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20 things that can ruin your smileFood, drinks, and unhealthy habits that are wreaking havoc on your teeth and gums.
But even if you brush, use white strips, and visit your dentist twice a year, it may not be enough.
Here are some factors that can wreak havoc on your teeth and gums, and put a serious damper on your smile.
Sports drinks
In the last decade, sports beverages have become increasingly popular, but they aren't great for your teeth.
"Scientific research has found that the pH levels in many sports drinks could lead to tooth erosion due to their high concentration of acidic components, which could wear away at the tooth's enamel," says David F. Halpern, DMD, FAGD, president of the Academy of General Dentistry.
Additionally, these drinks are often high in sugars that act as "food" for acid-producing bacteria, which then sneak into the cracks and crevices in your teeth, causing cavities and tooth decay.
Bottled water
Tap water often contains fluoride—about 60 percent of people in the U.S. have fluoride in their water supply.
However, most bottled waters contain less fluoride than recommended for good oral health (it will be listed as an ingredient on the label if it is an additive).
"Fluoride makes the entire tooth structure more resistant to decay and promotes remineralization, which aids in repairing early decay before damage is even visible," explains Academy of General Dentistry spokesperson, Charles H. Perle, DMD, FAGD. "Studies have confirmed that the most effective source of fluoride is water fluoridation."
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Diabetes reduces the body's resistance to infection, so you're at a risk for gum disease. Brushing, flossing, and monitoring your blood sugar can help.
"Diabetes is directly related to periodontal disease, so seeing the dentist and having your triglycerides and cholesterol levels checked on a regular basis is also crucial," stresses Perle.
Perle also points out that research has shown that diabetics can reduce the amount of insulin they need to take by maintaining good gum health.
Smoking turns your teeth yellow, but it can be much more damaging than that.
"Using any form of tobacco can harm your teeth and gums in a number of ways," says Halpern.
"It can cause throat, lung, and mouth cancer, and even death. Additionally, the tar from tobacco forms a sticky film on teeth, which harbors bacteria that promote acid production and create irritating toxins, both of which cause gum inflammation, tooth decay, and loss."
Wine drinkers beware: Regular wine consumption can harm tooth enamel.
According to Halpern, wine's acidity can dissolve the tooth structure, and both red and white wine can increase dental staining. Still, you don't have to give up your regular glass of vino to save your smile.
"Enamel erosion develops when wine drinkers swish the wine, keeping it in constant contact with the enamel, so instead, take small sips and rinse with water when you're done drinking," advises Perle.
It's especially important to take care of your teeth and gums when you're expecting, since studies show a link between untreated gum disease and pre-term and low-birth-weight babies.
"Changes in hormone levels during pregnancy, particularly surges in estrogen and progesterone, can cause inflammation of the gums, which can lead to gingivitis (red, swollen, tender gums that are more likely to bleed) and put you at risk for infection," says Academy of General Dentistry spokesperson, Gigi Meinecke, DDS, FAGD.
If you have morning sickness, rinse your mouth with water or rub your teeth with a paste of baking soda and water to neutralize the acid caused by vomiting, since it can lead to tooth decay.
Diet pills
Even though they may seem like a quick way to trim your waist, diet pills can also be a fast track to gum disease and tooth decay.
"Like many over-the-counter and prescription medications, diet pills decrease salivary flow, which causes dry mouth and puts you at risk for gum disease, tooth decay, cavities, and discomfort," says Halpern.
Bottom line: A balanced diet and exercise are the safest way to lose weight and protect your smile.
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Moving Scam.com
A smart consumer always.... We saw this today at Curbed and thought it useful. Moving Scam.com was started by Tim Walker in 2001 after he was scammed by a mover in Virginia. Three years later, Moving Scam keeps an updated blacklist with the help of volunteers of all the BAD ONES, and offers good advice on how to find a good mover. He DOESN'T have a list of GOOD ONES, so we will have to do that here at Apartment Therapy. (Thanks, Lockhart!) MGR
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The whole point of Moving Scam is that there is no perfect mover. Some moving companies are managed relatively better or worse, but the general transience of the moving workforce leads to uneven results. I've used Moving Scam to help me pick a mover, and they have this great section where you can post your bids and industry smartie pants tell you which one is superior.
concidering hiring union van lines usdot number is 11873685743 university drive, tamarac,fl33321 please contact me with any helpful information
i recently used nat auto transporters to move a car for me from dallas tx to va the person who made the arrangements for was to have made a assessment of any damage on the car and inform me he failed to do so and allowed the seller to ship a damged vehicle to me now i have a car that was misrepresented and a fix it bill and grief galore do not ship without making sure you have all your documents and guarantees signed with them
moving a car from Ohio to Phoenix. Any recommendations?
On February 5, 2007 we had "All Country Movers" come to our home in York, PA to move our stuff to St. Augustine, FL. We were very nervous not ever making a long distance move like this before, but were reassured by the company that everything would be just great. After a long investigation of the company, we decided that they "seemed" good. They came around 1:00 in the afternoon, and wew were trold that we would be recieving our things by the latest on the 12th of February. We were fine with that, being that my father was able to provide us with the comfort of his home in the meantime. On February 9, we called, and were told our stuff wasn't going to be coming until the 13th, but would undoubtably be there by then, we were fine, and understood that things happen sometimes. On the 12the we called confirming what was told to us, only to find out that it would not be coming until the 15th. On the 14th I called, confirming what Aurthur had said "I am the supervisor on duty, and I will be sure your stuff in on the truck, and at your home by Thursday" only to find that Arthur was now saying "Oh I thought today was Wednesday,let me call you back" (OK??) So about four hours later, and no call back, I called again, now furious, only to get the story that "your truck is broken down in Virginis, and it won't be fixed until tommorrow" I became highly upset at this point, thinking perhaps I would never see my things again. I reminded them as to what they had said, and concerned asked why I was getting such a run around, and several different stories. Then on Friday, I called again, asking when in fact I would be recieveing my things, and I was told that I would get our things by saturday night or first thing Sunday morning. I then recieved a call from the driver, whim confirmed that he would be here on Sunday morning between 8 & 9. On Sunday morning, the truck did arrive, but when they got off, before they would unload, they demanded the money first. We were concerned not knowing what condidtion our stuff was in, and whether it was all there, giving them our money because now they completely have the upper hand. We obliged resistantly, and they began to proceed in removing our things. As they were unloading the first thing I noticed wrong was that our brand new refrigerator looked like it had fallen off a truck three times, the door wouldn't close right, and the water supply in the back of the fridge was destroyed, there were dents, and scrapes all over it, then they pulled out our armoire, and the top was completely ripped off, our chandelier shades were crushed, our 30 inch TV wouldn't give us a picture, it was blue and red, dishes were shattered, and then they told us, that our mattress wasn't even on this truck, that it would be here ny Tuesday. I had a long mirror, completely missing...and now it is Thursday, and they are telling us that they don't even know where our mattress is. Previous to all of this, we had asked them if they brokered out our things, and they told us "absolutely not" , only to have Summit Van Lines pull up with our things. This move was an absolute nightmare. We are out $2000.00 and completely upset about it all. SO, DO NOT EVER GO WITH "ALL COUNTRY MOVERS" Total scammers, liars, and they don't care AT ALL about your things.
Just a quick note if you dig deeper into movingscam.com you will find they are actually under investigation for making defamatory comments about perfectly good moving companies along with the bad ones. they only give good reviews to six companies that pay them for the leads so it seems like a good idea but it's really a marketing trick by a fewmoving companies. http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/365/RipOff0365834.htm
a Better location for a <A href="http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/016/RipOff0016522.htm">moving company black list is: http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/016/RipOff0016522.htm
also http://www.protectyourmove.gov is the official site from theFederal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
There is a website that can save you from all the problems of moving company scams: MovingScam.Info
There are about 20 questions and answers of how moving companies can rip you off and ways of how you can avoiding it.
Wish you all who needs to move a happy move and a safe one.
Flat Rate Moving in NYC has done a great job for me and several friends. In setting up my move this year, they made sure to get the same "moving specialist" that I had a few years ago, since he'd be familiar with my furniture and belongings!
Also, to Melonie and others who've had bad moving experiences: you're mad as hell, and you don't have to take it anymore!!
There are a few simple steps you can take on your own.
1. Notify the credit card company you used for payment.
Often, this is enough to get things straightened out.
2. Contact the Attorney General for the state where the movers picked up your belongings.
Each state's AG helps with consumer fraud issues. Write them a letter stating what happened. The AG will get in touch with the company in question. You don't need a lawyer for this.
3. File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau.
They have a simple, online form you can fill out. The BBB then contacts the company in question.
Moving scam is among the largest fraudulent activities within the moving service industry. Moving scams occur with regards to Moving insurance, unused spaces in trucks, rented trucks rather than employing their own, moving size and packing pitfalls, estimates quotes etc.
The unethical movers take the chance of time and expense of the people to gain extra money.Federal and state laws require movers to prepare a written estimate on every moving shipment, which is supposed to be given to the customer. All charges, including transportation, access fees and advance charges, are to be included on the estimate document. Federal and state laws require movers to prepare a written estimate on every moving shipment, which is supposed to be given to the customer.
Details could be found here: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/7705765/increasing_moving_scams_in_eastern.html?cat=8

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Raw Healing Power by Casey Beksha
As we move out of summer and into fall our immune systems have to adapt to the climate change. In Chinese medicine our defensive system is called Wei Qi. The Wei Qi fights pathogenic invasions as our body weakens with cold and damp temperatures. When the immune system weakens you are more likely to catch a cold or the flu. Acupuncture can help build your immune system and kick out the cold (pathogen) once it has invaded your body. Stay healthy this fall and winter and make an appointment with me at USMMA. Here are some helpful Ayurvedic tips on how to stay healthy:
At the first sign of a sore throat take 1 teaspoon of raw honey (make sure it is raw) mixed with the spice Turmeric (1/4 tsp) every 4 hours. Raw honey has anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal properties. It promotes body and digestive health, is a powerful antioxidant, strengthens the immune system, eliminates allergies, and is an excellent remedy for skin wounds and all types of infections. Raw honey's benefits don't stop there. Raw honey can also stabilize blood pressure, balance sugar levels, relieve pain, calm nerves, and it has been used to treat ulcers. Raw honey is also an expectorant and anti-inflammatory and has been known to effectively treat respiratory conditions such as bronchitis and asthma. Turmeric is a potent natural anti-inflammatory that works as well as many anti-inflammatory drugs but without the side effects.
The best remedy for colds is fresh ginger:
Recipe 1
Ginger; 1 part
Cinnamon; 1 part
Lemongrass; 2 parts
Recipe 2
Ginger; 2 parts
Cinnamon; 3 parts
Cardamom; just a pinch
Steep 1 teaspoon of this formula for about 10 minutes in 1 cup hot water; strain it and add raw honey. Drink several times a day to help take care of a cold, congestion or flu.


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Bowl For Kids' Sake
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✓ Send e-mails, text messages, or make phone calls to all the contacts in your phone, making your fundraising a breeze.
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✓ Keep track of your team and your personal fundraising in one place.
✓ Thank your friends and family who donated to you, by sending e-mails, texting, or giving them a call.
✓ Use our messages to raise money through e-mail, text message, Facebook or Twitter.
✓ Edit your personal fundraising page.
Tags: themes for bowl for kids sake.
Now it's even easier to track your progress and reach your fundraising goal
✓ Improved login support
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✓ Collect donations directly from your phone with Give Now
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✓ Social Sign On bug fixes
✓ Many more events!
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I can't get this app to work. It shuts down every time I try to send requests for donations. It doesn't matter if it is via email or Facebook. This would be a great help if it worked.
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Update: Check out the new installer you can download to make this really easy!
Following up on last week's post on the integration of translation into Office, here are the instructions to set it up in Office 2003, for our users who do not have Office 2007.
First bring up the task pane by selecting "Task Pane" on the View menu (or pressing Ctrl-F1):
In the Task pane drop-down menu (here labeled "Getting Started"), select the "Research" task pane.
After you've chosen the "Research" task pane, there should be a "Research options" hyperlink at the bottom of the pane. Click on this hyperlink to bring up the task pane.
Here you'll need to type in the address of the Microsoft Translator Web Service: http://www.windowslivetranslator.com/officetrans/register.asmx
Then click the "Add" button to continue.
Just click the "Install" button in this dialog.
Note that you can't check any of the boxes; this is expected behavior. Translation systems, unlike other Research Pane plug-ins, are enabled in a different dialog. The next steps will cover this.
Now click "OK" to close the research options dialog.
At this point, Word may bring up a dialog saying, "Microsoft Word can't open the translation feature. This feature is not currently installed. Would you like to install it now?" Click "Yes" to install the feature.
Just below the combo boxes that allow you to select the source and target language, there should be a hyperlink labeled "Translation options..". Click on it to open the translation options dialog. (Depending on what text you have highlighted and which translation features are installed and enabled on your machine, the Research task pane may look slightly different. That's OK; just find the "Translation options..." hyperlink.)
This is where you specify which translation engines you'd like to use for each language pair. By default Word uses WorldLingo for all language pairs; this is where you can choose Windows Live Translator instead. (Certain Word installations don't seem to come with WorldLingo pre-installed, so you may not have to change anything here.)
The language pairs currently available from MSR-MT are as follows:
English ↔ Chinese (Simplified)
English ↔ French
English ↔ German
English ↔ Italian
English ↔ Japanese
English ↔ Spanish
English → Arabic
English → Chinese (Traditional)
English → Dutch
English → Korean
English → Portuguese (Brazil)
You may have slightly different settings for Bilingual Dictionaries (on the top half of the dialog); that's OK. You only need to look at and change the Machine Translation settings (on the bottom of the dialog). Again, if Windows Live Translator is already selected, you don't have to do anything.
Click OK to close the dialog. You should now be ready to translate!
Now find or create a document that has some content you'd like to translate.
The easiest way to bring up and use the translation task pane is to simply select some content in your Word document, right click, and select the "Translation" option. You can also go to the Research task pane, type a query into the box, and select the Translation subpane.
By default, Word will list a variety of language pairs, even if you haven't installed a machine translation system for those pairs. In the "From" and "To" boxes, select a source and target language that correspond to one of the language pairs you installed above.
After a brief delay (during which the web service is invoked and the selected text is translated), the MT output should appear in the research pane.
At the bottom of the MT output, there's a button that allows you to easily insert the translated output into your document.
Our web page translation includes a user interface we refer to as the Bilingual Viewer. It offers 4 types of bilingual views which users can choose depending on preference. The side-by-side and top/bottom views offer synchronized scrolling, highlighting, and navigation. In the two single language views, you can hover your mouse pointer over a sentence in one language and the corresponding passage in the other language is automatically displayed nearby for ease of reference. Finally, we render the translated text progressively on a web page in order to make it more quickly available for the user to read, while other page elements are still being translated in the background.
To change your view, just click on one of the four options in the "Views" section on the upper right part of the site:
Side-by-side view:
Top/Bottom view:
Original with hover translation view:
Translation with hover original view:
Note: when you click on "Translate this page" while using Live Search, the web page will be opened in the Bilingual Viewer (in side-by-side view or the view you selected during your last viewing session). Read more about that here.
Check out the bilingual viewer today if you haven't played around with it before! And as always, let us know your feedback :)
Now available: The Windows Live Toolbar Translator Button!
So many people said: I wish I had a simple button to translate a web page when I need it! Imagine: you browse for the latest digital camera information and before you know it, you end up on a Japanese web page and you don't understand what it says. Did you bookmark the URL to a web page translator? Wouldn't it be convenient to just get an English translation of this Japanese site with a simple mouse click?
If it happened to you before that your browsing experience crossed over to a specific language, your Windows Live Toolbar button will remember the last language you needed a translation for. E.g. if it was from Japanese to English, a simple click on your button will now give you an English translation in our unique bilingual view along-side the Japanese original site. If you are, however, not in need of a Japanese-->English translation, but landed on a – say - French site, you can easily adjust the language selection in the bilingual viewer's language drop down box. Or: you can expand the little downward arrow next to the toolbar button: and choose which language selection you would like to see applied when the button is clicked:
With this toolbar button, web page translations are literally only a mouse click away. It doesn't get much easier than that!! Try it out.
Cheers - Andrea (Your friendly neighborhood Translator PM :-))
The Translator Add-in can be added to any web page and makes it really easy for visitors to quickly translate the page into any one of our supported languages. The translation is conveniently displayed side-by-side with the original page so that both original and translated languages are available to the reader. There are also other display options available to try out.
This is what visitors to your website will see:
There's also a cool auto-detect feature that will pick up your visitor's browser language and offer up the word "Translator" in their native language.
Have you implemented this on your web sites? What do you think? How can we improve it?
If you haven't, try it out and let us know your feedback!


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Oh, that festive sparkle!
Oh, that festive sparkle!
The festival of lamps, Diwali is celebrated with much fervour by Indians all over the world. Here's a glimpse into the festivities…..
A woman paints a dried clay lamp at her workplace on the outskirts of Jammu. Earthen lamps are sold in large numbers during Diwali, the annual Hindu festival of lights, when people buy these for decorating their homes.
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Philips has new display technology
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On May 15, Royal Philips Electronics announced a breakthrough AMLCD (active matrix liquid crystal display) design that allows for much smaller borders around displays - enabling greater active viewing areas for advanced mobile products such as 3G phone network devices.
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September 2014
Arch City
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- Former Ohio School for the Deaf Gets a New Lease on Life as High School
- PGA Stars Stayed at This Muirfield Home on the Market
- 4 Exotic Coffees to Taste at Columbus Cafes
- A Private Tour of the Wexner Art Collection
- Go Cuckoo for Pawpaw, Ohio's Native Fruit
- New Albany Classic to Feature Carousel Works' Intricate Wooden Horses
- Now-ism Exhibit at Pizzuti Collection Is a Celebration of Color
- Scary Plants Take Over Franklin Park Conservatory
- The Fantastic Fox Motif is Everywhere this Fall
- Top 5: Editors' Picks for the Best of Columbus This Month
- Fall Arts Guide: 15 Can't-Miss Events This Season
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Its officially Soup Season! Its my favorite go to lunch, a steaming bowl of soup and a sandwich really hits the spot on cold days. I really love when I can go out to the deep freeze and grab a soup pack and have lunch or dinner on the table in an hour, or in the crockpot in minutes. Several readers were curious how I make freezer packs from recipes, here is how I break it down.
Archive for the 'By Diet Style' Category
Stuffed Pepper Soup Freezer packsTuesday, October 15th, 2013
Weekend BountyTuesday, October 15th, 2013
Saturday breakfast is hard. With getting up to volunteer at the BB site, bringing the bounty home, and then trying to get everything rinsed and put away, making breakfast on Saturday morning is generally the last thing I want to do. But this time, my husband woke up early to pick up our bounty and the bonus was that I was highly motivated to make something yummy for breakfast! Low and behold, beautiful grape tomatoes, onions, asparagus, and I just happened to have mushrooms and eggs in the fridge. Coupled with the most wonderful Organic honey wheat bread purchased as an add-on this week this was a Saturday morning treat I'm sure I can use to bribe my husband and children to wake up every Saturday morning for basket pickup!
Chile Relleno TacosSaturday, September 21st, 2013
The Chile Relleno invokes images of deep fried, battered chiles, heavy beans, and a lot of gooey sauce. YUMM!! I needed a way to make this dish a bit quicker… And, yes, I will make the chile casserole version, soon. So, to be healthier and to make this a quick dish, here's my take on the Chile Relleno. No stuffing of chiles involved.
Tomato Chips or Tomato PowderSunday, September 15th, 2013
We love tomatoes! Whether it's a bowl of pasta with homemade sauce or fried green tomatoes we love them in any and every possible way. Recently I decided to do something a little different. I decided to try my hand at tomato chips. Yep, you read that right, tomato chips. I don't buy chips because it's too easy to sit and consume an entire bag before you realize what you are doing but with tomato chips you don't have to worry about the added fat, cholesterol or preservatives. The super cool thing about these chips is that you can also grind them into powder. My kids say it smells like spaghetti in a jar because of the herbs used. Once ground you can add tomato powder to soups, meats, eggs, anything you want, the possibilities are endless. Customize them to your liking, use different herbs and spices, go nuts!
Green Juice is NOT Scary!Sunday, September 8th, 2013
Green juice does not have to be scary! My mind tends to see green and go straight to yuck, but the trick is to add an extra organic green apple or make it red by adding an organic beet, leaves too! Try to limit the beet and apple… while it will sweeten your juice, remember there is sugar in sugar in there. Green juices detoxify, give you iron and magnesium when you use kale, chard and dark leafy greens.
Savory GalettesSaturday, September 7th, 2013
In planning a menu for a Games Night the idea of tapas came to mind. This reminded me of a recipe in the August 2013 Better Homes and Gardens August for Lemony Ricotta Summer Squash Galette. Not only was it easy, it used ingredients already on hand! I also knew I could easily change a few ingredients and use up even MORE!
Hiding Cauliflower… In Mac and Cheese?Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
The idea of cauliflower to me just sounds awful. I didn't grow up with cauliflower. It was just not a vegetable my very Filipino family used. And every time we get cauliflower in the basket, I sigh. But no more! I challenged myself to use an entire head of cauliflower and it worked!
Homemade Onion PowderWednesday, August 28th, 2013
A couple of days ago I was standing at the stove making dinner when I glanced over to the counter and realized that I had 7 onions. "Hmmmm…", I thought to myself, "I need to get rid of those." My Mom had already asked for a couple so that solved part of the issue. I then checked my onion stash in the freezer only to realized I still had 10-1cup portions already frozen. Then, suddenly, I had an "Aha!" moment. Not a major aha like the solution to world piece or how to eat 15lbs. a chocolate a day and not gain weight, just a little aha that would ultimately save me money and expand our basket goodies even more.
Using The Entire Juice PackSunday, August 25th, 2013
The Juice pack was introduced in January to provide those participants that wanted to do a juice fast an easy and affordable option; for many it was a chance to add some extra fruits and veggies to their dinner table. I tried juicing and actually liked some of the concoctions that I came up with, but I tend to use it to add some extra produce to the table. I decided to try some "Retro" dishes and a couple you might not have thought of…ready? Here we go!
Using The Entire Italian PackMonday, August 19th, 2013
Looking at the beautiful colors in this pack this morning, I am not having any trouble getting inspired. Once again I am getting out of my usual rut of making the same ol' same ol' stuff.


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Party day has come and gone, but across the country, hosts and guests are still talking about the great fun they had at their Paper Pumpkin by Stampin' Up! House Party! And we want to know what you and your guests thought of the experience.
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Accelerating Our Collective Emergence into a New Paradigm
Paul Lenda, Guest
Waking Times
While a few hundred years ago there were a handful of luminaries shining their light on the waters of human conscious awareness, today there are thousands upon thousands. I remember 7 years ago I had to practically go on a wild goose chase to "find the others" and now I see so many awakened intentional evolutionaries that it's truly inspiring and hope-inducing.
The continuing emergence of a global consciousness — zeroed in on balance, harmony, and coherence with all living systems (which includes each other, nature and beyond) — within an increasingly-growing number of people is almost surreal. The shift has/is happening so fast, perhaps in order to match the unparalleled destruction that has been happening to the one habitable home we have, and to the physical/mental/emotional/spiritual well-being of humanity.
These points of positive emergence should bring us great hope about the future and inspire us to help anchor in the new paradigm because we are all in this thing called Life together, without exception! Sure, we can focus on all the terrifying and devastating things that are still happening on the planet and in society but if we're perpetually locked in on those things we will develop a tunnel-like awareness where we only see the state of the world as getting worse and worse, turning us into cynical and depressed clouds of negativity. Ignoring either the constructive or destructive things occurring is unhelpful in creating a bright future for humanity. Our individual actions collectively decide our fate.
Are we going to leave the fate of humanity in the hands of a few narcissistic and maladjusted manipulators or will we say enough is enough and put things back in alignment with the environment, reason and unity? Let's help promote the realization that Earth is everyone's home, a place which we can make into a paradise instead of letting it become a hellscape because of actions that completely disregard the fine mesh and web of all life – plant, animal, and otherwise.
Current control systems keep us tired, disinterested, and shallow-minded for the most part. Some say that there is a war on expanded and liberated consciousness while others state that culture is a fabricated illusion we are drawn into in order to keep us away from ever becoming truly egalitarian and free to enjoy the full liberation and richness life has to offer. What is apparent as the daytime sun is that various individuals and groups hold beliefs that they wish to instill on individuals and on society as a whole which will only work to keep us in the stone age of consciousness if those beliefs are not in alignment with Truth.
How can we figure out what truth is? Truth never creates or perpetuates problems. It only solves, dissolves, and removes problems. The truth has always existed but we haven't always been aware of it, as history shows time and time again. The truth is still the truth even if it's rejected or not understood. The real truth is what it is despite our opinions and beliefs about it.
A great deal of people who have gone with the sands of time believed very strongly that the sun revolved around the earth yet this was not the truth. Just because the majority of people believed in it didn't make the sun start revolving around the earth. We can take this and apply it to all the various things in society that are out of alignment with Truth… sometimes applying to things we don't even consciously realize are falsehoods because the grooves of those illusions have been dug so deep for so long.
Now that we are past the infamous shift date of 21st December 2012, we have to look no further than right now in order to usher and anchor in a new paradigm that has as its foundation the fundamental understanding of interconnectedness being the nature of everything in existence. Through this understanding we can build up a new way of living and experiencing this world of ours that isn't new at all yet since we've become so disconnected from the wider horizon of Reality it might as well be a new beginning.
Let's reclaim what it means to be human. Let's rediscover and intimately experience the multi-dimensionality of being. The only barrier to entry is our belief that we can't create an upgraded reality for ourselves. Let's immerse ourselves in the sea of possibility and become intentional evolutionaries. Today is the first day of the rest of your life… let it be the beginning of a life with more compassion, reason, understanding and love.
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Paul Lenda is a conscious evolution guide, author of The Creation of a Consciousness Shift, and co-founder of SHIFT>, a social community focused on anchoring in the new paradigm and assisting the positive transformation of humanity. With the drive to be aware of and experience the wider horizon of Reality, Paul has developed an extensive background in the spiritual and transformative elements of life; one that is both knowledge and experienced-based. Visit his website www.shift.is, follow him on Twitter or visit the Shift> Facebook community.
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Primitive man did not survive by using Yoga, or looking for an interconnectedness with the universe, or meditation-he built strength to survive-physical strength. You look and see all this inter-connections with humanity. I look out and see chaos everywhere-riots, Wars, more sophisticated ways of killing As a former Law Enforcement Officer you and I disagree as to reality on the streets>perhaps changing with those who write books, and make a living inventing new paradigms, but we have to face the premise that reality is a shared hallucination,and expect that there is a great difference in writing about it, and walking an alley,alone at night. Ride along with one Officer in his squad car-then you will be an expert in reality.
This is not everybodies reality though friend. We all have our own unique perspectives of reality and not everyone chooses to be bogged down by the negative. We choose positivity and light and hope that our example will show others a less destructive way. Yes there is negativity all around but don't let it consume you, be a light in the darkness like many people are choosing to be and the darkness will disappear.
Agreed, and the only way to change what Larry Peterson says is for human consciousness to be raised so people gradually develop more and more empathy for each other.
12-21-12 was a turning point as we shifted from a slightly negative polarity to a slightly positive polarity. Positive thoughts and actions WILL gradually begin to snowball and create a ripple effect throughout humanity so please have some faith that things will improve, our beliefs become our reality. If we believe things will never improve then they likely never will and vice versa.
We are fortunate to be here now to experience the positive polarity and be a part of the change we wish to see, for that is all that is required, be the change and people will gradually warm to it and demand an end to the despots that enslave us and send us to constant wars.
These are the times to be FOR something as opposed to being against something (pro peace instead of anti war). Once people think that way and know what they really want, the power of collective consciousness will magnify it into reality.
I thank you for sharing your view of the world but I'd like you to consider a few things. According to statistics, violent crime currently is lower then it ever has been in recorded history. Here is information on that: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/world-less-violent-stats_n_1026723.html
Also, watch this TED talk on the declne of violence: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html
Further, take a look at the very good case made by social scientists for 'survival of the kindest' here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091208155309.htm
I can understand your perception of reality being such in which you see violence, mayhem, and destruction given the large amounts of your life you spent deep within the domains of society where such things were prevalent but those microcosms aren't necessarily reflective of the wider reality on a global scale.
Michael Lebeuf said it quite succintly when he said the following:
The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results
I remember when I was a young college student, I thought I had found a new way of approaching life. Then I read Tao Te Ching, and realized my 'new' approach was at least 5,000 years old. It was the first of many lessons in how there is little genuinely 'new' in this world, certainly in modern cultures, which have lost their legacies.
There have long been people different from the rest, pondering the mysteries of life and harmonizing with nature. Pagans may have had deeper understandings than most modern new agers – this knowledge is not new. Further, merely knowing something doesn't make much difference. Do you demonstrate what you know in your daily choices?
I think you're in denial if you believe humanity is rising on this planet. I would say its sun is setting. Compassion is less than it was many years ago, and mass killing is now routine and very effective. People have abandoned nature for chemical death and mutilation. Governments are more tyrannical and out of control than ever, with ever better weapons to enslave humanity, while the science of propaganda has turned most people into village idiots.
If you're talking numbers, the number of people actively killing and exploiting everything on this planet, with little regard to long-term consequences, has reached never-before-seen numbers, and is still growing. Humanity doesn't just have cancer, it has become cancer.
The question isn't are some people growing, the question is are people as a whole growing fast enough to avert the disasters they are creating? I would say that overall human civilization is in rapid decline. In fact, annihiliation may prove desirable compared to the prison for humanity and genetic reengineering of humanity that are being fashioned right before our eyes, as the masses hungrily consume their recently re-released Twinkies and ubiquitous hamburgers.
In one's personal path, it's always valuable to be as excellent as one can – there are always opportunities to grow in life, and life is neverending. Yet if you're talking humans on this planet as a whole, we are witnessing decay, death, and collapse, not rebirth. The rebirth may come later, as it has previously when civilizations on the Earth collapsed. You can look forward to this upcoming period in the sense that life goes on, and use the chaos to trigger personal growth, but overall it's not a bright future which man has created, and its momentum is not something which can turn on a dime.
I think what has shifted is you – you see more like-minded people, you are choosing that path, so you convince yourself the whole world is rising with you. In this you are in denial, and preaching to the choir. Such optimism has little effective value, and is destined to be shattered by reality.
Best to store up your treasures in heaven, because humans on Earth are in for quite a ride, if not outright extinction.
After reading some of the more negative comments, my reply to them is, might as well give up the will to live now. YOU ARE THE CENTER OF YOUR UNIVERSE, choose wisely your thoughts my friends, as they shall become your experience. And as Ghandi said BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD. On a subatomic level, it only requires a small percentage of individuals to affect change to the whole, this ripple is ever increasing. jump on board the train of your chosen experience, be it negative or positive, the choice is entirely yours.
Essentially this article strikes me as a sort of cheerleading for the perceived gains of the now passed New Age. I would be interested to know what metric was applied to find this "surreal" number of people who have emerged into the rarefied atmosphere of "global consciousness".
What I could more easily identify with is the person who is still adrift in a "cynical and depressed cloud of negativity". I mean, for example, what specifically happened on 12/21/12 that made it into a turning point? It was little more than a rallying point and another number on the calendar with all sorts of myth pinned onto it for good measure.
Poor Larry Peterson got nailed for daring to have a dissenting opinion and perhaps a more sober outlook. Given a chance he would likely have come up with Meter's more lucid elaboration. And such an accurate one: the New Paradigm is mostly the Sermon to the Choir.
If any "shift" has occurred it has been a downshift into a lower gear, that gear you must shift into when the slope gets steep. All that Light and Love of the past decade was trivial and superficial ego gratification. Probably a worse experience than the Flower Power of the sixties.
So what I'm saying, apparently along with some others here, is that it's a cinch to move into your very own La-La Land. But what is the price for that isolation and who pays it?
Who says La-La Land is isolation?!! And nobody has to pay to get in silly, don't worry so much
Moving to higher consciousness certainly happens in groups – families, friends, lovers, churches, neighborhoods, businesses, even small communities. People move to higher ways of treating each other and their planet and begin experiencing that – it's evolution. These bubbles of higher consciousness can and do even form into small clusters. Regardless of their life span or whether the whole world will follow, it's really valuable to create and experience these mindful alternative realities. There are often pockets of joy in the midst of hell, and in the highest sense, you can always create them.
It has always been so – there have always been areas with people who were living very evolved lives, such as some indigenous cultures, towns with like-minded people, small groups, etc. Whether there are more or fewer now, and what their quality is compared to those in the past is hard to say because when such small bubbles burst, rarely are histories written and kept (although there are some).
In theory, if enough of these bubbles cluster, then larger regions and the whole planet could effectively move to higher ways of living – the dream. Yet the possibilities for such creative living on the planet overall are decreasing due to less freedom, more poverty, psychological manipulation, war, environmental damage, etc. Humanity is not adapting to these challenges effectively, and in terms of evolution that means decline or extinction. Regardless of what the odds are, there is little else to do but keep evolving, including in groups. It's worth the experience itself, and it's also the way that humanity itself evolves. Lots of small steps.
I realized long ago that my journey was going to be a long, long, long ride, with no small efforts involved. What else is there to do but walk on, with occasional rests? That's how I adapt to my species not adapting. Either way, the unfolding process of life is the same, and I'm here now. Use it, enjoy it.
I have addressed the statistical certainty of violence being on a continuos decline in the world in a previous reply above so I won't revisit that but I'd like to reply to your points on what shift happened and what came of the 60s consciousness revolution. What happened in the 60s did have long-lasting impacts and these are apparent in many areas of society, with meditation, yoga, organic food, permaculture, sustainability, equality, and personal empowerment in the mainstream among other things that could be added to this list if one were to sit down and study the matric of cause and effect leading to the society we have today. There would be no Apple or Google and their innovations without a very defining 60s influence. Some additional in ites into how the 60s revolution changed society for the better can be found in this article: http://suite101.com/article/the-legacy-of-the-1960s-in-america-a187369
As for what happened on 12.21.12 well that is something I can only speak on based on my (and the few hundred or thousand people with me at the Mayan pyramids in Chichen Itza) experience, which was one that was powerful, directly felt, and profound, bringing me insurmountable hope for the future in a world that teeters between two very different possible future timelines.
There is a new worldview emerging but given the imprint of the old one being so deep in the collective psyche for so long you may not see it as clearly as some but look and you will find ample evidence of this. There are quite a few books, institutes, and statistics that show this is so.
I think it's amazing, thank you Paul. I can wholeheartedly relate to your words, many pearls of wisdom in there…. Beautiful, well done!!
I agree with the author (Paul Linda) that there is a shift occurring that has more and more and more people jumping on board who have begun to realize that we are all 'ONE' and this includes nature and for that matter all that exists.
I recently went across the US via Greyhound and spent many nights in some of what are considered the worst areas of the country. I walked through Central Park in Manhattan at 2 AM and ended up having a nice conversation with an elderly man out walking his dog.
I walked through the worst neighborhood in Washington D.C. (also after midnight) and had great conversations with both young and old people.
I slept with homeless people always near me and never had a problem.
I did an all nighter in Chicago in their worst part of town and never had a problem.
I have been watching the FBI's own yearly uniform crime statistics for the last 20 years and the crime rate in America has dramatically decreased in all but two of those years when there was a small spike that could have just as easily be interpreted as not enough to make the papers.
We all have choices. We can either dwell on the negative or the positive and this will determine what we will experience. It is that simple.
If you watch the corporate owned agended nightly news you would think the US and the world were falling apart at the seems. They create this illusion by focusing you on the small percentage of trouble that their bosses mostly create in the first place.
Remember that there are about 7 billion people on this planet. A high percentage of those people are going about their daily business harming no one and making no waves whatsoever.
The average person is a joy to talk to and interact with once you take the time to know them. True many aren't aware of deeper knowledge but this doesn't make them bad. I have found that as a rule people have good hearts and this is where the conscious awareness shift is beginning to occur.
In their innocent sleep there is enough heart present to pick up on a greater love that is quickly beginning to unfold.
Turn off the tube and release the newspapers and go out and talk to your neighbors and get ready for a surprise.
By the way I also traveled through Europe and Russia and parts of the Pacific rim and found that people are the same wherever I went. Show them love and respect and honor and you will have friends for life.
I am 60 now but when I was about 25 I just couldn't believe bad people were as bad as they are made out to be. So over about a several month period I went out into the worst bars and hangouts in the Milwaukee, WI area and looked for the meanest hombre's that I could find and in not one single direct contact did I have a problem. All I did was approach each one with a good heart and each in turn responded in kind time and time again.
It is those in power that are almost always agitating trouble. When enough of the people rise up in love as only collective consciousness can do then those in power will respond in kind. Love will always trump fear.
Be patient and 'give love a chance' now that all the new energies have entered the planet to assist in the great conscious awakening to an understanding that – ALL IS ONE: This is the true ascension.
Traka (alias Curt Curley)
> A high percentage of those people are going about their daily business harming no one and making no waves whatsoever. The average person is a joy to talk to and interact with once you take the time to know them.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the average person beats and abuses their children, rendering them powerless, enslaving them in school/prison/church systems that deaden their minds and spirits. They abuse their spouses. They may seem friendly, such as 'southern hospitality' – unless your skin is not the right color, your religion is wrong, or they want something you have. Then their face changes, and blood is on their hands. The average person sends their children off to kill other children and steal others' resources, and pats them on the back if they manage to come home in one piece. The average person takes what they can get for themselves and 'their kind', to hell with others. The average person directly pays people to torture and abuse animals. Ask your veal cutlet in a crate how great the average person is. They are drugged, deluded, insanely cruel.
And people 'good' in their hearts? Of course everyone has an angel inside, and this has always been so. If you truly get to know someone, you will fall in love with them. It's nothing new. Yet it's what people demonstrate that defines them in this world and determines their future. When you look at all that is happening on and to this planet, you are seeing the sum total of all those 'average people' and their choices.
Anecdotes about walking in the park don't compare to the reality of suffering and exploitation on this planet. The discussion here involves global humanity, and only a raised global consciousness could save humanity's place on this planet. A few anecdotes isn't going to do it, no matter how warm and fuzzy they make you feel. The reality that humanity has become is beyond ugly – it is horrific.
A part of me is very low these last weeks/days , tired and slowly loosing faith….the other one knows storms get worse just before the ending, this part doesn't want to let go of the dream. It would be easy to indulge myself in chaos right now, but I think that this is precisely the purpose of this strange time, stay focus , believe is happening, be an example and keep faith…. I refuse to think evil will take over everything we have fought for…As much as I understand those of you who don't have hope right now…I think you are not reading the signs and are truly underestimating the numbers…Movements like arab's springs , Indignados, Occupy , Brazil etc etc where not happening before, Pope's were not leaving their chairs very easily, whistle blowers were not as common and powerful as Assange/Snowden and politicians like Berlusconni were not granted jail…..Something is happening, it is just hard to see in the eye of the Hurricane..
I have never been a New Ager but did used to be very negative about our future on this planet.
I now am at peace with who I am and why we are here and I know inside that we make our own reality, that which we think and believe the most will gradually manifest into our reality.
Just because one cannot scientifically prove something does not mean it isn't true.
If you believe things will just get worse and worse then for you they probably will.
Even though many are 'waking up' it is still a very small minority of the overall population and will continue to be as the vast majority will not be ready this time around.
Even if my words are ridiculed please at least try to spread some positivity in your daily lives, it really doea make a difference.
Is it being "negative" to evaluate the data as one sees it? I find this brings much more usability to life, and is thus positive. I do appreciate the miracle factor – the possibility that life may reveal a solution. I have seen enough miracles in my life to know that it can't be predicted linearly. Yet roads also end, and life doesn't pity. Civilizations fall. Species go extinct. In a sense, this is positive – life moves ever onward. Would you really want the world to stay as it is? It's in a horrible state!
There is great value to clearly observing what is so (as far and deeply as you are aware), and saying what is so. Contrast this with normal human operations which is to deny, deny, deny, and lie. People also call this lying "being positive", yet it is dysfunctional. You see humanity evolving when radioactive materials are allowed to run continuously into the Pacific ocean in Japan? This is not a global consciousness awakening to its potential, it's a driver asleep at the wheel and driving off the road at high speed. Of course you can tell anecdotal stories about how some people were nice to you, but look at the big picture of what is happening on this planet, and to this planet. Amazon rain forests decimated. Millions if not billions working as slaves/prisoners in third world poverty and oppression. The list goes on. Humanity is not rising.
If things were improving, there would be tangible signs of this, just as there are when an individual begins moving toward higher consciousness. Overall I don't see this, but the opposite. Rather than humanity becoming spiritually richer, it is regressing, dying. Spiritual awakening is a common companion of the death process, which may explain the apparent upsurge in popular spirituality. When one is about to meet one's maker, many things about a person may change and open. God is close. But this doesn't mean they're not dying.
I believe that to feel positive, one must enlarge one's perspective to understand that we are not merely living one life on one planet. The only way I can find peace is by remembering and 'seeing' that there's much more going on here. I believe this is why people who return from NDEs and other transformational experiences have peace. It's not that they believe everything will turn out the way we want or expect on Earth, but that larger purposes are unfolding across many lives, even through death and demise. They no longer fear death.
Seen from this perspective, one can use one's life in this world and even one's death toward a larger purpose, and what others may call tragedy becomes simply change, even enlightenment.
One way to view the collapse of civilizations or large disasters is to realize that people of all ages are dying all the time. In a disaster, more of them do it at the same time. Yet death is death. When many people die, it can also wipe out families, traditions, even whole cultures or races. This is why they are powerful events, and that is what is mourned. Yet our global culture and traditions are exactly what must end or change fundamentally, because they are so dysfunctional, utterly corrupt, abusive, etc. They in fact hold us back rather than supporting our progress. This might be one way to see disaster as being more than mere loss. Nor is it that these traditions 'should' end; their change is inevitable. Their own qualities ensure they cannot continue, anymore than we can continue destroying our environment yet continue to live. Evolution is always saying, "change or die". Really, it just says "change", because that's what death is as well. Change or be changed.
I don't think most people can even seriously contemplate such change, so they revert to their only other option: denial. "Civilizations in the past have fallen, but ours never could – it will live forever." In doing so, the true import and value of this moment is missed – people fall into addictions and distractions, mania.
All of that said, I'm all for higher consciousness coming to Earth, even in small groups – it's delicious to experience. As one person above said, greet your neighbors, and share your light. Yet my evaluation of the long-term consequences of humanity's choices is based on honesty and what I genuinely perceive happening globally, not fear of death. Until you can honestly and unabashedly consider all possible outcomes, and admit likely and multiple outcomes, your awareness is limited. Your head is buried. Look at the ancient history of the Earth and its peoples if you doubt the potential for massive upheaval. Life doesn't pity.
The dynamic of a 'collective' is a lightside polarity concept that eventually denies individual uniqueness. The 'one-size-fits-all' group thought pattern never works well …. you see this shit everywhere in the galaxy among lightside polarity civilizations … that are BORING and suppress individuality. Since you have NO idea about the actual context of your own existence, it's easy to see why you align yourself thusly. Secondly, it's so tiring to see the misuse of the word 'consciousness'. You are either conscious or unconscious. The word is being used instead of 'awareness', which is the correct term. You can't decide to 'gain more awareness' either. Your mental capacity and complexities for your incarnation, and indeed all your experiences here, can be determined by what your unique astrological chart indicates. The meme that 'higher consciousness is coming to earth' is not the case, either. You have no idea of the composition of the population of this planet and the different incarnational modes that are in effect, or the current larger dynamic that is in play. If you were able to get out of your body and go above the belief system areas on the 4th density, you would come upon information about the current dynamic and where it's going, and why. Soon, we're ALL out of here, and the experiential format on this planet will be shut down, having served its purpose, and all life will cease, here. All incarnations will be withdrawn and all the individuals here will go off to where they are destined to go. It can't come soon enough, either. We will never reach '2014′ …
Read this please: http://www.evolutionarymanifesto.com/man.pdf


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Dr. Stathopoulos received his Civil Engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He joined the Centre for Building Studies, Concordia University in 1979. His work in the area of wind engineering and building aerodynamics has received national and international recognition and forms the basis for wind design of low-rise buildings in the 1990, 1995 and 2005 National Building Code of Canada.
Dr. Stathopoulos received his Civil Engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and both his M.E.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He joined the Centre for Building Studies, Concordia University in 1979. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1982 and to the rank of Professor in 1987. He has been Associate Director of the Centre for Building Studies for the period 1983-1995. In 1993, he was appointed Associate Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, a position he held until 1998, when he became Director of the Centre for Building Studies for the period 1998-2001.
Since the beginning of 2003, he has been Associate Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University. Dr. Stathopoulos has established an excellent teaching record at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has also been active in the development of educational models. In 1997, he received the Concordia Council on Student Life Teaching Excellence Award and in 2006, the Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has an outstanding research record with more than 350 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His work in the area of wind engineering and building aerodynamics has received national and international recognition. It forms the basis for wind design of low-rise buildings in the 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2005 National Building Code of Canada, and it has been partly included in the 1982 American National Wind Standard (later ASCE 7-88, 93, 95, 98, 02, 05) and in other standards as well.
Dr. Stathopoulos has established the Building Aerodynamics Laboratory at the Centre for Building Studies and has developed, in cooperation with Dr. D. Surry of the University of Western Ontario, the so-called pneumatic-averaging technique for the measurement of area-averaged fluctuating wind pressures on buildings. This technique has been used routinely around the world. He received the Best Paper Award for the paper entitled "Wind-Tunnel Studies of Buildings and Structures" published in the ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering in 1996. Dr. Stathopoulos' research has been receiving continuously significant support by NSERC (operating, equipment, strategic, discovery, cooperative research and development grants), FCAR, later NATEQ (operating and equipment grants) and several other organizations. Dr. Stathopoulos has participated actively in numerous external bodies including the ASCE Standards Committee of Minimum Design Loads of Buildings and Other Structures. He has been elected America's Regional Representative in the Executive Board of the International Association for Wind Engineering – IAWE (2003-07); and to the Board of Directors of the American Association for Wind Engineering – AAWE (2003-07). He has served on several ASCE bodies and chaired the Aerodynamics, the Experimental Analysis & Instrumentation, as well as the Wind Effects Committees of ASCE; he is a past member (Chair in 2000-01) and current Advisor of the Executive Committee of the Aerospace Division of ASCE.
He has been invited and keynote speaker, chairman and rapporteur in short courses, national and international conferences taken place in Canada, the U.S.A., Europe, Japan and Australia. He has been consultant to numerous projects on issues related to wind-building interaction. He has acted as expert witness on cases related to wind-building interaction. He also has industrial experience, gained before his engagement in research. He has been honored by the American Association for Wind Engineering and he received the 1997 Engineering Award of the National Hurricane Conference for his "exhaustive studies leading to the adoption of the new ASCE-7 Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures which is already leading to safer, more hurricane-resistant construction in many areas".
He received the ASCE Aerospace Division's Outstanding Professional Service Award for the year 2004. He has been appointed Editor of the International Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, as well as Editorial Board member of several prestigious journals in his field. Dr. Stathopoulos is a professional engineer registered in Québec, Ontario and in Greece; he is Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and also Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Ongoing Research Projects
Ioannis Zisis, PhD Candidate
Wind Load Paths - Engineering Design of Low-Rise Wood Buildings
The NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Project "Wind Load Paths / Engineering Design of Low-Rise Wood Buildings" entails the monitoring and collection of data from three light frame wood buildings to assess the application of environmental (mainly wind) loads and their actual transferring through the buildings' elements to their foundation. This study examines the importance of the wind-induced pressure acting on a building, i.e. how this pressure is distributed on the surface of the structure, which load paths this pressure follows from the envelope inside the structural system and finally, how this structural system resists the applied load. This understanding will help define appropriate design loads for secondary and primary structural members for a more economical, yet safe, structural design against wind.
Bodhisatta Hajra, PhD Candidate
Dispersion of Pollutants - Effect of Neighboring Buildings on Near-field Dispersion
The research examines the dispersion of pollutants from stacks located on buildings and in particular the effect of neighboring buildings on near-field dispersion. The research involves experimental work which is carried out in the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Lab at Concordia University. The aim is to develop a new mathematical model - or modify existing models - to assess pollutant concentrations in the vicinity of the source.
Mohamed Elsharawy, PhD Candidate
Wind-Induced torsional loads on buildings
The main scope of this project is the investigation of wind-induced torsional loads on buildings. Wind tunnel tests will be conducted for several building models to examine the effect of building geometry, surroundings, terrain exposures, and wind direction. The comparisons between current national and international wind standards and building codes of practice revealed several discrepancies and the findings of this experimental study are expected to contribute to their enhancement.
Mauricio Chavez, PhD Candidate
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and experimental study of exhaust emission dispersion in urban areas
The prediction of pollutant dispersion in urban environment is an extremely complex phenomenon, particularly in the vicinity of a group of buildings. The plume behavior depends on wind characteristics but it is also affected severely by surroundings. The objective of the current research is to better understand air pollution aerodynamics in urban areas. To achieve this goal two steps are suggested; the first one is to generate a detailed literature review summarizing relevant published recommendations regarding the setup of CFD simulations for urban airflow and dispersion. The second step is a parametric analysis for three typical cases of pollutant dispersion in an urban area. It is expected through this parametric analysis to produce concise recommendations to improve existing dispersion models, e.g. the empirical ASHRAE model. The improvement of this model could help practitioners to manage contamination of air in living or work places more effectively.
Eleni Xypnitou, MASc Student
Wind loads on solar collectors
This is an experimental study to measure wind loads on solar collectors attached on flat roofs or placed on the ground. A number of different configurations have been modeled and several wind tunnel experiments have been carried out. The objective of the project is to generate wind load provisions for the design of such solar equipment.
Daniel Candelario-Suarez, MASc Student
Wind loads on patio covers
The study examines the wind-induced loads on attached patio covers. Detailed wind tunnel experiments are conducted in a boundary layer wind tunnel for various building geometries and patio cover configurations. The wind loads applied on the top and bottom surface of the patio cover are evaluated simultaneously in order to accurately estimate the net force coefficients. The results of this parametric experimental study are compared to previous studies and current wind standards and building codes of practice. The findings indicate the need to update the available wind standards and include sufficient information for adequate design of patio covers attached to low-rise buildings.
Neetha Vasan, MASc Student
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C code for permutation
Saurabh | Feb 16, 2010 | Comments 3
Finding all the permutations for any given set of items has always been an area of interest for programmers. A very simple algorithm for finding all the permutations, the Bell Algorithm has already been presented.
Here the C code implementing Bell algorithm, for finding all the possible permutations has been given. The program assumes that the input set given will consist of integers. If however the input set contains characters, then the array definition should be changed to char and in the display funtion %d should be replaced by %c.
The executable file for this program can be downloaded from here : PERMUTE
About the Author: Software Engineer - Advanced Search & Recommendation at Rovi
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This is intelligent use of call by value.
My question is what if the inputs are not all different. Can anyone suggest how to remove duplicate outputs.
if inputs are not all different, there will be duplicate outputs. anysuggestions on how to remove that.


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Doctor of Homeopathy law signed by Governor on April 19, 2011. Licensure of Homeopathic Doctors becomes effective on January 1, 2015. The Board is drafting rules and will open a rulemaking docket in the near future. Please check back for further updates.
2014 Five Year Review By law the Board must complete a review of each rule in its governing regulations. The review was approved by the Governor's Regulatory Review Council on June 3, 2014.
Small Business Bill of Rights Statement HoHouse Bill 2260 added subsection (C) to A.R.S. §41-200.01 Regulatory Bill of Rights, http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/51leg/2r/laws/0204.pdf. The bill requires state agencies that conduct audits, inspections, or other regulatory enforcement actions pursuant to ARS 41-1009 to create a Small Business Bill of Rights.
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LONGS, SC (WMBF) – The North Strand Helping Hand will be accepting applications for holiday assistance Oct. 4 – 8 at their location in Longs.
Assistance provided may include Thanksgiving meals, Christmas meals and toys for young children in need.
All applicants who need help during the holidays must qualify under the USDA income eligibility guidelines. Applications will be accepted Oct. 4 – 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Oct. 8 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Applicants are asked to bring picture identification, social security cards for family members, proof of residency, income verification and information regarding children's clothing and shoe sizes.
NSHH serves the communities of Longs, North Myrtle Beach, Little River and the Southeast section of Loris.
NSHH is a United Way agency that is supported by 10 North Strand area churches. The organization provides food, clothing and some financial assistance to individuals in need in the North Strand area each day.
Members of those communities who are in adopting families in need are encouraged to contact NSHH beginning the week of Oct. 18 at 843-399-0862.
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text: 1,215 notes Posted 8, February, 2013 In 2002, Star Wars fans learned that fan favorite bounty hunter character Boba Fett was actually a person of color under that distinctive green helmet. Young Boba Fett was played by actor Daniel Logan, who is of Maori descent. Fans also learned that Fett was a clone of Jango Fett, a character played by Temuera Morrison, who is also of Maori descent. Presumably, the adult Boba Fett would grow up to look exactly like Morrison. (Logan is depicted in the above images as a young kid in Episode II and dressed up in Boba Fett's armor in a fan photoshoot.) This week, Disney announced plans to produce a new Star Wars movie featuring Boba Fett as the central character. If the casting for this character remains consistent and is not whitewashed, this Boba Fett film will be one of the most high profile Hollywood lead roles for a Maori actor, ever. #whitewashing #star wars #boba fett #racebending #episode vii


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About the ItemFor the past five decades, gemologist Alexandre Reza has been one of Paris's—and indeed, the world's—most exclusive jewelers, a master artisan and exporter based in Place Vendôme, the heart of fashion and luxury.
To experience his ornaments is to discover history reborn: The diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, and rubies of his collections have seen the most extravagant centuries and epochs, from French monarchies to Persian dynasties to the Italian Renaissance. And yet Reza's precious stones are never meant to be an antiquated homage to a prestigious past; a creator by instinct, Reza takes history as inspiration rather than for reproduction. His handcrafted pieces mix ages and eras to create something special—a "harmonization of contradictory forces," according to historian Arlette Seta.
This monumental edition, presents more than one hundred rare pieces of Reza's creations, and includes a history of the famed gem house in archival documents and vintage photography.
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JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Do you see women within the next generation attaining the sorts of rights that Maria Shriver's report highlights, including equal pay for equal work and the right to earn paid sick leave? If so, why? And if not, why? To write a letter, go to sacbee.com/sendletter. Or comment on our Facebook page at facebook.com/sacramentobee.
Maria Shriver admits it in the first line of her latest Shriver Report, which deals with low-income women living on the edge of poverty: As the daughter of War on Poverty crusader Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, she has never been on the brink herself.
She hasnt had to apply for food stamps or had her life upended when her car breaks down. She doesnt have to choose between feeding her children and paying the rent.
But clearly inculcated with the fervor of her father, who was President Lyndon Johnsons architect in the War on Poverty, and her mother, who fought for the intellectually disabled, Shriver has teamed with the nonpartisan Center for American Progress to produce an ambitious, powerful look at the plight of low-income women and their children.
Right at the start, Shriver shares this fact: Of the 100 million plus living on or over the brink of poverty in America, almost 70 percent are women and children depending on them. That is nearly 42 million women and more than 28 million children.
In the report, Shriver quickly issues her call to arms: We must recognize that our government programs, business practices, educational system and media messages dont take into account a fundamental truth: This nation cannot have sustained economic prosperity and well-being until womens new, central role is recognized and womens economic health becomes a standard shaping common-sense policies and priorities for the 21st century.
This is the third foray by Shriver, 58, the former first lady of California and a television journalist, into assessing womens evolving status in the United States.
In 2009, her first Shriver Report looked at womens increasing presence in the workplace and its effect on society, and the following year her second report examined womens role as caregivers.
In this third report, entitled A Womans Nation Pushes Back from the Brink, Shriver and the Center for American Progress offer an almost overwhelming tsunami of data and essays, including some by the famous and powerful, including Hilary Rodham Clinton, Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz and Coca-Cola Chairman Muhtar Kent.
These statistics and essays, spread throughout the reports 413 pages, outline the grim world faced by women and their children at the bottom of societys rungs: It is all there in stark numbers the low pay, the lack of affordable child care, the absence of paid sick leave, the dearth of education, the early, unintended pregnancies, and the crying need for the public and private sectors, along with committed individuals, to throw themselves into the battle on behalf of low-income women and their children.
The stakes, the report argues, could not be higher. Americas very prosperity and success in the globalized world depends on the countrys ability to meet this challenge.
In an interview, Shriver said it was easy to criticize the reports goals by saying the money is not there for such a comprehensive restructuring of womens role in society, but she said she expects the goals eventually will be achieved. I dont have a timetable, she added, but anything can be done if the political will is there. She said she viewed the report as a means of igniting discussion, outrage and action over the plight of low-income women and their families.
Along with calls for concrete steps to ease womens burdens including proposals for equal pay, earned paid sick leave and greater government funding for key family support programs, the report offers two especially interesting nuggets. One proposal advocates what is called two-generation approaches to lifting low-income mothers and their children together to a higher economic tier where they can find a better life through economic stability. This strategy, the report states, is based on research that demonstrates the strong connection between a mothers education and her childs success in school.
The other nugget is Shrivers unveiling of a Shriver Corps described as a three-year pilot national service project dedicated to building pathways to prosperity for low-income women and families by simplifying and modernizing the process by which they access benefits, training and other services.
The corps will be funded with $600,000 two-thirds of that money from the federal governments VISTA program and one-third from the nonprofit organization LIFT that will finance as many as 20 corps employees in six targeted areas Washington, D.C., New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles. (LIFT was founded by two Yale students in 1998 with the goal of ending poverty; its student volunteers work in those same six areas to lift low-income people on many fronts, including housing and health care.)
The corps project is scheduled to get underway this spring, and Shriver is meeting with a bipartisan group of congressional representatives in the coming week to deliver the report personally and discuss its implications. (Funding for her Shriver Report work is about $1 million annually, with major donors including the Ford Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation, AARP and JPMorgan Chase Foundation.)
Shrivers report is being issued today four days after the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnsons call for a War on Poverty. Though critics rail at the War on Povertys cost, defenders point out that many of its key programs still function today, providing invaluable help to millions of Americans.
Martha J. Bailey, an associate professor of economics at the University of Michigan, told me that the War on Poverty has cost $15 trillion and that the number of poor in America has dwindled by 4 percentage points to 15 percent since 1964. She added, however, that any complete assessment of the War on Poverty must recognize the tremendous, life-enhancing value of many of its programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, VISTA, Job Corps, federal financial aid to school districts and expanded food stamp offerings.
In the wake of the release of the Shriver Report, there likely will be considerable debate about whether its proposals stand any real chance of success in an era far removed from the time when Johnson launched his War on Poverty.
There are, of course, great hurdles in Shrivers way. Her own report depicts the enormity of the challenge. Here are some impediments touched on in its pages:
• The fully government-funded public high school diploma has been replaced by the much more costly college degree as a passport to the middle class. This observation rings painfully true underlining how an attempted climb upward into the middle class becomes all the steeper for those on the bottom.
• The Head Start program, begun by Sargent Shriver 50 years ago, is hailed widely as an enormous success. As a teen, I saw the programs power, working with children as a volunteer one summer in South Central Los Angeles. Behind the success, though, the report notes this fact: Due to budget restraints, Head Start serves only half of eligible 4-year-olds and about 5 percent of eligible infants and toddlers.
• One of the reports essayists, Angela Blackwell, writes: Sadly, in America, ones address has become a proxy for opportunity. ... To level the playing field, investments and policies must be aimed at rebuilding distressed communities to provide access to strong schools, good jobs, reliable transportation and other vital services. So where, one must ask, do the dollars come from to make this vision a reality?
• Washington, D.C., is described by the reports editors, Olivia Morgan and Karen Skelton, in their essay as increasingly sclerotic and dysfunctional when they tell of the need to go outside Congress walls to establish a Shriver Corps.
There is no benefit I have found, though, from dwelling on darkness.
Stanford sociology professor David Grusky, who is director of the universitys Center on Poverty and Inequality, told me: Often we rule out things as politically impossible and in so doing they of course become impossible. Sometimes I dont like a discussion about what is politically feasible because it takes off the table things that might be possible.
A lot of people thought gay marriage was an impossibility. So you never know when a breakthrough may happen. The national conversation on issues of inequality is shifting. Issues of inequality were off the table, and now those issues dominate our discussion. ... There are lots of reasons Shriver might strike a cord in a way that before wasnt possible.
One strong ray of light is that respected polls show support by the American public for many of the issues that Shriver advocates. An example from the report: Ninety percent of Americans, including 88 percent of Republicans, support ensuring that women get equal pay for equal work in order to raise wages for working women and families.
With public sentiment this strong, the fight in the years to come over these issues will reveal whether those in elected office are listening, and if they are not, whether they will be voted out of office and replaced with champions of a better life for low-income women.
Summing up her vision, Shriver speaks of the challenge with words that are reminiscent of the rhetoric of her uncle, President John F. Kennedy. We can re-ignite the American dream, she writes. ... I believe individuals really can change the world. If we harness our imagination, our innovation, and our optimism, we can do this. And we can do it now.
Susan Sward is a writer who lives in San Francisco.


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Community Calendar Events
October Sale at Eason Portrait Gallery in Adel, Iowa
[ October 1, 2010 to November 19, 2010. ]
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Now is the time to gather the family for a great October special at Eason Portrait Gallery in Adel!
Book your appointment before November 19th and get the free indoor or outdoor session, one 8x10, two 5x7, and
Great Specials at Italian Villages in Adel, Iowa
[ October 18, 2010 to October 23, 2010. ]
Head over to Italian Villages in Adel this week and take advantage of the great specials!
Lunch is served Monday-Friday from 11am-2pm, Dinner from 4:30-8:30pm Monday-Thursday, 4:30-9:30pm Friday and Saturday!
This is the last month for $3.99 Lunch specials, so stop in and enjoy the great food you've loved for the last decade.
Special Deals for the week of October 18th are
T&T Auto Repair October Oil Change Special
[ October 1, 2010 to October 31, 2010. ]
Is your automobile ready for another Iowa winter?
This is the time to schedule your vehicle for a oil change and tune up before the weather takes a turn!
All October long, T&T Auto will perform an oil change for $27.95.
This includes having all the fluids topped-off, inspection of the air filter, and check of the tire pressure.
T&T Auto also offers
Armchair Traveling with the Adel Public Library
[ October 20, 2010; 1:30 pm; ]
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Travel to Central America without leaving Adel!
Join us Wednesday, October 20th at 1:30pm as Glenn & Diana Vondra share their experiences during a 2009 trip traveling throughout Central America.
The Vondras spent two weeks traveling in San Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize.
Learn about the Mayan civilization, the town
Teen Read Week at the Adel Public Library October 17-23rd!
[ October 17, 2010 to October 23, 2010. ]
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Celebrate Teen Read Week October 17th-23rd at the Adel Public Library!
Teen Read Week is a national literacy event dedicated to getting teens, their families, and the greater community to recognize how important it is to read for fun.
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We ate Chinese food for dinner, colored eggs and talked about the wedding.
It's been forever since we actually colored Easter eggs together. We really got creative. Here are some of my favorites.
Watermelon egg.
Traditional Easter egg. (My mom has gorgeous handwriting. Too bad that was not a trait that was passed down to me!)
Our "Save the Date" egg :)
And our Tiffany egg. Hope you had a good Easter too!