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Weekly News Digest: October 12th through 19th, 2017
Equality Needed in Adoption
- A recent piece in the Huffington Post highlights a new report from the Movement Advancement Project that outlines the disturbing and widespread trend of religious exemption laws, which allow or propose to allow businesses, service agencies and others to discriminate in service provision based on religious beliefs. Although a fundamental American value is religious freedom, these laws are twisting a principle that never was intended to allow for discrimination or to create laws and policies that ultimately harm children and families by denying them equality.
- In North Dakota, a couple is suing Catholic Charities for denying them the opportunity to adopt a teenage foster child because they were living together but not yet married. Although the couple planned to marry in July, the agency ultimately denied them as applicants based on religious ideologies surrounding living together prior to marriage.
DAI Reflection: We've said it before and we will say it again-prospective adoptive parents must be evaluated based on their qualifications, not their sexual orientation, marital status, religion, race, ethnicity or any other aspect of their personhood that in itself has no bearing on the ability to parent. With more than 100,000 children currently awaiting adoption in foster care, we should be creating pathways for permanency, not limiting opportunities based on a perverse and discriminatory interpretation of religious freedom. Check out DAI's advocacy work to ensure equality in adoption here.
International News
- A woman born in Mexico and then adopted in the United States found her biological family through the help of social media and the kindness of virtual strangers. This emotional piece in the Houston Chron details the young woman's sense of peace and solace upon finally being able to learn her full truth.
- In Canada, CBC news reports there are currently more indigenous children in care today then there were during the notorious 'sixties scoop' era or in residential schools in the past. A legal settlement was awarded to survivors of the sixties scoop although the pain these victims continue to experience today remains palpable. Advocates in the child welfare system today state more needs to be done to eradicate racial discrimination that continues to plague the system, provide culturally relevant services to aboriginal families and to ensure another generation's culture is not lost.
- A personal account on CNN details the experience of a couple from Ohio who share of how they believed they were adopting an orphan from Uganda, however since have come to learn that the child has a living mother who believed the child would be provided an education in America, not permanently adopted away from her. The article details the painful journey of loss and the ultimate restoration for the families involved as well as a call for ensuring ethics and transparency.
DAI Reflection: Ethics in adoption requires truth and transparency from the outset. It requires all of us to take a hard look at the market forces that privilege some over others and negate the essence of what family building should be about. Check out DAI's Let's Adopt Reform report which touches on several key areas in need of reform in order to preserve families and ensure the best interest of children.
More Care Needed in Foster Care
- In Kansas, an alarming report from their privatized foster care system that is overseen by Kansas DCF shows that approximately 70 children are missing from their foster homes. The agencies indicate that the children are typically found within an average of two weeks however did admit that there are three sisters who have been missing since August and one child missing for more than two years. Kansas lawmakers and a specialized task force that had prior been established to monitor the state system continue to work on identifying the problem areas and developing solutions.
- The Chronicle of Social Change reports that statistics from a new report in California indicate that more than 1/3 of foster youth in transitional housing placements were involuntarily discharged in 2016-2017. John Burton Advocates for Youth has been analyzing the program which has been in existence since the California legislature passed a bill in 2010 extending foster care benefits to youth until the age of 21. According to the advocacy organizations report, some of the youth who were involuntarily discharged appeared to be meeting program requirements yet there may be additional rules being imposed by housing providers that lead to involuntary discharge. The report also shows the average length of stay in the program is a little over a year although youth are allowed to remain for up to three years.
DAI Reflection: Family preservation is optimal; however when children cannot be safely cared for by their families, the state must ensure their total wellbeing while children are in care. This includes ensuring professionals charged with the responsibility of children have the resources and capacity to provide the care and oversight necessary to ensure physical safety and emotional wellbeing. It is critical that we all come together to prioritize the youngest and most vulnerable members of our society. Read DAI's research on foster care and the child welfare system here.


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WALTHAM, Mass. – Elwood N. "Al" Shields, the father of Bentley University athletics and the first commissioner of the Northeast-10 Conference (Northeast-7 at the time), passed away recently at the age of 80. According to the family, the cause was complications from Alzheimer's.
After coaching the basketball team during a non-varsity season in 1962-63, Shields was named the first athletics director and basketball coach at what was then Bentley College in 1963. He remained as basketball coach until 1978 and was the college's athletics director until October 1991.
As athletics director, Shields guided the growth of an athletic department that began with five varsity sports during the 1963-64 academic year with no facilities. By the time he left nearly three decades later, there were 19 varsity sports, including varsity football and hockey teams, along with a full-blown women's athletics program.
In addition to building the Bentley athletics program, Shields was one of the founders, and the first commissioner, of the Northeast-10 Conference, which began competition in 1980 as the Northeast-7. He served as the conference's commissioner until 1989.
"Al was the cornerstone of the Bentley athletic program," said Bob DeFelice, who was hired by Shields as baseball coach in 1968 and has been the athletics director since 1991. "As basketball coach, his record speaks for itself. He established one of the premier programs in New England and it remains so today."
During his time as athletics director, Bentley teams competed in NCAA championship tournaments in men's basketball, women's basketball, field hockey and men's soccer, and was also represented in NCAA championships by individuals in golf, track and cross country.
"I am very saddened by the passing of Al Shields," said women's basketball coach Barbara Stevens.
"I owe so much to Al – he was the one who hired me 31 years ago and gave me the great opportunity to coach women's basketball at Bentley. Even from the early stages, our basketball program was a step ahead of the rest with full scholarships to offer to our student-athletes, along with a staff of two full-time coaches. Al was one of the very few Athletic Directors who had the vision at that time to fully support women's basketball."
A baseball field was constructed as the college's first athletic facility in 1970, two years after Bentley opened its Waltham campus, and the Dana Center was opened in 1973, giving the basketball teams an on-campus home for the first time.
Shields, in 15 seasons as basketball coach, led Bentley to a 258-106 record with five NCAA and two NAIA tournament appearances. His tenure included 13 winning seasons, including records of 26-2 in 1971-72, 23-2 in 1974-75 and 24-3 in 1973. Shields' career .706 winning percentage ranks 37th in Division II history.
A graduate of Northeastern University and a longtime resident of Burlington, Shields was inducted into the Bentley Athletic Hall of Fame in 1984, the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Northeast-10 Hall of Fame in 2006.
Information for this release provided by the athletic communications staff at Bentley
The NE10 is an association of 15 NCAA Division II colleges and universities located in New England and New York that is committed to supporting balanced academic and athletic opportunities for more than 6,500 student-athletes.
Each year, 4,500 of those student-athletes compete in conference championships in 24 sports, making the NE10 the largest DII conference in the country in terms of sport sponsorship. Leading the way in the classroom, on the field and within the community, the NE10 is proud of its comprehensive program and the experience it provides student-athletes.


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"You are the greatest magician in the Sublunar World. It is not enough. As a rare Conjunction approaches, immortality is within reach. But the gods have noticed you trying to unlock the doors of heaven. Some demand you ascend–or else–while others plot your destruction. There are only two paths for you now, archmage: immortality or annihilation."
Poludnica, Harvester of Souls
"Poludnica is a noon demon in Slavic mythology. She can be referred to in English as "Lady Midday" or "Noon Witch". She was usually pictured as a young woman dressed in white that roamed field bounds. She assailed folk working at noon causing heatstrokes and aches in the neck, sometimes she even caused madness.
Poludnitsa, who makes herself evident in the middle of hot summer days, takes the form of whirling dust clouds and carries a scythe or shears; most likely the shears would be of an older style, not akin to modern scissors. She will stop people in the field to ask them difficult questions or engage them in conversation. If anyone fails to answer a question or tries to change the subject, she will cut off their head or strike them with illness. She may appear as an old hag, a beautiful woman, or a 12-year-old girl, and she was useful in scaring children away from valuable crops. She is only seen on the hottest part of the day and is a personification of a sun-stroke." - Wikipedia
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Pride Over Points; Ana Ivanovic Turns Down Wildcard For Montreal – The Friday Five
By Maud Watson
First Time for Everything – One of the big news items this week was the fact that for the first time since the ATP rankings began, no American man is in the Top 10. The United States has always had one of the richest tennis traditions, producing some of the game's greatest, from Sears, Tilden and Trabert, to McEnroe, Sampras, and Agassi. So, the absence of a rep for the Stars and Stripes in the Top 10 is certainly worth noting, but it's not the big crisis that some of the national sports pundits make of it. Tennis has become a much more global sport over the last few decades, and there's no doubt that the depth has greatly increased. The other aspect that needs to be considered is that the United States is still producing world class players…they just don't always represent the United States. The same Nick Bollettieri Academy that produced tennis greats Andre Agassi and Jim Courier and has also produced other top players like Tommy Haas (Germany) and Maria Sharapova (Russia). Besides, at the end of the day, assuming he's healthy, the odds are still in favor of Roddick finishing the year in the Top 10, and other guys by the names of John Isner, Sam Querrey and Mardy Fish aren't doing too shabby either.
The Ailing American – It was Andy Roddick's departure from the Top 10 that sparked the bit of panic about the status of American men's tennis, but the worries for Roddick are far from being about the ranking. After suffering an early exit in Washington, the American admitted to feeling lethargic and stated he would be undergoing some testing to try and discover the possible problem. He has since pulled out of the Toronto Masters citing his being too ill to play, though no word yet on the health issue that may possibly be plaguing him. It's hard not to feel a little sympathy for Roddick. After one of his better spring seasons that seemed to hint at a possible resurgence, the American has suffered a steady decline that now sees him at one of his worst lows in recent memory. The fingers are crossed that he can reverse this trend at what has historically been one of the most successful junctures of the season for him and give the people back home something to cheer about.
Nalbandian on the Rise – A man on the flip side of what Roddick is experiencing is David Nalbandian. Though just really starting to fully come back from his long injury layoff, it hasn't taken the Argentine long to polish the rust off his game. He looked in devastating form as he stormed his way to the title in Washington, and he's continued his ruthless play this week in Toronto. He's spent a lot of time out of the game, and for sure playing best-of-three vs. best-of-five makes a big difference. But if Nalbandian continues is form of late, and you factor in his records against both Nadal and Federer, it's hard to not label him one of the outside dark horses to make a deep run at the US Open.
Pride over Points – The offer of a wildcard, one initially denied to the struggling Ana Ivanovic, was put on the table earlier this week, but the young Serb refused it. Her reason? She didn't like what tournament director Eugene Lapierre had to say in The Montreal Gazette regarding his initial reasons for denying the wildcard to her earlier this summer. There's right and wrong on both sides of the equation in this one. Lapierre raised many valid points in his reasons for initially denying the wildcard, but Ivanovic was right to think that he certainly could have been more diplomatic in presenting those points, and definitely a little more discreet as far as stating the number of reasons he initially denied her the wildcard other than that she's "not Canadian." With Ivanovic playing Cincinnati and also scheduled to play New Haven (through a wildcard), skipping Montreal most likely works in her favor anyway. But I have to applaud Ivanovic for having the guts to stick to her own personal principles instead of taking the tempting wildcard and the potential to earn some needed points at one of the most prestigious events on the WTA calendar.
Sponsorship Terminated – In order to comply with the laws in several countries which put heavy restrictions on tobacco advertising, the Davidoff Swiss Indoors tournament will be enjoying its swan song in 2010 as the tobacco company will be forced to end its 17-year sponsorship of the popular indoor stop. This is out of the ATP's hands, and the current global trend to reduce the amount of tobacco and tobacco-related products advertising is understandable for obvious reasons. But this was still a bit of a head shaker given how hard it can be for tournaments to find title sponsors, and in this specific case, we are talking about a sponsor who didn't just step in for a few years, but had been faithfully sponsoring the tournament for nearly two decades. Unfortunately, those are the breaks that come with being at the 500-level. Hopefully given the quality of the field that tends to show up in Basel year after year, the Swiss Indoors won't find it too much of a struggle to find a replacement sponsor.


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LANSING, Mich. -- The Trine University women's volleyball team picked up another win this evening in their first match of the MIAA-NCAC Volleyball Crossover Challenge. They defeated Ohio Wesleyan University by three sets to one.
The Thunder took the first set by the score of 25-21 before dropping the second 23-25. Their most convincing win of the evening came int he third which they took 25-11. They then finished off the match with a 25-23 win in the fourth.
The Thunder offense in the contest was led by superb serving. The team tallied 17 aces in the contest with four different players recording multiple. The tally ties for seventh-most in a single match in Trine's recorded volleyball history.
Junior Lindsey DeCamp (New Haven, Ind. / New Haven) led the way for the Thunder recording eight aces on her own. She becomes the first player to do so since Trine joined NCAA Division III. The tally also puts her in second all-time for an individual match. She also led the way with 13 digs.
Senior Danielle Stanichuk (Troy, Mich. / Athens) and freshman Paris Outwater (Bronson, Mich. / Bronson) both ended the match with three aces while fellow freshman Jillian Hannah (Cygnet, Mich. / Elmwood) finished with two.
Leading the way offensively for the Thunder was junior Madison Munger (Indianapolis, Ind. / Franklin Central) who finished the match with 20 kills. She also came in second with 11 digs. Classmate Jacqueline Baughman (Lake Orion, Mich. / Lutheran Northwest) led the team with 38 assists in the contest.
The team improves to 4-1 following the victory. They will continue their season tomorrow, Sept. 7 with two more crossover matches. They begin the day at 10 a.m. by facing off with Hiram College and then finish up with Denison University at 2 p.m.


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Bad Axe council member resigns
BAD AXE — City council lost three years of experience following the resignation of a council member this week. And council is now looking to fill the open slot.
During this week's city council meeting, the first order of business was to accept the resignation of councilman Marc C. Bridson.
"I will be moving out of the city of Bad Axe and will no longer be able to serve," Bridson wrote in his letter of resignation dated May 23. "It has been a great privilege to serve the citizens of Bad Axe for the past three years. I would like to offer my support to the current administration and council. Best of luck for the remaining length of your term."
The council approved the resignation 4-0. Mayor Jim Hicks, City Manager Dale VanDeVusse and councilmember Richard Peterson were not present at Monday's meeting.
A majority of the council must approve a new member within 30 days, according to the city's charter rules. The person selected to fill the vacant position will hold the seat until the next election.
In other news, council approved:
• Renewing the Michigan Municipal League Liability and Property Proposal from July 1 through July 1, 2018.
• Paying bills in the amount of $97,199.
Council is scheduled to meet next at 7:30 p.m. June 19 at City Hall.


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FULLERTON, Calif. – Cal State Fullerton women's soccer returns home after a weekend on the road to face No. 17 Auburn on Friday night and then Fresno State on Sunday. Both Friday and Sunday are doubleheaders with the men's soccer team. The women's match is the second game on Friday, set to start at 7:30 p.m. PT while on Sunday the women play first at 4 p.m. Friday's kickoff time against Auburn is subject to change as that match is the second of a doubleheader at Titan Stadium. If it is after 7:30, it will start 30 minutes after the end of the men's game.
• Senior Nano Oronoz and freshman Kristen Swales sit at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, for the Big West Conference in goals scored on the year. Oronoz bagged a hat trick and Swales pumped in two goals of her own against St. Mary's (Aug. 19).
• The Titans are fourth in the league in shots per game at 11.50 and second in goals per game at 1.50.
• Facing a ranked foe for the first time this season, the Titans were 0-2-1 against top-25 opponents last season.
• In 2017, Cal State Fullerton qualified for the Big West Conference Tournament for the sixth year in a row, a conference record.
Both matches will be streamed live on BigWest.TV. Click here for the Auburn match and here for the Fresno State match.
Aug. 31, 2018 vs. No. 17 Auburn | Titan Stadium | 7:30 p.m. PT
The Titans will look to hand the Auburn Tigers their first blemish to their 4-0-0 record. Auburn is second in the country in total goals with 16 on the year and first in assists per game at 5.25.
Auburn has only allowed two goals in the four games it has played thus far this season.
The last time the Titans and Tigers met was at Auburn in 2016 and the Tigers were victorious by a score of 2-0. Overall, Auburn leads the all-time series 1-2, with CSF earning a win in double overtime in 2005.
Sep. 2, 2018 vs. Fresno State | Titan Stadium| 4:00 p.m. PT
The Bulldogs boast a 1-1-1 record on the year. They opened the season with a win against Montana, then fell to Drake and drew with Sacramento State.
Tori Nicolo leads the team in goals with three on the year.
Last time out against the Bulldogs was on Aug. 20, 2017 when CSF won 2-1in Fresno. The Titans lead the all-time series 7-3 and have won each of the last five matches.
After having nine seniors on the squad last year, all of which contributed to the 2017 Big West Tournament title, this year's squad has just four seniors.
• A jack-of-all-trades for the Titans and preseason All-Big West honoree Nano Oronoz has played 61 matches for the Titans and started 39 of them. She bagged a hat trick against St. Mary's on Aug. 19, becoming the first Titan to achieve that feat since 2015. She has six goals and five assists for her career.
• Defender Amanda Larsson has taken the field 49 times for Fullerton, including 27 career starts. Through four matches this season, she has logged the third-most minutes among all players on the team at 353 of a total 386 minutes.
• Midfielder Alba Barrios has played 51 career games in a Titan uniform, including 14 last year with 11 starts. She has scored two goals for her career, both coming as a freshman.
• Midfielder Jessica Simonian is redshirting the 2018 season so she will be back for the 2019 season. She has started 54 games in her time at Fullerton with 43 starts. She has tallied two goals and seven assists over the last three years.
Junior forward Atlanta Primus, a London, England native, is tied for third in the conference in assists through two matches after she dished out two against St. Mary's on Aug. 19. Primus set up Nano Oronoz on two of her three goals against the Gaels with two sublime passes. She has scored seven goals and dished out now 10 assists in her career. She is four assists away from being tied for 10th all-time in career assists. The preseason All-Big West honoree led the team in 2017 with 20 points (six goals, eight assists).
Head coach Demian Brown had a hole to fill in the goal left by (now undergrad assistant coach) Morgan Bertsch who was a 2017 first-team all-conference honoree and 2017 Co-Big West Goalkeeper of the Year. In stepped sophomore Tianna Sanders who had an outstanding opening weekend. She recorded 11 saves against BYU on Aug. 17 and was a brick wall for the Titans. She currently leads the league in saves with 20 total and five per game.
With the win against CSUN on Oct. 1, 2017, head coach Demian Brown notched his 100th-career win. Over his 11 years as head coach, Brown has steered the Titans to four Big West regular season championships (2007, 2012, 2014, 2015) and five Big West Tournament championships (2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017) representing the league as the Big West's automatic qualifier at the NCAA Tournament for four of the last six years (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017) in addition to the Titans' postseason trip in 2007.
Sophomore Samantha McKenna is the team's No. 10 in jersey number and positionally as she plays as an attacking midfielder. She hails from Lakeside and is primed to build on a strong freshman campaign. McKenna was named to the 2017 Big West All-Freshman team as she recorded three goals and three assists.
The 2017 Titans featured seniors such as Samantha Koemans (five goals, five assists) Kaycee Hoover (five goals, two assists), Tala Haddad (three goals, three assists), Maribell Morales (three goals, one assist), Connie Caliz (two goals, one assist), all of which played at least 20 of the 22 games for the Titans and over 1,000 minutes. The 2018 squad will have to step into new roles and replace their productivity but Brown feels the team is capable and excited for the challenge.
Fans can purchase tickets for various Cal State Fullerton athletic events by visiting FullertonTitans.com/Tickets. The Athletic Ticket Office can also be contacted by phone at 657-278-2783 or by email at email@example.com. The Ticket Office is located at the Titan House off of Gymnasium Drive at the eastern end of the Intramural Fields and is open from 10 am – 4 pm PT, Monday – Friday.
Fans can keep up with the latest in Titan Athletics by following us on Facebook (Facebook/FullertonTitans), Twitter (@FullertonTitans) Instagram (@FullertonTitans) and Snapchat (FullertonTitans). In addition, the women's soccer team has established its own Facebook (Facebook/Cal-State-Fullerton-Womens-Soccer), Twitter (@CSUF_WSoccer) and Instagram accounts (@csufwomensoccer).


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If business organizations are not thinking about the experience customers have with their respective organizations, they run the risk of becoming another casualty of disruptive business models. In this age of the digital enterprise, customers have extremely high expectations regarding their encounters with your products or services, and a transition is underway — from digital to the cognitive enterprise — that will take those expectations into the stratosphere.
Rick Davidson, president and CEO of Cimphoni, a Wisconsin-based business technology company, spoke on this transition during the 2016 Fusion CEO-CIO Symposium produced by WTN Media. While customers in the digital age already expect a well-choreographed experience across all communications channels, the cognitive enterprise already underway is driven by a proliferation of data and will be marked by its ability to anticipate customer behaviors in ways that improve the human condition. In this Take Five interview, Davidson explains why businesses should begin making the transition to a cognitive enterprise.
IB: You've described the analog enterprise as a poll, digital as a pull, and cognitive as a push. Is it an easier transition from digital to cognitive than it was from analog to digital?
Davidson: I don't think so. It's certainly going to happen faster than the transition from analog to digital. Some companies are even struggling with being digital companies today using the information they have on their customers, whether that's information they have collected or purchased from third parties.
Rick Davidson, president and CEO, Cimphoni
The real challenge that will set the stage of moving from digital to cognitive is probably two- or three-fold. One is the availability of platforms — machine-learning types of platforms, artificial intelligence (AI). There is really only one that is commercially out there today that I'm aware of, and IBM's Watson is the platform. IBM has commercialized Watson in essence to open up Watson to third parties, to APIs, to use the Watson platform. But I think there will be more tools like Watson over time that will allow companies to leverage the power of machine learning and AI platforms.
So that's one factor. Another factor is the level of sophistication that companies will need to develop, the capabilities they will need to develop. Everybody knows STEM — science, technology, engineering, and math. Because the world we're playing in now has elements of all of those, currently machine learning is a lot about science and it's a lot about math. But there are two other areas we don't talk about much and that we need to consider because it will set the pace, as well.
One is ethics. We have all this information and insights about customer behaviors and patterns. What do we do with it and what do we do with it in a way that's benevolent and treats customers they way they want to be treated and not nefariously? By that, I mean not gaining information that could be harmful or coercive in various ways to customers. So there is an ethical component to it.
You heard the one question from a millennial (conference attendee) who asked about privacy and government and do we trust the government or even enterprises to have this information? We're going to need to work through that. The technology is way ahead of the ethics and the law, definitely the law. Just because we can doesn't necessarily mean we should.
With the pace of adoption, companies will have to convince customers that they are 'doing good' with this. It's like the chicken and the egg, and that's going to dictate the pace. It's not going to be the technology. It won't even be the platforms. The platforms will be developed pretty quickly. It will be how quickly, as a society, will we be willing to have tools like Amazon's Echo, and that's just a first generation tool, but tools like that to learn who we are, learn our behaviors, and start suggesting things to us. It's a little creepy now but maybe over the next five to 10 years, it will be less creepy and it will become the norm.
There are real limitations to data collected passively (i.e. facts gathered through internet observations) and data given willingly by a client or consumer. I am a 65 year old white male- my daughter is a neuroscientist specializing in gender studies among other things- my office mate for years was a lesbian - I rarely use Amazon but for Christmas bought neuroscience books on gender issues my daughter needed and a lesbian cartoon book by Alison Bechdel recommended by my office mate. Years later any number of ad programs have my gender as female (as I have used Amazon more in the past year they are no loner sending me solicitations for lesbian novels but are focused on some of my actual interests) So the web has a way to go before it is truly intelligent


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International Peace Ceremonies
For the earth, for you and for us, we are holding peace ceremonies with healers from all over the world. We invite you to join us, all of you who are…
– Peace seekers
– Community builders
– Living in beauty
– With integrity
– Freedom-loving
Together we will combine the wisdom of our earth in a large joint ceremony for peace.
Travel to Europe´s largest original beech forest close to Edersee
May 03.-05. 2019
Close to Edersee stands an old beech forest, which is under protection. There are many places with especially high earth energy and others with high spiritual energy. Like our ancestors, we want to heal our bodies on such a place. Through perception, awareness and dreaming, we communicate with the trees, stones, animals and with the spirit of the waters. Last September we created a moon medicine whell. Now it´s about aligning it and enjoying this peacful place.
When: May 03.-05. 2019
Time: Friday from 2pm until Sunday 5pm
Further information and registration at Heilpraktikerin Hofmann
Wisdom from 5 Continents
… of our beautiful pulsating Earth. Wherever you are from, come and bring your personal medicine to include in the ceremonies and express the beauty and uniqueness of your regional and universal knowledge.
Shamans carry their sacred objects on their body, because feathers, crystals, symbols and masks are medicine that raises the light frequency of the body. Drums bring silence to the mind with their tones; eagle's feathers hold the energy of the living eagle.
Mother Earth
Healers hold their touching rituals, songs and dance from all over our world and blend them into a whole during the ceremony. When we, as a peaceful people, embody balance and harmony, we feel at that moment freedom in every cell of our body. Then we remember the purpose of our existence and can celebrate life together with joy. We can live our colorful diversity in harmony with Mother Earth and show her our loving appreciation.
Open your arms and welcome the world…
Your support is welcomed.
The Pulse of Peace events are organized by the non for profit organization Clans des Friedens e.V., a group of people who long for peace and beauty in the world. A clan is a community of people who specialize in a particular knowledge tradition. We are all children of Mother Earth, though hold different wisdoms and talents, and we want to tend the knowledge of peace with you.
More on www.clans-des-friedens.eu


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Tax documents, creative projects, family photos, school work – think about all the important things you have saved on your desktop computer. Now think about all of those things vanishing in an instant because your computer crashed. What would you do?
Well, at that point there's not much you can do (other than hope for the best). Hopefully, you took preventative measures, such as investing in an external hard drive or cloud backup service. You can also make sure that your next desktop computer has a quality hard drive.
Unfortunately, not all hard drives are created equal. Backblaze released a list of hard drive failure rates for 2016. They calculated this rate by dividing the amount of failures by how many drives were studied. Since each drive wasn't used equally, they also factored in how many days collectively that each device was used.
According to their research, these hard drives have the highest failure rate:
- Seagate 4TB Hard Drive, Model #ST4000DX000 has a 13.57 percent failure rate: Out of 184 drives that ran for 72,615 days, 27 drives failed.
- WDC 6TB Hard Drive, Model #WD60EFRX has a 5.49 percent failure rate: Out of 446 drives that ran for 166,152 days, 25 drives failed.
- Toshiba 3TB Hard Drive, Model #DT01ACA300 has a 4.32 percent failure rate: Out of 46 drives that ran for 16,900 days, 2 drives failed.
Three drives on the list had a zero percent failure rate!
- HGST 8TB Hard Drive, Model #HUH728080AL3600: 45 drives ran for 16,155 days without any failures.
- Seagate 8TB Hard Drive, Model #ST8000NM0055: 60 drives ran for 1,560 days without any failures.
- Toshiba 3TB Hard Drive, Model #MD04ABA400v: 146 drives ran for 52,983 without any failures.
Most desktop computers come with a 1TB hard drive but you can replace it with one that has more storage or add a hard drive for additional storage. Before you buy your next computer hard drive, check out Backblaze's entire chart below.
If your hard drive is failing, then you'll obviously want to replace it before it crashes so that you don't lose anything. Check for these five signs of a failing hard drive.
- Software glitches
- Hardware glitches
- Noisy hard drive or system fan
- Boot failures
- Poor performance
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When considering light entertainment, there is a danger in bringing too much context and weight to the analysis. Not every moment of our leisure media consumption need reflect the complications and difficulties of what is somewhat quaintly called the real world, as if it were so necessary to distinguish it from the myriad fake worlds that both modern technology and eternal imagination make so accessible. But sometimes the real world can't be ignored.
Prince of Persia, the new game from Ubisoft that is meant to revamp the franchise that is now two decades old, is certainly light entertainment. It is gorgeous to behold, with a hand-painted visual style demonstrating that as high-definition graphics grow more advanced, they come to look less electronic, more organic rather than more digital.
On a purely biomechanical level — the delicate composition of finger movements with which a player interacts with a game — Prince of Persia is also a triumph. It is perhaps 2008's archetypal platforming game, built around jumping, climbing, leaping, running along walls and even attaining the illusion of flight in moments of balletic grace. Rather than force the player to master a dense menu of complicated commands, Prince of Persia makes a formidable palette of acrobatics available with the press of only a button or two.
Simply as a game, as a visually engaging and manually satisfying 15-hour collection of environmental puzzles (How do I get to that ledge up there?) and battles with foes — the prince and his companion, a princess, must restore life to a world that's been desiccated by evil — this is the best installment in the series since 2003's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
And yet I have never been fully comfortable approaching the Prince of Persia games simply as a diversion, and it has been difficult over the years for me to let the series off the hook for invoking a specific real-world culture so cavalierly. What are we to make of a "Prince of Persia" who talks and behaves like a 17-year-old American mall rat? A "Prince of Persia" with blue eyes, fully Anglicized facial features and what looks like a tan he picked up on spring break? Is it taking a video game too seriously to shrink in distaste from such characterizations? In fairness, the new Prince of Persia does not claim any historical or cultural authenticity; the game is set in a fantastic magical realm rather than in a rendition of any real place. But does that absolve the game of any responsibility?Continue reading the main story
I think not. I played the original Prince of Persia in 1990, and at the time I did not really know how to express my unease. One year later I read the seminal work of the scholar Edward Said, "Orientalism." A controversial and influential academic figure, Mr. Said contended that the West had spent centuries romanticizing and fetishizing the cultures and peoples of Islam as a tool of the West's own political and military hegemony.
At the time I did not think my professors would appreciate a look at Mr. Said's work through the prism of a video game. But perhaps I underestimated them. Perhaps they would have understood that even in the latest, most modern new media, the cultural vocabulary accumulated over the course of history makes its presence felt at almost every turn.
Many Americans have little understanding of the difference between Persia and the Arab world. To most Americans the entire Islamic world is still the "other," as Mr. Said might have put it, something mysterious and unknowable and at least a bit menacing.
Prince of Persia does not try to grapple with these issues. But by mere fact of its name and Middle Eastern trappings, the game invokes and raises them. Yes, there is danger and potential futility in taking works of mass fare too seriously. Yet there is also danger in employing cultural symbols of such power so blithely, with such a willful disregard for reality.
Prince of Persia is a great game, but simply being a video game is no longer sufficient to earn a pass from being held to account for shaping the perceptions and attitudes of its players. Not anymore.Continue reading the main story