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Security Explorations, a Polish security researcher firm, has discovered more than twenty vulnerabilities in the Google App Engine Java environment. Security Explorations said that revealed flaws can allow native code execution and Java security sandbox escape, moreover there might be even more vulnerabilities that have not been verified yet.
Adam Gowdiak, the CEO of Security Explorations letter on Full Disclosure says that there supposedly are even more flaws in the environment that the company will still try to verify them.
Google App Engine (GAE) is a service hosted by Google that offers businesses to create and manage applications that may be written in Java, PHP, Go, Python and other programming languages and software development kits are available and supported for these languages. Each kit includes libraries and APIs implemented for the App Engine, a supposedly safe sandbox environment that reproduces App Engine services on user's computer as well as many deployment tools for the cloud.
The vulnerabilities that were discovered would allow attackers to circumvent GAE's Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Class whitelist, bypass the Java Virtual Machine security sandbox and also make various inadmissible system calls. Gowdiak said that they were able to exploit 17 of the vulnerabilities with proof-of-concept code from at least 22 of the flaws which provided an escape from the security sandbox.
Web-hosted applications should be stopped from communicating or in any other way interfere with each other by the design of Google's Java security sandbox. Applications that are being used on this environment can store and query data in the App Engine data store but is not allowed to write to the file system or perform any sort of system calls.
Gowdiak said that they were able to gain access to files of binaries and classes including the JRE sandbox binaries. Lots of other information was also discovered by the security firm about the GAE Java sandbox by extracting it from debugging tools and protocol buffering methods.
He also said that there are a lot more flaws waiting for verification, the count might increase well beyond 30. However, Security Explorations had to stop their investigation due to Google suspending their GAE account. A more aggressive research into the sandbox trying to issue various system calls to learn more about the sandbox has resulted into a suspension of their account. Gowdiak wrote that this is undoubtedly their own operation security fault and only wished for Google to reinstate their account to continue the research.
Knowing that Google appreciates and takes all reports of vulnerabilities in its products very seriously Gowdiak hoped that Google would let them complete their work investigating the GAE Java security sandbox. The Security Explorations would then be able to verify the remaining vulnerabilities and other possible exploits and would provide a report on their findings to Google as well as the security community.
The flaws that were discovered are the result of some mistakes related to known Java security problems. Security Exploration researchers were able to find a way to escape the GAE Java security sandbox and achieved native code execution in the environment. That meant they were able to execute code outside the sandbox and start poking into the operating system sandbox layer.
It is very important to be aware of any security issues pertaining any applications especially the ones used for VPN. We were very impressed with the custom Windows software that is offered by NordVPN. It seemed to be very well developed, very easy to use and had lots of amazing features implemented.
CactusVPN is a small VPN provider from Moldova that even offers small VPN network guarantees quality to attract client and make them stay.
The list packages consist of 5 different plans depending on what service and location you are looking for. 4 of these plans are for VPN and 1 for smart DNS for those not interested in protecting their data but accessing geo-restricted websites from US, UK and Poland only. The VPN plans are split depending on what location you want your VPN server to be located in: US, UK, or Liberty (Netherlands and Romania). The last VPN package allows you connect to any VPN server in the CactusVPN network and use Smart DNS for $16 extra ($54.99 compared to $38.99) a year.
Torrents are allowed on the Netherlands servers only and if you use the P2P service on other servers your account may be suspended.
CactusVPN allows you to use up to 3 different devices at a time. However, you can not connect with the different devices to the same server.
The server and country count is probably the biggest drawback of the CactusVPN service. Each basic VPN plan allows you to connect only to a few servers and does not provide access to various websites that is accessible from countries other than your VPN server is located in.
The amount of servers in each package is acceptable: US VPN package allows you to connect to 4 different servers, the UK package offers one server more. The Liberty package also offers 5 servers in Netherlands and 1 additional server in Romania. Therefor, anyone who buys the VPN + Smart DNS package can connect to any of the 15 servers in the network.
All your traffic is secured using SSL with AES 2048 bit key certificated and 256-bit AES encryption for OpenVPN, SSTP and SoftEther protocols, or 128 bit MPPE encryption for PPTP protocol. If you want to use L2TP/IPsec protocol you can choose between AES 128 and 256 encryption strength. OpenVPN, SSTP and SoftEther seem to be secured really well and you should always use them or L2TP/IPsec in the worst case scenario.
There are numerous payment options to choose from: PayPal, Credit or debit card, Webmoney, CashU and others. However, we were disappointed by the lack of bitcoin payments. We believe that every VPN provider must provide an option to anonymously pay and bitcoin is regarded as the best option to do it.
In case you have any questions regarding the service you may read a FAQ or open a ticket to ask questions directly. There is no live support which is slightly regrettable though does not cause much of a problem. Both FAQ and the support team provide information that will help you find information you may want about CactusVPN or solve any issues regarding the service.
The Windows client is very simple and allows you to easily change between servers and protocols, though we strongly recommend to use OpenVPN whenever possible. There is also a feature that we really like to kill an app if the connection to a VPN server drops and prevents your real IP from getting exposed.
No activity logs are kept and only connection logs are kept for 3 days for troubleshooting purposes. Such log policy is rather good from a users perspective as no information is kept for more than a couple of days, preventing possible activity log exposure to government.
We were very happy with the speed result we have achieved results similar to the ones when using the IP provided by ISP. However, we noticed a slight increase in latency even though the VPN server was located nearby.
CactusVPN is a promising VPN provider that offers a high quality service and may grow in the future. However, the lack of server locations and no option to pay with bitcoin prevents it to be considered among the best VPN providers like NordVPN.
Consumer product of Dropbox has been borrowing third party products' extensive ecosystem to provide users greater benefits. However this same standpoint towards Dropbox consumer's product ecosystem sadly has been lacking from another Dropbox product which was launched earlier this year, Dropbox for Business. It seems that this is soon going to change with the announcement of new API for the Dropbox for Business product. (In reality it was more of a publication that broke an embargo, rather than an announcement, but that's how it is). New API will deliver new needed features into enterprise offering of Dropbox.
The core Dropbox for Business will be able to be connected to a wide range of third-party enterprise tools thanks to the new Dropbox for Business API. Examples include and are not limited to:
This is a huge step for Dropbox towards clearing up the largest enterprises' concerns about its ability to protect their sensitive data. Performing this move, Dropbox is capable of offering an existing trusted third party vendors ability to coat products on top of the core Dropbox for Business core offering – plenty of enterprises already put their trust in existing vendors' security solutions so having these vendors protect Dropbox, should also, at least in principle, increase the sales process of Dropbox. By making an API open, the company besides credibility benefit also allows for a broader enterprise functionality delivery and thus is plausible of ticking more of the boxes on the requirements list of enterprise than ever before.
Putting third party applications aspect aside, DropBox for Business customers will also have an ability to build applications of their own using the APIs if they have some sort of workflows or needs that could not be satisfied otherwise. There are reported partners that are already integrating with Dropbox for Business right at launch, including IBM WebSphere Cast Iron, Microsoft MSFT Azure AD, Dell Data Protection, nCrypted Cloud, Domo, Centrify, Okta, Splunk, CloudLock, Sookasa, Mover.io, SkySync, CirroSecure, Meldium and Ping Identity.
Notably Dropbox for Business pricing is most likely going to stay where it is, at $15 a month per user level, which is the same as enterprise pricing of the Box (before applied bulk deals) and thus this move by Dropbox gives yet another chance in a battle against the Box. After all, Box had API-based ecosystem for quite a long time already.
It's not easy not to take this announcement as another Dropbox move to take on the Box, in some sense at least, it is exactly that. However at the same time this Dropbox move means a world full of possibilities. There is vast amount of opinions that agree on Dropbox having the best user experience and interface compared to any other file synchronization and sharing product, this step opens up a world of command and control on enterprise level without reducing Dropbox's UI efficacy.
Having your data safe on one of those cloud systems is a great idea, however a solution such as VPN with high security standards is also recommended in order to protect your data-in-transit. We recommend NordVPN which is known for its amazing security features and strong encryption that will virtually protect you and your personal data and information from anyone.
ibVPN is a VPN provider owned by a Romanian company – Amplusnet. This provider offers a variety of features for a small price. ibVPN does not limit their service with VPN but we will be focusing on their VPN features and quality.
ibVPN offers a great variety of plans to choose from. There most popular plan is called Total VPN and costs $69.95 for a year. Another VPN package named Ultimate VPN costs $82.95 for an annual subscription. The latter plan differs from the Total VPN package only by offering 17 servers more though the country count is the same and allowing a second simultaneous connection. There are also two additional plans the first one is dedicated for P2P traffic and a DNS package that is dedicated for streaming and bypassing geo-restrictions. The last plan is not a VPN and does not encrypt your data traffic.
In our opinion making Ultimate VPN have more servers does not provide any significant advantages over the most popular plan. However, we consider their main plan to be highly lacking since only one connection is allowed per account which in our opinion is too little. Therefore, an additional plans that offers more simultaneous connections is very important although the price increases dramatically: from $69.95 (1 connection) to $169.95 (3 connections).
There is also a free trial for anyone who wants to test the VPN before fully committing into buying it. Nevertheless, it lasts only 6 hours and it would be really hard to receive a reliable impression of the overall quality of their service.
Depending on the package you pick you may choose from a total of 80 servers in 34 countries (Ultimate VPN). It should be enough to bypass most of the restrictions you may face online and provide the required security to stay anonymous. If you are not interested in the variety of servers but rather the ability to use torrents and decide to choose a package dedicated for that, you will be able to choose from 9 servers in 6 countries.
ibVPN uses PPTP, L2TP, OpenVPN and SSTP protocols to provide a VPN service that can be used on any device that supports VPN. However, SSTP protocol is only available for Windows Vista and later version of the operating system. Furthermore, it works only with the servers in US, UK and Turkey. 256 bit encryption is used along with every protocol except PPTP that runs only 128 bit encryption. Also OpenVPN has 1024 bit authentication key.
You should find your preferred payment option without much of a hassle since ibVPN provide quite a few payment options to chose from, including PayPal, Credit Card, Perfect Money, Paymenwall, Bitcoin, etc. We highly value that they accept Bitcoin since it is the option that offers the biggest anonymity of them all which goes along the idea of the VPN.
Besides reading information on FAQ and ibVPN knowledge base you can contact support by opening a ticket, writing an e-mail or by contacting a live support that is available 24/7. We found out that the response is very quick and insightful. Moreover, there is a possibility to arrange a remote assistance with a support team member which can be a great help sometimes.
The ibVPN software is very simple and at the same time offers all the main features that a good VPN client requires to have. You can easily switch between servers, protocols, server load and basic user information. The software also has very important features like kill switch that protects your IP from getting exposed in case the VPN connection unexpectedly drops.
Considering all the trouble government goes to obtain information about us, no log policy is crucial for any VPN provider. However, ibVPN can not brag about it since they keep information with connection length, date, time and the VPN server you have connected to. Fortunately, the information is kept for 7 days only and normally should not be used against us. However, it still can be and we should be aware about it.
After testing the speeds during the free trial period we were pleasantly surprised that the speeds were very similar to our original bandwidth without VPN. However, regularly using the service after the free trial we have commonly had issues with the speed being terribly bad and we were only barely able to browse internet.
The first impressions that ibVPN leaves are really great. However, as you keep using their VPN you start experiencing issues with your VPN speeds and the lack of simultaneous connections allowed by their main package. That is why we consider NordVPN and other providers that offer more than one simultaneous connection with their main package and more reliable connection speeds to be better option when looking for a VPN provider.
An announcement has been made by WhatsApp in which they state, that it's going to encrypt all of its 600 million users' text messages. This move is quite a big step forward towards perfect privacy mainly due to a fact that all the encryption will be done by default; however it is expected that this move will also be criticized by police and spooks worldwide.
The release of this security measure that has been announced recently has been described by the application creators as the "biggest end-to-end encryption deployment ever." App makers count on this "chat between the users encrypting' feature, to protect their messages from eavesdroppers.
End-to-end encryption on Facebook-owned WhatsApp has some limits. Thus far, it only works on Android, it's only able to cover text messaging (compared to pictures or group messages), and it is still potentially vulnerable to the attacks of man-in-the-middle since it's not possible to verify person's, that you are messaging, identity.
Whisper Systems that's behind the software, called TextSecure, used for encryption – noted in a blog post that they are working on issues mentioned above, but besides that they seem to be quite happy about it so far.
An estimate amount of monthly active users that WhatsApp have is 600 million and all of them send out billions of messages daily.
TextSecure, the open-source software, gives two devices permission to exchange both encryption and decryption key in such a way that neither an eavesdropper nor even the TextSecure servers can crack. Considering the fact that WhatsApp uses this same system and it has not been compromised for the feds, application cannot decrypt users' messages in transit, and data is encrypted by TextSecure at rest. TextSecure uses HMAC-SHA256, AES256 and Curve25519 to encrypt and safeguard chat messages over the wires.
Perfect forward secrecy is also provided by the software due to which a new AES key is used for each message: even if a single text message is decrypted by an attacker, all of the past messages still would not be possible to be cracked using same unique key.
iMessage system belonging to Apple, according to Cupertino (PDF, page 30), works similarly, minus the fact that Apple manages public keys' central database: every Mac and iThing that is registered, and every single text sent over is encrypted with the public keys for each of the receiving user's devices.
In other words a text message sent to anyone can be delivered to every receiver's device simultaneously. If federal agents would persuade Apple to secretly, without letting anyone else know, create for a target an extra pair of private key, with the feds holding the private key to have an ability to decrypt the conversation, well, that is another thing to worry about. However Apple states that it is not able to decrypt messages since it does not hold private keys for user.
Looking at the wider picture of things, usual everyday messages as well as personal data and information protected by strong encryption soon might become standard. So far, encryption requires extra technical knowledge or extra effort. However there are easy to use VPN services such as NordVPN that barely requires any additional technical knowledge if any and offer very strong encryption. NordVPN is considered as one of the strongest and most secure VPN providers that offer exceptional features, on top of strong encryption for your personal information, such as kill switch technology, DNS leak resolver, P2P support and most importantly no logs policy.
So to put it differently: whenever you are having an online chat with your siblings and beloved ones over encrypted text, it's no game for miscreants and crims, as well as a massive headache for GCHQ and the NSA.
Officials of the UK and the US – and actually even top cop of EU – blame technology companies that encrypt data for hampering their efforts against terrorism. With the FBI's head claiming access to encrypted phones, in the eyes of authorities unbreakable encryption is not meant to be used by little people.
Besides that US government has given Whisper Systems $455,000 to fund development of TextSecure software. While we are at this, WhatsApp's founder Jan Koum recently announced his generous giving of $1m to the FreeBSD Foundation.
As an ending to this blog post, we shall calm you down by noting that you should not worry about any battery consumption issues on the phone which may be caused by an extra computation needed to encrypt and decrypt data as TextSecure is not noted to be a power hog.
Present-day mobile devices often feature electronic components to perform both encryption and decryption of the data quickly and in a way that is power-efficient, however it is not always supported; for example, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 805 includes crypto accelerators that do not have publicly available drivers on Android. This processor is being used on devices such as Nexus 6 smartphone.


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They gave him a Silver as a sign of trust and friendship.
about the AHMEDINJAD speech.... here is a comment worth reading:
Firstly I'm a Conservative voting, capitalist, proud British Citizen. I
don't read tabloid papers, and I don't believe everything I see on
television. I think the USA is an incredible country and having spent a
lot of time with it's people I'm constantly impressed by their welcoming
and generous nature.
Having read the FULL TRANSCRIPT, not some edited tabloid version I have to
say I'm impressed by the man.
I am disgusted by the hosts introduction, I think he forgot his manners,
his courtesy and above all his respect. Like him or not, Ahmadinejad is a
president, a leader of a foreign power, and he acted like such, what an
awful message Lee Bollinger has sent to the Iranian people on the etiquet
of American representatives.
Quick Summary -
Ahmadinejad correctly points out that, well before 9/11 Iran was attacked
by a terrorist group that is now state funded by America! During those
attacks the government was decapitated and over 4,000 Iranians were
killed! Double standards anyone? Lets see if the media points that one out!
He reminds us that American backed Saddam Hussein attacked his country and
killed thousands of his people using WMD's.
He points out that they have been an IAEA member state for 33 years.
He points out that the IAEA has not once raised concerns over the Iranian
nuclear program.
He points out that they have accepted the offer for foreign provision of
nuclear fuel and technology in the past but have been repeatedly let down
on this, why should he allow it to happen again?
He points out that as a member of the IAEA they have a right to nuclear
He admits the the holocaust occured but would like to further research
it's causes, it's origin and it's current day implications.
He absolutely states that his country does not wish to harm any other.
He questions Israel's right to exist and to own the land which it claims.
He does not at any point say he wishes to remove it, nor does he deny
this. If Israel's land claims are wrong, should they have any right to
that land?
He asks for a referendum across Isreal and Palastine, he is promoting
democratic principles not followed by our leaders before we invaded Iraq!
He tells us that Jewish Iranians hold positions in the goverment.
He doesn't answer the questions about political detainees in Iranian
prisons, which will surely provoke a negative response. But I asked
myself, would Bush answer specific questions about specific prisoners at
Quantanamo, held without trial? I don't think so!
He correctly points out that America also uses draconian capital
punishment, and that however this is acheived the end result is the same,
death! Something we abolished a long time ago here in the UK.
He points out that Iranian women hold high positions in the government. I
watched a BBC programme not long ago that backed this up, with Iranian
business women claiming they are sometimes more respected than their male
He claims not to have homosexuality in Iran! This is either a deluded
comment, or something is lost in translation. He claims not to have the
"phenomenon" witnessed in the USA. I think it's fair to say that most arab
nations have not seen it either! Draw your own conclusions there.
He says that he wanted to go to 'ground zero' to pay his respects.
Personally I think he should have been allowed to go, after all he
dislikes Al Queda as much as the rest of us!
Personally he struck me as a composed, intelligent if not slighty too
religiously orientated, leader. I felt that he dealt with a blatent
display of disrespect with dignity and professionalism. I think he got his
point across well without needing to rant or try and stir emotions a'la
I think that for a country that has been continually attacked by western
leaders and media he is incredibly placid.
Compared to other leaders he answered questions directly and did well to
avoid been drawn into giving answers to loaded questions.
here is a brief history lesson.
Between about 1800 and 1500 B.C., it is thought that a Semitic people
called Hebrews (hapiru) left Mesopotamia and settled in Canaan.
The Assyrians conquered Israel in 722 or 721 B.C. The Babylonians
conquered Judah around 586 B.C
About 50 years later, the Persian king Cyrus conquered Babylonia.
Alexander the Great then conquered the Persian Empire. After Alexander's
death in 323 B.C.
his generals divided the empire. One of these generals, Seleucus, founded
a dynasty that gained control of much of Palestine about 200 B.C
In 167 B.C., the Jews revolted under the leadership of the Maccabeans and
either drove the Seleucids out of Palestine or at least established a
large degree of autonomy, forming a kingdom with its capital in Jerusalem.
About 61 B.C., Roman troops under Pompei invaded Judea and sacked
Jerusalem in support of King Herod.
Roman rulers put down Jewish revolts in about A.D. 70 and A.D. 132. In
A.D. 135, the Romans drove the Jews out of Jerusalem, following the failed
Bar Kochba revolt. The Romans named the area Palaestina, at about this
Palestine was governed by the Roman Empire until the fourth century A.D.
(300's) and then by the Byzantine Empire.
During the seventh century (A.D. 600's), Muslim Arab armies moved north
from Arabia to conquer most of the Middle East, including Palestine.
Jerusalem was conquered about 638 by the Caliph Umar (Omar) who gave his
protection to its inhabitants. Muslim powers controlled the region until
the early 1900's. The rulers allowed Christians and Jews to keep their
The Seljuk Turks conquered Jerusalem in 1071, but their rule in Palestine
lasted less than 30 years
The Fatimids took advantage of the Seljuk struggles with the Christian
crusaders. They made an alliance with the crusaders in 1098 and captured
Jerusalem, Jaffa and other parts of Palestine.
The Crusaders, however, broke the alliance and invaded Palestine about a
year later. They captured Jaffa and Jerusalem in 1099, slaughtered many
Jewish and Muslim defenders and forbade Jews to live in Jerusalem. They
held the city until 1187.
The crusaders left Palestine for good when the Muslims captured Acre in
In the mid-1200's, Mamelukes, originally soldier-slaves of the Arabs based
in Egypt, established an empire that in time included the area of
Palestine. Arab-speaking Muslims made up most of the population of the
area once called Palestine.
Beginning in the late 1300's, Jews from Spain and other Mediterranean
lands settled in Jerusalem and other parts of the land.
The Ottoman Empire defeated the Mamelukes in 1517, and Palestine became
part of the Ottoman Empire.
The Turkish Sultan invited Jews fleeing the Spanish Catholic inquisition
to settle in the Turkish empire, including several cities in Palestine.
In 1798, Napoleon entered the land. The war with Napoleon and subsequent
misadministration by Egyptian and Ottoman rulers, reduced the population
of Palestine. Arabs and Jews fled to safer and more prosperous lands.
(Revolts by Palestinian Arabs against Egyptian and Ottoman rule at this
time may have helped to catalyze Palestinian national feeling.)
Both Arab and Jewish population increased. By 1880, about 24,000 Jews were
living in Palestine, out of a population of about 400,000. At about that
time, the Ottoman government imposed severe restrictions on Jewish
immigration and land purchase, and also began actively soliciting inviting
Muslims from other parts of the Ottoman empire to settle in Palestine,
including Circassians and Bosnians. The restrictions were evaded in
various ways by Jews seeking to colonize Palestine, chiefly by bribery.
In the nineteenth century new social currents animated Jewish life. The
emancipation of European Jews, signaled by the French revolution, brought
Jews out of the Ghetto and into the modern world, exposing them to modern
Beginning in the late 1800's, oppression of Jews in Eastern Europe
stimulated emigration of Jews to Palestine.
The Zionist movement became a formal organization in 1897
The Zionists wished to establish a "Jewish Homeland" in Palestine under
Turkish or German rule.
The Zionists established farm communities in Palestine at Petah Tikva,
Zichron Jacob, Rishon Letzion and elsewhere. Later they established the
new city of Tel Aviv, north of Jaffa. At the same time, Palestine's Arab
population grew rapidly. By 1914, the total population of Palestine stood
at about 700,000. About 615,000 were Arabs, and 85,000 to 100,000 were
During World War I (1914-1918), the Ottoman Empire joined Germany and
Austria-Hungary against the Allies. An Ottoman military government ruled
Palestine. The war was hard on both Jewish and Arab populations however,
it was more difficult for the Jews
A large number of Jews were Russian nationals. They had been able to enter
Palestine as Russian nationals because of the concessions Turkey had
granted to Russian citizens, and they had used this method to overcome
restrictions on immigration. They had also maintained Russian citizenship
to avoid being drafted into the Turkish army. Therefore, a large number of
Jews were forced to flee Palestine during the war.
Britain and France planned to divide the Ottoman holdings in the Middle
East among themselves after the war. The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916
called for part of Palestine to be under British rule, part to be placed
under a joint Allied government, and for Syria and Lebanon to be given to
the France.
In 1916, Arabs led by T.E. Lawrence and backed by Sharif Husayn revolted
against the Ottomans in the belief that Britain would help establish Arab
independence in the Middle East.
The United States and other countries pressed for Arab self-determination.
The Arabs, and many in the British government including Lawrence, believed
that the Arabs had been short-changed by the British promise to give Syria
to the French, and likewise by the promise of Palestine as a Jewish
homeland. The Arabs claimed that Palestine was included in the area
promised to them, but the British denied this.
In November 1917, before Britain had conquered Jerusalem and the area to
be known as Palestine, Britain issued the Balfour Declaration. The
declaration stated Britain's support for the creation of a Jewish national
home in Palestine, without violating the civil and religious rights of the
existing non-Jewish communities
After the war, the League of Nations divided much of the Ottoman Empire
into mandated territories. The British and French saw the Mandates as
instruments of imperial ambitions.
US President Wilson insisted that the mandates must foster eventual
independence. The British were anxious to keep Palestine away from the
French, and decided to ask for a mandate that would implement the Jewish
national home of the Balfour declaration, a project that would be
supported by the Americans. The Arabs opposed the idea of a Jewish
national home, considering that the areas now called Palestine were their
land. The Arabs felt they were in danger of dispossession by the Zionists,
and did not relish living under Jewish rule.
By this time, Zionists had recognized the inevitability of conflict with
the Palestinian and other Arabs. The Zionists and others presented their
case to the Paris Peace conference. Ultimately, the British plan was
adopted. The main issues taken into account were division of rights
between Britain and France, rather than the views of the inhabitants.
In 1920, Britain received a provisional mandate over Palestine, which
would extend west and east of the River Jordan. The area of the mandate
given to Britain at the San Remo conference was much larger than historic
Palestine as envisaged by the Zionists, who had sought an eastern border
to the West of Amman. The mandate, based on the Balfour declaration, was
formalized in 1922. The mandate provided for an agency, later called "The
Jewish Agency for Palestine," that would represent Jewish interests in
Palestine to the British and to promote Jewish immigration. A Jewish
agency was created only in 1929.
The area granted to the mandate was much larger than the area sought by
the Zionists. It is possible, that as Churchill suggested in 1922, the
British never intended that all of this area would become a Jewish
national home. On the other hand, some believe that Britain had no special
plans for Transjordan initially.
In 1921 Abdullah, the son of King Husayn of the Hijaz, marched toward
Transjordan with 2,000 soldiers. Two days later, Abdullah marched north
and by March 1921, he occupied the entire country.
In 1922, the British declared that the boundary of Palestine would be
limited to the area west of the river. The area east of the river, called
Transjordan (now Jordan), was made a separate British mandate and
eventually given independence (See map at right) . A part of the Zionist
movement felt betrayed at losing a large area of what they termed
"historic Palestine" to Transjordan, and split off to form the
"Revisionist" movement, headed by Benjamin Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky.
In the spring of 1920, spring of 1921 and summer of 1929, Arab
nationalists opposed to the Balfour declaration, the mandate and the
Jewish National Home, instigated riots and pogroms against Jews in
Jerusalem, Hebron, Jaffa and Haifa. The violence led to the formation of
the Haganah Jewish self-defense organization in 1920. The riots of 1920
and 1921 reflected opposition to the Balfour declaration and fears that
the Arabs of Palestine would be dispossessed, and were probably attempts
to show the British that Palestine as a Jewish National home would be
Jewish immigration swelled in the 1930s, driven by persecution in Eastern
Europe, even before the rise of Nazism. Large numbers of Jews began to
come from Poland owing to discriminatory laws and harsh economic
In 1936 widespread rioting, later known as the Arab Revolt or Great
Uprising, broke out. The revolt was kindled when British forces killed Izz
al din El Qassam in a gun battle. Izz al Din El Qassam was a Syrian
preacher who had emigrated to Palestine and was agitating against the
British and the Jews.
The Peel commission of 1937 recommended partitioning Palestine into a
small Jewish state and a large Arab one. The commission's recommendations
also included voluntary transfer of Arabs and Jews to separate the
populations. The Jewish leadership considered the plan but the Palestinian
and Arab leadership, including King Saud of Saudi Arabia , rejected
partition and demanded that the British curtail Jewish immigration. Saud
said that if the British failed to follow Arab wishes in Palestine, the
Arabs would turn against them and side with their enemies. He said that
Arabs did not understand the "strange attitude of your British Government,
and the still more strange hypnotic influence which the Jews, a race
accursed by God according to His Holy Book, and destined to final
destruction and eternal damnation hereafter, appear to wield over them and
the English people generally."
In response to the riots, the British began limiting immigration and the
1939 White Paper decreed that 15,000 Jews would be allowed to enter
Palestine each year for five years. Thereafter, immigration would be
subject to Arab approval. At the same time, the British took drastic and
often cruel steps to curtail the riots. Husseini fled to Iraq, where he
was involved in an Axis-supported coup against the British and then to
Nazi Germany, where he subsequently broadcast for the Axis powers, was
active in curtailing Jewish immigration from neutral countries and
organized SS death squads in Yugoslavia.
During World War II (1939-1945), many Palestinian Arabs and Jews joined
the Allied forces. though some Palestinian and Arab leaders were
sympathetic to the Nazi cause. There were growing suspicions that the
Nazis were systematically exterminating the Jews of Europe. These
suspicions were later confirmed, and the extermination of European Jews
came to be known as the Holocaust. The continued threat of extermination
also created great pressure for immigration to Palestine, but the gates of
Palestine were closed by the British White Paper. In 1941 the British
freed Jewish Haganah underground leaders in a general amnesty, and they
joined the British in fighting the Germans.
The Jews of Palestine responded to the White Paper and the Holocaust by
organizing illegal immigration to Palestine from occupied Europe, through
the "Institution for Illegal Immigration" (Hamossad L'aliya Beth). Illegal
immigration (Aliya Bet) was organized by the Jewish Agency between 1939
and 1942, and again in 1945 and 1948.
Despite the desperate need to find a haven for refugees, the doors of
Palestine remained shut to Jewish immigration. The Zionist leadership met
in the Biltmore Hotel in New York City in 1942 and declared that it
supported the establishment of Palestine as a Jewish Commonwealth. This
was not simply a return to the Balfour declaration repudiated by the
British White Paper, but rather a restatement of Zionist aims that went
beyond the Balfour declaration, and a determination that the British were
in principle, an enemy to be fought, rather than an ally.
On November 6, members of the Jewish Lehi underground Eliyahu Hakim and
Eliyahu Bet Zuri assassinated Lord Moyne in Cairo. Moyne, a known
anti-Zionist, was Minister of State for the Middle East and in charge of
carrying out the terms of the 1939 White Paper - preventing Jewish
immigration to Palestine by force. He was also a personal friend of
Winston Churchill. The assassination did not change British policy, but it
turned Winston Churchill against the Zionists. Hakim and Bet Zuri were
caught and were hanged by the British in 1945.
In the summer of 1945, the Labor party came to power in Great Britain.
They had promised that they would reverse the British White Paper and
would support a Jewish state in Palestine. However, they presently reneged
on their promise, and continued and redoubled efforts to stop Jewish
immigration. The US and other countries brought pressure to bear on the
British to allow immigration. An Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
recommended allowing 100,000 Jews to immigrate immediately to Palestine.
The Arabs brought pressure on the British to block such immigration. The
British found Palestine to be ungovernable and returned the mandate to the
United Nations, successor to the League of Nations.
The United Nations Special Commission on Palestine (UNSCOP) recommended
that Palestine be divided into an Arab state and a Jewish state. The
commission called for Jerusalem to be put under international
administration The UN General Assembly adopted this plan on Nov. 29, 1947
as UN Resolution (GA 181), owing to support of both the US and the Soviet
Union, and in particular, the personal support of US President Harry S.
Truman. Many factors contributed to Truman's decision to support
partition, including domestic politics and intense Zionist lobbying, no
The Jews accepted the UN decision, but the Arabs rejected it. It soon
became evident that the scheme could not work. Mutual antagonism would
make it impossible for either community to tolerate the other. The UN was
unwilling and unable to force implementation of the internationalization
of Jerusalem. The Arab League, at the instigation of Haj Amin Al-Husseini,
declared a war to rid Palestine of the Jews. In fact however, the Arab
countries each had separate agendas. Abdullah, king of Jordan, had an
informal and secret agreement with Israel, negotiated with Golda Meir, to
annex the portions of Palestine allocated to the Palestinian state in the
West Bank, and prevent formation of a Palestinian state. Syria wanted to
annex the northern part of Palestine, including Jewish and Arab areas.
The War of Independence or 1948 War is divided into the pre-independence
period, and the post-independence period. Clashes between Israeli
underground groups and Arab irregulars began almost as soon as the UN
passed the partition resolution. During this time, Arab countries did not
invade, though the Jordan legion did assist the in the attack against Gush
Etzion, a small block of settlements in the territory allocated to the
Palestinian state, south of Jerusalem.
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If your child is receiving speech therapy, take note of the toys and activities used by the therapist. Peruse the storage units of a speech therapist and you likely will find very few, if any, electronic toys with batteries. The reason why is clearly outlined in the article linked below. "The best toys are those that support parents and children playing, pretending, and interacting together," stated Alan Mendelsohn, MD, FAAP, in the AAP's press release. Although the department stores will line their shelves this holiday season with flashy, digital, and electronic games, I challenge you to look instead for the simple toys that the speech therapist is using . . . My favorites are play-doh, Potato Heads, toy food and dishes, toy animals, blocks, musical instruments, puzzles, puppets, and balls! Realize that the less a toy does, the more the child can do with it, sparking endless imagination and creativity and more importantly, interaction and communication! While electronic gadgets and apps promise to teach your child ABCs, numbers, shapes, ask yourself how these concepts help your child to express what he wants, what he needs, or what he thinks. I would argue that many of these electronic toys that appear to have the benefit of "teaching" language, may in fact be preventing the child's engagement with others and teaching him to be passive and quiet. When you offer toys that do "nothing," your child learns many more "somethings" about play, communication, and social interaction. 😃
Looks Can Be Deceptive . . . .
Speech therapy may look a lot like we are just playing . . . but here is an insider's guide about what is really happening during all that "play!"
Every speech therapist who works with a child on developing and expanding his speech and language skills and communication has been challenged with questions about why it looks like "you're just playing with my child." What looks like the therapist sitting on the floor and simply talking to and playing with your child is actually based upon a lot of knowledge and expertise and includes many subtle prompts or cues which the therapist is skillfully using to facilitate the child's language and communication. Keep reading for some inside tips and insight . . .
Happy New Year!
I have several resolutions that I want to implement in 2019 . . . I want to be more organized, more health-conscious, more productive! And I want to help you implement some simple strategies that can help your child build his or her speech and language skills! Let's talk about those challenges that I am asked about most frequently . . .
1) Is too much screen time hurting my child's speech and language development?
Research has proven that screen time does not promote your child's language development. The American Academy of Pediatrics points out that most apps that are considered to be "educational" are targeting rote skills such as the alphabet or shapes. However, the skills young children need to learn to be successful in school include more social pragmatic skills such as impulse control, managing emotions, and creative problem solving. The best way to promote these skills is through unstructured and social play. Have fun and be silly during everyday interactions, such as bath time, meal time or take a walk to the park! That's where the best language learning takes place. Strike a balance and facilitate screen time to embed yourself into the interaction . . . if your child has a favorite song they enjoy listening to, sing that song as you get your child dressed or are driving in the car. Exposing your child to screen time is not so bad if you also expose him or her to legos, and farm animals, and making cookies, and splashing in a mud puddle . . . . you get the idea!
2) Should I correct my child if he pronounces a word incorrectly?
Errors are an essential part of the learning process as children develop their speech and language skills. It is common for children to make speech errors, but as they grow older, their articulation continues to develop and their pronunciation generally becomes much more clear. A good guideline to follow is that by 2 years old, a child should be understood 50% of the time by an unfamiliar listener. By 3 years old, they should be understood 75% of the time, and by 4-5 years old, they should be close to 100% intelligible even if a few articulation errors are still present in their speech.
You want to offer a positive and supportive model for your child. It is the message that your child is attempting to relate that is most important and you want to praise and reinforce that message. *Repeat what your child has said, but use the correct pronunciation. *You may want to give the sound a little extra emphasis.
*Use reading as a way to surround your child with the targeted sound.
*Slowly tapping and clapping out each syllable can be a fun way to help with clarity.
*If you don't understand what your child has said, ask more questions, encourage your child to show you a reference if they can and obtain more information.
3) Is my child stuttering?
I am often asked by parents about whether or not they should be concerned about stuttering. Just as articulation errors are a typical part of speech and language learning, so is disfluency. As children learn to speak, they may demonstrate repetition of a sound, syllable or word. Use of fillers such as "uhh," or "umm," is also common. It is common to see these repetitions during a stage of growth when language is rapidly increasing, and these repetitions may come and go throughout different stages or be observed at different times. Disfluencies are likely to increase when children are tired, excited, upset, or being rushed to speak or when they are asking or responding to questions.
*Try talking to your child in a way that is relaxed, fun, and enjoyable.
*Engage your child in conversation without distractions or interruptions.
*Listen attentively to what your child is saying, maintaining normal eye contact without displaying signs of impatience or frustration.
*Avoid reacting negatively when your child stutters, correcting his speech, or completing his sentences.
*Model a slow, relaxed way of speaking to help your child slow down his own speech.
4) How can I help my child learn to read?
Phonological awareness is the area of oral language that relates to the ability to think about the sounds in a word rather than just the meaning of the word. It is an understanding that spoken language is made up of words, and words consist of syllables, rhymes, and sounds. As preschoolers, children start to develop an awareness of individual phonemes and can attend to and manipulate them in a word. By the end of kindergarten, students typically demonstrate the ability to: recognize how many words are in a sentence, segment and blend words of at least three syllables, understand the concept of rhyming, recognize and generate rhyming words, isolate the beginning or ending sounds in words, segment and blend sounds in a word with three sounds, and change a sound in a word to make a new word in familiar games and songs.
*Read aloud to your child frequently. Choose books that rhyme or repeat the same sound. Draw your child's attention to rhymes.
*Teach your child nursery rhymes and practice saying them together.
*Teach your child about syllables by clapping or jumping to each syllable he hears in a word, pause between each syllable for emphasis.
*Play "I Spy." You say "I spy with my little eye something that rhymes with … or something that starts with . . . .
*Develop sound/letter correspondence by filling boxes with pictures or objects that start with a given letter.
* Use Lego bricks to break words apart or to blend sounds together. Give your child two attached Lego bricks to represent parts of the word. Then have him physically take the Lego pieces apart as he removes part of the word.
5) Will using sign language or pictures further delay or prevent my child's speech and language skills from developing?
Research has shown that using sign language does not negatively impact a child's language development, and actually increases a child's verbal skills. Children can be taught to use signs or gestures before they are able to use words to communicate and this can significantly reduce frustration for both you and your child.
*Select a few signs to use when you talk to your child:
Some suggested common first words to sign with your child include:
Nouns: dog, cat, bird, shoe, cookie, cracker, apple, potty, car, truck, cup, spoon, bowl, boy, girl, baby, ball, bubble, block, slide
Social Words: no, stop, all done, all gone, away, more, again, mine
Action Words: go, up, down, eat, open, help
Descriptors: big, little, dirty, clean, wet, dry, on, in
*Ask your child what he wants and pause for a minute to see if he will say or sign it first. If not, show him the sign and say the word out loud. Pause again and see if he imitates you. If not, take his hands and help him make the sign. Then, immediately reward him by giving him the object or action just as if he had said it.
If you have any concerns about these or other aspects of your child's speech and language skills or would like further information or input, please contact Connections Speech Therapy for a free consult.
How Do Sensory Integration and Speech Therapy Work Together to Enhance Language Skills . . . .
May is Better Hearing & Speech Month and a great time to highlight some of the lesser known skills and areas of development addressed by Speech Language Pathologists.
Many people have the perception that speech therapy is a therapist and student sitting at a table as the therapist shows her student pictures and demonstrates proper production of the "r" sound. Some people are surprised to hear that we work on much more than a child's mispronunciations. Did you know that Speech Language Pathologists (SLP's) are educated and trained to evaluate, diagnose, and treat challenges in the following areas?
What better way to kick off the much-delayed start to the Spring season and get out to enjoy some sunshine than by resolving to "trade screen time for green time!" I came across this new favorite phrase the other day and I love its call to action!
During my summers off from college, I worked at a summer camp as the "Nature Activities Specialist." I can honestly say that the highlight of my days spent there was "creek stomping" through the water with my eager troops, their eyes filled with wonder and curiosity as we discovered all the unique treasures offered by the environment. From the sounds of the bugs and the birds, the frogs and the ducks, to the feel of the mud squishing under our feet and the water splashing up on our legs, it was the perfect blend of sensory integration and experiential learning!
While "creek stomping" may be a bit ambitious for some folks, there are lots of ways to easily trade your child's screen time for green time:
All of these activities are designed to promote your child's vocabulary and knowledge of concepts, such as description, positions, and categories. The best part, though, is that the activities help you to engage with your child while moving, learning, and having fun! So "spring" into action and start trading that screen time for green time!
I would describe myself as a casual sports fan . . . far from obsessed and frankly, not all that knowledgeable, but someone who enjoys watching my favorite teams and cheering them on. Who doesn't love the thrill of victory, especially when it is won against all the odds?
With our daughter home from college this week for Spring Break, we had the pleasure of cheering on the Syracuse men's basketball team with her as March Madness began and the Syracuse Orange unexpectedly marched their way toward the Sweet 16 in the annual NCAA basketball tournament. I love a good Cinderella story and the Orange provided one as the last team selected to even play in the tournament. Yet, they successfully overcame the odds against them to beat teams favored to win, and they proved their naysayers wrong. They proved that they belong.
I think it's natural to want to cheer on the underdog, even if it isn't your team. As I thought about the victory today for Syracuse, I thought about the kids that I cheer on everyday, the underdogs who may be fighting to overcome incredible odds against them. But just like the basketball players in the NCAA tournament, they too prove that you can never count anyone out, that they belong, and that victory is sweet. I love having the honor of "coaching" them and sharing in each step they take toward victory. Never underestimate the underdogs, they are our heroes!
My name is Katherine Hindman. I have been a speech therapist for over 20 years and truly love what I do!
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Nirav Modi as an absconder, sending an application under Area 82 of Offender Treatment Code (CrPC) at the area Principal Judicial Magistrate's (CJM) court on Thursday. The hearing of the application has actually been slated for August 13.
An instance of task evasion has actually been signed up versus the entrepreneur, that has actually been implicated of unfaithful Punjab National Financial institution (PNB) to the song of Rs 13,500 crore.
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Supporter Nayan Sukhadwala, an Area federal government pleader of Surat court, stated, "Nirav Modi cannot show up on trial within the offered period. The custom-made authorities have, as a result, started the treatment of proclaiming him an absconder under Area 82 of the CrPC. The court has actually approved the application as well as has actually dealt with the hearing for Monday. If no agent from Modi's side shows up in the court, we will certainly be required to ask for the court to perform the treatment as the entrepreneur is inaccessible."
Sukhadwala included, "Inning in accordance with the procedure, the court will certainly provide an alert, guiding Modi to show up prior to it in the following 30 days. If he stops working, after that the treatment of connecting his residential properties will certainly be launched."
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While the customised division had actually previously released a warrant under Area 70 of CrPC, Modi cannot show up prior to the area CJM court of J H Kapadia within the moment duration of 30 days.
Inning accordance with authorities, on December 5, 2014, the Directorate of Income Knowledge (DRI) had actually taken 3 consignments of ruby jewellery of the 3 companies had by the entrepreneur at Surat Hira bourse in Mumbai. Modi's companies, like Firestar International Diamonds Limited, Firestar International Private Limited, Radhashir Jewelry, are positioned in the Unique Economic Areas (SEZ) at Sachin in Surat. The consignments were implied to be exported to U.S.A., Canada, Dubai as well as Hong Kong.
Nonetheless, after inspecting the consignment, DRI authorities located disparities in the papers generated by the companies. While the papers generated by the companies revealed the jewellery deserved Rs 9.34 crore, the real worth by a federal government accepted valuer was located to be Rs 4.39 crore.
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According to SEZ standards, resources in the DRI stated, Modi's companies, which imports products, ought to export the exact same by including worth to it, for jobs like reducing as well as brightening or studying the jewellery with rubies.
Public district attorney Nayan Sukhadwala stated that a situation for claimed customizes task evasion has actually been signed up versus Nirav Modi by the main import tax commissioner's workplace right here. Nirav Modi's company right here had actually imported harsh as well as unfinished rubies under a federal government system, wherein import obligations were forged if the product was implied for export after handling.
The company was anticipated to export these high-value imported rubies after worth enhancement such as reducing as well as brightening. Nirav Modi apparently marketed the rubies in the residential market in Surat, therefore averting the import obligations. He exported low-grade rubies to the United States, Dubai as well as various other nations, passing them off as the refined top-notch rubies which he had actually imported, inning accordance with the situation submitted versus him under the Traditions Act.
In March, the Mumbai branch of the Directorate of Income Knowledge had actually likewise signed up a situation versus Nirav Modi as well as his company situated in the Surat Unique Economic Area in the exact same issue, implicating them of averting customizes task of Rs 52 crore. Nirav Modi, implicated of unfaithful Punjab National Financial institution of USD 2 billion in a fraud including Letters Of Carrying out, got away the nation in January this year. The magistrate's court is anticipated to listen to the customizes division's application next week.
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Half Girlfriend: Movie Review
One minute silence for all those people who have read the novel of the same name by Chetan Bhagat and kudos to the diehard Chetan Bhagat fans (no offense) 😛
The disgustingly confused storyline, lack of character depth, stereotyping the states in India; well, what more can you expect from a film that is based on a Chetan Bhagat novel? There's absolutely no chemistry between the Bihar boy Madhav (Arjun Kapoor) and Delhi girl Riya (Shraddha Kapoor) and there's too much of the half girlfriend hype all throughout the film.
Half Girlfriend – Dost Se Zyada Girlfriend Se Kam (can you imagine the impact of this line) is what you will hear every now and then during the entire two and a half hour duration. Hailing from Bihar, Madhav obviously cannot speak ENGLISH (you see, OBVIOUSLY). On his first day at the Delhi University, he falls head over heels for Riya and grabs her attention by teaching her basic Basketball tricks.
SHE BECOMES HER HALF GIRLFRIEND and by then you will wish you had left the film half way. Madhav follows her from Delhi to New York and yes, his English speaking problem still persists. I have had enough now!
Rajeev Masand aptly said, "Half Girlfriend" is a misfire of epic proportions. Blame it on the book, or the script that it spawned, but this movie is excruciating to endure. I'm going with one out of five. It's the cinematic equivalent of an ulcer."
Bollywood Hungama gave the film 2 stars out of 5 stating, "HALF GIRLFRIEND comes across as an overtly dramatic piece of cinematic work that fails to create the desired impact. At the box office, it will struggle to survive post the opening weekend."
Taran Adarsh tweeted, "OneWordReview… #HalfGirlfriend: Unimpressive. A few emotional moments + Arjun-Shraddha stand out. Expected so much more from Mohit Suri."
If you still plan to watch the film, watch the trailer before risking two and a half hours of your precious life:


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Roses are red, violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, and so are you.
When's the last time you read a poem?
John Piper defines poetry as "an effort to share a moving experience by using language that is chosen and structured differently from ordinary prose."
Sometimes it rhymes. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it has a regular cadence. Sometimes it doesn't. But almost always the poet has experienced something — something horrible or wonderful or ordinary — and feels that it must be shared.
The Bible is full of poetry. Leland Ryken writes:
"One-third of the Bible is not too high an estimate. Whole books of the Bible are poetic: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Solomon. A majority of Old Testament prophecy is poetic in form. Jesus is one of the most famous poets of the world. Beyond these predominantly poetic parts of the Bible, figurative language appears throughout the Bible, and whenever it does, it requires the same type of analysis given to poetry."
You might remember from your school days that studying poetry can be challenging. Perhaps that's why people find that reading the Bible is challenging.
Tomorrow we'll hear a piece of poetry from the Bible shared by John the Baptist. (Matt 3:1-6) That's pretty cool!
Poetry gives us an opportunity to read slower, to try to think of things differently and to change the way we think. I think that was a primary objective of Jesus: to change the way we think. So let's read the Bible, let's read poetry and let's be open to what God might be saying to us.
It won't be the same without you, so we'll be looking for you tomorrow at 9:00 & 10:30 am.
Grace be with you,
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I've decided to share with you guys some of my favorite AMVs, and more to come when I stumble upon them.
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This is my favorite Tamaki/Haruhi video that I've found so far. I always get chills when I watch it. The only downside is that there's some subtitles from the anime which are a tad distracting. But it's still an awesome AMV. The song is "Dare you to move" by Switchfoot.
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This is probably the most well made AMV I have seen so far. It fits Soul Eater extremely well, even though it makes the anime seem far more gruesome and horrific than it actually is. My only downside with this one: there's not enough Death the Kid, but I suppose he's not all that scary being obsessed with symmetrical things. The song is "This is Halloween" from Nightmare Before Christmas as done by Marilyn Manson.


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Note: It's never too late to let someone know you're thinking of them. But if it's too late to get your gift there on time, send an E-Certificate! All you need is the recipient's e-mail address and we'll do the rest. Your gift will arrive in their inbox a matter of hours with your personal message (or on a date of your choosing). It's perfect for last minute purchases.
Due to the perishable nature of our chocolate and candy, we take special care to ensure delivery in perfect condition. If the temperature in our area or yours is above 70F, we only allow shipping using expedited methods (2 Day Air and 1 Day Air) and each box is packed with special insulation and gel ice. There's $5 charge added to the shipping fee to cover for the cost of the added insulation and gel ice. During the summer months, to prevent chocolates and candy from sitting on a truck over a weekend we only ship chocolates and candy Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.


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I don't have something in mind today to write.
My mind was so tired because of my work the other day.
It was non-stop because a client of mine which is going to the Philippines this coming April 29 wanted me to rush some few things about a social media campaign for his weight loss challenge group.
And while I was doing that, I also need to onboard a new client that bought my Pinterest marketing services, gratefully, contract also started yesterday.
So I've got swamped with work, mostly designing images, social media campaign etc.
Okay moving on…
I saw ants here in my desks who's primary objective was to get the crumbs of some Clover chips and biscuits that I eat last night.
It's summer so usually, we are seeing ants everywhere who gathers food for the upcoming rainy season.
during rainy season, they just hide themselves in their colony, enjoying the cold temperature while (maybe), kasi hindi naman natin sila nakikita, ay nag kakape rin sa loob ng mga lungga nila.
Kasi ano pa nga ba ang gagawin nila sa mga asukal, kape, coffeemate at bread crumbs na iniimbak nila?
Under the heat of the sun, they work (non-stop) for the future, di alintana ang pagod, puyat at bigat nang dala-dala nila mapaghandaan lang ang future party-party nila.
That's how ants do.
They prepare for the better days ahead.
Okay, now that I'm on the subject about Ants Future Preparations.
I just want to make a point that like ants, you can prepare for your better days din if you are interested to start your work from home career.
You can prevent the disaster of failing when you start early and don't wait for the bad things to happen before you act.
You don't need to wait for your boss to release your termination paper, or you need some big amount of money because your parents got sick at kelangan mo na nang malaking pera for the hospital bills.
And mostly, people act when they are on that position. When the rain starts to come in, tsaka lang tayo nag iimbak.
Especially in our finances, and business ventures.
Mostly or majority of Filipinos don't have emergency funds, investments, or at least savings na kailangan na kailangan. Especially kapag may mga sakuna.
Kaya ang cases, nauuwi sa pag ka baon sa utang. (Well, hindi naman lahat).
And we don't want that!
Now, the lesson that these ants are teaching us to prepare for the better days, not the worst days are helpful.
Similarly on how I teach people how to work from home.
Preparing the mind of my students to condition them to win before even starting. By giving them a big picture of what is about to happen.
And how to act small by giving them small but actionable workloads so that they can accomplish big things na hindi sila na buburnout.
Gaya ng mga tipaklong na pag umulan lang nag hahanap ng pagkain.
Kaya palaging naghihingi sa mga langgam.
Okay folks, that would be it, kasi mag brebreakfast na ako.
Chad Godoy
Let's create some awesomeness.
P.S. If you want to read more about how you can prepare youself to work from home like the ants do…read more here: http://workfromhomelaunchpad.com
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is a fully registered practitioner (AHPRA & AACMA) of Traditional Chinese Medicine, having completed a Bachelor of Health Sciences degree in Acupuncture at Victoria University (with Honours) in 2002. Her skills include Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Massage (Tuina), Moxibustion, Cupping, Guasha and prescribing patent Herbal Medicine in addition to Dietary therapy. Alexandria is also a Bowen Therapist, with over 18 years clinical experience using the technique. Her ongoing commitment to Eastern medicine has also led Alexandria to undertake Post-Graduate studies specialising in Japanese Acupuncture (Manaka, Shimamura and Kiiko Matsumtoto systems), Chinese Herbal Medicine (RMIT) and Alexandria has also attended courses in India studying Traditional Tibetan and Ayurvedic Medicine (Dharamsala) as well as training as a Yoga instructor since 1999. Alexandria has over 16 years clinical experience in acupuncture and teaching yoga, and a passionate enthusiasm for exploring wellness, health and spiritual awakening through a variety of traditions and practices.
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Staffers at the ratings-challenged Bahakel Communications Group station confirmed
that they'd been told by management that the company was adopting a
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G.B. Crane 'Disciples' Red 2016 – 750ml
Dave Phinney, who brought to us his great wines under Orin Swift - think Papillon, Mercury Head and Prisoner - became co-founder of G.B. Crane Vineyards, a heritage vineyard located in St. Helena's west bench. It is a true testament to Dave and winemaker Kevin Fox's ability to making powerful Reds. This 2016 comes from Morisoli Vineyard in Rutherford and Milat vineyard in St. Helena and is comprised of 76% Zinfandel, 13% Charbono, 6% Grenache, 5% Petite Sirah. They consider these vineyards to be like disciples of the ancient vines of Crane, and some barrels from their G.B. Crane vineyard were included in the blend. "Balanced and inviting, the wine opens with a concentrated nose of ripe strawberries, red plum, allspice, vanilla and a touch of black licorice and cigar box. A smooth and enveloping entry of dark red fruits and creme anglaise leads to a fresh and bright mid-palate. The soft and integrated tannins finish at length with a pleasing texture of baker's chocolate." - G.B. Crane winemaking team
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