text: Pubdate: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 Source: Prince George Citizen (CN BC) Copyright: 2017 Prince George Citizen Contact: http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/350 Author: Gordon Clark Page: 6 MARIJUANA LINKED TO HEALTH ISSUES, STUDY FINDS Here we go again. Another week, another massive report by top doctors and scientists finding very limited medicinal value to marijuana. In an age when liberal politicians such as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson claim to be implementing "evidence-based" public policy, I find it odd that they have such a blind spot when it comes to pot. A new report by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research - that reviewed the results of 10,700 studies on the medicinal qualities of marijuana concluded that there is "conclusive or substantial evidence that cannabis or cannabinoids are effective" in treating only three conditions: chronic pain in adults, chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, and patient-reported multiple sclerosis spasticity symptoms (although there was "limited" evidence of "clinician-measured" spasticity relief). The report, drafted by a committee headed by Harvard medical school professor Dr. Marie McCormick, reached similar conclusions to a review of the research on medical marijuana published in June by the Journal of the American Medical Association. It found "moderate-quality" evidence that pot controls pain and MS spasticity. An editorial accompanying the JAMA research argued that the political agenda to legitimize "medical" marijuana was pushing ahead without adequate research into whether marijuana was effective or safe. The National Academies report also listed the significant harms of marijuana, including: * "Substantial evidence" that smoking pot causes "worse respiratory symptoms and more frequent bronchitis episodes." * Increased risk of motor vehicle crashes. * Moderate evidence of increased risk of overdose injuries, including respiratory distress among children. * Substantial evidence that pot use by pregnant women results in newborns with lower birth weights. * Moderate evidence it causes impairment of "the cognitive domains of learning, memory and attention" with acute use. * Substantial evidence linking cannabis use with the "development of schizophrenia or other psychoses." * Substantial evidence linking increases in cannabis use frequency with "progression to problem cannabis use." With all that, how can any responsible public official rush into loosening controls on marijuana without thoroughly considering the negative impacts on people and society, especially when the loudest chorus for the policy change is coming from the mostly illegal marijuana industry that stands to massively profit? Why is anyone listening to them and their claims? The new study, for example, found "limited evidence" that cannabis is effective at treating weight loss in HIV/AIDS patients, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, dementia, glaucoma, depression, cancer, anorexia, irritable bowel syndrome, epilepsy... and so on. For the most part, the medical marijuana industry is a fraud. It's making false claims to sell pot because people like to get high. I just wish everyone would own up to that fact. And I say that as someone who has long supported decriminalization because with so many people using marijuana it makes no sense saddling people with criminal records over relatively innocuous behaviour. But that's a far cry from legalizing the drug, or celebrating its use as so many people now do. Look at Colorado. In almost any way it can be measured, increased marijuana use is causing a host of societal problems, including higher rates of marijuana-impaired driving, pot use by teenagers and young adults, school dropout rates, marijuana-related hospital visits, and accidental exposure of the drug to children. I'm not interested in launching a new form of reefer madness, but doesn't government have a responsibility to discourage behaviour that isn't good for people? Surely, Canada or Vancouver are not improved - and people are not leading as productive and significant lives as possible - with increased drug use. It is hard for me and others to reconcile the stern warnings on Health Canada's website about the dangers of pot use, especially by young people, with a decriminalization policy that everyone knows will expand its use. There was some good news in the new U.S. study. Marijuana use is, according to the best current evidence, not linked to lung, head or neck cancers, the triggering of heart attacks, strokes or pregnancy complications for mothers, to list a few. The authors also listed a multitude of conditions and outcomes for which the current research does not provide answers one way or the other, leading them to call on the U.S. federal government to make changes to their drug laws so that more research on marijuana and its effects can be conducted. That, at least, is something those for and against marijuana can likely agree upon. - --- MAP posted-by:


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As the battle for Mosul wages on, military forces have made advancements into the war-ravaged north eastern Iraqi city against ISIS. This is the last strong hold the militants have in the country.
On Tuesday, the world watched as troops began to breakdown walls and go forward with reclaiming Mosul, an area predominately made up of Christians and Yazidis, who are ethnically Kurdish.
According to a breaking news tweet released by the Associated Press on Tuesday, the first boots have hit the ground in Mosul:
BREAKING: An Iraqi general says his troops have entered the eastern outskirts of Mosul, and are advancing as fighting continues.
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 1, 2016
Media outlets have been reporting major break throughs against ISIS over the last several days. Including the liberation of the small Christian village of Qaraqosh, a place where they were able to have their first mass since it has been taken back from the hands of ISIS.
The first Sunday mass has been held at this Iraqi church near Mosul, two years after it was captured by ISIS. pic.twitter.com/eUgVFndAmx
— AJ+ (@ajplus) October 31, 2016
As the advancements are documented world leaders like Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi are letting the enemy know exactly what their goals are:
'Chop off the snake's head': Iraq's Abadi as forces battle Islamic State inside Mosul. https://t.co/wrftlgnpXZ pic.twitter.com/EtLydYaky0
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 1, 2016
He was referring to the strategy to close off escape routes for ISIS fighters inside Mosul.
The battle against the extremist militant group has been bitter and has displaced nearly 40,000, according to Rudaw English.
Possa Allah proteggere Mosul di Hashd al-Shabi rimostranza #MosulOp @Iran @iraq pic.twitter.com/so3ZSu0eIr
— hassan (@HassanJamalmo) October 25, 2016
The town of Bartella which is located outside of Mosul was recently freed and the deserted and ghostly feeling of it can be witnessed in this video done by Rudaw English.
#AfterISIS: scenes from Bartella pic.twitter.com/bopstQnHIj
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During a visit to Monaco Pope Francis had some choice words for President Trump and his efforts to build a wall to put a stop to illegal immigration into the US. The pope must think a good offense is the best defense even as he attempts to quell the response to widespread sexual abuse within his Church.
Francis has become a man of platitudes, and not so much action. For instance, "[he] warned on Sunday that those who close borders 'will become prisoners of the walls they build.'" In 2016 the pontiff suggested, "Mr. Trump 'was not Christian' for his belief in building walls, rather than bridges . . ."
It's outrageous that the pope suggested that Trump's legitimate actions to protect the US are un-Christian while his entire priesthood is under indictment for sexual predatory acts against children, nuns and priests. And his hierarchy has systematically worked to shield abuses, and those that cover them up for the "good of the Church."
According to the UN Refugee Agency there are 68.5 million displaced people in the world including 25.4 million refugees. These numbers don't account for those who are attacked for their religious beliefs and ethnic backgrounds. There are countless places throughout the world that put people in danger. Unfortunately there are not enough destinations available to provide sanctuary for these people.
Illegal immigration has skyrocketed in recent years. Estimates indicate that the US has experienced a wave of illegals that is at least 15 million people or about 5% of the total population of the country. These interlopers are looking for asylum and/or a better life, and seemingly, will do anything to escape dangerous and unpleasant living conditions in their homeland.
The problem is not less in other places throughout the world. Europe, another prime destination for displaced individuals, has encountered serious immigration issues. Even if governments are willing to accept a certain number of refugees, indigenous people are often times unwilling to accept the impact of increased immigration that could lead to a loss of jobs, draining of financial and social resources of the host country, the establishment of ghettos, a disruption in the political balance and an increase in violent activity.
The US is by no means the only country that is struggling with the humanitarian and political implications of illegal immigration. But, do wealthier nations have a moral obligation to assist those seeking sanctuary and a more conducive living environment?
Of course there is an obligation, but it's not open ended. In the US the government has turned a blind eye to wave after wave of illegals that have overwhelmed our country. They are needy, hungry, must be sheltered and require medical assistance, all of which they can't pay for. The result is that taxpayers must pony up money to subsidize illegals.
This use of resources has put a great strain on many border communities and beyond. Our cities barely have the financial wherewithal to repair infrastructure and to take care of our homeless. Now a new group needs support. It's a daunting problem that requires great patience, foresight, determination and courage to say no at some point.
Illegals should not be allowed to jeopardize the tranquility of US citizens. And, the US has needs that are not being met because more and more tax money is being diverted to interlopers.
This growing problem in the US and around the world is not something that will go away. And to have pontiffs flinging insults, even while they are under duress, does not make the situation easier to deal with.
The pope often speaks about income and wealth inequality while it hoards billions, and perhaps trillions of dollars, of real estate and art treasures. The church should tend to its own problems and let the rest of the world deal with their issues.


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We are extremely grateful to all the individuals – including young people, adult women, sex
workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons (LGBTI) from South Africa,
Zambia and Zimbabwe who participated in this baseline.
Thanks is extended to the SAfAIDS steering committee who managed the implementation
and gave support to the baseline, namely; Jabulani Mavudze, Juliet Mkaronda, Chido Musiya,
Lovemore Tinarwo, Ngoni Chibukire, Rouzeh Eghtessadi and Lois B. Chingandu for the overall
technical guidance in this evaluation. Sincere gratitude goes to SAfAIDS' country offices in South
Africa and Zambia for their support for in country logistics.
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maine geneneral hospital
from stephen king posted in literature by crabapple
The American writer Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947 at the Maine General Hospital in Portland, ME.
Today, the hospital is called the Maine Medical Center, and contains the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital (named after the former First Lady).
stanley hotel
from stephen king posted in literature by chewing_the_scenery
Stephen King came up with the idea of what would become his third published novel The Shining after staying at The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado with his wife in 1974. The hotel, which was about to close for its off-season, became the basis for the book's fictional Overlook Hotel. They were the only guests there, although King was able to have a drink in the bar served by a bartender named Grady.
Some of The Shining tv mini-series that aired in 1997 (starring Wings Steven Weber as Jack Torrance) was filmed at The Stanley.
The hotel is rumored to be haunted and if you stay there you can catch Stanley (no relation to the hotel) Kubrick's version of The Shining playing non-stop on channel 42.


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With concern over hits to the head and concussions more prevalent than ever in the NHL, they are questions that players who played the game years ago would like to have a better handle on.
Did their playing careers cause long-term damage? Are they more at risk of developing symptoms such as dementia because of the blows to the head they suffered on the ice?
It turns out they may soon have an answer.
The NHL's alumni association announced on Wednesday that it has formed a partnership with one of the world's top neuroscience centres, the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest in Toronto, to study up to 100 former players for signs of mental health changes as they age.
The study will involve analyzing former NHLers' brains with in-depth cognitive tests and magnetic resonance imaging, a process that will be completed for every participant every three years.
NHL Alumni executive director Mark Napier, whose 12 years in the NHL included stints with the Montreal Canadiens and Edmonton Oilers, hopes the testing can determine whether former players have signs of declining health because of concussions suffered when they played.
"Obviously until a real thorough study is done, we'll never know," Napier said. "Baycrest approached us four months ago or so and we thought it'd be a really good way to find out what really does cause this awful disease."
The association put out the call for volunteers early Wednesday and already has several interested alumni, including former New York Rangers tough guy Richard Scott, whose career ended because of concussion problems seven years ago at 25.
Napier, Mark Osborne and Mike Pelyk are others already signed up to take part.
"I don't think we'll have a lot of trouble finding that many guys to take part," Napier said.
Napier was never diagnosed with a concussion during his 767-game career but now believes he suffered four or five and simply continued to play through the injuries.
"Back when I played, they put the sniffer under your nose until you could get back out there," he said. "Now I think they're really taking some great steps."
The study will also have a control group that goes through the testing in order to compare the former players to the general population.
"In head injury, teasing apart the contribution of genetics and other health factors to aging and brain function is a great challenge," Baycrest senior scientist Brian Levine said.
"By comprehensively assessing both the players and matched comparison subjects, we hope to better understand this process."
Napier said the current talk of concussions and future health concerns isn't something that keeps him up late at night, but he added that he and his peers would like to have more information about the potential link between the two.
"There's not a higher percentage in our members that have Alzheimer's or dementia, compared with the general population," Napier said. "So it hasn't been a huge concern. But with all the talk and everything going on, this was a way just to rule it out one way or the other.
"There are certainly some of our members that have early onset [of the disease] Whether that's just the typical aging process or they're one of the population that this struck, we really don't know."
The alumni association hopes the study can help current and future players as well by letting the league know exactly what the risks involved are.
"If it does come out that it's concussions [causing health issues]then I think the NHL would definitely act on it," Napier said. "But we don't know. Let's just find out first and then you can take steps later."
Some of the proceeds from the Scotiabank Pro-Am hockey tournament in Toronto next week - which is dedicated to the Gordie and Colleen Howe Fund for Alzheimer's at Baycrest - will help fund the study.


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Helion Energy Fusion Engine has received about $7 million in funds from DOE, the Department of Defense and NASA. The company hopes to raise another $2 million by next year, $35 million in 2015-17, and $200 million for its pilot plant stage.
The Fusion Engine is a cyclically operating fusion power plant technology that will be capable of clean energy generation for base load and on-demand power.
The Fusion Engine is a 28-meter long, 3-meter high bow tie-shaped device that at both ends converts gases of deuterium and tritium (isotopes of hydrogen) into plasmoids – plasma contained by a magnetic field through a process called FRC (field-reversed configuration). It magnetically accelerates the plasmoids down long tapered tubes until they collide and compress in a central chamber wrapped by a magnetic coil that induces them to combine into helium atoms. The process also releases neutrons.
The Fusion Engine provides energy in two ways. Like in a fission reactor, the energy of the scattered neutrons gives off heat that ultimately drives a turbine. Helion is also developing a technique that directly converts energy to electricity. The direct conversion will provide about 70 percent of the outgoing electricity according to Kirtley.
Helion Energy new plan is to build a 50-MWe pilot of its "Fusion Engine" by 2019 after which licensees will begin building commercial models by 2022.
In 2011, Helion Energy had about $5 million in funding. So it appears that Helion Energy had gotten grants or funding worth another $2 million.
Instead of raising $20 million they are looking to raise $2 million and then $35 million.
The Helion Energy website is unavailable now. The MSNW LLC (sister company to Helion Energy working on Space fusion) does refer to the Helion Energy work
Helion Energy Research Progress
A fusion chamber also requires durable materials – doubly so since neutrons bombard the inside walls, severely testing their durability (except for in a process called "aneutronic fusion," but more on that another time). Therein lies one of the main crossover points between fission and fusion development. Both are looking for materials that can handle high energy neutron bombardment and high temperatures. Although fusion has a kinder brand image than does fission, the fact is that it sets neutrons racing about just as fission does (again, aneutronic fusion does not do this).
For Helion, this means finding the right material to line the inside of the compression chamber where the plasmoids collide and release neutrons.
"This wall is exposed to high levels of radiation and high thermal load," notes Kirtley. Helion is considering alloys including tungsten, beryllia and molybdenum. These materials will be familiar to engineers and scientists working on high temperature fission reactors. As Kirtley notes, "the tungsten alloy claddings in high-temperature reactors absolutely share material crossover." Helion's collaborators on so-called "first wall" development include the U.S. Department of Defense and the University of Washington, he says.
Helion Energy has devised a technique that allows for "rapid replacement" of the wall, a breakthrough that Kirtley describes as "one of the key advantages" of the Fusion Engine. "We believe it is key to the engineering design of an economically feasible fusion energy system," he says.
In Helion's Fusion Engine, a coolant material will form a blanket that absorbs the neutrons and their heat after the neutrons escape through the wall. As is the case with some fission research companies, Helion is not yet sure what coolant it will use, although its preference is FLiBe – a molten salt of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride. The MSR reactor community will recognize FLiBe as one of the fluids that can serve as both a coolant blanket and a fuel carrier in an MSR. It is the substance that lends its name to Flibe Energy, the Hunstville, Ala. company that is developing a two-fluid FLiBe-based MSR.
Helion is also considering using lithium as the blanket coolant. Lithium is a common choice in fusion designs because it reacts with the neutrons to make tritium. Of the two hydrogen istopes commonly used in fusion – deuterium and tritium – tritium is the more difficult to obtain (deuterium is found commonly in seawater), so a process that replenishes tritium via interaction with lithium is a popular design among fusion engineers. Kirtley claims that Helion's fusion process requires less tritium than do other fusion technologies and that the Fusion Engine makes some of its required tritium by fusing deuterium atoms in the collision.
"Our reactor design removes the majority of the complex tritium producing blanket," says Kirtley.
Thus Helion has less need to breed tritium from lithium and it is therefore looking seriously at FLiBe, which is a more effective, less expensive and less problematic coolant than lithium, he notes.
FLiBe might serve a second purpose on Helion's Fusion Engine as well. Kirtley says the company wants to use it to provide electrical insulation to the electromagnets. By using FLiBe for that function as well as for the coolant blanket, Helion would simplify its materials needs and lower its costs, he notes.
Helion's design comes from company co-founder John Slough, who is also a research associate professor at the University of Washington and who runs Redmond-based space propulsion firm MSNW LLC.
Slough is a fusion enthusiast, to say the least. He is designing a separate fusion reactor intended as a propulsion device that in principle could send manned spacecraft to Mars in 30 days. That project known as the Fusion Driven Rocket, has funding from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.
Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a Co-Founder of a startup and fundraiser for high potential early-stage companies. He is the Head of Research for Allocations for deep technology investments and an Angel Investor at Space Angels.
A frequent speaker at corporations, he has been a TEDx speaker, a Singularity University speaker and guest at numerous interviews for radio and podcasts. He is open to public speaking and advising engagements.


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Thank you to all the photographers that shared their best photos showing children in nature in the Children In Nature Photo Contest with chances to win a Carbon Fiber Tripod and more!
A special thanks to our friend and professional photographer Ana Brandt for her collaboration as a guest judge in this photo contest. Ana Brandt is a California based award winning photographer, author, teacher and mother of 3 who has been specializing in pregnancy and newborn imagery for over 16 years. Her classic images for an established and growing A List clientele have appeared in numerous publications, books, websites, and physician offices.
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"A little bit of love" by IrisBergmann
"Serious face" by lonejensen
""I told you...I don't want to talk!"" by RoxieArtPhotography
"Best Friends" by alesiabeloysova
"I'll Protect You Forever " by crystaldiane
"No sand castle :-(" by Cristoval
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"Christmas Magic" by Merma1d
"Meadow Memories" by KarenHook
"Tom & Huck" by allisonsoltis
"Strolling in Bamboo Forest" by Duangmon
"Fishing Break" by lisaholloway
"Flowers for Eliza" by caitlynblake
"Joyful Catch " by dawnvandoorn
"Springtime" by beccawohlwinder
"Siblings" by JuliaAltork
"The girl in the field" by vikkirogers
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"'All Creatures Great and Small'" by CarleyShellyPhotoArtistry
"Luke-2-" by jenniferwilhite_photog
"Spring time in Texas" by CourtneyBlissett
"Lovely day for a walk" by Child_Expressions
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"brooke" by christianjohnoreilly
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"Sisters" by chrisengland
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"The Boys" by SaraEvansPhotography
"A Walk in the Park " by chadmcmahon
"Darius and Maeva " by thierryvouillamoz
"Leaves " by maaikeschauer
"Serengeti way " by giovannivolpe
"Eternal Spring " by ElenaParaskeva
"Flower Picking " by MarissaJane
"Cowboy in Black and White " by Julieweiss
"Hide and Seek " by kapuschinsky
"Princess in the Woods " by jesbrandon
""Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere." ~ Albert Einstein. " by pattyschmitt
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Barbara Leach
Barbara B. Leach, 78, of Harrodsburg, wife of Ronald C. Leach, died Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, at the Frankfort Regional Medical Center in Frankfort.
Born Oct. 28,1938, in Harrodsburg, she was the daughter of the late Fred and Elizabeth Voris Bradshaw.
She was a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University where she was a member of the basketball synchronized swim teams, was an elementary and physical education teacher for Stanford, Burgin and Mercer County School systems, was the girl's basketball coach at Mercer County and Burgin.


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Violent Intruder training today-now over 900 people trained across the state by CWC
RIVERTON, Wyo. (Wyoming News Now) -
Today marks over 900 people trained by CWC security in how to react in a violent intruder situation, where citizens learn that becoming more aware of your surroundings and certain techniques, could save your life.
It's difficult and uncomfortable to imagine what you as an individual would do in an active shooter scenario, but CWC has been training people for five years to feel empowered to protect themselves and others if the need arises.
Director of Campus Security, Chuck Carr stated, "This training will show you what to do whether you are in the mall in Casper or you're at a school or you're at a business or you're at a park, wherever. This can be applied anywhere."
ALICE training stands for alert, lockdown, inform, counter, and evacuate. It's another option rather than a traditional lockdown. "You should act appropriately for what's going on in your area. We would advocate evacuating rather than locking down if you can. If you're not present, you can't be a victim," Carr noted.
The training continues to be relevant, with more opportunities to use these techniques arising across the country. Carr added, "There's been three or four within the last week or two where there's been active shooters, and it gives people some idea of what to do and what not to do if they were ever in this situation.
A community member attended the training as part of her job and she said the realism of it really helps you consider what to do. "It feels so real and then just happening so fast, like where would I go, what would I do? You think you're in a good hiding spot but in reality, I hid behind the chair, and I was shot almost immediately," stated Dawn Buffalo who attended the training on April 19.
Today was their 59th training since they started in January 2016, and they've trained 80 different entities around the state.
Carr said, "We train whoever, we don't charge a dime. We just want to get the word out and train people, give them an idea what to do if they're ever in this type of situation."
"It could happen anywhere, and with this training, hopefully we'll be one of the people that survive with the skills they're teaching us today," stated Buffalo.
The next free training is on May 17th and anyone is welcome to attend. You can contact CWC for more information.
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Corporates face a big challenge in keeping their employees healthy in today's high-stress work environment.
Keeping employees safe and healthy is the best way to minimize health care costs. It is also the ideal way to reduce attrition.
We listen to you, learning all we can about your business and the specific health care needs of your employees. Working with you, we will create programs for your firm that will keep your people healthy, leading to higher productivity and lower health costs. Our Wellness and Rehabilitation Centre, "Thrive" adds patient friendly Yoga Therapy and Dance Therapy programmes.
Pre employment services include drug screenings, laboratory services and pre employment health testing.
It's the key to productivity and retention. Investing in your employees health will also ensure that you can manage your health care costs better.
ProMed offers a range of pre employment services that including drug screenings and pre employment health checks. Pre employment screenings ensure that all pre-existing conditions are diagnosed before the employee joins the organization ensuring 100% productivity from day 1.
Customized health plans mean devising a specific health check for your employees that is relevant to the industry and role that they are performing. For example a BPO employee will have a different set of health needs from a manufacting industry employee. ProMed can design custom packages that will ensure your long term health care costs are lower and your employee is healthier.
We perform a comprehensive range of drug screening tests to check for drug addiction and dependencies. This ensures vital customer data is not compromised by employees.
India is developing into the diabetes and hypertension capital of the world. Indians have a propensity towards certain diseases like diabetes, hypertension and heart disease etc. At ProMed we understand that these ailments require continuous monitoring and regular checkups. This is why we offer Diabetes monitoring package (Diabetic Package ) and Cardiac Package (Cardiac Package)
ProMed has conducted several dental, ophthal, bone density camps at several offices in Chennai and Pune. These camps have been well received and have played a big role in improving awareness. (Album)
ProMed also operates mini clinics within large offices, IT Parks, SEZs, manufacturing units etc. These clinics typically have a full time doctor, nurse and other paramedic staff and operate either during the general shift or 24 hours. The clinics will also have basic medical and emergency equipment such as ECG, X Ray, defibrillators etc.
In a short while ProMed has built a strong base of corporate clients for its health care services. Our corporate list is growing everyday and we offer a comprehensive range of corporate health care services. The following are a list of our services we offer through our clinics
In a short while ProMed has built a strong base of corporate clients for its health care services. Our corporate list is growing everyday and we offer a comprehensive range of corporate health care services. The following are a list of our services we offer through our clinics
ProMed has tie ups with a comprehensive range of insurance companies to ensure cashless transactions at our hospital. We also conduct pre policy health checks for almost all the major insurance companies in India. We request you to contact the clinic to find out if your insurance provider is supported at our hospital.


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Three years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention.
You might also be interested in The Best Resources, Articles & Blog Posts For Teachers Of ELLs In 2015 – Part Two and The Best Websites For English Language Learner Students In 2015 – Part Two.
Here are this week's choices:
Helping English-Language Learners Avoid the Summer Slide is from Education Post.
Suburban Schools Unprepared for Influx of Immigrant Students, Report Argues is from Ed Week.
Why The Dual Language Immersion Approach Will Change Achievement In American Public Schools appeared in Medium.
Refugees Reach Settlement In Legal Fight To Attend N.Y. High School is from NPR.
Six Things Principals Can Do To Support Their English Language Learners – thanks to Judie Haynes for the tip.
What if one culture shares multiple languages? That's a challenge Oregon is taking up with its Somali students. is from PRI.
Is Extra Funding Helping English Learners? One School's Contentious Decision is from KQED.
Number and Share of English Language Learners by State is from The Migration Policy Institute.
Teachers recommend ELL instruction changes is from The United Federation Of Teachers.
6 states use English-lang. acquisition for state accountability. What weight does it get? https://t.co/6Qz3ZQxpdv pic.twitter.com/CvZ5aayBTn
— Politics K-12 (@PoliticsK12) May 20, 2016


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Manufacturing Day, according to mfgday.com, is a "celebration of modern manufacturing meant to inspire the next generation of manufacturers." Mold Craft participates in Manufacturing Day by inviting local schools to tour the campus and see what Mold Craft does. Mold Craft hosted White Bear Lake High School students as well as first year manufacturing students from Dunwoody Technical College to go through the shop and talk with Mold Craft's hard-working craftsmen and craftswomen.
Manufacturing Day Student Tours
The tours started with a greeting from the VP of Engineering and Co-owner of Mold Craft, Justin McPhee. Justin spoke to the students and gave a brief description and background of the company describing that Mold Craft is a micro mold manufacturer that builds molds with extremely tight tolerances. After giving an overview of what to expect on the tour, he explains, "Anyone can buy the machines we have, but it's the men and women we have working here that really sets us apart." Justin then asks the students to split into groups for a more intimate tour of the facility.
During Manufacturing Day, the students split off into 8 person groups to visit all the different stations. Most of the tour was in the shop where each student got to see where Mold Craft does their hard milling, electrode manufacturing, sinker EDM, wire EDM and mold assembly. The students got to interact with the employees and ask them questions while they watched the employees demonstrate what they do every day. It was easy to see how excited and passionate the employees were about their jobs when they were talking to the students. Todd Larson, Mold Craft shop supervisor, used a high-powered microscope to show the students that Abraham Lincoln does indeed sit in the Lincoln Memorial on the tail-side of the penny. Each student got an up-close look at every step of the mold manufacturing process which is a valuable experience for a high school student who is interested in going into the manufacturing industry. It is also a valuable experience for Dunwoody students because they can ask more technical questions that they might be interested in learning a little more about.
The Difference Between a 2-Year and 4-Year Education
After the students tour through the shop, they got to meet with members of the design team and see what the design process is for the molds that Mold Craft produces. The design team had some parts that their molds created and encouraged the students to interact with the pieces. After the students heard about the design process they met with Jim Currey who talked to the students about the difference between a 2-year education and a 4-year education.
Jim explains that students who get a 2-year education can get to work faster and with less debt than those who go to college for 4 years and inversely, those with a 4-year education graduate with 2-3 times more debt in twice the time. Because of this, students with a 2-year degree have an opportunity to make more money in the long run without the burden of having to pay off debt over the span of many years.
Finally, Jim explained that students with a 4-year education often struggle to find work. There could be 100 applicants for one job. In the manufacturing industry, a lot of companies are struggling to find employees. So, while one person might be in a pool of 100 candidates, all of whom are fighting for the same job, another person could be getting recruited by 10-15 companies to come and work for them.
Students Visit the Mold Craft Tech Center
Once the moldmaking tour was over, the students were brought over to the Mold Craft Tech Center to see injection molding in action using our Battenfeld MicroPower15T. The students got to see the presses that Mold Craft has as well as the newly installed class 100,000 clean room. Once the students saw the Tech Center, the students got back on their bus and away they went.
Mold Craft Strives to Change Student's Lives for The Better
Mold Craft cherishes the opportunity to make an impact on these students' lives, and Manufacturing Day is one of the great opportunities to do so. It is an opportunity for them to show the community that manufacturing is not what it used to be 100 years ago; dirty, dark, and dangerous. Instead it is a bright, vibrant community where employees find real purpose and truly enjoy what they do. Mold Craft will continue to support Manufacturing Day for years to come and look forward to greeting students at the door next October for Manufacturing Day 2019!


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Person Directed Planning
Person Directed Plans are completed on an annual basis. They are monitored continuously and can be changed or amended at any time. The overall outcome we hope to achieve is to encourage the people who are receiving services to take ownership of their lives and planning. The staff, family and volunteers will take direction from the person and respect and assist (if necessary) all decisions and activities that affect their life.
During the planning meeting, the Facilitator will make every effort to educate people about their rights and responsibilities. The person will get a copy of their plan and will decide who else will get a copy. For people with limited literacy skills, the computer program "Writing with Symbols" can be used to help communicate their plan to people involved in their lives.
Learn More
Person-Directed Planning and Facilitation is a process which encourages a community-based network of supports for people with a developmental disability, including community resources, as well as available government-funded supports. The essence of person-directed planning and facilitation is to support persons with varying abilities to exercise their rights, to express their choices and have their decisions respected throughout the entire process.
Becky's Story
Person-Directed Planning and Facilitation works best to improve people's lives when it is based on a strong set of core values rooted in the concepts of:
Choice and Control
Person-Centred Planning/Person-Directed Planning are terms that are connected and linked to one another through history and practice. It is important to note the importance of person-centred planning work as a foundation for what has been more recently referred to in Ontario as person-directed planning.
Person-Centred Planning is a process of continual listening, and learning; focussed on what is important to someone now, and for the future, and acting upon this in alliance with their family and friends.
There are five key features of Person Centred Planning:
- The person is at the centre.
- Family members and friends are partners in planning.
- The plan reflects what is important to the person, their capacities and what support they require.
- The plan results in actions that are about life, not just services, and reflect what is possible, not just what is available.
- The plan results in ongoing listening, learning, and further action.
Important reminders about Person-Directed Planning and Facilitation
Person-directed planning and facilitation is an ONGOING process. It does not end once a written plan is developed.
Person-directed planning and facilitation is a process which can be carried out throughout someone's life. The intensity of the planning will vary depending on the needs of the person.
Person-directed planning and facilitation is about creating and implementing a blueprint for future action: the main focus is on the nature and quality of the planning process and not solely on the resulting written plan.
Benefits of the Person Directed Plan:
- Recognizes and supports individual communication styles
- Supports people to have better lives
- Reduces barriers limiting access to employment & volunteer opportunities
- Helps to establish new friendships and links with community resources
- Provides a service plan designed to enhance the development of each person
- Empowers personal decision making
- Provides the agency with up to date information on service direction
- Monitoring plans continuously to ensure goals are being met
- Ensuring the agency(s) are providing services
- Promoting consistency by using similar person centred approaches agency wide
- Maintaining responsibility to ensure goals are actively being pursued
For more information please contact:
Mark Storey - 705-336-2967
*If you or someone you know is interested in Hiring a Personal Support Worker, you may be interested in this document: Hiring a Support Worker


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"There was excitement and concern about the unknown," says Britt Daniel. "I didn't what it was going to be like – there was no vision."
To succeed beyond the wildest of expectations, one must first begin with some of those wild expectations. So here comes Divine Fits, a so-called supergroup comprised of indie-rock stars Daniel (of Spoon) and Dan Boeckner (formerly of Montreal's Handsome Furs and Wolf Parade), with Sam Brown of New Bomb Turks as drummer. The projections were mathematically outrageous – that one plus one plus one should equal something much more than three.
L.A. Weekly recently published a backlashing list of what it perceives to be the 20 worst hipster bands. While the inclusion of some is not surprising (Sleigh Bells, the Decemberists and, at No. 1, Bon Iver), others might raise a Spockian eyebrow: the Black Keys, Arcade Fire and TV on the Radio.
The bands Handsome Furs and Spoon are on no one's worst-of list. As such, anticipation for the trio's debut album (A Thing Called Divine Fits) was high, if not wild. As for the weight of expectation, however, the principals themselves weren't feeling it. "A lot of pressure gets removed by doing something that's got a brand new name," says Daniel, on the phone from Los Angeles. "I hope our record label [the North Carolina indie outfit Merge] makes their advance back, but I don't think we owe anything to anything to anyone."
A new thing, and a new process for Daniel, who is used to being "the guy." His melodic indie rock with Spoon is of the fussed-over, minimalist sort, with the cool, well-spoken Texan as the singer and absolutely chief songwriter. As for Boeckner, he collaborated with the other members of the late and lamented Wolf Parade, but, with the defunct Handsome Furs (an electro-punk duo comprised of Boeckner and his wife Alexei Perry), the singer-guitarist did most of the heavy lifting. Boeckner, in fact, wrote most of the first Furs' record alone in the closet of a small apartment.
Looking at the liner notes to A Thing Called Divine Fits, there are only tracks with shared songwriting credits. The hard-driving What Gets You Alone was the first track worked on by Daniel and Boeckner, friends and mutual admirers for five years or so. Daniel sent Boeckner the music; Boeckner sent it back with his jittery, Bowie-like vocals attached. "All the songs were collaborative to varying degrees," Daniel says, "but that one was a definite co-write."
Would That Not Be Nice started with a Boeckner bass riff, at the band's rehearsal space. Daniel recorded it with his phone and took it home to stretch it out with Pro Tools and add his vocals on top. The album's one cover song is Shivers, a slouching, slow rocker originally recorded by Australia's the Birthday Party. Daniel arranged most it, but left a space, to be filled later. "I thought I'd go in later and add some sort of melody or sound effect," says Daniel, "and I figured that'd I be working on it all afternoon." Instead, Boeckner heard it, plugged in his guitar and a few effect pedals, and added an ambient guitar solo. "He just kind of made it happen," recalls Daniel. "I'm inspired by how in the moment he can be."
On stage, the band's fit has been divine enough. "Everybody's got their own moves," says Boeckner, a live-wire performer. "There's no room for pouting or staring at shoes."
As for the musical middle ground, Boeckner and Daniel agree on the Oregon punk band Wipers, as well as some classic FM rock. On tour, the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' classic hit You Got Lucky is part of the Fits' set list, complete with the refrain "you got lucky, babe, when I found you."
And, yes, a good band, to paraphrase Petty, is hard to find. Divine Fits will tour this fall, with a new record expected for 2013. "I don't feel like I have time to put aside three months for a band that isn't going to commit to something," says Boeckner. This isn't a vanity project. As for Daniel, he has no intention of disbanding Spoon, but the Fits are his focus. "We're hanging out and making music, and we're doing it for ourselves, first and foremost."


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NANGARHAR – Looking to promote dialogue and contribute to local peace, peace centre members of Nangarhar University have been engaging communities in the country's east.
News Stories
NEW YORK - Ramiz Alakbarov was appointed as the Secretary-General's Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan with UNAMA, serving also as the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator.
21 Dec 2020
MAIDAN WARDAK – Panellists in a series of UN-backed radio programmes across Afghanistan's central provinces remain hopeful, despite all the many challenges and obstacles, that latest peace efforts will result in a final settlement ending decades
14 Dec 2020
KABUL – As part of a series of interactive radio programmes marking 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, participants from Afghanistan's central provinces called for urgent measures to help prevent
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(From the Beatitudinal Podcase Episode # 6: Emotions Series #1: How to be Fiercely Grateful)
Life is challenging, but this doesn't mean that we need to live in the bog of despair. Despite the hardships of life, we can be genuinely grateful. How? That's our topic for today: Episode 6, #1 of the Emotions Series: How to be Fiercely Grateful.
Now, this is not to say that being grateful is a breezily easy task when life is hard. Better believe it, being atitudinal is one of the several battles we fight in the war for our hearts and minds. In view of this, the theme song for today is "Battle (Remix) by Chris August, from his "No Far Away" album.
- Aspiration
What we aspire towards daily in our quest to be-atitudinal, includes being FIERCELY grateful. What dies this look like? It is deliberately deciding to – and then following through with our firmly chosen mindset and actions – be appreciative. Stubbornly deciding to look for and see the good things, the blessings in our lives NO MATTER WHAT. I call this a beatitudinal stance.
- What it is Not
What this is not, is the trite action of pasting a fake smile on that doesn't reach the eyes, the mouthing of platitudes or triumphalist slogans – an upbeat demeanor that slips off when we think we are unobserved – "Praise the Lord!"s and "Halleluyah!"s issuing from out downturned lips.
In short, this is an absolutely vital action we must take, one that we must take care to ensure if genuine through and through, otherwise we will be overtaken by negativity and an increasingly diabolically fueled lopsidedness, our hearts will darken, and the gratitude that we seek will flee.
But wait a minute – isn't that rather unempathetic? After all, life can be – and for many of us feels – unrelentingly challenging. Financial problems, health concerns, marriage woes, children worries, job difficulties, fickle friends and treacherous frienemies……Isn't that a rather tall order to expect that we remain in a positive, grateful frame of mind?
Not really. We're not talking about a drummed up enthusiasm that tries its best to ignore the realities of our lives. This is a caricature, an extreme. In fact, once we plot the extremes we want to avoid – being overwhelmed by the worries of this world at one end, and putting on a 'good' but brittle face for people at the other – we arrive at a very possible path we can simply and handily plot though the realities of our daily existence.
How to Arrive and Stay in The Grateful Space
The question thus becomes how to remain in this middle ground – realistic yet pragmatic, aware yet appreciative? How do you evade the kill-joys, the peace-slayers and the gratitude-killers? It takes and effort and practice, but there are some things that we can immediately do:
- Don't compare
Don't compare yourself, your life with others or their lives
- Be present
Live in the here and now, do not live in the past. In truth, unless we religiously journal our experiences and insights, our memories are faulty. Our recall is distorted if not outright incomplete, and when we campout there – in the inaccurate past, we become fair game for the enemy. We begin to hear: "…God is a spoilsport – he answers other people but not me". We revel in FOMO – the Fear Of Missing Out, etc.
Do not live in the future either – we're not there yet, and tomorrow has enough worries of its own. Don't borrow trouble. Engage with the here and now.
- Keep a healthy perspective
Money and wealth are not the absolute aim. Perfect health is not the ultimate test of God's faithfulness. Neither is success.
- Look away and deliberately shun those things you know, or come to recognize, will be a snare. It is wisdom to flee temptation. Avoid whatever you know will trip you up, like the plague.
Guard Your Heart
Okay. So, you're in the grateful space. What now?
Guard your heart. We don't only want to get in the space, we want to stayin the space. How to do that?
- Take Charge
- Remind yourself daily, ideally first thing in the day, perhaps during your Quiet Time (QT), which is a great time to prayerfully assess and reset your frame of mind, who is in charge. That would be YOU, with God's help. Don't bumble through the day unaware – refresh your memory that:
- You are in a spiritual battle
- Your enemy prowls around relentlessly
- There are powers and principalities involved
- You may have unfinished ancestral business
- The mind games never cease
- Remind yourself daily, ideally first thing in the day, perhaps during your Quiet Time (QT), which is a great time to prayerfully assess and reset your frame of mind, who is in charge. That would be YOU, with God's help. Don't bumble through the day unaware – refresh your memory that:
- God is watching over you
- You are a favored heir
- You have authority
- You have the power
- There is power in the tongue
- Remind yourself that you are not going to be moved by appearances but instead, lock your focus – laser sharp – on God's faithful promises. Remember faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of the things you don't yet see.
- Remind yourself which positive expectation – be it hope, favor, joy, patience, etc – in which you will resolutely walk that day
- Check whether your perspective is off kilter. Consult a trusted mentor-in-faith if necessary, to ensure your view point and expectations are not warped due to e.g. illness, depression, a raging inferiority complex, habit, etc.
- Cut the Monsters Down to Size
Vagueness is sometimes the petri dish in which nameless anxieties multiply and become crushing fears. Awareness – knowledge – is power. Check in with yourself, and identify what you may be fretting about. What negative thoughts are pestering you?
Once you identify them, you're clear to simply refute them and command them to flee.
Check in →Realize→Resist→Repeat∞
- Don't be Chicken Little = Don't Fret
Do this as often as is necessary. Do not fret about the persistency of the negative throughts – its what they do. In time they will lessen, although I doubt they will cease entirely on this side of eternity. With experience, they become mere spiritual gnats that we simply need swat away.
Do not worry about what might go wrong. God's got you, and you've got this.
Negative Faith
If you find that you seem to be drawn like a magnet to the negative – the feeling of dread is like an unwelcome but persistent companion – again, reassess.
How long have you had this particular dread? What makes you think it is imminent? If you don't actually really believe it's imminent – kick it away. If it has felt imminent for a while, has it happened yet? If not, again, kick it away. As yourself if in fact what you have been doing is practice negative faith – believing the worst No Matter What. Anxiety can be like unprayer – fretting over and over, believing resolutely the worst, in contrast to faith fuelled prayer, when we approach God hopefully, asking for a positive thing or outcome.
Swap the negative for the positive.
I'm in charge? A monster-slayer?? Need not be a Chicken Little??? God's got my back and He doesn't make mistakes???? Put like that, what's not to be grateful for, you might say??!!
Well, yes, but we're not home free yet. We're in the space, and have noted tips to stay in the space, but you know what it's like when you've been to the hairdresser/barber. Your stylist does your hair, and it looks fabulous – until you get home and sleep on it. The next morning, when you wake, the hair doesn't look the same, and now you have the task of coaxing it back to the same fabulous stylishness of the day before….
It's one thing to be pointed in the right direction, it's one thing to be given tips for maintenance, its another thing entirely to put those tips in practice for the desired outcome. As you position yourself to camp out in the gratitude space, expect this not to be a once for all thing. We're not looking simply for a burst of fierce gratitude for this season only: what we're after is a slow releasing result – a steady flow of longlasting gratefulness that we can access and renew at will.
Center Yourself
So, take time out daily to refresh your spirit in the Lord's presence. Use this time not only to take charge of your circumstances, but it is vital that you also take time to center yourself.
- Remind yourself Who God is, who you are, what God says is your portion, your just expectation.
- Arm yourself with God's promises – that He is with you for always, working things out for your good, has already locked in place a destiny for you, that overall is wondrously good.
- Count your blessings – don't just recall them mentally – spend a few minutes daily to write down specific things that happened the day before – or in the wider past – that you are grateful for.
Fine Tune
If you are going through a challenging or plain difficult time, re-calibrate pragmatically for continued sincerity – don't let this become forced or false. Tell yourself, for example, that
- This is only temporary….
- It could be worse…..
- Truth be told, I had it coming – I brought this on myself – but the good thing is that I have made the changes needed for a better outcome and indeed, my situation, by faith, WILL turn around…
- What doesn't kill me will make me stronger: This won't kill me, and its making me stronger and wiser…
- A beneficial setup – though there is no avoiding that this is/was unpleasant, I can see that it has located/prepared me to be ready for this [name a linked specific emerging benefit] good thing…
Your Inherent Alarm System
Decide to recognize negativity as a warning sign – an alarm – a red flag indicating that you are straying from your due center. When negative feelings – envy, discouragement, resentment, apathy and the like – begin to press in insistently and put down roots, it usually means you are no longer focusing on God. Instead, you are likely:
X starting to believe negative lies
X giving pessimistic or negative expectations undue credibility, and thus power over you
In fact, if you tune in more closely to examine the impulses or thoughts rousing the negative emotions you are experiencing, you will likely realize you have been subject to a barrage of fleshly or diabolical thoughts that are subconsciously pully you down.
So, when you detect (undue) negativity, use it as a warning system to snap back to attention – Christian soldier: Atten-SHUN!!!
In sum, we can't be lax about this. There's no room for flabby sentiment or complacent laziness. This is a battle, make no mistake.
There's no avoiding it – to live in the mindset we seek – to be fiercely grateful – an attitude that is rightfully yours and very possible for you – you must fight for it, and when you have attained it, defend it to maintain your stance.
You must guard your heart. If you don't tend to your heart, the fruit will be a list of uglies: anxiety, fear, envy, selfish ambition, bitterness, anger, unbelief, covetousness, depression, jealously, pride, pessimism, hatred, unbelief, a diabolical perspective, resentment, grudges, unforgiveness, doubt, furious outbursts, to name but a few. The person bound by enough of those awful sentiments may be driven to self-medicate or to substance abuse simply to douse the awful emotion flames.
The bible cautions that the works of the flesh – the things to which our soulish urges tend (as illustrated by the preceding list) – are bad, but that the fruit of the Spirit – which go against the grain of our soulish tendencies – are good. We are reminded that the heart is deceptive and desperately wicked. That from an untended, negative heart, bad things emerge.
It is hard – if not almost impossible – to count one's blessings, let alone be rigorously grateful in that state. Even anxiety will weigh the heart down. Guard your heart!
Father God, thank You. Thank You for all You do for us. Thank you for being our loving, ever present Guard and Guide. We are so thankful that fierce gratitude is an appropriate and very attainable response to the lives You have given us. Enable us to maintain and flourish in our beatitudinal stances. In Jesus Name, Amen.


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A few days ago, my ever considerate husband, Bill, asked me if I minded if he brewed beer Sunday. I shrugged and said it was fine. Beer brewing is one of Bill's hobbies. He's gotten really good at it. I'm the one who started him on the path of great brewing when, years ago, I bought him a Mr. Beer kit for Christmas. Mr. Beer is a very primitive kit for very beginner beer brewers, but it does teach the basics of how the process is supposed to go.
When we moved to Georgia in 2009, we happened to live in a town that had a great store for beer brewers called Just Brew It!. The guy who ran that store was very knowledgable, and gave Bill even more instruction. We also toured Jailhouse Brewing Company in Hampton, Georgia, and got to know the founder of that company, who also learned the basics of the trade at Just Brew It!. We loved Jailhouse beers, but then we had to move to North Carolina in 2011. I see Jailhouse has really taken off in the ten years of its existence and I'm still following their success on Facebook. In the years before we moved back to Germany, we made a point of picking up some of their beers whenever we were in Georgia or trading them with people who lived there. I do miss the beer exchanges we used to be able to do when we were in the States.
Bill had asked me if I "minded" if he brewed because we usually try to do fun things together on Sundays. But yesterday, it was a bit chilly and wet, and I knew he was itching to start a new project. Besides, it's important to both of us that he has this hobby, since having interests outside of providing for his family was something that his ex wife denied him. And… I won't lie. I do enjoy drinking his brews.
Anyway… after Bill was finished brewing in the afternoon, he asked me what I wanted to do for dinner. We had leftovers that could be heated up, or we could have soup. Finally, I suggested using OpenTable to find us dinner. It turned out Villa Im Tal, a beautiful restaurant we had tried for the first time in February, had plenty of open slots last night. Remembering how good our February Sunday lunch had been, I booked us a table for 6:00pm.
Once again, a lovely sight to behold! This restaurant is on the outskirts of Wiesbaden, in a forested area. It's also near a riding stable, which always gives me pangs of nostalgia.
We arrived about ten minutes early for dinner. A smiling young man named Dennis greeted us warmly in German. He offered to take my jacket, which was actually part of my outfit; then he quickly discerned that we're English speakers and spoke to us in fluent English as he led us to a very nice two top near the restaurants soaring windows. He asked us where we are from. Naturally, I said "America", which made him laugh. He wanted to know where in America. I'm from Virginia and Bill is from Texas (sort of– it's where he's spent the most time). Dennis offered us aperitifs. I had the "house" drink, which is basically made with sparkling wine and juice… he didn't really tell me. Bill had alcohol free Sekt, which looked like pale ginger ale and tasted a little like Sprite.
I really enjoyed the house aperitif. Bill went with an alcohol free Sekt because he wanted wine with dinner and would be driving.
Then Dennis poured water on the towels, which magically expanded so we could "wash" our hands.
Requisite Bill photo, taken after I said something to make him laugh.
The bread… three varieties served with a carrot curry butter and a garlicky herbal spread that seemed to be based on Frankfurter "green sauce", which is in season right now. Bill just learned how to make it, since this isn't a "thing" in the Stuttgart area.
The last time we ate at Villa Im Tal, we stuck with land specialties. I had duck and Bill had pork. This time, we decided to have specialties from the sea. We both had shrimp starters and I had sea bass (branzino) and Bill had red snapper.
But not before we enjoyed the "amuse"– a delectable red beet soup in a shot glass. I don't usually like beets much, but this was very comforting. It had only a delicate essence of the earthy bitter flavors I usually detect in beets. I liked it, and it sure looked festive on a spring evening.
Bill's started was homemade raviolis stuffed with wild Brazilian prawns. I have to admit, if I had noticed this on the menu, I probably would have chosen it myself. I tasted it, and it was very good!
But then, so was my salad, which was three wild Brazilian prawns served with green apples, avocados, asparagus, and sun dried tomatoes, then doused with foam. Although it was a bit pricey at about 19 euros, it was delicious and beautifully presented. I think the foam on my salad and Bill's pasta was the same. Basically mild and complimentary to the shrimp. The pop of color from the purple chips were a nice touch.
My sea bass. Sea bass isn't the same here as it is in the States. The sea bass I've had in the States has been Black Sea Bass, which is rich, buttery, and fleshy. The sea bass in Europe is branzino, a fish that is usually found in the Mediterranean or off the coast of North Africa. I've come to enjoy it here, although I kind of miss U.S. style sea bass. This one was served with cous cous, parsnip puree, mangoes, and pureed carrots, then garnished with figs.
Bill's red snapper was also excellent. It was served with barley risotto, spring vegetables, and curry froth. I liked his dish as much as I did mine.
As we were making our way through dinner, more diners showed up. Soon, the dining room was full of people enjoying a lovely Sunday supper in a stunning natural setting. It was such a pleasure to be able to see the garden blooming with flowers outside, canopied by tall trees. I'm sure, when the weather warms up, it'll be even nicer to enjoy dining outdoors.
One thing Villa Im Tal does that I don't like that much is that they pour your wine for you. This is supposed to be a hallmark of good service, but the reality is that the wait staff gets busy and the wine ends up being held hostage. Also, since Bill doesn't want to drink a lot when he has to drive, it's better if we can control our own wine pours. But I can see why they prefer to do the wine pouring, too, since wine service takes up valuable space on the table.
We decided to be simple with dessert. I had a scoop of chocolate and a scoop of sour cream mint ice cream. The sour cream mint had an enchanting herbal flavor that reminded me of the smell of my grandmother's house in Natural Bridge, Virginia. There are two mountain creeks that run on the property and they give off a distinctively intoxicating aroma. The only other place I've smelled it is in Scotland at the Benmore Botanical Gardens. Well, the mint ice cream reminded me of that familiar smell from home. The chocolate was kind of run of the mill, although it did have a few chips in it.
Bill had a scoop of blackberry sorbet and a scoop of pineapple coriander sorbet. He was considering the green apple sorbet, but Dennis told him the pineapple coriander was the best he'd ever had. I think Bill enjoyed it very much. Of course he liked the blackberry sorbet, mainly because he loves blackberries.
We were finished with dinner at about 8:30pm. The total bill was just over 200 euros. Bill paid with a card and slipped Dennis a little cash for a tip.
I think I liked our first meal at Villa Im Tal more than last night's, although last night's was also very good. I think I'm just missing the ocean fish that I grew up on. Around these parts, you tend to get fish that come from rivers or creeks or the Mediterranean Sea. I do love most seafood, but I'm missing the seafood I know from home, if that makes any sense. But in a few months, we'll be in Scotland again, and I'll be up to my ass in oysters and crawfish.
Pretty gardens on the way out. The scenery is an added bonus to dining at Villa Im Tal. It really is gorgeous. Parking is also free and easy! Dress is casual, although you won't be out of place if you dress up for the occasion. We saw as many people in jeans as we did people who wore suits and dresses.
On the way home, Bill and I were marveling at how lovely dinner was. It's a pleasure to be able to enjoy these places while we're living in Germany. We try not to take it for granted, which is why I always write about our experiences. There was a time not so long ago that casually enjoying a meal like last night's would have been out of the question. We are very fortunate that we can do this, at least for now. Needless to say, Villa Im Tal still gets my vote as a great place to eat near Wiesbaden.


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Celebrating Aunt EA
We had to postpone our initial plan to celebrate Aunt EA's birthday with her as Charlie had a fever. A week late, we joined for presents and treats at Grams's house.
Charlie's a lucky guy. His mom shared her birthday dessert with him.
Looks like he wants some of Molly's dessert as well.
Happy birthday Aunt EA!


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Become a Friend of Kaloko
Please consider making a monthly donation, and let your friends, family and contacts know about the value of what we do. If you can spread the word to reach new supporters it is incredibly valuable to us.
Our bank details (to set up a standing order through online banking) and standing order form (to send to your bank if you don't bank online) are here.
Become a Friend of Kaloko
Our new Friends of Kaloko supporter scheme is for those of you who believe in the importance of what we do to help disadvantaged rural communities in Zambia. The best way to help Kaloko succeed in helping more people is to make a regular monthly donation, and we'd love to have your support!
Regular donations provide the money we rely on to cover our running costs of staffing and fundraising, and allows us to keep helping rural Zambian communities with much needed safe water, improved sanitation, education, health services, livelihood projects and more.
Kaloko UK is the only NGO focused entirely on the Luansobe and Kashitu areas of Zambia, and our work there continues to be vital. Now, more than ever, we need your support – through the regular donations which are the life blood of any small charity, but also by helping us raise awareness of the great work that we do, to your families, friends and work colleagues.
By cheque or standing order
By post or email
Please download and print our donation form to send by post, or drop us an email. The form includes an opportunity for you to make a Gift Aid declaration so that we can claim Gift Aid from the Inland Revenue on your donations.
Run in the Brighton Marathon or 10k
Run to support Kaloko in 2021
Kaloko is pleased to offer a limited number of charity places at the Brighton 10k and Brighton Marathon on 12 September 2021! If you, or any of your friends and family are runners, this is a great event and sells out quickly - charity places are often the only way to take part. It's a great way to fundraise for Kaloko. We are asking for a minimum fundraising target of £250 for the 10k, or £500 for the Marathon. We hope you should be able to beat these targets for such a good cause!
Kaloko runners will be offered a full fundraising resource pack and support, plus one to one sessions to talk in detail about our work.
If you are interested please contact the Kaloko office to let us know as soon as you can. Hoping to be signing you all up soon!
Support Sustainable Business
The UN World Bee Day in May each year helps raise awareness of the importance of bees for our environment. But, whatever the time of year, you can help us to help Zambian beekeepers to establish and sustain an apiary. Please donate (above) to the livelihoods of our local beekeepers in Luansobe, allowing more training sessions to be run, and more sustainable businesses to be set up.
As many of us try to switch from travelling by car to bike rides for shorter journeys, it's easy to forget that bicycles can make all the difference in allowing some people to access water and local markets for their livelihoods.
Please help the Kaloko Trust to continue to provide vital low-cost bicycles to the people of Luansobe, through donating whatever you can or running your own fundraising event. Please click here for some summer-themed event ideas!
Raise funds for us
Get creative with your fundraising
Have you got a fundraising idea or could you encourage others to support us - cycling a marathon, running the channel, organising a cider morning, holding a bike warming party? Something traditional, tried and tested or new and inventive. We're keen to hear your ideas.
If you contact our UK office we can let you know which projects are in the planning stage in Zambia and would particularly benefit from funding. If you have an idea of your own, please feel free to discuss it with us.
We can provide you with publicity material to help make your event a success: Photographs, posters, donation forms, background information, reports, testimonials etc.
We can send fundraisers reports and photographs so that they can see how their money has been used.
Please see our handy guide, How To run a Fundraiser Event with the Kaloko Trust, for everything you'll need to organise your own fundraiser this summer. We also have customisable invitations for some of the suggested fundraising events, including a sponsored walk, a summer garden party or a talent show, here.
Other successful projects by supporters have included coffee mornings, cocktail parties and piano recitals. They've also asked for donations to Kaloko Trust instead of birthday, Christmas or christening gifts.
Where we can we are also happy to come and give talks and slide shows to groups like schools, churches, Rotary Clubs etc.
Support Kaloko when you shop
Simply sign up for us to benefit when you shop online
Sign up to Amazon Smile, EasyFundraising and The Giving Machine so that each time you shop online, and at no extra cost to you, a small percentage of your purchase will be donated to Kaloko Trust.
Amazon Smile takes a fixed amount from any purchases you make on Amazon, whilst the other two websites work for over 2000 shopping sites. With just 16 of our supporters already signed up, between them they have raised over £450 this way.
Could you join them? Read these sign-up instructions to get started!
Leave a lasting legacy
Remember Kaloko in your will
Do you enjoy being a Kaloko Trust supporter and appreciate the real difference your contribution makes to the lives of people in Zambia? Under English tax laws legacies to charities are exempt from inheritance tax. Leaving a gift to charity in your will is an amazing way for your generosity to last beyond your own lifetime.
To find out how we can help you leave a charitable legacy please contact Kaloko and we can talk to you about what you need to do.
For Zambia
Donate or sell
Generally, we can't accept donated items and equipment (because of the difficulty and cost of transporting them to Zambia), but if you have something that you feel would be appropriate for a rural Zambian context then please do contact the office to discuss the possibilities. Another option is to sell items to raise money for us, maybe on eBay (see below).
Inkjets and phones
Donate your mobile phone or empty inkjet cartridges
Have you recently upgraded your mobile phone? Don't know what to do with the old one? If you have a working mobile phone in good condition, with charger, please drop it in to the Kaloko Trust UK Office. We will then take it out to Zambia where it will be distributed to local community projects in Luansobe/Kashitu.
You can also donate used original inkjet cartridges to raise funds for Kaloko. Follow this link to print a pre-paid label to send your ink cartridges to our recycling partners to benefit the Kaloko Trust. Labels can be attached to small boxes and envelopes which you can post at your local Post Office.
Sell on eBay to help Kaloko
Free up space and help those in need in Zambia
You can donate to Kaloko by selling unwanted items on eBay. If you have something that you no longer need and sell it on eBay, you can donate the income direct to Kaloko. Through the eBay for charity service, up to 100% of the proceeds can be donated to Kaloko. We even receive Gift Aid on the donation where appropriate. This method has worked well for many supporters and provides valuable income for us. Please contact us if you need any guidance on how the scheme works.
Donate old jewellery or currency for Kaloko
You just post them off to the freepost address
If you have jewellery or watches that are old or broken and cluttering up your home, we may have a solution for you! You could recycle them to benefit Kaloko. Our partners at Recycling for Good Causes will re-use and recycle unwanted jewellery, giving 75 per cent of the income raised to Kaloko and saving precious raw materials at the same time. They can also convert unwanted foreign, or out-of-date, banknotes (not coins) into funds for our project work. If you have items to donate please send them in an envelope or jiffy bag free of charge to our partners:
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Kaloko Trust UK has closed and transferred projects to Cecily's Fund
Kaloko UK has closed. Project activities by our partners in Zambia are continuing. Please support them through Cecily's Fund.
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With particular thanks to Jill Flowers and Alrik Green for many of the photos.
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It's no secret that John Legend and Kanye West are friends.
John released his debut studio album on Kanye's GOOD Music label, and the two were spotted on a double date with their wives just last week ahead of the Super Bowl. John and Kanye even sat near each other at Sunday's Grammy Awards.
But John wants to make it known that he does not support Kanye's post-Grammy remarks about Beck and artistry.
After facing criticism that he had supported Kanye's remarks, John took to Instagram to clarify:
I want to clarify my thoughts on Kanye's actions at the Grammys on Sunday. First of all, Kanye is my friend. He believed in me years ago when very few did, and I wouldn't be here without his support. That doesn't mean we'll agree on everything, but it does mean that I am grateful to him. And I also believe he is one of the most gifted people I've had the privilege of working with. In my comments to US Weekly, I said that when Kanye walked up on stage, mimicking his interruption of Taylor Swift's VMA acceptance speech, then turned around as if he was just playing, most of the room including me saw this as funny, as a way of taking the piss out of himself for his infamous behavior several years ago. When I said that was funny and people should lighten up about it, that's what I meant. I wasn't referring to Kanye's comments after the show which I have now seen and heard. I disagree with those comments. Beck is indeed a true artist's artist. He's a multi-instrumentalist, a creative and unique singer-songwriter whose music I have bought and enjoyed over the years. While his win may have been a surprise to many, it's not because he's not a great artist deserving of recognition. All of the other nominated artists, including Beyonce, are incredible in their own right, and arguments could be made for any of them deserving to win. This is not an objective process. It's completely subjective, in fact. We can all debate who we thought should have won. But even if you didn't vote for him, plenty of our colleagues in the music business did. These voters are all creators who love music and have dedicated their lives to it, and the plurality of them chose Beck as the Album of the Year. I respect their decision and congratulate Beck on this outstanding accomplishment.
Well said, John.
However, this must be said: We believe Kanye's initial remarks may have been misconstrued, which highlights the importance of wording your thoughts properly, because when you don't, things like this happen.


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On January 1, 2022, the new, 63rd Edition IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations will take effect. One of the most significant changes from previous regulations is that Packing Instructions PI 965 and PI 968 have been revised to remove Section II. Readers of this blog will now likely have one of the following reactions:
- What the heck is Section II, and why should I care?
- Holy crap! Section II is going away? What in the name of Michael Faraday are we going to do?
If #1 describes you, you can probably skip to the end of the post. But if your reaction was #2—or, honestly, if you ever ship small numbers of lithium-ion or lithium metal batteries by air—you'll want to keep reading. We'll answer any questions you're likely to have.
What is—or was—Section II?
Packing Instructions PI 965 and PI 968 govern standalone lithium batteries. Section II of these Packing Instructions was created to allow packages containing one or two small batteries to be shipped in the same package by air with fewer restrictions, and by people without extensive Dangerous Goods training.
Specifically, these packages could be compliantly shipped without a Dangerous Goods Declaration, and employees involved in their transport needed only "adequate instructions," not full training.
By the way, the Packing Instructions which govern batteries packed in or with equipment (PI 966, PI 967, PI 969 and PI 970) will still have Section II options available. Section II is only going away for shippers of standalone batteries.
Why is Section II being removed?
Under ICAO regulations, air carriers are required to perform a risk assessment of the cargo aboard every plane, which requires a certain degree of visibility into the contents of each package. Since Section II allowed shippers to ship lithium batteries without a Dangerous Goods Declaration, carriers couldn't always make an accurate determination of how many (and what type of) lithium batteries they carried.
This lack of visibility, of course, is why FedEx and UPS have prohibited Section II packages since 2017.
Since those are two of the world's largest air carriers, many lithium battery shippers have already been living without Section II for more than four years.
Without Section II, how will shipments be classified?
Currently, any packages containing more than two batteries (with each rated ≤ 100 Watt-hours or ≤ 2 g lithium content), are considered Fully Regulated shipments under Section IB of the Packing Instructions (up to the net quantity limits for each PI). Now, all packages containing any number of such batteries will fall under Section IB (10 kg net qty limit for PI 965 and 2.5 kg net qty limit for PI 968). That means these shipments will require:
- A lithium battery mark
- A Cargo Aircraft Only label*
- A Class 9 lithium battery label, UN number and proper shipping name*
- A Dangerous Goods Declaration
- Strong rigid outer packaging capable of withstanding 1.2 m drop tests
- Training in Fully Regulated lithium battery transport for all employees involved in handling these packages
*These labels also have to all be on the same side of the package, which will unfortunately require many shippers to use larger packaging than under Section II.
What are the alternatives to Section II shipments?
This is probably a good place to point out that, while the revised regulations eliminating PI 965 and PI 968 Section II take effect January 1, IATA will allow a three-month transition period—so shippers may continue to use Section II until March 31, 2022.
If you've been shipping batteries domestically by air under Section II, the simplest alternative will be to make those shipments by ground. That would mean a reset of your recipient's expectations—instead of receiving batteries overnight, they would get them in two to three days.
Of course, if you're shipping batteries overseas, ground isn't an option, and shipment by ocean vessel may be entirely too slow.
That makes Section IB shipments (or IA, if applicable) your only real option for those shipments, and we understand that they'll require more effort and expense. But there is a small silver lining—you can now put a lot more batteries in the same box! Any package containing 10 kg or less of lithium-ion batteries or 2.5 kg or less of lithium metal batteries falls under Section IB, whereas Section II has always been limited to one or two batteries per package.
Life without PI 965 and PI 968 Section II will be more challenging for a few lithium battery shippers, but will be no different whatsoever for others. Whichever camp you fall into, of course, help from the experts is only a phone call away.
Need answers to your lithium battery transport questions? Call the Labelmaster hazmat hotline—1.800.621.5808, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central, Monday through Friday—and speak with one of our experts!
Make sure your shipments are safe and in complete compliance with a full line of solutions from Labelmaster—a full-service provider of goods and services for hazardous materials and Dangerous Goods professionals, shippers, transport operators and EH&S providers.


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HAINES CITY, Fla. — Investigators are on the hunt for a man, they say, is randomly punching undeserving victims.
It started one week ago when two Walmart employees in Lake Wales were attacked by a man they had never met before. Witnesses say words were not exchanged when a young, black man came up behind two employees putting boxes away, hit them and ran off.
Only days later, two more victims called police when they were randomly punched in a Haines City CVS store.
Detectives took a look at both surveillance pictures taken of the suspect leaving the Walmart and the CVS store and believe it is the same man.
Investigators say you should be on the look out for Dontay Shawn Johnson. He's known to frequent Pinellas County, Polk County and may be in Orlando. Johnson drives a 2000 Ford Explorer with the tag number, HVMD10.


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Sure, Lorde has been lucky enough to see enormous success before reaching voting age. Her hit "Royals" is one of the most popular songs on the charts, and her unabashed independent spirit is an inspiration for many young women.
But to some others, "Royals" is only a reminder that the inevitable march of time only gets more frustrating the longer it goes. Molly Dworsky is one such woman who hears Lorde sing and only thinks about how much time has passed since she was her age -- and it doesn't help that Dworsky's high school mascot were the Royals. Frankly, adulthood isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Check out Dworsky's parody of "Royals" (sung under the name Borde) from the perspective of someone closer to 30 than 16, lamenting songs that were "written by a kid I probably used to babysit / Killing it by puberty while I can barely stay fit."


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What You Need to Know:
- Finally after months of waiting, we have more information following the opening of an official site for the upcoming Danmachi movie. The official title is "Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru darou ka Arrow of the Orion"! The site also states the debut is slated for 2019.
- The movie also announced that J.C. Staff will be creating the movie and the seiyuu for Bell, Hestia, Liliruca, Welf, and Hermes will be returning. Some staff however, will change including the director as well as the scriptwriter.
- The visual, which you can see below, teases "A promised tale of a boy chosen by fate entwined with a goddess who has descended to Earth on moonlight." Stay tuned for the story to the movie when it is released!
Source: Official Movie Website
First Index, Then Love Live! Sunshine!!, and now this? Be still my beating heart.
I just can't wait for more of Bestia!


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NCIS House by Bunq Architectes
Small modern residence designed just recently by Bunq Architectes situated in Switzerland's Yverdon-les-Bains.
Description by Bunq Architectes
This is a small house covered with tiles built in a slope facing the town of Valeyres-sous-Rances. The plan is organized in split levels to avoid too much excavation. From the living room, two large winows organize the views on the landscape. A shed window brings to this space regular northern light.