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By Jaya Ramachandran, eurasiareview.com
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ALBANY, OREGON (eurasiareview.com) - There is a glimmer of hope for Dugongs, also known as sea cows, and their seagrass habitats. The endangered species, which has been under threat by human activity such as entanglement in fishing gear, collision with boats and habitat loss, occurs across the East coast of Africa, South-East Asia, Pacific Islands and Australia. Governments of 23 out of the 40 countries that are home to the Dugong have agreed in Abu Dhabi to work with the Dugong and seagrass research and conservation community to undertake more standardized research and monitoring activities as a prerequisite for devising tailored conservation measures in their own countries. They were guided by the conviction that better coordination of surveys and data exchange on Dugong populations between countries will improve transboundary protection. March 13-14 gatherings – that included the third Meeting of Signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation and Management of Dugongs and their Habitats (Dugong MOU), and a two-day expert workshop attended by 125 conservation practitioners from around the Indo-Pacific region which followed – were convened by Abu Dhabi office of the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi and Total, a French multinational integrated oil and gas company and one of the seven "Supermajor" oil companies in the world. The CMS Dugong MOU, the Secretariat of which is located at the Abu Dhabi office of the Convention on Migratory Species, aims to promote internationally coordinated actions to ensure the long-term survival of Dugongs and seagrass habitats throughout their range. Protection of Dugongs, along with the conservation of seagrass meadows, which they feed upon, benefits marine biodiversity. Seagrass meadows are among the richest marine habitats on Earth, home to as many as 600 species of marine life and to hundreds of commercially valuable fishes, crustaceans and other invertebrates that feed millions of people worldwide – thus providing livelihoods and wellbeing. Seagrass is also very effective in capturing and storing carbon, an important role in mitigating the effects of climate change. The Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi and CMS availed of the opportunity to launch on March 13 a website that encourages volunteer conservationists around the world to share their findings and gain access to wildlife protection agencies' databases. CMS, administered by United Nations Environment (UNEP), is the only global biodiversity-related treaty specializing in the conservation and sustainable use of a wide array of terrestrial, aquatic and avian migratory species, their habitats and migration routes. Contracting Parties to CMS work individually and cooperatively to ensure a favourable conservation status for migratory species across their range. At present, there are 124 Parties to the Convention, including the UAE. The website will provide a platform for communities in the 40 countries that are home to Dugongs to work together. The sharing of information on the website will help scientists and conservation groups to better assess the wellbeing of Dugong populations and figure out how best to help them. "For example, some communities trying to assess Dugong populations in a certain area will find out from a different community around the world that they can save a lot of money by opting to ask fishermen instead of renting expensive aerial and drone technology," said Helene Marsh, professor of environmental science at James Cook University in Australia, according to The National UAE newspaper. Over the past 20 years, the conservation efforts of Abu Dhabi, which is home to the second-largest population of Dugongs, have led to the species' thriving community in the wild today, UAE state news agency WAM reported. "Our waters are home to more than 3,000 Dugongs. Because we recognised early on that any possible threat to seagrass beds poses a threat to Dugongs, our country's Dugong population is stable," said Dr Thani Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment. The UAE's ranking in the Marine Reserves Sub-Index in the Environmental Performance Index, published by Yale University, rose to the top spot in 2014 and last year from 33rd position in 2012. "If we can also encourage fishing communities to adopt practices that don't destroy seagrass and accidentally catch Dugongs, we will have helped to secure the future of Dugongs, the seagrass and those communities," said Razan Al Mubarak, secretary general of the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi. Against this backdrop, the newly launched Dugong & Seagrass Research Toolkit enables community groups, citizen scientists, conservation bodies and governments select the most appropriate standardized methods to research seagrass, Dugongs and the communities reliant on ecosystems for their livelihoods. For example, learning about Dugong movements as well as seagrass-dependant fishery resources helps communities to maintain sustainable fisheries whilst contributing to the protection of important Dugong populations and improving livelihoods. The Dugong & Seagrass Research Toolkit will be promoted for use across the Dugong's range, and can be adapted to other parts of the world where the other sirenian species, manatees, live.
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The disclosed calibrated ASV measurement apparatus provides accurate measurements of the ASV (apparent surface voltage) on a photoconductive imaging medium using a relatively low cost, commercially available ASV probe. To obtain accurate ASV measurements, the probe sensitivity (relating probe voltgage output to sensed potential) is periodically recalibrated to compensate for changes in environmental and electrical conditions. The calibration function is implemented using a calibration target mounted directly to the housing of the probe's sensing head so as to occupy a portion of the probe's sensing field. During periodic calibration intervals, when the ASV probe is responsive only to potentials on the calibration target, known potentials are applied to the calibration target, and an indication of a change in probe sensitivity with respect to the calibration target is calculated and used to recalibrate the value for probe sensitivity used in ASV measurement. During periodic ASV measurement intervals (with the calibration target at ground potential), the ASV probe is exposed to a reference ground and to the ASV on the imaging medium to obtain a differential probe voltgage, and this differential voltage is translated using the calibrated probe sensitivity into the desired ASV measurement relative to the reference ground. For a preferred embodiment, the periodic ground reference potential is provided by a grounded seam on the surface of the electrophotographic drum, such that separate means for that purpose are not required to be provided as part of the ASV probe.
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Measuring impact is based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative measures. To gain quantitative information, communicators should conduct a base-line survey of their audience before the launch of their project to understand their perceptions, knowledge, and behaviors on an issue like net neutrality. This information can then be contrasted with results from one or more post-air surveys. When developing a survey, evaluators consider:
• What is the audience's size and characteristics?
• What does the audience know or think they know about the issue?
• What is the audience's attitude toward the issue? How likely are they to share these opinions with others?
• What is the audience's behavior around this issue?
• What is the audience's belief in their ability to influence the issue? Do they feel they have adequate support to influence the issue? Have they taken any action?
• How has the entertainment influenced the answers to these questions?
Depending on the entertainment medium, online web analytics, broadcast ratings, and ticket sales also supply information about audience size, duration, and number of viewings, as well as how and where the campaign is being shared (i.e., through social media, press, or word-of-mouth). Qualitative evaluations can provide more in-depth understanding of how audiences identify with the issue after viewing the entertainment. Responses to the media project can be solicited through direct correspondence with viewers as well as mined from public meetings or online discussion boards.
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Just sharing with you the most beautiful thoughts.........and want to know how many of us have the gratitude to the most important person in our life
when you were 1 year old, she fed you and bathed you . you thanked her by crying all night.
When you were 2 years old, she taught you to walk. You thanked her by running away when she called.
When you were 3 years old, she made all your meals with love। You thanked her by tossing your plate on the floor.
When you were 4 years old, she gave you some crayons। You thanked her by coloring the dining room table.
When you were 5 years old, she dressed you for the holidays. You thanked her by plopping into the nearest pile of mud.
When you were 6 years old, she walked you to school. You thanked her by screaming, "I'M NOT GOING!"
When you were 7 years old, she bought you a baseball. You thanked her by throwing it through the next-door-neighbor's window.
When you were 8 years old, she handed you an ice cream. You thanked her by dripping it all over your lap.
When you were 9 years old, she paid for piano lessons. You thanked her by never even bothering to practice.
When you were 10 years old she drove you all day, from soccer to gymnastic to one birthday party after another.
You thanked her by jumping out of the car and never looking back.
When you were 11 years old, she took you and your friends to the movies. You thanked her by asking to sit in a different row.
When you were 12 years old, she warned you not to watch certain TV shows. You thanked her by waiting until she left the house.
When you were 13, she suggested a haircut. You thanked her by telling her she had no taste.
When you were 14, she paid for a month away at summer camp. You thanked her by forgetting to write a single letter.
When you were 15, she came home from work, looking for a hug. You thanked her by having your bedroom door locked.
When you were 16, she taught you how to drive her car. You thanked her by taking it every chance you could.
When you were 17, she was expecting an important call. You thanked her by being on the phone all night.
When you were 18, she cried at your high school graduation. You thanked her by staying out partying until dawn.
When you were 19, she paid for your college tuition, drove you to campus carried your bags। You thanked her by saying good-bye outside the dorm so you wouldn't be embarrassed in front of your friends.
When you were 20, she asked whether you were seeing anyone। You thanked her by saying, "It's none of your business."
When you were 21, she suggested certain careers for your future. You thanked her by saying, "I don't want to be like you."
When you were 22, she hugged you at your college graduation. You thanked her by asking whether she could pay for a trip to Europe.
When you were 23, she gave you furniture for your first apartment. You thanked her by telling your friends it was ugly.
When you were 24, she met your fiance and asked about your plans for the future. You thanked her by glaring and growling, Muuhh-ther, please!"
When you were 25, she helped to pay for your wedding, and she cried and told you how deeply she loved you. You thanked her by moving halfway across the country.
When you were 30, she called with some advice on the baby. You thanked her by telling her, "Things are different now."
When you were 40, she called to remind you of a relative's birthday. You thanked her by saying you were "really busy right now."
When you were 50, she fell ill and needed you to take care of her. You thanked her by reading about the burden parents become to their children.
And then, one day, she quietly died. And everything you never did came crashing down like thunder on your YOUR HEART.
So never hurt her, please.............
Love your Mom...
Before time is running & it will not in my hand... Dear Mother, I want to say you, You are very special for me. you are only one for who my eyes always looking for, my heart beating, and i can give up any thing in the world. I love you very very much.
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Please note that the text below was written by the feeling-being 'Peter' while 'he' lived in a pragmatic (methodological), still-in-control/same-way-of-being Virtual Freedom before becoming actually free.
Sensation: The consciousness of perceiving or seeming to perceive some state or condition of one's body or its parts or of the senses; an instance of such consciousness; (a) perception by the senses, (a) physical feeling. b The faculty of perceiving by the senses, esp. by physical feeling. Oxford Dictionary
Peter: The three ways a person can experience the world are:
1: cerebral (thoughts); 2: sensate (senses); 3. affective (feelings).
The aim of 'How am I experiencing this moment of being alive?' is to become aware of exactly how one is experiencing the world and to investigate what is preventing one from being happy and harmless in this moment. It is therefore important to discriminate between the pure sensate sensual experiences, as in sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, and the cerebral thought and affective feeling experiences that are sourced in the instinctual animal survival passions.
Feelings are most commonly expressed as emotion-backed thoughts – thoughts arising in response to the flooding of chemicals that originate from the animal instinctual brain, the amygdala. As the amygdala quick-scans the incoming sensorial input it is programmed to automatically respond with an instinctual reaction – essentially those of fear, aggression, nurture and desire.
The instinctual reaction is such that response-chemicals are almost instantly pumped into the body and neo-cortex and are most usually 'felt' in the head, heart and stomach areas.
Fear produces hormones which quicken the heartbeat, tenses the muscles, and heightens the senses – ready for either 'fight or flight'. When neither option is exercised one 'freezes' and the ongoing chemical input results in feelings of helplessness, doubt, angst, depression or dread. Jealousy, based on the nurture instinct, prepares the body to attack one's competitor. Sexual desire similarly causes well-known reactions in the sexual organs, and so on. It is important to recognize that these reactions, while felt in the body as sensations, and interpreted by the brain as feelings, are actually instinctual passions in action – they are the very substance of 'who' we feel ourselves to be, deep down at a bodily level, in both heart and gut.
It is this emotional 'self'-centred experiencing that prevents our direct sensate-only sensuous experience of the actual world of sensual delight, purity and perfection. 'Who' one thinks and feels oneself to be is but an elaborate extrapolation of this instinctual, fear-full animal 'self'. This emotional, feeling interpretation – based on the sensations of chemicals flowing in the body and brain – results in feelings of loneliness, separateness and alienation from the world as it is. It is as though there is a veil or film over the actual that one yearns to break through – to become free of – in order to be fully alive, to actually be here, now.
It is entirely new territory to dare to question feelings, both those we arbitrarily denote as 'good' and those we label 'bad', but there is a fail-safe method of navigation through the maze of sensations produced by instinctual passions. The aim is always to facilitate in oneself peace and harmony – to become happy and harmless – and this sincere intent will prevent one from settling for anything less than the genuine article. The genuine article is you, the flesh-and-blood-body-only you, that seeks freedom from the feelings of malice and sorrow that ruin your happiness.
The path to Actual Freedom now offers a realizable and actual freedom from the insidious grip of instinctual passions.
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Say his name. Miguel Angel Honorato Sr. Honorato, 30, was one of the 49 victims who lost their lives in a deadly mass shooting at an Orlando gay club called Pulse in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Like the 48 other victims, Honorato's life was cut short due to a horrific, targeted, and homophobic act by a gunman who opened fire at Pulse, injuring at least 53 other victims. Who is Miguel Angel Honorato? He was a father of three.
Honorato was a native of Mexico, and was living in Apopka, Florida, at the time of his death. His Facebook page, now a dedication to his memory, indicates that he worked at a catering company called FajitaMex Mexican Catering. In a sit-down interview with MSNBC (at a restaurant said to be owned by the Honorato family), Honorato's older brother, Jose Honorato, described some of Honorato's special qualities.
"My brother was a hardworking man, he was a boss," Jose Honorato said. He described his younger brother as a family man, someone who would often have breakfast with his mom and family. He had three children, MSNBC reported.
Jose Honorato posted an obituary to his Facebook page honoring his brother. According to the obituary, Honorato was born in Guerrero, Mexico, and was married to Minerva Honorato. The obituary names his three children, Joel, Julian, and Miguel Jr., and seven siblings, Jose Honorato, Odilla Honorato, Yedic Honorato, Alex Honorato, Johnny Honorato, Denny Honorato, and Enrique Honorato. A funeral service for Honorato will be held at the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church on June 21, the obituary read.
Another picture of Miguel Honorato, shared by family. Miguel is holding one of his three children. #WFTV pic.twitter.com/uGT18B7zZP
— Kimberly Eiten (@KEitenWFTV) June 13, 2016
Brother of victim Miguel Honorato. "He was in the right place at the wrong time." Honorato was a father of 3. #WFTV pic.twitter.com/XbLSGZum7o
— Kimberly Eiten (@KEitenWFTV) June 13, 2016
Enrique Honorato wrote a Facebook post in honor of his brother, remembering the good times they spent together:
Miguel Angel Honorato, 30
— johnny (@jxhnnybxrrios) June 14, 2016
Father of three children who lived in Apopka and went out with some friends Saturday night pic.twitter.com/iBTRNB2koy
Honorato's life was tragically cut short, and his family and loved ones are left to mourn his death. Here's to honoring Honorato and keeping his memory alive.


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Ok so I downloaded the Doom demo and as soon as I started it up I realised what I was in for was not a satisfying thrill ride. There was too much hype surrounding this game from the get go, although the updated visuals for a Doom game are impressive there's nothing else that is good about the game other than it's just another basic shooter filled with the same drive as the previous games.
I wasn't going to buy the game after being disappointed by the demo and reason why is that while being just another generic shooter it's repetitive, running up crushing a demons skull, dodging fireballs and crushing skulls, just the same stuff over and over and sorry to say this game did not deserve all the hype it had gotten. Luckily I don't have to play it again.
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On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 19:04 -0400, Solomonov, Dmitriy B. wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I was having trouble being able to interface to the > > I2C bus on the gumstix. > > First, when attempting to open the device in C, > > I get an error message stating that the device does not exist, > > When it clearly shows up in the /dev folder. Just because a device file exists in /dev doesn't mean that any driver is providing the major,minor device that the file corresponds to. Make sure the i2c bus driver is loaded. I don't think the i2c-pxa driver is built by default. HTH, -Jonathan |


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Obituary for Lynndall Alice Bruce
Rich & Kelly. I just wanted to say how sorry I am for your loss. Growing up next door to you all was something I'll never forget. I still remember Kelly as my babysitter and the "Olympics" we used to play in the basement. Your Mother was a huge part of my childhood. Her kindness and loving soul have been and will be with me forever. All the time spent petting the horses over the fence, playing in the barn, enjoying that old swing and the adventures I had in that old truck will never be forgotten. Please Take Care of yourselves and each other in this time of sorrow. But I know Lynn would want you to be happy in knowing she is with you now everyday watching over you from Heaven. Love you guys. Kerry Day.


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This was one of those strange experiences you get when you reread a book as an adult that you haven't read since childhood. The book in question was Burnett's The Secret Garden. Like me, you may remember it vaguely as an uplifting Victorian tale about some bratty children who become nicer people through gardening.
Then you reread it as an adult, and you realise that it's about a particularly disturbing form of child abuse. Munchausen's by Proxy, also known as Fabricated or Induced Illness, occurs where a parent or caregiver causes or fakes illness in a child, usually because the parent/caregiver loves the reflected attention they get from doctors. It's nasty, has a very high death rate, and is notoriously hard to deal with, as no one likes to accuse someone of it.
If you've not read the book, or remember it only blurrily, here's what happens. Mary is an Anglo-Indian child (yep, race issues too), isolated from all but the servants who pamper her, who is unsurprisingly rather bratty as a result. She's described as "sickly", I think. When her parents die, she comes to England to be looked after in the house of an absentee uncle, Archibald Craven. Left mostly to her own devices, she starts to play in the gardens and makes friends with the gardener, as well as a young housemaid, Martha, and her family (there's a big Noble Working Classes theme going on here). She discovers the secret garden, which has been locked away ever since Craven's young wife tragically died in an accident there, and becomes healthier by learning to garden there, together with Dickon, Martha's brother.
After a while, she also discovers the house's other secret: that there is a child kept in a room, bedbound because he has been told that he is too ill to stand. She hears him crying, finds that the servants deny it, and eventually discovers the room and makes friends with the child, who is her cousin Colin. Colin is mainly portrayed as being even brattier than she is. This is where it gets particularly horrifying, in that the text goes along with the victim-blaming that is happening here. Someone has decided that Colin is going to "be a hunchback like his father", and even though there is no sign of this, and Craven's back condition hasn't stopped him travelling the world (shamefully neglecting his son, but this is somehow understandable because he's still grieving for his wife all these years later), the response has been to keep the child in one room, in bed, with the window covered. There's also a doctor relative who is mentioned as having encouraged this because he hopes that Colin will die, leaving the doctor relation as heir to the estate. The servants realise that something is not right, but they go along with the fiction that Colin is disabled, and complain about his bad temper and general behaviour. Even if they do accept what they've been told, that Colin is ill, they don't really believe it, and they go along with keeping it a secret. So I think a fair amount of blame goes to them.
Considering the appalling condition that child is being kept in, it's a wonder he's not worse. He's unable to walk due to muscle wastage, and emaciated due to poor appetite. He's almost entirely isolated, and bored out of his skull. He has fits of "hysterics", a word more often used to describe women, and indeed is rather feminised, with much stress on his beautiful eyes and eyelashes, just like his mother's. People say scornfully that he will probably scream himself to death one night, and imply "good riddance". He's obsessed with a fear of growing a lump on his back, and also terribly frightened because everyone has told him that he will die young. In reality, a child going through what is essentially torture of this sort would be a lot more screwed up, and I suspect would undergo heavy, lifelong damage to his mental and physical health.
Mary barges in, points out that she can out-tantrum him if necessary, and effectively starts to rehabilitate him, largely by making friends with this incredibly isolated child. Eventually she gets him out into the gardens, and they take him by wheelchair to the secret garden, where they teach him to walk and eventually run, play games and garden. (Oh, and pray.) The children have some fun with continuing the pretence that he's ill, now finding it amusing when he pretends to be weak and bad-tempered, and having to hide the increase in appetite caused by getting fresh air and exercise. Martha the housemaid is in on the secret, and smuggles in food from her saintly mother to help the deception, which apparently isn't a problem even though Martha's family is so poor it can barely feed itself. Eventually, Martha's mother, who is rather overdone as a paragon but oh well, has the sense to write to Craven to tell him to come home. The climax of the novel is when Craven wanders into the secret garden, as in a dream, and his healthy young son runs up to him. Story over, problem solved.
You do wonder why, if Martha knew about Colin, and Martha told her mother everything, nothing was done to help this shocking situation until it was pretty much resolved. You also wonder how an entire houseful of servants could go along with it. At one point one of them mentions that another doctor had been called in, and had said that there was nothing wrong with Colin and that he needed to have a normal life, but that he was shooed away by the relative who wanted to inherit. And then you wonder how it started, and who was driving it, because it seems to be something that's been done by a community rather than by one person, and no one you meet is actually that nasty. The relative who has supposedly been the most responsible, the doctor with an eye to the inheritance, is always offstage, and in fact I'm not even sure if he's named. So while Munchausen's by Proxy is a mental illness, there is no one in particular whom you can pinpoint as having it. It's as if they're all caught up in a self-sustaining system.
This diverts the blame onto the victim. I just googled "child abuse" with "the secret garden", and not only did nothing direct come up (am I really the first to notice this?), but Goodreads reviews were happily describing Colin as a "spoiled brat". The novel does show that creating illness in this way is a problem, but it normalises it to quite a weird extent. There is something utterly creepy about the way the children join in with the illness-faking, doing it deliberately now and as a game, and it's also very strange that Martha and her supposedly sensible family support them in this. The idea is that Colin's health will be a surprise for when Colin's father gets home, but since he's been away for many years and there's no reason to think he'll return, that's not much to go on. In some ways, it feels like the children are reclaiming the power that was lost, through adults inducing illness in Colin, by Colin and Mary faking illness to the adults but secretly growing healthier and healthier despite them. Perhaps the only thing you can do, in a situation where you have been forced into something this unnatural, is to make a pretence of going along with it, and reconcile yourself to it as best you can. But the really strange thing is that it's played for comedy.
So the boundary between real, though induced, illness, and faked illness, is hazy. I'm also uneasy about Colin's miraculous recovery. The novel seems to be telling us that he really is genuinely ill at the start, that this will happen if you keep a child in bed and deprive him of exercise, company, adequate food and so forth. But the cure seems a bit too easy. Colin's mental health improves almost instantly once Mary turns up, as if all she needed to do was read him the riot act and he would snap out of it. As I said, in reality you'd be in serious trouble if you went through that sort of abuse, in terms of mental illness. The novel is quite disapproving of Colin's unsurprising tendency to feel sorry for himself, and mocks him for it. The physical rehab is described as gradual, too, and maybe it really isn't that difficult to teach a child to walk at the age of ten when they have atrophied muscles, maybe it really is something that a pair of children could do. Maybe it's meant to be easier because this is a children's novel. But then who on earth writes a children's novel about Munchausen's by Proxy?!
Mary is also characterised in terms of illness and good health. Her life in India isn't as bad as Colin's, but it would still be enough to make social services step in if it happened in Britain today. She almost never sees her parents, and has never played with other children until she comes to England. When everyone dies from a cholera epidemic (so that illness is what gets the novel's action moving), no one even notices Mary for a few days, and she could easily have been left to starve. The novel begins with Mary's rehabilitation before moving on to Colin's. Both children, it tells us, need to learn how to be more independent, how to play outside and develop a good appetite for healthy food from all the fresh air and exercise. They also need to learn how to be less self-centred and to stop expecting servants to wait on them hand and foot, and how to interact with other people and generally become a normal, healthy child. The two aspects are wound together in a strange way, and also tied in with more subtle racial issues. Once Mary has started using a skipping rope that Martha's family has bought her - there is quite a lot of stress on how poor Martha's family is, and it's rather odd that everyone considers it acceptable for them to pour their limited resources into helping these poor little rich kids - Martha comments that she looks much better now, pink-cheeked instead of yellow, putting on weight healthily (this book is the only one I've ever seen where someone boasts happily of "getting fatter"), and also that she is generally being nicer now. I hadn't spotted that all the comments about Mary having "yellow" skin suggest strongly that she's Anglo-Indian, until a friend pointed it out. So being Indian, or at least living in India, is equated with being unhealthy too, and it's presented as a problem to be solved by good English food and exercise.
I'm still trying to put a finger on why this novel creeps me out, even while I enjoy it in some respects. Maybe it's because this is a really fucked-up situation to get a heartwarming story out of. Maybe it's because we're encouraged to scorn Colin when he's having a massive anxiety attack, and to be delighted when Mary tells him to put a sock in it. Maybe it's because with all the varied forms of manipulation related to illness in the novel, the one which is presented centre stage as the most repellent is an abused, neglected child, screaming for attention, who has been given every reason to scream.
- Wait - it was about *what*?
The other thing about following his orders - if Mr Craven had a complete nervous breakdown, to the point where he was almost locked up (and they'd hardly be quick off the mark with that for a man of his power - different if it were a woman of low status), you can't really see them saying, "Oh yes, the master was raving earlier, we had to restrain him. By the way, he's suggesting that the child should be a hunchback, in between wishing he could die and calling out to his dead wife and something incoherent about pigeons. The man's not talking any sense at all, and probably isn't really following what we're doing, he's thoroughly out of it, but do make sure that you keep the child in bed for the rest of his life."
Personally I reckon the most blame seems to be with Dr Craven, but it's all very fuzzy, isn't it. I think you get similar situations today when illness is somehow induced or fabricated in a child. Sometimes there'll be one person driving it forcefully, but at other times there's a whole web of errors and misunderstandings and minor mistakes that have added up to a dreadful situation. Having a complicated social structure, if that's the phrase I'm looking for, seems to be key. The buck gets passed to and fro, whether it's a house full of servants and the odd relative and doctor, or schools and social services instead, and no one person is taking all the responsibility or indeed doing enough to pay attention to the alarming whole rather than one small bit of it.
There's a strong feeling in this novel that it all went wrong after the boy's mother died, and that if she hadn't, none of this would have happened. Mary steps in more as a substitute sister, but she takes on the role of rehabilitating Colin, and eventually Susan Sowerby, the model mother, who has been dispensing wisdom throughout the novel from offstage, steps in and helps to put the family back together.
Personally I reckon the most blame seems to be with Dr Craven, but it's all very fuzzy, isn't it. I think you get similar situations today when illness is somehow induced or fabricated in a child. Sometimes there'll be one person driving it forcefully, but at other times there's a whole web of errors and misunderstandings and minor mistakes that have added up to a dreadful situation. Having a complicated social structure, if that's the phrase I'm looking for, seems to be key. The buck gets passed to and fro, whether it's a house full of servants and the odd relative and doctor, or schools and social services instead, and no one person is taking all the responsibility or indeed doing enough to pay attention to the alarming whole rather than one small bit of it.
There's a strong feeling in this novel that it all went wrong after the boy's mother died, and that if she hadn't, none of this would have happened. Mary steps in more as a substitute sister, but she takes on the role of rehabilitating Colin, and eventually Susan Sowerby, the model mother, who has been dispensing wisdom throughout the novel from offstage, steps in and helps to put the family back together.


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I love seabass, it is my favorite fish to cook with, however it is super hard to get where I live in Canada. If I am lucky the only place I have found it is frozen at Costco and they rarely have it there either. This is my favorite dish to make when I can get some. The fish with the creamy peas and new potatoes is such a delicious combo.
This recipe is gluten free, Slimming World and Weight Watchers friendly
Slimming Eats Recipe
Extra Easy – 2.5 syns per serving
- 2 seabass fillets
- 200g of fresh shelled English peas
- vegetable stock (just enough to cover peas)
- 3 Laughing Cow lights (4.5 syns)
- salt and black pepper
- spray oil
- Season the seabass fillets with some salt and black pepper.
- Add the peas to a frying pan and add some stock (just enough to lightly cover), bring to a boil and then reduce heat to low and simmer for approx 5 mins. *(they will turn a nice bright green colour).
- One by one add the laughing cow lights into the peas and whisk until they melt and start to make a thick creamy sauce. Mash the peas with a fork or you can add to a food processor and give a few spins of the blade.
- Spray a frying pan over a medium high heat with some spray oil and add the seabass fillets (skin side down) and fry until skin is crisp, flip over and fry the other side until lightly golden.
- Serve on top of the mashed peas with your choice of sides. I served mine with some sauteed spinach and new potatoes.
The recipe above has been calculated for Slimming World, however for those of you following the Weight Watchers plan or another calorie controlled type diet. Below is the approx nutritional information:
Approx NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION | |
1 serving | |
Calories | 258 |
Fat | 5.2g |
Saturated Fat | 2.2g |
Total Carbohydrate | 16g |
Dietary Fibre | 5.1g |
Sugars | 7.2g |
Protein | 32g |


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Even after a few years I'm still not sold on Blu-Ray yet. Sure the cost of hardware has come way down and the movie discs themselves have also become more reasonably priced. But I'm still not sold. Except in some applications I still don't see enough of a difference to convince me to leap for it until I absolutely have to. The other criticism I have is that discs seem to take so damned long to load. Maybe it has partly to do with growing up with B&W CRT television, then colour, VHS and then finally DVD. And now there's 3D. Maybe it's my eyes but while I can see some extra depth I don't notice a huge difference. There's also the fact that you need expensive eye wear to watch it. Until they can do 3D without glasses and not have to be pretty much at right angles to the screen I see it all as just a gimmick. Of course I feel much the same about expensive home theatre systems. It might well be nice, but every time I've been exposed to it it seems as if it's just an excuse to play everything too damned loud. As far as I can see you won't hear the great clarity for long because you'll make your self deaf. Maybe I'm just a stick-in-the-mud.
Blu Ray, no, as it posesses backwards compatibility and doesn't render your DVD library obsolete, and improves the video quality of most of your DVDs. 3 D? Until they come out with a system that doesn't require glasses AND doesn't render your library obsolete...I'm not caring.
Blu-Ray, no. I've, more or less, officially adopted it. Any meaningful movie I buy from now on I'll buy on BD, I'll finish my TV seasons with DVDs though for the sake of consistancy. BD is backwards compatable with DVDs and the quality is hugely noticable. So like the step-up from DVD Blu-Ray I'm sold on. 3D? Not yet, not so much. Right now the equipment is prhobitively expensive, it's not standardized to the point where you couldn't use your glasses on a friend's TV (unless he had the same TV as you) and the media is non-exsistant. (Monsters v. Aliens. Whoop-dee-doo.) Plus it'd be just annoying to have to wear glasses to enjoy it as I rarely will just sit down to watch a movie in that manner. So the 3D thing isn't there yet. Someday, maybe when the cost comes down and they're able to do it without the need for glasses. Blue-Ray? Sold on it and it is worth it.
I'm skeptical of studios pumping out Blu-Rays that can't even match the quality of the same titles on DVDs, but as long as you read a few reviews before making a purchase, it's a great format and the only one I'll be buying from now on. 3D I couldn't care less about. It's just too much of a hassle at home, and still a gimmick more often than not at the theatre.
Yes, BD machines are backwards compatible. But does it take as long to load regular DVD on them? And do the regular DVDs look better than even on an upconverting DVD player?
A DVD will load just as quickly as on a DVD player. In fact even Blu Rays load fast enough as long as you don't get a cheap/slow player. In terms of image quality, it all depends on the quality of the player. A good Blu Ray player will look better than a cheap DVD player and good DVD player will look better than a cheap Blu Ray player.
"Upconverting" is the biggest bullshit "marketing term" ever come up with, or at the very least most misunderstood. A DVD only contains so much infromation and that information is only enough to creat the (420?) resolution the format is capable of. If the DVD contained enough information to "upconvert" that resolution to the 1080 of Blu-Ray why wouldn't the DVD simply be that?! All "upconverting" means is that the player can take that, compatative small, resolution and blow it up, as flawlessly as possible, to fill your screen. Without "upconverting" your DVDs playing on your TV through your BD player would be a box far smaller than your TV. Upconverting does not make the picture better! As for the time issue, the DVDs and BDs I play on my PS3 have no notable lag to hem when loading, chapter selecting or menu selecting. The BD format has the advantage of being able to play the previous format. This is a plus. It's like when people in the early part of this decade had to buy those VHS/DVD combo units to still play their tapes. Only a BD player is less bulky and cumbersome to take advanatage of in this respect. Any BD player, ever,will play DVDs. So buying a BD player doesn't "force" you to have to upgrade the movie collection too, like DVD did, unless you simply want the better qaulity.
SD is 480i... and upconverting can make pictures look better, but if your TV is small, it's not going to make that much a difference anyway. I'm fine with Blu-Ray, but I have to wonder if we're not going to move to a new HD spec in 5 years. I just wonder how much resolution will be enough for home theater purposes.
No, I just haven't had the money to upgrade yet. I don't think that has much to do with it, beyond personal preference. I'll happily upgrade to an ipod and a Bluray player when I can afford to, but I'll still collect vinyl records and super 8 reels (and 16mm reels when I can afford another working projector) because I like them.
3D is not, as yet, standardized. So I don't see why anyone would buy into it now. When there does come a standard, it may not be compatible with what we have now... Blu-ray, on the other hand, IS a standard. That's all the proof I need...
What I mean is that while I can appreciate a good picture--and, yes, our idea of good changes over time and experience--it's still television. Or maybe it's just an idea I have in my head. Film is one thing, but television is another. For example I'm not crazy about TOS on Blu-Ray. Never mind the TOS-R issue. I feel the Blu-Ray resolution hurts TOS' live-action footage because you see more things that were never meant to be seen in terms of production limitations. DVD was a happy compromise of having restored picture, detail and colour without revealing too much.
Movies look great on Blu-Ray. TV shows from the '70s, '80s, and '90s look like shit. TOS looks the same on Blu-Ray as it does on regular DVD. New shows, shot in high definition, look great. I won't even go into 3-D or RGBY. Not now. I think it's stupid to introduce these new luxury items during the Second Great Depression. And, yes, that's what it is even though people won't bring themselves to admit it. They shouldn't strong-arm people into making these types of purchases during times like these.
Yawn, another "Oh what's the point of better technology" thread... On a SciFi forum???? Are you for real? Or is this the luddite forum?
Well, it's like digital cameras. At some point, having a 100 megapixel camera doesn't actually get you anything other than winning the metaphorical size contest. Films show at 4k resolution (about 4 times standard HD) was the new hotness last year and from all reports, that seems to be amazing... but if you don't have a home theater with a projector in your home, it's almost wasted. Of course, most high end monitors now "1600p" or thereabouts - but there's a difference between needing more resolution for working on a computer where you are setting next to the screen and television where most people have giant TVs and are sitting several meters away. Oh well... short of something amazing, I can't imagine upgrading everything again just to accommodate a new standard. I'm sort of hoping that the slow adoption of Blu-Ray/HD means no one is going to rush to push a new standard any time soon.
Like I said, there is no standard for 3D television. I would be far more likely to buy into it if there was. As it stands, you could buy a 3D TV right now and whatever standard eventually DOES come up, might not be compatible. Why take that risk?
No interest in 3D TV, but I set up the DVD and Blu-Ray of Avatar side by side the other day... and you'd have to be a complete moron not to be able to tell a HUGE difference.
Yeah, I showed a friend the film for the first time, but I showed her the DVD version for a minute or so first. It was a "holy crap, I'm sold" moment.
Right now I couldn't care a rats ass about 3-D. But for Blu-Ray hell to the Yes. With a few points. If all you are watching is a vast library of old tv titles, then I can understand not wanting to. But even with TV broadcasts and the newer tv shows, you can easily, easily tell a vast difference. Heck even 780 is a big improvement let alone 1080. And for film (again certain films are shoot on very poor grain, and thus less noticable improvement), but for most films and certainly most any blockbuster there is a huge, huge difference. Of course, another issue is what are you displaying your media on. The higher the quality of your tv the more you will be able to notice.


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Just added a crater texture on the ground plane to make it stand out from the objects but I this is pretty much there. Can't wait for this to be all properly textured and lit!
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Our boy Alejandro Diaz presented a new body of work at HCG Gallery this past weekend. His work continues to grow and develop as he explores new ground in his paintings. The show was amazing. It will be up until November 14, so make sure you check it out. Get more info at www.hcggallery.com.
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Alejandro Diaz at HCG Gallery this Saturday
One of our favorite artist Alejandro Diaz will be in a four person show this saturday at HCG Gallery. He has created some new paintings that will be presented at the exhibition "To Be Someone Must Be A Wonderful Thing". The show will also include Erick Maybury, Bryan Ryden and Rachel Strum. Make plans to attend another amazing art show this Saturday October 17, 2009 from 6pm.- 9pm. For more information, visit www.hcggallery.com.
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text: Originally Posted by brek I tried out an SUP for the first time recently. Definitely had fun on it. Was at a beach where the waves only broke on the sand bar at low tide and turned into shore break at high. With an SUP, was able to ride the high tide bumps over the bar without them ever breaking. Balance wasn't much of an issue, but paddling and getting into position on a wave was much more challenging than I would have thought. I enjoyed just paddling up and down an empty beach and riding in bumps as they came. Pretty mellow experience. I love the perspective you get on the water and everything in the water while standing, I can see all the way to the bottom in pretty deep water normally. Lots of fun stuff swimming around people and they have no idea


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Following the Christchurch earthquakes, substantial numbers of CBD businesses relocated to the peripheral suburbs while the Red Zone cordon remained in effect, sparking concerns that the slow pace would render it a "doughnut city".
For Craig Price it has been all about dealing with the consequences and effects of the earthquakes while striving to draw positives for the city of Christchurch."We're not looking past the tragedy.
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Riassunto: The year 2006 brings new challenges to Judaism. The obvious external threat is due to new-born anti-Semitism in the world, and the threat of terrorism?and the threat of war. The internal threat to Judaism is the fact that our children are not educated well in religious schools.My book titled Coming of Age is about lack of faith for Jewish children schooled in after-secular school Hebrew programs. Often-times these Hebrew Schools are nothing but Bar-Mitzvah ?Mills? who turn children away from the faith, rather than toward it. It has many lessons for Jewish families of today. The main lesson is that Judaic education must be changed to better motivate Jewish children. THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY ONLY FOR JEWISH PARENTS?CHILDREN TODAY ARE NOT LEARNING RELIGION FOR MOST RELIGIONS! FOR COMING OF AGE: THERE IS NO OTHER SUCH BOOK ON THE MARKET! A ?How-to? book on the religious ceremony of ?Bar-and-Bat-Mitzvah? that can be planned at home (it is, after all, a tradition) that is used to motivate children; give them Jewish identity and allows parents the ability to join with their child in formulating this special service.
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If you were given the opportunity to relive a segment of your life, what would you do with this wonderful opportunity? Alas, we get this opportunity each and every fall. So… how did I spend such an opportunity? I slept. Dammit!!!
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Team Composition Administration Prisca Coleman Psychiatry Dr. Declan Lyons & registrars Clinical Neuropsychology Dr. Rebecca Quin Dr. Karen Looney Clinical Nurse Specialist Gráinne Dempsey Admissions Shane Kirwan
Aims of The Memory Clinic Comprehensive assessment To reach a diagnosis or working diagnosis for each individual case To offer, initiate and monitor research based treatments To provide clients, carers and health care professionals with research based information To participate in clinical research To ensure a comprehensive service based on research and good practice standards
Current Research The application of magnetic resonance imaging to the study of cognitive processes in older adults. Dr. Arun Bodke, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin Profile of older adults attending the Memory Clinic at St Patrick's hospital
The Memory Clinic so far.... 2003 – 2011.....
Demographic Details Total population to date: 104 Gender: Male: 49.5% Female: 50.5% Average Age: 66yrs (SD 11.65) Origin: Leinster: 80.4% Ulster: 5.2% Munster: 9.3% Connaught: 5.1% Education: 68% had completed both primary & secondary level (i.e. 13 – 15 yrs) Employment status: Retired/not working: 51.1% Working (part- or full-time): 42.5%
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More multi-professional collaborative assessment vs. single discipline evaluation (however discipline that follows patient to community likely to have greatest impact) More patients with depression seeking assessment (greater patient and clinician awareness) Memory clinic at centre of diagnostic network linking in expertise from neuro-imaging, genetics and neuroscience Do more with patient and for longer –not just diagnosis and discharge. Trends
The Assessment process - 1 Keyworker assigned MRI brain scan Blood screening Carer interview Neuropsychological testing Feedback Report Recommendations Advice on carer and patient support
Inpatient -3 working days (cost to insurer only) Single day evaluation: interviews, investigation review, neuropsychology, consensus meeting, feedback 1 week later. 3 day admission facilitates observation (mood, BPSD), MDT assessment meeting, collation of investigations, collateral information. Option to extend: treat depression, neurology consult, initiate cholinesterase inhibitor, extend investigations, carer support and provide session with patient and carer on strategies to enhance memory and cognition. Assessment process -2
Inpatient brief assessment largely acceptable to patient – occasional explanatory phone call/ meeting needed General hospital facilities available to memory clinic patients (psychoeducation, Evergreen programme/lectures, diversional activities, relaxation, information centre) Comprehensive report (medical/psychiatric history, investigations and their significance, neuropsychology data, consensus opinion re: diagnosis, treatment plan and recommendations, 'what the patient has been told', follow- up plans) Assessment process - 3
Home assessment before evaluation valuable but labour intensive More formalised links with voluntary sector/ community services required Carer/ patient support networks could be better organised via hospital Who follows up at the different stages of illness? Need more comprehensive auditing of our service Challenges- for our service
Greater diagnostic accuracy (especially with arrival of disease modifying compounds for AD) Research and incorporate new technology for assisted living, cognitive remediation in treatment packages Respond to likely increased demand and offer evidence based interventions at earlier stages e.g. MCI Greater 'systems thinking' and fostering of links between public/private/voluntary sector along defined investigative and therapeutic pathways. Challenges
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