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Above: Mike and Lesley Wood (left); Mike and Lesley ministering to trainee ministers in Uzzhorod (right)
Rev Mike Wood is one of the UK trustees for Global Action, as well as being a GLOMOS lecturer. Here he shares a little of his testimony, as well as his experiences teaching and mentoring emerging leaders in the developing world.
God has opened some powerful doors of opportunity for Lesley, my wife, and myself. I "retired" some 10 years ago from my role as Senior pastor in a significant Baptist Church in South London. Some fellow pastors prayed for me and prophesied over me. Not something that happens very often. They spoke into my life that I would be called to travel and to preach in South America, Eastern Europe and Asia. Global Action encouraged me to write a book on leadership. "Leading the Jesus Way". Then I have been invitedto teach in thetraining modulesofGLOMOS and I have enjoyed sharing my many yearsof experiencewith emerging leadersin India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and the Ukraine. We have been delighted with the response from students who have listened prayerfully but also come forward for prayers for blessing, encouragement and healing. We have been strongly aware how God is at work and the Kingdom increasing. This season of blessing has impacted our ministry in the UK, Spain and Sweden. It has also been a huge privilege to serve on the UK Global Action board. I always look forward to our meetings with excitement. We travel again to the Ukraine next week and again next year. Please continue to pray for this challenging and adventurous ministry of Global Action. It has been a joy to play asmall part in this fruitful andsignificant vision. The doors are still opening. Opportunities to serve in practical ways lie before us all. Step out of your comfort zones and respond with faith and love, love, love.
Rev. Mike Wood currently serves as South West London district minister for the London Baptist Association, where he provides mentoring and support for local ministers from a range of denominations and cultural backgrounds.


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At the end of last month we were off on a little trip, this time to Berlin. Bryan had signed up for a suicided run (some people call them marathons) so we tacked on a few extra days and made it a mini-break. It's always fun to compare cities, and this is what we found. We met up with Adam, a freelance travel writer, blogger and gay travel expert, of Travels of Adam to get a local's perspective.
Berlin – Tall, blond and solid is the best way to describe the German men. We don't often feel short, but a group of German men can easy do that. They have a simple and relaxed dress sense, think 80s and mainly black. Adam confirms that black is the color of choice all year round (there were a few more adventurous characters from time to time). Adam also tells us that everyone in Berlin is young or young at heart, it's a fairly open society, and German guys are often more willing to try new things in bed (even some straight guys are open to gay things).
Paris – Dark features, lithe, and chic (or at least with a sense of their own style) describes the French men. Somehow, the majority know how to match shoes and belts and jackets effortlessly. Also, they all seem to know about hair and skincare too. The questions for most non-European visitors is – how do you know which ones are gay?!
Winner: Berlin for the blond lovers and Paris for the brunette lovers.
Berlin – TK Maxx! Need I say more? If you don't know what this is (TJ Maxx for the Americans), it's a magical land of discount fashion. And, the gays seem to know about it, so you can shop for a man at the same time. Plus, we have a thing for the shoes in Germany – they have a great selection and good prices. Adams favorite shop is Voo Store, which he describes as a hipster kind of place with a curated selection of stuff: books, beauty products, fashion, shoes.
Paris – Shopping in Paris runs the full gamut. It goes from lux brands down to second hand where you buy by the kilo. There are department stores to small boutiques. You can find all types of shopping in Paris.
Winner: Berlin – You can't pass by a good deal at TK Maxx
Berlin – The Berlin gay nightlife is spread all over the city. What you're into will define which area you visit. We went out and had a bit of a look for ourselves (don't really bother before 10pm because everything starts late) and were a little shocked by the fact that people can smoke inside! Adam told us it's like that everywhere. He also told us that the Berlin nightlife is quite amazing. They host parties for all kinds of groups, muscled, twink, Jewish (Meshugge), Turkish (Gayhane at SO36), even French.
Paris – The Paris gay nightlife is centred around the Marais. There are bars for all different groups, backrooms and saunas and the other aspects of gay nightlife too. There are regular parties but the mostly cater to variations of the white, French community.
Winner: Do you like your smokers inside or outside? For us, the winner is Paris because we prefer them outside.
Berlin – If you like it cheap, copious, and without vegetables, Berlin has you covered. We has a great time eating schnitzel, currywurst, bretzel, and sourkraut. Don't forget the coffee and cake. Also, you can eat at anytime of the day, restaurants aren't restricted to specific meal times. Adam's favorite street food is the 4AM döner, and we totally agree that they're amazing.
Paris – Paris has some of the world's greatest food, and they are the masters of pastries for a reason, but it generally comes at a price. They also are cheese and wine specialists. It can take a bit of time, but when you find the good places, you'll never be disappointed
Winner: For us it was Berlin. We've done Paris :) Plus, being able to buy a round of drinks and get change from a €10 was a real treat. Plus, we love the street food aspect.
Berlin – There are 2 official memorials in Berlin for the Homosexuals Persecuted under Nazism. One is a pink granite triangle on Nollendorfplatz and the other is at eastern edge of Tiergarten park (check this one out for yourself – we don't want to spoil the surprise). Unofficially, the Nollendorfplat U-bahn station lights up like a rainbow flag at night. and there is a red ribbon AIDS memorial on An der Urania street for all HIV-related deaths.
Paris – Paris doesn't have the same history as Berlin. The one memorial plaque in Paris commemorates the last gay couple to be punished for homosexuality in France in the 1700s.
Winner: Berlin really has done a remarkable job in this category.
Berlin – Adam explained that same sex marriage isn't legal in Germany as yet. But, since 2001 same sex-unions are recognized under registered life partnership. It looks like they might have to wait for a change of government, as the current party is against changing the laws, for any further developments in this area.
Paris – It has been in since 2013.
Winner: Paris – Because it's official.
Because we went for this event we thought we should tell you about it.
Berlin – Berlin is one of the six World Marathon Majors. It is known to be a fast course as the city is very flat. It snakes it way around the central area of the city and the course is lined the whole way by cheering crowds and has several long, straight stretches that are great for achieving a PB. We're not really sure why, but it seems to attract quite a lot of Danish men, so if you're attracted to them, it's not a bad time of year to visit.
Paris – The Paris course isn't the easiest, it's not very flat and there are several sections though the woods where the crowds don't often come to cheer. But it is quite a spectacular route with many iconic monuments visible along the way. They different categories are color coded and there a pacers with large banners that make it easy to spot different groups of runners.
Winner: For the runner – Berlin – it's a great course with great atmosphere. For the spectator – Paris – it's easier to move around and spot the runners you've come to see.
In the end, we have a great time in both cities. Still, let us know what you think of the two cities.


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1. Main results obtained for high quality samples are as follows :(1) In A1-Pd-Mn icosahedral phase, electrical resistivity increases almost linearly with deceasing temperature and shows a maximum at few tens of Kelvin and then decreases in low Mn-concentration alloys. The specific resistivity at helium temperature is generally quite high and varies from 10^3 to 10^4 mu OMEGA cm depending on the alloy composition. The temperature dependence of the resistivity, as well as the magnetoresistance effect, can be interpreted by the weak-localization theory that takes into account the spin-orbit interaction.(2) Also in Al-Pd-Re icosahedral phase, the resistivity is extremely high and varies sensitively with the composition. In some Al_<70>Pd_<20>Re_<10> alloys, the resistivity value reaches as high as 1O MEGA cm at helium temperature, which is the highest value ever reported for quasicrystals. Temperature and magnetic field dependences of the resistivity are interpreted by the weak-localization theory except the samples with the highest resistivity which show hoping-like conduction.(3) In Al-Cu-Ru and Al-Cu-Fe icosahedral phases, the electrical conductivity varies as T^<1/2> below a few tens of Kelvin due to the electron-electron interaction effect and as T linear above the temperature due to the weak-localization effect. Hall coefficient measurements have suggested the temperature variation of the carrier density.2. From the experimental results so far obtained, we get the following picture : in both high-quality quasicrystals and their high-order crystal approximants, a deep pseudo-gap is always forms at the Fermi-level due to the Fermi-surface quasi-Brillouin zone boundary interaction, and the electrons near the Fermi-level have a stronger tendency to localize as the pseudo-gap deepens ; these circumstances produce characteristic behavior of electrical resistivity in quasicrystals.
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India: The slag yard at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant in Andhra Pradesh has collapsed. No injuries were reported during the incident, according to the Hindu newspaper. The cause of the accident remains unknown. The slag yard was built at the time of commissioning of the steel plant. An official said that production remained unaffected. Slag from the steel plant is supplied to cement and brick producers.
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- Johann Gottfried Herder, Journal meiner Reise im Jahr 1769 (Herders Werke : In 5 Bd. – Berlin; Weimar, 1969. – Bd. 1. – S. 135).
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), 18th century German philosopher, theologian, ethnographer, poet and literary critic who formally belongs to the period of Enlightenment yet, as many other German authors of that period, in many respects was an anti-thesis to the main premises of the classic French Enlightenment. Often credited as a founder of "cultural nationalism," he famously paralleled nations with the thoughts in the mind of God. Herder's organicist approaches to history, cultures and languages have become a cornerstone of anti-universalist currents and doctrines from Oswald Spengler's "morphology of cultures" to the Sapir–Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis. A leading figure of Sturm und Drang movement, he greatly influenced Wolfgang von Goethe as a major precursor of Romanticism.
During his stay in Riga from 1764 to 1769, Herder expressed his admiration for the Eastern European peoples and has become an advocate of their national liberation and reawakening. Again, in this respect, he was a forerunner of both anti-colonialist studies and the great-power geopolitical doctrines, be them of the German origin like Friedrich Naumann's conception of Mitteleuropa, or Eastern European variations of Intermarium. As an inventor of the term "folksong," Herder created many collections of European folksongs, Latvian in particular.


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Beware of Dog Jerky Made in ChinaFamilyPet
By now, most people who love a dog know about the jerky warnings from the FDA. To bring everyone up to speed, jerky treats from China have been making thousands of dogs and cats sick and have killed almost 600 dogs. Disgraceful. And apparently, still a mystery as to the cause.
I just can't imagine the heartache these dog owners are feeling knowing the treats they bought and fed to their dogs were the cause of illness or, in many cases, the demise of their precious pet. Pets trust us for everything. Truly heart wrenching.
Treats are not necessary for a balanced diet but as pets have become part of our families, giving your dog a treat is akin to giving a child a cookie. Both child and dog can certainly live without said treat, but they are a lot happier with their treat of choice.
If your dog has consumed treats manufactured in China and is showing signs of illness, take her immediately to your veterinarian for treatment. The signs show within hours of ingestion and take hold swiftly. Most dogs have survived but with lifelong consequences of their ordeals; 600 did not make it out of the vet offices alive.
What are the signs to watch for?
- Decreased appetite
- Lethargic demeanor
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Increased thirst/water consumption
- Increased urination
More severe cases show gastrointestinal illness and/or renal (kidney) failure. If your pup is exhibiting any of these symptoms, get her to the vet now! And take the treat in the original bag with you when you go for treatment.
The FDA is asking vet practices for blood and urine samples of affected dogs and in the case of a dog who perishes, for necropsy results. It only took six years, but now the FDA is serious about getting to the root of this very dangerous situation.
To be safe, look very carefully at the packaging of any treat you are considering purchasing for your dog. Look at the extremely fine print to ensure it is not made in China. Most manufacturers who produce their treats in the United States are very proud of that fact and readily advertise it on their packaging. And watch for the phrases 'manufactured by' and 'manufactured for."
The phrase 'manufactured by' is a good indication that the product was manufactured by the company whose name is on the package; 'manufactured for' is a sure sign that the product was manufactured by some entity other than the one on the label.
Another key point of information to consider is are there any additives to the treat? If vitamins or flavorings have been added, I would want to know if those additives were made overseas or within the US borders. Many items, such as vitamin C, are manufactured overseas. These days, you just can't be too cautious.
Know your sources. Can the manufacturer trace the product from the grower to you every step of the way? Being able to trace the origin of treats can be like tracking down your great granny four times removed. But, as a person who has dogs instead of kids, I want to know that information.
Where were the sweet potatoes grown? Where and how was the poultry raised? Antibiotic free? No hormones added? Human grade raw ingredients?
As consumers, you have every right to know these pieces of information. And for your peace of mind and the health of your dog who trusts you to make good decisions, you should seek the answers to these questions.
As a manufacturer, I want to tell you this information. If you don't know, ask. Manufacturers who are proud of the products they produce will readily give up this intel. This is your dog's life and well being we are talking about!
If you just can't decide what to do, remember this. Buying no treats at all is better than buying bad ones.
*** NOTE: Doggyloot does not sell any edibles made in China. All Doggyloot jerky and other treats and chews are made in the USA.


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I'm making lot of stuff that I'll send to my swap-partners, but to organize all the work and the precious deadlines I made myself a calendar.
I found the idea on that awesome site that's CO+K and I create my own version.
I choose some anime images as background
5 swaps, 2 exams and my b.day are already scheduled!
Easy and oh so cool >:D
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What elections in Japan and Canada say about the future of trade deals
Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party re-elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as its president last week. He was first elected in 2012 on a pro-growth, economic reform agenda. Now his top domestic priority is to restore growth to the Japanese economy – which has been on a downward slope for the last several decades and which contracted in the second quarter of this year.
Upon receiving the positive vote for leadership of his party, Abe immediately declared his commitment to successfully close a massive Pacific Rim trade deal that includes Japan and about 40% of the global economy. At this point, that's not easy as Japan and 11 other nations continue negotiating the Transpacific Partnership agreement. For Japan, letting more agricultural products compete with domestic farm products is a challenge, but lowering tariffs is key to successfully closing the trade deal. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States have a keen interest in exporting more of their agricultural products to Japan. What is in the deal for Japan? Japan hopes to gain further market opportunities for its exports throughout the Pacific region to enable it to stimulate its economic growth.
Prime Minister Abe is not the only one facing tough decisions. During the first half of this year, Canada's economy slumped into negative growth as energy prices dropped. Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper sees the TPP as a vehicle to diversify and expand its exports to promote Canadian economic growth. What's complicating negotiations is that other countries negotiating the trade deal are asking that Canada reduce its protection for agricultural products — particularly dairy. Canada's supply management system is not an easy one to change, and its farmers have built their businesses and taken out mortgages based on that system of protection staying in place.
So the question for Canadian negotiators is how much liberalization they will accept in return for Canada's access to a broad range of new export opportunities through others' TPP commitments. Canada's government is the first of the TPP partners to be in a general election, with the vote scheduled on October 19. This week, the three contenders vying to be Canada's next prime minister are expected to debate over the country's economic policies. Prime Minister Harper has pledged to liberalize Canadian imports of even its sensitive products.
Yesterday, Australia's Liberal Party changed its leadership, giving Australia a new prime minister. New Zealand's trade minister, Tim Groser, hailed this move as giving a boost to earlier conclusion of TPP as Turnbull uses it as a means to boost Australia's economy.
Agriculture is not the only remaining issue in TPP, but it is a key ingredient in forging a 12-nation consensus. New Zealand cannot sign a deal that does not enhance its dairy exports, and looks to Japan and the United States as markets that should be more open. Australia looks to Japan for its meat exports and to the U.S to take in more of its sugar, for it to agree to a final deal. American farmers are likewise looking for additional export opportunities in Japan and Canada.
Past trade agreements have often provided relatively less liberalization for agriculture than for industrial goods. This is true of the commitments made in the World Trade Organization, as well as those made in a large number of existing regional "free trade" agreements. TPP has been touted as an agreement that can break that mold, to achieve a higher standard than has been reached in prior agreements. It aspires to be a template for future trade deals, including the next major trade deal for the United States – the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations with the 28 nation European Union.
Gains to world economic growth from TPP could be on the order of $295 billion, economists at the Peterson Institute for International Economics have estimated. They go further and see the possibilities for broader agreements encompassing Asia leading to increased growth in the trillions of dollars. Since Korea, the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia are waiting in the wings to consider joining TPP, the path to that level of growth is not entirely theoretical. However, these estimates depend on extensive liberalization. The first step will depend on what the twelve TPP parties can accomplish. That is not yet determined, but could be, soon.
Alan Wm. Wolff practices law with the international firm, Dentons in Washington DC. He is chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council and a former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative.


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Antoinette Norris has acquired many skills in 18 years of caring for a child with profound disabilities, but lately she feels she's added time travel to the list.
"We're going backwards," the mother of five says with a sigh. "Years and years ago you heard about people with disabilities but never saw them because they were hidden away from society. That's what's happening again."
She's speaking of her daughter, Demi, who has been stuck at home the past three weeks with nothing to do and none of the therapies so essential to her wellbeing.
Demi has Cohen syndrome, has very limited mobility, is non-verbal, and requires full-time care. She was attending St Michael's Special School in Ballymun, Dublin, but she turned 18 in April and was switched over to adult services for the start of the new academic term.
When she tried to take up her place at an adult training centre, there was no transport for her, unlike when she was at school.
"The centre is a 45-minute bus journey away and 45 minutes back and I have other kids, including my youngest who is autistic, so I can't bring Demi," Antoinette explains.
She was offered transport by a charity running specially adapted taxis but the fee would be €95 a week. "I'm a lone parent on welfare — I'm very good at budgeting but I can't work miracles," she says.
Antoinette says Demi is going back in time too. "She was going to the toilet but she's back in nappies now and she's dribbling which is something she'd stopped. She needs her physiotherapy and her speech therapy and the stimulation of a group. I'm watching her regress week by week."
Antoinette Norris with her daughter Demi at their home in Finglas. Demi has Cohen syndrome and they feel they're 'going backwards'. Picture: Arthur Carron
Antoinette and Demi were outside Government Buildings yesterday to support a small but determined group of protestors from disability groups Inclusion Ireland, the Centre for Independent Living, and the AT Network, who are calling on the Government to honour its promises to reform supports for people with disabilities.
Several of the protesters spent the previous night camping out on the footpath, ready to greet Taoiseach Enda Kenny as he arrived for yesterday morning's Cabinet meeting.
Their aim was to point out the pain caused by years of cutbacks to respite care packages, mobility allowances, and other services, and to remind him that the programme for government promised a shift towards personal packages for people with disabilities, allowing them make their own choices about what supports they need with their own money to pay for it.
The news that €450m is to be spent upgrading nursing homes has sparked alarm. "Living in the community is the way to go but there is no money for that yet there is money for residential care," said Ann Kennedy, 62, who has mitochondrial disease and uses a wheelchair.
"They are driving people who could be independent into institutional care. It's scary, it's not a normal, natural environment for someone who wants to get out in to society and enjoy life.
"We want personal packages so that we can choose when to get up, what we are going to do, how we going to get around. We're told what hours of care we're getting, when we're getting it. We're being made dependent."
Ann shares her disability and frustrations with her twin, Margaret, and the pair are regulars at protests, donning jaunty pink hats draped in ribbons and flowers and refusing to let their wheelchairs hold them back.
"I know we're flamboyant when you see us on protests with our hats and our placards but what this situation does is it erodes your confidence and self-esteem," says Ann. "It makes you feel worthless."
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text: Chinese English French German Japanese Korean Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish All 2T - Testimonies for the Church Volume 2 PK - Prophets and Kings PK 249 (Prophets and Kings 249) The proud spirit of Naaman rebelled against following the course outlined by Elisha. The rivers mentioned by the Syrian captain were beautified by surrounding groves, and many flocked to the banks of these pleasant streams to worship their idol gods. It would have cost Naaman no great humiliation of soul to descend into one of those streams. But it was only through following the specific directions of the prophet that he could find healing. Willing obedience alone would bring the desired result. (PK 249.1) MC View Tool Naaman's servants entreated him to carry out Elisha's directions: "If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing," they urged, "wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?" The faith of Naaman was being tested, while pride struggled for the mastery. But faith conquered, and the haughty Syrian yielded his pride of heart and bowed in submission to the revealed will of Jehovah. Seven times he dipped himself in Jordan, "according to the saying of the man of God." And his faith was honored; "his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean." (PK 249.2) MC View Tool Gratefully "he returned to the man of God, he and all his company," with the acknowledgment, "Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel." (PK 249.3) MC View Tool


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CELEBRATING 25 YEARS: Smuin's 2018/19 Season
For 25 years, we've presented groundbreaking performances and an experience of dance that is entertaining, evocative, and original. This season, we are delighted to revisit several beloved Michael Smuin favorites and look to the future with a dynamic world premiere from Amy Seiwert and works created by dancers in the company.
Dance Series 01
Smuin's season opener offers a mixed repertory program featuring Trey McIntyre's Blue Until June, a sultry tribute to the legendary music of Etta James. Revisit Michael Smuin's final creation, Schubert Scherzo, and his beloved 1969 masterpiece, The Eternal Idol (a tribute to Rodin). Get a glimpse of the future of contemporary ballet with three new works from Company dancers Nicole Haskins, Ben Needham-Wood, and former Company dancer Rex Wheeler.
The Christmas Ballet
Light up your holidays with Smuin's beloved yuletide tradition. From classical to cool and contemporary, Smuin's The Christmas Ballet offers two acts filled with a stunning and original array of ballet, tap, and jazz. This year's edition features new pieces alongside Smuin favorites. Spark your holiday season with a joyous celebration of dance and a true wintertime classic!
Dance Series 02
Smuin presents a mixed bill for Dance Series 02, returning to Smuin's roots with highlights from Michael Smuin's vast creative archive. Fall in love all over again with classic numbers like "Unforgettable" and "Fever" from Dances with Songs, and excerpts from Dancin' with Gershwin, Zorro! and Frankie & Johnny. Amy Seiwert, one of Smuin's most illustrious alumni, presents a world premiere to close our 25th Anniversary season.


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Psalm 51
Curated by Justina Gendy
Bethel Music - You Have Won Me
Auston Stone Worship - How Deep The Father's Love For Us
Bethel Music - Jesus We Love You
Hillsong Worship - Beautiful Name
By Bobbi Salkeld
Hear this invitation to the Lord's table – a place where we gather together. To remember, to commune, and to receive spiritual nourishment From the body of Jesus and the life of the Spirit
The invitation is this:
Come to this table, not because you must but because you may
Not because you are always strong, but because you are often weak
Come, because you love God a little and would like to love God more.
Come, because Jesus loves you and gave himself for you,
For all of us, and for the life of the world.
As you come forward you are invited to tear off a piece of bread or receive a gluten free cracker. You will hear words spoken over you to express that the body of Christ was broken so you could be made whole. Then, you will pull a grape from the vine and hear words spoken over you to express that you participate in the new covenant, where all creation is made new in Jesus' blood poured out for you. You are welcome to respond "Amen" or "Thanks be to God" or you can simply smile and pray quietly.
Let's pray together,
Jesus, on the night of your arrest you took bread, gave thanks and fed it to your disciples. This bread is a sacrament of your forgiveness and your kingdom. And then you lifted the cup, inviting your followers to drink of you the true wine that seals and makes our hearts glad. Loving God, as we eat we imagine the feast of your kingdom
And we give you thanks.
Come and eat; this is your spiritual feast.
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God of grace, you have given us minds to know you, hearts to love you, and voices to sing your praise. Fill us with your Spirit, that we may celebrate your glory and worship you in spirit and in truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
By Bobbi Salkeld
Generous God, All we have comes from you - our friendships & relationships, our homes & communities, our jobs & passions, keep us from the belief that we are the masters of these gifts. Keep us thankful and participating in your life-giving ways in the world. You love us and share your divine life with us. May we do the same for the needs of others near and far.


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One of our key services is R&D solutions development. Belarusian Research Institutes possess great potential and knowledge in a number of scientific fields. In order to exercise this potential we are using the help of these consultants in projects of our clients that require strong bias towards algorithm development and optimization.
Lately we have considerably expanded the cooperation with the scientific experts due to the increased demand in these services from our partners. Currently our expertise in algorithm optimization/development encompasses the following areas:
- Processing of digital signals in devices;
- Processing of nano-measurements;
- Contact problems for rough bodies;
- Theory of technological tests of surface hardness;
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The city's new parking service change brings to mind, the farmer takes his cow to his neighbor to be serviced by his neighbors bull. In the new parking service the city is the bull and the civilian is the cow.
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No to more steel and glass, yes to red bricks
I think the Savannah city manager is in the wrong city if he hates red brick. He says he wants the historic district to have a more modern look with more stainless steel and glass.
There are plenty of other cities in the south with stainless steel and glass. One of the reasons we all love Savannah's historic district is the old red brick buildings. He wants to build a modern municipal complex for city staffers. I hope the Historic District board and others on the city council will strongly oppose more steel and glass buildings over beautiful red brick.
Love affair with red brick stifles creativity
Thumbs up for City Manager Rob Hernandez. He finally said what is a "hush-hush secret opinion" in the architecture and design community in Savannah.
Let me get this straight from the start: "I don't hate red brick," if it is in the original historic planned version, but to build every single new hotel, structure and building in red brick to camouflage it as "historic" is a bit "over the top," mostly boring and even misleading.
Rob Hernandez finally said what has been implemented in other towns and cities all over the U.S. and the world: An architectural interesting coexistence from old and new.
The reason why there is so much "red brick" (the new version), is that ideas from creative minds are constantly shut down, and at a certain point people go the path of least resistance, which creates mostly boredom.
It can be done, and there are examples, hidden in pockets of Savannah, when imagination and forward thinking got the best of homeowners.
Well, I am one of them:
Nearly 8 years ago, my partner and I "fell" over a neglected, one- owner midcentury modern building in Magnolia Park, and jumped on the idea to restore the property, even with people calling us crazy.
The so called "ugly" residence (quote by some of our best friends) won, after a 12-month restoration and rehab, the President's Award from the Historic Savannah Foundation as the first MCM building in Savannah and the first south of DeRenne.
In addition, the home won several national design awards and was featured as a great midcentury modern example in architecture and design magazines.
If you think it was a fluke and we got lucky, think again: The year after the first HSF award our residence's "accessory building" won a second HSF award, this time for "the best compatible building," a modern structure(build free standing in the back yard) based on ideas of Pierre Koenig, one of the architects in the 1950s and 1960's, who changed the landscape of U.S. architecture. The modern, elevated (hello flood zone) structure, dubbed the "Think Tank" as it serves as the library for all our design books, gets a lot of looks from drive-by cars, and has created not only the start of many conversations with strangers, but as well inspired more and more young couples to invest in Magnolia Park and restore some of the 1950s and 1960s jewels (modern and traditional) and put a whole neighborhood again on the map.
Magnolia Park has since become one of the most desired neighborhoods in Savannah and homes of my neighborhood have been featured on many architectural and historic tours and are viewed by visitors from all over the U.S.
None of this was "directed" by any official government, it just was the vision of some design-minded people, who saw what can be done and they went ahead and did it.
I hope Savannah officials with the forward thinking of Rob Hernandez are "hopping on the bus" and start thinking outside the "red brick" box.
Barton appreciated
As the unofficial "president" of the Tom Barton Fan Club, I'm writing to express my heartfelt congratulations to Tom on his much-deserved retirement.
I have been a fan of Tom and his writing ever since I met him 39 years ago. Although I may not always agree with his editorial opinions, I have always appreciated Tom's skillful writing, thoughtful insights and passion for Savannah.
Tom Barton has enlivened the editorial pages of the Savannah Morning News for decades, giving readers plenty to think about when they read the newspaper as they enjoy their morning coffee. I will miss his daily editorials, his occasional diatribes and even his holiday poetry.
Savannah has been extremely fortunate to have such a gifted writer and thoughtful editor for the past 39 years. Tom has helped us see ourselves, and the issues we face as a community, in a fresh light. When Tom bids his readers a final farewell on January 5, I hope he knows how much we appreciate him. Tom will leave big shoes to fill at the Savannah Morning News and in the community we are proud to call home. I sincerely hope he enjoys a happy, healthy retirement for many years to come.
Bring on the debate over manmade climate change
I appreciate letter-writer Karen Grainey's response to my letter about Dr. Mark Murphy's column,"The sixth extinction: How will we address the plague of man?" Her comments are well aligned with standard climate change orthodoxy. She correctly states there are four critiques that agree with the 97 percent consensus that man's activities are influencing the climate.
I acknowledge that I did not check all studies to see if levels of response included in their findings may have reflected greater coverage than the 77 out of the 10,257 (.0075%) from the survey I cited. (Statisticians might conclude such a sample is not statistically valid or question why the survey was sent to so many in the first place).
I do believe human activity has an effect on the climate. How could the activities of more than seven billion beings scattered across our fragile planet not have an effect on the climate? The questions are to what degree and what might be the effects? So, Karen, I am not a "fanatical climate change denier" as you intimated. But I am a scientific method proponent. I am interested in scientists objectively going about their business of challenging, testing, and gaining new information. Whereas, simplistic yes or no, eye-catching surveys that boil down the complexity of climate change to opinion, add little to our understanding.
I question Ms. Grainey's "it's time to move past this sterile debate" proclamation.
I suspect, despite her frustration, the debate will be ongoing. Isn't debate part and parcel of the scientific process? Just imagine if the scientific community, media, politicians, and general public had suspended debate in the 1970s, closing out the possibility of any new information, we might still be anguishing over global cooling, the new ice age, as it was characterized at the time.


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|portfolio and cycling-related prints for sale at Lincoln Christmas Market 2013
|Christ On A Bike card design
2013 started off hopeful, with potential commissions that never quite materialised, and has ended rather unfulfilled.
Lincoln Christmas Market continued despite a blackout, and most popular were Lincoln Christmas Blackout cards, as well as feedback for a new Christ On A Bike card design.
|"Weird puddle"
In order not to completely seize up, I have a new cycling journal, with various quotes included, which I'm going to try and illustrate as often as I can.
To start off with, here are the first doodles for this.
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Fundamentals of Mortgages
As we grow older and become more interested in having a place to call our own, it is important to know exactly what you we committing to. Mortgages are very common, yet many are unaware of their complexities. CIBC defines a mortgage as, "a loan to a property owner, often to buy property, in which the borrower gives the lender a lien on the property to guarantee repayment. This means if the loan is not repaid, the lender can take possession of the property and sell it to collect the amount owing." Though it may sound overwhelming, with proper preparation and commitment to making payments toward the loan, mortgages can be the key to owning your dream home.
To better understand the mortgage approval process, consider this home buyer's situation. A fellow Glendonite is looking to buy a house after graduating. The house they want costs $400,000. However, they do not have that in savings. A bank can lend them the money as long as they can make a down payment of 20%. In this case, 20% of the total cost is $80,000. Keep in mind that the down payment percentage changes depending on the bank used by the home buyer.
The buyer must also agree to make monthly payments to cover the remaining $320,000 of the loan, in addition to interest fees. When choosing the interest rate, several options are available. For example, an "adjustable-rate mortgage" will change the rate over the duration of your mortgage. A "fixed rate loan", on the other hand, will ensure that the interest rate stays the same over the entire time that the loan is being repayed. The fixed rate loan is more consistent, and will allow you to have the same budget every month.
The lender will also research and evaluate the home buyer on various aspects to ensure that they will be able to make their monthly payments. For instance, a bank will look at their credit history to check if the home buyer generally pays their bills on time and have good credit standing. Another crucial aspect is the buyer's income level, which indicates whether or not they make enough money to afford the property. If they fulfill these requirements, the Glendonite is likely to be approved for a mortgage. Banks must look into potential buyers' financial history so as to prevent the unfortunate situation that requires the bank to repossess the house. This is also known as foreclosure, and the bank must sell it again to make their money back.
These fundamentals concepts should help you out when looking for a property. Mortgages are typically the biggest investment you'll make in your life, so it is vital to fully understand the commitment you are making.


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January 2010: March on Washington pennant, 1963
- Object No.: 2007.23.1
- Donor: Hyman Bookbinder
- Description:
Fabric pennant mounted on wooden stick, carried by Hyman Bookbinder in the March on Washington, August 28, 1963.
As the seat of the federal government, Washington, D.C., is the primary site for citizens gather in support of a cause or to air their grievances. The local Jewish community has long been involved in national social activism by attending and supporting the many rallies, protests, and demonstrations in the city.
During the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the D.C.-area Jewish community took on several roles. Some marched. Others provided marchers with food or shelter. Congregations opened their doors to hundreds of student marchers, sleeping bags in tow. Over 250,000 people attended the massive civil rights march and rally, which closed with the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s now-famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Hyman "Bookie" Bookbinder (a lobbyist for the AFL-CIO and, later, Washington representative for the American Jewish Committee for 30 years), waved this pennant at the March. Mr. Bookbinder told us of the summer heat and his rising awareness of the remarkable words of Dr. King. Along with those around him, by the end of the speech, he was on his feet, applauding wildly as King finished, "…in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
After loaning the pennant for our award-winning exhibition, Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community, at the National Building Museum, Mr. Bookbinder decided to donate it to the Jewish Historical Society collections.
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Welcome to Court Vision, a weekly video-based breakdown column on emerging trends around the NBA that you might have missed.
Russell Westbrook's futility from deep
It's not like Russell Westbrook's been a prolific shooter at any point during his career, but his jumper's more broken than ever this season.
In fact, nobody in NBA history's been this inaccurate from 3-point range while attempting so many of them - Westbrook's hit just 23.6 percent of his threes on 4.8 attempts per game.
Overall, his shot chart for this season resembles a Philip Guston abstract painting:
(Photo courtesy: NBA Stats)
The long-range numbers are terrible no matter how you slice them. Westbrook's made 22 percent of catch-and-shoot threes compared to 23 percent of pull-up looks. And it hardly makes a difference if he's open or guarded, as he's hit 27 percent of 3-point attempts without a defender within 6 feet compared to 23 percent with a defender nearby.
And yet, Westbrook insists on jacking quick threes like he's Stephen Curry. These can't possibly be looks that coach Billy Donovan approves of, but chances are Donovan isn't the one calling the shots. Westbrook does what he wants, after all.
Having said all that, Westbrook's still enjoying a career year in just about every other aspect of his game. His playmaking's been nothing short of exceptional - he's creating 23.3 points off 10.1 assists per game - and he's been noticeably better on defense by being more selective when gambling for steals and ranking second in deflections per game (3.8).
Still, his outside shooting will need to improve for the Thunder to make any noise in the playoffs. OKC ranks 25th in 3-point makes and 30th in 3-point percentage, which means defenses can simply pack the paint to take away driving lanes and lobs to Steven Adams, hound the living daylight out of Paul George on the perimeter, and dare Westbrook to beat them from deep.
LaMarcus Aldridge stepping up on D
The San Antonio Spurs have reversed their fortunes by winning 11 of their last 14 games, and they own the league's fifth-best defense over that stretch.
LaMarcus Aldridge has played a big role in the turnaround, lifting the team with his work rate and hustle on defense. Look at this all-out effort against the Boston Celtics, during which Aldridge recovers to block Al Horford at the rim after initially running him off the 3-point line.
Gregg Popovich deserves credit for convincing Aldridge to make the overdue switch to playing center full time. According to Basketball Reference, Aldridge has logged 95 percent of his minutes at the five this season after he insisted on playing power forward for most of his career. He's now in position to contest more shots, and he's rising to that challenge.
Derrick White showing flashes
Another Spurs player - unheralded shooting guard Derrick White - quietly pieced together a pair of stellar performances this week in back-to-back wins over Boston and Toronto.
White's a plus defender despite being an average athlete. He gets by on intuition, as he's a disciplined and clever player who rarely falls for fakes. The 24-year-old was often matched up with Kyrie Irving and Kawhi Leonard in the aforementioned contests and held those stars to a combined 37 points.
As a bonus, White's also growing more confident with his offense. He's steady on drives while being a crafty finisher when he gets to the basket, and he's thriving as a secondary playmaker next to DeMar DeRozan. Overall, White is the type of quick decision-maker who thrives in Popovich's system.
The reinvention of Norman Powell
In 2017, the Raptors signed Norman Powell to a four-year, $42-million contract after the former second-round pick had totaled a hair over 2,000 minutes across his first two NBA seasons. There were clearly expectations that he'd become a prominent contributor going forward.
However, Powell completely lost his way last season after signing the deal, as rookie OG Anunoby won the fifth spot in the starting lineup and Fred VanVleet bumped him out of the rotation entirely by emerging as a Sixth Man candidate. Powell finished the campaign as one of the least productive players in the NBA and then appeared in just 40 minutes across two playoff series. He simply had no role on the team anymore.
However, it's a different story this season, as Toronto's formerly vaunted bench mob is a mess. With Pascal Siakam in the starting lineup and C.J. Miles falling apart, the second unit is woefully short on shot creation. The team badly needs Powell again, and he's delivered since recovering from a shoulder injury.
After forming a bad habit of barrelling into defenders during his first few seasons, Powell's now taking a more measured approach on his drives. He's paying more attention to corner shooters and baseline cutters while also flashing some clever hesitation moves to create space around the basket. That's allowed Powell to improve his finishing in the restricted area from 59 percent last season to 71 percent in 2018-19.
The emergence of Powell has given the front office options ahead of the trade deadline. The Raptors have too many wings but sorely lack 3-point shooters and need dependable frontcourt depth. Anunoby and Delon Wright could become expendable trade chips if Powell maintains his current form.
The Bulls are so, so miserable
Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen is the worst type of disciplinarian. He expects players to kowtow to authority without actually giving them a reason to respect him - and his squad looks utterly broken.
Boylen's schemes are hopelessly outdated, too. The Bulls are walking the ball up the floor on every possession with the urgency of a DMV worker, Robin Lopez's comical hook shots have become the fulcrum of the offense, Wendell Carter's seen his minutes fluctuate while being asked to learn from the bench, and the other young players are checked out. Just look at their glazed stares during a 28-point loss to the Orlando Magic:
It's commendable that Boylen is trying to drill fundamentals into a young roster that was mostly undisciplined under Fred Hoiberg, but there has to be some give-and-take. He's going to lose the locker room (again) at this rate.


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By Paul Maryniak
Every day is a day of service for Michelle Curry.
Curry administers a Phoenix network called Just Serve, which connects groups, individuals and even government agencies with projects that brighten the lives of people and neighborhoods.
It is part of a nationwide operation set up by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to link needs and volunteers through a website, justserve.org.
"Just Serve is a platform," said Curry, who has overseen the Valley operation since it started two years ago. "It is not a business. We don't accept donations to run it. It is not for proselytizing or publicizing the church. This is a gift to the community from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
Indeed, a number of different church denominations are part of the network. The LDS church pays for technical maintenance, and many of its members have volunteered to become unpaid specialists who help connect people with needs.
The service, which has been expanded to Canada, counts more than 160,000 volunteers and 22,000 posted projects across the country.
Curry was asked by the church to take on the job after spending several years in its public affairs department. In her capacity, she deals with county and state agencies as well as large organizations to identify needs and enlist volunteers.
She demurs at having any attention paid to her work, and prefers people instead explore the website and find a project that engages them.
She said the church also doesn't want any attention as far as Just Serve is concerned.
"We really don't want to stand out," Curry explained. "We want to be equal or below those who serve. When you serve someone, you're on an equal basis. Service strengthens not just the person you're helping, it also helps you."
The website elaborates on the philosophy of Just Serve:
"Our individual efforts don't need to be huge—a little bit of change here, a few hours there—but even small efforts quickly add up to make a real difference. As we work side-by-side and learn from each other, mutual understanding increases, misconceptions can be corrected, and new friendships are built."
The site is designed to be as user-friendly as possible for both volunteers and people who need help.
People or groups can type in the area where they live and the site produces a list of organizations that need volunteers for various projects.
The choices are seemingly limitless, ranging from the Phoenix Zoo and Valley of the Sun United Way to schools in low-income communities, hospices and memory-care facilities.
For example, Red Mountain Assisted Living on S. Southwind Court in Gilbert could use people who can visit its residents.
Groups that need a project also have the ease of listing what kinds of work they need help with.
There is one way that Just Serve cultivates publicity: It asks volunteers to post success stories.
"We collect stories and post them every month," she said, noting that such stories help to inspire would-be volunteers.
The Arizona Chapter of Newborns in Need, which draws women from Gilbert and other East Valley communities, enlisted 101 people to make blankets, bibs, booties and other infant wear with 135 pounds of material.
Dignity Health East Valley received 5,400 crayons donated for children who visit the Mercy Gilbert Hospital, either as patients or visitors.
"You cannot imagine how much of a kind impact you are having on patients and families in the East Valley," Barb Farmer, Dignity's volunteer services manager, told Just Serve.
Just Serve volunteers also provided handmade bears for Mercy Gilbert that Farmer said go to "children in the emergency room, senior patients who are scared and/or have dementia, and to our patients who unfortunately have to celebrate their birthdays while being a patient in the hospital."
"Each bear is different and it always seems that the perfect bear ends up meaning something special to the person it is given to," Farmer added. "Those moments take patients out of their pain or sad situation and transport them back to happier times."
Curry said volunteers sign up for projects that are dear to them for personal reasons.
"People like to serve where their heart is," she said. "For example, someone might have Alzheimer's in the family, and those people's hearts are with Alzheimer's sufferers."
Some of the projects can even be accomplished without leaving the house.
A Mesa woman posted anonymously about having her three children, ages 4 to 9, write birthday cards for homeless kids.
"I thought this would be a long and difficult activity to do with them. I was very wrong. They kept asking how to spell a child's name and then would spend 15 minutes at a time writing and illustrating the cards.
"We have had some very tender moments through this experience as my children wrote notes and created birthday cards for these new friends they have never met. I don't think I've ever seen them so engaged and happy."


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Winner to be announced April 25 at the Green Living Show, Toronto
TORONTO, Ont. – Sixteen vehicles, from a battery-powered compact to a family-friendly SUV, are in the running to be named the 2014 Canadian Green Car.
Many of the country's top automotive journalists are set to test them, and select the one with the greatest potential to benefit our environment.
The 20 judges, some of the country's most respected automotive journalists, will assess not only the contestants' environmental attributes but also their overall consumer appeal, since vehicles will have a much greater "green" impact if they sell in large numbers.
The vehicles are divided into five categories — battery-electric or fuel cell, plug-in hybrid, conventional hybrid, efficient gasoline or diesel internal combustion, and efficient "family hauler" with at least three rows of seats.
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"Terror and dread fall upon them. They see your strength, O Lord, and stand helpless with fear until your people have marched past – the people you set free from slavery".
Ex 15:16 GNB
People not involved in the Christian church often take note of what is going on in Christian circles. The Pope in Rome is watched with great interest by the media because anything he says or does is taken to be the Christian thing to say or do. And the church (all churches) are taken to fall in line with his leading and example. Billy Graham was similarly watched a generation ago. Whilst not given the same global publicity as the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury is in the public eye as an example of a Christian leader.
The exodus from Egypt of the Israelite people under Moses was a significant event. It altered the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean and would have aroused fear in neighbouring countries – in Philistia, in Edom (south-east of the Dead Sea), in Moab (east of the Dead Sea) and especially in Canaan, the country the Israelites were expected to head for and which we now refer to as Israel. The panic in the European Union caused by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of unwanted refugees today illustrates how the migration of lots of people can affect others.
We need to be aware of how the presence or actions of the Christian church can be understood in the wider world. Compassion by the churches in times of crisis can speak of God's love. Messages of concern and understanding over difficult social issues can similarly inject the presence of God in today's world. What message is your church group sending?
Lord God, help us to send a message of love to the world.


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As the Berkeley Turkish School we hosted our first Kid Power seminar this past weekend. We had an amazing turnout, 36 parents and friends of BTS attended. Everyone was fully engaged with the valuable techniques that Zoe shared with us. At the end of our seminar we received many requests from our parents to continue the series, so we have began the planning of the next seminar already! Thank you all for coming and taking part in this important seminar!
In the event you have missed this workshop, we purchased 4 books from Kid Power for our library. 2 of which are great comic books for you to read with your children. The other two books are excellent guides on what adults need to know about bullying.
If you like and endorse events like our educational parent seminars, we encourage you to support our Fall Fundraising Event so we can continue them at a lower cost to our community.


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Rachel Moore: Exam system does not prepare pupils for workforce
PUBLISHED: 19:03 22 August 2018 | UPDATED: 19:19 22 August 2018
Thousands of teenagers will get their GCSE results on Thursday, but are they really a judge of intelligence?
This is the first August for five years when my household hasn't been in a flat spin about public exam results.
Smugly, I can relax with a strong coffee this morning empathising with all the other parents supporting their trembling teens out of the door, reassuring them with pats and platitudes that exam results aren't the be-all-and-end-all because real life is full of second chances, new opportunities and fresh directions.
What I do know though is that 'education', as we nostalgically label what our children do at school all day in lessons designed for 16-year-olds and 18-year-olds to leave the system with a paper passport, is more akin to a meat processing factory than schools of real learning and thinking skills.
Our system of churning out young people who can – or can't – pass exams conveyor belt-style is simply not fit for purpose. Intelligence is judged by those with a good memory. Those with photographic recall are winners and those who haven't are losers.
Nothing new there, but the demands of the 21st century workplace have changed.
Results collected today – and A-levels last week – aren't the result of rigorous testing of original thought, problem solving and developing ideas but of retaining and regurgitating facts within the narrowest of marking systems.
That's not taking anything away from those celebrating great results today, and those conquering their own problems to achieve results that might not be top of the tree but are incredible individual accomplishments.
But our exam system is a terrible mess and painfully out of sync with the rest of Europe, and for preparing young people to slot into workforces.
Today saw the first results of Michael Gove's "tougher" courses, where students are awarded grades 9-1 rather than A-G in the biggest change to the system since O levels were replaced in the 1980s.
Like the new A levels, they are said to be more rigorous and turning back the clock 30-odd years when the end exams are everything, there's no coursework and on-the-day performance is all that counts.
The new exams haven't only struck the fear of God into students and their parents, but schools so concerned about the impact of fewer higher grades on their league table position, are said to have done all sorts of jiggery-pokery to keep children out of exam entries so only the able count in this processing factory of young heads. These exams were said to be introduced to be more demanding, fulfilling and stretching for the UK to compete internationally, although other European countries don't have public exams at 16.
Incomprehensibly, when the law now insists young people remain in education and training until 18, exams at 16, redundant everywhere else, become even more challenging; so much so that students have been said to have been buckling under the pressure at a time when mental wellbeing issues among young people are at their peak.
Geoff Baron, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the "bar has been deliberately set at a higher level" by Gove's changes – harder, with more content and involve sitting more papers.
A new even higher grade than an A* – 9, equivalent to the very top of the former A* performers – is designed to highlight the best performance.
This unnecessary pressure has been added to prove what exactly? How exactly does this qualify anyone to offer employers, and society, what they need.
And why test at this level at 16 if the education leaving age is 18?
In the rest of Europe, 16-year-olds have internal exams and then continue to study a wider syllabus, including up to four modern languages, subjects dying a death in the UK, until 18.
Here, teachers obsessed by how their students' grade will affect the school profile teach solely for exam success rather than nourishing and feeding young minds to think for themselves. It's not their fault; it's the system they work in and with.
Today, some teenagers today will be picking up results for 14 subjects. Why does any young person need 14 GCSEs, only then to immediately limit their learning to three, maybe four, A levels? It makes no sense.
If we are really to compete with our European cousins, broadening rather than limiting until 18 would surely produce more rounded individuals and future employees.
But on we plough on with our pointless archaic memory testing, making a right brouhaha every year at our clever young people, leaving those without top grades (who often go on to achieve great things at work) feeling rubbish.
The reward of top grades are A level places and then university, while the rest are left feeling second-class and opting for "vocational" options, still made to sounds like consolation prizes rather than a positive choice.
The system might have tightened up, but not for the better. Spare our 16-year-olds the public exam mangle at 16 and equip them with wider employer-desired skills and a broader 'education' leaving the big testing to 18.
Our European neighbours have shaped a far better system than ours by starting children later, having fewer exams and a wider, more-balanced syllabus with relaxed attitudes to learning, and they manage to shape innovative thinkers, problem-solvers and leaders, not young people judged of being capable or incapable of passing narrow unnecessary exams.


text: The 1970's was a decade packed full of new fashion trends, therefore it is frequently revisted for a fashion inspiration. Really….? Below is a photo of my family from a cousin's wedding. My Mom and Dad are on the far left side, Dad is wearing a white leisure suit and my Mom is wearing her Diane Von Furstenberg dress which was a classic for any occasion. The Diane Von Furstenberg dresses were cut from silky stretch jersey. The dress was iconic, but now on to my Dad's suit……Leisure suits for men became commonplace, including bell bottom pants and hip huggers. I would have to say that leisure suits must be part of the bad fads and perhaps long term embarrassment. At least my Dad skipped the platform shoes that were popular in the 1970's.


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3 Reasons Why a Company Should Switch to a Field Service App
A company will need a magic alternative when its paperwork based field services lag cash flow. A field service app helps field officers and technicians maintain precise records of their service visits and create accurate report systems. The aftermath is distinct and efficient customer experience. Here are the top three reasons why an organization should switch to it.
Work, Order, and Asset Management
Monitoring, managing and automating of customer service requests are possible through this application. Supervisors can organize schedules and send projects to their workers at anytime from anywhere. Company assets monitoring is made easy though history keeping of equipment handling. Regardless of their location, the interface will monitor them. More accurate job matching when using this app ensures efficiency. According to workers' job matching skills, the company will assign work to them. Likewise, it has a client base history that will allow assigning of a specialist whom the client already knows. The technician will spend less time and grasp the problem more quickly hence no misdiagnosis. Eventually, the service delivery of a company goes to the next level.
Mobile Application
The software contains a user-friendly interface that allows consistent access and work flows. Workers will complete orders successfully, present service reports, feedback and much more. Subcontractors and field technicians will use the mobile app to get customer requests, warranty information, and driving directions. Through this, the first-time fix rates increase. The mobile application also has features of a real-time view of assignments and accepting calls instantly. The mobility of the company develops while time and money spent in the field reduce.
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Cluttering a workplace with paper sheets increases the risks of losing valuable data. Other methods are not the best to keep and structure information since they don't provide real-time analytics. Using this application ensures a next level service delivery.


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Purpose: This study is evaluating whether giving a neuromuscular blocker (skeletal muscle relaxant) to a patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome will improve survival. Half of the patients will receive a neuromuscular blocker for two days and in the other half the use of neuromuscular blockers will be discouraged .
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By Sandra Lubarsky
Words live in companionship with other words. By themselves, they are like a wolf without a pack; in association they gain social position and meaning. The word "sustainability," now nearly fifty years old in its current usage, runs with a mixed band of ideas: environment, development, management, technology, renewable energy, agriculture. Missing in almost every instance is any affiliation with "beauty."
The absence of beauty signals a systems error in our understanding of sustainability, mistaking it for nothing more than an inspired effort to keep the clock wound. But sustainability has always pointed to a vision that goes beyond mere endurance or perpetuation of the status quo. Its agenda is more radical than is usually recognized, exceeding even the most exciting technological advances in energy conservation and renewable resource development or scientific breakthroughs in environmental management and restoration. Beyond efforts to insure the continuation of human civilization-as-we-know-it, is a vision of something "not-yet and better"--a vision inspired by beauty.
Unfortunately, we have come to believe that beauty is only "in the eye of the beholder" and we speak of beauty as a superficial and trivial quality, "only skin deep." Even though sustainability is a movement to correct the dominant paradigm, this understanding of beauty remains largely unquestioned. And so, we bracket beauty out of the sustainability equation, accepting the judgment that beauty is unimportant.
But beauty denotes life's intrinsic worth and the quality of aliveness. It is the way we speak about the sustaining and flourishing of life-in-relationship with life. When we encounter beauty in one form or another, we feel a heightened sense of being alive and in kinship with life. Everyday beauty—this spring-pink tree, that truss of lilacs, that kindness—holds us fast to this world. To speak this way about beauty—as the value most closely related to life--is to affirm the indwelling vitality of life.
Life is no neutral province, to be treated with impartiality. We are partisans for life and beauty, desiring life-beauty in abundance and intensity. But in our industrial world, the two have been separated and belittled. Life is minimized as a kind of physical substrate, devoid of intrinsic value. Beauty is confined to the quarters of art, cosmetology, fashion, retail sexuality, and consumer marketing. And so we end up with a too-small notion of sustainability—one that leans heavily on science and technology—and a too small notion of beauty—one that fails to understand its value as that which makes life worth preserving.
Beauty is no simple add-on to a sustainability wish list; it is the orienting principle for life-affirming relations. It embodies a value system that challenges the modern materialistic worldview at its core, calling out its life-denying principles and assumptions. It places form and function, efficiency and financial gain into the larger concern for the vigor of life systems. Begin with the question, "How does this project contribute to the beauty of the world?" and function, form, efficiency, and gain are made responsible to the great economy of life. That economy is based on the wholeness of relations and the rule that every act is born from wholeness. To make the aesthetic question primary-- rather than irrelevant!--is to ask about both the vitality of the individual entity and how its vitality contributes to the vitality of the whole.
Apart from beauty—understood as the consequence and aim of life-affirmative relations--it will not be possible to reshape civilization in ways that satisfy and nourish the human spirit and honor the worth of all living beings. There is a relationship between our disregard for beauty and the disfigurement of the earth's life-supporting habitats, between our aesthetic indifference and our overall devaluing of life.
It is beauty that is at the core of life and at the heart of living in right relationship with all that is alive. Beauty summons a vision of world-supporting structures and processes that not only sustain life but also foster the remarkable creativity of life-in-relationship-with-life. If we are to succeed with the project of sustainability, we must make beauty our orienting principle, shaping our ways of thinking, our languages, our educational systems, and our life practices.
Sandra Lubarsky organized the Sustainability programs at both Northern Arizona and Appalachian State universities. She is the co-author of the book ON BEAUTY, a celebration of the life of Doug Tompkins. She is an activist and writer in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she recently succeeded in getting her city council to pass a proclamation supporting the AND BEAUTY FOR ALL campaign.


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* Russia opens up LNG export for select group of firms
* May consider admitting new players later
* Gazprom pipeline gas export monopoly to stay in place
By Katya Golubkova, Darya Korsunskaya and Denis Pinchuk
MOSCOW, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Russia's three new liquefied natural gas projects will find plenty of demand in a growing Asian market, without conflicting with Gazprom's monopoly on pipeline gas exports, Energy Minister Alexander Novak told Reuters.
President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed off on rule changes that enable No.2 gas producer Novatek and top oil firm Rosneft to launch LNG projects.
Russia, home to the world's second-largest proven gas reserves after Iran, wants to double its share in the global LNG market by 2020 from its current 4.5 percent. Gazprom and Royal Dutch Shell own Russia's only existing LNG plant on the Pacific island of Sakhalin, and Gazprom plans a second plant in Vladivostok.
Yet Russia needs to hurry up, some say, as players such as Australia, Qatar and the United States either ramp up or prepare to enter the LNG market.
Novak said the three new Russian LNG plants would start production before 2020, when the global market is still expected to face a supply shortfall.
"I often meet analysts and experts, and they all agree that today there is a niche to build plants and sell volumes by 2020. There is a deficit on the LNG market now," he said on Tuesday.
The plants will quadruple Russian output to 35-40 million tonnes per year of the super-cooled gas, which is more flexible than pipeline gas and can be shipped by tanker to any destination with a regasification terminal.
Russian companies are welcome to ship LNG anywhere if they do not compete with Gazprom, Novak said, adding there were no plans to break up its monopoly on gas exports delivered by pipeline.
"As of now, we don't see such a need," he said.
LNG is expensive in Asia, largely due to Japan's need for fuel to run power stations after most of its nuclear plants were shut following the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
Asian prices are now more than four times the cost of natural gas in the United States, which has a supply glut following a boom in shale gas production.
Japan consumes about a third of the world's liquefied natural gas and is expected to boost LNG demand to record levels over the next couple of years in a move away from nuclear power.
China, the world's top energy consumer, is keen to curb use of dirtier coal. It will likely triple the use of natural gas to more than 300 billion cubic metres (bcm) by 2020, of which nearly a third will be imported.
Most new LNG projects around the globe are expected to hit the market later this decade.
Russia's LNG liberalisation is limited at this point to Rosneft, Novatek, state-owned Zarubezhneft and Gazprom itself, after some companies failed to secure last-minute amendments to the law.
Novak said Russia might open up LNG exports further in the future but would base any decision on market conditions.
The new law dealt a blow to businessman Maxim Barsky's proposed Pechora LNG. Lukoil, Russia's No.2 oil producer, has not publicly stated any interest in LNG, although the failed amendments would have benefited it.
The law will protect Gazprom's exports to Europe, where it accounted for 26 percent of gas sales last year and targets 30 percent by 2020, despite recent declines in market share. Its LNG exports are a tiny fraction of pipeline flows.
Gazprom has been in talks with China for years on a pipeline gas supply deal and has promised a firm deal by year-end. Novak said the deal was on track, adding that booming China gas demand leaves plenty of room for both LNG and piped gas.
"Gas consumption growth rates are much higher than volumes we are offering in total," he said. (Additional reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin, Vlasta Demyanenko, Anastasia Lyrchikova; Editing by Douglas Busvine and Jane Baird)