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Day 10: Just in case you missed the Serena Williams Open Letter
It's no secret that Serena Williams is on of my favorite Sheros. Her commitment and drive are matched only by her success. She blessed us all with some words for wisdom in her recent open letter for Porter Magazine. She encourages us to dream big, never settle for less, and use hate and negativity from others as fuel for our own fire. As with mostly everything she says and does, I AM HERE FOR IT!!!!! So if you missed it, I GOT YOU!!!!
Here is the full letter:
To all incredible women who strive for excellence,
When I was growing up, I had a dream. I'm sure you did, too. My dream wasn't like that of an average kid, my dream was to be the best tennis player in the world. Not the best "female" tennis player in the world.
I was fortunate to have a family that supported my dream and encouraged me to follow it. I learned not to be afraid. I learned how important it is to fight for a dream and, most importantly, to dream big. My fight began when I was three and I haven't taken a break since.
But as we know, too often women are not supported enough or are discouraged from choosing their path. I hope together we can change that. For me, it was a question of resilience. What others marked as flaws or disadvantages about myself – my race, my gender – I embraced as fuel for my success. I never let anything or anyone define me or my potential. I controlled my future.
So when the subject of equal pay comes up, it frustrates me because I know firsthand that I, like you, have done the same work and made the same sacrifices as our male counterparts. I would never want my daughter to be paid less than my son for the same work. Nor would you.
As we know, women have to break down many barriers on the road to success. One of those barriers is the way we are constantly reminded we are not men, as if it is a flaw. People call me one of the "world's greatest female athletes". Do they say LeBron is one of the world's best male athletes? Is Tiger? Federer? Why not? They are certainly not female. We should never let this go unchallenged. We should always be judged by our achievements, not by our gender.
For everything I've achieved in my life, I am profoundly grateful to have experienced the highs and lows that come with success. It is my hope that my story, and yours, will inspire all young women out there to push for greatness and follow their dreams with steadfast resilience. We must continue to dream big, and in doing so, we empower the next generation of women to be just as bold in their pursuits.
Serena Williams
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It would take me a long time to explain the whole movie, but there's this scene in the movie Stranger Than Fiction (which is a "must see" if you're an author; the logline reads "An I.R.S. auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.") where Will Ferrell (who plays the IRS auditor), smitten with Maggie Gyllenhaal (the love interest), brings her a present.
So you can imagine what I thought of immediately when I saw today's prompt, "flower/flour."
I've mentioned before on the blog that, soon after graduating from college, I took a job as a production supervisor at Newly Weds Foods. Newly Weds had started as a company that made consumer products (English muffins and the cake for ice cream cake rolls), but gradually got into the business of making coatings (breaders and batter mixes) for chicken and fish, panko-style bread crumbs (Newly Weds was one of the first companies in the US to make them), and was just getting started in the seasoning mix and capsicum businesses. In fact, they've now farmed out the muffin and cake businesses to smaller companies in Chicago and have plants all over the country now.
I was the supervisor on the #2 Breading line, who they figured would have enough free time on his hands to handle other tasks, such as being the guy who would deal with deliveries of bulk flour. Several times a day a driver would show up with a bulk truck full of flour, and the supervisor on Line 2 would decide where the flour would go, either into one of several silos outside or into one of the four tanks inside the building, and would then be responsible for going to the flour house and hooking up a hose that went between where the driver hooked up and the appropriate tank or silo. The driver then hooked his truck up and blew the flour from his truck into the tank. Easy-peasy, right?
Right around Christmas, I was working day shift, which ran from 6 AM to 3 PM. I hadn't been able to sleep for a couple of weeks and was popping No-Doz and washing it down with coffee to try and stay awake. I was upset because there was word that we'd have to work on Christmas, something I'm sure Jesus and Mary (my wife, not the Blessed Mother) would understand, but I'm just as sure my mother wouldn't. A load of flour came in at 10 AM, and I hooked the truck up and gave the driver a thumbs-up.
About half an hour after that truck leaves, I'm doing a product changeover. We would be switching flour from 55 ash to 40 ash (the lower the ash content, the softer the flour), which meant I'd have a guy dumping flour into a hopper from 100 lb. bags instead of drawing from one of the tanks, which was a real pain in the ass, because it also meant I'd be on the forklift for the rest of the shift, getting pallets of flour out of the warehouse to keep my guy busy. Anyway, the changeover requires my full attention, so of course another bulk truck shows up.
I look at the bill of lading, and see that it's the same kind of flour the last guy had brought. I knew the tank was only half-full after the last load had been delivered, and I figured everything was all set for the guy, so I told him to hook up his truck and blow when ready.
You know what happened, right? Turns out one of the other supervisors told one of his guys to sweep up the flour house, and that guy detached the hose…
I didn't get in too much trouble, surprisingly enough. I got chewed out by my boss and the president of the company (who was a real hands-on guy), but they didn't fire me, nor did they make me pay for the 40,000 pounds of flour (I think they were able to salvage most of it). I had learned my lesson, and when the new year arrived I started looking for a new job.
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Book Project
Defenders of the Faith? Why Religious Clerics Mobilize Against Right-Wing Populist (tentative title)
In an era of rising right-wing populists who practice extremist identity politics, I ask why religious clerics vary in their support for such policies. My project examines competing explanations in cases like India, Italy, and the United States.
Rink, Anselm and Kunaal Sharma. 2016. "The Determinants of Religious Radicalization: Evidence from Kenya." Journal of Conflict Resolution. Available online.
Lazarev, Egor and Kunaal Sharma. 2015. "Brother or Burden: An Experiment on Reducing Prejudice Toward Syrian Refugees in Turkey". Political Science Research & Methods. Available online.
Anselm Rink and Kunaal Sharma. 2018. "The Ethical Underpinnings of Extremism: Experimental Evidence from Kenya."
Under Review
Kunaal Sharma. "Clerical Persuasion and Religious Extremism: An Experiment Among Sunni and Shia Muslims in Northern India" (Job Market Paper)
Anselm Rink and Kunaal Sharma. ``Source, Content, or Contact? An Experiment on Fostering Tolerance in Nairobi's Eastleigh District.''


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Taking Pains with Aloe for More Than 35 Centuries: From Tightening Skin to Loosening Bowels. Anesthesiology 2018;128(4):727. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000002163.
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TORONTO — After installing electricity meters in dozens of Ontario apartment buildings and townhouses, Ian Stewart thinks he has seen just about everything.
Mr. Stewart has found apartments filled with illicit marijuana cultivators, multiple video duplicators and even catering businesses. "There's no shortage of examples you could find in certain buildings of folks who are growing dope," he says.
But the strangest discovery was a reptile farm tucked into a Toronto townhouse complex.
"The resident was breeding reptiles. Iguanas were just one thing. He had alligators," says Mr. Stewart, owner of a company that installs meters and then bills customers for electricity use.
People doing unusual things risk revealing themselves through their electricity bills, he says. Marijuana growers and reptile breeders use a lot of lights, and their bills are sky high. The same goes for caterers, whose ovens are "literally being used all day."
But his most common discovery is that meters are a powerful tool for energy conservation.
Once people get their own electricity bills, usage instantly plunges by about 20 per cent, even more in electrically heated homes.
That knowledge is helping drive one of the biggest metering programs ever proposed in Canada. Ontario has introduced legislation that would require individual "smart meters" that would measure both the amount of and time of electricity use in every home and business by 2010.
The move would cost an estimated $600-million, to be recouped from electricity users through their bills.
The goal for the chronically electricity-short province is to save a lot of power: For every five buildings with smart meters, enough energy should be saved to run a sixth building.
Most single-family homes already have meters that measure electricity use, so the biggest consumer impact will be for 1.5 million apartment and condo dwellers who don't have them now.
Currently, only a minority of apartment dwellers see their electricity bills, because about 90 per cent of buildings don't have individual meters for each unit (the figure is slightly better in condo buildings).
In most apartment buildings, a single "bulk meter" measures all the electricity consumed, regardless of whether it powers elevators in common use or a television in an individual apartment.
The bill is paid by the building's owner; residents pay for electricity indirectly in their monthly rent or condo maintenance fee, but have no idea of how much power they use themselves.
In recent years, a modest number of individual meters have been installed in apartments by companies such as Mr. Stewart's Stratacon Inc.
Tenants get a rent reduction for paying their own power bill, which is issued by the meter-installation company.
The landlord pays for electricity used in shared areas, such as elevators and hallways.
When meters are installed, people who run home businesses, whether it's breeding reptiles or running dozens of VCRs to duplicate videotapes, suddenly realize their neighbours are no longer subsidizing their electricity use.
One of Mr. Stewart's findings is that, in a typical building, the top 10 per cent of electricity consumers use 25 per cent of the building's electricity. Wasting energy seems for many to be a "lifestyle choice," he says, noting that his staff working during the day often find apartments with no one home, but lights ablaze and televisions blaring.
This isn't fair to those who do save energy, he says. "Whether you're conservation-minded or not, to the extent that some of your neighbours are wasteful, everyone pays."
Then there are the more unusual finds. Mr. Stewart says that in one Toronto building, 26 of 250 units turned out to be grow ops, something the superintendent apparently knew about. The landlord, who lived on the West Coast, wasn't aware of the goings-on. A new superintendent was brought in, apartments were inspected, grow ops were cleaned out and locks were changed.
Citing privacy reasons, Mr. Stewart says his company doesn't inform police about information gleaned from the meter-generated bills.
But that isn't the case with the landlords. He shares information about excessive electricity consumption because it's a safety issue: Overloaded circuits in older buildings are a fire hazard that landlords need to know about.
Environmentalists frequently plead with the public to conserve energy for the good of the planet. But having your wallet whacked is far more effective, say those with meter experience.
The Masaryktown Residences, a non-profit apartment complex in Toronto, was one of the first to be wired with individual meters about five years ago.
The units are heated with baseboard heaters, and the manager was constantly pleading with residents to be careful with their thermostat settings to help keep down the electricity bill. But no one paid attention.
"No matter how much you tell them, 'Please, can you save energy?' they don't care if they don't have to pay for it," says Sylva Calkova, the property manager.
Once the meters came, however, profligacy was out, frugality was in. Electricity use plunged 25 per cent. Residents turned down their heat when they weren't home, turned off unneeded lights and closed windows in winter to keep heat in. "I don't think it's in human nature to save when you don't have to pay for it," Ms. Calkova says.
John Lawrence, president of his Toronto condo board, saw an astonishing 40-per-cent drop in electricity use after meters were installed in his building.
The condo had been facing huge maintenance fee increases because of high electricity use, driven in part by baseboard heating and air conditioning. The condo members voted to install meters on their own initiative.
"The bill soared up so high we couldn't manage," Mr. Lawrence recalled, adding that many residents were "merciless" in their electricity use.
Monthly condo fees have since fallen to about $370, from about $500, because residents now pay for their own electricity.
Still, not everyone is convinced that metering is a good idea. Ontario's Advocacy Centre for Tenants, for one, is critical because it believes meters may not be a cost-effective way to conserve energy.
It has complained to the provincial government that freeing landlords from the responsibility for electricity bills means owners won't have financial incentives to install energy-saving items, such as high-efficiency refrigerators or better insulation.
Before ordering meters for everyone, the Advocacy Centre wants the province to study whether energy-saving retrofits would save more energy than meters.


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Ryder System, Inc. has formed a telematics partnership with Teletrac and Cingular Wireless to launch RydeSmart. According to Ryder, the technology will undergo a phased rollout to customers across North America through 2007.
RydeSmart is a compact hardware and software unit that is installed in the truck and connected to the vehicle's existing computer and diagnostic systems. The unit communicates information on the vehicle's location, mileage and speed every 15 minutes and on demand via a dedicated and secure connection through the Cingular network to the fleet operator's desktop.
The system integrates Teletrac's global positioning system (GPS), wireless data and hardware technologies with Cingular's wireless data coverage area. Ryder has a fleet size of over 160,000 vehicles.
RydeSmart has already completed a pilot phase that included more than 5,000 vehicles to specific customers in various industries including food & beverage, textiles, and building and construction materials.
Ryder noted that benefits include the ability to view vehicle locations at all times, view driver routes and performance, continuous monitoring of vehicle data including automated transmittal of odometer readings to replace trip records for fuel tax and vehicle licensing regulatory compliance.
Integrated GPS capabilities also enable RydeSmart to help customers locate vehicles in emergency situations and provide central dispatch capabilities to enable customers to assign pickups and deliveries based on the closest available vehicles, noted Ryder.
"We have developed extensive intellectual capital and highly refined processes around maximizing the efficiency of our customers' transportation functions," said Tony Tegnelia, president of Ryder's U.S. Fleet Management Solutions. "Since the 1980s , we have utilized onboard telematics to achieve high levels of transportation precision and tracking, primarily for customers whose high-value shipments necessitated a significant onboard technology investment."For more information, go to www.ryder.com


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Laser Engraving: a Subtractive Manufacturing Process
Laser Engraving (or Laser Etching) is a Subtractive Manufacturing method, that uses a laser beam to change the surface of an object.This process is mostly used to create images on the material, that may be seen at eye level. To do so, the laser creates high heat that will vaporize the matter, thus exposing cavities that will form the final image. It is using the laser for marking the surface of an item.
Laser Engraving: how does it works?
This method is quick, as the material is removed with each pulse of the laser. The depth of the marks is controlled by the number of times the laser beam is passing on the material.
There are different types of laser engraving machines :
First ones are engraver machines where the workpiece stay stable, only the laser moves (or inversely). Other machines dedicated to cylindrical workpieces. The last possibilities are laser engraving machines where the laser and the workpiece are both immobile but galvo mirrors are moving the laser beam on the surface to engrave.
What is it possible to do with Laser Engraving?
It can be used on almost any kind of metal, plastic, wood, leather or glass surface. You can get a lot of different engraved materials . Furthermore, it is more effective than traditional engraving for small objects, such as jewelry. There are also smaller chances to damage or deform the material. It can be used for many different applications, such as medical devices , fine art and so on.
It can be used for industrial applications , but it is also possible to get a DIY laser engraver machine , for example with a CO2 laser system . You just have to connect your CO2 laser engraving machine on the USB port of your computer and it will work like a printer.
Difference between Laser Etching and Laser Engraving
Laser Etching is a subset of Laser Engraving. In this particular case, the heat from the beam is not used to vaporize the matter, but to melt it. It is mostly used on metals, and will expand the material by creating a raised cavity. It thus modifies its characteristics, such as its reflectivity, and will create a contrast with its surroundings.
Compared to other processes using lasers, such as Laser Cutting or Laser Etching, Laser Engraving keeps the initial shape of the material, and is the most common option to create personalized or customized objects. Logos, serial numbers, or pictures are typically the kind of creations thatcan be done thanks to Laser Engraving.
Laser Marking is less common but quite popular in the medical device industry. One of the major difference with Laser Engraving and Laser Etching is that here, the oxidation during the marking process make the material turn black. This laser marker technique is also good for logos or bar codes.
Laser Engraving: list of file formats
To use such a process, you need to provide a 2D file, such as a vector graphics or drawing of your image. The most commonly used formats are:
- .ai
- .bmp
- .cdr
- .dwg
- .dxf
- .eps
- .jpg/jpeg
- .png
- .scad
- .svg
- .xps
This Laser Engraving system DOES NOT work with any 3D file format, such as .stl, so be careful!
The model will then be converted into dots, and the distance between two of these dots will determine the depth of the engraving. Then the 2D model will be sent to an engraver machine
The machines used for Laser Engraving or Laser Marking are the same that the ones used for Laser Cutting.


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We were able to get home, settled in and into bed by around 11:30p last night which is only 1-1.5 hours later than our normal bedtime. Though vacation is always fun, climbing back into your own bed is heavenly.
I slept well throughout the night though I did wake up several times between 4-6a since my body still thought it was 7a.
I try to keep my first day back to work post-vacation relatively meeting free to give me time to catch up and check in on everything however that was not in the cards for today. I ended up having back-to-back meetings, including a team lunch, from 9a-2p with only a 30 minute break thanks to a meeting ending early.
I was finally able to charge my UP2 band again after it died while on vacation and I had left the charger in my office.
I was excited to test my body when I saw today's Spartan WOD. I purposely scaled it with their recommendations. I'm glad I did since I could barely move my legs by the time I was finished.
- Dynamic warm up
- Cycle - 5 minutes
Main set
- 1 round ladder band-assisted pull-ups (descending): 5-4-3-2-5
- Between set of pull ups:
- 10 bodyweight
- 25 box jumps
- Follow up with a 10 minute run + 50 sit-ups w/a 10 lb medicine ball
Cool Down
- Stretch
The full workout called for the ladder to start at 10 and for the run to be between 2-4 miles however I scaled it to start at 5 pull-ups and only a 10 minute recovery run at a 12 min/mile pace.
During the final round of pull-ups I felt good after completing the first one so continued going until I hit 5 pull-ups.
This will definitely be a workout that I continue to use since it can be scaled up from where I started with it.
My legs were dead weights after finishing the 125 box jumps. I completed them on a 18" flat bench. It was the most box jumps that I have ever completed. I don't remember my previous record but know it was somewhere in the 60-80 rep range.
After coming back home I signed up for my next Spartan Race - the Monterey Super coming up on June 4th.
Spartan's new slogan is #UNSTOPPABLE with their email about the race prompting people to "Be Unstoppable in Monterey" and therefore I had to sign up for it.
The Super jumps up to 8-10 miles and 24-29 obstacles from the 3-5 miles and 20-23 obstacles of the Sprint races.
I have never walked/jogged/run more than 6 miles so I will need to train a lot between now and June. I have already started receiving advice from other competitors who raced the Monterey Super earlier this year. I also hope to race a non-stadium Sprint before June so that I can be prepared for the mud.
It has been nice settling back into our daily routine as we are now relaxing for a bit before reading and falling asleep.


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Ninety-four Virginia health professionals and advocates signed a petition urging the state to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution from coal-fired power plants. The petition, now closed, urged the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to formulate regulations to allow deep reductions in allowable carbon emissions from Virginia power plants, as well as rules to allow the state to enter into a multi-state carbon-trading program such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
Under RGGI, Between 2009-2014, Maryland and eight other northeastern states received $1.79 billion from the quarterly auctions of pollution allowances and have invested $1.37 billion in energy efficiency and renewable energy, which created 30,000 job-years and produced additional economic and health benefits. One study estimates that if Virginia joins RGGI, the state could bring in $2.8 billion in cumulative revenue by 2030.
In addition to slowing the rate of climate change, reducing electricity bills, and creating local jobs, carbon emissions reduction can reduce a significant and costly threat to human health from coal-fired power plant pollution.
"A well-designed program to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants will allow Virginia to realize tremendous economic, environmental and public health benefits," read the petition.
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ISPE, the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering, is the world's largest not-for-profit association serving its Members by leading scientific, technical and regulatory advancement throughout the entire pharmaceutical lifecycle. ISPE is committed to the advancement of the educational and technical efficiency of its members through forums for the exchange of ideas and practical experience.
The Northeastern chapter of ISPE hosts networking and social events for its members. NUISPE has a large focus on connecting students with information, ideas and approaches within the field of biotechnology.
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bioelectric medicine, development of novel interventions and tissue engineered platforms for nerve regeneration and repair, body-on-a-chip for enteric-gut interactions
Production of valuable pharmaceutical compounds from plant cell cultures, specifically the production of important anti-cancer drug molecules from cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus
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The Bronx
Police are seeking a man who beat a worker and looted cash at a Port Morris bodega. The man walked into the store on Cypress Avenue near East 141st Street at around 11:25 p.m. Thursday, and punched the 35-year-old clerk in the face several times, police said. The attacker then swiped money from the register and ran, cops said. The victim was treated at Lincoln Hospital. The suspect is about 22 years old, 6 feet tall, 225 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. He wore a multicolored sweat shirt, blue jeans and black sneakers.
A man knocked off a bank in Fordham Manor, cops said Saturday. The crook entered a Chase Bank on Third Avenue near Fordham Plaza at around 9:40 a.m. Friday and passed a note to a bank teller demanding money, police said. He got away with cash. The robber is in his 40s, 6 feet tall, with a slim build. He wore a hat, a blue jacket and a green sweater.
Cops responding to a report of shots fired found an arsenal inside a Crown Heights apartment, authorities said Saturday. Police on Wednesday went to the home of Jonathan Rodriguez, 19, at St. Marks and New York avenues, sources said. Officers found six guns and ammunition, authorities said. Rodriguez, Donovan Duncan, 20, Steven Brown, 18, Tahoea Anderson, 16, and Christopher Parker, 22, were charged with criminal weapons possession, cops said. A woman and a teen girl were in stable condition after being shot in East New York on Saturday. The victims, aged 27 and 15, were shot on Wyona Street near Livonia Avenue at around 2:45 p.m., authorities said. The older victim was hit in the foot, and the teen was struck in the leg. The suspect is a black woman, about 35 years old, with short hair.
Cops are on the hunt for a Midtown thief who has stolen belongings from people three times. The spree started at around 2:15 p.m. March 18, when a 78-year-old man was eating inside of Playwright Celtic Pub on Eighth Avenue with his coat over his chair. The thief and an accomplice walked by and snatched the victim's wallet from a coat pocket. Police believe that same crook swiped a 34-year-old woman's purse as she was eating inside Pennsy NYC in Penn Station at around 2:05 p.m. April 10. Two hours later, that same man is believed to have stolen a 27-year-old woman's wallet after he bumped into her on a northbound 3 train. The robber is about 20 years old, 5-foot-9 and 150 pounds, with black hair. He was wearing a tank top, police said.
A fiend tried to kiss a woman on an A train and then pulled out his penis after she pushed him away, cops said Saturday. The man approached the 41-year-old woman as she rode the A train around 9:50 a.m. May 3, police said. When she shoved him off, he exposed himself, they said. When the woman got off the train at Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, the pervert followed her into a grocery store and a McDonald's before fleeing, cops said. The suspect is between 30 and 35 years old, about 190 pounds and between 5-foot-9 and 5-foot-11, police said. He wore a red Nike hooded sweat shirt, brown and black pants and black sneakers, and he carried a black bag, according to police.
Cops are seeking this man, wanted in the slapping of a woman's buttocks inside the Jamaica Center subway station. The victim, 23, was walking up the escalator at the J line platform at around 6:30 p.m. May 6, when a man approached her from behind, police said. The victim managed to snap a cellphone photo of him after the groping, according to cops. The man is in his mid-30s, about 5-foot-9, with brown hair and a goatee, authorities said. He wore a blue, hooded sweat shirt and tan pants, according to police.


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Dog Lovers Rejoice! Pet Registry Means Pet Stores No Longer Able to Hide the Fact that Puppies Came from Out of State Brokers
What keeps our politicians busy these days? Pensions..Who needs one? Deficits: Gotta buy those votes..don't we? Two wars in West Asia and a lot of shooting on the West Side that can wait. There is no issue is more critical to the fate of the Republic and the State of Illinois than Pet Registries.
Our august and serene State Legilature has put the pressing problems of the State to sleep, and taken a shot at regulating pet purchasing by passing the landmark House Bill 5772 amending The Animal Welfare Act to provide for much greater transparency in documentation of pets before sale.
As Sen. Jeff Schoenberg (the politician without a pooch in the picture) puts it
Now pet stores will no longer be able to hide the fact that they acquire their dogs and cats from puppy or kitten mills or large out-of-state brokers that buy from such mills.
We can all rest a bit easier knowing this information, but Canine Advocate Penny Elms takes it a bit further, telling us that HB 5772 creates something of a Socialist Utopia for our animal buddies, and heads off some of those bad-old profits.
Additionally, by making dog breeders accountable for the health and quality of the puppies that they produce, one could hope that irresponsible breeders that focus solely on profits will be reduced, or even eliminated. With shelters across the nation over-flowing with homeless cats and dogs, there should never be a reason to purchase a companion animal.
Ah, one can dream of a perfect world were you would never need to purchase a companion animal, but is this reality or just a time-sink for our pandering politicians? See Tom Dart and Dick Durbin, each with pooch, for attached pandering photo.
I have personally worked on many issues with the Brady campaign for Illinois Governor, and along with other Brady supporters taken every opportunity to avoid mentioning canine related issues. Quite a few Illinois voters have noticed that Illinois is Broke, and all the pet registries in the world will not fix the financial crisis that the State is in. Brady has a long track record as a fiscally responsible lawmaker. He has taken up the challenge of addressing structural and fiscal issues and stayed away from the trivial issues which have bogged down State Government for years. Good, that is why a leading number of voters (and I) support Brady.
So what is the media to do? Well Ed McLelland the utterly juvenile NBC5 blogger has stretched down and dirty with a rhyming load of deranged drivel, reaching a new low in his already bottom scratching analysis. No Ed, making up a rap song with such clever wordplay as
"But Bill, what if you won, wouldn't it be weird?"
Not as weird as a wedding between two queers.
is not going to get us out of a fiscal nightmare, create a new job, nor give the voters the least bit of useful information about the State of Illinois and the politicians who govern us.
It is long since time for our politicians and media to take on some adult priorities. Coasting along as if the only thing we had to worry about in this State was the profit motives of puppy mills and trite analysis about the fashion of the day is what got us in this mess in the first place. The voters and media consumers of the State of Illinois deserve something better.
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So here I am writing my first blog probably the biggest leap I've taken in along time but sure I'll give it a whirl and see where it takes me!!!
I thought I'd start of writing about something I started doing around 4 years ago when one of my best friends got engaged and then naturally it grew legs and by the time it came to my sister I was a pro and getting things done! So here it goes I'm going to blog about Engagement hampers…..
While everyone around you is excited at the prospect of a wedding you "the other sister" start thinking almost immediately 'Christ I better start my diet for the wedding' 'Jaysus where will we go for the hen' 'What dress will she pick for us to wear'………the list of thoughts is endless I know I've been there!!
But first things first, whether this is your only sister or your 10th sister to get married you want your sister to stay on cloud nine for as long as possible.
When my sister got engaged on Christmas Eve 3 years ago, my first thoughts where 'god damn it the shops don't open now till the 27th of December'………. yes, that was my first thought reason being, I had started a little tradition with my close friends of making up an "engagement hamper" to congratulate them on their engagement!
This can be a nice little token for the bride to be or for both the bride and groom to be. The size of the Engagement hamper will depend on your budget and that will in turn will depend on if you are making it up yourself or if you have other friends to chip in.
For my sister, I decided to add bits to a box and then a case of beer for the groom to get over the shock of whats ahead when he saw the bridal magazines, wedding checklists etc!!
In the hamper I had bridal magazines, love heart sweets, bottle of Bubbly, a money box, calculator, mini lanterns with hearts on them, big his and hers mugs, wicker love heart lights, picture frames……. basically, anything I could find that had hearts on it and was in stock in Penney's!!! I also bought a book in Eason's 'wedding of the century' which is a keepsake book that you fill in as you prepare for your big day with the likes of date you asked your friends/sisters to be your bridesmaids to the day you picked your wedding dress and of course the big day itself. I also got the hamper box in Penney's in the home ware section where they have the fold-able boxes that are usually about €8.
Penney's have amazing stuff in now for weddings and for bridal parties so your task should be easier than mine was nearly 4 years ago when my friends started getting engaged!
Below is a photo of the hamper all made up and again you can fill it with as much as you like, they are easy to make up for whatever your budget is!
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Allen, Samantha. Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States. Little, Brown. Mar. 2019. 304p. ISBN 9780316516037. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780316516013. SOCIAL SCIENCE
In the last decade, Allen has morphed from a neatly dressed Mormon missionary to a senior reporter at the Daily Beast married to another woman. Here she travels Red State America, which she continues to love, showing us LGBT hangouts everywhere (e.g., a queer night club in Bloomington, IN) and LGBTers making a difference.
Burns, William J. The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal. Random. Mar. 2019. 480p. ISBN 9780525508861. $32; ebk. ISBN 9780525508878. Downloadable. MEMOIR
Currently president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Burns retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 after a three-plus-decade diplomatic career that saw him serve not only as ambassador to Jordan and Russia but eventually deputy secretary of state. More than a memoir revealing diplomacy in action, this book remains plea for the importance of diplomacy in our brave new world.
Cerulo, Erica & Claire Mazur. Work Wife: The Power of Female Friendship To Drive Successful Businesses. Ballantine. Mar. 2019. 192p. ISBN 9781524796778. $24; ebk. ISBN 9781524796792. Downloadable. BUSINESS
Close since college, Cerulo and Mazur founded the website Of a Kind in 2010, revealing themselves to be past masters at spotting the next big trend before it starts building. (They have Forbes 30 Under 30 credentials.) Here they interview other good girlfriends—e.g., Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs of Food52, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings, triumphant together in Olympic volleyball—to show how women can successfully work together.
Eberhardt, Jennifer L. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do. Viking. Mar. 2019. 352p. ISBN 9780735224933. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780735224940. Downloadable. SOCIAL SCIENCE
An expert in the issue of unconscious racial bias, Stanford psychology professor and MacArthur fellow Eberhardt argues that even those who don't believe they are biased and who strive to treat others equally can be affected by bred-in-the-bone stereotypes. To make her case, she draws on both research—in the lab as well as police departments, courtrooms, prisons, and boardrooms and on the street—and personal experience, showing that bias isn't restricted to a few screechy outliers but can affect us all. And it can be fixed by all of us together.
LoBianco, Tom. Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House. Dey Street: HarperCollins. Mar. 2019. 336p. ISBN 9780062868787. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062868800. lrg. prnt. CD. POLITICAL SCIENCE
Currently covering the White House and the Trump Russia investigation for the Associated Press, LoBianco has been eyeing Vice President Mike Pence since the first campaign rally for governor Pence held in his hometown of Columbus, IN. Here he tracks Pence's rise to power, his reputed ambitions to shove Trump aside, and the "shadow government" he has built to keep conservatism rolling. With a 125,000-copy first printing.
Minoui, Delphine. I'm Writing You from Tehran: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Past and Their Country's Future. Farrar. Mar. 2019. 288p. tr. from French by Emma Ramadan. ISBN 9780374175221. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780374716578. POLITICAL SCIENCE
Born in Paris of a French mother and an Iranian father, award-winning journalist Minoui decided upon her grandfather's death in 1998 to whisk herself to Iran for the first time since the revolution, when she was just four years old. She stayed through a decade of tumultuous change, learning how to dodge the morality police, enduring interrogation by the secret police, and finding love and marriage before she is separated from her husband by world events. Her book is framed as a letter to her grandfather.
O'Neill, Eric. Gray Day: My Undercover Mission To Expose America's First Cyber Spy. Crown. Mar. 2019. 336p. ISBN 9780525573524. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780525573548. Downloadable. POLITICAL SCIENCE
At age 26, O'Neill was given a momentous assignment: conduct an undercover investigation of a man suspected of passing nuclear secrets and more to the Russians for two decades. While officially updating the FBI's computer system to protect it from hackers and spies, unofficially he was gathering evidence against his boss, Robert Hanssen, who was eventually convicted in 2002. O'Neill chronicles his efforts to outsmart a smart spy while considering how Russia managed to become dominant in cyberespionage.
Pandith, Farah. How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat. Custom House: Morrow. Mar. 2019. 384p. ISBN 9780062471154. $28.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062471192. POLITICAL SCIENCE
Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Senior Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the first-ever U. S. special representative to Muslim Communities argues that we can dissuade young people from adopting extremist ideologies through the combined efforts of diplomats, corporate leaders, mental health experts, entrepreneurs, and Muslim youth themselves. With a 100,000-copy first printing.
Stoller, Matt. Goliath: How Monopolies Secretly Took Over the World. S. & S. Mar. 2019. 352p. ISBN 9781501183089. $28; ebk. ISBN 9781501183096. POLITICAL SCIENCE
Formerly senior policy advisor and budget analyst to the Senate Budget Committee, Stoller contends that since Thomas Jefferson's condemnation of political tyranny, Americans have regarded the consolidation of political and economic power with deep suspicion. Unfortunately, financial power is now more concentrated than ever. Based on the author's viral Atlantic article, "How the Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul," which argued that post-Watergate liberals dangerously stopped fighting monopoly power. With a 75,000-copy first printing.
Tamblyn, Amber. Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution. Crown Archetype. Mar. 2019. 272p. ISBN 9781984822987. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781984823007. Downloadable. SOCIAL SCIENCE/FEMINISM
An actor and director whose shelves are weighed down by Emmy, Golden Globe, and Independent Spirit honors, a poet whose Dark Sparkler was a best seller, and a newly minted novelist whose punch-in-the-gut Any Man features a female serial rapist, Tamblyn here throws herself headfirst into key feminist issues like discrimination, sexual assault, reproductive rights, and pay parity. Not surprising; she's a force behind the #TIMESUP movement who wrote a New York Times op-ed that lit a fire under the #MeToo movement. Framing the discussion: her own feminist awakening.
Young, Damon. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays. Ecco. Mar. 2019. 320p. ISBN 9780062684301. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062684332. MEMOIR
A key cultural critic and cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, Young here examines the stress of being American while black—the ceaseless anxiety, the desire as a teenager for a white person to toss him a racial slur so that he could fight back, the question, "How should I react here, as a professional black person?" Then there was his pondering whether he could ever be good at the "being straight" thing. Acid-etched insight; with an impressive 200,000-copy first printing.
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ICF and RPS within Cerebral Palsy
Original Editor - Roelie Wolting
Top Contributors - Michelle Lee, Laura Ritchie, Roelie Wolting, Naomi O'Reilly and Evan Thomas
- 1 Introduction
- 2 International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Framework (ICF)
- 3 Rehabilitation Problem Solving (RPS) - Use of an ICF-based form
- 4 References
The information on this page has developed for you from the expert work of Roelie Wolting alongside the Enablement Cerebral Palsy Project and Handicap International Group.
This page will look at the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health framework (ICF) and the Rehabilitation Problem Solving (RPS) form based on the ICF with children who have Cerebral Palsy. After reading this page you should be able:
- To understand the concept of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health in the field of children with cerebral palsy
- To understand the importance of using this framework for working with children with cerebral palsy
- Be apply to the ICF and RPS in working with children with cerebral palsy and their family
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Framework (ICF)
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health, known more commonly as the ICF, is a classification of health and health-related domains. These domains are classified from body, individual and societal perspectives by means of two lists: a list of body functions and structure, and a list of domains of activity and participation. Since an individual's functioning and disability occurs in a context, the ICF also includes a list of personal and environmental factors. All these factors are related and influence each other. The ICF is WHO's framework for measuring health and disability at both individual and population levels.
ICF has two parts and each part has two components:
Part 1 - Functioning and Disability
- Body functions and body structures
- Activities and Participation
Part 2 - Contextual Factors
- Environmental factors
- Personal factors
Terminology used in the ICF:
- Impairments are problems in body function or structure such as a significant deviation or loss, e.g. a paralysed leg
- Activity limitations are difficulties an individual may have in executing activities such as walking
- Participation restrictions are problems an individual may experience in involvement in life situations such as attending school
- Personal factors include gender, ethnic background, age, other health conditions, fitness, education, social background, coping styles, etc
- Environmental factors include products and technology, natural environment and human made changes to environment, support and relationships, attitudes, values and beliefs, services, systems and policies
ICF in (Community Based) Rehabilitation
Using ICF provides a (scientific) basis for understanding health and health-related states. It supports looking at and analyzing other factors which influence how people with a disability function and participate in their society/community. The ICF establishes a common language around the world and within the Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) context. The ICF also enables people to look beyond impairments and activity limitations such as; social, environmental, personal and cultural issues. Internationally the use of the ICF in rehabilitation services is becoming increasingly popular.
Please look at this link to understand ICF for Cerebral Palsy in plain langauge: ICF for parents:
ICF and Children with Disabilities
Here is an example:
A child with CP who has problems with eating and speaking because of motor control within the face and mouth area may benefit from assessment and intervention focused on motor impairments that make feeding or speech challenging. At the same time, addressing the activity of eating and the child's participation in family mealtimes, as well as alternative communication strategies, if necessary, ensures that all components of the child's functioning and health are addressed at the levels of body structure and function, activity and participation.
People / parents are much more likely to work on things that are important to them than to work on exercises others think are important. How to make eating easier in practice and how to communicate is more important than doing exercises to (hopefully) improve mouth muscle control. Advice on how to use eating time and how to communicate and stimulate the child to communicate during activities of daily living will give much more practice in using the muscles in the mouth area compared with doing exercises everyday for 20 minutes(which might only be done once a week).
Another example:A child with CP may be able to walk when there are no physical barriers on a smooth terrain.
When recognizing the importance of the role of the family, supporting the family is essential. The family has to be involved in setting functional goals in what to achieve. In doing so the family can help to achieve greater functional achievements with less effort compared to traditional impairment-based therapy.
This child is mobile with this tricycle but not when walking.
Try to analyze yourself: what impairments are improving if this child is biking around?
If you want to learn more about the ICF: follow a short online training on ICF which is very helpful: http://icf.ideaday.de/en/index.html
Rehabilitation Problem Solving (RPS) - Use of an ICF-based form
The Rehabilitation Problem Solving (RPS) format is based on the concept of the ICF and is being used increasingly in the international field of rehabilitation. This RPS form also provides room to write down the opinion of the parent and/or the child about the abilities and disabilities. The space for input by the client is based on the understanding that involvement in the whole assessment and planning is important in order to be able to make interventions meaningful and successful.
Case study and use of RPS:Girl, 6 years old, with athethoid cerebral palsy
This girl lives with her parents and grandparents. All love her and are taking good care of her. She is dependent in all activities of daily living (ADL). She can sit for a few moments without support but not stand or walk. She cannot eat, bathe or dress by herself. She stays at home, does not go to school/kindergarten/nursery. She understands everything, speaks some words but not clearly. She points to make it clear what she wants.
Focus is on physical rehabilitation because the parents think she needs to be able to walk before going to school. Here is an example of a RPS form for this young girl.
Activities and Participation
It is important to not only look only at what the limitations and restrictions are but also to look at what the child can do: what are the abilities and how to improve those abilities. Look at what the child participates in: what are they already doing? How can this be built on?
Disability and Influence of Environmental and Personal Factors
The ICF / RPS does not only look at impairment, activities, and participation but also at the relationship with and influence of environmental and personal factors.
- Gender: you cannot change gender but can influence attitude towards gender discrimination
- Ethnic background: discrimination of ethnic minorities takes place in many countries; adding disability to this can increase the risk of discrimination.
- Age: children with a disability are often among the most vulnerable group in society
- Social background: poverty of the family will cause often less opportunities for the child with a disability
- Natural environment: living in a flat country or living in a mountainous country will create different opportunities and barriers
- Roads, transportation system, and traffic: all can cause big barriers or opportunities.
- Values and beliefs: what people believe is the cause of disability, and how are people with a disability treated by society.
- Services, systems, and policies: did the country ratify the UNCRPD? What policies are there on education, and more importantly: if the policies are implemented.
- Are there accessible health / rehabilitation services?
Here is a video of a young boy with CP who talks about the difficulties and barriers that he and his family have come across:
The Role of the Professional in Rehabilitation
Here are a few thoughts from our expert Roelie Wolting on the experience she has experienced:
- Some professionals in the rehabilitation sector like to work in a clinical setting. Often the clinical setting is perceived as giving higher status because of the 'white coat' and for physiotherapists the use of machines such as ultrasound and other electrotherapeutic modalities. Many professionals think this is the setting which gives the best opportunities to apply their knowledge and skills.
- Some therapists think they know what is best for the client/child and they do believe that parents should follow their instructions. Parents and children have to comply and are only active implementers of instructions.
- If the progress is not as expected the parents are blamed for not doing enough exercises with their child.
- Many goals are impairment oriented or too broad.
- Usually the child does not have any influence at all.
But she believes that:
- Working with children is best done in the home setting and not in a clinical setting. A white coat may even scare children.
- With children you do not need (and should never use) machines. Working with children always includes working with the family and sometimes/often teachers in schools.
- Only working in a 'team' with parents and child on an equal basis will give the most rewarding results.
- When results are not as expected the therapist has to change and adapt; probably explanations were not clear; the interventions did not fit in the daily routine of the parents/child.
And ultimately:
- The child will be much more motivated if s/he is involved in decisions regarding what to do and what to learn.
- ↑ Docubees. BGD Disabled Children. Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGOzkBgit2Y [last accessed 29/08/16]


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Germans would actually welcome the withdrawal of American troops stationed in their country, a new poll has found, amid US President Donald Trump's threats to discontinue military support for the Western military alliance of NATO.
A YouGov poll for the dpa news agency found that more Germans would welcome the departure of the 35,000-strong American force than would oppose it,British online newspaper The Independent reported.
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Scotland assistant coach Dan McFarland would have preferred that star stand-off Finn Russell had chosen to stay at Glasgow rather than leave but concedes that the 25-year-old's decision to head for pastures new at the end of the season was an example of "the market place".
Glasgow Warriors confirmed on Sunday night that Russell would depart when his contract runs out in May after accepting a "lucrative" offer from an unstated club, which is rumoured to be French giants Racing 92.
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Russell produced another excellent display in the rousing performance against world champions New Zealand at the weekend, kicking seven points and orchestrating a fine home attacking showing in the honourable 22-17 defeat.
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Russell's club coach Dave Rennie recently warned that English and French clubs would want their "pound of flesh" if the player was to leave, but the 31-times capped stand-off clearly feels it is the right time in his career to move on.
"I don't want to go into Finn's case in particular, but it's definitely better for Scotland to have Scottish players playing in Scotland. Definitely, that's on the record. It's not a complicated issue," continued McFarland.
"In Scotland we have a good record of managing players and making sure that their long-term welfare is looked after so they can represent their country and their clubs. That has been done well. If they are not under your control you can't do that.
"It's the market place, isn't it? The thing for Scotland and the players is that they are looked after in Scotland. There's a recognition of that. Longevity of your career and being at your best for key games are things players take into account when making decisions."
Saracens wing Sean Maitland and Glasgow hooker Fraser Brown, who has made a speedy recovery from a knee injury, have joined the squad but McFarland gave a reasonably optimistic medical report yesterday in the wake of a full-on Test match against the All Blacks.
Hamish Watson (back), Luke Hamilton and Darryl Marfo (both ankle) are being treated by the Scotland medical staff.
"We've got two guys in concussion protocols [Zander Fagerson and Alex Dunbar]. They'll work their way through it this week," added McFarland. "The rest of the guys as it stands at the moment nobody is ruled out. They're all in treatment and we're hoping they'll all be available to play."
The doubts over Fagerson and Marfo simply adds to the litany of problems in front-row, although McFarland is not keen on using the word "problem".
"It is a challenge, but it's also an opportunity," he said. "We still have to prepare for Australia. They have a good scrum and a front row that's been together for a long time. They are just off the back of playing New Zealand, South Africa and Australia in the Rugby Championship, so they have had some top-level scrummaging.
"They'll be ready for us and we will have a good challenge. The lads are looking forward to that. You can't buy that experience, going against top packs and front rows.


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A biomass boiler is now keeping Albany Leisure and Aquatic Centre's leisure pool heated in a project that will significantly reduce the centre's reliance on gas.
The boiler burned its first wood chips last week, realising a project conceived five years ago to install a heating system that uses renewable energy.
It has allowed ALAC to switch off its gas system and relegate it to being a backup, saving about $50,000 per annum on gas.
Recreation Services Manager Sam Stevens said they had been working closely with local firm WA Biofuels to explore the potential for a renewable energy system and it was exciting it was now up and running.
"Transitioning to biofuel is both economically and environmentally beneficial," she said. "Running on gas heating has been very expensive and we have been at the mercy of the market, with gas prices extremely high at the moment.
"WA Biofuels has built and will own and operate the boiler system, there has been no up-front capital needed from the City to adopt this new technology."
Darryl Outhwaite from WA Biofuels said the boiler will consume about 400 to 500 tonnes of woodchips a year, and the project had been able to support local employment in plumbing, electrical, engineering and forestry.
"It takes about two hours for the region's timber plantations to regrow the amount of fuel that we need to heat the leisure centre for a year," he said. "It's not only renewable, but the trees planted also provided great landcare benefits in the form of clean air, water and biodiversity."
Albany Mayor Dennis Wellington said the renewable approach to heating the pool was just another way Albany was embracing being a Clean, Green and Sustainable community.


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A muscle-bound jujitsu black belt that pulled a knife while fending off a group of muggers, has been indicted for murder for accidentally stabbing a good Samaritan who had jumped into the melee to help him, officials said today.
Maurice Parks, 40, will be charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Flonarza Byas when the indictment is unsealed next week, officials said.
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A group of three men attacked Parks, a NYC Transit conductor who studied martial arts, on January 10 on St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem as he walked home from work, police said.
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Parks also stabbed one of his attackers, Hector Cruz. Cruz and the two other would-be robbers have been charged with two counts of first-degree robbery and one count of second-degree robbery.


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I have posted before about Mr Ivriniel's assorted health issues. He has not been sharing much of the information with his brother because his brother tends to be a pain in the butt. That changed on the weekend, when he sent an email out to his whole family with an update.
I mentioned in an earlier post that ABiL responded to the email by calling Mr I and asking to see hard copy reports from all of Mr I's various tests. Mr I didn't have any and told him so. This was apparently
Apparently last night ABiL called their sister to ask if she had known about Mr I's tests before the email. When he found out that she had, he had a bit of a freakout. He accused her of being "unprofessional as a nurse" for not sharing what she knew about Mr I's medical tests with him.
Mr I's sister was having none of that. She shut down his "unprofessional" talk by pointing out that she was following professional rules around confidentiality by not sharing Mr I's private medical information without his consent.
She followed that up by asking ABiL why he thinks Mr I didn't share this information with him before? And then she told ABiL that he was too judgemental and unsympathetic.
She says that in the end hashed things out a bit and the conversation ended amicably.
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Rick Wagoner's ouster by President Obama hardly fixes General Motors' wagon. The extent to which GM did not get it, refused to get it, and never will get it was evident late last week. The same day that the government posted new fuel economy standards that raise the industry-wide vehicle standard to 27.3 miles per gallon in 2011, GM proudly announced the 2009 Cadillac Escalade Platinum Hybrid, "the most technically advanced large luxury SUV yet."
By combining electric power with gasoline, the Escalade will deliver 20 miles per gallon in the city. "This is the ultimate Escalade," said Mark McNabb, a Cadillac vice president, ". . . for the changing priorities of luxury consumers who want dramatic design and technology combined with fuel efficiency."
Meanwhile, automotive writers in the United States and Canada have been taking test spins of the 2010 Toyota Prius. Toyota claims it will get 50 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving. Reviewers have been getting 60 and even 70 miles per gallon. A model of the 2009 Prius earned best-car value honors from Consumer Reports. Los Angeles Times business writer Dan Neil calculated that a far better stimulus than the one being proposed for the US auto industry and clean energy might be for the government to spend $46 billion a year for 10 years to provide Americans 20 million US-assembled Priuses and get cars that get 15 miles per gallon off the road. That would eventually save 170 days worth of OPEC oil a year.
"That will give Hugo Chavez insomnia like a case of Red Bull," Neil wrote.
That is a huge hint that as earnest as Obama may be in wanting to save Detroit, the issue is no longer whether the car maker is American. It is whether the car is made in America. In a speech yesterday in which he gave GM 60 more days to restructure and Chrysler 30 days to merge with Fiat or another automaker, Obama bravely held out hope for a turnaround by saying that the North American Car of the Year in 2008 was from GM and that Buick tied for first place as the most reliable car in the world (in rankings this month by J.D. Power and Associates).
"No one can deny that our auto industry has made meaningful progress in recent years, and this doesn't get talked about often enough," Obama said.
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The problem for Obama is that progress on individual cars does not deny the dismal overall picture. Of the very J.D. Power ranking for Buick cited by Obama, USA Today reported that overall, GM cars "were all over the map. Cadillac placed a respectable ninth. GMC, Chevrolet, Saturn, Pontiac, Hummer, and Saab, however, were below the overall average, even though some Buicks share common chassis or are built on the same lines."
And, of course, there is a reason Obama had to reach back to 2008 for a US automaker champion of the North American award, because in 2009 it was won by a Hyundai. After its annual testing of vehicles, Consumer Reports recommended 100 percent of Subaru vehicles, 95 percent of Hondas, 89 percent of Toyotas, and 70 percent of Fords. Only 17 percent of GM cars and zero percent of Chryslers were recommended. None of the 41 cars that earned a "best-value" designation from Consumer Reports were from GM, Chrysler, or Ford.
Instead of rearranging the board chairs on this Titanic, Obama is better off planning how to let GM and Chrysler sink in a manner that does not suck down the overall economy. Let Ford or foreign automakers who pledge to expand US operations absorb the few reliable and fuel-efficient sedans Americans make, trim down the plethora of pickup trucks and minivans, and do away with large SUVs, where no amount of green technology can disguise the rolling smokestack.
Obama yesterday said he was confident the auto industry could once again "tap into that same ingenuity and resilience" it once had. It is too late. The engines from Japan are passing 50 miles per gallon. GM still brags about a Jurassic that gets 20.


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Observation: I find myself as much entertained by thoughtful participatory activities, such as web design and programming, philosophical thinking, architectural design and choral singing, as I am by the "typical" entertainment activities (film, TV, listening to music).
Discussion: There are several ways of looking at entertainment, only one of which the corporate world has been transfixed with for a long time – that with a producer and a consumer. The producer, often based in Hollywood, or some other such remote place to most of the world, will generate ideas for stories, comedy shows, films, characters and brands. They then film them, produce merchandise for them, create spin-offs. And then they sell their ideas, via intermediaries (cinemas, TV stations, chain stores), to "the consumer", that magical entity that always has money to burn and is oh so willing to burn it.
There are a great many alternatives to this model, in many of which the beneficiaries are not just passive "consumers", but participants. They involve creativity, engagement and, to some extent, commitment. The relationships that one enjoys with a significant other, children, parents and friends, have all taken commitment and engagement. We enjoy activities such as gardening, music-making, art or computer programming because of the creativity that is involved and the beautiful result. But those are the more obvious ones. In many cases, work itself is entertainment. The best salesmen see the process as a competitive game, where their motivation is not the commission, but the feeling when the sale has been "won". For others, it is the more subtle problem-solving aspect of work that is entertaining – balancing the needs of the interested parties in a transaction, and the satisfaction when all come out with what they want. It is not the type of entertainment that is laugh out loud funny, but quiet, often serious (even solemn) and contemplative.
The idea that entertainment only comes from TV sets and football stadiums is an illusion, enhanced by the media (the beneficiaries of such a model), and it is an illusion that is damaging, because it restricts the world's richest resource – our ideas. When we ship our hard-earned cash overseas to international "entertainment producers", we get very little of significance in return, and lose the time we spent in watching those shows, or travelling to that international pop concert. Not only do we lose the time for our minds to be occupied by our own creative ideas and thoughts during these times, they are occupied by someone else's ideas, who then has the power to manipulate them, advertise to them, to change them. We are given opinions, rather than being allowed the opportunities to think them for ourselves. Further to these damaging properties, this model denies the consumer the opportunity to gain the intimate respect that one can have of the great talent they are witnessing. Such an intimate respect can only be generated when talent is visible amongst our own acquaintances, some of whom may work very hard gaining, developing and then using their skills, but never be given the opportunity to show them.
So where does this lead us? Should we reject TV and football as entertainments of a bygone era and start afresh? No! But it is essential to remain balanced, and not to just pass the time passively consuming entertainment when that same time could be used productively, enhancing the life satisfaction of both that person, and any others who are affected, a reward which will lead to a lot more overall improved well-being than the individual experiences of "being entertained" on the part of the consumers.
Conclusion: Embrace the idea that the best entertainment is participatory, and may involve intense thought, creativity, engagement and commitment. Do not deny the mind the opportunity to think and make decisions for itself, rather than consuming (and reinforcing) the opinions and ideas of the international entertainment producers.


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When she was much younger, Dana wanted to be an actress. Rather, she wanted to be famous first, an actress second. She'd wanted to be known around town as something other than the girl who used up all the machines at the laundromat with her little brothers' Spiderman underwear and her grandpa's pants soiled with God-knows-what. Something other than the movie theater girl whose fingers always felt slightly greasy no matter how many times she washed, who often had popcorn in her hair from snacking while the movies played. She shook those connotations for the first time when she married Conor Philips, the UGA grad who started teaching at the high school the year she graduated. They married in the summer after she walked across the field in a purple gown with gold tassels. Everyone knew what that meant – that a student and a teacher had been romantic while one was a student and one was a teacher – but to admit that that happened between people with a forgivable age gap would be admitting it happened between others, and those were cans that remained closed unless pried open.
The second time she shook those connotations was almost a year later when she baked her first-born in the backseat of her Honda Civic parked in front of the Winn Dixie. She'd forgotten he was back there, the way she sometimes forgot to cut her nails before leaving the house or forgot the milk at the grocery store that she'd specifically gone to get. She'd forgotten the milk that particular day, not remembering until she'd made it to the threshold of the store, where the blasting air conditioner met the hot air from outside creating a palpable barrier, like the place that feels like a moment where a rainstorm begins and ends. She'd turned back around, muttering some obscenity and rolling her eyes at herself as the cashier who'd just rung her up swiped the perspiring gallon across the sticky checkout counter.
Later, in the parking lot, sitting indian style on the hot asphalt amidst the sharp sounds of the ambulances and the cops shouting – what had they shouted at her? – she didn't allow herself to calculate the time she'd spent backtracking to the refrigerated aisle for the milk, the seconds spent deciding between the 2% milk her husband preferred and the fat free which she felt she needed after having Ben, God rest his soul. The time – the critical minutes, the doctors said – that she could've reversed the damage the sun had done. She tried not to picture the blisters, the open mouth, the sweat that at first she thought were tears. Of all of the horrible things she'd feared would befall her son, she'd never seen this one coming. This was not a broken heart, a college rejection letter, a broken limb.
Conor came from school; his hair was mussed and he was crying. She had not called him, had not been the one to accuse herself to him, and she was surprised to see his red Ford pull into the parking lot. She watched as the cops tried to turn him around, realizing too late that he was the father, that he was allowed to witness the rolling away of his son. They waved him through, and even in his hurry he pulled the truck perfectly into a spot. He didn't see Dana at first and she sat watching him. Since that first day when she realized the crush she'd developed on her younger brother's English teacher was reciprocated, she had always seen Conor as someone older, someone in charge of her, as though she'd simply passed between babysitters. With the overlap, she'd never felt the lull between finishing school and starting everything else. That afternoon was the first time she felt the significant emptiness of something ending. She watched Conor punch the side of her car. She saw in his face that this was not something he was prepared to overcome; they would not band together. She picked at the edge of her tennis shoe and knew her husband would leave her.
Her trial fell a week after Conor packed up a suitcase and headed to Memphis to his parents' house. He couldn't drive around on those streets anymore he'd said. She had pretended to understand, pretended that the world was not tilted slightly since what happened, that she couldn't look at things straight anymore for fear she'd lose her balance. She was in a constant state of motion sickness.
The night he left, she walked into her parents' bedroom – the judge had ordered her under house arrest with constant supervision until the trial. She stood in their doorway, a familiar stance she'd taken many times as a child. Her father was asleep; her mother, still up, was reading an old Reader's Digest and moved over to make room for Dana to lay. Her mother held her and did not say anything. All she'd had to do was keep her son alive and now all she had left to do were so many other things that were easier.


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Quantifying your accomplishments
Here are some examples of typical résumé statements
"Elected President of National Honor Society"
"Placed third in Extemporaneous Speaking regionals"
"Raised money for Thanksgiving food drive."
"Managed employees at Checker's Hamburgers."
These statements are fine. They provide useful information and use action verbs. But more should be done.
How much money did you raise? How many people did you run against in a school election? If you received an award, how many others received the same? How are you distinguishing yourself from many other applicants doing the same activities?
All of the time, I review résumés where I wish the applicant would tell me more. One way to provide the reviewer with more information is to quantify your accomplishments.
Let's quantify the earlier achievements
"Elected President out of four candidates for National Honor Society."
"Placed third out of thirty regional qualifiers for Extemporaneous Speaking. One of twelve qualified for the state tournament."
"Raised $5,000 for a Thanksgiving food drive."
"Managed five employees as one of two shift leaders at Checker's Hamburgers."
Nearly any accomplishment that involves competing against somebody else can be quantified. It looks a lot more impressive to finish third out of a hundred than maybe second out of ten. If you raised money for charity, tell your reviewer! If you placed in the top 1% on a national Latin exam, how many others took the exam?
When crafting the expanded résumé, quantifying your accomplishments is one clear way you can separate yourself from the pack. After all, tens of thousands of applicants will participate in NHS, conduct charity fundraisers, or have volunteer hours. Quantifying your accomplishments is one simple way to distinguish yourself in a crowded applicant pool.
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