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Salesforce and Philips are wading into the healthcare technology race with a cloud-based platform designed to help doctors track data from a multitude of devices.
Source: www.integratedcaretoday.com
An overview about health innovations
Salesforce and Philips are wading into the healthcare technology race with a cloud-based platform designed to help doctors track data from a multitude of devices.
Source: www.integratedcaretoday.com
Tech writers are on the hunt to find out which spaces in the digital health arena are most likely to be seriously impacted by (the article uses provocative language like 'steamroll[ered]' and 'crushed' by Apple, Google and Samsung's entry into the digital health space.
Source: insights.wired.com
E-santé, télédiagnostics… le numérique nous fait basculer dans une logique de prévention renforcée. De quoi alléger les coûts pour la sécurité sociale ? Trois experts du secteur en débattent et présentent les initiatives de santé connectée de leurs organismes respectifs.
Source: www.rslnmag.fr
Healthcare data is both diverse and complex making linear analysis useless. There are several characteristics of healthcare data that make it unique.
Source: www.hitechanswers.net
Toutes les maladies ou presque ont leur association de patients. En France, il en existe environ 14.000. Certaines d'entre elles entretiennent des relations embarrassantes avec les firmes pharmaceutiques.
Source: www.allodocteurs.fr
Healthcare is a high risk sector for corruption. Best estimates are that between 10% and 25% of global spend on public procurement of health is lost through corruption.1 This is big bucks. Total global spend on healthcare is more than $7 trillion each year. Corruption takes many forms, depending on the country's level of development and health financing system.2 The United States, for example, lost between $82bn and $272bn in 2011 to medical embezzlement, mostly related to its health insurance system.3 No country is exempt from corruption. Patients everywhere are harmed when money is diverted to doctors' pockets and away from priority services.
Source: www.bmj.com
In part two of our social media myths series, we revealed several ways social media posts can help generate business for your medical or dental practice. For our third and final installment of the series, we're going to debunk a common misconception about tracking the performance of your social media marketing campaign.
Myth #3: ROI cannot be measured for social media marketing.
As with any aspect of a business, justifying the investment you put into social media marketing based on the return it yields for your practice is essential to ensuring its worth. One thing to understand is that social media is not a tool for direct sales, therefore, we cannot use traditional return on investment (ROI) metrics. While the textbook definition of ROI – exact dollar profit for dollars spent – may be a little harder to pinpoint, measuring the value of your investment for social media is not impossible. In fact, doing so can be relatively easy. Here are three ways to measure social media ROI in order to track the efficacy of your practice's social media marketing efforts:
You must understand the purpose of your social media campaign in order to measure success. Create specific, measurable goals, such as: lead generation, increasing traffic to your practice website, and facilitating customer service. When people call or email your practice, you can ask how they heard about your practice and track the number of times social media is cited. HootSuite, Twitter Analytics, and Facebook Insights can track engagement with your followers, and engagement is a way for you to provide online customer service, thus reducing the time and money spent for overall customer service. Tools like Google Analytics track the amount of web traffic generated from social media, as well as which specific social media sites have the highest referral rates to your website.
Track the number of social media followers, comments, likes, retweets, etc., on a monthly basis to determine if your social strategy is actually increasing the amount of engagement with your practice. In addition to social media engagement, you can track other things like web traffic and conversions to quantitatively analyze if your social media efforts are increasing the number of viewers to your website, as well as the number of people who contact you through an email contact form on your website.
One thing you may want to know is if your social media efforts are directly impacting the number of new patients or overall number of procedures performed. You can establish a baseline figure prior to the start of your social media campaign by tracking the number of overall patients and the number of procedures performed monthly. As your social media activity increases, you can see if the number of new patients and procedures performed increases as well.
Source: www.rosemontmedia.com
Les résultats de l'étude My santé Mobile ont été révélés ce matin : l'usage d'un capteur d'activité permet de modifier les comportements en santé.
Source: www.silvereco.fr
According to a recent report from ON World, in the next fives years an estimated 700 million wearable technology devices will ship worldwide, which will make for a $47.4 billion market. The research firm predicts that hardware sales will continue to dominate revenues for the next five years but monitoring services, apps, and subscriptions will have faster growth rates.
Source: mobihealthnews.com
By utilizing wearable self-trackers like the Nike Fuel, the Jawbone Up or the Fitbit products, we can track some of our personal activities and acquire vast amount of data on ourselves. But can these tech wonders really enhance our lives and make us happier? Will they really give us answers or will they only lead to more questions and confusion?
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Zhejiang Fine Arts
The Northern and Southern Song Dynasties was a proud era of Zhejiang because of its great social and cultural developments.
In the Northern Song Dynasty period, Zhejiang became the textile and dyeing center where there were state-run Huzhou Damask Silk Workshop and Hangzhou Textile Workshop, both of which were quite large. There were such famous, beautiful and high-quality silk products like the White-sided Damask Silk of Hangzhou, The Tribute Red-sided Silk of Wuzhou, the colorful silk of Dongyan, the Temple Silk made by the nuns in Yuezhou and the joint-edged thin silk of Muzhou. In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Longquan kiln began to produce porcelains and formed its unique flavor of the celadon. The Longquan porcelains usually adopted white or light gray roughcasts. The surface was painted with violet-golden coatings that turned out red later. With no decorative pads, no violet mouths and iron feet, the porcelains produced in this period were called the Acient Longquan. Its representative piece was The Longquan Kiln Five-tubed Bottle, which displayed the scenery of four lovely ducklings paddling in a pond in the Southern China region.
Hangzhou had become the national center of the engraving printing. The woodcarving print developed fast and illustrations of Buddhist scriptures were very popular which mainly evolved from the single spell pictures to the preface pictures and in the end to the vivid form of explanation about the religious figures, events and tenets. The representative pieces were the Laughing Buddha (painted by Gao Wenjin and engraved by the famous monk Zhi Li), Weishu Buddha and Puxian Buddha. In the first picture, the Buddha hunkered straight on his lotus flower seat and looked rather imposing and solemn. There were attendants around him and flying apsarases above, all of whom were delicately engraved. The latter two were a set, now in Japan's collection. The single paged illustration, Sui In Pursuit of the Dharani Scripture, was engraved in the year of 1001 by a Hangzhou native, Zhao Zongba.
The rock cave josses of the Song dynasties adopted a true to life artistic style that made the joss human-like. Among the rock cave josses of the Flying Hill, the eighteen arhat figures (built in 1026) found in the Yuru Cave were simple and humorous, chiseled according to the human's expressions and with little temperament of immortals. The small josses were popular then that were suitable for the worship in the adherents' own houses, for example, the Gold-plating Bronze Joss and the Painted Joss were delicate in the details of the figure and of typical flavor of the Northern Song Dynasty. The Exquisite Silver Pagoda Model was one of the well-reserved silver wares of the period that was made of thin silver pads and plated with gold. It was made in 7 floors and inside it, there were delicate sitting-josses.

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The fighter genre, once believed to be incompatible with touchscreens, is experiencing a renaissance. Gone are the watered-down remakes with clunky controls. These days, developers build brawlers with cutting-edge graphics, responsive mechanics and fluid frame rates.
You might say the Shadow Fight series kicked off the revolution. It pushed the limits of production quality during an era when few others could or dared to. The latest installment in the popular franchise, Shadow Fight 3, continues the tradition with a familiar control scheme, a spectacular presentation and deep gameplay.
You start by customising your fighter – male or female – outfitting them with unique faces, hairstyles and costumes. Then it's on to training, where you quickly learn the ins and outs of winning matches.
The brawl system uses a combination of onscreen movements with button taps to execute both simple and complex manoeuvres. While this might have proved daunting, fighters respond quickly to your commands, and the silky-smooth graphics never falter. In minutes, you'll be dealing out powerful combos rendered with beautiful shadow effects. There are even three unique fighting styles to choose from.
The game is impressive. All manner of fighters come to life with smooth animations and detail. And crisp backdrops, with stony mountains and spitting fire, add flourish to the atmospheric experience. As you upgrade your characters, they'll meet opponents sporting new gear and more powerful weapons, all represented with rich visuals.
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Jungle Jim's Paradise Pavilion is no stranger to Last Call Trivia nights, but it will now also be a venue for Last Call Feud nights – starting August 9th! Last Call Feud nights will take place on Wednesdays at 8 pm. Feud players will be offered weekly drink specials and have the chance to win awesome prizes!
Venue Name: Jungle Jim's Paradise Pavilion
Day/Time: LAST CALL FEUD on Wednesdays at 8:00 pm
Start Date: August 9, 2017
Address: 4450 Eastgate South Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45245
Part of Town: Eastgate
Phone: 513-674-6000 ext 7791
Specials: Weekly drink specials available
Prizes: Swag and other great prizes
Parking Info: Large parking lot in rear of Jungle Jim's
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The past three years I have been all over the place, specifically when it comes to what I want to do job-wise. Or if I need a job. Or if wanting a job after I decided to be a stay at home mom was even fair to my family.
[Disclaimer: I recognize that the fact that I can ask these questions makes me privileged. I know there are many women who do not have a choice in whether or not they work outside the home and I don't want to diminish that. This is just a post about my own journey trying to figure out what I want to do.]
Two years ago, I decided I was going to be a group fitness instructor so I studied, took the test, passed, and actually became a certified group instructor. Then I did absolutely nothing with that certification. About three months after I passed the exam, I took a part-time job at boutique in Mandeville. I LOVED that job. The store was five minutes from my house and my part-time job did little to disrupt my family's routine and schedule. I looked forward to going to work. I liked learning about the retail business. I liked talking to customers. I liked helping them style an outfit that made them feel confident and beautiful. I liked merchandising the store. I was a sponge and soaked up every little bit of knowledge I could while I worked there. I even went to market in Dallas and no surprise, loved that, too! I had a desire one day to open my own boutique and I daydreamed about what I would name it. After about 7 months working there, J's job moved us back to Houston so I had to say goodbye to the part-time gig I adored!
Almost immediately after moving to Houston, I got a job at a well-known high-end boutique. I lasted three days. The boutique was thirty minutes from my house and child-care wasn't as easy to figure out as I had hoped. It was clear that it wasn't going to work out for my family even though I desperately wanted it to. Guess what? I had another idea! I'll start a blog! I mean, I could put together outfits and post them on the 'gram, right? Well, yes, right. But y'all… that adds up! I am not at the level where brands are sending me clothes to promote so I'm having to buy new stuff to highlight. Remember, my post about my out of control spending habits… yeah, the blog wasn't exactly helping me out in that area. I don't like the pressure of constantly putting out new content (read: a picture of me in a new outfit) and I don't like encouraging people to spend money just to spend money. I like helping people make smart wardrobe purchases for their lifestyle, budget, and style. So, where does that leave State of Sarah? Keep reading. It will all come together. I promise.
While I was launching my blog, I got ANOTHER job, this time as a part-time marketing assistant for an insurance company. I could work from home with a good friend who is amazing at what she does! How could it get any better? But… I quit that job, too. I was trying to do this blog thing, adjust to my husband's new commute and work schedule, and generally keep the wheels of our household running well and I wasn't doing a very good job at any of it. [Sidenote: During this time I realized I don't really like working from home. My house distracts me too much. It's because I can't let go of the mess, the dishes, the laundry. Any "work" I do, has to be outside of this house even if it's just a library or Starbucks.] About this time I also decided to go back to school and knock out a pesky foreign language requirement that has kept me from hanging a UT diploma on my wall.
Oh wait, and in the middle of this, I briefly flirted with starting my own event planning business since that is what I did when I worked before having children.
That's a lot of jobs, ideas, and certifications, isn't it? I often feel like I'm floundering. Whether it's right or wrong – my guess is that it's neither – I want something else to DO other than my housework and family management. Not that those things aren't a full-time job on their own. I think they are, but when I don't have a side gig, something inside of me gets restless. I really just want my job at Paix a Vous back, but since that's impossible, I am doing, yes, ANOTHER new thing.
If you've stuck with me this far, you deserve a cup of coffee or glass of wine. Go ahead; go fill it up because there's more.
A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a neighbor about a Lilla P dress I had ordered and how I thought it would be great to take on her family's European vacation. She assured me she didn't wear maxi dresses, but that she'd try it on since I suggested it. The next day I walked my dress across the street so she could try it on. She loved it! She ordered it! And was thankful I pushed her slightly out of her comfort zone. She suggested I could do this for other people and I thought to myself "I HAVE done this for other people!" How many times did I answer a friends text about their outfit? How many times did I suggest an outfit for a holiday party or work event? How many times have I gone through friends' closets with them and help them edit their wardrobe? And the idea for Sarah High Style, a closet consultation and personal shopping business, was born. This new venture takes all of the things I loved about my boutique job – helping women feel confident and beautiful – but without the risk of opening a brick and mortar store. Plus, I can manage my own schedule.
Is this going to work or will it be one more thing I add to my list of "things I've tried?" I don't really know. My plan is to start very small, very slow, and be consistent.
As for State of Sarah, I will still be here. You'll see I added a page called Sarah High Style in the headings. Now that my "fashion/clothing" itch will be scratched through Sarah High Style I feel freedom in being able to write about whatever I want… which is the point of having a blog, I suppose.
So, another new thing that all started with a black dress. Here we go.


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Yenny (HA:TFELT) Posts Pictures from Wonder Girls Reunion
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Yenny, or currently referred to by her solo artist name HA:TFELT, posted a picture of her posing alongside Yubin, Sunmi, and Sohee with the caption, "One cut where we all look fairly decent."
Even though Sohee had left the Wonder Girls and JYP Entertainment in order to pursue her career as an actress and Sunmi now being a solo artist, it still seems that the Wonder Girls stay in touch. Member Sun, who had just given birth to her first child last year and Lim are not included in the picture.
Fans were happy to see the group come together again and made comments such as, "It's been so long," "Sohee's gotten prettier," "It's so good to see the Wonder Girls together again," and more.
In related news, JYP Entertainment just recently had their concert "2014 JYP Nation - One Mic" on August 9th and 10th.


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Pixley Falls Paintings
Pixley Falls Paintings aren't as big as some other waterfalls at NY State Parks, but what they lack in height at 50′, is overcome by leaps and bounds with the beauty of this majestic area of Booneville, New York.
There are many, I am sure who wouldn't understand, but there is nothing more inviting to me than a trail through the woods, or a stream that beckons me to come hither. It seems soothing to the eyes to look upon any sight one might encounter at the Pixley Falls NY State Park.
Or how about on those hot sweltery afternoons. Flip flops on, and feet in a few inches of the clean, cold water? Even just the view in the winter, when the the woodsy aroma is no longer present, When you might be skiing on 2 feet of snow, just being able to see this work of art, created by Mother Nature's hand, frozen solid on each side is an invigorating experience!
There are those who do understand the allure. Those who plan weekends and vacations with their family on the bountiful availability of wonderful visits to these protected areas. For this, I am in total accord with people who can just look upon and adore time spent at Pixley Falls!


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Here's the most recent post from Jason Brubaker at FilmmakingStuff.com:
Stop Rewriting And Start Filmmaking
Most filmmakers spend too much time in screenplay rewriting mode, when they should start making their movie. Stop it. Get your screenplay to a point where you aren't going to keep changing things. How do you know when you are ready to lock your screenplay? Only you can decide.
But just in case you were feeling lost in la la land, here are some quick questions to test your readiness. Do you have enough money to make your movie in the time allotted? Are you happy with your movie? Can you close your eyes and imagine every scene playing out? Does your screenplay make sense?
If not, then you are not ready to lock your script. Why? Because once your script is locked, you can't change anything. I mean, you can – But do it before you create your final schedule and budget. Everything in your script impacts your schedule and your budget. And if you change one document, you change them all.
When you are ready to stop rewriting and start filmmaking, you may choose to utilize a movie production management system like LightSpeed Eps (they pay me). With this system, you can lessen your workload.
These types of programs allow you to upload your screenplay, collaborate on your movie with your team, and track any changes between the various departments. In this sense, if you do make changes, an online production management system can save you time as you create your final movie schedule.
If you need more help with your project, check out some of my professional filmmaking tools.
About Jason Brubaker
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[01] Interamerican allocates 319.6 mln euros in compensation in 2008Interamerican on Monday said it paid 319.6 million euros in compensation to policy-holders in 2008 and announced that more than 1,360 customers received either compensation or medical and road services on average daily during the same year.
The insurance company said compensations to customers totaled 2.14 billion euros in the period 2000-2008, with the Life insurance sector paying 143.24 million euros in 2008. In the Healthcare sector compensations totaled 76.28 million euros, in general insurance compensations totaled 74.20 million euros and in group insurance sector compensation totaled 25.91 million euros in 2008.
[02] Greek PMI down to 40 in Jan.Greece's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell further in January to 40 points, from 41 in December, a new record low for the third month in a row. The index, measuring business activity in the manufacturing sector, shows that the Greek manufacturing sector has fallen into a recession, with production, new orders, employment and inventories all falling significantly in the first month of 2009.
Production and employment shrank at a record rate in January, reflecting a sharp decline in domestic and foreign demand.
Readings above 50 points indicate a growing sector, while readings below 50 a shrinking sector.
[03] Organic farming 'abandoned', PASOK claimsMain opposition PASOK on Monday said the government had abandoned organic farming to its fate and lacked any kind of plan or policy for its development, in a question tabled in Parliament for Agricultural Development and Foods Minister Sotiris Hatzigakis by 47 main opposition MPs.
Pointing to a reduction in subsidies and the exclusion of organic products, as well as the overall reduction of organically farmed land by 39.5 percent, they asked why the government had abandoned the national action plan for organic farming launched by PASOK. This had foreseen a doubling of subsidies for basic organic produce, foundation of a national certification body and a National Organic Farming Council.
In their question, they claimed that consumers had doubts about the authenticity and quality of Greek organic label products and that the government was itself was creating obstacles for organic farmers attempting to make their products available to consumers at more affordable prices, as well as failing to install mechanisms to make such farming competitive.
[04] Ruling released on Alex caseA Thessaloniki court on Monday found six minors guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a ruling on the case involving the disappearance of Alex Meschisvili, an 11-year-old boy of Georgian descent that went missing from his home in the Greek town of Veria in February 2006.
The Thessaloniki Juvenile Court imposed incarceration in a juvenile delinquents' facility in Volos on two local minors until they turn of age.
For the other three defendants, the court turned over their custody to the Veria Child Protection Services, and imposed 4-hour daily public service and attendance of practical programs, and other reformatory measures.
The sixth minor, who is the older brother of the two local children sentenced to incarceration, was found guilty of making false testimonies and of harboring a criminal. The court turned over custody to the Veria Child Protection Services and also imposed reformatory measures.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency has confirmed for the first time that attempted extortion by senior IAAF officials extended beyond Russia and included a Turkish athlete, believed to be the London 2012 1500m gold medallist Asli Cakir Alptekin.
This week's 170-page report by the International Association of Athletics Federations, which unveiled blackmail and cover-ups at the highest level of the sport, referenced a September 2014 meeting between the Wada chairman, Sir Craig Reedie, and the then deputy Russian sports minister Yuri Nagornykh.
The minister said that Valentin Balakhnichev, president of the All Russia Athletics Federation and one of four senior officials banned by the IAAF ethics commission, had told him that ARAF had been blackmailed by the IAAF since 2011 and that "the system was in place not only in Russia but, potentially, in other countries such as Morocco and Turkey".
Balakhnichev denied the account but the ethics commission, chaired by Michael Beloff QC, said his denial was not credible. Wada has now confirmed that it discovered a similar case of attempted extortion, in which money was demanded in return for covering up suspicious blood values, in relation to a Turkish athlete.
The athlete is believed to be Alptekin, who won gold at London 2012 in the women's 1500m but should have already been banned according to her blood profile.
"Yes, we were able to use this information [as it relates to the suggestion of a similar system in Turkey and Morocco] to discover a case of attempted extortion of a Turkish athlete for money in exchange for covering up a doping rule violation. This information was passed on by Wada to the Independent Commission for its investigation," said a Wada spokesman.
Next week the former Wada president Dick Pound will present the second part of his investigation into systemic doping in Russia and the related corruption at the highest levels of the IAAF under the previous president Lamine Diack.
His son, Papa Massata Diack, and his lawyer, Habib Cissé, were named in the IAAF ethics commission report as being at the centre of a scheme to cover up a positive test by the marathon runner Lilya Shubukhova in return for €450,000.
Papa Massata Diack was also banned for life, while the former IAAF anti-doping chief Gabriel Dollé was banned for five years. Cissé has been questioned by French prosecutors investigating allegations that Lamine Diack pocketed more than €1m in return for covering up doping rule violations.
Pound referred to Alptekin in the first part of his report, which blew the lid on industrial-scale doping in Russia that first came to light thanks to an ARD documentary, in which he says the IAAF "ought to have expedited the matter to an ABP [Athlete Biological Passport] expert panel prior to the pending 2012 London Games". He does not come to a firm conclusion on the reasons for the delay.
The French prosecutor Elaine Houlette has also referred to the case, saying that the Turkish runner was approached a few months after the London Games and it was suggested she could pay to avoid punishment. "It was a sort of blackmail," Houlette said. "She refused."
In 2015, Alptekin was banned for eight years and stripped of her London 2012 gold. Immediately after the race the British runner Lisa Dobriskey, who finished ninth, sparked controversy by saying: "I don't believe I'm competing on a level playing field."
The IAAF president, Sebastian Coe, who succeeded Diack in August and has come under huge pressure in the face of the avalanche of allegations consuming the sport, declined to respond on Friday to criticisms levelled at him by Pound before the publication of the second part of his report.
He said that Coe and Sergey Bubka, then vice-presidents to Diack, could have acted sooner to press for a governance review and overhaul the IAAF's "19th-century constitution". "They had an opportunity a long time ago to address issues of governance, and you saw from the International Olympic Committee what happens if you don't do that," he told the Times.
But the Dutch IAAF Council member Sylvia Barlag moved to defend Coe, who has promised to overhaul the organisation's structure by the middle of the year in the face of continued questions over his handling of the crisis.
"Seb championed the establishment of the Ethics Commission and Code on the IAAF Council," said Barlag.
"I'd been on the council for two years and especially considering he'd come straight off leading the London Olympics he impressively drove the process forward with us. Without the independent commission the IAAF would not have had the mechanisms in place to investigate these matters which resulted in the sanctions which were delivered yesterday."
Meanwhile, the Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko has said that the decision to ban Balakhnichev, who was also the IAAF treasurer, had been expected and there was no sense in an appeal. Balakhnichev had previously said he would consider an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
IAAF inspectors will head for Russia on Monday in the first step towards deciding whether the country should be allowed back into international competition ahead of the Rio Olympics.


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The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODŻ) has published a second volume of "Preserving Jewish Heritage in Poland" highlighting its work in preserving and protecting Jewish heritage in Poland. It can be fully downloaded in PDF form.
FODŻ states that the new volume, richly illustrated with photographs and published thanks to the financial support of the Polish Foreign Ministry, "presents the most important and most spectacular activities for preserving monuments of Jewish culture that took place in Poland over the period 2002-2017."
Among them are projects including the revitalization of the synagogue in Zamosc, the ongoing renovation of the synagogues in Przysucha and Krasnik, and the restoration, fencing and creation of Holocaust memorials in several Jewish cemeteries.
The first volume of "Preserving Jewish Heritage in Poland" was published in 2012 to mark the 10th anniversary of FODŻ and can also be downloaded.
Click here to download the pdf of Volume 2
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Friday, March 22nd 7:30pm-10pm
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As Osho's personal attorney, Niren lived through the development and destruction of the Rajneeshpuram community in Oregon in the 80s. He experienced the human yearnings for transformation and freedom, and also the fear of the unknown and desire for power both outside and inside the Community.
In an hour and a half talk, followed by Q&A, Niren presents clear evidence aboutwhat actually happened to Osho and his community. Beyond the story told in Wild Wild Country lie more powerful and painful truths of the destructive actions of the United States government and Sheela Silverman, Osho's trusted assistant.
Niren shares the results of his 30-year investigation, including his findings of eight Freedom of Information Requests and four related litigations. He'll address statements by the key figures and reveal the bias in press reports.
Philip 'Niren' Toelkes, recently featured in Netflix's 'Wild Wild Country', has been Osho's disciple and personal attorney since 1981 as well as Osho's personal representative to the United States. Niren has been a certified hypnosis and NLP practitioner for over 25 years. He has used his analytical skills and meditation based awareness to develop and refine techniques and practices which apply hypnosis, self hypnosis and NLP techniques to awareness. He's devoted to deepening and expanding access to awareness, relaxation and new chosen ways of being to transform unwanted, unhelpful habits and beliefs.


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Made a mistake in my life today
everything I love gets lost in drawers.
I want to start over, I want to be winning,
way out of sync from the beginning...
Oh, I just did so bad in calculus, leaving half an exam blank, and not quite getting nice results in anything else. I'm so stressed... and confuseed (dazed and confused).
And not only because of academics.
(I do apologise for the moodiness of late posts, many of you know why it is. If you don't, tough love. Oh, and my summer pictures are developed, but I cannot scan them. I'm really looking forward to doing so, though).
I wanna hurry home to you,
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So you can put a blue ribbon on my brain,
God I'm very, very frightening
I'll overdo it...
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By BILL STEVENSON
Adam Rapp writes knowingly about complicated and testy relationships often revolving around various family members. Kindness is no exception.
Adam Rapp has a talent for writing about complicated and often testy relationships, whether they involve family members, friends, or lovers. His latest play, Kindness, is no exception. Its four characters are compelling individually but are much more so when they interact. While it isn't as poetic as Rapp's Nocturne or Red Light Winter (a Pulitzer finalist), Kindness artfully combines humor, pathos, and an unpredictable plot.
The setting is a midtown Manhattan hotel room shared by Dennis (Christopher Denham), a 17 year old who attends a military academy, and Maryanne (Annette O'Toole), his quintessentially Midwestern mother. Visibly weak and using a cane, Maryanne has terminal cancer and hopes to have a fun, touristy weekend despite her illness. She and Dennis frequently butt heads. He's an apathetic, moody teenager who doesn't want to be his mother's caregiver- she's often frustrated with him, her temper flaring because she's so sick.
It sounds like a grim mother-son drama, but Rapp opens it with a funny scene in which Dennis is caught in an embarrassing situation. The playwright also gets laughs every time a character describes the musical Maryanne is seeing, Survivin'! The imaginary show bears an uncanny resemblance to Rent, which starred the playwright's brother Anthony Rapp.
Dennis skips the musical, so Maryanne takes a friendly cab driver, Herman (Ray Anthony Thomas). Left alone, Dennis meets a flirtatious woman named Frances (Katherine Waterston) who wears a floral-print dress and admits that she lives off of wealthy older men. A young femme fatale, Frances doesn't take herself too seriously. After all, she dances around the hotel room to Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit."
It's hard to see what the striking Frances would see in the unworldly Dennis. And when we learn that she's gotten herself into some trouble, it doesn't make sense that she would hang around the hotel for so long. Frances and Dennis' scene together in the first act is amusing but drags a bit. Other than the occasional slow pacing, however, Rapp did a good job directing his play.
The four actors are all just right for their characters and work together beautifully. Denham shows Dennis' mopey, immature side but also shows how hard he's taking his mother's illness. O'Toole is equally good, and the two actors are convincing as mother and son even though they don't look alike. Though Waterston can't make everything Frances does entirely believable, she's fun to watch and expertly delivers her second-act monologue. Thomas is on stage the least but quickly establishes Herman as being much nicer than almost any actual cabbie.
Like most of Rapp's plays, Kindness has a small cast and a rather claustrophobic setting. Small-scale, intimate drama may be his specialty, but it would be nice to see him try a more ambitious, wide-ranging play with more than a handful of characters. Rapp has plenty of talent. Maybe it's time for him to paint on a bigger canvas.


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MURRAY, Utah (ABC4 Utah) Two men are behind bars after police say they were involved the rape of a 14-year-old girl.
It happened on Saturday, Sept. 9th. Police say the girl snuck out to meet three guys while having a sleepover with a friend. She told police they had planned to meet up over SnapChat. The victim said they went to a mall parking lot, a hookah bar, and party at a home. She said the "last thing she remembered was leaving the party and being in the back seat of the car and one of the males was kissing her and she told him to stop".
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After investigating police arrested Lecalire Donjim "LA" and his brother Richard Djassera. Djassera admitted to police he recorded Donjim and "Donjim's friend" with the girl because he "thought it was funny".


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Trips to Fort Whyte Alive are always nice. It is on the outskirts of Winnipeg, but you feel immersed right in nature. There are lakes, ponds or puddles, pastures, bush, a treehouse, bird feeding stations and a lot of birds and other critters. It is a great place to just get away without actually leaving… Continue reading A Couple of Hours at Fort Whyte Alive – part 2
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The Martha's Vineyard Food and Wine Festival is a 4-day event that highlights not only the island's deep farming and fishing history but showcases both local and culinary talent by highlighting chefs from both the island, as well as from around the globe. This year Lark Hotels very own Group Executive Chef Justin Purdue will be featured at the festival!
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Since I would be leaving in the morning, that last night at dinner John's curiosity finally kicked in with a ton of questions. Late into the evening I carefully answered them best I could, desperately trying not to alter his amazingly innocent ideas of the world outside of Tari. Other than the threat of localized tribal warfare, life in Tari was eat, sleep and be merry. Notice no mention of drink.
Though still with that feeling of having eaten too much, weariness eventually set in. Getting up from the table, I curled up on my bunk, running my hand across the mattress chuckling to myself, aware that tomorrow night I won't be so fortunate. John did the same and soon was snoring in the bunk alongside. Best to get sleeping quickly before the snoring kept me awake all night I thought as conscientiousness peacefully faded into darkness.


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The first meeting of the Russian-Austrian public forum «Sochi dialogue» will be held in Sochi, roughly in 2019, reported RIA Novosti the Russian Ambassador in Austria Dmitry lubinsky.
«The place of the first meeting of the forum is Sochi, and we orientirueshsya that it will be next year,» he said.
Lubinsky noted that the first full-scale meeting of the forum should be accompanied by some event on a political level, now there are several options in relation to what the meeting could be arranged.
«Then the forum will start to travel. The next meeting will be held in a year in Austria, maybe in Salzburg. Job started», — the diplomat added.


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The bad news: There was at least a 15 car pile up this morning right behind me. The good news: Since I was already talking on the telephone, I switched to the local radio station and gave a live report on the scene...until they all attacked me.
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The thoughts of an Artist on Art and its connections to life and the philosophy of Taoism.
Saturday, 11 September 2010
Just Before You Tell Me.
I do tell lots of little stories, because I love to hear them. I hope though that my little stories are seen for what they are. They are stories to inspire us to think a bit more . To maybe even make us turn to action.
Yesterday I was walking home deep in thought, putting one foot in front of the other. The next thing I knew a "friend " was walking next to me and speaking to me. I laughed and apologised I had not heard him coming up at the back of me. We walked together and passed the time of day. At first we were only talking about gardens and vegetables, things we have in common. Then he said to me, "Have you heard about," and he mentioned a name. I knew immediately he was about to tell me a little story. It was a little story about a friend of mine and yes I had heard it before. What is more I knew the little story was not true, and that it was wrong to repeat it and just as bad of me to consider listening to it again. So instead I told him of Socrates. Yes I do that, not just on blogs do I tell my little stories.
I am sure some of you have heard of Socrates, and some of you may even have heard this little tale.
In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?"
"Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."
"Triple filter?"
"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say. That's why I call it the triple filter test.
The first filter is Truth.
Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"
"No," the man said, "Actually I just heard about it and ..."
"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not.
Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness.
Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?"
"No, on the contrary…"
"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not certain it's true.
You may still pass the test though, because there's one filter left: the filter of Usefulness.
Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?"
"No, not really …"
"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"
Strangely enough after I told him that little story he went back to talking about his garden. We enjoyed the rest of the walk up the road.
So I give you the triple filter test. It may or it may not be useful.
Now having said that I have never heard anything bad said on blogging about others. In fact it is a world full of good words. I just wish today though I could get past the words and find a way to help a fellow blogger in need. Then blogging would have taken me beyond words.
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I've never heard the Socrates tale before but it's a really good story. I think next time I'm enclined to gossip I'll try to remember it!ReplyDelete
I wish we could all be strong enough to discourage those gossip-mongers... who love nothing better than to draw an audience and get a big reaction from their story, at the expense of somebody else. I think I'm guilty of spreading a few rumors, myself, when I think about it... Good advice, Ralph, I'll think of it as the TGUF test: (Truth,Goodness,Usefulness,Forget it).ReplyDelete
Hey Katherine I like that idea the only thing I worry about is that whenever you use letters some smart person moves them round and makes them say something else.ReplyDelete
Gossip indeed; rampant in suburbia Canada! I'm afraid I was guilty of saying "Please don't tell me, I don't like tall tales!.ReplyDelete
I was taught if you had nothing good to say....then say nothing!
Yes, Sherry's on all our minds... We wish her well on her difficult journey.ReplyDelete
I agree. Nice things is what I continue to find in the art blogging world. Artists are a wonderful bunch of people. Like the story.
A good filtering system leaves behind what is good and pure. A+ on this one!ReplyDelete
Good Morning Ralph, I am perhaps too well today!ReplyDelete
I dreamt last night of all the places that I have slept: cars, for sure and telephone booths, the occasional train station bench when was wealthy enough to afford the train, and many other uncomfortable places. One always wakes up a bit stiff and groggy from a restless sleep and knowing that you won't find a hot shower, you wonder if you can find clean underwear! I never could afford hot food, frequented very few restaurants, and mostly ate from grocery stores:
rolls and peanut butter and the occasional lunch meat on the better days. Life quickly becomes about survival. There is no jolly talk with friends, you actually learn to avoid them in embarrassment. It becomes easier to get help from strangers and you don't have to explain the horrible circumstances that got you here. Books became friends, I could get lost in a mystery novel, huddled with blankets in my car, my home.
Mostly you pass time, eager for the night and sleep. that comforter of all. Art becomes a dream
sequestered with other memories of childhood and food and a warm bed. I did all this when I was young, 17 and 18 and voluntarily "ran away" from home. It was all a luxury, an adventure, a wanderyear and I look back on it with a sense of amazement: how in the heck did I survive that?
Now I am an old man, stuck in my ways, and having the luxury of a hot bath every morning, a bubble bath at that! and then I go about my day doing whatever I feel like doing, never giving a thought to survival. It has all become so incredibly easy and I sometimes wonder if it should be that way? My dreams last night.
My blog is the one on ArtWanted, not connected to this system.
I'm thinking of Sherry too--! I hope she is sketching and getting together lots of material that she will share with us when she can. You story reminds me of how the Buddhists teach about "right-talk" --it has to do with always speaking with good (and not bad) intentions. You do that very naturally--I try not to gossip--(I try!)ReplyDelete
Yes, this is a wonderful post! It is like this..you write an email to someone and read again before you hit the send button.. most of the time when you read, you may want to delete certain things that you need not have written.. once you hit the send button, you have done the damage.. I keep this in mind while talking to any one.. hold back for a second and then talk!As a result, my talking has reduced a lot and I have become more silent than ever before, is another story!ReplyDelete


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The customer initialized and loaded the legacy database but all of the models remain. The customer expected that the models would be removed but they were reloaded.
As of Spectrum 10.2.2, the legacy.SSdb file is created from a catalog and model save of the SpectroSERVER database during upgrade. Which is contrary to the old legacy.SSdb which only saved the catalog and therefore was devoid of models in the models portion of the SpectroSERVER database.
Spectrum 10.2.2 or greater.
If the desire is to initialize the SpectroSERVER database to have only the "out of box" models in the db the following can be run via command line:
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This will initialize the SpectroSERVER database and load just the modeling catalog back in while removing all models except for the base models shipped with Spectrum that are needed for management (for example, the VNM etc).
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The first six-month window for Americans to gain health insurance under the Affordable Care Act closed on Monday with large numbers of consumers speeding to get coverage at the last minute. Some of them encountered obstacles as HealthCare.gov, the main enrollment website, stumbled on and off throughout the day.
The first six-month window for Americans to gain health insurance under the Affordable Care Act closed on Monday with large numbers of consumers speeding to get coverage at the last minute. Some of them encountered obstacles as HealthCare.gov, the main enrollment website, stumbled on and off throughout the day.
Union halls, shopping-mall kiosks and insurance company lobbies across the country were jammed with people racing to get insurance on the final day before the law required most Americans to choose health insurance or risk a financial penalty.
"It's like going into the mall on Christmas Eve," said Brian Lobley, senior vice president of Independence Blue Cross, which set up a "Countdown to Coverage" with extra desks and phone lines in the usually empty lobby of its headquarters four blocks from city hall in Philadelphia's Center City. Employees whose jobs have nothing to do with sales were pressed into service, and customers were triaged as they walked in, with priority given to people who had not even begun to shop for insurance before Monday.
In Los Angeles, the local affiliate of the Service Employees International Union began an enroll-athon at 5 a.m. and, by the end of the day, had attracted more than 700 people to a lively scene with food trucks, music and more than 50 staffers and volunteers.
By the time President Barack Obama appeared Monday evening on "CBS Evening News," he sounded relieved. "We admittedly had just a terrible start because the website wasn't working," Obama said, referring to the site's rocky beginnings. "But given how gloomy I think everybody's assessment was back in the middle of November, I'd say that we're on our way to making sure that no American ever has to go without health care."
Late in the day, federal officials could not say how many people had signed up. But health officials said that, by 4 p.m., 840,000 people had phoned in to a network of call centers across the country — about 300,000 more than the total for any other day since the federal insurance marketplace and 14 similar state ones opened on Oct. 1.
The outpouring of last-minute interest reinforced arguments by the Obama administration and its allies, made since the law was enacted four years ago, that it would become popular once Americans had a chance to get the new health plans that it spawned — and, in most cases, with federal subsidies to help pay for them.
Still, as the deadline arrived, fresh evidence emerged that the law, which has set in motion the broadest changes to the U.S. health-care system in nearly half a century, remains mired in a wide partisan divide. A new Washington Post poll indicates that three in four Democrats support the law — a rise of 11 percentage points since January — compared with one in five Republicans.
The last day of sign-ups contained an echo of the computer troubles that dominated the early months of the open-enrollment period last fall. During two periods of the day that lasted a total of several hours, HealthCare.gov was inaccessible to new customers — and early on, to anyone at all.
Instead of opening at 5 a.m. as scheduled after a routine maintenance period, the website remained closed until after 8 a.m. because of a software problem. Then, starting shortly after noon Monday, visitors to the website were greeted with a screen saying, "We need you to wait here, so we can make sure there's room for you to have a good experience on our site." The screen invited users to leave email addresses so they could be contacted when the volume lessened, although it was unclear whether that would be later Monday or after the official deadline.
Federal health officials equivocated about the reason for the second problem, saying it was caused primarily by the large numbers of customers coming to the site — but not ruling out that a second software problem was at fault. During this time, consumers were unable to start new applications, although those who already were further along in the steps towards enrollment were able to continue, according to Aaron Albright, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency overseeing the new insurance exchange.
By about 1:30 p.m., the site had begun to reopen, although access to it remained intermittent throughout the afternoon and into the evening as federal health officials instituted a "virtual waiting room" for people who could not get on the site.
By late afternoon, Jeanne Devoe, a retiree who lives outside Asheville, N.C., had been trying for more than an hour to get onto HealthCare.gov to help her 27-year-old son get a health plan. He had begun the application process before but could not remember his password. Devoe had gotten the website to send a link to reset the password, but every time she tried to log back in, she said, she encountered a screen telling her that the site "has a lot of visitors right now!" She phoned a call center and got a recording saying that someone would call back in five to seven business days.
"We've gotten lots of phone calls and lots of interest," said Christopher Cook, owner of Alliance Insurance, an independent insurance agency with three offices around the Winston-Salem, N.C., metro region. He said Monday night that Alliance's offices talked to 48 people who wanted to sign up, but because of the website troubles they were able to complete only two enrollments online.
Such frenzy materialized Monday even though Obama administration officials had been mindful of the potential for a last-minute surge. They had acknowledged publicly that they were uncertain whether HealthCare.gov could withstand a late rush.
As a result, administration officials decided last week to try to take pressure off the official deadline, saying that anyone who had tried to choose a health plan in the new insurance marketplaces by the last day of March could ask for an extension. People can claim the extra time through an as-yet-unspecified date in April. The government will rely on an honor system in which people will simply have to click on a blue screen, scheduled to appear on HealthCare.gov after Monday, saying that they had previously attempted to enroll.
"I try to tell people: 'Don't worry. Just because you can't get in right now, it doesn't mean you won't be able to,' " said Karla Borders, a manager for enrollment assisters at a senior center in southeastern Wyoming, who spent Monday fielding calls from anxious people who had not yet gotten insurance.
During the past two days, however, scattered consumers were reporting that they had phoned call centers, aware of the chance to get extra time, and were told erroneously that no such extensions exist.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015
39 comments:
Would it surprise you to know that I do not care? I am not interested in the sex lives or lifestyles of anyone. What consenting ADULTS choose to do is none of my business. Don't shove it under my nose and I do not care. As far as marriages being legal... marriage pertaining to law is strictly for the purpose of paying a tax to the government to cohabit. A religious ceremony is to comply with the rules of a chosen religion. In other words it really does not matter to me.ReplyDelete
A most interesting and astute post. My partner and I were just talking about this subject recently. Sometimes nature needs a hand to help a Heterosexual couple have children but it is still nature with a helping hand and the balance is there.ReplyDelete
Of course there will be those who argue that if people were meant to fly we would have been born with wings and man adapts. Not the same thing when it comes to children.
Do not be conformed to the ways of this world...ReplyDelete
It all comes down to who you gaive authority to over your life. If you give it to the courts, there you go. If you give it to God, I would say his law is over the courts. I think that scripture clearly lays out that homosexual relations are a sin.
We can not legislate morality. We have laws against killing, and yet people kill. We have commandments against killing, and people kill.
Where I will have a problem is if in "Sex Education" at schools they begin teaching homosexuality as a viable relationship. That will go against the religeous beliefs of some and I imagine three will be plenty of court battles. But you know it is coming.
I think that we often argue things that waste our energy. Will I perform a homosexual marriage - no it is against my beliefs. Do I have a problem with homosexuals, no. It is their life and they must choose. I have several as good friends, but that does not mean I condone their behavior.
I really don't care, but I think this will open the door to plural marriage and perhaps some other oddities. And, okay, if that floats your boat....but don't demand that priests or churches marry you. If want us to respect your ways, then you must respect ours.ReplyDelete
I think there is far too much of expecting others to bend for you going on in this country. But...that is a post for another day.
They have made this such a political issue. I avoid political issues as much as I can. I don't really care what other people do unless they hurt other people.ReplyDelete
Sodomy has been a generation to generation phenomenal, and no country can actually be excluded. Its only call for attention when its been legalized by the institution which supposed to protect the morality of its citizens. haven considered the following dangers of such a union among others.ReplyDelete
1.Marriage between male and female has
been consigned to the uncivilised basket of
the primordial time.
2.The legal natural and conventional means
of procreation of children has been
rubbished and rendered irrelevant.
3.Adoption of other people's children has
become a new artificial means of increasing
human demography.
4.Through a devilish connivance with Europe,
America has challenged the authority of the
Almighty God to make law for mankind.
Human history is generally dotted with waves
of civilisations from era to era. The fall of
one civilisation has always signaled the
beginning of another.
Where are the civilisations of the yore today?
Haven't such ancient civilisations, such as
Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Mesopotamian,
Carthaginian, Greek and Roman each of
which lasted far more than a thousand years
now become sheer rubbles on the pages of
history? From the experience of history, we
have come to learn that when a civilisation
wants fall, its conductors will begin to see
themselves as super human beings and clad
in the garb of arrogance. That is now the lot
of America which amounts to challenging the
authority of God.Replies
I am amazed at the extensive knowledge you have on the subject. Best wishesDelete
You will probably guess my response. As a humanist I am in favour of the law. You mentioned mother's milk. To me it is more important to focus on human love. Will children raised by gays have that? Yes, because I have seen them. A person's achievement or failure as a parent is not down to their sexuality or culture or religion or gender. It is down to their whole human self. To me it does not matter whether gay people want to get married or not, only that they are consider themselves to be as human as everyone else and that we treat them as such. The same goes with black people, Hindus, disabled, women, you name it, we're a diverse bunch. Why the blinkers?ReplyDelete
Greetings from London.
Hi Joseph. I've found you again.ReplyDelete
As remembered, you post interesting topics and this one especially. I agree with Cuban's comment on the subject and definitely agree with the new law. It isn't so much for now as for the future, to legalise situations. I have often wondered about the difficulties ahead, at times of sickness and death, and the need to prove relationships.
Oh but you're truly at your best with big issues such as this. You make people think with your posts. Thank you, and keep on shining with your light.ReplyDelete
Best regards.
You have certainly chosen a sensitive topic! I have several gay friends. (There seems to be quite a few of them in the arts.) I do not understand that lifestyle, but I do not judge them. As far as marriage goes, I am a conservative, old fashioned person who believes marriage should be between a man and a woman. I believe the purpose of marriage is to create a stable family environment. Yes, gay people can adopt and love children, but I wonder if there would be any negative affects on the child from having two same-sex parents. Men and women approach parenting differently. I would be interested on seeing long-term studies done on it. I also realize that gay couples would like the same government benefits as heterosexual couples, and they want their love recognized. I think though, that there may be problems with the crossing of church and state when religious officials refuse to marry same-sex couples. This is a semantics thing, but I almost wish it could be called a "civil union" rather than a marriage.ReplyDeleteReplies
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"This is a semantics thing, but I almost wish it could be called a "civil union" rather than a marriage."
I agree with Sherry... I think of a marriage as being between a man and a woman... and like her, I agree with the idea of a 'civil union.' I don't want to see a government mandating to a religion that they should have to accept some accord that is at odds with their belief system.
When two people love each other, why aren't they allowed to make such devotion and commitment legal and binding, regardless of their gender or sexual preference? Unions need to be "legalized" in the eyes of the law with regards to property and even when consent is needed or required. How is committing into one by virtue of marriage considered "perverse"? Love is love and it takes so many forms, and we all have the right to make it official, one that is recognized by the state. Won't it make better individuals if we actually "commit" to love, to cherish and to stand by another person until the last breaths of their lives? How is looking down on the choices of others a form of "respect"? There are concerns here, situations that don't quite make the criteria for what is traditional, but it is time that people should wake up to the realities of the new age - and allow people who love each other commit into something more than just bed partners.ReplyDelete
Believe in the right of the individual to choose their own lifestyle ~ReplyDelete
happy weekend coming to you,
artmusedog and carol
__I thank you for your visit, Joseph, welcome!ReplyDelete
A few points:
_1, The words >less is more< are not mine, 'tis an old Japanese phrase to metaphorically avoid tripping over our own clutter.
_2, Life style should be regulated by inner, socio-religious morality... not
legislation; just ask my daughter.
_3, Today, if I use the word GAY... within its original definition to which " I " hold true... I could quite easily be accused being -insulting-,.regardless of the true context of that word's use. __In today's society... if someone uses the word >moon< to describe that glowing globe in the night sky, someone, somewhere, might feel offended.
I hope I haven't anyone_! Smiles and best wishes to all_! _m
I think this law is a good thingReplyDelete
They need to be treated like any other human beingsReplyDelete
Hi Joseph!ReplyDelete
Personally, I really don't think it matters at all whether a couple are heterosexual or same sex. What matters is whether or not they love each other.
I have no problem at all with same sex marriages.
If they are in love, then they should be allowed to marry.
Many thanks for a great post!
Have a good day.:)
Hi Joseph! What a controversial topic you have tackled! I have known gay people throughout my life, and they are largely fine and decent people. I can say the same thing about heterosexual people. I believe in the dignity and worth of each human being, and I see the gay rights movement as a civil rights movement. In the USA religion and state are separate. No religious entity should be forced to perform a marriage that goes against its tenets. But gay people should not be denied the civil rights that others have, including marriage performed by a civil servant. As an elementary teacher, I have seen many kinds of families; the most challenged are those where there is a single poor parent. I have observed many heterosexual couples who do not provide a stable and nurturing home for their children, and I've observed gay female and male couples who are great parents. One thing that children always need is to be loved for who they are. If children are loved, guided, and supported they usually turn out to be happy and productive adults. That can be achieved by gay and by straight parents, and isn't that the goal of all parents? Thanks for listening to all these points that different commentators have shared.ReplyDelete
I fully support the gay marriage.ReplyDelete
we must respect human rights and maintain equality
it's been said that all humans must not be deprived of their human rights of happiness, life and the likes. Give them the equal treatment of the law. and inform them of their duties and responsibilities entailing the exercise of such right.ReplyDelete
I have no issue whatsoever with this. I'm in full support. We all thrive on love.ReplyDelete
This is controversial. And though I am a Christian, I say as an individual that gays have a right to a relationship and marriage. I have a lot of gay friends who are good people. So I'm speaking not on behalf of the church but as a person.ReplyDelete
I support the right of gay people to get married and also to adopt children. All children deserve parents who want them and can provide a loving home.ReplyDelete
I have been staying out of this....I have gay friends that I wish well for them.ReplyDelete
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Hi! Joseph you have chosen a very relevant topic for the present social climate.The topic is very vast and we can go ahead very elaborately.Now coming to the point,at the outset itself I shall reveal that I am against gay or lesbian's marriage.I don't like to attach such a holy word with this beastly activity( not even beasts do this),I would call it a tainted act. I shall bring forth some points in support to my thoughts and feelings.ReplyDelete
Nature comprises of two kinds of beings homosexuals and bisexuals.The Nature has given homesexuals their featues such that they have that method of union and reproduction whereas the bisexuals have very vivid male-female body-features of severance.Then why should they go for homo?When the Nature itself has given us bifurcation for bisexuality homosexuality is in fact perverse also.
Gay or lesbian marriage is legalized if,the social climate will become solely favourable to the homosexuals.More people may choose it and as a result it will progressively expand in number and the population will naturally contract.When it is not legal, at least some people will wipe off their desire from the mind fearing the reputation in the society and others who go for it will build a hide-out for themselves.
Until now the same category of people can move freely irrespective of their age. In a legalized society anybody can develop any sort of lust for others and hence children may fall prey to the hands of ruffians, rogues and so on.
The open acceptance of gay marriage will have its implication in the society and hence children also will get some hints of information.They may experiment it in their life out of curiosity.
If we go on debating on it we may find words and sentences flowing for the topic.I am concluding fully supporting only the conventional conservative life style of bisexualty.It will deteriorate the very harmony prevalent in the surroundings.Replies
I had posted two times my comment here.I think the second one happened before your approval of the first. Now I saw that one comment had some mistakes;might have posted without reading it.So I deleted that. Regret for this inconvenience caused to you.Delete
No problem at all. I am delighted to read your thoughtful comment.Delete
Best wishes
As a point of fact there are approximately 1500 animal species who practice homosexuality.Delete
The incomplete comment had got published here.ReplyDelete
It's as simple as this. I don't think I have the right to tell someone else who they can love and live with anymore than they have the right to tell me who I can love and live with.ReplyDelete
Very delightful Onam days !ReplyDeleteReplies
Many, many thanks. Wish you the sameDelete
I think the things that are seen rarely and spoken of less are the things that are hard to accept by the majority. Everyone wants to be right and accepted for what they think and say and hence there is always a majority of like minded people who forms code of conduct and how others should lead their lives. The gay/lesbians took so much time to come up and raise their voices for their rights before the majority! If you will accept yourself for who you are the world will accept you, and now they are being accepted as normals unlike before!ReplyDelete
I loved the first comment on this post by Emma " I am not interested in the sex lives or lifestyles of anyone. What consenting ADULTS choose to do is none of my business. "
Nice post! :)
I want them to be trested as human beings. Though thry msy not have children ehy csn't teo duch people live together under what ever name.ReplyDelete


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Floating Wind: French, Japanese Firms Partner
French floating foundations developer Ideol and Japanese renewable specialist Shizen Energy have signed an agreement to jointly develop a commercial-scale floating offshore wind project (OWF) off the coasts of Kyushu in Japan.
The agreement was signed in Tokyo today by Paul de la Guérivière, CEO of Ideol, and Masaya Hasegawa, Representative Director of Shizen Energy, during the state visit of Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic. Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of Economy, attended the signing ceremony.
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While the companies are currently examining the implementation of floating offshore wind power projects in Kyushu, they are also considering expanding the partnership to other regions in the future.
"With our two full-scale demonstrators in operation in France and in Japan, as well as a pre-commercial wind farm under development in the French Mediterranean, Ideol and its patented Damping Pool technology are at the forefront of a cost competitive and rapidly accelerating floating offshore wind industry," said Paul de la Guérivière, CEO of Ideol.
Masaya Hasegawa, founder of Shizen Energy said, "Working on floating wind projects in Japan means to expand the country's potential of renewable energy significantly, as the country is surrounded by sea areas with deep water and complex geographies. This is especially valuable challenge for Shizen Energy, aim to co-create 100% renewable-powered world. We believe that our collaboration will accelerate the potential of renewable energy in Japan."


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That's the sound of an imploding ping-pong ball. At least, that's the sound I believe an imploding ping-pong ball makes. I'm not even sure why I ever wondered that, but since at least the early 90s, that has been the sound. Recently, we inherited a ping-pong table and that is what brought this to mind.
The ping-pong table resides in the basement with my record collection, and my second favorite chair, and my Star Wars collection. Hmm…seems like a lot of my stuff has ended up in the basement. Oh well, c'est la vie. Truth is, I don't really mind all that much. C. doesn't like to be in the basement, and while it's not really what you might consider a "man-cave", it is a nice place to go and get away from it all for awhile. It even has a beer fridge.
So, the other day I was down in the basement listening to records and playing some ping-pong. I have it set up for one person to play at the moment because the epic ping-pong battle between the Neighbor and myself has not yet become a reality. I put on Georges Bizet's "Carmen", a lovely little opera with quite a few hummable tunes and it was then that I remembered the connection between this particular opera, ping-pong, and the sound that an imploded ping-pong ball makes.
Back in the day, when I first started college, I used to hang out at the Interfaith Center with several good friends, not the least of whom were my best friend J. and the leader of my particular faith branch office, Bryan. There used to be quite a few games of ping-pong played and, while I was decent, I was easily distracted. J. used to distract me with the mere mention of Natasha's sweater. Natasha was a student from Russia who filled out a sweater like no other woman. I'm not ordinarily a breast man, but (and please pardon the overt chauvinism) the term "sweater-puppies" was not the least bit uncalled for. It didn't hurt that she filled out the rest of her clothes either…but I digress. Bryan used to distract me with Bizet's "Carmen" which may seem a bit odd, but allow me to explain. When we got into a rhythm, the bouncing of the ball sounded like the cello line of the aria "Habanera" and when Bryan pointed this out, I would be distracted listening for the rhythm, and I would inevitably lose. Bryan and I were also the ones who came up with the sound of the imploding ping-pong ball in a completely unrelated event.
Back to the basement, I found that while listening to "Carmen", I was still unable to concentrate during the "Habanera" and would consistently lose to the table and have to chase the ball around the basement. Those were good times. And to that end, I've found the following video which, while not having anything to do with ping-pong, will certainly be enjoyable to anyone who enjoys "Carmen." And, I suppose if you do play ping-pong, this particular video will make you unable to concentrate on that or anything else…enjoy!
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Cook bacon in a large skillet until crisp; remove bacon, reserving 2 tablespoons drippings in skillet.
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At the UFC 113 post-fight press conference Dana White revealed who had won the $65,000 fighter bonus awards for the evening.
Many people had predicted before the event that Jeremy Stephens and Sam Stout would pick up the 'Fight Of The Night' award and indeed that proved to be the case.
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