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Getting between cities in South Korea is easy. The Korail train is on par with the fastest bullet trains and whisked me from Seoul to Busan in just 2.5 hours.
Busan is a city which has developed around its geography, growing around the hills over time into a seven million person metropolis. As such it has no obvious city centre but has a number of districts with their own distinct identity. During the Korean War it was one of the few areas which didn't change hands and served as a temporary capital city.
I had escaped the uncomfortable humidity of Seoul and ended up in the more pleasant but still searingly hot Busan. A good way to see any new place and gain your bearings is to view from up high, and the Busan Tower, located in Jungu, is perfect for this – it was my first stop. The tower has a 360 degree view over the docks to the east, the financial district north, the harbour south and everything in between.
Having spent a week in Seoul, it meant I only had one night in Busan before catching a ferry. I had done hardly any research on Busan other than booking a hotel near-ish to the port, and in hindsight realise what a mistake this was. There is certainly a lot to see and do, and a few days is needed to make the most of a visit here.
But with my one night in Busan, I started on the fairly lengthy walk from Busan Tower to Gamcheon Culture Village.
The route to Gamcheon Village, if you decide to walk it, goes up some extremely steep hills and is a good test of fitness. It's a former slum turned arty district, and is an area which attracts visitors due to some quirky shops and cafes, a relaxed atmosphere and some nice views. Buying a map of the area is a good idea to help find your way around.
Heading back into the city after a few hours, I walked along Gwangbok-ro. This street and the surrounding area, just on the south side of the Busan Tower, was packed with restaurants and bars reminiscent of areas like Insa in Seoul. The food market was a wonderful assault on the senses and it was tempting to try a bit of everything.
The following morning I took a walk to the ferry terminal and found it, thankfully, to be far better than the one in Dalian. Busan passenger port is more like an airport terminal, with a variety of routes onward to Japan and elsewhere.
And just like that, my short time in Busan was over, but it certainly left me wanting more. I treated it purely as a stopover for the ferry and should have spent more time there, if only to enjoy the weather, visit the beach and eat more of the food. Instead it was another ferry ride, and time to say cheerio to South Korea.


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Previously: Chapter 27 – Abrazos Rotos [A]
Last chapter of If It Takes Forever, well, ever.
Rating: A.
A chance encounter throws Spencer and Ashley together again, several years after they had last seen each other in college. Set in the present day and features flashbacks, kinda like Lost, only easier to understand and with significantly fewer deaths.
[Finally completed]
Previously: Chapter 27 – Abrazos Rotos [A]
Last chapter of If It Takes Forever, well, ever.
Rating: A.
Previously: Chapter 26 – A Mi Manero [U]
Do not faint. Really, your eyes are not deceiving you. This is an actual update to the longest-ass saga in this site's history. It is, in fact, the penultimate update. I was hoping to have the ultimate chapter to post today as well, but it'll be
Monday or at least Tuesday of next week now a while. Finally, the end is in sight.
Rating: A
Previously: Chapter 25 – Tu novia está loca [A]
So, new chapter [in your face, Packs!]. No Ashley, but more Arthur and Paula. Thank you to anyone who's still reading this, in spite of my pitiful updating schedule.
Rating: U.
Previously: Chapter Twenty-Four: Between Your Legs [X, NSFW]
Can I give a big shout-out to Calgirl for delurking to comment on the last chapter? Thank you to all the recent delurkers, actually, like Takoo's_cool and chelle5432. It makes my day.
Rating: A. Kissing. Perfectly safe for work or school, I reckon.
Previously: Chapter Twenty-Three – Talk to Her [AA]
Just when you think I've forgotten all about this old thing, here we are with a new chapter. It features 100% more smut than its first draft. You may thank the Boss who left the following helpful comment:
(needs more smut)
Rating: X. Adult. Too hot for public.
Previously: Chapter Twenty-Two: Sisters [X, NSFW]
What timing! I update and our Italian contingent returns. Coincidence? I think not.
Rating: AA, for mild sexual content. Probably best not to read it at work or school, though.
Previously: Chapter Twenty-One – Law of Desire [X, Not Safe For Work]
Late, I know, but I've been sick as a dog.
The Boss wanted me to add something very specific to this chapter. It didn't fit in the end, but I'll work it into a future chapter.
I'm dedicating this chapter to the Boss because I adore her. But I have to mention Yeeben and Sassy, who are like bloodhounds on the scent of an update.
Disclaimer: Tom Lynch. MTV. The-N.
Rating: Hot sex. Not safe for reading in public.
Previously: Chapter Twenty – Si c'était à refaire [A]
For Sez, because she's important and because I promised.
[Sez's head just 'sploded.]
Disclaimers: SON belongs to Thomas Lynch and the-N.
Rating: XXX. HOT SEX! Do not read in public. Continue reading →
Previously: Chapter Nineteen – Waking Life [A]
This is the first completely new chapter for this little fella. Never before published elsewhere. And it's for the Boss – cos I loves me some Sez – and Jen – who came back! – and YBN – who's just too funny – and seriesaddict – who relentlessly pimps for updates – and everyone else who asked nicely, including – but not limited to – our own MiniSwede.
Remember, kids: nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Our chief weapon is surprise. Surprise and fear.
Disclaimers: SON belongs to Thomas Lynch and the-N.
Rating: A. Thoughtful Continue reading →
Previously: Chapter Eighteen – A Short Film About Love [A]
Here's the thing: I ever-so-slightly altered this chapter because, frankly, I just wasn't happy with it previously. I know was previously published before elsewhere, but, hey, my story, my rules, people. If you want to see the changes I made, you can go read them here (don't worry, it's not at the Other Site and you won't need to register with anything to read it).
Also, is everyone else away on holiday? This place is pretty quiet.
Oh, and this chapter still belongs to seriesaddict, my favourite Italian, who shows better English language skills than many native-born speakers.
Disclaimers: SON belongs to Thomas Lynch and the-N.
Rating: A. Hotter kissing! Continue reading →
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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
This article is the first in a two-part series.
Posted Aug. 23, 2005 -- It got to the point where, whenever he touched her, she couldn't help but wonder: Did he mess around with men when he was locked up?
"He said nothin' happened, but I can't say for sure whether he did anything or not," says Selvy Hall of her then-husband, a drug addict who had been in and out of prison for years.
Keep-it-real rappers aren't rappin' about it. Nobody's talking about it. Not really. Not in mixed company, and certainly not for long. Even jokes about it are amulets; we pray that if we laugh, no evil will befall us.
But it's real, and it's a killer.
Sex in prisons, among inmates. Illicit sex between gays, yes. But between "straight" husbands, too. "Down-low" with a twist.
"Man, them mother------s do all kinda sh-- in there," says Carl, who spoke on condition that his last name not be used. A Detroit heroin addict who is in his early 50s, Carl's done stints in state and federal prisons, mostly for drug-related crimes. "They be havin' all kinds a sex in there, man. Not everybody – not me – but they do.
"...(Corrections officials) know about it, but it's a way to get around it. Just like they be havin' drugs up in there. You can't stop it all, you know what I'm sayin'?"
Secret Sex
As with most taboo subjects, the picture is somewhat blurry. Muddled by cultural mores, politics and systemic loopholes. But it is also dynamic. And it is framed by this fact: Black male inmates are more likely to contract or transmit HIV because they are disproportionately incarcerated.
"Any discussion about AIDS and Black males in prison has to begin with a fundamental discussion about the number of Black men in prison," insists Phill Wilson, executive director of the L.A.-based Black AIDS Institute. "A 20-year-old Black man is more likely to be in prison than in college. And in a lifetime, 50 percent of all Black men will have been incarcerated for something. Why is that?"
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) there were 4,919 Black male prison and jail inmates per 100,000 Black males in the United States as of last summer, compared to 717 non-Hispanic White inmates. Further, there were 900 percent more Blacks in prison last year than there were 50 years ago, although the Black population has only doubled, says a report by Talkleft.com, a liberal think tank. The surge in incarceration is due partly to mandatory sentencing legislation such as California's so-called Three Strikes Law, which calls for imprisonment regardless of the offense, the report adds. BJS also points to Black unemployment, inadequate drug treatment programs, and too few youth programs aimed at deterring juvenile detention.
Compounding matters, most ex-offenders end up back in prison, further upping the odds of catching – and spreading – a communicable disease, experts say. The Justice Policy Institute says two-thirds of inmates released from prison are re-arrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor. Though most inmates with infectious diseases come to jail or prison already infected, recidivism is a factor, says a report by the San Francisco-based Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.
"Many of these are non-violent crimes tied to addiction. There is no treatment on demand, and now these men are in an environment where clearly sexual activity goes on. ...We need to deal with this in an honest, open manner."
The prison culture doesn't exactly help, CAPS says. In fact, it ill-prepares inmates for life beyond the walls.
"During incarceration, all activities are scheduled and behavior is strictly regulated," the report says. In this atmosphere, inmates never "learn how to be responsible for their own behavior, which is critical in disease prevention."
Spreading the Disease
Many inmates want to celebrate their prison release by having immediate "pure" sex, without condoms (the majority of correctional facilities prohibit condom possession or distribution), CAP says.
Though policies vary from state to state, prison to prison, some facilities will notify families that an inmate is being penalized because of homosexual activity, Carl says. In Michigan, depending upon factors such as prior offenses, the penalty has been isolation, Carl says.
The state's 450 HIV-positive inmates are not segregated from the general population, unless they "engage in behavior that could spread disease," explains Leo LaLonde, a spokesman for the Michigan Corrections Department, adding that HIV-positive prisoners receive the same standards of care they would receive in the community. "When they need to see an infectious disease specialist, they do."
But according to Barry Zack of Centerforce, a San Rafael, Calif., education and support organization for inmates and families, infected inmates are nearly always grouped with other HIV-positive inmates, regardless of state policy. "In California, for example, we don't practice segregation. But if you're HIV positive chances are you're going to one of six prisons."
In fact, HIV-positive inmates are often "clustered" as a practical matter, explains Dr. Ronald Shansky, a correctional health care consultant and prison medical specialist who has been a court-appointed monitor of jails and prisons nationwide. The inmates "need to be quickly available for a complexity of services," he says. "It's really to the advantage of the HIV population."
From what he's seen, Shansky says, it's "probably true" that prison guards are more interested in averting disruptive activities such as fights than in preventing and stanching homosexual acts. Thus, he believes it would be a "reasonable public health strategy" for U.S. correctional facilities to allow the use of condoms. Countries such as Canada have long allowed such usage, he says.
"I think we can always do a better job of educating inmates and staff," Shansky says. "We continually need to work on ensuring that HIV patients are managed under the direction of specialists ... and that care and medicine is provided when inmates are released."
Whatever the case, discourse is long overdue, says Hall, of Pontiac, Mich.
"People try to keep (sex in prison) hush-hush," she says. "Some guys justify it by saying 'I wasn't penetrated, I was the penetrator.' I have had a couple guys admit it to me. Then some would come back to Pontiac and act like nothing's going on.
"Some of these guys, they come out and go both ways, because they liked it."
Do you believe high incarceration rates of Black males is playing a role in high HIV infection rates?
Click to the left for Part 2: An ex-con spills the real deal about sex in prisons. A noted African-American psychiatrist tells who's likely doing it, and why.
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
"When my teacher asks me a question thinking I'm not paying attention, but I get it right."


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Ann Flower of Grand Forks shared a photo of two white-tail bucks, which she took last Thursday in the Fox Farm area north of Grand Forks. Flower says seven bucks — six with three or more points per side — were in her yard one recent evening. The bucks are almost mirror images of each other.
I was surprised to see the bucks still had their antlers, as people who hunt for shed antlers almost as avidly as they hunt for deer already have found a number of sheds this winter. Bucks generally lose their antlers by midwinter, though they occasionally can linger as long as March.
Chances are, it won't be long before the bucks Flower photographed lose their headgear and begin the process of growing new antlers for the coming year.
Jovita Smith of East Grand Forks also shared a couple of photos — in this case of a great horned owl she spotted Sunday afternoon.
"My husband and I heard some crows around 12:30 p.m., so we looked outside and saw something fly away," Smith wrote in an email. "We grabbed my camera and got in my car and went for a drive. Within blocks from our home we saw a great horned owl in the trees. It was pretty amazing to see and worth standing in the cold to get some pictures."
Great gray owls have been less common this winter. The large owls, which typically winter in the boreal forests of Canada, occasionally are driven south during winters when rodents and other food sources are in short supply.
This winter, apparently, great grays are finding the winters farther north to their liking.
I saw my first great gray of the winter on Wednesday while returning from a fishing trip to Oak Island on the Northwest Angle of Lake of the Woods. The owl was perched atop a powerline pole along the gravel portion of Manitoba Highway 308 near Moose Lake Provincial Park north of Sprague, Man.
A few winters back — I think it was the winter of 2013 — we saw perhaps 20 great gray owls along the same stretch of road while heading to the Angle for a fishing trip.
Whether it's one bird or 20, sightings of great gray owls always are a treat.


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"Our brains undergo a massive reorganization between our 12th and 25th years." This National Geographic story on what's happening in the circuits and neurons of the teenage brain is pretty fascinating. Having once been a teenager, I'm aware that teenage behavior is often unexplainable, irrational, and frustrating to grown-ups. Now science confirms that it's not just a generational thing. It's chemistry. The brain changes that take place between adolescence and adulthood — during which teenage brains are still "works in progress" — make them intellectually clumsy when it comes to resisting temptation, staying focused, and making good decisions.
This is according to a National Institutes of Health project that did brain scans of more than a hundred teenagers during the 1990s.
From the article, written by David Dobbs:
These studies help explain why teens behave with such vexing inconsistency: beguiling at breakfast, disgusting at dinner; masterful on Monday, sleepwalking on Saturday. Along with lacking experience generally, they're still learning to use their brain's new networks. Stress, fatigue, or challenges can cause a misfire. Abigail Baird, a Vassar psychologist who studies teens, calls this neural gawkiness—an equivalent to the physical awkwardness teens sometimes display while mastering their growing bodies.
Dobbs gives some advice about dealing with teenagers. For instance, why do they take so many risks?
To see past the distracting, dopey teenager and glimpse the adaptive adolescent within, we should look not at specific, sometimes startling, behaviors, such as skateboarding down stairways or dating fast company, but at the broader traits that underlie those acts.
Let's start with the teen's love of the thrill. We all like new and exciting things, but we never value them more highly than we do during adolescence. Here we hit a high in what behavioral scientists call sensation seeking: the hunt for the neural buzz, the jolt of the unusual or unexpected.
Risk-taking peaks during the teenage years.
This shows reliably in the lab, where teens take more chances in controlled experiments involving everything from card games to simulated driving. And it shows in real life, where the period from roughly 15 to 25 brings peaks in all sorts of risky ventures and ugly outcomes. This age group dies of accidents of almost every sort (other than work accidents) at high rates. Most long-term drug or alcohol abuse starts during adolescence, and even people who later drink responsibly often drink too much as teens. Especially in cultures where teenage driving is common, this takes a gory toll: In the U.S., one in three teen deaths is from car crashes, many involving alcohol.
But it's not that they don't recognize risks, Dobbs explains. Teens actually tend to overestimate risk. But they're more willing to take a risk because of the potential reward:
Teens take more risks not because they don't understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently: In situations where risk can get them something they want, they value the reward more heavily than adults do.
Social pay-offs are among the biggest rewards. This means teens will take bigger risks while among their peers than while alone, because their social worlds are their whole worlds. And the process of having a crazy, changing, elastic brain during teenagerdom is completely necessary for the development of a sound, responsible adult brain. So be patient with your crazed teens, moms and dads. In a lot of ways, they can't help it.
Anyway, if you're interested in brain science — or if you're the parent of a maddening teenager — the full article is worth your time.


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The Apparition at Knock took place in 1879, eight years after Pontmain in 1871. The two apparitions are broadly similar, in that they both took place in the evening and only lasted for three hours or so, and similarly, in both, no words were spoken.
On the evening of Thursday, 21 August 1879, two women from the small village of Knock, Mary McLoughlin and Mary Beirne, were walking near the local church when they noticed luminous figures at the gable end. As they got closer they realised there were three moving figures and that one of them looked like the Blessed Virgin.
The apparition lasted for several hours, and was witnessed independently, as a globe of light, by a farmer who lived about a half mile away.
The happening at Knock was thoroughly investigated and it was proved that it could not have been produced by luminous paint or a "magic lantern." A commission of enquiry was set up by the aged Archbishop of Tuam, Dr. McHale, but although it considered the witnesses reliable and trustworthy, the Archbishop made no definitive statement for or against the apparition.
However, over time Knock gradually gained official support from the Church, culminating in the Papal visit of 1979. The symbolism of the lamb, cross and altar has been seen as pointing to the sacrificial death of Christ and the Mass, and yet these were behind Mary in the apparition at Knock, suggesting that the focus was on her and her role as a mediator.
Sources: Rynne, Knock 1879-1979, Dublin, 1979; Walsh, The Apparition at Knock, Tuam, 1959.
Theotokos Catholic Books - Approved Apparitions - www.theotokos.org.uk


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A Turnkey Toronto Air Conditioning Repair Service
Like most places, on this planet, Southeastern Canada – specifically Toronto, enjoys four seasons, every year. The warmer season of Summer lasts between late June to early September, while the rest of the year is cold. During the cooler months Toronto air conditioning repair service is probably the furthest thing from most people's minds.
Interaction among people increases during this season. Social events like fairs and festivals, visits to the Toronto islands, leisurely night walks and beach visits for a night swim and other such activity, become more commonplace. Sticky heat and heat alerts are the experience of the locals around this time.
Time to Call for Repair
Once you come home, possibly after working in an air-conditioned office or driving in an air-conditioned car through the day, you have been able to escape the heat, but when you get home it can be an entirely different story. You have a central air conditioner, but it doesn't appear to be working because the rooms are not getting cooler. It looks as though you need to call for a Toronto air conditioning repair service to get cool air moving again.
The Equipment
Air conditioners – they keep you cool in summer so you are comfortable in your home, but they do not last forever. Regular maintenance is a must and this preventive maintenance prevents the unit from breaking down at a crucial time. Health emergencies can arise in these situations, especially at the peak of summer.
Mechanical Things Do Breakdown
The lifespan of your air conditioner is extended significantly when regular preventive checks and maintenance is undertaken. Clean air filters and serviced equipment allow the air conditioner to work efficiently and it is important that service be done regularly. However, despite this regular maintenance, an air conditioner can still break down.
Whether it is installing a new device or taking care of an existing air conditioner – EcoLife Home Comfort can help. They are a turnkey Toronto air conditioning repair service that offers all types of home repairs and installation, specializing in central cooling and heating. Contact them today at 1-800-383-9326 and they will happily send a representative to provide a free home evaluation. Like us at Facebook


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Posted on January 25, 2019 at 10:35 AM by Erin Legg
"While we may be individually strong, we are collectively powerful." – Rakhi Voria
A healthy community is a diverse community with opportunities for all.
In 2006, 2007 and 2008 Warman and area experienced a momentous shift in leadership. The election of female leaders to all three levels of government – me as Mayor of Warman in 2006, Nancy Heppner as MLA in 2007, and Kelly Block as MP in 2008 – was historic. The voices around the table shifted to better represent 50.4% of the population: women.
When I was newly elected as Mayor of Warman, I was extremely excited to work with both MP Block and MP Heppner. The three of us shared a passion and determination to build, strengthen and pursue new opportunities for the communities we proudly represent. Throughout the years, my excitement for working with these two women has only grown. We've proudly accomplished a lot for the citizens we represent.
Recently, MLA Heppner announced she will not be seeking re-election in 2020. She has served her constituents well, and I know firsthand how hard she has worked to ensure the communities she represents are not getting left behind and that provincial dollars are being dedicated to our regional projects. It is not always an easy role to fulfill, because the needs are many and the dollars don't cover these never-ending needs. MLA Heppner has lobbied ardently about critical issues, such as the overcrowding of our schools and the safety of highways leading into our communities, resulting in additional schools opening and the construction of highway overpasses. The issue of sustainable pricing for water is essential for her constituents, and MLA Heppner has been instrumental in working with SaskWater to ensure communities in her region have access to affordable potable water.
The City of Warman is constantly growing and evolving, and requires strong representation. Fortunately, we have received that from both MLA Heppner and MP Block. Our sincere thanks and appreciation for all the efforts these women do on Warman's behalf.
Both MP Block and MLA Heppner have been strong advocates for gender balance in leadership. Following their examples and with their mentorship, I've been able to further pursue my own passion for supporting women in all types of leadership positions. Did you know that an average of 26% of Canadian municipal politicians are women? In Saskatchewan, the numbers are considerably lower, with women making up 18% of councillors and only 13% of mayors. Next week, I will be attending the annual SUMA convention, which will feature a "Women in the Game" panel discussion. I am looking forward to the conversation about women's involvement in local government during this panel. I am hopeful it will spark encouragement for more women to become involved in their communities at a leadership level.
That is my call to action for all women: get out there, become involved and lead your community. Look for ways you can express your voice. It is more important than ever to encourage and support women to run for public office. We need women in all roles of leadership, in all levels of government. We need women on our municipal councils, on school boards and governance boards. There are many ways women can take an active role in their community. I believe with good mentors and ambassadors, gender imbalance can be overcome. When the demographics of elected positions mirror that of society, a country's full social capital is realized. Diverse representation creates a better environment for both women and men.
"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen." – Brené Brown
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text: Why Gen Y Should Care About Privatizing Income Protection February 2017 BY: JOHN NICHOLS If there is anything that we've learned about the millennials, it's that they do not play by the old rules. Millennials have different priorities for what they want out of their work and their lives. They want to believe in a cause and make a tangible difference. They believe money is important, but they believe having an impact is just as important, if not more so. Millennials have grown up in a time when the old models of working for the same company from graduation to retirement don't hold up anymore. Instead, millennials are known for frequent job changes, thinking of their work as fundamentally temporary. Millennials are also more entrepreneurial than any other generation in the current workforce. The problem is that employer group income protection insurance plans are especially ill-fitting for this lifestyle. What happens to their group insurance plans when they decide to join another company, or if they quit in order to work for themselves? Individual vs. Group Disability Insurance Individual disability insurance plans have two great features that make them ideal for millennials: They are portable, and they provide comprehensive 24/7 coverage. Insureds own their policy and they can take it wherever they go. It is not beholden to any particular employer, any particular doctor or even any particular treatment. Individual plans put the insured in control. As a recovering quadriplegic, when I decided to start rehabilitation after my accident, I looked into the rehabilitation provision on my medical insurance plan. The plan had a maximum benefit payment cap of $10,000 with a 50 percent copay, and I qualified for one 50-minute outpatient session a week. There was absolutely no way that level of medical care would be enough. Luckily, my individual disability insurance benefits provided me some much-needed choice and control. Instead of mandating a certain amount and duration of physical therapy, my disability insurance plan paid me cash that I could use at my own discretion. I hired both an occupational therapist and a physical therapist. They came to my house for two hours a day, five days a week, for more than a year. That was the level of care I needed to give myself the best chance to maximize my recovery. I never would have received this type of care without my individual disability insurance benefits. Who Needs Long-Term Care Insurance? I cannot put enough emphasis on the importance of intensive, long-term rehabilitative care. It was the difference between surviving and living. I had a neighbor with an injury similar to mine. However, unlike me, he was never able to obtain the rehabilitation he needed and instead spent 20 years in bed being cared for by his family. He admitted to me that every day he prayed that he wouldn't wake up the next morning. He was tired of suffering and seeing his loved ones suffer as they cared for his every need. If your clients do not protect their ability to do the things that they love, what do they have left? Too often, younger people fall into a pattern of thinking of themselves and their bodies as invincible. We expect our cars will wear out. We expect our homes might be flooded or catch fire. We understand objects that are important to us need to be protected, but for some reason, that understanding rarely extends to our bodies. Many Americans are planning to work into their late 60s or early 70s. Can your clients really say that over the course of 40 or 50 years, their bodies will never suffer some sort of accident or illness? Protect Clients' Most Valuable Asset, Their Ability to Work For many people, individual disability insurance can seem like an unnecessary expense. However, it makes more sense to invest a little bit of their current income to protect their capability, the skills and talents that allow them to earn an income and live out their goals and dreams. Twenty-one percent of young adults reported on a LearnVest survey that they don't have disability insurance because their jobs aren't physical. Nevertheless, skills and talents are about more than just our physical bodies. Even if your clients have white-collar jobs with no physical requirements, they need to protect against the loss of energy and mental acuity that so often comes from an accident or illness. And if their human capital isn't valuable enough, what about their dignity and independence? Improve Future Financial Stability It's undeniably true that young people carry more debt than older generations, and it's understandable for them to feel cash-strapped. But the simple fact is that there is always a way to get what you need and there is always an excuse not to do something. Disability insurance is not a "nice to have," it's a must-have! Disability insurance offers a steady and consistent stream of income if your clients are unable to work due to a sickness or accident. Disability insurance protects their ability to have and maintain their lifestyles, their relationships, their material possessions and their financial well-being. In addition, it preserves their self-reliance, choice, control, recovery and their dreams for the future. John F. Nichols, MSM, CLU, is a nationally recognized disability benefits consultant with Disability Resource Group. As a life and qualifying MDRT member, John has two Court of the Table and nine Top of the Table qualifications. John may be contacted at [email protected]


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Okay, you're hot and heavy to move to
Windows 7 but Microsoft, for the most part, recommends a clean
install. Yeah, they have this incredibly complicated chart that says
you can do an in place upgrade in some cases but reading it will
give you a headache and they have a point; a clean install is the
way to go regardless of if you're going from XP to Vista or
But yikes, reinstalling all those applications
that you've shoved onto XP over the last 10 years? In my case I'd be lucky to
find half the distribution CDs. And the prospect of feeding 7 the CDs I can find
isn't all that appealing.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have some magic way
to simply migrate what you want to your new Windows 7 install and not get carpel
tunnel from feeding your box CDs?
No magic required, just a bit of software in
the form of PCMover.
Install PCMover on your Vista or XP box.
Run, select the
"file storage
device" option and select the applications
you want to move.
Note that PCMover has a Windows 7 upgrade
assistant that allows you to do a migration on the same drive. It works fine but
it doesn't allow you to
reformat your drive before you install Windows 7. Perhaps a small issue, but I'm
big on a re-format when I go with a new operating system so I'm doing it my way.
Choose the type of migration you want to
I'm going with a full migration in order to get
my files, settings and applications.
Next select a location for your migration items
(MoveMe calls it the moving van). Save the files on a drive other than the one
you'll be using for Windows 7; either a 2nd physical drive in your computer or an
external USB drive.
Give it a file name and go do something. It's
going to take a while, it's doing more than what you'd get as part of a backup
so don't expect it to be done in a couple of minutes. In my case with a pretty
hefty number of programs it took about 45 minutes.
Copy the PCMover distribution file to whatever
drive you used for your "Moving Van" file.
You're now finished with the XP part of the
process so insert your Windows 7 DVD, reboot and install Windows 7. I'm a clean
install type of guy, I reformatted my previous C: drive and installed Windows 7
to the newly formatted drive. XP is history.
With Windows 7 up and running install PCMover
from your secondary drive and run it and select the files to migrate.
The drive letter may have changed but probably
not but in any event your moving van files are going to be easy to find. PCMover
will display a list of the programs to be migrated and you can choose which you
want to install. In my case it told me about one that it couldn't migrate; my AV
software which was fine, I'm going to use the opportunity of Windows 7 to change
software anyway. I also excluded some other programs; for instance I elected to
not migrate PowerToys for XP not knowing how well they would get along with 7.
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An appointment is normally given for ten minutes and is intended for one problem only, but if you feel that your problem requires more time please ask the receptionist for a longer appointment. At times of heavy demand certain surgeries may have shorter slots but you will be informed of this when booking.
We are increasingly seeing the presentation of multiple, unrelated issues which cannot be effectively dealt within the time allowed.
In order to try and ensure all of our appointments run as close to time as possible, please can you try and set out the issue you wish to raise at the beginning of the consultation and if you do have other conditions you wish to discuss, to make a further appointment please.
Your doctor should be able to guide you further where necessary.
We try to offer an appointment with the doctor of your choice, but sometimes this may not be possible at a time convenient to you and especially at short notice.
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All patients have a named GP as part of a care plan, this does not necessarily mean they have to see that specific GP every time they visit the practice. Patients may be required to visit for a check up if they have not attended practice for a long period of time, patients also have the choice of seeing a preferred clinician, and we endeavour to make this possible where practicable dependent on appointment type.
Please provide our receptionists with clear and concise information concerning your medical condition. Our experiences triage nurses will telephone you back in order to assess your medical needs and take appropriate action for you over the telephone which may involve a doctor calling you back or making an appointment with a nurse or doctor. These emergency appointments are for clinically urgent problems only. We do have a duty doctor each day who is responsible for any clinically urgent issues arising.
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Please telephone after 9.30 unless urgent; routine, non-time critical matters may be referred on to a named doctor for their next working day and you may be offered a telephone appointment with a doctor if appropriate. Please be aware there may be times when your requested doctor is not available due to other commitments or leave. More urgent matters will be referred to one of the other doctors to ensure the message is responded to in a timely manner.
The practice nurses are available every weekday between 8.30am - 6.00pm by appointment only.
As directed under our new contract on the 1st April 2004, registered patient who are between the ages of 16 and 75 years who have not been seen in the previous three years may request a consultation for a health check. Similarly patients aged 75 years and over who have not had a health check in the previous twelve months may make an appointment for same. This will be a nurse consultation.
If you cannot attend an appointment for any reason please inform us as soon as possible in order for us to give the slot to someone else.
Home visits are only made to those who are too ill or disabled to attend the surgery. The Doctor has the right to assess whether consultation should take place and every effort should be made by patients to be seen at the surgery. Lack of transport in itself is not a reason for a home visit.
You do not require a doctor's sickness certificate for any illness lasting seven days or less. Your employer may however require you to complete a self-certification form (SC2) which is available from your employer or on the HMRC website.
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It is up to your employer to decide whether you are incapable of work. A medical certificate, now called a 'Statement of Fitness for Work' (see below) from your doctor is strong evidence that you are sick and would normally be accepted, unless there is evidence to prove otherwise.
You could also provide evidence from someone who is not a medical practitioner, e.g. a dentist. Your employer will decide whether or not this evidence is acceptable. If your employer has any doubts, they may still ask for a medical certificate from your GP.
The 'fit note' was introduced on 6 April 2010. With your employer's support, the note will help you return to work sooner by providing more information about the effects of your illness or injury.
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Follicular unit transplantation (FUT) is also called as strip method of hair transplantation and follicular unit strip surgery (FUSS). A strip of skin containing hair follicles are harvested from the donor area and transplanted into the bald area. The donor area for FUT method is always the back of scalp. Once the strip is taken your donor area is sutured, we follow trichophytic method to minimize the donor FUT hair transplant scar. The harvested strip is processed for slivering and individual hair grafts containing one, two, three and four hair follicles are obtained.
Slivering is a very important method in FUT hair transplant for the success and good hair results. Indians usually have straight hair follicles and thicker hair, but blacks have curved hair follicles which are like C shape while Caucasians hair follicles are similar to Indians. But the hair is thinner compare to Indian hair. Slivering should be performed with utmost care taking angulations of hair follicles into consideration to prevent any hair follicles damage. The follicles are finally implanted to the bald area.
We perform FUT Hair transplant procedure by using only local anesthesia. Do not use any sedatives or intravenous fluids while performing a FUT hair transplant.
FUT hair transplant recovery time is quicker when performed under local anesthesia. There are no much side effects of FUT hair transplant other than slight pain, inflammation, scab tissues and minimal swelling at the implanted area.
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It was my birthday on Monday 30th May and it was a glorious sunny day, so we went to the Kingsteignton village fete. It was a traditional village event with their annual ram roast and all the usual fete activities and we had great fun wandering around and seeing all the different things.
This is the ram roast. At one point there was a huge queue for it, and it was moving so slowly that we didn't bother, and got our lunch elsewhere!
Donkey rides.
The stand of the Guild of Devonshire Ringers. Note the bells set up so that people could have a go!
Hoopla – a very old traditional activity at village fetes.
Hand-made walking sticks.
Japanese drumming. This was very noisy.
The owl lady. This Canadian owl was very splendid, and quite tame, and allowed us to stroke him. I was amazed at how warm he felt. He had great golden eyes.
Swing boats. I used to love these when I was a child.
The stand of a delightful lady exhibiting her small tapestry weaving pieces. I had a lovely chat with her and was so inspired by her work. I gave her my email address and she sent me details of her upcoming classes – there is one later this month and I am keen to go.
Free tapestry weaving. This is the subject of the next class.
Her tapestry weaving sampler. She had mounted it on an artist's canvas painted black.
Her table showing more weaving, and some hand spinning. Her spinning was beautiful, and incredibly even – she had sample skeins of various fibres including one of a silk and Merino wool mix which was very soft.
There was also some May-pole dancing which was going on when we arrived but I didn't photograph it. Apparently they were making a right mess of it and getting all the ribbons tangled up! What fun.
Altogether it was a lovely day out, and an excellent birthday outing! I bought a few bits and pieces including a scarf made of silk with pieces of silk velvet which I thought I could cut up and use for art.
When we came home, after a bit of a sit-down with a cup of tea, I started in the kitchen and prepared for the little dinner party we had to celebrate my birthday. I cooked Spiced Lamb with Sweet Potato Topping (a sort of glorified Middle-Eastern-style shepherd's pie), Sticky Toffee Pavlova and home-made Lychee and Rose Flavoured Ice Cream, using my new ice cream maker which is a great success. This was served with home-made shortbread. The food went down very well with everyone and we had a great time. I had done most of the cooking in advance and laid up the table before we went out, so there wasn't much more to do than assemble it all and cook it, and cook the vegetables – baby carrots and steamed rainbow chard. As usual when I'm entertaining, I was so caught up with the cooking and preparation that I completely forgot to photograph the table (which I'd made a special effort with, and it looked really pretty) or the food! So you will have to use your imagination.
Another year, another birthday. If it wasn't for the miracle of modern medicine, I might never have lived to see this birthday. I count my blessings daily, and hope that I never grow too old to enjoy celebrating my birthday with child-like enjoyment!


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Hello all,I'm new to aerial photography and I'm trying to develop a solution similar to some commercially available products wherein the data is sent to a cloud for post processing. I'd like to use a…Continue
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Hello all ! It's been a while since I last posted, it's mostly because I've been busy brushing up on Aircraft controls and dynamics so that I can create an autopilot for the VTOL design. We re-iterated our previous design which was a flying wing to a fixed wing aircraft because no matter how much we tried to optimize it, the performance was always below what is achievable from fixed wing UAVs. So…Continue
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Hey Guys,
I've been working on designing a flying wing UAV since 2 months now. Human search and rescue using an autonomous drone is the prime objective of this project.
First Prototype.
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Hey everyone,
I'm Karan from India and have been involved with drones for around 3 years now.
Hi Karan,
I'm sorry I don't have a build log for that aircraft. Most of the specs for it are on the post with that photo. I have since built several aircraft and have been too distracted to record much about older models. Thanks for checking it out!


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Some examples of problems with the voting systems listed in the report include:
Here is a highlight sheet of the report.
Cast ballots, ballot definition files, and audit logs could be modified. Supervisor functions were protected with weak or easily-guessed passwords. Systems had easily picked locks and power switches that were exposed and unprotected. Local jurisdictions misconfigured their electronic voting systems, leading to election day problems. Voting systems experienced operational failures during elections. Vendors installed uncertified electronic voting systems.
How low must the press in this country sink before the public has had enough? A story about the potential loss of our franchise, the very right to exercise our citizenship and give the consent of the governed is found to have significant flaws and the press can't be bothered to inform the people of it? Does no one understand the implications of what it means if your vote is taken from you by fraud?
You know, when I read Lewis Lapham's scathing satirical column On Message in the latest issue of Harper's I thought he was being too harsh. But considering the state of the media and how uninformed significant portions of the population are, perhaps not
The Nazis in the 1930s were forced to waste precious time and money on the inoculation of the German citizenry, too well‑educated for its own good, against the infections of impermissible thought. We can count it as a blessing that we don't bear the burden of an educated citizenry. The systematic destruction of the public-school and library systems over the last thirty years, a program wisely carried out under administrations both Republican and Democratic, protects the market for the sale and distribution of the government's propaganda posters. The publishing companies can print as many books as will guarantee their profit (books on any and all subjects, some of them even truthful), but to people who don't know how to read or think, they do as little harm as snowflakes falling on a frozen pond.


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The Nvidia Tegra 3 processor has been titillating our tech-sense with its quad-core super powers since we played with the Asus Transformer Prime. And now we learn the Tegra 3 will soon be powering our cars, too.
Nvidia's Tegra 3 has already been linked with tablets and a few mobiles including the fabled HTC Edge, and now the processor giant has just bought a research building in China where it will be working on automotive electronics, according to Digitimes.
The exciting part isn't just that Audi and Tesla are signed up to have Nvidia powering their cars, but that Foxconn (Apple's famed manufacturer) is also involved.
Could we be seeing Apple iTV in our cars in the near future? As devices become more personalised to the user, it's a very real possibility that car settings could be automated as your motor recognises your mobile phone entering the car. Or with Nvidia's powers your car may even use facial recognition to start the engine. Welcome to the exciting age of futuristic cars.
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So let's fast forward through the rest of the trip for a moment (which I'll be covering in detail over the next few days) to my EWR experience today. After flying FRA-EWR on Lufthansa I was booked on US from EWR to CLT to TPA, all in First.
I couldn't figure out what gate my EWR-CLT flight was leaving from, so I tried to find US check-in. I couldn't find US check-in, so I approached UA check-in to ask if they knew where US's counters were. At first I was a bit peeved since the two agents in the elite line were talking to each other about some personal matters (definitely not business related) for a good 30 seconds before recognizing me as I was standing in front of them, and I was very tempted to say something along the lines of "hate to break up your chit chat ladies, but…." Let me say that I'm very happy I didn't, because those agents saved me in the end.
They directed me to the US check-in counter, and I asked what gate the EWR-CLT flight was leaving from. They rudely said it was cancelled, so I immediately asked for the reason, at first in a nice manner. They said "weather," and while I know that could mean any of a multitude of things, I looked through the roof and said "it looks like a nice day to me." All three agents rolled their eyes at me and I asked what I was rebooked on. They printed me out a sheet which showed the CO flight I was booked on tomorrow morning at 6AM, but I really didn't want to fly CO in coach, likely in a middle seat, when I had a confirmed F seat on US. I asked if it would be possible to fly UA, and they said no, they were sold out. I said "how do you know, you didn't even look?" and the agent responded "yes I did, don't question me."
I dialed the 1K desk and asked about availability, and they said EWR-ORD-TPA was indeed available. The US agents insisted they couldn't see it, and were very rude about it. Eventually I asked about hotels for the night, and the agent said "hotels? for what? It was weather," basically laughing at me. I explained that maybe they could give me one of those discount papers which just explains that I'm a passenger on a cancelled flight, and they said they didn't have any.
All three of these agents couldn't have been any ruder, so I asked for all of their names and specifically explained that I would be reporting them for their attitude and not so much the substance of what they said. They rolled their eyes further.
I went back to the UA check-in counter and was helped by the same lady that directed me to the US desk earlier. I explained the problem and asked if there was any way she could confirm whether or not there was availability for EWR-ORD-TPA tomorrow. All of a sudden she was very friendly and helpful, and found availability. She worked on my itinerary for about 20 minutes, and eventually printed out a receipt on UA stock and said I had to go to the US counter for them to endorse the ticket over to UA, or something like that. She noticed that I was coming from Malta, so we hit it off well since her family is largely from Malta although she has never been, so she was curious. Furthermore one of the baggage guys used to live in Italy, so we talked for a while. She told me to ask for a specific person at the US counter that she said was competent, since I had explained how rude and idiotic the agents over there were. She even gave me one of those hotel slips for a discounted hotel.
I got back to the US counter and got the one competent agent they seem to have, who worked on my itinerary for about 15 minutes. One thing I found interesting was that a family lined up in the elite line and the guy that handles baggage asked if they were flying First. The agent helping me immediately snapped at the baggage guy, yelling "They're fine, that's not your job. You make sure all the bags are taken care of, and we'll do the rest. I can handle it, don't try to do my job." Well jeez, I felt kind of bad for the guy….
Anyway, after a while she decides to walk with me to the UA counter to finalize this, since there was quite a bit of confusion, which I really appreciated instead of just being pushed from carrier to carrier. The agent that helped me earlier at the UA counter (who this US agent happened to know) was on break, so we got a different agent. What followed cracked me up. Never before have I seen agents from two different airlines argue like this.
The US agent was standing on the baggage scale looking over the shoulder of the UA agent, and they certainly didn't see eye-to-eye. At one point the US agent said "do you see what I'm talking about?" and the UA agent responded "No, I don't, and don't tell me how to do my job." It was fa'riggin hilarious. The Jerry Springer show airline style, I tell ya.
After a while they had it all sorted out and the UA agent offered to upgrade me for EWR-ORD since I was originally in F. I thanked her and was happy to be all checked in.
I then began the quest for a hotel, going down the list of hotels the agent gave me. I would have never expected it to be so difficult. Basically everything was sold out, so I'm typing this from a relatively crappy hotel (although not awful) on a pretty expensive rate. Oh well, so is life. At least they have free wifi!
Some might think I'm crazy for choosing EWR-ORD-TPA, getting me home at 5PM, instead of the nonstop on CO, but it's all worth it to me. There's always the bump potential on UA, and frankly nothing is more entertaining to me than a day of flying UA.
Tomorrow should be yet another interesting day, but in the meantime it's time to catch some zzzz's….


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England Midlands 14 July 2013
We start with clubs that have several events this week. Wythall Radio Club has its club net on 145.225MHz at 8pm today and next Sunday. On Tuesday there's a Morse class then a talk on earthing and lightning protection by Mack, M0CUS. It's the 80m Club Championships Data Contest on Thursday, then there's the usual shack social on Friday from 7.30pm. Details from Chris, G0EYO, on 07710 412 819.
Coventry Amateur Radio Society has its club net is on Monday on 145.375MHz. Friday sees the 3rd round of the 2m DF Trophy. Contact John, G8SEQ, on 07958 777 363.
Lincoln Short-Wave Club is holding a committee meeting on Monday. Tuesday sees the 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest. On Wednesday there is a formal meeting at the BSA Club. The simplex net is on Thursday on 145.375MHz from 8pm. On Saturday there's the surgery and mentoring from 9am. For more information contact Pam Rose, G4STO, on 01427 788 356.
South Birmingham Radio Society is holding an open meeting and ragchew on Monday. The regular coffee morning is on Tuesday from 11am and Thursday sees training classes with Dave Murphy, G8OWL. On Friday there's shack and aerial work. Details from Mick Cleary, G7RRP, on 07595 696 359.
Sutton Coldfield Amateur Radio Society has an open net on 145.250MHz from 7 30pm. On Saturday it's British inland waterways on air at Fazeley Mill Marina near Tamworth from 9.30am. More information from Robert Bird, by email to email@example.com.
Welland Valley Amateur Radio Society is holding a DF night at Great Bowden Wreck on Monday. On Thursday it's the 80m Club Championship Data contest. For more information contact Peter D Rivers, G4XEX, on 01858 432 105.
Salop Amateur Radio Society is putting its 50th anniversary callsign on the air on Thursday. On Saturday there's a 50th anniversary event. Details on the club website at www.salop-ars.org.uk.
Now we return to the traditional listing in date order. On Monday Aldridge and Barr Beacon Amateur Radio Club is having a general discussion. Contact Albert, G0KFS, on 01922 614 169.
On Monday Gloucester Amateur Radio and Electronics Society is on the air on HF. Details from Anne, 2E1GKY, on 01242 699 595, daytime.
On Monday Leicester Radio Society will be having a discussion on antenna matching and building, plus converting PMR radios for amateur use, led by Steve, G1LTV. Contact Steve, by email to email@example.com.
On Tuesday Dudley and District Amateur Radio Society is taking part in the 23cm UKAC night. Contact Carl Roberts, M0ZCR, by email to email@example.com.
On Tuesday Loughborough & District Amateur Radio Club is going on a Radio Ramble, Location to be confirmed. More information from Chris, G1ETZ, on 01509 504 319.
On Wednesday Midland Amateur Radio Society Social planning evening and training classes. Details from Norman, G8BHE, on 07808 078 003.
On Wednesday Telford and District Amateur Radio Society has its 3rd 2m DF hunt from 7.30pm. Contact Mike, G3JKX, on 01952 299 677.
On Thursday Central Radio Amateur Circle Group is meeting at the Turf Tavern from 7.30pm. Contact Martin Hallard, G1TYV, on 07906 905 071.
On Friday Bromsgrove and District Amateur Radio Club is having a VHF night. Contact Chris, M0BQE on 01905 776 869.
On Friday Hucknall Rolls Royce Amateur Radio Club is holding a members' forum. Contact Dave Wilde, G1YAI, by email to email@example.com.
On Saturday Rugby ATS is holding a committee meeting. Details from Steve, G8LYB, on 01788 578 940.
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Canada. This is a great holiday destination and many tourists are going to Canada each year. Most prefer going during winter time, but there are some tourists that are realizing that Canada can be just as great during summer time. However, you should make sure that you are planning your trip to Canada carefully. This is because of these reasons.
There are three main provinces
The first reason why you should make sure that you plan your trip to Canada carefully is because you need to make sure in which of the three main provinces you are going to stay at. This is because each of these provinces has their own rules and regulations. Especially when it comes to drinking.
You don't want to get into trouble because you didn't realize that they have other rules in this province than in other provinces.
Safety precautions are essential
Just like in any other country, there are some safety precautions that you should take. Precautions that will ensure that you are going to have a great time in Canada.
Mostly Canada is a safe country, but just like in any other country, there is some crime that you should know about. This is why planning and doing research is so essential.
You need to know about the tipping rules and regulations in Canada
If you want to make sure that locals dislike you, then you should not consider what they expect from you, when you are eating in restaurants. They are expecting you to tip between 10 and 20%. So, make sure that you have enough money in your budget for this purchase as well.
There are people that don't really know everything about tipping. And, then they are getting into trouble and you don't want this on your holiday.
They have strict rules and regulations at the airport
You need to know what you are allowed to take into the country and what not. This is the only way to ensure that you don't get into trouble before your trip even started. With planning your trip and doing research, you will know everything about the rules and regulations that you can expect at the airport.
You might want to do research and plan your trip before you travel to Canada. This is so that you can know that you are going to get the best possible experience in this foreign country. There are so many great things that you don't want to miss out on, but there are some rules and regulations that you can't miss out on as well. By knowing these reasons why planning your trip to Canada is so important, you will know for sure that you are going to have the time of your life.


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More than policy is needed to raise birthrates
OECD economist Adema says cultural changes are required
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Published 2010-03-11 11:41 (KST)
Willem Adema's office is classically academic. Papers are strewn about the desk. The space, which was completely filled by four members of the OhmyNews reporting team, has floor-to-ceiling bookshelves along each wall, where books are stacked horizontally on top of vertical volumes. He uses a multi-screen laptop/monitor to display datasets.
It feels like a university. Except it's actually a multi-governmental organization: the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris.
As a senior economist at the OECD, it is Adema's job to collect and analyze data from all 30-member states on their birthrates and family polices.
Willem Adema at his desk
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For the last 8 years of his 16 with the organization, Adema has spent working on the issue, one country has been of particular interest: Korea.
This is in part, he said Tuesday, because Korea is changing so rapidly. It is also obvious that he enjoys a challenge: some of the most basic data he needs to understand Korean families does not exist.
The Korean Bureau of Statistics does not collect the maternal employment rate; it is assumed that once women have children, they will leave the workplace.
Adding to the challenge, the Oxford trained economist explained that it will take far more than government policy to increase Korea's lowest-in-the-OECD birthrate.
Even if he were suddenly made president of Korea, the 46-year-old said he was not sure he could raise the country's birthrate.
"It would be very hard to bring about a culture change," he said. "And that's what we're talking about."
Raising birthrates requires more than policy
The core culture-change issue, for Adema, is about the choice put to Korea's young generation of highly educated women.
Korean women between 25- and 34-years-old have the same, if not higher, educational achievement levels as their male counterparts. They are just as well prepared to participate in paid work.
Yet, he said, due to the working conditions in Korea, they face a harsh reality:
"If women don't feel comfortable with having a career and a child -- if they are forced to choose -- they will," Adema said.
Those choices have consequences, and in Korea, because women do not have the support required to have children and continue to work outside the home, many chose careers over offspring.
For Adema, who is a father of three, the key to raising birthrates is removing this choice, thereby enabling couples to simultaneously focus on career and family.
The OECD offices in Paris
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Three 'Ji-oks' Facing Women in Korea
Adema, who was in Seoul when Korea joined the OECD in 1996 and spent about three years working on birthrate issues with the organization's office in-country, said he saw three primary issues forcing Korean women to choose between work and children.
Women have limited access to childcare, they face gender inequality in the home, and work in a discriminatory culture that makes short-term leave difficult and keeps husbands away from home for extended hours.
Limited Access to Childcare
Of the three issues, the provision of childcare might be easiest to address, as it can be done through government policy.
According to a 2007 OECD study, "Babies and Bosses," of which Adema had multiple, bound copies -- in English and Korean -- on his desk, Korea had the lowest levels of public spending on families in the group. Compared to French levels, which hover around 3 percent of GDP, Korea spends ten times less -- at about .3 percent of GDP.
However, Adema said that the higher spending was only part of the picture.
"The levels are important, but it's also the composition," he said as he excitedly clicked on a spreadsheet filled with government expenditure data and turned his monitor outward for all to see.
"In France, tax support [for families] makes up about .8 to .9 percent of GDP. [However,] services are 1.5 percent of GDP. An important component of support goes to services: i.e. childcare."
"If we look at Germany," he continued, "the childcare component is much smaller, and Germany -- like Korea -- is one of those countries with a very low birthrate."
"Limited investment in childcare," Adema said, "contributes to the feeling that it is very difficult to combine work and family life."
Oh Yeon-ho with Willem Adema
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Gender Inequality in the Home
Korea, unlike many European countries, is still home to what demographers and economists call the "male breadwinner model."
In this model, males are responsible for virtually no work in the home. Instead, they work outside, providing financial support for the family. Females are thus responsible for all in-home tasks, including childrearing.
A 2004 study of Korean families highlights these inequalities, according to Kim Young-Iek, the former minister in charge of Korea's birthrate policy and professor at Seoul National University.
In couples where the man is the only one employed outside the home, he contributes about 31 minutes per day to household work, while the woman spends about 6 hours, 25 minutes each day on those tasks. In dual-career couples, men spend 32 minutes, and women use 3 hours, 28 minutes per day.
Adema, who splits his workday in two so he can be home with his children for dinner, said this kind of unequal distribution contributes to Korean women's feelings that they must choose between career and child.
"In Korea a lot of women, probably correctly, assume that their partner will not help them out with child rearing," he said.
Discriminatory workplace culture
Adema added that the "male breadwinner model" is exacerbated in Korea due to the country's workplace culture.
"In Korea, there are much longer working hours [than other places with high birthrates], and there is also a culture of socializing after work with your colleagues," Adema said.
"Korean fathers, potentially, have very little time to help out with the household chores, and the care responsibilities of their partner."
However, other parts of workplace culture put the question of work versus children to women more directly.
According to Adema, who is originally Dutch, there is an expectation that Korean women will "hand in their resignations when they become pregnant." He said this attitude does not exist in France, Scandinavia, the United States, and other high-birthrate countries.
In these countries, women are expected to take time off, and then return to work.
Moreover, he added that pay and benefits in many Korean companies are structured such that they reward seniority -- viewing it as commitment to the firm -- meaning that any time out of a career, for men or women, leave them with significantly reduced responsibility and earning power.
This must change, Adema said, if the birthrate is to rise.
"You should no longer expect women to withdraw from the labor force when they are pregnant and want to have children," he said. "[Temporary departure to have children] is not a sign of weak commitment."
Education, housing, and other social welfare issues
While childcare, gender inequality, and workplace culture issues are the primary areas that need improvement if Korea is to raise its birthrate, Adema highlighted other social welfare issues that have an impact as well.
He cited the extremely high costs of education -- due to the prevalence of after-school private tutoring, known as Hagwons as a major roadblock to parenthood in Korea.
Another problem parents face are high housing costs and long communing times in Seoul metropolitan area -- where more than half Korea's roughly 50 million people live.
When pressed into another Korean hypothetical -- how many children he would have wanted if he lived in Seoul -- Adema chuckled and simply said, "I would have to talk to my wife!"
Then, without prompting, as if he was putting himself into the position of a Seoul-ite he summarized the difficulties Korean couples face.
"Modern Korean men and women don't see how they can combine work and family life. They've both gone to university and gotten a good degree, and they both want to do something. And they want to combine that with having children," Adema said.
"If they were allowed to do so, the birthrate would go up."
Reported by Oh Yeon-ho, Son Byong-guang, and Andrew Gruen on site at the OECD in Paris.
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A couple of days back, we reported that root access has been achieved for the Verizon version of the Moto X, thanks to the efforts of Justin Case (aka @TeamAndIRC). He has continued his amazing work, and now, the Moto X on all networks, including AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, US Cellular, and Rogers, along with the Motorola Droid Ultra, MAXX, and Mini, can all be rooted, with a simple one-tap app, called MotoRoot.
All you have to do is download the correct apk file that matches your device, install and run it, and tap "Setup," and you're done! The phone will reboot, and once it reboots completely, you will have root access. You can then download the SuperSU app from the Google Play Store. You will need to keep the MotoRoot app installed, as uninstalling it will break root, but can easily be done again by re-installing the app. The app also includes an "unroot" option as well.
As simple as this process is, remember that rooting your device does have some risks, and a general technical know-how is recommended. Also, rooting your device may lead to your warranty being voided. Don't forget to make sure that you download the correct apk file corresponding to your device, and keep in mind that in the case of the Moto X, devices from different carriers require different files. Check out the video below –
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Today in WTF: A 23-year-old man was handcuffed, detained and interrogated at gunpoint by police in Idaho for literally saying "Nickleback." You can't make this stuff up!
Dylan Swinford, the man in question, was leaving work with friend Riker Morrow when the pair were stopped by cops. The officers misheard "Nickleback" for "nickle sack" and thought the two were organizing a drug deal. Umm....
A friend of the gentlemen told CDA Press, "The one question I really want answered the most is, how are our young people supposed to respect law enforcement when they don't respect our young people?" She has a point!
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Social Media & Me
OMG I have tried blogging so many times. I am a very interesting person. I have done a lot in my 60 years. I have always shared the good, the bad and the ugly. You know I am a mom and wife and a do-gooder in the world always looking for what the Universe wants me doing next. You know I have been doing radio for 7 years. You know about my travels and my life in Thailand. You know that 2 out of my 3 adult children speak to me. You might NOT know all about my past which was terrifying at times. But if you asked me, I would tell you. I made tons of mistakes and learned from the best people who came in and out of my life. I am here to connect and share for the betterment of all humans on this planet. It is pretty simple for me. If you know me, you know I will be your biggest cheerleader. I can say that now, because I am also MY biggest cheerleader. I have forgiven myself and loved myself with no excuses. Today is all I have, my friend so making the best of it all, every moment is where I live.
I enjoy being alone as much as I love the connection with others. I am a meditator and reader of "Awakening" in this life. That is what is next and that certainly does not happen by spending my time on Social Media. The moment I don't engage and take the time to post - my whole world seems to open up with self attention.
I am at a point in my life where I have stopped listening to what others say I should be doing, or how I look on Facebook. It seems life is based so much on how people perceive who we are on all social media outlets. From what I see, we are all about all the good we are doing which is real, but the struggles are more real and promote growth and confidence in sharing that story. So many women are trying to prove themselves to each other. It is a bit of a competition these days, although it is never spoken. It is hard for people to not compare themselves to each other - "This is what I am doing now" and it changes daily for some. I have seen regular lovely people go from having a conversation and sharing to "Now I am a life coach and I can set up a time to talk to you and oh by the way I charge $65 an hour." Huh? It is a bit mind boggling.
When I was enthralled in my radio show - I posted a lot to keep the interest of the guests to be interviewed. It was a lot of work on my end and maybe 5% did the work on their end to promote. It was quite frustrating. I was surprised by the fact that there was a lack of cross promoting. We were all in this together, right? Social Media is great for promoting as long as your audience stays with you and the algorithms on Facebook stay put. If not you are on your own trying to make a name for yourself. My radio shows were awesome - my guests were awesome. Somehow I feel like something different needs to happen. EVERYONE seems to be doing radio now or podcasting with guest topics I have done. The market seems saturated. I am searching for a new way - a way to set myself apart from what everyone else is doing on social media. Quite a feat, I know.
For me now at 60, I have the ability to sit back and experience my own life as it unfolds. I am doing that - this phase is quite different. It is a time of appreciating the fun, the solitude, friends, family and really engaging in it face to face - not text to text. I am of the generation where we had to connect face to face. We couldn't text our boss and quit our job, we had to discuss things in person. I was always taught to show up - just show up! I use social media as a mirror for things I need to hear. I am showing up for me and what I want in this life. Time goes by so fast. My famous words are, "Yesterday I was 30!"
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People could save up to $588 on electricity bills by switching
Shopping around for electricity deals could deliver south-east Queensland households an annual saving of up to $588, a report shows.
The Queensland Competition Authority's report, which lists the standing offer and average, lowest and highest market offers of 19 retailers, shows swapping suppliers could generate annual savings of up to $588 for households and $1072 for small businesses.
For residential customers, $466 was the highest standing offer (QEnergy) and $319 was the cheapest (Alinta).
The difference was a quarterly saving of $147, or an annual saving of $588.
The QCA said the Alinta Energy offer did not have the lowest fixed daily, or variable usage, charge. The 25 per cent pay on time and in full discount on usage charges made it the cheapest offer.
For small business customers, $729 was the highest standing offer (ERM Power) and $461 was the cheapest market offer (QEnergy).
The difference was a quarterly saving of $268, or an annual saving of $1072.
Four retailers - AGL, EnergyAustralia, Origin Energy and Simply Energy - included sign-up incentives on at least one of their market offers in the December quarter.
QCA found retailers' standing offer bills were generally higher than their market offer bills in the December quarter.
Energy Minister Anthony Lynham said the QCA report allowed the government to monitor electricity retailers.
On the eve of the state election last year, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced she would redivert $2 billion from state-owned energy companies to cut $50 per year for two years from household bills.
She then warned she would "name and shame" retailers, and set up a publicly owned electricity retailer, unless they promised to pass on cost savings.
The QCA will provide quarterly reports on the prices charged by south-east Queensland electricity retailers until June 30.
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Hand pumps, unlike electric pumps draw from the top of the water not the bottom of the well. Static water level is defined as the distance between the ground and the top of the water in your well. To determine your static water level, drop a weighted nylon string into the well casing until you hear it or see it splash the surface of the water. Mark the string where it lays on the top of the well casing. Pull the string out and measure with a tape measure from your mark to the weight on the other end of the string.
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When the static water level is GREATER than 25′ feet, then you must use a deep well hand pump; as these pumps lift water (not suction like a shallow well pump). Deep well hand pumps can access great depths, but the further down you install the cylinder, the more water you are lifting. This means it will be harder to pump.


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"Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this."
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Reflecting Carnegie Mellon's growing presence throughout the region, the university welcomed a diverse incoming class of 107 new students for the 2011-2012 academic year, including 98 new freshman and nine transfer students. The class included 41 Qatari nationals – a record in university history. This year's incoming class brings the total number of undergraduates to 335.
"The momentum continues to build for Carnegie Mellon Qatar and Education City. We were fortunate to receive a record number of applicants this year including prospective students from 65 nations," said Jarrod Mock, director of admission for Carnegie Mellon Qatar.
This year's total undergraduate enrollment comprises 52 percent women and 48 percent men from 39 different countries. There are 181 students majoring in business administration, 69 in computer science and 79 in information systems. Additionally, six students are enrolled in the new biological sciences program.
In addition to Carnegie Mellon's undergraduate enrollment, 63 students are cross-registered from other institutions in Education City, including 10 Qatari nationals participating in a newly established 5-year program in cooperation with the Academic Bridge Program. This brings the total number of students to 398.
Mock said: "We're excited to see the rise of Qatari students enrolled at Carnegie Mellon. Our efforts are continuously aimed at growing the number of qualified Qatari nationals. We embrace the opportunity to provide a world-class education to the Qatari youth, and we look forward to seeing how they will impact their nation in the future."
Noor Al Jassim, an alumna who majored in Business Administration, described how Carnegie Mellon helped her prepare for her current position at Tasweeq, a petroleum marketing company.
Speaking at a recent admissions event, Noor said: "I chose Carnegie Mellon because of its global reputation. Right here at Education City, I experienced a world-class education with state-of-the-art facilities and opportunities for innovative research in a multicultural environment. I am proud to see how Carnegie Mellon continues to grow."


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