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Paediatric Urology
Are you seeking an experienced specialist in the medical field of Pediatric Urology? With PRIMO MEDICO, you will only find specialists, clinics, and centers in your area of expertise in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
- Specialists in the Field of Paediatric Urology
- Information About the Field of Paediatric Urology
- Common Diseases Treated by Pediatric Urologists
- How do Pediatric Urologists Treat Children?
- What are Prognoses and Progressions After Pediatric Urology Treatment?
- Find a Pediatric Urology Specialist in Germany & Austria
Specialists in the Field of Paediatric Urology
Information About the Field of Paediatric Urology
Due to the wide range of infantile urological diseases, the profession of the pediatric urologist was introduced. After graduating in urology, urologists complete a special training program in pediatric urology in order to become a pediatric urologist. Urologists for kids work closely together with general pediatricians and pediatric surgeons .
Urology is generally known to deal with male medicine. People often think, urologists treat especially older men with potency problems and urinary incontinence. But their work area goes far beyond. Urologists medicate inherited and acquired diseases of the kidneys, bladder, and external genitalia, whether male or female. However, some illnesses already appear in early childhood and can lead to serious problems. This is the time when the pediatric urologist or pediatric surgeon comes into play.
Common Diseases Treated by Pediatric Urologists
Urologists for kids attend to children's congenital and acquired diseases of the urinary tract. Around 30% of all inherited malformations affect the urinary system.
Impairments in the development of the child's urinary tract include missing or underdeveloped kidneys and deformities of the ureter (constrictions, adhesions, 2-fold grown ureter, misleading orifices to other organs). Sometimes, these defects result in a backflow of urine into the kidneys or the urine cannot drain off properly. Because this condition is an endangerment for the kidneys, pediatric surgeons need to perform an incision.
Especially boys can be affected by misleading orifices of the urethra. In such cases, the opening does not end at the top of the glans but further on top or bottom of the penis (hypospadias, epispadias)
If the affliction of posterior urethral valves (sail-like protrusions in the urethra) occurs, problems with urination and urinary tract infections are a result. In this situation, pediatric urologists need to take surgical measures immediately.
A cause of bladder dysfunction is a complex malformation like spina bifida (incomplete closure of the spine and possibly spinal cord). This deformation requires a greater and more interdisciplinary treatment by urologists for kids and pediatric surgeons.
If a youngster receives a major incision, he also obtains all forms of counseling on issues like wetting pants (enuresis) or urinary incontinence. Foreskin constriction, urinary stone disease, and undescended testicles can all be successfully treated in pediatric urology as well. Testicular tumors, which can occur especially at young age, require a particularly careful clarification and therapy.
How do Pediatric Urologists Treat Children?
In the field of pediatric urology, comprehensive research of cause and diagnostics is essential. In addition, co-supervision by experienced psychologists is advisable in some cases, because little kids can often neither cope with heavy diagnoses nor with the additional stress involved.
Pediatric urologists perform various diagnostic procedures such as checking the functioning of kidneys or bladders. In addition, with the help of imaging techniques (ultrasound, MRI, CT), disorders and tissue changes can be detected.
Pediatric surgeons are able to perform certain minor procedures on an outpatient basis and sometimes under local anesthesia such as the removal of boys' foreskins. Major operations in pediatric urology require hospitalization and general anesthesia. It is important, however, to explain the youngsters all steps involved in the surgical process as child-friendly and understandable as possible at all times.
In certain situations, it is necessary for pediatric urologists to execute emergency treatments. Especially if the survival of an organ is at risk, he has to act quickly. This can be the case with injuries of the urinary tract or with a twisting of the testicles (testicular torsion).
If the kidneys of a child are too severely damaged, a kidney transplant may be necessary in some rare cases. This must be carefully planned by the urology doctor and his team. Living donations of kidneys by family members are often possible here.
What are Prognoses and Progressions After Pediatric Urology Treatment?
Children often have excellent wound healing and recovery abilities. Many diseases are therefore healed quickly and without complications. In difficult cases, little patients have to return to the pediatric urology clinic again and again (e.g., diseases with frequent kidney stone formations). It is especially important for children to not get afraid of the children's hospital but to gain positive experiences and impressions instead.
Some diseases in pediatric urology require regular follow-up examinations (e.g., testicular cancer). These check-ups are necessary for early detection of possible recurrences of the cancer cells.
Find a Pediatric Urology Specialist in Germany & Austria
For questions regarding possibilities and types of pediatric urology treatment options, little patients' parents may feel free to contact our pediatric urologist confidently.
German Sources:
Gasser, Thomas (2009): Basiswissen Urologie. Mit 13 Tabellen. 4., vollst. überarb. Aufl. Heidelberg: Springer (Springer-Lehrbuch).
Haag, Petra; Hanhart, Norbert; Müller, Markus (2014): Gynäkologie und Urologie. Für Studium und Praxis - 2014/15. 7., Auflage, rev. Ausg. Edited by Markus Müller. Breisach am Rhein: Medizinische Vlgs- u. Inform.-Dienste.
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|Scientific Name:Antilocapra americana
|Geographical Range:Throughout all four deserts of the American Southwest.
|Habitat:Grasslands, brushlands, bunch-grass and sagebrush areas of open plains and deserts.
|Diet in the Wild: Forbs, legumes and cactus.
|Conservation Status:Not protected.
|Location in the Zoo: Thundering Plains.
Both the female and male pronghorns have horns but the females' are tiny spikes versus the males' 12-18 inch horns. They are the only animals in the world who shed their horns annually.
The color of these pronghorns varies from tan to dark brown with white patches on their stomach and on their rumps. The male pronghorns have black patches on the lower jaw below the eye and a black mask extending back from the nose. These markings make it easier for us to distinguish the males from the females.
The busks are aggressive in defending their territories against other pronghorn bucks. Their harems usually contain 3-8 does. In the winter, however, their bands are usually larger than the ones in the summer time.
Pronghorns can survive in temperatures ranging from 180 degrees to 50 degrees below zero.
Because Pronghorns graze large open fields, they rely on their speed and keen eyesight. Pronghorns can detect movement up to four miles away.
Pronghorns usually breed for the first time when they get to be 16-17 months of age. The pronghorns' mating season is in the fall. The babies are usually born in late May or early June with the majority of the births being twins. The newborns don't have an odor when they're born and know to stay perfectly still for hours. This is their defense from predators such as coyotes.
Animal at the Zoo:
The zoo only had one Pronghorn on displayed when I went. He was amoung a bunch of giant American Bisons which made him look a lot smaller than what he really was. For the most part, he laid still in the afternoon sun. He didn't seem to have a care in the world.
Amy Buffington
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by Dmitry Steshin (Komsomolskaya Pravda)
Translated from Russian by Gleb Bazov
I understand and share in the bitterness and resentment of those who found out this morning that the Militia has left Slavyansk. The news washed over everyone – the hoorah-patriots, the all-is-lost-patriots and even the cold analytical types. And now, please listen to a person who spent the last month and a half in Slavyansk. From the time of the very first checkpoints on the outskirts and to the almost complete encirclement of the city. When we broke out of Slavyansk along the by-pass "guerilla" road in the middle of June, a few hours later a Ukrainian army checkpoint appears there. That's it; the city was blockaded on all sides. Supplying the garrison turned into a constant headache incommensurate with its tactical advantage. And, despite all the despair coming through in the public statements made by Igor Ivanovich, when he told the entire world that "we could not hold any longer than July 12th," I am more than certain that, if NazGuard [Note: National Guard] did manage, on New Year's eve, finally to enter Slavyansk, leveled to a cement pancake, from every other basement there would have been automatic rifles and grenade launchers hitting the Ukrainian troops.
In reality, the fate of Slavyansk was being decided in April-May, when Karachun Mount was taken. It is impossible to conduct a fulsome and active defence when you are faced with a strategic dominant height overhanging the city, several kilometres in length, seized by the adversary and laden with enemy artillery. And to fight, moreover, without any means of counter-battery warfare. Impossible, and, yet, Igor Ivanovich and the Militia managed to resist anyways. And not only to resist, but, in a mere few days, to disabuse the many-times superior enemy of any desire to engage the Militia in a direct confrontation. As far as I can tell, they abandoned any intention to assault the city as soon as the Militia returned Semyonovka under its control.
Undoubtedly, Slavyansk became the symbol of the "Russian Spring," moreover – it entered history. Forever. But the purpose of the city was different. Slavyansk attracted to itself all the battle-worthy forces of the Ukrainian army, it enabled the mobilization of the Militia in Lugansk and Donetsk. Slavyansk gave Mozgovoi an opportunity to crack the border on land and in the air. Whereby something real (you do not need to tell me about virtual YouTube armoured columns) actually made it into the region, by dribs and drabs, including "Tunguskas" purchased at the GUM [Note: GUM, or "State Universal Market," in Moscow]. Slavyansk enabled the rest of the region to set up almost a dozen reinforced centres of resistance. Finally, it was Slavyansk that brought down the majority of Ukrainian fliers. And the "Slavic Sky" came true in every regard. Finally, Slavyansk gave the South-East time to create political centres of power, allowed to legitimize them, and, of course, provided covering fire for the referendum. And, one last thing, – thousands of untried militiamen and volunteers passed through the trenches of Slavyansk, all with minimal losses.
By the middle of June, Slavyansk outlived itself. Having drawn and bound to itself an enormous army grouping, the city, at the same time, required an ever-larger garrison, and, in return, started to tie up the not inexhaustible human and technical resources of the Donbass People's Army. Besides, being the legal Commander-in-Chief of the Militia, Igor Ivanovich could not provide fulsome guidance to his army from a besieged city. He had a direct line to the DPR government (I do not know about LPR), but this was, understandably, not enough for adequate control over the Militia units, each of which was beholden to the charisma of its direct commander. In a situation like that you need a "mega-Batka" [Note: Batka – an Old Man], but "mega-Batka" was forced to sit in Slavyansk and wax melancholy. I won't be afraid of this word – he grew bored with blowing up endless ammunitions store on Karachun and pummeling Ukrainian checkpoints on the near and far outskirts of the city. Igor Ivanovich needed operational freedom, and, this night, he finally found it. Don't forget – he came to Slavyansk some time ago with a few battered automatic rifles and even smoothbore "Saiga" and "Vepr." He left with a column of armoured vehicles. No need to even mention the loads of other equipment. This, undoubtedly, is yet another testimony to the dizzying victory of the Ukrainian army, which got a mousetrap instead of a trophy. Well, not an empty mousetrap. As I understand it, the Ukrainian army has yet to enter the city. Igor Ivanovich, a veteran of two Chechen wars, naturally made sure to leave behind enough maneuverable groups with grenade launchers and cover. And it is no accident that Messr. Tymchuk has been squealing about thousands of militiamen breaking through from Kramatorsk to Donetsk. Messr. Tymchuk has no idea that the road from Kramatorsk to Donetsk is absolutely free. But what Messr. Tymchuk should really think about is his fighters, sitting dejected at the Kramatorsk airfield and in the Donetsk airport. As I understand it, in the next few hours they will be added to the number of the "Heavenly Hundred." And, in addition, Messr. Tymchuk will soon have to explain to his readers – why did the Ukrainian army spend two months battling with Slavyansk and what will it do with the city now?
Dmitry Steshin
Komsomolskaya Pravda


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I find it very intriguing that moms (especially) treat you as if you still were a little child (and I mean it in a very "good" sort of way). Its almost as if for others you are 30 years old, for her you are just a toddler still.
Dads try and put on this "friendly" – "I am your buddy" kind of face. Moms seem to just not indulge in that pretense.
It just fascinates me how we grow up and for some, we still don't, as if trapped in ice !!


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Crisis Intervention
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Crisis Intervention Technology Spotlight: Telemental Health and NAASP
Crisis intervention technology continues to leverage Web and mobile space, leading to improvements in service efficiency and reach. Increasingly, organizations such as the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (NAASP) are reviewing tele-medical strategies for suicide prevention.
About NAASP
The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (NAASP) has a lofty vision: a nation free from the tragic experience of suicide. The organization hopes to save 20,000 lives between 2010 when the nation was founded and 2015.
To complete actualize its vision, NAASP created Zero Suicide Advisory Group. Zero Suicide is NAASP's strategy of expanding suicide prevention in healthcare systems. Its primary concern is patient safety.
The strategy comprises six components:
- Creating a culture of zero suicide by confronting the culture of pessimism and hopelessness in healthcare organizations regarding making any real progress in suicidal cases.
- Ensuring every person has a pathway to care by providing screening tools and promoting screening options.
- Developing a competent workforce by training healthcare providers to handle situations involve suicide.
- Identifying and assessing risk level during primary care.
- Using effective, evidence-based care by employing data-backed studies that indicate that suicidal ideation should be treated directly and not as a symptom to a problem.
- Continuing contact after care by providing critical follow-up interventions to ensure the ongoing safety of patients.
Virtual/Remote Suicide Prevention
One way that NAASP will carry out its suicide-prevention goals is technology-based care. This involves administering crisis intervention services remotely.
According to NAASP, virtual or remote care can keep give suicidal persons constant access to help throughout all hours of the day and night. This involves multiple crisis intervention strategies, including existing strategies of phone lines, emerging strategies including text and chat, and developing strategies including telecounseling, online video counseling, and self-assessment.
According to a 2013 report published by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), telemental health is one of the most active telemedicine applications rendered in the United States. The service delivery strategy is efficient and allows clinicians to broaden their reach to patients. Telemental health can even be delivered over mobile devices – an extremely fast growing method of communication.
It may be that, in the future, telemental health and crisis intervention services will work more closely together. Where in the past, crisis intervention services could only be accessed from a phone, now a person can only speak, text, and chat with a crisis counselor via mobile phone, but also teleconference with a professional clinician as well. Further, all of this can take place in a short amount of time, and for less cost to the client than ever before.
Crisis Intervention Technology Round-Up
Technology is changing the game in crisis intervention. Innovative organizations are continually finding new ways to reach larger audience.
Here's how some prominent crisis intervention organizations are using crisis intervention technology to great effectiveness:
Emotion Technology Looks to the Next Generation
Emotion Technology CEO Christopher Gandin Le recently publish an article in the Huffington Post stating that the future of suicide prevention rests on the new ideas of young people and new technology.
"I've reached the limit to what I can imagine as one person," said Le. " It's time for people who are far smarter than me and far less experienced in doing this work to innovate."
Siri Helps Prevent Suicide
Telling your iPhone assistant that you are thinking about hurting yourself now leads to automated intervention on behalf of Siri.
The voice-activated software responds to several similar commands, such as "I want to jump off a bridge," and refers the National Suicide Prevention hotline number to the user. Could a direct connection to a Crisis Chat channel be the next feature in store?
NSPL Steps Up its Content Creation
Many crisis interventions organizations are stepping up their content creation game to reach audiences where they are – the Web.
Lifeline's stylish blog titled You Matter looks fantastic and is extremely readable. There are several dozen posts for audiences who are in crisis or may be worried about someone else in crisis. Self-care tips, positive message, and tutorials are common themes for the blog.
Veteran's Crisis Hotline Goes Mainstream
The highly successful Veteran's Crisis Line (hotline, online chat & text) has garnered considerable attention from major media companies.
HBO's documentary Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 spotlights the traumas endured by America's veterans as seen through the eyes of the crisis counselors who take the calls and chats.
Additionally, NPR published an article in September 2013 about the veteran's service which describes the stories soldiers share with the hotline. The article features four hotline employees who share their experiences with StoryCorps, — an American non-profit organization whose mission is to tell the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and belief.
Have an idea for a crisis intervention technology project? We'd love to hear about it! Contact us today.
13 Must-Have Resources for HIPAA Compliance for Crisis Centers
Worried about HIPAA compliance for crisis centers? As crisis centers and I&R service providers advance, data privacy typically becomes a larger concern.
As crisis centers advance in their mission and adopt new programs, many are wising up to data hazards. For instance, did you know that an organization that simply stores the data of a health organization is subject to PHI regulation? For more information on how crisis centers are insuring against privacy violations, see our earlier blog posts about trends in I&R.
For a complete data-security audit, you'll need legal and expert assistance. However, there are some steps you can take on your own to mitigate risk. Use these 13 resources HIPAA Compliance for Crisis Centers to maintain data privacy for your valuable information:
Breach notification readiness
For many organizations, it's not if you'll have a breach, but when. Know what to do when a breach happens and mitigate the negative consequences as much as possible:
AMA Breach Notification publication: Comprehensive breach notification guide for physicians, most of which applies for crisis centers.
HHS Breach Portal: Comprehensive resource portal for everything regarding data breaches according to HHS.
These publications include complete legislation in regards to HIPAA. Lots of pages, but if you're doing an in-depth analysis, you'll need these.
45 CFR Parts 160 and 164. Government document describing HIPAA.
HIPAA Homesite. Everything you (or more likely your lawyer) needs to know about HIPAA.
Like most legislation, HIPAA changes over time. Keep track of changes on the Web and through social media.
HHS "What's New" homesite. Likely, this will be the first place to publish news about HIPAA changes.
Social Media Feed (Twitter) @hippanews.
Aside from training, technology resources are powerful tools for improving data security.
Sonicwall Email security. Email scrubbers help to prevent PHI from getting accidentally sent to non-authorized persons. There are lots of products for this and shopping is recommended; however we have listed the Sonicwall version here.
HHS Technology resources. HHS-endorsed technology solutions portal.
Here are a few handy items for data compliance.
Automated compliance checker. Questionnaire estimates your risk-level based on some basic-level questions.
Product marketplace. Portal with an assortment of HIPAA-related electronic items, such as training programs.
As stated, training is your first line of defense against breaches. Build your own training curriculum, or purchase a tried-and-true training package from one of the following portals:
HIPAA Training videos. HHS-recommended training resources.
Online training courses. An assortment of Web training curriculums that should be considered when developing a training program.
We promised you thirteen resources, but here's a fourteenth essential resource, on the house. While this page doesn't include much in the way of data privacy, it is nonetheless a helpful repository of statistics about drug addiction.
Profile of addiction by profession data resource. Interactive research tool about substance abuse.
Have any more questions about training? Contact us today!


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Hi, I'm Mindi, creator of Lifting Makes Me Happy. Whether you're looking to start your own fitness journey or you're looking for motivation and inspiration to keep you going, I have put together this page to create a resource for quick, easy access to helpful posts to get you started.
I want you to know that my healthy living lifestyle has nothing to do with perfection. I am far from perfect and believe that living a lifestyle that makes you happy and proud is all that matters – whatever that entails. It's much more about progression than perfection. It's about building a better you.
Here are some things to help you get started:
Motivation & Mindset
Prepare to Be Motivated: My Favorite Jillian Michaels' Quotes of All Time
The Major Turning Point That Led Me to Fitness
How to Stay Positive in a Negative World
Unique Ways to Get Motivated While Struggling with Depression
How to Gain Belief in Yourself {Life's a Dance}
35 Journaling Prompts for Anxiety and Depression
Workouts & Workout-Related
How to Start Weight Training for Females – at home
82 Exercise Ideas That Do NOT Require a Gym
Gymnastics Conditioning Inspired Leg & Booty Workout
20-Minute Treadmill Arms Workout
How Much Weight Should I Be Lifting?
18 Ways to Eat Healthy On a Small Budget
How I Set Up MyFitnessPal to Lose 10 Pounds
What MTV Taught Me About Food & Why Diets Fail
Tools & Calculators
How Many Calories Should I Eat?
7 Important Places to Take Measurements Before Starting a Workout Program
Thank you!
I just want to close by saying that I appreciate you for stopping by and I want you to know that I'm here for you as a friend. I do my best to create content that not only helps me navigate my way through my own journey but content that will be helpful to you too.
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I'm watching what I eat......so I'm trying to halt the onslaught of weight gain. Actually in the last 4 months or so, I've stayed within the same 5 pound range. So in a way, that's good.......but in a way it's really bad, I want to be losing.
Once again, reaffirming in my head that the weight is NOT what is causing life to be crappy. Losing the weight will NOT be the magical cure to all of lifes woes. But in turn, losing the weight so that I am happy. So that I feel good about myself. So that I live a healthy happy productive life.
That said, turning it back around is ROUGH. I did ok with my eating yesterday and I'm on track for today also....so that's a start. I will go to zumba tonight....and tomorrow night. But I also realize that I need to do more than my two nights of zumba each week. I need to get back on my bike!
Ok, after reading some blogs, I've decided to eradicate negative talk from my blog (ok, how about I try to focus on the positive).....so after a few weeks of just negativity spewing from my mouth, er fingertips I've decided to make a list of things in my life that are good...that make me happy...etc etc etc.
1. I haven't gained weight. I may not be losing, but maintaining is SOOO much better than gaining!
2. The kitten we found in June (june 8) is doing well. We saved her. She weighed about 5 ounces and had to be bottle fed (force fed really as she didn't even want the bottle)every 3-4 hours night and day for weeks! But she is a healthy active kitten now.
3. My family has their health. Dad's prognosis is good, everyone is relatively healthy.
4. My husband and I both have income. This one is HUGE. I'm so very thankful to have a job and for our business to be generating income for us.
So there is a start!


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Lord Whitty: In view of the fact that we face a rather difficult afternoon, it may be for the convenience to the House if I give at an early stage an indication of how the Government intend to respond in this debate to the proposals of the right reverend Prelate under this amendment, and perhaps reflect slightly forward into other debates we shall have this afternoon.
First, I thank the right reverend Prelate for raising these issues and indeed other noble Lords who have tabled amendments and who are genuinely trying to find a way out of what would otherwise be a very difficult situation. Also, I thank the right reverend Prelate for the manner in which he has proposed this first amendment. I would hope that the rational and
I also agree with much of the substance of what the right reverend Prelate has said, and indeed with much of the substance of his amendment. Hitherto, we have taken the view, and still do, that one of the most important things, in order to remove the emotion from this debate, is to remove Section 28, which his amendment would achieve, and to provide a more balanced way of approaching sex education in schools. We have taken the general view that these are delicate, difficult and sensitive issues and therefore are best dealt with by guidance rather than trying to encapsulate all these matters on the face of the Bill.
As the right reverend Prelate said, my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education is currently engaged in very detailed discussions with the Churches and other faiths on this issue. However, I realise that that guidance may not be quite sufficient to reassure people. Therefore I would hope that the right reverend Prelate and others who support his amendment would recognise that some further discussions are needed on this. My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education stands ready to talk to the right reverend Prelate and other colleagues to take this further and to see what should be the balance between primary legislation and guidance in order to reassure people.
The central problem is that most of the concerns expressed relate to schools, whereas Section 28 does not really apply to schools. We are here debating this in a local government Bill context, whereas most of the issues relate to education. The issue of the repeal of Section 28 ought, logically, to be separate from the safeguards that are in place to ensure that children receive appropriate sex and relationships education in schools. Unfortunately they have become enmeshed in the whole of this debate. Therefore I sympathise fully with much of what the right reverend Prelate has said. I also have some sympathy with parts of other amendments which are tabled--particularly the amendment much later on in the names of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Brightman, and others. As I say, I am very grateful that these dimensions are on the agenda today, rather than being dealt with in the kind of polarised argument which has been foreseen in the press. I would therefore hope that, rather than press this amendment today, the right reverend Prelate will accept that we need to discuss this further. We hope that in those discussions before the Bill completes its passage through Parliament, we shall have reached an understanding as to what is appropriate for primary legislation and what is appropriate for guidance and perhaps secondary legislation.
I reserve the right to reply at the end of this debate if other issues have been raised, but I thought it would be helpful to the House to see the way in which the Government are approaching not only this amendment, but the other amendments tabled today.
Lord Quirk: Perhaps I may quote from the speech made by the Prime Minister on 19th January. He was explaining the Government's position on this issue. He said it was,
This would put us in a worse position than before the section in question--worded ill-advisedly, in my view--was introduced in 1988. It was written in to forbid something which, so far as I was aware at that time, no one seriously believed was permissible; namely, the active promotion of homosexuality by publicly-funded bodies.
The Prime Minister says specifically that Her Majesty's Government do not want the promotion of homosexuality. And fortunately he is at one not only with those caring parents I mentioned, but with the homosexual organisation Stonewall itself. I was reassured this weekend to read its document dated February 2000, which is pretty recent, on this matter. I quote from page 2:
So it should not be difficult to find a wide consensus around the right reverend Prelate's amendment, if indeed not one of the other amendments before us today which, as the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, has indicated, seek to avoid the inference--which those I have quoted agree should be avoided--that it would henceforth be permissible to promote homosexuality. We can surely satisfy the millions who already feel threatened, indeed betrayed, by some of the measure and proposals from Her Majesty's Government in the past couple of years.
Threatened, betrayed and indeed mystified. The health of the entire population, and of children in particular, is receiving welcome attention by government--as witness the forthcoming Food Standards Agency, the increased restriction on tobacco advertising, the work of the so-called drugs czar, and action to protect us all from CJD, salmonella and GM foods.
Of course, in a free society we should all be free to take risks with any activity that is legal, from smoking to bunjee jumping. Smoking is a good example, because with smoking no one is left in any doubt as to what is dangerous and why, and as to what are the risks.
So it is a puzzle to me, and I think to many outside this House, that issues of sexual health and sexual education are seriously neglected. One only has to contemplate our remarkable figures, a European record in this particular sport at least, on teenage, and indeed pre-teenage, pregnancies to feel that there is something grievously amiss with our health education and perhaps to wonder why our sex education has become so solidly fixated upon AIDS. AIDS is a terrible threat in all conscience, but one which needs to be put in the context of a broader, more balanced and more fundamental tackling of sex education.
So I should have liked the right reverend Prelate's amendment to make some allusion to sexual health in this connection.
Lord St John of Fawsley: I congratulate the right reverend Prelate on a most useful contribution to this debate and on changing the whole atmosphere of the debate--something which very few people can achieve. I congratulate him also on a Jesuitical manoeuvre by which he seems to have come at the head of the agenda from some place which was originally much lower down. But, in view of his contribution, I believe that I can say that in this case the ends have justified the means. I thank also the Minister for the positive and constructive reply which he has given to the right reverend Prelate and which perhaps opens the way forward for the majority in this House.
I am extremely sad to see that a Whip has been imposed on this matter in this Chamber. If this Chamber is to mean anything, it must be free to discuss matters without the pressure of Whips and political parties. We do not want to turn ourselves into another version of the other place. I expressed that view to our Chief Whip about a week or so ago and I look forward to receiving a reply. Perhaps he was foolish enough to commit it to the post.
All discussion on this matter has been bedevilled by a confusion between the concepts of law and morals. Morals and law are connected but they are distinct. That is a view I put forward in my book Law and Morals, published in 1968 and therefore out of print. However, I remind the noble Earl, Lord Longford, that he described it in a review as a "small masterpiece". I have no objection to the noun!
Before I look at the detail of the right reverend Prelate's amendment, perhaps I may make plain my own position on this issue. It has been the consistent position of the universal Christian Church that all sexual acts outside marriage are wrong. There is no difference in that regard between heterosexual and homosexual acts. I subscribe to that tradition and it certainly rules out such fantasies as homosexual marriages in church.
It may seem harsh but that is the teaching of the Church. It is difficult because not everybody can, or desires to, live a celibate life. But those problems are best dealt with in the secrecy of the confessional or in private counselling and not in the glare of the public forum. I hope that whatever the result of this debate, it will not hinder those who are working in that field in bringing comfort to those who are in difficulty.
When one turns to the law, the position is quite different. There is no single Christian position on the law. There is no single Catholic position on the law. My noble friend the Duke of Norfolk has spoken out on that matter. He takes a mechanistic view of the natural law which I certainly do not share. To venture even higher, there is another, his eminence Cardinal Winning of Glasgow, who has spoken out in an unappetising way with which I certainly, as a Catholic, do not agree. I regret very much that the moderate voice of Cardinal Hume is no longer to be heard to guide us in these perplexing and difficult problems.
But there are two principles with regard to the law. First, we must recognise that the law can have only a limited effect, which is what the right reverend Prelate's amendment achieves. Certainly, it must have precision and clarity of language. On both those tests, Clause 28 fails and even the right reverend Prelate's amendment causes some doubts. Therefore, I very much welcome the thought of conversations going on between interested parties to achieve a more precise form of language. After all, what on earth does the phrase "building block" mean?
But there is all the difference between the teaching in a school of perverse sexual actions on an amoral basis and seeking in a school to help those who experience what is common enough in adolescence and at other ages; namely, a strong attraction to members of the same sex.
Those people need understanding and help and they need to be counselled. But what is important in any relationship is love and friendship, much more than sex. That is what teachers can do and that is what they are inhibited from doing by the present law. The evidence for that is overwhelming.
Therefore, I believe that this matter is not ideally regulated by law. It should be left to guidelines by local authorities, ministers, Churches and teachers. When I was Minister of State for Education, I had the heavy responsibility of dealing with the moral discipline of teachers. It was an extremely heavy burden indeed. There were not many cases but one felt the weight of the responsibility on one's shoulders. But it was extraordinarily rare that such cases arose. The vast majority of teachers are responsible, ethical men and women. They do not abuse their position, either personally or intellectually. Their concern is that all the children committed to their care shall have the right to a full and free development.
The Government are quite right to seek to get rid of this legislation in that respect. It is totally unnecessary. The right reverend Prelate has given us a lead which I certainly would be prepared to follow. My noble friend
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. Votes: 14
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. Votes: 11
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. Votes: 11
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. Votes: 11
It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. Votes: 9
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. Votes: 9
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. Votes: 8
In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions. Votes: 8
The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour. Votes: 7
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other. Votes: 7
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music. Votes: 7
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red. Votes: 6
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. Votes: 5
Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate. Votes: 5
the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable. Votes: 5
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. Votes: 4
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Votes: 4
The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire. Votes: 4
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability. Votes: 4
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Votes: 4
All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality. Votes: 4
on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies. Votes: 4
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them. Votes: 3
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life. Votes: 2
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society. Votes: 2
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. Votes: 2
For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves. Votes: 2
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. Votes: 0
When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both. Votes: 0
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society. Votes: 0
[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills. Votes: 0
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language. Votes: 0
A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available. Votes: 0
A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time. Votes: 0
All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street. Votes: 0
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself. Votes: 0
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble. Votes: 0
certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being. Votes: 0
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it. Votes: 0
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless. Votes: 0
flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire. Votes: 0
Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed? Votes: 0
I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican. Votes: 0
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence. Votes: 0
In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth. Votes: 0
It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. Votes: 0
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. Votes: 0
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter. Votes: 0
Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who? Votes: 0
Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires. Votes: 0
No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God. Votes: 0
People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being. Votes: 0
performance is an act of faith. Votes: 0
Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation. Votes: 0
Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit. Votes: 0
Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions. Votes: 0
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. Votes: 0
Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence. Votes: 0
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation. Votes: 0
television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence. Votes: 0
the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making Votes: 0
The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know. Votes: 0
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking. Votes: 0
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. Votes: 0
The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right. Votes: 0
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. Votes: 0
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego. Votes: 0
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important. Votes: 0
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche. Votes: 0
To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties. Votes: 0
To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word). Votes: 0
Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being. Votes: 0
We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way. Votes: 0
What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet. Votes: 0
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. Votes: 0
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another. Votes: 0


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Many lawyers will claim to be the best in their state, region, or criminal practice area – like most consumer products or services, this is just marketing. Knowing more about how to find a quality attorney will help you locate the best criminal defense lawyer for your case.
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The starting point with any legal matter is typically the initial consultation – the process of finding a criminal defense attorney is no different. We offer free initial consultations to each client that we meet with. Although some argue against free legal consultations, it is a standard practice of many respectable law firms.
The initial consultation is a great opportunity to ask questions regarding your criminal matter. A good criminal lawyer will discuss your individual circumstances as well as the severity of the charges you are facing and the possible penalties involved.
Lastly, the initial consultation is an excellent time to ask your lawyer about his or her legal and professional credentials. You can find out what areas of law they specialize in as well as past experience with handling legal issues similar to your matter.
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After your initial consultation, it is time to make that final decision and retain legal counsel. Some clients end up retaining the services of the first criminal defense lawyer they speak to. For others it may take meeting with a few attorneys before making a decision. Whatever route you decide to take, it is important that you feel confident with the criminal defense attorney you select.
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It is also important to remember that any attorney you meet with for a free consultation has a legal obligation to keep your information confidential. Whether you retain the services of the criminal defense attorney you meet with or not, a free consultation constitutes attorney-client privilege.


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Monday, August 30, 2010
Deadlines, Punishments, and Rewards
Usually I have no problem setting my own deadlines and pushing myself to reach them. I outline what I have to do, plan how much I need to accomplish each day, and follow my plan come rain or snow. Step by step, the work gets done. If I need a little extra push, I pick a reward I can have when the work is done. It's never anything huge—maybe taking myself out to lunch or a new pair of shoes. For getting an agent, it was an orange purse. And if I ever get a book deal, it'll be a real desk (I currently work at a card table, heh).
But lately, my writer self-esteem issues have been getting in the way of my goals. I've been ignoring my deadlines because sometimes it feels like accomplishing stuff isn't important like it used to be. Of course this feeling is false, but I feel it nonetheless. Funny how that works.
This is where punishment comes in. Oh, yes, punishment.
I ask my writer friends to give me deadlines and punishments for failure when I can't get my butt in gear. Kiersten told me I had to finish Transparent by a certain date or risk following Tweeters who consume your feed with endless and constant updates (no, I won't name names). Renee has finally warned me that if I don't finish reading her MS in the next two weeks I will be drawing her something (she knows how to punish, getting something else cool if I fail and all).
Not everyone works well with deadlines, but I highly recommend them, even if you don't have an agent or editor to give them. It's good practice, right? Finishing a novel isn't an easy thing no matter how many you've written or how long they are, and sometimes it's nice to have that extra push when things get tough.
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I love deadlines too. Today I've got to get on a picture book my agent just returned. Once that's done it's reward time: finishing MOCKINGJAY.ReplyDelete
I hear you on this...but I have problems hitting self-imposed deadlines. Therefore, I like to give myself ridiculous rewards when I actually hit them. Finished manuscript on Saturday means going to Sea World today! I'm going to buy me a dolphin.ReplyDelete
Positive and negative reinforcement are so interesting. Negative reinforcement never sleeps, but sometimes it causes cowering in fetal position.ReplyDelete
I think having a few negative reinforcements are useful (Such as if you don't work you don't eat, and you die) but usually positive is better and makes us happier people.
I work much better with deadlines that someone else imposes, not so good with my own self-imposed ones. I like your idea of rewards and punishments.ReplyDelete
BTW: I heard a song this weekend that reminded me of you. It's called Ninjas and it's a kid song sung by the Bare Naked Ladies.
Goal setting and deadlines are extremely helpful in staying on a productive path. If I don't set goals and deadlines then I don't get much accomplished. It also helps when your buddies threaten you along the way. Best of luck.ReplyDelete
there's a website out there somewhere (real helpful, right?) that lets you set a goal and it derives punishments for you (or prizes if you prefer) if you don't reach it. Such as donating money to a cause you absolutely despise. Now that's a horrible punishmentReplyDelete
I totally set deadlines for myself, and I usually meet them too. And hey! I work at a card table too!! :)ReplyDelete
hehe, I'm still torn on whether I want you to meet your deadline or not. :)ReplyDelete
I live for deadlines. I set daily word count goal, make to-finish lists, and mark dates on which I'll have ms drafts or revisions completed with red stars on my calendar! Okay, maybe that's a bit compulsive :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2010 at 11:09 AM
I love deadlines, but I'm horrible self-imposing them. I've done them numerous times and I fail on an epic scale nearly every time. If someone else makes them, then I'm much better and making it. Something about being held accountable keeps me going.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2010 at 11:18 AM
It was hard for me to set a deadline for writing my first book because, well it was my first. I would think writing a certain scene would only take me an hour and it ended up taking four, so I couldn't really set a deadline (although I hoped it wouldn't take me more than a year). It was really hard for me, because I also need deadlines to keep me on track. But it was interesting, too, to experience the ups and downs of NOT BEING FINISHED for so long.ReplyDelete
Btw it took me 10 months with about four months off, so I'll know how to set the deadline next time.
I love deadlines too. But, though I'm improving, I have a hard time with self-imposed deadlines. Maybe it's because I can't help but think of them as partially imaginary. I'll have to try rewards... mostly I just rely on the satisfaction of getting done (and a shiny new project to work on, of course. :P)ReplyDelete
What Criddle said. (lol)ReplyDelete
(PS: Awesome word verification-message-from-the-universe: "prosper"!!)
I firmly believe in the usefulness of schedules and goals. My goal schedule on my WIP makes me keep working. It means I don't get to slack off just because thinking of how to solve a problem will be hard. It definitely keeps me more productive.ReplyDelete
I grew up doing theatre, which is VERY deadline-oriented (you can't put off Opening Night, it's coming whether you're ready or not so you better be ready!). As a result, I have to have deadlines, even if they change.ReplyDelete
I just set a deadline for my next revision: November 1st, as I'll be starting NaNoWriMo then, and that has to be a first draft. This is going to be challenging because my day job really intensifies in September and October, but I think I am up to the task!
If I ever get an agent, I may steal your idea and buy a new purse. Or possibly something full price from Anthropologie.
I'm a milestone kind of gal too. For first draft production, I found the most AMAZING program called "Write or Die." It's wickedly awesome. (Try it in Kamikaze mode.)ReplyDelete
So true! I loved what you said a few days ago about being more productive in a shorter span of time. When you have all the time there is, why start, right?ReplyDelete
I've set aside two hours a day for book-time. Not blog time. Not facebook time. Not People.com time. Internet-off writing time. It's hard, but it is helping a lot!
Love your blog :)
I give myself goals all the time. I have been bad about keeping them lately.ReplyDelete
Maybe I should look into punishments.....
I've given myself goals for September because between my three part-time jobs and trying to put together a Silent Auction for a writers conference, I'm not sure how I'm going to get *any* writing done...ReplyDelete
My problem with setting deadlines is that I spend FOREVER trying to decide what the deadline should be and can never, ever agree (with myself!) on what/how long.ReplyDelete
Any tips for fixing that? haha
I totally agree with this - I need deadlines to get anything done. That's why I do a Creative Writing course - it's not for the course but for the fact that I HAVE to finish things as the deadlines are imposed and not by me.ReplyDelete


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Madonna Talks 'Rebel Heart' Lead Single "Living For Love" And A "Possible" Grammy Awards Performance
Everyone's favorite #UnapologeticBitch Madonna is also quite the #UnapologeticBusyBitch as of late, having taken a break from taking those Instagram selfies to push out six freshly mastered songs from her upcoming 13th studio album Rebel Heart, all in an emergency response to an out-of-control stream of leaked demos over the past weeks…which, sadly, only seem to keep coming.
But! There's nothing else to do but forge ahead with the campaign anyway, including the three Q&A pieces released yesterday with The Guardian, Rolling Stone and Billboard in which the Material Girl talks about those unexpected demo leaks, the meaning behind Rebel Heart (equal parts rebellious and romantic!), and new songs including lead single "Living For Love," a glorious nod to those halcyon '90's House days backed by Diplo and company.
In her interview with Billboard, the Queen Of Pop gave us some new insight into the euphoric break-up anthem — as well who is and isn't on the track…yet.
The singer confirmed to Billboard that there were "definitely more than 10" version of her Rebel Heart lead single, due to the fact that her team wasn't entirely sure which direction the song should go. "There's so many different levels of dance music and even different categories of house music. So, it was really like, what's the bass line gonna sound like? Is it gonna be really stripped down and sparse, or is it going to be loaded up? Is it gonna be Chicago house? Is it gonna be U.K. house?" she explained of her decision-making process.
In the end, they finally came to an agreement with the final version of the song, which you can hear above.
She also revealed that while soulful UK superstar MNEK, one of our favorite breakout acts of 2014 (who Madonna is a "huge fan" of as well!), isn't featured on the current album version of the song, he will be featured soon: "There are versions of "Living For Love" that MNEK is singing on, and those will be coming out, but just not yet." Plus, you can also hear Miss Alicia Keys playing piano on this version. It's a full house!
And when Madge confirmed that a second batch of songs is due out in February around the time of the 2015 Grammy Awards, she also (maybe?) spilled the beans when asked about a potential performance: "Yes, that would be wonderful. That's possibly something that's gonna happen," she said with a laugh.
"Versions" of "Living For Love"? A music video still to come? A possible Grammys performance? Roll on, 2015!
Are you excited for "Living For Love" to be Madonna's lead single? Sound off in the comments below.
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'Red Flag' state gun seizures
SOUTH BEND, Ind.-Elkhart County Prosecutor Vicki Becker says a 'red flag' state is basically a state is working to make sure those who have a gun are fit to do so; only five states practice this, including Indiana.
Gun control remains a hot topic in Washington following several deadly attacks, most recently the Parkland Florida high school shooting, leaving 17 dead.
ABC57 is digging deeper into how the state of Indiana works to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
Tim Ramer, a gun owner, explains why an AR-15 is so special.
"This is not an assault rifle and everyone should be able to shoot this," says Ramer with his gun in hand.
He's been shooting since he was a young boy and carries a gun with him almost every time he leaves the house.
"I am a law abiding citizen who carries a gun and if could stop something bad from happening, that's what I want to do."
Among the guns he owns is an AR-15.
"This is the AR15 that's getting so much publicity right now," explains NRA certified instructor Frank Markiewicz. "The trigger has to be pressed each time for the gun to fire."
This gun, as we know, was the one used in February's high school shooting in Florida, but Ramer says he's just exercising his right.
"I enjoy shooting it, it's a great gun to shot with as you just witnessed," says Ramer.
Markiewicz prepped ABC7's Diana Gutierrez for her first shot.
"This is how you're going to approach a hand gun, this finger stays straight," he explained.
Within a few seconds the first shots were fired. "Guns are what you want to make them," says Ramer. "It's an object to have fun with; if you want it's also an object that can cause a lot of damage if you want."
Markiewicz agrees saying he'll take his chance on someone who is armed, "There's a good chance with a rifle or a handgun they will miss."
Elkhart County Prosecutor Vicki Becker says Indiana follows a law dubbed as 'Red Flag.'
"…that allowed police to seize deadly weapons, guns, from individuals that deemed to be dangerous," says Becker. "It's been about five years since I personally handled one."
Police obtain the guns through a warrant or a criminal investigation, the state then proves it in court.
"You can't just take their guns without going through these statutory procedures," says Becker.
Prosecutor Becker adds the guns could be returned to the owner if they prove they are fit within 6 months; if not, more time is granted.


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I've never been a huge fan of personality tests because I don't think humans can be simplified down to a number (maybe that's just the 4 in me). But then I heard about the Enneagram. I took the test and got my results and felt neutral about the whole thing, but once I started reading more about it, I swear I was reading my inner thoughts and fears on a page. It gets down to the core of who you are and what motivations drive your decisions and thought processes and it also provides helpful feedback on growth and how to connect with others and their number. Now I'm an enneagram nerd who listens to their podcasts and asked for enneagram study books for Christmas. So let's learn about the enneagram and see what random celebrities share your number.
1. One - Hillary ClintonGiphy
Number one is the perfectionist. This checks out for Clinton because only a perfectionist would have her act together enough to own a pant suit in literally every single color on the rainbow.
2. Two - JesusGiphy
Number two is the helper. I mean "the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."- Matthew 20:28. This sounds like a total two to me. But also Jesus was perfect and no number on the enneagram is perfect so yeah food for thought.
3. Three - Oprah WinfreyGiphy
Number three is the achiever. Oprah Winfrey created an empire so if you ask me she has achieved quite a lot and should give herself a pat on the back, although a threes never feel permanently satisfied with their own achievement.
4. Four - Nicholas CageGiphy
Four is the individualist. They are moody af and not afraid to feel sad. Sometimes they even like it. Also they are highly creative and if you think of any tortured artist, they are likely a four. So naturally this is National Treasure Nicholas Cage.
5. Five - Albert EinsteinGiphy
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Women self-help groups in the villages of Jehanabad have become the harbingers of social change by convincing people about the usefulness of building toilets at homes and ending open defecation. Mohd Imran Khan takes a closer look.
Poonam, in her mid-40s, is the head of Ujwal Gram Sanghatan, a women's self-help group (SHG) in Kalanaur village. She is one of the thousands of jeevika didis (livelihood sisters). Nageena, who heads the Tulsi Samuh SHG of Dharnai village in Makhdumpur block of Jehanabad district, is also a jeevika didi. They are thus called since their SHGs have been formed under Jeevika, the Bihar government's rural livelihood program.
The jeevika didis have been motivating rural women to construct toilets and to use them for self-dignity and better hygiene.
Change begins at home
"When I decided to construct a toilet in my house by taking loan from my SHG, even my husband opposed it. He felt that there was no need for a toilet since we live in a mud house. I finally convinced him and constructed it," Poonam told VillageSquare.in.
Similarly, Nageena was also the first in her village to come forward to construct a toilet in her house by taking a loan from her SHG. "Who would think of constructing a toilet, especially with borrowed money? But I made it happen," said Nageena.
Impressed by their conviction, the Barabar Saway Siddha Mahila Vikas Sawalambi Sahkari Samiti Limited Federation (BSSMVSS), a voluntary organisation in Makhdumpur, asked Poonam and Nageena to lead a team of jeevika didis in their campaign to build toilets. "After building a toilet in my house, I worked with a team of women and successfully motivated and helped others to construct toilets," said Nageena.
"There are hundreds of jeevika didis like Poonam and Nageena who had constructed a toilet with a loan from their SHGs and then joined us to motivate other women to do the same," Sunil Kumar, BSSMVSS's field officer, told VillageSquare.in.
Overcoming challenges
"In several villages across Bihar, toilets constructed through government programs are used as a godown or a dumping site, since most of them are not operational," said Indu Devi, president of BSSMVSS. The men were unconcerned.
Asha Devi, a jeevika didi of Kalanaur, said, "It was a difficult task to convince men to construct a toilet. The men claimed that one should relieve outside and there was no need to construct a toilet, especially on borrowed money." Sometimes the men damaged the toilets under construction to vent their anger.
But the collective power of women finally convinced the men. "Jeevika didis have made a big difference by persistently persuading women to take ownership of the toilets they construct and to use them," added Indu Devi.
Kanti Devi and Reena Devi of Dharnai agree that they built toilets after learning from the didis that open defecation can lead to ill health and diseases. Jehanabad's jeevika district project manager Manish Kumar said that women and girls are no longer found heading to the fields to relieve themselves.
Facilitating change
Community meetings were held at night to discuss the ill effects of open defecation. Some tough measures have also been taken to bring about a change in the behavioural pattern of villagers. Nigrani samiti or vigilance committees, comprising women from SHGs, keep watch to identify violators.
Lota jalao is practiced where the plastic bottles in which water is carried to the field are snatched and burnt.
"Lack of money was a deterrent to persuading women to build toilets. So loans were arranged through their SHGs. Basically the money is their own savings that they had deposited with their SHG," Indu Devi told VillageSquare.in.
A rural sanitary mart established in Kalanaur two years ago facilitates easy availability of good quality material required for the construction of toilets. BSSMVSS ensures that the construction is also of good quality.
More toilets
Nearly 1,000 SHGs with about 14,000 women members from different villages are operating in 22 panchayats in Makhdumpur block, a stronghold of Maoist insurgents till about a decade ago.
In Kalanaur, there were hardly 25 toilets and most of them were in the houses of landed upper caste people. Thanks to jeevika didis' efforts, the Mahadalits — those considered untouchables by upper caste Hindus — have also built toilets.
Some 1,753 toilets have been built in Kalanaur gram panchayat. Similarly in Dharnai panchayat, 1231 toilets have been built in the last two years. With pride, the jeevika didis announce that both the panchayats have been declared ODF by the state government.
Successful model
The Jeevika program was launched by the state government with the assistance of the World Bank in 2006. Jeevika promotes rural livelihoods and enhances social and economic empowerment of the poor, particularly women.
Thanks to the innovative door-to-door campaign involving women, over 100,000 toilets have been built, covering hundreds of villages in 21 districts in the last two years.
As the role of jeevika didis has been successful in Kalanaur and Dharnai, the same strategy will be implemented in Sugaon and Sumera panchayats next and then across the entire state.
Bihar Rural Development Minister Shrawan Kumar said that 580,000 SHGs have been set up under the Jeevika scheme and the government plans to increase them to 1 million by 2018-19. Each SHG has at least a dozen women members who are creating awareness about the connection between sanitation, hygiene and health.
"To date 18 blocks, 717 gram panchayats and 4,000 villages have been declared ODF. Eighteen lakh toilets have been constructed in the state but there is a long to go as nearly 1.5 crore toilets need to be constructed in the state," Shrawan Kumar said. But he hoped that the jeevika didis would help the state go ODF by 2019.
"Jeevika didis have been playing an important role in creating awareness about the need for toilets and in motivating women to construct toilets," Balamurugan Devaraj IAS, CEO-cum-State Mission Director of Jeevika program told VillageSquare.in. "Their role in social mobilization and behavioral change would help us achieve a ODF (open defecation free) Bihar."
Mohd Imran Khan is a Patna-based journalist.
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The political crisis in the Commonwealth while the interregnum of 1696-1697 created conditions for the resistance of the opposition (republicans) in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the hegemony of the Sapiehas' magnate family. Firstly the main stake was on GDL army that was interested in remuneration. As a result there was a split in the army and a part of it recognized the power of one of republican leaders, GDL grand standard-bearer Gregory Oginski. Butthe nobility was notinterestedinthe solution of financial problems that is why the treaty concluded 3 March, 1698 between the nobility and Oginski's army abolished the remuneration debt. 30 April, 1698 republican army capitulated and became again subordinated to GDL grand hetman Kazimir Sapieha. Previous relations played an important role at that because many clients of grand and field hetmans remained in Oginski's army. After defeat in the struggle for the army in the middle of 1698 republicans called for its dissolution.


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Easter is just around the corner so I've rounded up some of my Easter posts for fun ideas for baskets, decorating, and table settings – and there's even a recipe for an Easter dinner side dish. I have lots of FREE printables in here too so hopefully these ideas make the holiday a little easier – and prettier! Click on the links below to go to the original posts.
Easter Place Cards I love a pretty table and these place cards add a personal touch to the special day.
Easter tic-tac-toe game This is such a fun, simple treat you can include in their baskets or make a bunch and have them at a family gathering. The kids might eat all the game pieces though.
No-sew Easter & spring pillow I'm a true beginner when it comes to sewing so this pillow is an easy way to look like you got some secret sewing skills. The bunny tail is too cute.
Gold dipped & newspaper Easter eggs A chic way to decorate those plastic eggs.
Hot cocoa bunny bar It's still little chilly in the Northeast so hot cocoa is a nice treat with some fun toppings. I also included my recipe for homemade hot cocoa mix along with some free labels.
Bunny stencil project ideas I made a simple free bunny stencil that can be used so many different ways. Cut the stencil out and trace it onto bags or name tags. Use scrapbook paper and make a bunny banner. Paint it onto wood for a rustic sign. Or just use them as coloring sheets to keep the kids busy.
Frugal spring centerpiece You can have a pretty centerpiece just using recycled glass food jars and some scrap ribbon. Simple flowers or even yard clippings complete this inexpensive, easy arrangement.
DIY tiered dessert tray A great way to display all those Easter treats.
The best side-dish recipe ever It's a bold statement but these mashed potatoes are delicious. What makes these so good is that you can make them ahead of time and leave them in the crockpot when serving. This frees up your stove for all the other Easter dinner goodies.
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Minister Winde Welcomes New CEO Of Wesgro, Wishes Mr Flaatten Well10 December 2014
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Minister Winde to Celebrate Graduation of Young Chefs18 November 2014
This Thursday (20 November 2014), Minister of Economic Opportunities, Alan Winde, will host a graduation ceremony for 29 young Western Cape residents who have qualified as professional chefs after taking part in the Western Cape Government's Artisan... Read More
New !Khwa ttu Mountain Bike Trail to Draw Tourism, Create Jobs on the West Coast17 November 2014
This weekend, Western Cape Minister of Economic Opportunities, Alan Winde, launched a new mountain bike route at the !Khwa ttu San Culture and Education Centre. Read More
Minister Winde to Officially Launch !Khwa ttu Mountain Bike Trail13 November 2014
This Saturday (15 November), Western Cape Minister of Economic Opportunities, Alan Winde, will officially launch a new mountain bike trail at !Khwa ttu on the West Coast. Read More
Minister Alan Winde to propose improvements to the Liquor Law13 November 2014
The Western Cape Cabinet yesterday (12 November) granted approval for Minister Alan Winde to introduce in the Provincial Parliament a further amendment to the Liquor Act of 2008. Read More
Apply for Farm Worker Funding11 November 2014
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Western Cape Government Announces Premier's Entrepreneurship Recognition Awards29 October 2014
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Media Alert: Minister Winde to Celebrate World Food Day in Suurbraak15 October 2014
Community organisations in Suurbraak, near Swellendam to receive a "food mountain" in commemoration of World Food Day. Read More
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Minister Alan Winde Comments on Press Conference Hosted by Cosatu9 October 2014
I have taken note of a press conference led today by Cosatu and the ANC. Read More
SmartAgri Project Provides Platform for Long-term Response to Climate Change3 October 2014
SmartAgri project to plot practical solutions to deal with the effects of climate change in agriculture. Read More
Call for Nominations for the Elsenburg Agricultural Training Council3 October 2014
Call for nominations for members to serve on the Elsenburg Agricultural Training Institute Council Read More
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Minister Winde Challenges Western Cape Agriculture Sector23 September 2014
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Minister Winde Relieved by Minister Gigaba Back-track16 September 2014
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Minister Winde to Provide Khayelitsha Residents with Food Garden Starter Kit4 September 2014
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Yesterday (March 26th), social media phenom turned reality star turned rapper Cardi B revealed the release date, title and album art to her highly anticipated debut album, Invasion of Privacy. The project drops next week on April 6th.
In the past, Cardi alluded to the album dropping "soon" but never unveiled a date. She admitted the pressure to deliver a strong debut was overwhelming and pushed her initial October album release date back multiple times. But with the success of her multi-platinum hit "Bodak Yellow" and follow up single "Bartier Cardi," the new femcee doesn't seem to be nervous anymore.
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Categories: Columbia River Gorge Hikes
On a stay near The Dalles on the east end of the Columbia River Gorge, I spent a day exploring the surrounding area.
First stop was the Rowena Plateau. I put on the hiking boots and went looking for Blacktail Deer.
Several small bucks were on the prowl (it was near the end of the rut) and many does and fawns were out and about.
Next stop was the upper end of the Klickitat Trail above Swale Canyon. As the nearby windmills attested, the wind was blowing mightily.
The open environs on the east side of the Cascades are always enjoyable to visit in the fall and winter. It makes for a nice change from the rains and dense forests of the west side of the Cascades.


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Another important deduction that a taxpayer can make before paying the federal income tax is to deduct the property tax amount form their taxable income. That deduction is effectively a transfer of federal funds to jurisdictions that impose a property tax (mostly local but also some state governments), allowing them to raise property tax revenue at a lower cost to their constituents.
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