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This is a New Zealand-based resource for people considering Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy (ETS) surgery for hyperhidrosis, facial blushing or other conditions, and for people living with the side effects of ETS surgery. Here, you can learn about the potential adverse side effects of ETS, a NZ ETS surgeon who has had formal complaints made about him, and more. As of 2012, the blog is no longer being updated but will remain as an information resource.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
A theory and method for treating ETS side effects holistically and naturally
Chris Carter had ETS and suffered from horrible side effects. He researched the side effects of ETS, developed a theory on what was causing them, and came up with an eating plan to heal his body.
Check out this forum thread from ETS and Reversals Discussion, where Carter posted about his theory on what causes the side effects of ETS and the diet he has followed for several years, which he claims has cured his side effects. Scroll down the thread to see a list of foods that Chris Carter does and does not eat.
Please note that Chris Carter is a not a doctor or nutritionist but he speaks from experience and his own research.
Below is some further information written by Chris Carter, which has been copied from another post he wrote on the same forum. Chris wrote this post in June 2008. It has been edited only slightly for brevity and clarity.
I believe natural food and the way you eat is the answer to all ETS side effects.
I'm a 30-year-old male and live in the UK. For those desperately looking for some sort of answer, wondering why your life has finished because of ETS, I am offering some advice. I want to tell you that there is life after ETS and it's a lot better than you think . . . . I'm living proof!
I had ETS at T2 and T3, four-and-a-half years ago for head, hand and armpit sweating. For five months after the surgery, I thought everything was good. Then the weather started to warm up . . . . oh shit, WTF have I done.
For the next two years my whole world fell down because of ETS side effects. I had become a shadow of who I was, a walking dead person with no vision of anything bright, sunny or happy. I had every known side effect and was in and out of hospital going for various scans, tests, scans and more tests, cameras in places, more tests, different consultants, being passed around like some f**king experiment.
Everything went wrong, as so many of you have experienced, and I couldn't believe that no one knew anything and no one could help me. I felt I had signed a death sentence.
After one-and-a-half years of all these terrible side effects, I started to research the human body, starting with the ETS operation. Coming from an engineering background, I like to find solutions and answers to problems. After looking at all my side effects and what causes the same conditions in people who have not had ETS, I started to work things out from the results of all my tests and scans and I began looking at the op and the sympathetic nervous system in more detail.
It took me about a year to fully come out of ETS side effects by changing my diet and lifestyle. For the last year and a half my body has been rebuilding. I was only going to get better as a result as coming out of the state of fight-and-flight.
The effects of fight-and-flight taken from Wikipedia
-Acceleration of heart and lung action
-Inhibition of stomach and intestinal action
-General effect on the sphincters of the body
-Constriction of blood vessels in many parts of the body
-Liberation of nutrients for muscular action
-Dilation of blood vessels for muscles
-Inhibition of lacrimal gland (responsible for tear production) and salivation
-Dilation of pupil
-Relaxation of bladder
-Inhibition of erection
-Auditory exclusion (loss of hearing)
-Tunnel vision (loss of peripheral vision)
-Increased sweating
-Digestion slows down, redirecting blood to the muscles and brain.
-Breathing increases and supplies more oxygen to the muscles.
-The heart beats faster and raises blood pressure.
-Perspiration increases to cool the body.
-Muscles tense up to prepare for action.
-Chemicals are released to help blood clot.
-Sugars and fats are released in the blood stream to provide fuel.
My Theory in Brief
The operation put our bodies, not our brains, in the state of fight-and-flight. The area that was cut on me (T2 and T3) stopped certain messages from the heart and lungs getting to my brain. Hence, by default, the internals of my body changed and began to operate in a different way, to keep me alive. One of the main changes in my body was how I convert food to energy. In a person who has had ETS, this process is very different to how it happens in a person who has not had ETS. Therefore it is really, really, really important what we eat every single day.
The main thing is NOT to eat any man-made substances, only 100% natural whole food. Basically anything that doesn't have a wrapper around it.
Foods To Avoid
All E-numbers, especially E101-199 E202-299 E301-399 E500-599 E600-E700, E800-E900 or anything that has an X or a Z in the name, and any sulphates - the less you eat, the better. In addition, don't eat anything that has been modified or contains an ingredient whose name you can't pronounce.
You will need to read the ingredients of everything you eat.
You also need to massively reduce (or even better, stop) eating sugary, processed refined food and any liquid stimulants (coffee, tea, fizzy, energy or coloured drinks). You will need to reduce salt, as this is a natural preservative. Most sauces, drinks, packaged foods and cheap processed stuff contains loads of these bad things.
As most of you are probably aware, the best thing to drink is WATER and that is very true for ETS patients, any other drink seems to affect me and probably will affect you. Sports drinks, protein shakes, coffee, energy drinks, caffeine drinks, etc. will affect us even more as these are all stimulants that effect the body (i.e., they are quickly absorbed into the blood stream through the kidneys and liver).
Basically, make everything you eat from scratch. Learn to cook! Eat fruit and veges, drink lots of still water. Yes, this may be very boring but you get used to it.
It's a lot better than taking any medication, most medication does contain stimulants, sugars, salts or preservatives, so really it's no good for us either. Also, multi-vitamin tablets contain loads of man-made s**t, therefore they will affect you, especially if you are not out of the fight-and-flight.
The reason certain foods affect our bodies is because lots of man-made chemicals in food have the same basic chemical formula as adrenaline, or noradrenaline - E-numbers and modified foods with added substances especially! These foods keep ETS people in fight-and-flight, and the longer it goes on the deeper you get into losing normal, healthy, bodily functions.
I think you will all agree, all the symptoms of fight-and-flight are the same as ETS side effects. Normal people may only be in that state for hours, most of us who have had ETS have been in that state for years.
If you suffer from ETS side effects then I recommend you look into and change your diet, cut out foods containing the chemicals/substances that I have mentioned above for at least 9-12 months (maybe longer). When you start seeing improvements and getting better then maybe start re-introducing things and see how they affect you.
I'm living proof this works as I'm so much better now after two-and-a-half years on my diet. I work in London and wear a suit every day, don't have to even think about wearing a vest underneath my clothes don't even have to think about taking my jacket off really and its June (UK summer). Three years ago I would change my vest underneath my shirt about three times a day in June.
I have just returned from holiday in Spain with my girlfriend, where it was 28 degrees Celsius. I was lying on the beach all day.
I am not on any medication. ETS and its horrible side effects are behind me now but what I know and what I'm going to do with that knowledge for the rest of my life is all in front.
For those who want to try this, please have a sustained go at it. It's better than medication. You just need to eat natural foods.
Things to Read Up On (use Google)
GI Diet (this details high GI foods and low GI foods, low and medium GI foods have proved to be better for me)
Effects of fight-and-flight
Food stimulants
Processed food
Microwaves and their effect on natural foods
Natural whole foods
I have put this information out there for people like me who have had ETS and are devastated about the results.
ETS was the maddest/worst/hardest/most amazing and terrible experience of my life, but now having my normal life back, doing normal things again is the best experience ever!
Thanks for reading
Chris Carter
4 comments:
- AnonymousApril 25, 2011 at 2:14 PM
Hi Chris. I had ETS last year. Huge mistake. I don't see how the surgeons can still do this operation. So I am about to start the GI Diet. Will let you know how I go.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 29, 2013 at 4:01 AM
Thank you so much for sharing this Chris. I believe you will saving countless number of lives.ReplyDelete
I had the ETS at the end of May 2011 and the compensatory sweating is horrific. My reaction was the same-when it started to get hot, I was like wtf have I done?! I don't want to be operated on anymore, so I will look into this special GI diet.
Keep spreading hope!
Thanks again!
- AnonymousJuly 13, 2014 at 6:10 AM
Hi chris! I got the surgery done a couple of months ago and experiencing all the side effects. I have extreme compensatory sweating and i cant work out or run like i used to. Please help me find a way yo get my body back to normal!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2014 at 3:06 PM
Did you follow Carter's diet?Delete


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Le livre de Gauthier, C., Bissonnette, S., et Richard. M intitulé : L'enseignement explicite, une approche pédagogique efficace pour favoriser la réussite de tous les élèves. Tome 1. La gestion des apprentissages, sera publié aux Éditions ERPI et De Boeck!
Ce blogue a pour objectif principal de fournir de l'information sur les travaux portant sur l'efficacité des écoles et de l'enseignement. Quelques textes amenant un questionnement plus général et la réflexion sont parfois présentés!
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mercredi 29 août 2012
Enseigner à partir de tâches complexes est généralement inefficace!!
Cette thèse de doctorat montre que l'enseignement à partir de tâches complexes est généralement inefficace comparativement à l'enseignement de tâche orientée du simple vers le complexe, et ce même pour des étudiants de niveau universitaire! Imaginons maintenant l'utilisation de cette stratégie avec des jeunes enfants de l'élémentaire! Comment provoquer l'échec scolaire = enseigner avec des tâches complexes!!!!!!!!!
Voici un extrait de la thèse : L'hypothèse générale de ce travail de recherche était de définir quel mode d'instruction favorise la comparaison des problèmes et par là même l'élaboration de connaissances générales. Il semble apparaître de nos résultats qu'un mode d'instruction hiérarchisé remplit cette condition (Dupays, 2011, p.131)
dimanche 26 août 2012
Effet positif du redoublement avec aide au primaire!!!!
Is Retaining Students in the Early Grades Self-Defeating?
Martin R. West
Recent studies that isolate the causal impact of retaining low-achieving students cast further doubt on the conventional view that retention leads to negative outcomes. Much of this work has focused on Florida, which since 2003 has required that many third graders scoring at the lowest performance level on the state reading test be retained and provided with intensive remediation. Students retained under Florida's test-based promotion policy perform at higher levels than their promoted peers in both reading and math for several years after repeating third grade; they are also less likely to be retained in a subsequent grade. Although it is too soon to analyze the policy's effects on students' ultimate educational attainment and labor-market success, this new evidence suggests that policies encouraging the retention and remediation of struggling readers can be a useful complement to broader efforts to reduce the number of students reading below grade level.
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How Science Can Improve Teaching
Teachers need a trusted source to tell fads and fallacies from proved methods
Most teachers would agree that it is important that students remember much of what they read. Yet one of the most common sights on high school and college campuses across the land is that of students poring over textbooks, yellow marker in hand, highlighting pertinent passages—which often end up including most of the page. Later in the semester, to prepare for their exams, students hit the textbooks again, rereading the yellow blocks of text. Studies have shown that highlighting and rereading text is among the least effective ways for students to remember the content of what they have read. A far better technique is for students to quiz themselves. In one study, students who read a text once and then tried to recall it on three occasions scored 50 percent higher on exams than students who read the text and then reread it three times. And yet many teachers persist in encouraging—or at least not discouraging—the techniques that science has proved to fall short.
This is just one symptom of a general failure to integrate scientific knowledge of the mind into schooling. Many commonly held ideas about education defy scientific principles of thinking and learning. For example, a common misconception is that teaching content is less important than teaching critical thinking skills or problem-solving strategies. Scientists have also long known that kids must be explicitly taught the connections between letters and sounds and that they benefit most when such instruction is planned and explicit. Yet some reading programs, even those used in large school districts, teach this information only if an instructor sees the need.
It is easy to argue that teachers ought to do a better job of keeping up with science, but teaching is already a labor-intensive profession. And it is difficult for the nonspecialist to separate scientific research from the usual flood of quackery and pseudoscience. Peddlers of expensive and supposedly research-based nostrums lobby school districts. Other products that may have scientific validity have not yet been thoroughly tested. For example, theories of mathematical learning suggest that linear (but not circular) board games may boost math preparedness in preschoolers, but the idea needs large-scale testing.
How are educators supposed to know which practices to use? An institution that vets research and summarizes it for educators could solve the problem. Medicine provides a precedent. Practicing physicians do not have the time to keep up with the tens of thousands of research articles published annually that might suggest a change in treatment. Instead they rely on reputable summaries of research, published annually, that draw conclusions as to whether the accumulated evidence merits a change in medical practice. Teachers have nothing like these authoritative reviews. They are on their own.
The U.S. Department of Education has, in the past, tried to bring some scientific rigor to teaching. The What Works Clearinghouse, created in 2002 by the DOE's Institute of Education Sciences, evaluates classroom curricula, programs and materials, but its standards of evidence are overly stringent, and teachers play no role in the vetting process. Teachers also play no role in the evaluation, and their participation is crucial. Researchers can evaluate research, but teachers understand education. The purpose of this institution would be to produce information that can be used to shape teaching and learning.
It is also important that insights provided by a clearinghouse come from basic science. Many teachers, for instance, need to be disabused of the notions children have different "learning styles" and that boys' brains are hardwired to be better at spatial tasks than girls'. This job of bringing accurate scientific information about thinking and learning to teachers might arguably fall to schools of education, states, districts and teachers' professional organizations, but these institutions have shown little interest in the job. A neutral national review board would be the simplest and quickest answer to a problem that is a big obstacle to broad improvement across many schools.
This article was originally published with the title Brain Science in the Classroom.
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Last month, when I was researching in the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas, I was struck by a White House Staff Note from October 1957. The short piece in the news round-up aimed at White House insiders chimed with significant resonance. Was there more than a touch of Nick Clegg's post electoral coalition dilemma?
The note recounts a conversation between Jo Grimond, the Liberal Party leader at the time and Jock Whitney, the US Ambassador to Britain. According to the White House record: "Grimond made an unusually frank admission to Ambassador Whitney that would shock his followers, namely he envisages no future for his party except by merging with the Tories or the Labor (sic) party, either of which he could contemplate........Grimond observed that the party's future might be in developing modern political ideas, selling them to one of the major parties, and then joining that party to ensure implementation and prevent backsliding to extreme policies."
It's worth noting that Grimond saw both rival parties as facing dilemmas in holding together the extremes of their support. But, tantalisingly, the report doesn't say which of the big beasts he preferred the Liberals to merge with.


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The Committee made 84 recommendations to the UK Government, including providing increased and sustainable funding to women's organisations, raising public awareness about the Convention and upholding the Gender Equality Duty in terms of women only services. This was great news for the women's voluntary and community sector and these recommendations can, and should, be used by women's organisations to support arguments about the value of their services. CEDAW is a crucial tool that women's organisations can use to lobby for funding, cooperation and new legislation to further the cause of women's equality.
The next time the UK will be officially examined will be in Geneva in 2011 and we hope that there will be a full contingent of women's organisations present and involved in the process to make sure that their voices and needs are listened to and acted on by the Committee and the UK government.
In order to prepare for 2011 we want to get the message out to women's organisations across the UK – women need to be aware of, and be able to use, CEDAW in their core work and to strengthen their organisations, especially at a time when the women's sector is so under threat.
2009 is the 30th anniversary of CEDAW so WRC have organised an event – Seizing the opportunities of CEDAW – on 24 March and are encouraging women's organisations to come to learn more about the international instruments that are there to help them and to be able to hold the government to account. We also hope to create a sector-wide strategy for 2011 and to involve as many women as possible in this.
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If you need something to do and don't have a lot of cash there is a way to groove and be frugal. The Luckman Jazz Orchestra is having a tribute to Lee Morgan on October 2nd at 6:30pm.
Who is Lee Morgan you ask?
The free concert is being held at The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at 5151 State University Drive in Los Angeles. It is on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles.
The event is free but you should RSVP, you can do that old school by calling 323) 343-6600. For more info on the many doings of The Luckman Fine Arts Complex visit their site.


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I had no plan at all to buy another new pair of shoes that Christmas, the same Christmas when I got engaged, but instead, I wanted to buy a new dress to wear to a dinner date with my fiancé. While shopping at a mall, my boyfriend grabbed some t-shirts for him and asked me to go to the counter to pay them. On my way to the counter, a shoe rack no longer crowded with shoes grabbed my attention. There were several pairs of shoes but only one pair hooked my eyes and it's all I saw. Gasped, as if magnetized, my legs quickly brought me to the rack, my hands feeling the shoes' texture, my eyes admiring.
Firstly, I love boots. These darlings were actually calf-length boots, embodying the cuff of those Maison Martin Margiela shoes famously worn by Rachel Gibson that I so dream to buy, only better. Not long after being hooked by my new found beauties, I found myself admiring my reflection on the mirror with the shoes on, just to be startled by a familiar voice, "Honey! I've been looking for you." But seeing what had took me long, he studied my complete look and simply said, "Get them."
It's very easy to fall in love with the shoes. The meticulous details on the sides are met and sewed together by a piece of well-cut animal skin, probably snake or crocodile, starting from the base where the heels anchor it and up to the top. The heels are pointed about three inches high. Being cuffed allows my toes to breath in a sexy manner. A happy New Year's Gift shows more more photos of these shoes.


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The kids just loved this exhibit at a local children's museum. You put in a play scarf in the opening and it whips around the tubes until the scarf gets shot out at the end of the line. You can change the direction with valves on the structure. Wondering how I can convert the shop-vac to a home version of this. Just had to share because it was so fun! =)
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Here's another of my 2004 journal quilts. Having lived in Sydney all my life, I always remember August as being cold and windy with beautiful blue skies, with huge black rain clouds blowing in. This quilt was made in August and represents my memories of that month.
For this quilt, I printed all the words for 'wind' that I could find onto blue mottled fabric to represent the sky. The clouds are made from fabric I created with yarn, pieces of felt and lots of shiny silver pieces such as sequins and chocolate wrappers. The clouds are dark, but have silver linings.
Since I made this piece, some people have told me that the clouds look like islands floating in a sea. Definitely not my intention, but perhaps if I'd quilted it differently (with lines of stitching that 'blow' across the quilt) my intent would have been clearer.
Satin stitch update:
I have been having difficulty creating an even satin stitch finish around the edges of my ATCs, so I sought advice. Today I made a textile work to give as a thank-you to someone next week and I think I finally got the satin stitching right. Whew! Can't show a photo until next weekend. I'm going to Adelaide and will be at the South Australian Quilters' Guild's Festival of Quilts on Thursday. If you see me wandering around, come and say hello!


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Reporter Launches Bristol Site
A journalist is going it alone by launching his own website dedicated to news and events in Bristol.
Bristol 24-7 is the creation of Chris Brown, who took voluntary redundancy from the Western Daily Press earlier this year.
Speaking to Journalism.co.uk, Brown asserts that the site is a full-time commitment as he attempts to create the go-to news website for Bristolians with a mix of original and aggregated news.
The former Independent journalist also plans for the website to become the first online port of call for visitors to the city.
At the moment, Bristol 24-7 is a one-man show so Brown is editor, reporter, photographer and videographer – among other things.
However, he hopes that interaction with readers will provide him with fresh perspectives.
"What goes on the site will be determined by my skills as an editor," he said.
"I'll either make the right or wrong calls, but hopefully readers will let me know soon enough what they think of my decisions and will suggest better stories on the day."
And Brown believes that his one-man band operation has the requisite flexibility to become attuned to the needs of an online audience.
"I have believed since I came up with the idea that I can produce a better online newspaper than the traditional media groups; do it at a far lower cost; and develop it faster and more intuitively to the demands of the readers."
As for revenue, Brown is seeking site sponsorship and will provide digital marketing services to interested parties.
"It's not just the better value for money that digital marketing offers businesses now, it is the proactive approach which looks at exactly what a business wants to achieve and uses the new technology to make it happen that will rule the day."
Find out more about Brown's long-term ambitions for the site in his interviews with Journalism.co.uk and HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk.
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"Employees are our internal customers"
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I was just wondering if we have heard this statement 'Employees are our internal customers' at-least 100 times from Business owners when they talk about their assets, the employees. Is this statement really true? I cannot advocate for Business Owners but I will share my experience with the readers as a HR Function Outsourcing service provider.
This situation is from last month with an Employee:
When I was interacting with an employee who was annoyed with one of the HR processes, I noticed that he was completely out of his mind, was in no mood to be calm and polite. He wants to listen to only 'what he wants to listen', no logic, no second thought before making a statement. (Here we are not trying to find mistake with employee but looking for a similarity between an internal and an external customer).
As the conversation went on for about 30 minutes, he was expressing his resentment towards a very minor HR process formality that he and his team have to follow. I was listening to him patiently while attempting to provide a solution with alternatives to his perceived issue. Because he is my internal customer, I would not react but only respond positively.
At the end, he thanked me for listening to him.
Let us compare this with a customer (always dominant, always finding errors, always the king, no yesterday- only present and tomorrow, no mercy, no excuses, can say goodbye anytime). As a HR professional, you are never expected to show your emotion and especially if you are a service provider. We would not react but only respond positively trying to provide solutions for any situation. So, I did the same with my internal customer, i.e. the employee.
Some of the non-tangible yet important advantages if HR works as an internal partner in managing Organization's HR Department.
1. Long lasting relationship building with your employees
2. Employee can be more open and straight forward to the HR than to any other person which helps in knowing the trends/information at the core
3. Professional Relationship Building
4. Improved Interpersonal Skills within Employees
5. HR works with a long term objective, hence has broader perspective and carries that to employees in all types of communication
6. Decreased employee conflicts and increased productivity
7. The employees treated as a customer will help in having engaged and committed employees.
An employee serves the Company and in-turn expects his/her views to be heard apart from recognition and acknowledgements for his/her efforts. Treating them as an internal customer HR/Business Owners should give a patient hearing to all types of employees which will make an employee feel that he/she is important for the Organization.
Please share your comments for improving this blog.
Something about me: I am Vikram, an integral part of Husys (HR Function Management for SMEs). My role is to manage HR Departments for our customers with a team deployed at each customer location (Ex: HR Executives are deployed at customer location, we would have a Senior Associate HR for these customers to monitor, advise and partner in customer business focused HR interventions. We are responsible as an Organization, Husys).


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Paul Goble
Vienna, January 17 – Over the last two years, more than 1,000 Chechens, both men and increasingly women between the ages of 16 and 30, have gone into the mountains to fill the ranks of independence-minded militants, not only lowering the average age of the Chechen "underground" but changing its political agenda.
According to an article in Moscow's "Novaya gazeta," military officials in Grozny say that "these young people are filling the vacancies of those who until recently had fought alongside Maskhadov and Basayev" but who now, having been amnestied, fight on behalf of Ramzan Kadyrov against the new recruits (www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2009/002/00.html).
And that means, the paper says, that in Chechnya today there is "a war of generations," an older one that at least nominally backs Kadyrov and a younger that opposes his authoritarian rule, but neither of which appears all that interested in the integration of that North Caucasus republic into Russian life, however much Vladimir Putin proclaims victory in Chechnya.
In addition, the paper notes, there is an even more serious potential problem with this new influx of young people into the ranks of the militant opposition: a large number of them are family members of and retain ties to members of the earlier generation who have now gone to work in Kadyrov's regime, links that call into question the ultimate loyalty of the latter..
The Chechen president himself is very much concerned about these links. A few months ago, "Novaya gazeta" recalls, Kadyrov said that "it is no secret that many of our chiefs and directors are relatives of young people who have gone into the forests. I know that they maintain ties with them and even provide them with food."
"If in the course of ten days," he warned, "these young people do not return home, all the chiefs and leaders will be put on trial. [Moreover,] I prohibit burying those who fight against us. If I find out that in some village, they bury someone who was in the forest, no one [there] will remain in their job: not the militia chief, not the administration head and not the imam."
Kadyrov has acted on this threat, dismissing officials known to have family members fighting Grozny, ordering that 24 of their houses be burned down between July and December 2008 alone, and taking other actions spreading terror within the civilian population, leaving some of its members cowed but far more infuriated, with some of the latter prepared to take up arms.
The paper details what happened in the wake of an assassination attempt against Kadyrov last year. Many people were directly punished for either their supposed involvement in the plot or for failing to stop it, but the upshot of all this was that several young people decided to join the militants, precisely the opposite course of action Kadyrov hoped to promote.
An ethnic Russian who works as a prosecutor in Grozny having been given assurances that he would not be named said that there were three reasons young people are increasingly going into the forests to fight Kadyrov and his regime: "money, the absence of educational and employment opportunities, and good psychological efforts" by the opposition.
Consequently, the prosecutor continued, Russia cannot count on the generation that fought for independence in the 1990s and now works for Kadyrov, and it cannot count on the generation of young people who are now increasingly making the decision to fight against Kadyrov.
Instead, he said, "we will be able to count" only on the generation now being born in Chechnya, although as the "Novaya gazeta" journalists note, they did not ask the prosecutor "who stands behind this 'we.'" And the ethnic Russian prosecutor in turn did not offer to explain.
Instead, he cut off the interview because it was getting dark and "nights here are not secure."
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Window on Eurasia: Young Chechens Increasingly Choosing to Fight Kadyrov Regime
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On Saturday I will be participating in Dewey's Read A Thon, so this blog will go crazy with posts through out the day. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up on why there will be so many posts. This will be my second Read-A-Thon, and I hope it goes better then my first one did-I only finished 2 or 3 books. Here's a list of books I have lined up for the big day:
1. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins (I'm super excited to read this one!
2. LA Candy by Lauren Conrad
3. Wake, Fade & Gone by Lisa McMann
4. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
5. Too Hot to Hold by Stephanie Tyler
6. Harlequin Temptation, Out Of The Blue by Jill Shalvis
7. Mind Games by Carolyn Crane-I'm reading this now, and hopefully I'll have it finished by Saturday :)
You might notice that there are a lot of YA books on my list-that was done purposely, as they are normally pretty fast reads and I learned the hard way last time that you want to have a wide variety of books available to read. ;) I'm also going to be a cheerleader, and can't wait to do that!


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I forgot the camera AGAIN! I have some great pictures, including some of our little April snowstorm and our crazy trip to the church historical sites with Felicia! Nooo! One of these days maybe...Anyways this week has truly been crazy. We had a zone meeting on Tuesday, which was about 45 minutes away. It ended with a nice little 1 inch snowstorm...luckily it didn't stick where we live. So that took up a ton of time! Then on Thursday, we went to a place called Palmyra, and saw a bunch of sites with early church significance, including the grove of trees that Joseph Smith knelt in prayer back 194 years ago, asking which church he should join. Sometimes we also feel that way- which church is the right one for me? Even if you've grown up in a church all your life. So having the experience of kneeling in prayer in a sacred spot and talking with your Heavenly Father is quite the experience. And I never would've been able to do it here in NY if my mission call had not been changed to Ribeirao Preto Brazil! So I'm pretty lucky. My companion is also supposed to go to Brazil on his mission, and I was able to share with him my experiences of putting everything towards the place you are now- (lifting where you stand) and eventually truly feeling like this is where the Lord needs you, and not feeling like you're missing out on something. This mission is where I am needed. I know that. I'm ok with staying here for a while longer, and even feel like I'm not necessarily ready to go, because there's more for me to learn here. It took a while to get to this point. And sometimes I get a little down that I might not be able to speak fluent portuguese or have amazing amazon stories to tell after my mission, but the thing is that it's not about me. It's not about me at all. This realization occurred to me fairly recently- that if you love the people you serve, you will want to be wherever you are. Brazil, New York, China- it's all the same. It's the people that make the area, and if you love them, you will be ok with wherever you are. So here I am!Saturday we went through the Palmyra New York Temple with a member of the ward who has never been. The temple can seem different to some people who have never been through. There is a lot of symbolism in it, and it's easy to get lost in the symbolism. I have been trying to gain a stronger testimony of the temple every time I go. I think the biggest testimony builder for me recently was seeing this sister go through for the first time. She expressed how much happiness and peace she was feeling. You could see it on her face. When I see people have peace and joy in the temple, with a smile so big, I realize that I can get caught up in figuring it all out- but have been forgetting about the feelings of the Holy Ghost you receive, which is most important. You can logically maneuver your way through different religions, but ultimately you're going to stop and settle down in the one that makes you feel the spirit of peace and happiness the most. I've never been happier than when I was going to church, feasting upon the scriptures, and working on my personal relationship with Heavenly Father. My family has been an intricate part of my conversion, and we've been tightly knit together with the faith that families can live forever. We believe families can be together forever by being sealed in the Lord's temple- a place of binding things on Earth that shall be bound in Heaven. It's a place where families go together and come closer together. I believe anything that helps families focus on the eternities together is of God. Not many places here anymore that do that hahaThis email is extremely long, so I'll quit now. I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter!Love,Elder Hirschips I've realized how often we DONT focus on the true meanings of holidays...Bunnies? Chocolate? Really? haha check out this video for the TRUE reason we celebrate Easter. No really- go to it.


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Look at the cutest little Chicken ever!
Our Dr. Seuss Halloween costumes - The Lorax, The Cat in the Hat, Thing 1, Thing 2, Hop on Pop and Fox in Socks. :-D
And then Tadd, Carri and Summer as Colonel Sanders, Wendy and the chicken they are both fighting over.
Goose had her Halloween party at school and Jackson was able to join in some of the fun...talk about a big deal to him.


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It's been a few days since I posted; I've had a few personal challenges/roadblocks to hurdle over this week that required my attention and I'm trudging ahead!! In addition to that, one of our cats had to go to the vet yesterday (she'll be o.k. but she has to wear a cone on her head for a week-poor baby, just breaks my heart) and John is in surgery (for sinus relief) as I type this. Phew!
I have a very minimal stamping type card to share with you today, using Spellbinders Polka Dot Frame (the frame, flowers and centers are all made using the die elements with Prism cardstock). I sponged on the sun and the sentiment is from A Year of Sweet sentiments, by Taylored Expressions.
You know today is the 20th of the month so that means half of the Baker's Dozen design team have the 20th Key Ingredient Subscription samples to share with you! Be sure to check them out & don't miss Taylor's great announcement that the key ingredients (you can buy a 3-month or 6-month subscription) but she will break down the cost in installments!
Taylor has pictures, samples and more details. She even posted a video showing you exactly how the kit comes to you. If you haven't been bitten by the Key Ingredient Subscription *yet* I bet you will soon! I have to tell you, it is such a fantastic idea and Taylor has such a keen eye for coordinating FUN products that you will NOT regret having! Here are links to all the splendid creations to convince you to sign up: Sankari Wegman, Dawn Easton, Laurie Schmidlin, Jen del Muro, Karen Motz, Denise Marzec
Hope you have a great day & see ya tomorrow with Taylored Expressions' Sketch Challenge!!


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Sunday, April 24, 2016
11 comments:
- Troy said...
Outstanding. Love the solo from Nils.
- April 24, 2016 at 5:40 AM
- JAYESSEMM said...
- April 24, 2016 at 5:45 AM
- kevinpat said...
A moving tribute.
Thank you sir for all the kind and sweet words for Prince. And the w0nDerFul shares. When I feel sad, I just play his music and I can't help but feel happy, grateful and of course fUnKy. His name is Prince, the one and only.
- April 24, 2016 at 6:43 AM
I was at this show last night. Maybe because the TM gods smiled on me for once and had me in Section 4, but last night's show was outstanding! Much better than the MSG show I saw in Jan when most of the people around me were more interested in chatting over songs and checking their cell phones.
Not the case last night. The audience was locked in from the start (and yes the Purple Rain cover was inspired) and for the entire 3 hours/40 minutes gave as much back to the band as they gave us.
I have a lot of shows coming up in the next couple of months (Tedeschi Trucks, Neil Young, Coldplay, The Cure, Stone Roses, Peter Gabriel (and um Sting), Noel Gallagher)but it will be hard to top last night's performance.
- April 24, 2016 at 6:55 AM
- wardo said...
People have asked me if Prince was really that big of a deal. The words "Bruce Springsteen opens show with Purple Rain" say it all. And the video evidence nails it shut. Thanks, Sal.
- April 24, 2016 at 7:23 AM
- Clarence E. Jones III said...
Nils left it all out there on that one. Beautiful tribute to a Genius.
- April 24, 2016 at 9:47 AM
- steve simels said...
I lack the words to describe how great that is.
Although I really thought, it being Bruce, he'd cover Little Red Corvette.
- April 24, 2016 at 10:42 AM
Hello all...no, please remain seated,
That is righteous and proper.
Regards, RichD
- April 24, 2016 at 12:20 PM
- Gene Oberto said...
"The most over-qualified second guitar in rock..."
It's been that kind of year and the band has done a lot of tributes. However, this one was as serious and heartfelt as any I have seen.
- April 24, 2016 at 3:21 PM
- buzzbabyjesus said...
Lately, every time I hear "Purple Rain", the more it sounds like Bowie's "Rock N Roll With Me". I'm not suggesting any connection, I'm sure it's just the tempo and chords.
- April 25, 2016 at 6:10 AM
- Troy said...
For anyone interested, here's the upgraded audio (soundboard) and multi-cam version:
Free download (audio only) of the song from brucespringsteen.net:
- April 25, 2016 at 5:12 PM


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***Author's Note***
Although the following was written in 2010, it's just as pithy and appropriate for Back to School 2012 as it was way back then***
Back To School is a wonderful, magical time, which is obvious because each word in the phrase is capitalized. My memory of BTS wasn't going shopping for new supplies for the school year. No, it was my (former elementary school teacher) mom crying at the kitchen table the night before she inherited a classroom full of pre-pubescents with a snootful of who-knows-what. Magical indeed.
We didn't have school supply drives when I was a kid. You got the stuff you needed and went to class. Pretty simple, really. Ah, but in this age where anything simple has to be made unnecessarily complicated, we now have endless so-called "Stuff The Bus" drives (again, every word is capitalized to stress the importance of this monumental event). Usually pushed by media outlets, the Stuff The Bus drives are done to gather supplies for students for the upcoming school year. I saw an anchor last week saying that most families are having trouble (in these tough economic times, naturally) coming up with the money to buy even the most basic of school supplies. I audibly scoffed when I heard that, but then got to thinking that perhaps he was right. From last Sunday's paper, I picked up a flyer for Walgreens that focused on BTS supplies and started adding things up. Certainly, if "most" families can't even afford the basics, the prices for these items must be much more expensive than I remembered back in 1975.
So let's shop. I'm only listing the most basic supplies for elementary school kids, so that rules out calculators and certain geometric tools which- in this atmosphere of zero tolerance- are probably considered deadly weapons punishable by a lifetime expulsion should poor Caleb or Kellan get pinched (so to speak) with one.
Pencils: 10 for $1
Pens 10 for .79
Folders .09 each. Let's buy five. .45 total
Glue .49
Crayons .39 (for a box of 12. Do you really need Burnt Sienna?)
Notebooks .50-$1.50, depending on number of pages. Let's buy two at .50 apiece
Ruler .29
Backpack $4.00 (that's the big one, but if you have a desk that can store your supplies, it might be unnecessary. Since you probably don't know if you do before the school year starts, pick one up
Did I miss any of the basics? I don't think so. Scissors? Yeah, right. Start your academic year in Mr. Weatherbee's office by bringing a dangerous weapon. Still, the girls might think you're a badass, so at $1, it'd be worth the risk.
Total for basic supplies? $8.31. ($9.31 with those bad-ass scissors)
Or, in other words, lunch. One lunch. Brown bag lunch for a week, and the kid is covered through most of his elementary school years. Yes, I realize that most parents have more than one kid. Tops, you're spending $30 on supplies. If you're buying Kaela and Tristin their own pen and pencil sets, just think of it as one McDouble you could've spoiled yourself with and split the items.
So, my exhaustive research reaffirms to me that Stuff The Bus is a crock. Put down the frappe and get your own damn stuff for once. Handouts now lead to dropouts later.
(Oh, I don't want teachers to feel left out. That same Walgreens flyer has a bottle of generic aspirin (500 ct) on sale for $7.99. That ought to last you until Thanksgiving)


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In order to help ourselves and others through prayer, we have to have a clear consciousness and a deep sense of the inward meaning of what we do. We have to have realization that each one of us is an outlet of the Infinite because we are an inlet to It. Then we have to realize that there is nothing separate from God. When we use the word God we mean the Truth, Life, the Absolute, the Infinite, the Spirit; everything that means That Presence and Power and Intelligence in the universe, which is the universe.
By the word God we mean Life, Intelligence in action, the Spirit within all nature, animating everything and animating ourselves. When we use the word God we are saluting the Divine Presence in each other and in everything – the beauty that sees and imagines and paints the glory of a sunset or the soft-ness of an early dawn, the aroma of the rose, the enthusiasm of the child at play, the intelligence of the philosopher, the worshipful attitude of the devotee. This is all God.
The moment we draw a line against some part of the eternal Presence which is in all things we shut ourselves off from It. In spiritual mind treatment, or prayer, our purpose is to become actively aware of the unrestricted wholeness of the Divine Presence.
Nothing ever happened to you or to me that need bind us if we free ourselves from the belief in it. This is why Jesus forgave people their sins. He knew that a new world is born every moment; a new spiritual time track, as it were, is created every moment;
He knew that there is nothing that can bind man except ignorance of his true nature. Right now, today, any sequence of cause and effect may be intercepted and changed and everything made new in our lives. If this were not true Jesus never would have forgiven people their sins. If this were not true no one could be healed physically or psychologically today.
Analytically psychology and psychosomatic medicine would be impossible, no new habits could be formed, no transcendence of ancient experience. There would be no invention in science.
That which has brought comfort to modern man, that which has brought luxury that other ages did not have, is not because the time had come when God decided to give us a gas range or an electric light or an automobile, but because man gradually accepted more of that which was there to be loosed. Out of the God that is, the world is eternally discovering a better God.
That which has brought comfort to modern man, that which has brought luxury that other ages did not have, is not because the time had come when God decided to give us a gas range or an electric light or an automobile, but because man gradually accepted more of that which was there to be loosed. Out of the God that is, the world is eternally discovering a better God.
Whatever in our experience seems to restrict, whatever appears to limit, whatever seems to be the cause of our disturbances must be negated. Now that means that we turn from all our beliefs of bondage, whatever they may be. It doesn't matter who or how many people have believed in them, God the Absolute, God the limitless Infinite, God the eternal Love and Givingness, is right where we are, in fullness. Our own past must not be held against us else we create a new bondage out of the old image.
As we turn within to that Divine Presence, we know that all the ages of the past, all the experiences we have ever had, do not matter today. Here and now we stand forth free from the burden of the past. If there has been what the world calls sin, we are forgiven.
If there has been a sense of rejection, we now know that we are included in the Divine Love and Wisdom. If there has been a sense of separation, we now reunite our imagination and will with that from which we have never been separated, nor could have been. There is One Life, that Life is God, that Life is perfect, that Life is our life now, and we are that Life. "I am that which Thou art; Thou art that which I am" – eternal and perfect, forever blessed.
Within each one of us, circulating and flowing through the rhythm of the heart beat of the Universe is but the one heart. There is but one circulation, unimpeded by anything we have done, and that whole system of circulation is the harmony and the joy of the flow and the return circuit of Divine Intelligence and Wisdom.
We are guided and governed and sustained by Infinite Mind which knows what to do within us, how to do it, and does it.
There is One Mind, that Mind is God, that Mind is in what we are doing just as It is in planting the acorn and bringing it into an oak tree. The eternal process of that Mind, forever manifesting Its limitless imagination and activity, is at the point of our own intelligence, thinking in what we are thinking, creating in what we are doing, and being what we are. There is nothing else. And we shall not be bound even by our own mistakes.
We let no doubt or fear or thought or limitation restrict the flow of that which is omnipotent and present and forever blessed. We are animated by the essence of vitality and energy, we are stimulated by the enthusiastic imagination and will of That which creates everything in the universe, and we abide in the stillness and tranquillity and call of the infinite Peace which knows no confusion or fear, the eternal Life which needs no resurrection.
Transcendent, triumphant, new and perfect, springing perennially from the heart of the Universe is our own heart and mind and will and imagination. All creation is a proclamation of the Creator. All that is beautiful is the atmosphere of that eternal Beauty that flows in harmony and symmetry through everything and makes one grand music of the spheres- the only Presence in everything, the God eternal. We identify ourselves with this living Presence.
Ernest Holmes: Science of Mind-August 1972


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Saturday, January 21, 2012
A Night For Bad News
The New York Rangers saw their 2010 first-round pick Dylan McIlrath be suspended for eight games as a result of the hit McIlrath delivered during a game against the Victoria Royals on January 18th. If you missed it here is the link to our report from earlier this evening which has a video clip of what McIlrath did.
McIlrath will be eligible to return to play on Friday, February 10th when Moose Jaw Warriors play the Calgary Hitmen.
The New York Islanders found out that there 2011 first round pick Ryan Strome be out at least two weeks possibly three after undergoing surgery for a broken nose and other facial fractures. Strome was a victim of a sucker punch during a game last week and his loss is a huge one for the Niagara IceDogs who also are going to be missing Jeff Beukeboom's son Brock whose out with concussion like symptoms.
Ranger Star Danny Hobbs
It's been a rough senior year for Danny Hobbs as the Rangers 2007 7th round pick has been fighting some nagging ankle injuries that caused to miss a few games but he was healthy on Friday night. His UMass Minutemen were glad to see him back healthy as Hobbs registered his first career hat trick in helping UMass beat Vermont 4-3.
Hobbs opened the scoring with his 7th goal of the season at 8:39 of the first period giving UMass a 1-0 lead and was the only scoring in the period. In the 2nd, Vermont scored twice to take the lead after two periods 2-1.
In the third period, Hobbs tied the score just 59 seconds in with his 8th goal of the season. With UMass on the power play, Hobbs broke the tie with his 3rd goal of the night at 10:23.
UMass as we said went on to win the game 4-3 as Hobbs earned the game's 1st star for his efforts. For Hobbs the three goals also extended a scoring streak that now is up to 6 games (5-4-9) and overall Hobbs is 9-9-18 on the season.
We have the rest of the Ranger prospect report right here.
Islander's Star Brendan Kichton
Sometimes there comes along a player who the first time you watch him, you don't think much of his abilities or his potential. That is why you never want to make a judgment call on a prospect good or bad until you have seen him play in different situations.
That basically is how Brendan Kichton (NYI 2011, 5th) has won us over as the Spokane Chiefs defender has shown us there is more to him than meets the eye. Kichton and his Chiefs were in Kennewick Washington to take on their arch rivals, the Tri-City Americans.
Last Saturday night in Spokane, Kichton and his Chiefs defeated the Americans with Kichton playing a huge role in that win. The rematch Friday night was just as good a game as the last time they met.
Kichton who leads all WHL defensemen scoring also happens to be pretty good defensive player himself. His play on the penalty kill was a big reason why Tri-City could not score on any of the five power plays they had.
But when Spokane was given their 6th power-play of the game it was Kichton who cashed it in. Kichton took a pass right at the blue line and one-timed it towards the Tri-City goal.
The puck deflected off one American and then a second as it somehow found its way into the back of the goal. It was Kichton's 8th goal of the season and 44th on the season (8-36-44)
The goal at 10:56 gave Spokane a 2-1 lead and proved to be the game-winning goal as Spokane added another "pinball like" goal while shorthanded to make it a 3-1 game.
Kichton was named the third star as the Chiefs were able to keep pace with the Vancouver Giants in the battle for the fourth seed in the WHL's Western Conference. As for how the other Islander prospects did as well as an updated injury report can be found right here.
(Hobbs – UMass athletics, Kichton – Spokane Chiefs)
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Louboutin repair... save your soles.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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So loving this. I had a heel cap replaced on some Lou's and my shoe guy put black rubber on the souls. I cringed when I picked them up. The red is half the fun, right?
I am going to have to tell him now about this place in NY that will bring new life to your scuffed Louboutins thanks to red rubber soles. So clever.
This tidbit from Allure magazine. (How is it that all they write about is the "new" shade of lipstick, Retinoids, and Botox, and yet, it's always a good read?)
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- Brilliant Asylum said...
Will they put red soles on a pair of 9 West's? Not that I would...
- December 20, 2007 at 11:17 AM
- decorno.blogspot.com said...
Ha! That's a brilliant idea. I am sure they would. :)
- December 20, 2007 at 11:18 AM
- Habitually Chic said...
I think I went to Arty's. If it's the place I'm thinking of, I wasn't that impressed. As much as Shoe Service Plus annoys me and my wallet, I will admit that they do the best job. They put new red leather soles on my favorite CL flats and they looked amazing afterward. Even this jaded New Yorker was impressed. There's a reason they have a line out the door.
P.S. What's the point of CL shoes if someone's not jealous as they see that flash of red as you walk away ;-)
- December 20, 2007 at 6:58 PM
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When: Thursday, July 27th @ 9PM
Bust-A-Yee will be back at Honey this Thursday, but this time around they'll be celebrating Axel Foley's B-Day, so you already know it's going down. The event will feature performances from Kiddo, Keith Millions, Po Etikit, as well as booths from Sly Apparel and Natural 7 Inspiration. This show is 21+ and the door is only $5, click the link below for more information.


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A beacon at the end of our long journey, the farm sit perched atop a hill overlooking the sea. A young orchard lined the road leading up to the tasting room and amazing outdoor deck.
We chose to sample the long flight of 9 organic ciders along with the cheese plate for two. The impressive array of colors, from dark amber to crisp straw, gave me plenty ideas for my fall batch. Brewing cider is an art, and there is no wrong way to reach your final product. Sea Cider Farm experiments with old Tennessee whiskey barrels, pear varieties, and yeast options.
I can imagine a beautiful reception in this tasting room...
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Dubai's beaches are now among the most accessible in the region, thanks to Dubai Municipality's latest initiative to get elderly and disabled wheelchair users into the water. Al Mamzar and Jumeirah beaches are now home to 15 swimming wheelchairs, brought to the city from France and costing Dhs9,000 each. Both beaches have a team of lifeguards and trainers to help people use the new facilities, which are available free of charge. If the project is successful over the coming months, more chairs will likely be provided.[[banner]]
Floating wheelchairs - now in Dubai
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The Court provided three separate reasons that Sidense's technology does not infringe any of Kilopass' asserted patents. First, the Court found that Sidense does not have a "row wordline segment coupled to the second doped semiconductor region." The Court found that Kilopass had taken contradictory positions before the Court and the United States Patent Office and, as a result, had disavowed this claim scope. Second, the Court determined that Sidense's accused technology did not have the required "first doped semiconductor region," rejecting Kilopass' argument that a shallow trench isolation in Sidense's design was equivalent to the claimed "doped semiconductor region." Finally, the Court determined that Sidense's design did not have a first and second doped semiconductor region in a "spaced apart relationship" as required by the claims. While any one of these reasons would have been sufficient for Sidense to prevail, the Court's opinion finding three separate reasons that Sidense does not infringe bodes well for Sidense should Kilopass decide to appeal the Court's decision.
"We are extremely pleased with the judge's ruling, which validates our long-standing belief that the Kilopass patent claims against Sidense are without merit," said Xerxes Wania, Sidense President and Chief Executive Officer. "We've spent a considerable amount of time and money to prove that we're right in this litigation. We refused to be held hostage by this frivolous lawsuit, and now we've been vindicated."
About Sidense Corp.
Sidense Corp. provides secure, very dense and reliable non-volatile, one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP for use in standard-logic CMOS processes with no additional masks or process steps required. The Company's innovative one-transistor 1T-Fuse architecture provides the industry's smallest footprint, most reliable and lowest power Logic Non-Volatile Memory (LNVM) IP solution. With 94 patents granted or pending, Sidense OTP provides a field-programmable alternative solution to Flash, mask ROM and eFuse in many OTP and MTP applications.
Sidense SiPROM, SLP and ULP memory products, embedded in more than 230 customer designs, are available from 180nm down to 28nm and are scalable to 20nm and below. The IP is offered at and has been adopted by all top-tier semiconductor foundries and selected IDMs. Customers are using Sidense OTP for analog trimming, code storage, encryption keys such as HDCP, WHDI, RFID and Chip ID, medical, automotive, and configurable processors and logic. For more information, please visit www.sidense.com
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The reason i'm so excited about this car is this concept. It's like replacing an electric toothbrush motor, and replacing it with one off an electric sander. Instead of the V8 engine, they are replacing it with a V12 engine, but not the one 450o bhp one off the DB9. Oh no, they've only gone and used the one on the DBRS9 race car ( A massive 600 bhp). Here are the stats:
* 0-60 is taken in 4 secs!
* 0-100 is taken in 8.5 secs!
* The top speed is going to be well over 200mph.
* It will weigh just 1500 kg.
Their biggest challenge was making the car handle well as the engine would add 93kg onto the car, and not to mention would mess up the wight ratio. To tackle this they have mercilessly slashed weight off the car. Simarly to the DBS, a sizeable proportion of the body panels have been remade out of carbon fibre. It's incredible that the original Vantage was 1800 kg and this one is 1500 kg.
A big selling point will be the noise, the enigne will make a fantastic noise so you'll be heard coming a mile off. All in all, Aston is alarming motor news journalists everywhere as the new management's intentions are clear, they want to focus on performance.


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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Celebrating My Creative Self
In January LTMMA started some new workshops. One of them is based on Mary Todd Beam's book called "Celebrate Your Creative Self", and graciously being taught to us by Cindy. I don't think it would be kosher if I stated in here exactally what we do in the lessons but I can show you the end results. Here is my first lesson with the end result.
This is the finished for now end result as well. I added some of Amy's Magic Foil to decrease the white, I also outlined it with metallic black paint. What is it about white that makes me unconfortable? I think I relate it to being silent, something of which I am not lol. Not at all sure how I will finish this but I am thinking mosaic tile, thinking I will attach it to a board that has been weathered, or peeled paint effect applied and mosaic tile to frame. Still thinking, not to mention I have alot of these things that are unfinished with BIG plans.
I don't know why the second scan is so much lighter but the actual piece is darker like the first one and what appears black is really a deep magenta. I may have used two differnt programs to make the photo web friendly. Sometimes one works and the other doesn't.
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COOPER AND CONNORCooper's first birthday party!!
His mother chose Mickey Mouse as the theme. They have just
come back from Disney World. This is Uncle Ryan and his
Aunt Erin. He had the best time eating his cake, when it came
time to take it he pitched the biggest fit. You can tell by his
face and hands,he loved his birthday cake.
It was such a wonderful party.
It is hard to believe that he his one year old.


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this that real obama everyone been waitin for lolReplyDelete
- Days Of The Blue.Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 10:45:00 AM EST
I think 2:12 said,"Lupe, you didn't vote for me, so that's why it took so long for your song to drop."ReplyDelete
Anyone correct me on this?
Video be off THE BARACK! >_>
"Lupe claims he ain't vote for Barack, that's why it took so long for his album to drop"ReplyDelete
Damn...and a Smiley & West diss too!ReplyDelete
- Cornel WestsideTuesday, December 20, 2011 at 1:06:00 PM EST
he did put my nigga lupe in check though..lolReplyDelete
omg i'm dying right now lolReplyDelete
hahah shit is funny, i like the lupe dis and the "I run the military, I run the military, I run the military!" hahah - but on a serious note that just further proves lupe's point, but its all in fun its on repeat lol!ReplyDelete
This shit is lolsReplyDelete
I CAN'T SEE THE VID!!!!! : (ReplyDelete
BARARCA FLAKA FLAME NIGGA !!!! haahahaahaReplyDelete
so funny, lupe got put on checkReplyDelete
IT WOULD BE FUNNY IF THE REALITY WASN'T SO FUCKING TRAGIC.ReplyDelete
I cnt see the vid, is there a link I can goto pls & thank u :)ReplyDelete
The comedian's makeup isn't as well done as it was in the Hard in the Paint video. Oh yeah, I thought I saw the guy who plays Baracka on one of those crime mystery shows. I think he played a boyfriend who killed his girl.ReplyDelete


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Tuesday: Going to See Spider-Man with Ebony and her beau. Edit: Fixed new keyboard and found the charger! Old Laptop is COMPLETELY FIXED.
Wednesday: Taking Stock photos of the fully completed Hero's Hat line. Work
Thursday: Update the Shop accordingly. Finish Business Cards for both Doux Intoxicatie + Nerdettes Unite. Work
Friday: ENJOY MY DAY OFF! Install My new Keyboard for my old Laptop!
Saturday, Sunday: Work
Monday: Driving test Scheduling.
Tuesday: Work
New Stuff In the Shop!
Newest Hat also in Shop!
My new Keyboard!!
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Simple dinner: Soba
After what seems like weeks of non-stop eating out, I feel I need to put the brakes on restaurants for a minute (we'll see how long that lasts!) and eat from the earth. Ok, who am I kidding- I don't have a hippie bone in my body but I do know that I should probably try eating lighter in the next couple of weeks. Saturday's bout of warm weather had me freaking out about not being ready for the long summer days that are probably just around the corner. Although my arms love hiding in the warm billowy comfort of my Max Studio poncho, they know they'll have to face the world soon enough and eating six course meals isn't the best way to contribute to the cause.
Luckily for my taste buds, I keep having a strong urge to eat hot soba noodle soup. I've had it twice in the last week, and I could seriously go for some for lunch today. I'm not sure what's brought on this craving for buckwheat noodles swimming around with cabbage, green onions, bean sprouts and egg in hot bonito stock, but it probably does have something to do with all of the rich food I've been eating lately. The Japanese taste buds on my tongue have declared war on butter! Hai-ya!
In additon to being healthy and delicious, soba noodle soup comes together in about 6 minutes. I love TONS of cabbage, onions and green onions in mine but you can add whatever veggie you choose. Just heat up some tsuyu mixed with water, add your veggies in order of cooking time, toss in some soba noodles and then mix in an egg at the very end. Personally, I attack the entire bowl with a good dose of shichimi which adds a nice kick and extra flavor.
It's the best kind of "fast food" there is, and also a great way to use up any leftover veggies in your fridge.


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During my cool down, I walked to the end of the street- down where there are no houses. Just fields and sky. As I turned back toward home, my attention was upward. What a sky it was - golden hues of the setting sun ringed by the ever-deepening blues and violets of dusk. The fleeting tail of another glorious day. How had I missed that? How had that scene not stopped me in my tracks during the course of my run? I felt The Lord whispering my name...
Ben, look at this, isn't it something...
I stopped and stared because what else could I do.
The heavens declare the glory of God;the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
I think that about sums up my feelings. I needed to get back home and get things done. So many things drain my time at night- necessary and otherwise. Still, I heard that whisper - Stop. Wait.
What is it Lord, what are you trying to tell me here?
So I just stood there in the middle of the street, in awe of that sky. I just took it in, absorbed it, tried my best to see it as if I'd never seen the sky before. That's when I heard Him again...
I did this in a day. What is it that you are so afraid to ask me?
Thirty minutes later, I'm still not exactly sure where God is going with this, but I had to jot this down before I forget. Maybe this is for one of you reading this too, and you need to ask yourself that same question.
We (self, that means you too!) get so entangled in our pride here on earth. It is all about us, isn't it? That's our deal, right? For goodness sakes, a few years ago, Time Magazine's person of the year was who? Yep, you remember - it was You. It was me, it was all of us. Says a lot, doesn't it? It's all about us. Tonight I was so into what I had just accomplished, so proud, that I missed the greatest love letter of all time, stretched across a limitless sky.
I'm glad that God still takes time to whisper our name and speak words of affirmation into our hearts.I encourage all of us to listen a little more this week.


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Monday, October 03, 2011
By Pranjal Gera
Maruti Suzuki rolls out 675 Swifts
Despite of the ongoing unrest at the Maruti Suzuki India's Haryana based Manesar plant; the company announced a roll-out of 675 Swifts on Friday. In a statement, the firm said a total of 675 Swift cars were produced from its two factories at Manesar and Gurgaon.
According to the company officials, a sum of 675 Swift cars was jointly manufactured from its two units located at Gurgaon and Manesar. Apart from the Swift production the firm also produced fifty units of the hatchback A-star and sedan SX4 from Manesar unit.
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There are no indications so far, to end-up the more than 30-day long standoff between the Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) management and its workforce. None of the two are ready to back off from their individual stand.
The MSI management has asked its workers to sign a good conduct bond on 29th of August, following the same they will be permitted to enter the production unit. Some major terms as per the good conduct bond were; the workers needed to confirm that they wouldn't halt the work stating any invalid reason, stay-in-strike, be a part of any movement that could slow down the usual production in the company.
Sighting the refusal of the workforce the company had deployed new workers and continued the manufacturing in the factory.
Out of the 1500 employees available currently at the Manesar unit there are about 1120 newly hired trained technicians as said by MSI.


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Chinese police knock-ed a British journalist to the ground and dragged him away from a pro-Tibet protest yesterday, in an incident that is sure to reopen the debate about interference with media freedom at the Beijing Olympics.
Police hauled John Ray, ITN's China correspondent, from a park less than a mile from the "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium to a nearby restaurant, where they threw his shoes in the corner and sat on his arms, shortly after foreign protesters unfurled a pro-Tibet banner. The reporter said after his release: "I wonder how this fits in with their solemn promise of free and unrestricted reporting... it was a wrestling match.
Ray, who is fully accredited to report in Beijing during the Games, said he was detained for about 20 minutes and his equipment bag was confiscated, despite repeated protestations in Chinese that he was a journalist. He was thrown into a police van and he had bruising on his hand from where a police officer stood on it, he said.
The pro-Tibetan independence group, Students for a Free Tibet, said two of its protesters who unfurled the banner were arrested while six other members were also detained for protesting nearby. They included six Americans, an Israeli-American and a Japanese national.
Last month, the Beijing Olympic organisers said they were introducing three "protest parks" where anyone who wanted to express their opinions could do so. However, the demonstrations require approval and any protests that might harm "national unity" and "national, social or collective interests" are forbidden.
Ji Sizun, 58, who describes himself as a grassroots legal activist from Fujian province, was arrested this week after he applied for a permit to hold a protest in one of the three designated protest zones. In his application, Mr Ji said the protest would call for greater participation of Chinese citizens in political processes, and denounce rampant official corruption.
When it was awarded the right to stage the Games in 2001, China pledged to allow foreign media to report just as they would anywhere in the world, but the government has been criticised for continuing to block reports on sensitive issues, such as Tibet and Xinjiang.
The British embassy expressed "strong concern" to the Chinese authorities about the incident involving Ray. Jonathan Watts, president of The Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) in Beijing, said: "The FCC is appalled by this treatment of an accredited journalist within half-a-mile of the main Olympic stadium. We call on the authorities to return his equipment, to apologise and, if it is proved that a crime has been committed, to punish those responsible."


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|Rear Adm H.K. Hewitt (NHHC Image)
Amphibious Force Atlantic Fleet (AMPHIBLANT) had been established five months earlier under Rear Adm. Roland M. Brainard, who was replaced by Rear Adm. H. Kent Hewitt the following month. Its headquarters was originally posted to Building 138, near the docks of Naval Operating Base Norfolk that was already functioning as headquarters for the Subordinate Command, Surface Force Atlantic Fleet. "It was like the Joads moving in on country cousins," wrote one junior member of the staff of the experience of trying to coexist in a "two-story wooden shack... that bulged with more life than a guinea-pig hutch." When Hewett arrived to inspect his new office, wrote the lieutenant, "[t]he admiral said nothing, but in his astonishment, he replaced his pipe in his mouth, bowl first."
Hewett quickly came to the conclusion that a larger headquarters would be required for his joint Navy-Army staff. "Early steps were inaugurated," he wrote later, "to find a satisfactory location which would give us what our enemies would have called lebensraum." No larger buildings could be secured on NOB (now known as Naval Station) Norfolk or the adjoining naval air station, so he turned to the nearby Nansemond Hotel, built on the site of an earlier Nansemond Hotel that had been erected to welcome visitors to the 1907 Jamestown Exposition, but had burned to the ground in 1920. The 125-room hotel already housed an Army squadron headquarters, but that was to change after AMPHIBLANT came knocking.
By the time it was officially established as Headquarters, Amphibious Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet in early September, the hotel had been transformed into a garrison. Nissen huts to billet enlisted Soldiers and Sailors were also constructed next door at the Susan Constant Shrine Park, advancing the military mission of the former vacation retreat. With its red tile roof, Moorish architectural features and stucco exterior, surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed sentries, the hotel became Norfolk's latter-day version of the Alamo. Like the Alamo, it was prepared to be attacked. Troops stormed the beach in front of the hotel, day and night, over the following months. Unlike the Alamo, it was all for training.
The lobby and registration desk of the Nansemond Hotel in 1940. (Courtesy of the Ocean View Station Museum, Norfolk, Virginia)
The Nansemond Hotel entrance, taken sometime during the 1940s.
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|The heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA 31) in April 1942. (NHHC Image)
In addition to an "Operation Torch Room," a "Casablanca Room" was also dedicated at the Nansemond Hotel many years after the operations planned in secret there became public knowledge. (Courtesy of the Ocean View Station Museum, Norfolk, Virginia)


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PBS dispensing checklist for community pharmacies.
Prescription validity
To be eligible for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) or Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (RPBS) supply, a prescription must be valid under state or territory law and written by an approved PBS prescriber.
Prescribers are required to comply with prescribing restrictions relevant to their profession as listed in the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits (the Schedule).
To ensure prescriptions are valid
- original prescriptions must be provided in duplicate, and
- handwritten in ink by the prescriber on a standard PBS prescription, or
- generated by computer on a form approved by us
- repeat or deferred authorisation forms must be attached to the related 'Patient/Pharmacist' copy of the prescription
- generally prescriptions are valid for 12 months from the date of prescribing. Under state or territory laws some prescriptions are only valid for 6 months
- Authority required and Authority required (STREAMLINED) items must be prescribed on a PBS authority prescription or approved PBS hospital prescription
Patient details
Pharmacists must ensure the patient's full name and address is recorded on the prescription and that the pharmaceutical benefit is for the use of the prescribed person. These details are to be recorded on the prescription by the prescriber.
For claiming purposes ensure
- the patient's details match their Medicare card details
- the patient's Medicare card number is recorded – all 11 digits and the expiry date
- there is a valid entitlement number if applicable – for example, the Health Care Card, Safety Net entitlement or concession card
Prescription details
Check the patient's prescription includes
- the prescriber's name, address and contact details
- the prescriber number
- the patient's name and address
- an indication whether the prescription is under the PBS or RPBS
- sufficient information to identify the pharmaceutical benefit including name, form, strength, quantity and number of repeats
- that the prescriber has indicated where brand substitution is not permitted
- the authority approval number or our approval stamp for Authority required items for example, Z1234AB
- the streamlined authority code, for example 2438, for Authority required (STREAMLINED) items
- the prescriber's signature and date – forward or back dating is not permitted
Pharmacy dispensing software (PDS)
Prescriptions processed using Online Claiming for PBS must use PDS and conform to our requirements.
Select the correct patient profile in the PDS and enter
- the patient's name and address
- the Medicare number and expiry date
- the entitlement number and expiry date if applicable
- the date of prescribing
- the prescriber's details including name, address and prescriber number
- the item details including name, form, strength, quantity, instructions for use and number of repeats prescribed
- the authority prescription number for Authority required items
- the 4 digit streamlined authority code for Authority required (STREAMLINED) items
Always dispense from the original prescription and not from the attached repeat or deferred authorisation form.
Other dispensing requirements
Remember when dispensing to
- ensure the dispensing serial labels are attached in sequence on the 'Human Services/DVA' copy of the prescription and make sure any details written by the prescriber can still be seen. Dispensing labels may be placed on the back of the prescription
- resolve any online rejection and warning messages at the time of supply if applicable
- check the pharmaceutical benefit is correctly ordered by the prescriber, entered in the PDS and supplied to the patient
- make sure all the dispensed prescriptions and repeat authorisation forms once supplied are either:
- signed and dated by the patient
- signed, dated and addressed by their agent, or
- correctly certified as supplied, and signed and dated by the pharmacist
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White House official: Boston 'appears to be ... an act of terror'
President Obama held off calling Monday's explosions in Boston terrorism, but a White House official said all signs point to it being a terror attack.
"Any event with multiple explosive devices -- as this appears to be -- is clearly an act of terror, and will be approached as an act of terror," the official said in a written statement just after Obama spoke in the White House briefing room.
But the official urged some caution. "We don't yet know who carried out this attack, and a thorough investigation will have to determine whether it was planned and carried out by a terrorist group, foreign or domestic."


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Support the Book Launch and Receive a FREE KnifeThis Thursday, November 29, 2012 we will be launching the NEW BUCK NAKED book. The first 100 books sold on Amazon will receive a FREE folding knife with the Buck Naked logo engraved on the handle.
This is an advanced notice to my blog readers. Only those purchasing a book on
November 29th will be eligible to receive the FREE knife.
You'll have to wait until Thursday to buy your book if you want to receive a FREE knife.
Please forward this e-mail to all of your hunting friends. OR at least those friends you want to give the opportunity to receive a FREE knife.
There's only one catch. The book must be purchased through Amazon.com and must be purchased on Nov.29, 2012. Only the first 100 books sold will receive the FREE knife.
To receive your FREE knife simply purchase a copy of Buck Naked from Amazon.com on Nov. 29th.
Email a copy of your receipt along with your mailing address to email@example.com and we'll ship you a knife for free.
Here's the link, but wait until Thursday
The book has a complete new look. Apple Creek Whitetail Ranch provided the new cover image as well as the interior deer images. Apple Creek's John Eriksson does an amazing job photographing whitetails.
If you haven't checked out their website, do it now. You won't believe the videos and pictures.
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I've been actively boycotting this store since last October. At that time, Georgetown Cupcake participated in an event called the Taste of Georgetown. At the event, you buy tickets and use them as payment for samplings of food from various restaurants. Georgetown Cupcake ran out of cupcakes at their booth, but told people if they went to the store, they could redeem the tickets for two cupcakes per ticket. I didn't go, buy heard from my parents that when they got over to the store, the line went around the block. (The situation is nicely described at Nerdvana, about halfway down the page.)
Call me cyncial, but my questions were these:
- How did they have so many cupcakes at the store, but not enough at their booth?
- Since the store is only a couple blocks away, why didn't they bring more cupcakes to the booth as needed?
Anyway, not cool.
What I haven't told you is that there's another cupcake store in Georgetown, called Baked and Wired. Their cupcakes are my favorite, and they also have other baked goods--breads, pies, and cakes that are scrumptuous. They also have coffee, chai, and regular tea, AND they have a couple of nice seating areas with couches and big tables. I actually think the folks at Baked and Wired would make for better TV, considering 1) the name of their store, in and of itself, and 2) the fact that they sell a product called "Hippie Crack." (It's a highly addictive granola mix.)
So, although my inclination is continue my boycott and ignore this TLC show altogher, I'm now very curious to see what time of year it was shot and if the whole Cupcake Debacle is included. I've got a couple weeks to figure out what to do. We shall see.


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A song by Canadian electronic music producer Joel Zimmerman (aka deadmau5). There are two versions of this song: one with vocals by MC Flipside and one without vocals. Both are high quality listening material :)
'Hi Friend' is an awesome track!!!!
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An old acquaintance towards whom you are either luke warm or simply ambivalent and who you do not usually wish to engage in casual conversation. As a result your only interaction with this person is a brief "hi," "hello," or perhaps a (rhetorical) "what's up?" or "how's it going" when you happen to see them at the mall or encounter them awkwardly at the company watercooler.
Although I was close to Gabriel in high school, he's just a hi-friend to me now.
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In the latest US presidential election the americans could choose between a neoliberal candidate and a neofascist. 46% of the americans who were entitled to vote didn't bother about it.
Next year it's presidential election in France and the people of France will also get a chance to choose between neoliberalism and neofascism. It's no longer unlikely that Marine Le Pen will become France's next president.
Both social democratic and liberal parties here in Europe have a neoliberal political agenda and the neofascist parties are getting stronger and stronger. The left wing is very small and powerless.


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5 offline ways to promote your blogs and site:-
1. Email marketing:-
This concept used in various sites and blogs. This method is excellent to promote your sites (products and services).if you collect more email address and name of visitors then you can achieve more profit from site. This is also called newsletter and subscribe ways .you can sent every updated of your sites and blogs to you visitors with email. The visitors came from this methods is called target or interest visitors Because for e.g;if you sites is about coffee then they may be interest on coffee . so that they leave their email address and name at the subscriber forum. If you know php and mysql programming then you can used it. If you don't know then there is some site which provide freely. I suggested you that always used subscribe bottom on the top of homepage.try to collect more visitors email address and get more traffic.
2. Using tell-a friend- script:-
I request to offer some of free e-books to your visitor. So they can download and leave some friends e-mail address. For e.g.: if you used follows methods then I will guaranteed that they leave friends email address. "Tell a only 3 friends email address about this site and claim value $87 e-book free." If you are confused how to make e-books then I will help you or contact me.
It is one of effetely methods to promote.
3. Using forum:-
You can discuss or comments about different topic of the forum. By providing backline of you sites name. if you post more comments or feedback about different topic then there is more promotion. Don't copy and paste other comments because forum master may terminal you account and kick for the site. Always post unique topic on forum so that most of people came to you topic for discuss. If you have part time then always imagine for strong topic and used it on online.
4. T-shirt marketing:-
For this marketing you should expenses some amount on t-shirt & printing. If you have old t-shirt and clothes then you make printing it with stylist site name on the back of t-shirt. So other can copy it. Or can also provide t-shirt as a prize to your regular visitor at a monthly. Or make a program of lucky visitor of this month give it.
5. Article marketing:-
If you have the habit of writing articles then that is plus point you to marketing your products and service. You write different topics of article of you sites or products. And submit to the blogs directory. in this process don't forget to give backlink of you sites. Make of habit of writes toy sites reviews and submit it time to time. Another thing is that always write a articles as a present situation of you products or goods even sites.
For eg:- you site is about medicine or medicine shop then you should talk about different disease of present time like:- birdflue,hiv,sarce and also its medicine so other can go on you sites and buy it .
I am a student and struggling for bright career in online marketing company so please must reply me your experience about these articles if you feel good by my solution. It will motivate me.


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Oh yeah, gotta love Kansas. Christmas Eve? Cold and gross. Christmas warmed up to 50-something. Two days later and we went back to cold stuff falling out of the sky. Today? It's supposed to get warm again and melt this snow. I have weather whiplash!
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I'm a British national, born in
Nottingham, but my mother was born German. My father was British, and they met after the war and got engaged. Later, my mother came over and married him, and we were born.
This is a picture of me with my brother, I'm a little half-German kid in my first ever dirndl. I was so proud of it – it was one of those dresses you remember all your life because they were just perfect. I wish I'd kept it for my kids.
In my childhood I was surrounded by images of evil Germans. German spies were the villains in many of the adventure stories and comics my brother and I read, and they were always cold-eyed men – occasionally fat, cruel women – who said: 'Schweinhund' a lot, and enjoyed torturing people. If kids were portrayed, they were fat, ugly and greedy. It felt like a series of slaps in the face. Later, when I found out about the Holocaust, another image added itself: they had all adored Hitler and hated Jews.
Only the images didn't fit with the Germans I lived with. My mother was slender and beautiful, and my grandmother was beautiful too, though worn by years of mental illness. She'd become ill when my grandfather was persecuted in 1933 for being a leftist – he'd never liked the Nazis. There's more detail about this on my website, so I don't want to go into that now, but the story was true. I've read his file in the German Federal Archive. He was a policeman, and he only just managed to keep his life and his job.
During that period my grandmother was constantly harassed by the Nazi women who'd say: 'You're scum, you'll end up in concentration camp.' When my grandfather was finally allowed to stay in the police force, she attempted suicide and had repeated 'nervous breakdowns' subsequently. Every time she was hospitalised my mother was afraid she'd be murdered, as many mentally ill people were during that time, especially because when she did become ill she'd say that Hitler was the Antichrist. Maybe the only thing that kept her alive was that we was the wife of an up-and-coming police officer – a good incentive for my grandfather to toe the line. And my mother had a best friend, in her teenage years, who was a quarter Jewish – who was killed, tragically, by the RAF in a bombing raid.
When I got older, I started to want to know about the Holocaust, and that was where my mother didn't want to help. She'd been a child when the Nazis came to power, she'd never wanted to believe the rumours about what was happening, and when they were proved to be true she found if she thought about them she went into a depression. I discovered that last fact years later, but all I knew when I asked the questions was that I was pushed away. Of course, it didn't stop me wanting to know. I read everything I could find, trying to understand the reality of Nazi Germany and how people who I knew not to be monsters but ordinary human beings could lend themselves to such crimes and let them happen.
Now I've written my own fiction about the period. Not just because I want my readers to understand how difficult and dangerous it was to resist Hitler – though that is part of it. Trying to tell it how it was is another way of seeking to understand. It's meant facing up to some awful truths about what human beings are capable of – and I do mind that they were Germans and thus to some extent my countrymen. But I've also found out about the Germans who defied the Nazis and risked their own lives - and sometimes lost them - to save the lives of Jews at that time. There may not have been many of them, but I've been very glad to put that story out into the world.


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Certainly these deaths weigh heavily on the heart of my friend and on the hearts of many people in our country and around the world. But the deaths are not the only reason for the hurt I saw on my friend's face this morning. She's been around for awhile and she understands the systems in place that create the environment for shootings like these to occur. What she is having trouble understanding is the silence of the white community of faith around her. No one reached out to her, no one said a word about the grand jury decision. She doesn't understand how people within her own community can be so uncaring.
Here's the thing - my friend's silent white friends are not uncaring. In fact, some of them are the kindest, most caring people I know. They just don't get it. They don't understand the depth of emotion that surrounds the Brown case and others like it for African Americans. For many whites, the response to the shooting is to analyze the facts - what did eye witnesses say? Why didn't their testimonies agree? What does the forensic evidence show? What kind of person was Michael Brown? What kind of person and police officer is Darren Wilson? Is his story credible? Etc., etc., etc.
Now, let me go on record. I don't find Wilson's story credible. Of course, I can't know for sure what happened, but I find his demonizing of Michael Brown suspicious. Yes, there was an altercation before the shooting. But the one response that I can't get out of my head is that of the construction workers who witnessed the shooting. Perhaps you saw the video - here it is again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sblJdLcgXfU. The way these guys responded, along with the man who walks through the scene with his hands up, unaware he's being videoed, seems too spontaneous and authentic to ignore.
But in a way, that's besides the point. It's more important for me to understand and empathize with the feelings of my African American friends than it is for me to play CSI and analyze the crime scene. I need to accept that my experiences inform my beliefs, and, experientially, I know nothing. I need to listen to those "in the know" if I am to learn.
So, in the spirit of listening, I hope to share some guest posts on this topic from African American friends. It's time to stop analyzing and listen.