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Bret said he wouldn't appear in front of a live WWE crowd again. There is too much emotion that goes into and he just can't do it. Also says he feels useless as his body can't handle anything physical anymore.
He thinks he pretty much buried the hatchet with Vince McMahon. If WWE called him, he would appear but it would have to be from his house. When a caller asked if he would do a voiceover for a video game, Bret replied " All they have to do is call me and pay me."
A caller asked him to go over the last few moments of the Montreal incident. Bret talks about spitting "an omelette" into Vince's face. He also mentions how Rick Rude and Bulldog were like school children waiting for him to hit Vince. He said he uppercut Vince and that McMahon fell out arms and legs wide apart on the floor completely out cold. All the while he claims, "Shawn (Michaels) sat in the corner blubbering and crying."
He wished Brock Lesnar all the best and he thinks Brock will be a very good MMA fighter. He spoke highly of Brock the entire time. He says that Brock vs. Kurt Angle at WrestleMania was his favorite match since he's left the business.
A caller recounted Kurt Angle saying Triple H is a huge asshole and asks Bret who, besides Vince and Shawn, are the biggest assholes in his opinion. "Hunter is right up there, they all belong together," Bret said.
Bret said WWE will always be around because wrestling fans are loyal and will always be there to keep the business around. He thinks that things need to go back to basics. More wrestling and less soap opera.
Bret said he did steroids when they were legal, but stopped once there was a crackdown on them.
Bret's recent marriage ended because his wife wouldn't leave Italy. Bret tried to make it work and live there, but he says Italy makes Canada look like Hawaii. It was cold and there was no heat.
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NEW YORK — Many of those standing and applauding Saturday at the U.S. Open surely were there in 1986, when Andre Agassi, then a smart-aleck, long-haired kid, went down in four sets to a no-name Briton named Jeremy Bates.
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I'm on nights this week and it has been CRAZILY busy. Usually, the East Central is dead by 2am on a week night. This week, I've still been juggling a screen full of calls at 5am.
So what do you think is responsible for the increase in call rate? Drunken people enjoying the good weather? Swine flu? No, it's the pollen count. Our screens are full of young people having "severe difficulty in breathing", brought on by hayfever. It's the first time I can remember this happening, and from a Control point of view, it's hard to tell how serious these calls are. Some people are undoubtedly calling just for bog standard hayfever symptoms, and as a sufferer myself I know how horrible that "pins in eyes, feathers in throat, corks up nose" feeling is, but I wouldn't call an ambulance from it. On the other hand, in some cases, the hayfever triggers a full blown asthma attack and the patient really does need us.
In other news, our control room is being refurbished at the moment. They are ripping out all the desks and making them point in different directions. This means we keep getting moved around to different rooms, no one knows where any of the other desks are and management have not been seen for several days. The highlight of last night's shift was finding a big box of Christmas Belgian biscuits in a hidden cupboard when they dismantled the East Central desk. We ate the lot.
I don't get it bad enough to need an ambulance, but my hayfever has definitely been worse this year than in previous years. My mum does though, you can physically hear that she is finding it much harder to breathe than she normally does. Her asthma doesn't affect her at any other time of the year, but in summer the inhalers come out as her hayfever triggers her asthma. Heck it was an attack she had due to that very fact that prompted me to take a first aid course, and now here I am, a St John addict!
Wow. The one time I had a full blown hayfever-induced asthma attack in the middle of the night (2am) whilst staying in London my boyfriend had the sense to bundle me into the nearest taxi (which involved a short walk to the main road) and we were at St Thomas' much faster than had we called an ambulance. I've never had an attack since, but then I am good about taking my brown inhaler now!
I discovered that I am very allergic to olive pollen one night at about 3AM. We lived about two blocks from one of the great hospitals in Phoenix, Arizona so we piled into the car and drove there. It's amazing how quickly one gets through triage when one says "I … can't … breathe." And you don't get back to sleep that night after the adrenaline shot.
and management have not been seen for several days
Hah. Funny how that works. Or, rather, doesn't work.
It really has been bad this year. I've never had hayfever before, but this year I'm getting it pretty heavily :/
Just a quick question that popped to mind whilst preparing my car to spend the next 15 months whizzing all over the country – Is your computer system able to take longitude & latitude as a location? If I encountered an accident on a country road, the most accurate way for me to give a location to the emergency services would be through the Longitude & Latitude that my Sat-Nav provides me with? I assume all trusts use the same system – as I don't think this is really relevant for your desk? Craig
My boyfriend gets hayfever every year, but this year it has been particularly severe and he's been diagnosed with asthma related to the hayfever. It can be quite scary listening to him wheezing and unable to breathe, esp at night – haven't yet had to call an ambulance though!
Christmas biscuits?!!
I hear some Abdo pain with D&V calls coming in!
Mum mum got taken to hospital a few weeks ago for pollen-triggered asthma, and wound up spending several days there. I suppose I should be glad I just sneeze lots.
We checked the expiry date first… they were okay, just. Admittedly some of them tasted a bit soft but there were no ill effects!
@Spaigy, if you're going all over the country I don't think London control will be the one you want
Some of the regional ones can take a LL (or EN) co-ordinate, so don't be afraid to offer the information.
Knowing which road you're on and what village/junction you've just passed is the best, but failing that the system each service uses should be able to plot a location using long/lat, GPS or OS grid reference. Plus there are some handy conversion websites that will change whatever information you have into whatever the control room needs.
I have noticed an increase in my symptoms this year, and as a newly diagnosed asthmatic have struggled through the past couple of months, but had a respite by going to Cornwall and it is one of my reasons for deciding to move down there permanently as my symptoms were much reduced by the moist sea air and a reduction in the amount of rapeseed grown in this area.
We're in a rural part of NE Scotland with a post code that covers several widely dispersed houses, plus neither of the two roads that our croft sits between have names. Most sat nav systems send people to one specific house regardless of the actual address, but a few systems reject our addresses entirely as we have no street names.
We thought the emergency services would have systems that could take different types of location information and allow more precision. That is not always the case.
When I called the fire service to a major fire at one of those houses, the call centre operator would only take the postal address. As a result, one appliance ended up on the opposite side of the valley, with a burn, railway line and several fields in between. Another appliance went to a farm a mile away (and out of sight of the fire due to a hill in between), but was at least on the right road.
With the ambulance service, it seems to depend on the call taker. When I've called the ambulance, some have only wanted the postal address but others were pleased to get OS grid references and precise directions. Grid references are vital for agricultural, horse-riding and rambling accidents in areas that are well away from roads.
Police call takers have always welcomed the combination of nearest postal address, OS grid ref, and precise directions.
And yes, I really do know key OS grid references for the area around us. We also have a list of key landmarks and their grid references taped to the wall next to the phone, plus our address and other details. It means our children and visitors can all get help to the right spot if needed.
How much of a hindrance has it been having the desks for different sectors being in different rooms?
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The column by Susan Zepeda of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky makes some very important points about the need for proper nutrition for Kentucky students.
Proper nutrition is necessary for children's learning, health and overall well-being. No one believes that more than the 55,000-plus members of the School Nutrition Association. Of those, 1,900 are here in Kentucky working in school cafeterias to plan, prepare and serve healthy meals to our students.
SNA members support the majority of the new standards and we are not asking to remove the regulations. We are seeking additional flexibility to help students adjust to healthy changes in their school cafeterias in order to increase the number of children who benefit from healthy school meals, and to keep the programs financially stable.
We are asking Congress to allow school nutrition professionals the time to make the current phases work before moving to additional phases in sodium and whole grain requirements and to assess the impact of the Smart Snacks rule. Since the new standards were implemented in 2012, more than one million fewer students choose school lunch each day (17,000 per day in Kentucky), diminishing the intent of the Healthy Hunger-free Kids Act to promote healthier diets for students.
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To imply that we are not concerned about the health of Kentucky's children and to discredit the association and its members as being in league with big industry is inaccurate and offensive. Meals and offerings undergo a vigorous nutritional analysis and are reviewed to make sure the HHFKA's requirements are met.
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While typical human-robot interaction (HRI) focuses on one-on-one (or at least few-to-few) tasks, there are a host of additional applications that consider multiple robots interacting with multiple people. One example is the evacuation assistance domain, wherein robots are intended to interact with "flows" of evacuating pedestrians. Having robots interact with groups of people, who are themselves interacting, is a unique and challenging problem because robots need to be able to manage and even exploit the crowd's own intrinsic dynamics (in addition to the uncertainty, physical dynamics and robot-to-robot effects).
A community of researchers focuses on better understanding the complex relationship between people and the environment. Techniques including models and simulations are used to calculated the effect of environmental changes on egress time. We have begun to use these pedestrian and evacuation dynamics methods for robotics, both as on-line methods within the algorithms, and for experimental evaluation.
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We have designed, implemented and evaluated a distributed algorithm for the self-deployment of a team of mobile robots intended to carry audio beacons. These directional audio beacons have been shown to assist people in the route finding phase of evacuation, making navigation toward suitable exits efficient.
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Directional audio beacons are used in two particular ways, depending upon whether they are positioned at a suitable emergency exit (as in Figure 1a), or near an stairwell on a useful exit route (Figure 1b). In the first case, beacons simply emit a signal that is useful for directional localization. Their sole purpose is as a target. The case of stairways is slightly different because the beacons do not signify a final destination, but part of a possible path toward safety. Thus, in addition to the directional sound, stairway node may also play either a rising or sinking harmonic tone depending on whether evacuees should ascend or descend the stairs respectively.
Tests of beacon effectiveness have shown that subjects correctly interpreted the audio cues, even without any briefing as to the meaning of sound or the signals used at stairwells. Throughout the experiments not a single subject either took a wrong turn or got lost, while the sound overwhelmingly reduced egress time.
In order to evaluate the complexity of a particular segment of the environment, and more specifically, to compare two different segments, we calculate a Space Syntax measure. This requires the extraction of a skeleton of the environment; typically this is done either with convex polygons, or an axial map. We employ topological information, constructing a graph, and calculating these measures on this graph.
Figure 2 shows a 2.5 dimensional representation of a multi-story building used in simulation experiments. Emergency exits, and topological information is shown overlaid. Robotic beacons were deployed, first five from the the ground floor, and then later one from second floor. Although the robots coordinate in order to assign themselves to locations spread far apart.
Figure 2: The two-story building used in simulation experiments.
Figure 3: Decreasing mean and variance in egress distance (and hence time) with the addition of beacons.
Figure 4: The effect of variation of the bias parameter.
We have evaluated our implementation along two dimensions: 1) robustness with respect to failure and 2) effectiveness in terms of impact on the evacuees. The first case can be investigated through the use of carefully thought-out test cases, the introduction of simulated failures, and validation on physical hardware. These steps were all performed.
The second dimension presents new challenges. Complete evaluation of the effectiveness requires human participants and recreating a simulated emergency. In order to bypass these obvious difficulties, we implemented an evacuation simulation (based on an existing "maximum flow" macroscopic-model). We added a bias parameter that captures the strength of the bias effect on evacuees.
Figure 3 shows that the evacuation simulation suggests that adding a single beacon is highly effective, but thereafter additional beacons are less beneficial. Both means and variances are decreased, which is significant because a decrease in only one has limited value. Figure 4 shows the effect of a range of values for the bias parameter, and that the trend is unaffected.
Dylan A. Shell and Maja J. Mataric´. "Directional Audio Beacon Deployment: an Assistive Multi-Robot Application". In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 2588-2594, New Orleans, Louisiana, Apr 2004. (.pdf)(.gz)(Details)
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Spotlight's Ultimate Guide to Knitting Needles!
Spotlight offers countless knitting needles for all your knitting projects. However, if you are just starting out with knitting, you will have to choose the right knitting needles. To help you choose the best knitting needles for your projects, please read Spotlight's ultimate guide to knitting needles below.
What Materials Should My Knitting Needles Be Made Of?
Knitting needles can be made from various materials nowadays; this includes plastic, wood, metal, and bamboo. Naturally, the material your knitting needles are made of can have an impact on how easy they are to handle. Below, we have described each type in more detail.
Metal: Metal knitting needles are the most traditional type of knitting needles. They are often chosen for speed, since it is easier to do some speed knitting with metal needles. However, metal knitting needles do make the clicking sound, which could come a little obnoxious if you like peace and quiet.
Plastic: Plastic knitting needles are usually the best choice for customers on a budget, since plastic is an inexpensive material. Of course, there are some minor disadvantages connected to plastic knitting needles, more specifically yarn tends to slide off a little easier and they are less durable than some other types of knitting needles.
Wood: One of the most expensive types of knitting needles is made from wood. However, these types of needles are good choices for beginners, since the stitches do not slide off as easily as with plastic or metal knitting needles.
Bamboo: If wooden knitting needles are too expensive for you, there is always an alternative in the form of the bamboo knitting needles. Bamboo knitting needles are less expensive, and the texture of the bamboo enables you to keep the stitches on a little easier. Therefore, bamboo knitting needles are also an excellent choice for beginners.
What Type of Knitting Needle Could I Obtain?
When people think of knitting needles, they often think about the traditional straight knitting needles. However, there are more types of knitting needles available, including the circular and double-pointed needles. Here is some additional information about each type.
Straight Needles: Straight knitting needles are the most common type of knitting needles. They are characterised by pointed tips and a flat, wide end. These types of needles are often used for projects where rows of stitches are required; this includes scarves, blankets, and washcloths.
Circular Needles: The circular needle is characterised by a wire and a nylon cord, which forms an extension between two knitting needles. Circular needles are used for projects that require a round pattern; this includes hats, sweaters, and infinity scarves. Circular needles are also used for larger projects, since the extension can hold onto a larger amount of stitches.
Double-Pointed Needles: The double-pointed needles are often used to bind off projects; this usually includes hats and sweaters. However, the double-pointed needles could be used for projects that are smaller; this includes some socks or mittens.
Cable Needles: Cable needles are more uncommon than the other types of needles we mentioned today, but this does not mean they do not have a lot of applications. Quite the contrary, because cable needles are used for all cabling projects.
The cable needle is characterised by its unique U-shape. It can be used in combination with straight needles, circular needles, double-pointed needles, and more.
How Do I Choose a Needle Size?
Customers can usually choose a needle size based on the pattern they have obtained; this pattern usually specifies the knitting needle size and yarn you will need. Customers can also find the ideal knitting needle size by looking on the label of their yarn.


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Updates and Reflections
Listen Inward
First Responsibility
For the tales that belong with these rememberances:
Power of Vulnerability
Vulnerability of Power
Grandmothers - Gratitude
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Being Exactly Where You Are
For the story, Being Exactly Where You Are:
The Healing Journey
In the stillness. . .
Coming Home to the All of Me
Quote from Tenderly Embracing All the Ways That I Feel and I Am by Robyn L. Posin
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Healing the Wounds of Mean Mothering
Part 5: The Possibility of Transforming the Inner Critic
- Robyn L. Posin
We weather the storms of grief and rage over giving up the hope that we can ever get – from outside of our selves – the loving for which we've hopelessly yearned all our lives. Then, we dedicate our selves to developing and expanding our capacity to consistently and whole-heartedly make space for, connect with, listen to and tenderly practice re-mothering our (till-now) disowned, love-starved little inner selves. We, at long last, are finding the unconditional love we've hungered for: we are giving it to our selves. We know in our bones that love is not something one ever needed to earn – it is grace, our birthright just for being alive, and our own loving inner-mother is, albeit belatedly, now bestowing it upon us.
Sometimes along the way, we can even begin to engage with and embrace our inner critic with tenderness and caring. We understand that her mistreatment of us has been her way to keep us safe from abandonment: keeping us believing the myth that it is we who are/were unlovable/unworthy rather than that our damaged mothers were simply incapable of loving us.
As we embrace this misguided internalized mean mother/inner critic, we can help her gradually to let go of this terrible, now outdated role, that she's had. Treating her with gentleness, we comfort her when she rears her head out of fear that we are endangering our selves by breaking the code of loyalty to our mean mother's image of us; by seeing our selves as lovable and worthy. We remind her that we no longer have to protect our damaged, broken mothers by crippling our selves in order not to be abandoned. We remind her that we are safe now, that we will never abandon or stop loving our selves, even when we may not be at our most shining.
As we gradually become the fiercely protective, unconditionally loving mothers to our selves that we wish we'd had, we can maybe even grow into feeling compassion for the impaired, emotionally limited mothers we had. We can, perhaps, come to accept that they did the best they could with the consciousness available to them – even though it was far from what we needed.
And, maybe we cannot come to that place. Either way is okay.
Part 4: A Path to Healing the Mean Mother Woundedness
by Robyn L. Posin
The journey of re-mothering our abandoned, neglected, wounded and shamed inner little ones can begin with us carving out some small regular bits of time (as little as five minutes twice a week can be a good start) and some safe, private space for inviting them to come and share their feelings with us. It can be helpful, in whatever way appeals to us, to make that space feel sacred, special for just these meetings.
It may take a while to hear from the little ones, they need to know they can trust we really mean to be there for them if/when they show up. A good way to start each time is by apologizing to our little one(s) for having ignored them and their feelings for so long. Reassuring them that, even though we are feeling quite awkward and uneasy with all this, we are committed to developing a caring connection with them and hearing both how they feel and what they need from us. It can also be helpful to ask them to let us know what they need from us in order to feel safe enough to come out to visit and talk with us.
Sometimes, once they trust we really mean to hear them, they will simply speak in our hearts. Still, having fat colored pens and a blank drawing pad or journal available in which to write or draw using our non-dominant hand can provide a tangible way for the little ones to communicate with us using written words or images.
We may simply use journaling to dialog with these cut-off parts of our selves. We practice speaking to and treating our neglected inner selves with the loving they've never received. In this practice, we are developing a loving-inner-mommy/caregiver voice. Often, this loving voice is the one with which we speak to anyone we love and care about when they're suffering or upset. We already have the voice. What we need now is to find/give our selves the permission to use it with our very own selves.
We need to remember to remind our selves to be patient – it can be very slow going. And, we need to remember to remind our selves to applaud every baby step along the way of our developing relationship with these little inner selves.
Healing the Wounds of Mean Mothering
Part 3: Beginning the Journey of Healing the Woundedness
It's sad but true that, if we didn't get the loving mothering, valuing and acceptance we all need and deserve as children, no amount of it coming from outside can reach through the time warp to our wounded inner little ones. Only when the who we are now has developed a relationship with those little ones and is already giving that love to our selves, can others' love come in to support our current self in that re-mothering process.
The work of healing from/transforming this terrible legacy begins with accepting that, at this stage of life, we must learn to provide for our selves the loving for which we yearn: it's an inside job. It requires letting go of the hope that what we craved and continue to crave can ever come from anywhere else. As we work at this incredibly difficult and painful letting go, we simultaneously begin turning inward to listen for and to the love-starved, abandoned and neglected little ones within us.
Letting go of the hope of ever getting it from the outside is one of the hardest things we ever have to do. As we let go, we may feel enormous grief at the finally acknowledged, irretrievable loss. We may feel furious for having been ripped off of our birthright and for having spent so many years fruitlessly contorting our selves, looking outward instead of inward for the love and acceptance we need to thrive. These are the feelings that we have held at bay by our continuing to hope.
Allowing, and providing safe space for these storms of emotion as they arise and pass through us, we begin the process of turning inward, of opening our ears and our hearts to the pain of the inner little ones that we, our selves, have continued neglecting all these years. In this practice of sitting-as-two, our grown-up, functioning adult self becomes available to hear and engage with the little ones' emotions and needs. This is the gateway to developing our capacity to lovingly re-mother these inner little ones, to developing an inner-good-mommy/caregiver.
Healing the Wounds of Mean Mothering
Part 2: How the Wounding Happens
We come into this life totally dependent, with (I and others believe) an organismic trust that we will be welcomed and loved (with what these days is called healthy attachment). When we are met with less than that, our infant selves begin adapting to preserve what little might be available. (An example from my own life: my body remembers staying quiet, lying miserably cold and wet in my crib because the one who came when I cried would jerk me about roughly with sharp poking fingernails. When I waited quietly for her to come when she felt like it, I would not be treated as roughly.)
We begin, even before we have words or concepts for it, to believe that it is our failure, our lack that is the cause of our deprivation or mistreatment. We start on the road to trying to be better/gooder girls/more of whatever we think might unlock the loving we are not getting from our mothers.
By believing it is we who are lacking, we can keep holding onto the hope that, should we only find the key, the right way to be, our mothers will finally love us as we yearn to be loved. Were we to understand that the absence of that love has to do rather with the damage in our mothers that leaves them unable to love us, we would lose all hope. To feel our helplessness, the futility of our desperate attempts to be lovable in the face of their lack of the capacity to love is too devastating to tolerate. With a convoluted kind of loyalty, we as children, and later as adults, "take the rap," finding presumed inadequacies in our selves to account for the unloving behavior from these damaged mothers: e.g., we are too needy, too ugly, too clumsy, too fat, too stupid. Our vicious inner critics keep the myth alive and keep us ever striving and always failing to feel worthy just as we are.
Often we go on to choose partners who treat us as our mothers treated us. This affirms the myth of our unworthiness, keeping us loyal to our mother's image: "see, no one can love me any better than she did, it must be me that's the problem."
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Healing the Wounds of Mean Mothering - A Five Part Series
Part 1: The Toxic Legacy of Mean Mothering:
Those of us who were raised by cold, critical, emotionally or physically abusive, unavailable and/or neglectful mothers, almost inevitably find our selves tyrannized by vitriolic inner critics. These viciously undermining voices lead those of us with such histories to treating our selves in the same damaging ways our mothers have treated us.
Despite how we try or what seeming wonders we accomplish in our lives, these undermining voices keep us from ever feeling we are truly worthy or lovable. Their litany can also keep us feeling shamed and diminished by any needs we might have that we cannot deal with on our own. We feel we are never enough or else that we are too much/overwhelming. We keep searching for what magical thing we might do that could finally silence those inner voices that turn everything we do into nothing of value. Yet each such thing, once achieved, becomes valueless; the critical onslaught continues unabated.
Similarly, no matter how many other people value and love us, no matter how many accolades we garner along the way, it does nothing to invalidate the belief in our own ultimate unworthiness. As the famous Groucho Marx once suggested: "Why would I want to join any club that would have me as a member?" – we believe that anyone that treasures our flawed selves is either stupid or deranged or not seeing clearly when they value us or tell us we are lovable. It's a terrible plight, this toxic legacy of wounding by damaged and damaging mothers that leaves us feeling so unworthy, so undeserving of love.
Those of us with this heritage are legion and, it seems, almost everywhere in the developed world. That so many women who mother are themselves so damaged, speaks volumes about the soul-destroying cultures in which almost all women are raised.
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Healing Our Inside Voices - One Path - Part Three
The Consequences of These Influences
The pressures and prohibitions from the larger culture and from our family of origin get internalized, becoming a less than conscious template for acceptable behavior; an internalization of myriad external voices becomes a chorus drowning out our own authentic inner realities. We lose any sense of our center. When we step out of line, these internalized voices harangue us to make sure we shape up so that we'll be safe from external retribution. These critical voices, meaning to protect us, are themselves often painfully harsh and punitive.
Freeing our selves from the tyranny of these now-internalized oppressive voices is a process that begins with observing their messages rather than taking them in, believing them and being directed by them. It helps to explore and try to identify the source/lineage of any inner voice that makes us feels diminished or not-okay. Giving each such voice a name (e.g., the hatchet lady, the judge, the slave-driver, the production manager) allows us to see our selves as separate from it.
With journaling, we can enter into dialog with each voice and uncover what purpose it believes it serves, what it fears and from what it is trying to protect us.
In this dialog, we are liberating and connecting more fully with the voice of our own wise, inner-knowing self. From this self, we can begin to address those fears, transform those undermining influences and build loving, gentle support for the truths of our own inner knowing. And, we can begin to find ways to open our hearts to the needy, upset, sad or angry parts of our selves that, till now unattended, live on hidden away inside of us.


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First Aid Courses for New Parents.
Vancouver First Aid offers a number of different first aid and CPR training. New parents should consider taking an infant first aid course to prepare themselves to handle almost any situation with a new born or a young child. Three first aid courses offer comprehensive knowledge, including CPR, for emergencies with children and infants. Standard First Aid is the most comprehensive course which prepares parents by teaching CPR for adults, children and infants including complications such as choking and a wide range of first aid emergencies including allergic reactions, stings and seizures. Childcare first aid is not as comprehensive as standard first aid, however, it covers CPR for infants and children and covers a substantial range of first aid emergencies pertaining to children and infants. Both standard first aid and childcare first aid are excellent courses that we recommend new parents take. Both courses are affiliated with the Red Cross and successful course candidates receive Red Cross certification cards which are valid for up to three years. If new parents are looking to learn only CPR we recommend CPR level C which includes CPR on infants and children. CPR level C is included in both standard first aid and Childcare first aid. For more information about registration or course information select the childcare first aid, CPR-C or standard first aid course in the nearby menu bars.
Vancouver First Aid is also proud to offer an exclusive infant CPR course. In this course, the instructor will come to you and teach you a private lesson in infant CPR. To register check out our infant CPR page. Instructors are available to teach a private course for you or your family on almost any day of the week at almost any time. Instructors will cover the basic skills for CPR and first aid for your infant. Registration is cheap and courses are incredibly convenient.


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Anyone remember the old game for two players where you have 5 different ships and you put them on a grid, then you call out grid numbers in an attempt to destroy the other players ship? Well this is another electonic version of this game, and it also has a 3d naval action game to go along with it.
When you start the game you can choose either to play the clasic game, or play the arcade game.
I really liked playing the classic game. You can play against one or two computer players simultaneously, although sometimes both computer players like to pick on you. The game uses nice 3d ships and water, When the ship gets sunk, the men jump ship and little rafts appear in those squares.
In the arcade game you control a battleship with heaps of guns. You have to go around rescuing the rafts, and blowing up enemy boats, rocket launchers, and prisons. There isn't a lot to the game, it is just a 3d style shoot 'em up. The battle ship has four fire control buttons depending on which direction to want to shoot in.
Sound: 5/10
It's there but not very exciting. The bugle gets annoying when you die - but then I guess the aim of the game is not to die.
Graphics: 7/10
It has some pretty nice, 3d graphics. Pretty simple, but more than useful.
Playability: 5/10
Both games seemed a little repetitious. I found the classic game to be more entertaining than the arcade game, because at least i expect it to be repetitious, but it is a puzzle, so requires lots of thinking. The arcade game on the other hand just requires a lot of mindless blasting. It was fun for a while, but in the long run I think the classic game has more playability. The battleship cruised around very nicely, that was one thing I really enjoyed.
Overall: 5.5/10
It's not a bad game, slightly hard in places, but still a manageable level. I was unable to get multi-player to work, in fact I don't think it was programmed properly, which is a shame. For a single player game though it is entertaining. The options screen also seemed to lag - is that just my computer? If you like the basic shoot 'em up genre then this will keep you going for a few hours.


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Katie Mae Larson, 87, of Paducah, KY passed away at 6:25 p.m. Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at the Barkley Center. Katie was a member of Friendship Baptist Church. She worked in housekeeping at Parkview Nursing and Rehab for 20 years.
Katie is survived by two daughters, Pat Deen and Lisa Dowell, both of Paducah; two sons, Ricky Larson and Danny Larson, both of Paducah; one sister, Lucille Johnson of St. Louis,MO; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Preceding her in death was husband, Stanley Larson; parents, Herbert Dodd and Florence Glison Dodd; one sister and one brother.
Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, October 13, 2017 at Mt. Kenton Cemetery with Rev. Frank Queens officiating.
The family would like to extend a special Thank You to the caregivers at both the Barkley Center and Lourdes Hospice for all their care and support.
You may go online to light a candle or leave a message for the family at www.milnerandorr.com
Milner & Orr of Paducah are in charge of arrangements.


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"One of the things I love about horses is learning to go with the flow. Long story short, a herd of cattle followed me home from a walk Saturday, and stayed. I wanted to ride my mare, who was totally bothered by her new friends. I had wanted to go out, get on her and just ride. It took 2 hours to get to the point of catching her. I turned her running around and snorting at the cows into lunging up and down the fence line. I then cheated and used a treat to catch her. Worked her on the ground, then in the saddle. I was actually able, for the most part to re-focus her attention, with the occasional look at the cows. This was huge for me, as I was not that easy about working her in her original frame of mind."-Karen A.
I love several things about this story. The first thing I love is that you live somewhere that a herd of cattle can follow you home from a walk, lol!
On a more serious note, it is great that you had the knowledge, skill and took this opportunity to train your horse. At some point you took the time to gain the knowledge of groundwork and mounted exercises that you could use. It is also very likely that you practiced these exercises, or versions of these exercises, to increase your skill before you needed them.
The time that you took to gain the knowledge and skill paid off for you when you saw the opportunity that…walked into your front yard.
Training situations like the one you described are something that I seek out and take advantage of. I do this because I know that I have put in the time practicing the foundation work; the results will become most fruitful after they are put to use in many places. Just last week my family had the opportunity to ride out to a marker on the Chisholm Trail. Newt has been trail riding many times…but something about this time set him off. He was being a brat!
The hardest part of the situation is remaining calm and seeing the problem as an opportunity. I got more training done on that one trail ride than I had in the previous month of training. Thanks for sharing your story and congratulations on your success!


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The city of Bend has qualified for a $50,000 matching grant to help implement its climate action plan.
Bend and the nonprofit Environmental Center will receive the grant from Partners for Places, a private group that provides grants to communities, if donors to the Oregon Community Foundation match the funds. Donors have already designated $27,500 in matches, Environmental Center Executive Director Mike Riley said.
The climate action project will cost $175,000 a year for two years. The city of Bend allocated $99,000 to the project from revolving loans created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that could only be spent on investing in energy efficiency. Other funding comes from donations to the Environmental Center.
The project includes hiring a new city employee focused on the climate action plan, studying greenhouse gas emissions in the city, forming a citizen committee to steer the climate action plan and hiring a contractor.
Bend's climate change resolution, adopted in September 2016, aims to reduce Bend's fossil fuel use 40 percent and reach carbon neutrality in municipal facilities by 2030.


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International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical SciencesVolume 2005 (2005), Issue 13, Pages 2005-2010doi:10.1155/IJMMS.2005.2005
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mazandaran, Pasdaran Street, P.O. Box 416, Babolsar 47415, Iran
Received 28 November 2004; Revised 4 July 2005
Copyright © 2005 G. A. Afrouzi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
By using the mountain pass lemma, we study the existence of
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Month: December 2016
POP UP DOCS presents: A SYRIAN LOVE STORY
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This next Pop Up Docs screening is a fundraiser for Bath Welcomes Refugees, get your tickets from our home page: £6 adult | £5 student | £4 unwaged/single parent | FREE refugees/carers
We hope to see many people at this screening, to raise funds and awareness too. Please do come, bring a friend, and tell your neighbours too…
£30 pays for a child's school uniform, £100 for a pushchair: these are simple things some take for granted, which for others are essential to accessing an education or getting out of the house with the kids. When you think of what is going on across the whole country of Syria (most of the refugees in Bath are from Syria, hence the film choice) as well as the much-covered devastation of Aleppo, a school uniform or a buggy don't seem like much to ask for, and your donations, any donation, can make a huge difference here.
Bath Welcomes Refugees is a friendly group for anyone in the area who would like to be involved with welcoming refugee families. We have invited a guest speaker to share a glimpse of life as a refugee, the experience of displacement from home, being unable to return to the place where you belong.


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Our Story
Well... the day has finally come where I can announce "the good news!" It has always been Sandy's passion to have her own restaurant. With almost 30 years of restaurant management experience there was no question of capability and knowledge of the business. We finally decided, after lots of "negotiations" to make the move. Two weeks ago (April 15, 2015) we were chosen, among many businesses competing, for the property at 3152 Shore Drive (old H20) Virginia Beach, VA 23451 to place our new restaurant.
Welcome "Simple Eats" opening June 2015 and congratulations to my wife Sandy for all the hard work and patience. Simple Eats will be open for breakfast, lunch and early dinner and featuring local, fresh "farm to table" dishes, locally roasted coffee and various local beers and wines from the across the state of Virginia.
Follow us here and our web site at http://simpleeatsvb.com/ to view pictures and updates as we make renovations to the restaurant. We look forward to seeing everyone on "opening day"! Stay tuned!!!


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2 U.S. Code § 288 - Office of Senate Legal Counsel
In carrying out the functions of the Office, the Counsel may procure the temporary (not to exceed one year) or intermittent services of individual consultants (including outside counsel), or organizations thereof, in the same manner and under the same conditions as a standing committee of the Senate may procure such services under section 4301(i) of this title.
The Counsel may establish such policies and procedures as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
The counsel [1] may delegate authority for the performance of any function imposed by this chapter except any function imposed upon the Counsel under section 288e(b) of this title.
[1] So in original. Probably should be capitalized.
This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (b)(1), (d), and (e), was in the original "this title", meaning title VII of Pub. L. 95–521, which enacted this chapter, section 5504 of this title, and section 1364 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, and amended sections 3210, 3216, and 3219 of Title 39, Postal Service. For complete classification of title VII to the Code, see Tables.
Pub. L. 95–521, title VII, § 717, Oct. 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 1885, provided that:
Pub. L. 95–521, title VII, § 715, Oct. 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 1884, provided that:
Increases in compensation for Senate officers and employees under authority of Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 (Pub. L. 91–656), see Salary Directives of President pro tempore of the Senate, set out as notes under section 4571 of this title.
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the Tulsky complex can be perfectly reached from any distance by all kind of transportation.
- to Tulskaya metrostation is 50 m.;
- to the Third Traffic Ring is 460 m.;
- to the Garden Ring is 2 km.;
- to the Kremlin is 4 km.
There are three convenient parking zones in Tulsky: an underground parking for office employees, a guest parking in front of the main entrance and a public parking nearby.
- The total number of parking lots is 300.


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If the claim can be verified, we will match the rate shown on the other website, plus extend a complimentary upgrade. It's that simple!
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Dr. Syed A. Nasar, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at the University of Kentucky, passed away on Sunday, January 29, 2012 after a long illness.
Dr. Nasar was widely considered the world's leading authority on electric machinery. His pioneering contributions to education, research, development, and design greatly influenced the field for more than 50 years. He is best known for his research in linear electric machines and novel rotary motors. Dr. Nasar also made significant contributions to the understanding of the edge-effect phenomenon in linear machines. Applications of his work ranged from artificial heart pump drives to transportation systems and electromagnetic launchers.
Syed Abu Nasar was born in Gorakhpur, India on December 25, 1932. He earned his M.S. from Texas A&M University in 1957 and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1963. Both degrees were in electrical engineering.
After a brief tenure at Gonzaga University, he joined the University of Kentucky in 1968 as an associate professor of electrical engineering. By 1970, he was promoted to full professor. Over the years, he served the EE department in numerous leadership roles beginning as Director of Graduate Studies (1981 – 1988) and culminating as department chair (1989 to 1997). In recognition of his research activities, he was named a University Research Professor for the 1979-80 academic year. At the time of his retirement in 2002, he held the James R. Boyd Professorship in Electrical Engineering.
In addition to being a prolific researcher, Dr. Nasar was an outstanding educator. He guided the M.S. theses and Ph.D. dissertations of more than 40 students who have gone on to distinguish themselves in industry, academia and government. He also hosted numerous visiting researchers and post-doctoral visitors from around the world. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the international journal Electric Machines and Power Systems, through which he established and maintained a forum for dissemination of information for the electrical machine community. Dr. Nasar authored or co-authored more than 100 journal papers, 50 talks and 33 books, which have been translated into eight languages.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) bestowed upon Dr. Nasar the prestigious Nikola Tesla Award recognizing the individual who has made outstanding contributions to the generation and use of electric power. He was recognized "for leadership in the research, development, and design of linear and rotating machines, and contributions to electrical engineering education." In addition, he was named a Life Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to the understanding of electromechanical systems, and in particular, to linear electric motors". He was active on national and international steering committees and working groups and as a reviewer for IEEE. Dr. Nasar was also a Fellow of the IEE (United Kingdom) and a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi.
The National Science Foundation continuously supported his research program for 35 years and he received research grants from NASA, General Electric, and The Ford Motor Company. He was the holder of five U.S. and international patents. His knowledge and expertise led more than 60 companies and organizations to seek him out as a consultant.
Dr. Nasar and his late wife, Sara, were well known for their generosity to community programs and charitable organizations. They were actively involved with the UK International Hospitality Program. Over the years, they served as a host family to dozens of international students, opening their home and welcoming them to the UK community.
When asked about Dr. Nasar's impact on the college, Dr. Thomas Lester, Dean of the College of Engineering, said "Dr. Nasar is the father of the modern Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UK. He had an unequaled eye for quality in the faculty members he hired and mentored. His significant research and the publications of his work set a standard for others in the department to emulate."
Former UK President Lee T. Todd, remembers Dr. Nasar's impact in a more personal sense, as a key mentor for a young engineering professor, "Dr. Nasar took me under his wing when I was a young assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at UK. Even though he was not the department chair at the time, he strongly urged me to submit my tenure case after only a few years on the faculty. He was concerned that no EE professor had gained tenure in the previous seven or eight years. As a result of his guidance, support and encouragement I received tenure that year. He kept track of me throughout my business career and wrote me encouraging notes frequently as well as during my term as president of UK. His tremendous research record set him apart as an outstanding faculty member. He was someone I greatly admired and someone I was very fortunate to have as a mentor during my career. "
Dr. Nasar is survived by his two daughters Naheed (Francis) Bleecker of Brookfield, WI and Sajida Syed of Cary, NC and four grandchildren; Yusuf, Safeeyah and Aliyah Quereshi and Rabiya Syed.


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Thanks for sharing this, Matt. Do you mind opening a Jira for your suggestion ? On Feb 25, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Matt Corgan <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > I've been meaning to look into something regarding compactions for a while > now that may be relevant here. It could be that this is already how it > works, but just to be sure I'll spell out my suspicions... > > I did a lot of large uploads when we moved to .92. Our biggest dataset is > time series data (partitioned 16 ways with a row prefix). The actual > inserting and flushing went extremely quickly, and the parallel compactions > were churning away. However, when the compactions inevitably started > falling behind I noticed a potential problem. The compaction queue would > get up to, say, 40, which represented, say, an hour's worth of requests. > The problem was that by the time a compaction request started executing, > the CompactionSelection that it held was terribly out of date. It was > compacting a small selection (3-5) of the 50 files that were now there. > Then the next request would compact another (3-5), etc, etc, until the > queue was empty. It would have been much better if a CompactionRequest > decided what files to compact when it got to the head of the queue. Then > it could see that there are now 50 files needing compacting and to possibly > compact the 30 smallest ones, not just 5. When the insertions were done > after many hours, I would have preferred it to do one giant major > compaction, but it sat there and worked through it's compaction queue > compacting all sorts of different combinations of files. > > Said differently, it looks like .92 picks the files to compact at > compaction request time rather than compaction execution time which is > problematic when these times grow far apart. Is that the case? Maybe > there are some other effects that are mitigating it... > > Matt > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <email@example.com>wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> So in HBASE-4365 I ran multiple uploads and the latest one I reported >> was a 5TB import on 14 RS and it took 18h with Stack's patch. Now one >> thing we can see is that apart from some splitting, there's a lot of >> compacting going on. Stack was wondering exactly how much that IO >> costs us, so we devised a test where we could upload 5TB with 0 >> compactions. Here are the results: >> >> The table was pre-split with 14 regions, 1 per region server. >> hbase.hstore.compactionThreshold=100 >> hbase.hstore.blockingStoreFiles=110 >> hbase.regionserver.maxlogs=64 (the block size is 128MB) >> hfile.block.cache.size=0.05 >> hbase.regionserver.global.memstore.lowerLimit=0.40 >> hbase.regionserver.global.memstore.upperLimit=0.74 >> export HBASE_REGIONSERVER_OPTS="$HBASE_JMX_BASE -Xmx14G >> -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:NewSize=256m >> -XX:MaxNewSize=256m" >> >> The table had: >> MAX_FILESIZE => '549755813888', MEMSTORE_FLUSHSIZE => '549755813888' >> >> Basically what I'm trying to do is to never block and almost always be >> flushing. You'll probably notice the big difference between the lower >> and upper barriers and think "le hell?", it's because it takes so long >> to flush that you have to have enough room to take on more data while >> this is happening (and we are able to flush faster than we take on >> write). >> >> The test reports the following: >> Wall time: 34984.083 s >> Aggregate Throughput: 156893.07 queries/s >> Aggregate Throughput: 160030935.29 bytes/s >> >> That's 2x faster than when we wait for compactions and splits, not too >> bad but I'm pretty sure we can do better: >> >> - The QPS was very uneven, it seems that when it's flushing it takes >> a big toll and queries drop to ~100k/s while the rest of the time it's >> more like 200k/s. Need to figure out what's going there and if it's >> really just caused by flush-related IO. >> - The logs were rolling every 6 seconds and since this takes a global >> write lock, I can see how we could be slowing down a lot across 14 >> machines. >> - The load was a bit uneven, I miscalculated my split points and the >> last region always had 2-3k more queries per second. >> >> Stay tuned for more. >> >> J-D >>
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