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On Sunday, August 13, a Galápagos National Park patrol ship discovered an illegal Chinese fishing vessel in the waters of their protected wildlife sanctuary filled with thousands of dead sharks, their fins cut off to supply the demand for shark fin soup and shark meat throughout Asia. Although the Ecuadorian government recently enacted even stricter policies regarding where fishing can take place and which areas are for research only, much illegal fishing still occurs in the restricted waters because of the huge profits that can be made.
Thankfully, this ship and its crew of 20 were caught and arrested, but that won't even dent the illegal harvesting of sharks in the area. The park service simply doesn't have the manpower nor the proper pursuit vessels to enforce the laws to the extent that they need to be enforced. So, the illegal poaching—and the abhorrent practice of killing sharks only for their fins—continues. The capture of this vessel occurred out of sheer luck and the opportune use of a drone that tracked the ship after it was first spotted and suspected of illegal fishing.
On this particular Sunday morning, what the park officers discovered shocked even the most experienced of them, simply because of the sheer number of dead sharks—the ship's logs indicated 300 tons of them—found on this one ship and the presence of so many endangered scalloped hammerheads and silky sharks. They surmised that the ship they detained was a "mother ship" the purpose of which was to collect the sharks caught by other, smaller, fishing boats in the area, so that those fishermen could remain in the water longer to catch even more sharks. That one mother ship, the Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999, most likely had been collecting the catch from multiple smaller vessels over several days. It's no wonder that the shark populations continue to decrease worldwide and that 25 percent of the world's shark species are currently endangered.
Although this crew will face several years in prison if convicted, the huge profits to be made overpower the sanctions put into place to control the practice. Thousands of other ships are out there every day doing the same thing because the demand for these creatures still exists and the profits are so high.
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- A viral video shows a restaurant employee feeding a man living with disability
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A kind restaurant employee in Brazil is seen in a viral video feeding a man living with a disability.
Twitter user @AkkiJ shared the video on his profile earlier this week, Briefly.co.za gathered. He accompanied it with the caption:
A restaurant employee noticed a man who was struggling to eat. It turned out that he has a leg and arm disability. So he sat down and started to feed him. We need more people like that!
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The video inspired thousands of people around the world, racking up over 2,000 retweets and almost 6,000 likes in the process.
Twitter users applauded the unnamed employee for his kind and thoughtful gesture. Many of them said he had restored their faith in humanity.
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Money is a powerful tool that can be used to isolate and control. There may be no physical bruises, but the scars of financial abuse are clearly visible in a victim's bank statement, credit report and eroded financial confidence. According to research by WIRE in 2014, among women who have sought help from domestic violence services, up to 90% have experienced financial abuse.
Rachael, a client of RLC, recently told her story in the Sydney Morning Herald: 'It was all controlled by him': How Rachael escaped financial abuse. And in Trapped and Strapped: The Power of Money in Love you can read more about RLC's leading work in this field.
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As a student juggling football practice, theatre rehearsals and work in HackBerry Lab, Alec Leeseberg (17C) appreciated the pick-me-up provided by a good cup of coffee. It should come as no surprise then that one of the budding entrepreneur's early inventions was HoloBrew, a "smart" appliance meant to provide the perfect cup every time.
Leeseberg discovered his passion for designing new electronics through Berry's innovative creative technologies major. Working and studying in HackBerry Lab, he gained valuable skills in computer programming and 3-D printing that helped unlock his first invention, HoloView, which projected holograms using a smartphone. That product became the centerpiece of an entrepreneurship project and ultimately the basis for his own company.
Those experiences taught him the basics of managing a business and paved the way for subsequent inventions like HoloBrew. They also helped him catch the eye of GoFire, a Colorado-based startup he now serves as technology project manager, and the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he will pursue a master's degree in creative technology and design.
Leeseberg hopes his work at GoFire and in Colorado's BTU lab will offer a jolt to his own career prospects more powerful than any double-shot of caffeine, allowing him to take full advantage of the foundation Berry provided.
"Berry and the creative technologies major prepared me for working in this field more than any other program could," he praised. "It gave me a set of skills and a unique perspective that I find valuable every day."
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UNIONDALE, N.Y. – Junior designated hitter Joseph Impeduglia (Staten Island, N.Y.) paced the offense on Saturday with multiple hits, RBI and runs scored in each game of the Concordia College New York baseball team's doubleheader, with freshman right-handed pitcher Sean Malamud (Staten Island, N.Y.) stifling host Molloy College on the mound in the second game to lead the Clippers to a 13-6 victory after falling in the opener 17-10.
• Concordia moves to 5-10.
• Molloy moves to 2-9.
• Impeduglia went 2-4 with two RBI, two runs scored and a walk.
• Sophomore second baseman Blake Burgan (Holbrook, N.Y.) went 2-5 with both hits going for extra bases via a double and triple while adding two RBI and one run scored.
• Sophomore catcher Josh Corredor (St. Cloud, Fla.) went 1-3 with two RBI and one runs scored.
• Sophomore first baseman Hermes Abreu (Bayshore, N.Y.) went 1-3 with two runs scored and two walks.
• Senior RHP Raymond Rosado (Brooklyn, N.Y.) received the loss after allowing eight runs off six hits.
• Junior RHP Michael Romano (Yonkers, N.Y.) held Molloy off the scoreboard for the final 2.1 innings.
• For Molloy, Matt Overton went 4-6 with three RBI while Chris Peralta and Michael Wall both hit home runs. On the mound, Anthony Pedraita received the victory while James Murphy logged 6.0 innings.
• Leading off the afternoon with three-straight walks for sophomore center fielder Nick Vlahakis (Oceanside, N.Y.), Impeduglia and senior shortstop Tyler Epple (Levittown, N.Y.) with no outs, a wild pitch for Molloy scored the opening run of the contest before a one-out single from Corredor platted Epple and Impeduglia to create a 3-0 score. A sacrifice fly from third baseman John Calabrese (Lodi, N.J.) scored Corredor, while five-consecutive hits from Burgan, senior left fielder Jaylin Martinez (Paramus, N.J.), Vlahakis, Impeduglia and Eplle scored four runs to boast an early 9-0 advantage.
• Molloy used a one-out solo home run from Peralta and two-out RBI double from Sean Hogan in the bottom of the first to make it 9-2.
• Reaching base with a walk, Abreu touch home plate on a Burgan triple in the top of the second to extend the separation to 10-2.
• Molloy got its first four batters on base to start the bottom of the second with all four Lions scoring via a two-run homer from Wall, an Overton double and Thomas Bradly sacrifice fly to make it 10-6.
• Loading the bases with one out via three-consecutive walks, Molloy evened the score in the bottom of the third off back-to-back-to-back hits from Peralta, Overton and Brady with a Jake Saltzman triple scoring two runs while Jacob McCarthy and Michael Wall both sent a runner home off a single and double to create a 14-10 lead.
• Molloy used a single, triple and double from James Messina, Peralta and Overton back-to-back-to-back in the bottom of the fourth to add two runs to its lead at 16-10.
• Brady drove the final run of the contest home in the bottom of the sixth on a two-out single, platting Messina and making it 17-10.
• Concordia tallied 13 hits with each batter in the starting lineup tallying a hit for the second-consecutive game while the Lions had 18.
• The Clippers left nine runners on base, Molloy stranded eight.
• Neither side committed an error.
• Impeduglia went 2-4 with his third home run of the season, a career-high four RBI, two runs scored and one walk.
• Junior second baseman Kendell Luquis (New Rochelle, N.Y.) went 2-3 with a career-high three runs scored and one walk.
• Epple went 2-5 with two runs scored and a RBI.
• Abreu went 2-3 with one run scored, one RBI and one walk.
• Freshman right fielder Matt Rinaldi (Eastchester, N.Y.) went 2-5 with two RBI and one run scored.
• Burgan went 1-3 with two RBI, one run scored and one walk.
• Malamud earned the victory after allowing two runs, one earned, off five hits with four strikeouts in 5.0 innings of work.
• For Molloy, Overton went 2-4 with a pair of doubles and one run scored while Patrick Kenendy tossed 3.0 scoreless frames.
• With two outs in the top of the first, Epple kept the stanza alive with a single before a double from Rinaldi platted Epple and Abreu base hit sent Rinaldi round the bases to create a 2-0 lead.
• Concordia capitalized on a two-out error from Molloy in the top of the second to score senior first baseman Andrew Medina (Brentwood, N.Y.), adding two base hits from Impeduglia and Rinaldi sandwiching an Epple double to score Luquis, Impeduglia and Epple to boast a 6-0 advantage.
• Molloy loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the second off a pair of hits and a walk, with a walk for Marino scoring Brady before a wild pitch allowed Hogan to touch home plate and two RBI single from Messina made it 6-4.
• Concordia added to its lead in the top of the third with Luquis reaching base via a single and scoring on a wild pitch to extend the separation to 7-4.
• Leading off the bottom of the third with a double, Overton touched home plate off a two-out single from McCarthy to make it 7-5.
• Getting a pair of runners on base via walks, Burgan sent both Abreau and Medina home on a two-out double in the top of the fourth before a Vlahakis single platted Burgan and a home run from Impeduglia scored Luquis and Vlahakis to create a 13-5 lead.
• Molloy cut into the separation in the bottom of the seventh, getting Peralta on base with a single before scoring off a wild pitch to create the final score.
• Concordia tallied 13 hits while the Lions had eight.
• The Clippers left six runners on base, Molloy stranded four.
• Molloy committed two errors.
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Kameishia has written, directed, and produced 6 short films. THE TEST received first runner-up in IFP's Fly-Over Zone Film Festival. SOUTHERN CROSS placed as a semi-finalist in the HBO/Chase Film Legacy challenge and has screened in over 20 film festivals around the world, including Chicago International Children's Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival's Emerging Showcase. Most recently, her feature screenplay, DESTINY'S ROAD, was selected as 1 of 12 projects for the 2019 Women In Film Financing Intensive. Also, her proof of concept short film of the same name placed as a semi-finalist in the 2019 Tribeca Film Institute Pond 5 Program and will be touring the festival circuit in 2020.
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As I've mentioned in my weekly round-up posts, for the past three weeks I've been having a humongous pain flare which came out of nowhere and could be caused by a number of things. It's body-wide. My back hurts from my neck to my coccyx, my entire pelvis hurts, I have burning muscle pain in my thighs, burning pain in my knees, shooting nerve pains all the way down both legs to my toes (particularly in my calves), stiff ankles, burning elbows, a sore ribcage and burning wrists. I have so many tender (like, fucking ouch!) trigger points that I can't even count them. I am not a happy chickie.
In respect of hEDS, physiotherapy is the main tool used to prevent pain and injury, but because I also have M.E. any kind of targeted exercise is out of the question. Trust me when I say I tried for a whole year to do gentle physio exercises designed specifically for hEDS and failed miserably as it made my M.E. ten times worse. In the end, even my physio had to admit defeat and told me to not to come back 😉 It's really frustrating to know that if you could exercise and strengthen your ligaments and muscles it might help but I'm stuck with the situation so I thought I'd do a post on how I personally cope with a pain flare.
Most people's first instinct is to reach for pain killing drugs, but of course due to my MCAD and the hissy fit my mast cells have at anything even remotely drug related that's not an option open to me which sucks in every conceivable way. So my only recourse is non-drug interventions.
1. Warm baths
Baths make my skin itch like crazy, but it's worth scratching myself raw for the relief the soothing warm water gives. I've even been known to run a bath at 2am and stay in the water til it's gone cold. Don't underestimate the power of a bath. You might like to add a handful of Epsom Salts to the water as it can also help, though sadly my mast cells don't like that either. I do wish they would fucking emigrate to Australia and leave me alone.
2. Topical pain relief
Despite not being able to take oral pain killing drugs I seem to have no issue with using topical pain relief, my favourite being Ibuleve speed relief max strength gel which is quite effective if you slather it on after a warm bath. My burning knees and thighs, though, respond better to cooling gels and I personally quite like Deep Freeze. I can get both of these with my Tesco grocery delivery and can redeem my vouchers against them, which is great for the Ibuleve gel which is £9 per tube! In the past I've also used Weleda Arnica massage balm and found it soothing.
3. Taping
When I was first taped by my physio I thought it was a complete bloody waste of time, but I know better now and it's actually quite useful during a pain flare. Kinesio tape mimics our skin, stretching as we move, but also helps to add strength to underlying connective tissue and allowing our own muscles and ligaments to relax. I was given Levotape by my NHS physio, but Kinesio Tape Tex Gold is the popular choice if you're going to buy some (both available on Amazon). I have the 5cm wide beige tape and use a 25cm strip down each side of my spine on my lower back though you can tape any muscle or joint. Of course, living on my own it's a bit fiddly to apply and get straight so if you're taping your back you'll need the help of a good long mirror and there are areas I simply can't do, like my upper back and shoulders. The only drawback is no matter which tape I use it peels off easily – I just seem to have the kind of skin which nothing sticks to – and despite what you might read in reviews there's nothing worse than bathing wearing kinesio tape and having the wet tape next to your skin (if it stays on that is, mine usually peels off in the tub). It's not cheap either at over £10 a roll but for me it's worth the cost. You can view various taping methods on Youtube if you just type in Levotape kinesiology tape, or there is some useful taping advice for EDS in these slides from Pradeep Chopra which also contains some excellent information on pain.
4. Bracing
Just lately I've been wearing just about every type of joint brace available! During a flare your joints need extra stability to avoid further injury but braces also let your ligaments relax and heal. I wrote a long blog post on splints and braces, which I've recently updated here.
5. Heat pads, cold packs
I luuurve my Dreamland electric heat pad and as I type this sitting up in bed it is keeping my spine snuggly warm. I also like my cool pillow, especially when my menopausal feet are on fire!
Being allergic to pain killers I think I would have topped myself without my TENS machine over the years. I have back pain every second of every day but I can take the edge off enough to still be active using my TENS. I didn't want an all singing all dancing one, so mine doesn't do muscle stimulation or anything flash. It's a Med-Fit 3 which has dual channels meaning I can use two sets of pads at once. I use the small 5cmx5cm square pads for stomach pain and the large 5cmx9cm rectangular pads on my back. The only downside to the machine I use is that it doesn't have a timer. My last one did and it was great if I wanted to go to sleep with it on as it switched off after a set amount of time. My TENS runs on a 9V battery and even though I use it for several hours at a time for days on end the battery often lasts months.
7. Complementary Treatments
Things like acupuncture, reflexology, massage and dry needling are all popular choices for pain relief amongst people with EDS, but sadly my mast cells hate them all (I was bedridden for 3 months after trying cranial osteopathy) so they're not avenues I can personally pursue. I still thought I'd include them, though, as I know many of you find them useful.
8. Resting, Stretching & Exercise
When we have injury or pain it's a natural defence for our ligaments to tighten in order to protect the area and while this is important in the short term in the long run it can actually make pain worse. Very gentle, with the emphasis on very, stretching is important just so long as you don't go overboard which is easy to do when we are already so flexible but will only exacerbate the problem. As I've aged stiffness has become a big issue for me and very gentle stretching has become increasingly important.
I admit to being torn on the exercise issue. Bedrest seems to be viewed as the Devil in physio circles, but for me it's vital to survival and even my pysio now agrees that I need more rest than most everyone else and that when I've injured a ligament it will take longer to heal if I don't fully rest it. So when I'm having a pain flare, like now, I do rest as much as possible for a good couple of weeks. Having said all that, living on my own it's not like I have the luxury of taking to my bed and never getting up again so obviously I'm still active making meals, doing laundry, taking care of Bertie and looking after my parents!
When the acute phase of a pain flare, or injury, is over I do try my best to walk every day, M.E. permitting. I only usually manage about 20 minutes on the flat but at least it's something and is as important for my heart, lungs and mental health as it is for my muscles and joints. It's frustrating to not be able to do more, but I have to live with the diseases I have and that's all I can manage without making my M.E. worse. Despite doing this short walk most days for nearly a decade I still can't walk any further, which just goes to show that M.E. has nothing whatsoever to do with deconditioning and everything to do with the fact there is a fundamental problem with energy metabolism.
9. Distraction
Despite trying nearly all the above suggestions my current pain is not under control. I'd go mad if I lay in bed focusing on how much I'm suffering, so distraction is the order of the day and I'll do anything to take my mind off the pain. Crocheting, renting my favourite box sets, editing my photos on my laptop, listening to talking books…….anything so long as my mind is active. It helps more than you'd think and is one of the biggest tools in my pain armoury.
Living with a chronic pain condition is never easy and I'm not going to sugar coat the situation. Pain is never something you get used to and I often think that the older you get, and the longer it's gone on, the harder it is to deal with as your emotional resources weaken and you just get plain tired. There are days I'm so fed up I curl up in a ball and have a good cry but let's face it the pain is still going to be there when I've dried my eyes and wallowing in self pity is not going to make the pain go away. It has to be managed as best you can and then ignored as much as possible, which for me is the only way I get through. Healthy people who give advice on managing chronic pain need to live with it for a decade or two and then tell me how they're coping! It affects every waking second of the day and at night prevents you from sleeping when you're desperate to be unconscious for a few hours break.
It's probably unrealistic to expect to be totally free from pain when you're living with something like hEDS but it is still possible to enjoy a fulfilling life. Yes pain makes my photography challenging, especially as I struggle to bend or crouch, but if I manage my pain I can still enjoy my hobby. I try to remain as independent as possible at home though if I were honest I'd employ more help if I could afford it, and I do still force myself to get out and do stuff even when doing so is going to temporarily make my pain worse. It's either live despite the pain or give up, become a hermit and wait to die and my life is too precious for that.


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If you've been dealing with physical discomfort each morning, it's time to consider investing in a Serta mattress topper for back pain. Do you wake up feeling tense and sore? Are your muscles achy and tender? Have you been wondering how you can reclaim your life and start feeling great again? The right type of topper for your mattress can make an incredible difference in your life and help you start feeling great again. Here's what you need to know.
What is a mattress topper?
A Serta mattress topper for back pain is easy to use. You won't use this exclusively to sleep on. Instead, you'll place the topper directly over your current mattress. The topper is designed to complement your current mattress rather than replace it. With a Serta unit, you'll carefully place your topper directly over your mattress. It should fit precisely without being longer or wider than your mattress.
Mattress toppers are recommended by doctors as a way to reduce any pain you might be feeling in your back. If you feel tension, tightness, or physical pain when you wake up, your current mattress may not be offering the spine support you need. If you sleep with a misaligned spine or on a mattress that's too soft, you may wake up feeling uncomfortable. Instead of investing in an entirely new mattress, you can simply pick up a Serta mattress topper for back pain. This will enable you to get a great night's sleep without investing a large sum of money into a mattress.
How can I buy a mattress topper?
It's easy to buy the right style of topper for your mattress and back. You can buy mattress toppers at any local home mattress store, but you can also buy them online. Most online retailers offer an assortment of mattress toppers designed to help you get the good night's rest you deserve.
When you start looking for a mattress topper, consider which style or design you'd like. Most consumers choose a memory foam or latex topper. These designs offer you support and comfort as you sleep. One of the key features of a mattress topper is that it enables you to move comfortably, but it offers support as you do.
Take a look at all of your options and choose a design that appeals to you. Each mattress topper comes with benefits designed to help your back. One popular model, for example, is the Serta 3-Inch Memory Foam Mattress Topper, 3.5-Pound Density, Full. This model offers 3-inches of memory foam to support you as you sleep. It's lightweight, so it's easy to move around and transport. If you want to move your mattress topper to another bed, you can. Additionally, this unit comes with a one-year limited warranty. This means that if you encounter any problems or issues with your mattress topper, you'll be able to reach out and get the help you need directly from the manufacturer.
What should I look for in a mattress topper?
Look for a unit designed to offer you great back support and pain relief. You'll typically be able to choose the materials you want in your mattress topper. Whether you opt for a foam unit, a gelled unit, or a latex model, you'll want to choose a mattress topper that will offer you the support you need and deserve to sleep well each night.
Always choose a mattress topper that will fit over your current mattress. If you have a full-size bed, choose a full-size mattress topper. Don't try to order something smaller or larger than your current mattress size, as this can impact your ability to sleep. The primary goal of using a Serta mattress topper for back pain is to find something that offers support to your lower and upper back, as well as your neck and shoulders. If you choose a mattress topper that doesn't fit on your bed, you'll be negating the entire purpose of using such a unit.
Additionally, you may want to choose a unit that comes with a warranty, as this can offer additional protection to you in case you encounter a problem with your new mattress topper. While most toppers are designed to last for several years, it's possible that you will encounter a problem with your topper. If this happens, simply reach out to the manufacturer as soon as possible. They'll be able to offer assistance in determining what the problem is and what steps you can take to move forward.
A mattress topper is a simple, reasonable solution you can use easily. It can be shipped directly to your house. All you have to do then is unroll the mattress topper and place it on your bed. There's no stress, no hassle, and no pressure. Once your mattress topper is on your bed, you can start experiencing sleep as it was meant to be enjoyed.
Don't wait another day to buy the mattress topper of your dreams. If you've been struggling to sleep well and you're ready to wake up feeling refreshed instead of in pain, you owe it to yourself to get a mattress topper you can count on.


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California, USA - Chaldeans are busily preparing for the holidays. The community is getting ready for big family dinners, the traditional extended family tours, and the hectic gift giving calculations. It arrives at the same time every year, and yet Chaldeans continue to get confused, stressed, and frustrated over the potential holiday madness. Chaldean holiday preparations can be less taxing for Chaldeans if these 7 simple steps are followed.
Step 1 - BE PREPAREDCreate a budget for your gift purchases, a list of who has been nice, and stick to it. Chaldeans have huge families and trying to buy a gift for every cousin, friend, neighbor, or employee will have you filing for bankruptcy. Chaldeans are generous and charitable, but a line has to be drawn. Create a gift list to fight the urge of seeing an item on clearance that you think would be perfect for someone not on your list. Write down a few ideas for presents, based on the preferences of those on the list and hints they have given you throughout the year.
Step 2 - SLOW DOWNUse slow times to run your errands so that you won't burn out. Shop for groceries in early mornings or late evenings (not during lunch hour or after work), visit the malls during your lunch break while others are at work or in the classroom, and try to avoid standing in line if at all possible. Talk with siblings and friends on your shopping efforts. Perhaps you can pick something up for them while you're out and vice versa.
Step 3 - LIMIT INTERRUPTIONSLearn how to screen incoming interruptions to eliminate stress at work and at home. Use voicemail, caller ID., and email filters to avoid chaos creators.
Step 4 - HELPING HANDSTurn the big Chaldean dinner feasts, shopping demands, and decoration duties into a family fun gathering. Invite friends and young kids to help with babysitting, cooking foods, or decorating. Holiday duties done with friends and family are fun. Decorating two homes together is better than each one decorating their own. Same goes with food preparations, shopping, gift wrapping, or watching over toddlers.
Step 5 - DELEGATEDelegate simple decorating and gift-wrapping tasks to others or take advantage of charity wrap centers. Small children love to help by adding bows or gift tags to presents. Youth groups at Chaldean churches often try to raise funds by wrapping gifts for busy people or running basic errands.
Step 6 - GAME PLANCreate a game plan for your holiday meal ahead of time. List what items will be needed, who can help, the best time to prepare portions of the meal and gather all the wonderful Chaldean family recipes.
Step 6 - TAKE INVENTORYTake an inventory of the linen closet, kitchen serving ware, and other common items that may be needed over the holiday. Visualize the entire event and figure out what you may possibly need. This includes the medicine cabinet. The less surprises the less stress.
Step 7 - THE MAIN EVENTStart the morning with easy preparations in the kitchen, leaving other items for the last minute. Chop vegetables, mix dips, then assemble snack trays for munching. Put the turkey in the oven, set the table, and bake pies. Leave candles, music, and last minute preparations for later. Leave the house to take a stroll around the block, enjoy a bubblebath, or listen to some relaxing music before your family or friends arrive. Enjoy yourself-- you've earned it!
And the day after Thanksgiving or Christmas, make next year's "to do" so that you won't have to work so hard again and all the great ideas are fresh in your mind. Shop year round for gifts, decorations, and cards for those you love. Keep a running list of things you need, should not do again, and tips for making things easier on you and your household. Getting organized for the holidays is truly a process, not a product, but with some effective planning you can enjoy the journey.
Have a happy Chaldean Holiday!
Sacred Heart Parish 310 W. Seven Mile. Rd. Detroit, MI 48203Tel: (313) 368-6214Fax: (313) 891-0132
The parish was established by Rev. Jacob Yasso in 1973
Rev. Jacob Yasso
Rev. Jacob Yasso was born in the village of Telkaif, Iraq. After completing high school he was recruited to Rome and Urbaniana University where he completed his Masters Degree in philosophy and Theology. Fr. Yasso was ordained a priest in 1960 and served the Diocese of Mosul, where he worked in the public school system. Fr. Yasso was also asked by the Patriarch to teach at the Patriarchal Seminary in Baghdad, where he served as administrator, professor of philosophy and religious life, and rector of the minor seminary.
In 1964, Fr. Yasso was appointed to the United States to serve the growing Chaldean community in Detroit. There he served as the 4th Pastor of Mother of God Parish. . In 1972, the Patriarch charged Fr. Yasso with building a new parish for the Chaldeans in Detroit. In taking great pains to care for the community Fr. Yasso accelerated the development of a new church and community center. In 1975, Fr. Yasso completed the development of Sacred Heart Parish in Detroit and shortly thereafter he added the Chaldean Center of America in 1980,
A few years later in 1982, Fr. Yasso was asked to assist the late Fr. Kattoula at St. Peter's Church in San Diego, CA. Before long, Fr. Yasso was once again recruited to Rome to study new Canon Law of the Church. While in Rome Fr. Yasso completed his third Masters Degree in Church Law, making him the only Chaldean priest trained in Canon Law.
In 1988, the Patriarch and Vatican authorities asked Fr. Yasso to travel to Canada and establish a parish and community center. While there he served as a Tribunal Judge for the Archdiocese of Toronto. Four years later Fr. Yasso returned to Sacred Heart church in Detroit to help care for the remaining Chaldean community residence in the Detroit area. To this day, Fr. Yasso continues to serve as the parish pastor creating activities and advising the City of Detroit on community related matters.
Fr. Yasso is a member of the International WYCLIF Bible translators, since 1975, and has completed the translation of the New Testament from Greek and Aramaic into Arabic and spoken Chaldean. The publication of his scholarly work is set to be released soon.


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Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS
The single biggest misconception about iOS is that it's good digital hygiene to force quit apps that you aren't using.
No, seriously. Stop it. At least if you're doing it to "preserve batteries" (which, spoiler alert, it doesn't).
… I need to send this link to my dad.


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From 19-01-18 to 21-01-18
The annual Caribbean Laser Midwinter race excites international laser racing enthusiasts every January in Cabarete, the world capital of kitesurfing. This event attracts the best sailors from around the world and is sponsored by the Laser Training Center with assistance from the Dominican Republic Sailing Federation.
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The One & Only Palmilla's chef shared this wonderful receipe for flourless chocolate cake which looks just delicious:
One&Only Recipe of the Month
As the exclusive pastry chef for One&Only Palmilla, Steve Lindsey is responsible for the production of all breads, pastries and desserts prepared daily for guests and wedding celebrations held at the resort.
This month, Chef Lindsey shares his favourite celebration recipe for Flourless Chocolate Cake.
Flourless Chocolate Cake
One&Only Palmilla, Los Cabos, Mexico
12 oz. Semi-Sweet Chocolate
8 oz. Butter (unsalted)
8 oz. Sugar
7 Whole Eggs
8 oz. Chocolate (coarsely chopped)
8 oz. Heavy cream
Melt the semi-sweet chocolate and butter together, if using a microwave and a plastic bowl heat for 30 seconds at a time removing and stirring until smooth.
Using a mixer, beat the eggs and sugar until triple in volume (ribbon stage).
Fold gently together with melted semi-sweet chocolate and butter mixture and spread out thinly over a paper lined baking tray. Bake at approximately 350°F or 176°C (depending on size of baking tray, usually 12 to 15 minutes).
Gently place cake on frozen sheet pans after baking and cut into sections.
In a separate pan heat together the coarsely chopped chocolate and cream and stir until smooth and shiny.
Allow this mix to cool slightly and then spread thinly like icing between layers of the flourless chocolate cake and stack. Allow this to set completely in the refrigerator before serving.


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There is a lot of talk in the media about the importance of content marketing, but little attention is paid to the underlying challenges that hinder its effective execution. For a better understanding of content marketing issues, IDC ran a survey of 300 enterprise marketers across 11 European countries in April 2018 with some very interesting results.
Most marketers (74%) follow a formal approval process outside of the marketing department before publishing important marketing content. This should be no surprise – enterprises want to ensure that brand messaging is consistent, compliant (especially in highly regulated industries such as Financial Services) and creates the maximum opportunity for positive media interest.
But now it gets interesting. A polarization in the market is emerging. 17% of marketers have less steps in their approval processes than two years ago (in 2016), but 27% have more approval steps. In other words, 17% have streamlined their content marketing processes, whereas 27% have gone in the opposite direction. The result is astonishing. 22% of marketers report it now takes less time to publish marketing content than in 2016, whereas 26% complain it takes more time to publish than in 2016.
Nearly all enterprise marketers appreciate that 'time is money' in marketing these days. In our survey, 80% agreed that there is a need for greater real-time speed in content delivery to customers and prospects. Those enterprises that respond quickly to market and sales opportunities win more often with today's demanding customer who requires real-time content for a superior customer experience.
IDC advises enterprises to invest in automation of content marketing workflow processes. Strip away layers of unnecessary content approval processes and empower your marketers to behave with speed and agility using modern content marketing tools. For example, in our survey c. 50% of enterprise marketers saw GDPR as a positive opportunity for change and improvement. The analogy of 'glass half full, or glass half empty?' comes to mind.
Consider the maths. If your competitors are reducing the length of their content marketing approval processes, and you are increasing the length of yours; you are taking a double dose of marketing competitive disadvantage. Definitely not recommended.
If you want to learn more about this topic or have any questions, please contact Gerry Brown.


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Sustainably sourced international cuisine is more diverse and plentiful than ever before in the Monterey Bay area
Ramin Movahedi didn't learn the recipes that are neatly taped to the kitchen wall of his Monterey restaurant in culinary school, and he didn't develop them at other restaurants. In fact, Movahedi—who moved to Carmel at age 20, after the 1978 Iranian Revolution and ensuing war tore apart his country—is a software engineer who had no restaurant experience at all before opening his Persian-influenced, vegetarian and organic Saffron Café last year. Instead, starting when they were engaged 26 years ago, he and his wife, Jill, collected the recipes from extended family members and practiced and refined them over the years as they prepared from-scratch meals each night for themselves and their two daughters at their Carmel Valley home.
The aim was always to make their fresh, light dips and bright, spice-infused stews as healthy and delicious as possible. But the idea of a restaurant came over time, as they struggled to find local restaurants that offered food that was as healthful as what they were cooking at home, and friends made sure they knew how delicious their cooking was: "Our guests started saying we really love your food! Make this for us! Make that for us!" Movahedi says, smiling with pride.
Fast forward to today, about two years after opening its doors, and Saffron has become something of a busy downtown extension of the Movahedis' own kitchen.
"Everything is our own," Movahedi says. "If I didn't love it, it wouldn't be on the menu. Most of what we have here is what we eat at home, and almost everything is organic. Almost everything is freshly made."
Immigration has always provided much of the soul, vibrancy and brawn of the Monterey Bay food community, and organic, farm-to-table- quality ingredients have long been staples of certain local restaurants that offer international cuisines—particularly ones that adopt a fine-dining model, like Ristorante Avanti and La Posta in Santa Cruz and La Balena in Carmel.
But now, as diners here and across the United States seek out more healthful and adventurous, yet casual and high-value food, the diversity of nationalities and formats of local restaurants committing to sourcing organically is rising—and those who've been doing it all along are benefiting from their patience. If there is a common denominator among the proprietors, it's a desire to nurture and entertain their guests as they would family in their own home.
One of the earliest of these local restaurants is the colorful, art-filled Haute Enchilada, founded 20 years ago by Kim Solano as a folk art café and espresso bar. Gradually, Solano—who grew up in Aptos but lived in her father's birthplace, Mexico, for several years as an adult—began serving food, starting modestly with bagels. Today, she offers an exciting and sophisticated Latin fusion menu featuring the flavors of Peru, Spain and Cuba as well as Mexico.
Along the way, Solano has been a leader in running her Moss Landing- based business sustainably, becoming the first in the Monterey Peninsula area to get rid of plastic straws, and pioneering such natural practices as using owl boxes to keep away rodents.
With the environment and her and her customers' health in mind, Solano has never sold anything but sustainable fish and makes a point of preparing everything she can with organic ingredients.
"It's easy where we live—how can we not be [organic] when it's so easy here?" Solano says. "Pesticides are killing us."
The Monterey Bay area in fact has an abundance of organic farms and a much higher percentage of organic versus conventional crops under cultivation than the national average—the result of being at the vanguard of the organic movement since the founding of the UCSC Farm in the 1960s.
"One of the reasons we came here was the cornucopia," says chef Diego Felix, referring to the plethora of local organic ingredients available to local chefs.
After working together at the organic and vegan fine-dining restaurant Millennium in San Francisco, and then their own restaurant, Casa Felix, in Felix's home town of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he and his wife Sanra Ritten moved to Santa Cruz two years ago.
Originally trained in theater and immensely creative, Felix calls himself a "culinary troubador," and aims to create a bridge between Argentina and the U.S. with his Colectivo Felix, an internationally acclaimed roving pop-up restaurant and catering company. And if all goes well, he hopes to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Santa Cruz in 2019.
Clockwise from right: Spicy Dan's Peanut Delight at Charlie Hong Kong; Denis Boaro at Gusto Handcrafted Pasta & Pizza; Ramin Movahedi (left) with operations manger Bijan Zahedi and assistant manager Roxanne Miller at Saffron Café, Ayoma Wilen at Pearl of the Ocean, and Kim Solano with her husband, Luis Solano, and father, Ray Retez, at Haute Enchilada
But while local chefs like Solano and Felix find it easy to source organic— that is, foods that are certified according to USDA guidelines as being produced without most synthetic pesticides and fertilizers or genetically modified products, among other requirements—the decision to choose them takes commitment, usually to pay more, sometimes significantly. And obtaining certain organic ingredients requires some travel.
"To me personally and to my guests, it's everything," says Denis Boaro, when asked how important being organic is to his casual Seaside restaurant, Gusto Hancrafted Pasta & Pizza, which serves the cuisine of his native Italy. "It goes into our body—we are what we eat."
Boaro picks up his organic berries himself from California Giant in Salinas or Santa Cruz each week, and imports the organic, stone-ground flours for his wood-fired pizzas from a small-production mill in Northwest Italy. His other restaurant, Carmel's Basil Seasonal Dining, is certified sustainable by the Green Restaurant Association and Boaro expects Gusto to receive its own certification soon.
Concerns like Boaro's about health were the No. 1 reason for sourcing organically given by restaurateurs interviewed for this story, and studies have borne this out: Organic milk, for example, has been found to offer higher amounts of omega-3 fatty acids than conventional, and organic fruits and vegetables have shown higher concentrations of disease- fighting antioxidants and lower amounts of harmful heavy metals and pesticides than conventional. Just this past October, the results of a new French study published in JAMA Internal Medicine tied frequent consumption of organic foods with a 25% reduction in cancers.
Charlie Hong Kong co-proprietor Carolyn Rudolph is quick to clarify that the Santa Cruz restaurant is not an expression of her and her husband Rudy's heritage, and is more of a "health food restaurant that has chosen to use Asian flavors in our food" than an Asian restaurant, strictly speaking.
But just the same, over its 25-year history, Charlie Hong Kong has become a beloved and vital part of the Santa Cruz ethnic organic food scene. The restaurant's Asian street food-inspired menu is heavily vegetable- centric—Charlie Hong Kong goes through 3,864 bunches of Swiss chard alone per month—and as a result, Rudolph buys only organic, mostly from Lakeside Organic Gardens.
"You can't wash the chemicals off a chard leaf," she says. "The vegetables would be like little poison bombs." (For the record, the Environmental Working Group, which rates foods for their pesticide residues, places chard neither on its Dirty Dozen nor its Clean 15, but somewhere between the two.)
Ayoma Wilen, the chef-owner of Pearl of the Ocean in Santa Cruz, sees serving healthful, organic food as not just a way to keep customers healthy, but also to boost their health.
"My intention is that people love this food and people heal from this food," Wilen says, and she trains her staff to follow the same purpose: "At every station I have a notice: 'I prep with love; I cut with love; I serve with love.'"
As a young girl growing up in Sri Lanka, Wilen began visiting farmers' markets with her father, a professor and son of an aryuvedic doctor. Her father always insisted on organic purchases, and with these ingredients, Wilen learned her mother's cooking repertoire when she was just 14.
At the same age, Wilen started her first business, employing other children's parents to make yoghurt for sale in her school cafeteria, and her ambition and achievements are readily evident at her Water Street restaurant: An entire wall is covered in framed reviews and profiles, and on the menu, she offers private-label wines that she worked with acclaimed Livermore winemaker Pat Paulsen for four years to develop to pair optimally with the particular flavors of Sri Lankan food.
Using fruits and vegetables from the Saturday Cabrillo College and other farmers' markets, fish from Stagnaro Bros. and natural meats, Wilen prepares meals that offer the six tastes of the aryuvedic diet that are intended to keep health in balance: bitter, sour, sweet, salty, pungent and astringent.
This focus on food as medicine makes it no wonder that Wilen has a strong following among cancer patients, but being healthful doesn't get in the way of flavor—each dish is infused with its own complex mix of seasonings. The not-to-be-missed Cauliflower Cashew Curry, for instance, is flavored with a transporting combination of turmeric, cinnamon, coriander, garlic, fenugreek, green chiles and black mustard seed.
Taste is also a big impetus for going organic for many of the local international restaurants that commit to offering organic ingredients when they can.
Above the pass-through window at Pacific Grove's Jeninni Kitchen + Wine Bar, which serves the Mediterranean cuisine of proprietor Thamin Saleh's native Levant, a blackboard labeled "Friends and Family" lists the local organic Borba, Mariquita, Seredipity and Swank farms.
"For us in terms of the food itself, they do have a much better presence in our dishes because they have a better flavor in general," Saleh says, referring to the fresh, local organic ingredients that the farms provide.
Saleh remembers the shock of biting into a tasteless tomato from a large grocery store chain when he moved to this area from an agricultural region on the West Bank in the mid-1980s. So to ensure a supply of flavorful, clean produce, his restaurant buys from three different local farmers' markets.
Taste is of course highly subjective, and the results of research on the topic are mixed. Still, there is evidence to support the idea that organics taste better: The large quantities of antioxidants that help make organic produce so healthful also deliver a lot of flavor, and some research has suggested that the typically higher quantities of nitrogen used in conventional farming tend to boost sugars but dilute other flavors when the fertilizer causes produce to bulk up.
Better flavor is Lalita Kaewsawang's top reason for purchasing organic, sustainable and local ingredients for her 1-year-old pop-up restaurant and catering business, Hanloh Thai Food.
"I was not raised to pay attention to those things," she says, and she didn't fully grasp their importance until after moving to the U.S. at age 13 and working in restaurants in Berkeley, New Orleans and Chicago. It took landing in Santa Cruz, she says, and apprenticing with David Kinch's 3-Michelin-star Manresa for two years for her to really notice the difference. "It does taste better, and the quality is better if it's grown here and is fresh."
Kaewsawang gets her cabbages from Pinnacle and her carrots and lettuce from Route 1. She's had some difficulty obtaining enough particularly Thai varieties of produce—holy basil, for instance, is delicate and dries out easily in the local climate—but recently she gave seed to three different friends to grow for her. Her makrut (also known as Kaffir) lime leaves, on the other hand, virtually fell into her lap—one day a local farmer called her out of the blue to say he was growing them on his small certified organic farm, and asked her if she wanted any.
But taste is not the only impetus for Kaewsawang to purchase organic— the environment is another important one for her and many of the other chefs and proprietors who spoke to Edible Monterey Bay for this article.
"I really want to be better about the environment. I think it takes a lifetime commitment," Kaewsawang says.
"I think about my kids and my grandkids and my great grand kids and everybody," says Movahedi, referring to pollution and climate change. "When we pick things for the restaurant, whether it's a straw or or a spoon or whatever, what is an extra few pennies to make sure that they don't stay around forever and destroy the world?"
Indeed, slow-to-decompose plastics have been found to injure and starve wildlife and contaminate the food chain, and chemicals used in conventional farming practices can poison farmworkers, water and ecosystems. Studies have also found that organic practices that build up soil health can also increase carbon-trapping qualities—thereby helping to stem global warming. This effect becomes even stronger when farmers use regenerative agricultural practices, such as reduced tilling.
From left, Lalita Kaewsawang of Hanloh Thai Food, who hosts a regular Monday night popup at Sante Adairius in Santa Cruz and aims to eventually open her own restaurant; a Mediterranean panini from Saffron Café
But while the benefits of going organic are important to the restaurants that commit to it, the cost of doing so remains an issue.
Akindele Bankole, who opened his West African-influenced counter service restaurant, Veg on the Edge, last year in Santa Cruz's Abbott Square Market, says he has to charge a bit more than local fast-casual eateries that don't share his commitment to sourcing organically as much as possible, and that has been a challenge. "The investment has to start with the customer, but it has been a slow process," says Bankole, who grew up in Nigeria.
Meantime, as Bankole works towards becoming 100% organic, he has found ways to cut other costs, such as replacing his disposable plates with reusable glass tableware. And while he's very grateful to have his first location in the marketplace, he thinks opening a second, freestanding location with more of a fine-dining model will help: He believes the more upscale format will better allow him to cover the cost of his high-quality ingredients, and will also drive business to his lower price point Abbott Square location.
For Kim Solano, time has made all the difference.
"Unfortunately, it's expensive," to source organically, Solano admits, and she says she probably doesn't make as much money as she would if she didn't. But staying true to her conviction that other people would want to eat healthful meals in a beautiful place as much as she does has paid off.
"I just know that if you put a good product out there and you persevere and wait out the many, many storms that you suffer, you will find some success," Solano says.
"For me it's taken 20 years of patience and waiting for people to get it," she says, but she's gratified to be feeling some success now at her bustling restaurant. "To me there is more to flavor than the way it tastes."
SARAH WOOD—founding editor and publisher of Edible Monterey Bay—has had a life-long passion for food, cooking, people and our planet.
She planted her first organic garden and cared for her first chicken when she was in elementary school in a farming region of Upstate New York.
Wood spent the early part of her career based in Ottawa, Canada, working in international development and international education. After considering culinary school, she opted to pursue her loves for writing, learning about the world and helping make it a better place by obtaining a fellowship and an MA in Journalism from New York University.
While working for a daily newspaper in New Jersey, she wrote stories that helped farmers fend off development and won a state-wide public service award from the New Jersey Press Association for an investigative series of articles about a slumlord who had hoodwinked ratings agencies and investment banks into propping him up with some early commercial mortgage securitizations. The series led Wood to spend several years in financial journalism, most recently, as editor-in-chief of the leading magazine covering the U.S. hedge-fund industry.
Wood could not be happier to now be writing and editing articles about the Monterey Bay foodshed and the amazing people who help make it so vibrant and diverse. And, after spending much of her adult life gardening on fire escapes, she's very glad to be planting in the ground again.
Wood lives with her husband, Rob Fisher, a fourth-generation Californian, and young daughter in Carmel Valley. Their favorite meal is a picnic dinner at Pt. Lobos State Reserve.


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Monday 3 September 2012
Journey: Triple L Estate – St. Leonards Creek – Broomes Island – Triple L Estate
When we first left home, Lori turned the dock lights on saying, "Just because I'm turning them on does not mean I want to be out late. I actually want to be home before sunset." I agreed. Famous last words.
We first went up St. Leonard's Creek, as far as Vera's, in the hopes of finding and seeing Vicky and Jerry. We hoped they might have anchored for the night. We packed a cooler of drinks in preparation of being social. We had no luck in finding them.
As we cruised back down St. Leonard's Creek I looked at the doplar radar which showed approaching storms. I asked Lori if she wanted to go home and sit them out or head to Broomes. She said, "Oh, let's go to Broomes and sit it out there." Ok, to Broomes we went. Much to my delight, the inside wall had a vacancy which allowed us to tie up in my favorite spot.
When we first arrived it seemed completely dead. We figured the nasty weather forecasts probably kept a lot of people home. Little did we know what was in store for us. We first sat down at the boat bar talking with Eric and Vince. I happened to be standing along the wall as a mature gentleman arrived alone in a small boat so I offered a helping hand. Once he finished securing the vessel he joined us at the bar and said he had just seen dolphins in Cuckold Creek! Way cool! Lori hoped they'd still be around when we headed towards home.
We eventually made our way to the upper deck bar to say hi to Jeannie. Krissy informed us that they now have a new boat, a 17 ft. Sea Pro. EXCELLENT boat for scootin' around the river! As we stood at the bar, chatting, surprise surprise, somehow the topic of breasts came up. Lori told Tommy that if he followed her to that boat bar she would show him some breasts, then turned and headed down the ramp. In his exuberance Tommy leaped over Julie, causing her drink to splash all over her.
Later in the afternoon, Krissy and I walked back down to the boat bar. She asked about what boat we came in and I pointed to our bow-rider. She seemed absolutely STUNNED! I can't believe she didn't know we had the bow-rider. She got on the boat and was absolutely flabbergasted. When I showed her the head and all the storage area she kept saying, "Are you f-ing kidding me?" I don't know why she was so stunned.
At some point in the afternoon, the impending storm ended up being a very light rain. So light, however, that it didn't even clean our boat.
Double D sat parked along the wall and had its usual parade of people boarding to partake in a nip of moonshine. When Jeff prepared to board, I boldly invited myself to join in the festivities. The three flavors offered included: lemon, tangerine, and apple-cinnamon. I tried the tangerine and apple-cinnamon.
As the evening progressed a lot of us ended up sitting along the wall – including Kari, Julie, Missy, Lori, and myself. We were still there as they began to close up the bars. While sitting there, for some reason, Missy took her bra off and threw it in the water. In a show of solidarity, Kari followed suit throwing her bra in the water. I jokingly nudged Julie and said, "You're next." Soon, to my surprise, she did get up and throw her bra in the water. Lori and I both wore swim suits, otherwise I'm sure our bras would have also ended up in the water.
Once the boat bar closed shop, Vince came over to say good-bye. Lori happened to be near him and grabbed at his shorts in an attempt to pull them down. He stood there with legs far apart making it difficult. Instead, Lori reached up and started pulling down on not only the waist band of his shorts, but also at his underwear. This made him jump and try to scurry away but Lori went after him. He lifted her up and threw her over his shoulder. Not giving up, she continued to grab at his shorts, trying to push them down from her position of being slung over his shoulder. He quickly set her down and took off for safer grounds.
Now that the bars had closed down, people had no way of replenishing their drinks. Fortunately, we had a small cooler of drinks which we brought out and offered to those in need. After a while we decided we had to go home because of Sophie. We arrived home well after dark – again far later than originally planned.
Time: ~ 2:00 – ~ 10:00 Engine Hrs: 446.3 – 447.5
Vessel: Chaparral 260 SSi Bowrider Conditions: overcast, light rain in middle of the afternoon


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New Updated Pricing And Terms As Of January 1, 2019
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Your first appointment (The Intake) is extremely important. It is the time when your provider will pinpoint your goals, motivators, prior obstacles, etc., and will assess your needs. As well, you, will have the opportunity to explain your issues, purpose, goals etc., and ask any additional questions you may have. Together, you and your provider will develop a therapeutic plan and select a program specifically tailored to your needs
There is a $200.00 non-refundable registration or re-registration fee for new patients and for past patients who have not been seen in a year or more. The registration fee will be charged to your card at the time of registration or when scheduling your first appointment (whichever comes first). This reserves your scheduled 2-hour appointment time. Your initial Intake appointment will be approximately 2 hours. The $250.00 fee for your intake will be billed to your card between 24 to 72 hours prior to your scheduled visit. Your (NOTE: First appointments must be paid for with a credit card).
Your provider is setting aside 2 hours of time for your appointment that would be difficult to impossible to fill were you to cancel at the last minute, or if you failed to arrive on time for your appointment. An intake appointment can be cancelled or changed, but we do 48-hours' notice. If your appointment is cancelled with proper notice, a refund of the deposit amount, less a $50.00 clerical fee, will be refunded to the registrant. Any cancellations that are made after the 48-hour deadline will result in a forfeiture the full deposit so please contact us in advance if you need to change your appointment. Subsequent scheduling changes require 24 hours prior notice. The patient may (at the provider's discretion), be charged a service fee of $50.00 if 24-hour notice is not provided by the patient. If a patient, student etc. cancels after 8:00 AM on the day of an appointment, or if a scheduled appointment is missed, the patient, student etc. will be charged the full amount for the missed session (or if they have pre-paid program sessions, they will forfeit a session).
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Effective Oct 1 2018
(Includes, Hypnotherapy – Counseling – Life Coaching – Mentoring, Etc.)
- Registration (and Re-Registration) Fee: $200.00
- Initial Intake With Dr. Holder: $250.00 (Average/Approx. 2 hours)
- 3-Session program paid in full at the time of enrollment – only $765.00
- 6-session program paid in full at the time of enrollment – only $985.00
- 9 -Session program paid in full at the time of enrollment – only $1235.00 (Great Value)
- 12 -Session program paid in full at the time of enrollment – only $1499.00 (Best Value)
- Regression Therapy / PL Regression (If not part of/included within a pre-paid program):
Option 1: Standard Practice is a 2-session program, each session lasting up to 2 hours each. Fee: $750.00
Option 2: Fee of $450.00 per session, if paying separately for each session.
With all regression sessions that are not conducted within a regular non-regression program, any additional time used after the initial 2 hour time allotted within a session, will be billed by the minute at $4.90 per minute.
- Memory Retrieval (Lost items etc.) 2 sessions program. (Session 1: 1- hour Intake/Prep. – Session 2: Up to 1 ½ hours for Memory Retrieval session). $395.00. (NOTE: We make no guarantee that memory retrieval for lost items or any other issue will be successful as there are variables over which we the provider have no control e.g. but not limited to, items being stolen, not lost. Items falling from a hole in a pocket with no awareness of the event etc.
(Payment Plans Available. See Our Payment Plan Section For Additional Information)
Session Base Price Info
Session base prices with Dr. Holder, depending on session type, range from $275.00 – $475.00 session (sessions are 50 minutes to an hour). Programs are to the patient's advantage because they are discounted below the base session prices in accordance with the length of the program enrolled in. See our program prices.
Payment plans are available for some programs in some circumstances at the discretion of the provider. Pricing includes the standard fee plus 10% service fee. A maximum of 3 payments billed every 2 weeks is allowed. Payment in full must be made prior to the last visit of a program.
Special urgent 1-Session Price – $470.00 for maximum of up to 3 hours. Anything over 3 hours is an additional $2.75 per minute. Our standard intake/registration forms are required to be filled out by the registrant, online, prior to the appointment.
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All other services, please call for pricing
Pricing and plans subject to change without notice. Any changes will be updated on the BSW website as quickly as we are able
Payment Plans and Any and All Discounts Offered Cannot Be Combined
Discounts cannot be combined with any other offers, redeemed for cash, or transferred and may be withdrawn at any time by management without notice.
Payment Policy
Whether paying with cash, check or credit card it is required that we have a valid credit card on file. If the credit card that you are using is that of someone else, their information (address, phone number, email, etc.) must also be included on our credit card form and they must authorize your use of the card in writing. The patient, client or customer and/or card holder in signing or submitting this form acknowledges that any unpaid balances or other money owed may be charged to this card if their account is not current. This includes charges for missed appointments.
Payment for services are due either at the time services are provided or with programs and certain select services payment and/or a deposit will be billed to your credit card prior to that time depending on the program selected in accordance with BodySmart Wellness LLC (Masters-Center) current policy unless other arrangements are approved in advance by office management in writing. We do not accept insurance and we do not participate in any insurance group, network etc. and do not otherwise interact with insurance providers. As a courtesy, upon a patient's request and at our discretion, we will happily provide you with an invoice containing dates of service, procedure code(s) etc. that may be used if you plan to submit to your insurance company for direct reimbursement. Since 2 hours is set aside for most initial appointments a patient's card(s) will be charged the full fee for the visit and/or any outstanding balance prior to that initial visit. There is a $50.00 service charge for checks returned un-payable for any reason or for credit card charges denied for any reason.
Excluding phone calls made for the sole purpose of scheduling an appointment(s) telephone calls/consultations lasting more than 5 minutes are billed as follows: Phone consultations (any calls discussing medical, therapeutic or related topics) lasting over 5 minutes will be billed at $2.00 per minute with a minimum charge of $25.00. If you need to discuss a/your case, review labs etc with your provider please make an appointment. Your provider's time and knowledge are his or her stock and trade. Phone Sessions and/or Consultations are billed at our regular on-site session rates.
Payment Plans
Payment Plans Are Available For The Following Services Subject To Any Other Provider Terms And Conditions Listed In This Document Or In Other Registration Forms. Any Discounts Offered By The Provider Can Not Be Used With A Payment Plan. Payment Plans Are Not Available For Standalone Initial Intake Sessions.
- Life Coaching and Mentoring Programs
- Hypnotherapy Programs
Payment Plan Terms Of Service:
- When selecting a payment plan an additional 10% service charge will be added to the fee of any program or
service being purchased.
- Only programs with fees in excess of $500.00 are eligible for payment plans.
- A maximum of 3 payments (including the initial program payment), are allowed.
- The full outstanding balance must be paid in full, before the start of the last session of a program or program cycle.
- With payment plans all payments must be scheduled as automatic credit card charges on either a weekly or bi-
weekly basis depending on the total cost and conclusion date of the program. No cash or checks are accepted with
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We were pleased to provide recipients of the Therapeutics Letter in March 1995 with the booklet Anti-infective Guidelines for Community-acquired Infections, prepared by the Ontario Anti-infective Review Panel. This booklet provides you with the first-choice anti-infective drug(s), usual dosage and cost, for most of the community-acquired infections which you will likely encounter in your practice.
The guidelines were designed to be an educational tool to help promote appropriate use of anti-infective medications, how ever they are not intended to replace a physician's judgment. The cost information is specific for Ontario, but is still useful in B.C. because the relative costs of different antibiotics is for the most part standard across Canada. We hope that you will get it (if you didn't do it already) and keep it as a handy reference guide.
Copies of this booklet can be obtained from:
Publications Ontario, 50 Grosvenor Street, Main Floor, Toronto, M7A 1N8, Canada.
Telephone (416) 326-5300.
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As you are all aware, it is important to weigh the risks and benefits when prescribing any medication, but this is particularly important when prescribing antibiotics. All antibiotics are associated with significant risks to the individual and to society. The major risks to the individual are immunological reactions and complications arising from alterations of normal flora, such as C.Difficile colitis. The major risk to society is the development of pathogenic bacteria with multiple antibiotic resistance. For the most part the magnitude of these risks is small, but immunological reactions to antibiotics can be severe and are occasionally fatal. For this reason it is never justified to prescribe an antibiotic when there is little or no chance of benefit. The dilemma the doctor frequently faces is exemplified by the cartoon.
What should the doctor do when faced with the patient requesting an inappropriate prescription?
There are a number of publications on the discomfort of prescribing under patient pressure. (Brit.MedJ.304:294,1992) One recent paper describes an ecxercise which was used to train practitioners how to decline inappropriate prescription requests.(Educ.Gen.Proc.5:112,1994) We would appreciate hearing from you if you have any personal strategies that might be helpful to our collegues.


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In recent years, the Hungarian Government has become one of the largest media players in Transylvania through an NGO that bought or funded a significant number of local publications in Szeklerland, writes PressOne.
The analysts of the phenomenon warn that it is a mass takeover of Hungarian media for Hungarians who live outside Hungary. The criteria for allocating funds are non-transparent and tributary to the governing party policy in Hungary, FIDESZ, say independent observers of the phenomenon in the neighboring country.
A study released last year shows an increase in the interest of Hungarians in Transylvania for Hungarian language media due to the "incorporation" in the Hungarian media. It is an effect of the transnational strategy developed by the Hungarian government.
The most powerful new media player in the Transylvanian media market, as well as a mediator of money made available by the Budapest government is an NGO: the Transylvanian Media Association – ASMT (Erdélyi Médiatér Egyesület).
The association was registered in 2013 in Salard commune, Salard village, Bihor county. Thanks to a project submitted by the Ministry of Human Resources in Hungary, the government decided to finance the ASMT with 1.9 billion forints, about 6 million euros. The money was earmarked in March 2019 and comes after another $ 1.45 billion (4.5 million) tranche that was, again, transferred to Romania in 2017.
Since then, ASMT has begun to take over the ownership of various businesses, publishers, radio stations, or local television license holders. In fact, the Hungarian press in Transylvania is now dependent on the money sent by Viktor Orbán in order to survive.
The project that "convinced" the Hungarian government is called Transylvania 3.0. It is not very clear what this concept refers to, but it was circulated by a certain Szilárd Demeter, who holds the position of director of the Petőfi Museum of Literature in Budapest. Szilárd Demeter has no specific role within the association, but he is the one who presented to the Hungarian-language readers the new vision of the Hungarian government about the new press.
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Introducing the Sheffield Gift Card: the ultimate local gift
Sheffielders will be able to treat family and friends to the ultimate local gift this Christmas – the Sheffield City Centre Gift Card. Read more
Sheffielders will be able to treat family and friends to the ultimate local gift this Christmas – the Sheffield City Centre Gift Card. Read more
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Sheffield People's Theatre will be celebrating all things Sheffield, as is brings 'Songs from the Seven Hills' to the stage for the first time next Wednesday. Read more
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In an effort to raise funds for the work Sheffield Theatres carries out in connection with the local community, this Thursday's performance of The York Realist will be dedicated to raising vital funds. Read more
Now Dine Sheffield Restaurant Week is in full swing, we thought we'd give you a hand in picking where to go next! Our restaurants have got a variety of £10, £15 and £20 offers for you throughout October. To make it a little easier for you to choose where you want to go, we've gathered 5 of the restaurants taking part with £15 offers! Read more
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Criminal clinical trials kill kids in Khammam
A Parliamentary Standing Committee PSC came down heavily against criminal clinical trials conducted on poor Indian children in the name of observation and demonstration The PSC could reach conclusion that this American commercial experiment was facilitated by the Government officers in Centre and Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat It all happens in the name of charity
A Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) came down heavily against 'criminal' clinical trials conducted on poor Indian children in the name of 'observation' and demonstration. The PSC could reach conclusion that this American commercial experiment was facilitated by the Government officers in Centre and Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. It all happens in the name of 'charity'.
The PSC used dignified language to explain the criminality of an American company and support to it by corrupt Indian officials. "They are murders. But we call 'deaths' before enquiry and 'killings' in conclusion. Most surprising is we do not even give exact number of children killed, we simply say some deaths. This is trivialisation of corporate murder of Khammam children with support of corrupt bureaucrats."
During March, 2010 the deaths of some female children and adolescents in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh were reported after being administered Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccines, as those were tried by an American agency Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), reportedly funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, an American charity.
Several questions were raised on the role of government agencies including Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) in approving and facilitating the trials, violating both domestic and international ethical norms and rules; misuse of government funds, man-power, facilities and infrastructure for a private project of dubious nature; use of logo of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), an official programme of the Union Government during these vaccination drives to give it respectability and official endorsement; and above all the blatant violation by PATH of all regulatory and ethical norms laid down by the Government of India for the purpose as also possible violations of such norms prescribed and very scrupulously enforced in USA.
The Committee on the "Alleged Irregularities in the Conduct of Studies Using Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine" by Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health(PATH) in India was constituted under the chairmanship of Sri Brajesh Pathak in 2010. After studying deaths in Khammam and Vadodra, the Committee found procedural and ethical lapses by Ministry.
In its report in 2011, the PSC brought out startling points. The Secretary of the Department of Health Research and DG, ICMR informed that it was a vaccine against the Human Papilloma Virus which causes cervical cancer in women. The Drugs Controller General, India had given approval for marketing of HPV vaccines in India as per the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules and then for a post-marketing surveillance trial. But it was found that actual trials began two years earlier. The purpose of the trial was to see acceptability of this vaccine on Indian population. These trials were approved by the National Ethical Committee and the State Ethical Committee also.
As per DCGI guidelines Phase III trials cannot be conducted on children until a similar trial was conducted on adults. These norms were violated. Vaccine is given before the sexual activity begins and then it protects against cancer. That was why trials on girls of the age of 10-14 years was conducted. PSC asked clinical trials to be stopped immediately. In its 41st report PSC recommended:
"Taking serious view of procedural and ethical lapses on the part of the Ministry, the Committee sought the matter of allowing trial of the vaccine as also the approval for its marketing in the country to be enquired into by a premier investigating agency and to take further appropriate follow-up action in the matter. It also asked that findings of the investigating agency and the follow-up action taken in this regard may be furnished to the Committee at the earliest. ….recommends to the Department of Health Research that in future all guidelines and norms should be adhered to before allowing trials of any drug including vaccines on Indian population. …. the DCGI should observe optimum precautions while allowing marketing of any drug including the vaccines in the Indian market".
The study utilized both the brands of HPV vaccines available in the market (Gardasil by Merck in Andhra Pradesh; and Cervarix by GSK in Gujarat). In view of certain complaints received, the State Governments have been advised not to carry out further vaccination till further orders.
Noting inaction on its earlier recommendations, the Committee in its Forty eighth Report recommended:
"…. Taken Note given by the Department makes the Committee somewhat apprehensive. Like so many Committees set up by the Government, findings of this Committee, as and when received, may remain on paper only.
The Committee, therefore, recommends that every effort should be made to expedite the Report so that real facts about the HPV Vaccine trial are made known without any further delay and corrective measures not only in respect of this case but for all such ongoing/proposed clinical trials of drugs/vaccines are taken. The Committee also recommended to analyze process of granting permission to these so called research studies.
Considering the enormity of the wrong doing/criminality involved, and the dilly-dallying attitude of the Government in taking exemplary corrective action, the Committee took it up for detailed examination.
Officers represented to the Committee that on June 1, 2006 the American drug regulator, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) approved the first vaccine to prevent HPV virus that is claimed to cause 70% of cervical cancers, under the brand name of Gardasil by a US drug company namely, Merck. In the same month PATH embarked upon a large scale, 5-year long (June 2006 to May 2011) project with "the main objective …..to generate and disseminate evidence for informed public sector introduction of HPV vaccines" in four countries, India, Uganda, Peru and Vietnam. Interestingly these four countries have different ethnic populations: India (Indo-Aryans, Dravidians, Tribals etc.), Uganda (Negroid), Peru (Hispanics) and Vietnam (Mongoloids).
The Committee has been given to understand that ethnicity is relevant in the determination of safety and efficacy of some drugs. What would be of further interest, as per World Health Organization (WHO) is that all these countries have state-funded national vaccine immunization programs, which if expanded to include Gardasil, would mean tremendous financial benefit to the then sole manufacturer.
It was discovered that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), which is the highest body in the Country for medical research and related matters lent its platform to PATH in an improper and unlawful manner. The State Governments of Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat swayed by the involvement of ICMR followed suit.
PSC finds the entire matter very intriguing and fishy. The choice of countries and population groups; the monopolistic nature, at that point of time, of the product being pushed; the unlimited market potential and opportunities in the universal immunization progammes of the respective countries are all pointers to a well planned scheme to commercially exploit a situation.
Had PATH been successful in getting the HPV vaccine included in the universal immunization programme of the concerned countries, this would have generated windfall profit for the manufacturer(s) by way of automatic sale, year after year, without any promotional or marketing expenses. It is well-known that once introduced into the immunization programme it becomes politically impossible to stop any vaccination. To achieve this end effortlessly without going through the arduous and strictly regulated route of clinical trials, PATH resorted to an element of subterfuge by calling the clinical trials as "Observational Studies" or "Demonstration Project" and various such expressions.
Thus, the interest, safety and well being of subjects were completely jeopardized by PATH by using self-determined and self-servicing nomenclature which is not only highly deplorable but a serious breach of law of the land. The Committee is not aware about the strategy followed by PATH in the remaining three countries viz. Uganda, Vietnam and Peru.
PSC wanted Centre to take up this issue with the other governments through diplomatic channels to know the truth of the matter and take appropriate necessary action. This shows that neither our government nor the officers have any value for human lives.


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