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Dinar Updates Wednesday AM Chat 10-19-16 Part 2 of 3
rcookie says():Parliament voted to abandon the law of nationality acquired discusses prevent the spread of weapons Occlusive voice today
Author: HH, NS Editor: HH, NS 19/10/2016 09:25 Number of Views: 610
Long-Presse / Baghdad Hold the Iraqi Council of Representatives, on Wednesday, 23 of its first legislative term of the third legislative year, while the meeting will vote on two bills, one to abandon nationality acquired, and others discuss the most prominent laws prevent the use and spread of silenced weapons.
She said the information office of the parliament, in a statement received (range Press), a copy of which, "The House of Representatives will be held at 11 am, this morning, its the 23 of the first legislative term of the third legislative year," indicating that "the agenda of the meeting includes a vote on project abandon acquired citizenship law, and vote on the draft law on ratification transfer of sentenced persons between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Convention on the Law. "
She said the Department of Information, that "the meeting will also see the report and to discuss the project and the Ministry of Electricity Act, the prohibition of the use and spread of Occlusive weapons sound," pointing out that "the meeting also include a vote on the formation of a joint committee on the subject of media reports accusing some senior Oil Ministry officials of corruption and the first reading of the proposed union with health professions Act. "
She information department, that "the meeting will make a proposal to amend Article (49 / I) of the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq in 2005, and a general topic for discussion regarding the follow-up to the water and the electricity issue."
The Presidency of the Council of Representatives of Iraq on Monday decided, (17 October 2016), to postpone the hearing of the 23 of the first legislative term of the third legislative year to the day Wednesday, for lack of quorum.
rcookie says():Coalition aircraft destroyed the headquarters for "Daesh" in Anbar province west of Rawah
Wednesday October 201 619 09:15 Alsumaria News / Anbar A military source in Anbar province, on Wednesday, that the international airline alliance destroyed the headquarters of the organization, "Daesh" in the city of Rawah west of the province.
The source said in an interview with Alsumaria's News, "The Flight of the international coalition was able, today, the bombing of the headquarters of the organization Daesh in the city of Rawah, (210 km west of Ramadi), resulting in the destruction and killing of a number of elements Daesh inside the headquarters."
The source, who asked not to be named, said: "bombardment came in preparation for military operations is preparing its security forces to liberate the city from al Daesh." Pointing out that "the international coalition aviation and air power and tribal members will participate in the process."
The organization "Daesh" dominated the city of Rawah in mid-2014, while the besieged civilian organization within the city and to prevent their exit from them.
rcookie says():Parliament plans to enact a law to guarantee bank deposits
Author: HH, MK Editor: BK, HH 10/19/2016 10:21 Number of Views: 500Long-Presse / Baghdad
Finance Committee in the House of Representatives unveiled on Wednesday its intention to legislation of a special law to guarantee depositors' money in Iraqi banks, while confirming that it will contribute to "boost confidence in the banking sector."
Said Finance Committee member Jabbar al-Abadi, said in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The Committee was planning to prepare a draft law to guarantee bank deposits, but the government has agreed with the central bank to develop a system depends new styles to re certain percentage of depositors' money in the event of a loss banks ".
He said al-Abadi, a deputy from the coalition of state law, that "the government issued rules in agreement with the Central Bank of Iraq," adding that "the parliamentary finance committee working to enact a law to guarantee bank deposits to shore up confidence in the banking system."
The central bank announced in (the seventh of June 2016), for approval of the Cabinet set up a company to guarantee deposits in the government and private banks with a capital of 100 billion dinars, while the company aims to stimulate citizens to deposit their money in banks rather than Aktnazha, confirmed money chunky citizens outside banks of more than $ 30 trillion dinars.
It is noteworthy that the Iraqi private banks association, announced (October 2015) that the ratio of deposits to the government banks, ranging from 65 to 68 trillion dinars, of which no more than 22 trillion and deposits of private banks.
Many of the depositors of banks own, have demonstrated in front of the central bank recently for demanding their money regardless beyond many of those banks refrain, including investment, the Warka and the north, about it.
The banking system in Iraq consists of 54 banks as well as the Central Bank and distributed according to property between the seven state-owned and 23 private businesses, including Islamic nine in addition to the 15 branches of foreign banks.
rcookie says():WE WILL TALK ABOUT THIS TONIGHT.....
subgirl says():get some questions ready to ask!!! :)
rcookie says():Inspector of the Ministry of Finance announces conviction of three general managers of corruption and waste of public money issues
Author: HH, NS Editor: HH, NS 10/19/2016 11:51 Number of Views: 448
Long-Presse / Baghdad Announced the Office of the Inspector General, Ministry of Finance, said on Wednesday the conviction of three two managers at the ministry of corruption and waste of public money issues.
He said the Office of the Inspector General, Ministry of Finance, in a statement received (range Press), a copy of which, "The Office of the Inspector General of the Ministry of Finance was able to resolve the important issues and irregularities during the first half of the current year," noting that "the office condemned under these issues and irregularities three employees special class (two directors) in the Ministry of Finance. "
He said the Office of the Inspector General, that "the offenses mentioned represented the conclusion of contracts and exchange and other issues caused the squandering of public money 'salaries."
The Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called on Wednesday the (23 September 2015), the judges of integrity to strike hard and achieve justice and not to allow corrupt evasion, and while stressing on the need to confront them because they are "more dangerous than cancer" and trying to buy receivables, stressed the need to develop strategies help to deter corruption and speed up resolving these issues.
The phenomenon of corruption, "the biggest challenge" facing Iraq, along with security, since the year 2003, especially the levels reached a level led international organizations specialized to the situation in Iraq from among the "most corrupt" countries in the world, as it has led to popular protests successive last of which was pervaded since the majority of the provinces (the 31 of July 2015), to demand the fight against rampant corruption, and improve services.
rcookie says():3 MORE FINANCE MINISTRY OFFICIALS BITE THE DUST!!!!!.......
subgirl says to rcookie():WOW they are really getting after corruption arent they??
rcookie says to subgirl():YES THEY ARE..
subgirl says to rcookie():they will have to find all new people to put in their places!!!!
subgirl says to rcookie():They are rebuilding iraq! one corrupted person at a time!
rcookie says to subgirl():Peshmerga salaries costing Washington $ 415 million
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 08:09:24 # Algmehorah_uz MP for the coalition of state law nostalgic Qadu said, that the USA paid a salary Peshmerga forces in the Kurdistan region and the $ 415 million, noting that "these actions came to the existence of an agreement between the Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
He Qadu in a press statement, he said that "there is a real collaboration between the Peshmerga forces and the armed forces; we are seeing for the first time after 25 years, pointing out that" the federal security forces of the Kurdistan region is heading toward the eastern axis and north-east and south-east of the city of Mosul. "
He added that "the piece move came, according to a signed between the General Command of the Armed Forces and Mr. Massoud Barzani, among patches geographic security and stops within the war and the liberation axes of the Convention, which axes (Sheikhan, and Nuran, Dohuk, and the neighborhood of the Arab, to the axis of Alkwyr)."
He said, "This cooperation agreement for two reasons, the first American pressure on Barzani, who was eighth Cooperation 415 million US dollars to pay three or six months ago; to cover other Peshmerga forces and their weapons, the salaries and expenses of the expenses."
He pointed out that "The second reason is that Barzani realized too late that he politically bankrupt within the Kurdistan region, so it was a new spirit to Baghdad," stressing "the need for the continuation of this coordination and cooperation for the benefit of the northern areas, particularly Nineveh."
He pointed out that "the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi agreed to pay six months' salaries of the Peshmerga forces."
He announced the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi yesterday morning, the start of operations of the liberation of Mosul Daesh terrorist gangs.
The Defence Ministry said yesterday, that the security forces managed to free seven villages, namely, (blended, Sunrise, Hamidiyah, glomerulus, neutrophil, Abbas Rajab, new) was also able to completely encircle the village balawat east of Mosul.
woodguy says():Never stop all corruption just look at our own system. Enough said!
subgirl says to woodguy():true!
subgirl says to rcookie():this call tonight at 6:30pm CST is going to be so good... so much news coming in every day!...WOW!! cant wait...
subgirl says():think about what questions you have and bring them to the chat room tonight!! :)
rcookie says():Parliament declares the names of deputies from today's session
Department:Published on the political scene: Today, 15:18 Number of views: 297
BAGHDAD / Sky Press: AH Said House Speaker Salim al-Jubouri, Wednesday, the House of Representatives for Almtgibbon names for the parliament session.
A statement by the President of the Parliament, "Sky Press," received a copy of it, "al-Jubouri opened the parliamentary session called on MPs to maintain the presence of a quorum for votes on the agenda, as announced during the session the House of Representatives the names of the signatories on the list of attendees and absent from the meeting."
The statement pointed to "a majority vote of Parliament to authorize the Presidency of the Council of Representatives replace MPs who Gaabathm reached the limit."
The Iraqi Council of Representatives held on Wednesday, its the 23 of the first legislative term of the legislative year, the third headed by Salim al-Jubouri, and the presence of 170 deputies, while the agenda of the meeting included a vote on two bills, one to abandon citizenship gained, and to discuss other bills the most prominent prevent the use and spread of Occlusive weapons sound.
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We see learning as a joyful, embodied, process that is incorporated within an individualized emergent system that we construct with each student.
Our process is built upon two fundamental ideas:
- awareness practices, including embodied learning through the Alexander Technique, so that students can identify and track their interests and needs.
- Artist inspired reflection practices entail bridging multiple interests, enabling students to select, curate and track the most pertinent information to help them succeed.
Awareness and reflective practices are the framework of an emergent learning system: woven into the fabric of all we do is the love of learning through awareness of interests/needs and building upon past successes within each iteration to create self-sustained learning.
Teaching Philosophies Explained
The bodyLITERATE is composed of practicing artists and educators who share a love of learning. We are dedicated to researching embodiment and emergence in learning and we offer services that support an engaged, sustainable, individualized education for all people. As learning specialists, our goal is not to replicate the traditional, rote structures of the education system (there are thousands of tutors/companies that do exactly that—and are amazing at it!), our interest, rather, is to illuminate and re-awaken a holistic, intrinsic learning approach that many children have "un-learned" through years of schooling. In fact, these students have been learning since birth, utilizing an inquiry-based model that is fueled by joy, curiosity and play. It is our deep desire to re-awaken this powerful, intrinsic aspect of learning and show our students how much agency and power they can have as they unleash it into their lives. We understand that people learn most sustainably and efficiently when they are engaged, embodied and creating; from this understanding, we teach (or rather, re-awaken) an embodied, emergent learning system.
Embodied, emergent learning begins with inquiry: we teach people how to ask the questions that directly address their learning needs and interests. This process entails developing embodied awareness through the Alexander Technique. Additionally, students learn to select/curate information that directly addresses their questions; they learn to track patterns and a structure emerges that is unique to their particular learning needs. Emergence is woven into each segment of this process. We show the student that their is no end to learning; the student continues to build on each successive iteration, refining their emergent learning system. Our task is to share a love of learning and to make the process of learning conscious, engaging and efficient.
We work with students from the third grade into adulthood. Even at age 8, children have been in school more than half of their lives and often their education has contributed to their feelings of unconfidence and viewpoint that learning is hard and "boring." In many ways, their academic environment, has failed them. Instead of supporting the intrinsic, pleasurable skill of learning, many children view education as a repetitive, rote, exercise driven activity, void of joy. When these unhappy children come to us, our first goal is to listen and show them that we are listening and we are, with giant elephant ears! Next, we help them understand what they LOVE to learn—for example, are they experts at video games, at Legos, at re-telling stories? We show them that they have already learned a ton in their lives (they can walk, run, dance, play sports, share stories etc.) and we work with them to bring awareness to HOW they have learned these wonderful skills and that the process was actually fun, engaging and unique to their personal learning styles. We then teach them how they can apply their intrinsic and joyful learning abilities to academic work, and (while, the current educational system is not always conducive to efficient, sustainable learning) we make sure that the child has a game-plan to continue to grow successfully within their academic environment. Throughout this process we also work with the students to bring awareness to their bodies; how the body plays a key role in engaged learning.
Our methods are derived from over a decade of research, teaching and arts-making. Below is a description of the four main elements of our methodology, as well as how we bring it all together through a mediation inspired process.
Inquiry-based Learning
Students learn to ask questions and develop skills to understand their particular interests and what information is needed to problem solve. Rather than being passive receptors of education, students actively construct the path they will take to obtain information. The inquiry-based model that we guide students through begins with identifying interests/needs, creating inquiry to address these interests/needs and utilizing the student's education environment to obtain/curate relevant information.
For example, if a student is learning about graphs in school, yet is confused about how to read a graph, she can utilize an inquiry based learning model to identify what exactly she does not understand and then communicate her questions to an educator, classmate or use the question as a guide to research the answer online or via textbook. Not only does the student understand more about her interests/relationship to her academic work (ie. her specific confusion), the student also learns the anatomy of an effective question and how to communicate their inquiry to the outside world. As an educator, I often hear the phrase, "I don't get it!" It's great that a student communicates that he has reached an impasse, however, it would be even better if the student was able to rephrase "it" into a particular ("I don't get what the x axis shows" or "I don't understand how to create a thesis for this essay"). We help students define the "it" and the student can construct a question that communicates their need, "what type of data goes into the x axis of the graph?" or "how do you create a thesis for an essay?" Now, the student has directed herself towards an appropriate research topic and can actively seek the help of an expert, online resource, textbook, etc. This type of question formulation is central to developing inquiry-based learning skills.
Theoretical basis
Learning is an instinctual process that children employ naturally as means for both survival and fun. I've watched many young people, bright-eyed with excitement, playing video games and becoming masters of complex gaming worlds (Pokemon, Minecraft, Sim City etc.) within a matter of weeks. How can learning be so fluid, fun and organic? The children are going through a process of inquiry based learning—they are asking themselves questions about the challenges they are facing within the game and through an emergent trial and error process, they uncover information and select what works. This is an efficient learning process that is inquiry-based and organic. This inquiry based model of learning is what the bodyLITERATE seeks to encourage. It is something intrinsic in the development of children and we work with people to re-awaken and add consciousness to their intrinsic inquiry-based learning abilities.
Embodiment is the idea that the mind and body are linked in action. At the bodyLITERATE we see learning as a holistic, process that includes active engagement of both the mind and body. One type of embodiment training that our organization intertwines within its work is the Alexander Technique (AT), a re-education method that brings awareness, ease and connectivity to everyday movement. Not only does the AT improve posture and physical efficiency, the technique is a powerful learning tool to maximize one's ability for awareness and reflection for adaptive, self-sufficiency in learning.
For example, a "bored" student, who is collapse and getting more exhausted by the minute, may find that she can utilize principles of the Alexander Technique to sit efficiently and increase her energy level. Another example is an over-tense student, may find that the technique teaches him to breathe regularly and release tension. By being mindful of how the body contributes to focus and attention, one has more agency (consciousness) to prevent states that can inhibit learning such as exhaustion and tension. Over the course of studying the technique, students develop a deep awareness of how efficient utilization of the body maximizes potential in any daily activity.
John Dewey and the Alexander Technique
John Dewey, known as the father of the American Education system, was a regular student of F.M. Alexander(the founder of the Alexander Technique). He frequently wrote about the benefits of the Alexander Technique. Dewey saw that becoming embodied, ie. developing more awareness of the unity between mind and body will increase one's potential for learning. He describes that the Alexander Technique "bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities" (Introduction to "The Use of the Self"). John Dewey understood that the process of learning begins with how one utilizes their mind and body in action. The Alexander Technique enables people to maximize potential through increasing overall awareness of how the mind and body work together. In Dewey's introduction to one of Alexander's books, he states that "the hardest thing to attend to is that which is closest to ourselves, that which is most constant and familiar. And this closest "something" is, precisely, ourselves, our own habits and ways of doing things as agencies in conditioning what is tried or done by us." (Introduction to "Constructive Conscious Control"). All of us have multiple talents and are doing many different activities in a day. What is constant is "ourselves, our own habits" that dictates how well and efficiently we do each activity. The Alexander Technique teaches us to to maximize our potential, because we learn to be aware of our inefficient patterns in how we do things. The key here is "how" we do things. Dewey goes on to explain the focus of the Alexander Technique is on "the actual functioning of the body, with the organism in operation, and in operation under the ordinary conditions of living–rising, sitting, walking, standing, using arms, hands, voice, tools, instruments of all kinds" (Introduction to "Constructive Conscious Control"). The Alexander Technique is a re-educational method to develop awareness of how we use our bodies in everyday activities. By understanding how we do the most simple elemental actions of human activity (sitting, standing,talking, lying down etc.), we can bring a greater deal of consciousness and expertise into complex actions (speeches, classroom learning, tackling homework, playing sports, dancing, working at a computer, etc.).
Is the process of connecting two or more forms and through this fusion, a new form emerges. Finding relationships between different modalities requires that a student understand both the root of their interest in each modality and how they will combine these interests. Bridging is essential for sustainable learning, because the student must explore the fundamentals of an idea and then recreate their own interpretation by fusing the elements of multiple modalities. In addition, bridging can serve as a way to engage students in different modalities; they learn how a current interest can connect to various subjects outside of their field of expertise. This is an excellent way to help students develop engagement in academic learning.
For example, co-founder of the bodyLITERATE, Cori Olinghouse, has been a dance choreographer for over ten years and has also been fascinated with early silent films as well as surrealism. Recently, she collaborated with experimental filmaker Shona Masarin to bring to life a unique, surreal ghost character through an experimental silent film. This project bridges multiple modalities: dance, film, surrealism, to name a few, and creates a whole new form: "surrealist, silent dance film" or something along that road. Cori has described this project as enlightening, because it has deepened her understanding of dance, film and surrealism. Resultingly, her creative process has evolved to reflect her new knowledge garnered through the filmmaking process.
In Sum
Bridging is an effective learning vehicle, because students are self-reflecting, selecting, and building. An effective bridge requires a firm root in at least two disciplines (the root is based on the individual's unique interests within each field). Students select how the two fields relate (how might an effective bridge be constructed?) and from this connection a student builds something wholly unique.
Is the complex patterns and behaviors that arise out of simple interactions. An emergent learning practice is a systematic approach that uses prior knowledge to build new skills as well as to develop wholly new forms through bridging modalities. Emergence takes place in education when students identify and explore their interests through a creative process, find connections between interests (bridging), selecting what works and a new form emerges, individualized to the student's unique neuronal learning pathways. The process that leads to emergence moves from simple to complex. Students learn to identify the simplest interactions: the elements of a system. Next, students understand how these elements interact and finally, students create their own versions "re-mixing" the elements, bridging them, to build a new form. What emerges is a unique creation that is complex, yet it's "DNA" (how it was built from interests, into elements, into systems, into bridging) can be traced. Students select what works and what is less effective and continue with the cycle, albeit, now, with additional information from the previous iteration.
Emergence is often left out of the education process:
In today's accelerated learning environments, emergence is often left out of the academic process, because students do not have the time to create the necessary bridges (connections) for emergence to take place. Emergence comes from an organic process, where patterns emerge from the interactions of established systems. A student who is being rushed through advanced academic material, without first establishing the fundamental systems that formulate the advanced ideas as well as their personal interest in the subject matter, will often not be able to integrate information in a lasting way.
Academic Mediation
Young learners are often at conflict with their education. This can range from the expectations placed on them at home (and by themselves), time management, how material is disseminated, teacher-student interactions etc. At the bodyLITERATE, we work with students and their academic team (parents, teachers etc.), to create executable goals and realistic expectations. As trained mediators,we focus on what is alive in the student (there strengths and interests) and how they can become flexible learners, able to utilize their unique assets to explore and develop their interests through inquiry and embodiment. Our goal is to partner with our students to create a wonderful learning game-plan and to ensure that they maximize their learning potential. In order to design a program that meets the student's learning needs, we utilize a mediation inspired process to guide and construct an individualized model utilizing the previously explained methodologies (inquiry-based learning, awareness through embodiment, bridging modalities and enabling an emergent process to blossom).
While traditional mediation is a method that involves two conficted parties, academic mediation utilizes the structure and techniques of mediation and reflects them back at the student who is at conflict with his/her education. Academic mediation may involve having a facilitated conversation between guardian(s) and child; it also entails ongoing one-on-one work utilizing the methods of the bodyLITERATE. Through one-on-one work, we help students identify/communicate their interests and needs to their learning team, including other teachers, mental health experts and parents. Our hope is that everyone can be heard and together we design an academic game-plan. The process entails:
- inquiry-based information gathering: to understand interests and areas of conflict
- embodiment practice: so that students can develop a deeper sense of awareness
- bridging interests: selecting/curating information that is most relevant to the student's needs
- emergence: collaborating with the students environment (teachers, parents etc.) so the a realistic plan emerges that enables a sustainable and enjoyable academic experience.
Most important to us, is that the student is heard and comes away from lessons, embodied, with a sense of agency in his or her education and an understanding of how to develop a sustainable, enjoyable and efficient learning plan.

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Rumors: iPhone 7 Models
Three iPhone 7 models and pricing rumors
In the past, there was only one new iPhone each year, but now there are three: a 4.7-inch model, a 5.5-inch model, and a 4-inch model. Some sources hint that Apple will launch yet another version of the iPhone in 2016.
The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are more or less guaranteed to replace the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus as the flagships, but rumors hint that there may be a new iPhone 7 Pro, too.
The latest report comes from an unconfirmed leak on Weibo, which is a site that has been known to leak information from Chinese supply chains in the past. The leak shows not only the alleged pricing of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, but also the iPad 7 Pro. Here's the breakdown of rumored prices in China:


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1 Zone Control Unit of Parking Guidance System / parking system:
1)The LCD in unit is to show the detector's work status.
2) Main function: it is to inquire about the relevant sensors status via RS485-B by turns, and forward the data to CCU by RS-485-C. Meanwhile, the unit forwards the command of CCU to LED screen via RS-485-B
The RS-485-B data bus can support 60 UD in max, whose addresses must not be set repeatedly.
2. How parking guidance system / parking system works:
Firstly, UD takes use of ultrasonic wave to detect the car space to see if it is occupied by vehicles and transfer relative command to LED indicator which will turn from green to RED when occupied, or it will keep GREEN; Meanwhile, the UD transmit its status message to unit immediately, and unit will collect and forward the information to CCU; CCU processes these data and sends the relevant command to unit and LED panel.
One unit can support 60 detectors in max.
LCD will show detectors' work status.
3 Specification
Type: Carport
Place of Origin: Fujian, China
Principle: Ultrasonic
Work temperature: -20C +80C
Frequency: 50-60Hz
Rate voltage: AC110-220V
Baud Rate: RS-232-NODE: 9600bp; RS-232-PC: 57600bps
COM1: To unit
Voltage: DC5V
Available distance: <=1000m
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"Did you ever feel like an alien who somehow became stranded on a planet called Earth where nothing seemed to make any sense?" A quote from "Ming The Merciless"
Recovering from civilization can be brutal but neccessary if we are to become truly free from it's influence. Kick the civilization habit here!
The Condition Of Our ConditionArticles on the Human condition and how we might improve it.
The Human species has raised self deception and denial to an art form, but how and maybe more importantly why? I can tell already that this will not be the easiest article I've ever written and probably won't be the easiest to read. But regardless of the perceived difficulty, I believe that this issue needs some attention before we all get lost forever in a conceptual version of reality and it becomes virtually impossible for us to find our way back to the world of direct experience where we can still smell the smells, feel what we touch, experience the vibrations of sound and taste the vivid textures of the present moment in time, where and when our lives actually take place.
It is astonishing that we spend perhaps 90% of the moments of our lives living in a conceptual representation of reality called abstract thoughts which take place in the abstract mind. This is not easy to realize because we visit the real actual world so rarely these days that we don't recognize where we are at any given moment. That is, where our attention is placed most of the time. The truth is that we spend most of our time in thoughts of the future, the past and pure fantasies created by our ability to imagine. And this brings us to the question of why we would do such a thing and how do we do it?
First we need to understand the power of the process of conditioning. Whatever we are exposed to repeatedly over time will become installed as a habitual behavior pattern that we believe is the real us or world. The fact that these patterns can and are installed without our conscious awareness is the foundation of the power of conditioning itself and takes a constant and high degree of awareness to combat and defend against.
What we identify with and how and why we identify with it is important to be aware of, and this calls for a little self examination. But it is essential that we become aware of the process of how we identify with anything and why. Why does it not seem strange that we rarely investigate the existence of the thing we call ego? How many of us actually know what it is and what it does? What purpose does it serve? Traveling down this path will lead us to the realization that there are two egos. One is natural to us and is critical to our survival. It helps us see ourselves as separate and individual so that we can look after ourselves, protect ourselves, feed ourselves and avoid harm. This is a natural and necessary element of our species existence.
But in time, fear made it necessary for us to create another ego identity and we then made an even bigger mistake by giving that identity a great deal of our power. This ego became the I me my mine monster that rules by fear, denial and deception. It is the one who creates the vails of self deception that we have come to believe is the real us in the real world when in fact it is only illusions created by our minds unique capabilities.
Greed, hatred and delusion, the ancient Buddhists realized that these were the culprits behind most of the misery in the world and they all spring from the I me my mine ego that we have come to believe is the real us interacting with the real world when in fact this is a mental construct of ourselves living in a mental construct of reality. A conceptual representation of reality that doesn't really exist beyond our mind. But why have we allowed this to come about? The answer to this is found in discovering the ways in which this arrangement serves us.
Greed, we desperately try to cling to that which is pleasant and desirable. Hatred, desperately we try to escape or avoid that which is unpleasant and distasteful. Delusion, the ways in which we manipulate our perception of things, conditions and events so that we don't have to take responsibility for our own thoughts and actions which are the true source of the things, conditions and events in our lives such as those motivated by greed and hatred. Think of the lengths to which the human life form will go to get what we think we want and desire.
And who is it that really wants and desires things? The I me my mine ego creates this illusion of reality that we dance to and to which we sometimes sacrifice our entire lives. It is an illusion that we have forgotten is not real, just a device to allow us to feel good about ourselves and our betrayal of our hearts and true nature, the act of taking refuge in the adolescent stage of human development so we don't have to think about the real issues of being a responsible life form.
There is a great e-book that explores the levels of awareness here.


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AMVETS Post 35 makes comeback, opens in Rotterdam
Like many service-oriented organizations. AMVETS Post 35 saw its membership decline over the years and eventually didn't have the numbers to sustain itself in Schenectady.
The group finally dissolved a several years ago, leaving Post 21 in Amsterdam as the last vestige of the veterans service organization in the Capital Region. That was until a group began organizing an effort to re-establish an AMVETS post in Rotterdam.
The initiative was spearheaded by county Legislator Angelo Santabarbara, a veteran of the Army Reserve, and took about two years to solidify. But on Thursday, Post 35 roared back to life with the swearing in of new officers and a group that now includes nearly two dozen members.
"And they show interest, which I like," beamed "E J" Knapik, the state legislative leader for AMVETS and the organization's past commander for New York.
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ive never been to one before, but this year im going and since im such a devoted craftster i am making my own costume.
i was going to do simplicity 9966, but then thought 2573 would be more comfortable AND easier to make. i havent sewn anything with a pattern in..... thirteen years. but then i was thinking that the longer skirt and thicker fabric on 2573 would not be suitable for a fair. what do yall think? i want to dress up and awe people with my cool renaissance threads that look slightly different then the run of the mill wench outfit (im not hating on those that wear run of the mill wench outfits. its awesome that you dress up! its just that im a stuffy prude that likes to be different. *sigh*).
also, here are is a question i had about modifying pattern 2573:
-what other fabric could i use besides brocade or upholstery jaquard, and still stay kind of authentic?
-could i just shorten the train on the pattern by cutting 2 front pieces and using 1 for the back and 1 for the front (and then cutting those side skirt pieces too)? in an experienced seamstresses's opinion, would that look ok? it wouldnt mess up the whole line of the dress or anything, right?
-what color would this look good in? i have a mediteranean(sp, sorry) type coloring
thanks in advance!
also, this is 2573: http://www.simplicity.com/p-1532-costumes.aspx


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After several weeks of several trips to Chipotle (my record is 5 times in the same week), this girl needs to get her act together. I'm going back to the motherland for most of July and I'd like to leave the American pounds on this Chinese figure behind.* That's where this green juice/smoothie comes in.
I first started experimenting with smoothies and such back in January when I bought my blender. January held such healthy promises, very naive ones too. During that time, I came to love this particular combination of spinach ice cubes, green apples, bananas, coconut water and almond milk. No sweetener needed. My sister Kate (not my real sister) taught me the neutralizing powers of bananas, so that's the MVP here. Thanks, sis!
Another important player: the spinach ice cubes. Freezing puréed spinach is a really handy trick, especially if you're like me and buy your spinach in outrageous quantities from Costco. Throw some fresh spinach in the blender, pour in a little bit of water to help with the process, blend, and freeze. Spinach waste solved.
One glass of this juice calls for 3 cubes and the rest is pretty self-explanatory. Bonus: one tall glass is only 1 Weight Watchers point. Drink up!
*I know this probably won't be happening, but it's worth a try and I hope this helps.
- 3 spinach puree ice cubes
- 1/2 cup pure coconut water
- 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 1 green apple, cored with skin on
- 1 banana
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You know... I was gonna post a MyTake on this, but I'd rather do this instead.
What are some benefits of being a late bloomer? More point blankly: what are some good things you got out of being a loser?
Here's mine:
While I was growing up, I didn't think I was very attractive... I always thought I was ugly... and when I got older, I didn't take care of myself, so I got called ugly/boy/overlooked a lot.
Over the past couple of years, I have worked on my appearance and really feel beautiful now... but I feel that way because of the character I developed first, before I was pretty. I worked on my appearance later in life, and I am SOOO glad I did that... because now not only do I look attractive, but I have depth/intelligence, and have compassion for those that haven't discovered this truth yet. I am also less impressed by guys that chat me up with compliments, and can find the really sincere ones...
Beauty and Depth don't have to be pitted against each other... one just has to be submitted to the other.
What are your all's thoughts? 😄
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well my situation was like you too, but puberty did a good job after some years :D but still if i haven't tried to work on myself to be a better and a attractive person, puberty won't do a good change in me at all.21|10|0
Yeah, you seem like a really cool person now! I feel like there are so many versions of ourselves we could be if we didn't go through the things we did... What would I be like if I were more shallow?
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Ancient traditions assume the Magi travelled on camels, and maybe ... just maybe ... if they passed through Thailand on their way ... they switched to elephants or even ox carts
Those in power write the history; those who suffer write the songs, and they who give the orders are never those who die.
But once it was different, and so it is every Christmas.
At that first Christmas midnight, angels in the high heavens sang for joy over Bethlehem - a blessed joy that carried over the Judean hills and around the world, and has continued to do so every year on this day, for 2,008 years now.
In the end, Miss Sao, now 15 years old, came across Bangkok town with us to try to find out who her parents were so she could get her I.D. papers. We had the firepower with us - a Klong Toey plainclothes lad, and another from Special Branch - just in case. Plus her beloved substitute mum, Teacher, the one who had smuggled her out of the slum that rainy midnight eight years before. Tippy-toed past the rented shack where Miss Sao lived with her auntie, granny and grandfather - the sex abuser - to escape to safety and freedom.
Teacher had bought a bottle of foreign whiskey (with a higher alcohol content) for Sao's grand father. It was a high risk move, because liquored up was when he looked for his grand daughter, to come sit on his lap. But it worked. He passed out: totally hammered. She hadn't been back in all that time. Didn't dare. We didn't dare.
But justice comes in strange packages. Grandfather died, despised and unwanted after three years in a prison cell. The only ones still living in the rented shack were her dad's younger brother and his wife, the auntie who slapped her to stop her crying when grandfather hollered for her to come and give him a hug. Grandmother too had since died. Sao didn't know anything about her mum and dad, not even their names. Was always told they were useless and better off dead. So eventually, she stopped asking.
One of our children who goes by the nickname of Miss Nan told me she heard someone singing her a Christmas lullaby the other night when it was all quiet in the hospital. A lullaby so sweet, so beautiful, it would make the angels weep.
When she heard it, she awoke, looked around: only her crippled-up, Aid-struck, foster-Auntie Gung was there. And (Heavens to Betsy!) even Miss Nan's pet frog Albert can sing better than Auntie Gung. Everyone in the whole world knows Auntie Gung can't sing. But a lullaby it was that Miss Nan heard.
And who could doubt such a child? Miss Nan, who is only seven and was born with HIV, goes to the hospital a little longer each time now, so she has the learned the wisdom of such things. And Auntie Gung stays at her bedside for a week at a time - sometimes two weeks - sleeping at night on a mat on the floor next to Miss Nan's bed.
Here are just a few notes and updates to you, my friends, during Holy Week and the Thai Buddhist New Year:
Yesterday it felt like everyone in Klong Toey joined us at "Mercy Centre" as we celebrated the Thai New Year. Perhaps not totally everybody, but at least several hundred neighbors - mostly old folks and other slum "reputables" and, of course, our kids. There was great music played on third-hand instruments and dancing in the streets - old-time barn dancing led by the Motorbike Racing Granny, our favorite street vendor who is now 76. She has a bit of a bum knee, made stiff from kick-starting her stubborn "mini-chopper," a motorbike modified into her mobile coffee cart. Fortunately, she had a "wee swallie" or two or three from a not so well hidden flask of amber liquid that loosened her knees and had her stomping up a storm.
In the late morning, the Monks came for the annual New Year prayers and blessings for our Mercy Centre and to chant the Sutras. Our two hundred children were quiet (just for a while!), sitting beside the physically challenged and the old folks assembled; and after the prayers, everyone made merit and offered the monks a pre-noon meal.


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Video Is Celestial Soda Pop By Ray Lynch
Have you ever heard a piece of music that touched you deep inside and filled you with an intense longing for something you could not identify? I have. I have asked the question, "what does music mean to you", here on HubPages, and a similar question on Yahoo Answers. But the responses were not very satisfying to say the least. It makes me wonder how many people really hear music. I mean the real music.
I have this theory, it goes like this. I believe that there is a Song that was sung into or with creation. The notes in this Song are made up of the names of all things created, and just as all creation is tied to its Creator, so all names in the song are tied to the Creators Name. Sometimes, certain musicians who are able to tune in to that harmony or part of it, can reproduce it, at least in part. Then, those listeners who hear their own creation name in that particular song, respond with that deep longing that you can't explain. It is because your spirit recognized its name, its self in the song.
You have heard the saying, "Music soothes the savage beast", I am sure. That is because when a beast hears certain music, it recognizes its creation name. It is only natural that it should calm down, the music is telling it part of itself is present.
Most people aren't even aware of the power in music to heal, but it has been proven to do just that. It has a healing effect on depressed people and mentally and emotionally unstable people. I can see why it would have.
When I listen to music like the piece I posted above, I am uplifted. There are some "songs" though there is no singing I still call them songs, that, as I said earlier, touch me so deeply, leave me with a deep longing inside. I wish I could wrap myself around the music or it around me...become the music. It is so very difficult to explain in words how I feel about music. Words do not describe things properly. In fact I put off writing this particular hub for some time because I was not sure how to write it. I very much wanted to write it, to share my deep feelings for certain music and my theory. I just knew it would be hard and might not come out the way I meant it to or wanted it to. So I hope anyone who reads this will take into consideration this difficulty, and try to understand my meanings as best as you can.
This is truly a lovely piece of music. Very stirring.
I like how passionate you are about music. Music really is a beautiful thing that has the power to heal and uplift, yet it also has the power to anger, to enrage and to stir people up into a frenzy. Cultural codings and the way that music psychologically affects us is very important, particularly for those who write music, for example for film.
Please please please post the artist.You may consider posting several in your next hub.I,and I'm sure many others,have been searching for this hub for quite a long time.
Your meaning was perfectly clear,this hub had me jumping up and down on those buttons to our left.
You are so right about this,me too i call this songs "Heart touching songs".I prefer Enigma "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P_SVZ6m4OY"
This song is really beautiful especially this edition,it's so calm,and her voice makes me feel so comfortable.Or you can checkout this one "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm9_ywA4uNw".
Thanks for sharing this with us.
Voted Up as usual and beautiful..


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28th February is Observed as National Science Day in India
28th February is celebrated as the National Science Day i. e. Rashtriya Vigyan Diwas (राष्ट्रीय विज्ञान दिवस) annually in India. Significance of Day: The main objective behind this day is to convey scientific temper in the minds of people of all age groups.
The theme for year 2016 is "Scientific Issues for Development of the Nation" that seeks to floating public appreciation.
To make this day memories every year different activities are conducted by government and privet organization such as:
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Why National Science Day is celebrated?
This day is being celebrated to marks the epoch-making innovation of Raman Effect by Indian physicist Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman (CV Raman) on February 28, 1928 which was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
The American Chemical Society designated the 'Raman Effect' as an International Historic Chemical Landmark in 2013.
National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC) had requested Union Government to assign February 28 as the 'National Science Day' for India in 1986.
And after that in 2000 on February 28 the first National Science Day was celebrated.
The Raman Effect:
- Some part of light beam after passing through a transparent medium gets scattered.
- This miracle of trickle of light is termed as Raman Scattering and the cause of scattering is called the Raman Effect.
- The wavelength of these scattered rays is different from that of the incident rays of light.
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Bones Season 8 Episode 23
"The Pathos in the Pathogens"
Air Date: April 22, 2013
In a show with an ensemble cast as awesome as Bones, there will be a diverse group of fans that watch with a diverse group of interest focus. As a disclaimer, I will confess that I watch primarily for the Booth and Brennan storyline, interactions, moments. Thus, this recap will be colored by that focus.
"The Pathos in the Pathogens" begins with the Jeffersonian in the midst of preparation to receive a body that was discovered in a biohazard waste facility along with veterinary remains. The majority of personnel are being evacuated as Cam, Angela, Hodgins, Arastoo and Brennan are suiting up to enter a newly erected biohazard "tent" that surrounds the examination platform.
Dr. Ivan Jacobs with the CDC accompanies the body which turns out to be that of a female blogger, Mia Garrett, who specialized in big pharmaceutical and medical research stories. The victim is identified through facial recognition which Brennan does faster than Angela's software because the victim's mandible and maxilla had been smashed. This led to one of the few lighter moments in the show when Angela asked why they even used the software since they had Brennen. Brennan quipped, "Under normal circumstances it allows me to take a longer lunch."
Yep, that was about the last humorous moment in the show because shortly after that, as Brennan, Arastoo and Dr. Jacobs are attempting to move the body into a bag, Arastoo is stuck by something that pierces his glove and draws blood. Brennan later discovers that Arastoo had been poked by the remains of the microneedle used to inject the victim with the mutated strain of the still unknown organism. The intensity ramps up at that moment and the focus shifts from victim #1 to potential victim #2.
It had already been determined that whatever organism killed Mia was not airborne, so the biohazard tent and suits became unnecessary, however the Jeffersonian security protocols are ramped up because Arastoo has been exposed. Booth has been worrying at the FBI building and as the bone room is converted into a makeshift hospital room, Brennan chats with Booth, giving us a sweet moment between the two…which is overheard by Dr. Jacobs as he stops by Brennan's office to inform her of the latest development.
At Arastoo's insistence, the team studies the progression of the organism as it begins working on him. A strain of the Chikungunya (CHICKV) virus is identified from tests run on Arastoo and a serum is brought from the CDC which has worked on some previous cases. Brennan re-examines bone lesions found on Mia because they don't mimic CHICKV.
In the meantime, Sweets has interviewed Mia's boyfriend, as well as Dr. Burke, the last person MIa interviewed while working on a story about lab research and viral mutations. As Brennan scans Arastoo, she points out that whoever injected Mia would likely have an antidote to the virus. They discover Mia was working on a story about a lab that develops performance enhancing drugs for horses. This leads Booth to interview the owner of horses that have benefitted from the drugs. It turns out he was also having an affair with Mia. Thus suspicion falls back on the boyfriend.
The serum arrives from the CDC. Arastoo describes his reaction…until he can't. His heart beat increases, he has difficulty breathing followed by paralysis and then seizure. Cam reacts quickly, giving him something to lower his heart rate and that works. In the meantime, Brennan discovers Hodgins in his lab working on a serum he's creating from plants, animal and insect in an effort to help Arastoo. The needle contained no helpful information and though he's ready to defend his efforts to Brennan, she jumps right in and starts helping him get the weight to dosage ratio correct. Cam and Dr. Jacobs prepare Arastoo for another procedure. Cam puts Arastoo under because the treatment will be painful. Dr. Jacobs estimates Arasoo has about four hours left.
The boyfriend is interviewed again. Dr. Jacobs balks at the idea of using Hodgin's serum and puts his foot down stating the CDC is in charge. Cam overrides him saying the CDC is in charge of Mia, she is the boss of the lab and responsible for Arastoo. She lets Brennan give Arastoo the treatment. When Arastoo's condition improves slightly, Dr. Jacobs apologizes and Brennan gives him a very "eloquent insult". Angela breaks through Mia's encryption and discovers files that indicate Dr. Burke previously worked for a different facility which led to a lawsuit for wrongful termination, but the documents were sealed. This leads Booth and Sweets to the owner of the lab where Dr. Burked worked two years previous. The lab's owner reveals that she was fired because several CHICKV cultures went missing. They couldn't prove she took them.
Brennan discovers postmortem cellular reproduction has been continuing in the injection site on Mia which has caused a fracture of the humerus. This leads Hodgins to the discover the organism also contains botulinum toxin…they the organism is both viral and bacterial. Booth interviews Burke again. She implicates the owner of the lab that fired her. She's convinced he would do anything to avoid losing his funding. Dr. Jacobs identifies that lab as the source for the botulinum. Booth goes into the hyper-aggressive mode we've seen in several of the latest episodes, arrests the lab owner and brings him to the Jeffersonian when he clams up.
At the Jeffersonian, Booth tries to muscle the location of the antidote out of the lab owner to no avail. He's about ready to go off on the dude when Cam stops him. She tearfully pleads with the man, even admitting that she loves Arastoo. He does not relent. As Booth starts to get aggressive again, Brennan stops him. She picks up a syringe, tells the lab owner that she was able to distill the virus and promptly injects him in the neck with it. This finally gets the man to agree to tell them where the antidote is. The look of love and pride on Booth's face is something to behold. Finally, the murderer is caught, Arastoo is saved. Cam accompanies him as he is transported to the hospital.
The episode was well-rounded with a fairly even amount of character contribution. Angela provided help with facial reconstruction and computer file decryption providing information that led to the capture of the murderer. Hodgins provided the location of the victim prior to her death because of insect activity. He distilled a serum from plants and insects that gave Arastoo extra time for the antidote to be administered. He was protective of Angela, telling her to steer clear of Arastoo during the investigation. They had a nice moment at the end where Angela let Hodgins know he was instrumental in keeping Arastoo alive and they are both witness to Cam hovering over Arastoo as he is transported to the hospital.
Sweets was front center in the majority of the interviews conducted in this investigation. He was by Booth's side the rest of the time.
Cam was grace under extreme pressure as she artfully switched between lab administrator, doctor and worried lover.
If there was a character which was featured in this episode, I would say it was Brennan (rightfully so since the show is called Bones). She made the majority of the key discoveries, helped Hodgins in creating the serum, communicated with the FBI numerous times and managed to enthrall Dr. Jacobs without batting an eye. Her interactions with Booth were classic Booth and Brennan even though they weren't physically together until the end of the episode. Both Jacobs and Booth find Brennan in her office at the end of the episode. Dr. Jacobs comes to thank her and is present as Booth arrives. Jacobs tells Booth he is a lucky man and Booth agrees.
As Booth and Brennan are leaving, Brennan tells Booth that there was no virus in the syringe she used…but tells him she would have used the virus if she had it. Booth tells Brennan that Jacobs really has no clue about how lucky he is and Brennan replies that she loves Booth too. She asks if they can stop for a drink on the way home. He agrees and says, "Champagne, the good stuff."
How will the events of this episode impact these characters going forward? That remains to be seen, but I think it's fair to say that Brennan was impacted by Cam's distress over Arastoo as well as by her own feelings toward him given that she has already lost an intern in the lab. She even mentions that she would have missed Arastoo had they not been able to get the antidote. I'm sure she will continue to reflect on how connected she has become to all of these people and to Booth in particular. I would not be surprised to see a shift in her attitude toward marriage in the future.
In other news, the promo for the finale next week looked quite intense as well.
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"Working in the mental health field in Florida, this book gives a very broad look into the development of mental health as well as an in depth history of Florida State Hospital. The author lends credibility to this history not only through interviews and photographs but in sharing case studies, official documents and many other resources that help paint a picture of the development of mental health. I believe that it is important to understand where practices and organizations came from in order to make informed decisions and changes for the future. I would recommend this book to any Florida history buff or any person simply interested in the development of the treatment of mental health throughout history. This would also be an interesting resource to anyone working for DCF in the MHTF." – Amazon Reviewer
I came to know of the Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee, originally called the Florida Asylum for the Indigent Insane, but more commonly referred to simply as "Chattahoochee" by long-time Floridians, back in the 1960s when I first moved to Florida. Its reputation at that time was . . . well . . . pretty bad, but in reality not so different than most mental institutions around the country. But those institutions didn't have the amazing history like Chattahoochee.
From a federal arsenal during the Second Seminole and Civil Wars, to Freedman's Bureau, to Florida's first state penitentiary, and finally to asylum, the Florida State Hospital has a remarkable past. And, when you move into the 1900s, the story reveals more–political scandals, patient abuse, use of treatments such as ECT and lobotomies, and the incarceration of thousands of men, women, and children who weren't really mentally ill at all.
Set against the backdrop of the evolution of the country's mental heal care system from institutional care to community-based treatment centers, Out of Mind, Out of Sight reveals for the first time the entire history of Chattahoochee. It will also bring you up to date with those who currently occupy the facility–forensic patients, those who have been convicted of a crime but who are considered mentally incompetent to stand trial.
See what those in the mental health care field have to say about | Out of Mind, Out of Sight:
"Out of Mind, Out of Sight gives an extensive, captivating, and accurate account of mental health treatment in Florida with special attention to the Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee. Even though I was on staff at Chattahoochee for thirty-eight years, I discovered fascinating information I never knew. A compelling story, Out of Mind, Out of Sight is written in an interesting and informative way for both professional and lay readers." Sam Cunningham Licensed Clinical Psychologist
"Florida, like many Southern states, lagged in terms of providing its citizens with appropriate mental health care. In Out of Mind, Out of Sight, Sally J. Ling provides a revealing portrait of the Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee and its travails since its formal founding in 1877. The result is a poignant picture of an institution and demonstrates how far Florida has come in creating a system of mental health care that serves the needs of all of its citizens." Gerald N. Grob, Ph.D. Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Ereritus Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research Rutgers University
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I adore the Mercedes SLK series in particular the SLK 55 AMG. Ok so one of my favourite cars isn't the most expensive car in the world although it is still an expensive car at just over £50,000. But you are possibly thinking if I had the choice why wouldn't I pick something like a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Rolls Royce? Well the simple truth is Mercedes Benz looks fantastically sporty but at the same time it is a practical car in the sense that I can drive it to work, through town/city centres and country lanes without getting it scratched, stolen, keyed, stuck or any other possible harm. I can also park it anywhere. For example I was in Leicester eating at an expensive restaurant lately and a customer parked his Lamborghini outside. Barely had he sat down before trying to spit at it or taking pictures of themselves next to this beautifully sculpted car. What can I say I enjoy my food too much and would like to have a car that enables me to eat my dinner in peace?
Apart from this the V8 engine SLK 55 AMG has other reasons that attract me to this car. It has a top speed of 155 mph, accelerates from 0-62 in 4.9 seconds and has about 360 bhp. The car is well engineered, robust and looks stunning in black or silver. Its sleek chassis shimmers in the sunlight (looks great when it's just been through the car wash!) with its alloys wheels supporting this fabulously crafted bodywork. If you can afford it, look into purchasing the SLK 55 AMG, finance is also available from most dealers. Most places will let you take it on a test drive (with a nervous car salesman in the back of course.) Check out your local dealer today.
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A. Just to clarify first that the Lilith you mention is what some call the Black Moon Lilith as opposed to the Lilith asteroid and the Dark Moon position. Demetra George writes that this Black Moon Lilith is the third stage of the Lilith myth, the crone phase where the goddess comes into her full power after a journey from being the initial partner of Adam, through exile and becoming a demoness, till transforming her pain and rage to come full circle, becoming a mature expression of her original potency. It's a brilliant myth that like all good ones, is a great illuminator for all of us.
Of course, many will disagree and this is understandable in both the semantic and the energetic cross-overs of the different faces of the divine feminine within and between cultures.
Anyhow, back to your birthday. And what a big one anyway, nine days after the exact square of Pluto and Uranus, and four days after an eclipse! This is likely to be one of those life-changing years for you.
As for your Black Moon in Scorpio in the 7th House, Saturn has been putting the squeeze on her for the last months along with transiting Persephone, a double-teaming that will confront the power dynamics and shadows in your relationship life, as part of both claiming more of your own potency and as an initiation into greater states of psycho-spiritual acuity. Persephone drops us through our naivity and denial while Saturn locks us into his own brand of dark alchemy so that we do actually "get it!"
Actually the three of them share common goals, to take us deeper into our own wisdom and authenticity. Saturn will play bad cop by bringing up anything unhealed about your relating to men, the masculine and the patriarchy, particularly to do with rage and betrayal.
When the Black Moon is active or activated, she takes us into level of purification that is unbelievably intense and painful and yet one that seeks to free us from our attachments to others and to that which is not us, not part of the authentic self. So you can expect to have to face some of these places and the more we get conscious of her agenda and can go with it, the quicker we can move into the corresponding states of grace that follow. You can't rush her though; you can only surrender to her timing.
On your birthday though, transiting Black Moon is conjunct transiting Mercury and Jupiter, great aspects built into your solar return chart and therefore part of the whole next 12 months. This is a combination of deep conscious learning, about every aspect of the Mother and how to bring her potency benevolently into every aspect of your world, but particularly into your love life, your creativity and your sheer capacity for being brilliantly and potently alive!
The focus on your relationships is obvious with the 7th House and it's clearly a time of clearing, shedding the inappropriate and reconstructing boundaries. What is less obvious is that transiting North Node and Psyche are conjunct the progressed position of the Black Moon in your 8th House. Psyche represents our capacity to open to soul to soul relationships while this Node speaks of the future embodied in the energies of the present. This can co-create a connection with someone that your deepest self will use as a vehicle for the deepest clearing of shadows on your heart, so that you can be available to such a love. This is where the dark mother shares the same goal as the exalted goddess of unconditional love and I can tell you from my own experience, she's not going to stuff around in preparing you for the best.
By the way, it's actually your birthday as I write this. Happy birthday and have an extraordinary year!


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"I feel like watching my dating life has become a bit of national pastime. And I'm just not comfortable providing that kind of entertainment anymore," she said. "I don't like seeing slide shows of guys I've apparently dated. I don't like giving comedians the opportunity to make jokes about me at awards shows."
Tay continued. "I don't like it when headlines read 'Careful, Bro, She'll Write a Song About You,' because it trivializes my work. And most of all don't like how all these factors add up to build the pressure so high in a new relationship that it gets snuffed out before it even has a chance to start. And so I just don't date."
Aw, that kind of makes us sad. Did she really just say she doesn't date because of all the hype people make about it? We feel a little guilty...
Don't think this means Tay's into one-nighters either. "I just think it's pointless if you're not in love," she said about hooking up. "And I don't have the energy to be in love right now. So no."
"It's not like I've sworn off love," she went on. "My life is just not conducive to bringing other people into it right now. I'm very childlike and romantic about lots of things, but I'm realistic about this...it's not bad that I'm not hopelessly in love with someone. It's not a tragedy, and it's not me giving up and being a spinster."
Taylor doesn't need a man anyway. She seriously has like the most famous friends ever. From Selena Gomez to Ed Sheeran, she's anything but alone.
"I really like my life right now," Tay told the mag. "I have friends around me all the time. I've started painting more. I've been working out a lot. I've started to really take pride in being strong. I love the album I made. I love that I moved to New York. So in terms of being happy, I've never been closer to that."
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Les Miserables, Vol. 1 only
1930 · Chicago
by HUGO, Victor
Chicago: McDevitt, 1930. Good. Good. Hardcover, rubbed at spine ends and corners, label on spine is chipping, bottom of spine end faded, slight spine lean, top edge gilt, general wear. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. (Inventory #: 252310)


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Arizona's students identified as English Language Learners are declining on crucial achievement measures since 2000, and are faring worse than their counterparts in neighboring border states of California, New Mexico and Texas.
This blog is Part Two of our series that explored significant events and trends in the education of Arizona's English Language Learners since the Flores Consent Decree of 20001. In Part One, we diagrammed recent Arizona-specific achievement measures, as well as a timeline of important English Language Learner events.
In this month's blog, we look at English Language Learner (ELL) student achievement over time and across the region of border states – California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. Our research suggests the following:
- Unlike California and Texas (and New Mexico to a lesser degree), Arizona has seen a decline in the percentage of ELL students over the past decade. Since 2005, Arizona's identified population of ELL students has declined from a high of nearly 20 percent to just over 5 percent (in the most recent release of October enrollment numbers)2. Read the full findings reported in Part One.
- All four states have gaps in reported ELL data that are suspect; the greatest disruption in the data for all four states appears around 2007.
- A double-digit achievement gap, as measured by scale scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), exists between ELL and non-ELL students, has become more severe in the past decade. Arizona's gap between ELL and non-ELL students is the most significant of the four states', and it is getting worse.
Border States and Their Data
Cultural issues along the US/Mexico border region, not the least of which includes business climate, immigration and language politics, have been contentious for decades. A broad range of policy matters specific to the border region have become even more heated since Flores. Arizona policy has made its own unique contributions (including Proposition 300, which limited public program access, and the controversial SB 1070 which added a broad set of immigration enforcement policies), but other states have waded into public policy matters highly impactful to the region. Arizona's Proposition 203 (an English-only proposition) is recognized as a re-branded version of an initiative that passed in California: California Proposition 227. This November, California overturned 227 with passage of Proposition 58. Interestingly, Texas and New Mexico have laws enshrining bilingual education as the preferred models in those states3.
For context, the states along the US/Mexico border (Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas) are a natural cohort for examining English Learner policies because of the similar demographics and common concerns. The Common Core of Data collected by the U.S. Department of Education annually provides a source of basic enrollment information for schools in this target group. The figure below diagrams the percentage of ELL students within each state since 1999.
Arizona's decline in the number of ELL students stands in contrast to growing trends in these data among other states within the Southwest region. Though all states suffered the "Great Recession" and saw changes to the construct of "English language proficiency" with changes to Title III4, Arizona uniquely saw a dramatic decline in the number of students identified as ELL in the region. All four states seemed to start the new century with common challenges and somewhat similar trends in ELL membership, which splintered and diverged in the past decade. For a full description of these data, please read Ever Since Flores: The History of English Language Learners in Arizona (Part One of this blog).
In addition, the above graph contains clear fractures, holes, and possibly even suspect variations in the data. Examinations of other student characteristics for the border states, such as percentage of students with Individualized Education Plans, or those who live in poverty, resulted in similarly curious information. For this blog, the Center reached out to the National Center for Education Statistics for guidance on how to work with potentially erroneous published data and they sent a statement5 that illuminates how errors occur in these data. Despite efforts to create comparable state level data, it is apparent that the federal data should be considered with some skepticism and interpreted with caution.
ELL Achievement on National Assessments
To compare changes in ELL student achievement across the region, we turn to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Individual states' assessment results are inadequate for this task, as they lack consistency over time and comparability between states. Though NAEP is administered to a limited sample of students in each of our target states, ELL students are included in the sample and are provided a standard and consistent set of accommodations, according to assessment administration guidelines.
The figure below shows grade 4 reading scores for ALL students in our cohort of states, 1998 to 2015. Arizona and California have made steady and impressive gains since the turn of the century when considering students from all backgrounds.
However, the difference in scale scores between students identified as English Language Learners and all students sampled by NAEP in each state is shown for the same time frame in the figure below. These data indicate that ELL students are scoring significantly lower than their English-proficient peers in all four states, with Arizona having the greatest gap between the general student body and ELL students; not only that, but the difference has become more severe in recent years. Only Texas has seen a declining gap in the region for ELL students in grade 4 on the NAEP reading test. In 2015, Texas saw only a 20-scale score point gap where Arizona had a 50-point gap between English Language Learners and the general student body.
The data for the grade 8 reading score gap is similar, though with a few exceptions. Arizona, again, dropped to the bottom of the cohort for the border region, with the decline starting in 2005 (the year the Arizona English Language Learner Assessment was implemented). No data were available for Arizona grade ELL students in 2011 and 2013, due to sparseness in the data. This corresponds to the precipitous decline in the number of ELL identified students in the state (see the timeline in Part One). By 2015, a 57-scale score point gap existed between English Learners and all students on the grade 8 reading scores in Arizona. Whereas, grade 8 ELL students in Texas and New Mexico ended up in 2015 about where the ELL student population started in 1998.
So…How Have Arizona's ELL Students Achieved Since Flores?
In Horne v. Flores, the United States Supreme Court case that settled the Flores case, Justice Alito wrote for the majority:
…The question at issue in these cases is not whether Arizona must take "appropriate action" to overcome the language barriers that impede ELL students. Of course it must. But petitioners argue that Arizona is now fulfilling its statutory obligation by new means that reflect new policy insights and other changed circumstances.6
The "new means" alluded to by Justice Alito include teaching English through a structured, four-hour block of English-only immersion. With little achievement evidence presented, the Court ruled that Arizona had overcome the barriers for ELL students. Really? All data sources considered in this blog indicate that Arizona's students identified as ELL have declined on crucial achievement measures since 2000, and fare worse than their counterparts in neighboring border states. Quite possibly (even likely), the relative poor showing of Arizona's ELL student body in achievement test and graduation rate data is an artifact of a change in identification and assessment procedures to some degree. Others have attributed the relative poor showing of Arizona's ELL students to other factors, including the four-hour English language development block. Regardless, progress-monitoring set forth in the Flores Consent Decree no longer appears in public data sources, so the degree to which reclassified students are thriving or languishing across Arizona is unreported, and possibly unknown.
Footnotes and References
[1] In 1992, Flores v. State of Arizona was filed in federal district court alleging the civil rights of Limited English Proficient students enrolled in the Nogales Unified School District were violated. See more at http://www.azleg.gov/briefs/Senate/FLORES%20V%20ARIZONA.pdf
[2] http://www.azed.gov/research-evaluation/arizona-enrollment-figures/
[3] See http://www.ped.state.nm.us/BilingualMulticultural/dl08/Article23-BilingualEducationLaw.pdf and http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/ED/htm/ED.29.htm#B
[4] English language arts content standards and the notion of EL students being proficient in "academic language" change the nature of what language proficiency assessments were measuring, as detailed in http://ell.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/academic-papers/08-Bailey%20Wolf%20Challenges%20of%20Assessment%20Language%20Proficiency%20FINAL_0.pdf
[5] In an email from NCES, the following explanation regarding data accuracy was provided. "The CCD depends on state education agencies to provide us data. Not all states can provide us data in all years. Changes in state policies (e.g., eligibility for particular programs) can result in large changes in student counts. Additionally, since these counts are reported at the LEA level, the lack of data for a single, large LEA can also cause a large fluctuation in the reported counts. We run edits checks for these, and we question the states when we find issues. If the states provide an explanation, we include that in the state notes section of the file documentation. But very often the states have no explanation."
[6] 557 U. S. Supreme Court Ruling, Horne v. Miriam Flores (2009)


text: Ive noticed some bad posts about this peak, but believe it or not our area has had one of the best peaks ever. For years we had the typical division manager; numbers and reports ruled the day. Safety and service always took a back seat. Well recently we got a division manager who so far seems to put service above everything else (I know,,, there are one or two left). Our preload has started earlier and is getting DOWN before drivers hit the belts. We've added so many runs this month that we have to hand cart boxes to the trucks running down the center of our building (and a few outside). Workers have been slammed for so long we dont know how to handle getting off by 6 or 7. Now things arent perfect but I just thought Id throw a little good news out there. I only feel bad for the guys that ended up with our old division manager. Hang tough out there guys, just a little over a week left