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In the last week of February, I ran a conference a week-long conference, followed by our annual Women's Retreat. I knew this was coming, and also knew that as soon as these events were over I was going to be able to work from bed or the couch going forward, and just needed to get through them. Both events went well but it definitely wasn't ideal to have them back to back. I tried to rest as much as possible during both - lots of family baths in the evenings, naps before dinner and early bedtimes. Still, I came back much more tired than I had hoped. I curled up at home upon return and rested, enjoying the break. I had a doctors appointment and my doctor noted that my blood pressure was quite high, especially considering how low it's been the whole time. She suggested looking at a mild bed rest. Mostly we talked about a bedrest from childcare and housework. Work is easy and from bed, but the childcare is physical and never-ending. I also cut my work in half - just training my replacement and getting the basics done. Thankfully we only had 4 days to fill for childcare since we already had 3 days a week scheduled, and Paul was going to be off in 2 weeks for Spring Break, then parental leave. We filled our slots between our sisters and my cousin and Paul picked up the slack in every other area - cooking, caring for the kids before and after work and caring for me. He's amazing. I'm so very thankful. It's been a week now - I have slept and rested, napped and sat. I am taking this rest time seriously - I have two babies to grow for another 4-6 weeks and I don't take that lightly. We have canceled most plans - though still having friends come here with my commitment to sit on the couch the whole time. I need the social stimulation. But I'm being as careful and restful as I can - and with good results, my blood pressure is much lower and my body is feeling less sore. I see my doctor again this week and will confirm this all, but am feeling very positive about having these two stay in here as long as possible - despite how huge I'm getting! Last week when I was at the doctors I was mid 30 week and she said I was measuring at 38 weeks. Two weeks earlier at 28 weeks, I was measuring at 37 weeks. It's all kinda crazy - what's coming next? How big am I going to get??
The kids and I do a lot of sitting on the couch together now. I don't want to lose this quality time, and cuddles with them fills my heart right up, especially when I can go rest after.
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I wake up constantly to pee and to awkwardly, and with great difficulty, roll from side to side, all through the night. I have less pregnancy insomnia now but still, have restless legs and heartburn. A friend said this pregnancy is marked with my sighs and grunts - nothing I do is subtle anymore. I love how much they move and wiggle inside - they are both head down. The boy is lower, and the girl is higher. My girls have always loved being up by my rib cage, and this girl is no exception. I am so thankful for a few days of good weather so I can slip on shoes rather than lace up or have to struggle to get boots on - not that I'm going out much anyways. I love baths, hot (warm) tubs and pools - anything to take some weight off. I'm also thankful that I bought some maternity clothes that were a bit big in the beginning because I feel like I'm going to need them - I've definitely already outgrown a bunch of my maternity clothes. I have an ultrasound this Friday to see them again, and I can't wait to find out what they weigh and see how they are growing.
The preparation for the twins is coming along well. Our hospital bag is packed and in the hallway, next to the twins bag. We just need to pull together our extra's bag for the hospital - the car seat covers, and pillow, and the breastfeeding pillow. We'll work on that tomorrow, and then leave all of it together in the hallway. We won't install the car seats into the van yet since that will mean moving the girls waaaay into the back already, but the seats and bases are both ready to go, and we can easily just use the car seat without a base to get home from the hospital and work on securing the bases and moving car seats around after they come. We also aren't putting the hospital bags into the van since it's usually quite full and even if we went into labour while out and about, someone could easily drive the ten minutes from our house to the hospital with our bags. Most of it's for post birth anyways. There will be time. As of this weekend, we have a nursery! The student who was in that room moved downstairs to our other newly vacated student room, and we moved the bed, dresser, and crib in there. It's not all pretty or set up but there's a crib. It's enough for now. We're setting up the bed so family can stay there and I'll set it up like a day bed for if I need to nurse in there - though I bet I will end up nursing downstairs with the family like before - I don't love isolation when nursing. I look forward to sorting all the clothes out shortly - though will need to do so sitting and get some help so I don't over exert myself - still taking this rest thing very seriously.
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2 Chronicles 4:18–All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.
Do we keep track of what we offer and give to the Lord? Solomon had so much created in bronze for the temple that they could not keep track. Often, we try to keep track of what we offer to God thinking that He is then obligated to bless us that same amount later. We must remember, God is worthy of everything that we have and everything that we can give regardless of whether or not He chooses to bless us financially in return.
Father, I will give to You with no regard for the amounts of the cost. You are worthy of everything anyway and I will not get so focused on making sure I'm paid back for what I've done for You. I will praise You and sacrifice to You simply because You are worthy.


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The traditional classroom setting can't even begin to compare to the experience of studying abroad. It just isn't the same. It doesn't matter how much time you put into learning a language. What matters is what you get out of it and this is where immersion comes to play.
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I have experienced studying abroad first hand in Costa Rica. That trip changed me for the better. I came home with so many stories to tell and a world of my own that no one knew about except me. I came back with more confidence, more respect for the world and its people, and I came back with more knowledge than I thought possible to comprehend. It is really the greatest way to expand your mind with so many new and different perspectives.
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Only 4% of undergraduates study abroad. Why be a part of the 96% that don't? Studying abroad can open many doors for you. Which ones will you go to?
This survey by the International Education of Students expresses the percentage of improvement in each area over one summer abroad (these figures increase with the amount of time spent abroad). The percentages are listed below:
Personal Development
Increased self-confidence
Increased maturity
Has had a lasting impact on world view
Academic Commitment
Enhanced interest in academic study
Influenced subsequent educational experiences
Reinforced commitment to foreign language study
Intercultural Development
Helped me better understand my own cultural values & biases
Influenced me to seek out a greater diversity of friends
Continues to influence interactions with people from different cultures
Career Development
Acquired skill sets that influenced career path
Ignited an interest in a career direction pursurd after the experience
If studying abroad is really something that you are considering, you should do extensive research on the areas that interest you and search for programs that would benefit your goals. There are several programs that host volunteer programs overseas in a variety of locations. If you need some ideas see my post The 10 Most Beautiful Cities that I've Never Seen or check out YOU Can Go Anywhere in the WORLD to plan your dream vacation.
Posted on May 21, 2012, in International, School/College and tagged career, confidence, Costa Rica, fluent, friends, immersion, independent, maturity, opportunities, skills, study abroad. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
Great blog post Sierra. I totally agree with your points about gaining maturity and skills, as well as immersion being the best way of learning a language. When I spent time learning Spanish abroad with ESL Language Travel – esl.co.uk – I found that the best thing about the whole trip were the local and international friends I made while I was there. Study Abroad is a real life-changing experience.


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For the past 10 years, Steve DeBay, an ordained pastor and head of the jail ministry at Calvary Chapel in Phelan, has been bringing church and hope to inmates.
"One reason I'm there is to remind the inmates that God is in love with them," DeBay said.
Every other Monday, DeBay gives the message of God's word at the Glen Helen Rehabilitation Center, and every Thursday he leads three full 90-minute services at the West Valley Detention Center. He has been a volunteer chaplain for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department for 10 years, and has been leading services at West Valley on a weekly basis for five years.
DeBay said it has been an incredible privilege to see changes in the inmates' lives and to see some of them released to become productive members of society.
"Many of these people get no other visitors and have reached the lowest point in their lives," DeBay said. His joy, he said, is seeing Jesus change lives that others thought were destroyed.
DeBay described a former inmate who has become "like a daughter" to him and to his wife, Charmaine, who also serves as a volunteer chaplain. This former inmate came to the Lord while in jail and addicted to heroine. Now she has been in recovery for five years, shares her testimony with other inmates, and helps care for young children during services.
"I have my down days, but I keep going every time one of these people takes me aside and tells me I bring them hope and they look forward to me telling them about the Lord," DeBay said.
In addition to his work in the jails, DeBay teaches a Bible study in Baldy Mesa and delivers a message every Sunday at the 26th Street Community Bible Church in San Bernardino. Currently, he is not paid for his services, but has been able to continue due in part to his wife's career.
"This is where I will stay until God moves me," DeBay said.


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Talk back to the System – the state of our Education system
By: Bushuyu Frank Mutaremwa
"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein one of the greatest scientists of all time was never fond of the education system of his time. Actually, one of the instructors in that system judged him to be 'too stupid to learn anything.' What? Einstein, stupid, STUPID?
Well the education system of his time was no different from the one we have today. This system has judged some of you to be 'F' (failed) students and other 'O' (ordinary) students. And most of us have unquestionably agreed to these judgments like it was some voice from heaven that told us so. And we wait, every release of examination results with hands on our hearts hoping that the system will, this time, say nice things to us.
Well, you do not have to believe the system. Just because the system did not judge your strengths but rather your weaknesses does not mean, you are weak. Just because the system judged you by your ability to cram and regurgitate the essay of 'Who were the Ngoni' and you pitifully failed at it, does not make you stupid or ordinary!
You are brilliant, smart, extra-ordinary and definitely a genius. Issue is, what are you good at? Where is your strength? Analyze your attributes, look into the things that you do so effortlessly – your gifts and talents! Is it music or organizing people, or inspiring people? Or is it writing story or is it telling the stories? Is it listening to people's problems or is it dancing or sports? Every one of us is a genius in some field! The problem with the system is that it is unable to figure this out and for that I give the system an 'F'. So it is time to speak back to the system. For long you have allowed the system to speak at you. Speak back, tell the system "you are wrong" am no failure, am not ordinary student, I am a genius! God created me beautifuly and wonderfully! That is who I am! Just because you don't have the tools to figure that out does not mean it is not true!
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My son is in love with macarons. Whenever we're out he would request for some. He loves the lemon-flavored ones in particular but he'll eat strawberry or chocolate just the same.
Saturday before Kuya O went back to Japan he met with us and took us to a Konditorei (pastry shop) in the middle of the city, Gerstner. IT was where I first got acquainted with macarons years ago. Shortly after I arrived in the city hubby tour me around and we end up at Gerstner and got my first macaron 😀 it was love at first bite…then, I only got my daughter in tow. 🙂 I seldom got the chance to get back and my attempt to make macarons where perhaps 1 out of 10! 🙁
Gerstner is popular to locals and tourists alike. After shopping, one can get a good cup of coffee, a cupcake or a slice of cake and of course, macarons. At first bite of their macaron, you'll know your having the best…theirs is of course a legend in Vienna…the creation of sweetness dates back as far as 1847 when Anton Gerstner founded his confectionery.
He became the official caterer (of sweets) to many of the Hapsburgs and other known figure in history, delivering his "creations" so to speak to the the Imperial Palace, The Belvedere and the Schönbrunn Palace among others. Most notable would be their 53rd time in 2009 as caterer for the Viennese State Opera's yearly Opernball (Opera Ball). A real darling of the elite.
Thank God that even though I'm not one of the elites I was able to taste their macarons and Apfelstrudel. The place could be a bit crowded on Saturdays but you'll enjoy it just the same.
If you happen to come by the city, let me know and I'll treat you to a cup of cappucino. 😉
Happy Anniversary fellow foodies!
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Artstroll kicks off Friday evening
June 8, 2017
The Stroll into Summer ArtStroll kicks off Friday evening with a gallery opening in their new location, artists, demonstrations, live music, and receptions.
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Here finally comes the certainty for the BMW huge fans after 15 years waiting for the new arrival of X7 model. Delivered among the 2018 auto lineup, the next SUV will be built up under the bigger measurement than the three-line of X5 model. In addition, some rumors rendered that we might also notice the new X7 will look completely distinctive as it might use the same framework of a Rolls-Royce SUV. In spite of no obvious details has been confirmed, the upcoming of 2018 BMW X7 SUV could still attract the public attentions.
If you have been familiar with the former X5 and X6 auto versions, there will be clear hints that the 2018 BMW X7 SUV might possess some similar styling cues to them. Constructed under the same platform of the 7-Series, the overall car bodywork looks completely tough with the strong steel and the lightweight aluminum basis. Having this sort of building, the new vehicle should not only have the same mass of the BMW X5 but also much improved performance.
Moreover, seen from likeliness of the 7-Series, the installments on the infotainment and assistance systems will remain unchanged. It is quite hard to see the revamps on the internal side since the automaker keeps it covert, however, the selection of the carbon fiber materials on the cabin decoration are all possible.
Under the bonnet of 2018 BMW X7 SUV, some drivetrain units are included within the radar. The X7 lineup for the US market might receive the engine unit of the turbocharged inline-six V8 gasoline version. The remaining two could be embodied within the straight-six diesel and plug-in hybrid options. Apart from any possible changes on the next SUV, all these engines may be best paired with an eight-speed automatic gearbox. The X7 will be available as the all-wheel drive system as well. The detailed information on the acceleration and fuel economy is still restricted, while future changes are much expected later.
2018 BMW X7 SUV Release Date and Price
Based on the ongoing speculations, the coming of X7 SUV in the market competition is anticipated during the 2017 or at the early of 2018. Similarly, the exact value for the SUV is not yet determined. The beginning price of the base 2018 BMW X7 SUV starts around $60,000, while higher at approximately $100,000 for the top trim level. The main competitors are auto lineups from Cadillac Escalade, Audi Q7, Infiniti QX80, Mercedes-Benz GL and Lincoln Navigator.


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|Chad Feb 2007
When one of Clint's friends Jade, heard that he didn't even have a cake for his birthday, she bought one and brought it later after we got back from the botanical gardens. It was really sweet of her. Some how that birthday was the easiest and all of them have been hard since. I think that is why Chad being 10 has just stuck in my mind. I was too numb to know what life would be like without Clint, I think we all were, especially Chad. Every year his birthday is a disaster. He is moody, angry and I think very guilty and he wants to be happy and celebrate, but the pain of not having Clint around is just too much for him. I am hoping this year will be better.
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Beaches Fine Arts Series hosts Organist Adam Brakel in a free concert on January 21 at 4:00 pm at St. John's Cathedral, 256 E. Church Street, Jacksonville. Doors open at 3:15 pm and a reception follows, hosted by the St. John's Cathedral Choir and AGO Jacksonville chapter. The concert is also sponsored by the American Guild of Organists, Jacksonville chapter. Mr. Brakel's program includes works by Sweelinck, Buxtehude, and Bach, with an Americana suite of well known tunes. As part of our Educational Outreach programs, Mr. Brakel will also present "Introduction to the King of Instruments" for over 150 elementary school children on January 22. This event is open to schools in the communities we serve, and we provide bus funds for transportation. Please call our office for more information.


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Iraqi Judge: Saddam to be Executed by SaturdayFri Dec 29, 2006 18:24
Iraqi Judge: Saddam to be Executed by Saturday
Posted by Educo on Friday December 29, 2006 at 10:17 am MST
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Saddam Hussein has been transferred from U.S. custody, his lawyers said, and an Iraqi judge authorized to attend the former dictator's hanging said he would be executed no later than Saturday.
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President Bush Remembers Halabja
Saturday, 15 March 2003
President's Radio Address (Remembering Halabja)
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This weekend marks a bitter anniversary for the people of Iraq. Fifteen years ago, Saddam Hussein's regime ordered a chemical weapons attack on a village in Iraq called Halabja. With that single order, the regime killed thousands of Iraq's Kurdish citizens. Whole families died while trying to flee clouds of nerve and mustard agents descending from the sky. Many who managed to survive still suffer from cancer, blindness, respiratory diseases, miscarriages, and severe birth defects among their children.
The chemical attack on Halabja -- just one of 40 targeted at Iraq's own people -- provided a glimpse of the crimes Saddam Hussein is willing to commit, and the kind of threat he now presents to the entire world. He is among history's cruelest dictators, and he is arming himself with the world's most terrible weapons.
Recognizing this threat, the United Nations Security Council demanded that Saddam Hussein give up all his weapons of mass destruction as a condition for ending the Gulf War 12 years ago. The Security Council has repeated this demand numerous times and warned that Iraq faces serious consequences if it fails to comply. Iraq has responded with defiance, delay and deception.
The United States, Great Britain and Spain continue to work with fellow members of the U.N. Security Council to confront this common danger. We have seen far too many instances in the past decade -- from Bosnia, to Rwanda, to Kosovo -- where the failure of the Security Council to act decisively has led to tragedy. And we must recognize that some threats are so grave -- and their potential consequences so terrible -- that they must be removed, even if it requires military force.
As diplomatic efforts continue, we must never lose sight of the basic facts about the regime of Baghdad.
We know from recent history that Saddam Hussein is a reckless dictator who has twice invaded his neighbors without provocation -- wars that led to death and suffering on a massive scale. We know from human rights groups that dissidents in Iraq are tortured, imprisoned and sometimes just disappear; their hands, feet and tongues are cut off; their eyes are gouged out; and female relatives are raped in their presence.
As the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, said this week, "We have a moral obligation to intervene where evil is in control. Today, that place is Iraq."
We know from prior weapons inspections that Saddam has failed to account for vast quantities of biological and chemical agents, including mustard agent, botulinum toxin and sarin, capable of killing millions of people. We know the Iraqi regime finances and sponsors terror. And we know the regime has plans to place innocent people around military installations to act as human shields.
There is little reason to hope that Saddam Hussein will disarm. If force is required to disarm him, the American people can know that our armed forces have been given every tool and every resource to achieve victory. The people of Iraq can know that every effort will be made to spare innocent life, and to help Iraq recover from three decades of totalitarian rule. And plans are in place to provide Iraqis with massive amounts of food, as well as medicine and other essential supplies, in the event of hostilities.
Crucial days lie ahead for the free nations of the world. Governments are now showing whether their stated commitments to liberty and security are words alone -- or convictions they're prepared to act upon. And for the government of the United States and the coalition we lead, there is no doubt: we will confront a growing danger, to protect ourselves, to remove a patron and protector of terror, and to keep the peace of the world.
Thank you for listening.
Bloody Friday
Chemical massacre of the Kurds by the Iraqi regime
Halabja-March 1988
... at the University of Liverpool, went into Halabja in January with the British documentary
filmmaker Gwynne Roberts. His television films from Halabja in 1988 ...
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World ignores town gassed by Iraq in '88
by Ray Moseley
Chicago Tribune
LONDON - Christine Gosden, a gentle, grandmotherly English geneticist, went where no member of her profession has gone before, into a town of lingering death and human suffering that is unique in the world.
The town is Halabja in northern Iraq, which 10 years ago was subjected to the most devastating chemical-weapons attack against a civilian population in history.
At least 5,000 of the town's 45,000 Kurdish population died immediately as Iraqi forces shelled them with a cocktail of chemicals - mustard gas and the nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX. What has happened to the survivors since then is much worse, says Gosden, than she could have imagined.
Western military manuals say chemical weapons disperse after a few days, and are generally silent on the question of long-term effects. But in Halabja, 10 years later, people are still dying, of cancers and respiratory ailments that Gosden says are directly attributable to chemical weapons.
Many are covered with horrible skin eruptions. People have gone blind and suffered severe neurological damage. Couples have become infertile, or produced children with mental retardation, heart defects, hare lip, cleft palate and other major malformations. Miscarriages are alarmingly frequent.
Crops have been blighted to this day. Domestic animals are producing few progeny, and many that are born are malformed. Snakes and locusts have mutated, becoming larger and more aggressive.
And Halabja, forgotten by the world, has sunk into a collective state of depression. Some people have gone insane, and suicides are increasingly common.
"Nobody is doing anything, and people are getting very angry," said Gosden. "It is a living hell. My sleep is disturbed by memories of the people of Halabja, and I can weep just talking about it."
Gosden, a professor of medical genetics at the University of Liverpool, went into Halabja in January with the British documentary filmmaker Gwynne Roberts. His television films from Halabja in 1988 and again this year have brought the plight of the town to a worldwide audience.
In Roberts' latest film, she says what is happening in Halabja is "a genetic time bomb." She said poison gas attacks DNA, the building block of cells, and has effects similar to nuclear radiation.
Together she and Roberts are trying to mobilize world governments and aid agencies to end what they see as the scandalous 10-year neglect of Halabja. Gosden met with officials of the British Foreign Office this week and will visit the State Department within two weeks.
She and Roberts also have gained the support of the International Rescue Committee in New York, which has created a Halabja Fund to raise money for a concerted effort to re-equip the town's main hospital. The hospital has but three doctors and no chemotherapy or radiotherapy equipment with which to treat cancers, no laboratory and no rehabilitation unit.
Roberts is convinced Western governments are content to have Halabja remain a forgotten town because of what he says is the complicity of Western chemical companies that supplied President Saddam Hussein's government with the chemicals that went into his deadly weapons.
`Complicity' of chemical makers
"War crimes were being committed in Halabja, and these companies are complicit in a way," he said.
United Nations officials have refused to release names of companies that supplied chemicals to Iraq, on grounds this would end the cooperation they get from the companies in tracking down Saddam's hidden supplies.
"It's not a good argument," said Roberts. "They have not received additional information, and Western governments are lax in pursuing the companies because it affects the national interest. Naming the companies is the only way to stop this happening again."
The attack on Halabja, which is a few miles from the Iranian border in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, occurred on March 16, 1988, near the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war when Saddam enjoyed a measure of Western support.
One Kurdish faction that was in revolt against the Baghdad government brought some Iranian Revolutionary Guards into the town on March 15, and the following day the Iraqis, having been driven out, began shelling Halabja.
The Guards and the Kurdish faction headed by Jalal Talabani stopped people attempting to flee the town. Around 6 p.m., the Iraqis switched from conventional artillery to shells with chemical warheads. Many fell dead within minutes. Others have suffered a slow, agonizing death since.
Yet in 10 years no international agency has gone into Halabja to survey the short- and long-term effects of a chemical-weapons attack on a large population. No one, according to Gosden and Roberts, knows whether the soil and water supply are still contaminated, whether the meager crops still being grown are safe to eat or how long-lasting the environmental and human damage will be.
"It is astonishing this town has not been researched properly before," Roberts said. "The findings in Halabja could help protect American and British troops in future. The British Ministry of Defense and the Pentagon have a responsibility to look into it."
Kurdish factions fight
Aid agencies have been reluctant to go in because fighting between rival Kurdish factions in recent years has resulted in the deaths of some aid workers and journalists.
Halabja now is controlled by the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan, which has close ties with Iran and allows Iranian intelligence officers to operate there. The town is just south of the so-called safe zone in northern Iraq created by the United Nations in 1991.
Iraqi government spies make life difficult for anyone trying to investigate conditions there, she said. Local people told her and Roberts the Iraqi government had put a price on their heads, and warned them to leave for their own safety.
Roberts attempted to take a group of scientists to Halabja, but all backed out except Gosden. She is the first scientist who has been able to view Halabja with an expert eye.
She said mustard gas, which affects the skin, eyes and membranes of the nose, throat and lungs, has long-term mutagenic and carcinogenic effects. It was used against soldiers in World War I, and she said 10 percent of them developed lung cancer.
The nerve agents used in Halabja, she said, cause convulsions, paralysis, loss of muscle control and death, and also appear to have serious long-term effects.
"Some people in Halabja were absolutely soaked in it. If you don't wash it off within two minutes, the effects are irreversible. There is no antidote," she said.
Roberts said some workers trying to remove the rubble of destroyed buildings recently got burns on their skin that appeared to be mustard-gas burns, and some developed a reddening around the eyes that is characteristic of attacks with the gas.
Gosden said people are dying more slowly in Halabja now, but predicted the death rate will increase as more develop cancers. The cancers caused by mustard gas, she said, are unusually aggressive and kill quickly.
The death rate in Halabja, she said, is three or four times greater than in the neighboring town of Sulimaniyah, which suffered no chemical-weapons attack.
Gosden said the symptoms she has seen in Halabja are exactly the same in some cases as those reported by Gulf War veterans who claim to be victims of the so-called Gulf War syndrome, as yet undiagnosed.
She said the main hospital in Halabja has to turn away people with psychiatric disturbances and neurological damage. "These are kind, sympathetic, wonderful people, but there is nothing they can do," she said. "There are no drugs, no chemotherapy, no psychiatrist, no antidepressants. There is no pediatric surgeon to repair the hare lips and cleft palates in children, and other children cruelly tease those who do not look normal.
"Many people are shooting themselves. Women do not often shoot themselves, but they do in Halabja because they are desperate."
She described fields around the town in which vegetation has withered, pomegranate and nut trees have shriveled and wheat fields that once produced 20 bags of wheat now yield 2 or 3.
The chemical weapons, she said, killed all birds and their eggs. But locusts and snakes mutated and became larger, and the snakes multiplied because the birds that were their natural predators had disappeared.
"There used to be one person dying of snake bite per month, and now it is 20 every few months," Gosden said. "The snakes may even be more venomous."
She said it is imperative that major aid agencies get together and develop a comprehensive program to help Halabja, "or people will continue to die before our eyes."
"As much as I pray that this is the last time chemical weapons are used against a civilian population, I'm afraid it won't be," she said. Gosden described her own experience in Halabja as "terrifying."
"But I had a wonderful TV crew with me, and they were so concerned for my safety," she said. "Very sweetly, they didn't want me to die. We were all fearful of each other's lives."
After local people warned them they were in danger, she said, their Islamic escorts provided them with guards armed with machine guns.
"Politicians say it is difficult and dangerous to do anything there, but we got in and got out," she said. "Something must be done to help. There is not an alternative in my mind."
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PAT Testing
Is Electrical Testing Different From PAT Testing?
If you mean fixed wiring testing, it is very different to a PAT testing contractor. Fixed wiring testing comes under the 17th edition fixed wiring regulations and involves testing the fixed wiring installation in a building using an Earth Loop Tester, an RCD Trip Tester and an Insulation Tester, none of which can be used to test portable appliances.
However, AA London Electricians use a 'PAT Adaptor' which will allow an insulation tester to perform a PAT Testing (Portable Appliance Testing) in London for domestic as well as Commercial PAT Testing company for offices Central London but it is limited to the earth continuity and insulation test only and it will not give a pass/fail indication; you have to check the actual reading for a pass. Similarly, a Portable Appliance Tester can't be used to test fixed wiring.
PAT Testing Service Cost (£65+VAT up to 30 items) or £2 per item
Portable appliance testing (PAT) is the term used to describe the examination of electrical appliances and equipment to ensure they are safe to use. Most electrical safety defects can be found by visual examination but some types of defect can only be found by testing. However, it is essential to understand that visual examination is an essential part of the process because some types of electrical safety defect can't be detected by testing alone.
A relatively brief user check (based upon simple training and perhaps assisted by the use of a brief checklist) can be a very useful part of any electrical maintenance regime. However, more formal visual inspection and testing by a competent person may also be required at appropriate intervals, depending upon the type of equipment and the environment in which it is used.
The frequency of inspection and testing depends upon the type of equipment and the environment it is used in. For example, a power tool used on a construction site should be examined more frequently than a lamp in a hotel bedroom. For guidance on suggested frequencies of inspection and testing, see: Maintaining portable and transportable electrical equipment.
New equipment should be supplied in a safe condition and not require a formal portable appliance inspection or test. However, a simple visual check is recommended to verify the item is not damaged.
It is strongly recommended that equipment suppliers formally inspect and test the equipment before each hire, in order to ensure it is safe to use. The person hiring the equipment should also take appropriate steps to ensure it remains safe to use throughout the hire period.
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Physician Dispensing Oral Drugs Networks Win, for Now, but Don't Drop Your Guard
Oncology practices that dispense oral medications to their patients are celebrating a recent decision by CVS Caremark (CVS Health) to continue to allow physician dispensers into their Medicare Part D networks. This was a momentous decision by CVS Health, but it will not be the end of challenges to physicians dispensing oral drugs. Practices that understand and proactively address these challenges will have an advantage over practices that do not actively engage in these issues in the coming months.
What Happened?
Medicare Part D payments are managed by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), which create access to patients through defined networks of pharmacies and dispensing healthcare providers. Currently, only 5 PBMs, including CVS Health, control network access for more than 80% of the covered lives in the United States.1 Decisions by any of those 5 PBMs to restrict the classes of in-network providers will affect patient access to treatments and the ability of dispensing physicians to directly provide coordinated care to their patients who need oral medications.
In the summer of 2016, CVS Health started notifying physicians who dispensed drugs covered by Medicare Part D to patients in their Medicare Advantage network that, effective January 1, 2017, it will terminate dispensing physicians from its Medicare Part D networks, because of a new interpretation of Medicare Part D regulations that had been written 13 years ago.2
This sent shock waves through the oncology community, because the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires that Medicare Part D sponsors comply with Medicare's "Any Willing Provider" requirements. A Medicare Part D sponsor who refuses to contract with dispensing physicians who are willing to comply with Part D sponsor contractual terms and conditions is violating those federal statutes.2
However, CVS Health has since reconsidered its decision, and, in mid-October, began notifying dispensing physicians that they would be able to continue dispensing oral drugs.
At the end of October, Christine Cramer, Senior Director of Corporate Communications at CVS Health, sent an e-mail to the Community Oncology Alliance, saying, "As you know, through CVS Health's ongoing regulatory review process, and following an inquiry we had made to CMS earlier this year, we had initially determined that CMS considers physician dispensing facilities that do not have a pharmacy license to be 'out-of-network' providers."
Ms Cramer added, "While we received confirmation from CMS on our interpretation of the rule related to the role of physician dispensers, based on ongoing dialogue with Oncologists as well as CMS, we will not be making this network change. As a result, Oncologists who dispense medications will remain in our Medicare Part D networks pending future dialogue with CMS. We are in the process of communicating this information to affected dispensers and beneficiaries."
Why Dispensing Physicians Cannot Relax
PBMs and specialty pharmacies show a good deal of interest in oncology drug dispensing, and they seek greater shares of that market. Backing down on its decision does not mean that a PBM such as CVS Health could not use its attempts to block physician dispensers as a marketing tool for its own customers; a clear example of a PBM's aggressive efforts to manage oncology care.
More PBMs are marketing their services as managers of drug choices under the medical benefit and the pharmacy benefit, which means that PBMs are selling themselves as arbiters of appropriate medical choices for treatment that was rendered in the physician office, and for oral drugs. It is logical to assume that there are going to be continued forays into PBMs' overseeing of oncology management, similar to the attempts by CVS Health.
What Dispensing Physicians Can Do Now
Physicians dispensing oral drugs have a significant advantage over PBMs in efficiently addressing patient care, monitoring, and adherence issues. However, physician practices do not typically generate reports and monitoring about their advantages, let alone provide reporting of their activities to payers as a routine practice.
Conversely, specialty pharmacies typically collect and report on several patient outcomes, including:
- Time to prescription fill
- Medication discontinuation rates and/or reasons
- Side effects incidence
- Adjunctive therapy needs
- Laboratory results
- Medication switch rates and/or reasons
- Pain scores
- Quality-of-life data
- Remission rates
- Response rates
- Tumor progression rates.
Clinical practices have the closest relationship with patients, and the most complete knowledge of their health and disease status.
Oncology practices that leverage that relationship and monitor and report on the details of oral and in-office care will best be able to provide proof of the value and benefit of such a close relationship to payers. Leveraging their relationships with patients will also allow physician practices to address the inevitable future new challenges from PBMs that may affect the relationships between the patient and the physician.
- Hiltzik M. Soaring prescription prices cause a nasty divorce in the healthcare market. March 22, 2016. Los Angeles Times. www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-anthem-express-20160322-snap-htmlstory.html. Accessed November 14, 2016.
- Frier Levitt. Pharmacy benefit managers' attack on physician dispensing and impact on patient care: case study of CVS Caremark's efforts to restrict access to cancer care. White paper. August 2016. www.communityoncology.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/PBMs_Physician_Dispensing-WhitePaper_COA_FL.pdf. Accessed November 14, 2016.


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I'm not sure which was more foolish - deciding to move the summer before we enter the home stretch of the last year before ICD-10 implementation or deciding to plan a wedding that will occur just a couple of weeks before ICD-10 implementation. Just for good measure, I decided to do both. The comforting thing is, ICD-10 is still there waiting for me even after the dust has settled from all of those cardboard boxes and I never did lose sight of my ICD-10 codebooks during the move - er moves. In fact, my training calendar is booking up fast between now and September of next year!
I was pretty excited to find that there was indeed an ICD-10 code to describe how I spent my summer:
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Signals: A Video Showcase
Signals: A Video Showcase is a series of three thematic exhibitions designed to highlight the Orange County Museum of Art's collection of video art. Featuring selections from the permanent collection along with additional works by emerging and established artists, each exhibition will last approximately six weeks, giving viewers the opportunity to see up to 14 individual works of video art over the course of the exhibition.
May 3–June 13: Mash Up looks at the current cultural obsession with conflating diverse elements of popular and avant-garde media to create new art that is ironic, humorous, and frequently uncanny. Works such as Joel Morrison's Birds/Lewitt (2005), Goody-B. Wiseman's Superlovestarpower 2, 3 and 4 (2006), Ciprian Muresan's Un Chien Andalou (2004), and Jimmy Joe Roche's Ultimate Reality (2007) draw from music, cinema, and the visual arts.
June 14–July 25: Word Play features artists engaged with the written and/or spoken word as an essential component of their visual language. John Baldessari's I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art (1971), William Kentridge's Automatic Writing (2003), Yucef Mehri's Atari Poetry IV (2004), Julien Bismuth and Lucas Ajemian's Les Tristes (2007), and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Passages Paysages (1978) present a spectrum of unique relationships to words and language.
July 26–September 14: In California Scenarios, five artists offer thoughtful, poetic meditations on significant sites in California—San Jose's Winchester Mystery House; the animated desert landscapes of Warner Brothers cartoons, produced in their Burbank studios; the rapidly growing Inland Empire; the commuter lanes of Los Angeles; and the entropic wasteland of the Salton Sea. Jeremy Blake's Winchester Redux (2004), Mungo Thomson's The American Desert (for Chuck Jones) (2002), Enid Baxter Blader's Local 909er (2007), Bia Gayotto's Xing LA: From Altadena to Long Beach (2008), and Nicole Antebi's Tilapia Jetty (2007) are featured.
In addition to the video programming, specially selected audio works will also be playing on the Lounge's two listening stations.
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Goody-B. Wiseman, Superlovestarpower (2, 3, and 4), 2006, Video installation with three monitors, Collection of Orange County Museum of Art, Museum purchase through the Naomi Vine Biennial Acquisition Fund
Joel Morrison, Birds/Lewitt, 2005, Single-channel video, Collection of Orange County Museum of Art; Anonymous gift
Jeremy Blake, Winchester Redux, 2004, Single-channel video, Collection of Orange County Museum of Art, Museum purchase with funds provided through prior gift of Lois Outerbridge
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You know, there's one thing we really want you to know about Maui Dreams Dive Co. and that's that we LOVE TO DIVE! Yep, diving is not "just a job" to us and we take real pleasure in getting to share Maui's underwater treasures with you, so let's go diving!
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Scary. I just spent almost $800 with one click. Still, it's something I've been needing for a while (since my D50 is competely busted now) and Carnival is coming up in a little over a month and Greg and Zeke and my aunt are visiting next month. Still, I feel weird spending so much money.
Life lately has been full of tagging photos. In 4 days (Friday after work, Saturday sometimes, Sunday sometimes, today after work), I have managed to tag May, April, March, February, and January 2004 and December 2003 photos. This means I now have a total of 183748 tagged photos with only October and November 2003 remaining between me and 100% tag completion.
(I have also completed the task of writing all the tags to the photo files, so I can easily migrate to Picasa at some point if that becomes necessary.)
I have also been following my goal of taking more different pictures. Life has been updated pretty consistently with both life and daily photos. As soon as I finish 100% tag completion, I will work backward in life so that there's photos all the way back to 2000. Fun.
That means, of the goals I set for myself this year, two are now significantly underway. That's not bad for end of February. Unfortunately, as they were sort of in priority order, I need to catch up on Scala learning, but meh. :)
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Rajamahender Rapelly in Mumbai completes project management research internship program in just two months
20 March 2018 – Dallas, TX, USA and Mumbai, India – PM World has announced that Rajamahender Rapelly, a graduate student at the Mumbai International School of Business (MISB) Bocconi, has completed the PM World Library's project management research internship. Rajamahender completed the 16-week program in just 10 weeks.
Rajamahender is currently pursuing his post graduate degree in Business at MISB Bocconi, Mumbai, India. Rajamahender holds a Bachelor's of Technology degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering and has 2.6 years of work experience in the field of Railway Signalling. During his professional experience, Rajamahender has coordinated with different clients assisting in the design, installation, integration and maintenance of Indian Railway projects.
His major fields of study are Operations and Business Administration. His research interests include project management, projects execution and control, PM in global and multinational contexts, PM in the railway industry, supply chain and International logistics, and operations management.
According to PM World Library Director David Pells, "Rajamahender was an outstanding intern for us. Based on his prior work experience, he focused his research on project management in rail transport industries. This was another new topic for the PMWL; if you visit that section of the library you will find many new resources that he found."
According to Rajamahender, "Thank you very much for providing this wonderful opportunity. This internship was very interesting and very useful. It helped me to learn about various projects and project management practices in the Railway Industry and in other industries as well. During my research I was able to clearly relate my past experience with the topics I was researching and it helped me to understand more clearly how things will be in real time projects. This experience will surely help me in my professional career."
Pells added, "Rajamahender would frequently deliver multiple research results at a time, and ended up contributing more than the internship commitment required. He was motivated and active, and we really appreciated his unique contributions."
PM World offers virtual project management research internships to university students worldwide who are studying at recognized universities. Internships offer students an opportunity to research specific program/project management topics, network with other interns, gain visibility, enhance their CVs and contribute to PM World's mission to advance knowledge sharing and continuous learning. Interns also receive five years of free PMWL membership. To see participating university interns, go to http://pmworldlibrary.net/university-interns/
See Rajamahender Rapelly's research results at https://pmworldlibrary.net/rajamahender-rapelly/
The PM World Library (PMWL) is a global resource for continuous learning in programme and project management. The PMWL is administered by PM World, which also produces the monthly PM World Journal (PMWJ), a global resource for sharing knowledge related to portfolio, program and project management (P/PM). To see the latest edition of the PMWJ, go to www.pmworldjournal.net. To learn more, visit www.pmworldlibrary.net.


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Emotional Paul Gascoigne tells of nightmare year after death of his nephew – but says he is still fighting to stay sober and trying to be happy
Football legend Gazza, 49, told Good Morning Britain of his struggle to help his nephew
AN EMOTIONAL Paul Gascoigne has spoken of the worst year of his life following his nephew's death from an overdose - but insisted he is fighting to stay sober and trying to find happiness.
Football legend Gazza, 49, told Good Morning Britain about his family's struggle to get his nephew, Jay Kerrigan, the help he needed.
He said: "To get sectioned you have to either want to kill someone or you want to kill yourself and he wasn't in a good way and I got him into treatment and that and he still wasn't good and my sister tried to get him sectioned and they wouldn't section him because he wasn't any danger."
Gazza was visibly emotional as he explained the 12 months following Jay's death, at the age of 22, were his "worst year ever".
He said: "I haven't had the best of years and I was doing really well until Jay.
"I've just had a terrible year. I've had these odd blips and that and I don't really want them. Then I had these venues and the drink got the better of me and I've missed the venues."
The former Tottenham player and England star called for more to be done to provide mental health support saying for men it can be a "macho thing" not to ask for help.
He added: "A lot of people have everything, but they don't share as much."
Gazza revealed he was sectioned 16-years-ago, which he explained as the "best thing" that could have happened.
Speaking of his own experiences he said that on a bad day he will "do the wrong thing, turn my phone off and lock myself indoors".
But, he added: "I'm down, but I'm not out. I make the most of a good day "
Appearing with his hand bandaged, an injury sustained while squaring up to thieves, he said he went cold turkey after his last relapse and his focus is now on being happy as fans flocked to social media to offer their support.
He added: "It's alright being sober, I want to be happy and sober. It's getting the happiness."
Speaking of his long-term struggle with alcoholism he said there was no clear trigger explaining: "Sometimes I'm in a good mood and that and all of a sudden I wake up and I've got a bottle of gin next to us".
Looking forward he said he was focused on "staying well" adding that he didn't want to let his fans down.
Gazza's candid revelations had GMB viewers in tears flocking to Twitter to praise him for sharing his heartbreaking story.
One tweeted: "@gazza8gascoigne looking good on tv today keep battling pal one day at a time #genius #NationalTreasure #gazza."
Another added: "Heartbreaking interview with Gazza He's a legend & loved by the nation @piersmorgan has been on top form #GMB."
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