cave. There are also many other attractions in the area, so it is worth an overnight trip to allow time to explore everything.
Movie: "I.O.U.S.A."
"I.O.U.S.A." web site
Peter G. Peterson Foundation web site (David Walker)
The Concord Coalition web site
* * * * * (5 out of 5)
I am so glad my colleague Jonathan mentioned this movie to me.
"I.O.U.S.A.'s" subtitle reads "One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt."
This movie is very important. It is a disturbing must-see. It brings home the point that our own fiscal mayhem is as dangerous to us as terrorism.
It's also very well done — how many people can make economic theory entertaining and even humorous? Talk about an unusual talent.
David Walker pre-empted his government service as Comptroller General of the U.S. because he felt he could not serve the country well enough in that post. He needed to bring his message to the grassroots level. So he took to the road on the "Fiscal Wake-Up Call Tour" with Robert Bixby of the Concord Coalition. They travel to town meetings around the U.S.
They discuss four deficits that affect us: our budget deficit, our savings deficit, our trade deficit, and our leadership deficit. They clearly illustrate how these deficits are endangering our future in many, many ways.
They emphasize that their message is non-partisan. They also offer some solutions.
I signed up for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and Concord Coalition e-mail lists tonight.
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Movie: "Man on Wire"
"Man on Wire" web site
About Philippe Petit
* * * * (4 out of 5)
I'm so glad my niece Sarah pointed out this movie to me.
While most of this documentary rolled along, the thought "this is one crazy Frenchman" (our family's mostly French, a bit Native American) grew stronger and stronger in my mind.
But when I watched twenty-four-year-old Philippe Petit walk a tightrope between the two World Trade Center towers, I realized how beautiful and inspirational that act was, and why he became famous for it.
This film skillfully unfolds the story, weaving back and forth between slices in time, of how Philippe, his girlfriend, his friends and some acquaintances worked for six years to illegally set up the tightrope between the tops of the Twin Towers so he could walk across it eight times in 1974.
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Movie: "Brideshead Revisited"
About "Brideshead Revisited"
About the TV serial "Brideshead Revisited"
About Evelyn Waugh
**** (4 out of 5)
This is a well acted and very interesting interpretation of the 1945 classic novel by British author Evelyn Waugh. It is the poignant story of a man in a love triangle with a brother and sister. So sad.
It also reveals different flavors of selfishness and the dominance of a higher faith, Catholicism.
Emma Thompson and Ben Whishaw are completely believable as, respectively, the be-yotch mother Lady Marchmain and her tortured homosexual son Sebastian.
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Uttarkashi: The villagers of Assi Ganga valley, one of the areas in Uttarkashi district which was badly affected by the 2013 Kedarnath disaster, are waiting for reconstruction and relief work for the past four years. Local residents alleged that most of the major roads, bridges, schools and medical centres of the region have not been totally restored and continue to be in bad shape. The valley, which is situated barely 5 km away from the district headquarters, was devastated by the floods in 2012 as well.
Residents of villages such as Gajoli, Seku, Naugaun, Bhankoli, Agora, Uttaron and a few others said that "it was a pity that the region – which has a lot of adventure tourism potential, was being neglected like this."
"The government never focused on constructing the damaged roads, bridges and government buildings here. It is the entry point to the famous Dodital lake but little has been done to enhance tourism potential. The few constructions that were done over the years are of little use for us," said Kamleshwar Prasad Khanduri, a resident of Gajoli village.
A major 20-km road connecting Sangamchatti and Gajoli region to the Rishikesh-Gangotri National Highway is still under construction for the past four years. One of the bridges connecting Uttaron village, that was rebuilt by government agencies, has technical faults. A health facility and another cooperative centre are still non-functional since they were reconstructed two years ago. Many of the smaller bridges, including the one connecting Agora to Dodital trek, are still broken. Villagers, including children, are forced to cross rivers and rivulets using wooden logs.
The scenario in government schools is no good either. Several of these lack basic infrastructure and records little attendance. The situation during monsoon gets worse as classrooms getting inundated with rain water.
"As many as 9,000 villagers of the valley have been living in pitiable situation due to negligence of the state government. We have protested several times and pleaded before senior officials but little has been done," said Dinesh Singh, a resident of Naugaun village.
Meanwhile, sub-divisional magistrate of Bhatwari, Devendra Singh Negi, said, "The administration has ordered all construction agencies to speed up work in the villages and surrounding areas. Our main priority is to finish the pending projects first. Other issues will be resolved subsequently."


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The Tulsa Artist Fellowship presents quarterly writers' salons to provide an opportunity for the community to engage with and enjoy works by TAF literary artists. The most recent TAF Writers' Salon featured literary artists Anna Badkhen, Melanie Gillman and Simon Han. Hosted at the newly renovated Tulsa Central Library, the salon audience was able to enjoy a lovely evening with readings from various categories of literature.
The evening commenced with Simon Han reading a short story, "NC-17," which is forthcoming in Fence Magazine, followed by Melanie Gillman's narration and presentation of a sampling of their nonfiction comics, with Anna Badkhen finishing the evening by reading from Walking with Abel (Riverhead Books, 2015), her most recently published book of lyrical nonfiction.
TAF would like to thank all of our attendees, the Tulsa City-County Library, Magic City Books and our salon moderator Grant Jenkins. TAF Writers' Salons are truly a literary gathering for all and we look forward to meeting again during our December 2017 salon (details forthcoming).
If you are in the Tulsa area, be sure to keep up with literary events through BookSmart Tulsa. TAF is looking forward to partnering with BookSmart Tulsa for these upcoming events:
Concentration Camps: A Global History
Morgan Parker: There Are Things More Beautiful Than Beyonce


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Ok, I know this may be a dumb question but I'd much rather ask it and make sure I'm getting it right. I've watched a few breeders discuss their tub setup and I'm contemplating using press and seal over the tub before putting the lid on to make sure it is air-tight. I've even seen some say they never open the tub back up until the snakes are pipping. Is this actually safe? I worry that with an air-tight tub there wont be enough oxygen to sustain the eggs.
I'm testing some tubs with different methods to find out which one is going to work best for me but before attempting an air-tight tub with press and seal I just wanted to get some input.
Thanks in advance!


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Karen Bradley: Shy, loyal, and bit of an expert at avoiding the straight answer
Talking to those who know new Northern Ireland Secretary of State Karen Bradley, she comes across as a carbon copy of her predecessor James Brokenshire.
"She is not a big personality or someone who likes being the centre of attention," said Phil Corrigan, a political reporter with Mrs Bradley's local newspaper, the Stoke Sentinel.
"She has a very low-profile presence on social media. Unlike her Cabinet colleagues, she doesn't even have an open Twitter account, which is highly unusual, and particularly since her last portfolio included digital.
"She is a close ally of Theresa May, whom she worked under at the Home Office. She is extremely loyal and can be guaranteed to toe the party line. In choosing her to succeed James Brokenshire, the Prime Minister has replaced like with like."
The political career of the Staffordshire Moorlands MP has been largely straightforward and uncontroversial until now - almost a tad dull - and Mrs Bradley must be hoping to continue in the same vein in Northern Ireland.
The 47-year-old, who had been Culture Minister for 18 months previously, is an unknown quantity to most political parties here, bar the DUP.
Its North Antrim MP Ian Paisley has built a good working relationship with her. "As DUP shadow spokesman for digital, culture, media and sport, I've got to know her well and I very much like her," he said.
"She is solid, the consummate safe pair of hands. I dealt with her on the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, gambling and gaming rights and reform of the BBC.
"I've never seen her in a flap about anything and that will serve her well in Northern Ireland. Karen is an extremely pleasant and professional person to deal with and has a strong unionist outlook."
Mr Paisley describes the new Secretary of State as "incredibly friendly and open". He said: "She really listens to your views and is straight in her dealings. That will be her strongest asset in her new job in Northern Ireland.
"She has been thrown in at the deep end here and told to swim but she is no dozer and will be on top of her brief very quickly."
Mr Paisley predicts "a honeymoon period until some eejit calls on her to resign".
Mrs Bradley has two sons, Matthew and Thomas, with husband Neil, a transport consultant. They live in Leek, the largest town in her constituency. She grew up 12 miles away in Buxton, where her family ran the Queen's Head Hotel and Pub.
Living above the premises gave her "a unique introduction to people from all walks of life", her website says.
Mrs Bradley went to the local comprehensive and then studied maths at Imperial College London. She worked as an accountant with both KPMG and Deloitte & Touche.
She was a late convert to politics after KPMG seconded her to advise the Tories on tax policy in 2002. "I was inspired by Michael Howard in particular," she told The Times. "After seven months I went to KPMG but it was too late, I was hooked." Mrs Bradley ran for Westminster three years later and failed to get elected, but was successful in 2010.
She served in the whip's office before being made a junior minister at the Home Office in 2014.
As Culture Minister she was criticised for vetoing the appointment of black female candidate Althea Efunshile, a former deputy chief of Arts Council England, as a non-executive director on the board of Channel 4 in 2016.
Efunshile was the only one of five candidates proposed by Ofcom to join the all-white board who was rejected. In a U-turn, she was appointed by the Government in December.
Mrs Bradley doesn't come across as a natural or suave TV performer. One interview with Piers Morgan, in which she avoided answering a question on the numbers of armed police officers in the UK, was heavily criticised.
The New Statesman said her performances as Culture Minister "have mainly been defined by her ability to dodge questions and avoid saying anything of any significance on everything from Rupert Murdoch to the BBC, presumably a trait highly valued by her similarly evasive boss Theresa May".
A crime thriller fan, Mrs Bradley told the Stoke Sentinel that she had "read every Morse, Dalziel and Pascoe, Frost and Rebus that's been printed and mourned the passing of far too many characters over the years, many of whom came to very sticky ends".
She reads Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol annually "starting on December 20 with Marley's Ghost, then a chapter every day until I finish on Christmas morning... it gets me in the mood". She cites "walking in the beautiful Staffordshire Peak District" and cooking as hobbies.
The new Secretary of State was a Remain supporter. The website They Work For You reports that she has consistently voted for equal gay rights and same-sex marriage and generally voted against smoking bans and laws to promote equality and human rights.
She has almost always voted "for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas" and has once voted against investigations into the Iraq War, it claims.
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PROTESTERS brought part of Liverpool city centre to a standstill this afternoon in a demonstration against the war.
About 100 people waved banners and sat in the road outside the town hall with five protesters chaining themselves to railings.
They were refusing to budge until Liverpool council officially condemned the war.
Dozens of police, including riot vans, tried to diffuse the situation which threatened to boil over as passions rose.
Young and old, workers and students, joined together to force traffic to a standstill outside Castle Street and Water Street.


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This is such a fantastic idea simply for the fact that it encourages hearing people to act on the terms of deaf people. Part of the draw of the restaurant is to experience signing, so they're encouraged to accommodate people who need it rather than expecting marginalized peoples to just deal with unfair hurdles in a society that's designed by and for hearing people.
I hope this is the start of widespread trend. Check out the video:


text: About GISHRU is a life changing journey to Assyria dedicated to connecting Assyrians living in the ancestral Homeland with Assyrians throughout the Diaspora, to preserving the vast Assyrian history, culture, and archaeological wonders, and ultimately, strengthening the Assyrian identity. We believe that the connections made today will lead to a prosperous future for the Assyrian Nation. Assyrians are the indigenous people of Assyria (modern day Iraq, southeast Turkey, northwest Iran and northeast Syria). "GISHRU" means "Bridge" in the Assyrian language. It is our duty to bridge the ideas, resources, and beliefs of Assyrians worldwide all in unity of one common goal of preserving the culture, tradition and history of one of the first civilizations of the world.


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Follow the Voyage of Hope Around the World on the Internet and at the Houston Boat ShowLes Bissel suffered astroke in 2002 recovered and is now sailing around the world in a 28 ft sailboat on a crusade for stroke prevention.
(PRWEB) December 29, 2004 -- Les Bissell is a man on a mission – he calls it a "Voyage of Hope" – and thanks to 21st century technology, we can all follow along with him.
In early spring this year, avid sailor and athlete Bissell set sail in his 28-foot sloop, Hope, from Annapolis, Maryland, on a three-year voyage around the world. This is not one of those "just because I can" or "get away from it all" adventures. It's more of a "because I still can" celebration.
Bissell, who at age 37 suffered a sudden, severe stroke in January 2002, is sailing the globe to heighten awareness about strokes – the signs, symptoms and recovery – and to give courage to all current and future stroke victims. Having won the hard fight to recover, he is partnering with National Stroke Association (NSA) to spread the message of hope.
Now Bissell is out there on the ocean, accompanied only by crew member Brian Murphy and an amazing global tracking and communications system donated by Houston-based Remote Knowledge, Inc.


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Ridesharing app Uber has announced it will offer an in-house leasing program for UberX drivers in the US.
The company has previously partnered with other lenders to offer its drivers reduced-rate leasing options. This is the first move by the company to bring those operations under its own roof.
The program, dubbed Xchange, is tailored to suit the financial and driving needs of Uber drivers. After 30 days in the program drivers may return their lease vehicle with only two weeks notice, lower early termination fees also apply.
UberX functions as Uber's low-rate service with 'everyday cars for everyday use'. In Australia Uber Black is also available offering high-end vehicles, comparable to traditional chauffeur hire services.
New and eligible used vehicles will be available through the Xchange program. Initially the program will be trialled in the US states of California, Maryland and Georgia.
Xchange Leasing will be provided by a wholly owned subsidiary of Uber. If the program proves successful we could see it expand globally, however Uber's previous loan scheme did not extend beyond the US.
Unlike the controversial rideshare app, which has fallen afoul of regulators and establish taxi services around the world, Xchange promises to be fully compliant with all US lending regulations.
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*** What to pray for ***
Pray to find out where your ark is.
Prophecy 55:
Tell them, "Get in the Ark." Find out where they're to be.
Tell them to seek MY face. If they don't know where they're to be, fast and pray and wail and lament but find out where their Ark is.
As long as they are aware of where they are supposed to be, as long as they are underneath the umbrella of MY safety, then they are in their Ark, no matter where they are in the world. But I tell you again MY Children, call forth the Apostles and Prophets to interpret the dream I gave Elisabeth. DEVASTATION IS COMING!
Prophecy 85:
As you see the prices go up on the fuel in America, you will see a fear come upon the people that they have not yet known. For you see, the oil companies say, 'It's you that they own" and they are going to crush you. How do you think your finances are going to be crushed? As you see the prices in everything go up. Only what you have done for YAHUSHUA will stand, this is the only way I, YAHUVEH will multiply your financial blessings. To those who put your faith in something called oil, black liquid gold instead of putting your faith in I, YAHUVEH in MY Son YAHUSHUA ha MASHIACH's NAME, you will know fear like you have never known it before.
I am speaking to those who call themselves Christians. You should have been praying and asking ME for protection. Instead, you put your faith to protect you in something called Homeland Security instead of believing in GOD YAHUVEH I will trust.
Now, oh America, now, oh Canada, now you're only fit for ME to crush.
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I warn you now, seek ME, pray where your ark is. Pray when it's no longer safe for you to remain where you are, pray that I raise up a safe house for you, a safe sanctuary. I tell you ahead of time what the enemy plans to do.
It's only a matter of time. It's only a matter of time.


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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Rocket Man
"Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone"
Elton John
- I used to think that I was a rocket man. As a matter of fact it took me way too many years to find out that I wasn't nor did I really want to be. What a waste of spirit... Anyway, I'm pretty happy right here on God's green(red, brown, yellow, blue...) earth these days. Whether it's two feet squarely on the ground or flat on my back watching the skys there's no place I'd rather be and no other way I'd rather be living it!
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Few people would probably disagree that moving is stressful. Obviously there is the packing, the renting of a truck, the driving, the unpacking, the buying things you didn't think you needed and now you do. However, those are the big things. The obvious. Most of that, after a week, is done and over with, however, it is the little things that are annoying.
For example, I move to the area, and naive me, I just assume that my bank NationalCity, would be, well National, but don't believe the lies, it just isn't. With bills due in a few days, there is no access to a bank. So, I had to wait for a check to come in the mail in order to open up a new account at a new bank.
Now that you are all on the edge of your seats, when you move, you also have to change your address. Which I did a week ago. However, it takes a while to change over.
For the last few days I have checked my mailbox without fail. I get on my bike and ride it up to the front of the complex, I pull out the little gold key, and I look inside. Empty... well... except for the few pieces of mail the person who lived here before me doesn't have, because he probably got sucked into the little things of moving and forgot to change his address.
However, today, it finally came! Along with an exciting card, complete with pictures, from a good friend in Illinois. This of course made me forget my aforementioned annoyances, and enjoy the rest of the day.
I wonder though, if life isn't like that in general. We often mark time by big events. Weddings, funerals, graduations, even moving, yet, I tend to agree with Dr. Q when he says that those big events are just compilations of the little things we do everyday. I posted my resume, seemingly small, someone responded, and on the relationship went, until I actually moved, but the move didn't happen overnight. Furthermore, I wonder if more often than not, God moves in the same way. If all of our time spent waiting for God to do something humongous and life transforming, is a life missing out on all that God has in store for us, in the small things.
We get so used to the small things though. Though I've only been here a week, I have already gotten used to seeing the foothills each day on my commute to work. I've already gotten used to the sun in the morning shining in my room. I at times even respond nonchalantly to the words of encouragement or smiles that people give me. Aren't all of those things the movement of God?
It's not the large things that make you a resident of an area, it's the small tedious address changes, and maybe it isn't the large things that make us a resident of the kingdom of God either. Maybe it is in our every day, small living that identifies us with the creator. Maybe if we could live more in the small things, we won't miss the big things when they happen.
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A man breached a court order for the ninth time when he went to his former girlfriend's home and violently assaulted her on Christmas Day.
Vincent O'Grady grabbed his ex by the throat, poured beer over her and then threw a beer bottle which hit her on the forehead.
He returned to her home again on Boxing Day and spat on her after she opened the door to him.
O'Grady, 41, of Gorton Street, North Shore, pleaded guilty to two offences of assault, twice breaching a restraining order and theft of six bottles of beer.
He was sentenced to 26 weeks imprisonment and ordered to pay £80 victims' surcharge by District Judge Alan Jones sitting at Blackpool Magistrates' Court.
O'Grady was also made the subject of a new two year restraining order which bans him from contacting his ex and going within 100 metres of her home on Falkland Avenue, Marton.
The judge told him: "These were serious matters. You had previously breached the restraining order seven times."
Pam Smith, prosecuting, said O'Grady forced his way into his ex's home after she opened the door and then assaulted her at 9.20pm on December 25.
O'Grady then returned at 8.30pm on Boxing Day, when he gave his ex back her phone which he had taken and spat on her.
Brett Chappell, defending, said the couple's relationship had been turbulent. When they split up and O'Grady got a new partner, his ex assaulted the new girlfriend
O'Grady said O'Grady's ex contacted him on Christmas Eve and said if he did not come to her address she would kill herself. He stayed with her on Christmas Day and drank some alcohol.
Drinking the alcohol was his downfall and he assaulted his ex. O'Grady admitted returning on Boxing Day and spitting at her after a row.
Mr Chappell said O'Grady expected a custodial sentence. He added: "While in prison he will seek help for his alcohol problem."


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A Chinese Hangzhou customer, using the rich river pebble resources, purchased a set of river pebble production equipment from ZENITH for the production of artificial sand. Installation and commissioning, is now officially put into production.
The project brought him a very good economic benefits, according to conservative estimates, the project will reach 15 million annual income.
Project Overview
As the local supply of natural gravel is very small, the market demand for high-quality machine sand is very high, customers found the local river pebble rich reserves, wanted to use river pebbles to produce machine sand. ZENITH in understanding the customer situation, according to the customer's investment budget, to create a complete river pebble sand production line.
Basic Situation
Project Address: China, Hangzhou
Finished size: 0-5mm, 5-10mm, 10-31.5mm
Material: river pebbles
Equipment: PE Series jaw crusher, CS Series Cone Crusher, VSI sand making machine and vibrating screen, feeder, etc.
Capacity: 250T / H
Production time: December 2015
Process introduction
Three - stage crushing scheme of jaw crusher + cone crusher + VSI sand making machine
Because the river pebble high hardness, the jaw plate, plate hammer, counterattack plate caused by the loss, so in the process design, we recommend the use of two-stage jaw crusher or jaw crusher and conical joint use.
If the customer has a higher demand for the final stone grain size, we recommend the configuration of a sand making machine for plastic crushing, thus forming a three-stage broken process configuration. The three-stage crushing process will inevitably lead to an increase in the investment cost of the project, but for the long-term operation of the sand plant, the three-stage crushing process to reduce the production cost is very impressive.
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The use of world-class manufacturing process, the use of advanced digital components processing equipment to ensure the precision of the machine parts; use the most high-end production of materials, greatly enhanced its compression, wear resistance, greatly extending the life of the machine. At the same time due to the use of advanced crushing principle, so that the proportion of products in the cube significantly increased, needle-like stone to reduce the grain level more uniform, better quality products.
This device is ZENITH in the introduction, absorption of foreign technology on the basis of, according to customer needs, based on the principle of laminated crushing and more than the concept of design and development of modern high-performance conical broken. The machine adopts the principle of laminated crushing to form the protective layer of the material layer, which not only effectively reduces the wear and prolongs the service life of the wearing parts, but also increases the proportion of the cube in the product.
The crushing equipment, also known as sand making machine, ZENITH is the latest development of German experts to develop the results, combined with China's mine conditions through improved design, is currently the world's most advanced level of the fourth generation of high-performance sand making equipment. The maximum throughput of up to 520 tons / hour, compared with the traditional power of the same equipment, production increased by 30% and stable. Products were cube, especially for artificial sand plastic surgery.
The project since the production, the operation is good, finished sand to meet customer requirements, and by the customer's high praise. Seize the market opportunity to invest in river pebble sand production line, and chose ZENITH, I believe that the customer in the future of the sand market will win the initiative!


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This phone is brilliant. My work mate just got one. We sell mobiles all day and its nice to see one a little bit special. People keep making comments on the battery life which has been improved. The 3.2mp camera is cool. Not all phones are about the gadgets like everyone on here seems to think. Some phones are for status, looks, features or simplicity. This is not for the younger market that still play with their I-PODS. This phone is Super. I will be ordering mine asap. Its only £300 on a vodafone upgrade.
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how cool is that.....makes up for lack of features lmaoo
some may like it some may dont! felas wth money like it. poor guys dont. still i cant choose between the two. arte or saphire. mught as well buy the two hahaha!!!! and put my vertu at rest for a while. wat i dont like about it is the dust that get in the screen thats really bad. its a vey sophisticated phone but, nokia must make sure that its perfectly made. 8800 serries are the best phone! but i prefer the saphire because of the precious stone on it, its like the cheap version on vertu that i have. 8800 are like timepieces. and up to now. im not ashamed to use my nokia 8910i its really old. 5 year old phone but still when i used it, i feel its still one of the expensive phones in the market. i rather buy 5 8800 sapahire than buying a patek philip. hahah
this fone is for women only who have to match their handbags with a fone. low battery life and not very durable
I see many people complain about the functions this phone have, but you buy it for the looks. If you want functions, get yourself a htc
has oled display not lcd and is a very good phone but 2 bad because donot have a memory slot and 6233 speakers in rest is ok a 90% god mobile
this phone is very very nice ... only thing is dust can get in to LCD screen ....
With partial leather cover on this phone; it look more fussy & also mess up the clean line & design of the 8800 Arte. TThfeel of the hard leather is also inferior to the feel of the metal!
1k with voda sim free it will come down sirocco was similar when new
Apparently the box only price for this phone in the uk is £1000, so you can go and **** for your free upgrade
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by looking at this phone, i am planning to have one...
is it really that good?
i think it is so amazing...
hmm where should I start .... money do make u d.. I just finished reading about this phone and I dont think it even deserves the dime of my money or a dime of any smart person's money because all it has are looks and it says alot about your personality ... how desperate you have to be for attention that you throw your money for this garbage. I am proud to say I can afford it and more than any one at this forum for sure example just bought 400 pcs and sold them already. I dont need to prove anyone that I have money and I am dum. So good luck ya all who plan to buy this phone. read NO WLAN and 3 megapixel piece of crap
In my opinion, with the leather insert, this phone is not as clean looking as the regular Nokia 8800 Arte.
this phone is really good,why i think its good is cause no one has it and its very rare just like bentleys you dont see them often and when you do every body stares,feature wise are fantastic
very sexy phone ... u should all get it .. a very luxurious phone :)
hi i m gaurav i have nokia store in india i know this phone is very gud its look very smart and its use all of the world because its triband and quadband phone if some one no use its option then call to coustmer care and select the menu
I bot it a coupla' days bak in PK.
Broke off'wid da Glass!
Now its Useless!
Nokia 7360 is a better option!...i guess so...lol
a lil carelessness,waste of money!
Gud 4 party starters!....if u got Bentley...or perhaps 300c...or smethin'...den holdin' this fone is worth....otherwise...U'll look stupid!


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Thursday, October 06, 2005
Razor Sharp Marketing
For more than 12 years, I have been using the same type of razor, and probably have had to replace it two or three times. Sure, I had to buy the replacement blade cartridges, but that's all part of the evil of using manual razors. Many fancier models with an extra blade and more pivot points have come along since then, but I've remained true to the SensorExcel that has always met my needs. I've tried electric -- so no thank you to anybody about to suggest that.
On Monday morning, I picked up my trusty Gillette SensorExcel and realized I'd been shaving on that particular blade refill too long. I judge this by how much shaving cream scum has accumulated on the plastic parts. Now that's scientific.
I turned over the razor's base, where there is space for five blade cartridges to rest comfortably until I need them. Rats! The four remaining had the telltale white stains and the fifth was on the razor. I had skipped a shaving day over the weekend, so my face was kind of stubbly. I had to shave.
That's when 12-plus years of undying loyalty met its match.
In Bentonville, Arkansas, there is an atmosphere unique to the known universe. The largest company in the world has its headquarters there, and vendors of all stripes have converged on the humble community of 20,000 (but quickly growing) to court its business. In fact, Wal-Mart informed said companies not long ago that in order to do business with them, they had to have a physical presence within 30 miles of the headquarters. Since then, it's been almost like watching birds converge on a huge billboard (constructed by Wile E. Coyote) reading "free bird sed."
In such an environment, it is ridiculously simple to find sponsors for a golf tournament. What do some of these companies do to get their name out to the participants? You guessed it. Goodie bags.
In one of the three times I set foot on a golf course that year, I participated in one of said tournaments. Although I didn't score well, I got brand new stuff in plastic bags.
Back to now, where I opened the bathroom cabinet to find a razor, packaged in a transparent plastic shell that's impenetrable without a knife or scissors. Oddly, the back of the package featured a rectangular perforation that made opening it quite easy. Why can't 99.9% of manufacturers catch on to this?
After getting over the amazement of Edge gel turning to shave cream as I applied it (I'm a simple man), I gripped the razor's comfortable handle and carefully dragged the blades down my cheek, then over my chin and down my neck.
I then knew the name of my latest addiction. It is called Gillette Mach3 Turbo, and although it makes my teeth grind to type the words, it lifted me to a new level in shaving comfort. The pushers have won.
8 comments:
- Alvis said...
Go to Greatrazors.com. Order your blades from their. They cost a little more, sure, but I just got some and I am still on my first blade after 2 weeks! They work as advertised.
- Mark said...
Thanks, alvis. Actually, the price for 4 cartridges is less than half the price for 8 at amazon.com. No reason not to try it.
- Dave said...
*LOL* I also use the same razor and LOVE it!
2 weeks? My blades last for months... maybe my beard is softer.
- Jim said...
I have to admit, the Mach 3 has become my razor of choice as well; although I only use it for clean up work after I've run my Norelco Rototract (3 head) electric razor.
My electric razor needs the Ni-Cad cells replaced ... and the blades also. I guess that means I need a new razor, because put together they probably cost more than the razor. Maybe I'll just keep using the Mach 3 ...
- Simon said...
I too am a Turbo convert. Though a lot longer ago...
Is it just me, or do the comments on this thread seem to spark the need for a Simon of Space blogger Web-Ring?
- Mark said...
Yes, it seems we need something. The free discussion board out there just doesn't provide the full interconnected experience as the Blogger comments area. I haven't read others' blogs near as much as when I could just click on his or her link in the comments area of SoS.
Activity on the discussion board is very low, but maybe that's because there's no new content on which to wax philosophic. Plus, not word veri fun.
Thanks for dropping by, and for commenting. Blogger should feature a place to track total hit counts, as I would like some validation for all the time I spend on blog posts. But that's my problem, I guess.
- Simon said...
You know Mark, it's wicked simple to put a FREE sitemeter counter on your blogger site.
It'll place a small sitemeter icon at the very bottom of your page and you can access your stats whenever to see where folks are getting referred from and how often the same ones come back to visit.
There are instructions there on how to include the counter on just about every type of blog; so of course blogger is right up there on that list.
Features include weekly, monthly, annual summaries as well a neat-o maps showing geographically where you're getting hits from. And, again, 'tis all free. (You can pay for an upgraded account, but why bother?)
I signed up shortly after starting my site and now freely admit to being a stats whore.
- Mark said...
Thanks for the tip, Simon. I'm there.


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The comment below was extracted from one of many Dr Mahathir's replies to a post on his blog (http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/2011/01/adverts.html). The content of his post is not the highlight here, this particular reply from a seasoned university lecturer in one of Malaysia's prestigious universities (as proclaimed by him) is. Ask any of our primary school students, many can easily string proper sentences than this lecturer. I have only one word for it, gosh!
Ever since you became the prime Minister I have always admire you and will always encourage my students at the universiteis that i have taught for almost 30 years (4 in all ) an I am now lecturing at Utp the prestigous university of the nation. Sad to say that the building is not been maintained especially the seminar rooms . Once a room that house some electrical things was flooded and no one noticed. I came to know when the room next to THE ONEi i was using could not function . After reports and more reports for nearly 1 month then came the maintenance. NeXt the contractors. This again delayed the whole process. I HOPE PEOPLE UP THERE SHOULD PRACTICE THE MANAGEMENT BY WALKING AROUND AND NOT JUST THE CHANCELLORY AREA.sORRY FOR SUCH TRIVIAL ISSUES BUT YOUR BLOG DISCUSSES EVERYTHING FROM ADVERT TO HIGHLY IMPORTANT THINGS. iT IS A REAL AVENUE FOR THE OLD AND YOUNG TO EXCHANGE IDEAS AND NOT BAD MOUTHING OTHERS. sTAY HEALTHY ANDMAY ALLAH BLESS YOU.


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With 12 years of relentless touring behind them, Vermont-based rock band Twiddle has built an impressive resume spanning Red Rocks to Bonnaroo, and multiple sellouts of historic rock venues including Port Chester, NYs Capitol Theatre, and Washington D.C.s 9:30 Club. And with the second half of the bands third studio album, PLUMP, on the horizon, the bands careercontinues to catapult forward. Buoyed by the generous support of 359 Kickstarter donors, the 27-song album does more than showcase the groups beautiful music, but also tells animportant story, comprised in PLUMP Chapters 1 & 2.Recorded during a two-year span with legendary producer Ron St. Germain, PLUMP serves as a reflection of four brothers triumphs and struggles, both individual and as a whole. On Chapter 1, songs like Lost in the Cold and Every Soul detail what its like to hit rock bottom and how to rise back up.So many fans have shared how these songs carried them through very difficult times, and that alone makes this all worth it, said Brook Jordan, Twiddles percussionist and vocalist.Comparatively, Chapter 2 contains genre-bending instrumentals, as well as mystifying epics like Nicodemus Portulay and Orlandos. More than ten years later, these songs mirror the earliest Twiddle arrangements of 2004-2005 when Mihali Savoulidis and Ryan Dempsey were collaborating in their freshmen dorms at Castleton State College. The completion of PLUMP is timely, coming at a moment when the bands fervent fan base is at an all-time high andexpanding rapidly.In the live setting, more and more people are invigorated by Twiddles community, promoting positivity and the bands skillful improvisational music. So many like-minded people believe inthe greater good, and they find that good in Twiddle.Twiddle is comprised of Zdenek Gubb on bass and vocals, Ryan Dempsey on keyboards and vocals, Mihali Savoulidis on guitar and lead vocals, and Brook Jordan on percussion and vocals.A more detailed biography of each band member, along with upcoming tour dates and updates,can be found at TwiddleMusic.com.2007 manifested Twiddles debut release, The Natural Evolution of Consciousness. This breakout album showcased the bands eclectic inspirations, imaginative lyrical abilities, andsuperb instrumentation. Twiddles sophomore production, Somewhere on the Mountain (2011), delves into the human spirit, speaking to our ambition, grief, and love. Live at Nectars (2014), isa double disc live album recorded in August of 2013 at Burlington, Vermonts Nectars. Live at Nectars truly captures Twiddle in its element, the live experience.
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