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OTIS Federal Credit Union's raises $1,200 to help end hunger
JAY — On Saturday, August 11th, OTIS Federal Credit Union held a car wash and yard sale to raise money for the Maine Credit Unions' Campaign for Ending Hunger. Twelve employees, as well as a member of the credit union's board of directors and a member of its supervisory committee, volunteered their time, according to a press release.
B98.5, Central Maine's Country, was on-site helping to promote the event, playing music and handing out goodies to attendees.
Volunteers estimate that they washed approximately 30 vehicles, including a big rig, a trailer with two side-by-sides and a four-wheeler.
The car wash raised a total of $368.00, and the yard sale raised a total of $855.08. Combined, OTIS FCU was able to raise $1223.08 for Ending Hunger in Maine.
All funds raised stay within the community and are disbursed to several local food pantries.
Participating credit unions raise funds for the campaign at various times throughout the year. However, the primary period of fundraising is in the fall from September to December.
All money raised is distributed to hunger organizations and food pantries throughout Maine.
One hundred percent of all of the money raised by credit unions stays in Maine and goes directly to the cause of ending hunger. All administrative costs are covered by the Maine CU League's Social Responsibility Committee.
The month of November is designated as ending hunger month in Maine and Maine's credit unions are usually involved in a variety of food drives and fundraising activities for ending hunger.
To make a tax-deductible contribution to the Campaign, please visit OTIS FCU, or mail a contribution and make checks payable to:
Maine Credit Unions' Campaign for Ending Hunger
ATTN: 2017 Campaign
PO Box 1236
Portland ME 04104
Credit unions help food pantries during slow fundraising period
WESTBROOK — Though temperatures may be at their hottest, donations to local food pantries 'cool' significantly over the summer months. To help, the Maine Credit Unions' Campaign for Ending Hunger has once again 'shared the bread', a share that will provide 80,000 meals to food pantries across Maine. Two food pantries in each Maine county received contributions of $600 each, according to a press release. Collectively, the contribution totals more than $21,000, which will enable food pantries to purchase more than 80,000 meals.
"While many people are enjoying all that summer in Maine has to offer, unfortunately, there are thousands of Mainers who are worried about where their next meal is going to come. Many of those are children, who are out on summer vacation, and can't as easily access meals through school. In addition to making a contribution, part of the event's goal is to raise awareness that summertime hunger is a significant issue in Maine," remarked Jon Paradise, vice president of public affairs and engagement.
According to Good Shepherd Food Bank, the timing of the contribution couldn't be better. "Many food pantries are struggling with reduced donations because it is summer. Maine's credit unions prove once again what a great partner they are to ending hunger in Maine."
In all, 33 food pantries, including Good Shepherd Food Bank, received a contribution and a loaf of bread at ceremonies held at the Maine Credit Union League in Westbrook, and at the Good Shepherd Food Bank's Distribution Center in Hampden. Paradise said the loaf of bread is "symbolic of the sharing spirit that is so strong in Maine, and represents what credit unions are all about."
The contribution is part of the Maine Credit Unions' Campaign for Ending Hunger's statewide initiatives, and utilizes some of the funds raised through the 2017 Campaign. The 2017 Campaign raised a record-setting $740,000 to help end hunger in Maine.
Since 1990, the Maine Credit Unions' Campaign for Ending Hunger has raised $8 million to help end hunger in Maine. To make a tax-deductible contribution to the Campaign, stop by any local credit union or visit mainecul.org
Wayne resident named one of 2019 Best Lawyers
Preti Flaherty attorney and Wayne resident Steven A. Hudson in Augusta has been selected for inclusion in the 2019 edition of Best Lawyers in America in the area of Government Relations Practice.
A total of 46 Preti Flaherty's attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America. The magazine Corporate Counsel has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice." Inclusion in Best Lawyers in America is considered a high honor because attorneys are chosen by their peers — they are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed. Nominations are based on an intensive peer-review survey in which more than 25,000 of the nation's attorneys cast nearly 2 million votes.
Five Augusta Preti Flaherty attorneys on Best Lawyers list
Five Preti Flaherty attorneys, all residing in the Augusta area, have been selected for inclusion in the 2019 edition of Best Lawyers in America.
A total of 46 Preti Flaherty's attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America.
The selected attorneys include:
Charles F. Dingman, Administrative/Regulatory Law; Health Care Law, of Leeds
Joseph G. Donahue, Administrative/Regulatory Law; Communications Law; Energy Law, of Gardiner
Bruce C. Gerrity, Administrative/Regulatory Law; Franchise Law, of Manchester
Michael L. Lane, Real Estate Law, of Richmond
James C. Pitney Jr., Public Finance Law, of South China
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As you've no doubt been reminded of time and again in the past weeks, the Metal Sucks/Metal Injection-sponsored Revocation, Ramming Speed, and Cannabis Corpse tour is upon us. With releases from two of the three bands taking prominent places in the top what-have-you lists of yesteryear, it may be appropriate to wonder if the dudes left out of that running are up to par with their soon-to-be tour-mates. I'm here to assure you that not only does Ramming Speed meet the standards expected of them to tour with the likes of these bands – they far and away exceed them.
I was lucky enough to get an inside look at the recording process of their new album, Doomed to Destroy, Destined to Die, down at Godcity Studios with Kurt Ballou behind the sound board. After passing by a million times over the years, I'd worked up some sort of image of what it must be like inside, and for the most part, it stacked up. There's little else that makes me happier than opening a door to be instantly bombarded by massive guitar riffs, and upon my arrival I was greeted with just that. Checking out what was going on in the sound room, all I saw were a bunch of sweaty, smelly (trust me, I could tell) dudes surrounding the band's axe-master, Kallen Bliss, shred it up and give a faint nod in my direction. It did my heart good to see these guys recording in the same studio that had just recently seen such acts as Black Breath, High on Fire, Trap Them, and my beloved Black Cobra (to list more of the bands that have worked there would likely take up a tome, so we'll stop now).
In true Ramming Speed spirit, beers (and laughs) were had, VHS tapes of early 90's metal videos were dissected and argued over and, to my dismay but certainly not surprise, copious amounts of Manowar worship took place, signs of the hammer unabashedly and unrepentantly thrown up all over the god damned place. Even just bearing witness to all the behind the scenes goofing off, it was made clear this was a family affair and a labor of love… and, let's be serious, a great deal of drunken awesomeness.
While it may be true that these guys are chill as hell and down to party, that doesn't make them solely a party band. I had a pretty interesting conversation with vocalist Pete Gallagher on the subject:
"It's definitely frustrating to a degree, but in the end it's been a progression. I moved up here when I was nineteen, when I was really into metal and really into having a good time… and that was awesome. And then just with keeping up with politics and world news and having a political awareness, just incorporating those two things into what we were doing was cool. So it kinda irks me, only because we've been working so hard at this for so long and putting in so much effort, to always hear 'Oh hey, you guys are a pizza metal band.' Dude… that was the first song we ever wrote. I think we still get it because I like the idea of being positively negative. Y'know, you can be aware of what's happening, but that doesn't mean you can't celebrate the good times. I think that's an extension of what 'party metal' is, or wants to be, or has become, to me."
Doomed to Destroy, Destined to Die is an album three years in the making, and from what I've heard of it, that's outstandingly evident. With the album now in the mixing stages, it's already clear it will be tough competition for those aforementioned "top what-have-you lists" to come. Above all else, these close knit dudes strive to show us all, and solidify with themselves, just what a proper thrash band should be, gaining more and more momentum in that pursuit. Through the line up changes to the robberies on foreign soil, these guys have come through all the more eager to put a record to melt the faces of many. You'd better ready yourselves for the coming onslaught they've brewed for us on this record – already, it's a beer soaked battering ram of metal intensity. Hold on to your pizza.

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There's plenty that happens over Sweet Tooth's eight episodes that you haven't seen before. Human/animal hybrids! Post-apocalyptic theme parks! Sinister games of Pictionary! But despite all of the show's sci-fi and fantasy overtones, the most remarkable thing may be the very human—and very unlikely—relationship at the show's core.
Gus is a human-deer hybrid who has spent his entire young life in a secluded gated cabin with his father. Food, water, shelter, entertainment—anything and everything needed to survive is humbly provided by the woods around their home. It's all Gus has ever known, outside the stories his protective father has told him about the outside world. Tommy Jepperd, on the other hand, is a grizzled, frequently violent drifter who's sitting on a lifetime of secrets. He probably knows the world a bit too well, and unsurprisingly, Jepperd wants nothing to do with Gus when they first meet. Yet, soon enough, the odd companions find themselves on a cross-country journey to find Gus's unknown mother, where they might just discover that they need each other.
"There are lots of sub-stories (in Sweet Tooth)," explains Nonso Anozie, who plays Jepperd. "You have Dr. Singh's storyline, and then you have the Aimee storyline, and then you've got the Abbot storyline, but at the heart of it is definitely the relationship between Gus and Jepperd."
While Sweet Tooth has a sizable cast, the characters don't all interact, and some don't meet Gus until deep into the story. But Jepperd spends nearly every scene alongside the young deer-boy.
"It was really important that we connected with each other," acknowledges Anozie, "and it was important to me that we did that off-screen as well as on-screen."
Fortunately, the veteran actor—who has been seen in shows like Game of Thrones, Zoo and Doctor Who—had no problem bonding with Christian Convery, the 11-year-old performer tasked with bringing Gus to life.
"Christian is a bit of a genius," Anozie gushes. "I don't want to make his head big, but he's very clever. He knows how to take direction and change what he does accordingly on a dime, which is a really rare thing in adults, let alone children. For me to be able to portray Jepperd, where you're just going to be acting with a kid most of the time, to have someone who's as mature and talented as Christian was a great help."
The hunt for Gus, who brings heart and hope to a story that's otherwise pretty dark, was a thorough one, involving kids from all avenues of performance. Yet, ultimately the choice to cast Convery in the role was a simple one.
"You cast a wide net," explains Sweet Tooth executive producer Susan Downey. "You look at professional kids, you look at kids doing theater in their local schools. You look everywhere. But we actually saw Christian really early on and it was so perfect that we were like, 'It can't be this easy.' We followed through and did our due diligence, but Christian is just amazing. He is Gus. He embodies his sense of hope, his spirit, his curiosity. He's both wise, but also kind of innocent and vulnerable at the same time. He's physical. It's just great. And he's also a pro, which makes the practical production side of it a lot simpler."
Despite his young age, Convery's no stranger to the camera, with a list of film and TV credits that go back five years. Technically, Sweet Tooth isn't his first comic book project—early roles included a single-episode appearance on Lucifer and a blink-and-you-missed-it cameo in Venom. However, the actor never considered himself a comic book fan…until just recently.
"Before I booked the role, I never was into comic books and I had never heard of Sweet Tooth," he admits. "But after researching what Sweet Tooth was and learning that there were comic books, I bought the whole series. It turns out now I love comic books and I read them a lot."
While the Sweet Tooth series differs a bit from the comic, notably with its lighter tone, the world of the show is still undeniably dark—and extremely hostile to young Gus. Ravaged by a virus that killed off most of humanity right at the same time that human/animal hybrids like Gus were emerging, the world's population turned their anger and fear towards the half-animal children. Now they hunt them down and cruelly experiment on them in an attempt to find a cure. The frightening thing, at least for Gus, is that the boy knows almost nothing about this, having been shielded from the truth by his father for much of his life.
"His father talked to him about how there were fires (out in the world), and everywhere there were bad people, and there was all this chaos," explains Convery. "It was kind of like a living hell. But there's a scene in the pilot where he crosses the fence for the first time and he doesn't see any fires, and he's confused why there's not. He runs back into his father, and then he gets in big trouble.
"But later, after he sees Jepperd, he goes to run away and I feel like, because he knows his father lied, because there are no fires, he crosses the fence thinking there's no danger out there."
He soon learns otherwise, largely under the reluctant guidance of Jepperd, who doesn't offer to help Gus find his mother, yet finds himself doing just that regardless. But how much can Gus actually trust Jepperd? That's one of the driving questions of the show (and the comic that inspired it). It becomes clear early on that Tommy Jepperd, a football star prior to the virus, is a man of many secrets.
"Jep is incredibly layered because there's the man we meet at the top who wants nothing to do with us," says Downey. "Then we start to understand that there's such a tender heart underneath it all and that he's obviously suffered a lot, in different aspects, both with what his job had been before the great crumble happened as well as with his own personal story."
"Jepperd has a past that he's trying to get away from and just trying to survive day to day," shares Anozie, who turns in a remarkably nuanced and layered performance as the damaged character. "Obviously, I'm privy to the backstory, so I make up scenarios that I've been through and try to carry that with me as I play the character. I use kind of dark things that have happened in my own past that I carry with me. It all seeps through on the screen, hopefully."
If there's a third element that greatly shapes the journey and relationship between Gus and Jepperd, it's the world around them, which despite all of its human ugliness is visually stunning. Sweet Tooth features shot after shot of lush, sweeping backgrounds in which nature seems to be gradually reasserting itself after generations of human dominance. For that, both Convery and Anozie are quick to credit the production's location—New Zealand.
"It's so full of nature and it feels so magical and surreal to be there," enthuses Convery. "I just feel like New Zealand is just one big set, in a way. I really love the different contrast of colors in New Zealand. You've got the mountain tops over there, and then you've got the beautiful lush land. I feel like that contrast between the colors really helps with the scene, makes it more natural. And that's why we didn't have to use green screen so much. We barely ever use green screens."
Anozie agrees, "The backdrop is just amazing to film with and it gives it to you for free. It's almost prehistoric to look at, and just epically beautiful. I know a lot of the time we use that word 'epic' very freely, but this actually is. The south island of New Zealand feels like one of the last undiscovered countries."
Making their way across stunning vistas, it's remarkable that the relationship between Gus and Jepperd manages to stand out as much as it does. The growing friendship between the two serves as a reminder that as different as we may seem on the surface, we are still human and when we forget about that, when we lose sight of it, that's when bad things tend to happen. After all, it's our need for human connection and our trust in others that gives us hope, even when things get dark. That's a powerful message for right now.
"The comic book is obviously very dark," Anozie sums up. "It's very gruesome, but what I think they've done very well—under the guidance of Jeff Lemire along with (executive producers) Jim Mickle and Robert Downey, Jr.—they've taken something that is quite dark and, keeping a lot of those dark elements, made it accessible to the entire family. I think it's a great thing."
Sweet Tooth's debut season is now streaming on Netflix. Want to know more about DC's newest TV series? Make sure you read our article on how it draws from the comic to skillfully blend horror with hope.
Check out the Jeff Lemire comic that inspired the series right now on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE.
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YAH Tube
A good collection of audio and video teachings.
Wildbanch Ministry
www.wildbranch.org The WildBranch Ministry teaches the Hebraic Roots of Scripture by identifying Hebraic idioms, culture, and language as essential to understanding the Scriptures in contradistinction to Greek-Western thinking.
Bill Cloud's ministry. Through Shoreshim Ministries, Bill and his family have launched an effort to re-introduce Christians to the Jewish Y'shua and to educate believers in the Hebraic roots of their faith. As a result of this information, disciples of the Messiah can more accurately interpret end-time events and better discern our role in these last days. Bill and his family reside in Cleveland, Tennessee
Amazing Discoveries
Amazing Discoveries is a non-profit organization committed to exposing deceptions in the areas of science and creation, current world events, Bible Prophecy, the music world, health and nutrition. It is a seventh-day adventist ministry.
Stewarton Bible School
is a Christian Information Service based in the town of Stewarton, Scotland. The school's aim is to proclaim the Everlasting Gospel to the world: calling, as instructed in Revelation 14:7, on all peoples to "Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."
A Rood Awakening
Michael Rood's ministry. With a teaching style that is emphatic and hard to ignore, Michael Rood reveals behind-the-scenes cultural context to help you demystify the secrets of the Bible, from the Feasts of the LORD, to the Ark of the Covenant, to biblical truths hidden for centuries, or even a day-by-day playbook of the Messiah's ministry.
Passion for Truth
Passion For Truth is a unique ministry that was birthed out of a personal desire to know the truth of the Scriptures from the perspectives of the authors who wrote them. We are devoted to doing Bible things in Bible ways and getting back to the Christian Roots of our faith. It is not only our passion to understand God's Word within its historical and cultural framework, but also to apply what He teaches us through the Spirit and love of Messiah Yeshua (Jesus).


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J-Haze Links Up 21 Savage, 5ive Mics & Rich Gates "Covid 21"
Pittsburgh J-Haze has been building the anticipation for the third installment of his "Heroin Habits" mixtape series. The projects latest installment is slated to arrive on December 25th. He's been keeping fans engaged with each drop.
The rapper's latest single, "COVID 21"includes appearances from 21 Savage, 5ive Mics, & Rich Gates. The record's production was handled by Viddy On The Beat.
"We were all at Tip's house/studio in LA, which is where I recorded most of my new project. Viddy On Da Beat (producer) was working on a beat we all liked and we went in"J-Haze on COVID 21
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In an extremely bullish forecast of the future of the copper price, a leading metals trader has opined that the metal could reach a price of $12,000 per ton within 18 months.
This could be driven by the demand from new green initiatives, a welcome new driver of demand.
The Zambian economy is highly dependent on the price of the metal, and this forecast bodes well amidst other more negative economic outlooks
According to a Bloomberg article, the bellwether material has already doubled since a nadir in March to reach a nine-year high, and is roughly 7% below the record of $10,190 set in 2011 as bets on an economic recovery and tighter supplies entice investors. But current prices would seem "far too low" if governments fulfill pledges for green infrastructure and electric-vehicle incentives, Concord Resources Ltd. said.
"People need to be aware of the potential for a changing paradigm in terms of pricing," said Mark Hansen, chief executive officer of the trading house. "In copper, the market is not yet pricing in the addition of potentially millions of new tons of copper demand over the coming decade."
If governments follow through with plans for greater electrification of economies, copper prices would need to climb to a level that prompts demand substitution and miners to invest in new production, according to Hansen.
"It simply doesn't happen at $10,000," he said. "I would predict that if all those circumstances come true, we really need to see $12,000 copper to bring the market into balance and properly incentivize new production."


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Over the past three decades, College Hill has continued its emphasis on community outreach and programming, with their efforts and funding far outreaching what might be expected of a congregation of under 50 people!
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The vision and mission of the church are to reach out with the Gospel of Christ to people who do not know him as their personal savior, baptizing them, and making them disciples of the Lord.
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A strength of the church ministry is combining the message of the Good News with involvement in the social needs of the community.
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The Seguidores de Cristo Church is a strongly united congregation, with a marked vision of evangelism and discipleship.
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Let's start by saying what elopement is not. An elopement wedding is not a ''perfect'' and overloaded big event, a hectic and stressful celebration. After which the couple falls tired into bed in the evening and sends a prayer to heaven that it is "finally over". It's not about wedding photos in which couples pose and look unnaturally at the camera. Because the schedule is so tight that the pictures are quickly "squeezed in".
Open your heart and feel if what follows resonates within you…Imagine you're on a beach, in the mountains or in your favorite outdoor place on earth. You are surrounded by wild and unspoiled environment, incredible vastness and absolute connection with Mother Nature. The sun slowly sets and gives the landscape a golden tone. You hear your own laugh, you have fun and smell the scents in the air. There are feelings of freedom, excitement and love! You have a day behind you that could not have been more enjoyable. There are only your closest friends and relatives on your side. Or maybe just you two together with us as your elopement photographer.
From the outside, an elopement looks like an intimate celebration for two or only in the company of your loved ones. But this is really so much more! They focus on what really matters. The declaration of the greatness of your love to your beloved. And the desire to spend life together. It is a symbol of your true, authentic relationship and the focus is completely on both of you. It's only about you. The great thing about intimate weddings is that there are no set rules. You can make your day the way it speaks from your heart and reflects your soul. You celebrate your elopement without any time pressure, in a natural way, unconventional, crazy, wild, free. You as a couple and your love for each other are absolutely in focus. Your love belongs only to you and you deserve that your elopement reflects that!
It makes no difference to us whether you celebrate in a small group of your loved ones or only as a couple. It is important that you decide yourself how this day will be organized. Whether you are 30 of your best friends or your parents and siblings. The main thing is that it is uncomplicated and natural, free of time constraints and to-do's! As long as the focus is only on you and your intimate connection. We look forward to being part of this day as your elopement photographer!
From the first moment, when we get to know each other and visualize your elopement, you'll gone feel as your dream wedding already began!
We help you as elopement photographers and guides to create the picture of your special day. Whether local service provider, location search, ideas of decorations. Or tips and suggestions on the subject of wedding dress, hair and make-up that should withstand special requirements. Imagine you're in the middle of the steppe in Morocco during your spiritual couple shoot. It's windy and stormy on the dunes and yet you have the most fun of your life. And you haven't to worry about your wedding dress and shoes. Because you're barefoot and the wedding gown is made for it! We support you with helpful tips and recommendations and our experience as elopement photographers!
Your elopement is full of relaxation, naturalness, happiness, affections, intimacy, madness, passion, enjoyment, wildness freedom. You as couple feels filled with all of these emotion experienced by all of your senses. You're in the flow and having a deep spiritual experience in connection with nature and the beloved around you. And you feel your love more intensely than ever before. After your wedding, you'll know that it was the only right way to get married!
The best way to make these moments last forever is to book us as elopement photographer and videographer. We will reflect the magic of your elopement day. And you'll receive light-flooded, absolutely unposted pictures with an earthy and very natural processing. Especially the original tones in your elopement movie will bring you back to all important moments.
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How to Choose a Grief Support Group
Grief support groups can be a wonderful, therapeutic way to find outside support, connect with others who will understand what you're experiencing, and learn about new coping strategies as you work through your grief.
When led by qualified licensed professionals, online grief support groups, in particular, can be a great way to stay emotionally connected through technology. Depending on the group size and engagement, you may be sharing stories, discussing ways to cope and heal from your loss, while finding ways to support others in the group as well.
So, how do you know which grief support group is right for you? Here are a few suggestions to help you get started:
How Are You Feeling Emotionally?
A great place to start is with YOU. Are you feeling it's time to find a safe space to share with others who will understand? Or are you feeling emotionally prepared to engage in dialogue with others about their losses or are you feeling quite closed off or removed from society right now? In either case, it may be the right time to seek outside support. Only you can answer this question.
How About The Size?
Support groups come in all sizes, of course. So it's important to know what feels the most comfortable for you at this time. I find that smaller groups of about 4-6 people allow for everyone to have time to share if they want to. Larger groups may allow you to take more of an observational backseat to the larger goings-on of the group.
Would You Prefer a Specialist Lead The Group?
Even if you've never sought counseling or therapy before, it's important to know if you'd prefer the group leader to be an expert in the field of grief. There are many different types of counselors and therapists out there, among them being those who specialize in grief and loss! This versus those who may be simply congregating to support each other, without a qualified person leading the way. So, if this is important to you then it can also serve as a great way to narrow down your search.
How Often Do You Want to Meet?
This is where you may find the most variety in groups. Some may gather on a rolling, join-when-you-can basis, while others may have more structure and have, say, 6 consecutive weeks, once per week, down for the meetings. So ask yourself, would consistent guided support be best, or would you prefer to pop-in whenever?
What's It Worth?
The great thing about group support is that it's typically more affordable than one-on-one therapy or counseling sessions. If you're on a tight budget but know that you still need help, groups can be a great place to get started. The casual, meet-whenever, led by others who are also grieving versus licensed professional types of groups, maybe free to join.
What Are Your Expectations?
The last thing worth considering is your expectations. Are you seeking an environment that will allow you to sit quietly and observe, or are you needing something more interactive? Are you seeking healing through helping others, support from those who 'get it,' and/or are you wanting to make new friends with shared experiences? Or are you pushing yourself into a new, uncomfortable space because you know you need to? It's time to get real honest with yourself on this one. The more clarity you have around what you want from a grief support group experience will help you find the right one for you.
Are you seeking a small, virtual Grief Support Group run by a licensed professional counselor? See my schedule HERE to learn more.
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Magic Armor Abilities - Planar Tolerance
A suit of armor or a shield with this ability negates the natural effects of all planes as if the wearer were affected by a planar tolerance spell.
Aura: Strong abjuration
Caster Level: 8th
Requirements: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Planar Tolerance
Price: +25,000 gp.
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AlmostFLYin2 is a single person who found Poly as a member of a quad. Even though her long term marriage ended due to that relationship, she has realized that the Poly lifestyle is still something she is open to. She is breaking into the world of single life as an adult for the first time after a 14 year relationship. She has 2 kids she also has to coordinate her time for. She is tackling not only the world of dating as a Single mom with baggage, but also trying to find Poly relationships while discovering a new sense of self at the same time. She will be sharing the milestones and ideas she has on the entire journey by using quotes that she has found that fit the situation.
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"The best defense, is a good offense"
YES its from football *yuck*, Yes its been used to describe how to drive, but in this case it was my plan for a new Poly relationship. I have not had many successful Poly relationships so I seem to be erring on the side of caution, especially since I have sufficient scars from past failures that are slow to heal.
I first found DL on an online dating website using their picture matching section. I found his profile was so interested that I didn't have the guts to contact him for another month. When I finally sent him an e-mail saying why I was interested in getting to know him, I had a feeling there was a good reason that I was taking this person so seriously.
He wrote back. We talked online a few times for hours each time. We both stated that we were both Polyamorous and agreed what that meant. We planned a public meeting. That went well so we planned on introducing me to his SO. That went ok, not fantastic but ok.
I describe myself as being mildly empathic. It's not so much an extra sense as much as being able to read peoples body language and facial expressions well. It has the same effect of knowing when someone is not telling me when something is wrong. She seemed to be tolerating me but wasn't entirely thrilled about it.
Some days I get great Ideas when I need them. I had one of those. I talked with DL and suggested that I should talk to SC. I NEEDED to know that she was ok with him having a relationship with me and to calm my nerves I needed to know what she expected of me if that happened.
DL and SC talked about it, DL and I planned an overnight trip for me to visit, (he lives 85 miles away from me), BUT only with the mind set that if SC said "no overnight" It wouldn't happen. He seemed to think it was no big deal but I could tell he was nervous, I was all butterflies and queasiness. "The Best Defense......."
I stopped by his work to say hi and gather strength and find out any last minute details I should have, then showed up at his house, 2 pizzas in hand, to spend time with SC. We discussed the pizzas, chit chatted, then I said point blank..
"I need 3 things from you before I can have any relationship with DL. I need to know YOUR rules, I need to know what you expect from ME in OUR (hers and mine) relationship, and I need your permission to have a relationship with DL"
We then discussed what her rules were, mostly concerning safer sex and time management. We discussed how much she wanted me as a part of her life. As it happens we were both on the same wavelength. We discussed our pasts and why we felt the way we did, we discussed keeping communications open so that problems do not fester in the future.
Once DL came home from work, he asked if I could spend the night and it was OK'd. The 3 of us chatted some more and I commented that it seemed like MY new job was to keep DL out of trouble. SC seemed to like that answer. Awhile later we took SC to work and DL and I had a wonderful night together.
The next morning when SC came home I was trying to be polite and let DL be hers again. To me it felt safer to not flaunt it in front of her. I washed some dishes while they did their morning routines with each other. At one point I made a comment that I would like to join DL in the shower, her reply was to go ahead. I was floored!
"....Is the best offense."
I know this relationship is still very much in NRE. I do know that I will have no questions about weather I will offend her because I have talked to HER about it. I can't control DL but I do know that by personally hearing the rules and expectations, I can ensure that I at least, will not be breaking them, I will not be hurting someone else with my own ignorance either.
I know that not every established Poly relationship is as stable as it may look at first glance. SC and I have already had separate moments that DL has had to deal with where our brains went and assumed the worst because it HAS happened before. It was discussed, and worked through.
Having laid a foundation for this group, I have a feeling that the potential hurdles that most new Poly relationships face, will be easier to handle. Honesty has been shown from the start, trust is building instead of being assumed. No one has to guess what the others are thinking.
I am hopeful that this will be a LONG journey for me.
"The best Defense, is a good Offense."
But don't quote me on that!
AlmostFLYin2 is a contributing writer as well as a member of this online Community. She can be contacted
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By Harboring Criminal Aliens, Sanctuary City Mayors Risk Billions of Funding Dollars
Published on February 6th, 2017
By Joe Guzzardi
February 6, 2017
Through their defiance, mayors who govern the nation's sanctuary cities are gambling on a long shot dice roll. At stake, according to American Transparency (OpenTheBooks.com), is nearly $27 billion in federal funds. America has more than 300 jurisdictions that have proclaimed sanctuary status. Among those 300-plus are 106 cities with the balance made up of states and counties.
President Donald Trump has ordered federal monies withheld unless those cities cooperate with immigration officials. Funding from the government to municipalities goes via Department of Justice grants to local law enforcement and through direct payments to assist with housing, education and community development.
Logically, major cities like Washington, D.C. and Chicago have the most to lose. Illogically, their mayors are among the most vocal in their sanctuary support. On a per capita basis, Washington, D.C. received the highest amount of federal funding: $12,912 per family of four for a $2.09 billion total. Chicago received the second highest per capita federal funding: $7,768 per family of four, or $5.3 billion total.
Open the Books Chief Executive Officer Adam Andrzejewski, who claims he specializes in exposing the everyday greed of national, state and local politics, equated mayoral defense of sanctuary status to a "defiance tax" that could cost every man, woman and child who resides in a sanctuary $500.
Nevertheless, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser insists that her district will remain a sanctuary. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has maintained in numerous public statements that Chicago will "always" provide sanctuary. With their high crime rates, widespread homelessness and extreme poverty, neither Washington nor Chicago can afford to lose one thin dime of grant money.
Bowser, Emanuel and dozens of other mayors are proceeding as though they're unaware that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch already advised sanctuaries, including Chicago, that they must comply with federal law or risk losing tens of millions of dollars they received in fiscal 2016. Among other sanctuaries are New York City; Clark County, Nev.; Orleans Parish, La.; Philadelphia; Cook County, Ill., and the states of California and Connecticut.
The federal government banned sanctuary cities more than 20 years ago in the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. But Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama never enforced the law, and sanctuaries sprang up across America.
Today, however, at-risk citizens insist on safety and security. In 2015, Rasmussen polling found that 58 percent of likely voters supported cutting off funds to sanctuaries. By 2016, similar polling showed an increase in anti-sanctuary sentiment to 76 percent. Even liberal California objects. UC Berkeley's Institute of Government Studies, of all places, found in its 2015 polling of state residents that sanctuary city opposition crossed the political spectrum, and included 73 percent of Democrats, 82 percent of Republicans and 71 percent of independents.
One sanctuary Lynch identified, Miami-Dade, recently abandoned its position when Mayor Carlos Gimenez ordered federal jails to comply with federal detention requests. Miami-Dade County is due to receive $355 million from the federal government this fiscal year. Other cities are certain to follow Gimenez's prudent example.
The law and American sentiment back Trump. The mayors are shooting craps with money that should rightfully go to their constituents to help them live better, safer lives. Not only are the mayors violating federal law, they're cravenly abandoning the voters who elected them.
A Californians for Population Stabilization Senior Writing Fellow, Joe can be contacted at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @joeguzzardi19.


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I'll tell them you went down prying the wedding ring off his cold, dead finger. Well, thanks to the Internet. Is there a place on the web that panders to…
Nay, I respect and admire Harold Zoid too much to beat him to death with his own Oscar. Eeeee! Now say "nuclear wessels"! This is the worst kind of discrimination: the kind against me! There, now he's trapped in a book I wrote: a crummy world of plot holes and spelling errors!
I didn't ask for a completely reasonable excuse! I asked you to get busy! Anyone who laughs is a communist! I haven't felt much of anything since my guinea pig died. The key to victory is discipline, and that means a well made bed. You will practice until you can make your bed in your sleep. That could be 'my' beautiful soul sitting naked on a couch. If I could just learn to play this stupid thing. Why would a robot need to drink? We'll go deliver this crate like professionals, and then we'll go home.
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And It's About Time There Was Some Support For Cushing's!
I was diagnosed at the age of 18 with Cushing's Syndrom and received treatment between the ages of 19-23.
The first set of symptoms I experienced was chronic fatigue, weight gain, hair loss/thinning, and an inability to deal with stress. I was a very active cheerleader and beauty queen at the onset of Cushing's and it really broke me...I thought. Having Cushing's striped me of the superficial trappings of beauty and made me dig deep to discover my authentic self. It was a long and painful journey because there is a big differnce in the way people treat you when you are fit and pretty.
Life's lessons were hard but I came to know myself and understood that beauty is really skin deep. To survive this life changing ordeal, I bought a wig, and began the task of redefining myself. I went to college, graduated then went to work for NBC as a writer at a station in California. I then prayed and asked God for a healthy eating and excersie plan (diets don't work for us) and lost over 30 pds. By the time I was 27 I felt that I had won over Cushing's and regined my beauty and my health and strength and My Hair!
I am now 39 and I can say that I do have some physical challanges remaining from having Cushing's (rediation and surgery) such as the fatigue and the low libido but for the most part, I look better than I have ever look, I got married (last year) and I live with the expectation that this evil, evasive disease will not hinder or block success,health and happiness from coming to me!
This was a long battle for me (from 18yrs - 27 yrs) and still fighting because there is not a cure, just treatments. But I live with faith knowing that with God all things are possible! Be encouraged and stay up!


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Saudi Arabia says 'invasion' of locusts almost over, threat from neighbors remains
Saudi Arabia cleared locusts from 369,391 hectares of land in the Kingdom between February 1 and May 28, the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture said.
The ministry said the general situation is now quieting down, after the "vicious" attack of swarms of locusts during the spring (locusts' breeding season).
The ministry added that it performed intensive pest control operations during the past four months in Riyadh, Qassim, Hail, and Eastern Province
"The Kingdom was affected by an intense invasion of the desert locust swarms, as a result of the current outbreak which is entering its third year. The threat from neighboring countries remains due to the worsening situation there because of weak surveying and control operations," the ministry said.
"We see the emergence of a season, different in range and timing, and swarms invade the Kingdom's southern areas, and move north towards Riyadh, Najran, Asir, and perhaps the heights of Mecca and al-Baha."
"This indicates that this is an irregular season, and that happens when there are desert locust outbreaks in Yemen, Oman and the Empty Quarter," the ministry added.
After the pest control operations, the situation in the Kingdom will calm down starting from mid-July. Unless another invasion occurs and locusts swarm the heights of the southern regions, indicating that there is a "low-level threat" after swarms of locusts migrate from Iraq towards Yemen and Sudan through Saudi Arabia.
Desert locusts – whose destructive infestations cause major crop damage – are a species of grasshopper that live largely solitary lives until a combination of conditions promotes breeding and leads them to form massive swarms.
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization had said in its locust forecast until mid-June, that locust infestations will increase and extend further to areas in the Horn of Africa and southwest Asia.
"Breeding in the Arabian Peninsula caused hopper bands (masses of the "hopper" type of locusts) to form in parts of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and UAE, and hopper and adult groups in northern Oman."
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text: QNRF PR / Thursday, January 20, 2022 / Categories: In the Media 'A Cell Bouquet' by Sidra Medicine Wins QNRF Contest Collaborative researchers from Sidra Medicine and Qatar University have won the Best Representative Image of an Outcome (BRIO) competition hosted by Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) to illustrate research outcomes using imagery to appeal to a broad, non-specialist audience. The images are evaluated on originality, scientific importance, and visual impact in photography and illustration. The winning image titled 'A Cell Bouquet' was captured by Abbirami Sathappan of the Deep Phenotyping Core at Sidra Medicine using a laser scanning microscope to capture Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) while testing their value as a therapeutic to combat type-1 diabetes. The microscopic visualisation shows the outcome of an experiment using MSCs to reverse the side effects of commonly prescribed diabetes medication by utilising dietary supplements. The cells were differentiated into osteocytes and adipocytes, treated with an anti-diabetic drug, and evaluated with and without supplements. MSCs are vital to healthcare research and used in clinical trials worldwide, facilitating research into inflammatory bowel diseases, bone marrow transplantation complications, autoimmune disorders, and acute lung injury in Covid-19 infections. Sidra Medicine researchers strive to advance technology in this field by creating the first biobank of these cells for clinical application, further highlighting how precision medicine directly benefits patient outcomes. The project team members from Sidra Medicine comprise the lead principal investigator, Dr. Chiara Cugno, Director of Advanced Cell Therapy Core; Dr. Dhanya Kizhakayil, Post-doctoral Fellow; Dr. Jean Charles Grivel, Director of Deep Phenotyping Core and from Qatar University, Prof. Md Mizanur Rahman. Several Qatar University undergraduate students are currently being trained at Sidra Medicine in context with this collaboration. Referring to the project's winning submission, Abbirami Sathappan from Sidra Medicine noted, "Art and science go hand in hand. As scientists, we see art in everything we discover and understand. Seeing is believing." Dr. Khalid Fakhro, Chief Research Officer at Sidra Medicine said: "A famous photographer once said "To photograph is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye, and the heart" – and to that I would add, "To image is to put together in a single picture the knowledge, the technology and the passion". These three qualities are what embody research at Sidra Medicine. This image is just small representation of the remarkable work carried out at our facility." The Best Representative Image of an Outcome (BRIO) competition is open to all QNRF-funded programmes. Previous Article Book Highlights Implementation of Recycled Aggregate in Construction Next Article Qatar High School Students Win ITEX Gold Medal in Kuala Lumpur Print 1126


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Blue Shark
Chris Fallows, famous for taking photos of great white sharks leaping out of the water at Seal Island near Cape Town, South Africa, took Ken and myself 25 miles south of Cape Town to find one of the beautiful sharks of the sea, the Blue Shark. This one is almost 10 feet long and steamline like a torpedo. Beautiful to watch as it swims. Thank you Chris!!!
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1998.07.09 16:30 "Re: tiffsplit in a cronjob", by Phillip Griffith
You may be relying on an environment variable to tell tiffsplit where to find the libtiff library. I know I do, for Solaris, with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Cron jobs may not get the same environment variables your login session does.
Bjorn Brox posted a solution back in May, that involves changing the makefile so that all the TIFF utilities know where to find libtiff without relying on environment variables.
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In March 2015, new UK legislation (The Health Care and Associated Professions Order 2015) was approved which introduced new requirements relating to English language competence for certain professions including nurses and midwives.
The NMC has now published new requirements of evidence of language competence for all EU Trained nurses and midwives wishing to join or re-enter the register from 18th January 2016.
NMC will now accept the Occupational English Test (OET) in addition to the International English Language Test System (IELTS), as proof of a nurse or midwife's English language competence. While this provides an alternative way for nurses and midwives to demonstrate their English language capability, applicants will still need to meet NMC existing English language standards.
All EU trained nurses and midwives will need to provide evidence they have the necessary knowledge of English as a prerequisite for registration with the NMC from 18th January 2016.
All nurses and midwives seeking readmission following a lapse in Registration who originally trained in EU countries.
Nurses who have a Fitness to Practice action or allegation who already have registration, where concerns are raised about their knowledge of English. In theory this could apply to any EU nurse or midwife currently registered and working in the UK if concerns are raised. Guidance will be released for decision makers and fitness to practice panels to ensure fairness.
Applicants who have trained in the UK will automatically satisfy they meet the requirements.
All EU nurse and midwife applicants from January 18th 2016 trained outside the UK will be required to demonstrate they have adequate language skills in order to complete the registration with the NMC.
The NMC will only ask for evidence once the initial application has been approved in terms of eligibility to register for the NMC. Therefore language controls will only be carried out after the recognition of a professional qualification, but before registration.
The NMC will accept the following as demonstration of language competence:
IELTS with a minimum score of 7.0 and at least 7.0 in reading, writing, listening and speaking (valid in the last 2 years) or if the certificate is older than 2 years if the registrant can prove their language skills have not deteriorated in that time. Evidence may be completing post graduate study taught and examined in English, or evidence that they have practiced as a nurse or midwife in a country where English is the first and native language.
Evidence of a pre-registration course taught and examined in English. The course must be composed of at least 50% clinical interaction. At least 75% of the course's clinical interaction with patients, service users, their families or other health care professionals must have taken place in English.
Evidence of registration and two years of registered practice with a nursing and midwifery regulator in a country where English is the first and native language where a language assessment was required for registration.
From the 1st of November 2017, NMC will also accept the OET (Occupational English Test) as proof of English language competence.
A brief description of the OET test is given below:
There are 4 skills-based papers: Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking.
The Listening and Reading papers are designed to assess a candidate's ability to understand spoken and written English, based on health-related topics and tasks common to all professions.
The Writing and Speaking papers are specific to the 12 individual healthcare professions – designed to reflect common tasks performed in the workplace.
A: Very High Level of Performance
B: High Level of Performance, able to use English adequately for professional needs
C: Good Level of Performance, but not acceptable to a range of health and medical councils
D: Moderate Level of Performance, requires improvement
E: Low Level of Performance, requires considerable improvement
International candidates need to score a minimum of B in all 4 papers in order to achieve the standard required by those regulatory bodies that recognise the OET's validity.
NMC will only accept results from OET tests taken from February 2016 onwards.
You can achieve the required mark across two test sittings if:
You sit the tests within six months of each other,
You are tested in all four skills at the same time, and
If you take an IELTS test, all scores in both sittings are above 6.5 and you achieve 7.0 or higher in all four fields when the results of both sittings are viewed together, or
You take the OET, all grades in both sittings are above Grade C+ and you achieve Grade B or higher in all four fields when the results of both sittings are viewed together.
Test scores are valid for two years.


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With her sweet little face and yellow eyes, our gray tabby cat is paws-atively irresistible! Masterfully crafted of glass in Poland with bright hand-painted glazes, this charming 3" tall sitting gray tabby cat ornament is the purr-fect accent for your cat lover's tree!
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Those who presented research in the bi-monthly Language Research Center seminars were recognized for their hard work this academic year. The Faculty of Languages and Translation awarded certificates of appreciation at a ceremony on March 20th organized by the Language Research Center.
Dr. Yahya Asiri, Vice-Dean of Faculty of Languages and Translation, represented the department at the ceremony. He conferred certificates of appreciation to the following valued faculty members:
- Ms. Hanan Al-Subai, Linguistic Hegemony of the English Language in the Medical Context of Bisha King Abdullah Hospital;
- Dr. Munassir Alhamami, Attention to Intention;
- Mr. Erich Beer, Some Practical Considerations Regarding the Teaching of Reading Comprehension;
- Dr. Mohammed Shuaib Assiri, Comparing Multiple Choice, Verb Conjugation, and Error Correction in Grammar Assessment;
- Prof. Hamad Al-Dosari, Developing and Assessing the Relationship Between Intercultural Communication Competence and Intercultural Sensitivity in the EFL Classroom;
- Dr. Mazeagha Al-Tale', The PECAL Model: Bringing the Best Together for Dynamic Gains;
- Dr. Michael Hadzantonis, Frame Theory and Footing in Linguistic Anthropological Analysis- Part 1 and Discourse Analysis in Linguistic Anthropology (and beyond): Part 1;
- Ms. Saja Al-Ahmari & Ms. Jawaher Al-Enzi, Translation and Culture;
- Dr. Fouad Elkarnichi, Examining What Translation Education Research Say about Practices in Translation Programs (Special Focus on the Arabic Context);
- Dr. Hasan Mohammed Jaashan, An Overview of the Book 'STYLISTICS';
- Ms. Hanan Al-Shahrani & Ms. Maryam Al Shamrani for, Translator's Message;
- Dr. Barbara Rumbinas, A Multimodal Analysis of Minstrel Performance and the Codification of the African American Stereotype in Nineteenth-Century Culture;
- Dr. Mahmoud Radwan, Madness in Arabic Narratives;
- Dr. Eyhab Bader Eddin, Multiplicity of Different English Functional Semantic Realizations of the Translation of the Arabic Preposition ب and Translation Process Mapping: Key Tools to Explore Translation Cognitive Dimensions.
The Language Research Center and the Faculty of Languages and Translation are committed to faculty development in order to better serve our college and the university at large. These programs inure to the benefit of all.
Date: 3/25/2019
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text: Caterpillar is at it again with another rugged phone. Remember the B100? Well their latest phone, the Cat S60, is more than just tough. The Cat S60 is the first smartphone with an integrated FLIR thermal camera. This makes finding water leaks, insulation issues, and potential electrical problems much easier. The casing is Mil Spec 810G and is waterproof up to 5-meters and can take a drop from 1.8-meters. The touchscreen is 7-inches and can handle wet fingers and gloves. Now if only it wasn't on Android.


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Did you know that tree buds and shoots extracts have been used since ancient times as natural remedies for various conditions? See how you can use these gemmotherapy extracts at home with 20 natural remedies using tree buds and shoots extracts. But first.
Gemmotherapy, or the natural medicine that uses the extracts from tree buds, shoots to make gemmos. These gentle medicinal extracts from the cells that reside at the shoot and root tips of plants are very powerful when used accordingly. This branch of holistic natural medicine may be new to a lot of people, so we figured to share with you no less than 20 natural remedies using tree buds and shoots extracts to heal a wide range of conditions and symptoms. Without further ado, here is how to use tree buds and shoots extracts to heal.
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20 Natural Remedies Using Tree Buds and Shoots Extracts
1. Canker Sores, Stomatitis, Gingivitis
Wild privet shoot extract (Ligustrum vulgare), 3-5 times a day, before meals. You can gargle with a natural mouthwash with calendula flowers glycerin extract and common comfrey root extract.
2. Periodontosis
For this oral condition, a long-term cure with bud extracts is required. In the morning you can take fir buds extract, at noon oak buds extract, and in the evening white birch buds extract (Betula pubescens), according to the leaflet.
3. Flu
To prevent the onset of influenza gemmotherapy recommends a two-week cure with flowered echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) and rosehip berries extracts. You can follow this cure for up to 2 months if you are at a higher risk of catching the flu. After the onset of influenza or respiratory infections, you can use the flowered Echinacea extract in combination with the following vegetal extracts:
- Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus)
- South-African geranium (Pelargonium sidoides – Umckaloabo)
- common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum)
4. Chronic Bronchitis
The natural remedy for chronic bronchitis in gemmatherapy is the following:
- blackcurrant bud extract in the morning
- hornbeam bud extract in the afternoon
- walnut bud extract in the evening
Follow this cure for up to two months, pause for the next two months and resume if needed.
5. Chronic Sinusitis
In the morning you can take blackcurrant buds extract and in the evening hornbeam buds extract. Follow this treatment for 2 months, pause and resume if needed.
6. Allergies
As a prevention treatment for various types of allergies, gemmotherapy uses blackcurrant buds extract. In case of sensitivity to permanent allergens (house dust, drugs, food, etc.) follow 2-3 months of this treatment, with a two-month break, for longer periods of time. In case of seasonal allergies (pollen, hay), for sensitive people, it's best to follow this treatment from March to May (start before the pollen season and continue until after it ends). You can find the extract below.
7. Rhinitis & Asthma
Gemmotherapy recommends blackcurrant buds extract in the morning and evening, and supplementing with hemp buds extract in the evening. Follow this cure for 2-3 months.
8. Persistent Cough
In the morning and evening – hornbeam buds extract and wayfaring tree buds extract in the afternoon. After the cough is relieved, you may continue the treatment for a month.
9. High Cholesterol
In the morning and evening supplement with olive young shoots extract. Follow this cure for 2-3 months and do it twice a year.
10. High Cholesterol
Related to High Blood Pressure and Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
In the morning and evening supplement with hawthorn shoots extract and olive young shoots extract in the afternoon. Follow the cure for three months, then pause for a month. Repeat as needed, depending on your test results.
11. High Cholesterol
Related to High Blood Pressure and Stroke
In the morning – black alder buds extract and in the evening olive shoots extract. This is a 6 months-long cure. Resume if needed, after checking your test results and at the advice of a herbal doctor.
12. High Cholesterol Related to Diabetes
A 6-month cure with olive young shoots extract in the morning and evening and mulberry buds extract in the afternoon.
13. Diabetes
The Gemmotherapy treatment for diabetes is a two-months treatment as follows:
- mulberry buds extract – three times a day, 30 drops before meals
- walnut buds extract – three times a day, 30 drops after meals
If diabetes is associated with high cholesterol and high lipids, you can also take olive young shoots extract, three times a day for the following two months. If there is a rheumatic component to your diabetes, the two-month cure consists of taking olive shoots extract in the morning and evening, and birch sap extract in the afternoon. Resume if needed.
14. Gastritis & Gastric and Duodenal Ulcers
Fig buds extract three times a day for two months, then pause for a month. Follow in the spring and autumn or as needed (when going through very stressful situations). If you also experience restlessness or stress you can associate the treatment with silver linden buds extract, or valerian root extract, in the evening before bed.
15. Sluggish Bile
To improve sluggish bile with gemmotherapy, you can take rosemary shoots extracts before meals, in the morning and in the afternoon, and maple buds extract in the afternoon, before lunch. Follow the treatment for two months, pause for one month, and repeat as needed. Avoid fatty foods and fried foods while doing this treatment.
16. Chronic Hepatitis
The gemmotherapy treatment for chronic hepatitis uses a few natural bud extracts, as follows:
- Morning: Rosemary shoots extract before breakfast.
- Afternoon: Rosemary shoots extract before lunch.
- Evening: Juniper young shoots extract.
Follow this treatment for two months, then pause and continue with rye root extract in the morning and hazel buds extract in the afternoon and evening. Continue the treatment for 6 months, while reducing the number of drops with each month (30, 20, 15 drops). In the case that the pancreas is affected by hepatitis or cirrhosis, gemmotherapy recommends walnut buds extract in the afternoon.
17. Gallstones
Maple buds extract, three times a day, 30 drops for 40 days. Pause for a month then resume if needed.
18. Food Allergies
In the afternoon rosemary shoots extract before lunch, while in the morning and evening blackcurrant buds extract until you see improvements. If you suffer from a chronic food allergy you can extend the treatment for two months.
19. Acute Cystitis (Relapsing)
For this, gemmotherapy recommends taking 30 drops of heather shoots extract (Calluna vulgaris) three times a day, after meals for 30 minutes, and 30 drops of walnut buds extract, three times a day, before meals. In the acute phase, increase the number of drops to 50 (2 ml) or 75 (3 ml) for 1-2 days, and the number of administrations per day, until your symptoms improve. It's best to continue the treatment for a week after symptoms have improved. In severe cases, this treatment can be combined with the antibiotic recommended by your doctor.
20. Kidney Stones
As in the case of acute cystitis, gemmotherapy recommends taking 30 drops of heather shoots extract (Calluna vulgaris) three times a day, after meals. Follow this treatment for 2 months, pause for a month pause and resume if needed.
How to Take Tree Buds and Shoots Extracts
Glycerinated macerates are generally administered in 1-3 month courses. In prolonged use, you begin by taking the recommended doses, after which it is possible to gradually reduce them, as the improvement of the symptoms is observed.
- Infants: 1-10 drops three times a day, following the doctor's recommendation.
- Children (2 to 7 years of age): 5-20 drops three times a day.
- Adolescents: 10-30 drops (0.5 – 1 ml) three times a day.
- Adults: 50 drops (2 ml) two to three times a day.
- Elderly: 10-30 drops (0.5 – 1 ml) three times a day.
Read Also: The Complete List of Gemmotherapy Remedies
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At this moment in time, the most significant fact about how the GOP coalition is changing is that it is getting smaller. Back in February, slightly more Americans identified as Republicans than as Democrats in Gallup's polling; today, the Donkey Party leads in partisan identification by a margin of 50 to 39 percent.
Given the extraordinary context in which this survey was taken, one could plausibly argue that the result is an illusory byproduct of nonresponse bias, or the marker of a durable, pro-Democratic realignment. To the extent that partisans exhibit a greater tendency to answer calls from pollsters when they are eager to discuss politics — because their side is doing well — then this would seem like a bad time to get Republicans to come to the phone.
Conversely, to the extent that presiding over a catastrophic failure of governance can impair a party's brand in a long-lasting fashion — as ostensibly happened with Herbert Hoover's GOP and (more arguably) Jimmy Carter's Democrats — then having your party's standard-bearer counsel the public to inject disinfectant while a pandemic kills 140,000 Americans and plunges the nation into the worst recession since World War II seems like it could do the trick.
Regardless, another significant way that the GOP coalition is changing is that its voting base is becoming more working-class. And if this November does bring a "blue tsunami," that fact could theoretically have some bearing on how the Republican Party rebrands and rebuilds in the aftermath.
Donald Trump's erosion of support in recent months has been driven by the defections of white voters in general, and college-educated ones in particular. A variety of recent polls have found Biden leading Trump among the latter by roughly 30 percentage points. Although the president's standing among non-college-educated whites has declined significantly in recent weeks, he still boasts a roughly 20-point lead with that demographic in the most recent surveys.
Counterintuitively, the president's grip on a sizable minority of nonwhite voters has scarcely loosened: In recent polls from CNN, Monmouth University, and the New York Times, Trump's share of the African-American and Hispanic voting blocs remains about where it was in 2018 exit polls — which was itself a bit higher than his share in 2016.
Considering that the pandemic and recession have harmed nonwhite Americans disproportionately — and that Trump has turned his appeals to white racial grievance up to 11 since the onset of the George Floyd protests — this is a rather surprising phenomenon. And it is possible that a collapse in Trump's nonwhite support is still in the offing. But, at least before the pandemic, the president's modest gains among Black voters wouldn't have surprised some close observers of African-American political behavior. Keeping 90-plus percent of African-Americans united in one partisan camp takes work. The reason Democrats have enjoyed such a landslide margin among Black voters — despite considerable ideological and attitudinal diversity within that demographic — is not that each individual African-American Democrat concluded that the GOP was hostile to people like them through their own personal ruminations on current affairs. Rather, as political scientists Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird argue in their book, Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior, the Black bloc vote is a product of "racialized social constraint" — which is to say, the process by which African-American communities internally police norms of political behavior through social rewards and penalties. In their account, the exceptional efficacy of such norm enforcement within the Black community reflects the extraordinary degree of Black social cohesion that slavery and segregation fostered.
If this thesis is correct (and White and Laird do much to substantiate it), then it would follow that the erosion of African-Americans' social isolation would weaken racialized social constraint, and thus, narrow the Democratic Party's margin with Black voters. And, according to the Democratic Party data scientist David Shor, the polling bears out this thesis: Young, secular Black voters — whose distance from the African-American church makes them less subject to social constraint — have become slightly more Republican since 2016.
The Democrats' triumph in the 2018 midterms was powered by college-educated whites, even in races where one might have expected a groundswell of nonwhite support to put the party over the top. In Georgia's gubernatorial election, Stacey Abrams's share of the state's Black vote was 4 percentage points lower than Hillary Clinton's was in 2016, according to the Democratic data firm Catalist.
The source of the relative stability of Trump's Latino support is less well-theorized. But it is true that, holding ethnicity constant, non-college-educated voters tend to be more conservative on immigration both in the U.S. and in other countries. It is conceivable that some of the same qualities that make Trump's politics appealing to white non-college-educated voters also serve to ingratiate him with a minority of working-class Latinos, particularly those generations removed from the immigrant experience.
Regardless, since the Latino and African-American voting blocs are more working-class than the electorate as a whole, one effect of the GOP holding its ground among nonwhite voters — while bleeding white college-educated ones — is to render its coalition less affluent and highly educated than it was in 2016.
This is the scintilla of truth behind Ted Cruz's remarks on the Federalist Radio Hour Thursday.
"The big lie in politics is that Republicans are the party of the rich and Democrats are the party of the poor. That just ain't true," the Texas senator told the right-wing outlet. "Today's Democratic Party is the party of Silicon Valley billionaires. Today's Democratic Party is the party of Michael Bloomberg. It is the party of power, it is the party of suppression, it is jackbooted thugs who will enforce their will through force."
Setting aside Cruz's last remark (by all indications, the president wants the GOP to be known as the party of jackbooted thuggery), he is narrowly correct that the Democratic Party boasts more support from affluent voters than at any time in its modern history (although American billionaires still donate predominately to the GOP, and controlling for educational attainment, Republicans still soundly beat Democrats among high-income voters).
And yet: If the GOP is becoming more working-class, in terms of its coalition's demographic composition, there are few signs that it is becoming a party "for the working class," in the sense of governing in the interests of workers as workers. By the same token, while the Democratic Party is becoming more affluent demographically, its economic policies have grown steadily more progressive over the past decade. Since taking control of the House of Representatives on the strength of the party's support in suburban districts, Nancy Pelosi's caucus has passed a $15 minimum wage, The Protecting the Right to Organize Act (a pro-union labor-law reform bill), and pushed to have the CARES Act provide Americans with the highest unemployment benefits on offer anywhere in the world (albeit, on a disastrously temporary basis).
By contrast, since Donald Trump eked out an Electoral College majority by making significant inroads with lower-income white voters, he has established himself as (at least arguably) the most economically regressive Republican president in history. He began his presidency with an attempt to throw 14 million low-income Americans off Medicaid, and then proceeded to shower wealthy capitalists in tax cuts, make it easier for corporations to cut costs by poisoning children, and gutted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, among other reactionary things.
Now, with tens of millions of Americans freshly unemployed, upwards of 20 million at risk of eviction by autumn — and state governments poised to layoff public-sector workers and slash social services due to cratering revenues — the Republican Party is putting its principled commitment to slashing welfare provision above its political interests. There is no evidence that the CARES Act's $600 weekly federal unemployment benefit is starving the U.S. labor market of much-needed workers by making joblessness more rewarding than hard work. On the other hand, there is copious evidence that such benefits have stabilized personal income levels in the U.S., thereby preventing a much sharper recession.
Nevertheless, the party of "single moms" and "steelworkers" finds the theoretical threat of American workers having the power to turn down an unattractive job offer from an employer — without suffering a significant loss of living standards — so offensive, it is fighting to slash the incomes of 32 million Americans (in the middle of a pandemic, just months from Election Day).
Meanwhile, the party's other top priority for the next COVID-19 recovery package is to immunize employers from workplace safety lawsuits.
It is true that the Republican firmament is home to some conservative intellectuals who would like the party to embrace a more communitarian economic vision. Many religious conservatives have lost their reverence for plutocracy as neoliberal capitalism and cultural traditionalism have come to appear increasingly incompatible. Some dissident wonks, like former Mitt Romney policy advisor Oren Cass, have gone so far as to embrace sectoral bargaining, a policy that would enable an industry's workers to set minimum compensation standards that would apply to all employers in that sector.
But no major Republican lawmaker has crossed that Rubicon. Instead, as the Roosevelt Institute's Mike Konczal notes, the GOP's putative populists, like Missouri senator Josh Hawley, have opposed pro-union reforms and minimum-wage hikes while pretending that immigration is the primary driver of working-class wage stagnation in the U.S. As Konczal writes:
If, like me, you've told people on the populist right 'there's no evidence in the debates that immigration is among the top five reasons of wage stagnation; to whatever extent it exists the declining minimum wage is far more important by itself' and just watched the blinking eyes, you know there's a gap here. I think the coverage of the "debate" over immigration and wages does a disservice here, because the range of the numbers in no way matches the scale of the fall in fortunes for American workers. The debate is between "increased wages" and "minimal decline, and just for the small group of non-native-born Americans without a high school diploma." Even if you believe the high estimates, they pale in comparison to the things even moderate Democrats want to accomplish, and you should be skeptical of those estimates.
Contra [conservative commentator Saagar] Enjeti, full employment and a tight labor market aren't determined by the number of people in the country — immigrants take jobs, but they also create jobs through spending — but instead by fiscal and monetary policy, demand and technology. There's a pretty standard toolkit among the left for compressing the income distribution and raising wages— unionization, higher minimum wages, public programs, overtime, wage boards, high progressive taxation on the rich, sectoral bargaining, high aggregate demand and full employment, etc. — to draw from. Historically and across nations, these are the things that work. It's telling that members of the populist right do not endorse these and even actively fight them (populist right Senator Josh Hawley supported right-to-work laws in Missouri), and also do not provide serious alternatives to them.
Given the hegemony that business conservatives have enjoyed over the American right's core institutions of policy and leadership development, the safe money would be against the Republican Party embracing a remotely prolabor economic agenda in the coming years, even if there were a significant faction within the GOP advocating for such a turn. As is, there is only a cohort of opportunists who've wedded marginally heterodox views on a few discrete issues to vituperative denunciations of a rootless, godless professional-managerial class.
So, the GOP is (almost certainly) not becoming a party for the working class. Whether it will become the preferred party of 51 percent of working-class voters is less clear. Given the relative sturdiness of the GOP's share of non-college-educated voters throughout three years of reactionary policy-making — and five months of catastrophic misrule — it seems possible that well-packaged pseudo-populism may be all the party needs to grow its blue-collar wing. All true friends of American labor must do what they can to guard against that possibility.


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In an effort to connect with AWIS chapters across the United States, Sandy Robert, AWIS CEO, and Alan Chewning, AWIS Director of Community Engagement, visited the west coast chapters in late February. Alexandra, Lining, Melody, and Karineh, as leaders of the AWIS LA/VC chapter, were invited to Urth Caffé in Pasadena to meet Sandy and Alan.
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Sandy and Alan were particularly interested in brainstorming on roadblocks our chapter faces, such as issues with hosting events or in increasing our member pool. Furthermore, AWIS National wanted to know how they can support our chapter in the future. Our team agreed that AWIS National should compile a list of speakers specialized in negotiation tactics, personal finance, interview skills, and business acumen, etc. that our chapter can invite as panelists for future career-oriented events. Ultimately, this might serve as best practices across the Nation for all AWIS chapters.