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June 22: The Communist Party of India (Maoist) has been banned across most of the Red corridor that cuts through India, but that hasn't stopped the guerrillas in the Naxalite zone from operating with impunity.
The outfit, formed in 2004 following the merger of the CPI(M-L) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) — both of which were centrally-banned organisations — has been at the forefront of an armed "people's struggle" which has claimed thousands and led Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to dub Naxalism as the single biggest threat to internal security.
This, in spite of the outfit being banned by the states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh — among the four most affected by Naxalite terror in the country. The states imposed the ban under their own laws soon after the CPI (Maoist) came into existence.
The central ban came on a day the Maoists have called for a bandh in states where they have a presence. The rebels have even called for a two-day economic blockade in Bastar — the worst-hit region of Chhattisgarh — from June 25.
Once an organisation and its sister groups are banned, the members cannot hold public meetings, conventions or rallies, organise bandhs, raise funds or carry out other activities allowed in a democratic process. The bank accounts of the organisations are frozen, their assets are seized. Warrants are not required to arrest their members and getting bail is extremely difficult.
Worse, persons considered sympathisers of Naxalites or suspected to be abetting their activities also come under the purview of the law.
But the rebel show goes on nonetheless. In Chhattisgarh, for example, over 500 people, most of them security personnel and civilians, have died in Maoist attacks since 2006 when the group was outlawed.
"The ban imposed by the state governments has not yielded the desired result on the ground as most of the activities of the Maoists are underground," said Virendra Pandey, a political observer in Raipur who has tracked Maoist insurgency.
B.K. Tripathy, a former Orissa inspector-general of police, said the ban has had little impact because few Naxalites have been arrested. "How can a member of a banned outfit be arrested without identification by intelligence agencies, which have little presence at the ground level," he said.
Former Orissa police chief S.N. Tiwari agreed, pointing out that a ban has more of a psychological impact rather than serving any practical purpose.
"Owing to the ban, the Maoists have not been able to organise processions or public meetings. But generally, Maoists work underground. They make person-to-person contact and they are guerrilla fighters. So their activities have not been curbed, instead they have intensified since 2006 (when Orissa imposed the ban)," Tiwari said.
The police brass, however, is in favour of the ban. "Criminal law is there across the world, but that does not mean that all criminal activities will be wiped out," argued Chhattisgarh additional director-general of police Girdhari Nayak.
An Andhra police officer said that while Maoist violence had gone up in the first two years since the ban was imposed in 2005, the group's influence had reduced following stringent action — patrolling of forests, slapping of non-bailable cases against the arrested activists and encouraging mass surrenders of underground ultras with rehabilitation and relief packages.
Some states have given sweeping powers to their police to clamp down on the Maoists, banning them under laws with stringent provisions.
For example, the Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act, under which the outfit has been banned in the state, gives the police extraordinary powers. They can arrest any activist — doctors, lecturers, office-bearers of front organisations or anyone suspected to have Maoist links — without a warrant and interrogate anyone without formally arresting them.
Since this is a non-bailable offence, an accused has to be produced before a court after formal arrest. Sources said the authorities are often influenced to remove activists from their jobs and their children from schools.
These sweeping powers have triggered howls of protest from civil rights activists.
The activists said the authorities have unleashed "state-sponsored repression" in rural areas, arresting innocent people on false charges. They alleged that tribal women whose husbands were arrested have been raped, medicines and healthcare denied to patients suspected to be Maoists, basic amenities like water, power and even rice supplies have been cut off to tribal villages suspected to be providing shelter and food to the rebels.
"The ban empowers the police to take any action in villages. For example, they denied tablets to a diabetic teacher in a village in Karimnagar (Andhra Pradesh), charging him of being a Maoist informer," said K. Balgopal, convener of the Human Rights Forum in Hyderabad.
Non-government organisations said banning organisations don't serve any purpose. "You cannot ban an ideology, all you can do is to restrict their activities," said Gautam Bandhopadhyay of Nadi Ghati Morcha in Chhattisgarh.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Outlaw prescription hasn't cured Red corridor-- Human Rights Walas
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The last few days
Thursday 18 Oct:
My first on-duty slot. Cannot go outside the 20km radius from the refinery.
Friday 19 Oct:
Family came from JB. Could not join them to KL, since I was on duty.
Saturday 20 Oct:
Could not leave PD because I was on duty. Missed one open house in Bangi, but went to another one in PD, hosted by a KMB-Bristol mate. Caught up with few friends overthere.
Sunday 21:
Managed to find someone to pass the pager to. Went to one open house in Bangi. The house was like an andalucian abode. Must be inspired by alhambra architecture. Went to the friend's house whose Open House I missed the day before.
Monday 22:
Start of the Essentials of Refining course, organised by Shell Open University. My first time of joining such courses, and at an exaggerated price tag also (EU2100). Took good walk around the infamous Bintang Walk. What a lousy place.
Wednesday 24:
End of course (evening). Twisted my left ankle on the way to KL sentral from the monorail station nearby, due to uneven floor surface. Twisted the same ankle again while going down the stairs near KL sentral platform 6.
Thursday 25:
Back to work. Another day of the 'safety day 2'. Had some discussion, and made few confession on breaching the safety rules around the refinery. Oh the start of my 50-day fasting debt.
Friday 26:
Had the safety day closing ceremony, attended by representative from the local fire station, together with some big bosses from SHELL. The regional manufacturing boss and the global safety boss came to give their speech and bla bla bla...
Saturday 27:
Went to few open houses. Spent good part of the hours doing some work and watching/supervising some repair/project work.
Sunday 28:
Received an early text from a friend, apparently one of our friend's son had passed away. He was involved in an accident. Saddened by the news, infuriated when informed that he was hit by few drunkards, a drink and drive and kill case.
Honestly, there are few things that I discovered over the weekends that really angered me.
1) Two policemen got shot, and were not protected by Kevlar. All of the sudden, money came from sky (PakLah's Office), RM150m for the equipment purchasing and whatnots.
Where is the money all these while? Don't tell me that it actually literally falls from the sky.
MY conclusion:
It is somewhere, accessible to some blokes, who maybe use it for their own benefit. Borrow it for a while, put in fixed deposit, unit trust, shares etc, until a certain period. Comes the call, return the money. Sadly, life lost is irreversible.
Note: 1% profit from RM150m is already Rm1.5m.
2) What does the law state about Drink & Drive?
I believe, not many people know, and maybe the drunkard will get away with 5 or 10 years. Of all we know, they might get away, because crime was committed when they were subconscious. Well, they were consciously consuming, and I would say consciously driving. I belive, the drunk drivers are killers, and killers should all go under the gillotine. FULL STOP. unless forgiven by the victim's family.
3) What does it mean by being a Malaysian
There's so much history and tradition to the country. However, we are damn good in retaining the bad ones, and eliminating the good ones. Look how unfriendly we had become, so much of being masyarakat malaysia yang penyayang. With the crime rates and free sex in the country, I really doubt we are still the community we once were.
On the other hand, corruption remains at the same level (if not worst). I just could not ignore all these.
Being a malaysian means you are being stupid or pretending to be dumb, so that you can just ge on with life (like me).
4) Anwar not co-operating with the government body in the investigation of the video tapes.
Anwar is very much reluctant ni surrendering the original tape of the CM appointment set-up clip. If I were him, I would have done the same thing. Why should I surrender the criminal evidence to the crooks? Happenned to him once (Umi Hafilda-related--> therefore Adult material), and he is determined not to let the same thing happen again.
Where is Justice? Nothing you can really hope much for on the malaysian soil. May as well stay away from the boundary and enjoy life from the outside like the malaysianthinktanklondon.

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… Doubt is one blockage that prevents the manifestation of our desires.
- Vision – have an image, wish, idea of what you want
- intense emotional Desire – excitement
- clear belief – know, it is possible to manifest it and you deserve it
- total acceptance
- focused intension – use your will and focus, concious commandment
- action – act like already in the state you want, body language
- let it go, detach, no expectation – power of paradox
Tell the story of your life how you want it to be.
See also:
- What if money was no object?
- How movies affect consciousness
- Create Your Future By Visioning It
- The Master Key System
- Carniege Formula
- Telepathy & the Gifts of the Spirit


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1clientsI have been working for the past 9 months to reestablish and update my interior designer, architect, developer, and contractor files. I've been reestablishing contact by email, mail and phone. my goal is to get a considered response with regard to the possibliity of us being a useful resource for them
2 for rent
When i'm out on a job or driving around i always have flyers or post cards to leave in a storefront, restaurant , actually any for retail space for rent. i see these as opportunity. these are the places where a new business will go in.
when i see work actually going on i take my portfillio books inside as if I have an appointment already and see if i can speak with the job supervisor. sometimes the owner or designer are on site. they are always interested.
and linked in. I send out messages that relate to my business and leave my web address often. in twitter always change the message
i write this blog. I invent types of restaurants, new concepts, ideas...even what you can do with 400 empty circuit cities.
6 ask for referrals.
if you have good customers go in and leave some card with them, say you've always gotten calls from their customers and wanted to make sure they had some cards so it would be convenient. get the name of the person you gave the cards to. just to thank them.
I've been doing this aggressively persistantly and consistantly for 6 months and the phone has started to ring.


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Eurogenes Online Embryo Sale started!!
The Eurogenes Online Embryo Sale started through the website of http://www.auction.eurogenes.nl . The sale will run untill Friday, 09.00 PM. Some of the most incredible TYPE and EXCLUSIVE embryos are selling such as: FEMALE embryos out of the Doorman granddtrs to RF Goldwyn HAILEY EX-97-CAN (2x GRAND @ Madison), RED Sillian offsprings, FEMALE embryos out of the ATACAMA EX-95 family (2x Res. Grand @ Swiss Expo), embryos from the ASHLYN EX-96 family and many more! Click further for complete catalogue and more.
Date: June 12 untill 16
Click here for the online catalogue
A few examples from embryos in this auction:
Embryos selling out of HAILEY'S DOORMAN granddaughters!
Lot 1 Female Callen x Doorman x Aftershock x RF Goldwyn Hailey EX-97-CAN
Lot 16. Female Chief x Doorman x Aftershock x RF Goldwyn Hailey EX-97-CAN
Lot 4. Dukefarm SILLIAN x Lis Tiara-Red VG-NL VG-87-MS 2yr.
* Make RED SILLIAN offspring!!
* Sillian has a unique GTPI & TYPE index: GTPI +2687 / PTAT +3.01
* Tiara is dam to Tiger-Red @ Ascol
* Tiara is a great production cow, proj. at >11.000 kg milk in her 1st La in 305 days!
Lot 6. Walnutlawn SOLOMON x Mox Annouk EX-91-DE
* SOLOMON: The sire of lovely type heifers!
* EX-91 Sid x EX-91 x Ashlyns Angel EX-96 x Tri-Day Ashlyn EX-96!!
* Incredible SHOW type pedigree
Lot 5. BAILY CHEN x Flora Brokaw Mahorie VG-86-ES VG-87-MS La1
* Incredible TYPE branch from Whittier-Farms Lead Mae!
* Dams sister: Flora Atwood Mahela VG-88 3yr. (picture) is 2x class winner @ Int. Dairy Show Italy
* Full mating to this lot: Flora Bailey Chen Mahara was 2nd @ Int. Dairy Show Verona '17!!


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Well another day in paradise! I'm just glad it's sunny today! It has been raining non-stop since last Monday and today is the first day that the sun has been out since then.
|An awesome rainbow after one of the many rains
Glad to hear everything is going great with soccer, basketball, jojo, braces, Nebraska, Mesa, and Emmi and Hal. For real I miss you guys so much. I miss taking trips down to Mesa - those were the best. I also miss staying up with you dad and watching YouTube videos, and I miss cruising around with mom going to stores and stuff, and taking Sam and Ben to practice. It's all right though being out here is awesome and I meet so many awesome families that are super loving.
I gave a talk yesterday in Kilauea Ward. It went pretty well I thought. It was on faith and obedience. Seriously, like speaking in public is not even an issue really for me anymore. I have to give another talk in Kaumana Ward this Sunday with a returned missionary. The work is still going good but it is a little dry. This week we had 18 lessons, which is really good, and we visited 8 part-member / less active families that we had never seen before. We can't find any new investigators though. That's what we are struggling with. The wards don't help out at all with referrals. Super laid back. If we do find anything its all from our own efforts.
|I'm struggling trying to find new investigators - you can see it in my face...
We are trying this new thing that our Ward Mission Leader set up with Preach My Gospel. We want to have the families in the ward get familiar with the lessons in Preach My Gospel and then ultimately they will study the lessons and teach us and do some role play so they won't be scared to do the same with their neighbors or whoever they run into. We have a baptism scheduled for Nov. 26th to a kid who is part of a active members home but just never got baptized when he was 8 so were teaching him right now. So it still counts as one. They are really stressing the 15 names thing in ward council. Dad, did you ever do the 15 names? If so how did you regulate that to the different auxiliaries to make sure they would do it because, they never do it here. Hilo is just a dry area I'm pretty sure. Oahu always has stuff happening there especially west side of Oahu like Waiani, Makakilo, and Millilani. Hopefully I go over there soon. I hear that if you have a Polynesian comp. then you baptize so many people because they are just baptizing machines.
|Elder Burbidge (my Zone Leader) and I after tracting in a torrential downpour!
I'm getting more and more comfortable with everything. It just makes me feel better to know that I'm in Hawaii. I sort of have a feeling that I might be training next transfer - haha that will be really crazy. Well 'm glad to hear everything is going good! I love you all.
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text: TITUSVILLE -- Brevard County sheriff's divers Sunday found the body of a 16-year-old Titusville boy in South Lake just west of the city after a boating accident, authorities said. Timothy Butler Jr. apparently drowned. The teen and four adults went boating about 6:30 p.m. Saturday and spent some time on a small island, drinking beer, authorities said. On the way back to shore, the water was rough and their borrowed Gheenoe, a motorized canoe, lost power and sank. The other boaters made it to shore.


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I want to change. Everything. Well, ok, not everything, but quite a few things. It's not that I am ungrateful for my life as it is at the moment, I like my life, I am very lucky to have what I have and I do appreciate it sometimes. I just want more. I want a better job that excites me and has possibilities and challenges. I want to move to a better area. I want a house. I just want a better way of living. Just like those who live in Lulworth. The way of living there seems to be simpler, happier, and even healthy. I've discovered an amazing place, and now nothing, not even "home" can compare to it. I know I have it better than most, and I shouldn't complain or wish for better things. But it's hard when you know that there is so much out there, so many things that are better than what you currently have. There is no way that I feel like I have reached my full potential yet (well, duh, I am only 22), and I feel like the way I am living won't help me to achieve it. I don't know. I'm just being contemplative after having my eyes opened to a gorgeous place. It's only on the south coast of England, and there are probably far more places around the world that I will discover one day, but it felt like home, like I belong there.
I just keep thinking over and over that I'm wasting my life (and my degree!) doing what I am doing and that I need to move on, fast. Then again, my parents keep telling me "for goodness sake, you're only 22, live, stop thinking about the future." I feel conflicted with what I want to do, what I should do, how I should be, how I am, how I want to be.
I need to go back to Lulworth and contemplate a bit more. I wish!
I think, as Queen put it "I want it all, and I want it now!"
I think, as Queen put it "I want it all, and I want it now!"


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Native New Yorker Gordon Voidwell, whose real name is Will Johnson, has slowly but surely been climbing to the top of the blogosphere. His mix of pop/funk with a splash of psychedelia, in addition to his colorful look of preppy geek chic, has worked well in his favor and attracted attention from fans and critics quickly.
After Voidwell's release of The Voided Checks Mixtape, he's been dabbling in production and working with battle rap king Iron Solomon. Last year the pair worked on "Spring Fever" and have released the video for the track. Voidwell is also featured in Solomon's debut album, Monster. Feel free to check out the video for "Spring Fever" below.
SPRING FEVER – Iron Solomon ft. Gordon Voidwell from Spoonfed Entertainment on Vimeo.


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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
tagged by Cik Ienn
Starting time: 8:49pm
Name: Shakirah, Kirah, La, Ira, Lala, Rara, Shakey and the list goes on! :)
Sisters: 4 (i'm the baby girl)
Brothers: 2 (the first and last)
Shoe size: 9 or 10 (kaki gajah)
Height: 168cm
Where do u live: Currently in Seri Kembangan
Have u ever been on a plane: Yes
Swam in the ocean: Not yet
Fallen asleep at school: Selalu kot?
Broken someone's heart: Yes, and I am really sorry for that.
Fell off your chair: I cant remember, maybe when i was a lil kid.
Sat by the phone all night waiting for someone to call: Yerps. And I really hate waiting!
Saved emails: Yes, the important ones only.
What is your room like: It's pink,purple,red and white. It is soo ME!
What's right beside u: A pillow
What is the last thing u ate: kaya bread
Ever had...Chicken pox: NEVER!! dan saya sangat takott esp bila disakat oleh kawan2 saya yg nakal! depa kata kalau kena masa tua lagi terokkk uwaaaaaa :((
Stiches: Ngakk
Broken nose: Alhamdulillah, never.
Do u believe in love at first sight: Yes, I do. But I never had any.
Like picnics: Yes!
Who was/were...
The last person u danced with: Nobody. So sad ..
Last made u smile: My funny colleagues! Especially Nava and Bahadur.
Today did u...
Talk to someone u like: Like of course!
Kissed anyone: Today? No.
Get sick: Just recover from bad cough.
Miss someone: Yes, my future boyfriend. Who? Hehe!
Who do u really hate: My enemy. Oh wait. Do I have an enemy? Maybe a backstabber/liar.
Do u like your hand-writing: Big NO. I prefer to type in Microsoft word or even notepad!
Are your toe nails painted: I'd love to, I think it's beauutiful. Galak.
Whose bed other that yours would u rather sleep in: Ermmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
What color shirt are u wearing now: Pink and white
Are u a friendly person: Erm yes. kot? Well, it depends. I prefer to be approach first.
Do u have any pets: Na ah
Do u sleep with the TV on: No No No. I only sleep at the comfy place. Except in the class!
What are u doing right now: Watching Tv and surfing the net
Can u handle the truth: I have to.
Are u closer to your mother or father: Mother. May she rest in peace.
Do u eat healthy: Honestly, no.
If u're having a bad day, who are u most likely to go to: I prefer to be alone.
Are u loud or quiet most of the time: I can be both. I'm loud with the people I know, if not, I'll be quiet.
Are u confident: People say that I am, but sometimes I am not. I guess it depends on the situation.
5 things I was doing 10 years ago:
-I was a naughty student(i mean, really!) in SGGS, Penang. One word, MELAMPAU!
-Slimmer than now!!! Uwaaaa
-Formed a group; Disaki, but has been named as 6 jahanam by the warden, we've been punish like every weeks. And the climax is "How Perfect is Prefect" Remember? deng!
-kena marah dgn ustazah Masri!!! Hahahahahahahahahahahaa
-I've got a m.s(member special) hahahahhahhhaahhaaharam!
Ienn, stop laughing!!
5 things I would do if I were a billionaire:
-pay my DEBTS
-make my parents happy by fulfilling their needs and wants.
-invest/buy insurance for the future
-shoppingggggggggggggggg! and get myself a BMW(it's a must) and my very own private condo.
-start my own business, probably a restaurant, just like Bora Ombak. Hee.
5 of my bad habits:
-missplace my things and ask my frens where is it?. it happens always! I can even sms them and ask whether have they seen my things or not. So bad!
-cepat risau
-M word.
-bad eating habits.
5 places I've lived/living
-Sg Dua (tmpt sebenar dirahsiakan)
-Penang (when I was a hostelite)
-Bukit Beruang, Melaka
-Cyberjaya (almost 5 years! I can get Cyberjaya Permanent Resident! but I really love this place)
-Seri Kembangan ( still new to this place, but I'm loving it)
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2 comments:
- cik_ienn said...
samdollah, aku memang tgh gelak tahan la nih..dok teringat nostalgia hg ngan ustazah masri. cam haaaarrrrrrruuuuuuunnnn salem bachik.
- Wed Nov 12, 02:04:00 PM
hahaha lawak ah
boley gelak sorg2 kot kt dpn monitor ni :)
- Thu Nov 13, 02:33:00 PM
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Hello, I am a junior in high school and today I went on a job shadow in the NICU (b/c that is my area of interest). When I was talking to the nurses the majority of them told me NOT to be a nurse b/c you have to work holidays, weekends, nights, tough to get vacation, not very flexible anymore, bad pay & too much work (high work load of patients), lack of respect (by doctors and public), that you can contract diseases very easily & it is even possible if you wear a gown, gloves, and mask, also they said that nursing school was awful and if they knew that was how nursing school was that would have never become a nurse. When I asked them if they went back in time if they would become a nurse all over again and most of them said NO!!!! I have been so excited to become a nurse ever since I was in 8th grade but now I am lost and confused and don't know what I should do. Any insight at all would help. If you would be willing to be an e-mail buddy or have any comments please e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com
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When you ask someone for an honest opinion, you shouldn't be surprised if they give you one.
I will say that there are many reasons not to do it. BUT only you can decide if you want to try it. It is the hardest job I ever loved.
There is an entire forum here for just this question. Would you recommend nursing?Apr 8, '02Don't let this one encounter with nurses spook you out. Maybe these nurses would be saying the same thing if they were flight attendants, or office workers. For me, it's a great feeling to make the decision to enter nursing at 37. A phew nurses moaning about their lives is not what nursing is about.
Besides, by the time you finish school, I will have been a nurse for a phew years and will have changed all the problems currently in nursing fo the better. Watch. :-)Apr 8, '02I'm surprised that came from NICU nurses. Our NICU nurses are the happiest bunch in the whole hospital because they have EXCELLENT staffing ratios, a great manager, and good relationships with the docs.Apr 8, '02sounds like a bunch of grumpy, unhappy, overworked and underpaid nurses telling you this. did they have anything good to say about nursing? i hate that all some nurses do is complain, complain, complain and don't encourage anyone to do it. that is my biggest pet peeve.
i wouldn't change my profession for the world. yes, nursing school is hard, but everyone on this board got through it, and if i ever had to go through it again personally i would. yes, working weekends, nights and holidays sucks, but hell a lot of us work 3 12 hour days a week and get 4 off...that is not so horrible, considering everyone else in the world has to work all day for 5 days, and only get 2 days off. yes, we are underpaid...but money isn't everything, and it is a lot more than what some ppl make. i am living comfortably. yes, there is a nursing shortage and we are overworked, nobody can argue that. yes, some doctors treat us as if we are nothing, but i have met a lot more doctors that value my opinions and my work. yes, you can catch diseases but not that easily, i personally have had 2 bloody needle sticks and am negative for everything. i have been coughed on, puked on, peed on...and i am not sick. i know a nurse that has been there for 35 years, and has had everything happen to her...she is negative for everything. it is a risk...but everyjob has some risks...right?
i feel that nursing is very rewarding. seeing someone leave the ICU after they were sooo sick is rewarding. getting a hug and a thanks from the patient or their family members, gives me the best feeling. when a doctor comes up to you and says "thanks for doing this or catching that" makes you feel valued. many of my coworkers have become my good friends, there is a lot of commradery. ect....
do what your heart tells you!! i grew up wanting to be a nurse, i shadowed and got the same answers you did. i still listened to my heart...and now i am a proud RN!
beckyApr 8, '02Don't let anyone dampen your enthusiasm. Do a lot of research and do what YOU feel you will be happiest doing. A lot of nurses are very unhappy today due to the changes that are occuring in healthcare. I think that the majority of them want to NURSE, and sometimes that's hard to do with all of the BS...
Would I do it again? Absolutely. Despite my grumblings on here, and at home to my (nurse) husband, I mostly feel my job is rewarding, and I enjoy assisting my patients with recovery, and even to have a dignified and comfortable death if that's where they're going...
Besides, I make VERY good money (compared to a lot of people, although I do feel I deserve more ) and I only work 3 12's a week.
Email me if you have ANY questions or just want some advice...Apr 8, '02I think in any career it is what you make it. I am a NICU nurse and I love taking care of my babies. There are so many avenues to this profession. I have to admit most nurses have legitimate gripes about their profession but many of them are not doing anything to make it easier. I say go for it. See for yourself. I think you may like it. I truly love what I do. I made a niche for myself. I don't work full time and do weekends unless I want to. As you go in the profession you will see many options lay before you. I say give it a chance. :-)Apr 9, '02i bet that the majority of those nurses who told you not to enter the profession, are the first to complain about the nursing shortage.
i think that you will make the "right" decision, regardless of what you decide to do because only you know what is best for YOU. my godmother discouraged me to enter the field and i did it despite all of her attempts to pursuade me otherwise, and i love my profession!!!Apr 9, '02As a CNA, I make "decent" money, not what a full blown RN gets paid. However, money and feeling good about helping people is another story. If you like to help people (and work amongst some surses who I heard will attack you) then you can be proud, and sometimes money can by pride.
You know. Tomorrow is my first day as a full blown CNA :-)Apr 9, '02
Hey daisy16....... All those things you mention happens.
As for me I don't want to become a nurse but out in a blue during my college years i went for an interview which send me to a nursing school and come to love it.
Now am working not for the money, but for people. I love my work which is very challenging and tough. And i love being a nurse eventhough nursing is regarded low here in vietnam , who cares, it's only what people say and i don't give a hell of what others say. Think of what you want to do and go for it. ONly you can make a best possible decision.Apr 9, '02I suggest you FULLY research nursing before you decide. There are good points..making a difference in a person's life is the best one of all. As far as the MD's attitude towards nursing... it really depends on the culture of the unit and of the hospital. For the most part it is not like that on my unit and nurses are respected, but you must prove yourself. You will always have doctors who look down at nurses, especially if they ALLOW it. There are a lot of very bad points about nursing. The pay is VERY low compared to similar degrees and the worst part is as a bedsie nurse it never increases much with time. New grads make what an experienced nurse makes just about. Would I do it again? No, probably not. The money and night shifts and lack of unity in the profession would keep me away. You have to decide for yourself. Try a position as an aide. That will give you more insight. Good luck.Apr 9, '02Daisy16
There is a lot of great responses posted here. I just wanted to add my two cents as well I, like you, had always wanted to be a nurse. I lived through nurses by listening to the stories of the few that I knew personally. It is a career where there is A LOT of hard work involved.
Nursing School is hard, YES INDEED. You have to look at it this way....you are dealing with the lives of people and life is precious. As a nurse you will have the ability to help in a way that few can. Yes, there are down sides to the career...but show me which job doesn't.
Some look at nights/weekend work as dreadful...I loved night/weekend work. It provided me the shift needed...I didn't have to place my five children under the care of someone else. (I understand that there are a lot of families that must take advantage of the day care system). There is also the added bonus that it pays more if your employer has the Baylor program.
I love being a nurse and would NOT change it for anything in the world. Good Luck and keep us posted.....if you ever need words of encouragement, I along with a lot of others would be more than happy to give them.
Cindy in Okinawa, Japan
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That Fag. - Poem by Stephen Beckett
To place the brown stick within ones mouth
To inhale the sticky smog
To make pretty lips, become burnt, crusted
When it enters the cave on your face
Do you know what you are doing?
Sure it's fun at the time
With your mates and all
But how many years have you taken away from yourself
How much of your life will you never see?
Don't forget the side affects…
The stagnant touch upon ones tongue
The swamp like taste
The urge to cough, splutter, spit.
It goes away, but was it really all that enjoyable
Would you do it again, and why?
It doesn't even make you high
And do you even know what's in it?
The cold lung cancer
The strike of strokes
The smokers cough, yellow eyes
Bad breath and unbelievable abuse
That fag.
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With public transport demand expected to almost double by 2040, the City of Johannesburg is increasingly prioritising investment in public transport infrastructure and services across the metropolis.
The city of Johannesburg said on their website that it has recognised that enhancing mobility through the provision of reliable public transport will play a key role in improving Johannesburg's economic viability and competitiveness.
"Enhancing mobility throughout Johannesburg is also in line with the City's priority of growing the economy by at least 5% and reducing unemployment by 6% by 2021," the website said.
The Johannesburg Transport Department is making the use of public and non-motorised transport an increasingly attractive and viable option through strategic public transport infrastructure development and investment initiatives.
The public transport morning peak-hour demand is predicted to total 617 000 commuters by 2040, from 298 000 in 2010, according to the City's 2017-2018 Integrated Development Plan (IDP).
"Public transport demand in Johannesburg is thus projected to more than double over the next 25 years," reads the IDP document.
To make public transport more attractive and to begin to plan for future growth, the City has allocated its Transport Department a capital expenditure budget of more than R1.9-billion for the 2017-2018 financial year.
The expansion of the Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system is on track, with the rollout of the Phase 1C route – along Louis Botha and Katherine avenues, between the Johannesburg inner City, Alexandra and the Sandton CBD in Region E – expected to be completed by October 2018.
The City's BRT system was first introduced in 2006 with the establishment of Phase 1A, a 25.5km trunk route from Soweto to the Johannesburg CBD and Ellis Park with 31 stations. This was followed by Phase 1B, a 16.7km trunk route from Soweto to the CBD via the western suburbs of Westdene, Parktown and Braamfontein with 17 stations. The 17.2km Phase 1C route will have 10 stations.
Future plans for BRT
In the new financial year, the City will spend more than R643-million on Rea Vaya BRT operations alone.
The City also runs Metrobus, which transports more than 50 000 passengers daily, according to the City.
To deliver this key service, the City has allocated R77.75-million to its public bus passenger service – including R58-million to purchase new buses, R9.5-million to convert the existing fleet to run on gas and diesel, R4-million on the refurbishment of the engines and gearboxes of identified existing fleet and R3.75-million on alterations and upgrades.
The City has also created a single public transport website, mobisite and mobile application called Vaya Moja, which will include comprehensive information on public transport routes, times, prices and, in future, minibus-taxi services.
In Region B, the City will spend about R1.5-million in the 2017-2018 financial year on the design and construction of a park-and-ride facility in Greenside.
In Region D, which includes most parts of Soweto, the City will spend R25-million on the design and construction of a public transport facility in Zola and about R2-million on the development of complete streets for non-motorised and multi-modal use between Orlando East and the Soweto campus of the University of Johannesburg in Pimville.
Another R13-million will be spent on the development of non-motorised transport facilities and pedestrian walkways linking the Dube, Merafe and Mzimhlophe railway stations.
In Region F, in the inner city, more than R10-million has been allocated for the development of dedicated public transport lanes. More than R3-million has been set aside for nodal regeneration projects in Braamfontein Precinct and Gandhi Square.
In Region G, southern Johannesburg, the City will spend a total of R72-million on the establishment of three public transport facilities – R25-million in Driezik, another R25-million in Orange Farm Ext 17 and R22-million in Zakariyya Park.


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Did you ever have a dream so vivid and real that in the first few moments after you wake up, you feel like it really happened? Or have you ever had the same dream repeat several times? I don't always have the best dreams so waking up with that feeling and then realizing that I was just dreaming can be a relief. On the other hand, my husband always goes on these fabulous vacations in his dreams, so I guess it must be disappointing when he wakes up and realizes that he has to go to work.
I had a 6 month follow-up appointment with my oncologist the other day. He is a such a nice man and I really do enjoy the small chit chat we engage in during each visit. Keeping the conversation flowing while he fully examines me is also very helpful (especially when you're naked from the waist up) and calming. One thing the doc mentioned was that it has been about 2 years since I started chemo. Wow, I had not even really been counting. My response was that it is starting to feel like it "almost never really happened…" My hair is now blonde, falls between my chin and shoulders and the chemo curls/waves are definitely gone. My daily activities are normal and I have a full social calendar. So, yes, it is almost as if I had a bad dream, woke up and now feel relieved that the events of my dream never even occurred (however, in the back of my mind, I do recognize that it did actually take place).
I realize that some people process and come to terms with their cancer experiences differently. For some, they might feel stuck in their bad dream and have a hard time waking up. I was talking to my aunt (another BC survivor) over the weekend about my intent to stop Tamoxifen after 3 years. During our brief conversation I never felt like I had to explain my reasoning to her. We both agreed that it happened, we got through it and we both feel confident that it will never happen to either of us again (talk about the power of positive thinking)!
Even though I still live with some of the after effects of cancer (daily Tamoxifen pills, hot flashes, putting our family plans on hold, etc), I feel like I am in a good place and really can focus on bigger and better dreams (hopefully more of those fun vacations)!!!


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The Ellis Island Medals of Honor are awarded to individuals who have made it their mission to share their knowledge, courage, compassion and talents while maintaining the traditions of their ethnic heritage. Since the award was first given in 1986, the medal has been recognized by Congress as one of the United States's most prestigious awards. The award is presented during a ceremony on Ellis Island. Dr. Farokhzad currently serves as the director of the Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, where his research is focused on the development of therapeutic nanoparticle technology. The nanotechnologies that Farokhzad has helped pioneer have formed the basis for a new class of targeted nanoparticles for treatment of major human diseases like cancer and cardiovascular disease. Additionally, his research has also been used in the formation of a new class of nanoparticle vaccines and a class of integrative combination nanomedicines that help to treat cancers, inflammation and infectious diseases.
Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the arteries and the leading cause of death worldwide. Therapeutics that can temper inflammation using the body's innate mechanisms are powerful complementary strategies to existing treatments. Our research team in collaboration with Prof. Ira Tabas from Columbia University have developed a polymeric nanoparticle using a rapid microfluidic platform enabling the production of small and robust nanoparticles effectively entrapping IL10 protein (an anti-inflammatory cytokine), in a matter of minutes. The nanoparticles also have a targeting ligand for plaque retention and therefore the ability to release IL-10 in a spatiotemporal manner. These findings were recently published in ACS Nano.
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The recent Worldview feature by Scientific American features a list of 100 Biotech leaders and recognizes leading researchers for their fundamental insights into biological processes, as well as those who develop these insights to create biology-based goods and services that are the essence of biotechnology. The honorees also include entrepreneurs and business experts who have been highly influential in enabling biotechnology to flourish, in addition to key media figures who have helped spread this message to the wider community. Dr. Farokhzad was named an honoree on this list for his work on developing and commercializing nanoparticle based drug delivery systems for the treatment of a range of diseases.
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Nanometer-sized "drones" that deliver a special type of healing molecule to fat deposits in arteries could become a new way to prevent heart attacks caused by atherosclerosis, according to a study in pre-clinical models by the Omid Farokhzad's lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Ira Tabas's lab at Columbia University Medical Center. These findings were published in the February 18th online issue of Science Translational Medicine. Although current treatments have reduced the number of deaths from atherosclerosis-related disease, atherosclerosis remains a dangerous health problem: Atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries is the #1 killer of women and men in the U.S., resulting in one out of every four deaths. In the study, targeted biodegradable nano 'drones' that delivered a special type of drug that promotes healing ('resolution') successfully restructured atherosclerotic plaques in mice to make them more stable. This remodeling of the plaque environment would be predicted in humans to block plaque rupture and thrombosis and thereby prevent heart attacks and strokes. "This is the first example of a targeted nanoparticle technology that reduces atherosclerosis in an animal model," said co-senior author Omid Farokhzad, MD, associate professor and director of the Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials at BWH and Harvard Medical School (HMS). "Years of research and collaboration have culminated in our ability to use nanotechnology to resolve inflammation, remodel and stabilize plaques in a model of advanced atherosclerosis." In this study, targeted nanomedicines made from polymeric building blocks that are utilized in numerous FDA approved products to date, were nanoengineered to carry an inflammation resolving drug payload in the form of a biomimetic peptide called Ac2-26. Furthermore, this peptide was derived from one of the body's own natural inflammation-resolving proteins called Annexin A1. The way the nanomedicines were designed enabled this biological therapeutic to be released at the target site, the atherosclerotic plaque, in a controlled manner.
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A collaboration between Harvard Medical School researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has utilized nanomedicine technologies to develop a drug-delivery system that can precisely target and attack cancer cells in the bone, as well as increase bone strength and volume to prevent bone cancer progression. Bone is a favorable microenvironment for tumor growth and a frequent destination for metastatic cancer cells. Targeting cancers within the bone marrow remains a crucial oncologic challenge due to issues of drug availability and microenvironment-induced resistance. In this study, engineered bone-homing polymeric nanoparticles for spatiotemporally controlled delivery of therapeutics to bone were developed, which diminish off-target effects and increase local drug concentrations. These findings were published online in PNAS (June 30th, 2014 edition) and suggest that bone-targeted nanoparticle anti-cancer therapies offer a novel way to deliver a concentrated amount of drug in a controlled and target-specific manner to prevent tumor progression in multiple myeloma.
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AIPLA's 2015 Women in IP Global Networking Event
Thursday May 21, 2015 — RSVP needed
The AIPLA Women in IP Networking Global Event is being held for the eighth year on Thursday May 21, 2015 for all locations. The event is a meeting of women located around the globe who practice IP law and/or regularly face IP issues in the ordinary course of business. In this regard, numerous sub-events are concurrently held in various geographic locations by law firms, corporations, and universities. These events may include seated dinners, cocktail parties, passed hors d'hoeuvres, talks on topics of interests or other types of gathering. During the event, select groups of the individual locations (e.g., European locations, U.S. locations and the like) are joined together via a teleconference and/or video conference. At this time, a roll call of the participating cities is performed.
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I am currently working on a photo layout of my daughter's Christmas portraits. I used my new Cutterpede paper trimmer to cut the rectangles for the matting but I had to use a ruler and exacto knife to cut the opening. If only I had one of those cool paper punches to easily cut the hole in one fluid movement I would be done a lot sooner.
This got me to thinking about all the things I want to have within easy reach to make my crafting better and more efficient. Here is my list. What would you put on yours?
- A new fancy, schmancy sewing machine with decorative stitches. I love my old machine (my mom bought it for me 15 years ago) but I really want to be able to add different stitches to jazz up my projects.
- Embroidery machine. Again I would love to do some embellishing especially for customizing our wardrobes and home decor.
- One of those quilt frames where you don't have to baste your layers together. Since I don't have a quilt frame at all this would eliminate my reasons for not quilting my big quilt tops.
- Long arm quilting machine. I would have even fewer reasons for not finishing quilts and it would be much easier than machine quilting on my regular sewing machine. Plus, these machines would have as Tim Allen would say "More Power (insert grunting sounds)."
- Better digital camera. I love photography and love to put photos in my crafts no matter what medium.
- Better color printer. I really need this. I bought a cheapo just to get by when my good one died. I haven't done any memory quilts or photo crafts since.
- A knitting machine. I just learned how to knit but I want things faster darn it. It could help out with bags I want to felt.
- A nice looking OTT floor lamp. I have a small portable one but it just doesn't work in the living room very well.
- Oh, and a new house so I can fit everything in it without taking over the living room, the dining room, the bedroom, the garage, etc.


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A taste of Ireland.
Hungry shoes ate a cracked wheat biscuit and surrendered to the tarmac. sweet prospect of hitch hiking waits on unknown a-roads. Irish times cross the border with frozen beef in the boot, you're a star, you're a star. From Newry to Carlingford on a summer's day.
John Barleycorn must die. The buses are all done. Belfast has gone. Say goodbye to the redbrick. Hallo green grass and the placid blue sea.
Gossiping and stepping up and around town, there are fishing boats and some dead ends. But it costs ten pence to have your things put in a shopping basket. We step out onto the harbour wall. This is a heatwave. Dublin is not far away. But the taxi driver cuts a mean city in two.
So is that a windmill an old church a fairy glen or the sight of our mother in blue? Grottos are two a penny here.
I take a tumble and bring out the pac-a-mac.
Sure its getting moist now.
Very moist.
So when I say go, we'll go. Ok?
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Civilization: Beyond Earth
Grade: C-
Platform: PC, Mac, GNU/Linux
Genre: 4X
The good news is, Beyond Earth is basically Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri 2. The bad news is, Beyond Earth is basically Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri 2.
Like a great many sequels, this one definitely lacks something. And what it lacks isn't a vague je ne sais quoi, but pretty clearly and easily explained. But first, let's examine the good, and there is a surprising amount of good considering the low grade I've given the game as a whole.
I get the impression that in a lot of ways we're looking at many of the innovations the Civilization V designers wanted to include in Civ V, but weren't allowed to for fear it'd be too radical a departure from the standard Civilization experience.
Sometimes this is a very nifty approach that I'm sorry that Civ V was too stogy to use. For example, when you build the first of most newly researched buildings, you're presented with a choice of (usually) two ways you can customize it. I might chose to save energy by having my relics maintenance free, you may chose to pay maintenance on relics but get extra culture from them. It allows for the player to minmax a bit based on their play style.
Likewise, rather than simply replacing old units you get choices in how they can be upgraded. I don't approve of this as much as I do the building customization because rather than having the freeform units of Alpha Centauri you are given a much more limited set of options based on your ideological choices. But at least there's some player choice involved, and that's never a bad thing even though it could easily be better.
Unfortunately, some of the new ideas just don't work, I don't know if the devs just didn't want to risk making things too different, or if there was executive meddling, but some changes simply feel timid.
The tech web is a perfect example of this. Rather than a simple tech tree that everyone climbs and by endgame you either have all the technologies listed or you're just playing badly, Beyond Earth has a genuine tech web. I suppose it might be possible to get all the techs in a single game, but I haven't yet. In theory, that would allow for diverse and varied gameplay as you use different parts of the web from your opponents, or change your game style by exploring different techs.
Unfortunately, in practice, the tech web is kind of bleh and really your choices there don't make as much difference in gameplay as you'd hope. Nor, really, do the choices between the three ideological options of purity, supremacy, and harmony.
So rather than having to make truly hard, game changing, decisions based on the tech you choose to research, the only real factor in your decision is simply what victory condition you want to chase. A player who has chosen a supremacy ideology and the emancipation victory won't have a game significantly different from a player who chose a harmony ideology and the transcendence victory. And that's a major disappointment because the game has so much potential. The ideologies are intriguing, and if they and the tech had been more significant and produced different interactions with the game based on those choices it would have been truly wonderful.
We also have the problem of the publisher stripping out big chunks of the game to sell as DLC. The first is already available and allows ocean buildings and more oceanic options as well as adding more factions, improving diplomacy, and so on. I expect we'll see another coming soon to expand on the anemic orbital game.
What disappoints the most is that Beyond Earth is, kind of, sort of, a sequel to Alpha Centauri. And that's a problem, because they couldn't use Alpha Centauri intellectual property, that belongs to EA not Fireaxis. This means that often they tried to duplicate Alpha Centauri ideas, but without referencing the forbidden IP. Sometimes, some games, some publishers, this can work. It didn't work for Beyond Earth.
The transcendence victory is clearly a call back to Alpha Centauri. The problem is that in Alpha Centauri there was an overarching plot involving the planet's fungus being sapient effectively making the whole planet a single mind, so in Alpha Centauri the transcendence victory flowed naturally from the game as a whole.
But in Beyond Earth it just doesn't make sense. There is no overarching plot of any sort, the aliens are just kind of buglike and it is never indicated that they are intelligent even individually much less collectively, so the idea of joining a planet mind in a telepathic rapport just doesn't fit the game. But the option is there, because Alpha Centauri did it.
Worse, they didn't try for anything interesting or new in what little plot the game has. Alpha Centauri had a story, an intreguing story that the player discovered through the tech quotes, through gameplay, through bits of short fiction that popped up at significant events. It had factions that were believable and interesting and lead by characters who exemplified a single trait but had personality beyond that one trait. Miriam Godwinson was a religious fanatic to be sure, but there was more to her than just that.
There is no real story in Beyond Earth, the factions are bland and mostly indistinguishable, the faction leaders are mere faces and names.
There are three voice actors, total. All the tech quotes are done by one actor, and she's fine and does a good job, but it seems kind of limited when compared to the quotes from Alpha Centauri. Worse, since there isn't an overarching plot, and all the factions are kind of blandly similar, the tech quotes don't - can't - reveal anything about the factions and their leaders. When compared to Alpha Centauri in this aspect it falls horribly short. And frankly, it doesn't do all that well in comparison to the blander Civ tech quotes either. While in Civ the quotes are often meaningful historic quotes, all the Beyond Earth quotes are made up which which would be OK if they told us more about the game setting, but they don't.
I really want to give Beyond Earth a better grade, I loved Alpha Centauri, I applaud efforts to make a sequel, I love that they made it available for GNU/Linux, and I am delighted with the effort to go beyond the Civ restrictions and do newish things with the series.
But, at the end of the day, it just falls flat. I still play Alpha Centauri, but after finishing three games of Beyond Earth I doubt I'll play much more. As DLC for Civilization V it'd be fantastic and I'd probably have given it a higher grade. But as a stand alone game there just isn't enough content to justify the price.


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March 19, 2012
HELLO!!!! I MISSED YOU!!! haha
Glad to hear the family got together and had some fun (way to make Kaden cry Chels) teehee (loves)
ummmmm. I suppose I'll try to explain what's happing here even though I am not sure myself... #1 question- my companion... is unique lol umm his name is Elder Sylva, he is Brazilian, he loves anime (no joke he is actually pretty obsessed with it) and he draws some as well he is pretty good. Kinda a goof ball likes his toys (nerf dart guns and helicopter flying thing that blows my papers around -shakes fist-) He is district leader and a really nice guy. But he gets on my nerves every so often. Not to the point of freaking out just "face palm" kinda stuff. Such as throwing a dart at a book with the radiator behind it... missing the book and making a teeny tiny hole that wreaked our hot water, (cold showers yay...) but ya I love the guy it's just mostly stuff I have to get over... he walks incredibly fast... and ya he is teaching me a little Portuguese and stuffs like that.
#2- English money isn't that hard to get used to... but the change builds up really fast.
#3 The work in my area is slow right now. We have been mostly visiting less active members, a lot of cancelled appointments. Carlos is the only Portuguese person I have met but they're out here... we only really have one solid investigator his name is Ryan and he is a university student. There isn't that many Portuguese in Chelmsford to have a ward.
I love the work I am trying to get better (sorta) I need to start doing more than thinking of doing. I am thankful for the ward here and their love (and dinners). I know that this work is true and I will do my best to help people find out for themselves that it is true. You will never really know until you find out for yourself. When I was younger growing up in church I wondered why converts had such a stronger testimony then me-- it was because I didn't really have one for myself. In my studying today I read Alma 32 it talks about faith and really puts it to you on how to build your faith and testimony. I am thankful that we have living prophets and for our Savior Jesus Christ. I know that our Heavenly Father loves each and every one of us and wants us to live the right way so that we can enjoy the time we have on earth to its fullest. This is the way, you can never really know until you experience it for yourself, and if you haven't read Alma 32 it will change your life (only if you want it to change). I am thankful for my family and my friends and all the support I get for serving a mission and the blessings I get and can share with others There is no greater work than this and it doesn't end when your mission ends and it doesn't begin when a mission begins. Your mission begins when you find your testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel. You share the joy that it gives you and don't stop until it's your time to rest. I know that my Redeemer lives, I am thankful for the love that our Heavenly Father has for us, His Children. And I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
I love you all tons. Have a great week and I'll talk to you next Monday.
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A new bill called the "Improving Care for Vulnerable Older Citizens through Workforce Advancement Act of 2014" would create advanced aide positions in nursing homes to improve transitions and dementia care. The bill would establish six, three-year demonstration projects to train direct-care workers to focus on several areas, including training workers to take on deeper clinical responsibilities related to dementia, diabetes and congestive heart failure. Long term care facilities, home health agencies, managed care entities and hospitals would all be eligible to participate in the demonstration projects. Participants would receive the funding to plan, carry out and report on the outcomes of the projects. Experts believe that with adequate training and support, these new advanced aide positions could support health promotion, better chronic care management, and care transitions, leading to less institutionalization and re-hospitalizations.
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|Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai in Happy Together
Ho Po-wing: Leslie Cheung
Chang: Chen Chang
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Screenplay: Wong Kar-Wai
Cinematography: Christopher Doyle
Production design: William Chang
Music: Danny Chung
The title, of course, is ironic: Lai Yiu-fai and Ho Po-wing are anything but. In short, Happy Together is another of Wong Kar-Wai's studies of frustrated passion, though unlike the heterosexual couple in In the Mood for Love (2000), Lai and Ho have each other as a physical outlet for passion -- the frustration comes from their blocked desires to have their relationship transcend sex. Any happiness they might find together is prevented by incompatibility: Lai is steady and hard-working, Ho is unfettered hedonism. It's never made explicit why they have chosen to exile themselves in Argentina, other than that Buenos Aires might be presumed to offer a more tolerant environment for a gay couple than a Hong Kong threatened by the transfer to the People's Republic of China that took place in the year of the film's release. As it turns out, exile serves mainly as a catalyst for their breakup. This is, in short, a character study, and a fine one. Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung give searing performances as the volatile lovers, and Wong Kar-Wai wisely concentrates the film on them, providing only one other witness to the intensely destructive entanglement of Lai and Ho: a young Taiwanese named Chang, out to see the world, who works in a kitchen with Lai. In fact, Chang sees only Lai's side of the relationship, although the fact that he is gifted with heightened powers of seeing and hearing suggests that he perceives more than he can interpret. Chang is presented as rather asexual -- perhaps gay, but not experienced enough to make any sort of move toward Lai -- and as such serves as the perfect foil for Wong's portrait of the erotic time-bomb that is the relationship of Lai and Ho. The film ends poignantly with Lai, having finally broken completely with Ho, returning to Hong Kong, but making a stopover in Taipei where he visits's Chang's family's food stall, but narrowly missing the chance of a reunion with Chang. It's another missed connection in a film filled with them.
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14 June, 2006
Leadership: The Revenge of the Gifts
Corinth had real problems. Sex, eating, legalism, suing each other, messing up the Lord's Supper(!), unintelligible meetings, and some seriously funky doctrines. This was one troubled church!
Paul puts all that off.
From verse 1:2 on, Paul attacks one problem alone. Even as he addresses every other problem, he is really focusing on this one problem. It is first clearly stated in 1:10
10 I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
What caused the Corinthian church to be divided? For that we go back to verse 7
7 Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.
And what was the sign of their division?
12 What I mean is this: One of you says, "I follow Paul"; another, "I follow Apollos"; another, "I follow Cephas [Peter]"; still another, "I follow Christ."
Corinth was suffering from gifts poisoning.
I want to focus in on Apollos. Apollos was at the center of this controversy, and Apollos is the only one who could have nipped it in the bud. He failed.
Christ, Paul, and Peter were all gone while this was brewing. The problem was ongoing, so it must have been someone who was still there who was causing it. Knowledge is a huge part of the problem, according to Paul, and that was surely not brought by Peter. We know, though that Apollos was a knowledgeable and eloquent speaker. Apollos was there in Corinth, and preaching away.
By process of clue elimination, we conclude the crime was committed by Apollos, with the candlestick of knowledge, in the parlour of Corinth.
This is a guess, but I think there is some value to commend it.
Apollos was young. I think he simply made rookie errors. I will concede that the problem is not his youth per se, but that he made youthful errors because he was young. There are definitely some young men who don't make youthful errors, but not more than a couple per generation.
My evidence is scant, but here it is.
1) He was willing to sit and listen under Priscilla. That would be unheard of for the average man (especially one who knew rabinnical tradition), but probably easier for a young man than for an old.
2) When Paul is writing to Titus, Apollos is traveling with Zenas. I get the feeling he is traveling as much as the young men Paul taught in Ephesus. So, I imagine Apollos as maybe 5 years older than Timothy, Titus, and the rest.
3) In chapter 4 of 1 Cor., Paul positions himself as the father of the Corinthian church. This would be hard to do if the person causing the problem were as old as he was. He cannot bring up the fact that Apollos is young, because he is about to send Timothy to help them.
4) The errors made in Corinth by Apollos just seem like those of a man trying to prove himself.
5) Paul does not come down hard on Apollos. He is gracious, as one might be with a young man who had tripped himself up a little bit.
Paul tells us in this book that the gifts are helpful to the church, but potentially dangerous too. Through the gifts we become puffed up, feed our carnality, and forget how weak we were when the Lord found us.
1 Cor 8:1 ... We all possess knowledge. But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.
Paul set an incredible standard in Corinth. He came in weakness, and laid aside great knowledge he could have flaunted. He brought, instead, wisdom and the power of the Spirit. Peter may have done the same. It's impossible to know. But someone was flaunting his knowledge, or Paul would not have made such a big deal of correcting the mistake.
1 Cor 3
10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person's work. 14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. 15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.
(I know a lot of people assume that this passage is talking about the judgement seat of Christ, but it makes gobs more sense if Paul is talking about the building of the church, and the "fire" is the trial of division.)
When we connect the knowledge problem back to this passage, we see knowledge in the wood, hay, and stubble. Brilliant persuasion is just so much straw, ready to be burnt when the fire of trial comes. Building with knowledge is especially an error of youth, too. Haven't you ever seen children build? They want to build with whatever is quickest. They build with sand, because it takes forever to find good clay. They build with twigs because lumber can only be cut to size with a saw. You can just break a stick, and get on with it.
The young worker in the gospel tells people what they ought to do, because that is so much quicker than going through the suffering alongside them. He gives great advice, because that way he doesn't have to get involved, and "They need to find the answer for themselves anyway." The older worker sits down quietly and suffers with a brother, for years if necessary.
I believe Paul had respect for Apollos, and that Apollos went on to be a profitable worker for the gospel. If this were not true, Paul would not have been calling for him in his old age. Here, though, Apollos was the young, gifted worker bringing destruction along with all his gifts.
Now, to tie all this back to the good ol' leadership posts of May (has it really been that long :-? )
The things that matter in the church are the matters of real life. Caring for each other, for widows, orphans, single moms, and children with one parent. Living life with sound faith, love and endurance. To that end, wisdom is needed. The old cowboys say that judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from a lack of judgement. Just so, it takes some years to get wisdom.
So, our leaders need to have some years behind them.
The gifts are given to the young and old alike, and it is tempting to let the young exercise their gifts for the Lord. It is tempting, but its not wise. Let them exercise their gifts in small ways until they have proven themselves in the teenage years of their kids, or in some equivalent way. Hand the church to them later. It will still be there.
We have enough seminary grads. Praise the Lord for the knowledge to be gained from seminary, but we need something much, much, much more badly.
The church needs men who know how to love their wives and children through the hard times. Men who know how to build relationships and bridges when those relationships are dying. Men who know that the sister weeping in the back row is more important than whether she believes that the Trinity is three persons in one nature.
Apollos was well and truly gifted. His heart was right. He grew into a profitable servant. He may even have been sent by Paul to Corinth for the particular of ministering to Corinth's needs. But something betrayed him, and youth is the best candidate.
Let your young men get a job and raise a family.
(Oh, I said I would mention apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers:
Apostles teach groups of people to be churches.
Prophets teach churches what God is saying.
Evangelists teach those who don't know Him Who the Lord is.
Pastors teach saints how to survive the lean winters and droughts.
Teachers teach everything else.
It's all just teaching to me.)
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- Milly said...
Let them exercise their gifts in small ways until they have proven themselves in the teenage years of their kids, or in some equivalent way.
With one about to be a teen I may agree with you later, you speak from which you came raising a child into a teen and about to have a college man, so I'm giving you that voice.
Now my real opinion I have seen those in my church leadership with children who are grown and married stumble, I have seen those with small children stumble, and I have seen those with grandchildren stumble. I do agree that experience counts on how we handle the stumbles. I guess though I have found that the younger ones are more open to say "Wow I just stumbled on that one." I do feel that the experienced know that when you fall you have to step up or step out. I've unfortunately, as many churches have, had men who weren't the best at handling things. I was glad to see some step down. They all had grown children some with grandchildren.
- June 15, 2006 10:22 AM
- Milly said...
Men who know that the sister weeping in the back row is more important than
(so many things)
- June 15, 2006 2:48 PM
- DugALug said...
Gifts are just that, stewardship is another issue.
As far as leadership with some years, I am more in favor of leadership with a track record. I know plenty of plant life with grey hair.
I think using the same scriptures that you could make the case the Apollos was arogant rather than young. Apollos seemed more interested in having followers than spreading the Gospel. This was a clasic example of being right at all cost. The implication is that Apollos used knowledge for personal aggrandizement, rather than a tool to point to the giver of all true wisdom. Rookie mistake? Possibly: or maybe a human nature flaw.
Age is no replacement for experience and tempering, my friend. Age only gives you the oportunity to attain wisdom and experience: it is up to the individual to reach for it.
God Bless
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Both are elective courses and require parental permission. However, in a 4-to-4 vote, the board denied a motion for an even more modified version of the course for sixth and seventh graders. Board members voting against the move said the decision was based on strong parental opposition in their districts.
Despite concern that it might be setting a precedent, the board also approved an after-school parent-child sex education course to be conducted by the Better Beginnings Coalition, an association recently formed to encourage sex education in the schools. It will teach sex education to both age groups in a six week course that will cost $25 to cover materials in the classes.
The marriage and family course already being taught in the 11th and 12th grades includes components on human reproduction and the possible effects of sexual relations such as venereal disease, pregnancy and forced marriage. Abortion, contraception and homosexuality are also discussed.
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In urging the board to approve this version, Leesburg representative Betty Poelhman said that human sexual reproduction is a body of scientific knowledge and belongs naturally in a science curriculum. Added Bonnie Epling of the Catoctin District, "I am more afraid of what my kids don't know than what they do know."
Jerry Pelkey, chairman of the county's advisory commission on youth, praised the board's actions. "Something was needed and this was a start," said Pelkey, whose commission was among those groups instrumental in bringing the discussion of sex education to the forefront a year ago. "The board did a fine job tonight."
The board's actions were a disappointment to members of Concerned Parents, a loosely knit group formed to oppose the expansion of sex education classes. Before the meeting the group presented a petition to the board signed by more than 700 people who said they were opposed to family life education courses at any grade level.
The Better Beginnings Coalition, made up of nearly a dozen civic and political groups in Loudoun, has applied for a $4,000 private grant to pay for films to be used in the after-school courses approved by the board. Students who apply will be urged to bring a parent of the same sex and participants will be segregated according to sex and age groups.
According to coalition chairman Mary Ellen Smith, coalition volunteers who will teach the course will also train county school teachers in the curriculum so that county schools can eventually take over the program. A pilot program taught in a local church early this year was "very successful," Smith said.


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