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Boating Writers International Bestows Awards on BoatUS Magazine Writers
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MIAMI, Fla. February 21, 2017 – Boating Writers International (BWI), the professional association for writers, editors, publishers and photographers in recreational boating and fishing industry, bestowed six awards to BoatUS Magazine writers during a presentation held at the group's annual meeting at 2017 Miami International Boat Show. It is the 24th year of the annual writing contest which recognizes the best marine writing in the world and presents cash awards winners across 17 categories. BoatUS Magazine entries earned a first and second place as well as four merit awards. Here are the winning articles:
The Business of Boating – First Place: Stacey Nedrow-Wigmore: "Boat Lover's Guide to Marine Tech Schools & Colleges," December 2016: There's a great blue hole in the marine industry's skilled labor force. The causes are complex, and easy solutions remain elusive. https://www.boatus.com/magazine/2016/december/guide-to-marine-tech-schools-and-colleges.asp
Boat Tests and Reviews – Second Place: Lenny Rudow: "The Best Boats for Your Money," October 2016 BoatUS Buyer's Guide for Trailerable Boats: There's a big difference between cost and value. We spotlight the boats that give you the biggest bang for your buck. https://www.boatus.com/magazine/trailering/2016/october/the-best-boats-for-your-money.asp
Boat/Engine Care and Maintenance – Merit Award: Mark Corke: "Varnishing Perfection," April 2016: Want to be the envy of the marina? Here's how to add a breathtaking finish to your brightwork. https://www.boatus.com/magazine/2016/april/varnishing-perfection.asp
Boat/Engine Care and Maintenance – Merit Award: Ed Sherman: "Negligence Can Cost Plenty," August 2016: Problems in your boats electrical system can destroy your pride and joy. Be especially careful around these common problem areas. https://www.boatus.com/magazine/2016/august/avoiding-boat-electrical-mistakes.asp
Boating Issues, News & Analysis – Merit Award: Charles Fort: "Flagging the New Scams," February 2016 Seaworthy: A BoatUS member shares his boat-selling scam story, and we show you how to look for the red flags. https://www.boatus.com/magazine/2016/february/new-boat-selling-scams.asp
Boating Issues, News & Analysis – Merit Award: Ryck Lydecker: "Will Florida Settle Its Anchoring Issues?" December 2016: After navigating a difficult but methodical public process some 10 years in the making, the Florida legislature may be about to forge a commonsense anchoring policy that would apply throughout Sunshine State waters. https://www.boatus.com/magazine/2016/december/florida-anchoring-issues.asp
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Abstract—The current study aims at measuring the social capital at the Islamic Azad University (Comprehensive and Very Big Branches in Zone 13) in terms of Social Capital and ranking them on the basis of the obtained scores. The population includes all the academic staff and employees of the mentioned universities. The sample is comprised of 519 people selected randomly based on the formula for sample size in limited populations. Obrain et al.'s standard questionnaire has been used to analyze the data. The results of the study show that among the different branches of Islamic Azad University in zone 13, Ahar and Bonab branches rank the first.
Index Terms—Social capital, ELECTER method, university.
V. F. Sarand is with the Department of Management, Shabestar Branch,Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran(e-mail: email@example.com) ).
H. Taghizadeh and G. S. Fesaghandis are with the Department of Management, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran (e-mail:firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com)
Cite: Vahid Fattahi Sarand, Houshang Taghizadeh, and Gholamreza Soltani Fesaghandis, "Ranking the Social Capitals of Organizations Using ELECTER (A Case Study)," International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 206-209 , 2012.

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Illinois Valley Community Hospital is a 64-bed "not for profit" medical center providing services and cares for residents of Peru and LaSalle County, Illinois. The facility is located at:
925 West Street
Peru, IL 61354
(815) 223-3300
In addition to providing emergency medical care to the community, the facility also offers:
- Urgent care
- Diagnostics
- Massage therapy
- Sports medicine
- Therapy pool
- Occupational therapy
- Wellness program
- Physical rehabilitation and aquatics
- Orthopedics (hip replacement, joint replacement recovery care)
National Rankings
Analytics MD provides a comparative analysis of this facility to other U.S. hospitals and medical centers. Currently, Illinois Valley Community Hospital maintains an overall "B" score, ranking it in the 59th percentile. The ranking is calculated using publicly available data that includes staff responsiveness, emergency care, patient flow, overall patient satisfaction and reported complications. A medium to low score might indicate a high percentage of medical mistakes and errors that occur at the hospital.
Like all hospitals providing emergency care, the level of services provided by the Illinois Valley Community Hospital's Emergency Department is crucial to the local community. High scores typically represent better-than-average care, where median to low numbers usually indicates problems occurring at the facility.
Currently, the Illinois Valley Community Hospital emergency department ranks high in quality care for incoming patient flow (71st percentile) measuring the efficiency that patients' medical conditions are initially evaluated. The discharged patient flow ranks in the 82nd percentile, measuring how less sick patients are provided treatment.
The admitted patient flow, measuring the efficiency of providing treatment and cares to sicker patients ranked in the 68th percentile. However, it was the level of frustrated patients leaving the emergency department that ranked in the 52nd percentile. That said, the overall total patient satisfaction of the hospital in every department ranked in the 84th percentile.
Illinois State Designations
Illinois Valley Community Hospital maintains two specific state designations that include:
Perinatal II– The Level II recognition in the state's Regionalized Perinatal System means that the facility must provide optimal perinatal outcomes of childbearing women and their newborns who are at risk for serious medical complications. While the hospital does not have a neonatal intensive care nursery or provide patients ancillary care in a special care unit, they do follow established protocols in early identifying and providing adequate treatment to childbearing mothers and their at-risk babies in need.
Emergency Department Approved for Pediatrics (EDAP)– The EDAP designation means the facility is recognized by the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) program and the Illinois Department of Public Health for providing essential emergency and critical care services to pediatric patients who are injured or seriously ill. The program is facilitated by professionals who have received special training in child critical and emergency care.
To maintain their status, the hospital must actively participate in the state's approved emergency medical system and ensure that emergency care is provided around-the-clock to pediatric patients. In addition, the hospital must ensure the provisions and staff are adequately maintained and make available essential medication, equipment and supplies focusing on pediatric emergent care.
Bloodstream Infection Rates
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) monitors facility-acquired incident rates involving Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The data is the result of extensive laboratory test results obtained by patients who have been at the facility for at least four days. The measurable facility-acquired bloodstream infection rates for the Illinois Valley Community Hospital involve:
- Facility-Acquired Incident Rate Involving Clostridium Difficile Infections – 6 infection incidents out of 4468 patient days. The state of Illinois determined that the Standardized Infection Ratio was 1.76, meaning it is not "statistically significantly better or worse than the national average."
Patient Safety Concerns
Statistical data collected and distributed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is monitored by the Illinois Department of Public Health. The current patient safety concerns involving this hospital include:
- Accidental Puncture or Laceration – The facility's risk-adjusted rate of 0.74 per 1000 or 1 out of 2019 patients are approximately half the Illinois state average of 1.45 per 1000 patients.
Peru Illinois Medical Malpractice Lawyers
If you have suspicions that your loved one was the victim of medical malpractice while a patient at Illinois Valley Community Hospital, contact Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers LLC. Our Peru personal injury attorneys have represented clients who have suffered harm through medical mistakes by caregivers.
Our law firm can handle every aspect of your complicated recompense claim and ensure that all necessary paperwork and documents are filed with the Circuit Court Clerk in the appropriate county. In LaSalle County, the facility is located at:
119 W. Madison St., Room 201
Ottawa, IL 61350
(815) 434-8671
Circuit Court Clerk Greg Vaccaro
We urge you to contact our LaSalle County medical malpractice law office at (888) 424-5757 to schedule your appointment today. Speak with one of our experienced lawyers for legal answers during a comprehensive, no-obligation case evaluation. We accept every medical mistake compensation claim through contingency fee arrangements. Our legal fees are paid only once we have negotiated an out of court settlement on your behalf or have successfully resolved your recompense case in a court of law. All information you share with our law offices concerning your case, evidence, and personal information will remain confidential.


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Asleep by 11 Thursday night, up at 7, coffee on the patio, a walk, a swim and we are off for a drive. We decided to just do a short one today. LOL. 5+ hours later we were back at the condo. No super highways here, lots of one lane roads with elevation changes and windy windy.
This whole area is a lava bed. Mauna Kea erupted 4500 years ago and basically left most of the area a wasteland. Mauna Lao (a very popular crossword clue) has moved to the active stage and has been rumbling again. The devastation is amazing, but surprising the earth is very resilient and tundra and trees are starting to grow again. Along with a vast track of timeshares, hotels, condos and private homes.
|I ran into Magnum PI. I did say he reminded me of a tall Dano from Hawaii 5O and was told he is too whiny. He is more the Tom Selleck type :).
Lots of waves and lots of surfers. NUTS
|I could picture having a mai tai on the upper balcony.
|A little garden artwork
|Waves, beaches and flowers, the colours are amazing.
The Painted Church" and bonus we didn't have to go back up that road. This is an active catholic church with the most amazing pictures of the bible on every wall inside the church and the most amazing view of the Pacific Ocean. It dates back to 1842.
Holualoa. It is situated about 1500 feet up the mountain with an amazing view of the Pacific. Beautiful breezes and the smell of coffee greets you as you exit your car in this lovely little art village which is surrounded by coffee plantations.
|This is one bathroom I did not use :)
We stopped for lunch at the Holuakoa Gardens & Cafe where Jim had the catch of the day a striped marlin and I had a blue cheese salad. I also had a beautiful pinto grigio called Mongris Marco Fellage 2014. Delightful, have to find some for sipping on the dock in Muskoka.
The lovely young lady was explaining to us about coffee growing and brewing. They had a great collection of different coffee machines from the ages and different parts of the world. The same coffee will taste totally different depending on how you perk it. I enjoyed a med roast with 3 sugars and 2 cream, amazing. :) I also tried a tea made from the coffee skin, it was quite delish.
|Jim getting some free plantains and oranges from the lovely young lady who explained our coffee tastings for us.


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Asking for money is probably one of the most uncomfortable things anybody can go through. It takes a lot of practice.
People are giving up their hard-earned dollars and they're not getting tax breaks – they're betting on you. They're betting on the idea of you becoming an elected official. Those resources are extremely important, and it's very important how you spend those dollars. You want to make sure you're getting the biggest bang for your buck, in other words.
Not only with resources, but with time-management too. Your time as a candidate is one of the most important things that you have. Being a good steward of your time, managing your time effectively, making sure that you're communicating with the most people in each different event. Having somebody there to help you manage your time may help. Many candidates run into the problem of trying to have too much control over their campaign and not using their time wisely.
Candidates and consultants may bump heads over control. As a candidate, you may want to do things a certain way. But if you're paying a consultant to do those things for you, you should let her do her job. Let a consultant manage those things for you and take those things off your plate so you can go out and handle other things such as meeting people. You can introduce yourself, express your ideas and articulate why you're running for office. This will allow you to continue building a brand for yourself. Time is a finite resource. Managing it properly is important. Your time has to be managed properly and most people have a difficult time doing so.


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The sun has come out, and we're giddy as teenagers! So grab a seat at the nerd clique's lunch table, 'cos we're about to talk about old games, emulators, MT-32 ROMs, and the big boxes that got away from us. Robert got stiffed on an otherwise great deal on a box copy of LOOM, and I tell an embarrassing tale of young larceny committed against a box copy of Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge.
Also on the program: Japanese industrial, sweltering heat, how to crowdfund a vinyl record pressing, and whether or not we know anyone in the Montreal area (seriously, Robert wants to know — he needs a place to crash).


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InSights Training Center Instructors John Holschen and Greg Hamilton have taken their practical individual experience and together, spent the past six years developing a combat system that works. The problem with most systems is there are too many decisions to make in too small a time period. The InSights Combatives System works because it is simple, can be used regardless of size or strength, and is devastating. The saying goes "Beware of the man with one gun." We say, BEWARE OF THE INDIVIDUAL WITH ONE COMBAT SYSTEM! The person who knows without hesitation exactly what he is going to do in any armed or unarmed conflict. In this course you will become such a person.
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: Natural Conception Later in Life Tied to Longer Life for Women
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WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Women who naturally have babies after age 33 tend to live longer than those who had their last child before age 30, a new study finds.
This may be because gene variations that enable women to have babies at a later age may also be tied to living longer lives, the Boston University School of Medicine researchers said.
"If a woman has those variants, she is able to reproduce and bear children for a longer period of time, increasing her chances of passing down those genes to the next generation," study co-author Dr. Thomas Perls, a professor of medicine at BU, said in a medical center news release.
He believes that this may be a clue as to why 85 percent of people who live to 100 years or more are women, and only 15 percent are men.
In the study, Perls' team tracked the ages at which 462 women had their last child, and then how old the women were when they died. The data came from the Long Life Family Study, a genetic investigation of 551 families with members who live to exceptionally old ages.
While the study couldn't prove cause-and-effect, women who had their last child after age 33 were twice as likely to live to age 95 or older than those who had their last child before age 30, according to the study published in the journal Menopause.
"Of course, this does not mean women should wait to have children at older ages in order to improve their own chances of living longer," Perls said.
Instead, "the age at last childbirth can be a rate of aging indicator," he believes. "The natural ability to have a child at an older age likely indicates that a woman's reproductive system is aging slowly, and therefore so is the rest of her body."
The study findings suggest that women may drive the evolution of DNA that slows aging and helps people live extremely long lives.
Previous research found that women who gave birth after age 40 were four times more likely to live to 100 than those who had their last child at a younger age, the study authors noted.
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At 11:45 a.m. last Tuesday, the editorial staff of The Washington Post was summoned on short notice to an announcement on the fifth floor of its building to hear something they already knew — that Marcus Brauchli would be leaving after four years as executive editor. After Mr. Brauchli spoke, Katharine Weymouth, the newspaper's publisher, told employees that he would be replaced by Marty Baron, the editor of The Boston Globe.
As the meeting was concluding, Valerie Strauss, a longtime reporter, asked Ms. Weymouth why she was making the change. Ms. Weymouth, perhaps because of employment agreements that limited what could be said, spent a few sentences not answering that question and finished by saying, "Go back to your desks."
It was less a command than a signal that the meeting was over, but it marked an awkward finish to a leadership change that was mishandled from the start.
It is an inopportune time for The Post to stumble. Ms. Weymouth's move is akin to switching drivers just as the car is sputtering to a stop. Print, and more ominously, digital advertising revenue is in decline, circulation is in a dive and the newspaper's "for and about Washington" editorial strategy has left employees underwhelmed. Now Ms. Weymouth seems to be upending the loyalty and accountability that has been a hallmark of her family's ownership of the newspaper.
After the meeting, people returned to their desks wondering whether Ms. Weymouth was capable of leading the organization. In Mr. Baron, she may have selected a talented and independent editorial leader. But four years into her tenure at the top, she still seems to be struggling to get a grasp on a huge job at a company whose journalism has at times altered the course of a nation.Continue reading the main story
It is no coincidence that the vast majority of the most important newspapers in the country are controlled by families, not conglomerates, and that comes with advantages and drawbacks. While Ms. Weymouth got her job because of who she is, a Graham, people expect her to find a way to make it work, against tall odds, for the same reason.
Ms. Weymouth declined to comment for this column, but I spoke with many people at The Post about why she can't seem to find her footing. These people say they like her personally, and she continues to have the ferocious support of Donald Graham, her uncle and the chief executive of The Washington Post Company, as well as the rest of the family. But many staff members worry that she is overseeing the decline of one of journalism's crown jewels.
Fumbling an editorial change may seem like small beer when viewed against the backdrop of an industry in which bankruptcies are legion and rich business interests are buying newspapers as playthings. And it's not as if The New York Times has been a model of seamless transitions in the executive suite — the departure of the previous chief executive, Janet Robinson, was not handled forthrightly, and her replacement, Mark Thompson, has come under scrutiny for serious problems he failed to notice in his previous job.
But with around 600 journalists, The Post is still an important player. It is not what it once was, but it isn't nothing either. Ms. Weymouth's continued misfires, along with the lack of success in generating new revenue, however, have left the newspaper staring down the gun barrel of deep cuts and a business model in free fall.
Ms. Weymouth, who became publisher in 2008, got off to a rough start, making clumsy work of moving out the longtime editor, Leonard Downie Jr., and bringing in Mr. Brauchli, who left The Wall Street Journal's top job that year. By reaching outside her own company, she set aside almost 40 years of editorial continuity and put the newsroom on edge.
New to her role, she wanted an editor who would be her wingman and confidante the way Ben Bradlee had been for Katharine Graham, a partnership that produced both business and journalistic success. But the relationship faltered in 2009 after it was revealed that there was a plan to charge various Washington power brokers to attend off-the-record dinners, featuring Post editors and writers, at Ms. Weymouth's home.
In the ensuing imbroglio, Ms. Weymouth felt that her handpicked editor had left her holding the bag and began doubting his loyalty. The rift never healed. She pushed Mr. Brauchli to cut costs, and he continually asked why the business side was underperforming.
Last summer, Ms. Weymouth began discussing with people outside the paper her desire to replace Mr. Brauchli, less an attempt to undercut him than a rookie mistake of indiscretion. But the ensuing four months of speculation and paralysis further damaged the newspaper.
Once the change was made official, Ms. Weymouth made another mistake; she insisted in interviews that the decision was Mr. Brauchli's, when most people knew better. Mr. Brauchli declined to comment, but his wife, Maggie Farley, left a large breadcrumb to follow when she asked in a now deleted Facebook post how had "the Washington Post of Watergate fame become the place where you can't speak truth to power?"
That lack of forthrightness clanked at a news media organization where the chief asset is credibility.
I covered The Post at the end of the 1990s, and while the Grahams could be stodgy and parochial, the company was always known as a stand-up institution built on loyalty. Mr. Brauchli may not have been the perfect person to lead the newsroom in entropic times, but the way the switch was made raised questions about Ms. Weymouth's maturity and steadfastness as an operational leader.
In terms of strategic plans, The Post remains where it was when she took over, only smaller. The major business thrust has been to lust after the sexy economics of aggregators like The Huffington Post and hope to re-engineer the newspaper into something similar. But The Washington Post is not in that business and never will be.
In the meantime, it has allowed its franchise on political coverage to disperse to other news outlets, many online, like Politico. The newspaper remains free on the Web, and its wait-and-see attitude on online subscriptions has left it on the sidelines. And by hewing to a strategy of local dominance rather than entering the national competitive fray, The Post now finds itself sharing a destiny with struggling regional newspapers.
The Post retains a toehold on its former greatness by virtue of its family ownership — its election coverage showed significant muscle — but those dynamics are now hard against an age that requires decisive, confident leadership. The cushion of profits from other endeavors like the Kaplan education division are all but gone, and if The Post is going to endure, the motor of the enterprise will be the people who occupy what is still one of the most talented newsrooms in the business.
It brings to mind another transition at The Post back in the 1960s, when an inexperienced executive also named Katharine went through a number of pratfalls, personnel miscalculations and a personal crisis of confidence. Katharine Graham eventually figured it out, but she had the luxury of time that Ms. Weymouth does not.
Now that she has an editor she trusts and a rough patch behind her, perhaps this Katharine will find a way as her grandmother did before her.Continue reading the main story


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Survivor guilt
Survivor guilt (or survivor's guilt; also called survivor syndrome or survivor's syndrome) is a mental condition that occurs when a person perceives themselves to have done wrong by surviving a traumatic event when others did not. It may be found among survivors of murder, terrorism, combat, natural disasters, epidemics, among the friends and family of those who have died by suicide, and in non-mortal situations such as among those whose colleagues are laid off. The experience and manifestation of survivor's guilt will depend on an individual's psychological profile. When the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV) was published, survivor guilt was removed as a recognized specific diagnosis, and redefined as a significant symptom of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Survivor guilt was first identified during the 1960s. Several therapists recognized similar if not identical conditions among Holocaust survivors. Similar signs and symptoms have been recognized in survivors of traumatic situations including combat, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, air-crashes and wide-ranging job layoffs.[1] A variant form has been found among rescue and emergency services personnel who blame themselves for doing too little to help those in danger, and among therapists, who may feel a form of guilt in the face of their patients' suffering.
Stephen Joseph, a psychologist at the University of Warwick, has studied the survivors of the capsizing of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise which killed 193 of the 459 passengers.[2] His studies showed that 60 percent of the survivors suffered from survivor guilt. Joseph went on to say: "There were three types: first, there was guilt about staying alive while others died; second, there was guilt about the things they failed to do – these people often suffered post-traumatic 'intrusions' as they relived the event again and again; third, there were feelings of guilt about what they did do, such as scrambling over others to escape. These people usually wanted to avoid thinking about the catastrophe. They didn't want to be reminded of what really happened.
Sufferers sometimes blame themselves for the deaths of others, including those who died while rescuing the survivor or whom the survivor tried unsuccessfully to save.[3]
Survivor syndrome
Survivor syndrome, also known as concentration camp syndrome (or KZ syndrome on account of the German term Konzentrationslager),[4] are terms which have been used to describe the reactions and behaviors of people who have survived massive and adverse events, such as the Holocaust, the Rape of Nanking, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.[5] They are described as having a pattern of characteristic symptoms including anxiety and depression, social withdrawal, sleep disturbance and nightmares, physical complaints and mood swings with loss of drive.[6] Commonly such survivors feel guilty that they have survived the trauma and others—such as their family, friends, and colleagues—did not.
Both conditions, along with other descriptive syndromes covering a range of traumatic events are now subsumed under posttraumatic stress disorder.[7]
Waylon Jennings was a guitarist for Buddy Holly's band and initially had a seat on the ill-fated aircraft on The Day the Music Died on 3 February 1959. But Jennings gave up his seat to the sick J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, only to learn later of the plane's demise. When Holly learned that Jennings was not going to fly, he said, "Well, I hope your ol' bus freezes up." Jennings responded, "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes." This exchange of words, though made in jest at the time, haunted Jennings for the rest of his life.[8][9] Jennings, who later became a country music star, expressed survivor's guilt about Richardson's death.
Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, haunted by his experiences in Auschwitz, explored his survivor's guilt extensively in his autobiographical books, notably in I sommersi e i salvati (The Drowned and the Saved). His death was reportedly a suicide, and towards the end of his life he suffered from depression, possibly induced by his experiences.
In 1945, the USS Indianapolis got torpedoed by a Japanese sub and sank in the Philippine Sea. Most of the crew survived the sinking but were left adrift for days. Only 317 survived the whole ordeal. The Captain of the USS Indianapolis, Charles B. McVay III was court-martialed for hazarding his ship. Despite the captain of the Japanese sub standing up for McVay, he was convicted of gross negligence. Living with survivor's guilt and hate mail for years, McVay killed himself in 1968.
In an interview on Lifetime TV's Unsolved Mysteries, Lawrence "Larry" Geller, one of Elvis Presley's closest friends, reported that Elvis, as a "twinless twin", was plagued by guilt over the death of his infant brother, Jesse Garon, who was stillborn. Elvis had confided to Geller about his concerns that maybe he had absorbed more than his share of the nutrients while he was developing inside his mother's womb, causing his twin brother to starve to death before he was born. Elvis had also related to Geller about how his mother had tried to comfort her son by assuring him that "they would all meet in Heaven" after their lives on Earth were completed.
Cultural references
The 1979 novel Sophie's Choice and the subsequent movie feature a Polish Holocaust survivor who had to choose which one of her two young children was allowed to survive.[10]
In the 1980 film, Ordinary People, based on the novel of the same name, Conrad Jarrett is a young man who struggles with surviving a sailing accident which killed his older brother. As Jarrett realizes that he is angry at his brother's recklessness, he confronts the very cause of his problems and begins to accept that his own survival had nothing to do with his brother's death.[11]
The TV series Rescue Me follows the lives of firefighters post 9/11 in New York City, focusing on Tommy Gavin, a 9/11 first responder suffering from severe survivor guilt over the civilians he was unable to save and the other firefighters who died in the attack, many of whom he personally knew.
An episode of Law & Order: UK is entitled "Survivor's Guilt" and involves one character coping with how his colleague was shot while he survived because he was called away to see his new grandson.
This phenomenon is also referenced several times throughout Kendrick Lamar's 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly.[12]
TYPE-MOON's 2004 visual novel Fate/stay night featured Emiya Shirou as the protagonist, whose survivor's guilt from 10 years ago was his main motivation during the whole novel, especially highlighted in the Fate route.
Rise Against, a popular punk band, released a song named "Survivor Guilt" on their 2011 album Endgame.
In the Hunger Games series Katniss feels survivor's guilt as she and Peeta had survived the games but others didn't and the deaths she caused were also haunting her.
In Doctor Who, the Doctor is apparently responsible for ending the Time War by erasing his homeplanet Gallifrey. Being the only survivor of his species in the entire universe, he develops survivor's guilt as part of the trauma, which is openly addressed in the episode Before the Flood.
Batman's main motivation for fighting crime is an unresolved survivor guilt.
In the TV show Arrow the main character, Oliver Queen, suffers from survivor's guilt in the episode "Three Ghost."
In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Max Vandenburg displays signs of survivor's guilt in the chapter known as "A Brief History Of The Jewish Fist Fighter".
In the 2006 movie We Are Marshall, Matthew Fox, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty all play members of the 1970 Marshall football team who were not on the plane when their team plane crashed. Fox played Red Dawson, a coach who gave his seat on the plane to another coach, Mackie played Nate Ruffin, a player who was injured and did not make the trip, while Geraghty played Tom Bogdan, a player who overslept and missed the flight. All are haunted by feelings of guilt that affect them long after the crash, into their later lives.
See also
- ↑ JoNel Aleccia, "Guilty and stressed, layoff survivors suffer, too", msnbc.com, December 15, 2008
- ↑ "1987: Zeebrugge disaster was no accident". BBC News. 8 October 1987. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
- ↑ Bonnie S. Fisher, Steven P. Lab. Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention, SAGE, 2010, p. 33, ISBN 978-1-4129-6047-2
- ↑ "The evolution of mental disturbances in the concentration camp syndrome (KZ-syndrom)". February 1990. Retrieved 2010-12-07.
- ↑ Walt Odets, "In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS", 1995.
- ↑ Raphael Beverley, (1986). When disaster strikes. PP 90-91. Century Hutchinson, London.
- ↑ Wilson JP, & Raphael B Editors. Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. The International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes, p. 1. Plenum Press, New York. 1993.
- ↑ VH1's Behind the Music "The Day the Music Died" interview with Waylon Jennings.
- ↑ "Waylon's Buddy: Jennings Never Forgot His Mentor". CMT.
- ↑ Bertman, Sandra L. (1999). Grief and the healing arts: creativity as therapy. Baywood. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-89503-198-3.
- ↑ Corr, Charles A.; Balk, David E. (2010). Children's encounters with death, bereavement, and coping. Springer. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-8261-3422-6.
- ↑ http://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-hood-politics-lyrics
Further reading
- Encyclopedia of Stress, Academic Press; 1st edition (April 2000)
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV, American Psychiatric Publishing; 4th edition (June 2000)


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Children can experience anxiety from an early age even in their preschool years. They may appear shy or inhibited in social situations though appear more relaxed and talkative at home. They may find it difficult to separate for Mum and Dad when they are being left with a babysitter or attending Preschool. This anxiety can continue through their school years with increased shyness and difficulty making friends. They may also find it hard to concentrate and learn at school due to their anxiety. They may find it hard to perform front of their peers especially with school plays or to talk. Any comments from others become internalised as them not feeling good enough for their peers which in turn leads them to isolate themselves further. Anxiety can become quite difficult to cope with during the adolescent years as they start to notice their thoughts and bodily symptoms of anxiety when they are in class or with their peers. They may start to worry about their symptoms occurring when they have to engage in public speaking and worry about being bullied if they blush at such times.
At every stage throughout their lives children find anxiety overwhelming and quiet scary. It is hard for them to identify the triggers that cause the anxiety and they find they focus continually on their worrying thoughts which heightens their anxiety further. Their sleep becomes disturbed which impacts upon their ability to concentrate and learn. Their avoidance of situations to avoid the symptoms of anxiety occurring may lead to them withdrawing socially and even engaging in repetitive behaviours to alleviate their anxiety.


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UPDATE: The winner of the photo shoot is…. The Mathews Family! (Ashley & Wesley). Congrats!! Can't wait to meet you!
As some of you may know, our beautiful, loving, quick-witted Katie Douglass has cancer. After suffering horrible back pain and numbness, a Sarcoma tumor was found wrapped around her spine and there are also spots on her liver and lung. She underwent spinal surgery to remove the tumor and some of her vertebrae and to have titanium rods implanted along her spine. Katie's nerves around her spine were severed during the surgery. As a result, she lost the use of her hands. This is only temporary — she is continually improving — but, it could take up to a year for her hands to be back to normal. She is also receiving aggressive chemotherapy. Katie is staying positive and she is making great progress towards being cancer-free every day! But, because of all of this, she is obviously unable to work right now. On top of the physical and emotional struggles that come along with fighting cancer, there are crazy medical bills that pile up.
Katie and her husband Matt have two beautiful children, Shea & Everett. Katie is an incredible mother, wife, friend, daughter, niece, cousin, coworker — the list goes on. Katie was my Maid of Honor in our wedding and has been my BFF for 23 years. She is one of the most important people in my life. I HATE that she has to go through this and I have no doubt that she will completely recover from cancer — my girl is a fighter!
In the meantime, to help lessen the burden of her medical bills, I decided to raffle off a photo shoot. If you would like to enter to win, or if you would just like to donate a few bucks to help with Katie's medical bills, please complete the following steps:
(You can donate directly to Katie HERE if you aren't entering the raffle)
YOU HAVE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 26TH TO ENTER – The raffle will close after September 26th.
1. Click on the GIVE NOW button on the photo below. This will take you to a donation page. (The donation page is a separate page that I will be viewing to get the names of the people who have donated to enter the raffle.)
2. Enter the amount that you want to donate. For every $20 you donate, you will receive one entry into the raffle for the family photo shoot. (For example, if you donate $100, you will receive 5 entries. The winner must be willing to travel to within 30 miles of either 48170 or 98103 for the photo shoot — more details below.) Click continue.
3. Enter your name and email address, (message is optional). The amount you donate and your name must be PUBLIC in order to enter the raffle. If this information is not public, you will not be entered. Click continue.
4. You will be redirected to Matt & Katie's Paypal where you will make the actual donation.
Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart! I can't wait to throw a huge bash to celebrate when Katie is cancer-free!!!
* The contest will run from September 18-26, 2014. The winner of the photo shoot must be willing to travel to within 30 miles of 48170 (Plymouth, MI) or 98103 (Seattle, WA) for the shoot. Scheduled photo shoot date will be coordinated based on photographer's current bookings and availability. The prize is a 60 minute portrait session for up to 5 people and 25 edited high-resolution digital images. The winner will be announced by September 30, 2014 via facebook and on my blog. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.


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In 2010, La Clínica launched the Oral Health Initiative funded by John Muir/Community Health Fund. The project was started to address the lack of access for quality oral health care for vulnerable populations in Contra Costa County. As a result of changes in Healthy Families and state legislation, which adversely affected low income children, adults, persons with disabilities, and seniors' ability to obtain dental care, La Clínica began to explore opportunities to help address both the increased demand for oral health services and the lack of access to oral health care for vulnerable populations. We set out to provide dental screenings and oral health education at health fairs, schools, senior centers, day care centers, churches and at many other community venues. This year 1,482 program participants were served by either receiving a dental screening or oral health education.
In collaboration with our Community Health Education Department, this project has now expanded to provide dental services on-site for the elementary schools in both Contra Costa and Alameda Counties. Through these services we intend not only to diagnose and treat oral diseases, but also to promote the importance of preventive care as a cost effective and healthier way of life.Using portable dental equipment to deliver services we provide:


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|Left: American Eagle Outfitters, Right: Steve Madden
Answer me this simple question, which shoe do you think would be more comfortable: Exhibit A, the American Eagle rope wedge with a low platform heel, leather ankle strap and fabric peep toe, or the Exhibit B, the Steve Madden cork wedge with a high heel and a suede T-strap? If you chose Exhibit B you are correct! Looks can be deceiving; I kind of wanted to make that the title of this post but it lacked the mystery of a Temper Trap lyric so I refrained from doing so. Fashion is a funny thing, many things are not always what they seem. In what I believe to be the [paraphrased] words of a shoe designer (Guiseppe Zanotti?), "a shoe should always be more comfortable than it looks." I wore these Steve Maddens for the first time yesterday for about 7 hours. I wore the other shoes for the umpteenth time last Saturday and I think I might have almost broke them in except they began to cut into my ankles. I received the AEs from my mom before my 16th birthday and have worn them every summer since then. Although they are leather which doesn't take too long for me to break in, I have experienced pain in these shoes if I walk in them for even a short period of time. I made the mistake of wearing them on a shopping trip to Saks 5th Ave in NYC a short time after they were given to me. At first they weren't giving me any trouble, but when I made it to the shoe salon I was feeling the pain. As I entered the room I noticed a small, white piece of cardboard-like material toward the right corner of the room. As my eyes took in the beauty of the words, "Sale in progress" I let out a sigh of joy. I let my eyes wander over the myriad of shoes, all on sale and all waiting to adorn my aching feet. I bet now you're thinking, "this story has a happy ending because Caroline bought an amazing pair of dangerous looking yet comfy designer shoes for a steal!" Unfortunately for me, the only benefit of Gucci booties being 30% off was that I could go from staring at an ad for those unaffordable shoes in my copy of Vogue while drooling all over the page, to staring at an actual, slightly less unaffordable shoe and even touching it (while attempting to stop the spit from creeping out of my mouth). Instead of switching my common, mass produced espadrilles for finely crafted Italian stilettos, I left Saks and made the painful journey back to my hotel room to change into my silver gladiator sandals (much more practical). These silver gladiators had the misfortune of encountering the slivery slickness that is (more than 5) New York puddles during a downpour last summer but that's another story. Yesterday I walked all over my house, up and down stairs, on grass, hardwood, and linoleum in my new wedges and all I had to show for it were some small red marks that faded 10 minutes after I changed into flip flops. Sometimes, what seems practical can't be perfect and what seems deceptively perfect is.


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Sternum Pain
Common Causes of Sternum Pain
The chest bone, or breastbone is formally known as the sternum and because of where the bone is located, as well as its primary purpose, sometimes people deal with sternum pain. Located in the center of the chest just below the collarbone, this bone is what connects the ribs via cartilage. This entire system of bones serves an important role of providing a protection to organs within the chest (i.e., heart, lungs). That way, if you were ever to experience an injury, chances are good damage would be minimal.
When it comes to sternum pain, this could be something that lasts just a few days or a chronic condition that you would have to deal with for life. Because there are so many reasons that pain of this type develops, we wanted to provide a brief overview of the more common cause for sternum pain. In some instances, the pain would go away on its own whereas other times, medical intervention would be required.
- Costochondritis – Sternum pain caused by this condition simply means some kind of injury or inflammation is involved. Of all reasons for pain in the chest region, this is the most common. Rather than the pain being associated with the lungs or heart, it is actually caused by injury, inflammation, or even a swollen cartilage connecting the sternum to the ribs.
- Sternoclavicular Joint Injury – With this, the sternoclavicular joint has been injured. This joint connects the sternum to the clavicle. The degree of injury could be something very mild or extremely serious.
- Collarbone Injury – If you were to experience a broken collarbone or even significant injury to this bone from a bad fall, car accident, or something similar, not only would the shoulders and upper part of your chest hurt but you would also have sternum pain.
- Sternum Fracture – Obviously, if a fracture were confirmed of this bone, you would likely have pain to some degree. Because the sternum is such a strong bone, if the break were caused by a serious injury, you may have other more serious injuries going on inside the body.
- Surgery – Another common cause of sternum pain would be surgery. For instance, some surgeries involve this particular bone so as it is manipulated, pain would follow. A prime example of surgery that would cause pain would be open heart surgery.
- Pleurisy – As inflammation of the pleura, which is a membrane comprised of two layers of tissues within the chest wall, having sternum pain is a common complaint. Typically, the space between these two layers of tissue holds a very small amount of fluid that works as lubrication so breathing is easy. However, without the proper level of fluid, the tissue would rub together, which causes pain when inhaling.
- Overuse – If you are extremely active, perhaps involved with physically demanding sports or a job that requires heavy use of the chest muscles, feeling this type of pain would be possible. Typically, reducing demand on the body would help prevent the problem in the future and rest would allow the pain to fade.
- Broken Ribs – Whether breaking one or more ribs from a car accident, fall, or some other trauma, because these bones are linked to the sternum, pain would be felt along the sides of the body where the ribs are located, as well as the sternum.
- Heart Attack – It is rare for sternum pain to be connected to an actual heart attack. However, there are times when a myocardial infarction can lead to sharp or stabbing pain in the neck, shoulders, back, stomach, arms, and jaw. Along with this, most people having a heart attack would have difficulty breathing, they would begin to sweat profusely, and they feel as if someone were sitting on their chest. This pain can be confusing, which is what leads some people to believe the sternum is involved. However, while chest pain is common with a heart attack, sternum pain typically is not.
In most cases, sternum pain is something that can easily be treated. In addition, a variety of things could be done to prevent this type of pain from returning. This is not to say that pain of this type is not real or that it does not hurt but it does provide some peace of mind in knowing that seldom is pain of this bone associated with anything overly serious.


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RUA were Liz Madden and Gloria Mulhall who composed, arranged, orchestrated and produced their own original music along with new arrangements of well-loved traditional Irish pieces. Through their use of Irish instruments, full orchestra, and undeniable originality, they were at the forefront of Celtic/Irish music in creating an original Celtic symphonic sound. Their sound crossed boundaries in style and featured many well-known names in Irish music such as Tommy Hayes, Ronan Browne, Tiarnan O Duinnchinn, John Finucane, Robbie Harris, Fionan de Barra, Triona Marshall and members of the National Symphony Orchestra and RTE Concert Orchestra.
Formed in 1999, RUA released their first album, Rua, in 2000. RUA's worldwide fan base grew at an astonishing rate and their second album, Dream-Teller, was released in 2003 and featured Irish actor Gabriel Byrne narrating W.B. Yeat's poem 'I am of Ireland' for the album. The magic of RUA is present in their beautiful original compositions conjuring up images of Paris in 'Le Marais' or Jewish soul music in 'Klezmer', they take you through Ireland's history with their famine composition 'Mist on the Mountain' and their emigration song 'Atlantic Storm'. RUA showed their versatility in the beautiful arrangement of "Ride On" also taken from Dream-Teller. "You have really captured the spirit of the song" was Jimmy McCarthy's reaction on hearing RUA's version of his much loved 'Ride On'.
RUA's music was featured world-wide on hundreds of compilation albums along with numerous TV/Film placements including the film Unborn but Forgotten, the hit TV show Hello Francheska and the documentary Plus or Minus 2 Degrees. Their track 'Dum Dumda Diddle' was used throughout Asia by FUJI and Oksusu Tea for their TV commercial campaigns. RUA's last album, Whisper, was released in 2007 and a year later, both ladies embarked on solo careers. During their time together RUA delighted audiences globally performing as a duo and with full orchestra, headlining events such as the Festival Interceltique de Lorient, the Lisdoonvarna Festival, the World Music Festival Israel and representing Ireland at the 7th China Folk & Art Festival which toured China.
Sadly in 2014 Gloria Mulhall passed away suddenly and will be greatly missed. 2016 marked the digital release of a new RUA collection album as a tribute to Gloria Mulhall R.I.P.


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Select Joyce Miscellany
- Thomas de Jorse and the Joyce Sept
- The Escapades of William Joyes
- The Claddagh Ring
- Early Joyces in Dorset
- H.S. Joyce and His Recollections
- The Joyce Clockmakers of Shropshire
- James Joyce in San Francisco
- The Joyce Homestead on Quadra Island
Thomas de Jorse and the Joyce Sept
Thomas de Jorse (or Joyes) was one of three Norman brothers who had settled in Wales and allied himself with the Welsh cause. Some have him coming originally from a Norman de Jorz family in Nottinghamshire. The village of Burton Joyce (formerly Burtine Jorz) was home to this de Jorz family from 1160 for about two hundred years. Geoffrey de Jorz was the keeper of Sherwood Forest around the year 1200.
When Edward I invaded Wales, Thomas was forced to flee the country. He came to Ireland with his ships in 1283 and landed at Thurmond in Munster. There he married Turlough O'Brien, the daughter of the local chief. While on their voyage around Ireland, his wife gave birth to a son which he named MacMara, son of the sea.
The family eventually landed in the western part of Connacht where Thomas acquired considerable tracts of land. Their son, later known as Edmond Joyes, who also married the daughter of a local chief, extended his father's acquisitions and, as the family numbers grew, led the basis for the Joyce sept in the region.
The sept, known in Gaelic as Seoighe and sounding like "Joyce,"
followed Irish practices, with their chieftain being selected from
among the derbfine (the
direct male descendants in the sept).
The Escapades of William Joyes
The story goes that William Joyes, a descendant of Edmond Joyes, married Agnes Morris and then set off on his travels to Italy and Greece. However, he was taken prisoner by the Saracens and brought to Africa, from whence, after a variety of adventures and after undergoing a captivity of seven years, he escaped to Spain.
While in Spain, his exalted virtues were rewarded by
heaven according to the pedigree of the family in an extraordinary
manner. As the story is told, an eagle flying over his head
pointed out to him a place where he discovered vast treasures.
When he returned to Galway, he contributed large sums
towards building the walls and to the church and to other public
edifices in the town. He died leaving three sons, James, Henry
and Robert, and was interred in the Franciscan friary.
The Claddagh Ring
The earliest examples of Claddagh rings that can be dated
are stamped with RI, the mark of Richard Joyce, a goldsmith who worked
in the small fishing village of Claddagh in Galway from 1690 to the
1730's. The ring worn on the right hand, crown turned inward
tells that your heart is yet unoccupied; worn with the crown turned
outwards reveals that love is being considered. Worn on the left
hand the crown turned outward shows all, your heart is truly spoken
After Joyce stopped producing the rings, interest lay
dormant for a while until their production was revived by a later
generation of Galway goldsmiths and jewellers. The early
versions, until around 1840, was by cuttle-bone mould casting and then
by the cire perdue or "lost
wax" process.
There are two stories about the origin of the Claddagh
The first story says that a Margaret Joyce married
Domingo de Rona, a wealthy Spanish merchant who traded with
Galway. They proceeded to Spain where he died, leaving her a
considerable fortune. Returning to Galway she used her fortune to
build bridges from Galway to Sligo. She remarried Oliver Og
French, the mayor of Galway. She was rewarded for her good works
and charity by an eagle who dropped the original Claddagh ring into her
The second story is that a Richard Joyce of Galway was
captured by Algerian corsairs, sold to a Moorish goldsmith who trained
him in the craft. In 1689 he was released from slavery. The
Moor offered him his only daughter in marriage and half his wealth if
he would remain in Algiers. But Joyce declined and returned
home. He brought with him the idea of the Claddagh
Early Joyces in Dorset
In Volume IV of The County Historian for Dorset by Hutchins, early Joyces in Dorset are recorded as follows:
H.S. Joyce and His Recollections
He had this to say about his family history:
The Joyce Clockmakers of
William Joyce moved from Cockshutt to Wrexham and became the churchwarden there at St. Giles. His duties entailed the winding and maintaining of the church clock. The church records of 1718 showed him paid the princely sum of two pounds eight shillings for work on the clock. In 1723, when his uncle Arthur the owner of the Golden Lion died, William Joyce returned to Cockshutt.
It is thought that William Joyce began making grandfather clocks around the year 1690. His business developed as a flourishing family concern, handed down through the generations from fathers to sons. In 1780, William's grandson James moved the firm from Cockshutt to new premises at 40 High Street, Whitchurch. This building with its cast iron frontage stood opposite the present-day Civic Centre.
In 1849 the company, known as JB Joyce & Co, copied the Big Ben escapement designed by Lord Grimthorpe and made large clocks for many public buildings and for some of the principal railway companies. Since 1945 the company has installed over 2,000 large public clocks, a high proportion of them being installed in churches. In 1964 Norman Joyce, the last member of the Joyce family, retired and sold the company to the Smith of Derby Group. J&B Joyce & Co. laid claim to be the oldest independent clockmaking company in the world.
James Joyce in San Francisco
Apart from the Spanish-Mexicans, one of the first settlers at San Francisco was James Joyce, a man of much enterprise who as a contractor did much to develop certain sections of the early city.
As a young man he had moved with his family to county Mayo in Ireland where he met and married Mary Noland. He was then just thirteen years of age. A year later, in 1847, they sailed from Liverpool to San Francisco. The voyage took more than nine months and their first child, James, was born en route. Many times during the voyage those on board gave themselves up as lost. The provisions had actually ran out before the ship eventually landed.
Joyce was a carpenter by trade. From Liverpool he had brought with him two frame buildings which he set up at Monterey in California. He soon afterward entered the sand grading business and he was the contractor who filled in what is now Kearney and Market streets in San Francisco. His equipment consisted of a large number of the Missouri mules and the Union-forever wagons and he employed a large force of men (paying them in fifty-dollar gold slugs).
He and his family lived in a little wooden shack on the water front. Joyce lived in San Francisco overall for about fifteen years. When he died he left considerable stock and money and property on the water front to his widow.
The Joyce Homestead on
Quadra Island
The property at the south end of Quadra island, British Columbia was settled in 1889 by Alfred and Anna Joyce. The Joyces set about clearing of much of the 140 acres of the claim. They originally built a log home. This was replaced in 1905 by the two storey frame house which still remains.
Maple Bank, as the Joyces called their place, was to prove a successful family farm by Quadra standards. They kept beef and dairy cattle, sheep and poultry, and grew vegetables, flowers and fruit. Anna was an avid gardener who received letters asking for cuttings, seeds and advice about horticulture indicating that she ran a bit of a nursery. The rose gardens were in fact her special pride.
After Alfred died in 1927, Anna (Granny Joyce) continued to run Maple Bank farm for another twenty five years until her death at the age of eighty seven in 1954. She founded the Women's Institute on the island and taught her own seven children before there was a school.
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The curriculum offered to each student is based on their own specific needs. The lessons planned throughout the school day are based on the National Curriculum but modified and differentiated to meet pupil's needs. Specific teaching programmes are also incorporated into the day based on individual need. These might include specific therapeutic programmes, PECS, Intensive Interaction sessions, music therapy sessions, sensory integration, TEACCH, and 1:1 teaching sessions.
The teaching approaches used and the focus on the curriculum changes throughout the child's school life. When they first start school there is a focus on early learning skills, however in Key Stage 4 and Post 16 there is an increased focus on preparing for independence and life after school.
Pupils are disapplied from SATS, however, where appropriate they will be entered for external qualifications in their latter years at school. These will primarily be qualifications which are based on portfolios of evidence and experience, however for those students who are capable we will enter them for appropriate examination based qualifications.
Key stage two curriculum offer:
There are two generic mixed ability classes in Key stage two. Teachers and support staff work closely with parents and specialist professionals to develop individual programmes for each child related to the Key Stage Two National Curriculum. Teachers plan from the National Curriculum and tailor each lesson and activity to meet all pupil's individual needs. Mathematics, Literacy, Science, Computing and PE are all taught as stand-alone lessons; whilst RE, Art, Geography and History are taught through creative themes and topics.
We offer a sensory curriculum for those pupils with more complex and profound needs, or pupils with complex Autism. Groups or individuals will be taken out of the classroom and will participate in TACPAC, Body Awareness, Dance Massage and Aromatherapy sessions. Pupils with more complex needs will have more access to our Hydrotherapy pool as part of their Physiotherapy programme.


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SPOILERS NewsWire: By Gollum, 'RINGS' Troll is Ugly - New York Post
February 20, 2002 -- LOOK out, Jar Jar Binks - there's a new movie creature coming to wipe that goofy grin off your computer-generated face.
The second installment of "Lord of the Rings" will prominently feature a slimy little reptilian creature named Gollum.
The second installment, "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," will feature two other fearsome creatures: Oliphonts - gigantic beasts resembling prehistoric mastodons - and Wargs, which are wolves the size of horses.
But the creature that has Tolkien fans salivating is Gollum, the hobbit-gone-bad audiences barely glimpsed in "Fellowship."
"He's not just a computer-generated creature - he's a dramatic character in the piece," executive producer Mark Ordesky said from New Zealand, where he and Oscar-nominated director Peter Jackson are in "furious post-production" on the film, which opens this Christmas.
One of Tolkien's most complex characters, Gollum began life as an innocent hobbit named Smeagol, but turned to the dark side after becoming obsessed with the Ring that promises power and immortality.
He covets the ring so badly he eventually becomes physically transformed into an ugly, slithery creature.
"Gollum ultimately has to break your heart," Ordesky says. "He's not merely a villain - you have to feel for him."
To make Gollum lifelike, Jackson's effects company used a combination of traditional animation and motion capture, in which the movements of actor Andy Serkis were fed into a computer and transferred onto the creature.
"I play him as if he's a junkie and his fix is the ring - he goes cold turkey when he's not near it," says Serkis. "I've tried to make him as human as possible in that way."


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But all of this really leads me no closer to finding out Daisy's identity and family before she married Sam. So did I every find out her maiden name and who she was? Maybe. I guess you'll have to come back again to see what else I found..........
Like I promised I would continue this story next time.
The added information I have found is that her father is of mixed blood born in MO or IL, and her mother is Pottawatomie Indian born in OK. I have no maiden name since there is no record of her marriage to Sam, at least none I know of in about 1908. Oklahoma was barely a state let alone keeping records at that time.
From what I understand from the family they were not religious and being Native American that could go either way, but I don't believe that there will be an church records of a marriage.
So am I stuck? Maybe not. I actually did a search in the 1900 census for a Daisy born about 1890, so she should have been about 10 years old. Bingo! Well maybe. Only one Daisy showed up in OK as a 10 year old of Native American heritage born in OK.
She was enumerated the 7 June 1900 as a pupil of the Fort Sill Boarding School on the Apache, Kiowa, Comanche Reservation. They listed all the children as Comanche, but I feel that was a short cut as they probably didn't know or care about their true tribe. This Daisy is Daisy Blackwolf. So is this my husband's Great Grandmother Daisy? I don't know. I've never found anymore. It's time to pick up the file again. I will continue to research Daisy Blackwolf and see if she continues to fit with our Daisy Riddle.
It's just another case to show you to think outside the box. I didn't know her maiden name so how else was I going to find a Native American girl in OK in the census with out it. By searching using only her first name. Now sometimes that doesn't work because it gives you more hits than you can handle. But in this case it gave me a few dozen, but only one of them really fit the criteria of the girl I was looking for. However, if you do get a few hits, it's worth the time to research two of three girls that may fit and find out everything about them in order to determine who they married, where they moved on to, and anything else that will tell you if they are a perfect fit. I also helps give you a maiden name to search for any marriage records between that surname and the husband's surname that your known ancestor married. It's a lot of work, but if that is how you solve the puzzle of a female ancestor and find her maiden name then it's well worth it.
Happy Hunting.
My interest in genealogy started when I was a child. My dad's mom use to tell me that the family history book had been burned in a fire, but she knew we were related to Daniel Boone. I never forgot that, nor have I ever found the connection haha. Along with doing genealogy I spend a lot of my time doing photo restorations, namely for victims of Sandy through Care for Sandy, and also of family photos that I add to the books I write on our family history.
24 November 2007
Case Study: Daisy Riddle Part III
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Last night I went to the FALL ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL at UNLV with my friend Brooke. A friend of Brooke's wrote one of the one acts..and so we were able to get in free and enjoy the show.
So things start of smoothly...Brooke picks me up..we get to UNLV about a half hour early to get our tickets..get a nice seat in the front and middle..(mind you it's a really little theater..) ... and we enjoy the first act, titled, REPLICA. Now there were three acts and the only intermission we had was after the first act. So the first act gets over...and about 13 minutes in intermission, I decide I need to run to the restroom. So I kindly excuse myself and jet to the b-room. As I'm rushing to take care of business, I notice the girl... (I'm guessing a student).. who took tickets, closed the double doors into the theater...
...I take care of business then I rush to get back into the theater...and I go to open the first set of doors and L O C K E D ! ! ! ! ! So I'm thinking...this is ok...I will try the other set of double doors....I go to open them and L O C K E D !!!!!!
SO HERE I AM. BY MYSELF. LIKE A PUPPY IN THE POUND. LET ME INTO THE THEATER!!!! I'm knocking on the doors so loud and so much....
I had left my purse and cell phone at my seat inside the theater...and now...alone. All I have around me is a water fountain, old red UNLV dirty seats, and walls of plaques, framed newspaper cutouts, and the lights dimmed.
So my only option at the time was to read all the newpaper cutouts on the wall to pass the time. I was so annoyed. So I found myself reading a story of a dance teacher who used to be a showgirl. Hmm...interesting...then I proceed to read things I was only pretending to be interested in...to pass the time....I had at least an hour to kill.
Poor Brooke, she probably had no clue where I was...
A light bulb went off....
So...the mischevious side kicked in and I went on a hunt to find my way in. Not to mention I found a ticket on the ground, so I snatched it so just in case someone HAPPENED to open the doors, I would have a ticket to prove I had already been in.
I started to walk around...I found a door that said "AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY" ... what did I have to loose...so I opened it and it happened to be the doors to the stage...A ha! but I couldn't just waltz in!!!
So...I see some stairs...and...an open door! I pondered for a moment if I should open the door...what did I have to loose?..so I try to open the door and...it wasn't LOCKED...but what if people were in there?? What do I have to loose? So...I OPEN the door!!! And it was like the heavens OPENED!!! It was the mezzanine!!!! But...not just any mezzanine...it had no seats, just old lights and junk....but I could see the play!!!!
So there I was. Watching ME AND MY MAN-FISH. So happy. I saw Brooke, and the empty seat next to her, below me and was tempted to call her up, but I didn't want to disturb the play...so I sat, I mean stood, and watched the play from the BALCONY SEAT!! The second act finishes up.
But it's not over YET.
There was still the third act....and I wanted to go sit by Brooke.
I run downstaris and look at the "AUTHORIZED PERSONEL ONLY" door.
I had to do it. It was the only way.
I open it. I can hear people talking on stage.
AHHH there was a girl in there and she looked at me like I was crazy.
Me: "The doors are locked. Is there another way to get in?"
Girl: "Uhh...I don't think so. Did you try both sets of doors?"
Me: "Yeah, I tried everything"
Girl: ::hesitiating::
Me: "Can I just come in this way?"
Girl: "Well this goes out onto the stage"
Me: ::hands up like...I don't care...I want to get in:: (short for....::shrug::)
Girl: "Ok! Come through this way...just hurry!"
So there I was..peering onto the stage....then made a MAD DASH across the stage...
...down the stairs....and up some more stairs...crossed a few people in their seats....AND BACK TO MY SEAT!!!
I then watched the third act in peace, with Brooke, until the end.
Phew....what... A... Night At The Theater!!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
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|Standard 16" Heat Sealer
So first off, let me explain one thing. There appears to have been dozens of manufacturers over the years of heat sealers, both with and without cutters. But one thing that most have in common if they include the cutter is they use the same blade, and also almost exactly the same cutter slide. There maybe slight varying dimension but they are all within about .5 mm of each other. So the fixes I will propose here will help you get a longer life out of your heat sealers regardless of manufacturer.
What's the problem?
|Blade bottoming out in tray
in contact with the top painted surface of the heat sealer arm. This is just normal wear and tear. The results of which cause your blade to go too far down below the bag that you are trying to cut. When it gets worn enough you will start seeing scratch marks in the aluminum tray under the bag clamp area. This will roll the end of a brand new blade over in a few passes and then eventually wear it clear down and and make your expensive cutter blades junk in a hurry.
How to fix it?
Over the years we have tried numerous fixes/band-aids that never really seemed to be a long term solution. I will give you some of our fixes here and let you decide what your final solution should be.
Fix #1 - One I am sure you have all tried. Just adding Duct tape or masking tape in layers to the top of the heat sealer arm under the slider. While this is a way to raise the slider, the duct tape is not a very good sliding surface and masking tape is more abrasive than the paint on the arm and will increase the wear time of your slider even more. Causing irreparable damage if left long enough. The other issue I have with this solution is that the tape is eventually going to wear out and you will need to remove it. If you have ever dealt with removing the adhesive in these situation, you know it is a pain like no other.
Fix #2 - While similar to fix number one, this is the solution that we used for a long time to get a little more life from our cutters. What we used in place of tape is the same material you use to put over the heating element. The PTFE Teflon tape with the adhesive back. One strip down each side and you will raise it a little. You may have to apply it two or 3 layers thick on each side, depending on how worn your slide is. One advantage to this right away is that the Teflon tape is a very slick and low wear surface compared to the Duct/masking tapes and even the painted surface for that matter. So right away you are slowing the wear of your Slide and making your heat sealer work better.
Fix #3 - While any of the previous two ways will help you temporarily, you will eventually reach a point where they can no longer do the job. Mainly because from day one of running your slider back and forth the one property you cannot overcome is friction. Two surfaces rubbing against one another will always wear down the softer of the two. In this case the plastic cutter slide loses in a big way. So I started thinking of a way to put the wear onto something else and revive the 6 cutters we are currently using. We were looking at a $1500.00 bill to replace all 6 cutters if we didn't figure something out. My solution is to create a shim that sits under the slide to raise it up the amount of the worn away material. It should also serve to slide with less resistance than the hard plastic, wear longer and be easily replaceable if the shim itself eventually wears out.
Part Design
Any time you are dealing with CNC you first have to design your part. For this I am using an absolutely amazing program provided for free by Autodesk, the manufacturers of AutoCAD, to hobbyists called Fusion 360. This amazing program takes you from Design in CAD, to CAM for your paths and then even exports the Gcode that you need to load into Mach3. I started by measuring the slides on all the cutters we have with a digital caliper. This is were I found that all the cutters slides were generally the same as we have 3 different manufacturers in our midst. I created a shim with a small 1mm lip that would wrap around the edge of the slide to hold it in place.
I made my shim out of some High Density Polyethylene sheeting that I had laying around. You could realistically make it out of any plastic type material that has a low friction coefficient. Nylon, Teflon and my personal favorite Delrin are other choices you may use.
The one dimension that
is going to be unique to each slider is the thickness of the shim. This will be based on how much wear you have. I started with 2mm thick for the base, but it turned out to be too much, and the cutter would not cut through all the way on the ends. I finally settled on 1.5 mm and it worked perfect on almost all of mine. I still had to straighten up some edges on the bottom of some of the sliders due to uneven wear patterns. When done the shim will look something like the image at the right here. Mine is a little rough around the edges, because I didn't have a mill that would work for chamfering the edges, So I did it by hand with a utility knife, and on something this small that is not easy to make look nice. But realistically no one else is going to notice once it is installed.
Installing the shim is pretty straight forward, remove the cutter slide. This is a process, you do not have to remove the knob to do it. you just have to have the right angle when you slide the screw through the slot there. Once the slide is out, remove the screw that holds the blade holder and blade in place. This would be a good time to place a new blade in the holder. Your old one is shot anyway from the bent tip. just start new. Slide the shim on the shaft, with the pocket facing up. if you have one. Slide it all the way up till the lip snaps around the top section. Put the screw back in and reinstall in the cutter slider.
Final Results and Link to Drawing
Your installed shim will look nice and work great for a long time to come. I hope this saves you some
time and money. If you would like to make this shim for yourself, or have someone else with a CNC mill make. it I have created a public link on Fusion 360 to allow you to download and use it free of charge for non-commercial personal use only. The link is http://a360.co/22IroSy. This is setup using a 1/8" 2 fluted flat tip mill. You can modify it however you like to use what bits you have on hand.


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In an eco-restaurant in northern Peru, a dozen people lunch outside at a long table and share their travel stories: Halong Bay, Vietnam after our military left; Zimbabwe before the landowners fled; Xian, China after the long-buried warriors emerged; the castles of Ireland; a boat trip to Antarctica; lions in Tanzania; the grimness of the Ganges,
Now we have ventured to this land where the Moche people lived centuries before the Inca came and conquered and whose story and magnificent pottery and gold and silver craftsmanship are only now being unearthed.
The travel-telling happened yesterday and I was astounded. For one woman, this trip is her 23d with Overseas Adventure Travel. Others had wandered equally widely, picking tours by time and place. As I look around the table, I wonder how these sturdy folks looked in their youths, before divorces, deaths of spouses, gray hair and grandchildren (now taken on trips as well). Despite some bad knees and hips, thkis gang would rather travel than do almost anything else. For many, travel is the single most important purchase after food and rent. This is not a group that dresses chic or has had "work done" (though one 73-year-old climbed onto a hotel fire escape, then walked out on a roof to retrieve his new and newly washed Joseph A Banks briefs that had fallen three stories). They are people who tread lightly across the planet, packing for two weeks in one carry-on and a backpack, Who never keep anyone else waiting. Who think nothing of spending weeks in one pair of walking shoes.
I feel as if I have met the me of my future -- a confirmation that I can continue to do what I love even as the years creep up. When I get to a fork in the road, as Yogi Berra advised, I will take it.
Ps if you go to see the Moche sites in Trujillo and Chiclaya, Peru --such as the Huaca de la Luna and Sipan --hire Miguel Alvan as your guide. He's terrific!!
In Lima, I have only praise for guide Dante Minaya


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743,000 in Myanmar (2004), decreasing. Ethnic population: 1,000,000 (Bradley 2007b). Total users in all countries: 851,000.
Kayin state and Mon states; Tanintharyi region: north.
5 (Developing).
Martaban-Moulmein (Central Mon, Mon Te), Pegu (Mon Tang, Northern Mon), Ye (Mon Nya, Southern Mon). Intelligibility between Mon varieties high; between Mon in Thailand and Myanmar 99% (Huffman 1976). Varieties in Myanmar and Thailand "mutually intelligible" (Bauer 1990) but lexical borrowings from Thai and Burmese may cause miscommunication (Guillon 1999). Lexical similarity: 69% with Mon and Nyah Kur [cbn] (Huffman 1976).
Vigorous in some rural areas and in Three Pagodas border area. Low or no usage in urban centers; some language shift to Burmese. Many domains in some communities; only among the elderly, in the monastery, or not at all in other communities. Used by all. Positive attitudes. Many also use Burmese [mya].
Myanmar (Burmese) script [Mymr].
Remnants of a nation that once spread over south Myanmar and west Thailand. Preferred names: Mon or Raman. Buddhist.


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For anyone who might have missed our big announcement,
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His name is Walt Harris, and like Art Fantroy were two really great guys to work with. They were the WERE NewsRadio 1300 Traffic Reporters (who also reported for WGCL 98.5FM) who owned a helecopter service located at Burke Lakefront Airport. Spent a fair number of times riding along with the guys in the air. Talked the guys into flying through a cloud to see what it looked like inside. So we went into instrument flight (IFR) mode and flew right into a culmulus cloud – actually on the inside they are kinda gray!-) That was a one-time treat. I really miss working with them both and still consider them good friends – even though its been a few decades since we last met – really do wish those two well!-) Great story involving Art Fantroy I can tell at some other time. But like I said, two great guys in my book!
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Here are a number of ways that you can use to make sure that your Wi-Fi at home is as secure as you can make it, so that not only others cannot use your connection but also nobody can access your files and gain private information about yourself.
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- Make sure that you have enabled encryption on your router, as using 128-bit encryption or greater makes your Wi-Fi network more secure. In fact, it is advisable to use WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access), as this has proven to be more secure than WEP (Wired Equivalent Policy).
- Create a router access password. The best option is to utilize a random sequence of characters as opposed to using the factory defaults, as anyone who gets access to your router settings can disarm the security settings that you had created. If you set a random sequence, you will only have to type it once so it isn't that complicated. In fact, all you have to do is copy and paste the password onto the router and your local settings, meaning you will not need to type it every time, just the once.
- Remember to create a hard password to guess, so do not use simple passwords for your WPA or your router, but rather, use something that uses upper case and lower case letters numbers, and be careful not to use any special characters as some routers do not support them. So remember that the longer the key that you create, the better it is for your security. So avoid things like 123456789 or abcd123 and use a little effort to create a more difficult password to crack.
- Remember: if you do use a weak key, even WPA can be cracked in a day using a variety of precomputed tables and dictionary attacks. So be creative in creating your own totally unique and random key. It doesn't matter how you do this maybe you could write the alphabet lower and upper case on separate pieces of paper, mix them up and choose from the pile, or whatever method it is that you decide upon – just make sure it is random and that is cannot be easily cracked.
- Alter the service set identifier that is the network name or the SSID (Service Set Identifier), and please do not use the default, but alter it to something that is unique, as a default SSID can be used by hackers as a way to identify the fact that the network might have been created by a novice and that other things such as passwords could have been left as the default ones, thus making it very easy for hackers to access your network. So use a name that you can remember and easily identify as yours. The SSID has no influence on the security of your network, but you really don't to make it easy or obvious for any hacker to gain access to your network.
- Another step you can undertake is to enable the MAC (Media Access Control) address filtering on your router or access point. Please don't confuse MAC with the computer model, as the MAC address is a unique code to every wireless network. What MAC address filtering does is register the MAC hardware of your networked devices and will only permit known MAC addresses to connect to your network. MAC should not be used instead of a proper WPA encryption as hackers can and often do clone MAC addresses so they can enter your network.
- Now, maybe you are thinking this: why don't I just disable my SSID broadcast? Well, it must it be said that this is a bad idea. Yes, it would make it invisible or such like but for any fairly determined hacker it is fairly easy to find your SSID, and also, you are constantly making your computer broadcast your SSID anywhere you are as it is trying to connect to your network. Anyone could basically copy your router with your SSID and hack into your network that way.
- Make sure that you have disabled the remote login on your router or access point. A router worm can force itself into your router with the remote login enabled, and then it is not difficult for the worm/virus to crack the password. Most routers have it disabled as default, so just check that it is disabled.
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Uganda grooms its future
IN THE 46 years since gaining indendence from Great Britain, Uganda has moved from the murderously destructive era of Idi Amin and Milton Obote to more than two decades of relative stability under President Yoweri Museveni. While nearby countries such as Somalia, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kenya have had to contend with wars and bitterly contested elections, Uganda is close to a final agreement with the leader of a rebel movement in its north that is now considered a spent force.
Uganda has had to pay a price, however, for the stability of Museveni's rule. The parliament's decision to approve a constitutional amendment in 2005 allowing him to run for president indefinitely has meant that Uganda has not passed a crucial test of any young democracy: a peaceful transition of power. It has also taken the pressure off Museveni to groom competent successors. When challenged on this point during a recent meeting with US journalists organized by the International Reporting Project, Museveni said grooming a successor is undemocratic. I groom "a process," he said.
In the 1980s, Museveni won respect within his own country and internationally as the first African leader to recognize the threat of AIDS and to mobilize his country against it. His nationwide campaign exhorting young people to delay sex, married people to remain faithful (the catchword was "zero-grazing"), and others to use condoms reduced the percentage of HIV-infected Ugandans from 18 percent in 1990 to 7 percent in 2005.
The infection rate has increased recently, however, and AIDS remains a devastating problem, not least because of the thousands of orphans - many themselves infected - that it leaves in its wake. Uganda, a nation of 31 million, has 70,000 to 130,000 new infections annually. With a population of 300 million, the United States has 40,000.
Since the clinical trial ended in 2007, the Rakai health center in southern Uganda where it was conducted continues to provide circumcisions to men seeking them. During my recent visit to Rakai, volunteers for the procedure included 61-year-old John Sesango, a farmer with a wife and nine children. "I also have a life to protect," he said, adding that he is taking care of ill relatives and does not want to become sick himself. Next to him sat 28-year-old Tadeo Sengozi, who said his stepfather had died of AIDS.
Circumcision has support in the Ugandan health ministry, but Museveni remains skeptical. The president said "reckless behavior" is the root of the AIDS problem. When I pressed him on the need to take new measures against the disease, Museveni referred to Ugandan tribesmen who have long practiced ritual circumcision but still become infected. He said only that he would "study the science" of circumcision as a preventive measure and "see."
Museveni also parts company with public health orthodoxy on the issue of limiting population growth. Although Ugandan women have an average of seven children each and the country's birth rate is the third highest in the world, Museveni said the nation's problem is not overpopulation but underdevelopment. He said Uganda's mild climate and adequate food supplies encouraged "complacency." In countries like India and China that have much greater populations competing for scarcer resources, he said approvingly, individuals are forced to strive harder. The role of Uganda's leadership, he said, is to vitalize the population.
Drawing a line against corruption in Uganda is not easy. Recently, police there charged officials in rural health clinics with stealing government medicines and selling them privately in their own pharmacy businesses. When I asked the director general of health services, Dr. Sam Zaramba, why the ministry did not simply forbid government employees from operating such businesses, he said that would be impossible - the government salaries paid them are too low to place such a requirement on them.
In the future, Uganda is more likely to be able to pay its health officials adequately, hire enough school teachers, and solve its infrastructure problems if it reduces its population growth rate. That is a public health issue that deserves the same resolve that Museveni - to his everlasting credit - once devoted to fighting AIDS.
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Since 1996, the Central Florida Women's Emergency Fund has been raising money to help women in need. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is operated by volunteers. Last year, CFWEF helped more than 300 women who needed an abortion but could not afford the procedure. With conservative lawmakers hard at work in Florida, we need your help more than ever.
We assist women of all ages, ethnicities and cultural backgrounds across the country who are financially unable to pay for a safe, legal abortion services or emergency contraceptives.
It is not uncommon today for a woman to be denied access to her right to choose. Due to anti-choice laws here in Florida and at the federal level, government provided insurance cannot cover abortions. Additionally, the number of open clinics is dwindling. This means that women who can't afford the out-of-pocket cost of the procedure, or cannot afford to travel hundreds of miles to the nearest clinic, are at a disadvantage. They cannot get access to their right to a safe abortion and any necessary counseling or medicine.
Abortion access is a reproductive right. You can help make a difference in women's lives. Help fund her abortion today, and help fight for reproductive justice - because women's lives matter.


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Amarillo, Texas
Power & Control Systems Specia
The Power Controlled Specialist is an hourly position, reporting to the Maintenance Team Leader. The PCS maintains all instrument, electrical, and electronic devices and systems in the Amarillo Plant.
- Retrieve work schedules and orders, and enter information into SAP for work performed and time conformation.
- Perform maintenance, repairs, construction, layouts, disassembly, installation, analysis, calibration, and troubleshooting of plant electrical, instrumental, or electronic systems or equipment.
- Work from information obtained from engineering drawings, electrical diagrams, simple and complex sketches, other related documents, and verbal field instructions needed to perform assigned duties.
- Dismantle, repair, reassemble electrical components, electrical instrumentation, electronic equipment, and control system equipment for continuous service.
- Operate Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's) and possesses programming skills.
- Participate in the preventive and predictive maintenance programs for electrical and electronic equipment and systems.
- Complete records and reports needed for the PCS position.
- Monitor and/or coordinate special programs as directed.
- Provide relief to other roles, as required.
- Use tools, machinery and equipment in the course of performing daily job responsibilities.
- Maintain performance level according to targets.
- Comply with all plant rules, safety regulations, and JHA requirements.
- Perform job tasks in a manor to reduce adverse impact to the environment and adhere to environmental regulations and recycling procedures for waste disposal and all chemical usage and waste.
- Perform cleanup duties including, but not limited to, equipment areas, workstations, etc.
- Participate in the safety and good housekeeping programs as established within the plant.
- Perform all and other related duties consistent with the nature of the job as directed by the supervisor.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.
A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and abilities.
This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.


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Sunday, 4 December 2011
Three Wise Men
6 comments:
- Anonymous4 December 2011 at 21:11
You've created a beautiful scene Emma! I love those warm colours! xReplyDelete
- Anonymous4 December 2011 at 21:11
Hi Emma, I recorded this week's shows but haven't watched them yet. This has to be one of the most beautiful and effective cards I've ever seen. Your background and positioning of the images is perfect. Absolutely wonderful! xxReplyDelete
Absolutely beautiful Emma....very effective...and stunning too :o)ReplyDelete
big hugs Vicky xx
Stunning card, lovely warm colours and great scene. Tracy xReplyDelete
Another stunning card, Emma. To allow the stamps to speak for themselves so beautifully, takes real talent.ReplyDelete
oh wow! love the silhouettes! I'm a sucker for those! :DReplyDelete
your shading and use of colours is amazing! GORGEOUS!
Thank you for all your comments and messages, they are all appreciated and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon...
Emma ~xx