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The Importance of self-worth
So often I see people who suffer from extremely low feelings of self-worth. The dictionary defines self-worth as "the sense of one's own value or worth as a person". It is about who you are, not what you do. So often in our society we are encouraged to measure ourselves against others rather than paying attention to our intrinsic value. It is so important to develop and enhance feelings of self-worth coming from within rather than from external sources. To feel an intrinsic sense of self-worth, is to be powerful. If your value comes from within, it is truly yours. If you look externally for validation, it can be taken away and is not within your control.
So if you do just one thing - stop comparing yourself to others, it is a losing battle! Challenge your critical inner voice and practice a bit of self compassion. Treat yourself with the same kindness and respect you would a friend. And add meaning to your life by taking part in activities that are important to you. By challenging your critical inner voice and stopping comparing yourself to others, you can begin to get a feeling of your own self-worth. By pursuing activities that are meaningful and in line with your personal beliefs, you can develop your sense of yourself as a worthwhile person.
International Day of Happiness!
Did you know that March 20 is the International Day of Happiness? Celebrated all over the globe on March 20th, International Day of Happiness is a day that recognizes the importance of happiness to human beings and is also a day in which people are encouraged to do those things that make them happy.
Action for Happiness have put together 10 keys to happier living, their GREAT DREAM.
Giving - do things for others
Relating - connect with people
Exercising - take care of your body
Awareness - live life mindfully
Trying out - keep learning new things
Direction - have goals to look forward to
Resilience - find ways to bounce back
Emotions - look for what's good
Acceptance - be comfortable with who you are
Meaning - be part of something bigger
So think about what makes you happy? Go on, smile, share and think positively. Spend some time with friends and family, spend some time alone, be mindful, dream, listen to music, say thank you and mean it....do what makes you happy!
The importance of focus
What do you focus on? So often we focus on what's wrong, or what bothers us, why people upset us, or get caught up in negative thoughts that spin round and round in our heads generating anxiety. That is why it's so important to develop the skill of focusing our thoughts, because it is so true that what we focus on we amplify. The ability to direct our own focus using hypnosis, visualisation or mindfulness can have a profound influence on us. Learning how to focus on positive possibilities...what's right...and what we want. So if you want to develop a new skill...try developing the skill of focus, and begin focusing on your strengths and amplify them!
The negative internal critic
Have you got an internal critic? I'm betting the answer is yes because most of us have that inner voice, the one that will happily give a running commentary on our lives, making negative comments and generally giving us a hard time.
The interesting thing is not whether or not we have that inner critic, but whether we choose to listen to it or not. Have you ever stopped to wonder whether it is actually worth listening to? How do you know whether to pay attention or not?
When I talk to clients and ask them whether they consider themselves to have high self-esteem or not, I have discovered that the ones who do have high self-esteem have something in common - they have learnt that their internal critic is not always worth listening to and have strategies for ignoring it. Some clients describe how they pretend they have a volume control and can turn down the volume on the negative voice. Others imagine another more positive voice coming from their other shoulder. Others just simply imagine turning their backs on the critic or walking on by ignoring it.
The interesting thing is not whether you have that internal critic or not, but whether you accept it and listen to it without question, or whether you have ways of filtering it out. So the next time you're aware of that negative internal voice, just stop and wonder whether you should take it seriously, or whether you can come up with your own ways of ignoring it. This is an important skill that you can develop and will lead to you being much happier in the long run!
Carmen Kenworthy is an expert Hypno-pschotherapist in Chester
March 2018


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Product Information of JAG The Complete Series DVD Box Set
Format: Multiple Formats, Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC, WidescreenLanguage: EnglishRegion: Region FreeAspect Ratio: 1.77:1Number of discs: 55Rated: UnratedStudio: ParamountDVD Release Date: December 11, 2014
JAG (U.S. Navy acronym for Judge Advocate General) is an American legal drama television show with a distinct military theme, created by Donald P. Bellisario, and produced by Belisarius Productions in association with Paramount Network Television (now CBS Television Studios).The first season was co-produced with NBC Productions.Originally conceived as a Top Gun meets A Few Good Men,the pilot episode of JAG first aired on NBC on September 23, 1995, but the series was later canceled on May 22, 1996, after finishing 79th in the ratings, leaving one episode unaired. Rival network CBS picked up the series for a midseason replacement, beginning on January 3, 1997. For several seasons, JAG climbed in the ratings and was on the air for nine additional seasons. JAG furthermore spawned the hit series NCIS, which in turn spun off NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans.In total, 227 episodes were produced over 10 seasons. At the time of the original airing of its fifth season in the United States, JAG was seen in over 90 countries worldwide.JAG entered syndication early in 1999 and is still regularly repeated.

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The Ex-Boyfriend & Baby Daddy of Itz Tiffany Who LEAKED the Seks Tapes is Frank Kwame Gambrah Aka Frank Whyte | the Guy Who Allegedly Murdered His Friend at Aphrodisiac Night Club in 2007 in Accra With Multiple UK Convictions
Three leaked seks tapes of Ghanaian rapper-Itz Tiffany (realname Tiffany Owsus) have been making rounds and since GhanaCelebrities.Com broke the story last night, it's become the talk of social media.
Initially, we were given the name of the man who recorded the video with Tiffany (in the video) and also alleged to have leaked it as Frank Whyte, the ex boyfriend and baby father of the rapper—and after digging into things, it's come to light that the real name of Frank Whyte is Frank Kwame Gambrah.
Frank Kwame Gambrah per a court document obtained which you can read below fled Ghana to the United Kingdom soon after shooting his friend-Darren Danso at the car park of the Aphrodisiac Night Club in August 2007.
After running to the UK for 2 years, he later returned to Ghana and he was arrested when he was going through arrival formalities at the Kotoka International Airport.
Both Darren and Frank were at the time reported to be British-born Ghanaians who resided in London and were in Ghana for holidays when the murdering took place.
The detail of the case is pretty long. While Gambrah was hiding in the UK, the Ghanaian government requested for extradiction to have him brought to Ghana for trail but relying on insanity and article 2, 3, and 6 of the European Covention on Human Rights, Frank's lawyers argued against the extradition—saying, if extradited his Convention rights would be breached.
The case went as far as to the UK's High Court. And rapper Itz Tiffany (real name Tiffany Owusu) was mentioned in the legal document as the girlfriend of Frank Gambrah—and also, as part of Gambrah's defence witness…
The Death Penalty Blog wrote on the case, since Frank Gambrah was facing Dealth Penalty in Ghana if he was found guilty of the murder charges…
"Lord Justice Moses, sitting in the High Court in London, has ruled that the extradition of a mentally ill 34 year-old British father would breach his rights under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits inhuman and degrading treatment, regardless of whether a moratorium is in place or not. Frank Gambrah, who spent over two years in prison awaiting the outcome of the extradition proceedings, was granted immediate release on 16 May 2014, when the judgment was handed down.
In August 2007, Mr. Gambrah, a British national, was accused of a murder outside a nightclub in Ghana's capital Accra. Unaware of the charges against him, Mr. Gambrah returned to the UK later in the year and was only arrested in 2009, when he arrived at Kotoka International Airport to visit his son, who was unwell. He was released on bail in February 2010 and returned to the UK. In February 2012, five years after the murder took place, the Ghanaian Government requested the UK Government extradite Mr. Gambrah to Ghana to face trial for the alleged offence.
Ghana has not carried out any executions since 1990 but the death sentence remains mandatory for murder. The Ghanaian government offered various assurances that the death penalty would not be carried out, but in light of the mandatory nature of the death penalty, was unable to offer assurances that Mr. Gambrah would not be sentenced to death. It was also unable to explain when, how or by whom Mr. Gambrah's sentence would be officially commuted. Mr. Gambrah was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and the Court agreed that there were serious doubts as to the ability of the Ghanaian prison system to provide adequate mental health treatment for Mr. Gambrah.
The key question for the Court, therefore, was whether the circumstances of Mr. Gambrah's imprisonment in Ghana would constitute inhuman and degrading treatment contrary to article 3, given that, if convicted, he would be sentenced to death, even with the assurances he had that he would not be executed and the de facto moratorium in Ghana.
Ultimately the Court found that it would be inhuman and degrading to expose someone with Mr. Gambrah's mental health problems to the legal limbo of being sentenced to death without knowing when, whether or how his sentence would ever be commuted.
Lord Justice Moses went on to express grave doubts as to whether an extradition should go ahead in any case where the nature of a person's sentence is so uncertain, as to do so would also amount to inhuman and degrading treatment. In his view, sentencing a person to death without taking into account the particular facts of the offence or his own personal circumstances and leaving him to rely only on the mercy of the president, was also in breach of the right to a fair trial, and should itself present a further barrier to extradition".
On the same case; Ghana's newspaper-Graphic wrote the below at the time;
"Collaboration between the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has led to the arrest of a murder suspect at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
The suspect, Frank Kwame Gambrah, 30, who allegedly fled the country to the United Kingdom soon after shooting Darren Danso, 25, at the car park at the Aphrodisiac Night Club in August 2007, was arrested when he was going through arrival formalities at the airport.
The Deputy Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Joshua Dogbeda, told the Daily Graphic that both Darren and Frank are British-born Ghanaians who resided in London.
He said the two, who were friends, used to visit Ghana frequently to stay for some time and then return to the UK.
According to ACP Dogbeda, investigations by the police soon after the incident revealed that Darren befriended both the suspect and his younger brother, Eric Gambrah, in London.
He said after some time the relationship turned sour, with violent confrontations developing among the three friends in London and that prompted Darren to come to Ghana in August 2007 to cool off for some time and also avoid, any fatal consequences.
ACP Dogbeda said the suspect followed up to Ghana and started sending a series of text messages to the deceased that he (Frank) would kill him, so Darren should beware, a threat the deceased ignored.
However, about 3 am on October, 12, 2007 the deceased, together with his white girlfriend, Sofia Babel, stepped out of the Aphrodisiac Night Club at the Airport Residential Area to pick his car which he had parked in front of the National Service Secretariat building which is close to the night club.
Unknown to the deceased and his girlfriend, the suspect had laid ambush in the vicinity and so as soon as they entered Darren's Audi saloon car, the suspect suddenly appeared and fired two shots at Darren's chest and quickly fled the scene.
People from the night club who heard the gunshots rushed to the aid of the deceased and rushed him to the Nyaho Clinic and later to the 37 Military Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
A watchman in the area who witnessed the incident took the registration number of the suspect's car, GE 1097 Y, and handed it over to the police.
Police investigators traced the car used by the suspect and it turned out that it was a rented car.
The rental company confirmed that the suspect, Frank Kwame Gambrah, had rented the car on October 4, 2009 and returned it in the morning of October, 12, 2007 soon after shooting Darren to death.
Thereafter, he fled the country to the UK that very day and all efforts by the police to trace him proved futile. The police then placed his name on the police most wanted list and a copy was given to personnel of the GIS at the KIA, to be on the lookout-for him.
After staying away for exactly two years, the suspect decided to return home but he was arrested at the airport and handed over to the Homicide Unit of the CID for investigations.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Hanson Gove of the Homicide Unit who led the investigations said the suspect was arraigned before the Osu District Magistrate's Court on Friday, October 9, 2009 on a provisional charge of murder and remanded to enable the investigation team to complete its work.
The suspect made a second appearance in court Tuesday."
Also, a quick online search on the name Frank Gambrah brings out a lot on this case and other cases; such as a certain Frank Gambrah was also sentenced in 2000 in the UK to six years in jail for robbery.
And the same person (age at the time matching Tiffany's baby Daddy) arrested by the police in 2008 in Croydon for hiding a 22-calibre rifle at his girlfriend-Margaret Aggudey's house. He was charged with possession of a gun at Croydon Crown Court and was jailed in 2008.
Sentencing Frank Gambrah, Judge Timothy Stow QC told him: "I cannot think of any motive you might have had of an innocent nature for having this gun."
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Welcome to Hintlesham Fisheries
A friendly and safe place for angling in Suffolk. Located in Ipswich, both close to the Suffolk and Essex borders, we offer 4 individual lakes on site. The Specimen Carp Lake has undergone a four year restocking programme which has resulted in a well stocked lake.
With on site canteen, washing facilities, caravan and camping facilities, private hire options, match fishing competitions and a great, friendly fishing community active on our Facebook Page, we have everything anglers need for relaxing, yet fun and successful fishing in Suffolk.
Silver match
After a frosty cold start which turned into a fine sunny day the result of dave silver match on the bottom lake////// 1st,19lb12oz//2nd,18lb8oz//3rd,10lb9oz
Due to a 24hour carp match speci lake will be closed from 0630 10th nov till 1000 11th nov


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Building on skills and introducing development programmes can be a great way to increase team productivity and retain staff members, but failing to do so can lead to difficult circumstances. (See also:How executives can retain CIO talent.)
Training can provide employees much needed support while also creating better communication with colleagues, increasing overall work productivity.
It is important for organisations to train newly hired staff to help them adapt to the business culture, while also understanding the company's procedures. Here, CIO UK looks at how 12 leading UK CIOs and decision-makers are training their staff members to ensure a greater team performance. (Read next:13 recruitment tips for CIOs.)
"The enforcement of appraisals, personal development plans and use of mentoring and coaching programmes have contributed to the success of the Trust. We are also investing in training and are introducing job shadowing across the department and in clinical areas to help my staff understand the importance and impacts of what they do, and expose them to different roles within the department."
Joanna Smith, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust's CIO
"To ensure the team are first internally supported in considering new roles, a programme of training and development was also launched. The team has worked together in 2016 to prepare for an influx of new resources, ensuring that induction and on boarding programmes are as agile as possible and that the culture of the team can be clearly articulated, thus enabling new ideas to be heard and applied to the way the team evolves."
"A talent management programme has been developed for the entire OoCIO in 2016 and will be implemented in 2017 to ensure that the digital skills that we have grown can continue to evolve, thus enabling us to flex our delivery capability internally."
Richard Corbridge, HSE Ireland's CIO
"The best results are achieved from a long-term investment in people. This leads to confident and empowered team members who take ownership of tasks. In line with this belief, this year I've invested time and resources delivering training and awareness sessions across the business focused on cybersecurity. With an emphasis on risk awareness and personal accountability, this training reinforces everyone's role within the business to do their part in keeping it cyber secure."
Russell Morris, Northern Powergrid'sHead of IT
"With the 90-day management plan, I am training my team and setting the expectations of being a manager, which have seen both personal and team improvements, ranging from personal productivity to effective communication and meeting management."
"A key component of this is emotional intelligence training; helping typically introverted technically focused individuals communicate more effectively with business colleagues and with their peers within technology fostering great teamwork and greater empathy."
Frank Gibson, Royal Society of Chemistry's Director of IT
"Our big programme in this area is tech-savvy leadership – a multichannel, multidisciplinary programme which has been designed and is now in execution to support colleagues in operating and leading in a digital world. It involves a series of short-term and long-term interventions starting with an 'iconic event' delivered as part of an overall 21st-century leadership programme developed by our HR department but in partnership with me and my digital colleagues."
"The programme includes using existing meetings to bring key topics into discussion, for example, showcasing product development or communications techniques, and mutual mentoring between tech-savvy staff and less tech-savvy senior leaders. There are drop-in sessions on how to use kit, safe spaces to share ideas, an executive assistant group where we equip them with tools and techniques to support the executive teams and also maintain a feedback loop."
Laura Dawson, British Council's CIO
"In Action for Children, the CEO was an exemplary champion, who learned to use Twitter and was a role model in using a tablet and working flexibly, whether hotdesking in the office and/or working from home. To ensure the tech supported the CEO, I arranged training and any tweaks needed – for example, a Wi-Fi booster at home. This helped those on the senior team that are in favour of digital change to take the lead, and I supported by presenting as a joint platform."
"We already have apprentices in IT and I have signed up to use recruitment agencies that specialise in retraining ex-forces personnel and career-break mums for IT careers. As an IT team we are also providing work experience for people with disabilities."
Alan Crawford Action for Children's CIO
"When I took over the service in 2012, development of IT skills wasn't an objective. The skills that staff had varied enormously and this impacted on the service delivery. Over the years, we have ensured that training and skilled staff is central to our work. All staff are ITIL-qualified, project managers have Prince2 and agile qualifications."
"Leadership and management training has been at the core of service improvement. This has resulted in the majority of leadership roles in 2016 being internal promotions, based on open competitive processes, where we advertised widely.
Kevin Gibbs, Greenwich Borough Council CIO
"[We are] onboarding an external supplier to provide the service we wanted to take careful planning and implementation. From the outset we wanted the external company to be an extension of us, to integrate with the business and be representatives of the department."
"To achieve this, both our internal team and the supplier wear e-business-branded polo shirts, so regardless of who is on site everyone recognises a member of the infrastructure team. It's a little thing, but the visibility, and in turn the approachability of the team, is important. We paid particular attention to our training programme and documentation, ensuring that anybody who came on site knew our processes and systems, and was able to offer an effective level of support as quickly as possible."
Mike Fairers, BSH UK & Ireland's Director of IT
"The digital competencies have been a strong start here. We have also run an extremely popular 'being digital' presentation to every single department, trying to explain what we see in the digital strategy team as key for us as individuals but also the company as a whole to play a role in a fast- changing world. The presentation has been popular, and we've run it for a number of organisations in the health space within the UK as well as at meet-ups and other events."
Sharon Cooper, BMJ CDO
"My team and I have developed further improvements to our 4G site-connect systems. Our engineering teams are now seamlessly connected to the WAN without the need for clunky Terminal Services. Users enjoy the same secure user-experience wherever they go. They undertake basic training online, discuss progress with colleagues from site using video link, backup their PC off-site and access any document library on Raymond Brown Construction's network."
Peter Williamson, Raymond Brown Construction's Business System Director
"We have doubled our training budget and ensuring that all of the IT team are trained to ITIL foundation level. We are encouraging and facilitating cross training to enhance resilience but also to provide greater job satisfaction. Through better monitoring of service performance, we are focusing on improving the customer experience."
David Edwards, Cardiff University's Director of IT
"We want colleagues across DWP to think digitally. Over the last year, we've delivered more than 20,000 hours of digital training to colleagues to improve our digital knowledge and expertise."
"We are creating modern digital workplaces to support flexible working across the whole department, and a more agile, collaborative culture. That means securely introducing technology our colleagues have become accustomed to as consumers, including tablets, laptops, smartphones and Wi-Fi, plus enterprise social media and other collaboration tools."
Mayank Prakash, Department for Work & Pensions' CIO
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Dubna, Russia : A Universal Model
for Cities along the New Silk Road and the World Landbridge!
by Benoît Odille
and Stephan Hochstein
November 2015
We were invited by the Russian Federal agency Rosssotrudnichestvo as delegates from the Schiller Institute to visit and tour the city of Dubna from the 26th to 30th of October 2015, along with 11 representatives of media, business, and social organizations from China, India, South Africa, Bosnia, Serbia, Slovenia, Britain, Colombia and France. The invitation came as a followup to our relationship with the "BRICS Youth Forum" organizers in Ufa in August 2015, when Sébastien Drochon and Kai-Uwe Ducke presented our vision of the World Landbridge.
We naturally accepted this cordial invitation to Dubna with great confidence that we would see something exceptional and a different spirit than that of today's Europe, where austerity is seen as a remedy for economic decline and investments in human creativity as an unbearable cost. We also wanted to see how the BRICS alliance is functioning, and on what physical economic basis they were building their common future. The science city of Dubna must be regarded as a spearhead of Russia, of the BRICS and, more broadly, of the world, because it features the most advanced activities of man in nuclear physics, machine-tool design, medical treatment, advanced electronics, nanotechnologies, new material design, aircraft equipment and the rocket industry, but is also capable of investing in human cultural values that shape the morality of its population : the regular practice of Classical music, sports, and numerous educational programs aimed at spreading knowledge and getting people accustomed to transmitting it.
Our visit included the following: a visit to the city's most remarkable sites; a meeting with the mayor M. Mukhin; a cultural evening with a concert of Dubna's Boys' Choir; a visit to the new Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and some factories; a visit to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR); a cultural evening with a concert by a string quartet from Dubna's Symphonic Orchestra; and a meeting at the Moscow regional government building with deputy chairman M. Boutsaev.
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A city built for researchers
Dubna city is located on a territory surrounded by three rivers (the Volga, Dubna and Sister) and the Moscow canal (built from 1932 to 1937). This land was chosen after World War II, in 1956, for setting up the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) because of protected location, being on an "island" surrounded by water. From this date on, the city was built around the JINR to welcome all the best researchers of the Soviet Union and give them a peaceful environment in which they could freely discover new laws of physics! Everything had to be built from scratch. All the infrastructure had to be developed to transform this piece of nature into a liveable place.
The JINR was the most advanced nuclear research center of the Soviet Union and was considered an international intergovernmental center that would unite the most talented people in the field of nuclear and particle physics from allied nations. From its location, the JINR established the biggest Synchrophasotron of human history to study the most hidden secrets of matter. The principle of this device was to accelerate small particles, like protons, in a 9000-ton ring of copper magnets, and make them interact with other elements to find out their properties, their composition, synthesize new elements heavier than Uranium, and help solving theoretical problems of particle physics.
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Great names of physics were part of this fascinating adventure : D. Blokhintsev (father of the first atomic power station in the world); N. Bogoliubov (theoretician of the hadron quark model); V. Veksler (founder of the synchrophasotron concept); I. Franck (specialist in neutron physics); B. Pontecorvo (neutrino specialist); G. Flerov (whose name is given to element 114, Flerovium); and many others. These scientists opened the way for the even more ambitious programs that are currently being developed. Hence, the JINR is not a "museum" where one can only see the achievements of the past; it is a very active center, at the forefront of technology, with state-of-the-art facilities, that is still contributing a great deal to the progress of mankind. Today, 4500 scientists, engineers, and technicians from all over the world are working for the JINR, among whom are 300 Doctors of science and 1000 holders of PhDs. Among the 100 most quoted Russian scientists, 24 are from JINR.
To show the vigorousness of its research, let's get a little deeper into some of the breakthroughs that the JINR has made, or is about to realize.
· Since its early years, the JINR has been developing a method of medical treatment of cancer using accelerated proton beams to target tumors, with such precision that they don't hit the surrounding cells. This method increases the chances of success and survival for the patient, beyond that of conventional radiation therapy. As the machinery for this treatment is a research device, only 100 patients per year can benefit from this ever-improving technology. But worldwide, 20 medical centers are equipped with such proton therapy devices; they can thus treat 1000 patients a year, and 15 more facilities are under construction. At a cost of $200 million a device, one has to understand that it is not the markets that will decide on whether more are made available, but whether we have the political will to provide the best treatments of our time to the population.
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Scientists of the JINR have actively participated in the success of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a challenging project of the 21st century built under ground in Geneva, Switzerland, that should reveal the mysteries of the composition of matter. They provided "highly estimated improvements to the detectors of the LHC, fundamental technical upgradings, data collection and calculating methods that enabled to get new physics results". Utilizing this experience, the JINR is preparing the construction in Dubna of a new superconducting collider called NICA, that will further investigate the behavior of matter and its tranformation by making elements "run on one another!" Don't worry--the particles won't suffer. And the cost of the collider will be highly reduced thanks to the use of titanium superconductor magnets, that have, once cooled at -269°C, a higher electromagnetic effect for less volume of material, and ten times less electricity consumption, than the huge copper magnets of the 1950s. Density is the key !
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Talking about cooperation, the neutron detector DAN aboard the Martian rover Curiosity was constructed at JINR, where the Neutron physics department is world-famous.
The JINR is well-known for its synthesizing of new super-heavy long-lived elements with the atomic numbers 113, 114, 115, 116, 117 and 118, above the "natural" frontier of Uranium (heavier elements are very rare in nature or inexistent). Scientists have discovered that beyond this limit existed a "stability zone" for elements, even if they weren't produced in nature. This zone is known today as the "stabillity island" because before and after it there are instability zones. This "new continent" has been opened by Dubna's physicists. As a sign of recognition, elements 105 and 113 have been dubbed "Dubnium" and "Flerovium" (after its discoverer G. Flerov). This is still a dynamic area of research that can unveil a lot of secrets yet unknown. Scientists have also synthetized more than 40 new isotopes (atoms which have a given number of protons but different numbers of neutrons).
One of the virtues of accelerated particle beams is that they interact with all the matter you put in their path. That's why they are used in JINR to test the resistance of biological tissues to radiation (for medical purposes and for future manned space exploration missions), to treat radioactive wastes from nuclear power plants by favoring their transmutation (transformation from one element to another), to fabricate nano-holes in membranes and use them, for example, to filtrate blood or water and remove bacteria, viruses, and unwanted microelements, etc. One current experiment in astrobiology consists in bombarding a piece of meteorite with radiation beams and see if certain "bricks of life" molecules are generated... And it seems that it is the case ! So it could explain the role of cosmic radiation in the development of life, something that the Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky would appreciate, despite the fact that he insisted that life couldn't be created out of non-life.
· The JINR is also a pioneer in information technology and early on, established a long-distance fast communication channel between Dubna and Moscow (120 km) with a data flux of 20 Gbits/second, which is even today a great performance. All the laboratories in Dubna are connected with a 10 Gbits/s network.
In fact, all the most advanced fields of research necessary for the progress of our species are represented at JINR. And you can feel in every person you meet that this challenge is a deep-rooted part of their identity, that they're profoundly proud of it. And we should be proud of them too.
The University of Dubna, created only 20 years ago after the collapse of the Soviet Union, represents the hope of the city because 60% of graduated students stay in Dubna to work! This occurs because there's a wide-spread sentiment that all the research conducted in Dubna is absolutely fundamental for the future of society, and that they, as students, have a responsibility to contribute to make this progress possible. All of them are in quasi-constant contact with researchers because they are the professors! The scientific domains of study are over-represented among the students, at the expense of more "humanitarian" domains like law or economics. But it is fairly surprising to see a lot of young women choosing this scientific path. How come? "All the students have parents who work either for JINR or a technology company so, at home, all the kids are acquainted very early on with science, physics and technology. They get their passion from there," explained the rector of the University, Dmitry Fursaev.
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One young woman, a student in particle physics, simply answered : "The world's made of physical things, we're part of a larger galaxy. We're made of atoms! We can't ignore these realities. And in everything I look at there's always something unknown that I can explore. It's very challenging." Maybe gender has nothing to do with the story. It may be simply, that when human beings are teased with interesting subjects and they see around them their family, relatives, friends and official also fascinated with these questions, it pushes them to explore and discover more !
A city for innovation
In 2016, the city was chosen as the site of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The Russian Federation counts 4 SEZ for Innovation (including Dubna), 4 Industrial SEZ (automotive industry, titanium production, etc.), 3 Port SEZ, and 8 SEZ for Tourism and Recreation. The SEZ for Innovation principle is very simple: each company that wishes to establish a high-tech sector with a very active R&D department can benefit from ready-made infrastructure (electricity, gas, transport, water, heating, telecommunication); a discount on land acquisition; customs preferences for imports and exports, and important tax cuts. These offers should attract and nurture the most developed international companies onto the Russian territory.
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Because of the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the set-up of companies, with their factories, was delayed in the beginning, but since 2010, more and more pioneer companies have decided to take a "risk" and settle their activities in Dubna. Among them we could cite :
- Svyaz' Engineering : one of the largest European producer of high-tech circuit-boards, resistant to radiations for space applications, has established its state-of-the-art factory, equipped with advanced German machine-tools, in the SEZ site and built it from zero. It employs 200 highly skilled workers.
- NanoCascad : will soon produce equipment and materials for purification of human plasma and blood. They use the cyclotron capabilities of the JINR to create their special membranes.
- Fresenius/Konkor : 2000 workers will produce in 2016 artificial kidney devices and filters for dialysis, that are not usually produced in Russia. Though it's a German company newly established in Russia, the objective is to provide 50% of the country's filters.
- Arkray : a Japanese company that produces glucometers (600,000 per year) and whose Russian employees have to comply to the Japanese standard of quality work : the "5S" (Seiri - order, Seitou - organization, Seisou - standardization, Seiketsu - cleanness, Shitsube - discipline). And according to the chief of the team, this is the most difficult cultural challenge for Russians!
- Eyliton : the only producer of blood-testing tubes in Russia (600 million per year !) whose machines are designed by its own engineers.
- Promtech: the leader in aeronautical equipment already employs 600 workers in three facilities and is currently expanding the factory with the objective of covering 41.000 m² of land with productive work.
- Nordavind Dubna: specializing in security of objects, this company is also proud of producing small and affordable cardioscopes that measure heart beats and can detect heart diseases, before they become incurable.
- Kameny Vek : produces ultra-light composite materials from basalt.
- NanoBrakhiTech : produces radioisotope sources for treatment of prostate cancer. It is the first factory in Russia and CIS.
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But that's only the beginning since the SEZ is to be completed in 2020. New companies will come, like BioGenius in 2017. Created by Russian scientists from Moscow who discovered a new medical treatment for blood diseases, this company had only small laboratories and needed a production plant. Dubna was the choice dictated by their reason... and their hearts, as it is evident for blood specialists! The city is constantly under construction and 3 new projects are underway : the IT center for high-tech companies (on 135 ha), a residential area for IT workers called "the Town of Programmers" (3000 residents on 300 ha), and the New Industrial zone (on 50 ha). After these improvements, the SEZ Dubna will have 224 resident companies with 8000 workers. The city expects to have nearly 100.000 inhabitants by around 2020. But not more, because the city government voted a law to limit the growth of the city and keep it to a "human" size!
The mayor of Dubna, Vyacheslav B. Mukhin, is very proud of his current 75,200 inhabitants. They represent the hope that all the sufferings of the 1990s will disappear as the economic renaissance goes ahead. Two statistics show the vitality of Dubna : only 1% unemployment and 42% of workers employed in technology jobs (figures that would make European leaders dream!).
As the rector of Dubna's University stated, "Russia tries to find its own way in history and it's difficult", but the people of Dubna are showing a lot of the talents that can help the country solve its dire problems, and also those of the world. For example, after the recent intervention of the Russian army in Syria and knowing that the "Raduga" factory in Dubna is producing missiles, we asked the mayor if these missiles could solve the situation there, or if one needed more than that. He responded: "Our missiles are only for defense, not attack. And we share the wish of the Syrian people to rapidly reconstruct their country. Dubna city can and will help."
A city of culture
One interesting aspect of Dubna, which is surprising for a science city, is that culture is consciously promoted to elevate the moral standard of the population. As M. Mukhin said: "The crime rate in Dubna is the lowest in the Moscow region; kids can go to school on their own." And "a good cultural policy makes sure that youth don't fall into alcohol and drugs," two plagues that are still crippling Russian society today. Classical culture, sports, and constant education of the population are the ingredients of this policy that we warmly recommend for any city of the future.
We were offered two exceptional concerts during our stay. The first evening we attended the Boys' Choir concert (http://boyschoir-dubna.ru/video/). This Choir is the pride of the city. The boys of the Choir have a commitment and a discipline which coexists with an eagerness to play and make the sounds live beyond their literal sense. The "Gloria" of Mozart's Coronation Mass opened the way with brio to Russian popular songs, full of melancholic beauty, to finish with the famous Korobeiniki song, honoring the work of these fellow peddlers travelling across the country with trays to sell basic utensils, books, and food to the population in pre-revolutionary Russia. What enthusiasm from these youth! The second evening, we had the chance to hear a string quartet from Dubna's Symphonic Orchestra. The quality of performance was stunning, properly outstanding. You could feel the passion of the musicians between all the notes! They had energy to give and it made a very strong impression on our minds. Beauty is so necessary today to lift our thoughts above the tragedy of everyday life; thus we can only encourage these kinds of practices.
We visited the brand new sport complex of the University, built 3 years ago, where students spend several hours a week practicing 8 sports over 3 years. Unlike many universities in the world, in Dubna the utilization of the sport complex is free because the government of the city wants youth to be healthy and learn discipline, team work and self-esteem. The complex is very modern, and it shows how cultural infrastructure is as important as basic technology infrastructure.
To finish the presentation of this city of Dubna, we wanted to highlight the different programs of scientific education aimed at constantly inundating the population with new thoughts on new discoveries. Two of them are notable:
- The first is the program of inviting teachers from all over Russia to the JINR laboratories and facilities to show them how research is conducted in practice, because most of them have only theoretical knowledge of science, and that's a big obstacle when you have to share a passion for science with children! This participation in reviving the experimental method of discovery puts teachers and children on the same level, that of the exploring the yet unknown. Moreover, every year in Dubna, JINR organizes a contest to grant the best teachers the "Art of teaching" prize, which places them in a sane competition to find creative way of passing on their love of learning.
- The second program is the "Physics days at JINR," where scientists organize a lot of experiments in front of children and parents and give them the taste for asking unexpected questions. This is a privileged time for children to find their vocation!
All in all, we can see that art and science are two sides of the same coin and are equally promoted by the government of Dubna. Perhaps that government is following Friedrich Schiller's wise words in his Aesthaetical Letters, IX : "Art, like science, is emancipated from all that is positive, and all that is humanly conventional; both are completely independent of the arbitrary will of man." And "thanks to their essential vigor and indestructible life, the true and the beautiful make a victorious fight, and issue triumphant from the abyss." This is the way we can raise citizens, independent of thought and above the arbitrariness of laws, and create a people that can elevate the dignity of Man and respect its creative nature.
A city for the future
There is something of genius in this city of Dubna. It is like the element number 105 of the periodic table of Mendeleev, the Dubnium, name after the city where it was first synthesized: it is a complete project of Man, not Nature, but meanwhile it has a legitimate place in Nature as a creative work of human beings. It has a universal aspect to it, a purpose and a concept that serves the future. It has been called a "science city" since 2001, but we should call it a "universal creative city" because its role as a Russian city goes beyond the borders of its country and beyond its achievements in science. It is a place where any person can acquire a universal idea of Man and be happy to participate in its improvement over the years, decades, and centuries. Though it has proved a lot in the past, this city has even more to prove to the world in the future! And it has its place in the New Silk Road strategy, as well as in the Schiller Institute's World Land-bridge project.


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Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie- not very far in but I'm enjoying it so far!
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The Barnes Foundation is embarking on a multimillion-dollar project to boost the institution's educational and culinary experiences, including the addition of 4,000 square feet of space and changes to the restaurant that will add an open-kitchen concept.
Located on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the institution this month will begin construction on a $5.8 million project that includes what will be called the Garden Pavilion, a 4,000-square-foot facility that will provide an additional space for Barnes-de Mazia education and K–12 classes, officials announced Thursday afternoon.
It will also be a space for special programming for Barnes Foundation members, community group meetings and public programs like seminars and lectures. The pavilion will include additional dining space too.
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Slated for a summer 2017 completion, the Garden Pavilion will be located on the northeast corner of the Barnes Foundation, closest to Pennsylvania Avenue and 21st Street and adjacent to the institution's Garden Restaurant.
Garden Pavilion will be accessible through the restaurant's outdoor dining space and through the Annenberg Court.
Officials wanted to "carefully assess how it would best advance our public mission" before it began, according to Peg Zminda, Barnes executive vice president, CFO and COO, who said officials had considered the project for some time.
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"There are two kinds of people in the world. If you divide each of those two kinds into two more kinds using a different criterion, you will have four kinds of people in the world. Do that over and over and over long enough and you will have a world of individuals. That's the one I want to live in." ~Two-bit Guru
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- It might sound like new age hocus pocus to say that electrically grounding your body is good for your health. Speaking from my own experience, electrically grounding your body is good for your health. The practice is called Earthing. If you don't believe me, read Dr. Mercola's article and read Clint Ober's book Earthing.
- If you're jumpy and think you can't meditate try reading this.
- No matter how old or how young you are, yoga is for you. Just read this and see.


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Ann Seymour: Do not attempt to confuse me by using words beyond my understanding.
Bess: I am sorry, madame, but they are difficult to avoid.
~from Young Bess (1953)
Every generation has its own interpretation of the complex soul of Elizabeth Tudor. The 1953 film Young Bess, starring Jean Simmons as the future Elizabeth I of England and Stewart Granger as Thomas Seymour, is a romanticized version of Margaret Irwin's historical novel. I read the book as a young teen, and first saw the film when it ran one night on the late movie back in the '70's. Although it is replete with 1950's technicolor glamor, Young Bess still surpasses many contemporary renditions of the life of Elizabeth I for its fairly authentic exploration of the unique situations of her youth. The focus is on her tragic involvement with her stepmother's husband Tom Seymour, who in the film is shown as being Elizabeth's overwhelming first love. Simmons and Granger, who were married in real life, are able to communicate the intensity of the dangerous infatuation while hardly touching each other. I remember, watching the film way back when, how my mother said, "Those old movies were so full of passion and no one ever took their clothes off."
While the film, like most films, can be picked apart from a historical point of view, Jean Simmons' portrayal of the teenage Elizabeth Tudor is positively brilliant. Jean is much prettier than the real Elizabeth, but her beauty does not prevent her from becoming Bess. She captures the combination of intense vulnerability and insecurity of a motherless girl whose paternity has been questioned. In Jean's first scene she projects with a flash of the eyes the strong will, the indomitable determination of the adolescent princess to survive at all costs. Always one feels Bess' sense of her dignity as the daughter of a king, a dignity which she will not compromise even though it strives against her longing to be loved.
Jean Simmons' Bess confronts her changes of fortune with incredible poise and self-possession, while emanating the very real anxieties that the daughter of Anne Boleyn had to face. One can understand in her portrayal why the love-starved girl became smitten with Tom Seymour. Yet in spite of her devastation at the tragic outcome of the highly inappropriate relationship, she keeps her head, and does not let herself be destroyed.
Charles Laughton is the best Henry VIII ever, a villainous old swine, conflicted over his past deeds, and especially torn in his feelings for "Nan Bullen's brat." Deborah Kerr is the lovely, gracious sixth queen, Katherine Parr, who tries to create a semblance of family life for the motherless Bess and her brother Edward. It is sad that because of Seymour, Bess loses the motherly guidance of Queen Katherine, and comes to the verge of public disgrace. In the last scene, as the new young queen greets her people, the inner pain and deep bitterness radiate from her face amid the triumph and promise of glory.


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The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
Justin Bieber turned out to be the big winner at the 2011 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.
The show, hosted by Jack Black and featuring performances by Willow Smith, brought out a bevy of stars, but it was Bieber who drew the biggest applause of the night.
The Usher protégé beat out his mentor to win the award for Favorite Male Singer, while his song "Baby," featuring Ludacris, won the prize for favorite song.
In movies, Jaden Smith took to the stage to accept The Karate Kid's award for Favorite Movie.
Eddie Murphy also graced the stage to take home the blimp for Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie for his role as Donkey in Shrek Forever.
In sports, Shaquille O'Neal won for Favorite Athlete, while Justin Timberlake was acknowledged for his philanthropic work with Nickelodeon's The Big Help Award.
While accepting his award, Timberlake told the kid-filled audience, "I want to dedicate this to all of you very cool, very loud kids. This is your world."
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The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
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Badass Digest's TV Timewarp - Firefly: Episodes 4-6. Devin Faraci, Meredith Borders and Erin Callahan revisit "Bushwhacked", "Safe" and "Shindig". You can see their takes on "Serenity" and "The Train Job" here. -
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Briefly describe your journey in writing your first book. How long did it take you to finish that manuscript?
While I'd been writing in various formats (magazines, scripts), it took being fired as my husband's legal secretary to finally sit down and start a novel in 2001. His contentious clients had driven me a little crazy. Writing Ain't Love Grand? was marvelous therapy and took me about four months.
Did you query agents and traditional publishers? How long before you got your offer of representation/your first contract?
I reviewed the traditional publishers guidelines and realized Ain't Love Grand? did not fit in any of their boxes. On a whim, I sent it to a small press (Echelon Press) and it was put under contract on my first marketing attempt.
What factors influenced your decision to self-publish to Amazon?
Creative freedom and independence. I've been waiting ten years for e-books to finally take off. I don't want to write variations on the same book over and over. I've got my out-of-the box romances and my "mystical" books that touch on areas of healing and spirituality. Amazon allows "Indie" authors to publish without consideration to what is "hot" or what will make the most money for a big corporation.
Did you design your cover art? If not, would you care to share your graphic designer's information? How involved were you during the creative process for your cover?
I've lately been employing Jaana Baker Photography (www.jaanabaker.com). I trust her visual, creative instincts better than mine, so I just give her the gist of the book and let her have at it. The lovely cover she recently came up with for Ever-Flowing Streams: Adventures in Prayer, my next release, came to her in a dream. The colors are very "high vibration," though I doubt she knew that.
What is the biggest thing you've learned during your self-publishing journey?
That the learning curve never ends! There's always another publishing system to conquer, another marketing tool to explore. It's really very exciting and utterly daunting.
What kinds of social media [twitter, facebook, webpage, blog, writing forums] are you involved with trying to garner publicity for your book(s)?
All of the above, though the blogging is hit-and-miss. Someone said "Blogging is publishing your first draft." Ouch! Kindleboards and EbookGab are a couple of popular writing forums. I send out regular newsletters through Constant Contact and utilize AuthorsDen, Bookbuzzr and Scribd.
Besides Amazon, are there any other sites where your books are for sale?
I've got Devil Moon: A Mystic Romance and Shiny Green Shoes" up at Smashwords. My paperbacks Ain't Love Grand? and That Devil Moon are out of print, but still floating around at e-bay and used book stores (and in my closet!)
What is the best advice you can offer new authors?
Don't rush to publish. Go through at least five editors, which can be friends and other writers. Make your book the very best it can be.
What's next for you?
Ever-Flowing Streams: Adventures in Prayer has been in the works for three years. It's a combination of memoir and guide to practical prayer. I've been involved in alternative medicine and energy healing for many years. Streams comes out of that experience.


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"Just because of cryptocurrency, we cannot have Financial Services Commission (FSC), which is a regulatory agency, be the agency that is responsible for Blockchain Industry Promotion Fundamental Act. We need to have a separate department be in charge of promoting blockchain industry and have FSC take a step back."
"There will not be any confusion within blockchain industry and legal industry by having various conditions such as conditions for setting up Smart Contract more clear."
Korea International Trade Association (KITA) held a meeting for 'Legislation of Blockchain Industry Promotion Fundamental Act' at Trade Tower in Samsung-dong on the 16th and collected opinions from representatives of various industries. Representatives from blockchain companies, accelerators, universities, and law firms participated in this meeting and they suggested for changes in clauses and urged for swift legislation.
Industries agreed that there needs to be enough clauses that also consider investors alongside of blockchain businesses within a legislation bill. They are claiming that it will be difficult to promote blockchain industry until FSC eases its stance towards complete prohibition of ICO.
"Although there are many technical companies and venture companies that are looking to do reverse ICOs and tokenization, South Korean investors are negative towards ICO as they cannot possess cryptocurrencies due to Capital Market Act." said Kim Kyoon-tae who is a partner of HASHED. "Our country's competitive edge in investment will be weaker compared to other countries and it will continue to depend on traditional IPO (Initial Public Offering)."
"Because regulations given by government authorities to financial industry are ambiguous, entire blockchain investment has stopped." said Director Park Sung-joon of Dungguk University's Blockchain Research Center. "Because most of government departments excluding FSC and Financial Supervisory Service are looking at ICO positively, we need to first lift off the sanction that prohibits ICO and talk about solutions that will promote our blockchain industry."
Many attorneys also attended this meeting and shared their opinions about interpretation and correction of detailed clauses with Senior Attorney Kim Kyung-hwan of MINWHO Law Group who wrote legislation bill.
"Many people from legal industry point out that there cannot be regulations on utility-type tokens because utility-type tokens do not have set laws for them unlike securities-type tokens." said Jung Ho-seok who is an attorney from SEUM Law Groupo. "We hope that there can be clear-cut regulations to reduce amount of risks for businesses and to increase level of predictions."
"Clauses that approve validation from achievement of conditions of Smart Contract are somewhat unrealistic." said Cho Won-hee who is an attorney from D'LIGHT Law Group.
"We are not sure if qualification system related to blockchain is a clause that is absolutely necessary." said CEO Jung Sang-ho of CrossChain Technology while mentioning detailed clauses of Blockchain Industry Promotion Fundamental Act. "It is more realistic to verify qualifications by whether blockchain companies can carry out their road maps rather than having them show their source codes."
Opinions about needs for regulations on cryptocurrency exchanges were also brought up.
"Since legislation of this act is to ultimately protect investors and to promote our blockchain industry, there should be clauses that mandate governance of blockchain-based companies to be transparent." said CEO Hwang Sung-jae of Foundation X. "We should also consider solutions about preventing moral laxity due to a recent controversy involving listing of exchanges and issue of tokens."
"We are going to put together opinions and apply them to a legislation bill and supplement current Blockchain Industry Promotion Act." said Department Head An Geun-bae of KITA's Trade Support Headquarters. "We are going to continue to gather various opinions by continuing to have meetings in the future."
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I went to a Ushahidi meetup on Friday here in Seattle to see Erik Hersman, whom I've known since back in 2006 when he was working for Zillow's earliest competitor Eppraisal and later saw him at the iHub while my friend and I were in Nairobi in 2010.
Erik showed me the coolest piece of hardware I've seen in a long, long time.
The BRCK.
What is it?
The easiest, most reliable way to connect to the internet, anywhere in the world, even when you don't have electricity
I've been in many places around the world where I would have loved to have one of these – and yes, Nairobi where the iHub and Ushahidi are based is one of those places. The BRCK has the chance to be every long term traveler's best friend.
You can see the KickStarter campaign here
Congrats to Erik Hersman and the entire team for building something truly awesome that will help millions of people all over the globe stay connected to the internet even when there is no power! I can't wait to see this go into real production.


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My oldest son, who is now 6, has always loved black beans ever since he was a baby! He will not eat pinto or pork in beans. He just loves black beans. Whenever I make them he always asks for a big plate of them and nothing else. Then he goes back for seconds! These beans were no exception. They are very very easy and have a lot of flavor. You can spice these up by adding more cayenne pepper or if you need them family friendly try just a pinch of cayenne pepper to give them flavor!
Cuban Black Beans
2 (15 oz) cans of black beans
2 teaspoons chili powder
pinch of cayenne pepper
juice of 1 lime
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
3 green onions, sliced optional
Over medium heat place the cans of beans, seasonings and lime juice. Heat all the way through then stir in the cilantro and green onions.
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Barbara H. Peterson
I fear I have lost my privacy…
No longer am I free to do as I please whenever I please, in the privacy of my own home. When once I was free to blow in the wind, unencumbered by attire or manners, free to jump up and down and run naked in the rain, I am now bound by the constraints of cordiality.
I must curtail my flight, cut my own wings, to conform to standard politeness. My spirit, now imprisoned behind the boundaries of my land, under a microscope, inspected at will.
I am a butterfly caught in a jar, furiously beating her wings against the sides, yearning to be free once again. I am a bird abruptly halted in flight, a cat robbed of its prey. I yearn for the freedom to be as I once was. I yearn for privacy lost, and maybe, never to return again.
I feel anger welling up inside my being as I gaze across the once beautiful field onto encroaching civilization. I am aghast that this could happen to me. I tried so hard to hold onto my freedom. So very hard. But to no avail…
I have neighbors.
©2014 Barbara H. Peterson
Tags: Barbara H. Peterson, civilization, Farm Wars, farmwars, musings, privacy
11 Responses to "Privacy Lost"
Abe says:
Leave HD and go to solid state.
Barbara H. Peterson says:
OMG! I thought you were joking!
PJ London says:
This actually was a complaint to the police, about two lesbians swimming naked in their back yard.
Came from Germany about 5 or 6 years ago. (I added binoculars, but the ladder and garage roof is true)
Barbara H. Peterson says:
PJ, Far be it from me to get in your business, but if you would at least invest in a high powered spotting scope, maybe you wouldn't have to use those outdated binoculars;)
Marjie says:
LMAO PJ's comment is hysterical and run around dare I say, *naked* all you want. Ok so when I win the lottery, We'll make 'em a offer they can't refuse. :-)
Marjie says:
Ok I am so sorry and in a words that just sucks!
james says:
YOU should have thought ahead and bought the property next to yours and THEN YOU WOULD NOT HAVE NEIGHBORS.
Irene says:
neighbors are not the worst thing, what is worse is the overt collection of your data by unaccountable corporations like google and the insurance institute.
PJ london says:
I, for one, am thoroughly outraged at this young woman running around dressed indecently. ( I could not bring myself to use the word N***d).
She is a danger to the morals of the (2) young people in our community.
I know that she lives 400 yards from anyone and that she erected a wall to have privacy but if I put the stepladder on the roof of the garage, and climb up, I can see her quite clearly using my late husband's binoculars.
Kololia says:
Please,Don't give into them, run naked anytime you want. It's your property, and you have the free will to do, what makes you happy. If they don't like it, then they can move. Don't stop being you, or conform to their standards. You have the seniority, use it. Give them hell!
Classic ways to get rid of them. http://www.actclassy.com/2012/.....neighbors/
Morning Star says:
Communal living ….. :C /*


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Saturday, January 18, 2014
Mark Reynolds, 2012 Topps Gypsy Queen #27
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While a minor league contract is not ideal and does indicate a drop in Mark Reynolds' value, I wouldn't expect to see him playing in Nashville. It seems more and more teams are signing established players to minor league contracts because they don't want to clear a 40-man roster spot (and possibly lose a potential low-priced young players) until they know that the new guy can actually do the job.
As for the Orioles' acquisitions, I keep telling myself that Duquette is just waiting out the market, but it would be nice if they got SOMEBODY.
- January 19, 2014 at 8:30 AM
- Kevin said...
Shlabotnik - I'd also anticipate Reynolds making the 25-man roster in Milwaukee. He's gotta be better than last year's horrorshow of Yuni Betancourt and Alex Gonzalez.
- January 28, 2014 at 4:49 PM
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