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P.A.C.E. plans and organizes fundraisers to help keep school costs down.
All families are considered members of P.A.C.E. and are encouraged to attend monthly meetings and volunteer.
P.A.C.E. meets the 1st Tuesday of every month at 6:00pm
Fundraisers P.A.C.E. has sponsored in the past are:
Candy Bar Sales
Rummage Sales/Brat Fry/Bake Sale
Coin Challenge
Grant Writing
Money that P.A.C.E. raises goes towards:
Wood Chips for both Playgrounds
Playground Equipment
Field Trips and Transportation
Gym Classes at the YMCA
Technology for the classroom
Art, Music and other classroom supplies
Please join our team of parents (and grandparents/relatives) and offer your help to support your child's educations. Your time would be very much appreciated! Come and see what exciting events we have coming up and offer your creative ideas!


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C++ Unit Testing Fundamentals Using Catch
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Writing unit tests is a big part of being a good software developer. Unfortunately, unit testing in C++ is far from being trivial and good unit testing frameworks are hard to find. In this course, C++ Unit Testing Fundamentals Using Catch, you will learn how to write robust unit tests using Catch, a simple-to-use, yet flexible and powerful unit testing framework for C++. You will learn what makes Catch different from other xUnit frameworks, and how it can be used to write unit tests for your C++ code. You will also get to see how to run Catch from the command line, how to use test fixtures, and how to create maintainable tests. When you're finished with this course, you will have a foundational knowledge of Catch and unit testing in C++ that would help you create better, cleaner C++ code.
Hi everyone, my name is Dror Helper and welcome to my course C++ Unit Testing Fundamentals Using Catch.
I am a Software developer, architect and a Consultant who cares about his code and enjoys teaching other developers how to write better code.
This course is not about yet another unit testing framework. It about writing good unit in C++. Because I found out that writing readable, sustainable and robust unit tests is crucial for successful software development.
In this course, we are going to learn how to write good, robust unit tests using CATCH - a simple to use yet powerful and flexible unit testing framework for C++.
Some of the major topics that we will cover include:
1. Why CATCH is better than other unit testing frameworks
2. Writing good unit tests using CATCH
3. Run your tests from command line
4. Why we care about test failures and how to get the most out of them
5. How to reduce duplicate code in your tests while maintaining readability.
By the end this course, you'll know how to write unit tests in C++ using CATCH in order to create better and cleaner C++ code.
Before beginning the course you should be familiar with C++ so in case you need a refresher check out one of the excellent C++ PluralSight courses on the subject.
I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn all about unit testing and what makes CATCH an excellent unit testing framework with the C++ unit testing foundemantals using CATCH course, at Pluralsight.

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Elementary Music:
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by Ruth Antmann
Elementary Music: Level 3 is a course that focuses on the teaching the elements of music in a way that is accessible for both the student and the teacher. Two main components of this course are teaching the students musical concepts through performing on the recorder, and introducing the students to the music and the instruments of the orchestra. A "Composer of the Month" is an integral part of each unit, and through these lessons students will explore the music of Felix Mendelssohn, Benjamin Britten, George Frideric Handel, Ludwig von Beethoven, Scott Joplin, Edvard Grieg, and George Gershwin. In addition to singing and playing folk songs from the United States and other countries around the world, students will learn about jazz and improvise their own musical patterns. Students will also compose their own piece of music, and will also begin to sing in parts using partner songs and rounds. The lessons in this course are aligned with state and national standards. The goal of this course is to provide opportunities for the student to experience success in performing on a musical instrument, to broaden their knowledge base of classical music literature, and to help them create music of their own.
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Table of Contents:
1. Introduction to Recorder
2. Introduction to the Orchestra
3. Holiday Celebrations; Brass; Strings
4. The Orchestra: Woodwinds and Percussion
5. Introduction to Jazz and Improvisation
6. Music in Our Schools Month/Improvisation
7. Become a Composer/Partner Songs and Rounds
8. Performance – Wrap Up
These instructional support materials (available in print or eBook versions), regularly updated, cover the complete course (at regular, honors, AP and IB levels), whether it be semester, year or 2-year (IB) with daily support for all aspects of instruction. The Teacher's Edition includes a syllabus; correlation to standards; daily pacing guide; detailed daily lesson plans; teacher edition of student activity book or lab manual with answers; class notes in PDF (for use as color overheads) and/or editable PowerPoint's (for use with light projector or smartboard); and complete editable assessments. Classroom sets include 25 printed student books and Teacher Edition with DVD. Samples are available for each course (including complete short-term limited screen view versions in eBook format upon request). After purchase of the Teacher Edition in any of the various editions, student activity books or lab manuals are available for individual purchase. Although the online eBook version is screen view only, other versions are available that allow printing student material. Click here for details.


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What in God's name has happened to us, people? The level of depravity I'm about to report on is usually reserved for bad horror films, not an organization many liberals herald as a bastion of reproductive freedom. It is beyond disgusting.
An undercover investigation by The Center for Medical Progress has exposed a disturbing practice by Planned Parenthood: the illegal sale of aborted baby parts to third-party medical research facilities.
In an undercover video posted this morning, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Senior Director of Medical Services of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, is shown offering to sell body parts from unborn children aborted in Planned Parenthood clinics to two actors she believes work for a human biologics company, who want the body parts for research purposes. Nucatola oversees medical practices at all Planned Parenthood clinics, trains new Planned Parenthood abortion doctors, and even performs abortions herself at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Los Angeles.
It is a violation of federal law to sell the body parts of aborted babies, but in the video, Nucatola seems to be at ease discussing the matter, and even describes how she uses her forceps to preserve key body parts, including the baby's head, heart, lungs, and liver, while crushing less important parts.
LifeNews.com, the nation's leading provider of pro-life news, details what Dr. Nucatola said in the undercover video:
The footage shockingly depicts the top medical official at the Planned Parenthood corporation munching on her salad while she discusses the sale of body parts of unborn children victimized by abortions. She brazenly describes how the heads of unborn babies killed in abortions command top dollar.
"I'd say a lot of people want liver. And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they'll know where they're putting their forceps. The kind of rate-limiting step of the procedure is calvarium. Calvarium—the head—is basically the biggest part."
Nucatola explains, "We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I'm not gonna crush that part, I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact.
Here's the video, with the comments noted above:
Amazingly, LifeNews reports Planned Parenthood Vice President of Communications Eric Ferraro has responded to the video, saying it's really no big deal, that she was really talking "tissue" donations:
At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high-quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards.
A well-funded group established for the purpose of damaging Planned Parenthood's mission and services has promoted a heavily edited, secretly recorded videotape that falsely portrays Planned Parenthood's participation in tissue donation programs that support lifesaving scientific research. Similar false accusations have been put forth by opponents of abortion services for decades. These groups have been widely discredited and their claims fall apart on closer examination, just as they do in this case."
LifeNews also reports that Nucatola deleted her Twitter account less than two hours after the video hit the internet. Members of Congress are calling for an investigation. It seems Dr. Nucatola and Planned Parenthood are about to feel the forceps of justice. Let's hope they save their heads, since they are the most valuable.


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Where I live, two shocking incidents involving inebriated drivers in the recent past have left me with no doubt that Uganda is facing a serious challenge regarding the crime of drink-driving.
In the first incident, a driver too drank to stand, rammed into the rear of a vehicle with young ladies.
A couple of the girls went to an early grave. The rest inherited different versions of disabilities. The driver escaped unhurt and is still driving on our road – many times under the influence of alcohol.
The second involved a mischievous young man who stole his father's car, went on a drinking spree and then mauled a couple of people in the trading centre after he failed to control the vehicle.
Luckily for him, the father is a rich man who paid the funeral expenses of the dead and treated the injured, many of whom lost limbs and have been rendered partially helpless. The young man is still driving, sometimes under the influence of alcohol.
The dilemma for a drunk driver is that alcohol blurs judgment. Most of the drink-driving accidents in Uganda, according to the police, take place at night between 11pm and 7am on narrow roads that are not well lit or paved, yet the drunk driver is not fully in charge of their faculties. It means the moment a drunk person enters his/her car, the possibility of an accident occurring is extremely high. This means the driver minus the alcohol significantly minimises the chances of having an accident.
Motor accidents are a very costly affair. The obvious first cost is to the vehicles or the property both movable and unmovable that the accident impacts. These may be repaired or replaced.
But most significant is the threat to the human resource involved that makes accidents scary. It takes about 25 years and millions of shilling to train a doctor. The shenanigans of a drunk driver can end all this in seconds. A mechanic, journalist, grass cutter, butcher, potter, builder or nurse may lose an arm, leg or eye and that hampers their ability to work and earn.
The wider implication when the country loses a productive person is that not only are we short of a taxpayer but we also have an increase in dependents who lose a mother or father. It may mean the end of their schooling and stability. The impact it has on the already overstretched healthcare system is another point of thought.
We urgently need to minimise drink-driving accidents.
The current practice of treating suspects to a Breathalyzer test, jailing them for a night until they sober up then fining them half a million shilling or less, is akin to child's play. It has rendered the whole scheme a revenue collection exercise. You drink, drive, you are fined then you pay and go back to your mischief.
The law has to be changed. Let it be cast in stone that for a first offender there is a jail term of three months. The driver should be fined Shs2 million and their license suspended for six months. They should be counselled on alcohol use and abuse as well.
A subsequent offence should lead to cancellation of the driver's license for a period of five years and a fine of Shs5 million on top of a year's jail term with hard labour.


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"The reason I'm involved with Nantucket… it's unlike any of the others I've gone to."
– Laura Fitton, HubSpot
– Laura Fitton, HubSpot
Whether you're a young entrepreneur or a seasoned CEO, this is a networking opportunity and learning experience like no other. It's small, it's intimate, and you'll walk away with more than you came with. Everyone from journalists to venture capitalists attend to socialize and stay on the cutting edge.
Nantucket gathers industry leading speakers from organizations like Google Ventures, Oracle and MIT for close encounters and interactive talks with our small group of attendees. The whole weekend is a quality experience that allows for conversations to continue long after the speakers have finished.
We encourage you to join us and attend this very unique opportunity. To start the process, please request an invite for yourself or on behalf of your attendee.
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Each year, the Nantucket Conference brings together a small group of creative and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, investors, technologists, and executives. There are several reasons why the Nantucket Conference is a must-attend…
Rather than sitting through a series of speeches and PowerPoint presentations, the audience was engaged in a dialogue – and sometimes a heated debate – with approximately 150 top entrepreneurs, investors, and tech executives…
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The Nantucket Conference is has been held annually every year in June since 2000. The conference sessions will be held at the White Heron Theatre. We encourage you to join us for amazing talks and sights.
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2006 smart fortwo - city coupe Pulse 700 turbo
Perfect small car with charisma..
Nothing has gone wrong with my Smart. First service is at 15000 km and after a year of driving it every day, I am still not there yet.
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When I started a new job around a year ago, my employers gave me the carrot on a stick of choosing my own work car. As the company already had a bunch of vans, a truck and a couple of station wagons, I thought a Smart would be a good choice.
When it first arrived, everyone thought I was mad. That was, until they drove it. It is a great fun little beast. With the 6 speed sequential clutchless manual gearbox, it takes a little getting used to, but once you get the hang of it, it's great. One thing you have to do though is physically change gear a bit before you actually want the car to. By the time the computer and engine do the change, it can be a second or so. I think this is why there are so many negative reviews about the gearbox - reviewers simply don't have enough time to get the hang of the new way of driving over the review period.
The car revs happily to redline through all the gears and when you floor it from standstill, it seems to go into some sort of high-boost mode - it really leaps!
Every day I drive around 20km each way to my workplace, pretty much all of it motorway speed. The car is extremely happy at these speeds - spinning at only 2600rpm at 100kph in top gear. It is also very quiet at these speeds.
The ride is quite stiff and the short wheelbase makes the car sensitive to pitch, but the handling is pretty predictable. As with most modern cars, when pushed it under steers, but no more than any other small front wheel drive that I've driven. The good thing is that because of it's light weight, it never gets unrecoverable. Just button off a bit and it's back into line. It also has electronic stability control courtesy of Mercedes-Benz, that I have managed to invoke a few times, mainly over speed humps and strange surfaces.
The car fits more cargo than you would think considering it's external size. The passenger seat folds forward so that you can happily store long cargo up to about 2 metres long. The rear hatch opens with the top half (glass) upwards, and the rest downward to make a very strong loading shelf. From first hand experience, it is strong enough to picnic on, with the glass above keeping out the weather...
Visibility is great and the driving position is higher than in most passenger cars. The triangle rear view mirror is a little useless, but the external mirrors are good.
The standard stereo is good, but not great and the air conditioning is brilliant in the summer to counter the heat from the glass roof. The seats are very comfortable and I really like the way that they are steel backed and powder coated to keep the cargo where it belongs.
My only design complaint is that the car is air-tight. When all the windows are up, the door can bounce off the internal air and fail to close properly. Often I leave the window down a bit so that the doors can close without effort.
Another great thing about the smart is that it is really easy to clean! It only takes a couple of minutes and it's sparkling again.
Sometimes it gets a bit tiring driving around with people staring and pointing at the car. It is impossible to disappear in a Smart Fortwo.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 13th January, 2007


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We understand and shape innovation in the European payments market by delivering insight to our clients. We have been working on payments and banking since early 2000. We have worked for many of the major Italian Financial Institution.
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Regional Development Planning and Management
SPRING combines teaching in development theories and strategies, planning concepts and methods, and implementation and monitoring tools with practice-orientated field studies aimed at elaborating regional development plans and programmes in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The programme content is oriented by the specific socio-economic problems in the developing world.
SPRING places its emphasis on development management at an intermediate level (e.g. district) between macro-regional and community-based planning. Development planning is seen as a problem-oriented management tool with the following objectiv
- to identify development problems, trends, resources, constraints and potentials;
- to formulate development objectives, policies and strategies;
- to design plans and programmes;
- to assess environmental impacts of plans and programmes;
- to organise target group participation and decision-making processes;
- to apply instruments for programme implementation and management and
- to evaluate and monitor plans and programmes.
A development planner should be able: to collect, process, analyse, interpret and compile social and economic data; to understand and critically reflect concepts and theories underlying spatial development and planning; to project key social and economic indicators into the future; to translate target group requirements into land use plans, projects and programmes; to understand at least the basics of all major sectors of regional development; to have a good command of planning, group facilitation and conflict resolution techniques; to critically appraise processes of spatial development at all levels against the backdrop of globalisation and accelerated urbanisation; to design and conduct planning-oriented empirical research; to write clear reports, manuals and memos.
Therefore, the SPRING programme seeks to provide students with the following set of competencies:
- a broad inter-sectoral knowledge and skills across three major regional development planning fields: Natural resource planning, physical infrastructure planning and socio-economic development planning.
- the capability to design regional development activities in a pragmatic, problem and action oriented manner.
- the competency in applying the three major action phases of the planning cycle: analysis, planning and implementation.
- the ability to reconcile participatory planning from below with the requirements of planning from above and the framework set by national policies.
- the cability to combine various personal characteristics such as logical thinking, flexibility, creativity, organisational and communicative skills.
The SPRING programme prepares regional development planners and managers for employment in the public sector at central, regional or local government levels, private sector, NGOs and international organisations. The course content is specially geared towards the needs of students from Africa, Asia and Latin America.


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Welcome to Affordable Acupuncture!
We provide effective, affordable, and high quality acupuncture care in a peaceful group treatment room.
Pay what you can on our sliding scale of $30 - $50 for return visits. You can see all our rates here.
Patients come from all over Marin County (Novato, San Rafael, Mill Valley), as well as from Sonoma and Vallejo to receive acupuncture at our clinic.
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Volleyball Drops 3-0 Match To Central Connecticut
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NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – Senior Megan Lynch (Mendham, N.J.) led the Crusaders with seven kills, but the Holy Cross volleyball team fell to Central Connecticut, 3-0, at the Central Connecticut Invitational at Detrick Gym on Saturday by scores of 26-24, 25-14 and 25-18. With the loss, the Crusaders fall to 0-5 overall, while CCSU improves to 3-3 overall. The Crusaders will return to action in the tournament on Saturday afternoon when they meet St. John's at 3:30 p.m.
Sophomore Alicia Swearingen (Springdale, Ark.) and freshman Emily Oliver (Carlsbad, Calif.) each posted five kills, while sophomore Hannah Grace Stokes (Atlanta, Ga.) led the team with 19 assists and eight digs.
CCSU was led by Emily Cochran who tallied 17 kills, while Blaike King posted a double-double with 10 kills and 11 digs. Makenna Lommori totaled 20 assists and Brittany Schumacher tallied 19 digs.
With the Crusaders leading by a 19-13 score in the first set, CCSU won nine of the next 12 points to tie the set at 22-22. Holy Cross then won the next two points to earn two set points at 24-22. But CCSU rallied to win four straight points for the 26-24 opening set victory. Lynch and Cochran each posted five kills for the set. Central Connecticut tallied a .464 hitting percentage in the second set and Cochran totaled five kills as CCSU won the set by a 25-14 score. Cochran posted seven kills in the third set as CCSU won seven of the last 10 points to earn the match win with a 25-18 victory.


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We are authorised Raymarine dealers, suppliers and installers and carry one of the most comprehensive showrooms of Raymarine equipment in Australia.
Our workshop in The Yaringa Marine Precinct, has direct drive in access for trailerable boats, with larger vessels accommodated on the water or on the hardstand opposite our workshop.
With 40 tonne and 35 tonne travel lifts most vessels can be hauled out at Yaringa.
Our showroom and workshop is located within 100 metres of the slipway and entrance to Yaringa Marina Channel, that takes you out to Westernport Bay and only a short, safe trip from the approaches to Bass Strait via San Remo to the east or Flinders to the west of Phillip Island.
If you are arriving by water the co-ordinates for the entrance to Watson inlet are 38 15 737 and 145 15 736 your approach is almost on a perfect due north and south axis. The entrance to Yaringa channel is only a short distance ahead with clear channel markers on a due west and east axis. With a turn to port your co-ordinates are 38 14 888 and 145 15 876.
We welcome cruising yachtsmen and women both local and international and work with you to perform timely, cost effective repairs and maintenance whilst you lay your boat up at Yaringa Boat Harbour, a great location only 65 kilometres by freeway from the centre of Melbourne.
Yaringa Marina has a nearby caravan park with on site vans and cabins, The fully licenced Yaringa Restaurant is located within the Yaringa Marine Precinct. With lunch & diner dining available Tuesday to Sunday & Casual snacks both eat in & takeaway available 7 days.


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Our face to face interpreters are fluent native language speakers who, can focus on the spoken word and resolve cultural and social inferences and stylistic linguistic customs.
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This type of interpreting is ideally suited to long speeches; for example during international conferences, forums and presentations. Specialist equipment is used to enable seamless interpretation.
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Telephone interpreting can be used when the conversation is expected to be short in duration, the requirement is unexpected or urgent or in situations where rare language interpretation is needed.
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We can provide an end-to-end Voice Over Service to convert instructional films, CDs or websites in other languages. We can deliver edited product within the given time-scale.
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Our Parent Company M/s Adarsha control systems Pvt Ltd (ACSPL) an ISO 9001:2008, started in the year 1993 with the belief and commitment that the knowledge and excellence in the chosen field of electrical control panel building & precision sheet metal fabrication is the continuous journey and not the end destination. Our commitment to this philosophy over the period of years has transformed the organization from a small scale industry to a sustainable enterprise having strong financial, social and customer-friendly goals.
'Adarsha' is situated in the prime Industrial location, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore which is one of the biggest Industrial area in Asia, with a manufacturing facility of over 60000 Sq. ft. in Peenya, Bangalore.
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This Wasn't Supposed to Happen
The possibility of an unplanned pregnancy can bring with it an overwhelming personal crisis full of concerns about your future. If you're enrolled in a university or high school, you have unique concerns as a student. Let Central Texas LifeCare help you get answers and find hope. We care about you and want to help you work through the situation, so you can make a decision that's right for you.
Really Pregnant?
The first and most important thing you can do is determine if you're really pregnant. Even if you've taken a home test, it may not be accurate. Central Texas LifeCare offers free pregnancy tests that are medical quality and more accurate than most home tests. The trained staff at the Pregnancy Center can help you confirm your pregnancy before you make any decisions.
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If you have a positive pregnancy test Central Texas LifeCare, you may be eligible for a free limited ultrasound at our center. Having an ultrasound will tell you how far along you are and whether your pregnancy is viable (healthy). This information will help you learn more about your pregnancy and the options available so you can make an informed decision.
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Every year, our center sees women from high school and college campuses who are considering abortion as a solution to an unplanned pregnancy. Talk with one of our client peer counselors who can answer your questions about abortion procedures and risks.
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Even if you have a positive pregnancy test and are considering abortion, you should know that many early pregnancies end in natural miscarriage. An ultrasound will help determine if your pregnancy is viable (healthy) or if you're going to miscarry naturally, avoiding the need for an abortion. All of our ultrasound scans are reviewed by a medical doctor.
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For this upcoming NOAA Oceanography Exploration mission to the Gulf of Mexico, my position is chief scientist. Basically I am the mission coordinator for biomedical research. My main job started about year ago and started with where are we going to go and I had to do literature research and put together stacks and stacks of literature papers and research on the Gulf of Mexico and try to determine where we wanted to go. We are trying to discover new deep water reefs that people have never dived on and I had to find out where people had gone. Lot of it was leg work and research in the library. As far as this cruise itself, I am kind of like a travel agent. I have to do everything from arranging getting a truck to drive us to St. Pete with all of our gear, putting together our computer programs that we will put our data in, putting together all of our collection gear, the photography gear, the dive gear basically overseeing the whole mission, working with all of the scientists, dealing with all of the problems people might have. When you are at sea it is a closed small ship and people get on each others nerves and I have to deal with that.
The main thing during the mission is to select sights, I will tell the caption where we I want to go for the next day and where I want to dive and direct the ROV dives of where we are going to put the ROV. Then Dr, Pomponi, Dr. Wright, and myself will do the actual ROV dives where we select what organisms we want to collect. Then each organism that we collect, I have to keep track of all of the documentation on it. I have to keep track of where it was collected, the taxonomy, the video and photos. I have to keep track of all that data and archive it. It is a huge amount of data.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus was the guest of honor at the White House on Friday (12Apr13) after she was invited to dine with Vice President Joe Biden.
President Barack Obama's right-hand man personally congratulated Julia Louis-Dreyfus after she won an Emmy award in September (12) for her role as a vice president in hit TV show Veep, and now the pair has finally met in person.
The actress joined Joe Biden for lunch at the iconic building in Washington, D.C. and she even jokingly dished out tips to the politician.
In audio posted on the White House website, Julia Louis-Dreyfus says, "I came to have lunch with Vice President Joe Biden and I surprise him by sitting at his desk. So he thought he'd just ask my advice on various briefs he had to deal with and I was happy to give him my advice, which he paid no attention to whatsoever."


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This page is for quickly mentioning things to avoid for health that the average person may not be aware of yet.
It pains my heart that so many people out there are suffering and sick, and the world will not let them see what is harming them and killing them.
As you will come to learn, the medical industry is supposed to be helping sick people, yet it continues to give them the things which are killing them.
I haven't worked on this page yet other than jotting down a few things to remember.
If you know of any points to add, please E-mail them to firstname.lastname@example.com
1st up, avoid stress.
Stress is one of the most destructive things on our human bodies.
When we experience prolonged stress, our body is in a constant state of destruction.
It is important to make changes to where you are rid of unwanted stress.
Stress can be linked to just about every bodily ailment you can imagine, even if stress isn't the direct cause, it is adding to the problem.
For example, if someone falls and breaks their leg, they may not blame stress or think it's related, however stress affects the health and strength of your bones, it weakens your bones, and has had an effect on making that bone easier to break.
Then also after the fact, stress will prevent that bone from healing as quickly as it should.
Stress is a normal feeling and can't be avoided totally, but modern people, male&female, young&old, are having exceedingly high levels of stress on their bodies, to the point it is keeping us all in a degenerative state. Our bodies are actually destroying themselves.
A healthy body that is getting all of the needed nutrients, also with a positive mind, can counter the negative side effects of a normal amount of stress, though not only is modern people not getting enough nutrients or positive mind energy, they're also adding in too much stress.
The degenerative and catabolic hormones that our bodies dump into us when we are stressed are actually a good thing when we truly need them in a stressful situation, they put our bodies into "high gear".
Now, with any modern day machine, higher performance means more wear and tear and a need for more maintenance and resources.
If you run an engine too hard without the needed maintenance, it may work great at 1st, but over time the system of the vehicle wears down and may not even be capable of that same initial performance as parts have become damaged and broken, you may even end up with less performance than your engine had when running at normal levels.
If you want to recover yourself, then take an extended break from the stress, while performing maintenance on your body! It will heal as long as you give it the chance and provide the resources it needs.
Some causes of stress;
Burdens of modern life, school, sleep habits, sickness, video games, physically exciting movies like horror or action, intense exercise, job, relationships, etc..
We are bringing most of the stress we feel on ourselves with our bad choices, so please be honest with yourself and not evil towards someone else by casting blame on things other than yourself for your problems. That in itself will bring you more stress, and it also stresses other people, harming them with this problem.
Take responsibility for your actions, few people do..
If you have the common wicked attitude to not take responsibility for your own actions and blaming anything and everything else you can, then you're always going to have problems and stress, since to you everyone and everything else is the problem.
Don't try to avoid stress 100% for the rest of your life, it's okay to try to avoid 100% if you decided to do something like a "cleanse" for a set amount of time, but just get rid of the unwanted and excessive stress.
If there is something exciting or something you would enjoy that will give you a little stress, then go for it as long as you're mindful of how much you're putting yourself through. Don't miss out on life and memories with your loved ones, a little stress for such things can actually repay you with health and happiness in the long run, and you may gain needed experience and intelligence from such things.
Fluoride is poison to humans, it is rat poison.
This stuff is being spiked into foods and additives and forced upon populations.
Most people do not know they're being drugged and never question fluoride, but you need to become aware of this "drug" to protect your health and mind.
This drug is toxic and kills your body, and a side effect we should most be concerned with is it destroys the brain and nerves.
Fluoride is well known to interfere with our brains and lower intelligence.
This drug has mind altering effects and will make people more passive.
Do not let the devils poison your mind and body, and help make it harder for you to realize the truth of the world.
Fluoride is sold to you under the lie that it protects your teeth, yet ingestion of fluoride kills teeth.
It does not look like any coincidence that Jews in camps were drugged with fluoride in their water, and now the entire world is being drugged with it.
Avoid "city water", and be aware that some countries put it into salt to reach the population.
Aluminum is toxic to humans, yet it is finding it's way into us through multiple paths.
Fluoride and Aluminum have a synergetic effect and work together to poison us.
There are countless foods and products being consumed in the 1st world that contain aluminum and fluoride.
BPA / Plastics
Multiple reasons, including our lack of ability to absorb nutrients from it very well.
Also most soy in the U.S. is genetically modified, which is not fit for human consumption and should be destroyed. Both for the insult to human health, and for the insult to the design of our Elohim that is perfect.
Aspartame is poison, it is also a neuro-toxin!
Many fatal illnesses have been linked to the consumption of this substance, beware of it and never consume it or give it to anyone.
Artificial sweeteners: ex. aspartame, stevia
Beware of all artificial sweeteners, research them.
Stevia has gained popularity as an alternative sweetener, but it has shown to causes negative effects on the body, some notable effects are damage to the reproductive system.
GMO stands for genetically modified organisms.
Studies have shown the multiple devastating effects GMOs have on us and animals.
Men are trying to play elohim by corrupting what YHWH made and said was good, and the results are negative, not positive.
It appears men are doing this for selfish gain, not out of interest in what's best for us.
For us living in the modern world, it is very difficult to completely avoid exposure to this toxic chemical since corporations have saturated all of their products in it, but it is important that you avoid it as much as possible.
If you want perfect health, then you really need to avoid this and other toxins 100%, but sadly the modern wicked world does not want you to be able to avoid all health poisoning agents, which is why modern people are going to struggle to have the same levels of health as those in the past.
Formaldehyde fumes act as a slow poison, so it is very successful at killing you slowly, and causing your health to degenerate over time, leaving people confused as to why it seems like their health is deteriorating steadily over the months and years.
Many modern products emit toxic gases, but some of the most damaging things that emit toxic gases are things like homes and vehicles, places where we spend a lot of time.
Many people love "new car smell", and "new home smell", but the reality is that smell is deadly and attributed to mostly formaldehyde.
Imagine how bad it has become once we told companies that their products are even more desirable to us the more they smell "new".
It is strange that modern society has learned this smell and calls it "new", when it is really a smell we should be terrified of.
DO NOT purchase any home that has made use of toxic chemicals, otherwise how can you expect to have health.
If you do, then your expectation should be struggling impaired health that gets worse over time.
Mobile homes/trailers are especially guilty of poisoning people with formaldehyde.
This includes RVs and "campers" as well.
Paying a large amount of money for what you thought was a home for life, just to find out it's a human poison trap can be very stressful and devastating.
You may use up your funds on something like this and then feel stuck and trapped with it which will add stress, harming you even more.
Also, if you are able to sell it and salvage some of that wasted money, you have to think about all the other people that would live in it, and how they're going to be entering a poison trap and dying over time.
It is best to just not put yourself in such a situation.
Deadly poisons like this that kill you over time rather than instantly can have any sort of side effect.
5 people in your family can each have their own unique manifestation based on their own body and health, and because this happens with many things that harm our bodies, we struggle to pinpoint, or even realize, something that is responsible for harming us.
Some of the common symptoms mentioned are dermatological conditions and conditions of your respiratory system.
Though don't trust the internet or medical authorities to tell you the whole story, otherwise you will be trapped in the system like the rest of the world. You have to think on your own and not let corrupt organizations think for you.
Many of the building materials sold now are saturated with this, but there are options available that do not contain it.
In fact, you can build your own house using locally harvested materials and save a fortune, AND know what has went into that structure to avoid toxins.
When I say save a fortune, I rather mean it, because I have 1 friend who was very resourceful and built his own house for his family, and if he went to a company to buy a home such as from a mobile home seller, it could have cost him up to 50+ times more.
That means he could have built up to 50+ of those homes for the same price for 1 mobile toxic home.
Though his home was very basic, which I am not saying is bad, but many others out there would rather choose to be poisoned to some degree just so they can have a modern and modern looking home and fit into what the world taught them to fit into.
He did not put a network of pipes and wiring in his house like modern homes which certainly reduced the cost. He also made use of solar power for lighting, and opted for fire to heat his home in the Winter and also for cooking his food he chose a wood burning cooking stove.
Corporations are acting like we need them and they make our lives easier, but the reality is they're making our lives harder and heartlessly working to turn them into a diseased hell when they sacrifice us and our children for the love of money.
Dealing with modern "food" corporations.
"Food Inc" documentary was placed here to give you some more ideas of what to avoid, though this particular link was removed.
It used to be on Netflix, I am not sure where you can view it now.
Instead I will just place the trailer to the documentary here;
Please wake up..
The world is going down fast up until YHWH our father intervenes and has to fix it himself, but we still can make a difference in our lives and the lives of others by caring about these things.
Don't be discouraged because you feel like you can't totally correct an issue.
Junk Food in general.
I suppose this one should be obvious, since we should understand junk food to mean food that does not benefit us but harms us.
Though make sure you know what is junk food and don't let junk food salesmen trick you into thinking their product is not junk.
This stuff is killing you, and does not care about you.
It has no intention on giving you health but rather making men rich as the expense of your health and self control.
It is painful to see souls out there suffering and struggling because they're addicted to these lies.
There is an addiction loop with junk foods, actually many loops all working together in different ways. These loops make this stuff very potent at hooking us.
1 of which includes it can make you feel comforted falsely at the time you're eating it, and you was seeking comfort due to what that same food did to your body, so you get stuck in a loop of insanity and likely will blame other things for your state, not the food you think you love. Humans are bad for defending things they like and allowing themselves to be blind to evils they are doing.
Be honest with yourself.
If you want free from junk food, you must hate the junk food, not tell yourself you love it.
People are willing to die for things they love.
You don't really love junk food if you weigh out everything, and also realize it's just lying to you and tricking you, see it for what it is, see the evil men that have put that in front of you.
Humans seem to be good at "hating", so turn hate towards bad things, such as junk food(drugs) and sin.
The "juicing" fad.
Unless you know of some knowledge where a certain food has a benefit for you that the whole version doesn't, then do not waste the solids of your fruits and vegetables by running them through expensive juicing machines that expel them as if they're useless.
Not to mention the money spent on the food is mostly being wasted when you throw away the solids.
Some of these will tell you how to use the solids, but most people are turned off by the solids since they become less appetizing, so this is why it's best to jsut eat the foods as they are, or at least blend it all together with the solids and not use juicing machines.
Consume them as naturally as possible.
You can use a blender, and a little water if necessary, to make a puree or drink, if you feel you need to do this or decide you want to try it.
I personally do this with things like celery, as I find this makes consuming them easier and saves a lot of chewing.
Though something to possibly be aware of, some blenders can create a lot of heat, which cooks nutrients, altering them from their raw state.
Some blenders are said to avoid this but I can't confirm any certain product as being best.
This is an important topic to share. I will work on it later.
The habit of breathing smoke will bring down every part of your body.
Also depending on what is being smoked, things can alter your body like a drug.
In the specific case of "pot" and marijuana smoking, this smoke has a few additional things that will harm your well being, and the one thing observed to be most terrified of is lowered intelligence.
If you choose to smoke, then please do it away from people who do not want to smoke, and keep it away from children.
Also know if your children and family see you smoking, they're much more likely to be conditioned into thinking it's okay and fine to do, and will often take up the habit since to them it's normal in life.
There are hormonal consequences to absorbing tobacco and marijuana smoke.
The effects are said to alter the hormones you need to be a healthy male or healthy female, and even negatively impacts things such as luteinizing hormone.
So this is another harmful thing that can create a host of different side effects in a person that they may not link to their smoking habit.
Again if you read the junk food point above, if people love smoking, they're going to be especially blind to what that love is doing, and let it get away with a lot.
Smoking, especially for females, can transform a person into looking unattractive with prolonged use, such as dried out and old wrinkly looking skin, and bad mouth health and appearance, not to mention a different voice than the natural one you used to have.
These are things that are a big part of the female form, so this is why I said especially for females.
Female smokers not only will seem more masculine in appearance, but even in their actions because altered hormone levels affect how you act and think as well.
I mention this because if a person's self esteem is harmed or ruined, then you bring a lot of stress and misery on yourself, which also affects your health.
You can also face relationship troubles when your husband is struggling to be drawn to you because his preference is feminine qualities, or when you are struggling to gain a mate.
It surely sounds shallow, but this is in our design.
If a male is attracted to females and attracted to health, then you should expect this issue to occur when you decide to chemically alter your body changing your state, you shouldn't expect them to suddenly become attracted to things contrary to nature, and should not attribute evil to them if they have any ounce of this happening in them, while giving your cigarettes love and understanding..
Be natural and healthy, and that is all it takes to be attractive. You do not have to look like a barbie doll, but just be yourself. You on cigarettes is not yourself. You on junk food, is not yourself. You have to be natural to be yourself, the world is trying to alter you.
Cigarettes will make you feel bad, and create the temptation to behave poorly, spewing out hate rather than love.
Sick individuals are much more likely to mistreat others, keep yourself from such temptations and keep your family from them.
Microwave ovens
Cell phones
The energy coming from and to these devices is disrupting our bodies on a microscopic level, and we can not even feel this is happening.
Best to be aware of this and avoid it when possible such as not storing your phone in your bra for an entire year.
Do not touch or hold your cell phone close to your body for longer than you have to.
Technology is awesome, but we need to be a little bit more careful with it.
Sunglasses can be a useful tool when you need them, but if you can help it, avoid them. We are designed to take in light, and wearing dark sun glasses will affect your hormones and rhythms.
Sunglasses will actually lower your metabolism, and we gain benefits from having a lot of light in our eyes, and the ultimate light for us to have daily is the sun.
Refined, processed, and unnatural sugar ingredients.
In many places in the world, there are air craft flying over regularly spraying out some sort of substance.
Toxic substances are turning up in water and ground testing and there is evidence to suggest it is coming from these air crafts.
This is something to be extremely concerned about and not sit back and look over, since these chemicals that are turning up just so happen to be substances that weaken the immune system and thus damaging health and life, preventing us from thriving.
These substances should not be contaminating all of our food, soil, and air we breath, and if we do not take action and figure out what is going on and how to prevent it, disease and death will increase.
This spraying is going on unhindered because the majority of people are refusing to acknowledge it, and they generally do not have much concern for health hazards to begin with.
When you try to spread this to try and get everyone questioning it to put an end to it, many people either act mildly interested just long enough for you to finish talking about it, and then change the subject and forget about it completely, or they mock you, may imply you're crazy, and try to say it is just a "con-trail".
Chem-trails are not con-trails, and from observation and science, you can tell it is not likely a con-trail.
Some say since this isn't on the majority's televisions coming out of the news, they don't believe it's real, which is likely a big part of the problem.
There are many who have came forth being witnesses to working on these projects, others have came forth with other evidence that is being swept under the rug that would suggest there is a secret plan taking place above us constantly in the day and night sky.
Even if there was no intentional plan, there is still evidence that is linking the presence of air-crafts with these trails to toxic particles.
This is highly frustrating, because this site is to help get others thinking about true health, and pursuing it, yet if there is toxic substances being sprayed all over us to where it enters every part of our body, killing our immune system, then we are being murdered and may not be able to obtain true health.
If you review the evidence and realize that there is indeed enough evidence to at least call for a full investigation into this to make sure if harm is coming from the sky or not, be careful who you say it to, because you will be called a fool and a crazy because you reviewed evidence instead of just ignoring it and being a good sheep that questions and complains about nothing happening in the world around us.
Electric Space Heaters, Self cleaning ovens, blow dryers
Possibly Gluten
White Rice, also White Bread, etc..
Modern Music and Sound. Out of tune.
I thought I would point this out, I don't feel we must avoid this particular point at all costs, but it's useful to be aware of if you're trying all you can to reduce stress.
Music does affect us greatly during our life.
Many of the ancients used to tune their instruments to A4=432Hz tuning, which produces a beautifully harmonious sound that human ears(and bodies) seem to respond to very well.
Our modern world however has made the standard of tuning to A4=440Hz, some believe there is a conspiracy with an agenda behind this.
So you can try avoiding radios and such like in vehicles and see if you feel better overall, you can also try out listening to A4=432Hz and see if it gives you any benefits.
I digitally re-tune songs to A4=432Hz using the audio program "Audacity", and sounds and voices that I couldn't hear well before or at all, suddenly become clearer, which I find interesting.
If you would like to re-tune your own sound files, then I recommend you download Audacity(it is free) from a safe source, I got it from here; http://download.cnet.com/Audacity/3000-2170_4-10058117.html
To re-tune using Audacity;
Once inside Audacity open your sound file, then click on "Edit > Select > All" to select all, then click on "Effect > Change Pitch"
to open up the pitch change menu.
Once inside the pitch change menu in the part that says "Frequency (Hz):" You want to type in "from 440 to 432".
It is important you put 440 in the 1st box, or else your sound file will distort, if Audacity will not allow you to type in the 1st box which is "from", then simply write 440 anywhere and copy it and then paste it into the box, this usually works.
After you change the pitch then to save the sound file, click on "File > Export" to save the re-tuned file.
Remember though, the sound is probably best if the original recording was truly A4=432Hz, and the instruments were truly tuned to this, compared to digitally altering the sound.
As a final note, there is a misconception that some naturally develop when 1st finding out these things, and that is this means the entire song is 432Hz, which is not what it means, rather it just means the note "A4" is 432Hz. A4 is the A just above middle C.
Diet/weight loss Drugs and Supplements.
Do not buy "Baby Carrots" until you read this info. Baby Carrots sold in many grocery stores are not actual tiny carrots, but they are broken big carrots which are reshaped and then bathed in chlorine to brighten the color. Chlorine is toxic to humans.
I despise hearing that hospice has come in to "help" someone who is very sick and dying.
If you want yourself or someone else to live, then keep hospice and related organizations far away.
People who are fully capable of recovering are being killed by drugs and practices given by hospice.
Also, if you're given drugs that make you drunk and out of your mind, you have mentally died the moment you was given that.
Often an elderly person is told by a doctor they won't live much longer, then hospice is brought in to "help them die".
You may look at your loved one and notice they're not doing very well and can barely do anything, and think to yourself, "oh they don't have much time left, they're obviously dying".. though those effects are usually being caused by the drugs being forced on the person. There is a good chance the person could become more like normal, the way you remember them before the doctor told them they were dying, if you just got them off of the drugs that is making them high and drunk.
I personally have been deceived by this before with a pet cat of mine, and let a vet talk me into euthanizing my cat even though I didn't want to. The pet cat had a disease, though had been living normally with it, a neighbor gave my cat an overdose of aspirin without telling me and my cat started acting very drunk and weird. I didn't realize aspirin was causing this until after it was too late. The vet talked me into letting him euthanize my cat and was talking about how it was practically already dead... Though if I had just told the vet I will never agree to euthanizing, and let my cat recover from
the drugs in it's system, my cat would have probably returned back to it's normal sickly self, still able to live it's life and play with me, and I wouldn't have the terrible feeling of knowing the cat I cared for is dead because of my choice.
I don't mean to compare humans to animals, though this helps to put things into perspective, and honestly, people are treating people like animals by choosing when to euthanize them.
Hospice is euthanizing humans, for profit.
If someone is so sick that they are not expected to live much longer, don't go buy them a casket and put a broken spirit on them (that in itself destroys the health), take that money and buy them what they need like organic vegetables, and other health promoting things, give them a hopeful spirit, and make a radical life style change, while praying out to YHWH for help and to let his will be done.
If someone is still alive, then it's not yet too late!
These drugs are an extreme health hazard that will damage your bodily systems and they may never return to 100% healthy.
If you are able, treat these drugs like a deadly poison and avoid them, and keep your family away from them.
Human bodies are actually mostly bacteria, and need good ones to thrive and be healthy, but these drugs kill all the good bacteria that lives inside of us. These drugs are being given out extremely carelessly by "doctors", and even when they're not needed! The effects from anti-biotics is so great and severe, they should at least be 100% certain that the person is even suffering from an infection that can be killed with anti-biotics, otherwise they're just damaging people.. Though you should know by now, medical doctors will not help you actually get healthy, but rather unhealthy while they're taking payments from you.
There is ample evidence to show that when you destroy your guts with these drugs, you won't heal unless you take special care to restore your system.
When anti-biotics are taken and kill off the good bacteria that we need for health, this allows bad bacteria to quickly over populate and infect us. You can think of the good bacteria as good soldiers, and when you kill them, they get overcome by the bad soldiers, and the result is sickness that will manifest itself in thousands of different ways, appearing to be many different diseases, but the root cause was all the same..
Anyway, research these drugs before you ever think about taking one, and please do not mindlessly listen to a medical doctor trying to offer them to you or a loved one.
There are other bad effects from these drugs I will list later.
Do not let a modern vaccine come in contact with you or anyone you care about.
These are the real plagues, not what they're supposed to be treating.
There are so many lies, and so much propaganda behind these things, people are violently trying to force them onto others.
I will share the data soon.
You may say I am against vaccines, which I am in 1 context, but if they were real and actually worked, I wouldn't be against such a thing, but they're not real, not like the world is leading us to believe anyway.
I am against the modern vaccines that do not work and are an enormous health hazard and money making gimmick with possible conspiracies behind them.
There are toxins in their products that do not need to be there, yet they do not find a substitute, as well they're using dead babies from the abortion industry in these concoctions.
The idea of the vaccine sounds good in theory, but there isn't really evidence to support these.
The major evidence used to support these is flawed, and a nobel prize has been handed out for vaccines, which I will cover later.
Do your own research for now, and see it is a scam that will destroy your health, and for many people it destroys their life entirely.
Meat. Mainly modern store bought meat.
I know it takes a lot of convincing to help someone even begin to see how we have been lied to and dumbed down about meat consumption, but there are benefits to avoiding meat bought from companies and super markets.
Most are infected with disease, that people ingest daily, also filled with things that you would not dare consume if you knew it was in it.. people don't realize they're eating more than animal meat when they go and buy meat, and they don't list ingredients letting you know they have added a slime that was once strictly forbidden to be given to humans, or that they're adding dyes to meat, etc..
Also, modern meat is full of parasites.
This stuff tends to be disgusting if you're not getting it fresh from your own farm, and even then you don't really need it.
There are no nutrients in meat that you can't get from plants.
Meat is rather low in nutrients and has an acidifying effect on the body. We do not need to eat it to obtain our required nutrients. For some nutrients, certain meats are helpful at gaining them, such as lamb's zinc content.
Of course, always avoid the meats that YHWH told us we shall not eat or even touch.
Avoid allowing doctors to remove parts of your body with them saying you don't need it, such as tonsils, reproductive organs, and teeth.
If you have any issue where you are tempted to let a man ruin your body, please instead make a radical change in your lifestyle, and if you can't afford it, ask others to help support you, not just a single person but many so the burden is large on any one person if possible.
Tonsils are part of your immune system, they're supposed to be in you, and doctors are removing them to remove symptoms, not remove the cause. Removing part of your immune system will cause problems for life, where as if you held off and tried to fight the root cause, you would have been cured.
Letting dentists convince you to take teeth out, just for them to make money from you, can have severe results for you, one of which being a damaged TMJ, which can give you tourettes/ parkinsons/dystonia symptoms, paralysis, misery, later in life.
Avoid anything that would negatively affect a fever.
Once again, you read that correctly.
Many modern people have been taught that a fever is a negative symptom caused from the evil sickness and they should take drugs to cure that symptom immediately.
Some may even feel this is evidence of the benefit and good of modern medicine, when it can seem like modern medicine does not cure anything for anyone.
But again this is evidence against it.
Not all people in the healthcare industry will advise you to get rid of your fever, remember it is made up of thousands of individuals that vary from eachother, some are stuck in blind pride, some nurses are closer to "playing doctor" like a child would and like to feel like a doctor and they like to give a pill and take a fever away(not saying this is bad, since these people tend to be newer and are more passionate about helping others instead of the more mature who can start to look at humans as just a job that they are numb towards instead of seeing them as humans with a heart), some are real and honest people who are going to share what they learn and may tell you to leave the fever alone and put some trust in your own body instead of telling your body to butt out while modern medicine instead works on the problem.
Don't think someone is bad for trying to get rid of your fever though, they may believe they are helping you and doing good, and you may be able to interpret their action as good towards you instead of a murder attempt.
Just discuss with them the benefits and consequences of doing such, they may not know yet, or they may know something you don't, such as your fever is out of control and not a natural fever.
A fever is your body taking care of problems... so it should be an easy indicator that the medical industry is trying to sabotage you when it often tries to prevent your body from having a fever.
Those who are in the hospital may be given strong doses regularly of drugs that prevent the fever.
The person will feel better in a way, but typically you should not really be thankful for that relief from the minor discomfort of a fever.
A fever is good, it is your ally.
It is your body waging a war for the benefit of your health.
There are certain cases that a fever can be dangerous and this will happen when your body is out of whack.
These rare occurrences is when it can be beneficial to know how to control a fever to stop the body from harming itself when what should be happening does not happen.
However the fever should be carefully monitored and action should not be taken unless it is a real need.
If your fever is out of control, then this could mean you need to control it until you fix another problem in your body that allows your body to not have that problem.
A person who experiences a high fever, such as an oral reading of around 103f-104f, can feel very miserable and experience something they may have not felt before which is terrifying along with the misery of sickness.
This is when discipline comes into play to where they must be wise and not pop an ibuprofen or something similar that will retard their fever, so that their immune response is able to perform it's work.
Overall health is so important for recovering from these sicknesses. A fever alone is not enough.
So instead of taking fever drugs for your sickness and then laying in bed counting the minutes until you are healed from the drug you just took, focus on taking in nutrients if possible and healthy habits like resting in the sun and staying fully hydrated.
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Rainmaker Renews and Expands Agreement with Global Software and Services Client for Telesales
Dec 06, 2010, 06:30 EST
CAMPBELL, Calif., Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Rainmaker Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMKR), a leading global provider of ecommerce solutions and telesales services that drive more revenue for clients and their channel partners, today announced a one-year renewal of its agreement with its global software and services client for telesales and an expansion that doubles the size of the current program.
Under the agreement, Rainmaker will manage all sales leads in North America for this client, providing inbound customer response management and outbound telemarketing services.
Rainmaker CEO Michael Silton commented, "We are very pleased to renew our agreement with this client and be awarded an expansion that doubles the size of the current program we are providing. The award of this additional new business reflects the proven ability of our e-commerce and telesales execution capabilities to help companies drive revenue growth."
About Rainmaker
Rainmaker Systems, Inc. is a leading global provider of ecommerce solutions and telesales services that drive more revenue for clients and their channel partners. Rainmaker provides subscription and service contract renewals, robust ecommerce solutions, lead development, training sales, and call center services. Rainmaker provides these services on a consistent, global basis supporting multiple currencies and language capabilities. For more information, visit www.rmkr.com or call 800-631-1545.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding future events. These forward-looking statements are based on information available to Rainmaker as of this date and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results could differ materially from current expectations. Among the important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are our client concentration, as we depend on a small number of clients for a significant percentage of our revenue, the possibility of the discontinuation and/or realignment of some client relationships, general market conditions, the current difficult macro-economic environment and its impact on our business, as our clients are reducing their overall marketing spending and our clients' customers are reducing their purchase of services contracts, the high degree of uncertainty and our limited visibility due to economic conditions, our ability to execute our business strategy, our ability to integrate acquisitions without disruption to our business, the effectiveness of our sales team and approach, our ability to target, analyze and forecast the revenue to be derived from a client and the costs associated with providing services to that client, the date during the course of a calendar year that a new client is acquired, the length of the integration cycle for new clients and the timing of revenues and costs associated therewith, our ability to expand our channel hosted contract solution and drive adoption of this solution by resellers, potential competition in the marketplace, the ability to retain and attract employees, market acceptance of our service programs and pricing options, our ability to maintain our existing technology platform and to deploy new technology, our ability to sign new clients and control expenses, and the financial condition of our clients' businesses, and other factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.
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I spent Mother's Day at a horse show with my son and many horsey friends. As a surprise my son put my Mother's Day flower in Newt's hair…I have to say it looked pretty good!
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Last week we were given a couple of extra days off college so that we could go away and do some research ready for starting our mini kimono making project this week. In between doing my research and homework and stuff I managed to finish off one of the toy kits I got for my birthday, a little hamster:
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I'm off now to pack my lunch for tomorrow- hehhehe I don't normally pack it the night before but tomorrow I am going on a trip with college to see 101 Dalmatians at the New Vic Theatre in stoke- a long way away- so we have to leave early in the morning. I am going to pack myself a lovely lush lunch with extra treats- just like my dad used to do for me when I went on trips when I was little :) You need more energy when you go on a trip! :-P
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Two cars drive into a service station: a brand new Corvette with a 400-hp V8 engine that'll go 0-60 mph in a breathtaking 4.3 seconds; the other a new Mini Cooper convertible with a 4-cylinder, 115-hp engine that does 0-60 in a ho-hum 7.1 seconds.
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One might make a case that the small-engine, lighter Mini Cooper gets more miles from a gallon of premium (rated 25 mpg) than the big-engine, heavier Corvette (rated 19 mpg) gets from a gallon of regular, and that for the same number of miles the total gasoline expense will be less for the smaller car. (There is, of course, the consideration that if you can drive a 'Vette, you ain't likely to care about the cost of gas — the exhilaration factor is worth it.)
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But multiply that $100 to $150 by the hundreds of thousands of Mini Cooper, Acura, Miata, Land Rover, and other premium gas-powered vehicles on U.S. highways and that's a nice chunk of change.
Gasoline retailers and refiners love premium gas; it's more profitable. But most automotive engineers say the main advantage of a premium gas engine is that it lets manufacturers boast of a few more horsepower.
The engineers generally agree that if regular gas is substituted, the power loss is so very slight most people can't tell (although a lot of drivers will argue a blue streak they can detect a significant difference). More importantly, engineers note, burning regular won't harm the engine and it won't void the warranty.
On the flip side are those who use premium gas in engines designed for regular, swearing it provides greater performance — to which the Federal Trade Commission says: hooey, they're just wasting money.
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There is nothing like a home made bread. Especially if you have your own wood oven – Bingo !
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- 500 gr flour type 400 (American cake flour)
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- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- 200 ml lukewarm water
- 50 ml yogurt
Place all the ingredients in the bowl and start working. Kneed a fine dough and leave it to rest. Take 2 medium sized peppers and chop them into strips, thinnest as you can (you can also use food shredder machine).
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