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Diabetic Neuropathy
Since August 2011 I've been recieving infusion treatments of Carimune. Soon I will begin infusion treatments with Octagam. I haven't had treatment in three months and my symptoms are increasingly painful & spreading. I often times awake from a deep sleep with pain in my leg(s).
I've seen that there are anti-depressant medications availble to help with the pain but I'm afraid to try any of them. At times I feel depressed & overwhelmed with my condition and I'm scared of being in a wheelchair. I know that regulating my sugar is key to having relief however; Is there any testimony of the anti-depressant that can be given? I'm searching for long term relief and don't want to just treat the symptoms, I need to get to the root of the problem, which is what the infusions are for. My fear is that the infusions will be for the rest of my life. So be it, if it keeps the wheelchair out of my future but I'm curious to know what others have done.
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Welcome to the family!
I can only imagine (somewhat) what you are experiencing.
After my foot surgery (bone fusion) my left leg was immobilized for 12 weeks and my nerves were driving me crazy!
The hyperactivity was much more than I could take, and my thoughts were that if this is bothering me now (due to surgery and elevated blood glucose) how would I feel if neuropathy really set in!
Then just the thought of dying nerves, or dead nerves caused me to look further into the effects of neuropathy on the entire body, and it is very, very scary!
So I share this concern about neuropathy with you dearly.
By the way, Lidocaine patches work very, very well.
(Have you ever received electrical nerve stimulation therapy (?) Painful, but it also works)
These links may interest you:
There are many methods of dealing with neuropathy, discuss this with a specialist to find out which method will serve you best, as I stated earlier, I can only imagine (somewhat) what you are experiencing.
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Hi list, I have spent last 15 working hours trying to figure out the cause of a strange bug. Home page on one of our web sites sometimes gets generated with no content - as a blank page, the response buffer having size 0. We use caching filter (modified CachingFilter from Ehcache 1.3.0) which uses a response wrapper to capture responses to make caching possible. The response wrapper internaly uses standard classes ByteArrayOutputStream and PrintWriter from the Java API. The page cache time-to-live is set to 1 day. When the page is generated first time by jsps and tiles it is put into cache, and served for next 24 hours from the cache. After 24 hours it gets generated again. The manifestation of the bug is that randomly, the homepage gets generated as a blank page, about once in every 3 cache refreshes. When it occurs, the ByteArrayOutputStream has size 0, after the generation of the page has completed. Generating the homepage involves pulling some data from the database, which changes rarely, about once every week. I put cache time to live 300 seconds to eliminate the posibility that corrupt data from database causes errors in page generation. With 300 second time to live the problem was still there. The data in database does not change between good and faulty page generations. Home page is relatively simple - it does not involve pulling data from other data sources. It just reads some data the database and uses that data to make some html, using jsp. After turning on logging on database calls, all filters, and using a PrintWriter decorator inside our response wraper that echoes all print statements to the log, I found out something strange - A correct page generation logs some database calls (by the database logger), then a chunk of html (by the logging PrintWriter decorator, as a result of flushing JspWriter after enough out.write calls have been made), then some more database calls, then some more html.. and the page gets generated. ** A faulty generation (the one that produces a blank page) logs exactly same database calls as a correct page generation, but the log entries produced by the echoing PrintWriter are missing! **, like as jsps are executing normally, but something is wrong with the JspWriter out object. I am suspecting that somehow JspWriter writes somewhere else, not where it should. It should write into response wrapper's buffer, though the echoing/logging PrintWriter. But there is no PrintWriter echo and no bytes in response wrapper buffer... more exactly, *sometimes* there is no PrintWriter echo and no bytes in response wrapper buffer. I have read all the code that makes up the life cycle of PageContext and JspWriter on the docjar site (not sure for what version of Tomcat), and couldn't find anything that would help me solve this. http://www.docjar.com/html/api/org/apache/jasper/runtime/JspWriterImpl.java.html http://www.docjar.com/html/api/org/apache/jasper/runtime/PageContextImpl.java.html http://www.docjar.com/html/api/org/apache/jasper/runtime/JspFactoryImpl.java.html After adding some more logging statements I found out that 1 instance of JspWritter and 1 instance of PageContext are used shared across all page generations (site has low traffic and rarely 2 requests in same time). Same JspWritter and PageContext instances sometimes participate in good page and faulty page generations. I was hoping that someone on this list might know something that could help me find out why is this happening. Please help. -- Why? Because YES! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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Draftnik wrote:The Pens have moved from their own goal line in December to 1st and goal in less than 4 months and fans are still b*tching. People need to step back and appreciate how this process has moved infinitely further ahead in the last 4 months than it did in the previous 5 years.
Drafnik, not to diminish the very valid points that you're making, but to use your own analogy, you don't get points for getting into the 'Red Zone'. You get points for getting the ball into the 'end zone'.
Let's hope this process doesn't fumble on the one yard line.
Hartford is the latest city to make a pitch for the Pens.
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Connecticut's Hidden Animals?
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I was driving down Farmington Avenue, a very busy thoroughfare in West Hartford, Connecticut, at a little before seven in the morning (far too early to be up and about) when I spotted an animal crossing the road from my right at a distance of about 200 feet. It seemed to be about as big as a medium-sized dog, but it clearly wasn't a canine. It was tawny in color, its back was curved, and it loped across the avenue in a strange hopping motion, as if its rear legs were substantially longer than its forelegs. My initial, nearly instant identification of the animal moving so peculiarly across the road made no sense at all in the upscale Connecticut suburb through which I was driving: it was a capybara. That was crazy. Capybaras are extremely large rodents, in fact, the largest on our planet, and they are native to South America, not Connecticut. I have never encountered a capybara in the wild, but I have seen them in zoos, and the animal I briefly glimpsed crossing Farmington Avenue in April 2013 appeared, at least initially, from a great distance and under poor lighting conditions, to be one, at least a small one.
The rational part of my mind recognized almost immediately thereafter that the identification I had come up with was nonsensical. But was it? After all, there is a museum in West Hartford with a small menagerie of wild animals. I know they have a bobcat, lynx, hedgehog, and a number of other critters on display there. Maybe they have a capybara, and it had escaped. Could be. Another possibility was an exotic pet. Yup; do an Internet search for "capybara pet," and you'll find numerous webpages in which people extol the virtues of sharing their homes and lives with what amounts to gigantic, über-rats that may weigh in at more than 100 pounds. Maybe, the thought flashed through my mind, a local resident kept a capybara as a companion animal and the poor thing had gotten loose.
Determined to figure out what the animal actually was, I watched as it reached the other side of the road where it initially disappeared into a culvert diverting a stream into a grassy dell. Just past where the animal had entered the little stream valley was a driveway leading to the parking lot of the local Whole Foods, and I turned into it, hopeful but not particularly optimistic that I would see the animal again for a better look and the opportunity to assess my original, seemingly impossible diagnosis of—what? A wayfaring giant South American rodent that had managed to migrate thousands of miles, across numerous national borders, only to end up in Connecticut, a furry alien on its way to shop at the nearby Whole Foods for some free-trade, organic capybara kibble? It seemed ridiculous in the extreme, but at least based on my initial observation, that's exactly what I thought I had seen.
Looking to my left as I drove into the Whole Foods parking lot, amazingly, I saw the creature again, was able to view it at a much closer distance, and recognized it for exactly what it was. No, it was not a capybara, nor was it one of its much smaller relatives, the agouti, another South American native. Embarrassingly, it was a representative of a species I was very familiar with for all the grief its kind has given me by breaking into my trash cans. The animal I had initially identified as a giant South American rodent was, in actuality, nothing more than a large raccoon that was moving in a peculiar way because it was missing its right rear leg.
The tale of a resilient raccoon who had managed to survive a traumatic injury to one of its legs and its ability to adapt to its condition so well is remarkable enough. But that's not the purpose of my sharing this experience with you. My story is a cautionary tale you might consider when you read or hear all of those eyewitness accounts of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the chupacabra, and on and on.
The etiology of my misidentification seems clear enough. Barely awake, I spot an animal that, based on its appearance and movement, doesn't immediately match anything I'd expect to see crossing in front of me on Farmington Avenue. In a virtual instant, my brain leapt into action, searching my neural database for a word, an identification, a diagnosis for the strange and unexpected critter I had just seen. The closest match I could come up with based on what I had briefly observed without preparation was an animal that has no business being in West Hartford. But it's the best I could do in that instant when my mind was demanding an explanation and attempting to find one based on incomplete and not terribly reliable data.
My initial identification is a reflection of how our brains work. We encounter something out of the ordinary—maybe it's a strange light in the sky, an unexpected noise in an old house, or an oddly moving animal—and our minds demand an explanation. Even under poor conditions for observation—lighting is weak, the distance is great, we're tired, we're not wearing our glasses—we make instant deductions and leap to conclusions, regardless of the sensibility of those deductions and conclusions.
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What also amazes me is the lack of light we have in this time of year. Solid overcast and you're shooting high iso and struggling for a decent shutter speed.
Something else that's clear here is one of the negative effects of using an optically stabilized lens, the Sigma 150-500 OS to be exact. The subject is reasonably sharp but the background looks very restless.


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See what Dimitri & Mario picked up at Amoeba Hollywood after our record release in-store back in April.
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Rashad Jennings, RB, Jaguars
Man, I was all over this guy at the start of the season. Even when Maurice Jones-Drew ended his holdout, I still thought Jennings would get enough work to be serviceable. But he just couldn't get healthy enough to stay on the field. Now, after I dump him in most leagues, MJD goes down for what could be a serious foot injury and 'Shad's the man in Jacksonville. Not that that's anything to write home about, but come on! Last week: 21 carries, 44 yards, 1 TD, 7 receptions, 58 yardsThis week: @Packers
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Confidential Memos Indicate Oil SDR Pricing Shift Would Be "Most Damaging" To United State• Zero Hedge
A recently declassified, formerly Confidential, 30 year old memo prepared by Henry Owen for President Jimmy Carter's eyes only, highlights the perils facing the United States if oil were to be priced in SDRs instead of dollars, a topic which is all the rage today as rumors are swirling that this is an imminent transition to be "put" upon the United States.
In response to your request, we have considered, and discussed with other agencies, whether the US should favor use of SDRs instead of dollars, to pay for cure oil... I have concluded that dollar pricing should be maintained -- a view that is shared by State, Treasury and CEA.
The reasons:
1. An announcement that dollars were no longer being used as the unit of account in paying for oil would trigger selling of dollars on the foreign exchange markets. So we would suffer.
2. I don't see any offsetting gain, since OPEC would probably raise prices in SDR terms, as necessary to recover revenue losses if the SDR appreciated relative to the dollar.
And the conclusion:
We might be able to persuade the OPEC countries to make the shift if the dollar weakened but that's precisely when the move would be most damaging to us.
Even more troubling, in another declassified memo, former Undersecretary of the Treasury and President of the New York Fed, Anthony Solomon, reaches this damning conclusion:
Alas, even President Carter, seen by many as one of the worst American president in American history was smart enough to not bury his own middle class at the expense of landed Wall Street interests. It is a pity that his current incarnation, advised by the Bernanke-Summers-Geithner think tank, has such diametrically opposing motivations.
The choice of the unit of account for oil pricing is basically under the producing countries' control. There is no particular economic reason why a shift from the dollar would be contrary to U.S. interest -- unless the dollar were to depreciate significant in relation to the currencies in the pricing basket. But there could be major psychological effects. Given the unsettled conditions in the foreign exchange market [TD: so true today, 30 years later], such a step at this time could be interpreted as a lack of confidence in the dollar and as presaging a shift in OPEC investment policy away from the dollar. It could precipitate a serious market reaction.


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Last year, a woman in India was brutally raped and severely injured by a gang, and died of her injuries. This week, a court ordered that four of her attackers be executed. In India few expect that this will result in a reduction in the rate of rapist attacks in that country. So what is the point of these executions? They satisfy, perhaps, a sense of justice, but their substantive effect is in doubt for most Indians. The story of the crime, and the horror of its outcome, far exceed the impact of the punishment for it. A profound distaste for executions, and violent death of any kind, seems to have overtaken us Americans. An example: we have decided that we really don't want to send cruise missiles into Syria to punish the beastly Bashr Al-Assad for gassing his own citizens to death in a dastardly chemical weapons attack. Maybe Steve Pinker, who wrote "The Better Angels of Our Nature" has hit upon something very profound. He offers statistical evidence that (surprisingly) violence is in decline, and offers some psychological reasons why that is so. Maybe all of us Americans are just darned tired of all this killing that has gone on, but the explanation might be bigger than that. It might be that world-wide, people have turned away from violence. Let it be so.
4 thoughts on "Shall we have an era of sense, sometime soon?"
Je crois, Harry, que je suis moins optimiste que vous sur la violence. Où que l'on pose le regard, il y a des guerres, des attentats, des viols, des meurtres. Je crains que le XXIe siècle ne soit aussi violent que le XXème, hélas ! Malgré la prise de conscience de quelques-uns.
Comparé à l'époque médievale, c'est certain. Mais étant donné nos connaissances et les progrès de la civilisation dans de multiples domaines, nous ne devrions pas avoir recours à la violence de façon aussi atroce et aussi courante. Ce qui m'attriste le plus, ce sont les crimes perpétrés par de très jeunes adolescents.


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Q1. What do you understand by marketing concept? Distinguish between marketing concept and production concept ?
Q2. What are the components of country analysis. Why is country analysis considered a vital diagnostic tool by companies going global.
Q3. How does research improve decision making in marketing. What are the types of marketing research methods?
Q4. How can companies emotionally connect with its customers? Give some examples to show the emotional connect between companies and customers.
Q5. Which variables are used to segment organisational markets?
Q1. Marketing mix is the most versatile tool to create the desired positioning. Explain.
Q2. Give the classification of consumer products.
Q3. What are new generation products? Is it possible for technology based companies to ignore new generation products for long?
Q4. Outline the factors that influence pricing decisions.
Q5. Explain the various types of retail formats. Does the emergence of Modern Trade (MT) pose a serious threat to the existance of Traditional retail ?
THIRD SET OF ASSIGNMENTS Assignment-III = 5 Marks
Q1. What is the basic purpose of sales promotion ? How can a new sales promotion scheme be tested?
Q2. List down the various methods of establishing the advertising expenditure. Why does " percentage of sales method" continue to be a popular method for setting advertising budget?
Q3. Most companies seem to be allocating more funds to non-media advertising. Comment on this trend.
Q4. List the selling skills every aspiring salesperson should learn.
Q5. Under what conditions " Hold Objective" the best form of competeive marketing strategy.
Print Media under serious threat
Bennett , Coleman & Co. Ltd., better known as the publisher of English daily The Times of India, is India's largest media group. Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. is the flagship company of The Times Group.
The Times Group has: 11 publishing centers ,15 printing centers , 55 sales offices ,over 7000 employees ,5 dailies including two of the largest in the country . Add to that 2 lead magazines and 29 niche magazines .The combined reach of group publications was in 2,468 cities and towns of the country.
Mr. Vineet Jain, the CEO of Bennett , Coleman & Co. Ltd., wore a worried looked at a hurriedly summoned meeting of print media barons at Mumbai. The subject of his worry was an article that he read in Wall Street Journal, Washington DC. In his speech to the other print media owners he read out the excerpts from the article
" Search engine marketing expenditures will grow 14% this year, jumping from $14.6 billion in 2009 to $16.6 billion by the end of December, according to research from the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO).
This growth does not come without some trepidation, however. SEMPO found that measuring return on investment is the biggest challenge facing marketers.
Where's the money coming from? Nearly half (49%) of respondents indicated they are reallocating budgets to search engine marketing from print advertising. More than a third (36%) are shifting money away from direct mail, and almost a quarter are moving budgets from conferences and exhibitions (24%) and Web display advertising (23%).
Google, unsurprisingly, is the big beneficiary of this trend. Nearly all (97%) respondents are paying to advertise on Google AdWords. Of these, almost three quarters (71%) pay to advertise on the Google search network while 56% use the Google content network (keyword targeted).
Google is apparently maximizing its dominance. More than half of advertisers (56%) and agencies (62%) say that Google keywords have become more expensive over the last year. Meanwhile, only around a third of advertisers noted an increase in Yahoo (32%) and Bing (29%) keyword costs.
Leaving Google aside, marketers named personalization of search results and the rise of local search were two trends worth watching.
The report is based on an online survey which was fielded during January and February among SEMPO and consultancy members. Results were collected from 1,471 respondents, including 527 advertisers and 944 supply-side respondents carrying out search engine marketing on behalf of clients (including agencies or consultants)."
Mr. Vineet Jain wanted print media barons to dwell upon how much of a challenge does internet media offer to print media. The situation appeared disturbing, while the circulation of newspapers and niche magazines was going up, the ad revenue was not going up in the same proportion. Most blue chip clients on advise from their ad agencies earmarked larger budgets to online media year on year basis. In their meeting, the media barons were unanimous that personal selling efforts by sales team need to be bolstered to meet up the traditional clients and get a larger part of media budget.
1. How serious is the threat to revenues of print media by online media in India?
2. How can newspaper groups apply the principles of CRM to bind more with their customers i.e. clients who contribute by way of advertising revenue?
3. Bennett, Coleman and Co, the foremost media group, showed the way to the newspaper industry on how to thwart this challenge from online media? Mr. Vineet Jain decided to implement the new sales raining program to upgrade the skills of his sales and marketing team. What should be the objectives and the structure of this training program?
Revamp the Sales organization – American MNC
A U.S. owned manufacturing company operating globally with 45,000 employees. They supply a wide range of customers in a vast range of markets including the automotive, aeronautical, and manufacturing sectors. The company looks to revamp its sales organization structure as the CEO feels the present product based structure is not in line with the new market realities facing the company.
There are two key elements to their sales strategy:
(1) To develop an Account Management approach to the most significant direct customers
The sales organization has historically been product division based. The move to account management will provide in a single point of contact for the customer, with the account managers having a resource management role, providing the right resources to the customer as required.
(2) Developing the distributor network to service the non-direct accounts
This third party channel will be increasingly important in getting company's clients products and services to the mass market.
Working with the Vice President of Sales Europe, senior sales management, and the European learning and Development Team we have developed a "learning ladder" which provides an ongoing development programme for sales people as they progress through the organisation. Key elements of the programme are:
Specific programmes are also available on presentation skills, understanding finance, and a programme specific to the office based sales team who support the field operation.
Each programme takes a blended learning approach, which involves participants in self-study work as well as attending short duration practically based workshops. Finally, sales managers attend a coaching programme, to enable them to develop their coaching kills back in the field - this is a key activity in enabling the salespeople to implement what they have learned during the programmes.
1. Critically examine the account management approach to handle the key customers.
2. Outline the difference in selling process to meet up with the requirements of key accounts and those that of distributor network
3. What are the challenges of revamping the functioning of sales teams in global organizations?


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In their approach to transformed materials, constructed and deconstructed images, objects and bodies, the artists Iris Touliatou and Maximilian Arnold reflect on the contemporary status of nature and think anew the interplay between nature, culture and technology, the complex symbiotic relationships between humans and artifacts.
Maximilian Arnold's canvases, constructed of multiple layering of printmaking, collage and paint are simultaneously familiar and strange.
The end product of these demanding and lengthy processes plays with the opposition between digital and analog, referring to the tension between the digitalization of images and the rules of classical painting.
Flatness versus depth, materiality versus illusion, the epic, strange and unknown versus the everyday, arbitrary and random; they show the aspects of the "tactile world" being a pool for sensory and visual experience of everyday life.
Iris Touliatou's sculptures, wall works and installations combine various techniques and a wide array of organic and inorganic substances - from raw metals to refined vitamins, from blown glass to distilled objects and notes, from laser engraved rubber and thermo printed plastics, to scented emulsions and liquid solutions.
Pointing out the subtle distinctions between natural and artificial, original and copy, living and lifeless, Touliatou's multimedia practice uses the transformative states of matter, as a metaphor for the enigmatic nature of existence, speculates on what materiality is and can be.


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Amy Childs makes all visitors wear her placenta cream
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Amy Childs has revealed she makes all her visitors apply her placenta cream to their face
Amy Childs forces all her visitors to wear her placenta cream.
The 26-year-old reality star, who became a mother for the first time when she gave birth to her daughter Polly last month with boyfriend Bradley Wright, has revealed that not only has she eaten her own placenta but she's turned some of it into cream.
Speaking to hosts Holly Willoughby and Rylan Clark-Neal on ITV's 'This Morning' on Thursday (25.05.17), Amy said: "It's so funny, everyone who comes in the house has got to have a bit of me and Polly's placenta, our face, we've got the balm on, everyone has the balm on when they walk in."
And whilst Holly, 36, admitted she would feel uncomfortable rubbing someone else's placenta cream on to her skin, Amy offered it to Rylan, 28, to try.
She said: "There's some there if you want some, Rylan?"
He replied: "I'm going to look at it from afar now".
Amy said: "Okay, we'll try it after."
And in addition to her softer skin, Amy has seen positive health benefits from ingesting her placenta in a tablet form after reading about others doing it; including The Saturdays singer Rochelle Humes - who also has daughter Alaia-Mai, aged four with husband Marvin - who had her own placenta turned into tablets and her two-month-old baby daughter Valentina's umbilical cord framed too.
Amy explained: "I read about (what to do with) it and I thought it was such a good write up about it and I thought I'm definitely going to give it a try. I tried it - it was the capsules - I literally took it three times a day and Polly is four weeks old on Sunday and I feel amazing. Yeah I'm a little bit tired but I had mums saying to me 'you're going to be so tired, day three you're going to have baby blues' but I honestly didn't have anything and I honestly put it down to that definitely."
Speaking about the birth, which was an "awful 27-hours" for the former 'The Only Way Is Essex' star, Amy revealed she had her hair blow-dried during her contractions.
She said: "I did (have a blowdry) because I got sent home at four o'clock in the morning my waters broke and at seven o'clock - on a Saturday I have my hair blow dried anyway - so I thought I might as well just have it done, I was in and out of contractions anyway and when I literally have her I want to be glam, so yeah. It was eight o'clock I had a blow dry and that was it."
And she revealed her labour is a pain she will "never forget...ever".
But added: "At the end of the day look what you get out of it."


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Whether you want a quick weekend getaway or you're planning the trip of your dreams, now's the perfect time to think about your next vacation.
"With a little planning, anytime is a great time for a vacation," said Angela Chandler-Norward of TraVerus Travel/Paycation. "It really depends where you are planning to vacation and your budget. You can plan a vacation at least six months in advance. This will allow a little time for those that have to make payments. If time and money are not a factor, then you can plan it in a month or less."
Although many plan vacations themselves, Chandler-Norward says hiring a travel agent is beneficial.
"Sure you can go online to search for vacation packages, but a travel agent has access to more vendors and added discounts not available to the general public," she said.
Even if you decide to plan your trip yourself, Chandler-Norward strongly recommends insuring it.
"If you are travelling outside of the USA, your health insurance will not cover you, but a full protection plan will," she said. "In most cases, the protection plan ranges from $99 to $139 per adult depending on the vendor. Although, we do not plan to miss the flight, get ill or injured while on vacation, it can happen."
Even if you don't think you can afford a trip, with some planning, it's possible.
"Plan ahead," Chandler-Norward says. "Most vacation packages—be it cruise, hotel or all-inclusive vacation packages through a travel agent—will allow you to make payments. This is much easier on a budget than a lump sum at one time.
"Most consumers aren't aware that a commission for the travel agent is built into the prices you see when booking with online vendors (Travelocity, Priceline, Hotels.com and others), so it doesn't cost any more to use the help and expertise of a certified travel consultant. You will get the personal touch."
Chandler-Norward also offers one final word of advice: "If you are planning to vacation outside of the USA, please apply for your passport at least six to eight weeks prior to your departure date. This will allow time to correct any errors if the application is not accepted without having to pay the fee to expedite your passport."
For assistance with booking your next vacation, contact Angela Chandler-Norward, CTA, at 205-243-7903, via email at email@example.com or online at www.anorward.paycationonline.com. You can like her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/angelagetaways.


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An interesting encounter was witnessed at Llwyn Gell between two sides who were desperately seeking league points to stave off possible relegation fears. On this occasions it was Caernarfon who remained the most composed and were consequently deserving of their 31 -22 victory.
Cofi stand off Aled Jones was a thorn in Bro's side throughout by consistently gaining valuable meters when putting boot to ball to relieve pressure and by so doing often giving the Cofis a platform to attack from. Within the first ten minutes such an acquired foothold in the danger zone led to Iolo Hughes opting to chip through and as a week previously, he won the chase to score between the sticks. Jones added the extras to add to Caernarfon's account.
Makeshift centre Marc Morris closed most midfield avenues and secured numerous valuable turnovers for Bro, one led to an offside call against the Cofis and Huw James duly slotted the penalty to claw three points back on fifteen minutes. Caernarfon however soon extended their lead when lineout ball was spread wide and wing Dylan Gwyn outfoxed numerous defenders and far too easily wriggled free to sprint in and score. Again Aled Jones slotted the conversion but on this occasion from an acute angle.
The Cofis were apt at preventing any possible breakout by Bro with flanker Michael Downey Velcro-like around the ankles of any green ball carrier. However a sixty yard Huw James touch finder towards the end of the first half lifted home spirits and when a penalty was awarded for illegally preventing a rolling maul Bro opted for a set scrum to assert further pressure. The customary solid Bro platform provided a quick pop pass to on rushing centre Marc Morris, who's angled run caused enough confusion within Cofi ranks to grant him a deserved five pointer. James added the extras to reduce the deficit to four points.
However there remained enough time for a further Bro transgression to result in the issuing of a yellow card and further punishment when Aled Jones duly dispatched the resultant penalty.
The Cofis had the aid of the slope during the second half and soon added to their tally when Number 8, Mac Jones gathered and burst through numerous tackles to free himself before sprinting clear over the final twenty meters to score. Jones again added the conversion. Before Bro had composed themselves a speculative downfield punt brought a fortuitous bounce as far as Caernarfon were concerned with the ball nestling kindly in speedster Dylan Gwyn's hands, who then ran in unchallenged and with yet another Aled Jones conversion, opened a challenging twenty one point gap for the quarrymen to try and overhaul during the final half hour.
To their credit they fought back manfully using their heavier pack to good effect. Penalties were drilled into the danger zone to make use of driving line outs that were a certain meter gaining ploy as far as Bro were concerned. One such tactic paid dividends some ten minutes later when after a series of drives, Tom James was at hand to plough over. Huw James slotted the conversion from an acute angle to raise the spirits of the home supporters. It was then that a few rash individual decisions denied Bro promising attacking platforms and allowed the Cofis to clear their lines with relative ease.
The reduction of the Cofi squad following the issue of another yellow card raised Bro's hopes and with ten minutes remaining following numerous strong runs by prop Paul Kalafusz, Tom James repeated his earlier feat by being in the right place at the rear of another rolling line out maul to touchdown on the try line. The conversion drifted narrowly wide meaning that another two scores were required. Caernarfon could be credited for their game management during the run in, kicking intelligently and defending resolutely to keep Bro within their own half for most of the final minutes and by so doing denying them a losing bonus point as well.
In retrospect in would appear now that both teams should see out the season believing that their place in Division 1 North is secure for yet another season.


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This summer the President & CEO of the Alliance for Aging Research, Dan Perry, was asked to participate in the annual melding of the foremost medical minds known as TEDMED. At the meeting, Dan gave a fantastic 13 minute talk that really summed up how "tantalizingly close" researchers are to that "fountain of youth". Not the fountain that will create 500 year old grandparents that write you in and out of their wills for every perceived slight, but the one that will extend everyone's healthy years of living, or "Healthspan", well into their 80's & 90's without the multiplicity of tragic and devastating chronic conditions that compound to slowly rob them of their mental and physical well-being.
The biggest disease risk factor – and one we all share – is aging. Focusing research and prevention on this root cause can extend our health and quality of life, says Dan Perry.
Dan answers questions about recent research into slowing biological aging and extending human health.
|Science Kit for Dan Perry
Dear TEDMED Attendee,Thank you for your interest in my talk "Do Cells Have a Midlife Crisis?" and for requesting my Science Kit. Hopefully I've gotten you thinking about how to shift the research paradigm to probe the common denominator of age-related diseases and uncover why our cells and our bodies start to lose their biological integrity beginning in mid-life.
That shift in thinking is something the non-profit Alliance for Aging Research is advancing through our Healthspan Campaign. A research agenda signed by scores of prominent scientists fleshes out the big research questions that promise to yield enormous gains in the short-term, and a whitepaper from prominent science writer David Stipp –The Transformative Promise of Aging Science – explores the social, economic, and political implications of this paradigm shift and dispels many of the common myths about extending the healthy years of life.
If you'd like to read a couple of the many recent scientific advances that are paving the way for these breakthroughs in healthy aging, you can read the November 2011 article from Genes and Development on how scientists restored the function or "youth" of cells taken from people over 100 years old, and the November 2011 article from Nature Structural and Molecular Biology that identifies a key molecular switch for telomere extension involving an enzyme implicated in both cancer and aging. Note that both of these articles require a subscription and are scientifically dense. For a journalistic take on recent advances, check out this article.
I also encourage you to view the presentation from Dr. James Kirkland of the famed Mayo Clinic – co-author of a seminal article in Nature on the clearing of senescent cells from the body – before the newly formed NIH Geroscience Interest Group.
I'm also happy to continue this conversation with any and all of you so please feel free to contact me at [email protected] or 202.293.2856.
Thanks again for your interest.
Dan Perry


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Starr Says Dead Men Should Tell Tales
By Walter Pincus
But the contest with the greatest potential impact on regular people -- that is, those who don't happen to be presidents or reporters or Secret Service agents -- is Starr's challenge to the privilege that protects individuals from having their secrets divulged by lawyers they have hired to represent them.
It is Starr's contention -- simply stated -- that once a person (in this case former White House lawyer Vincent Foster) is dead, the protection can die with him. If a prosecutor wants the information for a federal grand jury, he should get it. Starr's attack on the lawyer-client privilege -- in pursuit of notes taken by Foster's attorney in a conversation with Foster just days before his suicide -- is yet another example of the kind of dogged, no-holds-barred tactics that have astonished lawyers and prosecutors alike. Without a real boss to challenge him, Starr is like the proverbial bull in a china shop -- willing to attack a centuries-old privilege, without apparent regard for the broader implications.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the issue June 8 in Swidler & Berlin and James Hamilton v. United States. If the justices agree with Starr -- and an appellate court ruling in Starr's favor -- it could bring fundamental change to the law.
As things now stand, if you're dying and you want to tell all to your lawyer for whatever reason, he can assure you that everything you say will be kept in confidence, period, and that you should tell him the whole story.
If the court creates an exception, the lawyer will have to say something very different -- something like the wording offered by U.S. Court of Appeals Judge David Tatel in his dissent in the case: "I will hold all our conversations in the strictest of confidence. But when you die, I could be forced to testify -- against your interests -- in a criminal investigation or trial, even of your friends or family . . . . Now please tell me the whole story."
That is why those who have filed or joined briefs against Starr's argument include not only the American Bar Association and the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, but the National Hospice Organization and the American Psychiatric Association.
The psychiatrists fear the impact on their privileged relationship with patients. The National Hospice Organization is involved because, in its words, "in addition to the physical, spiritual, social and emotional care and support provided by hospices, people in the final stage of life often need legal services, and the attorney-client issue . . . therefore is of particular concern . . . ."
Neither the appeals court in Washington (which ruled in Starr's favor) nor the lawyers in the case could find a previous example of a federal prosecutor in a criminal matter trying to break the attorney-client privilege when the client is a dead man. So embedded is the principle of confidentiality that defense lawyers have failed to get the veil lifted even if they argued that it could help exonerate the accused.
Prosecutors have often wrangled with defense lawyers over whether the lawyer-client privilege is being falsely invoked to hide relevant information. But Starr is not contesting the relationship between Foster and his lawyer.
Only in cases involving wills and testaments -- where someone is trying to determine the intent of the deceased -- have courts permitted the sort of intrusion Starr now seeks.
In his latest brief to the Supreme Court, Starr points to cases where wills are disputed to support his effort to break the privilege. The "need for determining whether a crime has been committed," Starr argues, "warrants at least the parity of treatment" given to resolving disputes over wills.
Starr's brief does not discuss the fact that in one case the deceased's true wishes are being determined, and in the other his words may be used against his wishes to the legal detriment of perhaps his family or friends.
At issue in the case is Starr's subpoena for notes of a conversation that then-deputy White House counsel Foster had with his attorney, James Hamilton, in July 1993. Foster was a personal friend of both President Clinton and the first lady, as well as Hillary Rodham Clinton's law partner at an Arkansas law firm in the 1980s.
The independent counsel's investigation did not begin until after Foster's suicide. Were Foster alive, he would have been a witness of great interest to Starr in his broad investigation of the Whitewater land deal and into possible perjury or obstruction of justice in the congressional investigations of the 1993 firings of White House Travel Office employees.
Alive, Foster could have been subpoenaed like any other witness in the case, and Starr would have had no success in compelling Foster's personal lawyer -- Hamilton -- to turn over his notes of conversations with his client, as those would be unquestionably protected.
In his investigation now, Starr is essentially trying to reconstruct what Foster knew and might have said to a grand jury were he available as a witness. Starr and his colleagues have already obtained Foster's White House files, read his personal diary, questioned his White House colleagues and the travel office personnel, interviewed Foster's wife and children several times and even interviewed his 80-year-old mother.
Hamilton's notes are the only thing left.
At the time in July 1993 when the meeting with Hamilton took place, Foster was under enormous personal pressures. I don't write this as an outsider. Foster was a friend. I first met him in January 1993 over inauguration weekend, introduced by mutual friends from Little Rock, my wife's hometown and a place I had regularly visited for almost 30 years. Foster had never worked in government nor taken part in the kind of brutal political infighting that greeted the Clinton administration in its first months.
In fact, during a lunch I had with Foster two days before he met with Hamilton, he complained about being the target of press criticism and said he felt that he had failed in assisting his friends -- the president and first lady -- in his first six months on the job.
Foster had asked to meet with Hamilton to discuss his concerns about a possible congressional investigation of the travel office and his need for a lawyer.
When Foster and Hamilton sat down in the living room of the attorney's Northwest Washington home that Sunday morning, July 11, 1993, Foster, a lawyer himself, started by asking Hamilton for assurance that what he was about to say would be protected by the attorney-client privilege and therefore not disclosed to anyone without his prior approval.
"I am totally certain of one thing," Hamilton told the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington last June. "If I had not assured Vince Foster that our conversation was a privileged conversation, we would not have had that conversation, and there would have been no notes that are the subject of this situation today."
Hamilton has said he took only sketchy notes in the two hours of conversation. He wrote words here and there that were spread over only three pages. In a court brief last year, Hamilton described them as "fragmentary, episodic and impressionistic notes" that are almost entirely his own "mental impressions, observations, conclusions, and plans for action."
U.S. District Court Chief Judge John Garrett Penn read the three pages of notes in camera when the issue was first raised in his court almost two years ago, and then ruled in January 1997 that they were privileged. He wrote that they "represent the mental reflections of the lawyer [Hamilton]."
He found "the need of the grand jury does not outweigh the privileges asserted," according to his written opinion.
Writing for the court of appeals, which reversed Penn, Judge Stephen F. Williams said "the costs of protecting communications after death are high" because the client has been removed as a source of information.
Plus, he said, the very fact of the client's death eliminates the possibility that a client could be prosecuted on the basis of a lawyer's revelations and thus deterred -- before death -- from telling all to his legal representative.
Moreover, any "chilling effect" on lawyer-client candor would be limited because breaches of the privilege should only apply to communications of "substantial" importance to "significant aspects" of a particular crime, and only in situations where sufficient evidence is otherwise unavailable.
The Williams solution was for the notes to be returned to a district court judge, who would read them in camera and decide whether to release any portion of them to Starr's prosecutors based on balancing the need for attorney-client confidentiality against the requirements of the grand jury inquiry.
Should Starr prevail in the Supreme Court, however, the implications for future criminal cases would be as broad as they would be for individuals seeking advice on the eve of death.
Two Washington criminal lawyers, Mark H. Tuohey III, who was a Starr deputy, and Richard Ben-Veniste, who served as Democratic counsel on the Senate Whitewater investigation, each said that if the Supreme Court rules for Starr, they expect the independent counsel would be free to question Hamilton not just about what was meant by the notes turned over, but on everything Foster said in his conversation with Hamilton that was relevant to the investigation -- whether it was in the notes or not. Under the law, they say, there is no distinction between notes of a conversation and testimony about that conversation from the individual who took the notes.
Both Tuohey and Ben-Veniste agree that, if Starr wins, future prosecutors and even defense attorneys could use the precedent to subpoena attorneys for deceased clients who had been targets, subjects or witnesses in criminal investigations.
" . . . Hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans live today -- in hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, or in their own homes -- in the expectation that they may soon die," the American Bar Association wrote in a brief it has filed in the Supreme Court case. "Many of these people undoubtedly have secrets and confidences that, if revealed, would be at the least highly embarrassing [to] themselves or their friends and loved ones. These might include wrongs done to others by themselves, their friends, or members of their families; hidden assets or financial transactions; or illegitimate children or relationships . . . . The attorney-client privilege exists in large part because disclosure to lawyers of secrets such as these enables people to obtain advice and assistance to guide future action or to rectify or ameliorate the consequences of past actions.
"Absent the assurance of confidentiality, such disclosures likely would never be made."
Walter Pincus is a reporter on The Post's National staff and a part-time student at Georgetown University Law Center.
© Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company


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Easter Eggs for Anya (A Ukranian Celebration of New Life in Christ) - Virginia Kroll
I Wanted to Know All About God - Virginia L. Kroll
You are Special - Max Lucado
Easy Readers
Athletes of Faith - Kirsti Newcombe
Grace To You Sermon CDs
Depravity and Inability(Selected Scriptures) - John MacArthur
Saved or Self-Deceived (Selected Scriptures) - John MacArthur
Hot-Button Questions About the Bible and Christian Life - John MacArthur
The Salvation Song of Security, Romans 8:31-39 - John MacArthur
A Biblical Response to the Church-Growth Movement (Selected Scriptures) - John MacArthur
The Believer's Comfort in Christ's Return and Judgement, Part 1, 2 Peter 3 - John MacArthur
Jesus, Worry, and You, Matthew 6:25-34 - John MacArthur
Hacking Agag to Pieces (Selected Scriptures) - John MacArthur
Lessons from a Modern-Day Moral Shipwreck (Selected Scriptures) - John MacArthur
When Believers Stop Believing: Portrait of an Apostate - John MacArthur w/ Phil Johnson
The Believers Comfort in Christ's Return and Judgement, Part 2, 2 Peter 3 - John MacArthur
An Insider's Look at the Ressurection Story - The Empty Tomb Luke 24: 1-12
The Case Against the R-Rated Church (An Interview with John MacArthur)
In Touch Ministries
CD: Lessons My Mother Taught Me - Charles Stanley
First A.M.E. Church(Los Angeles)
Bible Study
(Cassette) Sin & Forgiveness 11/23/93
Sleep, Dreams & Revelations, Part 2 10/5/93
Sunday Service
"Is" Lorrie Logan (Student Minister) 8/1/93
Lashed, Lynched, Lifted! 4/25/93 (Pastor Cecil L. Murray)
The Story Keepers A.D. 64 (VHS/DVD) - Zondervan Publishing/Focus on the Family
Roar in the Night
Catacomb Rescue
Sink or Swim
Ready, Aim, Fire!
Raging Waters
Grio: African Bible Storyteller - The Good Samaritan (Urban Ministries, Inc.)
Christy - Volume 4: Lost and Found/Judgement Day
Christy - Volume 11: The Road Home/The Miracle of Christy
Grio: African Bible Storyteller - Samson and Delilah
Christy (The Original Movie)
Christy - Volume 2: The Sweetest Gift
Adventures in Odyssey
Someone to Watch Over Me (VHS)
Answers in Genesis - Genesis Chapter 1-11, read by Ken Ham
Monday, January 4, 2010
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3 comments:
- Anonymous said...
nice post. thanks.
- January 5, 2010 at 1:14 AM
- Anonymous said...
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
- January 10, 2010 at 1:26 AM
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John MacArthur & Pretrib Rapture
Who knows, maybe John (Reformedispy) MacArthur is right and the greatest Greek scholars (Google "Famous Rapture Watchers"), who uniformly said that Rev. 3:10 means PRESERVATION THROUGH, were wrong. But John has a conflict. On the one hand, since he knows that all Christian theology and organized churches before 1830 believed the church would be on earth during the tribulation, he would like to be seen as one who stands with the great Reformers. On the other hand, if John has a warehouse of unsold pretrib rapture material, and if he wants to have "security" for his retirement years and hopes that the big California quake won't louse up his plans, he has a decided conflict of interest. Maybe the Lord will have to help strip off the layers of his seared conscience which have grown for years in order to please his parents and his supporters - who knows? One thing is for sure: pretrib is truly a house of cards and is so fragile that if a person removes just one card from the TOP of the pile, the whole thing can collapse. Which is why pretrib teachers don't dare to even suggest they could be wrong on even one little subpoint! Don't you feel sorry for the straitjacket they are in? While you're mulling all this over, Google "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty" for a rare behind-the-scenes look at the same 180-year-old fantasy.
- February 16, 2010 at 8:01 PM


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Los Angeles Business Journal | March 31, 2014 | by Howard Fine
A proposed moratorium on fracking in Los Angeles would have more sweeping consequences, local oil companies say. In fact, if passed as proposed, they say it will shut down most oil production in the city – even at wells where fracking isn't used.
The companies say the ordinance would also halt reinjecting water into the ground and using acid compounds to clean the wells, practices that have been used widely for decades. And they note that because the moratorium would stay in place until all of these practices are proven safe, hundreds of wells in the city would likely have to shut down for years, if not permanently.
Read more here.


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What is 3lc climbing? You may have guessed; I haven't tried it!
Just wondered if anyone tried the 3lc climbing trainer vid?
Though I might give it a shot and try to build my slender body to at least become better prepared to climb over the winter, but don't know if its better (more effective, motivating) than just doing 'normal' intervals?
Never used one of those vids, but it could be interesting having it on my ipod when I sit in the gym (?)


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Dymocks Bookstore, Wellington
April, 2003
The window of Dymocks bookstore had a set of Gondorian Armor in the window in April, 2003. Lyric was lucky enough to get some pictures.
A report on the store: http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1051521575
More pictures pull from these can be seen in the Character section for the Gondor Armor.
This page was last updated 04/22/08


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Sometime in the 1990's I used a 2400-baud modem and connected to the internet for the first time; I found a new world, a better world. A world where ideas and intellect set people apart, not skin color, or political affiliation, of even the pseudo-scandal of the day (which is probably just a disguise for ignorance and intolerance).
It was a time of invention, in a world where everything was new and the potential was unlimited. It was magic – not the fake Hollywood magic, but real, life changing, nothing can hold you back magic. The only real restriction was your own mind (and maybe your long-distance bill).
Before too long I ran across a short essay that reinforced my view of the internet, and my philosophy towards people in general – The Conscience of a Hacker. While it resonated with me at the time, as it reflected my life so well, it was one small passage that really mattered to me:
We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. – Loyd Blankenship, The Conscience of a Hacker
One simple line, yet such a profound statement. The internet I grew to love was a different world — national borders meant nothing, the freedom to speak your mind was simply assumed for all without question. Governments didn't understand it well enough to care, and so it was ignored. A different kind of society was allowed to evolve — a society that valued people and intelligence greater than political or religious affiliation. A society where anyone, even a poor kid from the middle of nowhere could have a real impact on the world.
There was of course conflict, and egos, and the ever-increasing encroachment of money that would change everything; but in general, it was good — better than any nation I was aware of.
Utopia Lost
Today, Solar Designer was commenting on Intel shutting down certain Russian-language content due to a rather horrible Russian law:
Most people and most countries are their own worst enemies… – Solar Designer
From the early, government ignored days of the internet, certain rights were assumed for all users — it was never written, but at the time it seemed that the internet was beyond any one government. It belonged to humanity, it was for the people. Of course, looking at the history of the internet, this is somewhat amusing, but it's the way many felt, and it seems many still do.
Freedom of speech, freedom to speak anonymously, and so many others were granted by the internet to people who in the past had never had them. This great invention, this great network of people, had become the greatest tool of equality ever. Such things seem doomed.
As Solar pointed out – countries are their own worst enemies – in this case a horrible law is not only impacting the freedom of speech, but also to avoid the complications it introduces (and other similar laws recently enacted), companies are pulling out of Russia or disabling functionality for Russian users. So the Russian people lose, the economy is impacted, everybody loses something when such mistakes are made.
Of course, this is far from a unique case — the old internet, the free, open, good for humanity internet is all but dead. It's been a long time since governments discovered what they had ignored for so long, and that an international bastion of freedom had formed under their noses.
Censorship becomes more pervasive every day, the monitoring by the FIVE EYES countries – and who knows who else – is so pervasive that one has to now assume that anything not (securely) encrypted is being seen and analyzed by many. Malware vendors grow rich, by leveraging the greatest invention in human history as a tool for repression and even death. In Russia, exercising an innate human right can send you to prison, in Syria, it can get you killed.
Complacency, subterfuge, infighting, and carelessness have allowed those with power and money to take more control than they ever should have. Groups like the MPAA are still busy pushing bad laws, trade treaty negotiations continue to risk further censorship, and anti-terror laws are increasingly being aimed at online speech instead of legitimate threats.
The internet I fell in love with was a bastion of freedom. May it long be defended, even if all that's left is the memory, and the idea of what it could again become.