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Hearing the words "you have cancer'" is challenging for anyone. Your world feels as if it's just been turned upside down and you're full of questions. To help, we are here to walk you through all of the stages of being a cancer patient, from diagnosis to survivorship. Our hope is to help alleviate confusion and anxiety you may have about the journey you are about to take as a patient at Siteman Cancer Center.
Often cancer is first detected through screenings, self- exams or annual check-ups with a general practitioner or specialists, such as a dermatologist. In order to be diagnosed with cancer, a biopsy must be done on the tissue in question. The biopsy may be a simple outpatient procedure or a more invasive one requiring surgery, depending on the bodily area being examined. When a biopsy is performed at Siteman, the pathologist examining the tissue will be one who specializes in the area from which the biopsy is taken. For example, if the patient has a tumor in his or her breast, the pathologist performing the biopsy would be one who specializes in breast health.
Seeing a specialist
If the biopsy results come back positive, showing evidence of disease in the tissue, a diagnosis will be determined. It is at this point that you will begin searching for a specialist to begin treatment. What sets Siteman apart from other cancer centers is the level of expertise of our caregivers every step of the way and the state of the art care provided to you. When you make an appointment at Siteman, you will be scheduled for the next available with a specialist in the type of cancer that you have been diagnosed. All Siteman specialists are Washington University Physicians. Many of the physicians at our institutions are performing research in these specific disease sites. Prior to your appointment, your physician will review all of your medical records. Every case is different. When we begin to attack the disease, we want to know how we're going to approach it. A multidisciplinary approach will be taken. Combining the opinions of expert doctors in pulmonary medicine, radiology, interventional radiology, surgery, and medical and radiation oncology is important to our treatment approach. Our team also includes psychologists and social workers to help with the emotional and financial challenges facing people with a cancer diagnosis. In addition, a nurse coordinator schedules appointments, gathers medical records, and keeps everyone – especially patients – up-to-date on treatment progress.
Siteman offers a number of treatment programs. Through Washington University School of Medicine, our physicians have access to research and clinical trials that others do not. It is because of this that we have more treatment options and plans to offer. Treatment options vary from patient to patient depending on cancer type, cancer stage and other factors. If you require treatment, your care may consist of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy or a combination of these. Patients with blood disorders such as leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma may undergo bone marrow or stem cell transplantation. Other treatments, procedures or services may be recommended as part of your care, such as a clinical trial. Once treatment begins, your physician will monitor your condition throughout and make adjustments as seen fit. To best accommodate our patients with convenient, quality care close to home, many of our physicians will see you at one of our satellite facilities within the St. Louis metropolitan area, where you may also be able to receive treatment.
When you are diagnosed with cancer you become a survivor, and you will learn how to live with cancer as you go through and after you complete your treatment. Our Survivorship Program focuses on the physical, psychosocial, social and spiritual journey of our patients. We're here to help with issues related to follow-up treatment, late effects of treatment, second cancers and quality of life. Your physician will review a survivorship care plan with you after you complete therapy. This plan will include brief details of your treatment, including recommended followup and suggestions for cancer prevention to remain healthy.


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The Kings dealt forward Linden Vey to the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday, the second day of the NHL draft in Philadelphia. Vey will likely get a chance to play with the Canucks, who started a roster makeover Friday by trading center Ryan Kesler to the Ducks.
Vey, 22, spent the better part of the last three seasons with the Kings' American Hockey League affiliate in Manchester, N.H. He had five assists in 18 games last season with the Kings, but couldn't earn a regular spot in coach Darryl Sutter's lineup.
In return, the Kings received a second-round pick from the Canucks (50th overall) and selected Roland McKeown, a defenseman who played with Kingston of the Ontario Hockey League last season. McKeown, 6-foot-1 and 195 pounds, had 43 points (11 goals, 32 assists) in 62 games in 2013-14.
He was the 27th-ranked North American skater in the NHL's Central Scouting Service's final rankings. He also was the sixth-ranked defenseman on the final list. The 18-year-old was one of 10 players the Kings selected over the two-day draft at the Wells Fargo Center.
The Kings also selected forward Adrian Kempe with their first-round selection Friday (29th overall). Then they picked McKeown and defenseman Alex Lintuniemi (60th) in the second round and center Michael Amadio (90th) in the third round.
They also picked defenseman Steven Johnson in the fourth round, goalie Alec Dillon in the fifth, center Jake Marchment and left wing Matthew Mistele in the sixth and right wing Spencer Watson and defenseman Jacob Middleton in the seventh.
The Ducks picked five players overall, including left wing Nick Ritchie with their first-round pick (10th) on Friday. They took Marcus Pettersson and Brandon Montour in the second round, defenseman Matthew Berkovitz in the fifth and right wing Ondrej Kase in the seventh.


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How can I help my company increase workplace diversity? Ask HR
Johnny C. Taylor Jr., a human-resources expert, is tackling your questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR professional society.
The questions are submitted by readers, and Taylor's answers below have been edited for length and clarity.
Have a question? Do you have an HR or work-related question you'd like me to answer? Submit it here.
Question: My company is working to increase diversity. I want to help. How can I, as an employee, contribute to my workplace's commitment? – Anonymous
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr.: Workplaces with diverse and inclusive cultures are better places to work, and they perform better. Employees can and should play a role in that commitment.
We call it "diversity and inclusion," but inclusion should come first because when employees have a sense of belonging, they feel welcomed and empowered.
To help build an inclusive work environment where employees bring their best selves to work every day, the primary focus must be on commonalities, not differences. This builds connections between people that allow them to learn from their differences.
For employees, this means learning how to celebrate colleagues' work while acknowledging that their viewpoints, though different, are valued.
As you consider how to contribute to your company's commitment to inclusion, speak first with HR and leadership about their vision and the strategy to reach it. Knowing what they're already working on will help you figure out how you can help.
If your company is seeking ideas on how to improve its practices, you might suggest:
• Conducting a work and communications assessment to understand each person on the team.
• Creating a diversity and inclusion communication tool to share relevant articles and news.
• Celebrating a variety of holidays and events.
• Starting an employee resource group for open discussion, learning and support.
• Offering training in unconscious bias to help employees recognize their own blind spots.
• Scheduling team-building activities and sponsoring events.
As an employee, you can:
• Make sure HR and company executives know you want to be a champion for diversity and inclusion.
• Look for ways to weave inclusion discussions into regular employee meetings and gatherings.
• Ensure vendors and distributors incorporate inclusion in their own organizations. If you are not in that position, suggest your company does so.
But remember: One approach doesn't necessarily fit all companies, so work with your leaders to determine what will benefit your organization.
On a very personal level, you can show your commitment to diversity and inclusion by taking a colleague who has a different background and set of life experiences out to lunch, for example. While company leadership plays a role in changing culture, it all really happens one employee at a time by the actions of each of us.
Question: I must be out of the country for two months for personal reasons, and I do not have enough PTO hours to cover the time off. I could telework, but there is a difference between being in the office and handling business remotely. What options do I have as a long-time employee who doesn't want to resign? – S.
Taylor: Personal and work lives often intertwine, and hardships in one often affect the other.
As a long-term employee, you may find your company is willing to work with you on a short-term solution. Here's how I would approach the situation:
Talk to HR. Doing so will help you better understand what options are available to you and whether your workplace is set up for remote working arrangements. There are professions, like nursing, where telework is off the table. But for others, employees can use technology to communicate effectively with colleagues and get work done across time zones and international borders.
If remote work is not possible, there are other flexibility options. If you're lucky enough to work for one of the 5 percent of U.S. employers that offer a paid sabbatical program, you might be eligible for time away with a percentage of your wages and continuation of medical benefits. An unpaid sabbatical or taking leave without pay are other routes to explore.
Once you know your choices, do your homework before taking a request to your boss.
Ideally, for example, a telework arrangement should allow you and your team to function at the same level as if you were in the office. Your employer will want to know what effect the arrangement will have on your individual or department productivity, your participation in meetings and your co-workers or other stakeholders.
Thinking about and preparing your answers ahead of time will help you make your case for remote work and reassure your employer.
You didn't mention the reason for your travels. If it's health-related, you might qualify under the Family and Medical Leave Act for 12 weeks of job-protected leave. This law provides time off if you or an immediate family member has a serious health condition, regardless of where medical treatment is administered or where the ill family member is located.
Whatever the reason, have an informed discussion with your employer as soon as possible so your supervisor has ample time to consider your request and make any logistics decisions.


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"Dollar Stabilization" Encyclopedia Britannica, 12th edition, 1921 (a two-volume supplement to the 11th edition), vol. XXX, pp. 852—853.
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DOLLAR STABILIZATION.—Under the existing currency system, the so-called "level of prices" is largely at the mercy of monetary and credit conditions. The tide of prices will rise or fall with the flood or ebb of gold or of paper money or of bank credit. Evidently a rise in the level of prices is a fall in the purchasing power of the dollar or other monetary unit, and vice versa. The purchasing power of money has always been unstable because a unit of money, as at present determined, is not a unit of purchasing power, but only a unit of weight. It is the one inconstant unit of measurement left in civilization. Other units—the yard, pound, bushel, etc.—were once as unstable and crude as the dollar, sovereign or franc still are; but, one after another, the other units have all been stabilized or standardized. Short weights and measures cheat the buyer; long weights, the seller. So a unit of money which changes in value or purchasing power is always playing havoc between contracting parties. When prices are rising—in other words, when the purchasing power of the dollar is falling—the creditor and the creditor-like classes suffer injustice. The sufferers include savings-bank depositors, bond-holders, salaried classes and wage-earners. In the great upheaval of prices—i.e. in the United States, depreciation of the dollar—which took place between 1896 and 1921 such injustice amounted to over a hundred billion dollars. On the other hand, when prices fall, as they did between 1873 and 1896, it is other classes—debtors, stockholders, farmers and independent business men generally—which suffer the injustice. The indirect effects of falling or rising prices—i.e. of a rising or falling dollar—are equally bad. These indirect effects include industrial discontent (either over the "high cost of living" or unemployment) and economic crises and depressions.
Hitherto there was ample excuse for the unstable monetary units of various countries. No instrument for measuring their aberrations had been devised. Likewise, until weighing scales were devised, weights could not be standardized, and until instruments for measuring electrical magnitudes were invented, electrical units could not be standardized. But for many years the "index number" of prices has provided an accurate instrument for measuring the value of the dollar in terms of its power to purchase goods. An "index number" of prices is a figure which shows for a specific period of time the average percentage increase or decrease of prices. One of the most suggestive signs of the times is that this instrument for measuring changes in the purchasing power of money has recently been utilized in adjusting wages and salaries to the high cost of living, i.e. to the depreciated dollar. A number of industrial concerns and banks, and some official agencies, have amended wages by the use of an index number of the prices of commodities.
It has been contended by some economists that this principle may be utilized in the future more generally to safeguard agreements made at one date to pay money at another date. Such corrections of the dollar would gradually break down the popular superstition that "a dollar is a dollar"; for every time we correct the dollar, we convict it of needing corrections; and ultimately the correction might be applied, not, as at present, as a patch on the dollar from the outside, but by incorporating it in the dollar itself. Various methods for accomplishing this have been proposed. The one perhaps best known is Prof. Irving Fisher's proposal to vary the weight of the gold dollar so as to keep its purchasing power invariable. Instead of a gold dollar of constant weight and varying purchasing power, what is needed, he contends, is a dollar of constant purchasing power, and, therefore, of varying weight. It is not proposed, of course, to remint gold coins, but simply to count an ounce of gold bullion as being the equivalent not always of $20.67 (as at present) but of as much more or less than that sum as is required from time to time in order to keep the purchasing power of the dollar constant. In other words, the proposal is to vary the price of gold according to its worth relative to other commodities, instead of, as at present, keeping it artificially constant at $20.67 an oz. pure or £3 17s. 10½d. an oz. 11/12 fine. In this way, Professor Fisher contends, we can control the price level, lowering it, raising it, or keeping it from fluctuating much, if at all. Thus, if Mexico should adopt the dollar of the U.S. (instead of its present dollar of half the weight of gold), the price level in Mexico would be disastrously cut in two. Again, if the U.S. should adopt the Mexican dollar, the price level in the U.S. would be, disastrously doubled. That is, the more gold in the dollar, the greater its buying-power; and the less, the less. If, Professor Fisher contends, this principle be admitted, it follows that we hold, in the hollow of our hand, what the dollar's buying-power shall be—that is, what the level of prices shall be. It can be kept from changing greatly just as easily as it could be made to change, simply by periodical adjustments of the price of gold, each adjustment being made in accordance with the index number of prices. By this method, in conjunction with any of the sound systems of banking, Professor Fisher contends, variations of more than one or two per cent could easily be prevented except under the most extraordinary conditions.


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Every year on the 21st of September the United Nations invites people from all over the world to celebrate the International Day of Peace. Around the world communities of all kinds organize, or take part in, activities which promote peace or create awareness about issues related to peace. There will also be various activities and events across the UK and Ireland. Here are a few examples of planned activities -
The Muslim Council of Britain
At a time when Muslims and the West are seen as enemies rather than allies, mosques across the world will invite visitors to join Muslim communities during or after their Friday prayers to exchange messages of peace. In London the London Central Mosque and East London Mosque have already agreed to take part in this initiative. Some Islamic centers in the UK are pairing up with a nearby church, religious community or school and linking their observance of the International Day of Peace to similar pairs overseas.
For more information: http://londonpeacenetwork.wordpress.com/friday-21-september/
Peace One Day Concert in Wembley Arena
The last in the trilogy of Peace One Day concerts in the UK in celebration of the Global Truce will be held on 21 September at Wembley Arena and led by Sir Elton John. The Global Truce calls the world to action on Peace Day 2012 and is as much about non-violence in our schools, our homes, workplace and local communities as it is about a ceasefire on the international stage.
For more information: http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000970321
International Peace Weekend
Dublin will host various activities during the weekend of 21-23 September. The International Peace Weekend will open with a "circle of peace" - 1,000 people will hold hands for one-minute in silence at Dubhlinn Gardens in Dublin Castle.
On Saturday there will be a Peace Conference at Mansion House, and the Closing Ceremony will be held at the Westin Hotel on Sunday.
For more information: http://www.peacebeginswithme.eu/
History of International Peace Day
Costa Rica and the UK sponsored the International Peace Day which was adopted by the General Assembly in 1981. One year later, in 1982, the first International Peace day was observed. Since then activities related to peace have been organized in countries all over the world on the third Tuesday in September, coinciding with the opening session of the General Assembly. In 2001 the General Assembly adopted a resolution which set 21 September as the day to celebrate international peace. This year's theme of International Peace day is "Sustainable Peace for a Sustainable Future".
For more information: http://www.un.org/en/events/peaceday/background.shtml
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC Brussels)
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All things considered, you might figure that Sporting Kansas City would be satisfied with a draw at BBVA Compass Stadium on Wednesday night. But that's not how Peter Vermes' team thinks, or how their rivalry with the Dynamo works.
Even though a point from the game (7:30 p.m. CT; TICKETS) would on the face of it seem like a good result for the under-strength visitors against an in-form Houston, the Dynamo are expecting SKC to go all-out for victory.
Win: it is each team's philosophy every time they step out on the field, and the thirst for victory only intensifies whenever Houston and Sporting meet in what has become one of the best rivalries in MLS.
It's a recipe full of spicy ingredients: their regular battles to be the best in the Eastern Conference, their uncompromising styles of play and their frequent postseason encounters. Add in Sporting's victory at BBVA Compass Stadium back in May, and the fact that there are only three games left in the campaign, and it's clear that regular season fixtures don't come much bigger than this.
SKC are second in the East, four points clear of the third-placed Dynamo. A day after last Friday's 1-0 win for Houston over the Montreal Impact, SKC beat the Columbus Crew by the same score. That result all but ended the Crew's playoff hopes while giving SKC reason to believe they can still catch the leaders, the New York Red Bulls.
"They pulled out a great win to push them up, it was a gutsy win from what I saw. Columbus was an opponent that's pushing for points. Kansas City takes advantage of a set piece and defends really well," said Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear.
"They're possibly maybe missing some guys here but I think that those three points were a great comfort for those guys and they don't ever go anywhere to not win. Their attitude is always good, we know it's going to be a tough game. They're always good games against these guys, tough and very competitive."
While the Dynamo are missing center back Jermaine Taylor and winger Boniek García because of international duty, Sporting will be without their key playmaker, Graham Zusi, and one of the central components of their much-vaunted back line, defender Matt Besler. Both are on U.S. national team duty.
This is a match that could be a postseason preview: if the teams end the year in their current positions, they will meet in the conference semi-finals. That is precisely what happened last year, with the Dynamo prevailing 2-1 on aggregate over two legs.
Sporting exacted some revenge last May when they beat the Dynamo 1-0 at BBVA Compass Stadium with a late goal by Aurelien Collin, and that was a painful experience that only adds to the lore and intensity of the rivalry.
"Obviously, Sporting, we've got a little bit of a rivalry against them, it's one game that sticks out to me that we want to win," said winger Andrew Driver. "They came here and beat us and celebrated so I think that's stuck in our minds. They're a bit tasty, these games, they're the ones you look forward to. Every game from now till the end of the season is a massive game for us."
Defender Bobby Boswell is expecting a feisty evening. "We've got to go out and be ready for a team that's always up for the battle against us, they're always up for the challenge and we remember them celebrating beating us here, that was a huge win for them I think and they acted like it at least. For us, we've got to learn from the mistakes we made that game and keep riding this good wave of soccer that we've been playing lately," he told HoustonDynamo.com.
"The biggest thing you take away from those games is the mistakes that were made, the mentality—you look at how you prepared and what happened in the game, why were we not successful, and you try to correct that. I always say successful teams have short memories.
"You learn from the games both good and bad and then you forget them because you're only as good as your last game … you can't really harp on the bad too long because you'll never get out of it, and you can't think that you're the best either because someone's right there to knock you down."
For Boswell, the right approach is a mixture of passion and pragmatism: knowing that this is a match where passions will run high, but putting it in context. Regardless of the storylines this match-up generates, and the drama it inspires, the target for the Dynamo is no different now than it was on the opening day of the season: finish as high as possible in the East to ensure the best possible seeding in the playoffs.
"Every game moving forward dictates where we'll be in a couple of weeks. Obviously the bit of history we have with them, that makes it a little added excitement for the media, but for us in this locker room it's a chance to distance ourselves from the teams behind us and maybe gain on the teams ahead of us," he said.
"We've got to go out and continue to do what we've done in the last couple of games that's made us successful, but in a way push even harder because everyone's coming down to the end and it's such a tight race that no one's going to have it easy in the last couple of games. It's all about moving up to get to the highest possible position."


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Mental Health America Announces the Resignation of President and CEO, Wayne W. Lindstrom, Ph.D.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (August 23, 2013)—Statement of Ann Boughtin, Chair of Mental Health America's Board of Directors:
"Mental Health America announces the resignation of its President and CEO, Wayne W. Lindstrom, Ph.D., effective September 19, 2013. During his time in this position, he furthered MHA's advocacy leadership around prevention, early intervention, whole person treatment, recovery, and wellness."
"David Shern, Ph.D. will serve as the interim CEO for MHA beginning September 23, 2013. Dr. Shern currently serves as Science Advisor for Mental Health America and also served as CEO of Mental Health America from 2006-2012."
"Dr. Lindstrom was successful in building a working team environment that was able to achieve many gains, including the award of a CMS Navigator Grant and the strengthening of the organization's Regional Policy Council in anticipation of the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act. This policy structure has been endorsed with corporate support and has demonstrated MHA's continuing advocacy leadership and prominence."
"The MHA Board of Directors is appreciative of the leadership provided by Dr. Lindstrom while serving as President & CEO of Mental Health America. Dr. Lindstrom will be pursuing new opportunities associated with his interest in fulfilling the Affordable Care Act's promise of full mental health integration within the rest of healthcare."
"The MHA Board of Directors plans on conducting a national search for a replacement and further announcements will be forthcoming."
Mental Health America (www.mentalhealthamerica.net), founded in 1909, is the nation's leading community-based network dedicated to helping all Americans achieve wellness by living mentally healthier lives. With our 240 affiliates across the country, we touch the lives of millions—Advocating for changes in mental health and wellness policy; Educating the public & providing critical information; and delivering urgently needed mental health and wellness Programs and Services.


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The language of Wade Guyton's mid-career retrospective at the Whitney emphasizes that, like any other user, Guyton approaches technology unenlightened as to its inner workings. Choosing to make his printer drawings, in which images from books and magazines are printed on, Guyton rendered simple marks in Microsoft Word. Unlike other users, perhaps, Guyton is aesthetically excited by technologies limitations and preconditions, viewing them as an element of chance in his work.
The exhibition, made up mostly of inkjet on linen paintings, aptly shows Guyton's modernist collaborations with new technologies, reinscribing the greatest hits modernism within a different context. Transparency, monochrome, and the readymade all make their expected appearances. A four panel transparent window, with printer drawings of works by Frank Stella, Duchamp himself, and others, emphasize his investment in 20th century modernism while referencing obliquely computer technology as a low-tech window and bulletin board.
The printer drawings play with material images from books and magazines. This emphasis on origin and location contrasts with his engagement of technologies that have done so much to dematerialize our engagement with images. One inkjet painting does come from a "source file": it contains an image of Kenneth Noland's True North (1961), scanned, printed, and disturbed by five runny black disks. More explicitly minimal works—an inverted woodpile or inkjet on wood sculpture—round out the show.


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The Raid 2 hits cinemas on April 11th. To celebrate, there's been an 8-bit retro game released putting you in control of all the popular characters from The Raid franchise.
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The craft of quillwork predates the arrival of the Europeans to North America. Quillwork, both porcupine and bird, was used by the native peoples to decorate their clothes and utensils. Glass beads were introduced into North America by the Europeans as a trade item and quickly replaced the harder-to-use quills as a means of decoration to the point where the craft of quilling was almost totally lost. In the late 19th century, a group of concerned Ursaline nuns, seeing the impoverished state of the native tribes, worked with a small band of Ojibway to revive this lovely craft in the form you see today.
Research on the Victorian era indicates that beautiful Indian handcrafts were very much in vogue. One of the most popular was the porcupine quill, birch bark and sweet grass basket, similar to what are being produced today. Today, a handful of native women tenuously keep this craft alive. One tiny quill basket requires of concentration, mathematical precision and painstaking attention to detail, not to mention the time and skill it requires to collect and prepare the raw materials.
Porcupine quills must be stripped, washed and sorted to size for the evenness of the quills on the basket. They are left natural or dyed according to the design.
Sweet grass is needed for the rim and holds an honoured and sacred place among many native cultures, especially the Plains and Woodlands peoples where it featured prominently in all their ceremonial traditions. Sweet grass (sarastana odorato) is collected from late June to mid August and a year's supply must be prepared by the artisan for storage by blanching and drying. Many Indian people carry braids of sweet grass with them and place it in their homes as a symbol of wholeness, happiness, freedom and strength. The beautiful scent of this sweet grass will last for many years to come. To revive the scent: simply spray with warm water.
Birch bark is collected in early spring and requires precision to strip the fresh young bark, leaving the tree intact. Now the basket shape is cut and the design carefully and mathematically drawn with an awl. The quills are worked wet for greater pliability. Designs may be floral, geometric, star or animal. Many designs are rooted in history and tradition and have been passed on from generation to generation.
The craft of quilling is from a bygone era in its simple purity. Today, in the sophisticated world of computer technology, space exploration and global communication, this lovely craft has all but disappeared.
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Lorraine was born in 1936 on the Parry Island Reserve. She has been doing quillwork since she was a young girl. Her mother taught her the craft and, after many years of study, Lorraine now does quill tufting as well as regular quill work. She collects all her own raw materials and her boxes show a variety of designs including the traditional geometric and star patterns as well as beautiful floral and animal depictions. Lorraine and her daughter Sharon Johns are two of the very few quillwork artists on the Saugeen Reserve on Lake Huron, Ontario.
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The Russian poet Boris Pasternak described the university town of Marburg as a medieval fairytale. For Martin Luther it was also a dream: it was the home of Landgrave Philipp the Magnanimous, one of the most important supporters of the Reformation.
In 1527 Philipp founded the world's first Protestant university in Marburg. Two years later, he tried to achieve a Europe-wide agreement among leading reformers by holding the Marburg Colloquy at his castle – but without success. The conference was the most important assembly of theologians in its day.
Today Marburg Castle is home to a museum. The Prince's Hall (Fürstensaal), one of the most beautiful Gothic halls in Central Europe, is regularly used for concerts.
Luther's House in the upper part of town is lived in today but can be viewed from the outside.
Near the castle is St. Elisabeth's Church, one of Marburg's most outstanding architectural monuments. Regarded as a masterpiece of early Gothic architecture in Germany, it is the oldest church on German soil to be purely Gothic in style. The university students bring a vibrant buzz to the old quarter with its shops, bars and cafés. Nestled in the hillside beneath the castle, the town is also known for having many steps.
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Herd marathons…
The Mets and Cardinals battled through most of Saturday before finally posting a win, 2-1, in 20 innings. Got us thinking… How do some of the Bisons marathons compare to what we saw unfold in St. Louis tonight?
Longest Game, Innings: 20, 8/17/86 at Indianapolis (6-5 Win)
Longest Game, Time: 5:39, 8/17/86 at Indianapolis (20 innings)(6-5 Win)
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|El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha
|Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (author) and John Ormsby (translator)
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Part 1
Alonso Quixano is a hidalgo (noble-born gentleman) from La Mancha who spends his time devouring popular romance novels (romance novels back then meant books of chivalry, unlike today). The novel opens with his becoming so obsessed with them that he starts deluding himself into thinking he's a knight-errant, a vagrant knight in shining armor slaying dragons, rescuing princesses, righting wrongs, helping the helpless, and, of course, fighting giants disguised as windmills.
Despite his being well-spoken, and in every sense rational, about this one point of being an old-fashioned knight he is stark raving mad; Don Quixote manages to rationalize (explain away) all his delusions, most of the time relying on a malevolent sage intent on enchanting everything from windmills (giants) to inns (castles) to a barber's water basin (the Helmet of Mambrino).
Very quickly (and later in the novel, often) Don Quixote gets into trouble. He is round and about seeking adventure when he comes upon some traders who are making fun of his beloved Dulcinea del Toboso. Not taking that lightly he engages them in combat, and is soundly beaten. A humble farmer from Quixote's home town, Sancho Panza, takes care of him and after being promised an island to rule over once they are done adventuring, Panza joins Quixote as his trusted squire, always being the sense to Quixote's nonsense.
This is an exceedingly funny novel. There are some scattered bits of seriousness here and there (even a novella quoted — or rather told by one of the characters — mostly in its entirety, taking up three chapters) but whenever Don Quixote re-enters the scene, expect hilarity to ensue.
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Close to the French border, the coastal resort of Roses lies on Spain's beautiful Costa Brava in the district of Catalonia. The breathtaking coastline includes sandy beaches and intimate rocky coves but there is also a widely varying landscape from wetlands to the rocky region of the Cap de Creus with a variety of birds and wildlife.
Roses is a modern tourist resort with an amazing history dating back to the Greeks and Romans, remains of which can be seen in the huge Citadel in the centre of the town. Along the seafront there are many alfresco cafes, restaurants and Tapas bars – great to relax and spend some time. The wide sandy beach is lined by the promenade, dotted with palms and pine trees and
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This holiday includes Eurotunnel crossings and 1 overnight stop on route each way in tried and tested Ibis Hotels in France. We travel with 2 drivers and have regular stops during the journey and a main stop for lunch so you can sit back, relax and enjoy the changing scenery in comfort.
After being collected from your home around 6.30am we travel to Kent for our Eurotunnel Crossing. We shall arrive at the excellent overnight Ibis Hotel (Bed & Breakfast) at approximately 7.30pm.
Leaving the hotel after breakfast we travel over the impressive Millau Bridge before entering Spain and arriving at our hotel in Roses around 7.00pm. The 4* Hotel Mediterraneo Park serves an extensive buffet style dinner – we have also included a bottle of water and glass of wine with your evening meal for your stay in Roses.
Relax and settle into this excellent hotel complex. There is plenty to discover in Roses and the surrounding area with easy walking into town and along the coast.
We have also arranged an optional excursions package.
Full Day – Barcelona
We are joined by a local guide for an excursion to Barcelona, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe. Full coach tour of the city including La Sagrada Familia Cathedral and the Ramblas and much more. Includes some free time. Memorable. Cost - £20.00
Full Day – Girona
Joined by our local guide for an excursion to the historic city of Girona with its beautiful Roman walled old quarter, the Basillica de Sant Feliu, Arab Baths and medieval streets and passageways. We also enjoy time exploring other towns of the area. Cost - £15.00
Half Day – Figures
Wonderful excursion to the birthplace of Salvador Dalí whose artist influence can be seen all over Catalonia. The remarkable Dalí Theatre-Museum, one of the most visited museums in Spain, is here (entrance fee and pre booking with us required). Figueres is a lovely town to visit with many fine, old buildings and cobbled, tree lined streets with plenty of pavement cafes and tapas bars. Cost - £10.00. Entrance to Dali Museum - £10.00
Optional excursions should be paid before departure.
Sadly we must depart Roses and head home. We cross the border in to France and arrive at the Ibis Hotel around 7.00pm (Bed & Breakfast).
We head back to Calais for the late afternoon Eurotunnel crossing. Returning to your home by our service at approximately 9.00pm.
Meal Plan – 8 Nights Dinner Bed + Breakfast plus 1 wine + 1 bottle of water every night, 2 Nights Bed & Breakfast
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The spacious restaurant overlooks the gardens and serves an extensive and varied buffet menu in the evening – we have included a glass of wine & bottle of water every night. The national and international dishes are prepared in front of you by the chefs in the Show Kitchen. In the morning there is a wide selection of hot and cold dishes to select. There are 2 bars within the hotel to relax, enjoy a drink, grab a bite to eat and discuss the day. A real highlight of the hotel is the beautifully manicured lawns around the outdoor swimming pools. Plenty of space with loungers and chairs to relax on. Inside the hotel there is also a lovely swimming pool and spa centre. During our stay there will be some evening entertainment.
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Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash has resigned from "Sesame Street" in the wake of new allegations that he had sex with an under-aged youth.
In its statement Tuesday, Sesame Workshop said "the controversy surrounding Kevin's personal life has become a distraction that none of us want," leading Clash to conclude "that he can no longer be effective in his job."
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In a statement of his own, Clash said "personal matters have diverted attention away from the important work Sesame Street is doing and I cannot allow it to go on any longer. I am deeply sorry to be leaving and am looking forward to resolving these personal matters privately."
As the announcement was made, a lawsuit was being filed in federal court in New York charging Clash with sexual abuse of a second youth. The lawsuit alleges that Cecil Singleton, then 15 and now an adult, was persuaded by Clash to meet for sexual encounters.
The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $5 million.
Clash, who had been on "Sesame Street" for 28 years, created the high-pitched voice and child-like persona for Elmo, a furry, red Muppet that became one of the most popular characters on the show and one of the company's most lucrative properties. Sesame Workshop produces "Sesame Street" in New York.
Clash's exit from Sesame Workshop followed a tumultuous week that began on Nov. 12 with a statement from the company that Clash had requested a leave of absence following the charge by a man in his early 20s that he had had a relationship with Clash when he was 16.
Clash denied the charge from that man, who has not been publicly identified, calling it "false and defamatory."
The 52-year-old divorced father of a grown daughter, acknowledged that he is gay in that statement.
Sesame Workshop, which said it was first contacted by the accuser in June, said it had launched an investigation that included meeting with the accuser twice and meeting with Clash. Its investigation found the charge of underage conduct to be unsubstantiated.
The next day Clash's accuser recanted his charge, describing his sexual relationship with Clash as adult and consensual. Clash responded that he was "relieved that this painful allegation has been put to rest."
Clash is the third puppeteer to have played Elmo on "Sesame Street," according to his bio on Sesamestreet.org. While best known for playing the red monster, Clash also performed as Hoots the Owl and Baby Natasha on the long-running children's show. He had served as the show's senior Muppet coordinator and Muppet captain. He won 23 daytime Emmy awards and one prime-time Emmy.
Clash's film credits include "Labyrinth" and the first two "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" films. He penned an autobiography in 2006 titled "My Life as a Furry Red Monster, What Elmo Has Taught Me About Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud" and was also the subject of the 2011 documentary "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey."
Though it remained unclear who might take over for Clash performing as Elmo, other "Sesame Street" puppeteers have been trained to serve as his stand-in, Sesame Workshop said.
"Elmo is bigger than any one person," the company said last week.
Here is Sesame Workshop's statement in full:
Sesame Workshop's mission is to harness the educational power of media to help all children the world over reach their highest potential. Kevin Clash has helped us achieve that mission for 28 years, and none of us, especially Kevin, want anything to divert our attention from our focus on serving as a leading educational organization. Unfortunately, the controversy surrounding Kevin's personal life has become a distraction that none of us wants, and he has concluded that he can no longer be effective in his job and has resigned from Sesame Street. This is a sad day for Sesame Street.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Oscar de la Renta is known for the sumptuous glamour of his beautifully crafted gowns, and there was plenty of that in his fall 2014 collection.
NEW YORK (AP) � Oscar de la Renta is known for the sumptuous glamour of his beautifully crafted gowns, and there was plenty of that in his fall 2014 collection.
But the designer signaled on Tuesday evening, as a select crowd of loyal customers and media packed into his studio for his runway show, that he wants to also satisfy a customer looking for some edge � if not TOO much.
There were very wide black leather pants paired with a mink jacket in black and white � with a blue collar. There was a cream shearling jacket paired with charcoal pants, and black-and-white booties.
And while you may not think of de la Renta as a studded motorcycle jacket kind of guy, he is: his version came in a form-fitting suit, with a laser-cut, gold-studded leather jacket and skirt. Black suede boots finished off the look.
One sensed, though, that everyone was truly waiting for the gowns that came later in the show, and they were, not surprisingly, impressive. There was a daringly sheer black tulle dress with black sequins and lace. Another black tulle number had a gold foil print.
Two dresses actually made their own music: tulle gowns, one in gold and one in silver, embroidered with lacquered feathers and enough beads to create that striking sound effect.
The piece de resistance: worn by supermodel Karlie Kloss (outfitted in a cute, short wig): a sumptuous painted polka dot ruffle gown in black and white.
Afterward, among the well-wishers patiently waiting their turn, was Barbara Walters.
"This is the only fashion show I go to," she said. "Why? Because I wear his clothes all the time."


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Endless are the joys of childhood,
Where do they vanish as we grow old?
Linking with Wordless Wednesday hosted by Ruchira at Abracabadra.
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Endless are the joys of childhood,
Where do they vanish as we grow old?
Linking with Wordless Wednesday hosted by Ruchira at Abracabadra.
My best days were definitely as a child… growing up sucks 🙂 Gimme these days again
Ahh, lets keep the child in us alive:-) Lovely reminder
Three cheers for that balance tho! Riding a bike has always been a bit tricky for me. 😛 🙂
aha! just today I was wondering the same for my kid, Vinitha.
Lovely pix 🙂
Pleasure to have you on board!
Looks like a great day for some riding!
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My boyfriend voted for Bush. Yes, for Bush. And he'd vote for him again if our Constitution allowed it.
Now let me duck while you spit at me. No, please go ahead. Really, I'm used to it. When this happens—the attacks, the spittle—I sometimes enlist a coping strategy. I tune out and think back to when I discovered that J was one of Them.
When we met three years ago at a New Year's Eve party, politics never came up. We flirted, and after midnight we made out in the coatroom. The next day he called to ask me out. I agreed to brunch, but I told him there was little chance we'd date. I was seeing someone else (he was out of town, okay?), and J was in school in D.C., two hours by train from Philadelphia. The last thing I wanted was another long-distance relationship. I'd already been through two. How To Manage A Long-Distance Relationship
So at brunch when he told me he was Republican, I didn't think about it in terms of would I or wouldn't I? My immediate response was, "Pro-life?" If his answer had been yes, I'd have lost my appetite—and left. But it was no. So I kept eating.
A few months later, the guy I'd been dating was out of the picture, and J and I started the torturous and by now familiar grind of the long-distance relationship—nightly phone calls, and as many flirty e-mails as a hardworking law student and a procrastination-prone freelance writer could manage. Is Steamy Text Messaging The New Foreplay?
Sure, I was concerned that he'd voted for a man who seemed dead set on taking away women's hard-won reproductive rights, killing off our nation's youth, and destroying the environment. But by age 30, I'd dated enough of my own political kind to know that their compassion for the teeming masses doesn't guarantee compassion for their loved ones.
The sensitive activist type I dreamed of as a college student had turned out to be, for the most part, a needy fraud with a victim complex. What's preferable—someone who is a complete ass or someone who votes for a complete ass? After a solid decade of dating within my party, I was open to something new.
And, in the beginning, our political differences played out in jokey, passive-aggressive ways. I sent him a silly "miss you" card that had a picture of a fuzzy kitten. He stuck it on his filing cabinet next to a "Stop Hillary Now!" bumper sticker.
When I visited, it became a ritual for me to cover the Hillary sticker with the kitten. When I wasn't looking, he'd move the kitten back. And so on. Hillary. Kitten. Hillary. Kitten. Claws out. Kinda.
When the Washington Times was delivered in the morning, I'd sit on the couch and point out egregious conservatisms, like how they used the word "illegals" instead of "immigrants." When he turned the TV to Fox News, I'd make fun of the way the producers put "global warming" in quotes like they were questioning its very existence.
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She didn't think it was a good idea for J and her husband to be in such close quarters for a prolonged amount of time. She was afraid of what her husband might do if the talk turned to politics. "It's better if we do something else together first," she said, "like dinner.
Then there was the friend who'd recently moved to D.C. When we met her and her boyfriend, E, for brunch, a discussion about Condoleezza Rice quickly escalated. I grew more and more uncomfortable as E yelled at J over the table. I tried to change the subject. J didn't. He explained his position coolly as E's face grew redder and redder. J wasn't upset afterward, but I was. 3 Tips For Introducing Boyfriend To Friends
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What did the elephant say to the naked man? - It's kinda cute, but can it pick up peanuts?
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A lady goes to her priest one day and tells him,
Father, I have a problem. I have two female parrots, but
they only know how to say one thing.
"What do they say?" the priest inquired ?
They say, 'Hi, we're prostitutes. Do you want to
have some fun?'"
"That's obscene!" the priest exclaimed, then he
thought for a moment.
"You know," he said, "I may have a solution to
your problem.
I have two male talking parrots whom I have taught
to pray and read the bible. Bring your two parrots
over to my house, and we'll put them in the cage with Francis and Bob.
My parrots can teach your parrots to praise and worship, and your parrots are sure to stop saying...that phrase...in no time."
Thank you," the woman responded, "this may very
well be the solution."
The next day, she brought her female parrots to
the priest's house. As he ushered her in, she saw that his two
male parrots were inside their cage, holding rosary beads and
Impressed, she walked over and placed her parrots in the cage.
After a few minutes, the female parrots cried out in unison:
"Hi, we're prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?"
There was stunned silence. Finally, one male parrot
looked over at the other male parrot and exclaimed, "Put the f******
beads away, Francis, our prayers have been answered!"
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One day an Irishman, who has been stranded on a desert island for over ten long years, sees an unusual speck on the horizon.
"It's certainly not a ship," he thinks to himself. As the speck gets closer and closer, he begins to rule out the possibilities of a small boat, then even a raft.
Suddenly, emerging from the surf comes a drop dead gorgeous blonde woman wearing a wet suit and scuba gear.
She approaches the stunned man and says to him, "Tell me how long has it been since you've had a cigarette?"
"Ten years," replies the Irishman.
With that, she reaches over and unzips a waterproof pocket on her left sleeve and pulls out a pack of fresh cigarettes. He takes one, lights it, takes a long drag and says, "Faith and begorah! Is that good!"
"And how long has it been since you've had a sip of good Irish Whiskey?" she asks him.
Trembling, the castaway replies, "Ten years."
She reaches over, unzips her right sleeve, pulls out a flask and hands it to him. He opens the flask, takes a long swig and says, "Tis absolutely fantastic!"
At this point she starts slowly unzipping the long zipper that runs down the front of her wet suit, looks at the man and asks, "And how long has it been since you've played around?"
With tears in his eyes, the man falls to his knees and sobs, "Oh, Sweet Jesus! Don't tell me you've got golf clubs in there too."
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Oldie but a goodie...
An old man was sitting on a bench at the mall. A young man walked up to the bench and sat down. He had spiked hair in all different colors: green, red, orange, blue and yellow.
The old man just stared.
Every time the young man looked, the old man was staring at him.
The young man finally said, "What's the matter Old Timer, never done anything wild in your life?"
Without batting an eye, the old man replied, "Got drunk once and f***** a parrot. I was just wondering if you were my son."
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The Hitchhiker
This story happened about a month ago, in a little town in Victoria (Australia), and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's real.
This guy was on the side of the road near Terang, hitchhiking, on a very dark night and in the middle of a storm. The night was black and no cars went by. The storm was so strong, he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him.
Suddenly he saw a car coming towards him. It stopped. The guy,without thinking about it, got in the car, closed the door and then realized there was nobody behind the wheel.
The car started slowly. The guy looks at the road and sees a curve coming his way. Scared he starts to pray begging for his life. He hasn't come out of shock, when just before he hits the curve, a hand appears through the window and moves the wheel. The guy, paralysed in terror, watches how the hand appears every time they get to a curve. The guy, gathering strength, gets out of the car and runs to the nearest town.
Wet and in shock, he goes to a pub and asks for two shots of whiskey, and starts telling everybody about the horrible experience he just went through. A silence enveloped everybody when they realized the guy is crying and isn't drunk.
About half an hour later, two blokes walked in the same pub and one said to the other. "Look Bill, there's the 'w @ n k e r' that got in the car when we were pushing it!!!"
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A guy out on the golf course takes a high speed ball right in the crotch.
Writhing in agony, he falls to the ground. When he finally gets himself to
the doctor, he says, " How bad is it doc? I'm going on my honeymoon next
week and my fiancée is still a virgin in every way."
The doc said, "I'll have to put your ##### in a splint to let it heal and
keep it straight. It should be okay next week."
So he took four tongue depressors and formed a neat little four-sided
bandage, and wired it all together; an impressive work of art.
The guy mentions none of this to his girl, marries, and on his honeymoon
night in the motel room, she rips open her blouse to reveal a gorgeous set of breasts.
This was the first time he had seen them. She says, "You'll be the first,
no one has ever touched these breasts."
she then takes off her panties and says you'll be the first to touch me here.
with that the husband whips down his pants and says, "Look at this, it's still in the CRATE!"
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This one comes from Mr Kilkenny...
A businessman is driving out of Glasgow one Friday evening along M8.
He runs into a traffic jam but after about ten minutes sitting
still, he's beginning to think 'hey, this is worse than usual'. He
sees a policeman wandering between the lines of cars, so winds down his window and calls him over to ask what's going on ahead.
'It's a Rangers fan,' says the policeman. 'He's feeling really
depressed because his team failed to dae anythin this season after all the mouthing off he's been doing since last year. He also says that he's got no friends, all his family hate him, he lives in Easterhouse and he's never had a job.
He's threatening to douse himself in petrol and set himself on fire in the middle of the road. I've had a long chat with him, and now I'm taking up a collection for him.'
The businessman is impressed. 'Wow, that's really good of you,' he says. How much have you collected for him so far?' 'Well,' says the policeman, 'About 20 gallons so far, but a lot of people are still siphoning.'
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Three mice are sitting at a bar after the funeral of an Tasmanian mouse, killed by an 80-year-old lady with a broom, trying to impress each other about how tough they are.
The Victorian mouse throws down a shot of bourbon, slams the empty glass onto the bar, turns to the NSW mouse and says, "When I see a mousetrap, I lie on my back and set it off with my foot. When the bar comes down, I catch it in my teeth, bench press it twenty times to work up an appetite, and then make off with the cheese."
The NSW mouse orders up two shots of tequila, drinks them down one after the other, slams both glasses on the bar, turns to the Victorian mouse and replies, "Oh yeah? When I see rat poison, I collect as much as I can take, take it home, grind it up to a powder, and add it to my coffee each morning so I can get a good buzz for the rest of the day." They both turn to the Queensland mouse.
The Queensland mouse finished the beer he has in front of him, lets out a long sigh and says to the other two, "I don't have time for this bullshit. Gotta go home and f##k the cat."
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??? ???10 Husbands, Still a Virgin
A lawyer married a woman who had previously divorced ten husbands.
On their wedding night, she told her new husband, "Please be gentle, I'm still a virgin."
"What?" said the puzzled groom.
"How can that be if you've been married ten times?"
"Well, Husband #1 was a sales representative: he kept telling me how great it was going to be.
Husband #2 was in software services: he was never really sure how it was supposed to function, but he said he'd look into it and get back to me.
Husband #3 was from field services: he said everything checked out diagnostically but he just couldn't get the system up.
Husband #4 was in telemarketing: even though he knew he had the order, he didn't know when he would be able to deliver.
Husband #5 was an engineer: he understood the basic process but wanted three years to research, implement, and design a new state-of-the-art method.
Husband #6 was from finance and administration: he thought he knew how, but he wasn't sure whether it was his job or not.
Husband #7 was in marketing: although he had a nice product, he was never sure how to position it.
Husband #8 was a psychologist: all he ever did was talk about it.
Husband #9 was a gynaecologist: all he did was look at it.
Husband #10 was a stamp collector: all he ever did was. ..God! I miss him!
But now that I've married you, I'm really excited!"
"Good," said the new husband, "but, why?"
"You're a lawyer. This time I know I'm gonna get screwed!"
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Michael and Patrick, walking past the employment office saw a sign. WORK AVAILABLE--TREE FELLERS WANTED Said Patrick, "If Saun had come with us we could have got that job".
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Could be Jeffo, I don't know.
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Before I lay me down to sleep,
I pray for a man, who's not a creep,
One who's handsome, smart and strong,
One who loves to listen long,
One who thinks before he speaks,
One who'll call, not wait for weeks
I pray he's gainfully employed,
When I spend his cash, won't be annoyed.
Pulls out my chair and opens my door,
Massages my back and begs to do more.
Oh! Send me a man, who'll make love to my mind,
Knows what to answer to "How big is my behind?"
I pray that this man will love me no end,
And never attempt to hit on my friend.
And as I pray beside my bed,
I look at the clown you sent me instead.
I pray for a deaf-mute nymphomaniac with huge boobs
who owns a liquor store. Amen.
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Son: "Is it true, Dad? I heard that in some parts of the world a man doesnt know his wife until he marries her
Dad: That happens in every country, son
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A couple of fishing buddys play a joke on there mate


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Many people have a lot to say when it comes to population and crowd control, This article is designed to put across some of the deeper insight I have gained on these topics whilst studying social structures, their economic viability and the means by which the ruling classes use to manipulate and direct their subjects into some form of social order.
It has become increasingly apparent that despite the obvious complexities of the various social hierarchies, there are certain rules which invariably exert themselves, this article is less about the intricacies of the interactions between individual hierarchies or their nature, and more about how these rules can effect the level of economic sustainability to any given social structure.
Social Hierarchies
There are vast quantities of information relating to social hierarchies, their organisation, names, groups etc., A quick glance through the
page on organisations will give you a brief insight into some of the more popular systems. For simplicity this article defines three categories to which any social hierarchy can be organised using, these may appear controversial at first, but my reasons should hopefully be explained later on in the article.
These groupings are:
Leader (usually one)
Managers (usually no more than 60 to each Leader)
Slaves (usually between 2-30 to each Manager)
social module
, representing up to a maximum 311 people, is the basis by which all social groupings are formed, anything more than this and the communication efficiency of the social module is severely compromised and dissatisfaction will result in members leaving the social grouping. In reality, this number becomes more of a theoretical limit,
Dunbars Number
, 150 represents the lower bound, that is, somewhere between 2-10 Slaves to every manager, and 5 to 60 managers to every leader, making for easy communication and less distinction of boundaries (the jobs of managers and leaders and slaves becomes 'blurred')
Larger numbers of people tend to align themselves into sub groups of one of these categories. Which then tend to align themselves in the same pyramidal organisation.
The groupings are named to represent the role each member plays within any goal seeking activity the social module undertakes.
The Leader is the ultimate decision maker, it provides the overall direction the social module will take, has high if not ultimate authority over the control methods used to keep the social module working efficiently, and organises the managers to undertake a given task.
A Manager represents the middle man of the social group, ignoring the various levels of responsibilities each is assigned (by the leader, usually dependent upon skill) A managers primary goal is to act as a go between, disseminating information to the slaves, watching progress, and organising skill sets to attain the goals set out by the leader.
The Slave is the work horse of the social module. Simply put a slave is given a task by the manager and uses the skills it has to complete this task.
To properly fit this social module with a modern large population and the identity it holds. It is important to realise that within any population individual agents do not hold one particular designation, in actual fact at any one time each agent may fit into all three categories. Depending upon the number of goals, skill sets possessed and social environment the agent exists in. This model however does explain the time proportions involved of each category from goal inception to completion:
for example (rough).
1:150 goal definition
30:150 goal management (~40% time to social grooming, )
119:150 solution traversal. (~60% time to solution traversal, or 1 leader, 30 managers and 119 slaves)
obviously as the optimum times differ between different potential goals (consider a research goal vs. stitching clothing) so too will the proportions within each group.
This also explains why social modules tend to organise themselves to this hierarchy, if one agent exists for each of the optimum slots, a solution can be completed in close to optimum time.
Social Control
These simple, if currently loose definitions provide the framework for explaining and understanding social cohesion, the purpose of which is to put in place some of the control structures that exist and help with the discussions on how these have changed over the centuries.
Faith is the oldest, and when used correctly the strongest of social control methods. It is important when trying to understand faith to understand that faith is not confined to religion and God, in actual fact faith is the founding principle of religious social groups, but this is where this link ends. There is little doubt that faith IN religion has been used for centuries for social control binding groups together and holding them apart, but for me at least faith in religion is less about submitting to social control, and more about what I call spiritual awareness. This of course is not what is being discussed here. Faith, in this article, is better defined as trust.
Whatever the purpose served by any social binding, trust is the bond that holds it together. Trust, in this respect is one of the most interesting topics when considering social cohesion theory. In modern, western society, the most prevalent form of trust to erupt in the mid 17th century is a concept known as money. Western cultures operate under a system known as fiat money, fiat money functions as a system of trust. Although most never realise it, there is no direct link between any kind of tangible asset and a fiat money system, rather, fiat money balances out under a supply and demand system with trust at its heart. Trust that the central bank will produce just the right quantity to provide a stable base with which to exchange trust. Trust that a job will be done, trust that it can be used effectively as a medium of exchange for whatever takes the holders fancy.
Previous to this, the most prevalent form of trust social bonding was given by religious organisations. This is the reason many people hold the believe that money has taken over from religion, in fact religion is still as strong, if not stronger than ever, money has merely replaced religion for the trust requirements of everyday living.
Trust Requirements
At any one moment in time, individuals are exposed to any number of trust issues, however, to function in any kind of normal manner they need to have an internal trust in a few key areas:
Trust in security – Their current position does not expose them to too many unpredictable variables.
Trust in mobility – Their actions are not unpredictably hampered.
Trust in unavoidable repercussions – Deviating from the expected/required path will have unavoidable unpalatable consequences and a negative impact on other trust requirements.
Trust and Social Control
These trust requirements form the basis of all forms of social control, they form the conduits by which the managers control their slaves, and the leader controls its managers. Without adequate provisions for at least these trust requirements agents will defect from their current goal in search of another which will provide these requirements. By far the most potent of these trust requirements is the unavoidable repercussions; This trust requirement can be used to quash all the other requirements, however it is also the most volatile, once an agent becomes aware repercussions are in fact avoidable, the control this provides dissipates quickly amongst a social grouping (as this information spreads) and if it was also used to prevent defection due to a deficiency in other trust requirements can lead to spectacular break downs in social groupings.
Terrorism and Social Cohesion
See Terrorists Objectives:
The behemoth of all social cohesion 'tools' or better 'strategies' to emerge in the early 21st century is that of terrorism. Fortunately for the world as a social grouping I doubt it is for the reasons that the terrorists, the media or leaders would like. Terrorism has drawn attention to social control in an unprecedented way that touches everyone who hears of the antics of the terrorists or the groups put in place to prevent their actions.
A less ambiguous definition of terrorism:
A leaders objective is to provide individuals in the lower ranks with the internal trust requirements to function normally in the quest for the leaders goal.
A terrorists objective is to weaken that trust and take over as leader when the social group defects.
What is interesting about internal trust requirements is that they form the basis for goal setting throughout the three levels of hierarchies within a social module, each agent within the social module forms goals to maximise its internal trust requirements. If security or mobility is threatened, it forms goals to fend off attack, in doing so it tests the level of unavoidable repercussions. For this reason, unsubstantiated threats of unavoidable repercussions will always be short lived, and enforcible threats will always tend to exert a strangle hold over a social module.
Social cohesion, control and ordering are a direct consequence of exchanges in trust. Social ranking is founded upon an agents ability to distribute strong trust based bindings, control the means of communicating and function effectively to meet the goals required by any social group.
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- Brazil sent nearly 10,000 troops and civilians to the southern border areas
- It is part of a mission to combat crime
- Forces are focusing on both large and smaller scale problems
Nearly 10,000 troops and civilians have been deployed to Brazil's southern border region, in a show of force against illicit traffickers of all kinds who operate in the region, Brazil's defense ministry said.
The deployment is the fifth such surge under a mission to reassert rule of law in the border area known as Operation Agatha.
The most recent operation began on Monday and will continue through the end of the month, the defense ministry said.
The Brazilian Air Force alone had more than 434 service members working directly in the operation.
"Our principal objective is to keep our air space from being used (for) illegal activities like drug trafficking and contraband," said Air Force mission commander Jose Geraldo Ferreira Malta.
In total, 25 planes will participate in intelligence-gathering and protection of air space, the air force said.
It is a three pronged strategy, Malta said, which includes direct confrontation with criminals, support to governmental bodies who work in the region, and support to the public in the form of health and cultural work.
Forces are present in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and are conducting operations along Brazil's borders with Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.
The targets are not just drug traffickers, however.
According to the defense ministry, one of the targets is the sale of explosives to gangs that have robbed automatic teller machines.
Troops have even been deployed to relatively peaceful areas.
"Our region, compared with other parts of the border, is more amenable. Here we have reports of minor crimes, like trafficking of pesticides and stealing of animals. Drug trafficking is minimal," said an army leader, Gen. Joarez Alves Pereira Junior in a statement.
The Brazilian navy, army and air force are participating in the operation, along with police and civilian agencies.


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Evolution Hoax
He gives life and causes to die, and you will be returned to Him. (Surah Yunus, 10:56)
Giving life to all beings, creating them from nothing, and surrounding them with the proper conditions for their survival is a feature unique to Allah, Who has infinite power.
Allah makes a sperm unite an ovum, both of which are invisible to the naked eye. As soon as the sperm destined to fertilize the egg enters the ovum, a membrane covers the egg and a new life begins. Allah divides this tiny cell first into two and then into four. This process proceeds rapidly, and the end result is a miraculous life starting in the mother's womb. After some time, these cells change in order to form the embryo's brain, nervous system, bones, and cartilage. This way, within only 9 months, Allah creates from nothing a human being who sees, hears, speaks, and uses his or her intelligence. He then grants life. Obviously, an egg and a sperm cannot accomplish these series of miraculous events, for only Allah causes them to unite and then protects the embryo within the mother's womb for nine months. This is the first creation and the first bringing to life.
Allah grants life to each human being and destines each one to die on a particular day. Until then, He tests them in the life of this world. At the appointed time, He takes their lives and, on the Day of Judgment, resurrects them, just as He first created them from nothing, to repay them for what they did in the world. No doubt, this is easy for Allah, the Almighty. Yet those who ignore this resurrection say:
He makes likenesses of Us and forgets his own creation, saying: "Who will give life to bones when they are decayed?" (Surah Ya Sin, 36:78)
Say: "He Who made them in the first place will bring them back to life. He has total knowledge of each created thing." (Surah Ya Sin, 36:79)
So look at the effect of Allah's mercy, how He brings the dead earth back to life. Truly He brings the dead to life. He has power over all things. ( Surat ar-Rum, 30:50)
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Among His Signs is that you see the earth laid bare, and then, when We send down water on it, it quivers and swells. He Who gives it life also gives life to the dead. Certainly He has power over all things. (Surah Fussilat, 41:39)