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8-18 June 2016 - The Central Commission of the Order meets at Roscrea in Ireland
The library at Roscrea where the meetings were held.
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Every three years, the Order of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance holds a General Chapter at which all the superiors of all the abbeys worldwide gather to discuss the business of the Order.
In preparation for this, each region holds a meeting to articulate the concerns it feels ought to be addressed at the upcoming Chapter.
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Fr. Elias was the delegate to the Commission elected by the Regional meeting held at Gethsemani in February.
Fr. Timothy, our former abbot, is the Procurator General of the Order currently residing in Rome, and attended as a member of the Abbot General's council.
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Michael Stebbins, who has guided Rep Stage since 2005, has resigned as producing artistic director, effective May 5.
"I have decided to go back to being a freelance actor and director," Stebbins, 47, said Friday, "which is something I have wanted to do for some time."
Although Stebbins has directed and acted in Rep Stage productions -- he will be featured in the season-closing revival of "Boeing Boeing" that opens April 17 -- much of his attention has been focused on the administrative and fund-raising duties expected of an artistic director.
"I prided myself on being able to do both," he said, "but I think it's time to go back to the nomadic, freelance life and let some new energy into the company, let someone else, as the cliche goes, take it to the next level."
Rep Stage, founded in 1993 by its first artist director Valerie Lash, is in residence at Howard Community College.
It is a professional Equity company, like Baltimore's Center Stage and Everyman Theatre, and its productions have earned several Helen Hayes Awards (the region's equivalent to the Tonys). Stebbins was among the 2009 recipients of the Helen Hayes Tribute Award, given to several area artistic directors for their contributions to the theater community.
In recent seasons, the company's notable productions have included Edward Albee's wickedly provocative "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?"; Jon Marans' "The Temperamentals," about the early gay-rights movement; and rare revivals of bittersweet plays by J. M. Barrie.
Stebbins will not be cutting all ties to Rep Stage. The 2013-2014 season, which he has finished planning, will find him directing the first production, acting in the second (details on that season will be announced shortly).
Stebbins has roots in this area going back to the 1980s, when he was a performer at an Inner Harbor entertainment complex.
He studied theater at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (and earned a graduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and performed with several regional companies, including Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre. He had acting and directing gigs at Rep Satge prior to his appointment as artistic director.
Born in upstate New York and raised in Wisconsin, Stebbins plans to relocate to the Midwest (Milwaukee and Chicago are under consideration) within the next 12 months. In addition to stage work, he said he has some writing he would like to do.
Looking back on his almost-eight-year tenure at Rep Stage, Stebbins said he was "proud of the fact that we helped a lot of young, up-and-coming playwrights" and "offered a lot of great opportunities for very established artists, as well as very young artists."
He said that the weekly pay scale for actors steadily increased, from under $300 when Stebbins took the company's helm to about $600 now.
Stebbins also noted how the company had managed "to keep theater very affordable, with a top ticket price of $40, and still maintain a level of quality of productions." Rep Stage has no debt, he added, and is in a healthy financial position for the next artistic director.
As for disappointments, Stebbins pointed to a persistent lack of awareness of Rep Stage among the public, even in the immediate area. While hospitalized briefly last month in Columbia for complications from diabetes, he was reminded of this identity problem.
"When [hospital staffers] found out I was the artistic director of a theater," Stebbins said, "they came in and asked me, 'How is Toby's [Dinner Theatre]?' When I told them I run Rep Stage, they said, 'What's that?' And when I said we were in residence at HCC, they said, 'So you're students?' How to brand our entity has continued to be a challenge."
A search for Stebbins' successor is underway.


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Tailgate prevention
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According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Collision Warning Systems (CWS) "use algorithms to interpret transmitted and received radar signals to determine distance, azimuth, and relative speed between the host vehicle with the CWS and the vehicle or object ahead of it in the lane."
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Just how hard is it to build a nuke? And what is the smallest amount of plutonium needed to build one?
The smallest nuclear weapon ever designed was the Davy Crockett, aka the W54 warhead, weighing 51 pounds with a variable yield supposedly from 10 to 250 tons of TNT equivalent. It was the last weapon ever atmospheric-tested by the U.S. and in its two tests, (Little Feller I and II) it yielded 22 and 18 tons of explosive power. At those yields, however, the explosive power was pretty much unimportant compared to the radiation the blast produced, lethal to 50% of unshielded personnel at 400 meters, 100% lethal at 300 meters.
There's not a lot of unclassified information about the actual design of the W54, but some conjectures can be made about it just from the nature of the nuclear chemistry involved. A "bare critical" mass of plutonium, for example, weighs roughly 10 kg, but a neutron reflector reduces this by maybe a factor of two. A uranium reflector/tamper can also increase yield because some fast fission will take place in the reflector itself (at the cost of a time delay in the return of the neutrons to the explosive core). Beryllium also multiplies neutrons, undergoing "light fission" on exposure to high-energy particles of any kind, including neutrons, to produce, well, more neutrons. This is also at the expense of slowing the neutrons and thus retarding the rapid increase in neutron population that make a bomb go ka-boom.
But slowing neutrons is called "moderation" and slower neutrons tend to react more easily with nuclei (have a higher capture cross section) than fast neutrons. This is a consequence of quantum mechanics, where fast particles have a more certain position than do slow ones. Think of the slow neutrons as being more "fuzzy," virtually bigger, if you will. So if there is a nearby nucleus that is "sticky" for neutrons, a slow neutron is more likely to glom onto it.
That is pretty much the principle of nuclear reactors, where neutrons are slowed down to better react with the fissile elements in the reactor. A mass that is sub-critical for fast neutrons can be more than critical for slow neutrons.
The result is that, with a thick beryllium reflector, the critical mass of normal plutonium can be reduced to less than 20% of its "bare" critical number. The thickness of the reflector in the Davy Crockett was probably dictated by the limit that is reached when adding more reflector increases the overall mass of the design rather than reducing it.
The variable yield of the W54 looks like a signature of a variable fusion boost, but I've seen statements to the effect that D-T fusion doesn't get going until you reach the 100 ton range, so the W54 may have had multiple fission core compositions. Still, the upper limit of the W54 is within the fusion boosting range, so a design modification could possibly have boosted its potential yield to a full kiloton.
A reasonable question arises, is the implied 2 kg core the minimum amount of plutonium (or U233, which has a bare critical mass of about 16 kg) that can be used to make a nuclear weapon, even one of such a low yield as the W54?
Advanced implosion techniques can produce such high core densities that the critical mass for plutonium can be reduced to as little as 1 kilogram, but the tradeoff is a much more complicated design. Besides, if we're talking terrorists or a small belligerent state with limited technical resources, we're much more concerned with basement bomb makers, aren't we? What's the least amount of bomb grade stuff necessary to be dangerous?
In one sense, the answer is…none. Nuclear reactors can be made from materials that are not considered bomb grade material. There was a nuclear accident in Japan a few years ago that occurred when workers added water (a moderator) to some highly enriched uranium and accidentally produced a critical excursion. The HEU was only 20% U-235, which is considered far below bomb grade, and there was only 35 kilograms of material involved. Nevertheless, the radiation release killed several workers and put an entire town into panic mode.
Ordinary reactor fuel, on the order of 7% U-235 could also serve as a terror weapon, especially if it were moderated by heavy water, which, unlike light water, does not absorb neutrons very effectively. However, hundreds of kilograms of such fuel would be needed.
Suppose, however, that a hypothetical bad guy had some amount of plutonium, just not enough to build a "conventional" nuclear bomb. How much would he need to cause some havoc?
Based on various published figures, plus some conjectures from reactor design principles, I guesstimate that a "prompt critical" device could be built from as little as 50 grams of plutonium, though you'd also need on the order of several hundred kilograms of natural uranium for a reflector/tamper, and a substantial amount of heavy water. Both of those components, however, are relatively easy to procure, although you might need a cover story to get them (maybe a potter with a hobby of trying to build a cold fusion device). In any event, the tamper/casing of the bomb could be produced from materials that one can obtain within the United States; no smuggling would be required. The explosive yield of such a device could be anywhere from a few pounds of TNT up to something approaching the Davy Crockett. In all cases the local radiation would be lethal to some distance, with significant fission product contamination. A full Davy Crockett yield could almost certainly bring down a building or two; the Oklahoma City bomb was about 2 tons in yield, 10% of the Davy Crockett.
Obtaining plutonium, of course, is a difficult matter, but it's sobering to realize how much MOX (mixed oxide) fuel is around and about, not to mention the fact that waste nuclear fuel rods become less dangerous with each passing year. We've already gone through almost two half lives of the most dangerous intermediate isotopes (cesium and strontium). The rule of thumb is that ten half-lives is sufficient for a radiation source to become safe. That reduces the radiation by a factor of 1000. For intermediate fission products, that is about 300 years; 240 now that we've passed the first two half-lives, and the spent fuel is now only ¼ as reactive as it was in 1950.
Some fuel rods have been or will be buried in what is called "geological storage" or, as I like to call them, future plutonium mines.
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Existing there any poofs of the fission nature of the W54??!!
What if the W54 the successor of the netherexisting german uranium-bomb was? Poket bombs are pure fusion bombs, arn't there?
- March 22, 2008 at 1:54 PM
You have made several mistakes about the physics and numbers. The "Bare" criticle mass of ploot is about 9 kilos for a conventional early type bomb like those tested by every single national program. (Except for the N. Koreans, possably?) Reflector-tampers required. To get to smaller pits, higher compression was required. The highest possable compression could theoreticly yeald a working bomb with only 2-400 grams of ploot.
The W54 was made in several marks with yealds between ~20 and 1,500 tonnes of TNT. This was set durring manufacture and was a function of efficiancy of the compression, not mass of the core.
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Sunday, 12 March 2017
Enjoying life and then next thing I am broken!
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- Nancy J said...
Oh No!!! I am also on crutches, something wrong with my right knee, saw the specialist on Thursday, finally, and have an MRI, and he says " You will need surgery, but I can fix it!!!" Then he said " I wish you were 20 years younger!!!" Can I swap with you, toes for a knee? Hope you are staying dry, not like Auckland today and Coromandel the last few days. Red bows, they are so pretty, and will lighten up your office.
- 12 March 2017 at 15:10
- Chris H said...
Gorgeous photos as usual Sue. So sorry about ya toes... massive OUCH there! I hope the next 6 weeks go fast for you.
- 13 March 2017 at 09:41
- Natural Medley said...
I hope the kitties and puppies give you lots of cuddles during your convalescence!
I really enjoyed the visit to the gardens and seeing the extra bits that have gone up since we left a few years ago.
I almost felt like I was just around the corner, and if I hurried I would catch you all up.
Chilli sauce can be very useful, so I imagine that is why you subconsciously made it.
I love that shot of you with Toebee!
xo Jazzy Jack
- 13 March 2017 at 12:32
- Vix said...
Oh no! You need to bling up that slipper with pompoms! Poor you.
Loving Hamilton Gardens, I remember you visiting before. The Indian section is gorgeous. Have you still got the outfit you worn when you visited when the boys were babies? I want it! xxx
- 13 March 2017 at 21:32
- Polyester Princess said...
Ouch! Poor you! Here I was enjoying your lovely photographs of that wonderful garden when bang .... I ready the end of your post. I love the slippers with the big bows, though. xxx
- 13 March 2017 at 23:52
- Julie said...
Oh NO Sue !!!! Not broken toes!!! You poor girl. I am so sorry to read of your mishap. Toebee is growing like a wee mushroom. Please thank "other Sue" for giving me such a great laugh at the video. I am sure that girl missed her calling in life!!! She shoulda been on the stage that one!!
- 14 March 2017 at 15:22
- Goody said...
Aw geez.
I hope you're feeling better soon. I've broken toes, and they hurt like the Dickens.
- 14 March 2017 at 15:50
- Beth Waltz said...
And there we were, gliding along, admiring the flora and fauna, petting the cats, enjoying a leisurely wander in the woods -- and then, wham! and ouch! Poor you, Sue! Not the least of the injury is that toes are so small to hurt so much! Vix is right: get busy with the pom-poms.
- 15 March 2017 at 05:11
- Mim said...
Oh, your poor toes! Someone else will have to do your housework for a few weeks. I hope it's not too painful for you.
Those gardens are stunning. I wonder how many gardeners they have to keep all that in order? It must take a lot of work.
- 16 March 2017 at 22:31
- kiwikid said...
Loved your visit to the gardens, have to put that on my to do list for next time we are in NZ. L I ved the dancing too!! Hope your toes heal quickly and are not too painful for you. Toobee is very cute still.
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Exploring musical instruments like those in Sound Garden is a wonderful way to help young children develop fine and gross motor skills—grasping a mallet to make a pleasing note promotes strong hand-eye coordination and tactile proficiency. Aspiring and expert musicians alike are invited to experiment with rhythm, resonance, and the relationships of sounds as they explore instruments from around the globe.
This exhibit features a fully-accessible stone path and is located in Gateway Park.
Explore a set of tongue drums custom designed for this exhibit by local musician and builder Matthew Young and artist and metalworker, Andrew Preiss. Don't worry, despite the name these musical marvels are played using your hands, not your mouth!
Grab a friend and play a tune on our pentatonically-tuned amadinda—an ancient wooden instrument originating from Uganda, Africa. Or a try your hand at a wrench-o-phone, a xylophone made of entirely of wrenches.
Many of the Sound Garden instruments can be played in different ways, resulting in different sounds. Use a wooden then a rubber mallet on the agogo bells, how does the sound change?
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Wisanskoonwong, P 2012, 'Midwifery primary health care groups during childbearing', PhD thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
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Preterm birth is the major cause of neonatal death. Multiple unmet needs in women over a long period of time cause preterm births. Group-based antenatal education aimed at health optimisation during pregnancy was effective in engaging with Thai women. Feminist Action Research was the research methodology that was applied to work with sixteen women in groups. Data were collected by one-on-one interviews, group-based discussion and reflective journal. All the women improved their holistic health; no woman had a baby after less than 35 weeks gestation. The women expressed satisfaction with their relationship with their midwife and with the groups.


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New York City's mayor and police commissioner are outraged at a recent federal court ruling that called the NYPD's "stop and frisk" policy unconstitutional and a form of "indirect racial profiling." The judge ordered that police be equipped with cameras that can monitor their encounters with New Yorkers as a sort of check and balance on their authority.
In light of the ruling, police commissioner Ray Kelly responded, "I think no question about it, violent crime will go up. This is not a program; this is something that is integral to policing."
The Washington Post published an op-ed written by Bloomberg himself, where he defends "stop and frisk," crediting it for the drop in crime in New York:
"New York is the safest big city in the nation, and our crime reductions have been steeper than any other big city's. For instance, if New York City had the murder rate of Washington, D.C., 761 more New Yorkers would have been killed last year. If our murder rate had mirrored the District's over the course of my time as mayor, 21,651 more people would have been killed. That's more than Georgetown University's student body, faculty and administrative staff."
His op-ed focused more on why "stop and frisk" wasn't racial profiling, citing statistics that show that Blacks and Hispanics are more likely to commit crimes than others. I have no problem with those statistics. They're just numbers.
But I don't think that's what's at issue with "stop and frisk." The practice is a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. It assumes someone is guilty without having any evidence to back it up. We're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. This is why we're also opposed to the TSA's "stop and grope" policy.
There likely wouldn't be this fight going on between Bloomberg and the courts if New York hadn't eviscerated the 2nd Amendment. If people aren't going to be allowed to protect themselves with a firearm of their choice, then they have no choice but to depend on the police for their safety. And that, in turn, creates a police state. If you get rid of the 2nd Amendment, you also have to get rid of the 4th Amendment.
If New Yorkers as a whole had a much more mature perspective on guns, they wouldn't have elected a mayor that's been so bent on taking away everyone's rights "for their own good." But so many of them have been brainwashed into being scared to death of guns. And that fear has led to stringent gun control laws in New York. If people can't be expected to take care of themselves, someone's got to do the "protecting."
For this reason, New York City and many other places in the U.S. are drifting more and more toward a complete police state. In those places, incidents of crime might decrease in the same way that Bloomberg claimed happened in his city. But what's the tradeoff? New York has essentially told its residents, "You can't take care of yourselves. So, give us your guns, and we'll give you security." They've taken away residents' freedom to defend themselves and their freedom to be left alone by the police. But they voted for it, and now they have to live with it. Maybe they're OK with the idea of slavery. At least slavery provides "security."


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Life and times of Jamie J.
I love that first picture. Who doesn't want to flip off Monday. It's a bitch of a day, second only to Wednesday when you just want the weekend to come.
Ah, but the name Hump-day kinda makes up for that forever day Wednesday.
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If you're doing the other stuff right your people should have some pretty interesting jobs. I bet they've got interesting stuff to say. Do they blog? We do. Do they comment in chatrooms? We do. Let them join the conversation, it should be part of their job.
The entertainment industry is an aspirational business. I don't know how many applicants you get for even the most minor role but I'll bet the glamour of either the music of movie industries pull in a bunch more candidates than the equivalent roles in engineering or finance.
Journalism and writing are also aspirational jobs. Pretty much any industry where you're paid to express yourself (or facilitate that expression) is going to be an attractive one to a lot of people.
Which is why seeing articles like this one is a bit depressing: Sky News clamps down on Twitter use
Basically, in implementing this ruling, each of their individual twitter feeds became less valuable. In fact, you might as well cancel the individual feeds and just link to the website.
If we go back to our old techdirt equation of Connect with Fans + Reason to Buy = $$$, this appears to be a clear case where the institutional instruction is reducing both of those factors; by restricting people to only tweeting about their field it makes it harder to make a connection with readers (fans) and by forcing everything through the central news desk it slows down the transmission of information and potentially reduces the value of their feed (reason to buy).
In a market where the legacy players are fighting to preserve both their reputations and their relevance the expertise of their staff remains one of their most powerful weapons. Restricting access to that expertise (or vice versa) undermines the business.
The entertainment industries in particular are suffering something of a crisis of perception as much as anything, contempt for the inherent imbalance in current copyright law, and the continued head-in-the-sand behaviour of the lobbying groups has meant that "the industry" is widely seen as "the bad guy". Actually engaging with those disenfranchised fans (rather than suing them) is going to be necessary to rebuild the industries' reputations* and the people on the ground are the ones to do this – not the CEOs or heads of the lobbying groups. Why? Because of Stephenson's sixth law**:
I've recently discovered a blog run by a bunch of creators*** (mostly musicians) who appear to be trying to do something around that connecting with fans and, judging by some of the comments, they appear to be having some degree of success in terms of persuading people. Unfortunately they also appear to be trying to approach the whole debate from a moral standpoint (ignoring the underlying economics is rarely a good idea) and also by thinking of things in terms of a zero-sum game – they seem to be trying to attack pretty much every web-based service as not-paying-as-well-as-the-old-
model rather than paying-better-than-nothing.
Additionally some of their writers have a tendency to embark on aggressive, expletive-fuelled rants about the people they're trying to win over, which doesn't seem a particularly good strategy.
But anyway, it's a good example of trying to free up your people and helping them connect with their current & potential future fans – and they're getting a lot of hits on their articles.
So whilst I may disagree with a lot of what they say, it's a prime example of getting your message across without falling foul of the sixth law.
* Assuming that the industries update the rest of their business models as well. White-wash won't work.
** This, of course, has absolutely no data to support it at all.*** I'm told that there's a rumour (could I be less specific?) that this site is in fact supported entirely by a major music label and is what is known as an "Astro-turfing" site, but I have seen no evidence on this and it's largely irrelevant for the purposes of this instalment.


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EVENTS : Downtown Top Ranking Reggae Revive Session w Special Guest Carter Van Pelt and Jah Works Outernational ~ Thursday 11 August 2016!
Feat: Deadly Dragon Sound
When: Thursday 11 August 2016 11pm
Where: Left Field (87 Ludlow St, New York)
Subway: Delancey Street - Essex Street (F, J, M, Z)
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Special Guest: Carter Van Pelt, Jah Works Outernational
DOWNTOWN TOP RANKING: With Special Guests President Carter Van Pelt and Jah Works Outernational aka outta Boston! Big one 2 big guests on one killer night! We are blessed to see the return of the great Carter Van Pelt --- reggae historian, selector, radio personality and founder of the legendary Coney Island Reggae series! And from Boston, our good friend Jah Works will be making his DTR Debut! Nuff Respect! Of course, the Deadly Dragon family will be in effect with Jonny Go Figure pon the mic!


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Scouts BSA Cub Scout Pack 285 is located in St Petersburg, Florida. Our all volunteer, non-profit organization has a rich program for children grades Kindergarten through 5 designed to develop character, leadership skills, responsibility, fitness, and a love for fun while learning. Pack 285 is a larger Pack, with ~35 active scouts to date.
Our Pack is open to all youth (girls welcome!) with modest annual dues and camping. Pack-provided Camperships are available to Scouts in need. Leaders and Committee Members are volunteers committed to providing a positive impact to each child participating in the program. Pack 285 actively reaches out year round to include more children in our program. Our Pack's goal is to provide a positive, character building, low-cost extracurricular activity available right in our neighborhood.
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Jack Perry, Jr. Releases 'The Other Side of Anger; A Son's Search for Peace'
ATLANTA, GA - Jack Perry, Jr., former military brat, police officer, US Army Commander, and now esteemed private-sector businessman, teacher and public speaker, announced today the release of his first book, "The Other Side of Anger; A Son's Search for Peace."
In his new book, Jack Perry, Jr. writes about his personal journey to overcome what he witnessed as a child, and even though he found his father's behavior abhorrent, he noticed anger and fear in his own life, and knew that he had to take action to not repeat the sins of his father. In his final visit before his father passed away, Jack struggled to ask his father questions and gain some sort of understanding about why his father was such an angry man, and in those moments, Jack's search for peace and his personal mission in life became clear.
"No man or woman should ever live in fear of another human being; nobody has the right to convince you that you are less than what your heart, spirit and inner voice has programmed you to be in this universe. Everyone who reads this book will walk away different, for the better," said Jack Perry, Jr. "I know that I show up differently in this world, and that's why people are surprised to hear my story."
Excerpts from, "The Other Side of Anger; A Son's Search for Peace:"
"The fortunate thing about this [the death of my father] if there is any fortunate part of this is that I had the opportunity a few weeks earlier to sit down and talk to my dad, and ask him about himself, his life, his anger, and how he grew up, and how he became the man that he was..." Chapter One, My Father's Passing.
'Unfortunately, I thought as a child, as a young boy, that type of behavior [domestic violence] was normal. That's how men were. That's how people were, and that hitting your wife or being verbally abusive to women was normal or okay..." Chapter Two, My Childhood.
"When we bring outside influences and personal problems such as anger into the workplace, we have a tendency to not be open to new understandings, to new ideas, and to new ways of doing things..." Chapter Nine, Leading Others.
"Find out who you are, what your energy is, what your passion is in life, and go share it with the world. Go share your voice with a family member, and you will be surprised and amazed at what energy what abundance comes back to you when you understand yourself and go share that energy with the world." Chapter 17, Shout from the Highest Mountain.
Jack Perry, Jr. shares with his readers his unique encounters and wisdom from virtually every imaginable situation at his more than 25-year public and private-sector career as top-ranking leadership in emergency management, and his hands-on experience as US Army Commander, Medevac Aviator, and inner-city Police Officer.
Reader Comments:
"We need to pay attention. Anger is becoming epidemic! Jack Perry is passionate about changing the world, one person at a time. This book is a testament that no matter how poor the beginning or the circumstances that you are in now, you can make the change and live the life that you were meant to live." Brenda S., Atlanta, GA
"The innocent face that is on the cover, "The Other Side of Anger," shows that we never know what one goes through, or has gone through in life. This book tells of a boy's tragic life who turns into a man with a mission to help others by facing his demons and leaving a legacy of love, hope and encouragement." Katherine Bovard.
The author's powerful message touches his readers at a very personal level. He demonstrates how to transform life's situations and circumstances into your own, unique life legacy. For men, Jack teaches communication techniques for anger temperance; for women, Jack provides valuable insight into peaceful conflict resolution, or when to call it quits.
"The Other Side of Anger; A Son's Search for Peace," by Jack Perry, Jr. is published by AquaZebra, Rancho Mirage, Calif., and available for purchase in soft-cover book, or Kindle version, at: www.amazon.com/The-Other-Side-Anger-Search/dp/0990582701
About the Author, Jack Perry, Jr.
Jack Perry, Jr. is currently president of Source Point Coaching in Peachtree City, Georgia. He is a Board Member of the National Speakers Association (Atlanta Chapter), Certified Facilitator and Coach for FranklinCovey Corporation, Certified Professional Coach from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching, an Energy Leadership Master Practitioner, and a Neuro-Linguistics Practitioner from the Gestalt Institute. He earned his Master's Degree from Regis University in Denver, Colorado, and his Bachelor's Degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. For more information, please visit: www.sourcepointcoaching.com


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Natural products have been used as medicine for centuries, but lack of regulatory oversight of dietary supplements raises concerns about their quality and safety.
By Sharon Horesh Bergquist, MD, FACP
Rollins Distinguished Clinician and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University
On February 22, 2017, MedWatch, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) reporting program for adverse effects from dietary supplements, posted a recall of XtraHRD, a natural male enhancement supplement. The FDA's analysis found that the supplement contained undeclared amounts of tadalafil, the generic of the prescription erectile dysfunction drug Cialis. This latest recall—one of ten recalls and warnings posted on ConsumerLab.com during the month of February—adds to the growing concern in recent years about the safety and quality of over the counter dietary supplements.
Dietary supplements, which include vitamins, minerals, as well as herbal and other botanical products, have become increasingly popular in developed countries over the past decade. Their widespread use has blossomed due to concerns about side effects and rising cost of prescription drugs, a general appeal for natural rather than synthetic medications, and the perception that supplements are harmless. In 2015, the global market for dietary supplements was estimated by Grand View Research at $122 billion dollars. And according to the 2015 Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) Consumer Survey, more than two-thirds (68%) of U.S. adults take dietary supplements.
Despite their extensive use, dietary supplements are, by and large, unregulated. ConsumerLab.com, which tests store samples of supplements, has found that many supplements contain ingredients in amounts that are greater or less than listed on the label, include the wrong ingredient or a contaminant, or are mislabeled. Their analysis of supplements containing turmeric, and its key compound curcumin, for example, found that some contained a third to a half of their expected curcumin compounds. One provided a dosage far short of the amount found to work in clinical studies. And another product was contaminated with small amounts of the toxic heavy metals lead and cadmium. More alarming, among varieties of ground turmeric spice, several contained significant amounts of insect parts and one "organic" product contained a whole insect larva.
There is limited information about the harm caused by these quality breaches. One of the largest studies to date, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2015, estimated that 23,000 emergency department visits in the United States every year are attributed to adverse events related to dietary supplements. Products claiming weight loss and increased energy accounted for the majority of the visits. Although this is a small number compared to the side effects associated with prescription drugs, it highlights that natural products are not always safe.
Herbal remedies have been the backbone of many healing traditions around the world for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. The inexhaustible supply of nature's biologically active compounds has also been critical for developing many modern drugs. In fact, a lot of blockbuster drugs are at least partly derived from plants—including aspirin and morphine. However, identifying the most active ingredient in a whole plant, extracting it as a single component, and mass producing it as a pill poses many quality and safety challenges. The lack of standardization and regulation of the manufacturing process has resulted in a Wild West industry that inadequately protects consumers.
Why aren't dietary supplements regulated more stringently? The Food and Drug Administration regulates dietary supplements under the umbrella of foods. The process is different than for prescription drugs. Before approving drugs, the FDA reviews lab, animal, and clinical studies to make sure their benefits outweigh their risks. But under theDietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994, the FDA is not authorized to review dietary supplement products for safety and effectiveness before they reach the market. The responsibility for complying with the FDA's current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) is left to manufacturers and distributors. Only if a supplement is found to be unsafe after it has been available for sale or if the claims on the products are false and misleading can the FDA can pull the product off the shelf.
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I am loving the 5 for five link up.....because I am obsessed with list making. I might as well use my lists and jump in on a link up.
My goals for this week are.
Goals for this week:
1. Put Laundry away. Finally get all my laundry hung up. This is so unlike me. My closets are a mess and it is literally driving me insane.
2. Blog Daily. My crazy schedule has made it hard to get any writing in. It also seems like the busier I am the less I have to actually say. I feel like when I have a long day that its the first thing that goes. Sorry.....and thanks for sticking with me in this rut. I actually do have things I want to share but I feel like they may be a little premature so I hold off. I don't know why...I know my secrets are safe with you.
3. Finish Christmas Shopping Greg and I went shopping last weekend to finish up our shopping. Guess what happened? We finished his and I STILL have 3 presents to buy. I've had these same 3 presents to buy since before Thanksgiving.
4. Work on organization This is also something I use to be better at. I guess the root of it is maybe i need to think about why I am failing at things that use to be second nature to me.
5. Decorate for Christmas.I haven't even done this yet. Which is also not like me. I have no idea what is wrong with me lately but its annoying me.
Monday, December 10, 2012
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Those last few gifts are killing me too. I finally got my mom and Pete done today but it's been crazy trying. Good luck getting your last few! I need to work on that laundry thing too... I refuse to buy clothes that need dry cleaning or get wrinkled easily, so I end up throwing the clean clothes back into an empty laundry bin. Hey, they're clean though, that counts for something, right?ReplyDelete
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by Cat Johnson
One night can leave a trail a decade long.
Red, Hot&Blue, Book 5
Ten years ago, a wicked curve ball and a scout for the major leagues gave Cole Ryan his big break. Before he set foot on the bus to training camp, Lizzie Barton gave him everything…then inexplicably broke his heart.
Now he's back in Pigeon Hollow with a bum arm and a cancelled contract. Lizzie is still there, still keeping her secrets. Still haunting his dreams.
To make sure Cole would have the future he wanted, Lizzie kept her crush on her older brother's best friend to herself. But in this small town, there was no hiding the results of her one and only night in his arms. With Cole away playing ball, it was easy to pretend he would never know. But now that he's back it's only a matter of time.
Right about the time Cole figures out what he left behind, cameras for a reality TV show arrive to film Lizzie's brother. And suddenly Cole is scrambling to keep the spotlight out of his and Lizzie's private life…and to convince her they can still make both their dreams come true.
This book has been previously published and has been revised from its original release.
Warning: Contains love that conquers a decade of sitting on the bench…and one night of sex that resulted in a big change in two lovers' lifetime stats.


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Eritrea is the 189th worst country in the world for doing business out of 190 listed on the World Bank Ease of Doing Business Index. Also one of the poorest with GNI per capita at $591. It is politically repressed with little hope of change at the moment but Students for Liberty has an Eritrean chapter in Nairobi where many Eritrean refuges live. So we have funded two of their events in the...Read More


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Mr. Hideho Kawamura, president of the Manpei Suzuki Diabetes Foundation gave the opening address and presented the first Manpei Suzuki International Prize for Diabetes Research to Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, president of the Joslin Diabetes Center and Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine of the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts on March 10, 2009, at a ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan.
Dr. Kahn received a Certificate of Honor, US$150,000, and a Japanese objet d'art.
Dr. Masato Kasuga (M.D., Ph.D. Director-General, Research Institute, International Medical Center of Japan) presented the reasons for bestowing the prize to Dr. C. Ronald Kahn for 2008.
Dr. Kahn's commemorative lecture was entitled, "Tracing the Metabolic Syndrome to its Molecular Roots.


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Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire, if you did what would there be to look forward to?
Be thankful when you don't know something, for it gives you the opportunity to learn.
Be thankful for the difficult times, during those times you grow.
Be thankful for your limitations, because they give you opportunities for improvement.
Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character.
Be thankful for your mistakes, they will teach you valuable lessons.
Be thankful when you're tired and weary, because it means you've made a difference.
It's easy to be thankful for the good things, a life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are also thankful for the setbacks.
Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles and they can become blessings.
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As I mentioned previously, I recently signed three new clients, and I'm certain they're all going to be stars. Over time, I have no doubt you'll come to know them very well, but until then, I thought you might enjoy reading a few posts and interviews with them. Any editors seeing this, feel free to get in touch if you think you should be on my submission list!
Susan Adrian is an author of young adult books of all shapes and sizes. In the past she worked in the fields of exotic pet-sitting, clothes-schlepping, and bookstore management, and has settled in, mostly, as a scientific editor. She currently lives in the wilds of Montana with her family, and keeps busy by learning Russian, eating chocolate, and writing more books. You can visit her website at http://susanadrian.blogspot.com or follow her on Twitter @susan_adrian. Check out her guest blog on Stacked, "So You Want To Read YA?":
So you're an adult—even a thirty- or forty-something credit card-carrying adult—and you've heard about this Hunger Games thing. Maybe you even tried those books, and you thought they were pretty (darn) impressive. More real, vivid, and intense than the books you've been reading. Different. You wander into the crowded young adult section, ready to sample something else.
And then you hide your face and walk quickly the other way, because (a) there are so many choices, and so many of them have vampires or headless teens or dead girls in dresses, and (b) there are actual teens there, and that's just all kinds of scary. Yikes.
Alexandra Duncan, meanwhile, is a librarian by day and writer by night. Her debut novel, SALVAGE, is coming in 2013 from Greenwillow/HarperCollins. She's also the newest member of the Friday the Thirteeners group blog, and will be tackling a Truth or Dare on their blog on May 1st!
Finally, judging from her web hits, you may know Krista Van Dolzer and her blog Mother. Write. (Repeat.) even better than you know me, but for you newcomers to the party, check out this great interview with her on Amy L. Sonnichsen's site.
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Trish Says:
April 26th, 2012 at 9:56 am
Welcome, all, to the KT family!
Susan Adrian Says:
April 26th, 2012 at 10:14 am
Thanks, Trish!! SO happy to be in such amazing company.
Kate–That sign is so appropriate. *cough*
Krista Van Dolzer Says:
April 26th, 2012 at 11:24 am
Thanks for the shout-out, Kate! (And thanks for the welcome, Trish!)
Kristi Says:
April 27th, 2012 at 8:30 am
Congrats to all these amazing ladies! 🙂
@DuncanAlexandra Says:
April 27th, 2012 at 11:25 am
Thank you so much, Kate!
KimberlyAfe Says:
April 28th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
What a great familiy! And congrats to all the new members. I'm sure this family is going to see a lot of success. 🙂
Amy Sonnichsen Says:
April 30th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Wow, thanks for the link to my blog, Kate! Congratulations to you and to all your new clients. 🙂


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The Council members are: Robert Marx (BVWW – Germany), Jean-Pierre Goudant (FIN – France), Piotr Jasionowski (POLBOAT – Poland), Piero Formenti (UCINA – Italy). This year, Carlos Sanlorenzo (ANEN – Spain) replaced Olda Straka (APL – Czech Republic) who retired from the Czech association. All the Council received the full support of the members.
The Council unanimously appointed Piero Formenti as the President for his second mandate, recognising his efforts in strengthening the association, while Jean-Pierre Goudant and Piotr Jasionowski were re-appointed Vice-Presidents. In addition, Mr Goudant will continue acting as Treasurer.


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Chautauqua County District Attorney David Foley and Sheriff Joe Gerace will be holding a news conference later this afternoon concerning the death of 2-year-old Joshua Jock Jr.
Joshua was found unresponsive at Little Racer's Day Care in the Town of North Harmony Monday night. He was then taken to WCA Hospital in Jamestown, where he was pronounced dead.
A 14-year-old girl, who is related to Joshua, was caring for him and a 16-month-old girl at the time. The toddler's death is not related to the day care, which doubles as the owner's home.
We'll bring you the latest information following the news conference.


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I had a truly fantastic 2 week vacation. What a blessing to enjoy a beautiful cruise to Alaska. The wildlife was beyond amazing. I saw bald eagles, black bears, whales... And this girl, who's afraid of heights and barely likes the 2nd story of the mall (childhood issues, clearly!) went on a zipline! The largest zipline in Icy Straight Point, Alaska. Our starting point was at 1300 feet. That's taller than the Empire State Building! And I did it. I was so proud of myself! Check out their YouTube video, below.
Check out my instagram (@missmelbert) for the photos from my trip. I got to go to a sled dog camp, went off-roading in dune buggies, went into the Yukon Territory in Jeeps... It was awesome!
And while I loved every minute of it, I couldn't help the little voice in my head that was counting down the days till school starting and getting my classroom put together.
My new set of kiddos will be at my door bright and early on Monday the 25th. I've been in my classroom with the help of my wonderful mom, dad, and brother... and a true transformation is under way. I wish I could say I was done and that I'd be revealing my classroom today but... I'm not. No where close. The students' desks are still in the middle as one giant mega-desk.
So my goal this final week of "summer" is to finish my classroom. And a big reveal will be coming. Sooner, rather than later!
How is everyone enjoying their last few days of summer? Or if you're already in school again, how have your first few weeks gone?


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A journal entry
Wednesday 12/11/13 @330pm:
T minus @2 1/2 hours till launch from this Tennessee hospital to Nashville greyhound. I depart at 7p and arrive mid-afternoon in Meadville tomorrow. Go God!!! He always provides.
It's exciting to get to move forward now. Now I see illness and that I have genuine boundaries that are genuinely needed on my life. To those who say "There's nothing wrong with you", I say yeah right. To my illness and enemies that say "Mark you have to die because you're so helpless, hopeless, and sick", I also say yeah right. For where I need to be, and always have, is somewhere between those extremes.
See how I excelled in high school after getting into a special program for severe behavior handicaps my last year and a half. A great example of not all the way and not nothing.
I don't see where I've ever had that middle in relationships, jobs, money, church, or really anything of substance since graduation of high school. Been no bounds or all bounds since. I guess Warren State hospital is an exception. I did stay there prolonged and did excel, though truly excel I did not. Much like the end of high school. Where there was still chaos going on while attendance and grades got great. I overcame a lot and did things well at WSH, yet it's revealed now that there was still chaos going on there. For if you could see all that was going on for me there at WSH what has happened since my discharge. In a word- chaos.
I just watched a marriage proposal on tv. It reminds me that even with my 4 legal marriages and 3 other non-legal commitments, I never once had the resources to secure an engagement ring. Talk about the cart before the horse. Or at least building a solid future on a so shaky present as the foundation. Worse is, especially after time, I knew better. So I'm a 7 time loser there. Secured cars in my life? I've owned two outright. Lost about a dozen now. Places to live? Probably at least 25 changes of address. Jobs? Over 100 lost. Children? 3 lost. Broke the hearts of 3 more too. Money? 2 full bankruptcies and need a 3rd. Plus many defaults and even criminal stuff. Church? At least 7. Plus 50 hospitalizations and nearly as many failed outpatient plans. Loss, loss, loss. Some taken from me, more given up by me.
But not quitting by itself is not answer. For that keeps me locked in to bad decisions. So it's bad choices that get me in trouble, that cause chaos. And the root of those choices is my thoughts and feelings.
Thoughts and feelings move all over the place in me. They can secure my morals but just as easily make me betray my morals. I.e. How many times have I gone on to do what I had before decided was bad or not do what I saw to be right? Just since my discharge from WSH in June the list of conflicted behavior is large. Ugh.
2 things become clear needs-
1) my thoughts and emotions need care, supervision, and help. 2) My choices and actions need care, supervision, and help. For I go astray slightly to majorly, public to hidden, whether I appear fine or not. I need special help and boundaries. On my own I am and create chaos.
That last paragraph sums up a bunch. That's how chaos can stop, and and it's chaos that is my enemy. Chaos that I can't stop on my own or with the help I've had so far. Areas of my life have always been chaos. Never without chaos. Always taking on too much, letting go of something, wanting more, and/or wanting less. Like spinning 5 plates on sticks, I can do some well for a time but never all 5. First 1 crashes, then 2, then more and all. I.e. Me having no possessions and no home which I'm currently going through for the umpteenth time.
Since needing to leave Texas 9 days ago, I can see the desperate choices I make to try and improve things. So the more I tried to improve things there, the more chaos developed. How much different would life be if I just could've stood up and said "I don't have enough money to move right now"