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Praise Prompters: January 2001
For those of you who have prayed through all our prayer prompters in 2000, thank you! Some of our missionaries are better than others about reporting back on answers to prayer (…ahem…to those of you Jews for Jesus missionaries reading this, you know who you are!). But they all appreciate your prayers and we've got room for a few tidbits that we hope will prompt you to praise God.
The Liberated Wailing Wall wants to thank you for interceding for them: We've had many answers to prayer! We have written several new songs. The new bus is a blessing! God has been opening up team members' family's hearts! R.'s brother (whom she hadn't seen in five years) came out and followed our team around for three days! WOW! Pray for continued blessings with all of our unsaved family!"
We prayed that God would bring more laborers for the field and we have had many new missionaries to introduce to you in the past several newsletters!
We asked for prayer for Shirley's salvation in London; she has become a believer and is growing in her faith.
Greg Savitt asked prayer for the husband of one of his contacts. This prayer was answered and reported via a letter in this month's "Bits from the Branches." (p.8)
Greg also asked prayer for spiritual growth for a new Jewish believer named Lee, and also that Lee's wife would come to faith. Greg reports, "Lee is reading his Bible, active in church, prays, witnesses to his friends. His wife is very curious about the gospel. She has been reading a lot of the literature I have given her, and is asking good, searching questions."
In Los Angeles, Tuvya Zaretsky asked prayer for a new Jewish believer named Dennis. Tuvya reports, "Dennis has been growing in the Lord. He has plugged into a local congregation near his home and is rejoicing to be following Yeshua."
From Orange County, Rob Wertheim asked prayer for a new Jewish believer named Mike. Rob says, "Mike is growing in the Lord. We finished a discipleship guide a few weeks ago and are beginning a study in the book of Romans."
In Washington, D.C. Nici Smith asked prayer for a new Jewish believer named Cara. Nici says, "Cara is really taking hold of her faith and is connected to a local congregation."
In Washington, D.C. Garrett Smith asked prayer for two Jewish college students who came to our office after seeing the new signs. They agreed to meet with David Rothstein and attend the Bible study. Garrett reports, "They turned out to be undercover students from the local Jewish high school newspaper. They did a story on us, including extensive quotes from me. The main angle on the article was to "expose" us but the gospel was clearly stated. We were thankful."


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|Freshman/Sophomore/Junior/ Senior Years
Join the HEALTHPROFESSIONADVISOR-L listserv (http://prehealth.gmu.edu/listserv/).
Reserve a space in a Health Professions Advising small group session as advertised on the listserv.
Attend Health Professions Advising events such as visits by admissions directors, etc.
Take required and recommended coursework.
|Fall Semester (2 years before matriculation)
Prepare to take required standardized tests. Significant preparation (coursework, review and practice) is needed for success. It is recommended that students take these tests only one time.
Allopathic Medicine: MCAT https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/mcat/about
Osteopathic Medicine: MCAT https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/mcat/about
Dentistry: DAT http://www.ada.org/en/education-careers/dental-admission-test/#top
Occupational Therapy: GRE (requirement varies by school) http://www.ets.org/gre
Optometry: OAT http://www.ada.org/en/oat
Pharmacy: PCAT http://www.pcatweb.info/
Physical Therapy: GRE (requirement varies by school) http://www.ets.org/gre
Physician Assistant GRE (requirement varies by school) http://www.ets.org/gre
Podiatry: MCAT https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/mcat/
Veterinary Medicine: GRE http://www.ets.org/gre
If prerequisite coursework and standardized test preparation are completed, join the Health Professions Advising Blackboard (includes the opportunity for comprehensive, one-on-one advising.) Details about participation in this Blackboard is provided via listserv email.
|Spring Semester (1 ½ years before matriculation)
Consider a gap/glide/victory lap year to allow more time, without the pressures of upper level coursework, to devote more time to class work, standardized test preparation, clinical and volunteer experience, and research involvement, while earning and saving money. Or continue to prepare for standardized test.
|Early Summer (1 year to 1 year 3 months before matriculation)
Due to rolling admissions and lengthy verifications, apply early for best, most competitive consideration:
Allopathic Medicine: AMCAS ~ first week of June
Osteopathic Medicine: AACOMAS ~ first week of June
Dentistry: AADSAS ~ first week of June
Occupational Therapy: OTCAS ~ mid-July
Optometry: OptomCAS ~ first week of July
Pharmacy: PHARMCAS June
Physical Therapy: PTCAS ~ first week of July
Physician Assistant CASPA ~ mid-March
Podiatry: AACPM ~ August 1
Veterinary Medicine: VMCAS ~ first week of June
Take standardized tests for desired health profession (MCAT Spring Semester/Early Summer – May, June, July; DAT May, June, July, August)
|Summer (1 year before matriculation)
Complete and submit secondary applications, by stated deadlines.
Secondary preparation advising will be available for those enrolled in the Health Professions Advising Blackboard.
|Fall/Spring Semesters (1 year to ½ year before matriculation)
Hopefully, receive invitations to interview with allopathic, osteopathic, dental, optometry, or podiatry schools. Interview preparation advising will be available for those enrolled in the Health Professions Advising Blackboard
Hopefully, receive acceptance letters and follow through with school-specific requirements for matriculation.
|Fall Semester – Matriculation into Health Profession Program/School

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The organising committee of the Locate16 Conference are pleased to announce the Centre for eResearch and Digital innovation (CeRDI) have confirmed a Bronze Sponsorship for the Locate16 Conference being held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre 12-14 April 2016.
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Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy Syndrome Type 1 via the AIRE Gene
- Summary and Pricing
- Clinical Features and Genetics
- Citations
- Methods
- Ordering/Specimens
- Bi-Directional Sanger Sequencing
- Deletion/Duplication Testing via Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization
|Test Code
|Test Copy Genes
|Individual Gene Price
|CPT Code Copy CPT Codes
Targeted Testing
For ordering targeted known variants, please proceed to our Targeted Variants landing page.
Turnaround Time
The great majority of tests are completed within 18 days.
Clinical Sensitivity
In a cohort of 112 APECED patients of diverse ethnic backgrounds worldwide (including 63 Finns), 91% of pathogenic AIRE alleles were found via DNA sequencing (Björses et al. 2000).
Deletion/Duplication Testing via aCGH
|Test Code
|Test Copy Genes
|Individual Gene Price
|CPT Code Copy CPT Codes
Pricing Comment
# of Genes Ordered
Total Price
Over 100
Call for quote
Turnaround Time
The great majority of tests are completed within 20 days.
Clinical Features
Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 1 (OMIM# 240300) is an autoimmune disease characterized by Addison disease (a malfunction of adrenal glands), hypoparathyroidism (a malfunction of parathyroid glands), chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (a fungal infection that affects the skin and mucous membranes) (Nagamine et al. 1997; Finnish-German APECED Consortium 1997). Some patients may only have two of these three features while others have all of them. This multi-system disease can also affect skin, nails, gonads, eyes, the thyroid, and the digestive system. In most cases, the age of disease onset is during childhood or adolescence. The disease is also commonly termed autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy (APECED). Although it occurs worldwide, a much higher prevalence has been found in three populations: Finns (~1/25,000), Iranian Jews (~1/9,000) and Sardinians (1/14,500) (Björses et al. 2000).
Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 1 is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by defects in the AIRE gene (Nagamine et al. 1997; Finnish-German APECED Consortium 1997). AIRE has 14 coding exons that encode an autoimmune regulator. Genetic defects of AIRE include missense, nonsense, splicing site mutations, small deletion/insertions (Human Gene Mutation Database). Large deletions involving AIRE have also been reported, but are relatively uncommon. Although AIRE defects are spread throughout the whole coding region, mutational hotspots have been observed in exons 2, 6, 8 and 10 (Björses et al. 2000). R257X and R139X account for 85% of the Finnish APECED chromosomes and 92% of the Sardinian disease alleles, respectively. The 13bp deletion (c.967_979del13) in exon 8 is also common among patients from different populations (Pearce et al. 1998; Wolff et al. 2007; Heino et al. 1999).
Testing Strategy
This test involves bidirectional Sanger DNA sequencing of all 14 coding exons of AIRE. The entire coding region and ~10 bp of flanking non-coding DNA on either side of each splice site are sequenced. We will also sequence any single exon (Test #100) or pair of exons (Test #200) in family members of patients with known mutations or to confirm research results.
Indications for Test
Candidates for this test are patients with autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 1. Testing is also indicated for family members of patients who have known AIRE mutations.
|Official Gene Symbol
|Autosomal Dominant
|Autosomal Recessive
|Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndrome, Type 1
Genetic Counselors
- Genetic Counselor Team - firstname.lastname@example.com
- Wuyan Chen, PhD - email@example.com
- Björses P, Halonen M, Palvimo JJ, Kolmer M, Aaltonen J, Ellonen P, Perheentupa J, Ulmanen I, Peltonen L. 2000. Mutations in the AIRE gene: effects on subcellular location and transactivation function of the autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy protein. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 66: 378-392. PubMed ID: 10677297
- Finnish-German APECED Consortium. 1997. An autoimmune disease, APECED, caused by mutations in a novel gene featuring two PHD-type zinc-finger domains. Nat. Genet. 17: 399-403. PubMed ID: 9398840
- Heino M, Scott HS, Chen Q, Peterson P, Mäebpää U, Papasavvas MP, Mittaz L, Barras C, Rossier C, Chrousos GP, Stratakis CA, Nagamine K, et al. 1999. Mutation analyses of North American APS-1 patients. Hum. Mutat. 13: 69-74. PubMed ID: 9888391
- Human Gene Mutation Database (Bio-base).
- Nagamine K, Peterson P, Scott HS, Kudoh J, Minoshima S, Heino M, Krohn KJ, Lalioti MD, Mullis PE, Antonarakis SE, Kawasaki K, Asakawa S, et al. 1997. Positional cloning of the APECED gene. Nat. Genet. 17: 393-398. PubMed ID: 9398839
- Pearce SH, Cheetham T, Imrie H, Vaidya B, Barnes ND, Bilous RW, Carr D, Meeran K, Shaw NJ, Smith CS, Toft AD, Williams G, et al. 1998. A common and recurrent 13-bp deletion in the autoimmune regulator gene in British kindreds with autoimmune polyendocrinopathy type 1. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 63: 1675-1684. PubMed ID: 9837820
- Wolff ASB, Erichsen MM, Meager A, Magitta NF, Myhre AG, Bollerslev J, Fougner KJ, Lima K, Knappskog PM, Husebye ES. 2007. Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 in Norway: phenotypic variation, autoantibodies, and novel mutations in the autoimmune regulator gene. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 92: 595-603. PubMed ID: 17118990
- Bi-Directional Sanger Sequencing
- Deletion/Duplication Testing via Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization
Bi-Directional Sanger Sequencing
Test Procedure
Nomenclature for sequence variants was from the Human Genome Variation Society (http://www.hgvs.org). As required, DNA is extracted from the patient specimen. PCR is used to amplify the indicated exons plus additional flanking non-coding sequence. After cleaning of the PCR products, cycle sequencing is carried out using the ABI Big Dye Terminator v.3.0 kit. Products are resolved by electrophoresis on an ABI 3730xl capillary sequencer. In most cases, sequencing is performed in both forward and reverse directions; in some cases, sequencing is performed twice in either the forward or reverse directions. In nearly all cases, the full coding region of each exon as well as 10 bases of non-coding DNA flanking the exon are sequenced.
Analytical Validity
As of February 2018, we compared 26.8 Mb of Sanger DNA sequence generated at PreventionGenetics to NextGen sequence generated in other labs. We detected only 4 errors in our Sanger sequences, and these were all due to allele dropout during PCR. For Proficiency Testing, both external and internal, in the 14 years of our lab operation we have Sanger sequenced roughly 14,300 PCR amplicons. Only one error has been identified, and this was an error in analysis of sequence data.
Our Sanger sequencing is capable of detecting virtually all nucleotide substitutions within the PCR amplicons. Similarly, we detect essentially all heterozygous or homozygous deletions within the amplicons. Homozygous deletions which overlap one or more PCR primer annealing sites are detectable as PCR failure. Heterozygous deletions which overlap one or more PCR primer annealing sites are usually not detected (see Analytical Limitations). All heterozygous insertions within the amplicons up to about 100 nucleotides in length appear to be detectable. Larger heterozygous insertions may not be detected. All homozygous insertions within the amplicons up to about 300 nucleotides in length appear to be detectable. Larger homozygous insertions may masquerade as homozygous deletions (PCR failure).
Analytical Limitations
In exons where our sequencing did not reveal any variation between the two alleles, we cannot be certain that we were able to PCR amplify both of the patient's alleles. Occasionally, a patient may carry an allele which does not amplify, due for example to a deletion or a large insertion. In these cases, the report contains no information about the second allele.
Similarly, our sequencing tests have almost no power to detect duplications, triplications, etc. of the gene sequences.
In most cases, only the indicated exons and roughly 10 bp of flanking non-coding sequence on each side are analyzed. Test reports contain little or no information about other portions of the gene, including many regulatory regions.
In nearly all cases, we are unable to determine the phase of sequence variants. In particular, when we find two likely causative mutations for recessive disorders, we cannot be certain that the mutations are on different alleles.
Our ability to detect minor sequence variants, due for example to somatic mosaicism is limited. Sequence variants that are present in less than 50% of the patient's nucleated cells may not be detected.
Runs of mononucleotide repeats (eg (A)n or (T)n) with n >8 in the reference sequence are generally not analyzed because of strand slippage during PCR and cycle sequencing.
Unless otherwise indicated, the sequence data that we report are based on DNA isolated from a specific tissue (usually leukocytes). Test reports contain no information about gene sequences in other tissues.
Deletion/Duplication Testing via Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization
Test Procedure
Equal amounts of genomic DNA from the patient and a gender matched reference sample are amplified and labeled with Cy3 and Cy5 dyes, respectively. To prevent any sample cross contamination, a unique sample tracking control is added into each patient sample. Each labeled patient product is then purified, quantified, and combined with the same amount of reference product. The combined sample is loaded onto the designed array and hybridized for at least 22-42 hours at 65°C. Arrays are then washed and scanned immediately with 2.5 µM resolution. Only data for the gene(s) of interest for each patient are extracted and analyzed.
Analytical Validity
PreventionGenetics' high density gene-centric custom designed aCGH enables the detection of relatively small deletions and duplications within a single exon of a given gene or deletions and duplications encompassing the entire gene. PreventionGenetics has established and verified this test's accuracy and precision.
Analytical Limitations
Our dense probe coverage may allow detection of deletions/duplications down to 100 bp; however due to limitations and probe spacing this cannot be guaranteed across all exons of all genes. Therefore, some copy number changes smaller than 100-300 bp within a targeted large exon may not be detected by our array.
This array may not detect deletions and duplications present at low levels of mosaicism or those present in genes that have pseudogene copies or repeats elsewhere in the genome.
aCGH will not detect balanced translocations, inversions, or point mutations that may be responsible for the clinical phenotype.
Breakpoints, if occurring outside the targeted gene, may be hard to define.
The sensitivity of this assay may be reduced when DNA is extracted by an outside laboratory.
Ordering Options
myPrevent - Online Ordering
- The test can be added to your online orders in the Summary and Pricing section.
- Once the test has been added log in to myPrevent to fill out an online requisition form.
- A completed requisition form must accompany all specimens.
- Billing information along with specimen and shipping instructions are within the requisition form.
- All testing must be ordered by a qualified healthcare provider.
(Delivery accepted Monday - Saturday)
- Collect 3 ml -5 ml (5 ml preferred) of whole blood in EDTA (purple top tube) or ACD (yellow top tube). For Test #500-DNA Banking only, collect 10 ml -20 ml of whole blood.
- For small babies, we require a minimum of 1 ml of blood.
- Only one blood tube is required for multiple tests.
- Ship blood tubes at room temperature in an insulated container. Do not freeze blood.
- During hot weather, include a frozen ice pack in the shipping container. Place a paper towel or other thin material between the ice pack and the blood tube.
- In cold weather, include an unfrozen ice pack in the shipping container as insulation.
- At room temperature, blood specimen is stable for up to 48 hours.
- If refrigerated, blood specimen is stable for up to one week.
- Label the tube with the patient name, date of birth and/or ID number.
(Delivery accepted Monday - Saturday)
- Send in screw cap tube at least 5 µg -10 µg of purified DNA at a concentration of at least 20 µg/ml for NGS and Sanger tests and at least 5 µg of purified DNA at a concentration of at least 100 µg/ml for gene-centric aCGH, MLPA, and CMA tests, minimum 2 µg for limited specimens.
- For requests requiring more than one test, send an additional 5 µg DNA per test ordered when possible.
- DNA may be shipped at room temperature.
- Label the tube with the composition of the solute, DNA concentration as well as the patient's name, date of birth, and/or ID number.
- We only accept genomic DNA for testing. We do NOT accept products of whole genome amplification reactions or other amplification reactions.
(Delivery preferred Monday - Thursday)
- PreventionGenetics should be notified in advance of arrival of a cell culture.
- Culture and send at least two T25 flasks of confluent cells.
- Some panels may require additional flasks (dependent on size of genes, amount of Sanger sequencing required, etc.). Multiple test requests may also require additional flasks. Please contact us for details.
- Send specimens in insulated, shatterproof container overnight.
- Cell cultures may be shipped at room temperature or refrigerated.
- Label the flasks with the patient name, date of birth, and/or ID number.
- We strongly recommend maintaining a local back-up culture. We do not culture cells.


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- Calories 127
- Caloriesfromfat 53%
- Fat 7.5g
- Satfat 0.8g
- Monofat 4.9g
- Polyfat 1.3g
- Protein 2.5g
- Carbohydrate 14.4g
- Fiber 4.4g
- Cholesterol 0.0mg
- Iron 1.2mg
- Sodium 85mg
- Calcium 58mg
Mixed Greens with Citrus Vinaigrette and Sugared Pecans
You can prepare the citrus vinaigrette and the pecans ahead of time; store them in the refrigerator.
How to Make It
Step 1
Heat oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat; add pecans. Sprinkle with sugar and red pepper; sauté 2 minutes or until sugar begins to brown. Remove from heat.
Step 2
Combine greens and citrus vinaigrette in a large bowl; toss gently. Arrange 1 1/2 cups on individual salad plates; top with pecans and oranges.


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A great view of the race from Jonathan's Austin Healey.
There were 36 cars. Our car (the yellow 'Gurney Special') a Turner Sports, got pole position and won the race at the last corner as you will see on the clip. It then ended up with fastest lap as well.
All in all a good weekend, except that a faulty radiator cap caused it to start losing water on the 2nd lap. It went over the line with 120 degrees on the clock and no water, but our driver wasn't going to stop.
The engine is apart now and hopefully it will be back together ready for next Saturday (8th) at Snetterton.
Dyebrick were asked to produced some historic natural earth-based oxides, cobalt blues and chrome greens to match historic colours for restoration to decorative art surrounding the windows in the Royal Gallery. The work is being undertaken by DBR Conservation
Dyebrick products have been used throughout the Parliamentary Estate during the last 3 years of restoration.


text: Rygart is the series' main protagonist at the age of 25. He was born an un-sorcerer, meaning that he cannot use magic, unlike the majority of the worlds populace. Before he left to see Hodr, he worked on a farm with his brother who is also an un-sorcerer, because of this, his father sold all Quartz operated tools and worked with tools without Quartz to make the boys stronger and to keep them from feeling like outcasts. After his father took out loans, Rygart was able to attend Assam military school where he befriended Zess, Hodr, and Sigyn where the four of them were known as "the four problem children of Assam's Military School", with him being known as the "King of Make-up tests". He hates violence and believes he could win via his opponent tiring out but is willing to fight more directly and violently with his enemies. He becomes the pilot of the Delphine, an ancient Golem designed for only an un-sorcerer's use as a Heavy Knight for Krisna. He originally joins the war to protect his brother and friends, but later admits he's really fighting to protect Sigyn who he really loves.


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AT THE END OF THE WORLD, treat yourself to the comfort you need on holiday or on business. Our completely renovated rooms each have their personality and are comfortably furnished. Here you will find a selection of our room categories.
Rooms: title / description
The rooms at the end of the world the conquet
Introductory description. (Click on the room number)
- Ground floor: 101. 102. 103. 104.
- Rooms 1st floor: 201. 202. 203. 204. 205 .206. 207. 208.
- Bedrooms 2nd floor: 301. 302. 303. 304. 305. 306. 307. 308.
Our rooms: our standard offer
This room category offers a nice standard standard at a great price. It is available in single and double rooms.
Room amenities
Wifi available
Flat screen tv
Teak furniture
Balcony or terrace
Bathroom with bath or shower
Towel dryer and hairdryer
Communicating Rooms (201/202) (301/302)
Press at the reception
Most of the hotel
Breakfast buffet.
Coffee bar
Disabled access
Family Rooms
Pets allowed
Baby bed on request (free of charge)
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My name is Sergei Plaxienko. I am currently looking for a permanent position in a reputable company as CIO.
I have more than 14 years of practical experience in Information Technology. My core areas of expertise are Oracle and Unix systems. I have a strong technical background in a variety of platforms, environments and technologies. These include relational databases, systems integration software development, complex database programming for web technologies and Unix scripting languages.
I have worked in Scandinavia on several large scale enterprise systems projects. Until July 2002, I worked for Nokia in Helsinki as a Senior Data Integration Consultant developing enterprise solutions with technologies like Oracle, Unix, Supply Chain Management systems from i2 Technologies, SAP R/3 and various user interfaces for enterprise integration. As an example, I designed and implemented a data transformation process for converting buyers' Demand Visibility from SAP R/3 system to i2's e-Procurement Collaboration Planner format using Unix shell scripting, Oracle SQL and PL/SQL coding.
Additionally I have experience in training and consulting in the areas of relational databases, client-server architecture, web technologies, Unix and network concepts.
Please find my CV/Resume for further details. If required I can provide references concerning my professional activities.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.


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I got a crazy idea in my head that I wanted to do flower crowns and a styled shoot for my sister-in-law for her maternity session. It being the last of her pregnancies I wanted to make it special to mark the occasion of ushering three awesome girls into the world. The day before I spent 5 hours on the flower crowns, and I spent another unknown amount of time wandering around Old Navy ooo-ing and awing over little girls clothes. I got some sparkly lights, some white sheets and some tacks and there you have it. The little girls were a little tired during the shoot, but we still got some pretties. Then I froze them all to death by bringing them out into the snow with just socks and short sleeves. It was warmer during the day I swear! Jenn was such a trooper, having out with me a little longer as we caught the last glimmers of sun before it set. Winter light is so short!! This began the many many photo shoots that I have had over the months of welcoming of Ruby into our family.
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Love Liberates. Do everything with love.
Love liberates... it doesn't bind. Love says, "I love you"... I would like to be near you ... but that's not possible now. So, I love you, go.
Maya Angelou
My mat is my path to self realization. Even as we walk our own paths, may we always meet on the mat. May we practice together.


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Nine Bows of Appreciation
- Everyone who donated meals and snacks to support Rohatsu sesshin
- Sesshin participants for garden clean-up during Rohatsu
- Carmelita for donating and planting flower bulbs in the garden
Begging Bowl
- Tea (herbal and black)
- Natural stone stepping stones for new outside paths
- Garden tools - rubber coated garden gloves and loppers
Current News and Events
Holiday Schedule Changes
From December 22, 2014 -January 3, 2015, regular daily practice will be suspended, but Sunday programs on December 21 & 28 will continue as scheduled.
New Years' Celebration
The New Years' celebration will be held on Sunday, January 11 as part of the Sunday program. See article at right.
Holiday Craft Sale Extended Hours
The holiday craft sale will be open until after Christmas. There are lots of great items still available for those last minute gifts, including malas, prayer flags, homemade mustard, and teas. We also have zafus for sale for $45, great for those establishing a home practice. Thank you to all the artists who contributed items for the craft sale!
Addiction Recovery: Meditation & Spiritual Discussion
First Wednesday of each month.
5:30-6pm Meditation
6-7pm Discussion
Contact: Seiyo (Bren) 541-743-3583
Words from Ejo
When I work with couples preparing for marriage, I always make sure and tell them that, although I deeply believe in marriage as a path, marriage doesn't work. The most central connections in our life are not about "working". They are about freedom, the freedom that comes when we stop deliberations and commit, the freedom that comes with doing something completely. Sometimes those connections are with people, but sometimes they are also with a place.
Several years ago we set a process in motion to determine what kind of temple we wanted to become, and over several years of clarification and exploration our vision of a "community temple" emerged. Along with that visioning, we decided we wanted to stay put. We deeply value how our temple is part of a neighborhood, something that can be difficult to arrange with all the various zoning regulations. Not only do we like where we are, but what we are has grown out of this place: this neighborhood, these rocks, these people.
As the year draws to an end, it occurs to me that 2014 will mark one of the most important years in our temple's history. As this is the year we actually committed to 2190 Garfield as our home. Just like with marriage, it isn't about working. This commitment is about the freedom to love.
Year-End Direct Donation Drive
As we go to press on the 19th of December, total proceeds so far for our 2014 year-end donation drive are $5,088 toward our goal of $17,500 - only $12,412 to go! Many bows to everyone who has offered their support so far. Funds donated during the course of the drive will allow us to meet our budgeted 2014 expenses.
You may place your donation in the offering bowl at the Zendo, send it by mail, or make an online donation through PayPal.
If you did not receive the fundraising letter in the mail, copies are available here.
Make a secure online donation through PayPal http://www.buddhaeye.org/donate/ We deeply appreciate your generosity.
New Year Celebration
New Year 2015 will look a bit different at the temple this year. Rather than having our main New Year celebration on the 1st of January, it will be held on Sunday, January 11th as part of the regular Sunday morning program. There will be a Great Prajna Paramita ceremony followed by delicious Japanese new year food. Please bring family and friends! Prayer tablets (OFUDA) and special blessings will also be offered to participants.
The temple will also be open on January 1 from 12 to 3 PM if you would like to stop by to offer new year incense to the Buddha and Bodhisattvas and have a cup of tea.
Jukai: Receiving the Precepts
There will be a sewing group getting underway late January for people preparing for Jukai. If you have spoken with Ejo about receiving the precepts, please contact Anyu, the sewing teacher, to let her know you will be participating. You may email Anyu at firstname.lastname@example.com If you are interested in Jukai but have not yet spoken with Ejo, please do so directly.
We will begin holding Jukai once a year as part of the spring sesshin. There will be a series of Tuesday evening classes on the precepts open to everyone as well as a sewing and study group leading up to Jukai for those participating. Please feel free to ask anyone with a rakusu what Jukai is about! It would be good for them to get the question and you to get the answer.
Construction Update
There has been lots of progress since the last construction update. The outside shell of the addition has been completed, the roof is on, and the outside siding and painting is done. Now we are in the progress of installing three sets of glass double doors facing the garden. Inside, the hand-troweled plaster finish is complete. In January, we will be putting a team together to lay the wood floor. If you are interested, talk to Ejo, or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
Buddha Eye Bulletin
At our community meeting on November 16, one of the topics we discussed focused on ways to improve timely communication within the sangha. There was a consensus that sending email bulletins once or twice a month would be very helpful and well-received, leading to this updated format. The Bulletin will include such features as a message from Ejo, upcoming events, schedule changes, appreciations, and a begging bowl for needed temple items.
We appreciate any feedback and ideas that you have. You can get in touch with Karuna Neustadt, who is coordinating the Bulletin, at email@example.com


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Rome, Italy
|Under Trump, real wages are not just flat, they are falling. Wages adjusted for inflation. And: Portugal's drug decriminalization. 22.214.171.124. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2.
|Medicare-for-all is single-payer, non-socialist, non-government-owned, Canadian-style healthcare. ~ Republicans waste $$-trillions on health insurance companies, plus $5.6 trillion on ground wars.
|USA spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2017. (2.3.4.). Canada spent half as much per person, and got better outcomes. 63% of Americans support a "Medicare-for-all" system. (18.104.22.168.6.)
|Households with handguns: Canada: 3%. USA: 30%.
|Life expectancy. 2016
|Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2016.
|Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015
|Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP
|Murder rate per 100,000. 2016
|82.8 years. (2)
|$4,826 in 2017
|78.5 years. (2)
|$10,209 in 2017
|Charts. And: Videos. Republican myths about Canadian healthcare: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83. Nations with better and healthier quality of life: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. Math for Republicans: US spent 17.2% of GDP (national economy) on healthcare in 2017. - Canada spent 10.4%.
- 1 Top
- 2 Links
- 3 City info
- 4 Global Marijuana March
- 5 2017
- 6 2014
- 7 2013
- 8 2012
- 9 2011
- 10 2009
- 11 2008
- 12 2007
- 13 2006
- 14 2005
- 15 Cannabis is safer
- 16 Presidents alone can not reschedule it
- 17 USA. Republican-led war on cannabis
- 18 Drug war, mass incarceration, control
- 19 Felon disenfranchisement & gerrymandering
- 20 Republican-led big spending on drug war
- 21 GOP-led spending on endless ground wars
- 22 U.S. infrastructure badly needs this money
- 23 U.S. household debt at all time high
- 24 Canadian middle class has surpassed USA
- 25 U.S. middle class wealth has collapsed
- 26 Many nations surpassed US middle class
- 27 USA. Richest 10% Own 84% of All Stocks
- 28 Record global debt. Who will bail out USA?
- 29 US income inequality, and falling wages
- 30 Republicans refuse to raise minimum wage
- 31 Green love
- 32 Canada has universal healthcare
- 33 Canada has single payer healthcare
- 34 Canadian healthcare costs much less
- 35 Half the cost of Obama-Trumpcare
- 36 USA could save $1.6 trillion YEARLY
- 37 Canada has better health outcomes
- 38 Massive wasteful spending in US healthcare
- 39 Each 10 million US uninsured equals
- 40 10,000 more deaths yearly. Also:
- 41 10,000 die waiting for disability yearly
- 42 Portugal has universal healthcare
- 43 Portugal decriminalized all drugs
- 44 Portugal has drug treatment for all
- 45 In Portugal few die of overdoses
- 46 Global Marijuana March and 420 photos
- 47 Vote out most Republicans in 2018
- 48 Categories
Share link: Rome. Local or regional cannabis-related links wanted. See: Italy. See cities by country on GMM map of all cities. See all cities (not just Global Marijuana March). See the yearly city and event lists for additional Facebook and other links.
|Click for more Rome event graphics and photos.
- Facebook:
- millionmarijuanamarch.info
- fuoriluogo.it
- legalizzala.it
- confinizero.it
- Videos: Google search: million marijuana march roma video.
- Italy. Cannabis-related links. More Facebook links, etc..
- Wikipedia: Cannabis in Italy.
Wikipedia: Cannabis by country.
Search for marijuana march videos. And more.
Find GMM graphics and other event graphics for any city.
- Flat list of event graphics and photos. In alphabetical order by city.
- Category: Cannabis-related links. For world, region, country, state, or province links.
- Updated link: Google map of many cannabis groups, clubs, growshops, and associations around the world. If you want to add your association or club send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com - Mapa de todos las asociaciones cannabicas y clubs cannabicos de todo el mundo especialmente españa y growshops, si quieres añadir tu asociacion o club manda un correo a firstname.lastname@example.com. See template.
- Wikipedia: Category: Cannabis by country. And: Commons: Category: Cannabis by country.
- Map of Medical Cannabis Worldwide. Zoom in and out. And: In Spanish. Links: https://goo.gl/
|*Please add more local or regional cannabis-related links.
City info[edit]
|Search Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikivoyage. See help.
- CannabisVoter.info - Vote for cannabis.
- Cannabis news sources.
- Drug Policy Organizations (from MAP). US cannabis organizations. And: Canada. State, province, nation from Area menu. Can also sort by topic. See advanced power search. It can search news, and it can Google search many organizations (choose one from menu).
- DrugNews.org (from MAP). News and opinion in one list. Titles are too short. Can sort by area, source, author, topic. But they can not be combined. For example; Cannabis topic is for all countries. United States is for all topics. See: News. See: Opinions. Sort either by low, medium, or high detail.
- MAP news topics ("focal points"). For example; Cannabis news for the United States, or Canada, or the UK.
- News Source Directory (from MAP). State, province, nation from Area menu. Or A-Z from Source menu. Google search MAP site for news, sources, topics, city, state, province, nation, organizations, etc..
- World Cannabis Map - SpliffyMap. See "about" for Paypal link. See Facebook.
- MarijuanaTravels.com - Cities and countries. And Google site search.
- Marijuana Travel Database. Marijuana travel reports. Countries and cities. Marijuana and travel, smoking laws and cannabis legality.
- WeBeHigh.org - Click "Travel Guides" button at top for continents. By U.S. state. And: Google site search.
- Marijuana Dispensary & Strain Reviews - Leafly.
- HeadShopFinder - Find Marijuana Dispensaries and Smoke Shops Near Me.
- PotGuide.com | Comprehensive Guide. Dispensaries, events, news, guides.
- European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies. Wikipedia: ENCOD. Click map for news. Organizations. Country links.
- European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Wikipedia: EMCDDA. See country overviews. And detailed info by country.
Global Marijuana March[edit]
GMM (years signed up). Google site search no longer works well. It does not find all the yearly city lists containing a city name.
Special:Search works well. Click: "Global Marijuana March maps". Add city name to search, and state/province/nation as needed. This will pull up all yearly maps in which the city is listed. Except for 2015, 2016, or 2017 in which only countries were listed for the most part. This city, nation, or subnational area participated or signed up one year (or more) for the Global Marijuana March (GMM), Million Marijuana March (MMM), or 420. Cities and nations holding 4/20 events are also included in later years. 41 nations participated on May 6, 2017, or thereabouts. 44 nations participated on May 7, 2016, or thereabouts. 43 nations participated on May 2, 2015, or thereabouts. 212 cities from 42 nations signed up for May 3, 2014 or thereabouts. 226 cities from 42 nations signed up for May 4, 2013 or thereabouts. 950 different cities have participated from 82 different nations or subnational areas since 1999.
|Global Marijuana March links.
GMM: photos, basic city lists, maps, detailed city lists, years, regions, nations, links, graphics. Google images: Crowds, flyers: Marcha da Maconha. And: Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. And: Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana. And: Global Marijuana March. Add city name to searches. See signup. And: Facebook hashtags: [223][224][225][226]. Twitter hashtags: [227][228][229][230][231]. Google Plus searches: [232][233][234]. Pinterest: [235][236].
Global Million Marijuana March. GMM Facebook pages. GMM yearly city totals. Many GMM links. See also: 420 event lists. And: More cannabis-related links. And: Google News archives. And: GMM on Wikipedia. Google (add name of city to searches): [237] [238] [239] [240] [241] [242] [243] [244]. [245]. Google maps: city, state, nation. Photos, graphics, and image searches: Marijuana March: [246] [247] [248] [249] [250]. Marihuana March: [251] [252] [253] [254]. Marcha Marihuana (Spanish): [255] [256] [257] [258]. Marche Mondiale Cannabis (French): [259] [260] [261] [262]. Marche Mondiale Marijuana (French): [263] [264] [265] [266]. Marcha Maconha or Marcha Marijuana (Portuguese): [267] [268] [269] [270] [271] [272] [273] [274]. Google Advanced Image Search (find free images). Pinterest: [275][276][277][278]. GMM Blogs: [279]. Travel blogs with photos: [280]. Wikipedia: Legality of cannabis by country: Erowid.org. WeBeHigh.org - many cities worldwide. Old Yahoo Groups: [281] [282] [283]. Basic city lists by year. Marijuana polls. And: Wiki upload posters, flyers, and banners. See also Wikimedia upload.
Search for marijuana march videos. And more.
Find GMM graphics and other event graphics for any city.
|Global Marijuana March and 4/20 signup.
See: 420 and Global Marijuana March (GMM) event lists by year.
See 2018 city list editors. The Global Marijuana March (GMM) is the first Saturday in May or thereabouts.
See: GMM and 420 on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus:
Ask any of the local and regional GMM and 4/20 organizers for help about anything.
There are many GMM and 420 Facebook pages organizing cities and countries for GMM and 4/20. Search Facebook and Google+. Find more people, groups, and organizations via the GMM links box (many links in one place), and the GMM links page.
You can add links directly to the country, state, province, and city pages (no log-in required).
Share link: signup. Invite people to GMM and 420 events: Tag some of your friends in comments on relevant Facebook event messages and images.
|Years signed up: Browse the basic GMM city lists: ~ 1999. 2000. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 2010. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
Return to top. See 2017 Global Marijuana March and 420 events. And: 420 event lists.
Return to top. See 2014 Global Marijuana March and 420 map. And: 420 event lists.
May 10:
- Facebook:
- Million Marijuana March 2014 Italia - ROMA, Sabato 10 Maggio.
- millionmarijuanamarch.info.
- Global Marijuana March, 10 maggio 2014 Roma.
- Million Marijuana March Italia 2014 | velodimaya.net.
- Photos: Million Marijuana March attracts thousands in Rome | Demotix.com.
Return to top. See 2013 Global Marijuana March map. And: 420 event lists.
GMM, May 2-4:
- Facebook:
- Million Marijuana March 2013.
- Million Marijuana March - Giornata Mondiale della Marijuana 2-3-4 Maggio 2013 a ROMA.
- Eventi di Oggi - Million Marijuana March After Party of Rome.
- Cannabis events in Rome - Encod.org.
- Million Marijuana March - Roma 2013 - Psiconautica.
- Million Marijuana March 2013, Roma 2-3-4 maggio 2013.
- Million Marijuana March a Roma - Encod.org.
Return to top. See 2012 Global Marijuana March map.
- Facebook: Million Marijuana March (Rome).
Return to top. See 2011 Global Marijuana March map.
- Facebook: Marijuana March Italy 7 May 2011.
Return to top. See GMM 2009, GlobalMarijuanaMarch.org archive, 2.
Rome: giornatamondiale(at)millionmarijuanamarch.info INFO LINE: 0039 3393393589 Mefisto gica(at)inventati.org . http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.info
GMM. May 9, 2009.
- Photos: http://www.demotiximages.com/news/million-marijuana-march-street-parade-rome
- Media: http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2009/05/10/2565617.htm
- Link: http://www.demotix.com/news/million-marijuana-march-street-parade-rome
- Preview: http://www.chaishop.com/event/970327
- Preview: http://www.goatrance.de/goabase/party/details/44736
- Preview: reggae.it article and comments
- Facebook: MILLION MARIJUANA MARCH (N.L.Crew Truck).
Wikipedia: Cannabis by country.
Search for marijuana march videos. And more.
Find GMM graphics and other event graphics for any city.
2009 Global Marijuana March in Rome. May 9, 2009. Youtube link.
2009 Global Marijuana March in Rome. Youtube link. Some great long crowd shots in the above video. Especially at 38 seconds onwards when the camera rotates to the other side of the sound truck and we see more long crowd shots.
- Report: stopthedrugwar.org article:
The single largest event took place in Rome, where organizers estimated the crowd gathered at the Plaza San Giovanni at somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000. In Rome, marchers demanded repeal of Italy's L.49 drug law, which they complained is "the toughest in the West."
"What we want is the cancellation of L.49, the end of arrests and increasing persecution against users and self-growers, the right to relief for patients, the end of 1930-style terrorist campaign on media against all scientific evidence, and the official revaluation of the multiple properties of this ancient plant," said Rome event organizer Alberto Sciolari.
Police and the media downplayed the numbers, Sciolari said, but the event was huge. "The plaza was completely full, and there were still thousands of people trying to get in," he reported. "The trade unions held their May Day concert there last weekend, and the TV talked about 'almost one million people' being there then, and our crowd was only slightly smaller."
Rome has emerged as the monster of the Global Marijuana Marches, drawing about 35,000 in 2007 and doubling that to 70,000 last year, before exploding this year. That's no surprise, said Sciolari. "Every year there is a sharp increase in participants, probably because it is a regular event, and people learned to wait for it much in advance, and tell friends, without much need of promotion. The date is fixed year after year, and then you just have to confirm that still it will take place despite all, and people are happy to show up," he said.
One reason for the huge crowds in Rome could be anti-government sentiment and rejection of the conservative values and policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. "This wasn't specifically anti-Berlusconi, but against the 'culture' he and his government spread and support," Sciolari noted. "The people mocked and laughed at them rather than taking their positions seriously. Although we are seeing repression and security campaigns in Italy that are passing any limit, pot lovers and patients know that, Berlusconi or not, no government will give anything for free."
"It's always large in Rome," said Joep Oomen, coordinator of ENCOD, the European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies. "It is like it is a yearly event for the whole nation, although some people say most go for the party than for anything else."
Return to top. See 2008 GMM, GlobalMarijuanaMarch.org archive, 2.
Rome: giornatamondiale(at)millionmarijuanamarch.info INFO LINE: 0039 3393393589 Mefisto gica(at)inventati.org . 35,000 Marched in '07. Sunday, May 4th.
GMM. Sunday, May 4, 2008:
- Link: http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.info/index2008.html
- Photos: http://charinrome.blogspot.com/2008/05/may-day-and-million-marijuana-march.html
- Photos: MMM 03-05-08 - a set on Flickr.
2008 Global Marijuana March in Rome. Youtube link.
2008 Global Marijuana March in Rome. May 3, 2008. Youtube link.
Return to top. See 2007 Global Marijuana March map.
April 14, 2007 event:
2007 Anti-Prohibition Street Parade in Rome. April 14, 2007. Youtube link. Some great crowd shots interspersed throughout.
Return to top. See 2006 Global Marijuana March map.
GMM. May 6, 2006:
- Preview: http://confinizero.it/?q=treni_pullman_mmm_2006
- Preview: http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/1057932_comment.php#1060150
- Preview: http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/1064832.php
- Preview: http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/1064832_comment.php#1064839
Return to top. See 2005 Global Marijuana March map.
May 7, GMM:
- Photos, article: (roma) Million Marijuana March 01 : Italy imc.
- Global Marijuana March, Roma 2005.
- wuwei: Million Marijuana March - 7 maggio Roma.
Cannabis is safer[edit]
Return to top. See article: Cannabis is safer.
2018 Global Marijuana March and 420 event map - CannabisVoter.info - Click state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out.
See: Reagan's war on cannabis. And: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.
|Ronald Reagan, 1980 campaign speech 1: "Leading medical researchers are coming to the conclusion that marijuana, pot, grass, whatever you want to call it, is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States, and we haven't begun to find out all of the ill effects, but they are permanent ill effects. The loss of memory for example."
- See Reagan say it at 1 minute 7 seconds into this video clip narrated by Woody Harrelson.
- Obama correctly said that cannabis is safer than alcohol. See: Cannabis is safer. He also said marijuana should be treated more as a public health issue than a criminal one. And: Obama signals support for legalizing medical marijuana. [302]. See video.
- USA. 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults are alcohol-related (disease, overdose, car crashes, falls, violence, etc). 87,798 per year, 2006 to 2010. [303][304][305][306][307].
See longer article: Cannabis is safer.
- Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.
- Obama on marijuana legalization. [308]. "My suspicion is that you're gonna see other states start looking at this". The Washington Post. Jan. 22, 2015.
Above quote is from Sanjay Gupta interview of Obama on April 15, 2015. Interview aired on CNN on April 19, 2015. [309][310][311].
- Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [312]. December 2015.
Presidents alone can not reschedule it[edit]
Return to top. - CannabisVoter.info
- See main article: Presidents alone can not reschedule marijuana.
Neither the president nor the Attorney General can reschedule marijuana by themselves. [315] [316][317]. The two of them together also can not do so. See Wikipedia: Removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. See "Process" section.
Since HHS (Health and Human Services) and the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) have again declined to reschedule or deschedule cannabis, then only Congress can do so. But Congress removed help for veterans: Republicans in Congress Won't Let Veterans Access Medical Marijuana After All. [318][319]. And Congressional Republican committee leaders refuse hearings on CARERS bill to reschedule cannabis. See: Medical Marijuana Advocates Rally to Loosen Restrictions. By Alicia Ault. 23 Mar 2016. Medscape.
- Wikipedia: Drug Enforcement Administration. See "Criticism" section.
- DEA Removes Marijuana Misinformation From Website After Months of Pressure. By Steve Elliott. Feb 13, 2017.
- DEA Pulls Back From Calling Marijuana One Of The 'Most Dangerous Drugs'. By Cody Fenwick. August 16, 2016. Patch Media
- The Science behind the DEA's Long War on Marijuana. 19 April 2016. Scientific American. Unless Congress acts, the DEA has final say on rescheduling or descheduling marijuana.
- Pot Matters: For Legalization, Set Your Sights on the Senate. 23 Mar 2016. By Jon Gettman. "it will be helpful, and indeed crucial, for advancing legalization for Democrats to take control of the Senate." Maybe in 2018?
- FDA Weighs in on Rescheduling Cannabis. By Ben Adlin. 28 Dec 2015. Leafly.
USA. Republican-led war on cannabis[edit]
Return to top. - CannabisVoter.info
The Cannabis War is over and the U.S. Republican Party has lost. They may not know it yet, so keep marching, lobbying, and voting! Please register and vote! See: Reagan's War on Cannabis. And: Drug war, control, and Republican-led income inequality. And: Alternatives to Republican-led mass incarceration.
Virginia Senate Republicans kill bill to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. Jan. 29, 2018. And: Maine's Republican governor vetoes voter-approved bill to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana. [320] Nov. 3, 2017. And: New Mexico's Republican governor vetoes a bill that would have allowed medical marijuana for opioid addiction. April 7, 2017. And: New Mexico's Republican governor vetoes the 911 Good Samaritan Overdose Prevention Bill. April 7, 2017. And: Idaho's Republican governor vetoes a broadly-supported asset forfeiture reform bill. April 7, 2017.
Jeff Sessions once wanted to execute pot dealers. Jan. 29, 2017.
Jeff Sessions running after cannabis users:
Drug war, mass incarceration, control[edit]
Return to top. - CannabisVoter.info
|See: Drug war, control, and Republican-led income inequality. And: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate. And: Drug War, mandatory minimum sentencing, handguns. And: US incarceration peaked in 2008. And: Number of marijuana prisoners in the USA. And: List of countries and U.S. states by incarceration rate.
|The majority of people incarcerated in prisons and jails in the USA are in due to drug-related offenses, crimes to get money for drugs, or drug-related parole or probation violations. Wikipedia: Drug-related crime. The number of inmates in the USA has increased almost 5 times over since 1980. It peaked in 2008. Obama's Democrat landslide in 2008 turned the incarceration rate around. But the USA still has the highest incarceration rate of any nation (b c). The cost of the U.S. drug war is at least 1.5 trillion dollars. Cannabis is safer! Share link.
|Jail, jail deaths (2), jail healthcare, and bail. A Lot Of People Are Dying At This Understaffed Texas Jail. And: How the Money Bail System Perpetuates America's Mass Incarceration Problem. 2.3.4. See: video. Dumbass Republican lock-em-up types can't do math. Jail costs a lot more than unpaid fines. Community service is better. It saves tax money on jail, and on city cleanup work. And: Justice Department blasts 'unconstitutional' fixed bail schedules. Many innocent people in jail. And: Many marijuana users in jail without bail money. And: Senator Kamela Harris push for bail reform.
|The mentally ill. Rundle Won't Charge Prison Guards Who Allegedly Boiled Schizophrenic Black Man to Death for 2 Hours in Shower. Death Ruled An Accident. Documents Show They Omitted Key Details. Florida inmate in for cocaine possession. 184.108.40.206.. Due to lack of single-payer universal healthcare the mentally ill end up incarcerated and untreated. Prison costs far more than caring for them to begin with. For their non-violent offenses three-quarters of Americans favor 'rehabilitation' over jail time, survey finds.
Poor health care in general in prisons and jails. Inmates Pay A Small Fortune To See A Doctor. 2.3.
Felon disenfranchisement & gerrymandering[edit]
Return to top. See: Register and vote for cannabis.
Federal judge: Florida's felon voting restoration flawed. And: Floridians will vote this fall (2018) on restoring voting rights to 1.5 million felons.
27 percent of all the disfranchised felons in the U.S. live in Florida.
Republican-led big spending on drug war[edit]
Return to top. See: Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war.
Trillion-dollar Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war. And: Its racist application. [321][322].
GOP-led spending on endless ground wars[edit]
Return to top. See: Wars and drug wars on demand.
"$5.6 trillion" for America's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan that started with Bush and CIA WMD lies about Iraq. [323][324]. Interstate Highway System cost $526 billion in 2016 dollars. And: Landing a human on the moon cost $206 billion in 2016 dollars. And: Military veterans defy Jeff Sessions, fight for medical marijuana to kick opioid addiction. Of all the veterans returning from the Middle East, about 60 percent experience chronic pain.
U.S. Republican Party: Greed, Ground Wars, Drug Wars, and Mass Incarceration.
Total US public debt as percent of GDP. Timeline . Starting in 1900. Click to enlarge.
Record US government debt today not seen since just after World War II.
See Wikipedia: History of the United States public debt.
U.S. infrastructure badly needs this money[edit]
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- America's infrastructure is falling apart — here's a look at how bad things have gotten By Cadie Thompson. Feb. 12, 2018. Business Insider.
- More than 50,000 American bridges are falling apart. Jan. 29, 2018, by Conor Ferguson. NBC News.
U.S. household debt at all time high[edit]
Return to top. See: Drug war, control, and Republican-led income inequality.
U.S. household debt at all time high. Chart below from page 3 of PDF.
2003 to 2017 (4th quarter). Total Household Debt by Type:
Black upward-pointing line is student debt. Cumulative percent increase over time:
Canadian middle class has surpassed USA[edit]
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Canada passes US in median income and wealth.
Median after-tax income in Canada is higher than in the USA.
The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World's Richest. [325]. By David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy. April 22, 2014. New York Times.
Why? One reason is that Canadians pay so much less for far better healthcare.
Also, Canada has a higher minimum wage than the USA.
U.S. middle class wealth has collapsed[edit]
Return to top. See: Income inequality and drug war.'
Share: Under Trump, wages are not just flat, they are falling.
U.S. middle class wealth has collapsed. [326]. And: Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world. See Wikipedia: Wealth in the United States.
Many nations surpassed US middle class[edit]
Return to top. See: Income inequality and drug war. See also: Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files.
Median wealth chart below. Median wealth is exactly in the middle. 50% of adults have more, and 50% of adults have less. Wealth is all assets (money, stocks, property, etc.) minus all debts.
Tables - Credit Suisse. Scroll down to XLS links. Download the Complete Wealth per Adult Data by Country for 2016 and 2017 (XLS). This was used to create the table below. This is only part of the table. Note that USA is number 24 in median wealth per adult in the table below. Canada is number 13.
USA. Richest 10% Own 84% of All Stocks[edit]
Return to top. See: Drug war, control, and Republican-led income inequality.
- The Richest 10% of Americans Now Own 84% of All Stocks. Dec. 19, 2017. Time (magazine). "The top 10% of American households, as defined by total wealth, now own 84% of all stocks in 2016, according to a recent paper by NYU economist Edward N. Wolff."
- Oxfam: 42 Billionaires Hold As Much Wealth As World's Poorest 3.7 Billion. By Mary Papenfuss. Jan. 22, 2108. HuffPost.
Record global debt. Who will bail out USA?[edit]
Return to top. - CannabisVoter.info
Who will buy US government debt in the next global recession?
Global Debt Jumped to Record $237 Trillion Last Year. By Alexandre Tanzi. April 10, 2018. Bloomberg.
See Category: Charts and graphs.
US income inequality, and falling wages[edit]
Return to top. - CannabisVoter.info
Under Trump, real wages are not just flat, they are falling. Real wages are adjusted for inflation.
Workers' wages fall after Republican tax cuts. June 13, 2018. Tax cuts went mostly to the rich. Should have gone mostly to the middle class who would have had more money free to plow back into the economy.
Republicans waste $$-trillions on health insurance companies, and ground wars ($5.6 trillion). Instead of paying higher wages, and higher minimum wages. As Canada does.
Increasing income inequality over time. Chart below from:
A Republican Tax Plan to Turbocharge Inequality, in 3 Charts. Dec. 17, 2017. New York Times.
- Income Inequality Is At The Highest Level In American History. By Bryce Covert. July 1, 2016. ThinkProgress. "Incomes for the 99 percent have only recovered about 60 percent of what they lost. But the rich are doing great. ... They captured more than half of all the income growth in the country."
- Google News search: student debt.
Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
Chart below: Top 10% of earners receive 50% of all income:
Chart below is from a Washington Post article on Dec. 29, 2017:
"The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation."
Republicans refuse to raise minimum wage[edit]
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Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
Democrats, following Bernie Sanders lead, propose bill to raise minimum wage to $15 by 2024. Republicans oppose raising federal minimum wage. May 26, 2017. [330] [331].
Republicans in several states are lowering the minimum wage — yes, you read that right. By Matthew Sheffield. July 9, 2017. Salon. And: Missouri's Republican governor signs state law lowering St. Louis minimum wage. [332]. July 3, 2017. And: Iowa's Republican governor signs law overturning local minimum wage increases. March 30, 2017.
Green love[edit]
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Hug a friend, hug a tree, smoke a tree! 5 Benefits Of Forest Bathing. And: Replacing Vacant Lots With Green Spaces Can Ease Depression In Urban Communities.
2018 Global Marijuana March and 420 events
The Global Marijuana March is the first Saturday in May. The first Saturday in May is also World Naked Gardening Day. Your marijuana garden needs love too . (see Google search for it). But, be safe!
Colorado's Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success. Free birth control.
|Republicans think they can spend an infinite amount of money (many trillions of dollars) on private-health-insurance-company-based healthcare, and have an infinite number of babies, to feed their appetite for endless ground wars, and for more inmates for more prisons for more drug war.
|Wikipedia: Population milestone babies.
|As with cannabis legalization Colorado led the way.. More info. 2.3..
Canada has universal healthcare[edit]
Canada has single payer healthcare[edit]
Canadian healthcare costs much less[edit]
Half the cost of Obama-Trumpcare[edit]
USA could save $1.6 trillion YEARLY[edit]
Canada has better health outcomes[edit]
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- See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare. And: End drug war with universal healthcare. And: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization.
Average per capita (per person) healthcare cost in chart below includes all costs public and private. See Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.
|Medicare-for-all is single-payer, non-socialist, non-government-owned, Canadian-style healthcare. ~ Republicans waste $$-trillions on health insurance companies, plus $5.6 trillion on ground wars.
|USA spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2017. (2.3.4.). Canada spent half as much per person, and got better outcomes. 63% of Americans support a "Medicare-for-all" system. (18.104.22.168.6.)
|Households with handguns: Canada: 3%. USA: 30%.
|Life expectancy. 2016
|Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2016.
|Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015
|Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP
|Murder rate per 100,000. 2016
|82.8 years. (2)
|$4,826 in 2017
|78.5 years. (2)
|$10,209 in 2017
|Charts. And: Videos. Republican myths about Canadian healthcare: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83. Nations with better and healthier quality of life: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. Math for Republicans: US spent 17.2% of GDP (national economy) on healthcare in 2017. - Canada spent 10.4%.
Canadian Single Payer: Show health card, get health care paid for by taxes. No deductibles on basic Canadian health care, and co-pays are extremely low or non-existent. And: No bankruptcies and personal medical debt in single-payer countries.
Massive wasteful spending in US healthcare[edit]
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The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care. July 16, 2018 by Austin Frakt. New York Times. And: The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World's Richest. [333]. April 22, 2014 by David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy. New York Times. Median after-tax income in Canada is higher than in the USA. One reason why is that Canadians pay so much less per person for far better healthcare. So they have more money in their pocket after paying for healthcare taxes and premiums.
US healthcare spending per person is more than double the average of other developed countries. All costs, public and private.
Per capita (per person) healthcare costs by country in chart below: [334].
For more recent data see:
Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.
This massive wasteful healthcare spending in the USA (compared to other rich nations) accelerated in 1980 (see chart below). How? It happened because non-profit health insurance was taken over by for-profit health insurance companies. They get a cut of all wasteful healthcare spending. The more wasteful, the more profits. Such as exorbitant drug pricing, expensive medical devices, overuse of emergency rooms. It is similar to how for-profit prison companies have an incentive to fill more beds, rather than rehabilitate prisoners.
Non-profit health insurance, and single payer healthcare, do not have these perverse incentives. So they tend to use more early preventive care that requires far fewer expensive drugs, devices, and visits to the emergency room and urgent care. Healthcare, like roads, should be publicly financed, and privately built. Private health insurance, like private toll road companies, are a kind of middleman mafia that skims profits, and shuffles papers, but don't actually do any real work.
Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care. And: Universal healthcare and drug war.
Chart below shows the percentage of the GDP (national economy) spent on all healthcare costs (public and private) by year for some countries. Note that around 1980 US healthcare costs skyrocketed compared to other rich countries (all of which have universal healthcare, unlike the USA).
Source for above chart: Are any conservatives in the US for a single payer and a universal health care system, or can they not coexist? Chart is from comment around March 11, 2017 by Dan Munro, "author of Casino Healthcare, and Forbes contributor".
Each 10 million US uninsured equals[edit]
10,000 more deaths yearly. Also:[edit]
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Bernie Sanders' projection of 'thousands' of deaths from lost health coverage is well-supported. By Louis Jacobson. June 27, 2017. Politifact. See article sidebar for many sources. [335][336][337][338][339].
10,000 die waiting for disability yearly[edit]
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10,000 people died waiting for a disability decision in the past year. Will he be next? By Terrence McCoy. Nov. 20, 2017. Washington Post. "10,000 people died in the past year while stuck in a backlog of judges' disability cases. ... they can't work while they wait if they want to be approved."
With Single-Payer Universal Healthcare people get healthcare no matter how much they work or not. And it doesn't matter if they lose their job, or change employers. People don't have to show they are totally disabled to get adequate healthcare. People can try to work now and then as much as their disability allows them, and not lose their healthcare. And they get drug treatment on demand if their pill use gets out of hand.
Portugal has universal healthcare[edit]
Portugal decriminalized all drugs[edit]
Portugal has drug treatment for all[edit]
- See: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization. And: End drug war with universal healthcare. And: Canadian healthcare versus US healthcare.
Portugal's drug decriminalization. 188.8.131.52. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2. Data Shows More U.S. Imprisonment Does Not Reduce Drug Problems. And: 39% of U.S. Prisoners Should Not Be in Prison.
In Portugal few die of overdoses[edit]
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- City of Vancouver calls for decriminalization of drug possession. "The city says drastic action is needed as its overdose death total continues to climb". CBC News. Mar 09, 2018. [340].
- Norway to decriminalize all drugs, likely following Portugal's model. Dec. 19, 2017.
Portugal decriminalized possession of all drugs in 2001. Like Canada it has universal healthcare. See: Portugal. Cannabis-related links. See: Wikipedia: Drug policy of Portugal and Wikipedia: Health in Portugal. Nearly all of the European Union (EU) has universal healthcare. [341][342]. See: Wikipedia: List of countries with universal health care.
Portugal decriminalised drugs 14 years ago – and now hardly anyone dies from overdosing. 2015 article by Chris Ingraham. Chart below is from the article. As is the quote below:
"The country has 3 overdose deaths per million citizens, compared to the EU average of 17.3."
In 2014 the USA had 147 overdose deaths per million people. [343] [344] [345] [346]
In 2016 the USA had 185 overdose deaths per million people. <~~ See chart in article, and a similar chart below.
- Overdose stats for the rest of the world.
- Wikipedia charts: Drug-related death statistics. See the upload page.
US charts:
- Overdose Death Rates. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Charts.
- These Are the Drugs That Cause the Most Overdose Deaths. Chart.
- Our nation's drug overdose problem, in five bleak charts.
- How the opioid epidemic became America's worst drug crisis ever, in 15 maps and charts.
Ibogaine cure:
- Wikipedia: Ibogaine.
- Facebook: Ibogaine Universe!!!!
- Ibogaine is a healer.
Global Marijuana March and 420 photos[edit]
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Cannabis polls. Marches, rallies, and medical cannabis made cannabis popular.
2018 Global Marijuana March and 420 event map.
Image categories. In alphabetical order by city over the years:
Super flat list of event graphics and photos.
Combined flat list of event graphics.
Flat list of 420 event graphics.
Flat list of Global Marijuana March event graphics.
Combined flat list of featured crowd photos.
Flat list of 420 featured crowd photos.
Flat list of Global Marijuana March featured crowd photos.
|Featured GMM crowd photos over years.
Global Marijuana March. And: By year. See Featured GMM crowd photos. Click images to enlarge, and for info. Share links: crowd or crowds.
Wikipedia: Cannabis by country.
Flat list of Global Marijuana March featured crowd photos over the years.
Vote out most Republicans in 2018[edit]
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Will 2018 midterm elections remove Republicans? 2018 ballot issues: marijuana & minimum wage.
Republicans must be voted out of power if cannabis liberation is to happen. Otherwise stagnation will happen again, as happened in the 1980s under Reagan after the initial wave of state decriminalization in the USA in the 1970s.
- See: Vote out most Republicans. See also: Republican-led Drug War. And: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate. And: Alternatives to Republican-led mass incarceration. And: Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war. And: Reagan's war on cannabis.And: Drug war, control, and Republican-led income inequality.
- CNN Poll: Trump approval slides to 35%, matches lowest point of presidency. Feb. 26, 2018.
- Trump approval rating hits new low (35%) in CNN poll. 32% in Associated Press–NORC poll. Lowest in history for a first-year President. Dec. 19, 2017 article.
When Active-Duty Service Members Struggle To Feed Their Families. April 19, 2017. NPR. And: The hidden crisis on college campuses: Many students don't have enough to eat. April 3, 2018. Washington Post.
|A or F? How Congress scores on marijuana. 2. By Danielle Keane, NORML political director. 2016. "Of the 233 Democrats in Congress, 208 members (89.3 percent) received a passing grade of a 'C' or higher. Of the 302 Republicans in Congress, 102 members (33.8 percent) received a passing grade of a 'C' or higher." For your state see: Congressional Scorecard. NORML. Grading was based upon members' voting records.
Independents greatly outnumber Democrats or Republicans in the USA. If anti-cannabis Republicans are to be voted out of power, then all Democrat primaries need to be opened to independents. See Wikipedia: Open primaries in the United States. And: Wikipedia: Blanket primary. And: Wikipedia: Nonpartisan blanket primary.
CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to determine which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out of office.
|GOP Congress Has Blocked Dozens Of Marijuana Amendments.
|Republican Congressional Committee Blocks Marijuana Votes (Again).
Could Legal Marijuana Tip the Senate for Democrats? - Vote for cannabis.
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Falkland Malvinas Islands North Falkland exploration basin
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Report summary
The North Falkland Basin comprises 99,000 square kilometres of the Falkland/Malvinas offshore territory in water depths ranging up to 1,200 metres. There is currently no hydrocarbon production, however the Sea Lion oil discovery is currently in FEED and further commercialisation of nearby discoveries could follow. Operators have an improved geological understanding of the basin, where exploration wells often target overlapping fans and stacked pay. The exploration wells to date have been focused on a small area, leaving the majority of the basin unexplored. Value creation is possible in the basin despite risks and moderate YTF potential. Political tension with Argentina is a key risk, as British sovereignty is strongly disputed. Sanctions by Latin American countries add to logistical and operational challenges posed by the remoteness of this region of the world.
What's included
This report contains
Table of contents
- Key facts
- Summary and key issues
- Location maps
- Participation
Key companies
- Licensing participation
- Well participation
- Company success rates
- Key play characteristics
- Wells drilled
- Basin success rates
Reserves and resources
- Volumes discovered
Yet-to-find potential
Play inputs
- Creaming curve and key play data
- Model field pool size distribution
- Existing discoveries and modelled yet-to-find pool size distribution
- Play inputs
- Yet-to-find costs and underlying development assumptions
- Costs
Fiscal and regulatory
- Licensing
- Fiscal terms
Economic analysis
- TYP economics
Outlook economics
Development value
- Early Cretaceous Shelf
Prospect breakeven price
- Early Cretaceous Shelf
- Expected monetary value (EMV)
- Play economics
- Development value
- Full cycle basin economics
- Implied acreage value
Tables and charts
This report includes 51 images and tables including:
- Key play characteristics
- Key assumptions
- Key facts: Table 3
- Recent discovery costs
- Summary of discovery and development costs
- Key licence holders
- Key well operators (2006-2015)
- Company success rates and discoveries
- Geology: Table 1
- Key basin data
- Top discoveries (TYP period)
- Forecast data by Play (Outlook)
- Development: Table 1
- Bonuses, Rentals and Fees
- Typical fiscal terms
- Full-cycle economic analysis
- Average value of future discoveries and implied acreage value
- Reserves and resources: Table 5
- Economic analysis: Table 1
- Early Cretaceous Shelf
- Reserves and resources: Table 4
- Value creation versus investment (2006-2015)
- Value creation versus investment (2016-2035)
- Summary and key issues: Image 3
- Exploration history map
- Exploration wells by play
- Licensed exploration acreage
- Expiry forecast of current licences
- Exploration and appraisal spend
- Exploration spend per well and average well depth
- Gross exploration wells completed by operator
- Net exploration wells completed by participant
- Drilling activity by well type
- Cumulative exploration wells by play
- Discoveries and success rates
- Discoveries by licence year and drilling year
- Basin creaming curve
- Volumes discovered by year
- Average discovery size and volume per well by year
- Cumulative discoveries by play
- Cumulative volumes discovered by play
- Value creation, spend and volume discovered
- Returns by drilling year
- Breakeven price versus prospect size
- Value creation versus investment
- Early Cretaceous Shelf
- Early Cretaceous Shelf
- Value of potential discoveries
- Unit value of potential discoveries
- Breakeven price of exploration
- Discount rate breakeven price sensitivities
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Here is a model I came up with: Developing AI, making it do all the bad jobs. Giving everyone a divy of income that is guaranteed. Soft capitalism so there is motivation to succeed still, and a curve of money still for assets that are rare and would cost more in this system...
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|Human Like abilities
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The Empire, or Galactic Empire, is ruled by a human like race known as Imperials. Ruling the Pegasus Galaxy they are hated and despised by all races that know them. The Imperials were originally from the planet Talkon.
The Imperials all appear to visually be humans with similar anatomies. Even civilians tend to dress in a military uniform like style, further emphasizing the connection between the Empire and the Imperials.
The Imperials are all raised on the idea that their civilization is perfect and that they brought peace and order to chaotic galaxy. While the times before their rise were the most chaotic in recent galactic history, they are dispised and hated by every species they know, most of which they have conquered. They believe that they are the most entitled of all races and rightful rulers of the galaxy. They also think that other races are beneath them, the less Imperial like the worse. Their arrogance also works against them, despite what they think of themselves, most are not strategic thinkers and anyone who doesn't share in their belief in their perfection can be considered a traitor. This belief in perfection and heavy adherence to tradition also means that their civilization has begun to stagnate with new ideas being treated with distrust. Other species have begun to rise up against them, having created new technology while theirs has hardly changed in the centuries they have been in power.
While able to create spaceships and large cities, much of their technology is antiquated by the standards of other races.
They use Type 2 Blasters which are notorious for their lack of accuracy. In fact their weapons are the most common but also the most looked down upon in the galaxy.
Their battle armor, while immune to bullets, offers little protection against directed energy weapons.
Imperial Shields are considered terrible, fine for keeping away space debris but not for a fight, which is made up by the fact fact that most of their ships are massive.
- Emperor Ravion: Disliked by the Senate due to being more forward thinking, and less arrogant.


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TAIPEI - Gilas Pilipinas showed a lot of fight after an opening letdown, breaking the home fans' hearts with a convincing 88-72 victory over Chinese-Taipei's Team A on Sunday night in the 39th Jones Cup.
Gilas, whose players are all under 26 except for Fil-German Christian Standhardinger, showed the tenacity, sharp shooting and consistency sorely lacking in a loss to Canada just a night earlier to give home fans inside the Taipei Heping Gymnasium little to cheer about.
Matthew Wright set the tone for the Gilas youngsters and players like Kiefer Ravena, Jio Jalalon and Standhardinger finished the job against several remnants of the Taipei team that stunned Gilas the last time the two teams met in the 2013 Fiba Asia championship in Manila.
"I told the players that this will be an unbelievable environment playing against Taipei before its home crowd," said Gilas coach Chot Reyes. "It's their first time, but to embrace this situation and figure out a way to thrive in that environment is great.
"For their age and level of experience, I thought they did an admirable job of that."
Standhardinger put together a monster double-double in just his second game for Gilas with his 17 points and 15 rebounds while Wright scored 17 points while going 4-of-8 from three-point land in the Philippines' first win of the tournament.
[See After shouting match with Reyes, Standhardinger lets game do the talking]
Ravena added 15 points and supplied the dagger in the form of a buzzer-beating three-pointer off a broken play that made it 80-69 with 3:17 remaining.
Another Ravena basket and two Standhardinger freethrows made it 84-69 with a little over two minutes left, silencing home fans inside a packed Taipei Heping Gymnasium.
After a 77-90 loss to Canada, the Gilas youngsters finally showed their fighting qualities in a highly charged first half against the hosts that saw them open an early 40-30 lead.
A 10-0 run by the Taiwanese tied the score at 40-all but Mike Tolomia, inserted in the lineup just before the game, hit back-to-back mid-range jumpers to spark a closing 7-0 run for Gilas, 47-40.
In all, Gilas limited its turnovers to 11 - half the errors it committed in the loss to Canada - and gave up just 19 free throws after giving Canada 40 the night earlier.
The scores:
Gilas 88 - Wright 17, Standhardinger 17, Ravena 15, Pogoy 10, Myers 9, Cruz 6, Ferrer 5, Tolomia 4, Jalalon 3, Parks 2, Belo 0, Paras 0
Taipei A 72 – Zheng 16, Po 14, Yi 13, Davis 11, Cheng 6, Long 5, Yi-Jie 4, Zhi 0, Huan 0.
Quarters: 23-22, 47-40, 68-60, 88-72.


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The purpose of Project Outreach is to allow students to learn about themselves and psychology by becoming involved in community settings. Outreach students engage in real work in the community, designed to meet community needs. As all sections of Project Outreach — PSYCH 211 are for 3 credits (on a credit/no credit basis), the academic requirements for the course are uniform across all sections (except Exploring Careers, section 005) and include four hours of fieldwork placement, one hour of discussion section, and one hour of lecture each week; in the Careers section, students learn about themselves in relationship to future potential careers, and explore the social-psychological contexts in which work occurs. Attendance at your section is mandatory. Readings, a mid-term project, and a final exam will be assigned. The Graduate Student Instructor for each section may state additional section requirements in class. (Course website is: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/projectoutreach/home).
Students will work with children ages 2-5 in community preschools and daycare centers. These placements offer hands-on experiences with a diverse group of children and the lecture series explores a variety of topics that influence child development. The placement sites vary in terms of the populations they serve, including "at-risk" children, children with specials needs, and children of international families with English as a second language.


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"I wonder how much time I'll be able to spend with my team today? They all need help in so many different ways, and I would love to share my knowledge more often, but I never seem to have the time. I do care, but unless I do all this "other stuff", they won't have a business to work for. It might seem like I am keeping my distance, but I have so many priorities in my head that it will explode if let the everyday problems in.
Now, let's have a look at that "to do" list: Sort out the payroll for this month, calculate the commission payments, chase up the latest invoices, do the VAT returns, I've got a presentation to compile for the monthly management meeting, and I have to run the numbers on our latest marketing campaign. Lastly, there are at least eight clients who are late paying us. I'll leave them until last – by the time I have done all this, I should have worked up a rage.
I wonder how much of this is actually contributing to the growth of the business, or am I simply paddling furiously to keep us in business? Is this really what I dreamed of when I started all those years ago? I wanted to be a visionary, a motivator, someone to cut a swathe through all this inefficiency and provide an amazing recruitment service. I do think that we get there some of the time, but we could be so much better. If only there were another way. But I can't let go of all this important stuff, can I?"
In recruitment (and many other service-led industries), these thoughts won't be far from a company owner's mind. It is their job to worry about running their business in the most efficient way possible. However, the big difference comes when they decide whether to delegate these tasks or tackle them themselves. Giving away control over what are critical activities is never easy, but if you want to grow your business and retain a heavy involvement in the daily decision making, you have to let go of the reins.
The best recruiters in the UK deliver on what they promise because they have an amazing back office operation to support them. The interesting thing about recruiting for support staff in the recruitment industry is that recruiters are almost more demanding about them than they are about their front-line recruitment people.
If they aren't supported in the right way, recruiters will be handicapped and this may lead them to doing a second-rate job.
Recruitment businesses without adequate support functions may find their growth hindered and as recruitment becomes ever more reliant on technology and social media, recruiters need people to hold it all together.
A recruitment MD (with a reasonable sized team) with no back office support is simply unthinkable.


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While talking with one of my language learners online, I was presented with an interesting question. I decided it was a question that forced me to examine why I do things as a Christian. Just because? Or because I truly love the Lord?
Here's the story: I was meeting with a South Korean who lives in Canada.
Inserting prayer request here: Pray for South Korea! They have a presidential election May 9th that has a lot weighing on it. One of the leading candidates has sympathetic meanings toward North Korea.
We will call her Sally. Sally and I were discussing holidays and religion. She told me she had not been really involved with any religion, but that her parents became Catholics in recent years. Sally told me she knew some about Easter, but asked if I would explain the holiday to her more in detail.
Talk about Easter? Sure! I love Resurrection Sunday! So I began. I told her about why Christ died for our sins and about how He victoriously rose from the death, which cancelled the power sin & death has over us.
She listened intently and understood the language I was using. She understood the vocabulary I was using. She understood what the holiday was truly all about. But she was genuinely confused about one thing and she asked me about it.
"Why is there chocolate?"
What Sally struggled to understand was if our culture truly was excited about Christ's resurrection, then why did we add other things like bunnies, chocolate, and eggs?