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Constipation is very common among babies. More often or not, your baby will experience constipation after they start eating solid foods. While constipation may not sound serious, parents should treat it immediately. When your baby has difficulty to poo, this may stretch the intestines, weaken the muscle tone, and make it more difficult to pass the stool.
How to know if your child is constipated?
Understanding the possible signs of constipation can help you detect a potential issue before it becomes a big problem. Here are the common symptoms:
- Infrequent bowel movements. The number of bowel movements a child has each day will fluctuate, especially as you introduce them to new foods. If your child goes more than a few days without a bowel movement, they may be experiencing constipation.
- Your child is straining to use the bathroom. Constipated babies often produce very hard, clay-like stools. Hard stools can be difficult to pass, so they may push or strain more than usual to pass the waste. They may also be fussy and cry when having a bowel movement.
- When you see blood in the stool. This is likely a sign that your child is pushing very hard to have a bowel movement. Pushing and straining may cause tiny tears around the anal walls, which can result in blood in the stool.
- A firm tummy could also be a sign of constipation. Bloating and pressure caused by constipation may make your child's stomach feel full or stiff.
- Your baby may feel full quickly if they are constipated. They may also refuse to eat because of growing discomfort.
How can you treat constipation?
There are several ways to treat your child's constipation. For example:
- Offer water or juice. Give your child a small amount of water or a daily serving of 100% apple, prune or pear juice in addition to usual feedings. These juices contain sorbitol, a sweetener that acts like a laxative. Start with 2 to 4 ounces (about 60 to 120 milliliters), and experiment to determine whether your baby needs more or less.
- Add high-fibre foods into their diet (if your child has already started taking solids). These include broccoli, barley, and oats.
- Try exercising. Movement speeds up digestion, which can help move things through the body more quickly. If your child isn't walking yet, leg bicycles and other movements may be helpful instead of walks.
- Gentle stomach and lower abdomen massages. This may stimulate the bowels to pass a bowel movement. Do several massages throughout the day, until your child has a bowel movement.
- Use infant glycerin suppository. If it's been a few days since your baby pooped (and none of the above seems to work), a glycerin suppository may be helpful. These can be bought over the counter and used at home.
However, if infant constipation persists or is accompanied by other signs or symptoms (such as vomiting), contact your baby's doctor immediately.
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Recently on Twitter, I have been having a debate with someone I don't know from Adam about sexuality, compassion and sin. I realise that Twitter arguments are not a good idea in general, but it has sparked off some serious thoughts about the ways in which Jesus talked to people – and the ways in which Christians are encouraged to talk to people – who live outside of the church context, in a position of vulnerability, or are marginalised for various reasons. I have already posted about the ways in which certain types of evangelism have made me uncomfortable in the past, but this is about more than evangelism. It is about relationships, and it is about the way we choose to share the Good News with others, and the need for compassion.
Because it is supposed to be GOOD News.
Here is a summary of the conversation:
(Context: Someone I follow posted about the Church of England's recommendation that couples in same-sex relationships should be "given recognition and compassionate attention from the church." M. replied to this, saying "those who wrote the report are fools who ignore what God has clearly said")
Me: What's so wrong with being compassionate with people?
M: It is not compassionate to encourage someone in sin
Me: No-one said encourage. They said recognition and compassionate attention. The church has ignored, misunderstood and hurt gay people.
M: There's no such thing as gay people, just sexual sinners
Me: Oh ok, that's made all the hurt go away. You've found the solution!
M: (summary). The hurt is necessary so that people will see their sin. Better they are caused pain in this world than experience the pain of Hell.
Me: We are called to be loving, not hurtful. Hurtful attitudes are not Christian. We need to be like Jesus with the woman at the well, not like Pharisees.
M: Jesus exposed that woman's sin. She was an adulteress and he told her so.
Me: Go read that story. He used no such word. He told her of living waters not hell fires. We must imitate this. Telling her of living waters was extravagant and disruptive love. She changed for that love, not for fear of hell fires.
"M" and I pretty clearly disagree in our thinking on sexuality. But the debate goes much deeper than that: it is about what sort of method message we should use to approach people who are deeply hurting.
It got me thinking about my own conversion to Christianity. The thing that made me deeply want to follow Jesus was not the notion that if I didn't I would burn in Hell. What compelled me was the way in which someone shared the sweetest truth with me – the truth of grace. This, followed by an experience of the Holy Spirit which convinced me that God really did exist and really did want me to follow Him, was to me fresh air and cool water on a hot day.
Whatever "M" says, LGBT people have been hurt by the church's reaction to them, and the hurt does not bring us closer to God but drives us further away.
Drives us into the belief that we have no value to God.
Drives us into exile from Christian fellowship.
Drives us away from faith.
And drives (some of us) into less than healthy life choices – if you believe you are going to Hell regardless, what difference does it make?
To return to the woman at the well (read here) , Jesus did speak to her of her relational issues, but notice how first he tells her of the living water. He tells her he is the Messiah (she is the first person in the gospel of John to receive this truth!), and she responds by spreading the news! Did she go straight to the village to tell them that they were going to hell unless they repented? No, she went to tell them of the wonderful man, the one who could tell her everything she ever did.
The woman at the well wasn't "just" a woman with a messed up past. She was also a Samaritan, and Jesus as a Jew wasn't even supposed to walk through her village or touch anything she had touched. He also wasn't supposed to be alone with a woman. And yet he went to that well to find her. He spoke to her. He touched – probably drank from – her water jar. He did not leave her or avoid her or scream at her about Hell. He saved that for the legalistic Pharisees.
The woman at the well was probably considered to be scum, the lowest of the low. People probably crossed the road to avoid her, as in the other story of the Samaritan told by Jesus. She lived on the margins and she had no voice.
And yet she saw, she saw and she loved Jesus.
How should the church be speaking to people considered undesirable? With hell fire, or with living waters?

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The images of the recent floods overtaking Boston's waterfront aren't easy to forget. But the need for resiliency isn't limited to the coast.
That's why the Mystic River Watershed Association is expanding its mission to help the 21 cities and towns in its coverage area better handle flooding and drought caused by climate change. Boston has been at this for years, with its Green Ribbon Commission and Climate Ready Boston initiatives. Municipal leaders along the Mystic and its tributaries know they need to do something, too.
The Barr Foundation, funded by the Hostetter family, has been a key backer of Boston's resiliency efforts. It has since widened its scope beyond the city limits to include the broader region. One example: The foundation just awarded a $115,000 grant to the Mystic group. With that money in hand, Julie Wormser is joining as deputy director, on a full-time basis. Wormser used to be executive director of the former Boston Harbor Association. Now she'll focus on river flows as well as waves and tides.
To the west, the Charles River Watershed Association is already engaged: It's looking at places to restore buried wetlands, and has developed a model for small-scale wastewater treatment plants. However, many smaller cities and towns are just waking up to this issue.
Of particular concern to the Mystic River folks: Protecting all those fuel tanks near the lower Mystic from future storms. But the entire watershed is densely developed; Wormser says the association will act as a convener to bring together cities and towns to strategize for future floods, identifying vulnerabilities and applying for grants and loans to shore things up. Water doesn't recognize municipal borders. Civic leaders are realizing that the best responses to climate-change threats will be regional ones.
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Lassonde School of Engineering - Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Electric Power Engineering
Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 in Electric Power Engineering
Posted: November 1, 2018 Deadline to Apply: January 15, 2019
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Associate or Assistant Professor, commensurate with qualifications, to commence July 1, 2019. The successful candidate will be nominated for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair. We are seeking outstanding candidates with expertise in Electric Power Engineering, including but not limited to applications of artificial intelligence in power system security, protection in modern power systems, smart grids, or electric vehicles.
The Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program seeks to attract outstanding researchers for careers at Canadian universities. Tier 2 Chairs are intended for exceptional emerging scholars (i.e., who, at the time of nomination, are within 10 years of attaining their highest degree, with consideration for career breaks) who have the acknowledged potential to lead their field of research. Appointment to a Tier 2 Chair is for five years, is renewable once, and comes with enhanced research support, access to infrastructure funding and other support from the program directly and from the university. Applicants who are more than 10 years from their highest degree (and where career breaks exist, including maternity leave, extended sick leave, clinical training, etc.) may have their eligibility for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair assessed through the program's Tier 2 justification process. Please see the CRC website (http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/) for further eligibility details.
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The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University is one of the leading academic and research departments in Canada with over 50 research-active faculty members, offering a range of undergraduate programs in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Security, and Digital Media, as well as research intensive MSc, MASc and PhD degrees.
Established in 2012, the Lassonde School of Engineering, York University offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering, computer science and earth and atmospheric science. This $250 million initiative includes hiring 100 new faculty and staff, expanding the student body by 1500, and fostering an inclusive and diverse culture committed to advancing gender parity. We have created a culture where tomorrow's professionals are becoming Renaissance Engineers™ – multidisciplinary problem solvers, critical thinkers, leaders and entrepreneurs who understand creativity, communications, social responsibility, and cultural diversity. We seek committed faculty who can contribute to our innovative approaches to incorporating research in the curriculum, experiential education, technology enhanced learning and other pedagogical innovations.
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Here we are at part two of the Stranger Themes contest, where the contestant listens to themes from strangers, chooses themes to orchestrate, and creates compositions based on the themes. Needless to say, the themes were strange and endless. It doesn't seem like there was any filtering out of screeching feedback or garbage trucks backing up.
As a matter of fact, there were over 500 themes to choose from, and it was difficult to find something to work with. Thus is the challenge of the modern musical competition, where every computer user has access to a myriad of tools. Fortunately, the second part of this contest required the use of at least one Embertone instrument, most of which require a certain degree of musicality.
The only Embertone instruments I own are the complete set of solo strings consisting of the Friedlander Violin, Fischer Viola, Blakus Cello, and Leonid Bass, I had a pretty good idea of where I was headed. My only other Embertone instrument, the Sensual Saxophone, is a harrowing swanky sax fit only for those with a passion for the 80's easy listening of Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, better known by his stage name Kenny G.
So, armed with a quartet of solo sampled string instruments, I set about orchestrating what I thought were three rather nice themes, Wilma's Song – a bright Celtic-like tune, Your Song – an inspirational melody, and War Remnants – a sad, emotional pit of despair. Each of these themes is quite beautiful, and I would have trouble figuring out which was better than the other.
I added a simple harp part to each song, to reinforce the string qualities and reinforce rhythm, and I think they all came out OK. Not ground shaking or awesome, but just nice themes from strangers. I totally enjoyed this blind collaboration and it was a pleasure to work with such excellent material. Thanks Embertone!
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For the SOLSA project 4 big pieces of rock from New Caledonia came to the Eijkelkamp SonicSampDrill testing field. These rock blocks were brought here for a first modest mimic of New-Caledonian drilling circumstances. The blocks will be used for tooling optimization tests with the SOLSA Drill I, since the successor SOLSA Drill II will have its take-off tests in New-Caledonia! The tooling tests on the delivered blocks are planned for April 2018.
Some of the rocks were over 10 ton, that's why a crane had to help a little. At the end the rocks were transported to the testing field, ready to be sampled.
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- Millennials will account for over 50% of the workforce by 2020. Discover the 6 ways business can expect to change from the Millennial Movement with this infographic.
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Shiro Sushi Bar is a New Place in Nueva Andalucia Marbella
Nordic- Japanese Cuisine Sushi Bar with a wide selection of drinks. As it situated in residential area many people who lives near by can drop by walking. Nueva Andalucía is a biggest residential area in Marbella , multi national + multi cultual young and lively place. As a good Japanese girl I live for healthy low fat diet all my life. It was so exiting to try new place in my neighbourhood.
As much as I like to dress up and go out with my friends I like to eat healthy food. Here I share few must have Sushi Bar tips all the Successful Sushi place in Japan religiously follows.
1. Enough Light to see your dish
We are eating raw fish. You like to see your fish to detect if it is really fresh enough for you to eat.
2. Chef's face must be shown
Again as we are eating Raw food we like to see if the chef looks responsible person and maintain clean uniform and aspect. Chef should be in front of you at Sushi bar or come and greet at your table.
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Serving Raw food is great responsibility for people's well been. Every corner of the place should be impeccable.
If it is not crear 3 points I mentioned above normally any Sushi bar can have a great success in Japan. Especially in Tokyo.
I never enjoy eating Sushi in dark place. Non of Japanese does. We like to see the colour of fish if it's safe enough to eat.
I think Shiro Sushi Bar crear all the 3 points. Please let me know your opinion after you try. What I experienced there was absolutely fantastic. Tastes , details, and prices all have a good balance to be satisfied.
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According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, an estimated 12,630,000 legal permanent residents lived in the United States in 2010, with more than 8,000,000 of them eligible to naturalize. Everyone who comes to the United States seeking temporary or permanent residence goes through a complicated experience — often made more challenging when English is not the primary language of applicants. The immigration law firm of The Bolling Law Group, PLLC in Milford, Michigan helps individuals understand the law and provides skilled representation throughout the process.
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David Ortiz started out with three walks before croaking his 399th career home run, and 21st of the season, amidst a 10-4 Red Sox win over the Toronto Blue Jays Wednesday. Ortiz said that his secret this year was his offseason training.
David Ortiz's Red Sox teammates do not underestimate what they're seeing every day.
"He's on fire," said teammate Cody Ross. "He's not getting too many pitches to hit, almost Barry Bondish. You can't have enough protection for him, but when he's getting that pitch he's not missing it."
Thus, Ortiz was back on the ball Wednesday afternoon at Fenway Park, when he started out with three walks before croaking his 399th career home run, and 21st of the season, off Blue Jays reliever Jesse Chavez amidst a 10-4 Sox win.
"It's a perfect example today," Ross said. "I think he might have saw one strike and he hit that ball out (beyond the Sox bullpen). I can't tell you how neat it is to stand on deck and just watch him hit a homer and then come around and be able to give him the high five. I'm a fan, too, so it's pretty neat."
"Who doesn't (enjoy watching)?" said Adrian Gonzalez, who drove Ortiz home after each of his walks. "It's awesome. That's what he does. That's why he should be here for a lot longer."
Ortiz isn't focusing so much on the home runs, but he's certainly hitting enough of them. This one moved him past Dale Murphy into a tie with Andres Galarraga and Al Kaline for 49th on baseball's al-time list.
"I just want to put a good swing on the ball," he said, adding that his secret this year was his offseason training. " I can feel myself doing things better and being more flexible, and getting to some things that I was having some problems getting to before. I go to the point that I have dropped down 30 pounds and I feel great."
The win, which propelled the Sox into a third-place tie with Tampa Bay in the AL East, also evened their once dismal home record at 21-21. They went 7-2 on their homestand with five come-from-behind wins. The homestand marks the most wins in a stand of nine-plus games since an 8-1 stand two years ago. The 16 home runs were the most in a homestand of nine games or less since May 1996.
They've won their last five series and have taken 11 of their last 15, all this coming after that miserable 15-9 loss to the Yankees on April 21 – the one in which they blew a 9-0 lead. Since that time, they're 36-25 and one of the better teams in baseball. At the time, manager Bobby Valentine said the team had hit "rock bottom."
"I believed it," he said. "I wasn't sure of it, but I believed it. Things were going so wrong and we couldn't catch a break. We had a season full of bad things happen. And things turned around because guys believed it, too, and they played hard every night that they came out."
"Collectively as a group we all knew that that was the cellar and it was not going to get any worse than that," said Ross, who had two hits and scored two runs, "but with that being said, you still have to go out and play and perform, and since then we've been having fun. Our main thing is to win series. We did that here. Now we can go on the road with some confidence and make a run before the All-Star break."
"There's something to be said to what (general manager) Ben Cherington and all the crew are doing, getting so much depth for us," Gonzalez said. "We've had a lot of our outfielders go down and we've had guys that have picked up and done an unbelievable job, as well as (Daniel) Nava coming up. Guys that we've called up have done a great job. We got a couple of guys in Triple A that have done a great job for us up here."
So, if nothing else, there's a new attitude, but continuing performances like those of Ortiz go a long way in making it so.
"We're just playing ball, enjoying what we can," Ortiz said. It was something that was rarely said in the first couple of months of the season, even a week ago after the club was accused of having a toxic atmosphere. Amazing what a little competence can do for a club.
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Native Americans Have Highest HCV Rates
Limited funding restricts access to care
Limited funding restricts access to care
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HCV infection patterns among Native Americans occur in patterns similar to those found in the rest of North America: younger cohorts who get the infection largely from unsafe injection drug use, and the baby boomer population. But incidence is disproportionately high. For example, American Native veterans born from 1945 to 1965 have an antibody-positive seroprevalence of 10%. All of this demonstrates this is an important cohort to treat.
Native Americans living in cities settings can get care at urban IHS clinics (in those cities that have them), many of which also serve as community health centers -- but these facilities are also struggling with funding issues.
IHS medical providers will apply to state Medicaid programs for DAAs on behalf of their patients, but the accessibility to treatment with DAAs varies between states. Sometimes coverage isn't available unless patients with substance use disorders are abstinent -- "which is not an AASLD [American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases] requirement," Leston said. And states vary in terms of the rules around accessibility to the drugs.Continue reading - https://www.medpagetoday.com/reading-room/aga/lower-gi/68492
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Oct 05, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's HDFC Bank, a state-backed mortgage lender, has been downgraded a notch from 'A-(lka)' to 'BBB+(lka)', on rising interest costs, with the outlook remaining 'negative', Fitch Ratings has said. Fitch also downgraded 250 million rupees of senior unsecured debentures due in 2010, 2015 and 2020 it issued in 2005, and 125 million rupees of debentures due in 2009, which were also issued in 2005.
"The rating action reflects Fitch's view that the continued escalation of HDFC's inherent interest rate risk has weakened its financial profile to a level that cannot sustain a higher rating over the medium term," the rating agency said.
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Lincoln is not pleased with Michael, who has had a last-minute change of heart after hearing from Sucre that T-Bag is in town. Reluctant to sail off to a life of freedom while T-Bag is still out there causing carnage, Michael follows the directions in Sucre's message and heads to the Fin del Camino Hotel in Panama City to meet Sucre and catch T-Bag. When he spots T-Bag on the hotel balcony, Michael is unsettled to notice his quarry making eye contact with two mysterious heavies on the street. His suspicions that something is not right are confirmed when Sucre arrives but denies sending him a message – it is clear that this is some kind of set-up.
There is more trouble in the form of Bellick, who has come to Panama City in the hopes of getting the money from T-Bag, after blackmailing Sucre into helping him by threatening to hurt Maricruz. Bellick is not pleased when Michael informs him that the apparent set-up means they will have to come up with a plan B if they are all to get what they want, and orders him to get his "little college-boy brain" to work. The trio put their new plan into action by setting off the fire alarm and flushing T-Bag out of the hotel. Following him to an address down an alley, they manage to get past the heavies at the door and make their way inside. Confronted by the gunwielding gang, T-Bag drops his weapon and tells them the money is in a side room – but when Sucre goes to investigate, he is horrified to find more of T-Bag's handiwork: another murdered prostitute. And when the trio hear the wails of approaching sirens and watch T-Bag flee through the fire escape, they realise that they have walked straight into a trap.
Firing as he runs, T-Bag manages to fell Bellick with a shot to the thigh and smirks as his nemesis finds himself apprehended for the prostitute's murder. While Sucre heads off to find a getaway car, Michael manages to catch T-Bag and quiz him about who is behind the trap. T-Bag tells him that he has some useful information, but he will only give it up if Michael lets him go. "Don't let your pride get in the way, Pretty," he breathes. "Locking me up ain't gonna help your situation none." Can Michael get what he needs without letting T-Bag go free?
Back in Chicago, Sara's trial for her part in the Fox River escape is underway. Her chances are not looking good, as the only piece of evidence in her favour is Michael's taped TV announcement stating that Sara is innocent. Without a credible witness to vouch for her, Sara is facing 12 years in a maximum-security facility... until the person she last expected to see steps forward with some information that could turn her fortunes around.
Elsewhere, Lincoln's attempts to catch up with his brother are interrupted by an unwelcome encounter; a hollow-eyed Kellerman shocks his sister when he decides to take drastic action; and Michael is offered a stark choice by Mahone that could end everything...


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Harm Reduction
The term "harm reduction" is used to describe any set of strategies designed to minimize the potential adverse consequences of inherently risky activities or behaviors, such as the use of ropes and helmets when rock climbing or seat belts when driving a car. It is most commonly associated with evidence-based interventions and services, such as syringe exchange, that target People Who Inject Substances (PWIS) who are (A) at risk for contracting diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) through the reuse and sharing of injection equipment; (B) at risk for other injection-related complications such as MRSA (antibiotic-resistant staph), vein damage and soft tissue infections; (C) at risk for overdose; and (D) potentially engaged in high-risk sexual activity.
Since 2005 The Mountain Center's Harm Reduction program (HR) has been providing syringe exchange and related services such as Naloxone distribution, HIV/HCV testing and food distribution in rural northern Santa Fe and Rio Arriba counties. It is an area long characterized as isolated and difficult to serve, with high rates of poverty and substance use. The HR program has grown to be the largest syringe exchange and Naloxone provider in New Mexico, and one of the largest programs of its type in the U.S., exchanging over a million syringes with our 800+ participants in each of the past four years. Since 2013 we have provided over 4,000 individuals with over 7,000 doses of Naloxone while recording more than 1,700 overdose reversals reported by our program participants.
Our mobile outreach program brings syringe exchange, overdose prevention education and Naloxone, as well as referrals and food to PWIS and their families five days a week throughout Rio Arriba county. We visit different communities each day of the week. Please call 505-901-9020 for our schedule.
Our office in Española is open five days a week and offers a variety of services, including syringe exchange, overdose-prevention education and Naloxone, plus food, rapid HIV/HCV counseling and testing and auricular acupuncture (also known as known as AcuDetox).
We share our building with the Santa Fe Recovery Center, who provides both inpatient and outpatient drug treatment programs, detoxification services and Suboxone. Walk-ins are welcome on Thursdays and Fridays.
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It is not new. Children and minors have been utilized for various crimes since long - bribery, selling drugs, sexual abuse etc and now increasingly for executing terror attacks mainly suicidal ones. Countries of the world - mainly developed and under developed nations - have set their feet on the rights of children, albeit almost all nations have signed international regulations on rights of children.
In Saudi Arabia, for example, children trafficked from third world countries are used as camel jockeys. Al-Qaida have been recruiting and training children for terror attacks. It initiated this trend. In the recent years, the Taliban too, have increasingly engaged children and teenagers in their group. Expressing concern on this, President Hamid Karzai has said the use of children and youths in terrorist attacks—who did not know the difference between right and wrong—was inhumane and against all Islamic principles. Recently in Paktika, according to reports, a 12-year-old child was used to carry suicide attack that killed 4 and injured 12. The intelligence directorate reported that it has arrested several youngsters at Torkham border who it said were sent to execute suicide attacks in Afghanistan. Taliban have denied this. But their denial is negated by the facts on the ground.
This is a very dangerous trend. Already the children in Afghanistan are suffering due to lack of security and poor economic condition, their use in crimes, specifically, terrorism would have horrifying prospects. Afghanistan's future is highly dependent on the children nurturing today. Attempts of militants to develop extremism among the children and youth may have far destructing outcomes for us. Such acts by Taliban further prove that they do not belong to religion of Islam, as Islam completely bans violence on children and their use in crimes.
The human rights organizations have kept quiet on the issue of children being used for terrorism. This act of Taliban needs to widely condemned and the people who have somehow positive ideas about Taliban should be made to realize that Taliban are terrorists and can be no one's friend.


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I love blogging to look back on things that seem like a long time ago and not at all at the same time. Dang…was I really that big? No wonder I threw my back out a couple weeks later.
Let's see, what is going on? Well, illness strikes again. WTF? I have laryngitis, cold, achey thing again. For the second time is less than a month. And why wouldn't I? I was well last week, and ever since Jasper went to daycare and I went back to work my body feels the need to test my immune system every other week. So, yes, this week I was due to get sick. Today was day 2 and it was the "everything hurts, I am freezing even though it is 75 degrees and I have a jacket on, and my eyeballs feel like they are burning up every time I blink." I also love to get sick on race weekends. Yeah, this is one big whine, but I have lost count at how many times I've been sick in the last few months. Now that Jasper is sleeping it is a little better because I am getting in bed in another hour and hopefully won't wake up until morning. It's not like just a few week ago when I got sick and I was up most the night rocking him while I was shivering with achy joints.
On that note, I was telling Mike that somehow I feel like I had to go through all the really hard months with Jasper. Now I am so appreciative of the time together and I have a lot of patience. It really was one of the hardest things I've ever done, and I hope we never go back to that point. It's kinda like training really hard all summer for a race, and then when the race happens it seem so much easier than what you put yourself through. Except the training doesn't make you sit up night sobbing, or doesn't reduce your work output by half, and doesn't make you completely insane. Ok, bad analogy. Babies are harder than races.
And speaking of races, I am leaning towards the Big D marathon as my next big goal. There are a lot of spring ultra/ trail runs, and I just don't have a huge desire to do them. My goal this year has been to get faster and an ultra seems like it would be counterproductive. Plus running for hours with a camelback eating lots of cookies and jelly beans just seems silly now for some reason. I am not knocking anyone else who does them, I just don't see myself doing one this year and I am not really sure why. Maybe I just found something that seems to be working and I don't want to mess it up. Who knows? Maybe I'll hear about friends' races and get the ultra bug again, but for now I want to focus on running a faster marathon, and I think I can now that I am getting more sleep and it's cooled off quite a bit.
Ok, got a very busy weekend. Spending time with the Owl, taking him to try and finish Christmas shopping, trying to hit yoga during his nap, a farewell pub visit, a marathon pacer meeting, and oh yeah, I have a race! I am off to bed….hope everyone has a good weekend.


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Pulp tickets (Radio City presale, San Francisco too)
Pulp @ Way Out West 2011 (more)
As noted yesterday morning, Pulp announced some more shows.
Tickets for Pulp's upcoming show at the Warfield in San Francisco go on sale Friday at 10am (California time)
Tickets for Pulp's show at Radio City Music Hall go on AmEx presale Wednesday morning at 10am.
Tickets to see fellow Coachella-reuniter Refused at Terminal 5 go on sale Wedneday at noon.
The Promise Ring aren't playing Coachella (just Bamboozle), but their Irving Plaza show goes on sale Friday at noon which is two hours after Pulp Radio City tickets go on general sale.


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Monday, 20 May 2013
Cute Puppy
7 comments:
- Pat said...
Hi Nicky!! What a perfectly sweet card featuring the lovely Miss Bella!! I love your CAS design! And what fun colors!! So glad you've joined us for this week's fun challenge at Sassy Cheryl's! Hugs. Pat Frank
- 20 May 2013 at 22:03
- jkreucher said...
Oh so cute Nicky! Love the softness of the cream with the white and your adorable flowers!
Bella is looking good with your lace and flowers!
Thanks for playing along in our Sassy Cheryl challenge this week!
- 20 May 2013 at 22:32
- Sassy Cheryl said...
Nicky, this is just beautiful. Love the red and kraft paper together. It's just perfectly sweet!
Thanks for playing along with the Sassy Cheryl DT this week.
- 20 May 2013 at 23:34
- Shirley said...
Nicky, your card is adorable, and I had to come comment because, I thought I was going to be the last entry as usual.
- 21 May 2013 at 00:50
- Lin said...
An ADORABLE puppy that picks flowers! Thanks for sharing this with us at the Simon Says Stamp flower power challenge this week!
- 21 May 2013 at 02:12
- Ann English said...
Darling, Nicky! Love the red with the kraft paper! Thank you so much for joining us this week for the Sassy Cheryl's challenge!
- 21 May 2013 at 02:28
- Vicky said...
A gorgeous card!! Thanks for joining us at passion for Promarkers this week
hugs Vicky x
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Following the release of the first part of our road trip vid, we have a few of the photos from said event. Zach Rampen with a nice T-Bog at the Slocan park. Here's a preview of the Slocan bowl with an appearance from the Ghetto Mansion boys. Picture doesn't do it much justice, the deep … Read more


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At his coming
"And now, little children, abide in him, that when he appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming" (1 John 2:28, NKJV).
I have recently returned to South Asia where I will be for the next few months. When I arrived I was greeted with many smiles and sincere welcomes by those whom I have known for a considerable time. It was good to be back, and they seemed very happy to have me here. Continue reading "At his coming"


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Alien Attackby KayZ - 48 Hour Compo Entry
My (not really finished) game for the the 10 seconds theme.
In this game, a random feature is added every 10 seconds.
Features that get added:
* graphics (2 times)
* sound
* enemy units (2 times)
* achievements
Planned features, that are not included:
* attacking enemies
* scores
* boss(es)
* an actual end
The features are added randomly, so if you play the game more than once, it will probably be a bit different.
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Nice work on the low-fi aesthetic!
Nice idea and concept. Got random freezes a couple of times and had to f5
Seems like a great idea in principle, but I could never get more than one or two of the upgrades before the game froze :(
The freeze is fixed now. Slipped past me somehow :(
Liked the graphics, but was has this to do with the theme?
Like the idea of adding random features to the game.
I really like the idea of a game building itself from a paper prototype as you play, and I don't think I've seen that before. Nice work!
Like the gfx when in drawings mode )(
Love the idea. The graphics is really nice.
I actually think I liked the graphics more before there upgrade. The Pen and paper aesthetic just looked more put together. Good use of the theme, similar to how I used it.
Not bad but very slow. And why is my ship oscillating randomly around my mouse?
Getting the graphics improvement was a nice idea.
Nice use of the theme but the more things I unlocked the slower the game ran so it soon became unplayable.
@all: Thanks for your comments and especially for liking the drawings mode :)
@those where the game runs slow or the ship oscillates: seems like my game has some performance issues. Pretty weird because there isn't even much going on...
Nice entry, i thought the first graphic was the nicest :) but this is an good idea, too bad that all features wasn't in
Those poor trucks... Was funny how I vaguely realized that I had shading now, and then suddenly other things. Does not a conclusion/score/goal though. :)
The concept is solid for the theme and I liked it. Not quite a game since I couldn't die from what I could tell, let alone win. Ran fine for me but I switched tabs and on my return I had a whole army coming for me :D Punishing me for diverting my attention haha.
Neat idea- would love to see you continue to flesh it out more.
This was pretty fun it reminded me of that RPG game I played ages ago where more features got added as you found them in treasure chests. Is it possible to die? The trucks and planes and that seemed to go straight through the ship haha.
Yes, there is no dying at the moment. But with all this feedback I may start doing a post compo version of the game.
@Nick Weihs: Yeah, it's kind of influenced by Evoland and also Upgrade Complete.
I got the sound but no image loading (chrome) :(
Yeah, comes quite close to "Upgrade Complete" indeed... Too bad your project wasn't finished, without dying, an actual "goal" and stuff, it felt more like a cinematic to me.
Having to draw each opponent in various graphic levels must have been quite some work.
As far as the "mouse oscillating" is concerned... I didn't check the source so far, but I believe it's some bugged <= vs. < check on the x-axis...
Adding features every 10 seconds is a pretty interesting and a very meta way to approach the theme. I enjoyed that.
The gameplay itself was a little simplistic though, some additional interaction or movement might have benefited it some.
For some reason the performance (on web) got really slow after a while, shortly after graphics and some enemy types were introduced.
I like of concept and art design, but will can be more fast. great work
Interesting concept. I liked how new things wold be added every 10 seconds. Maybe if you had something that changed the game play a bit every 10 seconds, that might make things a bit more fun.
The hand-drawn graphics are very nice (actually I prefered them above the 'better graphics'), and adding random features is also a nice idea. But since there is no ending or dying condition, it is not really a game yet... but good concept. :)
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<Like all the rest, your starting point is a devinly inspired Bible, even though much of it is clearly BS. Would it not be more logical to regard it as human literature, reflecting the knowledge and beliefs of one small tribe of people living thousands of years ago?>
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Goldie may have accidentally revealed Banksy's true identity.
The drum 'n' bass pioneer has always been closely associated with the graffiti scene, so when the producer appeared on Scroobius Pip's Distraction Pieces podcast the conversation quickly turned to spraying.
Probed on the commodification of street art, Banksy said: "Give me a bubble letter and put it on a T-shirt and write Banksy on it and we're sorted. We can sell it now… No disrespect to Robert, I think he is a brilliant artist. I think he has flipped the world of art over."
Robert? This could be Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja, long thought by some to sit at the head of a group of artists operating under the Banksy moniker.
Naturally, Banksy is saying nowt.
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With Labor Day weekend upon us and the unofficial end of the summer we should all take a look back on why this weekend should be special to you and all the men and women in the construction industry. Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country. Labor Day was promoted by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, who organized the first parade in New York City. After the Massacre in Chicago on May 4, 1886, U.S. President Grover Cleveland feared that commemorating Labor Day on May 1 could become an opportunity to commemorate the affair. Therefore, in 1887, the United States holiday was established in September to support the Labor Day that the Knights favored. Now more than ever with construction on the rise again in New York City and with the deaths of two young construction workers in the past week we all need to remember that the construction industry is very dangerous and there is nothing more important than the safety of your life and the lives of your fellow brothers and sisters in the construction industry.
Next week on September 12th 2015 will be the Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers International Apprentice Contest. The contest will be held at our National Training Center in Bowie, Maryland. The apprentices that will be representing Local 1 for PCC are Arkadiusz Sokolowski; Kristine Azzoli and Timothy Crowe. Representing stone will be Craig Devin, and representing on behalf of the Plasters is Jose Maldonado. On behalf of Local 1 I would like to wish all the apprentices congratulations for making this far and wish you all the best in the finals.
Also, starting next week on September 11th 2015 will be the Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers International Convention and Election. Delegrates representing BAC Locals and ADCs across North America will gather for the convention in Baltimore, where we will commemorate the 150 anniversary of the founding of the International when two local unions one from Baltimore and the other from Philadelphia met in 1865 for the "purpose of forming a national union." We here at Local 1 are extremely proud and honored to be a part of such a great tradition and want to show our support to President James Boland and the entire International Executive Board and wish them best of luck in the upcoming election.
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Robbo: No-one's place is safe
Defender Chris Robertson told Valiant Player that the team need to "tighten up" and that "no-one's place is safe" after Vale's indifferent start to the season.
No-one's safe, the manager is big and brave enough to pick whoever he wants…
Vale's defending was subject to criticism after Saturday's 3-1 loss to Oldham and Robertson told Valiant Player: "Every mistake seems to be punished, we need to tighten up as a team. We can't give teams as many chances as we're giving them."
Robertson also believes that if Vale can start finding the net it will ease the pressure adding: "It's important we take our chances."
Results appear to be down to fine margins with the defender suggesting that "little things are not going in our favour" but "when that changes it will make things a lot easier for us."
Micky Adams has hinted at changes and Robertson has conceded that all the players will have to be at their best commenting: "No-one's safe, the manager is big and brave enough to pick whoever he wants."


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Water, abortion bills draw attention
(Column ~ 02/02/10)
Is it February already? Things always seem to go faster during a short 60-day session and this one is no exception. By the end of this week, we will be done with a third of the 2010 Session. Last Thursday, my LB 893 was heard in the Revenue committee. ...
Budget projections show extent of long-term money troubles
(Editorial ~ 02/02/10)
It's a problem most of us can understand -- not enough income, too many expenses, no self control and the availability of easy credit. The difference is, the money's not going for a new car or a flat-screen television, it's going to stimulate the economy, conduct two foreign wars, support huge entitlement programs and, oh yes, make the minimum payments on all that outstanding debt...
Makin' us proud
(Column ~ 02/02/10)
Gosh it gives me a good feeling lately to file a flight plan for McCook's Airport, "KMCK" in pilot shorthand, and get back a printed flight plan that spells out "McCook Ben Nelson Regional." Kinda makes me just feel rosy all over. In case you were wondering, the "K" is worldwide shorthand, they call it the "country code," locating the facility in the U. ...
Save West Ward
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/02/10)
I do not understand the city's rush to demolish West Ward. I am sure those providing information massaged the facts in an attempt to justify their position. Try as hard as they could, they could not get away from the fact it will be less expensive to re-hab West Ward than build new...
Send Bibles
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Dear Editor, The recent natural disaster in Haiti has claimed thousands of lives. I urge all Christians to send Bibles to the survivors. That way, when they read the word of God, they will have food, water and shelter. Steve Stramel, McCook
Top bidders disappointed in rejection of District 8 offer
(Local News ~ 02/02/10)
By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor The decision Monday evening to list the former District 8 schoolhouse for sale disappointed the rural McCook couple who submitted the high bid at the property auction last Friday. Following a 50-minute closed session called during the board's monthly meeting to discuss personnel and the sale of District 8 property, board members voted 4-2 to reject all bids for the property and list it for sale with a real estate agent. ...
Police station, West Ward won't be rebuilt
(Local News ~ 02/02/10)
As the McCook City Council continues to grapple with options for a new public safety center, the idea of remodeling either West Ward or the existing police station was removed from the table. The McCook City Council eliminated both at the regular council meeting Monday night and directed city staff to hire architects to look at costs for a new law enforcement/city administration building at the National Guard Armory on West Seventh, as well as square footage needs for a new building on the West Ward site.. ...
County buys apartment building
(Local News ~ 02/02/10)
By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor Red Willow County commissioners closed on the purchase of the big gray-and-white apartment house at 524 Norris Ave. during their weekly meeting Monday morning. Commissioners agreed in December to pay Stannis and Kenneth Spencer of McCook $50,000 for the property. Camy Bradley of McCook Abstract Co. Monday morning presented the purchaser's statement to commissioners for signatures...
Injury accident
(Local News ~ 02/02/10)
Emergency personnel carry an accident victim up a steep slope between Old Highway 6 and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks southwest of McCook late Monday afternoon. Three McCook teens, two girls and one boy, were injured when the car, eastbound, left the road and rolled into the wide ditch between the highway and tracks about 5 p.m. ...
Settlement to save money in long run
(Local News ~ 02/02/10)
By the city paying $10,000 now for property on East Second, major costs will be saved in the future, the McCook City Council was told Monday night. The Council approved Monday night at its regular meeting a $10,000 settlement payment to Terry Jessen, for his property at 301 E. Second...
School may add 5 minutes to schedule
(Local News ~ 02/02/10)
McCook Public Schools may add five minutes to its schedule for the 2010-11 school year. Superintendent Grant Norgaard told board members at their monthly meeting Monday evening that two instructional days lost in next year's calendar due to teacher training can be recaptured by adding five minutes to the daily schedule. "There is a need to lengthen classroom time on day-to-day basics to get content and curriculum covered," he said...
Tickets still available for Women's Winter Conference
(Local News ~ 02/02/10)
Tickets are still available for the McCook Women's Winter Conference this Saturday. Women may preregister or purchase a ticket at the door the morning of the retreat. The conference, "Spaghetti for the Soul," features Kathy Troccoli and Ellie Lofaro and runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the McCook city auditorium at West Fifth and C Streets. It is sponsored by the McCook Evangelical Free Church. Cost for the retreat is $35...
Prosthetics being collected for Haiti
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KEARNEY, Neb. -- Jim Sedlak of Kearney is collecting old prostheses and components for donation to the relief effort in Haiti. Sedlak, a certified prosthetist with Prosthetic HealthCare Services in Kearney, said it is estimated there may be tens of thousands of amputees in need of help because of the earthquake...
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War By Other Means: Why India Needs To Embrace Irregular Warfare
by Sankar R
Last week, Ajit Doval agreed with Carl von Clausewitz. The Prussian general and military theorist and India's national security adviser are separated by centuries and cultures. Yet they have both embraced the idea that warfare is a flexible phenomenon and not a static concept. Embracing this idea and evolving national security policies around them will be the harder part. It would mean rethinking everything from force orientation, to defence procurement, to training doctrines. Indeed, the security and defence architecture of India, largely a legacy from the British Raj, will have to be examined from the point of future efficacy.
Doval was expounding the salient points of this revolution in warfare in his Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture in New Delhi. He put forth the view that a Second World War-like battle will never happen again, but that India must prepare for fourth generation warfare, including fighting invisible enemies. He also spoke of contact less wars, the importance of acquiring cutting edge technology, and psychological operations.
Clausewitz would have advised the same had he lived in this day and age. His most famous dictum is the one he never stated. 'War is the extension of politics by other means' is an erroneous translation of his famous precept. John Keegan, in his 'History of Warfare', has provided the correct translation—'War is an extension of political intercourse with the intermixing of other means'.
It is the latter element, the 'other means', that has now become preponderant. In Clausewitz day and age, traditional instruments of military power like infantry, artillery and cavalry were all decisive in ensuring victory. They were the centrepieces of the prosecution of war by one state against the other.
Yet, even then, states used non-military and non-traditional military instruments to prosecute conflict. For example, regular European and Asian armies were lashed together with irregular units. Cossacks, Highlanders, Hussars, Bashi-Bazouk, Privateers, Pindaris, Minutemen were all irregular warfare units. They performed key roles outside the force matrix of a static battle, including raiding, pillaging, border warfare, terrorising, sabotage and skirmish. The commonly used non-military instruments include economic blockade and propaganda. Their operations were designed to weaken and disorient an enemy, sometimes as a prelude to battle, but often entirely divorced from regular military conflict.
The salience of these non-conventional instruments of war increased, but they remained at best an adjunct to conventional war waging tools. Warfare was largely carried out by states or coalitions of states that used their industrial might to defeat their opponents. The Second World War was a good example of this. Since then, the advent of nuclear weapons has kept major power conflict at bay; military conflict was largely between smaller powers or between a superpower waging war against guerrillas fighting for freedom. In both cases—the US in Vietnam and the Soviets in Afghanistan—the military juggernauts of the superpowers came to naught against the lethally armed bands of highly motivated guerrillas. True, both conflicts saw the extensive use of commandos like the Soviet Spetsnaz and American Green Berets, who often had localised success. Yet, the superpower war effort was doomed in the long run. As Clausewitz stated, "If you want to overcome your enemy, you must match your effort against his power of resistance". The American and Soviet forces had failed to muster the right effort against their fleeting, but formidable enemies.
In more recent times, the non-conventional force components of modern militaries have substantially increased. They now employ special forces, drones, cyber warfare units, para military units, commando teams and information warfare units among others. Nonetheless, until the 20th century, they remained husbanded to large, conventional military formations.
The attacks of September 11, 2001, changed all that. The war on terror has been a war of spooks, commandos and mercenaries. One of its defining features has been the exponential expansion of the CIA's war fighting role. Its special activities division conducts covert military strikes in the bad lands of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq. It also spearheads the drone warfare programme. Even the vaunted US military has largely been oriented towards fighting terror groups, and Islamic and tribal militias. America's shadow armies have, for nearly two decades, been engaged in a low visibility, high-tech war against invisible enemies in the world's gray zones.
Russia too has built up extraordinary asymmetric warfare capability since the early 2000. Feeling threatened by the rise of armed separatist movements in its Asian Rimlands and NATO forces in the Baltics, Russia had to develop a panoply of irregular warfare instruments. Its new trident consists of special forces, disinformation campaigns and subversion. It used this combination to lethal effect in Ukraine and put NATO on the back foot. In addition, Russia also uses as a force multiplier mercenaries, the Russian mafia and shadow banking channels.
The legacy acquisitions of the cold war, the legions of tanks, artillery and air superiority fighters now play secondary role in security. Of course, as China rises, there is always the risk of a major military confrontation in the Pacific or South China Sea, or a Trans Himalayan conflict between India and China. But the chances are remote and ebbing, while fourth generation warfare between states or between states and non-state actors is assured.
India faces a challenging regional threat scenario. Its western frontier, the Af-Pak theatre is a hub of radical Islamism, drug and small arms smuggling and amorphous terror groups. For the Pakistan Army, the temptation to use its terror proxies will always be there. India's Eastern frontier has a hostile regime, insurgent groups, drug cartels and extensive smuggling networks. Both theses frontiers are characterised by lawlessness, repressive military regimes and lack of rule of law. In the Indian Ocean region, India faces wavering regimes in Maldives and Sri Lanka, heavy Chinese influence and the possibility of internal revolts and major instability.
If India wants to proactively engage in these areas, to deny the hostile power a base and ensure that developments on the ground are going its way, then it must develop a whole new array of instruments. Propaganda specialists, linguists, cryptologists, coders, covert warfare units and shadow banking networks are spearheads of this new force. The good news is that compared to conventional military build-up, these are relatively inexpensive assets to create and organise. Will New Delhi ever consciously embrace such a build-up, however, remains to be seen. Much will be decided by the vision and acuity of intellect of the political masters of New Delhi.


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Warriors of Witchcraft Twins discover a coven of witches. The brother is recruited to join while the sister uncovers their heritage as witch slayers. When the brother is supposed to sacrifice his sister they instead team up to destroy the Witch of the Woods.
Title : Hansel & Gretel
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