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You know what I'm going to talk about first. That's right, my Hawks. My dad has had season tickets since the beginning, 1976. I've been going to games since he deemed me old enough, probably since I was about 10 or eleven. I've never been a fair weather fan. I've always been die hard.
When they opened the new field, I bought my own season tickets. Kept them 3 years, I was there when they won the 2005 NFC championship game against the Panthers, but a single income household just couldn't keep up with the rising ticket prices.
It was so exciting to see the Hawks get back to the big game again. I had the Super Bowl score pegged at somewhere around 26-24. Never in my wild imagination did I think the Peyton Manning and the Broncos offense were going to fall apart like that. Never.
The Legion of Boom brought it. A sack, fumble recoveries, interceptions, one of those for a touchdown. There was Percy Harvin's kickoff run for a touch down, and the offense was on fire, especially Kearse and Baldwin. Ouch.
We were sitting around contemplating who they would choose for MVP and really were baffled. That's the thing about the Seahawks. They truly are a team and last night they all did their part to win. I thought maybe Avril, Kearse...but Smith with his interception for a touchdown and fumble recovery was very deserving.
I loved how when they interviewed the players after the game they all thanked the 12th man for being part of the reason they were there. Other fans may hate us, but we are loyal and passionate about our team.
I think this may be the beginning of a dynasty. It's a very young team with a lot of heart and talent. There are only a couple of free agents this year, the rest stay. I hope to see them get back to the show in the next few years.
Go Hawks!!
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How sad that his stellar career wasn't enough for him to be happy in life and made him turn to heroin to escape whatever demons he faced. I've heard heroin is one of the hardest drugs to kick. It sounded like he'd been clean for a couple decades before going back to the drug.
How terribbly depressed do you have to be to leave behind that kind of career and three children?
It was a great day in Seattle, but a Sad day in the movie world yesterday.


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1Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children,
2and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.
3But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),
4and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which [are] not proper), but rather thanksgiving.
5For this you know _for certain_ , that every sexually immoral [person], or unclean [person], or greedy [person] (who is an idolater), does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these [things] the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
7Therefore do not be sharers with them,
8for you were formerly darkness, but now [you are] light in the Lord. Live like children of light
9(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
10trying to learn what is well-pleasing to the Lord.
11And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even expose [them].
12For it is shameful even to speak [about] the things being [done] by them in secret,
13but all [things] exposed by the light are made visible,
14for everything made visible is light. Therefore it says, Wake up, sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
15Therefore, consider carefully how you live, not as unwise but as wise,
16making the most of the time because the days are evil.
17Because of this do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].
18And do not be drunk with wine (in which is dissipation), but be filled by the Spirit,
19speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing praise in your heart to the Lord,
20giving thanks always for all [things] in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father,
21being subject to one another _out of reverence for_ Christ
22—wives to their own husbands as to the Lord,
23because [the] husband is [the] head of the wife, as also Christ [is the] head of the church (he himself [being the] Savior of the body).
24But as the church is subject to Christ, thus also wives [should be subject] to their husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her;
26in order that he might sanctify her by cleansing [her] with the washing of water by the word;
27in order that he might present to himself the church glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any such [thing], but that she may be holy and blameless.
28Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.
29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ [does] the church,
30because we are members of his body.
31For this [reason] a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
32(This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.)
33Only you also, each one [of you], must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife _must respect_ her husband.
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About a month ago, a friend gave me a little book called, I'm Proud of You, My friendship with Fred Rogers by Tim Madigan.
Granted, the book isn't a leadership book in the traditional sense. This book doesn't instruct you how to become a high impact leader, visionary and change agent all wrapped up into one Type A package. Rather it is a book about a friendship. It about a friendship between a newspaper writer and a a children's television icon, Mr. Rodgers.
What is so compelling about this book is way Fred was able to generously give away his life to a man he hardly knew. But that initial genuine investment become a deep abiding friendship over many years. And their friendship ignited all because Fred was able to say to Tim, "I'm Proud of You" - words that Tim never received from his own dad.
I'm Proud of You, is a beautiful portrait of spiritual leadership. Fred Rogers was a man so secure in who he was that he had deep resources of love, affection and affirmation. Those resources he was then able to give away to so many people, Tim being just one of many recipients.
Pastors and ministry leaders would learn a lot from this special man, Fred Rogers - who not only brought joy into the lives of hundreds of thousands of children, but also to one man, all because he uttered the words, "I'm Proud of You".
Leadership Lessons From Mr. Rogers
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I witnessed such a moment 5 years ago when a young pastor was showing his mentor around the church that he had just finished building. The bishop said 4 simple words, "I'm proud of you" and the pastor wept like a baby.
Affirmation is a powerful thing.
wow, what a confirmation of the power of affirming and loving words...it doesn't take much.


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One of the finest Indian restaurants in Essex Caraway Indian Brasserie, in Gants Hill, has won the prestigious Best Local Indian Restaurant Award in the Restaurant Guides
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Candlemas ! Hedgehog day ! 'Crêpes Day' *Written by thebritishstudio1 in Accueil...qui sommes-nous ? Que proposons-nous ? on 1 February 2011 à 23:34
Catch it if you can !
With the 2-year-old pupils ...
All by myself !
What's the weather like today ?
In France, this holiday is called la Chandeleur, Fête de la Lumière, or "jour des crêpes".
Not only do the French eat a lot of crêpes on Chandeleur, but they also do a bit of fortune telling while making them. It is traditional to hold a coin in your writing hand and a crêpe pan in the other, and flip the crêpe into the air. If you manage to catch the crêpe in the pan, your family will be prosperous for the rest of the year.
There are all kinds of French proverbs and sayings for Chandeleur; here are just a few. Note the similarities to the Groundhog Day predictions made in the US and Canada and the hedgehog in Europe.
À la Chandeleur, l'hiver cesse ou reprend vigueur
On Candlemas, winter ends or strengthens
À la Chandeleur, le jour croît de deux heures
On Candlemas, the day grows by two hours
Chandeleur couverte, quarante jours de perte
Candlemas covered (in snow), forty days lost
Rosée à la Chandeleur, hiver à sa dernière heure
Dew on Candlemas, winter at its final hour
* Not' Pancake Day' !
In the UK, we have a tradition of making and eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, 8 March 2011, depending on the date for Easter. Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday to use its correct title, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent - the 40 days leading up to Easter - was traditionally a time of fasting and on Shrove Tuesday Christians went to confession and were "shriven" (absolved from their sins). Pancake Day became a great way to use the foods that were given up for Lent – milk, butter, and eggs.
The humble pancake has featured in recipe books as far back as 1439.
4 oz (100 g) plain flour
10 fl oz (300 ml) milk
2 eggs
2 oz (50 g) melted butter
Pinch of salt
- Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl.
- Make a well in the center and add the eggs.
- Whisk to add the eggs.
- Gradually add the milk and keep whisking.
- Melt the butter in a frying pan on a hot heat.
- Add 2 tablespoons of melted butter to the batter mix.
- Pour the batter into the frying pan and tilt from side to side to create a thin layer of batter.
- Cook for 1 minute.
- Loosen the edges of the pancake and flip it over.
- Cook the other side for a minute.
- Have some fun tossing the pancake!
- Slide out of the pan onto a plate. You can stack them with greaseproof paper between.
- Delicious with sugar and lemon juice
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Indonesia's Wireless Vision Goes High Speed
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In Los Angeles we are pretty happy with our Android phones, iPhones, and other smart handheld devices. We can buy EVDO card for our laptops, and now 4G cards are starting to POP up in some locations. In Jakarta people laugh at such nonsense. With high speed wireless infrastructure covering over 95% of the addressable Indonesian population, the country has leap-frogged not only America, but also much of Asia in delivering high speed wireless service.
If you take a walk through Jakarta's Mall Ambassador you are presented with a dizzying array of high speed wireless access options for both smart phones and USB flash modems – and oh yes, even EVDO if that is what you really want. So you select your option, is it HSPDA? HSPA? HSPA+? In Jakarta you can easily buy HSPA+ flash modems and base stations that actually deliver between 21~42Mbps to an end user device.
While the highest speeds may not be affordable to the masses, nearly all smartphones and base stations are more than adequate for web browsing and streaming media. In fact, Indonesia has the largest number of mobile FaceBook users in the world, and that number continues to grow at an astonishing rate, as more Indonesians invest in internet-enabled devices as a tool for their future.
But let's go beyond the city limits of Jakarta, and look at what this means to other rural and remote parts of the country.
If 95% of the population is covered by wireless antennas, and all of those antennas are capable of supporting at least some level of Internet access, then the need for laying copper cable to end users in remote locations becomes less important. An HSPDA base station that connects to a 7.2Mbps data stream can easily connect a LAN of dumb terminals (NetBooks) to a school in remote parts of Sumatra or Papua. eLearning, including remote transmission of lectures, lessons, podcasts, or other means of delivering knowledge becomes possible, giving a level academic playing field to anybody in the country.
City offices, commercial businesses, and even individual homes can connect to the HSPDA signal, allowing Internet access with the same or better performance many users experience with cable modems or organizational LANs connecting to a local ISP or carrier. Add a bit of cloud computing offering a suite of hosted SaaS applications and secure storage in a data center available to users throughout the country, and we have the beginnings of national access to the 4th Utility (marriage of broadband access and cloud computing resources) in Indonesia.
But probably the most interesting, and useful example of delivering Internet access to those who need it most is the WarNet. The Warnet is the Indonesian version of an Internet Café. In many rural communities and urban inner-city areas people do not have the money to afford buying their own computer, or do not have the ability to connect to the Internet from their homes or offices. The WarNet may connect a small Internet Kiosk to wireless Internet in a remote location, offer some basic printing services, and that kiosk becomes a social, educational, business, and entertainment hub for small communities.
Schools could follow the same model as WarNets, connecting to broadband wireless through a local base station and extending an access LAN to student workstations and terminals. Again, with eLearning those terminals can be dumb, with the applications and student working storage on a data center hosted platform.
High speed broadband wireless is effectively bringing the Internet to nearly all Indonesians. Now the effort needs to be making access devices more affordable and more available, as well as producing high quality content and content delivery into the wireless networks. As most of the wireless networks are still not exceeding ~30% of their transmission capacity at peak, there is ample room for growth.
Backbone fiber networks owned by the wireless carriers and wholesale providers will continue to expand, enhancing the wireless operator's ability to increase their capacity to meet the potential of future wireless technologies such as LTE and 4G. And Indonesians will continue to approach the Internet's technical edge.
Not bad Indonesia… not bad at all


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For years propane autogas has been recognized as a cleaner alternative to gasoline. At Pinnacle Propane in Dallas we are proud to be helping individuals and businesses lower their emissions by providing clean propane fuel. Continue reading to discover what makes propane such a clean burning fuel.
The lower carbon content of propane makes it burn cleaner than other fuels in many regards. Propane lowers greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbon and oxides of nitrogen. But that's not the only environmental benefit of propane autogas. Propane is also found to have lower life cycle greenhouse emissions.
Life cycle emissions account for all of the environmental impacts of a fuel source at every stage. This includes:
Argonne National Laboratory found that vehicles using propane generated 10% less greenhouse gases than petroleum-fueled vehicles. Call us today to learn more about Pinnacle Propane DFW propane delivery, installation and refill services. Make the switch to a cleaner power supply that's almost half the cost of electricity!


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Gospel Sundays Call for Talent
City of Akron Press Release
From the desk of stephanie york
Published: 03-25-2015
The City of Akron is now seeking gospel talent for its 4thAnnual Gospel Sundays series to be held at Lock 4 in downtown, Akron. Anyone that has a church choir, chorus, praise/ worship group or gospel band is invited to apply to perform on one of six Sundays in July and August.
Also, Akron is seeking single/solo and group performers to be a part of a new and exciting addition to our gospel presentations called "Gospel Tracks." Gospel singers, other than choirs and choruses, who sing to recorded music tracks, will have an opportunity to perform in a public setting. Last year, Akron had one Sunday dedicated to this form of gospel expression, which may be expanded to two dates depending on interest.
Gospel Sundays will run every Sunday beginning July 26 through August 30 from 5 to 7pm, at Lock 4. For more information or to apply, contact Billy Soule, Assistant to the Mayor for Community Relations at (330) 375-2660 or by email: [email protected].
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A couple of years ago Bit.ly started offering the ability to customize the way shortened URLs look. These custom short urls enabled social media users to limit the length of their links without losing the brand identity of their company. For example, shortened Youtube links now appear as Youtu.be and shortened New York Times links appear as nyti.ms. HubSpot's cofounder Dharmesh Shah even uses the custom short domain dharme.sh to share links on Social Media.
We're pleased to announce that HubSpot customers can now use their custom shortened urls within HubSpot Social Media and with our Tracking URL Builder. If you have a custom URL created in bit.ly, it's quick and easy make sure it gets used in HubSpot Social Media. Simply go to social media settings and, under account settings, add your bit.ly account. Connecting bit.ly to HubSpot will ensure that your custom short link appears in all of your social media shares.
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Neptune Flow Sensor 1/4″
Usually used with a return pump, this flow sensor can be placed in line with the flow on any pipe, connected to the FMM, and communicate to your Apex the flow rate of water through that pipe or tubing. The FS-25 comes with 1/4" push connect tubing that will work with any standard style 1/4" RO/DI tubing.
Adapting soft 1/4" tubing can be done easily with a 1/4" stem x 1/4" barb adapter.
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LONDON (AP) Gwen Jorgensen raced to her 10th straight ITU World Triathlon Series victory Sunday, leading a U.S. sweep for the second time this season.
Gwen Jorgensen, the defending series champion from St. Paul, Minnesota, finished the 750-meter swim, 20-kilometer bike, 5-kilometer run in 55 minutes, 45 seconds.
Jorgensen has won every WTS race she has started since May 2014 and has 13 career victories. She leads the season standings with 4,000 points.
''It still seems weird,'' Jorgensen said about the streak. ''It seems weird when people say that. Really, all I can do is focus on what I can control every race, and I can't control if someone beats me one day. I just try to go out there and execute on the swim, bike, and run.
Katie Zaferes of Hampstead, Maryland, was second in 56:06. She's second in the season standings.
Sarah True of Hanover, New Hampshire, was third in 56:07.
Britain's Alistair Brownlee won the men's race in 50:39.


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Community Partnerships
Local Requirements in, Sustainable Solutions out
As project planning goes forward, the Sustainable Village Water Systems technical team is mapping topography, hydrology, infrastructure and population for each broken water point on the Ministry of Water's target list. But perhaps more importantly, we are surveying the social support networks that surround target communities. Local partners such as church groups, NGOs, companies and community leadership groups will be the keys to sustainable success for both the national water point rehabilitation initiative and workforce development.
Community Engagement for Sustainable Solutions
Inclusive, bottom-up development
- Community is involved through project planning and implementation
- Surveys, interviews, focus sessions
- Stakeholders develop their own vision for economic development
- Emphasis on gender equality and women's empowerment
Ongoing engagement
- For the first year after implementation, program partners conduct monitoring, evaluation and training
Long-term engagement
- Local NGOs—church groups, women's groups, farmer coops
- Mobile devices for troubleshooting, ongoing learning/training
- Franchise water maintenance program provides ongoing support for water systems and the businesses that depend on them
Sustainable Village Water Systems Program Core Partners
A Landmark Collaboration
The Sustainable Village Water Systems Program is a public-private partnership that will create sustainable systems solutions designed to tackle interrelated food, water, energy and health challenges that face Tanzania and much of Africa. The partnership was formalized in 2015 when the Ohio State University, with partners Hecate Energy and WorldServe International, signed a Letter of Intent with the Tanzanian Minister of Water to frame, secure funding, and execute the Sustainable Village Water Systems Program. At the same time, Ohio State signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Dodoma to create and launch new collaborative programs that support the development of a capable and enterprising workforce in food, energy, water and health.
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The University of Dodoma, Tanzania's newest and fastest growing university, is committed to creating the workforce of a sustainable future with a major on-site solar power plant and academic programming that provides training from certificates to advanced degrees.
As part of the Big Results Now campaign, the Ministry of Water of the United Republic of Tanzania has adopted innovative strategies to ensure water access for Tanzanians. Public-private partnerships, capacity building, and data-based watershed management are key to the Ministry's vision.
A U.S. 501(c)(3) organization, WorldServe International builds large-capacity water wells to help transform impoverished communities in East Africa and has been working in Tanzania since 2001. Each day, more than two million people in East Africa receive clean water from WorldServe wells.
Hecate Energy is a developer of large-scale renewable energy systems with over 2,400 MW of power plants around the world. A Power Africa charter member, Hecate will break ground on a 55 MW solar plant at the University of Dodoma in 2016.


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This is the first day of the Read-A-Thon and I began reading books after midnight came. I'll do an update on the books I've read so far later.
But for now, I'll update saying I did the challenge at Melissas Eclectic Bookshelf's blog. The challenge was to create a sentence using the following titles:
Kissing Snowflakes
Cold Kiss
The Black Ice
After the Snow
Cold Magic
Winter Garden
My sentence: KISSING SNOWFLAKES AFTER THE SNOW makes my lips feel FROZEN.
I posted it as a comment on blog and decided I'd post it on here so I can update at least a little for now.
But I will probably update again later. I'm leaving soon so I don't have time to write a post on all the books I've read so far yet.


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Ataxia refers to a lack of muscle control during voluntary movements, such as picking up objects or walking. Ataxia can affect movement, speech, eye movement and swallowing. Ataxia treatment with cell therapy is showing great levels of benefit to our patients.
Persistent ataxia usually results from damage to your cerebellum — the region of your brain that controls muscle coordinations. Many conditions can cause ataxia, including stroke, tumor, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. An inherited defective gene also can cause ataxia.
Our Mesenchymal stem cell therapy for Ataxia can give improvements in the area's of balance, coordination, motor function, speech, tremors, swallowing, neuropathic pain and mental alertness.
Stem cells can act as a repair system replenishing specialized cells. The goal is to coax stem cells to become nerve cells to replace dopamine-producing cells that have been lost in the brain.
What is Cell Therapy?
Cell Therapy is unprogrammed cells in the human body that can be described as "shape shifters." These cells have the ability to change or "differentiate" into other types of cells. Stem cells are at the center of a new field of science called regenerative medicine. Because stem cells can become neurons, bone, muscle, cartilage and other specialized types of cells, they have the potential to treat many diseases, including Ataxia, Cp, Diabetes, MS and more.
Cell therapy is an intervention strategy that introduces new adult stem cells into damaged tissue in order to treat disease or injury. Many medical researchers believe that stem cell treatments have the potential to change the face of human disease and alleviate suffering. The ability of stem cells to self-renew and give rise to subsequent generations with variable degrees of differentiation capacities, offers significant potential for generation of tissues that can potentially replace diseases and damaged areas in the body, with minimal risk of rejection and side effects.
Purified Mesenchymal Cell Therapy from the Umbilical cord
Mesencymal stem cells are early passage multipotent progenitor cells derived from human cord blood that are capable of supporting hematopoiesis and differentiating into multiple lineages (osteogenic, adipogenic, chondrogenic, neurogenic, myogenic, and cardiomyogenic.)
For acceptance: Maternal blood and cord blood is tested negative for HIV I&II, HCV, CMV IgG/IgM, syphilis IgG/IgM antibodies and Hepatitis B surface antigen. Free of bacterial and fungal contamination.
Umbilical cord tissue represents a unique, easily accessible, and noncontroversial source of early cells that can be readily manipulated. Studies that have compared the properties of mesenchymal stem cells derived from cord tissue with those derived from adult sources (such as bone marrow) have illustrated some important differences:
- Cord tissue–derived mesenchymal stem cells appear to lack some immune suppression properties compared with adult mesenchymal stem cells.
- Cord tissue–derived mesenchymal stem cells lack class II HLA, whereas adult mesenchymal stem cells express these antigens. This may be particularly important in facilitating the "acceptance" of transplanted mesenchymal stem cells.
- Cord tissue–derived mesenchymal stem cells also express a range and level of specific cytokines that are different from those expressed by adult mesenchymal stem cells.
Thus, as naïve cells, mesenchymal stem cells extracted from cord tissues have greater therapeutic potential than adult cells. Studies have also shown that cord tissue–derived mesenchymal stem cells appear to have greater in vitro capacity for expansion and shorter doubling times; they can therefore generate a larger cell mass in less time than can be achieved with adult stem cells. This property may be related to greater length of chromosomal telomeres, which have been found to shorten with increased rounds of cell division. This suggests that primitive mesenchymal stem cells have a greater ability to expand in culture than do adult mesenchymal stem cells, perhaps due to their relative youth.
Repopulate Your Cell Pool
In order to self-repair, living organisms have stem cells in central and peripheral locations which can be attracted to sites of injured tissues by "alarm signals". In this way, these cells proliferate, migrate, and accumulate in those damaged sites. If this situation of "alarm" perpetuates, stem cells could be permanently exhausted from their original locations leading to irreversible disease.
Basically, it could be a matter of stem cell quantity and effective availability at a certain time point when active regeneration is needed. The expected consequences of this situation could be the lack of an appropriate number of stem cells for further tissue replacement and regeneration and eventually the development of disease and aging.
For example, we could think that any alteration of this stem cell homeostasis by constant and repetitive trauma, physical hyperactivity, chronic inflammation and chronic disease could provoke a persistent disequilibrium inside all these reserve locations. This could promote an irreversible and premature stem cell exhaustion, being impossible then for the organism to self-repair and survive.
As we age we have less circulating stem cells. Introduction of new stem cells to our bodies circulation can improve health and repopulate our stem cell pool.
How Long Will It Take To See Improvement:
This is one of the most common and important questions a patient can ask. Keep in mind that every patient who receives any type of medical procedure will react differently to their treatment. Patients who have received stem cell therapy through StemCells21 generally see the full culmination or their results from almost immediately to a few months later. Some patients have taken up to 6 months before seeing the full effect of the treatment.
Supportive Therapies in our Ataxia Treatment program:
- General rejuvenation peptide complex injections: stimulates stem cells into repair mode
- Condition specific peptide complex injections: triggers higher repair signals in specific tissues such as nerve, brain, central nervous system
- IV and local tissue laser therapy: changes the bloods micro environment and local tissue activity
- IV oxygen therapy: increased oxygen levels in blood supporting healthy cells
- IV vitamins: IV Curcumin giving a powerful anti-inflammatory effect (also combined with blue laser is a powerful photodynamic therapy)
- Take home customised nutrition package made specific to your blood test results. (comprehensive blood test analysis will be made)
Treatment Program For Ataxia Stem Cell Therapy:
Treatment Period: 3-4 weeks program
(options of 100,000,000* or 200,000,000** MSCs) Juvenile purified cells
– Comprehensive blood test
- 4 x IV infusion sessions of cells (20,000,000* or 40,000,000**)
- 4 x Intra-nasal sessions of cells (2,5000,000* or 5,000,000** per session)
- 2 x local injections of cells / PRP (10,000,000* or 20,000,000**)
- 16 x tissue injection / intra-nasal sessions of GcMAF
- Daily medical IV laser + Oxyven therapy (5 days a week)
- Daily tissue medical laser (5 days a week)
- Twice weekly IV nutrition – pure curcumin
- 30 x general repair peptide complex injections (daily)
- 30 x MS therapeutic human Enzyme injectable (daily)
– 12 x condition specific peptides
Follow up advised at month 4-6 period
Option 1: 100,000,000 MSC = $35,000 USD
Option 2: 200,000,000 MSC = $55,500 USD


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It is common knowledge that vegetarians and those who consume healthy plant-based diets enjoy more robust health. Yet, science never stopped from discovering what makes certain diets or vegetables special. Contrary to claims that vegetarians can run the risk of certain nutritional deficiencies, many studies repeatedly proved that a well-planned vegetarian diet can meet basic nutritional needs.
Vegetarian Diet vs. Colon Cancer
To stay benefiting from your vegetarian diet, it is suggested that you learn more about plant-based diets. One article that may just pique your interest is an article video by Jamal Andress in Newsy entitled Here's One More Reason To Be A Vegetarian that says sticking to a vegetarian diet can lower the risk for colon cancer by 20 percent.
"A new study says a vegetarian diet can cut your risk of colon cancer by 20 percent compared to non vegetarians, and if you add fish to that veggie diet — making you a pesco-vegetarian — that number jumps to 43 percent. [Read more…]


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Hello & Happy Saturday everyone! Hope your weekend is off to a great start! It is in the 70's here and my windows are wide open & I'm soooo lovin' it. Now if the trees would bloom & everything turn that wonderful spring-y green :o) And we get to turn out clocks forward tomorrow (so don't forget, hee hee)--more daylight, yay!!! I have 2 projects to share with you today that I hope you'll enjoy.....
I finally got my Medieval Whiff of Joy stamps this week, after waiting patiently for weeks (not really, hee hee). Seems that someone in the customs office likes WOJ stamps cuz' they're not getting to me when they should, LOL! Anywhoo, I've got two very different projects to show with them today for ya! If you love these stamps, 7 Kids College Fund has them for pre-order right now(soon to be in stock) if you want to order them here in the States!
This little cutie is "Maid Charlotte"--I just love her & her pretty dress & flowers! I paired her up with this yummo-licious dp from My Mind's Eye (Laundry Line--love this stuff)--I thought the criss-cross pattern reminded me of her dress bodice. She's colored with Copics of course and I added some diamond stickles to her flowers! The flowers are Prima & Petaloo's and I used my Goldilocks Bella Baubles in their centers! Sentiment is from Verve Stamps! Do you love her?Now, this one is totally different from what I usually do and I love it for that reason! Looks like a simple card but it took me forevah' (isn't it always the simple cards that take longer, hee hee)! This cutie pop is "Warrior Charlie" from the same WOJ Medieval Line--love him! The dp is from DCWV "fantasy" stack--I distressed the edges with my Tim Holtz paper distresser and inked the edges real good too. I wanted this card to be ALL BOY--totally masculine and roughed up!
Now don't faint my friends, but yes I actually hand-sewed around the edges (I know how to sew, just don't like it, lol) with brown Scrappers Floss. I wanted to use twine but it was just too thick, so to the rescue--Scrappers Floss--worked wonderfully and sewed beautifully, lovee this stuff! This little knight was colored with Copics and then I added Diamond Glaze to his shield and a few Armor spots and lots of Shimmerz (angel wingz) on his shoes & sword, and Copper Bella Baubles too! That fun sentiment is from a Gina K set called "Kindred Greetings for Him". My son said it was a "cool" card, so I guess it passed the boy test---hee hee! You likee?
That's all for me today! I'll see ya back here on Monday & hopefully my laptop will be back up & running by then! Have a great weekend!


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Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.
Proposed rule.
The MMS is proposing to modify requirements governing surety bonds for activities on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). These changes will codify the terms and conditions under which a surety will be relieved of responsibility when MMS terminates the period of liability of a bond. Codifying these terms and conditions is necessary to clarify the responsibilities of the lessee and the surety after the lease expires.
We will consider all comments we receive by March 9, 2001. We will begin reviewing comments then and may not fully consider comments we receive after March 9, 2001.
If you wish to comment, you may submit your comments by any one of several methods. You may mail or hand-carry comments (three copies) to the Department of the Interior; Minerals Management Service; Mail Stop 4024; 381 Elden Street; Herndon, Virginia 20170-4817; Attention: Rules Processing Team (RPT). You may also send your comments by e-mail or e-mail attachment. The RPT's e-mail address is: email@example.com Further Info
John Mirabella, Engineering and Operations Division, (703) 787-1607.End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental Information
OCS lessees must comply with regulations governing operations, payments of rents and royalties, and end-of-lease obligations. To ensure that the lessee will be financially able to meet all requirements, including end-of-lease requirements, MMS requires the lessee to post a bond. This rule would amend the provisions of 30 CFR 256.58 concerning the cancellation of a bond.
When the lessee has met all end-of-lease obligations, MMS terminates the liability period of the bond. This amendment addresses situations when the lessee appears to meet all end-of-lease requirements and we later discover that obligations still exist. For example, an audit may reveal that the lessee owes us additional royalty. As another example, a plugged well may start to leak. In either case, the lessee must correct the problem.
In the case of royalties, the liability would be discovered when the audit is conducted after the end of the surety's liability period. By statute, any demand for performance of a monetary obligation must be made within 7 years. In the example of the leaking well, there is not a stipulated time period. Problems associated with plugged wells in the OCS are rare; when they do occur, they are generally discovered within a few years of the plugging activity.
Should the lessee fail to perform a lease obligation, MMS turns to the surety for performance. This rule addresses how long a bond will be held before cancellation to assure availability to cover a problem that is discovered after the liability period on a bond has ended. The current regulation does not set a limit on the period that MMS may continue to hold the bond company responsible for a problem that occurs during the liability period.
OCS wells rarely start to leak following plugging operations. Therefore, we have difficulty predicting when a leak might occur. This notice proposes a period of 7 years (plus such additional time taken for appeals or litigation) during which MMS may hold the bond for claims based upon obligations that accrued during the period of liability. During this period, we will retain security or collateral pledged to MMS in lieu of a surety. The bond will be canceled after 7 years and Start Printed Page 1278any other forms of security will be returned. We believe that a 7-year period will provide adequate protection to the Government and will provide a measure of certainty to bond companies.
The 7-year provision applies to all base bonds, unless we find that less security needs to be retained. The rule would release supplemental bond providers, upon completion of the bonded work, from liability for obligations that accrued before acceptance of the reclamation work, unless we find that potential liability is greater than the amount of the base bond. We will normally release the supplemental bond upon completion of the bonded work because in most cases, we anticipate that the general bond will be sufficient to cover our estimate of potential residual liabilities.
The proposal would not change the provision in 30 CFR 256.58(c) that allows MMS to reinstate your bond. That provision allows us to reinstate your bond as if no cancellation or release had occurred if:
(1) You make a payment under the lease and the payment is rescinded or must be repaid by the recipient because you are insolvent, bankrupt, subject to reorganization, or placed in receivership; or
(2) You represent to us that you have discharged your obligations under the lease and your representation was materially false.
Procedural Matters
Public Comment Procedure: Our practice is to make comments, including names and home addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular business hours. Individual respondents may request that we withhold their home address from the rulemaking record, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law. There may be circumstances in which we would withhold from the rulemaking record a respondent's identity, to the extent allowable by law. If you wish us to withhold your name and/or address, you must state this prominently at the beginning of your comment. However, we will not consider anonymous comments. We will make all submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.
Regulatory Planning and Review (Executive Order 12866)
This document is not a significant rule and is not subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under Executive Order 12866.
(1) This rule will not have an effect of $100 million or more on the economy. It will not adversely affect in a material way the economy, productivity, competition, jobs, the environment, public health or safety, or State, local, or tribal governments or communities. This rule, in many important ways, follows aspects of current policy included in the bond form. The rule will also extend that policy to other forms of security such as escrow accounts which are not currently used for base bonds. Since this rule normally will not apply to supplemental bonds without specific action by the Regional Supervisor, the impact of this change is minimal.
(2) This rule will not create a serious inconsistency or otherwise interfere with an action taken or planned by another agency. Other agencies are not affected by the bonds and other forms of surety that protect the government's interests.
(3) This rule does not alter the budgetary effects of entitlements, grants, user fees, or loan programs or the rights or obligations of their recipients. This rule will have no effect on the rights of the recipients of entitlements, grants, user fees, or loan programs.
(4) This rule does not raise novel legal or policy issues. The rule more clearly conforms MMS practice to that of the private sector and provides certainty with respect to the cancellation of surety bonds and other lease security.
Regulatory Flexibility (RF) Act
The Department certifies that this rule will not have a significant economic effect on a substantial number of small entities under the RF Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.).
This rule will affect lessees and operators of leases on the OCS. This includes about 130 different companies. These companies are generally classified under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 211111, Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction, which includes companies that extract crude petroleum and natural gas. For this NAICS code, a small company is one with fewer than 500 employees. Based on these criteria, we estimate that about 54 percent of the companies are considered small. This rule, therefore, affects a substantial number of small entities.
The companies that are considered small have an average of about 15 offshore facilities. We estimate that these small companies have annual sales between $1 million and $380 million.
As discussed in the Regulatory Planning and Review section, we expect this rule to have only minimal effects and, accordingly, we do not expect this rule to have a significant effect on any company, large or small. Under current regulations, when a lessee meets all of the lease requirements, the period of liability ends. If MMS later discovers a problem with the way the work was performed, we will hold the lessee responsible. If the lessee is not able to meet the obligation, we hold the bond company responsible. This regulation establishes a time period during which MMS will hold the bond before cancellation. The codification of a policy on bond cancellation is new. The other change for current practice is that MMS retains pledged securities for the same length of time we have been waiting before canceling surety bonds. While this new provision is needed to ensure consistency of agency practice, the provision will not have a significant effect since companies currently do not use instruments other than surety bonds to meet the basic bond requirement.
This rule will also affect companies that sell surety bonds or provide other types of security to OCS lessees. For those companies, this rule will provide certainty with regard to residual liabilities. Since the provisions in this rule are generally the same as current practice, any effects on bonding companies will be minor. Those minor effects will be reflected in costs charged to oil and gas lessees and will ultimately be borne by oil and gas lessees. These effects are included in the estimates addressing the oil and gas lessees. Your comments are important. The Small Business and Agriculture Regulatory Enforcement Ombudsman and 10 Regional Fairness Boards were established to receive comments from small business about Federal agency enforcement actions. The Ombudsman will annually evaluate the enforcement activities and rate each agency's responsiveness to small business. If you wish to comment on the enforcement actions of MMS, call toll-free (888) 734-3247.
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995
The information collection aspects of this rule remain unchanged. The proposed revisions contain no additional information collection or recordkeeping requirements, and a submission to OMB under the PRA is not required. The OMB has approved the information collection requirements in the current regulations and assigned OMB control number 1010-0006, with a Start Printed Page 1279current expiration date of March 31, 2000.
Federalism (Executive Order 13132)
With respect to Executive Order 13132, the rule does not have Federalism implications. This rule does not substantially and directly affect the relationship between the Federal and State governments. The bonding program is between the Federal Government and the lessees of Federal leases. The bond does not affect obligations between the lessee and any State or local government. This rule does not impose costs on States or localities. State or local governments do not provide bonds and do not need to comply with bonding requirements.
Takings (Executive Order 12630)
With respect to Executive Order 12630, the proposed rule does not have significant Takings implications. A Takings Implication Assessment is not required. The proposed rulemaking is not a governmental action capable of interfering with constitutionally protected property rights.
Civil Justice Reform (Executive Order 12988)
With respect to Executive Order 12988, the Office of the Solicitor has determined that this rule does not unduly burden the judicial system and meets the requirements of sections 3(a) and 3(b)(2) of the Executive Order.
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969
This rule does not constitute a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. A detailed statement under the NEPA is not required.
Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA)
This rule is not a major rule under (5 U.S.C. 804(2)) the SBREFA. This rule:
(a) Does not have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more.
(b) Will not cause a major increase in costs or prices for consumers, individual industries, Federal, State, or local government agencies, or geographic regions.
(c) Does not have significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, or the ability of U.S.-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises.
We do not expect this rule to have a significant effect because, as discussed earlier, this rule would, generally, codify policies already in use. The substantive change for securities other than surety bonds will not have a significant effect because the rule applies to the general bond requirement, and surety bonds are used by almost all MMS lessees to satisfy the base bond requirement.
Unfunded Mandate Reform Act (UMRA) of 1995 (Executive Order 12866)
This rule does not impose an unfunded mandate on State, local, or tribal governments or the private sector of more than $100 million per year. The rule does not have a significant or unique effect on State, local, or tribal governments or the private sector. A statement containing the information required by the UMRA (2 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) is not required. This is because the rule does not affect State, local, or tribal governments, and the effect on the private sector is small.Start List of Subjects
List of Subjects in 30 CFR Part 256
- Administrative practice and procedure
- Continental shelf
- Government contracts
- Oil and gas exploration
- Public lands—mineral resources
- Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Surety bonds
Dated: December 20, 2000.
Sylvia V. Baca,
Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management.
For the reasons stated in the preamble, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) proposes to amend 30 CFR part 256 as follows:
1. The authority citation for part 256 continues to read as follows:
2. Section 256.58 is revised to read as follows:
This section defines the terms and conditions under which MMS will terminate the period of liability of a bond or cancel a bond. Terminating the period of liability of a bond ends the period during which obligations continue to accrue but does not relieve the surety of the responsibility for obligations that accrued during the period of liability. Canceling a bond relieves the surety of all liability.
(a) When the surety under your bond requests termination:
(1) The Regional Director will terminate the period of liability under your bond within 90 days after MMS receives the request; and
(2) If you intend to continue operations, or have not completed abandonment, you must provide a replacement bond of an equivalent amount.
(b) If, following the termination of the period of liability of a bond, you provide a replacement bond according to this paragraph, the Regional Director will cancel your terminated bond and the surety that provided your terminated bond will not retain any liability. The Regional Director will cancel your bond if:
(1) The surety issuing the new bond agrees to assume all outstanding liabilities that accrued during the period of liability that was terminated; and
(2) The new bond is equal to or greater than the bond that is to be canceled.
(c) If the period of liability is terminated for a bond but the bond is not replaced by a bond of an equivalent amount, the surety that provided your terminated bond will continue to be responsible for accrued obligations until the obligations are satisfied and for additional periods of time according to paragraph (d) of this section.
(d) At the time your lease expires or is terminated, the surety or sureties that issued the bond(s) covering accrued obligations will continue to be responsible, and the Regional Director will retain other forms of security for the period of time and under the terms shown in the following table:
|For the type of bond below
|The period of liability will end
|Your bond will be cancelled
|(1) Base Bonds submitted under § 256.52(a), § 256.53(a), or (b)
|When the Regional Director determines that you have met all of your obligations under the lease
|Seven years after the completion of all bonded obligations, or at the conclusion of any appeals or litigation related to your bonded obligations, whichever is later. The Regional Director may:
|(i) determine that you need less than the full amount of the base bond to meet any possible future problems; and
|(ii) reduce the amount of your bond or return a portion of your security.
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|(2) Supplemental bonds submitted under § 256.53(d)
|When the Regional Director determines that you have met all your obligations covered by the supplemental bond
|When you meet your bonded obligations, unless the Regional Director:
|(i) determines that the future potential liability resulting from any undetected problems is greater than the amount of the base bond; and
|(ii) notifies the provider of the bond that the Regional Director will wait up to 7 years before canceling all or a part of the bond (or longer period as necessary to complete any appeals or judicial litigation related to your bonded obligations).
(e) For all bonds, the Regional Director may reinstate your bond as if no cancellation or release had occurred if:
(1) A person makes a payment under the lease and the payment is rescinded or must be repaid by the recipient because the person making the payment is insolvent, bankrupt, subject to reorganization, or placed in receivership; or
(2) The responsible party represents to MMS that it has discharged its obligations under the lease, and the representation was materially false when the bond was canceled or released.
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Making excellence a habit
Authorities in Jordan raided a hangar in an industrial area in east Amman used by drug traffickers as a laboratory for the production of captagon, an illegal amphetamine-type stimulant and common drug of abuse in the Middle East. Security officials said that the raid was the first of its kind in Jordan. Authorities began investigating the trafficking operation several months ago based on a tip, and said that officials discovered that the drug smugglers had imported chemical precursors from abroad in order to manufacture the captagon. Police arrested eight suspects in connection with the case, and also seized two million captagon pills during a raid on an apartment in Amman utilized as a storage center by the trafficking gang. Authorities said that the seized precursors were sufficient to manufacture over 100 million pills of captagon.
BSI reported a similar incident in Lebanon in January 2017, in which Lebanese security forces raided a captagon production facility in Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley. BSI regularly records seizures of captagon from cargo shipments originating in Jordan and Lebanon, with these shipments most frequently destined for users in Saudi Arabia. Traffickers utilize a variety of modalities to ship the drug, although most shipments recorded by BSI originating in Jordan are introduced into cargo trucks aboard ferries departing the port of Aqaba and destined for the Red Sea port of Duba in Saudi Arabia.
Authorities in Jiangsu, China fined and suspended the operations of a pharmaceutical firm for illegally disposing of its industrial waste using modified city cleaning trucks. The firm used the trucks in order to spray over 3,000 tonnes of waste water onto city streets. According to authorities, the truck had been painted to resemble a city street cleaning services vehicle, and would spray a strong smelling liquid waste along roadsides late at night. The firm had been disposing of waste in this manner for at least one year. Samples of liquid indicated high concentrations of contaminants unacceptable for sewage water. An investigation is now ongoing, and authorities have detained the responsible parties.
Workers at the Paradip Port in Odisha, India halted all operations and caused delays in sea freight transportation. The workers began their strike after attending an unsuccessful meeting with port authorities, where they demanded a raise in the minimum monthly wage to approximately $282 for an eight-hour workday, stricter implementation of labor laws, and prior notice before layoffs. If the strike continues, it will likely cause further delays for sea freight transiting the facility. The striking employees have threatened to continue the strike if their demands are not met.
An ongoing outbreak of listeriosis, caused by the foodborne bacteria listeria, has killed at least 67 people in South Africa, although authorities say that the true death toll from the outbreak is likely much higher. Officials have recorded at least 727 confirmed cases of listeriosis to date, with 61 percent occurring in the province of Gauteng. Authorities said that they had not yet traced the source of the outbreak despite analyzing samples from food production and processing facilities as well as the homes of listeriosis patients, and therefore cannot issue any product recalls or recommendations to avoid consumption of particular food items. A health department spokesman said that poor recordkeeping practices at South African hospitals contributed to the difficulty of both tracing the outbreak to a particular source and accurately estimating the number of infections and deaths associated with the outbreak. The South African shadow minister for health noted that the outbreak could affect food exports, with Rwanda already banning the import of multiple foods from South Africa. BSI reported on the outbreak in South Africa in December, when authorities had recorded only 36 deaths connected to listeriosis.


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UMU at the Uganda Humanitarian Learning Platform- Symposium
Uganda Martyrs University represented by staff and students of the Programs Master in Refugee and Migration and Masters in Sustainable Peace and Conflict Management, participated in the Uganda Humanitarian Learning Platform – Symposium. Under the theme: Effective Humanitarian Response through Learning and Knowledge Management on the 23rd November 2017 at Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala.
UMUs Assoc. Prof. Micheal Mawa the DVCAA was a panelist at this symposium and he presented a paper on The Contribution of Academic Institutions to the Humanitarian sector in Uganda.


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It's been a very busy month! I went to the Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend in Las Vegas for the first time and was so inspired! The weekend was filled with glittery people and fun activities. Not to mention four nights of amazing shows. The weekend started off with a bang with the Movers, Shakers, and Innovators show Thursday night and kept going strong through to the last performance of the Sunday night Icons and All Stars show which I was honored to stage kitten. Friday night's show was the Legends show and I was moved to tears. I couldn't believe how some of these burlesque legends could still bump and grind! Particularly touching was Penny Starr performing with her grand daughter Penny Starr Jr. Saturday night was the much anticipated Titans of Tease Tournament. Congratulations to all of the winners of the evening and to Imogen Kelly, our Reigning Queen of Burlesque! However, I have a special place in my heart for Mr. Russell Bruner who won the title of Mr. Exotic World! Russell is from Portland, OR and although I live in New York now, I am a Portlander at heart. Here is a picture of him right after his big win with The Pink Lady (the queen of his heart), Lana Louche, and myself.
After the amazing weekend I was in a glitter coma, but was excited to return to Portland for the first time since I moved away. I performed at Savoir Faire, Burlynomicon, Geeklesque, Sinferno, and Miss Kennedy's Cabaret. Before my performance at Miss Kennedy's Cabaret, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by RockNRoll Ruby and the Black Widower for The blackRuby show! In addition, I met up with one of my favorite videographers and will soon be posting a new video. Stay tuned for more promo pin ups because how could I visit Portland and not shoot with Mike Long of Portland Pin-Ups? Here is one of the images we shot while I was in town!
Since coming back to New York a week ago, I have been busy! I have had four shows and celebrated my birthday! I mean, what better way to celebrate my birth than by getting naked?!
June was a fun filled month, but the next month is exciting too so keep checking back for updates on shows.


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South Korea to seek U.N. penalties for North Korea in Cheonan sinking
Monday, May 24, 2010
BEIJING -- South Korea said Sunday that it will ask the U.N. Security Council to punish North Korea for its deadly attack on a South Korean warship, a move that could ratchet up pressure on the isolated Stalinist regime and add a new flash point in U.S. relations with China.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will make the request in an address to his nation Monday during which he will detail a package of measures in response to the March 26 torpedoing of the 1,200-ton Cheonan and the killing of 46 sailors, said his spokesman Lee Dong-kwan.
A senior U.S. official, traveling with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in China, said the United States will back "all the steps the South Koreans are going to announce tomorrow." In an indication of the seriousness with which the Obama administration views the unfolding drama between the North and the South, home to nearly 29,000 U.S. troops, he added: "We have not faced something like this in decades."
Among other measures that could be pushed by Lee, analysts said, are cuts in South Korean trade with the North, returning North Korea to the U.S. State Department's list of states that sponsor terrorism, and tighter U.N. sanctions on Pyongyang. Lee has apparently ruled out military action because he does not want to trigger an all-out war.
The official said that, based on talks over the past two days, Chinese officials have not accepted the results of a South Korean investigation -- backed by experts from the United States, Australia, Britain and Sweden -- that implicated North Korea in the attack. As such, it is unclear whether Beijing will support Lee's call in the Security Council.
China's reluctance to agree with the report underscores the challenges the United States faces as it seeks to forge closer ties to Beijing. The U.S. official also noted Sunday that China and the United States still do not see eye to eye on the details of planned economic sanctions on Iran for its failure to stop its nuclear enrichment program. Of specific concern, he said, are disagreements between Beijing and Washington about how investments in Iran's oil and gas sector will be treated. China has committed to investing more than $80 billion in Iran's energy sector; tightened sanctions against Tehran could threaten those investments.
U.S. officials said the Obama administration considers the situation in Northeast Asia and Iran so pressing that on Sunday night in Beijing, Clinton dispensed with the niceties of protocol and got down to a substantive discussion in the middle of a private banquet to welcome the biggest delegation of U.S. officials to Beijing to date. The officials -- a band of 200 led by Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and specializing in fields such as health, energy and the environment, counterterrorism, nuclear proliferation, and human rights -- are in Beijing for the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
Reverberations in Tokyo
Officials and analysts said that the attack on the Cheonan seems to be redefining the security equation in Northeast Asia, bolstering the United States, damaging China and concentrating the minds of Japanese officials.
The attack has provided political cover for Japan's government -- only the second opposition party to take power in nearly 50 years -- to end an eight-month-long feud with the United States and accept a plan to relocate a U.S. Marine base within Okinawa. On Sunday, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announced that his country would abide by a 14-year-old agreement with the United States to move the Futenma air base in Okinawa to a less populated part of the island. U.S. officials responded cautiously, however, because important details have yet to be ironed out.
Hatoyama's government had campaigned on a platform that rejected the Futenma deal and advocated a more Asia-centric view of Japan's place in the world. But the Cheonan incident reminded them "that this is still a very dangerous neighborhood and that the U.S.-Japan alliance and the basing arrangements that are part of that are critical to Japan's security," the senior U.S. official said.
Tough options for China
The attack and its aftermath also threaten China's place in the region and could force it to make an unwanted choice between South Korea and North Korea -- two countries that it has handled deftly since normalizing relations with Seoul in 1992. South Korea wants China, which is a permanent member of the Security Council, to back Seoul's call to take the Cheonan issue to the council. So does the United States, the U.S. official said.
But that could risk hurting Pyongyang, and China appears committed to maintaining the North Korean regime above all.


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Movie: Unfinished Business
Rating: 2 1/2 Stars (Out of 5)
Review: Dan Trunkman (Vince Vaughn) is a hard charging salesman for Dynamic Progressive Systems. He's looking to sock away money so his son can go to a private school, but his younger female boss Chuck Portnoy (Sienna Miller) is taking a hard line with her employees, and insists Dan must take a 5% salary cut to help the company stay in the black. Dan cries "foul", and proceeds to vent all his pent up frustrations which culminate in his resignation, and a battle cry that he will start his own company and do things the right way.
Dan soon realizes he may have been hasty in his departure, as the only employees that join his venture are Timothy McWinters (Tom Wilkinson) and Mike Pancake (Dave Franco). Timothy is a 67 year old man who just wants to hang on long enough to make a score so he can afford to divorce his evil wife. Mike is a young twenty-something fellow who is very introverted, inexperienced in business and life in general, and frankly seems a bit low in the old IQ number. An odd trio to be sure, they comprise the fledgling company named Apex Select. They are a niche company that finds solutions to dispose of scarf, which is the waste filings of metal or stone left over from a machining process.
After a year of frustration, Apex Select is on the verge of closing a major deal. But before the final handshake can happen, Dan Trunkman runs into his nemesis Chuck Portnoy and discovers his done deal is on the verge of going off the rails. What follows are the trials and tribulations of Dan and his two partners as they travel to Germany to find out if they have the "right stuff" to close a major business deal.
This film is a real mixed bag. At times it takes itself seriously as Dan Trunkman struggles to find his worth as a businessman and father, juggling a career on the road with hurried phone calls to deal with family crises. Then the scale tips way over to the side of comedic farcery, such as when old horn dog McWinters orders up a sex maid at one of his business hotel stays. I don't even want to get into the gay sex club in Germany. Nein! Bottom line for this film is that it was too uneven, and the sight and physical humor just not that funny. It didn't help that hottie Sienna Miller was a caricature of an evil boss. And who the heck gave her the name "Chuck"?
Huh? What the….: Where is the continuity person? Tom Wilkerson's character says he is 67, the screen segue tells us it's a year later, and Tom is still…67.
One of the characters runs a 5 hour marathon in his business shoes. Sorry, but he'd be crippled if he actually tried that.
Are there really clubs in Germany where beautiful naked women have pillow fights with guys? Seriously, I want to know!
Dialogue Nuggets: Chuck – "I'm an asshole because I have to make decisions to keep the company strong."
Timothy – "I'm just 67. I'm not the crypt-keeper!"
"I'm wondering if we're the fluffer company on this deal."
Dan – "Sometimes in life you have to take inventory. This is one of those days."
Product Placement: A lot of money is spent by companies to get their product prominently displayed in a movie. It was obvious that Pepsi Cola paid big bucks to the producers of this film.


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Hey guys and gals!
As some of you may not know, I work at The Home Depot full-time as a Department Supervisor. But every now and then I tend to express my abilities as a graphic designer/digital media content creator. Here are just a few examples of my productions that we are using in store right now!
Stay in the HYPE
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Center for Spirit at Work will honor five organizations
Five Kansas City area organizations will be honored June 14 by the Center for Spirit at Work.
The 2013
Spirit at Work Awards
will be given to One More Cup, Heartland Habitat for Humanity, Creative Consumer Concepts, Sandler Training and Omni Employment Management Services.
The award honors organizations for business ethics, social consciousness, business culture and spirituality in the workplace. The center was founded in 1997 as a nondenominational, nonprofit organization to support individuals in their integration of those qualities in the workplace.


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The quality of vernacular functional spaces based on Salinger residence
GhaffarianHoseini, AmirHosein and Ibrahim, Rahinah and Baharuddin, Mohd Nasir (2009) The quality of vernacular functional spaces based on Salinger residence. In: The Third International Conference on Engineering Sustainability 2009: Innovations that Span Boundaries, 19-21 Apr. 2009, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States. .
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The quality of contemporary residential functional spaces has been mostly based on style and modernization rather than the tradition of particular regional context. With the rapid modernization of Malaysia, the kampong house as a Malay vernacular architecture has been replaced by modern architecture. Several aspects of kampong which identified it as a major vernacular value, has been lost inside contemporary functional spaces. In this research, a case study research method will be conducted to study the vernacular architectural features of Malay vernacular houses. These features include spatial characteristics of functions and spaces based on local needs which influence the quality of functional spaces. The Salinger house, a unique symbol of Malaysian vernacular architecture, has been selected as a single case study for this research. Consequently, this research found that the vernacular functional spatial features could be integrated successfully into contemporary functional spaces
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Mumbai: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan may have been in the film industry for four decades now but he feels the stardom of an actor is transitory as a new superstar is born in every 5 to 10 years.
The 72-year-old actor said the way a sportsman's play gets restricted after a certain age, an actor's work also gets limited due to the physical changes that come with age.
"Like sportsmen don't play too much after a certain age as they are physically weak after a while, similarly when actors get old, their face changes. There comes a time when an actor does not fit certain characters and films.
"If that happens one has to stop working. There will be new young people and audience. I feel my time has gone now. I am at the back now. In every 5 or 10 year there will be a new superstar and you have to bow down in front of them," Bachchan said in an interview here.
The evergreen star is the one of busiest artist at his age and Bachchan feels lucky that he has worked with different generations of actors and learnt from them.
"I am gifted by the Almighty that I have worked with four generations and I have learnt so much from all of them. I learn everyday on the sets. The average age of an actor is from 25 to 30 in the industry now and with me there is a difference of 40 odd years. But, I do observe them everyday and try to learn from them," he said.
Bachchan is amazed to see transformation in filmmaking process over the years from the technology to the detailed planning for a movie. "Earlier, only Salim-Javed (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar) used to come with a bound script but now everybody comes with a bound script," he said. The change which has impressed him the most, however, is the increased number of females in the industry.
"There used to be only heroines and mothers but now there are more women than the males and that's what I like. They all are very efficient and capable in their work right from the sets to costume to the production work."
Bachchan said son Abhishek has just a passing shot in 'Shamitabh'. "We were shooting at the airport and Abhishek landed there at that point of time. He came into the frame and Balki captured him," the actor said.
The father-son were last seen in National award-winning 'Paa'. Bachchan said he would love to reteam with Abhishek if a good script comes their way. "I hope someone comes with a script for me and Abhishek. Someone has to come with a suitable script and if that happens, we will do the film," he said. His daughter-in-law Aishwariya Rai Bachchan is making her comeback with Sanjay Gupta's 'Jazbaa'.
"It's a good thing that she is coming back on screen and no one has ever stopped her to work," Bachchan said.


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Though promoting human rights and social development are express goals of the International Olympic Committee, the Olympics and other large-scale sporting events have likely done more to harm local populations than help in recent years and throughout history.
High above their heads, activists held signs reading "Better Housing, No Olympic Games", "Better Schools, No Olympic Games" and "Safer Streets, No Olympic Games". No Boston Olympics, the group that organized this rally, fought for months to end Boston Massachusetts' chance to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. In July of 2015, only months after boosters began major efforts to sway local voters in favor of a Boston Olympics, the United States Olympic Committee withdrew a bid for Boston, Massachusetts to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Why would Boston, a proud, global city, reject a chance to host the prestigious Summer Olympics? Hosting the Olympics is presented as a chance to invest in infrastructure, elevate the profile of a city and country, and turn a profit, but recent history of host cities tells a different story. Americans have grown skeptical of their city hosting the Olympics, and there is a growing awareness that when a city wins the Olympics many of its citizens lose.
The International Olympic Committee is the governing body of the Olympic movement. Its official laws are codified in the Olympic Charter, the document that "governs the organization, action and operation of the Olympic Movement." In the Charter, the second Fundamental Principle of Olympism reads: "The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity."
Despite a stated commitment to advancing peace and harmony, a well-documented pattern of human rights violations casts doubt on how seriously the IOC takes this commitment. In a study published before the 2008 Summer Olympics, the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) linked the following human rights violations to mega-events like the Olympics: "forced eviction; displacement; rising housing costs (leading to unaffordability of housing); reductions in the provision of social, public, and low-cost housing; discrimination against minorities and the poor; criminalization of homelessness; expropriation of private property; and lack of transparency and exclusion of local residents from participation in decision-making." The issues that surround the Olympics and other mega events can be distilled into four core issues: Exploitation of (Migrant) Workers, Unfair Housing, Limits on Freedom of Expression, and Criminalizing Poverty.
Exploitation of Migrant Workers
According to a Reuters report during the summer of 2015, one company building the Olympic village was housing its own workers in "conditions analogous to slavery". These workers mostly came from poorer states around Brazil with the promise of company provided room and board, only to be forced to deal with "cockroaches, rats and sewage in the residences. Many slept outside given all the filth." Even worse conditions were typical for the estimated 1 million migrant construction workers in Beijing, China during the years leading up to the 2008 Olympics. According to the Human Rights Watch abuses in China included: Denial of regular monthly wage payments, non-payment or underpayment of wages, denying migrant construction workers legally stipulated accident and medical insurance, and those who protest face threats of sometimes deadly violence.
Unfair Housing
Since 1988, millions of people have been forcibly displaced by Olympic-related construction and urban renewal. The aforementioned COHRE study details the loss of public housing, increases in cost of living, and large scale eviction and destruction of low income neighborhoods that are common practice for cities preparing for the Olympics. In Seoul, South Korea, for example, 720,000 people were "forcibly displaced from their homes in preparation for the 1988 Summer Games." Barcelona (1992) and Sydney (2000) saw their rents climb out of reach of many of their residents; in Barcelona, "the cumulative increase from 1986 to 1993 was 139 percent for sale prices and nearly 145 percent for rentals." Horrifyingly, an estimated 1.5 million Chinese were displaced from their homes by the start of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.
Limits on Freedom of Speech, Expression
Just prior to the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, a protest was broken up by police officers with tear gas and pepper spray. Some demonstrators reportedly suffered injuries from police. The use of force to put down protests or threatening violence against activists is documented as common practice in host cities before and during the Olympics. The most disturbing restrictions on freedoms of speech and expression took place during the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games, which opened only months after Russia passed strict anti-gay legislation. This law made the promotion of "non-traditional sexual relations" punishable by criminal prosecution with the possibility of imprisonment. According to the Human Rights Watch, Russia was guilty of "harassment, intimidation, surveillance, and threats against and arrests of civil society activists and journalists who criticized the government's Olympic preparations and related policies."
Criminalizing Poverty
In addition to the reality that most of the displaced and all of the migrant laborers come from the lowest classes, institutionalized attacks on impoverished citizens can take other forms. In the years leading up to the Rio Olympics, the Rio group Comitê Popular recorded how "the growing militarization of the city and racist public security policies predominately affect young black men in favelas, but generally enhance segregation and the criminalization of social movements." Military police action was taken against street children and via police occupation of favelas. The criminalization of homelessness was also a key feature of the 1996 Atlanta Games: 9,000 arrest citations were issued to homeless people in Atlanta in 1995 and 1996 as part of the Olympic Games clean up.
Although recent history teaches us that egregious human rights violations go hand in hand with mega-events like the Olympics, history also offers us a vision of what could be. In 1964, during the height of Apartheid in South Africa, the IOC blocked South Africa from participating in the 1964 Summer Olympics in response to the declaration that the national team would not be integrated. In 1970, South Africa was expelled from the IOC. This expulsion was not lifted until 21 years later, just before the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona, in response to action taken by the South African government to dismantle the rule of Apartheid. While it isn't clear just how much impact international sports boycotts of South Africa had on the decision to integrate, for what it's worth, Nelson Mandela thought it had an impact:
"I wanted my people to know that I became president sooner because of the sacrifices made by our athletes during the years of the boycott."


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Supporting Other Professionals
Mader & Shannon Wealth Management supports the efforts of advisors who provide quality service and exceptional performance to their clients. Our firm currently serves as an asset manager to other advisors in various capacities. We encourage a strict non-compete agreement that allows advisors to take advantage of our actively managed equity investment strategies.
Whether you are affiliated with a broker-dealer, or are a standalone RIA, Mader & Shannon can offer active management for you and your clients.
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Annual Fund Programs
You can support Winship through various annual fund programs including: the Winship Director's Fund, the Partner in Research Program, the Winship's Patient and Family Resource Center and the Winship Patient Assistance Fund.
Winship Director's Fund
The Winship Director's Fund provides unrestricted support to areas of greatest promise in the fight against cancer. Ongoing annual gifts provide critical, flexible support that allows the director to invest in new ideas and strategic priorities throughout the year.
Partner in Research
Winship Cancer Institute's Partner in Research annual giving program helps fund the research efforts of our physicians and scientists who are dedicated to providing patients and their families with the latest innovative methods of cancer prevention, treatment, and cure. The need for philanthropic support for research here at home has never been greater as Winship works to become the cancer center of national prominence.
Become a Partner in Research with a gift of $250 or more. For more information about leadership giving opportunities, please contact the development office.
Partner in Research Giving Levels
- Partner in COMPASSION ($250-$499)
- Partner in CARING ($500-$999)
- Partner in COURAGE ($1,000-$2,499)
- Partner in HOPE ($2,500-$4,999)
- Partner in IMAGINATION ($5,000-$9,999)
- Partner in TRANSLATION ($10,000-$24,999)
- Partner in DISCOVERY- Director's Circle ($25,000+)
Patient and Family Resources Center
At Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, we know that cancer patients and their families need more than just top-notch medical care. That's why we created the Patient and Family Resource Center: to give patients and their families a single source to turn to for help. Located on the first floor of Winship, the Center offers a library, hospitality lounge and computers for patients and families to access the Internet.
A gift to the Patient and Family Resource Center will ensure that patients and families have the services and resources they need to support their cancer journey.
Patient Assistance Fund
Donors may designate contributions to the Winship Patient Assistance Fund which was created in the spirit of one of Winship's cornerstone values—caring—to help alleviate the financial hardships many families face during the course of cancer treatment. We all know that fighting a personal cancer battle is emotionally and physically draining for every patient, but for those who also face the additional burden of financial difficulties, it can be overwhelming. The goal of the Winship Patient Assistance Fund is to provide short-term financial help to eligible patients who have exhausted all other forms of assistance. Administered by the Winship social services department, funds may be used for a variety of treatment-related expenses.
We are happy to answer your questions and to provide more information about supporting Winship through Annual Giving. Please contact:
Molly Smith
Executive Director, Annual Giving
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The Pre-M.P.A. application requires the following:
Pre-M.P.A. students are allowed to complete the following M.P.A. core courses:
If you choose to apply for the M.P.A. program, you'll need to complete the full admission requirements. If you are admitted into the M.P.A., all successfully completed Pre-M.P.A. courses will transfer to your program.
Learn more about the Drake Master of Public Administration program. Plan to attend an information session, discuss your educational goals with CBPA staff, or apply now.


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New Year's resolutions are nonsense ☝ Every January I watch the influx of gym subscribers, and empty lettuce shelves in the local grocery store. After three weeks things get back to normal, the gym is half-empty and salad-lunches are replaced with chips.
This phenomenon is so common it even got its own holiday. On January 17 we "celebrate" the Ditch New Year's Resolution Day. You might be tempted to nickname it an international day of failure, but I would argue it's rather a testimony to lack of planning and temporary zeal.
New Year's resolutions annoy me 😤 You know why? Because we can, and should, improve ourselves throughout the year. There is nothing magical about January 1st, Mondays, the first day of Lent or the full moon. If you want to improve something, do it now.
And on that note… I wanted to give you all a quick update as to what our team of relentless engineers and courageous developers have accomplished for you. I've been watching their conversations in our company communication channel, and man, was it a journey!😲
Below you will find info about:
- LinguaLift's new features
- Using LinguaLift on mobile
- Product Hunt
- Fluent Panda
- LINE Stickers
New Features
Since I know you log in to LinguaLift regularly to study (right?), you might have noticed the new streak counter. I also sent you a message about it which I hope you haven't ignored 😝
The streak counter does what it says on the tin: that is shows when you have studied to help you do so regularly. Complete at least one new activity or a review, will make the circle for that day fill up. What you're aiming for is to keep most of them white, and to look like a string of pearls!
We are more social
We launched a service where we'll be calling you personally on the phone to ask about your health.
No, not that.
Our new log-in screen allows you to log in with Google and Facebook. Each time you access it, it teaches you a new "untranslatable word" from another language. So you aren't missing any opportunity to learn something new.
To all of our engaged students.
You helped us identify some nasty bugs and locate missing audio. Thanks to you we were able to fix all of them more easily. Cheers to you! 🍾
To all of our speedy learners.
Along with that we are almost done with the second level of the Russian course, and Japanese Level 2 & Russian Level 2 are coming soon 😎 So, if you fear you have to limit your daily dose of LinguaLift out of the fear of running out of materials, worry not!
To all of our tech geeks.
To all of you addicted to new apps and ideas, you are probably regular visitors on Product Hunt (if not, well you should be 😬). Product Hunt lists the best new products from apps, through online tools, to podcasts and books. Among its 'awesomities' you can now also find LinguaLift.
So, apart from leaving us great reviews on Google Play you can now also upvote us on Product Hunt. It takes a click (and that's just 1/20th of a second the internet tells me) and is immensely helpful for us!
Remember that we made our roadmap public, so you can follow the progress on our projects real time.
LinguaLift on mobile
You are busy, countless people have told me that over email, so I know! In case you missed the memo, LinguaLift is perfectly optimised for mobile which means you can use it on the go, in every long queue, on the train, and even in the shower if your phone is waterproof 😜
Just try to resist learning when you walk. True, LinguaLift is super cool and addictive, but if you walk into a poo 💩 by mistake I take no responsibility.
If you are on Android you can pin it to your home screen and use it like an app. More on that here.
Now what everyone was waiting for....
Fluent Panda
Panda is growing, I have seen the screenshots and whether I'm allowed to or not I'm sharing them with you. This is how much of a rebel I am!
We will launch Fluent Panda with the English course. Did you know that 25% of the world's population speaks English to varying degrees? 😮 That's a lot of people. English is a tool that gives people access to new resources and expands their job opportunities.
An increasing number of specialised contexts in which English is used means that even relatively fluent speakers run into situations where they are at a loss of words. Hell, even native speakers have problems with negotiating terms of a legal contract if they haven't done so before!
Fluent Panda 🐼 tackles the issue of situational fluency. Because what's the use of you learning to talk about your favourite animal, if when you're in a zoo you don't know how to buy a ticket? 🤔
English has become a tool of international communication, one we often revert to when we don't have any other shared language. Whether you are a new waiter in Portugal who has to help English-speaking tourists, or a Bulgarian renting snorkelling equipment in Dahab, Fluent Panda will help.
Fluent Panda LINE stickers
You don't have to tell me how adorable panda is, I know! 😆
We had a lot of positive feedback about our panda character, especially about its cuteness! >.< So we thought it's our duty to share it with more people before the app is ready… we have released a set of downloadable stickers for the popular Japanese messaging app LINE! 🤗
This way you will be able to carry a panda with you everywhere you go and get familiar with its hundreds of incarnations, like this business party panda or the romantic panda with a rose.
What to do now?
Get excited! 😁 And on the wave of this excitement you should have your say and take part in shaping Fluent Panda. This 3-minute survey will tell you how.
Stay tuned for more updates about Fluent Panda us by following it on Twitter and Facebook!


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Bankers By Night
Teenagers, Money
Thousands of street children in India work as tea-makers, shoeshiners or delivery boys, earning less than a couple of dollars a day. But in Delhi, some of them have an extra designation - they run their very own cooperative bank.
Step by Step
Money, Gifts for the Family
First, a Chinese family developed an oxygen ventilator with bicycles, washing machine parts and water hoses, then Argentinian car mechanic Jorge Cardile built a walking machine to rehabilitate his son's dead arms and legs.
Cash Mobs
If you insist on having a flash mob even though it's not 2005, this is how you should be doing it.
Twilight of the Yahoo-Yahoo Boys
With the emergence of #OccupyNigeria, the Yahoo-Yahoo Boy is confronted with something of an existential dilemma.
As the believers count down to the end of the world, some clever operators count up their cash.
The Future is Fake
News of knock-off Chinese goods showing up in Western markets is nothing new, but the fact that American soldiers have been utilizing weapons patched together with bootleg electronics is a profound revelation.