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FEMALE HEART ATTACKS–important to know
Subject: FEMALE HEART ATTACKS
I am an ER nurse and this is the best description of this event that I have ever heard. Please read, pay attention, and send it on!
I was aware that female heart attacks are different, but this is the best description I've ever read.
Women and heart attacks (Myocardial infarction). Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have when experiencing heart attack ..
you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor that we see in the movies. Here is the story of one woman's experience with a heart attack.
'I had a heart attack at about 10 :30 PM with NO prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might have brought it on. I was sitting all snugly & warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking, 'A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up.
A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you've been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like you've swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn't have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation—the only trouble was that I hadn't taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 p.m.
After it seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hind-sight, it was probably my aorta spasms), gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when ministering CPR).
This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws. 'AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening — we all have read and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven't we? I said aloud to myself and the cat, Dear God, I think I'm having a heart attack!
I lowered the foot rest dumping the cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself, If this is a heart attack, I shouldn't be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else … but, on the other hand, if I don't, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in a moment.
I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and dialed the Paramedics … I told her I thought I was having a heart attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I didn't feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to me, and if so, to un-bolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they could see me when they came in.
I unlocked the door and then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as I don't remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on the way, but I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the radiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like 'Have you taken any medications?') but I couldn't make my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side by side stints to hold open my right coronary artery.
'I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St. Jude are only minutes away from my home, and my Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stints.
'Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? Because I want all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned first hand.'
1. Be aware that something very different is happening in your body not the usual men's symptoms but inexplicable things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn't know they were having one and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation and go to bed, hoping they'll feel better in the morning when they wake up … which doesn't happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly happening that you've not felt before.
It is better to have a 'false alarm' visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be!
2. Note that I said 'Call the Paramedics.' And if you can take an aspirin. Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER – you are a hazard to others on the road.
Do NOT have your panicked husband who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what's happening with you instead of the road.
Do NOT call your doctor — he doesn't know where you live and if it's at night you won't reach him anyway, and if it's daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn't carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr. will be notified later.
3. Don't assume it couldn't be a heart attack because you have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it's unbelievably high and/or accompanied by high blood pressure). MIs are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive.
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.
**Please be a true friend and send this article to all your friends (male & female) you care about!**
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a moment for female beauty
Take a break and watch this art morphing ditty
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kitchen fires
Very effective and informative!
This is something everyone needs to know!!!!
Kitchen Fire
I never realized that a wet dishcloth/towel can be a one-size-fits-all
lid to cover a fire in a pan!
This is a dramatic video (30-second, very short) about how to deal with
a common kitchen fire … oil in a frying pan. Read the following
introduction, then watch the show …. It's a real eye -opener!!
At the Fire Fighting Training school they would demonstrate this with a
deep fat fryer set on the fire field. An instructor would don a fire
suit and using an 8 oz cup at the end of a 10 foot pole toss water onto
the grease fire. The results got the attention of the students.
The water, being heavier than oil, sinks to the bottom where it
instantly becomes superheated. The explosive force of the steam blows
the burning oil up and out. On the open field, it became a thirty foot
high fireball that resembled a nuclear blast. Inside the confines of a
kitchen, the fire ball hits the ceiling and fills the entire room.
Also, do not throw sugar or flour on a grease fire. One cup creates the
explosive force of two sticks of dynamite. This is a powerful
message—-watch the video and don't forget what you see. Tell your
whole family about this video. Or better yet, send this to them.
See attached file: AKitchenOilFire.wmv or:
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Water movie–well done and informative
When you can make the time ( 1hr. 20 min) enjoy this video about water…..
Here a movie about recent scientific findings, confirming that man's thought and action influences nature. (about 80 min. long!)
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Water currents can power the world
Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists A revolutionary device that can harness energy from slow-moving rivers and ocean currents could provide enough power for the entire world, scientists claim. ~~ This is a big deal.
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speed of dolphins figured out
New research has shown how dolphins achieve their blinding speeds.
Gray's Paradox – named after British zoologist Sir James Gray – proposed that dolphins simply do not have the strength to swim so fast.
But researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US have now studied the movement of water around dolphins as they swim.
The results show that dolphins can exert as much as 180kg (400lb) of force with their tails.
Gray had supposed they could produce less than a tenth of this amount, and imagined that something about the dolphins' skin allowed them to overcome the force of drag in the water and reach high speeds.
"For the first time, I think we can safely say the puzzle is solved," said Tim Wei, the Rensselaer scientist who led the study.
"The short answer is that dolphins are simply much stronger than Gray or many other people ever imagined."
To determine this, Professor Wei used a new method of measuring the movement of water that he originally developed to track Olympic swimmers.
Keeping upright for Cilla Black requires a lot more force
The technique employs digital particle image velocimetry, which measures the speed of water movements around a swimming dolphin or human.
Retired US Navy dolphins Primo and Puka were filmed swimming through a tank filled with millions of tiny bubbles.
Software tracked the movement of individual bubbles, determining their speed and direction, and assigning them a colour.
Professor Wei then used force measurement concepts from aerospace research to translate those velocities into a force that the dolphins' tails were producing – nearly 100kg (200lb) on average.
When "walking" – keeping upright mostly above water with powerful flips of their tails – the dolphins produced as much as 180kg of force.
Professor Wei will go on to study the motion and force generation of other sea animals
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Kudos to Chopra on Fox News
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Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity insight on the war
Robert Gates Wants to Keep His Pentagon Gig, so He's Pandering to Obama's Bad Ideas for Afghanistan
By Ray McGovern, Consortium News
Posted on November 24, 2008
It may become a biennial ritual. Every two years, if the commander-in-chief (or the commander-in-chief-elect) says he wants to throw more troops into an unwinnable war for no clear reason other than his political advantage, panderer-in-chief Robert Gates will shout "Outstanding!"
Never mind what the commanders in the field are saying — much less the troops who do the dying.
After meeting in Canada on Friday with counterparts from countries with troops in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Gates emphasized to reporters there is a shared interest in "surging as many forces as we can" <http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan24-2008nov24,0,5733953.story> into Afghanistan before the elections there in late September 2009.
At the concluding news conference, Gates again drove home the point: "It's important that we have a surge of forces."
Basking in the alleged success of the Iraq "surge," Gates knows a winning word when he hears one — whether the facts are with him or not. Although the conventional wisdom in Washington credits the "surge" with reducing violence in Iraq, military analysts point to other reasons — including Sunni tribes repudiating al-Qaeda extremists before the "surge" and the de facto ethnic cleansing of Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods.
In Washington political circles, there's also little concern about the 1,000 additional U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq since President George W. Bush started the "surge" early in 2007. The Americans killed during the "surge" represent roughly one-quarter of the total war dead whose numbers passed the 4,200 mark last week.
Nor is there much Washington commentary about what Bush's grotesque expenditure in blood and treasure will mean in the long term, even as the Iraqis put the finishing touches on a security pact that sets a firm deadline for a complete U.S. military withdrawal by the end of 2011, wording that may be Arabic for "thanks, but no thanks."
And most Americans do not know from reading the reports from their Fawning Corporate Media that the "surge" was such a "success" that the United States now has about 8,000 more troops in Iraq than were there before the "surge" rose and fell.
The real "success" of the Iraq "surge" is proving to be that it will let President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney leave office on Jan. 20, 2009, without having to admit that they were responsible for a strategic disaster. They can lay the blame for failure on their successors.
Gates a Winner?
Gates stands to be another beneficiary of the Iraq "surge."
Already, he has the defense secretary job. In November 2006, he was plucked from the relative obscurity of his Texas A&M presidency and put back into the international spotlight that he has always craved, because he was willing to front for the "surge" when even Donald Rumsfeld was urging Bush to start a troop drawdown.
Now, the perceived "success" of the "surge" is giving hawkish Washington Democrats an excuse to rally around Gates and urge President-elect Barack Obama to keep him on.
Ever an accomplished bureaucrat, Gates is doing what he can to strengthen his case.
On Friday, Gates seemed at pains to demonstrate that his approach to Afghanistan is identical to the one publicly espoused by his prospective new employer who is currently reviewing Gates' job renewal application. And, as he did with the Iraq "surge" over the past two years, Gates now is talking up the prospects for an Afghan "surge."
"The notion that things are out of control in Afghanistan or that we're sliding toward a disaster, I think, is far too pessimistic," Gates said. Yet the argument that Gates used to support his relative optimism makes us veteran intelligence officers gag — at least those who remember the U.S. in Vietnam in the 1960s, the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and other failed counterinsurgencies.
"The Taliban holds no land in Afghanistan and loses every time it comes into contact with coalition forces," Gates explained.
Our secretary of defense is insisting that U.S. troops have not lost one pitched battle with the Taliban or al-Qaeda. Engagements like the one on July 13, 2008, in which "insurgents" attacked an outpost in Konar province, killing nine U.S. soldiers and wounding 15 others, apparently do not qualify as "contact," but are merely "incidents."
Gates ought to read up on Vietnam, for his words evoke a similarly benighted comment by U.S. Army Col. Harry Summers after that war had been lost. In 1974, Summers was sent to Hanoi to try to resolve the status of Americans still listed as missing. To his North Vietnamese counterpart, Col. Tu, Summers made the mistake of bragging, "You know, you never beat us on the battlefield." Colonel Tu responded, "That may be so, but it is also irrelevant."
As Vietnamese Communist forces converged on Saigon in April 1975, the U.S. withdrew all remaining personnel. Summers was on the last Marine helicopter to fly off the roof of the American Embassy at 5:30 a.m. on April 30. As he later recalled, "I was the second-to-the-last Army guy out of Vietnam — quite a searing experience."
More Vietnams?
Why is this relevant? Because if Obama repeats the mistakes of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford, U.S. Marine choppers may be plucking folks not only off the U.S. embassy roof in Baghdad, but also from the mountains and valleys of Afghanistan. No ignoramus, Gates knows that his comments about the Taliban losing "every time" that there is contact with coalition forces is as irrelevant as those of Col. Summers 34 years ago.
Yet, it would be folly to expect Gates to give advice to a superior that challenges the policies that Gates thinks his superior favors. Gates has been the consummate career careerist, going back to his days as head of analysis at CIA in the 1980s when he fashioned intelligence reports that gave the policymakers what they wanted to hear. Instead of the old-fashioned "bark-on" intelligence, the Gates variety was "apple-polished" intelligence.
Time running out for Gates
He wants to stay on as Defense Secretary and apparently thinks that his lifelong strategy of telling his superiors what they want to hear will now work with Barack Obama. Gates is nearing the end of a highly sophisticated campaign to convince Obama and his advisers that the current defense secretary is just who they need at the Pentagon to execute Obama's policies — and look really bipartisan to boot.
The president-elect's position has long been that we need to send "at least two additional brigades" (about 7,000 troops) to Afghanistan. So the defense secretary would have us believe, as he said Friday, that "surging as many forces as we can" is an outstanding idea. And with troops having to leave Iraqi cities by next June, in the first stage of the U.S. withdrawal demanded by the draft status-of-forces agreement, there will be more soldiers available to send into the mountains of Afghanistan. Don't you love it when a plan comes together?
Ironically, this resembles closely the proposed policy of Sen. John McCain, who argued during the debate with Obama on Sept. 26 that "the same [surge] strategy" that Gen. David Petraeus implemented in Iraq is "going to have to be employed in Afghanistan." For good measure, Gov. Sarah Palin told Katie Couric "a surge in Afghanistan also will lead us to victory there, as it has proven to have done in Iraq."
Reality bites
Oops! Within a week, Gen. David McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, undercut McCain and Palin, insisting emphatically that no Iraq-style "surge" of forces will end the conflict in Afghanistan. Speaking in Washington on Oct. 1, McKiernan employed unusual candor in describing Afghanistan as "a far more complex environment than I ever found in Iraq." The country's mountainous terrain, rural population, poverty, illiteracy, 400 major tribal networks, and history of civil war make it a unique challenge, he said.
"The word I don't use for Afghanistan is 'surge,'" McKiernan continued, adding that what is required is a "sustained commitment" to a counterinsurgency effort that could last many years and would ultimately require a political, not military, solution. McKiernan added that he doubts that "another facet of the Iraq strategy" — the U.S. military's programs to recruit tribes to oppose insurgents — can be duplicated in Afghanistan. "I don't want the military to be engaging the tribes," said McKiernan.
Recently, President-elect Obama has been relatively quiet on Afghanistan, and one lives in hope that, before he actually commits to sending more brigades to Afghanistan, he will assemble a group of people who know something about that country, the forces at play in the region, and insurgency. If he gathers the right people, and if he listens, it seems a good bet that his campaign rhetoric about Afghanistan being the good war will remain just that, rhetoric.
In any event, press reports suggest that Gates has only another week or so left to pretend to the president-elect that he thinks the ideas reflected in Obama's rhetoric are outstanding. And, as Gates' predecessor Rumsfeld might have put it, you have to go with the rhetoric you've got. Right now, the word "surge" brings nods of approval at influential dinner parties in Washington.
What does Gen. McKiernan know, anyway? Gates' Pentagon says that McKiernan now has requested three additional brigade combat teams and additional aviation assets. And yet, he says he's allergic to a "surge"?
If past is precedent, Gen. McKiernan already realizes he has little choice but to salute smartly, do what he is told, and not diverge from what inexperienced civilians like Gates are promoting. After all, didn't McNamara know best in the early days of Vietnam and didn't Rumsfeld know best at the start of the Iraq war?
As the saying goes, if you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you are a general assigned a mission — though it appear to be Mission Impossible — you salute smartly and use those troops entrusted to you to do what armies do. At least that has been the tradition since Vietnam. Such behavior is a disgrace when generals know better.
Ambitious but empty suits
I'm all for civilian control of the military. But I see much more harm than good in political generals — like the anointed David Petraeus — who give ample evidence of being interested, first and foremost, in their own advancement. Why do I say that? Because Petraeus, like McKiernan, knows Afghanistan is another quagmire. But he won't say it.
Rather than do the right thing and brief his superiors on the realities of Afghanistan, Petraeus and the generals he has promoted seem likely to follow the time-honored practice of going along to get along. After all, none of them get killed or wounded. Rather the vast majority get promoted, so long as they keep any dissenting thoughts to themselves.
It is the same pattern we witnessed regarding Vietnam. Although the most senior military brass knew, as the French learned before them, that the war/occupation could not be successful, no senior officer had the integrity and courage to speak out and try to halt the lunacy.
Are there Army generals with guts?
It will be interesting to see what McKiernan actually does if and when more troops are surged down his throat. If he has the courage of his convictions, maybe he'll quit and perhaps even say something.
As a former Army officer, I would love to see an Army general display the courage that one saw in Admiral William Fallon, former commander of CENTCOM, who openly refused to "do Iran" on his watch, and got cashiered for it. Two years ago, Army Generals John Abizaid and George Casey, speaking on behalf of their senior commanders in the field, pushed back strongly against the idea of adding more U.S. troops to those already in Iraq. They finally succeeded in persuading former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld of the merits of their argument.
It was when Rumsfeld himself started to challenge the advice Bush was getting (to "surge" and thus not "lose" Iraq on his watch) that Robert Gates was brought in to replace Rumsfeld, relieve Abizaid and Casey from command, and help anoint Gen. Petraeus as surge-savior. (For details on Rumsfeld's break with Bush, see Consortiumnews.com's "Robert Gates: As Bad as Rumsfeld?")
But rather than speak out, Abizaid folded his tent like an Arab and silently stole away. Casey accepted the sinecure of Army chief of staff as hush money. And a thousand more U.S. troops died. The temporary respite provided by the 29,000 troops who survived the surge helped achieve the administration's main purpose — deferring the inevitable U.S. troop withdrawal (not in "victory" as Bush liked to say, but by demand of the Iraqi government) until Bush and Cheney were safely out of office.
As for Gates, what he does not know about Afghanistan and insurgency could fill a medium-sized library. So could what Gates does know about how to ingratiate himself with the next level up.
If it is true that serious consideration is being given to keeping Gates on past January, it will be interesting to see if the pandering padding of his resume eventually wins the day with the president-elect.
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Happy Thanksgiving
Carve a pumkin
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Apartheid in Israel
While Pres-elect Barack Obama gave former president Jimmy Carter the snub, the Europeans are getting serious about boycotting Israeli industries much like they did So. Africa which led to the elimination of the Apartheid system, our country was slow to help there too. If the Israelis did not control our media and our government, Americans might join in helping overturn the Apartheid system in the Israeli occupied territories of the Palestinians.
Tactic vs. Strategy
Boycotting Israeli Settlement Products
By OMAR BARGHOUTI
A spate of recent news reports on international companies moving out of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) to locations inside pre-1967 Israeli borders gives the impression that boycotting products originating in illegal Israeli colonies is on its way to becoming mainstream, handing the growing boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement with a fresh, substantial victory. While this development should indeed be celebrated by all BDS activists anywhere, caution is called for in distinguishing between advocating such a targeted boycott as a tactic, leading to the ultimate goal of boycotting all Israeli goods and services, and as an end in itself. While the former may be necessary in some countries as a convenient tool of raising awareness and promoting debate about Israel's colonial and apartheid regime, the latter, despite its lure, would be in direct contradiction with the stated objectives of the Palestinian boycott movement.
Most recently, the Swedish company, Assa Abloy, heeded appeals from the Church of Sweden and other prominent Swedish organizations and decided to move its Mul-T-Lock door factory from the industrial zone of the Barkan colony in the occupied West Bank to a yet-unannounced location inside Israel, following the lead of Barkan Wineries, a partially Dutch-owned company that had already left Barkan to Kibbutz Hulda. The fact that part of this kibbutz sits on top of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village whose name, Khulda, the Kibbutz had – typically – appropriated was not viewed, apparently, as worthy enough to be mentioned in the documents accusing the wine maker of wrongdoing, according to international law.
Moreover, in a noteworthy precedent, The Independent reported last week that the British government has decided to "crack down on exports from Israeli settlements," based on the fact that Israel has persistently violated its trade agreements with the EU which provide tariff exemptions only to goods produced within Israel, not in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT). Conforming to United Nations resolutions and international law, the United Kingdom, its EU partners, along with almost the entire so-called international community, consider Israeli settlements illegal, even a war crime, according to the Fourth Geneva Convention, and therefore refuse to extend any tariff privileges to their products.
In reality, though, EU countries have for decades looked the other way while Israel exported its colonies' products as produce of Israel.
According to an article in Haaretz on the background to this unfolding trade row between Israel and the UK – and potentially the whole EU – Israel had agreed, in past disputes with the EU, to indicate on its products exported to the EU countries the geographic origin of its goods. Britain, however, charges that "Israeli companies located in settlements try to get around the agreement by registering company offices within the Green Line," effectively obfuscating the lines distinguishing settlement products from other Israeli products, thereby breaching clauses in its agreements with the EU that specifically target the former.
Following intensive pressure from British and Palestinian human rights groups as well as from a fast spreading-and quite promising-boycott campaign against Israel in the UK that reached the ivory tower of the academy as well as the largest trade unions, it seems that the British government is finally taking note of Israel's most obvious and unmistakable illegal practices and trying to work with its partners to put an end to them.
This evolving, commendable British policy, actually a belated recognition of the need to respect and implement a long-approved European policy, shows that the position advocated by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign to boycott all Israeli products is not only morally but also pragmatically sound. At a most basic level, one would expect the BDS campaign's ceiling of demands to be rather higher than that of the British Government's.
In fact, while the Palestinian BDS movement has consistently expressed its deep appreciation of every effort to treat Israel as apartheid South Africa was, it views the whole approach of focusing on banning only settlement products as the ultimate goal, rather than as a first, more convenient step towards a general Israeli products boycott, as problematic, practically, politically and morally.
At a practical level, as argued above, Israel has made it extremely difficult to differentiate between settlement and other Israeli products, simply because the majority of parent companies are based inside Israel. Most organic Israeli products, for instance, are produced in the illegal colonies in the OPT but are labelled as product of Israel since the actual companies that sell them are based inside Israel, and that's where quite often the final packaging (the last phase of the production process) is done. This type of deception is commonplace, especially since Israel is well aware that it is violating the EU-Israel trade agreement and is doing its best to get around the restrictions included in it. The only reason Israel has managed to get away with such blatant violation for so long is not technical but political: shameful – and, unfortunately, quite typical – EU official complacency and treatment of Israel as a state above the law of nations.
Still, some genuine supporters of Palestinian rights may argue, it is much easier to continue to target settlement products with boycott as there is a consensus of sorts on the illegality of the settlements, whereas the same cannot be said about other Israeli injustices that may motivate a more comprehensive boycott, as urged in the Palestinian BDS Call and called for in the final declaration of the recently launched Bilbao Initiative of civil society in support of justice in Palestine. Even if one were to accept this pragmatic argument, the fact that Israel has failed to distinguish between settlement products and other Israeli products should justify — at a tactical level — advocating a boycott of all Israeli products and services at least until Israel adequately complies with the EU requirement of labelling settlement products clearly and accurately.
Politically speaking, though, and even if distinguishing between produce of settlements and produce of Israel were possible, activists who on principle – rather than out of convenience – advocate a boycott of only the former may indicate that they themselves are merely objecting to the Israeli military occupation and colonization of 1967 and have no problem whatsoever with Israel as a state that practices apartheid, or institutionalized racial discrimination, against its own "non-Jewish" citizens and that denies Palestinian refugee rights, sanctioned by the UN. Even if we ignore those other grave injustices committed by Israel, and irrespective of what solution to this entire oppression any of us may uphold, one cannot but recognize the inherent flaws in this argument.
When a state X occupies another "state" Y and persistently violates UN resolutions calling for an end to this occupation, the international community often punishes X and not some manifestation of X's occupation! Governments aside, international civil society organizations have repeatedly boycotted entire states implicated in prolonged belligerent occupation, apartheid or other severe human rights violations, and not just parts of those states. Was there ever a movement calling for boycotting the bantustans alone in South Africa? Are there calls for boycotting only the Sudanese army and government officials present in Darfur today? Did any of the free-Tibet activists ever call for boycotting only those Chinese products made in Tibet?
Forgetting for the moment the fact that it was born out of ethnic cleansing and the destruction of the indigenous Palestinian society, Israel is the state that built and is fully responsible for maintaining the illegal Jewish colonies. Why should anyone punish the settlements and not Israel? This hardly makes any sense, politically speaking. Despite their noble intentions, people of conscience supporting peace and justice in Palestine who accept this distinction are effectively accommodating Israeli exceptionalism, or Israel's status as a state above the law.
Finally, and most crucially, there is a moral problem that must be addressed in this approach. Ignoring Israel's denial of refugee rights and its own system of racial discrimination against its "non-Jewish" citizens, the two other fundamental injustices listed in the BDS Call, is tantamount to accepting these two grave — certainly not any less evil — violations of human rights and international law as a given, or something that "we can live with." Well, we cannot. Why should European civil society that fought apartheid in South Africa accept apartheid in Israel as normal, tolerable or unquestionable? Holocaust guilt cannot morally justify European complicity in prolonging the suffering, bloodshed and decades-old injustice that Israel has visited upon Palestinians and Arabs in general, using the Nazi genocide as pretext.
This whole paradigm needs to be challenged, not accepted as common wisdom.
Therefore, wherever necessary in a particular context, advocating a boycott of settlement produce should be only a first, relatively easier, step towards a full boycott of all Israeli products. It cannot be the final goal of activists fighting Israeli apartheid.
Omar Barghouti is a founding member of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign www.BDSmovement.net


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When a person's oxygen supply is cut off, rescuers have only a few minutes to bring the person back before irreversible damage is done.
In Tom Hall's case, those golden minutes were in play on Valentine's Day 2012 as he lay trapped under the tractor he had just been working on at a Whiteford repair shop.
One of his co-workers happened to be Kyle Harrington, a Whiteford volunteer firefighter. Harrington saw what had happened and performed CPR on Hall after the tractor was taken off him.
Harrington successfully revived Hall, who was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore for treatment. Hall has since recovered and attended the Whiteford Volunteer Fire Company's annual banquet Saturday to celebrate with Harrington and other Whiteford personnel who responded to the scene.
"We had a really good crew that day, and I really should had died, and I'm thankful to all of you," Hall told company members who gathered in the Whiteford firehouse with their families.
He said later that Harrington's actions were "really, really important to me being here today."
The company's Lifesaving Award was presented to Harrington Saturday.
Whiteford leaders recognized several other members – and non-members – who provide vital support services to the company, including EMS Lt. Marianna Adams, who also stocks the fire station kitchen and cooks for her fellow fire and EMS personnel; Kati and Lorenzo Mannino, owners of the firehouse's neighbor on Route 165 (Pylesville Road), Buon Gusto Pizzeria & Grill, who provide food to personnel on fire and accident scenes, and founding members Elvara and Tom Petty.
The Pettys were among the members of the Whiteford community who helped found the fire company in 1997, bringing in many veterans who had been part of the Delta-Cardiff Volunteer Fire Company, just north of the Pennsylvania line.
The Pettys have spent the past decade and a half cooking for Whiteford personnel, setting up for events, helping with fundraising and many more tasks.
"I enjoyed doing the dinners for the people because they enjoyed eating it," Elvara said.
"She was the cook and I was the helper," Tom added.
The couple have said they plan to cut back their workload for the company, but will be available if needed.
"We're still going to be here, help out all we can," Tom said.
The company also honored those who stood by in the firehouse for several days last November as Superstorm Sandy struck the Mid-Atlantic coast.
Rusty Leftwich, the former deputy chief who was emcee of Saturday's banquet, said company personnel spent 588 "man hours" in the firehouse during Sandy.
Chuck Mohr, the fire company treasurer, was also honored for his administrative work with the company.
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Lt. Drew Pritt was Whiteford's EMS Worker of the Year for 2012; the EMS Rookie of the Year was Kyle Sizemore.
Chris Niner was the Firefighter of the Year – he was not at Saturday's banquet to receive his award because he was out of town.


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Ever since the first time I had sex, I've been afraid. Not of the sex, please. Just like any other woman with a healthy libido -- I enjoy the sex. What I don't enjoy is what can happen because of sex. Nope, not a commitment-phobe. I am, however, frightened of becoming pregnant.
The answer to your question is yes. At some point or another, I'm going to want a child. At that point, when hopefully I'm married, financially stable, and prepared -- that child will be my everything. But now? For the past 10 years? No. I'm just not ready. Nowhere close.
The fear, it's cautionary and a little irrational. Despite being on the pill for years and years now, I rarely have unprotected sex. In a three-year relationship that ended not all that long ago, I could count those risque encounters on one hand.
And you know what? I think it's safe to say that my fear drives every single man I ever date insane. Who am I kidding? It's driving me insane, too.
Sex is an intimate thing. It's a close thing. At the end of the day: It's a big deal. It's frustrating, knowing that for so many people without this fear, getting hot and heavy is spontaneous. It's fun. It can be done anywhere, anytime, without a care in the world. For me, though, I do care. Even if STDs were non-existent, I get anxiety every time my partner and I do the deed without that extra protection. To be really frank with you: Pull out or stop. It's not just any anxiety, either. This anxiety prevents me from continuing on in my day-to-day life.
However, I'm human. In the moment, it's easy to say "screw it" (and me) and let's just go for it instead of hopping over to the drug store. So what results? The next morning, I immediately regret it. I think, Is this the time a pregnancy test will come out positive? I wonder when my last period was. When my next one should be. I wonder if I should get Plan B. I get mad at myself. Eventually later that week, I may buy a pregnancy test.
Is it bad that I'm this way? Yes and no. I've been in a relationship where my overcautious attitude annoyed my partner too much (read: he didn't want to use protection all the time) and we went our separate ways. I understand. I'm sure that it's easier to be with a woman who is on a birth control pill that she trusts and doesn't freak out after a spontaneous sexcapade.
Still, I'd rather be too cautious. The right man and partner won't get angry with me about my mentality. I'd like to stick with the attitude that if my companion can't accept that I'm trying to do us both a favor, he and I don't need to have an intimate relationship in the first place.
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While I do agree that anyone you get into a long term relationship with should be "GGG" about your fear... it's also irrational. I think you should get counseling - talk to someone about it. Explore where this hang up came from. I would understand using condoms due to fear of STD's - and fearing STD's even with a monogamous partner (read "trust issues"). But not just to prevent pregnancy - OVERKILL. Also, you do know that Plan B is basically the exact same thing you are taking each and every month to prevent pregancy right? It's a stronger dose, but it's basically just "the pill". Seek help. Talk to someone.
Well if I was that afraid of something I just wouldn't do it.
Her fear isn't irrational at all. She doesn't want to have a child. She knows the only 100% way to not have a child is not to have sex. Of course she's going to be freaked out when she does EXACTLY what she knows she shouldn't do to prevent what she DOESN'T want.
She doesn't need "help". She needs to get to a point where she could live with the consequences of an accident, or stop doing what will cause it.
"I wonder when my last period was. I wonder when my next period should be." How do you not know this, if you're on the pill? And how do you allow yourself to continue this way when the solution is right in front of your face, within your absolute control? The female body is not a mystery. Learn how it works. Figure out your schedule. I found a site online that is used primarily for family planning, but I use it just so I know when my period is: www.tcyof.com - Take Charge of Your Fertility. Literally.
Learn the signs your body gives, and you'll know when your period is coming. Figure it out. And then you WILL know, if you happen to skip the condom, if you might still be at risk. And seriously, if it's THIS big an anxiety attack each time? Maybe you need to stop having sex until you're ready to have an accident.
I agree with PonyChaser, it should not be a question of when it last happened and when it should next. Mark it on the calander everymonth, a pattern will be evident.


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Year 2000 Computing Crisis:
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T-AIMD-98-262: Published: Aug 13, 1998. Publicly Released: Aug 13, 1998.
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GAO discussed the year 2000 risks facing the nation, focusing on: (1) GAO's major concerns with the federal government's progress in correcting its systems; (2) state and local government year 2000 issues; and (3) critical year 2000 data exchange issues.
GAO noted that: (1) the public faces a high risk that critical services provided by the government and the private sector could be severely disrupted by the year 2000 computing crisis; (2) the year 2000 could cause problems for the many facilities used by the federal government that were built or renovated within the last 20 years and contain embedded computer systems to control, monitor, or assist in operations; (3) overall, the government's 24 major departments and agencies are making slow progress in fixing their systems; (4) in May 1997, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reported that about 21 percent of the mission-critical systems for these departments and agencies were year 2000 compliant; (5) in May 1998, these departments reported that 40 percent of the mission-critical systems were year 2000 compliant; (6) unless progress improves dramatically, a substantial number of mission-critical systems will not be compliant in time; (7) in addition to slow governmentwide progress in fixing systems, GAO's reviews of federal agency year 2000 programs have found uneven progress; (8) some agencies are significantly behind schedule and are at high risk that they will not fix their systems in time; (9) other agencies have made progress, although risks continue and a great deal of work remains; (10) governmentwide priorities in fixing systems have not yet been established; (11) these governmentwide priorities need to be based on such criteria as the potential for adverse health and safety effects, adverse financial effects on American citizens, detrimental effects on national security, and adverse economic consequences; (12) business continuity and contingency planning across the government has been inadequate; (13) in their May 1998 quarterly reports to OMB, only four agencies reported that they had drafted contingency plans for their core business processes; (14) OMB's assessment of the status of federal year 2000 progress is predominantly based on agency reports that have not been consistently reviewed or verified; (15) GAO found cases in which agencies' systems compliance status as reported to OMB had been inaccurate; (16) end-to-end testing responsibilities have not yet been defined; (17) state and local governments also face a major risk of year 2000-induced failures to the many vital services that they provide; (18) recent surveys of state year 2000 efforts have indicated that much remains to be completed; and (19) at the time of GAO's review, much work remained to ensure that federal and state data exchanges will be year 2000 compliant.
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Obituary — Barbara Bailey
March 9, 1931 — Aug. 3, 2012
On Friday, Aug. 3, Barbara Bailey passed away peacefully at her home with her children at her side. She had spent seven years dealing with Neuro-Endocrine cancer.
Barbara was born on March 9, 1931, to Frances and Stensen Petersen, of Port Clinton. She graduated from PCHC class of 1949, and went on to major in Music and Education at Ohio State University, where she was also a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. In 1953 she married Benjamin Bailey, of Salem. She spent 20 years as an Air Force wife, setting up her household and raising her family in nine locations around the country and Puerto Rico. In many of her postings she taught school and was always involved in the community and social activities of the Officer's Wives' Clubs. She was also interested in genealogy and spent time seeking out and organizing information on her children's ancestry. After military retirement, Barbara returned to Port Clinton.
She taught flute lessons and played organ for St. Paul's Lutheran Church. She taught Adult Basic Education and recorded books for the blind. She was Activities and Social Services director at Edgewood Manor Nursing Center for 12 years until her retirement. Later she served as the Curator for the Ottawa County Museum. She was active in many local organizations and clubs including the Genealogy Society, Antiquarians, 88 Circle, Port Clinton Artists' Club, Playmakers Theater and several weekly bridge clubs. She traveled around the country to visit family and visited Europe several times.
She is survived by her children Kristen Bailey (Michael) Abney, of Port Clinton, Eric (Teri) Bailey, of Dallas, and Gretchen Bailey (Brian Zydiak) of Culver City, Calif.; grandchildren Charlotte Abney, of Washington, D.C., Kevin Abney, of Brooklyn, N.Y., Christopher, Jonathan, Michael and Erica Bailey of Dallas; and Per and Cameron Bailey-Zydiak of Culver City, Calif. Her brother, Lowell (Elaine) Petersen, of Port Clinton, and her Aunt Eva Jean (Vollmer) Petersen of Catawba Island also survive.
Barbara donated her body to the UT Medical Center in order to advance the knowledge of Neuro Endocrine cancer. The family wishes to thank Stein Hospice for their support and assistance during Barbara's last six months. The family will have calling hours on Saturday, Aug. 18, from 1 to 7 p.m. at her home, 715 E. Second St. in Port Clinton. In lieu of flowers, Barbara requested that donations be made to the Ottawa County Historical Museum at PO Box 845, Port Clinton, OH 43452. Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.walkerfuneralhomes.com.


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Nov. 22, 2010 -- With gonorrhea rates down to an all-time low, chlamydia has become the top reported STD in the U.S., the CDC's annual STD report shows.
About 2.8 million Americans get chlamydia each year, the CDC estimates. That's why the national health agency considers the 19% increase in reported cases since 2006 to be good news: It means more people are getting tested.
Perhaps the really good news in the annual report is that gonorrhea rates dropped to 99 cases per 100,000 Americans -- the lowest rate since the CDC started tracking the disease in 1945.
But syphilis cases continue to spiral upward:
The racial disparity seen with syphilis is also seen with chlamydia and gonorrhea:
"A range of factors contributes to these disparities, including poverty, lack of access to health care, and an already high prevalence of STDs in communities of color that increases a person's risk of infection with each sexual encounter," the CDC notes in a fact sheet accompanying the annual report.
Screening detects STDs before they cause permanent damage to the body -- and prevents further spread of infection. Yet fewer than half of people who should be screened do so. All sexually active people should get regular STD screening.
SOURCES:CDC: "Trends in Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the United States: 2009 National Data for Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and Syphilis." CDC Media Fact Sheet, November 2010.
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Where better to find people afflicted with a growing problem known as "collective fatigue syndrome" than New York?
You know you have it if sometimes a friend tells you how they didn't get any sleep last night and you just can't resist telling them how terrible your night was.
Dr. Hal Alpert, a sleep doctor, says some patients talk about their lack of sleep like it's a badge of honor. But he says going without sleep is nothing to be proud of.
Al Pacino's tough character in the film "Insomnia" may have glamorized it. But Dr. Alpert says it can actually be bad for your body.
No matter the health warnings we found lots of people proud of their ability to thrive without enough sleep.
Some twenty-somethings brought sleeping bags to the sidewalk on 5th Avenue. They are sacrificing a good night's sleep to be the first get Apple's newest iPhones.
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The Ocean Conservancy, which organizes an annual International Coastal Clean-Up, has published its results in the 2012 Trash Index. You're not imagining it: as the global population swells, tankers continue to leak oil, and plastic water bottles continue to be our favorite way to drink tap water, the world's beaches are getting dirtier.
Nearly 600,000 volunteers worked in multiple countries to pick up and record the over nine million pounds of trash listed in this report. Check out their trashy findings, download a helpful pocket guide to recycling and if you're inclined, donate to help their efforts. And for the love of all things oceanic, if you smoke, find a better place than the ocean or ground to throw your cigarette butts (the number one piece of trash found on beaches)!
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26 U.S. Code § 641 - Imposition of tax
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(a) Application of tax
The tax imposed by section 1 (e) shall apply to the taxable income of estates or of any kind of property held in trust, including—
(1) income accumulated in trust for the benefit of unborn or unascertained persons or persons with contingent interests, and income accumulated or held for future distribution under the terms of the will or trust;
(2) income which is to be distributed currently by the fiduciary to the beneficiaries, and income collected by a guardian of an infant which is to be held or distributed as the court may direct;
(3) income received by estates of deceased persons during the period of administration or settlement of the estate; and
(b) Computation and payment
The taxable income of an estate or trust shall be computed in the same manner as in the case of an individual, except as otherwise provided in this part. The tax shall be computed on such taxable income and shall be paid by the fiduciary. For purposes of this subsection, a foreign trust or foreign estate shall be treated as a nonresident alien individual who is not present in the United States at any time.
(c) Special rules for taxation of electing small business trusts
(1) In general
For purposes of this chapter—
(A) the portion of any electing small business trust which consists of stock in 1 or more S corporations shall be treated as a separate trust, and
(2) Modifications
For purposes of paragraph (1), the modifications of this paragraph are the following:
(A) Except as provided in section 1 (h), the amount of the tax imposed by section 1 (e) shall be determined by using the highest rate of tax set forth in section 1 (e).
(C) The only items of income, loss, deduction, or credit to be taken into account are the following:
(i) The items required to be taken into account under section 1366.
(iii) To the extent provided in regulations, State or local income taxes or administrative expenses to the extent allocable to items described in clauses (i) and (ii).
(iv) Any interest expense paid or accrued on indebtedness incurred to acquire stock in an S corporation.
No deduction or credit shall be allowed for any amount not described in this paragraph, and no item described in this paragraph shall be apportioned to any beneficiary.
(3) Treatment of remainder of trust and distributions
For purposes of determining—
(A) the amount of the tax imposed by this chapter on the portion of any electing small business trust not treated as a separate trust under paragraph (1), and
the items referred to in paragraph (2)(C) shall be excluded. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, this subsection shall not affect the taxation of any distribution from the trust.
(4) Treatment of unused deductions where termination of separate trust
Source(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 215; Pub. L. 91–172, title VIII, § 803(d)(3),Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 684; Pub. L. 94–455, title VII, § 701(e)(2),Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1579; Pub. L. 95–30, title I, § 101(d)(8),May 23, 1977, 91 Stat. 134; Pub. L. 104–188, title I, § 1302(d),Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1778; Pub. L. 105–34, title XVI, § 1601(i)(3)(B),Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 1093; Pub. L. 105–206, title VI, § 6007(f)(2),July 22, 1998, 112 Stat. 810; Pub. L. 110–28, title VIII, § 8236(a),May 25, 2007, 121 Stat. 199.)
2007—Subsec. (c)(2)(C)(iv). Pub. L. 110–28added cl. (iv).
1998—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 105–206redesignated subsec. (d) as (c) and struck out heading and text of former subsec. (c). Text read as follows:
"(1) General rule.—For purposes of this part, the taxable income of a trust does not include the amount of any includible gain as defined in section 644 (b) reduced by any deductions properly allocable thereto.
"(2) Cross reference.—
"For the taxation of any includible gain, see section 644."
1997—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105–34inserted at end "For purposes of this subsection, a foreign trust or foreign estate shall be treated as a nonresident alien individual who is not present in the United States at any time."
1996—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104–188added subsec. (d).
1977—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95–30substituted "section 1 (e)" for "section 1 (d)" in introductory provisions.
1976—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 94–455added subsec. (c).
1969—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 91–172substituted "The tax imposed by section 1 (d)" for "The taxes imposed by this chapter on individuals".
Effective Date of 2007 Amendment
Pub. L. 110–28, title VIII, § 8236(b),May 25, 2007, 121 Stat. 199, provided that: "The amendment made by this section [amending this section] shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2006."
Effective Date of 1998 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 105–206effective, except as otherwise provided, as if included in the provisions of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, Pub. L. 105–34, to which such amendment relates, see section 6024 ofPub. L. 105–206, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.
Effective Date of 1997 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 105–34effective as if included in the provisions of the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104–188, to which it relates, see section 1601(j) ofPub. L. 105–34, set out as a note under section 23 of this title.
Effective Date of 1996 Amendment
Pub. L. 104–188, title I, § 1317(a),Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1787, provided that: "Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle [subtitle C (§§ 1301–1317) of title I of Pub. L. 104–188], the amendments made by this subtitle [amending this section and sections 170, 404, 512, 1042, 1237, 1361, 1362, 1366 to 1368, 1371, 1375, 1377, 1504, 6037, and 6233 of this title and repealing sections 6241 to 6245 of this title] shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1996."
Effective Date of 1977 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 95–30applicable to taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 1976, see section 106(a) ofPub. L. 95–30, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.
Effective Date of 1976 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 94–455applicable to transfers in trust made after May 21, 1976, see section 701(h) ofPub. L. 94–455, set out as a note under section 667 of this title.
Effective Date of 1969 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 91–172applicable to taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 1970, see section 803(f) ofPub. L. 91–172, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.
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But, I have a weakness: Culver's frozen custard.
I try to go only once every couple of weeks, but they recently had a flavor I could not refuse: PUMPKIN PECAN. My favorite part of Autumn is all the pumpkin stuff. So, you can imagine that I was looking forward to the day that Pumpkin Pecan was the flavor of the day.
The day came.
We drove-thru.
It was SO good. I know it's full of fat and calories. I don't want it every day. I just want to know it's there.
Culver's has it down, though. They give you this monthly schedule of their flavors of the day. So, you look it over before throwing it in the recycling bin....until....you see a day with a flavor you can't resist. Then, you can't throw it away. You have to put it on your fridge so you don't miss that special day. And, of course, Ella and I have different flavors on our favorites list, so that means we're both looking out for special days!
And there, on the fridge, the flier stares at you....reminding you that it's out there, waiting for you to drive-thru.
But, you need to remind yourself of the last time you got custard. It was only......how many days ago? If I can count it on both hands, I'm not allowed to go! I figure that will average out every couple of weeks.
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Trusting Yourself When You Can't Trust Anybody Else
There is nothing more devastatingly disappointing in life than to have a friend or colleague betray you. To know that someone you have trusted, confided and let into the inner most secrecies of your life, would then attempt to destroy you using that same platform of trust. Even more violating than the arrogant nature to which people engage in character and image assassination is when that impacts how you trust others.
I am not short of being involved in my own mistakes in life and whether the initiator or recipient of distrustful actions, it undoubtedly leaves a deep and painful scar for all those involved and to a lesser extent those who witness. Yet there is an indelible difference between acts of distrust done in immaturity and ignorance and those done in malicious intent and deceit. It is the latter, I attempt to address.
Typically when we find ourselves in the midst of the chaos and confusion of distrust, we tend to lose our sanity in the "who" or even the "how" of the matter. As a result we sidestep the fact that much of our answer is in the "why" of the matter. The "who" and "how" are more often obvious, however the "why" can be allusive; or is it?!
Recently I have been thinking alot about the prayer of Jabaz which comes from 1 Chronicles 4:10. It simply says; "And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast (territory), and that Thine hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested." The bible does not speak a lot about Jabaz and why he spoke this prayer, however if you mediate long enough, it gives some insight on our issue of "why" many people engage in acts of distrust. For the sake of quickness to the point, I believe that "enlarge my coast" is at the core of why people do so.
A funny, periodically tragic and often times disturbing thing happens when your territory expands. We forget that expansion is a blessing. Yet to some, an expansion (blessings) can be seen as intrusive to them and undeserving to you. Thus, we find that intruding on ones territory can invoke interesting reactions and often times cause them to immediately protect, defend, and claim what they believe to be within their ownership or perceived right. Territory is not always confined to physical objects, but often times are intangible items of time, emotional space, ideas, work, relationships/friendships; etc. It's important to note that everyone will not see your blessing as a good thing; maybe for you; but not for them. Therefore the response to your blessing is what causes people to show themselves as true understanders of God's blessing or perpetrators to their own selfish wants and needs.
I am currently reading "Surviving in an ANGRY WORLD; Finding Your Way to Personal Peace" by Charles F. Stanley. In the book it speaks to how most people don't see themselves as angry. A good friend once told me that anger is a secondary emotion. She explained that in order to understand one's anger, you must first find out what they are angry about. Angry people are quick to justify and make excuses for their actions against you because legitimate and truthful reasons don't lend credence to their envy, jealousy, pride, ego and selfishness.
As I have been thinking more and more about this, the real issue I believe could be my own. Quite frankly in who I call a friend. T.D. Jakes taught a lesson in 2010 called "Comrades, Confidants and Constituents" where he describes the difference in the people we call friends. What struck me about his descriptions wasn't in who they are as people, but why they are close to you in the first place. Each of which demonstrates a certain level of loyalty between who you are and what you can do for them. On the extreme side, your usefulness too many is in your ultimate personal, spiritual, material and emotional demise.
My pastor said something to me that will serve as a binding principle to which I will forever live by, "your true character will be defined by how you walk with people who hate you." What a horrible reality, yet sobering and necessary if you are going to continue to ask and expect to be blessed. The burden and responsibility of expanded territory doesn't end with the receipt, in fact it increases. Most people don't understand what it means to be abundantly blessed. If they did, they might rethink what they ask for.
I think one of the hardest things in life to know is who to trust. When you are right it strengthens your heart, when you are wrong it challenges your faith in life and people. I read a quote once that said, "Never explain," because friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. I've recently thought that you have to trust somebody because if you don't, you begin to question trusting even yourself.
Charles Stanley's book suggests that while you can't control what people say about you and do to you; you can control how you respond. As my pastor also reminded me, Jesus was well aware of Judas, but kept him around anyway. Enemies and hateful people also have a purpose in your life. They may not be there in a way that makes you feel great, but the way you respond to them can contribute to you being GREAT!
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RALEIGH, N.C. (May 19, 2011) – The Wildlife Resources Commission and the State Highway Patrol are teaming up for a safer North Carolina this summer, with a reminder that whether you are on the road or on the water, drinking and driving can be deadly. North Carolina sets the same limits for intoxication while operating a boat as it does for operating a motor vehicle, at .08 blood alcohol concentration. The state sees on average one-in-three alcohol related traffic deaths and recreational boating deaths every year. A new "On the Road or On the Water" campaign combines the efforts of "Booze It & Lose It" for highways and "Boat Safe, Boat Sober" for waterways. Officers will concentrate on impaired drivers – no matter what they drive – through awareness and enforcement in all North Carolina counties. Joining the campaign are the Alcohol Law Enforcement division, local police and sheriff's departments and Forensic Tests for Alcohol branch, which is providing six mobile breath-alcohol testing units. Each mobile unit is equipped with alcohol screening devices, computers and communication work stations, as well as a magistrate office and other necessary equipment and supplies for processing impaired suspects. The ALE division will stress that the "On the Road, On the Water" message can serve as a deterrent to under-age drinking. It is illegal to sell alcohol without a permit, to sell to anyone younger than 21, to have an open container of alcohol in a car, or to sell wine, beer or liquor to anyone who is intoxicated. ALE special agents enforce these and many other laws involving the sale, purchase, transportation, manufacture, consumption, and possession of alcoholic beverages in the state. The state chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving also will help promote and support the campaign through communication and education. Drinking and boating has an additional consideration. Wind and waves, combined with heat, glare, motor noise and vibrations can create a condition known as boater fatigue, which accelerates impairment and affects coordination, judgment and reaction time that can magnify the effects of alcohol in some individuals. North Carolina allows a boat operator to be charged if appreciably impaired. For more information on boating safety, regulations and title and registration, go to http://www.ncwildlife.org/Boating_Waterways/index.htm.
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