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Many people do not know to live life in their way with full satisfaction. It is the big issue and the main reason for all problems which happening in our life. It will not go in a same path always there will be some ups and downs in everyone life. If you are living life in your wish you can be happy with peaceful life. When you are thinking about others you cannot be happy and you need to act in front of others. Experience is the best thing in our life if you are experiencing any bad thing it will help you to learn new lessons. If you are acting correctly for the certain situations it will fine or else the problem will arise in different ways. We have to learn the life correctly in every situation.
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Actually the Anasazi foundation is not like the hospital or any other treatment center it is a wilderness program for the behavioral concerns, mood disorders, and adjusting problems. Due to these many people are suffering a lot in different places. Before entering in to this problem the counselors will ask many questions to individuals. Depends on the issue, they will treat them in proper way to get rid of that. The patient should stay 49 days in foundation for the counseling after that they will provide them different kinds of programs. The only motive of this program is to help the youngsters to give a new beginning of their in clear way. All the services which are giving to the individual will be very useful and help for their future life. At that time they can create many new friends in their program and the people can get some clearness about life.


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Storekeeper | Material Handler Apply
Theres never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. Were on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose Connecting People, Uniting the World is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that as a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees, we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. And were growing in the years ahead, well hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Our careers include a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy and well-traveled. From employee-run \"Business Resource Group\" communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world?
At United, we have some of the best aircraft in the world. Our Technical Operations team is full of aircraft maintenance technicians, engineers, planners, ground equipment and facilities professionals, and supply chain teams that help make sure theyre well taken care of and ready to get our customers to their desired destinations. If youre ready to work on our planes, join our Tech Ops experts and help keep our fleet in tip-top shape.
Starting pay of $19.86 (as per collective bargaining agreement) per hour with competitive benefits that let you see the world:
Key Responsibilities:
- Performs work generally recognized as Storekeeper's work in storeroom areas located in maintenance bases and line operations including receiving, issuing, provisioning, checking, classifying, inventorying and storing of supplies, equipment, parts and materials
- Opening, packaging and sealing of boxes and crates
- Work may be performed indoors and outdoors where employees may be exposed to wide variety of weather conditions, noises and fumes and machinery
- Performance of duties, will include climb & work from ladders, bend & stoop in confined areas and stand and/or walk for extended periods of time
- Heavy lifting, pushing and pulling in the loading and unloading of trucks, carts and conveyors
- Fueling assigned vehicles
- Transporting parts and materials between various locations, sorting and counting items and preparing labels and related ticketing documents
- Reading and interpreting documents or instructions to build kits for use in aircraft change orders, first aid, in-flight and charter services
- Responsibility for maintaining an orderly and safe work area and maintaining familiarity with operating procedures, general rules and regulations
- Operating a variety of equipment with manual and automatic transmissions including forklifts, trucks, tractors, tugs, and electric carts
- Working with hand tools, such as remote computer terminal sets, bag sealers, saws, mobile radios, shears, knives and staplers
- Handling hazardous materials, flammable materials and/or hazardous waste
- Converting units of weights and measurements
- Using a computer to track inventory
United values diverse experiences, perspectives, and we encourage everyone who meets the minimum qualifications to apply. While having the desired qualifications make for a stronger candidate, we encourage applicants who may not feel they check ALL of those boxes! We are always looking for individuals who will bring something new to the table!
Whats needed to succeed:
- High School Diploma, GED or education equivalent
- Must be able to read, write and speak English fluently
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Basic ability to convert units of weights and measurements
- Must possess a valid state issued driver's license (suspended, expired, revoked or denied are not considered valid) and have an acceptable driving record
- Must be flexible and willing to work any shift in a 24 hour/7 day a week operation including early mornings, afternoons, late nights, weekends, and holidays
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
- Successful completion of testing/interview required to meet job qualifications
- Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position
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- Previous work in jobs requiring heavy lifting and safety awareness
- Previous warehouse or related experience
- Forklift operation experience
- Proficient Microsoft Office Suites (Excel and PowerPoint)
- Proficient computer skills
- Inventory experience
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Investment strategy
QW Capital was set up in 2008 and launched their first fund in March 2009. The fist strategy was European equity market neutral investing in Large Cap stocks only. It then evolved into a Global Equity market neutral Large Cap adding to the original European investable universe, an American one; plus, to benefit at the most from diversification a Japanese Portfolio is under construction. From the very beginning, the firm's approach has been purely non-discretionary and full systematic. All mathematical models underpinning the trading strategies have been
developed internally at 100%.
QW Capital always trades in pairs of stocks belonging to the same economic sector, so that the downside is really limited and the time horizon of the trade is short (i.e. a few days); the investable universe, made out of ca. 10,000 pairs, is re-assessed on a daily basis: In that timeframe it is assumed that two stocks in the same sector will revert to a longer term mean under certain conditions. The models are designed in order to detect whether and when these conditions are met and to gauge the mean-reversion chance, providing the portfolio manager profitable signals to trade.
The company believes that their own models are on average more efficient than their main competitors' ones because they manage to get rid of more inaccurate, so called "false" signals. A convincing proof of this is their high hit ratio (i.e. the percentage of profitable outcomes on the total of the trades): hit ratio is 63%, rarely heard about in the industry. The strategy is by construction Zero Beta and Pure Alpha, totally uncorrelated to the market: the source of Alpha is given by the dispersion of the different stocks in the market that QW Capital calls Market Vitality; Looking for market dispersion and benefiting out of it implies that this strategy performs particularly well when market are volatile or in presence of market stress or turbulences: it represents a very good "Tail-risk hedge", so performing particularly well under market stress conditions as proven by QW Capital track record. At the same time it manages to offer a positive absolute performance: indeed, the performance in 2015 was 7% and it is in excess of 3% for 2016 (as per the 17th of February).
"We decided to start with an Equity market and Sector Neutral fund because we wanted to build a strategy that provided "pure Alpha" performance being "strictly sector and market neutral" at any point in time, explains the firm's CEO and Managing Partner Gianluca Lobefalo in an exclusive interview.
He goes on to expand this point by saying this is pure alpha by definition "because all our position are made of spreads of large cap stocks belonging to the same sector (long and short), and with the same size. The investable universe comprises the 270 largest stocks in Europe excluding Ireland and Greece and the 660 Largest Cap traded in the USindices and are in the process to add the 120 Largest Cap traded on the Nikkei 225. The strategy, along with being zero correlated is characterized by low volatility and limited downside as a direct consequence of the structure of any spread, where the same amount is invested on the long and on the short, with all the spreads equally weighted in the portfolio. So, the exposure in general and in any sector will always be zero."
"You have limited volatility because whatever happened to the marketyou are always market and sector neutral". We ended up having a low risk strategy that benefits when there is a lot of trading activity especially where the market is under stress" he continues.
Gianluca Lobefalo cut his teeth in the industry when he worked at JP Morgan in 1997, in foreign exchange research for a couple of years before moving into the buy side at Schroders Investment management still in London for another couple of years. He then moved on to Morgan Stanley where he worked in fixed income for eight years until he had the experience and motivation necessary to start his own firm. But how did he achieve this? "The idea for the firm came to me whilst at Imperial College where I enrolled in PhD program in applied mathematics, during my eight years at Morgan Stanley.
Investment management
The portfolios, Europe, US (and soon Japan) are run independently. Lobefalo is of the opinion that 2015 started off very well, due to the lessening of interventions by the American Central Bank which enabled the market to be freer, despite some intervention in Europe, Japan and China. However, as stress created by the economic crisis in Greece spilled over into the market, "the market became more unpredictable and under stress". Our models allow us to see "order and investment opportunities" where most investors just see "Chaos".
The performance for 2015 was of 7% of "pure Alpha" with zero correlation to the market and low volatility. As expected, our strategy performed particularly well during the most stressed periods of 2015, such as August and December, confirming our effectiveness as a "Tail Risk Hedge". All in all, 2015 was the year where we managed to over perform our direct competitors in the equity market neutral space, the hedge fund community in general and most, if not all, major equity indices, Lobefalo adds. The final word of Lobefalo who comments that, "If the market continues the way it currently exists, then the future holds many challenges to the fund industry as currently making money is not an easy goal to accomplish; at the same time we expect it to be a friendly scenario for QW Capital strategy
Company: QW Capital
Name: Gianluca Lobefalo
Email: [email protected]
Address: 26 Cadogan Square, London SW1X 0JP
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It was a major national stage for the parental rights issue in the state of Virginia. MSM is telling us parental rights was the hinge point for the Republican win. Parents are up in arms over Critical Race Theory and Sexual Perversion in the schools. And parents, family, sensible morality is making a little bit of a comeback. What makes Critical Race Theory inherently destructive within modern society? How must Christians engage this handgrenade, and defuse it?
Homeschooled himself in the 1960's and 70's, Kevin Swanson and his wife, Brenda, are now homeschooling their five children. Since graduating from his homeschool and then serving as student body president of a large west coast university, he has gone on to other leadership positions in corporate management, church, and other non-profits.


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It would easy to go all hatey on Respect, a biopic of the life of Aretha Franklin, but instead let's take it for what it is – the authorised version, the Stations of the Cross of a towering talent who even old, sick and with her voice in ruins could yank a tear, if not sobs, from the coldest of hearts. As we can see at the end of the film in actual footage from Aretha's performance at the 2015 Kennedy Center tribute to Carole King which, perhaps unwisely, is shown over the end credits.
Jennifer Hudson never quite manages anything similar, brilliant though she is. Choose your biblical metaphor – she's Daniel going into the lion's den, David taking on Goliath. Except, against all expectation, they won and it's hard to believe anyone could have triumphed here. Hudson deserves all the gongs going for trying. In the showcase finale, where she recreates Aretha's performance singing Amazing Grace (the one that featured in the 2018 documentary of the same name), all the notes are in all the right places but something's missing – the magic.
Trad rather than bad, Respect takes us from Aretha the child prodigy – aged maybe 10 – being fetched out of bed to sing at her minister father's regular parties (and being interfered with by one of the guests). Then on through her struggle to assert herself as her own (natural born) woman, getting out from under first the father and then husband/manager Ted White before hitting the big time. And then further on still, through the glory years and on to the recording of the Amazing Grace documentary in 1972. At which point, wisely, since here Aretha is at the absolute peak of her career, director Liesl Tommy and writers Tracey Scott Wilson and Callie Khouri graciously brings down the curtain.
The film is shot in that reductive nicotine palette that seems popular when telling stories about black people from back in the day – as if, you know, brown skin, brown everything – the production design is also heavy on the earthy colours.
But let's talk about the good things – Skye Dakota Turner as the young Aretha. Surely she can't be singing, a young girl with a voice like that? She is. Damon Wayans is also spectacular as the aggressive (but understandably so, for the most part) Ted White, Forest Whitaker puts in another reliable Forest Whitaker performance as CL Franklin, tough man of god and stern patriarch. Mary J Blige is (again) underused, here as Dinah Washington, the jealous star from yesteryear who knows Aretha is going to sail right past her. Kimberly Scott as Mama Franklin. Marc Maron, after his turn as David Bowie's fixer in Stardust, another musical role, here playing Jerry Wexler, the man who took Aretha away from John Hammond (Tate Donovan) at Columbia Records and turned her career around at Atlantic by ditching the "black Judy Garland" approach and going all in on soul (this is the man who coined the term rhythm and blues, after all). The guys playing the Muscle Shoals musicians who assisted Aretha's rise to the top. Sketched, nicely played.
Aretha went to a dark place, she had demons, we are repeatedly told rather than shown (one drunken episode and a couple of rages notwithstanding) and her civil rights activism is also, similarly, spelled out in explication-rich scenes that seem to be there almost out of contractual obligation. By way of compensation there are a some nice Hollywood moments when the formula just comes good – like Aretha and Ted arriving at the Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama, finding that everyone outside the studio is black and is picking cotton, while all the guys inside are white and insisting they can play this music. They can.
There is the music though. What made Aretha special was that she was both a musician (pianist, writer, arranger) and a singer. She both had a voice and knew how to use it. And she had some tricks up her sleeve which could lift any song, like her octave-leaps. Sometimes she'd swoop up there, other times she'd just pop a high note out from nowhere, like a golfer sinking a hole in one. Hudson cannot quite do that. No one can. And she wisely ducks the more extreme manifestations of Franklin pyrotechnics, delivering instead an impressive impression of the Queen of Soul.
Respect is what it's called and respect is what it gives. Maybe too much.
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Is Israel Breaking Laws by Abusing Palestinian Boys?
Handcuffed, arrested, and questioned without the presence of a lawyer or their parents. A new report says that is common for Palestinian boys picked up by Israeli police.
The Israeli human rights groups B'Tselem and HaMoked accuse Israel of systematically abusing young detainees in occupied East Jerusalem.
The report includes statements from 60 boys suspected of stone-throwing. It found 70 percent of them did not know they had a right to remain silent. Three out of 10 did not speak to lawyers before questioning, and in almost all the cases, the boys were in the interrogation room on their own, without parents or any other relative.
And 80 percent of the confessions they signed were in Hebrew, a language they do not understand.
So, is there a hidden motive here for Israel?
Presenter: Patty Culhane
Ayed Abu Eqtaish, Accountability Program Director at the Defence for Children International
Yossi Beilin, Former Israeli Minister of Justice
Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative
Published on Oct 25, 2017
Topics: Human Rights, International Law, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Today the Vatican Press Office stated that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will be conducting an investigation into sexual abuse allegations against Cardinal George Pell, allegations of which Pell was found guilty by an Australian jury in December 2018. That verdict, which found Pell guilty of five counts of sexually abusing minors in 1996, was only made public this week, after prosecutors dropped additional allegations against Pell dating back to the 1970s.
This statement was issued by the interim director of the Holy See Press Office, Alessandro Gisotti:
After the guilty verdict in the first instance concerning Cardinal Pell, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will now handle the case following the procedure and within the time established by canonical norm.
The results of that investigation will determine what disciplinary actions, if any, the Vatican will take against Pell, the former archbishop of Melbourne and of Sydney who, until three days ago, was prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy. On Tuesday the Vatican confirmed that "precautionary measures" have been imposed on Cardinal Pell—he is "prohibited from exercising public ministry and from having any voluntary contact whatsoever with minors"—during the course of his sentencing by the Australian court and the expected appeal process. Pell, who has maintained his innocence, was taken into police custody today to await sentencing on March 13.
Some observers have drawn contrasts between how the Vatican is handling the Pell case and how it handled the case of the former archbishop Theodore McCarrick. Once the accusations against McCarrick were made public, his removal from the College of Cardinals, his banishment to a life of "prayer and penance," and his eventual removal from the clerical state, took place in a number of months.
John Allen, writing at Crux, explains the difference between the McCarrick and Pell cases: "It's actually fairly simple: Early on, senior officials were convinced of McCarrick's guilt. With Pell, they still aren't." He states:
Over the last couple of days, Crux has spoken with some of the Catholic Church's leading reformers on clerical sexual abuse, inside the Vatican and out. To be clear, these are not people automatically inclined to give accused clergy the benefit of the doubt, and several are figures who actually dislike some of Pell's political and theological stances as well as what's often see as his fairly bruising personality.
Nonetheless, they've expressed skepticism that Pell is actually guilty of the crimes with which he was charged and convicted.
The irony is that the people in the Vatican most inclined to welcome Pell's conviction aren't really reformers on sexual abuse, but those lukewarm about house-cleaning on the financial front who resented Pell's challenge to the status quo during his brief tenure as the Vatican's financial czar.
Allen details the problematic elements of the prosecution's case, also outlined by George Weigel at National Review under the headline "Why the case against Cardinal George Pell doesn't stand up". Weigel writes:
Before the trial, one of the complainants died, having told his mother that he had never been assaulted. During the trial, there was no corroboration of the surviving complainant's charges. Other choirboys (now, of course, grown), as well as the choir director and his assistant, the adult members of the choir, the master of ceremonies, and the sacristan all testified, and from their testimony we learn the following: that no one recalled any choirboys bolting from the procession after Mass; that none of those in the immediate vicinity of the alleged abuse noticed anything; that indeed nothing could have happened in a secured space without someone noticing; and that there was neither gossip nor rumor about any such dramatic and vile incident afterward.
Notwithstanding this evidence of Cardinal Pell's innocence (an innocence affirmed by ten of the twelve members of the first trial jury), the second trial jury returned a verdict of 12–0 for conviction. Observers at the trial told me that the trial judge seemed surprised on hearing the verdict. The verdict and the finding of the first, hung jury suggest that, in the media circus surrounding Pell, a fair jury trial was virtually impossible. That point was recently conceded by the attorney general of the State of Victoria, who suggested that the law might be amended to permit bench trials by a judge alone in such cases — an option not afforded George Pell.
In an essay for First Things, titled "The Pell Affair: Australia Is Now on Trial", Weigel further argues:
No one doubts that the Catholic Church in Australia was terribly negligent in dealing with clerical sexual abuse for decades. No one who actually knows the history of Catholic reform in Australia can doubt that the man who turned that pattern of denial and cover-up around was George Pell—who also had the honesty and courage to apply the stringent standards he imposed on others accused of abuse to himself. If Pell is made the scapegoat for the very failures he worked hard to correct, the gravest question must be raised about Australian public opinion's capacity for reason and elementary fairness—and about the blood lust of an aggressively secular media, determined to settle political and ecclesiastical scores with one of the country's most internationally prominent citizens, who dared to challenge "progressive" shibboleths on everything ranging from the interpretation of Vatican II to abortion, climate change, and the war against jihadism.
A report by Catholic News Agency—which published details of the Pell verdict in December, despite the Australian court's gag order—illustrates why senior Vatican officials, including those who are otherwise disinclined to favor Cardinal Pell, may well be wary of his "guilty" verdict:
CNA reported after Pell was convicted that the evidence advanced by prosecution relied entirely on a single accuser, one of the alleged victims.
The second alleged victim did not give evidence in court. The court did hear evidence that the man told his mother at least twice that he had not been a victim of sexual abuse, before he died of a drug overdose in 2014.
The other former choir member, who did testify in court, reportedly told the deceased man's mother only after the man died that both had been abused by Pell.
According to the prosecution, Pell and the choir members "went missing" from a recessional procession at the end of a Mass celebrated by the archbishop in 1996. Pell is alleged to have abused the choristers somewhere within the cathedral sacristy immediately following that Mass.
The defense's legal team produced records that showed that during the period between August and December 1996, when the abuse was alleged to have taken place, Pell only celebrated the cathedral's 10:30 Sunday Mass twice. The court also heard witness testimony that Pell had been with guests immediately following Mass on one of the two Sundays.
According to evidence given at the pre-trial hearings in March 2018, on both of the Sundays at which Pell said the 10:30 Mass, the choir held practices for the taping of a Christmas performance immediately following Mass, when the absence of two choristers would have been immediately noticed.
Evidence was also presented which showed that the layout of the cathedral did not match the narrative of the prosecution. The court had previous heard evidence from a pastoral associate at the cathedral, Rodney Dearing, who testified that Pell required help to remove his vestments after every Mass, and it would have been nearly impossible for the archbishop to expose his genitals while fully vested, or to commit other sexual acts in the vestments.
Dearing also told Victoria police that the layout of the cathedral did not align with the accusations.
"I can't understand, knowing the layout [of the cathedral] and how things worked, how it could have occurred," Dearing told police, according to Australian media reports filed before a gag order on the trial was instituted.
How then to understand the 12-0 "guilty" verdict, reached after the jury in the first trial against Pell had been deadlocked 10-2, with the majority in the cardinal's favor? Frank Brennan, a Jesuit priest who was present for the Pell proceedings, writes that he was "devastated by the verdict":
My only conclusion is that the jury must have disregarded many of the criticisms so tellingly made by [Pell's defense lawyer] Richter of the complainant's evidence and that, despite the complainant being confused about all manner of things, the jury must nevertheless have thought—as the recent royal commission discussed—that children who are sexually violated do not always remember details of time, place, dress and posture. Although the complainant got all sorts of facts wrong, the jury must have believed that Pell did something dreadful to him. The jurors must have judged the complainant to be honest and reliable even though many of the details he gave were improbable if not impossible.
Pell has been in the public spotlight for a very long time. There are some who would convict him of all manner of things in the court of public opinion no matter what the evidence. There are others who would never convict him of anything, holding him in the highest regard. The criminal justice system is intended to withstand these preconceptions. The system is under serious strain, however, when it comes to Cardinal Pell.
The events of the Victorian parliamentary inquiry, the federal royal commission, the publication of Louise Milligan's book Cardinal and Tim Minchin's song Come Home (Cardinal Pell) were followed, just two weeks before the trial commenced, by the parliamentary apology to the victims of child sexual abuse. … Such things tend to shift not the legal, but the reputational, burden upon an accused person to prove innocence rather than the prosecution to prove guilt. …
Was the verdict unreasonable? Can it be supported having regard to the evidence? Those are questions for the appeal court. I can only hope and pray that the complainant can find some peace, able to get on with his life, whichever way the appeal goes. Should the appeal fail, I hope and pray that Cardinal Pell, heading for prison, is not the unwitting victim of a wounded nation in search of a scapegoat.
A piece in today's edition of The Age has several quotes from close friends and acquaintances of Pell:
Anne McFarlane said the cardinal had been staying with her family during legal proceedings this year and last year.
"Living with Cardinal Pell for so much of the past eight months, driving him to and from court and sitting in support of him on many occasions, I have come to know him on a day-to-day level… his needs are very simple, he is completely humble and undemanding and he is very grateful for any kindness or help at all," she wrote.
"I don't even recognise the George Pell who is portrayed in the media."
She said Pell offered the family support when her daughter gave birth to a baby who was very sick and while her 51-year-old sister was terminally ill.
"Over the years of our friendship I have been well aware of the portrayal of Cardinal Pell in the media and it is a far cry from my experience of him," she said.
Others that submitted character references to the court included Sue Buckingham, the founder of religious group David's Place, which helps people who are homeless and disabled; Ellie Heiss, the former coordinator of the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry; and a former colleague at the Archdiocese of Sydney, Daniel Casey.
Finally, regarding media coverage of the trail, Reuters reports:
Dozens of Australian reporters and editors may face jail sentences for their coverage of Vatican Treasurer George Pell's child sex abuse trial after being issued with legal notices asking why they should not be charged with contempt of court. …
The maximum penalties for contempt of court in Victoria state are five years jail and a fine of more than A$96,000 ($69,000), while a company can face a fine of nearly A$500,000.
Victoria's The Age newspaper on Tuesday said that the state's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had issued 32 show cause notices to its journalists and other mastheads owned by parent Nine Entertainment Co asking them to explain why they should not be charged.
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About me
I am a Nutritionist & Natural Therapist having completed 10,000 circa hours of research in nutrition & natural therapies. Specialty: gut problems/chronic illness/weight gain and general nutritional advice offered in a supportive environment.
About Me
Hi, I'm Debbie
I became passionate about nutrition and natural therapy and the huge benefits it can have for your health when I, myself, became chronically ill.
Before I became chronically ill I was full of life and undertaking a Legal Executive Course, playing squash four times a week, running several times a week, playing golf and had a very good social life. My health gradually took a downwards spiral which culminated in an inability to concentrate, I became chronically fatigued, began to suffer with gut problems and intolerances and, as a result, rarely engaged in any physical activity and my social life suffered tremendously.
As stated above, over the years I suffered with multiple degenerative diseases all of which my healthcare providers at the time were unable to treat or make better.
I was so blown away with the huge impact nutrition and natural therapy was having on my life and well being that I undertook a Diploma in Nutrition and Natural Therapy.
It has been my mission, therefore, to put into practice all that I have learned through my qualifications and years of continued research to help other people understand how nutrition and natural therapies can have a positive impact on their life and in order for them to live life to the full, once again. Having personally gone through chronic health problems, I feel I can offer advice with a bias towards empathy, in a supportive and relaxing environment.
About Nutritional and Natural Therapy
Nutritional Therapy is a science-based complimentary therapy which gives the body the appropriate fuel it needs in order to boost the immune system. We have an immune system for a reason and that is to fight off disease.
Natural Therapy is an essential adjunct to Nutritional Therapy where nature has given us the tools to regenerate the cells of our body and this includes all vital organs. Natural Therapy helps the body to detoxify and, thereafter, have a positive impact on one's health and, just as important, to promote your body's ability to stay healthy. Times ago there probably would not have been a great need to detoxify the body and just good ol' nutrition might have done the job in order to stay healthy, but in today's world where there are copious amounts of chemicals in our food and environment, detoxifying the body has become a vital tool in clawing back that vibrancy you once had.
With the above mentioned Therapies, my aim is to analyse and give detailed consideration to the Questionnaire that you completed regarding your past medical history and present symptoms. Symptoms manifest so that it can guide the Natural Therapist to the problem area(s): purely treating the symptoms is missing the point and will not, in any event, combat ill health. Once your unique story has been analysed then a healing plan can then be implemented.
How to Begin Your Nutritional and Natural Therapy Journey
I look at each client as an individual as we are all bio-chemically different. In the immortal words of Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, 2,500 years ago "One man's food is another man's poison" and it is still true to this day.
As stated above, in order to fully understand and appreciate the reasons for your ill health and present status, I will need you to complete a detailed Questionnaire. If you wish, I can email/send by post the questionnaire for you to fill in before your first appointment in order to save precious time at the first consultation.
Our first face-to-face consultation will take 90 minutes and consultations thereafter will be of one hour duration. My fees are set out below:-
First Consultation (90 minutes) - £55.00
Future Consultations (1 hour) - £40.00
Payment will need to be by way of cash as I do not have a card machine
A 10% discount will be applied for students, those over 65 and for block bookings (ie three or more).
Appointments are available from Monday to Sunday between 9.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. Appointments outside of these times are available in exceptional circumstances.
It may be advisable, at some stage, to undergo private laboratory testing which are innovative and at the cutting edge of technology and which your current healthcare provider is unable to provide/ offer. These tests will help you to identify underlying bio-chemical imbalances that may be contributing to your current state of imbalance.
Training, qualifications & experience
I studied with BSY undertaking a Diploma in Nutrition (Natural Therapy Approach) and having passed with Distinction and having done 10,000 circa hours of research. I am constantly researching in order to continually keep up-to-date with advances in our understanding of how nutrition affects our bodies together with keeping up-to-date with published science-based studies with regard thereto. I am also a registered member of the Association of Holistic and Complementary Practitioners and the Federation of Nutritional Therapy Practitioners.
Member organisations
The Federation of Nutritional Therapy Practitioners is the fastest growing body for practitioners of nutritional therapy in the UK. There are two types of membership: Full Member and Student Member.
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NAGARA Lymphatic & Immune System Ayurveda Tea
- Andrographis paniculata supports normal circulation of lymph
- It enhances functions of the circulatory and lymphatic system
- It stimulates the liver function and the production of antibodies
- Zingiber officinale activates natural immunity of the body
- It strengthens activity of lymphatic system and favourably acts against inflammation
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andrographis paniculata, curcuma longa, terminalia arjuna, tinospora cordifolia, terminalia bellirica, piper longum, glycyrrhiza glabra, phyllanthus emblica
100 g of loose tea
Recommended Dosage
2 cups a day
– Let one teaspoon of herbal blend (cca 2g) simmer for 3 – 5 minutes or pour 250 ml of boiling water and allow 10 minutes infusion.
The Himalayan herbs are traditionally boiled for 3 to 5 minutes in case they serve as a remedy enhancing mental and bodily functions. Such decoction has stronger effect, milder taste and beneficially influences our digestion that enables proper assimilation of health-promoting extracts of the Himalayan herbs. The teas are drunk as a part of our daily drinking regime for a period of duration of health disorders. If you undertake a herbal therapy, the tea can be used for a period of 1 to 3 months in accordance with a daily dosage indicated on the particular label. Allow one week pause after finishing each tea box.
It is recommended to use maximum of two kinds of teas at the same time. For reducing symptoms of common ailments, more of the teas can be switched in daily or weekly period. Such being the case, teas are drunk separately with one hour interval. When drinking as a preventive, stimulating or supportive remedy, herb infusion is sufficient with unlimited period of use. For stronger health affectivity teas are used warm before meal. The specific taste of each tea is a part of its therapeutic effect and corresponds to the ayurvedic health properties of six tastes. Thus any kind of sweetener is not recommended.
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North East Ambulance Service takes resuscitation to heart
Tuesday, 31 May, 2016
North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) is investing £1m in patient care over the next 5 years with the purchase of new defibrillators for its' 142 emergency ambulances.
Last year the service's emergency care crews responded to nearly 300,000 incidents that resulted in a patient being taken to hospital and they treated and discharged 85,000 patients at home. Around 3,000 of those needed CPR.
Patients who have suffered a cardiac arrest or a heart attack will benefit most from the investment.
The new defibrillators will give staff instantaneous feedback on the quality of their Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation.
Consultant paramedic at NEAS, Paul Aitken-Fell, said: "Other parts of the world have better rates of survival for patients with a system wide approach to cardiac arrest. Advancements in defibrillator technology mean that this investment will improve the outcomes for patients and enable us to also monitor our CPR effectiveness at the scene of an incident."
The Trust is also investing in new electronic patient care record technology, which will connect to the defibrillator and generate a complete care record of emergency care given to the receiving hospital.
Aitken-Fell added: "On average our paramedics only attend 3 to 4 cardiac arrests a year and because they get such a limited exposure to such incidents, giving them more support when delivering CPR at a scene can really make a difference to patients. Our crews can be faced with any number of complex conditions and it's crucial that we equip them with the best tools for the job."
North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (NEAS) covers 3,200 square miles across the North East region. It employs more than 2,500 staff and serves a population of 2.7 million people by handling all NHS 111 and 999 calls for the region, operating patient transport and ambulance response services, delivering training for communities and commercial audiences and providing medical support cover at events.


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Fri, 29 July 2022
1875 FBF: Stock Markets & Income Properties with Jeff Reeves Author of 'The Frugal Investor's Guide to Finding Great Stocks'
Today's Flashback Friday is from episode 411, published last September 10, 2014. Jeff Reeves is the Editor at InvestorPlace.com. He's the author of, "The Frugal Investor's Guide to Finding Great Stocks." Reeves discusses why investors should love Google again. He also explains why blue chip brands like Amazon, Coke and Whole Foods make for bad investments. Reeves then shares which emerging markets and healthcare stocks are poised to take off. Jeff Reeves is a financial journalist and editor of the investing website, InvestorPlace.com. As a former editor with the New York Times Co. his passion is looking beyond the headlines to find out what the news really means for individual investors and consumers. Jeff's byline has appeared in numerous finance publications and websites, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, MarketWatch, Smart Money and 24/7 Wall Street. Read Jeff Reeves' work at InvestorPlace.com. Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Learn More: JasonHartman.com Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free course: JasonHartman.com/Deals Free White Paper on The Hartman Comparison Index™: HartmanIndex.com/white-paper Free Report on Pandemic Investing: PandemicInvesting.com Jason's TV Clips in Vimeo Free Class: CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: JasonHartman.com/Protect Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: JasonHartman.com/Ron What do Jason's clients say? JasonHartmanTestimonials.com Contact our Investment Counselors at: www.JasonHartman.com Watch, subscribe and comment on Jason's videos on his official YouTube channel: YouTube.com/c/JasonHartmanRealEstate/videos Guided Visualization for Investors: JasonHartman.com/visualization Jason's videos in his other sites: Jason Hartman's Extra YouTube Channel Jason Hartman's Real Estate News and Technology (RENT) YouTube Channel
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Sources of Research Methods training and guidance include:
Online courses (register for access first at https://courses.epigeum.com/ using your SHU email address and token 1b54d4f6). Full information on accessing the training can be found on https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/doctoralschool/training-and-development-2/online-training-resources-epigeum/how-to-create-an-epigeum-account/
NB the links below will take you directly to each section of the programme but you need to be logged in to your epiguem account first (you do not need to pay to access these courses).
Research Methods, Second Edition
- Undertaking a Literature Review (105 mins)
- Literature review: An introduction (30 mins)
- Identifying literature for your review (25 mins)
- Evaluation of the literature (25 mins)
- Analysing the literature and writing up your review (25 mins)
- Principles of Research Methods (128 mins)
- Understanding and framing research (14 mins)
- Developing a research question (17 mins)
- Knowing about methodology (13 mins)
- Knowing about data collection methods (11 mins)
- Knowing about sampling methods (10 mins)
- Knowing about data analysis methods (15 mins)
- Networking, collaborating and connecting disciplines (12 mins)
- Protecting, managing and sharing research data (12 mins)
- Communicating, disseminating and publishing research (13 mins)
- Drawing the strands together: Producing a research proposal (11 mins)
Research Methods in Practice: Social Sciences (63 minutes)
- Data collection methods (33 minutes)
- Data analysis methods (30 minutes)
Research Methods in Practice: Arts and Humanities (58 minutes)
- Defining your methodology and designing your research (29 minutes)
- Conducting your research (29 minutes)
Research Methods in Practice: STEM (60 minutes)
- Data collection methods (33 minutes)
- Data analysis methods (27 minutes)
Statistical Methods – Biomedical Sciences / Business / Engineering / Natural Sciences / Social Sciences
- Introduction – Statistics in the context of research (135 mins)
- Thinking statistically – Describing data well (105 mins)
- Thinking statistically – Making good generalisations (115 mins)
- Which hypothesis test should I use? (108 mins)
- Statistical modelling (101 mins)
- Analysis of categorical data (91 mins)
- Conclusion: Putting your skills into practice (86 mins)
Individual support and online resources are available for maths and stats via the library skills pages and the maths and stats support service
Specific modules on the MRes Social Sciences programme may be available to you
SAGE Research Methods (log in via institution) – a large online research methods library including a Methods Map
Research Methods@SHU – a Hallam Guild Group for those involved in the teaching or study of research methods.
UK Data service guides and resources – the UK's largest collection of social, economic and population data resources. Data Skills Modules Upcoming events
LinkedIn Learning has expert-led course videos and an app that you can use on your Android or Apple devices including Nvivo 2018 Essential Training and SPSS Statistics Essential Training. Please refer to the instructions on how to create your account.
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Some Luck
by Jane Smiley
"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley's newest novel...is enhanced by the clarity and subtle "gee-whiz" quality of Lorelei King's narration." - Audiofile Magazine
"...beautifully read by Lorelei King. An American saga, totally riveting and written with a wonderful sense of landscape and character set against local and world events. A real winner." - A New Look Through Old Eyes
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel - the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among characters we come to know inside and out, it is a tour de force that stands wholly on its own. But it is also the first part of a dazzling epic trilogy - a literary adventure that will span a century in America: an astonishing feat of storytelling by a beloved writer at the height of her powers.


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I'm stepping in this week to host Shea's Green Business Chat. Our special guest will be Nick Aster of Treehugger and TriplePundit fame. Nick's also in the process of finishing his graduate work at the Presidio School of Management, so I'm very glad he could find time in his schedule to join us.
If you haven't been to one of the Green Business Chats, they're fun and informative — we always have a great time (and not just because of the bad pirate jokes). If you'd like to join us, but haven't been before, send me an email so I can send you an invitation. The chat starts at 8:30 CST/6:30 PST and goes until 10/8 (or until everyone leaves…). Hope to see you there!
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RBI Governor has stressed the need for institutions necessary for resolution of sickness, such as the new Bankruptcy Code and the Company Law Tribunals that will administer it as well as the Financial Resolution Authority for resolving financial institution distress.
Rajan was addressing the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Indian Banks' Association (IBA) Conference (FIBAC) today. His address covered in length issues of non - performing assets of Banks. Regulatory forbearance, where RBI makes it easy for banks to "extend and pretend", is not a solution, he opined, as no other stake-holder – such as the promoter, tariff authorities, tax authorities, etc., contributes to resolution, Also, some large promoters take advantage of banker fears about assets turning non-performing to extract unwarranted concessions, without any sacrifice in the value of their stake.
RBI ended the forbearance accorded to restructured loans and henceforth, restructured loans will be classified as non-performing loans. However, RBI has made it easier to recognize and deal with distressed projects, Rajan commented; through creation of a database of loans over Rs 50 million for early identification of distressed projects to put them back on track. To deal with genuine problems of poor structuring, RBI has allowed bankers to stretch repayment profiles for performing loans to infrastructure and the core sector.
As India strives to regain its place in the ranks of prosperous nations, we must remember that what sets poor nations apart from the rich is not people or resources or even luck but good governance, which comes from strong frameworks and strong institutions, were his final words.


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January is always kind of a let-down after the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, right? Wrong! Check out the wealth of happenings around town this weekend.
ELVIS WIRE — Today would have been Elvis Presley's 81st birthday. In honor of the King's natal day, Chuy's is offering $1 off of both the Elvis Green Chile Fried Chicken and the Memorial Combo, as well as featuring the Blue Hawaiian cocktail. Diners dressed as Elvis or Priscilla eat for free, and each location will have an Elvis impersonator performing his hits. [EaterWire]
BEER HERE — Hops & Grain and Supper Friends have teamed up for a beer pairing dinner helmed by Chef Happy Abdelbaki on January 8 at 7 p.m. at the Swoop House. Pairings include smoked salmon pate and Zoe Pale Ale, beef short rib shepherd's pie with Greenhouse IPA, and pecan sticky buns with coffee ice cream and Porter Culture Baltic Porter. Tickets are $77.94. [EaterWire]
EAST CESAR CHAVEZ — Kick off the weekend at Jacoby's with happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m. The menu includes $7 Melvin Mules, $10 Jacoby's burger and fries, $5 salisbury steak-style meatballs, and more. Tuesday through Saturday through January. [EaterWire]
WINDSOR PARK — East Side King pops up on the east side with the inaugural Nomad Saturday brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Windsor Park bar is also offering a special on mimosas to sweeten the deal. [EaterWire]
NORTH SHOAL CREEK — Pacific Rim Sushi and Yakitori Lounge kicks off a new all-you-can-eat yakitori special on Saturdays from 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Guests can enjoy endless meat, seafood, and vegetarian yakitori for $20.
BRUNCH WIRE — Geraldine's recently-added brunch now comes with an added bonus: live jazz, with performances from local musicians from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays. [EaterWire]


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Worldwide public and private debt is at an all-time high, posing a substantial impediment to getting global economic growth back to normal, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday.
The easy money policies of the world's top central banks has fed the problem, stoking a private-sector credit binge in China and rising public debt in some low-income countries, the IMF said in a new report.
Meanwhile, slow economic growth is making it hard for both companies and countries to cut their debt burdens — a process that can also drag on growth momentum because deleveraging companies slow spending and investment.
Without deleveraging, however, countries run the risk of fresh financial crises that can turn into deep recessions, the IMF's Fiscal Monitor report says.
"For a significant deleveraging to take place, restoring robust growth and returning to normal levels of inflation is necessary," the fund said.
Getting there requires governments to stimulate growth though investment, certain fiscal and business reforms, and targeted programs to help heavily indebted companies lower their debts.
"Global debt is at record highs and rising," the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department chief Vitor Gaspar said.
Public and private debt — excluding the financial sector's — at the end of last year hit $152 trillion, with around two-thirds owed by the private sector, the report said.
Measured against the size of the world economy, it rose from less than 200 percent of global GDP to 225 percent over the 15 years to 2015.
Debt at such levels while economic growth remains tepid heightens the risk of financial crises, Gaspar said.
"High debt levels are costly as they often end up in financial recessions that are deeper and longer than normal recessions," he said in comments accompanying the report.
Moreover, "excessive private debt is a major headwind against the global recovery and a risk to financial stability."
While central banks have had to cut interest rates to support the recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, that has encouraged the debt pileup, the report said.
Dealing with the problem requires governments to implement well-calibrated programs to reduce private debt — by cleaning up poor balance sheets of European banks and non-financial companies in China.
"Generally, where the financial system is under severe stress," the report said, "resolving the underlying problem quickly is critical."


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CLERMONT, FL – Veronica Campbell-Brown won the women's 200m at the NTC Pure Athletics Spring Invite in Clermont, FL, Saturday.
The Jamaican Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games half lap champion, coverage the distance on Saturday in a season's best time 22.29 (0.5 m/s).
She was happy with her performance: "Satisfied with my effort today. On to Doha DL next week!"
Joanna Atkins of USA finished second with a time of 22.58, with compatriot Shalonda Solomon getting third with 22.69, the same time as Tiffany Townsend, who won section two of the event.
Satisfied with my effort today. On to Doha DL next week! #ThankYouLord @ontrackmgnt @dldoha @OmarBrown82
— VeronicaCampbelBrown (@VCampbellBrown) April 30, 2016
In the men's category, Jamaica's world championships 4x100m gold medallist Nickel Ashmeade stopped the clock at 20.07 seconds to take first place in his heat with a very comfortable.
Ashmeade had also won his 100m heat in 10.03, which was the quickest in the preliminaries, but he didn't race in the final.
Berlin 2009 IAAF World Championships silver medallist Alonso Edward of Panama won the second section of the men's 200m in 20.11 to finish second overall to Ashmeade.
Great Britain's James Ellington, who came home second in Edward's heat, set a new personal best of 20.31 to take third place overall.
Adrian Griffith from the Bahamas won the 100m in personal best of 10.12, with Great Britain's Danny Talbot taking second in 10.15, the same time as Dominican Republic's Yancarlos Martinez.
The women's 100m was won by World Championships bronze medallist Tori Bowie of USA with a season's best time of 11.00 seconds.
Fellow American Tiffany Townsend took second in 11.19 secs, with Bahamian world championships 400m silver medallist Shaunae Miller also running 11.19 secs to set a personal best for third place.


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Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are armed and dangerously funny in the year's #1 action comedy The Other Guys, available on Fully Loaded Blu-ray and DVD on 24th January 2011, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Funnyman Will Ferrell re-teams with director Adam McKay (Talladega Nights, Step Brothers) and partners onscreen with Mark Wahlberg (Date Night, The Departed) for this hilarious tale of misfit detectives who finally get the chance to step out from behind their desks and into the line of fire.
Featuring hilarious supporting turns from Eva Mendes (Hitch, Training Day), Michael Keaton (Batman, Out of Sight), Steve Coogan (Night At The Museum 1 and 2), Dwayne Johnson (Walking Tall, Welcome To The Jungle) and Samuel L. Jackson (Deep Blue Sea, Snakes On A Plane), The Other Guys suits up for even more gut-busting fun on Extended Blu-ray and DVD, featuring an Extended film version, and lots more exclusive special features.
Exclusive bonus features on the Blu-ray include the first-ever all-mum commentary "The 'Mom'-mentary," an audio track in which the mothers of Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and writer Chris Henchy serve up their hilarious and uncensored reactions to the film; deleted and extended scenes; alternate action; Line-O-rama; the music video for "Pimps Don't Cry", featuring Cee-Lo and Eva Mendes; and the additional behind-the-scenes featurettes "Wasn't That???", "Crash and Burn!", "Why Are There Brits On This Movie?", "Rob Riggle Like To Party", "We Shouldn't Kiss a Chicken" and "Mark Wahlberg's Eating Contest Entourage".
The Blu-ray Disc also includes the BD-LiveT enabled movieIQ, which allows viewers to access live trivia information about The Other Guys' cast, crew, music and production - all while watching the movie. The Other Guys is part of the Laughing Stock collection, a range of hilarious Blu-rays and DVDs featuring the biggest names in comedy - including Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen - that are guaranteed to beat the winter blues.
NYPD Detectives Christopher Danson (Johnson) and P.K.Highsmith (Jackson) are the baddest and most beloved cops in New York City. They don't get tattoos - other men get tattoos of them. Two desks over and one back, sit Detectives Allen Gamble (Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Wahlberg). You've seen them in the background of photos of Danson and Highsmith, out of focus and eyes closed. They're not heroes - they're "the Other Guys". But every cop has his or her day and soon Gamble and Hoitz stumble into a seemingly innocuous case no other detective wants to touch that could turn into New York City's biggest crime. It's the opportunity of their lives, but are these guys made of the right stuff?
The Other Guys was written by Adam McKay (Talladega Nights, Anchorman) and Chris Henchy (Land of the Lost, TV's Entourage). It was produced by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Jimmy Miller (Land of the Lost, Step Brothers) and Patrick Crowley (The Bourne Identity series, Eagle Eye). It co-stars Bobby Cannavale (Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Snakes on a Plane), Steve Coogan (Night at the Museum 1 and 2, Tropic Thunder), Anne Heche (TV's Hung, Spread) and Lindsay Sloane (She's Out of My League, The In-Laws).
Please note - Disc special features are subject to change, may differ from format to format and/or may differ from region to region.
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Hello all,
I have been taking a look at FCKeditor as an HTMLArea control and I must say I really like what I see. I am going to look into tweaking the code in order place it in a YUI-esque class structure. I'd like to detail what I'm looking at doing to see if you'd be interested in integrating it back into the main project.
If you've not yet taken a look at YUI its got some REALLY cool ideas - http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/index.html. The best thing I've learned from the YUI is its awesome use of class structures. Basically, everything Yahoo has released in its YUI is housed under a single 'global' JavaScript variable named 'YAHOO'. So, if you want to use the calendar, you access it via 'YAHOO.widget.Calendar', if you want to use the DOM module, you access it via 'YAHOO.util.Dom'. I can see that with fairly little effort, the FCKeditor could be modified to work in the same fashion. For example...
var FCKeditor = function( instanceName, width, height, toolbarSet, value )
would be changed to...
FCK.editor = function( instanceName, width, height, toolbarSet, value )
Thanks to the FCKeditor's current use of JavaScript objects ('var FCKeditor = function'), it would be pretty simple to modify it to function like the YUI. Plus the only JavaScript naming restrictions users would have to abide by is not having a variable/function named 'FCK'.
I've used this idea with much success in one or my own projects. All of my JavaScript now resides under a single variable/class structure and I believe the FCKeditor could also benefit.
Anyway... I've attached the base creator .js for the FCK variable/class. If you're interested in using this idea throughout the project, please do let me know.
//# FCK NameSpace [example]
//# Required Includes: [none]
//# Last Code Review: February 21, 2006
var FCK = function() {
return {
//# Define the Abbreviation namespace
//# Last Updated: March 23, 2006
_: {},
//# Returns the referenced namespace (creating it if it did not already exist)
//# Examples:
//# FCK.namespace("Renderer.Form");
//# FCK.namespace("FCK.Renderer.Form");
//# Either of the above calls returns the .Form namespace under FCK.Renderer.
//# In both cases, the Renderer followed by the Form namespaces are created if they did not previously exist.
//# NOTE: This function is a full re-implementation of "YAHOO.namespace" from Yahoo!'s "YAHOO.js" (http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/).
//# Last Updated: April 26, 2006
namespace: function(sNameSpace) {
var oReturn = null;
//#### If the passed sNameSpace is holding a value
if (sNameSpace && sNameSpace.length > 0) {
//#### Default the oReturn value to a reference to FCK
oReturn = FCK;
//#### .split the sNameSpace into its elements and determine the starting index of the loop
//#### NOTE: "Cn" is implied, so it is ignored if it is present within the sNameSpace, hence the "i =" logic below
var a_sNameSpaces = sNameSpace.split(".");
var sNameSpace;
var i = (a_sNameSpaces[0] == "FCK") ? 1 : 0;
//#### Traverse the a_sNameSpaces, starting at the above determined i
for (i = i; i < a_sNameSpaces.length; i++) {
//#### Reset sNameSpace for this loop, then set/create it within Cn/the oReturn value
//#### NOTE: The validity of the current sNameSpace is not checked as we assume that "you must be at least this smart to ride this ride"
sNameSpace = a_sNameSpaces[i];
oReturn[sNameSpace] = oReturn[sNameSpace] || {};
oReturn = oReturn[sNameSpace];
//#### Return the above determined oReturn value to the caller
return oReturn;
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Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil/An embarrassment with a portfolio
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Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has been ridiculed in recent days for his embarrassing performance at a meeting he held on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly session with the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates.
A video of the incident has been circulating, so there is not much to add. A smirking Bassil is repeatedly seen calling out to an assistant, asking "Rami, where is Caroline?" He then makes a hand gesture indicating that the woman, Caroline Ziadeh, the deputy permanent representative of Lebanon at the U.N., is attractive. The scene then cuts to Ziadeh, who is seen sitting down and straightening her skirt with an expression suggesting she is not happy.
On Wednesday, Bassil held a press conference to explain the incident. Yet he only dug his hole deeper by saying, "Yes she is an elegant woman, and Iwas in competition with the Emirati foreign minister, each of us praising our country's women."
The incident was humiliating for Ziadeh, but above all it was humiliating for Lebanon, which Bassil represents before the world. That the post once held by Charles Malek and Fouad Boutros should now be in such hands is a disgrace. But it is not surprising.
After all, Lebanese officialdom became agitated earlier this year when skier Jackie Chamoun had the misfortune of showing her breasts in the film of a photo-shoot for a calendar. She did not pose nude in the calendar itself, nor was her nudity on film meant to be seen by the public. Yet Chamoun issued a cringing apology and Sports and Youth Minister Faisal Karami asked Lebanon's Olympic Committee to initiate the "necessary inquiries" into the incident.
I doubt anyone will make the necessary inquiries into Bassil's performance. Yet that idea would not seem so strange in countries where such issues are taken seriously. The minister is hierarchically Ziadeh's superior, someone in a position to advance her career or interrupt it. That this individual should be seen commenting on the physical attributes of his envoy, and in front of a ministerial counterpart no less, is remarkable. No one is suggesting Bassil has taken advantage of his position, but in many countries even the potential for that to happen is never dismissed as irrelevant.
But Lebanon is a country where there have been obstacles to passing laws curbing domestic violence, so don't expect there to be any momentum to tighten legislation to end sexual harassment in the workplace. Again, no one is accusing Bassil of this, but given his actions, clearly he is not someone whose priority is to create a work environment in which proper behavior is respected.
When it comes to relations between the sexes at work, an argument can be made that the West has gone too far. Not every wink and nod needs to signify sexually harassment, and not every salacious story has to be brought up with one's lawyer. It is frequently better for problems to be resolved within the work environment when possible, with the law available when it becomes impossible.
In Lebanon the margin women have to respond against harassment is much narrower than in the West. Don't expect the courts to become a vanguard for action in this regard, or Lebanese society to take a strong stand against sexual harassment, especially when it involves an employee accusing a boss. I would wager that in most such cases it is the employee who is dispensable, not the boss, and that it is far easier for a company to resolve a problem by dismissing a subordinate.
In one noted case last April, a woman, Hoda Sankari, secretly filmed the governor of north Lebanon and acting governor of Beirut, Nassif Qaloush, implying that her contract with the governorate had not been renewed because she had not slept with him. The video was shown on primetime news and forced Qaloush to resign in May.
Since then Sankari has said she would file a lawsuit against Qaloush, who no longer enjoys immunity from prosecution as a grade-one civil servant. Yet no disciplinary action was taken against the former governor by the Interior Ministry, despite the evidence. Sankari reminded us there is a swath of top-level civil servants who are legally protected if they ever decide to take advantage of their employees.
With Bassil, it was different. The minister suggested that Ziadeh was worth bringing into the room not because she is a professional diplomat whose presence was required, but because she has a nice body. It was his sheer vulgarity that was striking, the lack of respect for her competence, from a man whose job it is to show Lebanon's best face. You dare not wonder what the Emirati minister thought.
But what many Lebanese thought was that Bassil had behaved in a nauseating way. Ziadeh has reached a level of qualification in her job that can serve as a model for young Lebanese. But after watching the video, how many of them would want to follow in her footsteps and work for ministers who get away with behaving so boorishly?
**Michael Young is opinion editor of THE DAILY STAR. He tweets @BeirutCalling.


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April 2-25 at Smith and Vallee Gallery in Edison, WA. Seventeen new sculptures by Marceil DeLacy to be exhibited and sold.
Treat yourself to a drive through the beautiful Skagit Valley where one of the best fine art galleries in WA is located in the historical artist enclave of Edison.
The artist will be present for a Meet and Greet on Saturday April 3rd from noon to 3pm.


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Purple Frenzy!!!
The other day I saw some Facebook Friends & past Wedding Couple, post some shots of a new painting scheme that they have underway, and the bold butterscotch color they were applying. Yeah, it was a little brighter than most people would use, but then…..why have Zillions of colors of Paint if no one uses them? With that being said, before Wedding Season hits this spring, I had some spare time and just finished repainting my Equipment/Gear Storage & Framing Room….which remained in the Bright Pink color scheme of my previous Studio Partner Maria Strinni, even after she moved out of the area. Just didn't have the time or desire to change it all up again. Well, times have changed….and this room is MINE Now! So what do you think? Purple Frenzy with Lime Burst! Bright Enough for you?? Even Purple Filing Cabinets!!!!


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How To Make Valentine's Day Less Miserable—For You
On Valentine?s Day in Japan a girl gives her boyfriend or a current crush a nice piece of chocolate to show her affection. Exactly one month later, on what is called White Day, the guy returns the favor. I thought this arrangement smart and sensible when I lived in the country, and it reminded me of the sweet and simple Valentine?s Day rituals of my youth: before the day became complicated by the absurd expectations of adulthood.
The outrageous effort of the commercial powers that be to turn Valentine?s Day into a money-making operation comparable almost to Christmas causes most men nothing but misery. Every year you are expected to book reservations at the best restaurant, send chocolates, flowers, and other gifts, purchase the perfect card, and spend the entire day indulging in the most trivial and ridiculous sentimentalism?all in the name of showing her that you care.
In my life I?ve only met two women who hate Valentines's Day as much as I do?one of whom is my current partner. These enlightened beings see quite clearly the meaninglessness and absurdity of the so-called holiday.
You may be in a different position. Your girl may be as caught up in the manufactured excitement of the day as most other girls are. And you may find it easier to go along with the hype rather than deal with the backlash of dismissing it as utter nonsense.
You can, however, make Valentine?s Day less miserable. The first step is to lower expectations. The best way to do that is to show a genuine interest in the day itself. Tell her of your desire to celebrate it in a way that is unique to the two of you. Rather than fighting for dinner reservations at an overpriced restaurant that is likely to be crowded?and thus not so intimate?make plans to cook a nice meal at home. Get on the web and find a few recipes that you think she will like. Then go to your nearest winery and buy a good bottle of wine.
For a gift, buy her chocolate. I have yet to meet a woman who doesn?t like it. You are likely to find well-packaged boxes of chocolate at your local grocer.
Do not venture into the realm of lingerie buying. Using Valentine?s Day as a pretext to buy her sexy underwear is a mistake. It automatically raises expectations for gift giving the following year.
One of the advantages of spending the evening at home is that it relieves you of the burden of talking about feelings and emotions, which you would probably have to do at some point if you went out to eat. You have a couch, a flat screen, and a DVD player. This makes the solution for the evening?s entertainment simple: buy a couple of chick flicks to watch over dinner and afterwards. Get an old and a new one to show her you?ve put some thought into your purchase. A black-and-white romance film will really impress her.
As a bonus, while the two of you are watching movies, treat her to a foot massage or some other self-less act of attentiveness. It will cost you nothing in time, money, or effort and she will really like the gesture.
The stay-at-home Valentine?s Day is the best way to avoid the traps and tribulations of the holiday?s more conventional celebrations. You make the day about her, but you do so on your own terms.
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Year 2020 is the year of the books for me. I read voraciously because I can't go to malls and I'm 'stuck' at home most of the time. But I'm secretly happy because that's exactly what I want to do most of the time - just blanket myself up, put a book on my lap, a pillow behind my back and read myself to sleep.
I read a total of 59 books, way exceeding my target of 52 books a year. I know, I have no life. Since I have the time, I also wrote down short summaries for all the books read. There are some worthy books have a much lengthier summary for my own records and learning purpose.
In descending order of books read, here's the list:
59) The psychology of money - Morgan Housel
58) The almanack of Naval Ravikant
57) Network Effect - Martha Wells
56) Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory - Martha Wells
55) Exit strategy - Martha Wells
54) Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells
53) Artificial condition - Martha Wells
52) All systems red - Martha Wells
51) Manners begin at breakfast - Marie Chantal
50) Kappa quartet - Daryl Yam
49) X-men: days of future past - Alex Irvine
48) Lee Kuan Yew - Graham Allison/Robert D. Blackwell/Ali Wyne
47) Memoirs of an infantry officer - Siegfried Sassoon
46) Trollhunters - Guillermo Del Toro / Daniel Kraus
45) Too much and never enough - Mary L. Trump
44) Hidden girl - Ken Liu
43) The wandering Earth - Liu Cixin
42) Supernova Era - Liu Cixin
41) The weight of memories - Liu Cixin
40) Of ants and dinosaurs - Liu Cixin
39) Die with Zero - Bill Perkins
38) Beacon 23 - Hugh Howey
37) Hard choices - Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh
36) Ultralearning - Scott Young
35) Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds
34) Hard at work - Gerad Sasges
33) Tripping over the truth - Travis Christofferson
32) Goodbye, Things - Fumio Sasaki
31) Waste tide - Chen Qiufan
30) Currency war - James Rickards
29) Funny, You Don't Look Autistic - Michael McCreary
28) Things my son needs to know about the world - Fredrik Backman
27) How to forge a frogman - Max West
26) Islands of Genius - Darold A. Treffert
25) The collected stories - R.A Salvatore
24) Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
23) Boundless - R.A. Salvatore
22) The new "hidden hand" thread - compiled by Wes Penre
21) How to stop time - Matt Haig
20) Money wisdom - Christopher Tan
19) Maybe you should talk to someone - Lori Gottlieb
18) Maid - Stephanie Land
17) Art of simple living - Shunmyo Masuno
16) Wes Penre papers - 1st level of learning - Wes Penre
15) The man who solved the market - How Jim Simons launched the quant revolution - Gregory Zuckerman
14) Children of the Resistance series - Dugomier/Benoît Ers
13) Invisible planets - Ken Liu
12) Goh Keng Swee: A portrait - Tan Siok Sun
11) Don't fall for it - Ben Carlson
10) Win Bigly - Scott Adams
9) Can't hurt me - David Goggins
8) It's easy to cry - Subhas Anandan
7) The best I could - Subhas Anandan
6) Impractical uses of cake - Yeoh Jo-Ann
5) Loserthink - Scott Adams
4) The new case for Gold - James Rickards
3) Homerooms and Hallpasses - Tom O'Donnell
2) French kids eat everything - Karen Le Billon
1) Fundamentals of piano - Chaun C. Chang
As usual, I'll list down the non-fiction books that I think are great. You decide if you want to follow them up. Most of the books can be borrowed through e-book format from the great NLB accompaniment app Libby (not the NLB's official app).
1. Can't hurt me - David Goggins
This book is about channelling the shit that is happening in your life: all the anger, the injustice and the unfairness, and then funnel them into a motivating force to get better. This helped the author, at least for a while, but later he realised that channelling all the rage isn't going to work anymore. Hence he seeks a sort of contented peace towards the end of the book. The author's extraordinary life in which he overcomes all the obstacles is very inspiring. In the book, you'll see the major events that shaped his life, followed by lessons in which you can do to challenge yourself. Highly inspiring and teaches you how to suffer well. But who exactly is the author? He is the crazy dude who does pullups to break the Guinness record until his skin peels off but continues doing anyway. Or runs ultra-marathons once a week, something like that.
2. Money wisdom - Christopher Tan
A collection of articles written by the chief of Providend, a fee-only financial advisory firm. I think the book talks about all aspects of personal finance, including insurance and investment. I learnt quite a few things reading it, to the extent that I went ahead to close the gap of long term care in my insurance portfolio by upgrading my Eldershield plan. Makes me want to really go and visit them, pay them a fee and see if I get my financial shits right before it's too late. Highly recommended.
3. Ultralearning - Scott Young
I can't stop recommending this enough. If I have to choose the one book to read in Year 2020, this will be the one. This book teaches you how to learn anything. It's the ultimate meta book on learning how to learn. This is one of the worthy books that I mentioned earlier and I made detailed notes in the link here. I expect that I'll be revisiting this book again and again whenever I need some tips and tricks to get through any learning obstacles in the future.
4. Die with Zero - Bill Perkins
Another worthy book. This book changes my viewpoint on having a poor person's mentality to something more balanced. It's about not leaving excess behind and spending all that you want. I know I know how this sounds like. Doesn't seem fitting for someone on the journey to financial freedom right? But I promise it does make a certain sense. Not suitable for those who are spendthrifts in personality. Very very suitable for hardcore savers looking for another viewpoint towards frugality. Good quality of life, not necessarily materialistically speaking, is what the author is trying to convince us to do. And he convinces me.
5. The psychology of money - Morgan Housel
This book deserves a second or even a third reading. The author is a very good writer and it makes the lessons inside all the easier to assimilate. Each lesson starts off with a story (or two), so it is easier to relate to. Of the many lessons inside, a few stand out to me. The best lesson I've got out of this is that everyone is reasonable. It might not be for you, but it is for them at that point in time, so respect that. The second thing I got out of this is that we don't have to aim for the highest return, just reasonable will do. It'll be easier to sleep at night. Great book.
I read lots of fiction books. For those who don't know my story, I do not read fiction at all for many years. In fact, from after primary school until adulthood because I thought they are just stories. How silly. Non-fiction books teach one about life's reality and fiction books teach one about how to be a human. Both equally important.
For fiction books, I read a lot of books by one of China's sci-fi greats - Liu Cixin. Anything by him is generally good. Of the books written by him, Supernova Era, highly disturbs me. It's a chilling tale about how a supernova from light-years away gave off deadly radiation that killed off all adults on earth. The world is then governed by children. Will that kind of world be a world full of wonders and full of child-like innocence? In short, no. And it's a disturbingly strong no.
Supernova era by Liu Cixin |
Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells |
Then when I was in the library, I chanced across a series of 6 books by Martha Wells named Murderbot Diaries. Oh My Goodness, it was so good. The Murderbot Diaries is written in the perspective of a part organic part inorganic security droid that called itself Murderbot. It hacked itself so that it doesn't have to follow the orders, and yet it cared way too much for the human clients that had hired it. The characterization of this part machine part human being is so good that it makes me want to read on and on and see what it is going to do. This has the potential to be a hit series in Netflix original production and I'm so glad to have chanced upon it. Serendipity.
2020 is also the year that I started listening seriously to audio books and podcast. At first, it's a little strange, because I find that reading is faster and easier to absorb. But it's all a matter of getting used to this. Eventually it's quite good because I get to listen together with my wife, and possibly lead us to discuss related topics. Shared experiences are good, especially since reading is such a private experience. I expect myself to do more of this in year 2021.
Alright, that's all from me for now. Let me know if you have any good books to recommend me. Also let me know if you had read the books that I've listed here and agree with me that they are fantastic read. Live long and prosper.


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On the show this week, a Trinity from a regular listener, a Wednesday Night Connection from Ange Clark (last weeks winner), a classic NWOBHM album that you probably never got to here- The Taker by Chevy- and a closing Live at the BRS featuring 3 songs from Led Zeppelin.
All that plus music from Dio, FM, Journey, Evanescence, Molly Hatchet, Avantasia, Saxon, UFO, Phenomena, Rebecca Downes, Sari Schorr, Lee Aaron, Shooting Star, Fragile Things, Fugitive, Tesla, Steve Miller Band and more!
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The words of Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg resonated through the cafeteria as students put their life and soul into great poems during the annual Poetry Out Loud grade-level competition last Friday.
After being chosen as representatives of their class periods, students gathered in the cafeteria to become finalists for the upcoming school-wide Poetry Out Loud competition. Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry recitation contest, was instituted to heighten the beauty and fascination of poetry for today's generation.
During last Friday's competition, each student recited one poem and was evaluated upon accuracy and other six categories, including evidence of understanding and physical appearance. While freshman Faith Ellen Lam depicted the contrast between a free bird and a caged bird during her recitation of "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou, junior Lucia Tian also successfully connected herself with her poem during her performance of "Broken Promises" by David Kirby.
Participants in the competition liked the oral aspect as well of getting to know great poems in the process.
"I really like poetry because it is a type of writing that is usually short but could have a lot of different meanings," said freshman Julie Lee.
Six students were chosen as finalists for the school-wide Poetry Out Loud competition – Lucia Tian, Jose Acuna, Kate Salamido, Ellie O'Reilly, Emily Sun and Kate Hao. The finalists will compete again on Dec. 7 during eighth period said event sponsor Suzette Henry.


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The Morning After – Earthquake Haiti 2010.
The sun is about to come up. The aftershocks continue. Some more noticeable than others.
There is no way to even begin to share the things we've heard and seen since 5pm yesterday. To do so would take hours that we don't have to give right now. Some of them feel wrong to tell. Like only God should know these personal horrible tragedies.
The few things we can confirm – yes the four story Caribbean Market building is completely demolished. Yes it was open. Yes the National Palace collapsed. Yes Gov't buildings nearby the Palace collapsed. Yes St Josephs Boys home is completely collapsed. Yes countless countless – countless other houses, churches, hospitals, schools, and businesses have collapsed. There are buildings that suffered almost no damage. Right next door will be a pile of rubble.
Thousands of people are currently trapped. To guess at a number would be like guessing at raindrops in the ocean. Precious lives hang in the balance. When pulled from the rubble there is no place to take them for care Haiti has an almost non existent medical care system for her people.
I cannot imagine what the next few weeks and months will be like. I am afraid for everyone. Never in my life have I seen people stronger than Haitian people. But I am afraid for them. For us.


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Exploring color as both a formal and a social force, Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations) arrays artworks around the gallery according to a loosely organized color spectrum. Envisioned by the artist-curators as an environment—a landscape—the project is created not only from works using spectral color but also from instances of achromatic, invisible (infrared, thermal, supernatural), and variable (metallic, iridescent) color in art. Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations) reveals and embodies how artists navigate the complex interactions between colors, histories, references, and sensations.
Polly Apfelbaum, Ali Bailey, John Baldessari, Madison Brookshire and Tashi Wada, Zachary Buchner, Tyree Callahan, Anne Collier, Jacob Dahlgren, Jose Dávila, Gaylen Gerber, Adam Grossi, Gary Hill, Rashid Johnson, Anna Kunz, Judy Ledgerwood, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, and Richard Mosse.
Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations) is supported by the College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.