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ELY— It's been a very good year for the Ely-Bloomenson Community Hospital, which saw revenues and profits jump dramatically in the first year under new chief executive Michael Coyle.
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ELY— It's been a very good year for the Ely-Bloomenson Community Hospital, which saw revenues and profits jump dramatically in the first year under new chief executive Michael Coyle.
About two dozen shareholders of the Ely Health and Hospital Foundation, which serves as the umbrella organization for the hospital, attended the facility's annual meeting here on Monday and heard an upbeat financial assessment and audit report by Caryn Goettsch, senior audit director at RSM US LCC.
According to Goettsch, the hospital's net worth jumped from $7.623 million at the end of the 2017 fiscal year to $8.58 million in 2018. The hospital's fiscal year runs from Oct. 1-Sept. 30.
The hospital's improved financial position was aided by a $568,000 operating profit in the latest fiscal year, a sharp improvement from the $106,000 operating loss last year. Total operating revenue increased 15 percent from $16.59 million last year to $19.01 million in 2018. "That shows a very strong financial position to be in," Goettsch said.
"A lot of good things happened this year," she added, "including adding more volume statistics, like more services provided by the hospital due in part to the addition of your general surgeon, and increasing other outpatient services as well as outreach to the community."
Coyle's first annual report to EBCH Foundation shareholders is the culmination of a lifelong love of the Ely area, especially the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
He related his experiences trekking to the BWCAW as a Boy Scout leader while attending school in Duluth. "Several years ago, my wife and I decided that when a job opened up anywhere near Ely, we would drop what we were doing and move here," he said. "Mr. Fossum, being here for 20-plus years, was kind enough to retire and that opened up the job."
Coyle thanked the shareholders for their part in the success of the hospital. This year marks the seventh year of a structural change approved by them. Instead of electing members to the hospital's board of directors, they are elected to the foundation, which remains independent of direct hospital control in the event of a merger or integration. This model makes it easier to transfer control of the facility to another organization, such as Essentia, which runs the Ely Clinic.
"We are independent and remain locally-owned," Coyle said. "We are not managed by anybody or owned by anybody. That is really important to us."
EBCH is a 21-bed critical access hospital that receives reimbursement as a percentage of costs, according to Coyle. That differs from larger hospitals that are reimbursed according to the volume of care. "It is important that we remain as a critical care status [facility], because we get reimbursed a little bit different. Even though we have lower volumes, we can still keep our doors open," he said.
With 100 employees at EBCH, the facility generates an annual payroll of $6.15 million. With benefits, the payroll reaches almost $8 million, according to Coyle. "We have very low turnover, I mean extremely low turnover. We have a wealth of knowledge and experience. There are people here with 30 or 40 years of service."
Coyle credited the "fantastic" year in 2018 to the fact that "we weren't afraid of trying new things," including the hiring of a new general surgeon. "We're going to be offering things like sedated dentistry in the very new future. A lot of things that you don't typically see in a critical care hospital, you will see here in Ely."
He offered some statistics to measure the growth at EBCH in the last year:
Inpatient Days in the hospital, increased from 651 to 786 days.
Hospital Occupancy Rate, increased from 5.1 percent to 6.2 percent.
Patient Admissions, increased from 249 to 275.
Surgical Procedures, increased from 319 to 406.
A very visible and none-too-popular decision two years ago to end birthing services at the hospital will not be reversed, Coyle said.
"Delivering babies is an important part of every hospital when you have the ability and resources to do it," he said. "Research shows that for a physician or nurse to be competent in that, they should be doing as many as 200 deliveries a year."
EBCH was averaging about 21 births a year when they terminated the service. "That is not nearly enough to be competent," he said. "Only 10 percent of all critical access hospitals in the United States deliver babies."
Coyle credited the positive financial growth in the last year to people "having faith that we are providing amazing care." He stressed, "Our goal is to help you not go other places."
The EBCH Foundation pays for the cost of annual flu shots so they can be provided to the Ely community free of charge. Last year more than 1,500 flu shots were dispensed. "We just didn't do this in Ely," he said. "This year we also went to Babbitt and Tower, and for the first time we went out to businesses because we understand that every business owner can't shut down just so their employees can come to our clinic."
Coyle described a list of new services implemented at EBCH in the last year, including adding a surgeon, constructing a new hospital pharmacy, adding a new ultrasound machine, hiring a new emergency room supervisor and an ER management service, and developing a strategic plan, updated hospital logo and patient engagement surveys.
He also told shareholders to look ahead to 2019 for many new changes at EBCH.
"We will have a new 128-slice CT machine in our building in January or February," Coyle said. "There is only one other like it in the whole country, and that is at Ohio State University. There is nothing this machine can't do. We are completely renovating that department to make it comfortable for the patient, while having the latest and greatest equipment available."
Other changes planned for 2019 include:
Launching a new master building plan to make the facility more efficient.
Increasing the number of specialty providers and surgical procedures
Launching a new website.
Acquiring new cardiac rehabilitation monitoring equipment
Upgrading the IT infrastructure and wireless systems.
Increasing community engagement programs.
Administering a community health needs assessment.
Coyle has been on the job for about 10 months following the retirement of administrator John Fossum.


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UT's collapse has familiar look
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The latest Texas basketball collapse happened in slow motion, just like the rest of them did.
First there was hope — the Longhorns always are good at providing plenty of that. Then came the obligatory realization that things were slipping away, followed by UT's traditional inability to do anything to stop it.
And by the time Monte Morris swished a jumper at the buzzer to lift No. 13 Iowa State to a rousing 69-67 victory over UT in the Big 12 quarterfinals on Thursday, everyone at the Sprint Center knew it was the outcome that had been destined all along.
"I'm still not sure how we won," Cyclones coach Fred Hoiberg said, because just like usual, UT's downfall defied explanation.
The Longhorns (20-13) led by 16 points in the first half, and by 10 with less than four minutes left. They never trailed for a second, until Morris' shot found the net. They lost anyway.
And now, a team that was ranked in the nation's Top 10 before an agonizing, slow-motion, season-long tumble has to wait until Sunday to find out if it will receive an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.
"We just didn't finish it," UT coach Rick Barnes said, summing up both a game and a season.
Against the Cyclones (23-8), Barnes' team was done in by a series of confounding errors. After reeling off a 14-0 first-half run by pushing the tempo and draining a flurry of drive-and-dish 3-pointers, the Longhorns slowed things down with eight minutes left.
Barnes said he was trying to protect Isaiah Taylor, who he explained was getting worn down by the pace. But UT never made another field goal after Taylor's driving layup with 7:38 remaining.
When ISU turned up its full-court pressure in the final four minutes, the Longhorns disintegrated. Connor Lammert threw away an inbound pass. Taylor inexplicably hesitated near midcourt and committed a 10-second violation.
"They made some plays that helped us out," ISU's Georges Niang said.
And after the Cyclones tied the score with back-to-back 3-pointers by Dustin Hogue and Niang, UT completely bungled its last possession.
First, Taylor missed a tough runner in the lane. Lammert grabbed the rebound with 18 seconds left, giving UT the opportunity to hold the ball for the final shot of regulation. Instead, Javan Felix launched a 3 with more than six seconds left.
He missed.
"I can understand Javan shooting it," said Barnes, who admitted he would've preferred to wait longer. "He's a shooter, and he had daylight."
Morris followed a timeout by taking an inbound pass, driving three-quarters of the court, then pulling up for the game-winner.
Morris finished with 24 points, while Niang added 22. Jonathan Holmes had 15 points and nine rebounds for UT.
The Longhorns, whose tough schedule had them ranked No. 40 in the Ratings Percentage Index before Thursday's game, figure to be an interesting NCAA tournament case. They didn't lose to anyone outside the Top 60, but also repeatedly came up short against elite teams.
Barnes said he has "confidence in the committee." Meanwhile, his team must wait.
"We can't really control anything," Holland said. "We are who we are right now."

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The economist John Kenneth Galbraith once said, "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."
Still, we have to ask: was that the bottom we just hit?
After months of punishing economic news, the gloom seemed to lift last week if only for a moment. The stock market shot up 12 percent in four days. Two of the nation's biggest banks said they had returned to profitability. General Motors said it wouldn't need another $2 billion in government help this month. And retail sales were better than expected.
Then again, perhaps that's what passes for good news these days.
The market is still down by more than 50 percent since its high 17 months ago. Yes, the banks made money, but for just two months, and never mind the billions of bad assets that remain on their books. G.M. will still, in all likelihood, need billions in taxpayer help down the road and there's no guarantee it will survive. And those retail sales numbers? They were still bad, just not as bad as analysts were expecting.
Still, there was a sense among some economists and Wall Street analysts that if the bottom was not touched, perhaps the freefall was at least slowing. No less than Lawrence Summers, President Obama's top economic adviser, said on Friday that while the economic crisis would not end anytime soon, there were early signs that it was easing.
Which leads to a question: When we do hit the bottom — this year or years from now — how will we know?Continue reading the main story
There's no easy answer.
Mr. Galbraith was not the first or last economist to acknowledge fallibility at predicting turning points. (Just think back to assurances by top government officials in early 2007 that the growing problems with subprime mortgages were "contained.")
Forecasting the end of the current recession is even more difficult because it will hinge on how quickly and efficiently governments resolve the crisis in the banking system. Many investors continue to worry that the world's biggest financial institutions are insolvent, despite assurances from Washington that those firms have plenty of capital.
How political leaders diagnose and fix the banks will be critical. Analysts say misguided and erratic government responses exacerbated Japan's "lost decade" in the 1990s and the Depression of the 1930s. "The things that can screw it up are bad policies," said Thomas F. Cooley, dean of the Stern School of Business at New York University.
In the end, there's probably no way to know for sure that we've hit bottom until we're on the rebound. Still, analysts say there are some key indicators that might help in spotting a bottom and recovery at a time when it can be hard to see past the despair.
History shows that the stock market usually hits bottom before the economy does.
In October, Warren E. Buffett, one of the world's most successful investors, said he was buying American stocks because they usually rise "well before either sentiment or the economy." But even he acknowledged not having "the faintest idea" what would happen in the next month or year.
Since then, stocks have dropped by another 20 percent, and with the market at levels last seen in 1997, stocks are cheap by historical standards. The price-to-earnings ratio — which investors use to gauge how much they are paying for each dollar of corporate profit — is around 13, about 20 percent lower than the average of the last 130 years.
But many investors remain on the sidelines. Money market funds have swollen to $3.8 trillion, up from $2.4 trillion two years ago. And the cash banks are holding in their vaults and at the Federal Reserve has more than doubled in the last nine months.
What has made the current recession so pernicious is the eroding pressure of deflation, the general decline in prices that has hurt both businesses and consumers. They earn less and the value of their businesses and homes has fallen, yet they still owe as much as they did before, said Russell Napier, a consultant with Credit Lyonnais and author of "Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons From Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms."
He said he believed stocks would not rise until deflation ended and businesses could charge higher prices to pay off debts. Early indications suggest that this may be happening and that the stock market may be near the bottom, Mr. Napier said. He pointed to three indicators that often signal that economic growth and inflation are on the way — the prices of copper, corporate bonds and inflation-protected Treasury securities. Prices for all three are higher today than they were in November.
"All the indicators suggest you should be buying and not selling," he said. Still, Mr. Napier acknowledged that stocks, while cheap, could fall further. Measured by their 10-year price-to-earnings ratio, stocks were a lot less expensive in the early 1980s, when the ratio fell to less than seven, and in the 1930s, when it was below six.
Nouriel Roubini, the economics professor from New York University who predicted much of the current crisis, has warned that corporate earnings and stock prices could continue to fall, perhaps precipitously.
To determine whether home prices are still inflated, economist use ratios that compare the cost of buying a home to renting or to median family income. If the ratios move sharply higher, as they did in recent years, it suggests home prices might be inflated. When they are falling, as they are across the country and particularly in places like San Diego, Phoenix and Tampa, owning a home becomes more affordable.
Barry Ritholtz, a professional investor who writes the popular economics blog The Big Picture, has a simpler, more subjective, approach: Assume a young couple earning two modest incomes is looking to buy a two- or three-bedroom starter home in a middle-income neighborhood in your city. Can they qualify for a mortgage and afford to buy it?
"If the answer is no, then you are not at a bottom in housing," said Mr. Ritholtz, who estimates that the decline in national home prices is only half-complete.
Just as prices in the bubble did not go up uniformly in all parts of the country, they will not reach bottom together, said Ronald J. Peltier, chief executive of Home Services of America, a real estate brokerage firm.
In places like Riverside, Calif., and Miami, where homes are selling for half or less than what they sold for three or four years ago, real estate may be close to the bottom. One telling sign is that first-time home buyers and investors are snapping up homes, though they are mostly buying from banks selling foreclosed properties at deep discounts. Sales of existing homes in California jumped by more than 50 percent in January from a year earlier. But the median price was down more than 40 percent, to $224,000.
At the same time, prices have come down a lot less in urban areas like Manhattan and, not surprisingly, the number of homes being sold is down by as much as 50 percent from a year ago. Prices in these urban areas will have to fall much more before many young couples can afford starter homes.
Of course, those who bought at the peak of the market will suffer the greatest pain if they are forced to sell. But Mr. Peltier and other specialists say the current dismal market will only be resolved by lower prices, easier lending and an improving economy.
Americans like to buy things, and for at least the last decade, many economists assumed they would continue to spend on cars, clothes and the latest digital toy, good times or not. Consumer spending has rarely declined in the post-World-War-II era and when it has, it bounced back quickly.
The current recession is severely testing that article of faith. Personal consumption fell by about 1 percent in the second half of last year — the first sustained decline since 1980. Economists say consumption will be slow to recover because debt-saddled Americans are saving more or paying down debt. The savings rate — the amount of money consumers did not spend — jumped to about 3 percent late last year, from practically zero, still far below its postwar average of 7 percent.
A sign that consumption has hit bottom may come when the savings rate begins to flatten. Spending should then rebound as pent-up demand gives way. Car sales, for instance, have fallen to levels last seen in 1981, when the population of the United States was about three-quarters of what it is today. Many families are deferring car purchases and making do with what they have. Eventually, however, they will have to replace their aging vehicles.
In a study of economic cycles, Edward E. Leamer, an economist at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles, found that auto sales and home building tended to lead recoveries.
An increase in international trade would be another early indicator that consumer spending here and abroad has hit the floor and begun to rebound.
After growing at an average of 7 percent a year for most of this decade, global trade was little changed from March to September last year, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Many large economies including the United States, Japan and China have reported a sharp drop in exports and imports in recent months. There was more bad news on Friday, when the Commerce Department reported that exports from and imports to the United States fell by about 12 percent in January.
"Seeing global trade pick up would be a very positive sign," said Kenneth Rogoff, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and now a professor at Harvard.
Tobias Levkovich, chief United States equity strategist at Citigroup, has another indicator for spotting when we have hit bottom: When we stop behaving like children in the backseat of the car asking their parents, "Are we there yet?"Continue reading the main story


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Trace Minerals
Would you believe after this post there are only five weeks left in the Ag 101 52 Weeks of Agronomy Series!
Since I've started writing, a lot has happened not only professionally but personally as well. Last year I came on the speaking scene pretty strong presenting at four fairly significant conferences. This year I have had seven proposals rejected for silly reasons like they didn't like my title or they felt I was redundant. Funny thing is, I said the title was not set in stone and I had never spoken at that particular conference before. I've been called everything from a charlatan to a rock star. It has been brought to my attention that I should ask my family to purchase Grammarly for me as a Christmas gift. Even through all of that, I gained readers all over the world, doubled my email list, recorded a couple podcasts, presented for gardening clubs, and kept writing. Last but not least, I can now say I have clients in six states, and the consulting side of my business is steadily growing.
I've also gained a new appreciation for my health and hope to keep up with the small but necessary steps to get past some challenges I've had. I have completely given up coffee, alcohol, refined sugars, and processed foods along with some other changes without harming anyone in the process.
Moreover, that leads me to this week's topic.
Trace Minerals- Small but necessary elements that are critical for plant health.
Roles trace minerals play in plant health-
The amount of trace minerals in soil is related to the parent material and the amending and fertilizing history
Trace minerals are often referred to as micronutrients because they are required in relatively small amounts by plants and the people and animals consuming them
It has been up to debate has how nutrients such as sulfur are viewed. For the sake of this post, I'm going to cover it.
Trace minerals have been linked to the following functions
Sulfur (S) – Sulfur is needed to manufacture chlorophyll and the synthesis of nitrogen. It also encourages overall plant growth and vigor.
Boron (B) – Boron aids in cellular growth and helps to regulate the uptake of nutrients. It is essential for water absorption and the translocation of sugars. Boron and zinc have been linked to aiding in the vegetative and reproductive stages of berry development.
Copper (Cu) – Copper works to help plants metabolize nitrogen and is essential for iron utilization. It has been linked to bacterial and fungal suppression as well.
Iron (Fe) – Iron assists in the creation of chlorophyll and protein synthesis
Manganese (Mn) - Manganese is known as an activator for several enzymes responsible for plant metabolism as well as nitrogen transformation.
Molybdenum (Mo) – Molybdenum plays several critical roles in a plants ability to metabolize nitrogen.
Zinc (Zn) – Zinc is required in seed production. It has also been linked to aiding the vegetative and reproductive phases in berry development.
Potential sources of organic inputs for trace minerals
Kelp can be used as a liquid concentrate, powder, or meal. It is a powerhouse of trace minerals and plant growth stimulating hormones. If I were reduced to recommending one product kelp would be it. That being said you still need to use it judiciously as not to decrease its efficacy
An excellent source of potassium and trace minerals along with built-in soil conditioning properties.
Azomite is a hydrated sodium calcium aluminosilicate broad-spectrum soil remineralizing product
Raw aragonite brings with is biology from the sea, acting as a built-in inoculant as well as containing several trace minerals
Redmond Salt-
Redmond salt is an unrefined product containing more than 60 naturally occurring minerals
Chelated liquid forms-
This group of products can be mineral specific. The most common that I have worked with are Baicor Liquids. Care should be taken that your plants show signs of apparent deficiencies through tissue testing before applying to determine necessity and rates


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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is a regional political organization comprising the energy rich Gulf monarchies – following are members of GCC
Saudi Arabia,
And the United Arab Emirates.
When and why was it founded?
- GCC was Establishment in 25 May 1981
- Head Quarters is in Riyadh-Saudi Arabia
- Secretary-General Abdullatif Bin Rashid Al Zayani
- The founding charter focused more on issues of social and cultural cohesion, environmental and scientific coordination and economic cooperation
- Recently, Morocco and Jordan have applied for the GCC membership which is currently being studied by the Expert Committee
India and GCC: Contours of cooperation
- The Gulf constitutes the "immediate" neighborhood of India separated only by the Arabian Sea
- The Gulf, as the principal source of India's energy requirements, is central to our energy security interests: it meets 75% of our oil needs at present; as our demand increases in coming years, India's dependence will go up to 90% by 2035.
- GCC is India's largest trading partner as an economic grouping, with two-way trade being more than our ties with the European Union, ASEAN and North America
- Four GCC countries figure in India's top 10 trade partners.
- The India-GCC Free Trade Agreement which is under negotiation could usher in a new era of trade
Important Dimensions of GCC
Although India and the GCC countries share a strong economic relationship, there is much progress to be achieved on the political front. Let's have a close look at some of the important dimensions –
- Defense Diplomacy : India's defense diplomacy with countries of the GCC is well reputed.
- India has signed a military protocol with Oman which has facilitated joint military exercises
- India has also signed a defense cooperation agreement with the UAE
- Our new naval diplomacy document increases our focus on west Asian countries.
- Counter Terrorism :
- The meteoric rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in neighboring countries like Iraq and Syria pose a huge threat to the peace and stability of the GCC countries.
- Maritime Security
- Primary maritime security threatsinclude piracy at sea, smuggling of narcotics and arms and the imminent threat of maritime terrorism.
- These threats pose major challenges to the Sea Lines of Communication (SLOCs)that India depends heavily on to carry out trade by sea
- India's international trade by sea amounts to about 90% of the foreign trade, and it takes place through 13 major ports and several minor ports
- In recent times the term "Indo Pacific era"has gained currency.
- Culture & Diaspora
- We have an eight-million strong community in the GCC that remits annually $35 billion to the national exchequer
- Minor concerns –If you remember, in 2013 Saudi Arabia issues a Nitaqat Law – The 'Nitaqat' law makes it mandatory for local companies to hire one Saudi national for every 10 migrant workers
- There had been widespread perception that the new policy will lead to denial of job opportunities for a large number of Indians working there.
Together, the GCC countries possess almost half of the world's oil reserves. However, a swift depletion of oil and gas reserves, coupled with population increases in many GCC countries in the last decade, has resulted in attempts to expand beyond the energy sector into other fields, such as tourism, construction and finance.
The International Monetary Fund has projected a stronger growth outlook in 2018, although low oil prices are expected to continue hamper the Gulf States' GDP growth. According to a report published this year by the World Bank, Bahrain is the most vulnerable GCC country due to low oil prices, limited savings and high debt levels.
In 2009, a monetary council was established to take the necessary measures for issuing a single currency, but this was dropped after the UAE pulled out and Oman stated it did not want to be part of it.
The GCC comprises six main branches that carry out various tasks, from the preparation of meetings to the implementation of policies.
The Supreme Council is the top decision-making group that meets once a year and is made up of the GCC heads of state. For important matters, decisions taken must be unanimous.
The Ministerial Council is formed of foreign ministers or other ministers, who meet every three months to propose policies and execute decisions.
The Secretariat-General is an administrative body that organizes meetings and observes the enactment of policies.
The Consultative Commission advises the Supreme Council and is composed of five representatives from each member state.
The Commission for the Settlement of Disputes is formed to look for diplomatic solutions to problems among member states.
The Secretary-General is appointed by the Supreme Council for three years. The term can be renewed only once. The current role has been filled since 2011 by Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani, a retired Bahraini lieutenant general.


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I know you all went crazy with anticipation, so I´ll save my ramblings to one of the next parts of my posts (probably tomorrow), although grigorisgirl did an outstanding job already. And please take a look at hikity_2001 (that´s if you´re friends with her) for some nice pictures.
For now, enjoy Alan´s introduction for My Father´s Favourite from Sense & Sensibility as I know you all have been waiting for that.
Thanks a bunch to catsplay for helping me out working on the Goodies! I love you! Screencaps are available (within reasonable time) at her LJ.
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Today, I witnessed what it means to be a true Iowan. I was down at the Macbride Nature Center, photographing the creatures at the bird blind during this morning's snow storm. After about two hours and hundreds of images, I hiked back to the car and started to return home. There are two fairly large hills near the entrance to the center and my Camry decided to pause about 1/3 of the way up the first hill. No matter what I did, I was not going anywhere. A couple of gentlemen stopped and took me up to the maintenance shed to see if anyone was working. No such luck. I called a tow truck, but they were busy and it would be at least an hour or more. The gentlemen offered to wait around with me. After about twenty minutes, another pair of drivers started into the center, we stopped them, warning them about my car and the slick road. It turns out they were part of the volunteers that work at the nature center. One of them offered me a seat in their car and said I could wait with them until the plow driver or tow truck arrived. I thanked the original rescuers and moved into another vehicle so that they could get on their way. After about another thirty minutes, another volunteer arrived and he started plowing the road. We followed them to my car, where I was dropped off. Again, I thanked them for their time. I backed down about 25 feet, sliding into the plowed lane and was able to get up the hill and out of the area to the highway. This is exactly what it means to be an Iowan.
These two images (below) were from this morning. the squirrel was really entertaining, with lots of praying for the snow to stop. The comb on the cardinal looked like it was frozen.


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It's often been said, "If you can't measure it, you can't improve or manage it."
I wholeheartedly disagree. Can you measure love, or any other emotion? How about commitment? Empowerment?
We now live in a world with more data than ever, and people are connecting the dots with increased analysis, speed and effectiveness. This has spawned a huge new industry called Big Data. But all the data in the world is not enough. Not by a long shot.
I've learned that most executives compile as much data as possible (to support left-brain or linear thinking) and then use anecdotes and feelings (to support right-brain or emotional thinking) to make final go / no-go decisions. And, of course, there's science to support my gut.
In June 2014, the Fortune Knowledge Group and Gyro published "Only Human: The Emotional Logic of Business Decisions."
Fascinating results, from 700+ U.S. based executives. Three of my favorite findings include:
- 65 percent of executives believe subjective factors that can't be quantified (including company culture and corporate values) increasingly make a difference when evaluating competing proposals. Only 16 percent disagree.
- 62 percent of executives say it is often necessary to rely on gut feelings and soft factors.
- 61 percent of executives agree that when making decisions, human insights must precede hard analytics.
One of the most famous and often-quoted comments from The Supreme Court is attributed to Chief Justice Potter Stewart: "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it." He was referring to obscenity. But he just as well could have been describing "results."
So, how do smart leaders measure results?
Outputs — Outcomes — Impact
Typically, we seek results measured and reported via these three scales:
Outputs are "objective" measurements, often used by marketers and communicators, and include easily tracked items such as page views, exposures via earned media placements and ads, number of visitors to a trade show booth, subscribers to email newsletters, etc. Easy to measure; very difficult to truly assess if progress is being made. This begs the question, "So, we met 100 people at the trade show; how many took action, and how did those interactions work in a relationship-building manner?" Outputs usually drive the score sheet on tactics.
Outcomes are often "subjective" measurements, frequently used by senior executives, to assess the "so what" of the outputs. This is how we keep score on strategies. This gets us closer, but not all the way.
The holy grail of measurement is gleaned by assessing Impact. Questions like, "Are we truly moving the needle? Is our core purpose effectively served? Is this really working?"
I turned to an expert for his advice. Munro Richardson explains, "Impact equals systemic transformative change."
(Both Munro and I support Turn the Page Kansas City (TTPKC), a community-wide initiative to improve third grade literacy for all children in our metropolitan community. The first examples he cites are specifically for TTPKC.
Munro continues to explain, "Organizations create impact when they produce outcomes better than what we would otherwise expect to see." In other words, they move the needle on outcomes from the normal trend line to something better:
- Greater percentage of third graders reading on grade level.
- Lower levels of high school dropouts.
- Reduced recidivism of former prison inmates.
- Higher percentage of first generation college students earning a college degree.
For a for-profit business, the metrics are different but the thinking is the same. Does a marketing campaign produce more outcomes (leads, retweets, referrals, impressions, followers, likes, etc.) than we would otherwise expect to see?
There's good industry data for a lot of these indicators. Can the way a company communicates, interacts with customers, treats its employees, etc., move it from its current trend line to something better?
Trust your gut
Have you ever tried to persuade a friend to your point of view by using logic when instead they are focused on feelings and emotions? Likely, it didn't go well, even though you "knew" you were right.
Daniel Pink explains this in his book, "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future." He says, "The capacity for logical thought is one of the things that makes us human. But in a world of ubiquitous information and advanced analytical tools, logic alone won't do. What will distinguish those who thrive will be their ability to understand what makes their fellow woman or man tick, to forge relationships, and to care for others."
Logic alone won't do. I know it when I see it. About 60 percent of all business execs rely on "soft factors." Want more proof? Sorry, you can't have it.
Learn to trust your gut when making decisions and analyzing ROI. Trust your gut when reflecting on completed initiatives to gauge success, make course corrections and move forward.
If you're smart and successful, you already have a proven track record. You recognize that your gut is right more often than it's wrong. Accept the fact that you'll make some bad decisions. You'll never have "all" the data you need to ensure absolute accuracy.
I encourage you to embrace Michael J. Fox's philosophy, "I expect excellence; I leave perfection to G-d."
Successful leaders use anecdotes and intuition as "proof." If it feels right, it probably is. Go for it.


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Day 20 – Write a poem inspired by a character or setting in the last book you've read.
Day 21 – Write a 10 line poem of questions only on the topic of your choice.
Day 22 – Write a poem about anything that is a shad of the color green.
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Last year, a third of the millennials surveyed by Wakefield Research cited their reason for buying a home as needing more space for their pet. The same study revealed that 84% of us young pet parents frequently worry about our pets when we are away from them – some of us even experience separation anxiety. Another recent study by the Gale Agency showed that 44% of us would rather have a pet than a child, and that 92% of us own pet-parent apparel or accessories.
Clearly our pets are family. We don't see them as disposable. We don't believe in dropping them at the shelter when they get too hard to handle, or we just don't have the time.
We take our pet-parent responsibilities seriously. We spoil them with doggy subscription boxes, we let them pick their own toys at Petco. We wear our dog mom hats, and drink out of our cute paw-printed coffee mugs. We even have matching outfits.
But do we really know what we're feeding our pets? Or do we just buy the brightest bag, boldly labeled with eye-catching words like "fresh," "natural," and "protein-rich," that make us feel good about ourselves? What if I told you the ingredients in that $50 bag of dog food could actually kill your baby?
After our sweet Bella suddenly passed away, I became obsessed with figuring out what happened to her. How could such a healthy, vibrant, and active girl succumb to an unknown illness in less than 12 hours? How could she be so sweet and full of life one minute and gone the next? I wanted to know. But no one could tell me.
I researched. I cried. I dug deeper. I imagined what she must have felt like. I cried more. I researched more. And then I watched Pet Fooled.
Pet Fooled, a documentary available on Netflix, provides an in-depth exploration of the unregulated pet food industry, commentated by two holistic veterinarians. I cried as the family of a pup who'd died after consuming tainted food recounted their story. Her death was similar to Bella's, in that she was a healthy, well-loved girl who suddenly became violently ill – seemingly from nowhere. However, her death was ultimately linked back to the Melamine scandal of 2007.
Contaminated vegetable proteins, imported from China, killed so many animals that year that 2 Chinese nationals, as well as a U.S. company's President & CEO, were indicted by a federal grand jury for the roles they played in adulterating and misbranding the foods.
Melamine, a chemical used to make glue, ink, fertilizers, and plastics, is known to be unsafe for human or animal consumption, and the pets exposed to it suffered kidney failure, resulting in death.
Since then, not much has changed in the pet food industry. Brands still make misleading claims, and helpless animals still pay the price.
After watching Pet Fooled, I dug deeper into raw feeding, but haven't quite made the jump. For now, I'm focused on offering gluten & wheat free food and treats to my pets. For example, Biscuit Bob's Gourmet Dog Treats are made from millet – an ancient grain that provides 8 vitamins and minerals to my pups, with a sweet nutty flavor.
Millet is one of the most digestible and non-allergic grains available, and it creates an alkaline environment within the body. Lola, my Yorkie who suffers terrible skin allergies, loves them!
The King family, founders of Biscuit Bob's, set out to create corn, soy, and wheat free treats after their dog, Baci, died due to liver failure in 2009. The King's source local ingredients such as rolled oats, carrots, peanuts, olive oil, and parmesan cheese for their treats. Our babies tried each of the 5 new flavors – Carrot Cake, Cheese, Peanut Butter, Sweet Potato Pie, and Chicken – and loved each one!
I love that each Biscuit Bob's product is made in America, by a Certified Woman Owned Small Business! If you'd like to try Biscuit Bob's for your pup, take advantage of their Buy 5 Get 1 FREE sale, so your pup can test each flavor! Each 6oz bag is only $6.99 and contains over 60 treats. As part of their Holiday Sale, Biscuit Bob's is currently offering free shipping on orders greater than $30.
I recently partnered with Biscuit Bob's to host a giveaway on my social media pages, and we've had great feedback so far!
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I was home schooled until I was 15, but my parents wanted me to get recognised qualifications—so I enrolled at E&E at the start of 2016.
I love building and working with my hands. Constructing things is what I really enjoy. I thought E&E was great because you get all the benefits of school—literacy and numeracy, NCEA credits and NZQA qualifications—but in a practical way. Learning by doing is how I best understand, and that was supported and encouraged at E&E.
I achieved NCEA Levels 1 and 2, a Level 2 Certificate in BCATs, and my literacy and numeracy qualifications. This set me up for the further training I want to do: Level 3 and 4 Building at polytech and an apprenticeship. I'm hoping to move on to construction management in the future.
At the moment I am studying at Toi o Homai Polytechnic and working as an apprentice, which my course allows me to do. It's the perfect balance between theory and practical. I'm seeing how the whole industry works.
I'm doing what I love and the future looks great!
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#SRShow Rundown 9/16/15
-We start the show simulcasting Donald trump and the republican debates on CNN.
-DJ Whookid joins as a contributor
-Bob Kelly joins as a contributor
-After the debate, Matt Iseman from American Ninja Warrior joins the show
-We talk bad tattoos, with Sam and Bob.
-We talk about Steve Ranazzisi lying about being in the World Trade Center for 9/11


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Remaining band members say they are 'sad' the long-term bassist has decided to call it a day
Pixies bassist Kim Deal has quit the band.
The remaining members Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering have released a statement on their official Facebook page confirming that Deal is no longer part of the band. It reads: "We are sad to say that Kim Deal has decided to leave the Pixies. We are very proud to have worked with her on and off over the last 25 years. Despite her decision to move on, we will always consider her a member of the Pixies, and her place will always be here for her. We wish her all the best."
Deal, who is currently touring the 20th anniversary re-release of her other band, The Breeders' landmark album 'Last Splash', is yet to comment on her departure. She joined the band right from their inception in 1986. Despite splitting in 1993, the Pixies reformed in 2004 and toured their 1989 album 'Doolittle' between 2009 and 2011 with Deal. The band have not toured since. She recently collaborated with The National on their 'Long Count' project with her sister Kelley Deal.
Meanwhile, frontman Frank Black recently revealed details of his latest project; a supergroup named Thriftstore Masterpiece. Thriftstore Masterpiece are described as "an all-star music collective devoted to paying homage to the underdog records of years past". Joining Black in the collective are Pete Yorn, Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse, Courtney Taylor-Taylor of Dandy Warhols and Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos, The group will release its first album, a revival of Lee Hazlewood's 1963 debut 'Trouble Is A Lonesome Town', on July 8.
Pixies have released four albums during their career. The last LP they released was 1991 album 'Trompe le Monde' and the last single they brought out was 'Bam Thwok' in 2004. A new book, 'Pixies: A Visual History', is currently in the works after a successful Kickstarter project.


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Johannesburg - Residents of Temba in Hammanskraal and surrounding areas can expect clean tap water in ten days, Tshwane MMC of utility services Darryl Moss said on Thursday.
Moss said new technology was being introduced at the Temba water purification plant while it was being rebuilt. The project will be completed end August.
''We are busy putting a new plant and doing so unit by unit. Within ten days, we should start seeing an improvement from the water coming from the plant. The quality and quantity will be as good as anywhere in the world,'' Moss told reporters in Johannesburg.
He said Temba water has a brownish colour, bad taste and smell, but "no bacterial issues.''
''The new technology will sort out all these issues,'' Moss said.
The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) held a meeting with city officials and the provincial water and sanitation department on Thursday after violent protests in Hammanskraal and complaints from residents about unsafe water.
Moss said the Rooiwal waste water plant, which provides bulk raw water to the Temba plant for purification, also needed infrastructure upgrading. A tender advertisement has been issued to drench the ponds and improve the infrastructure, he said.
Violent protests erupted in Temba, Hammanskraal earlier this month over the poor quality of drinking water.
Angry protesters used rocks and burning tyres to block roads, including at council offices, Jubillee mall and the Temba water purification plant. A meeting between the residents forum and City of Tshwane followed, but did not bear any fruit as residents demanded to meet with mayor Solly Msimanga. The SAHRC undertook a site visit on Tuesday to see the quality of the water supply.
Commission spokesman Buang Jones said there was a ''prima facie violation'' of the residents' rights to clean drinking water.
''South Africans and residents of Hammanskraal in particular, have a right to clean water supply. The city, the commission and the department will meet every month to assess progress pertaining to clean water for Hammanskraal and until all problems have been eliminated. We got a deep sense of the problems at the meeting...all parties committed to resolving this matter.''
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REBEKAH is a finalist!!
...in the Women's fiction category of the Inspirational Reader's Choice Awards!! I don't have any details on this yet, like when the winners will be announced, and I actually missed the phone call because we were out to dinner with friends. Thank goodness for voicemail!
Rebekah was not an easy book to write, so I'm kind of feeling especially glad that the readers in this contest found value in her story. I'm so grateful to each one who took the time to read and respond to the contest coordinator. Judging for a contest is not an easy task, especially when it involves reading an entire book - even several books in a short period of time.
So if you happened to be one of those judges and you see this - thank you for your time and - I'm very glad you enjoyed Rebekah.
Celebrate with me!
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US Federal Reserves fines BNP Paribas US$246 million for foreign exchange fixing
The Federal Reserve announced on Monday (July 17) it was fining BNP Paribas US$246 million (S$337m) for "unsafe and unsound" practices in its foreign exchange markets.
The regulator said it found deficiencies in the bank's oversight and internal controls of its traders, and in particular failed to detect and address those traders' use of electronic chatrooms to talk with competitors about trading positions.
The fine marks the latest action taken by the US central bank as part of a long-running crackdown on price-fixing across foreign exchange markets, in which several banks have already pleaded guilty to conspiring to manipulate currency prices.
US ends laptop ban on Middle Eastern airlines
The US Transportation Security Administration said on Monday (June 17) it has lifted a ban on passengers on Saudi Arabian Airlines carrying large electronics like laptops onboard US-bound flights, the last carrier under the restrictions.
In March, US officials imposed restrictions on passengers carrying laptops and other large electronic gear in cabins on nine airlines, most of which were Middle Eastern carriers, to address the potential threat of hidden explosives.
Last month, US officials announced new security requirements for all airlines rather than an expansion of the laptop ban and have been dropping the restrictions from airlines as they boosted security.
Probe into fatal US police shooting of Australian woman
Authorities in the US state of Minnesota on Monday (July 17) were investigating the police-involved shooting of an Australian woman, who was killed under mysterious circumstances after placing an emergency call.
Justine Damond was fatally shot by one of two responding officers Saturday (July 15) night, after she called 911 to report a possible assault in an alleyway in her Minneapolis neighbourhood.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which investigates all officer-involved shootings in the state, would not say what precipitated the shooting. The officers' body cameras were not activated during the incident, authorities said.
Promising immunotherapy helps adults with leukemia
A cancer treatment that genetically alters immune cells has shown success in 71 per cent of adults with the most common form of leukemia, and for whom other medicines had failed, US researchers said Monday (July 17).
The treatment, known as experimental chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell immunotherapy, has made headlines in recent years, particularly after it helped beat back paediatric leukemia in the first US child to undergo the treatment.
The latest study involved 24 adults, aged 40 to 73, with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) that had failed to respond to between three and nine other kinds of treatments and were not expected to live long.
Football: Barca announce record S$1.1 billion revenue
Barcelona announced Monday (July 17) record income of 708 million euros (S$1.1 billion) for 2016/2017 with an after-tax profit of 18m euros.
The Spanish giants said the healthy revenue was up 13m euros on the forecast figure in their budget for the period.
A statement following the approval of the accounts at a board meeting disclosed the club has reduced its debt by 24.5m euros to 247m euros.


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Istrouma HS (IHS) Class of 1974 Alumni List
Help us Update the Istrouma HS 1974 Class List by adding any names missing from the list below:
Registered Alumni
1974 Class List
- Jane Adams
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- Linda Amato
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- Judith Boyd
- Joni Braud
- Joey Bursavich
- Joseph Colbert
- Mike Cox
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- James Deville
- Rhonda Ramer Dickerson
- Karen Falvey
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- Allen Hatchell
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- Terry Campbell Hebert
- Joyce Henderson
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- Debbie Quirk
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- Brenda Wilkinson
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The most popular movie of 1974 was Blazing Saddles which has grossed over $119,500,000 since its release. The TV series All in the Family was the most popular show of 1974.
Hit Songs From 1974
Help MeJoni Mitchell
Rikki Don't Lose That NumberSteely Dan
Lookin' For A LoveBobby Womack
For The Love Of MoneyO'Jays
Put Your Hands TogetherO'Jays
(You're) Having My BabyPaul Anka
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On MeElton John
Hang On In There BabyJohnny Bristol
Call On MeChicago
The Night Chicago DiedPaper Lace
Hit Movies From 1974
Hit TV Shows From 1974
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We sell wholesale, retail, and pick-your-own. Most products
are available on a pick-your-own basis. They are sweet and
tart cherries (both red and black tart cherries), peaches,
nectarines, pears, plums, apples and grapes. Usual start dates for harvest are as follows: sweet cherries, July 1;
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Cherries are sold from the barn at 11821 East Middle Road,
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Dr. Giorgio Müller appointed new sales manager for Western Europe
Friday, 09. January 2009 Dr. Giorgio Müller took over his new function as sales manager for Western Europe of the Rubber division with effect from January 1, 2009.
"We work with our customers, who are all leaders in their sector, to develop solutions for a great variety of applications," says Dr. Müller. "To this end we enter into close dialogue with our customers and look to meet their needs and requirements. The aim of this partnership is to promote long-term customer loyalty and close cooperation. Through this and our high level of service in the areas of technology, safety, environmental protection and REACH we want to remain the top company on the market in our sector," adds Dr. Müller, summarizing the aims of the sales team of Rhein Chemie's Rubber division.
After the successful establishment of the Service Technologies concept and its integration into the Rubber division, Giorgio Müller was designated sales manager for the Western Europe region in January 2009, having previously deputized in this area. From 2004 to 2007 he worked as plant manager in Service Technologies at Rhein Chemie's Mannheim site. From 1999 to 2003 he was employed at Rhein Chemie Corporation in the United States as chief chemist and laboratory manager.
Born and raised in Milan, Italy, he was brought up bilingually (Italian and German). With his background and international working experience on the one hand and his technical education as a chemist on the other, he brings ideal qualifications for his new position.
, 09. January 2009
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Handmade: Quilter gets creative to make room for hobby
Dan Markey of Burtchville Township recently moved into a two-bedroom apartment and found himself faced with a bit of a problem -- how to fit his long-arm quilting machine into the second bedroom which he has set up for quilting.
After talking with the manufacturer, he was able to make it fit by using a smaller frame -- downsizing from his 14-foot model to a 10-foot size.
Markey, 54, probably never imagined he'd ever be faced with such a dilemma, but nearly four years ago he accepted a "double-dare" from members of the Macomb County Quilt Guild, and he's been hooked on quilting ever since -- not only piecing fabric, but doing the actual quilting and binding, as well.
"They kind of double-dared me by saying, 'We can make you a quilter in a weekend.' They had a quilting retreat and double-dared me to sign up. I took their dare, and they gave me a list of things I should purchase, (including) a sewing machine. I showed up and said, 'Here I am.' They were very patient and showed me the ropes."
Markey, a licensed contractor, compares quilt-making to constructing a house. "I've built lots of things, and basically I can do a quilt, or put one together, in a weekend," he said. "It's like building a house." So far, he's made about 15 quilts, and has three or four that are pieced and waiting to be quilted, including one with "a lot of pieces," which he started a year ago as part of a class.
When Markey first started quilting, he said he thought quilts were simply a bed covering to keep you warm, but after attending a quilt show last year in Grand Rapids, he now sees them as a form of "artwork."
As the only male member of the Macomb County Quilt Guild, Markey said he enjoys being part of the group so much that he became a board member. "I just finished my first year, and I'll be back on the board this fall."
But being a man who quilts isn't always easy, yet, Markey had no problem dealing with the opinions of others. Asked how his male friends reacted when they learned he had an interest in learning to quilt, he said, "When I first started talking about buying a sewing machine, they said, 'You can lose your man card.' I said, 'Well, I'm not too worried about that. I'm quite secure at being a man."
He's now up to four sewing machines, not to mention his long-arm quilting machine. And, they're his alone because his wife, Mary, "doesn't sew at all." He once tried to teach her to quilt, but said, "We got going in one direction, but I ended up finishing the project."
Markey, who likes giving his quilts away as gifts to friends and family, said making a quilt is "a labor of love," and he "sews lots of love into them." And, like most needlearts, he finds quilting is far from being a cheap hobby. He said just to make a baby quilt, he has spent about $80 on supplies. And, let's not forget the time and energy involved.
His choice of fabric is definitely quilt-shop quality, unless he's working on a couple sample blocks or a row. "I'm partial to the little quilt shops because they have good quality (fabrics) and good prices. I also like to patronize the small quilt shops because they're my friends. If I have questions, they can help solve my problem and give me ideas." His quilts are made with all cotton fibers, including the batting, to allow for even shrinkage.
Markey is passionate about quilting because it's "very relaxing and rewarding." He said, "I can sit down and put the pieces together like a puzzle. It's also rewarding when you give it to someone because it's something special."
Detroit News Columnist Jocelynn Brown is a longtime Metro Detroit crafter. You can reach her at (313) 222-2150, email@example.com or facebook.com/DetroitNewsHandmade.
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Anakbayan is a comprehensive National Democratic mass organization of the Filipino youth that aims to arouse, organize and mobilize youth for national democracy with a socialist perspective.
It unites youth workers, farmers, urban poor, students, professionals, women, migrants, Moro and other national minorities to contribute to the advancement and success of the National Democratic struggle of the Filipino people. Along with the struggle for the immediate and long-term needs of the youth, it will strongly and deeply integrate with the strength and the struggle of the toiling masses.
Founded on November 30, 1998, the day of birth of the great revolutionary Andres Bonifacio and the founding of the first comprehensive youth mass organization, it holds the principles and upholds the great and honorable tradition of Kabataang Makabayan (KM). As a continuation of the beginnings of the Katipunan and KM, it strongly stands for, unites, and advances the struggle of the people for national freedom and democracy against the semi-colonial and semi-feudal system that is governed by imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism.
Since its founding, Anakbayan has been arousing, organizing and mobilizing thousands of youth for National Democracy through its chapters across the country. It tightly unites the struggles of the youth sector with the struggles of all the masses.
League of Filipino Students (LFS)
The LFS was founded in September 11, 1977 at the height of brutal repression under Martial Law of the Marcos Regime. Initially, it was created as an alliance of student organizations, fraternities and sororities from various universities against tuition hikes and campus repression. However, recognizing the relationship between student issues and greater social ills that was deeply rooted in a foreign‐dominated and backward agrarian country, it was transformed into a mass organization that was national and democratic in character in 1982.
The LFS is one of the largest, broadest and most active youth organization in the Philippines today. It has around 30,000 active members from hundreds of chapters and formations in various universities, colleges and high schools nationwide. It is also building chapters and formations for Filipinos abroad.
Time and again, it has proven its capacity to mobilize and lead
thousands of students on various issues that confront the youth and other marginalized sectors. Its membership includes student leaders that lead in student councils, publications and various alliances.
Its program and activities is aimed at empowering the youth and students for the realization of their potential as future leaders of the nation.
OIKOS (Ecological Movement)
OIKOS (Ecological Movement) is the only long-standing environmental organization with an activist orientation among the lines of the youth in the University of the Philippines - Visayas. The term itself is derived from a Greek word which means "home."
OIKOS aims to instill ecological awareness among its members as well as enlighten the students of the current state of our environment and national issues related to it. It also helps in the conservation of our environment through advocacy work starting from the university to the society at large.
SAMAKA-KA is a women's advocate organization which advances the advances the democratic struggle of the youth and student sector for a nationalist, scientific and mass-oriented education as well as the liberation of women against the triple burden under the present set-up of the Philippine Society.
SAMAKA-KA believes that women, comprising half of the population, are a powerful force in social change, and that without their full contributions and full participation, the struggle for national democracy will not see victory. And that without the emancipation of women, there can be no total and complete liberation for the Filipino people.
SAMASA Mass Organization
SAMASA is a socio-civic political organization that upholds and is geared towards arousing, organizing and mobilizing for the promotion and protection of the students' rights & welfare at all times.
SAMASA positions itself at the forefront of the students' struggle against the colonial, commercialized and fascist educational system and its manifestations in the University whole year round. Most importantly, SAMASA recognizes the need to always link up its struggles with other sectors and building strong solidarity with the rest of the UP Community and greater society.
In every endeavor, SAMASA's point of departure is to serve the people.
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The EU membership referendum awaits us
It is Europe Day, and I am writing this in Britain, where a government has just been elected promising to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership. Those of us who believe in the merits of Europe need to find a way to help David Cameron achieve a "yes" vote in the referendum even if our politics are the diametric opposite of his.
This means being very clear about the advantages that the European Union has brought for all of us – and this should go beyond the familiar shopping list of common standards in a single market or the enhanced rights of consumers such as the lowering of mobile phone roaming charges. Although positive, these details will not inspire. Let us remember that the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for being the cause of peace in Europe since its first incarnation in 1951. Ah, reply the sceptics, it was NATO and mutually ensured destruction that kept the peace, not the trading agreements of the European integration. But what the sceptics haven't thought of is that the European Union's institutions and agreements guarantee a stability between member states that prevents the kind of descent into chaos that Europe experienced in the 1930s or the summer of 1914. In 1929, the Wall Street Crash led to an economic crisis that the democratic Germany of the Weimar Republic could not withstand, given the costs of World War I and reparations. In 1929-1933, there was no European Union or other international institution with solidarity at its core that could step in to rescue the German economy. The result was a totalitarian regime that produced a nightmare for my grandparents' generation.
Compared to the events of 1929 to 1933, the response of the European Union to the crash of 2008 has shown the value of European unity in salvaging, at considerable cost, the economies of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus and preventing a reversion to all the instability of authoritarianism. Given the rise of the populist far-right across Europe, of which UKIP is an expression, salvaging the economies of Europe and protecting ourselves from authoritarianism is a work in progress that has to be finished.
To succeed, the "yes" campaign for continuing British membership must be decentralized; indeed it will need to run as multiple "yes" campaigns, given the very different sorts of voters that have to be convinced in order to win: skilled and unskilled working people, those in precarious employment, small and medium entrepreneurs, farmers, public sector workers – across different parts of the country and through different media. If David Cameron talks only the language of de-regulation to the Left, we shall fail to win a "yes" vote. Let Cameron talk to the CBI and small businesses. The multiple Left(s), including the trades unions, the professional apparatus of the Labour Party, community or environmental activists, Greens, and Welsh and Scottish nationalists will each need to run their own campaigns. Diverse "yes" campaigns may have to be off-message and in mutual contradiction.
The Scottish unionist campaign won the independence referendum using fear and fear will have to be part of the mix in the EU membership campaign(s). But the "yes" sides will also have to borrow the techniques of the Scottish pro-independence campaign in social media, spontaneity, and inspiration, particularly for young and first-time voters for whom the future matters. One of the failures of previous pro-European campaigns during the time of Tony Blair was their uninspiring centralization, control, and use only of boring economic arguments like lower roaming charges. British exit from the European Union would be very costly and these costs, notably falling employment due to disinvestment, need to be communicated. The tasks then of the "yes" campaigns must be to inspire but also to warn of the risks of exit to the British economy and to Britain's status as an open and welcoming society.


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Sometimes the wonder of Jesus Christ wells up in me so strongly I want to cartwheel and weep at the same time.
Does that ever happen to you?
It wasn't until the gospel of Jesus entirely captured my mind and conquered my Pharisaical heart that I began to understand fighting lies with praise.
It wasn't until the lavish, freeing love of God filled in the cracks of my lack did I begin to comprehend the strength and hope to be found.
It wasn't until I wholeheartedly believed in the perfect guidance, and constant companionship, of Holy Spirit that I discovered peace in the unknown and uncertain.


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In less than five months, British Columbians will go to the polls in a provincial election and the mayor of Pemberton is the only person who has expressed interest in representing the Sea to Sky corridor in Victoria.
Jordan Sturdy is the only person at this point in the running to replace Joan McIntyre as the MLA for the riding of West Vancouver-Sea to Sky. The current Liberal MLA announced last year that she wouldn't be seeking re-election. Soon after that announcement, Sturdy indicated he would seek the Liberal nomination.
The Liberal constituency association has scheduled a vote in the riding for Feb. 15 and 16. The vote will be open to all BC Liberal party members in the riding, which stretches from 29th Street in West Vancouver to D'arcy, with Bowen Island included. Voters don't currently have anyone else to vote for so unless another Liberal party member enters the race, Sturdy will be acclaimed.
"Although, as far as our team understands, there are no other official candidates, we have always assumed there would be, and have run for the nomination accordingly," Sturdy said in a news release.
Meanwhile, NDP constituency association president Lyle Fenton said his party is in the process of seeking out a candidate. The Green Party's executive director, Rebecca Helps, has indicated her party is also looking for a candidate.


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April 2002
India and Pakistan in the Shadow of Afghanistan
by Sumit Ganguly
"Two questions about the long-term future of American South Asia policy linger. . . . Will the United States avoid the error of abandoning Afghanistan after its goal of ridding the region of Al Qaeda is met? And will it remain engaged sufficiently with Pakistan to help restructure that country's domestic institutions and its external priorities?"
April 2002
A Blueprint for Afghanistan
by Barnett R. Rubin
"September 11 revealed the dangers of allowing so-called humanitarian emergencies or failed states to fester-not only to neighboring countries but to the world. An American administration that came to power denouncing efforts at 'nation building' and criticizing reliance on international organizations and agreements has now proclaimed that it needs to ensure a 'stable Afghanistan' to prevent that country from ever again becoming a haven for terrorists."
April 2002
An Interview with Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah
by Sean Patrick Murphy
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah serves as minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Chairman Hamid Karzai. Abdullah, who was a close aide to Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, previously served as spokesman, un representative, and deputy foreign minister for the pre-Taliban government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani. Dr. Abdullah was interviewed by Current History consulting editor Sean Patrick Murphy in Washington, D.C. this January.
April 2002
India, Pakistan, and the Prospect of War
by Alexander Evans
"India seized an opportunity in December 2001. In escalating a crisis into a global drama, Prime Minister Vajpayee and his colleagues took a calculated risk. Has it worked?"
March 2002
Rebuilding Afghanistan
by Marina Ottaway and Anatol Lieven
"In the past several decades, the international community has relied on three approaches to deal with countries that descend into chaos. It has supported strongmen capable of reimposing order by force; it has given up in despair, leaving the country to sort out its problems as best it can; and, most recently, it has embarked on ambitious projects to reconstruct the country in the image of a modern secular, multiethnic, and democratic state. None of these approaches should be used in Afghanistan."
January 2002
The Other Allies: Russia, India, and Afghanistan's United Front
by Thomas Withington
"Russia and India can argue that without their support, the United Front would have not defeated the Taliban. . . . Because of this instrumental support, India and Russia will undoubtedly expect to have a voice in Afghanistan's future."
December 2001
Putting South Asia Back Together Again
by Sumit Ganguly
"Should the United States simply relegate Afghanistan, and South Asia in general, to the outer fringes of its concerns once bin Laden and his acolytes in the Al Qaeda terror network have been either prosecuted or destroyed, Afghanistan could again become a fertile arena for the genesis of other militant Islamist organizations intent on wreaking havoc on the Western world."
April 2001
India's New Mantra: The Internet
by Gyanesh Kudaisya
"At first sight the Internet in India seems ubiquitous. Yet questions remain about the penetration it has achieved, the sophistication of its use, and the benefits it is likely to offer to a developing nation like India."
April 2001
Why Peace Won't Come to Kashmir
by Alexander Evans
"An assortment of views are held about what different segments of Kashmiri society might want, if they could truly choose. But a solution to the problem of Kashmir remains in the hands of three distinct players: the Kashmiris, and the governments of India and Pakistan."
April 2001
Making Peace in Sri Lanka
by Miriam Young
"Sri Lanka's troubles will be solved only through a political settlement that guarantees the fundamental freedom and human dignity of all Sri Lanka's citizens, regardless of ethnic or religious identity."
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