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Victory Laps
Sophomore Savana Fuller raced to first place finishes in the 100, 200 and 400 and was a member of the second place 4x100 relay team as the AC/GC girls raced up 170 points and held off Panorama by seven tallies to win the Tom Tipton Invitational, hosted by Coon Rapids-Bayard, and contested in Guthrie Center on Thursday, April 6.
Fuller set meet records in the 100 (13.11) and 200 (27.15) as the Chargers won nine events. Freshman Kate Crawford also etched her name in the record books with meet standards and winning times in both the 800 (2:37) and 1500 (5:18). Sophomore Emma Swanson won the 3000 meters, also in a new meet record time (11:56).
Olivia Laabs won the 400 hurdles in a meet record time of 1:10. Also on the track, the Charger's distance medley relay team of Reagan Rumelhart, Laabs, Sara Schmeling and Crawford won in a meet record time of 4:45.
Madison McDermott's winning toss of 37-feet, 1-inch in the girls shot put was also a new meet standard.
The AC/GC boys track and field team won eight events and set three new meet records in winning the Tom Tipton Invitational.
Dylan Soper won both the 100 and 200 for the Chargers, who scored 151 points to hold off Van Meter and Panorama for the team title. Logan Brinks won the 400, while Cale Billheimer and Landon Foster finished first in the 3200 and 1600 meter runs, respectively. The Chargers also circled the track to win both the 4x800 and 4x400 relays.
Inside the track, senior Jacob Joliet leaped 18-5 1/2 to win the long jump.
Girls team scoring - AC/GC 170; Panorama 163; Van Meter 103; Glidden-Ralston 63; Coon Rapids-Bayard 53; CAM Anita 29; ADM 4
100 - first place: Savana Fuller, 13.11; sixth place: Reagan Rumelhart, 14.00
200 - first place: Savana Fuller, 27.15
400 - first place: Savana Fuller, 1:06.02; eighth place: MacKenzie Reinhart, 1:24.44
800 - first place: Kate Crawford, 2:37.80; fourth place: Lauryn Embleton, 2:45.76
1500 - first place: Kate Crawford, 5:18; second place: Emma Swanson, 5:38.84
3000 - first place: Emma Swanson, 11:56.75; second place: Lauryn Embleton, 12:04.45
100 hurdles - third place: Mady Smith, 17.02; fourth place: Olivia Laabs, 17.48
400 hurdles - first place: Olivia Laabs, 1:10.57
4x100 - second place: Sara Schmeling, Mady Smith, Olivia Laabs, Savana Fuller, 53.49; eighth place: MacKenzie Reinhart, Klare Sheley, Kennedy Young, Kendra Campbell, 1:01.14
4x200 - eighth place: Kendra Campbell, Klare Sheley, Kennedy Young, Cassie Landry, 2:15.52
4x400 - second place: Reagan Rumelhart, Lauryn Embleton, Keely Vasey, Sara Schmeling, 4:44.70
4x800 - fourth place: Keely Vasey, Kendra Campbell, Sabrina Ure, Malena Rumelhart, 12:09.10
sprint medley - fourth place: Reagan Rumelhart, Klare Sheley, Mady Smith, Kate Crawford, 2:07.41
distance medley - first place: Reagan Rumelhart, Olivia Laabs, Sara Schmeling, Kate Crawford, 4:45.42
high jump - second place: Mady Smith, 4-8
long jump - second place: Sara Schmeling, 15-6.5
shot put - first place: Madison McDermott, 37-1; eighth place: Emily Pavelka, 26-5
discus - second place: Madison McDermott, 94-2.5
Boys team scoring - AC/GC 151; Van Meter 129; Panorama 92; CAM 89; CRB 54; GliddenRalston 41; Paton-Churdan 20; Grandview Christian 13
100 - first place: Dylan Soper, 24.11; fifth place: Jacob Joliet, 12.25
200 - first place: Dylan Soper, 24.11; fourth place: Justin Plowman, 25.10
400 - first place: Logan Brinks, 55.79; seventh place: Gabe Rowley, 1:01.61
800 - second place: Logan Scheuerman, 2:09.33; fourth place: Landon Foster, 2:15
1600 - first place: Landon Foster, 4:56; second place: Noah Nelsen, 4:56
3200 - first place: Cale Billheimer, 10:27.67; third place: Landon Foster, 10:48.19
110 high hurdles - seventh place: Cole Boyer, 19.89
400 hurdles - fourth place: Gabe Rowley, 1:04.32; fifth place: Grady Laabs, 1:04.91
4x100 - seventh place: Flavio Gonzalez, Quynton Younker, Kolby Jacobe, Will Byars, 51.89
4x200 - third place: Jacob Joliet, Avery Wheatley, Cole Boyer, Ben Kingery, 1:44.43; seventh place: Darvon Grubbs, Flavio, Kolby Jacobe, Sam Fuller, 1:50.31
4x400 - first place: Logan Brinks, Justin Plowman, Cale Billheimer, Logan Scheuerman, 3:47.35
4x800 - first place: Noah Nelsen, Logan Scheuerman, Quenton Spack, Carter Schildberg, 9:07.09
sprint medley - third place: Ben Kingery, Avery Wheatley, Grady Laabs, Logan Brinks, 1:47.10
distance medley - second place: Ben Kingery, Will Byars, Carter Schildberg, Cale Billheimer, 4:04.45
shuttle hurdle - third place: Cole Boyer, Grady Laabs, Gabe Rowley, Justin Plowman, 1:11.76
long jump - first place: Jacob Joliet, 18-5.5
shot put - fourth place: Quynton Younger, 37-5; sixth place: Collin Stowe, 35.07
discus - seventh place: Bryce Littler, 98-7


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Loan watch - Obika on target
27 January 2014|Tottenham Hotspur
Jonathan Obika opened his goalscoring account to help Brighton progress in the FA Cup.
The striker raced clear one-on-one to score the Seagulls' third goal in a 3-1 win at Port Vale on Saturday.
That secured a place in the last 16 and a home tie against Premier League side Hull City next month.
Jon told www.seagulls.co.uk: "It was amazing to score because as a striker you love to score goals and that is my job at the end of the day.
"I saw it was a loose kick from the keeper and Jake [Forster-Caskey] did very well. I just had to time my run, then I saw the keeper coming so I had to round him and take my time with it. You just have to make good contact and then it is definitely going in.
"I said to myself that I would run to the fans when I scored my first goal but I am just happy to contribute and also for the team to go through to the next round."
Jon could well face his Spurs team-mate Jake Livermore in that tie - the midfielder was a late substitute as the Tigers avoided a potential upset by beating Southend United 2-0 at Roots Hall.
In the Championship, Bongani Khumalo helped Doncaster secure a 1-1 draw at Blackpool while in League One, Alex Pritchard played the full 90 minutes and was involved in the first goal as Swindon toppled Shrewsbury 3-1 at the County Ground. Unfortunately, Ryan Mason departed early through injury.
In La Liga, Yago Falque came on in the 85th minute as Rayo Vallecano were beaten 4-2 by high-flying Atletico Madrid.

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I do plan on writing an essay about such futurist South African fiction as Karel Schoeman's Promised Land, Nadine Gordimer's July's People and A Sport of Nature, Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians, and Mongane Serote's To Every Birth Its Blood ... but I need to read them all first.
Until then, some humble and probably obvious notes on Michael K....
When Coetzee is at his best as a novelist -- Barbarians, Michael K., Disgrace, Elizabeth Costello -- there is simply no other living writer I would rather read. All of his other books at the very least reward the time spent reading them (I'm quite fond, too, of his memoirs, Boyhood and Youth). As I read Michael K. this time, I tried to think about what it is in Coetzee's work that so appeals to me. It's no individual quality, really, because there are people who have particular skills that exceed Coetzee's. There are many writers who are more eloquent, writers with more complex and evocative structures, writers of greater imagination.
And then I realized that I was marking up my teaching copy of Michael K. as if I were marking up a poem. I looked, then, at my teaching copy of Disgrace, from when I used it in a class a few years ago. The same thing. Lots of circled words, lots of "cf."s referring me to words and phrases in other parts of the book. Lots of sounds building on sounds, rhythms on rhythms in a way that isn't particularly meaningful in itself, but that contributes to an overall tone-structure, a scaffold of utterance to hold up the shifting meanings of the story and characters.
The other writers I think of as doing this sort of thing -- Gaddis, DeLillo, and Pynchon come to mind, though more as 2nd-cousins than twin brothers -- do so on a larger, more baroque scale. Coetzee is closer to Beckett, but more concrete (less dense than early Beckett, less ethereal than later). The biggest influences on Coetzee, it seems from some of his interviews and essays, have been Kafka and Beckett, and if forced to say which writers of the last 100 years matter the most to me right now, I'd say, myself, Kafka and Beckett, with Coetzee somewhere close behind them, hand-in-hand with Paul Bowles, Virginia Woolf, and maybe a couple of others, depending on my mood. This says less about literature than it does about me, about what it is I look for in fiction -- there is a bleakness of vision to most of these writers, often a fierce anti-sentimentality (which, in their best works, does not preclude humanity or descend to the converse of sentimentality, macho frigidity), and a great depth of language within relatively compressed fictional forms. My love for this sort of writing is also my limitation as a reader; I am, I think, capable of appreciating the DeLillos, Gaddises, and Pynchons of the world, but I am not someone who can truly love their work. (Instead, I end up loving them for certain sentences and paragraphs. There are passages in Mason & Dixon, Underworld, and The Recognitions that reach toward the height of human accomplishment with language -- perhaps these are simply feasts too rich for my metabolism.) Similarly, many more lush or emotive writers are capable of effects I can notice and see as skillful, but ultimately they ... well, they make me gag.
Once I got past obsessing over why a book like Michael K. appeals to me so deeply, I was able to focus on other things. My students struggled with matching their expectations for what a novel should be and do to what this novel is and does, and much of our time in class was spent on finding patterns -- patterns create meaning, I told them, and so when you get stuck, look for patterns. I had them find passages in the novel having to do with time, fertility, authority, children, communication (speech, words), and places where characters talked about the meaning of things, or where they assigned meaning to things. I made them search through the book as if on a scavenger hunt (which proved difficult for most because they had read quickly and hadn't written anything in their texts, but working in groups they stumbled along). As they talked amongst each other, sharing discoveries, they found that the novel was not the amorphous, "pointless" thing they had perceived it as, but rather a web of repetitions and reiterations. If I'd truly been prepared, I would have then given them some words of Barry Lopez from the introduction to About This Life:
Stories do not give instruction, they do not explain how to love a companion or how to find God. They offer, instead, patterns of sound and association, of event and image. Suspended as listeners and readers in these patterns, we might reimagine our lives.Among other things, what we find in the patterns floating around the character of Michael K. are questions about what it even means to say "the character of Michael K.", because the story we are told (or, more accurately, stories) is one in which people impose meanings onto him and he resists them. As readers, our instincts encourage us to find meanings and apply them just as much as the other characters in the book do -- we want to sum him up in the mostly simplistically Freudian ways we can, which is how we read most narratives these days -- what motivates the characters, what secrets need to be revealed for them to overcome the obstacles in their lives, how can they come to peace with their childhoods, etc. We've been fed this predictable sort of psychodrama for at least a century now, and it fuels not just morning soap operas on tv, but most of the bourgeois literature of our era and many earlier eras (more often than not, good books are good in spite of their psychologizing).
Some critics have faulted Michael K. for the second section, which, two-thirds of the way into the novel, stops everything and shifts the viewpoint. Suddenly we are outside K's point of view, looking at him through the notes of a doctor. When I first read the novel (ten years ago now), I, too, was thrown off by the second section, mostly because the first had so overwhelmed me with the vivid, visceral imagery created by perfectly ordinary words. The shift seemed like a cheat to me, as if Coetzee couldn't admit how powerful and evocative the first section was, or was afraid of it. Cynthia Ozick made a good case against it:
If ''Life & Times of Michael K'' has a flaw, it is in the last-minute imposition of an interior choral interpretation. In the final quarter we are removed, temporarily, from the plain seeing of Michael K to the self-indulgent diary of the prison doctor who struggles with the entanglements of an increasingly abusive regime. But the doctor's commentary is superfluous; he thickens the clear tongue of the novel by naming its ''message'' and thumping out ironies. For one thing, he spells out what we have long ago taken in with the immediacy of intuition and possession. He construes, he translates: Michael K is ''an original soul . . . untouched by doctrine, untouched by history . . . evading the peace and the war . . . drifting through time, observing the seasons, no more trying to change the course of history than a grain of sand does.'' All this is redundant. The sister- melons and the brother-pumpkins have already had their eloquent say. And the lip of the child kept from its mother's milk has had its say. And the man who grows strong and intelligent when he is at peace in his motherland has had his say.Where I differ with Ozick now is that I don't think the doctor does understand K, and I don't think the explanation he offers is persuasive (it would be were K a relative of Forrest Gump, perhaps). The doctor ascribes a meaning to K based on his own desires and disappointments, and it is the process of meaning-making that we follow in the second section, and it is revelatory and chastening, because who among us has resisted the same urges while reading the first section? It's important that people have misnamed K by this point, calling him "Michaels". He cannot be bound up in a meaning anymore than he can be bound up in an internment camp, and they mistake his meaning as they mistake his name. We'll get no sustenance by cannibalizing him for our metaphysics; he's just skin and bones.
The last fifteen pages of the book return us to K's point of view and his peregrinations. Now we as readers are more prepared. We should know by now to be suspicious of our impulses, to know that what we want to do says more about us and our world than about K and his.
The movement of the novel is, broadly speaking, from city to countryside to city to countryside -- except the last movement to countryside is imagined. K lies on a pile of flattened cardboard boxes in the little closet room where his mother had lived in the city, and he's probably dying, and he thinks back to what has happened to him and where he has been, and he begins ascribing more meaning to himself than he ever has before, a meaning built from references to a life lived in cages and to gardening and staying close to the ground (shades of Being There, but with more complexity, sophistication, and depth). A motif of things underground fills the book -- sometimes from urges and ideas that are paranoid and crazy, sometimes from ones eminently practical -- and every reader sees all the attention given to seeds and growing things, to life that sprouts out of the ground. The symbolism is obvious, and I think Coetzee knows this, because it's not for us that he has created these particular symbols, but for the characters in the book (Michael K. particularly) who need something to grasp in their search for meaning.
On the penultimate page, K thinks in a parenthesized paragraph:
(Is that the moral of it all, he thought, the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything? Is that how morals come, unbidden, in the course of events, when you least expect them?)The tone is uncertain, and I think we should be wary of accepting the moral K thinks he has found. It may be one of the meanings available from this life, but even K's life is richer than to be summed up in a moral. We cheapen existence when we simplify it into morals and mottos and triangles. We need resonant imagery to replace our slogans, charts, and graphs -- and so Life and Times of Michael K ends with a beautiful and perplexing image: Michael imagines a companion (one that bears some similarity to the doctor's first impression of Michael himself), and he imagines the farm in the country, and he imagines a well and a teaspoon and just enough pure water to sustain life. There is meaning there, but it must be felt in the rhythms of the word and thought, it must be welcomed into the mind like a koan or a magical riddle that asks for no solution. As long as he keeps from solving the puzzle of himself, Michael K will live.


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It is an honor to be part of this presentation of the 1995 Profile in Courage Award.
First of all, I join in paying tribute to the winner of the high school student essay contest. This is the first year of the contest. I had the privilege of reading several of the essays, and I was impressed by their very high quality. Our family's hope is that this annual contest will encourage able students to consider the qualities of leadership and dedication to principle that are so important in public life and for the future of the country.
This is the sixth year of the Profile in Courage Award. As a young Senator in the 1950's, President Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book about elected officials in our history who demonstrated an unusually high degree of political courage.
Our family instituted this annual award as a living memorial to my brother, as a way of encouraging contemporary leaders to do what they were elected to do -- to lead, to sail against the wind, not just drift with the prevailing political breeze or pander to public opinion polls, and certainly not kowtow to powerful private interest groups bent on subverting the public interest.
What we're talking about are political leaders who act on principle, who are willing to risk the wrath of their constituents -- and sometimes their own re-election -- in order to do what they truly believe is right. That sort of courage is all too rare in American public life today.
Our goal in these annual awards is to honor that quality in contemporary elected officials, at whatever level of government they serve -- federal, state, or local -- and by doing so, to encourage the American people to value political courage more highly in their elected representatives.
This year's Profile in Courage is an excellent choice. I served with Mike Synar of Oklahoma for many years in Congress; I know first-hand about his courage on a wide range of issues -- never afraid to take a stand on principle.
His leadership was consistent, eloquent, effective and extraordinary in confronting special interest groups such as the gun lobby, the tobacco lobby, and the unjustified subsidies for federal land that go to ranchers, mining companies, and timber companies.
It would take a profile in courage to challenge any one of these special interests, and Mike Synar challenged them all -- often all at the same time. He was respected -- even loved – in Congress for the enemies he made.
It took the courage of the long-distance runner to do all that he did for as long as he did. He faced powerful political opposition every mile of the way, but he never hesitated to do what was right.
In the end, after 16 brilliant years in Congress, his special interest opponents caught up with him in 1994, and he lost his seat in Congress. He went down with all flags flying, fighting hard for his principles, and I respect him immensely.
His leadership is a classic example of the kind of political courage that President Kennedy admired and wrote about in his book. The nation needs more elected leaders like Mike Synar, and I'm honored to be here with him today.
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Immerse yourself in the culinary and wine travel experiences on offer in South Africa by choosing from our eclectic range of exciting culinary tours. The country offers an abundance of seafood, game, fresh produce and an astonishing range of local wines, many of them internationally acclaimed. Stellenbosch in the Western Cape, offers over 250 differing wine farms and the beautiful Franschhoek Valley has become the wine and food destination in South Africa with numerous awards being achieved by their excellent restaurants and high quality wines.
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Delta was a famous poet in the first half of the twentieth century. He wrote unlike any other poet, due to his problem with alcoholism and would have made a good living if he didn't spend his money on alcohol. Many times he wrote his poems on the spot in coffee-houses for money. In one poem he has the unemployed selling butterflies at a ball. One characteristic of his poetry is that there was no sadness or despair in it, and it had never been political, but in 1937, everything changed when he became intensely nationalistic.
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Health Ministry Job Circular 2018 has been published DGHS.GOV.BD 3rd and 4th Class Employee Job Circular 2018. The DGHS is one of the agencies of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of Bangladesh. DGHS stands for Directorate General of Health Services. Directorate General of Health Services Bangladesh has been also published 3rd and 4th … Read more


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Stunning video captures the driver using her steering wheel to prop up her reading material while driving from Daresbury towards Wirral and North Wales.
And to make matters worse the brazen driver appears to stick her middle finger up at an overtaking car filming her audacious actions.
The crazy footage was captured at around 10.30am on Sunday morning.
The woman was first spotted a mile before J11 for Daresbury, heading westbound, all the way up to J14 for Hapsford, near the turning for Cheshire Oaks.
The stunned passenger who captured the video said the driver kept crossing between lanes one and two as she read, drove and swore at the same time.
They said: "She sat with one hand on her book and the other putting the finger up pushing against her window but still looking down at her book. This went on for a mile as she weaved from side to side over the white lines.
"The book looked like it was the Bible. I couldn't believe it!"
The incident has been reported to Cheshire Police who confirmed they are investigating.
A spokesman for the force said: "We were called at 10.37 on August 7 to reports of a woman driving along the M56 while reading a book. Investigations are being carried out."
In the past few years, crashes along that stretch of motorway have doubled. From 2010-2014, there were 16 serious or fatal incidents - eight of which were in 2014 alone.


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Let's Talk About BusinessJune 21, 2016
I've started to notice I have interest towards business in 2009. But I really never do anything about it. So, as the years passed, I thought my idea of having my own business will just bury inside me. Truthfully, I never had the courage to learn as it is something very risky to me. I am the type of person who don't like risk..even if there is risk, I'll minimize it as possible.
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But the thing about life, if you don't take the risk, you just would not know it. Hence, I took the risk of venturing into business in early 2015. I chose to sell muslimah attire, specifically jubah. I knew it would be difficult to compete with the bigger names so I put a little twist in the design by incorporated a little mix of batik garutan (from Indonesia). I put all the effort, money and of course faith for it to be successful. One mistake I've made, I overly trusted the tailor. The final products are not as good as the sample T-T
It's okay, one mistake does not stop me from being myself. I started selling handmade batik material imported from Indonesia. The sales was good,,very good BUT there is imitate products, the printed ones. And the price is far more cheaper. There it is, I cannot sustain the competition. I finished off my stocks and whatever balance, I'm going to do my tops :p Some people don't get it why I do business. They think my salary was not enough, I'm too greedy bla bla bla.. No. I'm pursuing what I am interested in. I like fabrics and fashion (also food..hihi) So, what's wrong with sharing the nice things to others. Some people don't know where to get the products so I made available to them. Only then, we talk about money.
For the time being, I still active doing business but as agent and dropshipper only. It's okay to start back. I believe that I am still pursuing my dream as long as I don't give up. What other thinks, well whatever. Negative people are best to keep away :)
This is my business Instagram account.
You are most welcome to follow.
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p/s: I should share with you what I learnt in the course of making business for the past years. Later!


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Tree of Life Guardianship Tree of Life Guardianship
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Mission Statement:
The Tree of Life Guardianship is a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote, preserve, and revitalize cultural-ecosystem contingencies relevant to the life ways of indigenous communities throughout the world. The Tree of Life Guardianship accomplishes these ends through the rendering of services and resources, social, educational, spiritual and material, which aim to ensure the survival and grassroots subsistence of such people and their land bases.
The Tree of Life Guardianship stands to protect the religious rights, cultural autonomy, and survival of indigenous peoples throughout the world. The TLG works to restore or ensure the means to self-subsistent livelihoods that indigenous cultures have admirably developed over millennia--when and where original resources critical to their life ways have been lost, or are imperiled.
"Assisting the indigenous people who are saving the Earth, Our Mother"
We seek no less, than to be ambassadors of planetary health, and a well-spring of regeneration for peaceable indigenous peoples, all peoples, and all life, throughout the length and breadth of this Earth.
TLG Vision Statement
The TLG is dedicated to the preservation and rehabilitation of the earth's remaining regions of biodiversity where acts of conservation benefit, not only plant and animal species, but more significantly, endangered human societies.
The TLG thus seeks to protect the earth, by defending the peoples who guard the earth--peoples whose survival depends upon indigenous knowledge; knowledge which emerged, and is thus intertwined, within the vitality of Mother Nature herself.
The Tree of Life Guardianship was founded in Seattle, WA in 2004. It was created in response to the rapid extinction of Indigenous peoples world-wide, and the steady, accelerating rate of cultural extinction endemic to Native populations in the United States. UNESCO estimates that 90% of Native American languages will be vanish by the end of the century. As these languages disappear, their associate cultures collapse.
To date, the TLG has conducted direct surveillance of conditions affecting indigenous societies--both within and without the Western Hemisphere. The TLG has simultaneously identified causation, necessary prerequisites, and means, to enact solutions able to reverse the powerful momentum of peaked genocidal trends.
The needs affecting various communities of indigenous people varies according to culture, ecosystem, food source, economy, and the National laws that govern cultural expression/self-government.
The TLG incorporates esteemed Spiritual leaders (from indigenous territories) within the folds of its governing structure to serve the needs of tribal communitiy partnerships wisely and harmoniously.
Within the United States of America, TLG focuses on language preservation, cultural conservation, healing and spiritual regeneration.
Outside the United States, the TLG focuses on ecosystem conservation, cultural promotion, and access to critical resources affecting cultural survival.
The TLG
Tree of Life Guardianship is an alliance of world indigenous leaders, who collectively guard and guide the wellbeing of endangered indigenous communities and territories. Its purpose is to foster cultures of international participation and ecological conservancy throughout indigenous lands world-wide.
The TLG is a community-based governing system that oversees Indigenous Cultural needs through a merger of partnership collectives. The TLG acts as an effective support agent within Indigenous territories--consolidating grassroots' solidarity via a branching matrix of international protectorates (satellite communities).
The manifesto of the Tree of life Guardianship is to create a network of communication satellites throughout indigenous lands in the Amazon, Borneo, Atlantic Rainforest; in the virgin Temperate forests of Siberia, the Congo, and other areas where native citizens are threatened by land eviction or encroachment. The Tree of Life Guardianship is a cooperative in the stewardship of our Mother Earth, and the life of the planet as a whole.
The Tree of Life Guardianship organizes direct assistance (of basic human and cultural needs) through joint tenureship agreements that bind the TLG to local Native Communities. Joint tenureship is cemented through collaborative efforts--with respect to land conservation easements--and woven within mutual trust partnerships. Said cooperative land guardianships unite (autochthonic) cultural leaders, and communities represented by them, to the TLG. Joint tenureship accords contractually bind the TLG to select indigenous villages that the TLG incorporates into its organizational structure through grassroots managerial participation. Inversely, these communities afford the TLG models of cultural leadership that govern the inner workings, and institutional foundations, of the TLG entity.
The cause of the Tree of Life Guardianship is to underpin archetypes of ecological stewardship that support sustainable indigenous economies. It acts to encourage the preservation of local indigenous knowledge, and to revitalize (endangered/nearly extinct) languages necessary for the transmission of this knowledge. Local Indigenous knowledge is indispensable for the enactment of sound land management practices.
Viable land management practices are elemental to indigenous cosmologies: Expressed in ceremonial knowledge, such practices are implicit in tribal industrial life and belong to the sacred order of reality. Indigenous land-use practices are highly developed, consummate systems that consign human need within contexts of ecological sustainability; local consumerism is mediated within grand overarching cycles of ecological succession and regeneration.
Purpose and Method of Approach
The principal directives embodied by the TLG portray its holistic vision and an array of solutions required for the regeneration of health and harmony among the nations of the world's indigenous peoples. Our mandates act concurrently to steward the integrity, stability, and beauty of Nature's biotic communities.
Our approach is a scientific-based planning process, designed to identify ancient indigenous cultures that are most imperiled, and/or whose difficulties can be expediently resolved. Cultures that represent unique diversity, are relatively intact, or maintain prehistoric roots, are our prime objective with regard to preservation.
In addition, cultures that are, by nature, peaceable, maintain functional models of social harmony, and that have evolved viable prototypes of ecological sustainability for our planet, are preferentially valued--to the degree that these ethics have been effectively integrated within a given society.
The Tree of Life Guardianship espouses a 'mutuality systems approach' relationship whereby endangered peoples can be enlisted as guardians, gardeners and caretakers of endangered plant and animal species--species co-inhabiting the very lands that original people depend upon for their livelihoods.
TLG Governing Structure
The TLG Board is composed of highly committed, altruistic individuals who identify with Native American cultural values. Many of these persons are spiritual leaders, chiefs, and highly valued members within their Nations of origin; many occupy positions of honorable standing in the international community. Due to careers of lifelong service, via humanitarian, ecological, and indigenous causes, the TLG board maintains an internal atmosphere of rapport and conceptual harmony; this condition is bound by core resonances of purpose, honor, devotion, and integrity.
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WhatsApp is on the rise, everyone uses it because of its convenience, speed, and safety. The creators of WhatsApp continue repeating that their messenger is completely safe, but is it truly so? There are numerous ways to spy WhatsApp messages despite the glorious end-to-end encryption the app advertises. Beware! As any other app, WhatsApp can also be hacked, and right now your chat with someone through WhatsApp may be easily spied on!
What is a WhatsApp Spy?
In essence, any WhatsApp spy represents a spy tracker installed on a device to monitor one's activities and conversations. Once you start a new chat or have a new contact request, the WhatsApp spy on your computer will quickly notify the owner of spyware about that. Hence, no step will remain unattended: through the spy app, your hacker (be it a spouse, a cautious parent, or your employer) will view all chat conversations, will know the names and phone numbers of all your WhatsApp contacts, and will get time and date information about each chat. What is more, the hackers get access to all media content via a WhatsApp spy app and get photos, videos, and audio sent or received via your WhatsApp downloaded directly to their spying device. As a result, you may delete some content and think that it disappeared forever, while your hackers may have it stored for a variety of reasons.
How Do Hackers Get into Your Phone to Spy WhatsApp Messages?
If your hacker is a person with whom you have daily contacts, such as a family member, employer, or spouse, it is explainable how the WhatsApp spy gets to your phone, right? All of them can gain physical access to your phone at a certain moment of time and install the WhatsApp spy app on it to have an unlimited opportunity to spy WhatsApp messages you send or receive. But what if some distant hackers get access to your phone and conduct fraud by stealing your money or personal information? How do they manage to do that after all?
- A WhatsApp spy app can crawl into your phone through bonus voucher scams. Some companies like TopShop or Sainsbury's offer vouchers for purchases, which act as scam and let hackers into your device.
- Fake WhatsApp closure notifications. WhatsApp spy can be installed if you follow fake notifications about closing WhatsApp if you do not share certain messages.
- Your account's blocking notifications. Some hackers use messages about shutting down your account and urging you to take some action to confirm that you are actually using it, while in fact, it is a sure path for a WhatsApp spy into your phone!
To avoid being scammed by hackers and not to let anyone unfamiliar into your phone, make sure that you respond only to messages from authorized WhatsApp managers or programs. Always check the credibility of source before pushing any buttons and sending any confirmations; in this way, your WhatsApp will be strongly protected from spy trackers and apps stealing your data.


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A photo taken last October of Tom Feltenstein and Barry Klein, two McDonald's greats who started back in Ray Kroc's time, has the picture taker looking back in appreciation to when the two "experienced a time in our industry that is critical to our history."
It [the photo] is significant because here they are, together, no less than 40 years later, after their team changed the future of the multi-unit restaurant industry.
We have much to learn from the pair and others like them who were there in the thick of things, fighting to build viable businesses when franchising was young.
Regardless of what today's consumer opinions are about the brand they worked so hard to build, at the time, they were part of a team of true innovators who explored unknown territory.
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Byron Katie Quotes About MistakesQuotes about: Mistakes
There's never a mistake in the universe. So if your partner is angry, good. If there are things about him that you consider flaws, good, because these flaws are your own, you're projecting them, and you can write them down, inquire, and set yourself free. People go to India to find a guru, but you don't have to: you're living with one. Your partner will give you everything you need for your own freedom.
In the fall, you don't grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, "Isn't it beautiful!" Well, we're the same way. There are seasons. We all fall sooner or later. It's all so beautiful. And our concepts, without investigation, keep us from knowing this. It's beautiful to be a leaf, to be born, to fall, to give way to the next, to become food for the roots. It's life, always changing its form and always giving itself completely. We all do our part. No mistake.
Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with; he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.
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This project started as a vintage mahogany stereo cabinet I picked up a very long time ago. It was
extra deep so I imagined the best way to repurpose it would be to turn it into a mini closet, but I have
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This is an excerpt from our new ebook, Beyond the Facebook Business Page. Download your free copy to get more valuable insights into using Facebook for marketing.
A recent Exact Target study showed that the number one reason people will 'Like' a Facebook Page is to be notified of special offers and promotions. With that in mind, it's not a bad idea to consider running a contest on your Facebook Page.
Contests offer a range of benefits: they give people a reason to connect with you, make your page more fun, and gain more exposure for your brand and site. They also give you an opportunity to collect email addresses of people who enter the contest, use them as fuel for lead generation, and nurture them through the sales funnel.
Who Can Benefit From a Facebook Contest?
Different types of businesses can benefit from Facebook contests. For example, if you're a consultant, you can offer a consulting package that people may not know about. If you're a florist, you could offer a "Fresh Flowers for a Month" package to get your community thinking about treating themselves to flowers every week. If you're a web designer, you could give away a free website redesign to prompt others to use your services. And when people enter your contest, you automatically generate a list of potential customers.
What Defines a Contest, & How Do You Set it Up?
In a true contest, some kind of vote determines the winner (or the winner could be judged by you). There are different ways to set up a Facebook contest. For instance, you could organize it around a picture, and participants could upload pictures that get judged by your community. Nikon ran a photo contest on Facebook, and whoever attracted the most 'Likes' for their photo won a new Nikon camera.
Another example could be a writing contest. One coaching professional had people write a short statement about why they wanted to come to her weekend retreat. She judged the entries herself, and the winner was entitled to a free registration to her retreat.
What Defines a Sweepstakes, & How Do You Set it Up?
Sweepstakes, in which the winner is chosen at random, are also common on Facebook. The barrier to entry for a sweepstakes is generally low, because people typically just have to enter their name and email address and 'Like' the Page. As no judging is involved, the winner is chosen at random. If you use a third-party application such as Wildfire to run your sweepstakes, the application will assist you in selecting a random winner.
When to Use Contests vs. Sweepstakes
Whether you decide hold a contest or a sweepstakes will depend on your goals. Typically, contests are better for engaging your current community, and sweepstakes are better for growing your community.
- Contests: A contest will increase your community involvement by enabling users to vote. They may also drive more of the entrants' friends to your page as users ask their friends to vote for them. But if the entry requirements are too involved, you may not get the turnout you had hoped for.
- Sweepstakes: A sweepstakes is better for growing your Facebook community or email list. Entering the sweepstakes usually requires entrants to enter their name and email address and possibly 'Liking' the Page, which is very easy for most people to do. Thus, you will generate more entries, but you may also sacrifice an element of engagement, since people won't have an incentive to share it with their friends.
Understand Facebook's Promotion Guidelines
You should definitely understand Facebook's promotion guidelines before starting your contest. While you may see others violating the terms, Facebook does state that it can remove materials relating to a promotion or even disable your page or account. So it pays to follow the rules! Start by reading them.
You can use a third-party application designed to administer contests (see list below), or you can program an application yourself to collect entries, though this is more involved. Basically, you cannot collect entries, conduct a drawing, or notify winners through your Facebook page's main Wall. Everything must be done through a separate tab on your Facebook page.
For example, you cannot:
- Publish a post on your Wall that says "everyone who responds to this post is entered to win xyz."
- Ask people to upload a photo to your Wall to be entered into a contest.
- Announce the winner of your contest with a post on your Wall.
- Have anyone who 'Likes' your page be automatically entered in a drawing (you can have this be a condition of entry, but it cannot be the only way that someone enters the contest).
Third-party applications make running a contest on Facebook a snap. They are designed to comply with Facebook's rules, they collect the email addresses and many include analytics to keep track of views, entries, and other statistics. Some examples of these third-party applications include Wildfire, North Social, Strutta, woobox, ShortStack, and Votig.
Photo & Video Contests
Photo and video contests can be fun and get more engagement but may not get as many entries. Many of the photo and video contest applications make it very easy for someone who enters the contest to share it with their friends so they can accumulate votes, thus driving a lot of traffic to your Facebook Page.
One of the biggest problems with hosting a Facebook contest is that you may get people who just want to try and get the freebie (especially if it's something good!) but aren't interested in connecting with you later. Make sure that these people can easily unsubscribe from your list.
Set the Right Expectations
Be very clear when people sign up that they will receive follow-up emails from you. Some people will mark your email as spam if they are not expecting it, and you don't want your email account to be flagged multiple times for spamming. If that happens, your account could be shut down. The horror! After all that hard work...
Have you tried running contests or sweepstakes on Facebook? What results did you see?
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Cosatu said on Wednesday that it has not written off suspended general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.
"The stance Cosatu took from the beginning has been that this is an internal matter and would be dealt with accordingly," acting general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali told reporters in Johannesburg.
"We want to give respect to the comrades concerned. They are still our comrades, we are working with them and we have not written them off that they will never return to the federation."
A charge sheet was sent to Vavi two days ago, five months after he was put on special leave by Cosatu for having an affair with a junior employee, among other things.
The trade union federation would not say what the charges were.
Cosatu president Sidumo Dlamini said it was not unusual to take five months to draw up charges.
"It's not a surprise. We have explained before on why there were delays and such delays were not necessarily caused by Cosatu nor caused by the investigators. What is critical now is the charges indeed have been served two days ago."
He urged all involved, including the media, to respect Cosatu's internal processes.
"We must respect the process because it is very, very important … We [will] continue to manage it with the dignity it deserves, because it is not about the individuals concerned. It's also about the ability of an organisation to take action," Dlamini said.
He said no one was saying Vavi was guilty.
"You are innocent until proven otherwise."
Vavi was put on special leave in August pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing relating to his affair with the junior employee.
In July, the employee accused him of rape. He said they had an affair. The woman subsequently withdrew a sexual harassment complaint against him.
There were also allegations of corruption against Vavi.
On Tuesday, Vavi's spokesperson John Dludlu confirmed that after five months of waiting he had received a charge sheet.
He said Vavi was consulting his lawyers and allies within and outside Cosatu.
Vavi ally, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, has brought an application in the high court in Johannesburg challenging his suspension.
Vavi has lodged papers to be added as an applicant in Numsa's matter.
He asked the court to grant him an interim order interdicting and restraining Cosatu from enforcing any decision taken at its central executive committee meeting in August.
He wanted final relief to review and set aside the decision to suspend him and institute disciplinary proceedings.
Numsa has been at loggerheads with Cosatu since Vavi's suspension.
Last month, the metalworkers' union, which is the trade union federation's biggest affiliate, held a special national congress.
It discussed its future in Cosatu and whether it should support the ANC in the elections.
A decision was taken not to support the ANC, which was an alliance partner with Cosatu.
Dlamini on Wednesday said Cosatu had written a letter to Numsa requesting a meeting to discuss the resolutions taken at the congress.
"We must have that meeting so that we can clear up a number of issues. That meeting is very, very critical."
Numsa has accused Dlamini of dragging his feet in organising a special Cosatu congress.
Dlamini said presidents and general secretaries of Cosatu's affiliates met in Johannesburg on Tuesday to discuss the matter and were assured that a special congress would be held.
He said a report would be given to a special central executive committee meeting to be held soon. –Sapa


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|I install Scribe_html.dll - no problems for mail in html format, but If mail in text-format with web-links = all links open in ONE window
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2) The scribe.txt file is a debugging log, as opposed to the setting in the debug tab which is a connect log... different logs. You can't turn off the scribe.txt logging. It shouldn't be in the final release, just test builds.
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Welcome to Whisson Lake terroir
In 1985, we took a grand departure from Australian tradition and joined the first wave of Pinot Noir viticulture in the high country of the Adelaide Hills.
After a lot of looking, we settled on the extreme slope of Mount Carey within the Piccadilly Valley.
A vertigo-inducing 15-acre hillside that rises more than 615m above sea level and home to South Australia's highest elevated commercial vineyard.
As our vines age and we learn to be ever more sensitive with our winemaking, we've discovered entirely different wines can appear in barrel from different parts of the vineyard. That's because, planted in the right place, Pinot Noir is something of a magnifying glass, boosting subtle terroir differences.
We now divide our vineyard into a series of carefully selected single sections, sometimes little more than a few rows. From these sections, we produce entirely distinct Pinot Noir wines – at least four so far, with more likely to come.
Warm north-east-facing slope, lower altitude (525-560m), richer soil. Pinot Noir from here gives wines with softer structure – less acid and rounder tannin – and intense ripe fruit aromatics.
High altitude (560-605m), exceptionally well drained and exposed to the best of the morning and early afternoon sunlight. Pinot Noir from this part of the vineyard has fine but definite structure and pure uplifted fruit.
High altitude (up to 610m) with a significant degree of easterly orientation in the slope. Very low yields from unirrigated 25-year-old Pinot Noir vines giving wine of concentration, structure, and the ability to age for 15+ years. It is fruit from these areas of the vineyard that are the power house and inimitable signature of Whisson Lake Pinot Noir.
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Planning your medical trip to India is a very simple process with India Laparoscopy Surgery Site
India Laparoscopy Surgery Site is a network of surgeons, experts and hospitals in the field of laparoscopic surgeries. By reviewing your medical reports, our experts can recommend the best course of action. Then assessment will be made to understand if laparoscopic surgery is an option for your desired surgery. Our experts are the most sought after by both domestic and international patients. This is because of the expertise that resides in our network of experts, the state of the art infrastructure in our hospitals and compassion shown by everyone you will interact with during the various steps of your laparoscopic surgery in India.
Even if your surgeon has ruled out laparoscopic surgery for you, please reach out to us with your medical reports and our experts can make an assessment if laparoscopic surgery is still an option for you. Since our network spans top surgical facilities in at least 15 different cities around India, we can schedule your surgery with the surgeon of your choice in the city where you would like. If you wish, we can even recommend you the best facility for your laparoscopic surgery.
Laparoscopic Surgery is also well known by the name minimal invasive surgery. Sometimes it is also referred to as keyhole surgery. This surgery describes the operation method with the assistance of various thin instruments and a video camera supporting surgeons to give excellent results.
Laparoscopy in India is performed at medical facilities under the guidance of our best surgeons. The operating methods of laparoscopic surgery are according to the standard protocol followed internationally. The process of surgery starts with a small cut or incision of not more than an inch. The plastic tubes are inserted through cuts called ports. These provide the routes for introducing camera and instruments allowing access to the target internal organs needing the medical treatment.
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We are a network of surgeons, experts and hospitals in the field of laparoscopic surgical procedures. Our experts are the most sought after by both domestic and international patients. This is because of the expertise that resides in our network of experts, the state of the art infrastructure in our hospitals and compassion shown by everyone you will interact with during the various steps of your laparoscopic surgery in India.
Our hospitals are internationally accredited and have the latest tools. Surgeons will make the determination whether to conduct the surgical procedures with the assistance of a robot.
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If you little girl likes Abby from Sesame Street then this winter hat is just what you need.
This pink is made from a fleecy 100% polyester and block UV rays to protect you child from the sun if needed.
On the pink hat you can see a fluffy pompom on the top and on the front you can see the friendly face of Abby Cadabby just like you know her from Sesame Street.
This Sesame Street winter hat is made from kids ages 12 – 18 months and will keep them warm and protected and ready to go outside and enjoy some fresh air.


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new from benefit: B. radiant skincare.
beginning this month, benefit cosmetics adds a newest benefit to their cheeky brand - a skincare line.
B. right skincare by benefit is, as the name implies, a line devoted to achieving radiant skin. at the launch event for this line i watched a video that was way over my head -- but it involved a frenchman in a labcoat, so i can assure you that this line has a lot more to it than pretty packaging (though the sea glass-esque packaging is really working for me).
the 9 piece line includes all the basics - eye makeup remover, eye cream, foaming cleanser and moisturizer - as well as some truly unique offerings - triple performing faical emulsion SPF 15 and ultra-hydrating mist (nothing - but nothing - says extravagance like a facial mist). all at a very affordable price point - nothing breaks the $40 mark.
obsessively check for it sometime this month at benefitcosmetics.com.
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You know what I want for Christmas? I want a nine year old boy. Do not bother wrapping or putting in a box, I want the no batteries required, I want the no assembly required. I want a nine year old full of energy and questions boy.
For a Christmas delivery, He walks into my trapping shed and I have two beaver skun and Im working on the third. Two mink are already put up on stretcher boards and a red fox is lying on the floor waiting for a good skinning.
The wood stove has my fur shed at 60 degrees and the kid starts opening his jacket and pulling his hat off and he is all eyes. The only sound I hear is the stove hissing.
After he scans the entire shed and his eyes glaze over looking at my traps and boards and knifes and the gambrel ..he goes from absolutely quiet to an explosion of questions.
Hey misterâ .Id probably die right there if the kid actually said that .but it's my wish .
Could you take me trappin'? How many pounds is that beaver? Is that beaver a hundred pounder? That is the biggest beaver I ever saw! Where did you get those beaver? Howd ya trap a beaver that big? One run on sentence after another, Then he would trip over the fox while reaching to touch the drying mink. Round two.
The magic if you will is right here .he's nine, and im old and I get to dispense all my trapping wisdom. First, you stop skinning and show him how to set a number one long spring and then let him fire the trap with a piece of kindling and it makes him jump back with a start. Then he tries setting it. You show him how to stand on the spring because his little mitts are not big enough yet. Just like when I first started.
How do you explain backingâ on a garage floor? So you tell him to be ready next sat at 6:00 am. Just dress warm and don't worry about lunch, tell your mom Ill have you back in time for dinner.
Poof . reality again
When my kids grew up around the house and what they consider there father to be, it was natural for me to include them on my outings. My youngest was as close to the dream as I ever get. She would get in the trapping sled while I would snowshoe along from trap to trap and she would in little girl fashion . mush doggyâ and flail her pine branch to whip me in shape. It went way to fast.
So I want to trap a kid in the neighborhood. Problem is there aren't enough kids where I live and the few there are have dads or politically correct parents who not on your life would let them trap anything.
Oh, I drop hints at church, and I volunteer to coach soccer but no takers yet. When I asked my fourteen year old daughter if she new any younger boys I got âDAD that's weirdâ.
If you pull into my yard I have all the strategic call lures placed. There is no less than four canoes of varying length hanging on the side of my trapping shed and a kayak perched directly overhead in the pole shed. Fourteen foot boat on a trailer waiting for some whipper snapper to jump into at a moments notice.
Draping from the garage and driving my wife nuts is at least thirty rusted traps of all sizes and some well spaced elk antlers and deer horns everywhere. I got the bait, I soft catch all the old guys in the neighborhood with there reminiscing and pull up chair chats but no nine year old upstarts as of yet.
My hands do not quite close the springs shut on a 220 anymore. I find myself hoping I had someone to trap with and my wife is okay with trapping as long as im doing the trapping. She will visit occasionally in the trapping shed while im skinning and she loves showing off the tanned pelts scattered about our home but what I wouldn't give for some kid to come get caught in the snare I have mentally set.
In my minds eye, he always goes home yapping about what a Daniel Boone he has met and wants to grow up just like the old guy down the road.
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New Music: DJ Mustard Ft. 2 Chainz x Ty Dolla $ign "Down On Me"
May 12, 2014 @ 5:18 PM EDT General
Dip It Low.
Mustard's still on the beat for his latest release featuring 2 Chainz and Ty Dolla $ign. Aside from Chainz's verse, the track kinda sounds like one long hook. Mustard's debut 10 Summers is penciled in for sometime this year.


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I sat down in front of my therapist this week – more on that later– but one of the first things she said to me was, "Do you know how courageous it was for you to do that, to leave like that when your son was just 4-months-old? Good for you, kiddo!"
She calls me kiddo, which I think is kind of cool. I'm not even sure if I should call her a therapist – more like a Godsend. Back to my point. Becoming single mothers, whether by choice or force, is incredibly courageous and incredibly frightening at the same time.
This comment came in today from Almost Single to my post on "Should I Leave My Husband?". She's a soon to be single mom who isn't quite sure how she will make it, something I know I felt when I first became a single mom. Just read this (should sound very familiar):
So how do you move on, become a single mama, when you're not ready to let go? I admire your strength, and I know I've been strong enough thus far. But I wonder if what's keeping me going is my nerves? Waiting for the other shoe to drop is definitely a means of keeping me on my toes. What happens when that energy wears out? Or, worse, what happens when that other shoe does drop, and it breaks me? I wonder if it'd be easier to just let go, but so far it's been easier to just close my eyes to those moments you speak of and keep telling myself there's hope. How pathetic, right? What a woman will do? Thank you so much for sharing so intimately, and for letting so many of us share back.
First, your nerves are keeping you going. I believe it is a physical thing, a mama bear thing. You just have to keep going. There isn't any other choice. And those nerves, guts or what have you will keep you going for as long as you need them to… and you will only be broken if you believe you'll be broken. First rule of single motherhood: don't write yourself a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And, yes, at times – in those days or weeks when you feel you can't go on – hope is the only thing we do have. But there's nothing pathetic about that, nothing at all. Hope springs eternal, right?
Bring on the hope, baby!
Remember, I started this blog after one entire year of being a single mom, much of what you read here are the optimistic ramblings of a seasoned single mama. That first year is so dark, I rarely return, keeping most of it buried.
One memory I'll never forget is looking at Benjamin while the rest of my world crumbled around me. There he was in his bath, gooing and gaaing – happy as a little bug, and then it hit me, "My world is falling apart, but he is fine. He is just fine. At least I have that, at least he is okay." From that day on, in my darkest moments, I just looked at my smiling baby and felt like all was right.
I'm not sure how old your children are and I'm not saying divorce doesn't hurt children, it does, but I'm sure the way the mama bear handles that divorce has a direct impact on how her children handle the divorce. So keep your chin up, for their sake, and then you'll find your spirits rising too.
Everything will be okay. I promise.
Anyone else have advice for a newly single mom? If you have a second, share one of your first year memories – the worst, the best?


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NDLEADetectives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have stopped the illicit exportation of 26.2kg of ephedrine to Tanzania. The ephedrine, hidden inside female footwears, was detected at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos during search operations.
Anti-narcotic officials swiftly arrested an electrician in connection with the illegal shipment. Two other suspected drug traffickers, one exporting 305 grammes of cocaine to Cambodia and another importing 1.370kg of cocaine from Sierra Leone, were also apprehended, as the agency seized 27.875kg of drugs, comprising 26.2kg ephedrine and 1.675kg of cocaine.
According to the NDLEA Commander at the Lagos airport, Ahmadu Garba, the suspects would soon be charged to court. "The suspected drug traffickers are Ogujiuba Zaccheus, 48, an electrician, caught exporting 26.6kg of ephedrine to Tanzania; Uchegbu Emeka, 33, a textile merchant, smuggling 305 grammes of cocaine to Cambodia and Okafor Emeka, 28, an automobile parts dealer, caught importing 1.370kg of cocaine from Sierra Leone.
"All the cases are being investigated and will appear in court soon," he stated."The suspects, in their statements, have adduced various reasons for smuggling narcotics."
Zaccheus said he was introduced into the illicit trade by an old-time friend, adding: "I am married with six children and I reside in Abia, where I work as an electrician.
"The ephedrine was carefully hidden inside female shoes and given to me by an old-time friend. He told me to take the drug to Lagos and handle the shipping arrangements to Tanzania.
"Unfortunately, I was arrested during examination of the consignment after the drug was discovered. I regret ever getting involved in drug trafficking," Ogujiuba stated.
Uchegbu, from Anambra State, who inserted seven wraps of cocaine into his anus in a bid to evade arrest, blamed his involvement on joblessness.
"I am a textile merchant, but today I am jobless. I lost everything due to economic recession and family problems. That was why I agreed to collect the sum of N800, 000 to smuggle cocaine to Cambodia.
"My intention was to invest the money in legitimate business," he stated. Okafor, from Enugu State, said he needed money to get his own shop and expand his business.
"I am an automobile parts dealer in Lagos, but I have no shop. I only wanted to get enough money to rent a shop and invest in my business. "My love for money made me to ingest 69 wraps of cocaine 1.370kgs in Sierra Leone," he said.
Chairman of the NDLEA, Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah, assured the public that the agency would always ensure that offenders are severely sanctioned to deter others from engaging in drug trafficking.
"The agency will continue to work very hard in ensuring the certainty of commensurate punishment for all drug culprits in line with the NDLEA Act," Abdallah stated.
He added that investing proceeds of drug trafficking in legitimate businesses is money laundering and that the agency would invoke relevant sections of the law against offenders.
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NDLEA prevents export of ephedrine to Tanzania
NDLEADetectives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have stopped the illicit exportation of 26.2kg of ephedrine to Tanzania. The ephedrine, hidden inside female footwears, was detected at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos during search operations.


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Frequently Asked Questions: For Preliminary ApplicantsFor your convenience, we have prepared the following question and answers frequently raised by applicants.
Jennifer Pons, MD, Sarah Haserodt, MD, An Uche, MD, & Amy Liao, MD
What are the three most frequently asked questions by applicants for the Preliminary year?
- How hard is California Pacific Medical Center's Preliminary year compared with other programs?
This is a tough question to answer with 100% accuracy since "hard" is a relative term. There is very little scut work at CPMC, the food is good, the people are nice, the administrative support is excellent, the Program Directors and Chief Residents are approachable and supportive and residents and interns are kind to each other. The number of call months, elective-at-risk ("jeopardy") and night float are about average for a Preliminary medicine program. The patient census and turnover are probably average or slightly above average for a Preliminary Program.
Some interns have finished their Preliminary year stating that they thought the year was easier than they thought it would be, while others have finished stating that they felt like they were "worked pretty hard" most of the year. Most, according to the annual survey and personal anecdote, feel that the year was about what they expected for an internship. Suffice to say, if you don't work hard during your residency, you won't learn very much.
We believe that our program is probably in the 75th percentile for difficulty but there's really no way to accurately quantitate this. Suffice to say, if you're looking for a "kick back" year with minimal call and patient care responsibility, this is not the place for you. If you're looking for a place with a fantastically diverse patient population and case mix where you'll work hard, learn a lot and establish an excellent foundation for your future career, this is the place for you. The Preliminary interns that have most enjoyed themselves here (and there have been a lot of these), have been those that wanted to see lots of different things—from bread and butter to the truly bizarre—and to work hard and work well with other house staff. If you are interested in a "cush" program where you can simply get the required preliminary year "out of the way," PLEASE don't waste your time applying here! Our teachers and program directors take the education of our preliminary interns very seriously and, in turn, these interns take their own educations and hard work seriously. You can certainly find an easier program elsewhere but you will not find a program that prepares you better than ours does.
- But do current medical house staff at CPMC feel like their internships and residency are what they expected relative to hard or easy?
Yes. For the past six years in the annual house staff satisfaction survey, house staff were asked to score how close to their expectations internship/residency came. On a Likert scale from 1 through 10, 1 was "much harder than I expected" , 10 was "much easier than I expected", .5 was "about what I expected". The average score was consistently between 5.6 and 5.9. In other words, on average, house staff felt that their training was about what they had expected. When analyzed by sub-groups (Preliminary R1s, Categorical R2s, Categorical R3s) there was no difference between groups in their perceptions of difficulty/ease of training.
The Program Directors would be happy to review results from these surveys with you during their closing afternoon session if you visit for an interview.
- But will I be happy at CPMC?
For the past 3 years R1 "happiness with training at CPMC" (for both preliminary and categorical interns) has ranged from 8.5-9.2 on a 1-10 Likert Scale (i.e., they're happy!)
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Somehow, in an economy that 's tepid at best, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars continues to sell its ultra-exclusive Ghosts and Phantoms to a narrow, ultra-exclusive market.
Now, as the luxury car brand tries to ride the momentum and appeal to a more youthful market, Rolls-Royce has selected Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners as its first agency of record for marketing communications in North America.
Previously, Rolls-Royce has used "different agencies piece-meal for different projects," said Oleg Satanovsky, corporate communications manager for Woodcliff Lake, N.J.-based Rolls-Royce Motor Cars North America.
"We were looking for a new agency to go with a new vision for Rolls-Royce," Mr. Satanovsky told AdAge.com. "Ever since we started marketing cars here again in 2003, it's still been viewed as a very traditional company. We want to try to go forward with a more dynamic marketing program to coincide with our new cars."
Mr. Satanovsky said part of the decision to choose Kirshenbaum-Bond, which has done work for Van Cleef & Arpels jewelers and NetJets private jets, was because of that experience with similar luxury brands. But the marketing for the brand is limited. Rolls-Royce has rarely, if ever, used traditional TV and print campaigns, and in fact KBS&P is charged with creating campaigns focused on North American car connoisseurs that include direct marketing, acquisition and loyalty programs, customer relationship management, segmentation strategies and interactive marketing initiatives. KBS&P was recently named lead creative agency for BMW North America. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is a subsidiary of BMW, though they operate as separate brands.
Rolls-Royce isn't looking to appeal to the masses here. The company, Mr. Satanovsky said, sold just 2,711 cars worldwide last year -- and yet that was its best year ever, with the vehicles coming in at a sticker price anywhere between $180,000 and $500,000. There are only 82 dealerships worldwide, including 32 in the U.S., three in Canada and one in Mexico.
"Less than 1/10 of 1% of the U.S. can or will buy a Rolls-Royce," said Steve Thibodeau, chief digital officer at KBS&P told AdAge.com. "Their target audience is so exclusive, it's almost mind-boggling how difficult it is to reach this audience and the lifestyle they lead. Some of it is old money, some is new money, some is inherited money. Some are rappers, some are tech people, some are athletes. The way they shop for a car is like shopping for a work of art. It's like cultivating a collection."
Asked how he will approach such a thin population with, say, direct mail, Mr. Thibodeau said, "It won't be with a postcard or a No. 10 envelope. It will be more like hand-made artifacts; give somebody something of value, something that makes them want to pick up the phone and make an appointment (with a dealer)."
Mr. Thibodeau said KBS&P will also be heavily involved in event marketing. In the past, Rolls-Royce has had a presence at such events as golf tournaments at tony Pebble Beach, Calif., and the Kentucky Derby. But local events are the bread and butter of the dealerships.
"These are very relationship-based sales, and from a marketing standpoint it's very event-driven," said Thomas Roach, sales manager for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars of Greenwich, Conn. "We'll do a luncheon, for example, for 12 couples that are prospective buyers. We'll use a fleet of Rolls-Royces and we'll all drive somewhere to a very nice place. Rolls-Royce would rather do that than have an open luncheon for 300 people where maybe you get two, three prospective buyers."
Even parent company BMW doesn't feel the need to put big dollars behind Rolls-Royce. In the first six months of the year, BMW has spent $78 million while less than $100,000 has been against Rolls-Royce, according to Kantar Media and Ad Age DataCenter research.
"We cater to a different clientele," said Mr. Satanovsky, who noted that global Rolls-Royce sales are up 60% through the first nine months of the year compared to 2010. "We're a small manufacturer. It takes 22 days to build a ghost, up to 22 days to build a Phantom because they're hand-made. With our Rolls-Royce Bespoke program, it can take three to six months to customize a car. Ordering a Rolls-Royce is really like commissioning a piece of art."


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The Divine Word Seminary Tagaytay, in celebration of its 50th year,
will be having a grand alumni homecoming this March 11-12, 2014.
Both days will begin with the holy mass at 8 am, followed by theological
symposia, sports activities, and vespers. To cap each day there will
be a recognition and awards night and musical presentations.
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Pittsburgh Penguins phenom, NHL leading scorer and Upper Deck exclusive spokesman Sidney Crosby garnered the most fan votes – 825,783 – for the 2007 NHL All-Star Game in Dallas. Crosby, has been a hockey card juggernaut – many of his cards from his first season to this year remain some of the most popular cards in the marketplace.
"Obviously, Sidney's prowess on the ice has crossed over into the hockey card market by remaining at the top of hobby trade publications must-have lists throughout his young career," said Joe Fallon, Director of Product Development for Upper Deck. "Crosby's 2005-2006 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey, Black Diamond, SP Game Used and The Cup Hockey cards are three of his most popular cards among collectors and are consistently atop the top single card sales charts every month."
Crosby is the youngest All-Star to be voted in as a starter by the fans and is six months younger than Jaromir Jagr was in 1992 when he started for the Wales Conference. Only Jagr, who earned 1,020,736 votes in 2000, has picked up more than Crosby's total this year.


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